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THE MORNING ASTOUIAN. ASTORIA. OREGON. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12, 1908. THE MORNING ASTORIAN Established 1873. Published Daily Except Monday by THE J. S. DELLINGER CO. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mail, per.year.. ......... .$7.00 By carrier, per month........ .60 WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in advance, $1.50 Entered wDd-clK nit waiy SO.lfc. M th P04tt.mc l Anix f on, under Ui M of Congrws o! iren s. two ur Ontcrt tor the drMwnnjr 9t THt Mow in 4wiu to either rmUmat or ptace ol busimva ur be uude bj p rd or through telephone. Any ImtaUrity to de uverj ehould be touneiiiMelr rooned to tb omoe ot publioeJion. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. Official paper of Clatsop County and the City of Astoria. SCANDINAVIAN-AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK HAS MONEY TO LOAN ON GOOD SECURITY oooooooooooooooo WEATHER REPORT. Western Oregon and Wash ingtonRain; possibly part snow. Eastern Oregon, Washing ton, Idaho Rain or snow, fol lowed by clearing weather THE PERSONAL STRAIN. One of the unescapable misfortunes that beset a city the size of Astoria, is the "personal strain" running through all her civic relations, to the detriment of and interference with her commercial progress and prps perousness. We are too intimately grouped alround; we know too much of one another and of the petty things and ideas that militate against popu lar success. We are too prone to use our knowledge of these little failures and lapses and blunders, and to make more of them than they deserve, and to urge, them in the gratification of the malice that is within us. All of which bars and binds the wheels of local endeavor and obtrudes itself at unpropitious moments in affairs that cannot bear such inopportune pres sure. We must change this practice and forget the man in the interest of the community. We are not all pure patriots, by a long sight; and we have no right to expect our fellows to be overly much better than we are in the long run; and the pace, and the course, of our progress would be in finitely faster and smoother if we begin, right now to purge our work of this hindrance. Every man has his faults and it is the better part of citizensship to measure his by our own and strike a balance in favor of the city and her destiny. Astoria is all right, whatever some of us may be; and we are all profoundly inter ested in seeing her forge ahead; upon this predicate we can unite, and leave the "personal strain" for personal adjustment. science, has instituted a public service that costs but a cent a word, what ever the distance, and is making a liberal profit on that basis; therefore, the other great concerns have got to come to the lower margin and be satisfied with a modified and mod erate proht. This is as it should be. The Ameri can people are the most generous on earth in their support of all masterly conveniences and too rarely ques tion the tolls they are paying; they have been "done brown," not only in wire services of all kinds, but in every common utility of the day, and the "kick-back" is at hand., Without deprecating the inestimable value of the great lines of public utility, the people will never rest until they get a normal rate in lieu of the scale that has amounted to something akin to robbery and is only saved from that raw nomenclature by reason of the unreasoning gullibility where with the excess has always paid. CEMENT AND STEEL. COSTLY ECONOMY. The Congress of this United States has decided that the President and the Secretary of the Navy do not know what they are talking about when they call for four more battle ships; and has determined to build but two, the pair to cost within $10, 000,000, and this with a naval budget of over $100,000,000, for the year. This is not parsimony; it is a slap at the President. But we are inclined to believe that the slap will prove a boomerang before the country has heard the last of it "In time of peace, prepart for war!" is as sound a doctrine now as in Revolutionary days; anl with all the governm:i''.e of the earth on the feather-edgj of aggressive ambition and territorial lust, may prove, by the neglect it has received, to be safest and wisest of all policies. We hope there will be no punitive reaction; but hope has little to do with the fierce striving of peoples in mat ters of commerce and national boun daries. And if war should come, to find us unprepared on the seas, ihe country will know where the blame lies. NO MONUMENT NEEDED. The two Carlos of Portugal are -n their graves; and a child reigns in their stead, under the regency of a stricken Queen. No monument is needed at their tombs, however grand a one shall be put there to eke out the conventions. The wretched traditions these men stood for and to which they sacrificed lui: rr jle and throih which their own deaths were wrought, is monu ment enough to mark their memory and make it obnoxious to all genera tions. Men are turning to the light of freedom the wide world over, hungarily, fiercely and courageously, and will not be denied. Time may pass while barriers are thrown up about the faltering systems of slavery and oppression; but time DOES pass, and "all things come to him whom waits!" History will set up monument enough to amply tell the story of the Carlos; of these men of modern ity who clung to medieval things and gagged and drugged a nation of men into submission and sufferance until its gorge arose and the masters fell in slaughter. The lessons of a day are given to cure the mad blunders of a century, and he who will not learn, must die. This is the edict of the day we live in and it is inviolable because it is adapted from the creed of Nature herself. EDITORIAL SALAD Crop prospects are promising, and none looks safer for a bountiful sup ply than that of Republican presi dential booms. An Albany Democratic paper calls a Brooklyn Democratic paper "googoo guerrilla." And this is only the second month of the campaign year! The Aldrich currency bill has the merit of simplicity. Anybody can understand it, and intelligibility in finance ought to count for several points. The good Southern man who is wanted by Judge Parker to be the Moses of the Democratic party seems to be about as hard to locate as the grave of Moses. Other nations may boast as much as they like of the power of their naval arms, but the American fleet is still playing a leading part in the lord ship of the sea. CENT-A-WORD TELEGRAPH. For the major part of a century we have enjoyed the blessings of the telegraph, and it is still among the excellent things that go to make the sum of civilization and progress;( but man is beginning to realize that the benefice is costing him altogether too much; that the people who have monopolized the facilities are. ex ploiting the masses and have been for years. At least one of them. The reaction has set in and the day for adjustment is at hand. The Tele- i post, the newest application of the Nashville, Tenn., wants immigrants, and will circulate a German news paper in Germany to attract the kind it wishes. It will find that the variety is welcome in any part of the country. Mr. Bryan's drama at Denver will be cast with one character only. The lone fisherman will have the entire stage, but his party ought to know what sort of a play it likes. If Thaw objects to the society in which he finds himself, he can blame his counsel for making out too strong a Case. ' Yet the alternative ' might have been still more unpleasant. ' There is a proposition to make ex Presidents high officials in the peace movement. How long will it be be fore the country can haxe an ex chief magistrate who is built that way? Insufficient Quantities Used Wood Still the Favorite Material.. Cement and steel and brick and stone are not yet used in sufficient quantities to encourage lumber users to predict the time when the forest will not be called upon to furnish the principal materials used in bulding operatons. Notwithstanding the re markablc increase in the use of cc ment and other fireproof materials, the last reports of the building op erations in forty-nine of the leading cities of the United States for the year, collected by the Geological Sur vey, show that 59 per cent were of wooden construction. , Even if the remaining forty-one per cent of the buildings were built of brick, stone and concrete, vast quantities of wood are consumed both in the construction and in the finish, though in the latter form, metal is taking the place of wood to a very large extent. The amount of lumber given above does not take into consideration this item at all. While this percentage is represen tative of the building industry in the United States, dealers point out that it does not include the large quanti ties of lumber used in the thousands of small cities and towns scattered over the country and not included in the forty-nine cities on which a reck oning was made. In towns and small cities wood is usually the pre d minating building materials and it is safe to say that if the statistics had included figures for all places of whatever . size, the percentage of wooden construction would have been much greater. These figures, as a rule, are only for the corporate limits, and the suburbs of these cities have each very large amounts to be addad. The cost, also, is relatively higher in these cities than in towns nearer the base of the supply. In wooden buildings, New York City is at the bottom of the, list though it leads with $18,075 as the average cost of building. Except at San Francisco, where abnormal con ditions have prevailed since the fire, Boston shows the greatest increase of any of the cities in the total cost of building operations. The average cost of buildings is constantly increas ing, having risen over three hundred dollars during the last three years. The average value of a building is given in the report as $2,035. Lumber is by far the greatest drain on the forests, and the wonderful de velopment of the country during the past decade has called for the use of nearly forty billion board feet a year. The largest quantity ever reported for a single year was for 1906, when thirty-seven and one-half billion feet, with a mill value of $621,151,388 was used. Including the value of the lath and shingles used with this amount, the total value of the wood used for buildings is brought up to $656,796,-513. CHINESE DRILLING Organizing Her Troops in a Modern Way. WORK NOW BEING HASTENED Many Sleepless Nights, Owing to a Persistent Cough.. Relief Found at Last "For several winters past my wife has been troubled with a most persis tent and disagreeable cough, which invariably extended over a period of several weeks and caused her many sleepless nights," writes Will J. Hay ner, editor of the Burley, Colo., Bulletin. "Various remedies were tried each year, with no beneficial results. In November last the cought again put in an appearance and my wife, acting on the suggestion of a friend, pur chased a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. The result was in deed marvelous. After three doses the cough entirely disappeared and has not manfiested itself since." This remedy is for sale by Frank Hart and leading druggists. Colonel Watterson announces that he will support Bryan. The Demo crat can only bow his head and mur mur: "It is kismet." Ask Yourself the Question. ' Why not use Chamberlain's Pain Balm when you have rheumatism? We feel sure that the result will be prompt and satisfactory. One appli cation relieves the pain, and many have been permanently cured by its use. 25 and 50 cent sizes. For sale by Frank Hart and leading druggists. Border Complications and the Success of the Rebels Reason for Thia Move and Brigade ia Now on Way to Organise a Division. PEKIM, Feb. ll.-Bordcr compli cations and the successes of the rebels on the French border, due, it is be lieved, to foreign assistance, have in duced the Chinese government to hasten organization of her modern anccs that this text is for the pur pose of elucidation and now is striv ing to secure an exact definition of Great Britain's relation with Tibet. The throne has authorized uniform punishments for Manchu and Chinese offenders. Fisher Brothers Company SOLE AGENTS Barbour and Finlnyson Salmon Twins and Netting McCormlck Harvesting Machines Oliver Chilled nought Malthoid Roofing Thorples Cream Separators Raecollth Flooring Storrett's Tools Hardware, Groceries, Ship Chandlery - Tan Bark, Blue Stone, Muriatic Acid, Welch Coal, Tar, Ash Oars, Oak Lumhcr, ripe and Filings, Brass Goods, Taints, Oils and Class Fishermen! Purt Manilla Ropt, Cotton Twlna and Selno Wtb Wo Wont Your Trade FISHER BROS. BOND STREET BEANS FED TO SWINE. Beans can be fed to swine only in the cooked form. The pig seems to be unable to utilize beans which are at all hard or firm, even though they have been boiled for some time; hence it is very essential that they be thorouKhly and carefully cooked, says R. S. Shaw, of Michigan. To supply a single feed of half-cooked beans to a pen of hogs robs them of their ap petites and relish for their food, if indeed it does not put them off their feed. SAFE. Mrs. Smith Yes, my little five- year-old girl is a great help in my houskeeping. Mrs. Randall Why, what can such a child do to help? Mrs. Smith She goes down and tells the cook for me whenever we're go ing to have company. Harper s Bazar. Save Money by Buying Chamber- . Iain's Cough Remedy. You will pay just as much for a bottle of Chamberlain' Cough Rem edy as for any of the other cough medicines, but you save money in buyng it The saving it in what you get, not what you pay. The sure-to-cure-you quality is in every bottle of this remedy, and you get good re sults when you take it Neglected coldt often develop serious condi tions, and when you buy cough medicine you want to be sure you are getting one that will cure your cold. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy al ways cures. Price 25 and 50 cents a bottle. For sale by Frank Hart and leading druggists. :: We have tlic largest stock 'of Valentines j v that ever came to Astoria. :: Comics, Drops, Valentine Post Cards and :j a large and assorted stock of Fancy -and Pretty Valentines. E. A, HIGOINS CO., : MU8I0 HOOKS STATION Kit Y The Old Reliable Painless Chicago Dentists Cor. Commercial and Eleventh Sts. ASTORIA, ORE. Phone 3901 Headquarters PORTLAND, ORE. Are equipped to do all kinds of Dental work at very lowest prices. Nervous people and those afflicted with heart weakness may have no fear of the dental chair. 22 K. crown. , $5.00 Bridge work, per tooth 5.00 Gold fillings ;. ..). ... .. $1.00 up Silver fillings.. 50c to $1.00 Best rubber plate ............ $8 00 Aluminum-line plate $10 to $15.00 These offices are modern through out We are able to do all work absolutely painless. Our tuccest ia due to uniform high grade work by gentlemanly operators having 10 to 15 years- experience. Vegetable Vapor, patented and used only by us for painless extraction of teeth, 50c A binding guarantee given with all work for 10 years. Exami nation and consultation FREE. Lady in attendance. Eighteen of fices in the United States. :: , " Cor. Commercial and Eleventh Sts., t over Danziger ttore. MIMIIMin MMtMtmMMMM ! Open and Ready rwn uouiLOO I With a full line of spring and summer goods. Imported and Domestic Wool ens in all the latest patterns and effects. A. BACHMEIER . J The Up-to-date Tailor. ; STAR THEATRE BUILDING - - COR, I Ith AND COMMERCIAL 8T' X HMMMHMMHHHHMHMMIMHMM Have You Seen The Wash? In Our Hardware Window i The Foard & Stokes Hardware Co l Incorporated Successors to Focrd & Stokes Co. ' Maraschino Cherries DELICIOUS Try'em 75c and $1.00 a bottle at the AMERICAN IMPORTING CO. 589 Commercial Street - J. Q. A. BOWLBY, President. I FRANK PATTON, Cashier O. I. PETERSON, Vice-President. ' J. W. GARNER, Assistant Cashier Astoria Savings Bank Transacts a General Banking Business interest Paid on Time Deoosits . FOUR PER CENT PER ANNUM. ' Eleventh and DnaneStt. . Astoria Oregon. ' First National Rank nf Acfrn-.a fW mmmrm ...... v . mrmm IMlUIIUl VIU 1 ' a at w,.w.. ESTABLISHED 18WJ. Capital 0100.000