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s THE MORNING ASTORIAN. ASTORIA, OREGON. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER at, 1907. THE MORNING ASTORIAN Established 1873. Published Dairy Except Monday by JHE j. s. BELLINGER COMPANY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mail, per year..... IT-W By carrier, per month.. WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in advance.. .$1.00 Entered M hcooMIw matter July M.1M. at lb poMomw at AlorU. Orj too, under Ui ol of Conjr ol March I, MWWka a k iUtMMM of Tst Hoax murouAX to dUir rnMeom or pUoa of toatima aay b made by pol card or throw Mtoot. any Irrojrularlty ta Umn abould to tmnmiUtell reported to Q omoot pubUcattoo. TELETHONS MAIN 601. Official paper of CUtaov County and the City of Astoria. WEATHER. 4 Western Oregon and Washing 4 ton Sain followed by clearing 4 and cooler weather. Eastern Oregon and Washing- ton Kain or snow; cooler. ASTORIA'S ALL RIGHT. Taking it all in all Astoria has come through the "stringency" in prime good shape, and is in a position to face contnuance of the limitations, m com fort and safety, though we believe the embargo will gradually lift, and shortly clear itself for good and all Our lura ber mills are all running; the canneries have big stock under order and ready for shipment; the lesser factories of all sorts are busy and give no sign of abatement of work; the merchants all tall of steady trade though it is some what abridged; and the people them selves are patient and forbearing, and contributing in all rays to the preserve tioo of a sensible and conservative sta tus; a policy that will pay handsomely when the general and thankful, review is made of a trying situation happily and successfully passed. 0 I BILL'S TELLING SPEECH. Jn his address before the Kansas City Commercial Club, on Tuesday night last James J. Hill made a masterly presen tation of the railroad aide of the com mercial situation, as it strikes one of the great leaders of that element of busi ness. He said nothing more nor less than the truth, as H applies to trans portation companies within the law; and he minced no words when be dealt with those concerns that have placed themselves beyond its pale. Not at his hands, perhaps, have the people been worsted in their relations with the railroads; the whole country will credit Hill with a freedom from the smirch and shame of foul manipulation of railway privileges, such as can never attach to Harriman and others, but there are certain things that even Mr. Hill cannot excuse nor vouch for, and upon these he was silent as the grave. No thinking American will ever deny the tremendous force and scope of rail way development in this country; nor will he forget that the people, by a largess of gifts almost incalculable, have made that development practical and feasible; lands, and franchise, and special privileges, exemptions, and the vast leverage of untold millions of popu lar moneys lavished by the people theni seleg, have had something to do with the wide-spread of the great systems in Which he glories; and when he alludes to the possibility of "a pledge of credit by the government itself" for the se curing of funds wherewith to meet the expansion necessary to eover the grow ing demands of commerce in this coun try, he is closer to a living truth than he dreams of, for this is the first step that shall open up the vital doctrine of government ownership; a doctrine that will never down short of realization, and the only device whereby the people shall come into their own. The people have given, and paid, and paid, and given, to railways, until the tale is too deep a tradition for sophistical treatment even at the hands of a master as clean and able as Hill; and the solution of the interminable problems of the future, in the American railway world, lie in just some such immense definitive course ai this. 0 THAT HALF-BILLION. The proposition, emanating from the Hiverfe & Hafbore Congress, foil the graduated issuance of a half billion of money to be devoted to the improvement of the waterways of the nation, sounds pretty big just at this moment of doubt and worry incident to the inspir- According to reports from Colorado, six Utes were converted into good In disss by the use of bullets. ed stringency, yet it has a ring of pur pose, and practical work, that is stimu lating and Interesting withal. The wat erways congress. Is about the moot Im portant group ot cltiaens in existance in this country now, aside from the great public bodies of the nation; and the only one, in years, that seems to know, with any unanimity, what it wants. .Wanting a vast deal, it aay so uncompromisingly, which is ahvaya a step precedent to getting it. This paper is published in, and stands for, a waterway-community; and is de voted, heart and soul, to the success of the great congress that is asking for this extraordinary sum. We Astorians Jwvll at the sea-gate of on of the mightiest rivers of the country; at the foot of the greatest of the western routes of the continent; at the export end of one of the lordliest and richest basins of the world; at the strategical spot that is to rule immensely in the international controversies of the fu ture, be they commercial or be they of war; we are at the mouth of the Colum bia, and saying that we say all that Is needed to justify our loyalty to the program that involves this enormous expenditure. Enough of this miglnty sum must come to this great artery of commerce and millitary prestige, to make 'practicable for the exigencies of both utilities, from this point to the head of navigation, and also for it grea tributaries; and while this is being ex pended. other millions will be doing the same incalculable good on other streams and bays and harbors over the country to the abounding good of the people everywhere, in the cheapening of the supreme expense of the nation, that of transportation. Aside from this rather selfish essti mate of the good that will be done by such a course of appropriations, there are hundreds of equally advantageous reasons for it; notably, that it will put that huge sum in . active circulation, and provide employment for tens of thousands of people at decent wages throughout the country, in themselves. tangible causes for its prompt endorse' ment by THE Congress. , 0 which is an indispensable condition of the vitality of industries which, In their turn, aliment the traffic of the rail way a." To that wise conclusion the American people have come as well as the French government, with France expending on the improvement of her rivers and har bors $1,120,000,000, up to 1IHH1 and with the government of the United Slates expending for like purposes only $470,000,00(1 up to and Including the same year, and with Francs now engag ed in the construction of a canal be tween the river Shone and the city of Aries, only fifty miles In length yet at a cost of $13,703,000. The wonderful success of the French system, is due to the foct that France EDITORIAL SALAD. .. .. Senator Tillman has made unneces sary any further talk about presidential nominations, for which, many thanks. The welfare of the city and state is above the pleasure of the individual; hence the quarantine laws must be obey J. If you hadn't spent your money for watermelons in August you would have the price of a turkey now. Talk of basketball indicates the ap proach of winter; there is nothing win try in the weather. With everything lovely on earth, it seems silly to go hunting sun spots as omens of trouble. 'Reasons which appear sufficient to Mr. Harrison may not satisfy the court. Miss Ida Veronica Siraonton, the new Thaw witness, is a real saucy thing. The wise turkey eats sparingly takes plenty of exercise. and Honolulu sends a good singer to join the prosperity chorus. "A POLICY; NOT A PROJECT The National Rivers and Harbors Congress, to convene at the New Wallard Washington, on December 4, 5 and 6 will be of the utmost importance. The se cond session since the reorganization of the Congress, the fact that it was brought into existence for the purpose of advocating a broad national policy with reference to inland waterway and harbor improvement but committed to no special project. That platform, the justice of the de mand for adequate annual appropria tions for the great work of inland wat ay and harbor improvement, and the imperative necessity for increased facili ties for transportation have drawn the attention of all classes of trade and com mercial interests to the coming session of the Congress. Opposition to the Im provement of the inland waterway and the harbor has disappeared. The coun try has come to recognition of the fact that there ig no possible hostility be tween the inland waterway and the rail way, but that between the two there Ss nothing but healthy competition. That fact was given strong public recognition in the report of the special committee of the French Chamber of Deputies in 1903 in the statement that "Where tran- portation by water and by rail are both vailable, they complement and com plete each other, the one transporting the heavy materials, the low cost of has stood for a policy and not for project, with the French merchants, manufacturer and consumer reaping the benefits. Standing for a policy and for no project, insisting on adequate appro priations for the great work, annually made, the coming session of the Nation si Rivers and Harbors Congress cannot fall In commanding the attention of the entire country and In Impressing the strength and the justice of the demands of trade and commerce on the Congress of the United State. PARIS, Nov 50,-Like the ancient At hemen jiur Parisian of todaji, mut have his novelty and his man of the hour. A few year ago it was Paul Per oulede, then Combe, then Clemenoeeau then Santos-Dumont and now Henri Kantian, He it polities, science or art, it is all the same. There must be a central figure, Thome dfl moment, as the prime subject of conversation in every cafe and saloon. At this moment the engrossing topic is Farman and his exploits in the air, He really seeing to have solved the prin oiple of a successful aeroplane, and he has won deathless fame thereby. With his real machine of 300 pounds weight. he has achieved the dream of centuries: real flight, under perfect control,, and to Jay he is the most talked of man In Europe. Henri Farman is in the early thirties as to age. He was born in France, of English parents, and has spent his life here speaking French with much more fluency than English . For years he has been an expert automobillst whence comes, doubtless, his ease of manner un der high speed, and hi coolness in mo ments of grave danger. Recently hit quickness of presence of mind was pro ved when two onlookers inadvertantly got directly in the path of his machine when it was flying low at great speed la a second's time, he raised the aero plane and whirled over them in safety, whereas the slightest hesitation would have resulted in the decapitation of both men. A Hard Debt to Pay. "I owe a debt of gratitude that eaa never be paid off," writes O. a Clark, of West field, Iowa, "for my rsseno (ram death, by Dr. King's New Discovery. Both rang wers to seriously affsctad that death seemed Imminent whan J commenced taking Nw Discovery. The ominous dry, backing cough quit before tbe first bottl was used, and two more bottles made a complete cur a" Noth ing baa ever equaled New Discovery for coughs, eolde and all throat end Innr complaints. Guaranteed by Charles Rogers & Son, druggist. 60 centa aad $1.00. Trial bottle free. TO RECEIVE COMMITTEEMEN NEW YORK. Nov. 20.-Cbairman Thomas of the Democratic National Committee, went back to French Lick, Ind., last night to prepre a reception for the National Committeemen who will be his guests on Friday. The meet ing, though is an Informal one, will na turally see plans for the National Con- ention and tbe presidential campaign discussed. The national committee will meet in Washington around the holi days to fix a time and place for hold ing the next national convention. Cored of Bright! Disease, Mr. Robert 0. Burke, Hnora, S. Y, writes: "Before I started to use Foley's Kidney Cure I bad to get up from 12 to 20 time a night, and I was all bloat ed up with dropsy and my eyesight was so unpaired I could scarcely see one of my family across the room. I had given up tope of living, when a friend recom mended Foley's Kidney Cure. One 00 cent bottle worked wonders and before had taken tbe third bottle the drotmy had gone, ae well as all other symp toms of Bright' dleeasa T. F. Leuria. Owl Drug Store. Have you ordered the Morning Astor- ian delivered at your door? COFFEE Nothing does more for a grocer, one way or the other, than coffee. He must sell poor; (he needn't sell it to you) it is good tHt makes him. Your rrocer return roar money if ton dos't Uke Schilling's Best; w pay him Special Sale SKIRTS 50 's Suits and Skirts $25.00 Suits . for.. ..010 s $2.0.00 Suits for $10.05 A special lot of Fine Tailored Suits in mannish mixtures, all length jackets, from 26 inches to seven-eighths length; sizes to 44. Skirts are full plaited with self-fold. Placed on Sale at this Special Low Price $25.00 Suits ... $12.50 $20.00 Suits . . . $10.05 At Special Prices Voiles, Panamas, Serges and other popular fabrics; blacks, blues, browns, fancy trimmed, with self fold embroidered and lace insertion, gored, pleated and flared; all new styles, 'at one-third off regular prices, AH alteration! ecarged extra. $18.50 Skirts, $12.35 $15.00 Ski.ts, $10.00 $12.50 Skirts, $8.34 $10.00 Skirts, $0.07 $9.50 Skirts, $0.32 $8.50 Skirts, $5.67 $7.50 Skirts; $5.00 $5.00 Skirts, $3.34 $ 100 Skirts, $2.67 $3.00 Skirts, $2.00 RY FYDPFsl We have Just recved express a special lot of rain Dl LArlVLOO proof Silic. Coats in fancy stripes, plaids and plain greens, navys, browns, garnets and blacks; very latest novelties; only one of a kind. Also a special line of suits by express today. Simington Dry Goods Co- WHA IS WRONG? Many Ask People in Astoria Are Asking That Question of late. Within the last few weeks, more peo ple than nsual have complained of fre quent sneezing fit, tickling in the throat, stoppage in the noee, spasms of coughing, raising ol mucous, dropping in the throat and offensive breath, and have asked themselves what is tbe mat ter. The trouble is that they are affected with catarrh and unless immediate steps are taken to remedy their condition, the disease will increase and spread through the delicate mucous membrane that lines the air passages, and a chronic and ser ious stage of the disease will result. At the first symptoms of catarrh, Hyomei should be used. There is no other treatment like it or Jusj as good; none than can take it place and cure so surely, so quickly and at so little cost. It is a scientific medicated air treatment that does not drug and derange the stomach, but is breathed in, directly de stroying aU disease germs that may lurk in the nose, throat and lungs and sooth ing and healing the irritated mucous membrane. I T. F. Laurin, the' local agent for Hyomei, has so much' confidence in the merits of the remedy that he offers it on trial to any catarrhal sufferer with the agreement to refund the purchase price of (1.00 for the complete outfit to anyone who is not satisfied with the results. You certainly can afford to teat Hyomei with an offer like this. Get it now and be cured of catarrh. Sherman Transfer Co. , " HENRY SUER MAX, Manager Hacks, Carriagee Baggage Cheeked aadTransrerred Tracks and rnrartare Wagon Pianos Moved, Boxed and Shipped. 433Commercial Street yty, Mom isi SOT BAY II & BRASS MS ASTORIA, OltEUON 7 IRON AND BRASS FOUNDERS5 LAND AND MARINE ENGINEERS IVto-Ial Haw Mill Maclilnrryl 18th and Franklin Ave. I'rompl attintion given to ai. rir work Tel. Main 2401 Appendicitis Is due in a large measure to abuse of the bowels, by employing drastic pur gatives. To avoid all danger, use only Dr. King's New Life Pills, the safe, gen tle cleanser am invigoretors. Guaran teed for headache, biliousness, malaria and jaundice, at Charles Rogers Son's Drag Store. 20 centa WALKING TO NEW ORLEANS. NEW YORK, Nov. 20. "Dakota Bob," picturesque western rival of Weston, the pedestrian, started on a walk from New York City Hall to New; Orleans yesterday, after petting Mayor McClcl- lan to write his name in his book, and telling the reporters all about himself. He expects to reach New Orleans on February 14. ASTORIA IRON WORKS DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS OK THE LATEST IMPROVED .... Canning Machinery, Marine Engines and Boilers COMPLETE CAmrEKY OUTFITS fUBHISBID. ' Correspondence Solid tel. foot of Fourth Street. ATTER Astoria Hardware Co., 113 12tn St. i 'the" " TRENTON I i First-Class Liquors and Cigars 0o Commercial Street Corner Commercial and 14th. ASTORIA, OREGON f I It st