THE MORNING ASTOUIAN. ASTORIA. OREGON.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12, 1908.
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WEATHER REPORT.
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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.
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! 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.
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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. '
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