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nffinlal namtr of Datum ennntT and
the City of AitorU.
project for a canal ever aeen here waa America before the end f thlt century,
launched last year by a well known engt- and whoa the prophecy of the great Eng
nwr, Mr. Eugene Semple, and it waa lih historian shall have come to pass,
bruited about for sometime, that there and upon ,our own summons, we may
was capital and influence behind it; but, die, in a national sense, to live again,
it involved an immense jetty, from -Til- possessed of a diviner wisdom that ahull
tamook Head, out into the ocean to the make for all the transcendent things we
northwest, as a break-water to the coast are scorning now. , . V
immediately north of the Head, which
was to render the sea-waters in the!
THE SPEED QUEEN.
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TEE WEATEEK.
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Western Oregon Fair in the
south; cloudy with possibly rain
in the northern portion.
TRANSPORTATION BUNCOMBE.
The Evening Telegram, of Portland, is
sponsor fop a aalfy story to the effect
that Mr. Harriman, by way of evenin-up
things down here at the mouth of the
Columbia, with the Hill people, who have
secured the very cream of all sites for
terminal equipment of every sort, will
construct a canal from the lately ac
quired terminal grounds of the Union
Pacific, on Young's Bay, to the Pacific
Ocean on the west, thus making that
system utterly independent of Hill, the
Columbia bar, and all the other possible
features of baffling sort hereabout. The
article reads as though it were written
by some "cub" reporter sent out on a
wild-goose chase for news, rather than
by a trained man with confirmatory
notes from authentic sources at his
command.
We do not know what Mr. Harriman
intends to do with, his several hundreds
of acres of waterfrontage on the south
shore of our south 'bay; but we credit
him with more sense than is derivable
from such a proposition as the one
heralded by the Telegram. The best
birfit safe for anchorage and the passing i
of Bhips in and out of the mouth of the J ft mftke8 one hold one's breath 'to read
canal. This canal was to run thence '0f the Lusttania's huge bulk slitting the
north, parallel with the coast-line, to a1 Atlantic rollers at 28 miles an hour,
point inside Clatsop Spit, and join the aii making the coasts of Europe and
bay-flood miles below where the Union j America within 120 of those same hours.
Pacific site is located. But this scheme, j j8 gre&t, of course, and but another ex
designed to obviate what of alleged prew,ion 0f 8Uperb courage and skill
danger or trouble might attach to thejWjt which the modern human is sur
Columbia iar, did not command itself j charged. That it is but one more turn
to the practical people here, and it j a keying up of the intense speed
dropped out of sight very quickly; asjma,, 0f the age. goes without saying
win au canai enterprises tnat have to j w the haiards through which the new
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SUNDAY AT THE CHURCHES,
Christian Science.
Service at 034 Grand avoiue, Sunday
at 10 a. in., subject i "Doctrines of Atone
ment." All are invited.
do with a channel debouching upon the
raw sea for a terminus.
The one thing necessary to make these
terminal grounds available for sea
traffic is the deepening of the Young's
Bay channel, to an adequate depth, to
a point of confluence with the harbor
channels, and it is quite likely that this
is all comprehended in the general
scheme of the company and will develop
in good time. There is an abundance of
time for the conjectural spirit of the
Portland scribes however, as Mr. Harri
man's Oregon projects do not material
ize with any particular "swiftitude."
- PEACE GOES BEGGING.
The Hague Peace Conference has fal
len, futile, and inept, and added its tes
timony to the eternal score of recorded
human savagery .v The dawn of organic
concord has slipped back under the hori
zon of racial greed and will stay there
for another cycle. Blood-lust has always
outbidden blood-love, when the tremen
dous balances have been swung in the
hands of diplomacy, and this will be the
course, forever, because of the irradeca-
ble elements of sreed in the human
heart: greed of power, greed of wealth,
greed of place and prestige and pride.
There is no peace, gave in the abstract;
as a. concrete, elementary attribute
among mankind, it has no existance; it
is repelled, as a menace to the grosser
aims and longings. We want war; no
matter what shape it comes in. We
must have it, to preserve the estimates
and standards of achievement, be it in
society, civic engagement, business, the
professional career, in every field and
phase of human endeavor. Civilization is
not great enough for peace, yet a thou
sand years from now, perhaps, the vast
reversal may be achieved and war be
come the remote exception or the for
gotten medium of arbitrament. The
Xeroic period will be discounted in
limits are to be established (or, rather,
through which all limits are to be, even
tually, dis-establitdied' strike us as over
whelmingly charged with death and des
truction; but we will not press the
fearsome doubt, lest we tie relegated to
that state of uninspired, ignorant, and
hapless desuetude, wherein we have so
often placed our fore-father; and as we
are altogether American we choose to
take the bit in our teeth and "do things,
even if we die wretchedly in the doing
of them. But jut think of a couple of
Lusitania's coming together, at that
speed, in mid-Atlantic, on a sombre
night! WHAT!! II .
Holy Innocents' Chapel. ...
Twentieth Sunday after Trinity.
Morning and evening services, 10 a. ni.
and 7:30 p. in. Holy communion. Sun
day school, 11:15 ft. m. '
Presbyterian.
All services as usual. The pastor will
preach morning and evening. Chorus
choir. All are Invited. Wm. S. Gilbert.
pastor.
Services at 11 a, in. and 7:30 p. ra.;
Sunday school at 12:30. Rev. John War
ren will preach at the evening services.
Rev. W. S. Short will be at Holy Inno
cents Chapel, la Uppertown, In the
evening exchange pulpits with Ret.
Varrcn.
EDITORIAL SALAD.
The railroads that join in the water
ways movement are far-sighted as well
as broad-minded.
The early completion of a deep water
way to the gulf will be of vast help to
the country in solving the transporta
tion problem, the rate problem and the
market problem.
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The American people pay no atten
tion to talk of panic on account of a
decline in the quotation of any stock
that has been watered. Puncturing the
fictions will not bring hard times.
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After gazing upon the ample form
of Secretary Taft the little Japs have
concluded that an ounce of prudence is
better than a ton of valor.
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The decorum of the Senate will be put
to a severe tension when the two new
members from Oklahoma .shall strut
down the aisle clanking their spurs and
swatting the desks with their som
breros, i
The sermon themes at the Methodist
Church wil be as follows; At 11 a. ni
"The Constraining Motive"; at 7:30
m., "The (Persuasive Power of the
Bible." All other services as usual. A
cordial Invitation is extended to the pub
lie to attend. Seats are free, ; Strangers
will be made to feel at home, 0. C. Bar
ick, pastor.
Baptist Church.
All services at usual hours. Morning
theme, "A Mind to Work." Evening,
"The Cross of Christ and the ClnM of
the Cross." , Everyone is Invited. Con
rad L, Owen, pastor.
First Spiritual,
The First Spiritual church service will
be held at the Megler House at 8 p. ra.
conducted by Mrs., Coon.
First Evangelical.
Morning service in Swedish at 10:45:
theme, "Royalty la the Kingdom of
God." Evening service, alwavs in Eng
lish, at 7:30 o'clock; theme, "Gatherimr
In the Harvest of the Kingdom." Sun
day school at Uppertown Church and in
the German Lutheran at 0:30 a. m., Miss
Alema Nyland and Mrs, A. Young,
superintendents. Choir meet for re
hearsal every Tuesday evening at 7:30,
confirmation class meets for instruction
every Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Tuesday morning, October 15, the pastor
will leave for Tacoma, to attend a meet
ing of the Columbia conference of th
Evangelical Lutheran Church, and til!
be gone for a 'week. Quttaf E. Rydqimt,
pastor, . ,
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She' as happy can be,
Since taking Hollistei' Rocky Moun
The pain In Ma's head ha gone,
Frank Hart
Before dccldlmr deflnlttilv. the Kmnreia
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of China might get Alton B. Parker to
draw her one of his kind of Constitu
tions, warranted to prevent anything
ever happening,
Row to Cure Cold.
The question of how to our a cold
without unnecessary loss of time is on
in which we are all more or less Inter-
Amta.1 f., tit Mt,lt m maM l
rid of the less the danger of pneumonia
and other serious disease. Mr. B. W.
L Hall, of Waverly, Va, ha used Cham
berlaln's Cough Remedy for year and
says i "I firmly believe Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy to be absolutely the best
preparation on th market for colds. , I
have recommended it to my friends anj
they all agree with ma," For sal hf
Frank Hart and Leading Druggist.
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Made in New York
WE might sell any one of a hundred
makes of Men's Clothing. .
We sell Benjamin Clothing in
preference to all others, because the Benjamin
Label is accepted
by Fashionable
NewYorkersf-the
best dressed men in the world, as a guar
antee of Correct Style and Superior Quality.
Correct Clothes for Men
Exclusive Agent Mere.
The Brownsville Woolen Mill Co
S57 Commercial St.
Astoria, Ore.
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1 ONE MAN SAID OF THE
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UpHEBEST BARGAINS I have ever seen in Clothing, Hats, Shoes and Furnishing Goods are to be
I found at the National's Forced Sale." The man who said this was an Astoria manhas lived
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in Astoria for 18 years and concluded his interesting statement by saying: "If I did not buy now at the
Forced Sale, wearing apparel to last me for a long time to come, I would be blind to my own opportun.
ities." Here is a reasonable proposition: Visit our Forced Sale at your convenience and if you are nov
sufficiently impressed with the values and bargains, tlhat will settle the matter, We know, however, that you
will be so thoroughly surprised at what you will see that no possible argument will alter your determination
to buy here annow and nowhere else.
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if We must raise the balance of the cash needed at once and the closing days of our big Big Forced vSale will do it for us
Strenuous efforts will make the closing days of this SALE as BUSY as the opening days.
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Space forbids our going into detail here regarding the merciless price cutting we are doing throughout our entire
stock. We can only say, a visit to our store during this entire week will impress you with the magnitude of this
Great Sale as nothing else can. y
We ilre not only Forced, but
Compelled to raise money..
The Closing Days of
The Forced Sale
will do it for us.
Shoe and Clothing Qq.9
684 Commercial St. Between 15th and 16th.
, Absolutely the greatest
bargains ever offered in Men's
Women's and Children's
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wearing apparel during the '
Closing Days
of this
Great Forced Sale,
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