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n rf-"''- THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, l9gflt & MS) MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. IDE MORNING ASTORIAN Established 1873. , Published Daily Except Monday by , TXk J. S. DELUNGER COMPANY. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. By mail, per year .......,.$7.00 Rt carrier, uer month. ......... .00 m WEEKLY AST02IAM. mail, per year. In advance. .1.00 Kntr4 M wond-elM matter Jnly 0. iwa, at the poUm at AMorte. Un ion, uto iha aotofCuuaraM at ataMk a, Wra, (HOrtbie fartkMlwMMrofTaa Uoam .lamuMtoaitiMW iMlitnina or Dfcn at koslwM wr tw mad hy pcwoU evd or brw7 ibmM to aHMktUMr reported M U office otrubttcatiaau TELEPHONE KACf Mi. Official paper of Clatsop county and the City of Astoria. . WEATHER. Oregon, Washington, Idaho Fair and warmer. A FAIR SAMPLE. '. Another notable failure seems to he going on record for municipal owner ship. As noted fat our dispatches, the city lighting plant of Columbus, Ohio. : is now in straits for more appropria 'tions, after nearly half a million dol lars has been spent upon it. The city's investment in this gas plant is said to have grown by nearly $400,000 in a few years, which is some six or sev en times the original investment When the last Hundred tnousanas was put into the plant, it was expected by the people and announced by officials that this would so complete the outfit as to make it as fine as the country could boast Now the city is given the al ternative of an additional investment of $140,000, or a very serious, if not total, loss on what it has already in vested. This, is certainly a warning example, and should be taken to heart for what it Is worth by eities ambitious to fly municipal ownership kites. There are always plenty of talk-cheap men standing about and ready to give the kite a boost, especially if they can for see opportunities opening in the future for them to get a hold on the string. But even the best of kites find cloud areas and storm currents, and there are gales that try the string as well as selfish interests ready to cut it, even where of ficial incapacity does not let it sag. d?s not mean to Uwe her pre-emiuence in that respect. She does well to be gin with her people while young and impressionable. Ilcr next move will be awaited with interest. Ex. SOUTHERN CHIVALRY. At Louisa Court hoe, Virginia, 1 little while ago the women were per mitted to vote to decide which of two teachers should be 'retained for the high school. The election was held in the court house, there wenp regular printed ballots and the Richmond Leader says that this was -perhaps the first time that ladies were permitted f the nrivifam of votinff ia Virginia,; After it was all over the district school board met and calmly elected the teacher not the fpeoplcV choiee'V as indicated by the election but the other one. A good example of the way that "the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world." : IGNORED THE WARNING. The value of the signal service was aptly demonstrated by the great storm which devastated the Gulf coast from the north of the Mississippi to the west shore of Florida a few days ago. The signal service foretold the coming of that storm sevral days in advance and designated the line of t coast it would strike. Had the inhabitants of the coast region between Lake Pontchar train and Mobile have taken warning and prepared themselves for the hurri cane, the loss of life and property would have been much smaller thanit was j shipping, especially, would have been presrved from great injury. But it is the popular habit to laugh at the signal service and to ignore its storm predictions, hence the timely warning given the Gulf coast people did little to avert th damage. The great storm which overwhelmed Galveston in 1900 was foretold three or four days in ad vance, but the warning was unheeded. By and by people will come to study storm signals and pay intelligent heed to the predictions sent out by the service. BOSTON BOOTBLACKS. Think of a defeat of the Greeks in Athens. But that is said to be a near possibility today, only it's the modern Athens, to-wit, Boston. But the Greeks are real Greeks. They have been mo nopolizing the brightening of the under standing of Bostonians, i. e., shining their shoes, to the exclusion of other nationalities; but dicomforture and de feat stare them in the face by reason of the decision of the School Board that all bootblacks and newsboys, be ing minors, must, in order to get a license, write out an. interpretation of the State license law, sign it, and ehow they understand its meaning. Probably in no city on earcn is . , v. . bo far as- in Boston, and she evidently! FINANCIAL HTJMBUGGBRY. Henry Clews, the New York finan cier, says: "We are just entering upon a period of unusual trade activity, while the country5! crops are larger and will make a greater demand t upon the banks than usual during the marketing lea son. Nevertheless w enter the crop- moving period with a surplus reserve of onpv $2,800,000, which is very much below the usual level at this date. The showing would be much worse were it not that manipulation conceals the real facts, for the reserve was only main tained by an artificial, contraction of over $7,000,000 in loans and an increase of our borrowings in Europe." ; ... 0 .; v. INDIAN COTTON. - The cotton crop of India was larger last year, 1905, than the general aver age. About 2U.uw.WU acres were planted in cotton and the yield was. about 3,500,000 bales. During the year there were exported from India to other countries over. 2,123,000 bales of raw cotton at a value of over $81,000, 000, the four countries, Japan, Ger many, Belgium and Italy, in the order named, being the largest purchasers, they together buying nearly 1,500,000 bales of Indian cotton, while Japan alone took nearly 500,000 bales. ,, 0 1 - ' AVERAGE ACREAGE COST. According to statistics gathered by the Department of Agriculture, from 43, 000 letters received from prominent farmers throughout the eountry, the present average price of an acre of farm land in the middle and western states is as follows: Ohio, $57.43; In diana, $54.96; Illinois, $75.31 ; Michi gan, $36.61; Wisconsin. $48.90; Minne sota, $35.38; Iowa, $64.56; Missouri, $34.70; N. Dakota, $18.42; 8. Dakota, $22.56; Nebraska, $31.73; Kansas, $23. 99; Washington, $24.89; Oregon, $16.45; California, $2859; Idaho, $19.65. " ; 0 ' ' OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO0OO O EDITORAL SALAD. O 000000000000000000 Professor Goldwin Smith some time ago formally willed his brains to Cor nell university. Some remarkable brains have been sold, not given. An Englishman has disposed of his to an American university for. $10,000. : i 0 The party earthquake at Buffalo does'nt seem to be entirely over. There are still some, ominous rumbling and significant tremors. :; , o It isn't likely that theollroads that are advertising special excursions to Atlanta will find it necessary to put on "Jim Crow" cars. . 6 Britain and the "Russian Wolf"; By ANDREW CARNECIB f HERE arc occasions no doubt, though rare, vhon ronson for, apiwhensipa may arisen but there scorns to .mo, to .be two pure delusions which specially afflict Britain. One U tho cry of "Hussion wolf 1" Whoa an increased army in demanded it is against this it is eaid o bp needed.! Jo Aft. Balfour's weighty apeceJi 'upon British defense this stands in tlio for ground. A great RESERVE ARMT must be held in Britain pre pared, capable and ready to reinforce the army in India when the Russian wolf appears. How the fear of Russian attacks upon India arose it is difficult to understand. It is true that she has annexed coterminous territory, trot never yet have we been able to obtain from any source a reasonable explanation why Russia should desire or why she would take, if offered, SUCH A BURDEN AS CONTROL OF INDIA. , ' Unlike the other regions annexed by her, India is today already fully populated, if not overpopulatcd. There is no room there for Russians any more than for Britons to settle, and if there were the climate, fatal to British, would bo equally so to Russian occupation. Britain obtains no decided advantage from India, which trades freely with all nations. It cannot be made to yield revenue to any foreign occupant WITHOUT SAPPING ALLEGIANCE. Its occupation can only be a drain upon the military power of the occupant, as it is admittedly the chief drain upon that of Britain. It is not in the nature of things that seventy or eighty thousand foreign troops can hold control of three hundred millions of people when these become intelligent, as the people of India are fast becoming through BrUMi schools. Were Britain free from India today it would bo unwise in her to take possession if that were offered, because IT CAN NEVER BE COLONIZED. It must be held by force, and hence remain for eign to the conquering nation, union being impossible, ' These considerations are. not likely to bs overlooked by Russia, even if she may "demonstrate" now and then in the tortuous throes of European polities, as if sho seriously had intentions of menacing British power in India. Let there be 'no delusion about tho Indian 'problem. Tho aim of the educated there today is to govern their own country somo day, and this sentiment must soon permeate tho others, but notwithstand ing this I can bear testimony to one important fact highly creditable to British rule: Not one Indian ever Rpoko to mo upon tho subject who did not express decided preference for British supervision over that of ANY OTHER POWER. Tho safety of Britain lies in this. There is a second British delusion, in the opinion of the writer, a wild as the, first and equally baseless Germany as a rival to Britain upon the sea. The fear of German rivalry is well grounded, but it is ON THE LAND, not on the water. Her industrial development is a great fact in the world's history which cannot fail to attract atten tion. She is already a great empire and rapidly growing" greater. BUT IF THE INVASION OF BRITAIN WERE EVER IMMINENT, A WILD SUPPOSITION, IN ALL PROBABILITY AMERICA WOULD BE FOUND' AT HER SIDE. THE CRITON DISTURBED A30UT WHAT THE GERMAN NAVY MIGHT DO IN C0M3I NATION WITH ANY POS SIBLE ALLY IMAGINES VAIN THINGS. It is said that Henry B. Irving has a itriking resemblance to his illustrious father. Good, but has he a striding onet The cartoonist will now picture the donkey wearing a gas meter as a feed bag and pulling a street car, o AH the trouble at Havana is that Taft has run up against Boss Palma's Tammany Hall. Storm signals along the Cuban coast! Can't hold the lid down much longer. 0 A new cocktail is called the "doctor." No objections now to midnight calls. V 0 " Now comeg the campaign biography to tells us Hughes who! But it's a long time before election for one candidate. . 0 Atlanta is reaping the whirlwind of its own sowing. , : ' ; -0 , ' A Cuban in hand is worth two in the bush. , : - ' 0 Morning Astorian, 60 cents per month, delivered by carrier. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. 122ft Francis of Assist, founder of the order of Franciscans, or gray frairs, died. 1535 Publication of the first edition of the Whole Bible in the Englisll language, being the translation of Miles Coverdale. 1609 Hendrick Hudson, having explored the river to where it divided itself into several branches, returned to its mouth on this day, put to sea, with all sails set, to report his "Al uable discovery. 1704 Alexander Selkirk 1 Scottish mariner, put ashore on the desprt island of Juan Fernandez, by orders of his captain with whom he had had a quarrel. He was marooned there for three years, living on fish, fruits and goats. 1777 Battle of Germantown, in which the Americans were defeated with a loss of 200 killed, 600 wounded and 400 taken. The British Iohs was 600 in killed and wounded. 1813 General Harrison attacked by the Indians at Chatham. They were repulsed and pursued some miles and a great quantity of arms ami , ammunition was captured. ; ; 1815 A British- force under Lieut-Col. Lethbridge embarks' in 25 boats and , two gunboats, to capture Ogdens burg; they are driven back by Oen. Brown, without effecting a landing. 1853 The Great Republic, a mammoth clipper, (of 4,000 tons ..burden, and the largest merchant vessel in the world, was launched at Eat Bos-, ton, Mass. ; 1861 Aeronaut La Montaine, in the service of the TJnion army makes an ascension, passes over Confederate linos and descends into Maryland. 1890 The Niagara tunnel was begun at 10:42, when the first sod was lift ed by C. B. Gaskill, President of the Niagara Power company. , BLOOD POISONING. results from chronic constipation, which is quickly cured by Dr. King's New Life Pills. They remove all poisonous germs from the svstem and Infuse new life and vigor; cures sour stomach, nausia, headache, dizziness and colic, Without gripping or discomfort. 25c. Guaran teed by Cha. Rogers' drug store, DONE BY DEED. , C. C. Palmberg and wife to Mar garet Overton, warranty, lot 3 and s J lot 2, block 9, tract 1, Olney'a Astoria ',...., '.;.". .1 125 A. R, Foots and wife to J.'F. Kin dred, warranty, undivided I In terest in Clatsop ounty lands.. 5 BAND CONTEST. The person returning the largest num ber fo Jose Vila cigar bands to the undersigned by October 15th will receiva a box of 28c. Jose Vilas free to the next largest one box 12ic Jose Vilas. Save the bands. Victor Miller, corner Ninth and Bond streets. s-w-f. A BADLY BURNED GIRL or boy, man or woman, is quickly oul of pain if Bucklen's Arnica Salve is ap plied promptly. G. J, Welch, pf Te konnha, Mich., sayss "I use it in my family for cuts, sores and all skin in juries, and find it perfect." Quickest Pile cure anown, Best healing salve made. 25c at Chas. Rogers drug store. 0 . SPICES, q 'BAMNG POWDER AtoolutePurify, fines! Flavor, Cr&rst Srrnh, Be&sowWefricn! cmmmims r - PORTLAND, ORE30N. 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WRITE US FOR PRICES AND ILLUSTRATED i CATALOGUE. 8 F. P. Kendall, General Sales Agent. 6a-M Front St, Portland, Ore, F?e G EM C.F.WISE, Prop. Choice Winsi, Liquors and Cigari Hot Lunch at all Hours Msrchanta Lunch From 11:30 a, m. to 1:30 p ja. $ Cent Corner Eleventh and Commercial ASTORIA OREGON 'X, , ' em nereis f Ar.vn BEER 3 FINANCIAL 3. Q. A.-BOWLBY, Preside. 0. I. PETERSON, Vice- President. flUNK PATTON, Cashier. J. W. GARNER, Assistant Cashier. Astoria Savings Bank Capital ma In 1100,000, surplus and Cndltrtdea Pronu !i,00o Transact a General Bunking finNlnws. interost Paid on Time Deposit '6 Tenth Streat, AQTOKIA, OREGON First National Bank of Astoria. Ore. KHTAULISIIKI) 18W0. Capital 0100,000