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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1907)
Separate li taring Sale rorn II IE Advertised Today and You'll Have the One Bristling' with the Biggest Bargains in Town At no time in its history has this store been in the position to offer such big inducements in Odds and Ends, Remnants, small lines and Broken Sizes, in all kinds of worthy merchandise arti cles of use comfort and convenience. There are bigger values here than you would believe for the price. Read every word and accept it as a fact, for this wonderful selling requires no booming. The plain truth will suffice to fill this store to overflowing all this week, because like goods have never been offered so cheap before. We would suggest come early as you can, for some of the lots arc small and the rush will be tremendous. BROKEN SUITS. 25 Mori's broken suit in all nixes, and the latM styles going for loss than half price. Coats and vests belonging to $12.50 suits are now going at $5.00 Coats and vests belonging to $22.50 units are marked down to. . . .............. $7.50 They come in black, bluea, stripes, checks, and fancy mixtures. A bargain that should not be overlooked. , MENS ODD SUITS. A lot of odd suits in all sizes and the latest styles in colors of blacks, blues, checks, stripes, and plaids. Suits regularly sold at $20, $22.50 and $25 all marked to go at the ridiculously low price of S&14.00 t MENS' HATS. Does your htwband need a hat! Maybe he doos and he don't know it. Now is your chance, a sinal lot of hats regularly sold at $3.00 now going for 75c. MENS PANTS. Men's pants, regularly sold at from $2.50 to $0.00, now being sold at from $1.50 to $2.50. Only a few pair left, so you had better come early and get your choice. 15 Per Cent, off Mens and " Boys' Shoes. 50 dozen pairs of ' men's and boys' shoes, latest styles, this spring's buy, all going at 15 per cent off on the dollar. , OVERALLS. Blue bib overalls; the pair 65c. t TRUNKS AND SUIT CASES A new lot of trunks and suit cases just re ceived, all marked 25 por cent off on the dollar. Everything reduced; no reservation made. We want to get acquainted with the public in our new store. ET"3 I 518 Bond Street CIIAS. LARSEN, Prop. Formerly 557 Commercial St. I ROOSEVELT AND THE FATHER OF WATERS:; I What the Author of "Winning the West" WilllSee.X uuiiug ins 1 rip on mc Mississippi. WASHINGTON, June 8. 1907, Itee- them they might become pirate, but ognltlun of the value to this country of .next to that they wanted to be a bot- Office Supplies, WE ARE MAKING SPECIAL EFFORTS TO KEEP THIS DEPARTMENT UP TO THE TIMES. Blank Books, Files. Pencils, Peno, Inks AND THE MANY NOVELTIES AND LABOR-SAVING DEVICES SHOWN IN OUR WINDOW TESTIFY TO ITS COMPLETION. E. A.HIOGINS CO., MUSIC BOOKS STATIONERY I Watch and Clock! Repairing Franll J. i Doiinerbergi I ; ; !: Rdiable Jeweler jj 110 llth Street the water route afforded by the "Fa tber of Waters" 1 likely to be more general than ever before, after next October. Over the long aqueous high way where once thousand of paro gen each month mal the journey by boat from St. Louit or Cincinnati to New Orleans, the president of the Uni ted States has promised, unlets ome unforeseen exigency prevents, to make tour of inspection next autumn. Mr. Roosevelt i anxious, it la well known, to set both what has been done on the greatest of American rivers and what larger projects remain to be completed in order that the revival of the routes of Inland water transportation, for which the chief executive ha pleaded eloquently, may take place. "The needs of the Mississippi are, of course, typ ical of the need of lesser rivers. It is significant tlwt governors of sixteen state have united in urging President Roosevelt to make thit trip. He baa accepted their invitation, and coupled with it a statement of belief that the improvement of conditions of traffic on our waterway is of vital concern to every community of the country. All apart from future requirements of the natural highways of Uncle Sam's domiuion, the voyage, whether up or down the long winding stream, will be of a kind to appeal to the imagination of a man of President Roosevelt's temperament Whatever h is left on the river from the activities of ante bellum days still possesses the pictur esque human interest which delights a rresulent of generous impulses and liking for men of the adventurous pio neer type. The fleet of river steamers to be sure, is smaller now than it was in tht halcyon days of the traffic. The direction k. been done .. . Withal, there U been tb. constant work of the levee per sistent 'light conducted for more than ISO years, and, in fact, ever since Sine Bienville threw up the first, rude em bankment to protect tb. infant city of New Orleans against the overflow of tb. which, as an old writer once put it, "haa a mortgage on the great West and the Rocky mountain, payable in annu al instalments, has set an example of what engineering experts say shouhl be done in many places along the river to supplement the levee work and to make navigation easier. Considering the very direct relation ship between the Improvement of out inland waterways and the building of which . will always be associated with the name of president Roosevelt, it to particularly appropriate- that the chief executive who has already- witnessed the flying of the dirt on the isthmus, should now interest himself in studying at first hand the traffie on America.' largest I river system, The outlet of American goods to the Orient by way of the Mississippi and the port of New Orleans is directly concerned. Improved conditions of river communication will enable the manufacturer in the Middl. West or in Western Pennsylvania to send bU products to the Orient by tb. very cheapest possible form of trans portation, with only single transshipment.''-' This opportunity was foreseen as long ago as 1868 by a writer in Putnam's magazine, who predicted: The world is just beginning to realize the value of cheap and rapid communication as an element of civilization. When w. tween Southern shores, to mount a bat- shall at last have at last realized that tery of a few guns on one of the bluffs' dream of a century direct Western and sink ber as she tried to pass; so passage from Europe to India and shall that even aft, in Piwudeni Lincoln's -have grasped the rich prize of Asiatic classic phrase, "The Father of Waters traffic, then will the real value and sig llowed untroubled to the sea," a good-nificance of this great river system be many mischances befell members of the understood, not until then will its lev river fleet. I eea be properly rebuilt, will its currents .Interesting historical evidences on the be made to flow in even and regular Missippi itself of work already done to( channels and this magnificent Mississ improve this great natural highway of ippi become in the highest sense a li quid highway of the millions of people living on its banks." President Roosevelt has so highly approved of the work of the National man. The tight of the passing traffic wa of a character to fir. the imagina tion. Some idea of the extent of it Is gained from the statement that ; ij.e marine insurance written in the City of St. Loui about the time Mark Twain was looking longingly upon the river craft specifically, In 1812, amounted to nearly $80,000,000. - The story of the decline of commerce on the MiKMatippi to a position in wbk-h, though still considerable, it baa for many year been distinctly subordi nate to the railroad interests of the Mississippi Valley, ha been graphically and amusingly told by Mark Twsin himelf in chapters with which Presi dent Roosevelt is of course familiar. The narrative shows that other factors besides tb. natural competition be tween two type of transportation en tered Into the decline. Thus the Civil War witnessed the destruction of many famous old boats that had made their mark by nearly equalling the racing record from New Orleans to Cairo, three days flat. It was an easy mat ter in the early days of the Confedera cy, when a northern boat steamed be- commerce, Mr. Roosevelt will find ev erywhere. From an early date money and labor have been spent in rebeveing the channel of snags, so easily formed advent of puffing tug boats capable of In a stream that is perpetually eating rivers and Harbors Congress invites en pulling a bevy of barges for a thousand .away its banks. The course of thejdeavor to arouse public opinion to the river has been more or less straightened: necessity of supplementing the service out, by natural and artificial means. It of the railroads by improvement of the is a curious fact, for example, that in waterways that he has no doubt ac 175 years, ending in 1875, the Mississ- J cepted with alacrity this invitation to ippi is known to have shortened itself make a journey: which will be replete by 242 miles. A characteristic example for him with historical and present-day miles or more in reasonably quick time has caused the gradual disappearance of most of the many-decked steamers into whose hold three thousand tons or more of cargo could be stowed. lAs author of the "Winning of the .1 uu ' , uio oi xauw uau. u m hzz mica ucvk or mna nan uueresi, ana win oe gua oi me iact Benton," President Roosevelt is certain: a mile wide, near Port Hudson, Louis-' that bis visit will help to fix the atten to be particularly impressed with the iana, was cut by the river, which tio nof the civilized world upon some remineecences of pioneer day along the 'henceforth avoided a great loop 35 miles' of the most interesting of modem en- river in the grass-grown towns which long. Much artificial work in the same, gineering projects. once aspireu 10 oe metropolises ana in those places which like Memphis and Yieksburg are really aohieving some thing of the greatness that was early oredicted. 1 ! The) President, may, perhaps, start from St. Louis, which from a small French trading post has become one of the largest cities of the Western Hem isphere. Its destiny was cut out for it long before the day of railroad build ing, for, the early settlers discovered in it a center from which trade was possi hie over more than ten thousand miles of navigable river. Some of the stretch, es of uninterrupted course on which St Louis has prided itself rer since the era when canoes and rafts furnished the only transportation -facilities of the in terior 4f the country were 3,000 miles up the' Missouri as far as Fort Benton, 800 miles on the Mississippi to Minne apolis, 1300 miles down stream to New Orleans,' 1,000 miles up the Ohio to Pittsburg, 300 mile on the Tennessee to Floreuce, 230 miles on the Cumber land to Nashville, TOO miles up the Ark ansas to Fort Gibson, 000 miles on the White River to Bull River, 000 miles on the Onachuta to Camden, and 700 miles on the Red River into the interior of Texa. The total of navigable waters in the Mississippi and its tributaries under the present plan of of improve ment will be about 10,000 miles. Of the immense commerce before the Civil War along the deepest and most valuable stretch, that between St. Lou is and New Orleans, Mark Twain has written a quaintly picturesque and sym pathetic account, such a one as might be expected from a man who in child hood had as a practical Ideal of future greatness the possibility of becoming a steamboat pilot. For the 'boys in the Missouri river town in which Mr. Clem ens was brought up all entertained a vague hope that if God was good to Lincoln and Present Day Politics By NORMAN HAPGOOD ( A t. . ,. lnlll WlHHIIiit.i illlllllllHil Ml llllillH Hamilton, or Jefferson, or Webster, or Calhoun. Washington had an all-including sense of right and justice, but it sprang from his brain; it did not in clude great humanity of emotion. The keynote of the traditional Lincoln (which is in a large way true of the actual Lincoln) is charity, or love of all men charity, which means sorrow, the sorrow of understanding, the sorrow of a u open heart. A strong American, John Quincy Adams, used the words: "In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do." v Such would be the spirit in which Lincoln would perform his duties if be were- alive today. He would take a position, firm and disinterested, on each important question that it become neces sary to decide, but there would be fop him no diatribe, no violence, no stirring of class hatred, no assumption that bis opponents were inhuman yilliana or vampires. He would open his under standing and his sympathy to capitalist and laboring man, to socialist and reac tionary, to Democrat and Republican, to white and black, to protectionist and free-trader, to those who disagree with him as to his warm supporters. Ho would patiently and profoundly dwell No statesman q is quoted ' so earnestly in the United States, for his supposed views on, topics our day, , ; as Abraham Lin- col. It is a usual experience to see eoutemporary arguments based on the opinions of George Washington, but even he comes below Lincoln in this species of appeal. The name of Jeffer son of-Jurse, is used daily to decorate speeches and editorials, but seldom with the close and serious application to the question that is made of Lincoln's name Marshall, Webster, Calhoun,-Clay, aod the leader generally in debating and developing the Constitution are quoted less than formerly, and Hamilton, strong as remains, is not a name to conjure with, Lincoln's opinions hold a place apart. The reason for this is to be found not in superiority to the other statesmen in analysis of public questions. The domi nation of the Lincoln idea is a moral domination. It is his personality, his type, that the people worship and appeal to. That aspect of him which is most1 alive today, which will for centuries bear most fruit, is the quality of bis spirit his richness in those principle upon every interest and every point of which are generally associated with the vice. ; Wheu he decided, he would act religion of Jesus. Unversality of sympa- with decision, but as an enemy to none, thy was his, and it belonged not to as a comprehending friend to all.
