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9 THE MORNING ASTOKIAN. ASTORIA, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 10, 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 Intwrt m MWond-clMi mat" ur 90. lM, at th poatofltoa t Aai!a.ur ton, nndw tht cl o( CoutrsM Ol Maren I, ISTS tr Ontom tor the dritwnna t Tat Mom mAJrrouAD toatUiw naktooo or piao ol bottom nay bo made by portal card or throuifc tetepaooa. Any trrornlority la d Uttrj ghouM bolmmodiMolrraponedloUir omoootpubUottoa. . TELEPHONE MAIN 661. , Official paper of Clatsop County and the City of Astoria. 0000000000000000 O WEATHER 0 O Western Oregon and Wash- 0 0 ington Fair except rain near 0 O coast 0 O Eastern Oregon and Wash- 0 O inrton. Idaho Fair. 0 oooooooooooooooo THE BOX ORDINANCE. The ordinance prohibiting private boxes in saloons in this city has pass ed, to the abounding credit of the common council, and the infinite good of the city. There is no element of the saloon business in America so prolific of shame and ruin and criminal accom plishment as this one phase. It has been the curse of every community that permitted it and its abrogation has ever been the sign for the break ing up of a hundred kindred evils. It has been the lurking place of the thief, the wanton, the macque, and of their victims, men and women, boys and girls; it has been the pivotal spot where thousands of young lives have been turned to utter and hope less wrong and to its hideous secrecy half the crime of the country can be traced. It has no reason for existence save the one sole reason of its opportuness and privacy in the doing of foul and debauching deeds ;and its fellow in the restaurant is practically as bad. The Astoria council is to be cori congratulated on having wiped out the most vicious thing in existance here; and the hope is very general that no toleration will ever be con ceded in the future. SCANDINAVIAN-AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK HAS MONEY TO LOAN ON GOOD SECURITY son. Therefore, such a gathering means an expenditure of not less than $25,000 in the course of a sum mer wheresoever they shall be held; and it stands Clatsop in hand to make it feasible for the Chatauquans to come into what land they may need on the coast of this county at terms so moderate as to preclude all possibility of disappointment It will be strong drawing card and a very valuable agjency for all con cerned and no stone should be laid in the way of its final achievement A CREDIT TO OREGON. The re-opening of the Merchants' National Bank at Portland on Mon day last and the features of its first day's business are gratifying to the whole people of Oregon, since it looms as. a complete exoneration of the methods and policies of a house that was closed almost at the behest of wanton suspicion, and shows that the same strong policy that marks the banking business of the State, was in force there, as in all other institu tions. Everybody wishes it entire and uninterrupted success from this day on. The rehabilitation of the Mer chants' National Bank and its cor dial treatment at the hands of those who held nearly a million in its vaults, and withdrew but $38,000 from it when its doors did open after weeks of inactivity, constitute a re markable variance in the attitude of the people toward the Title, Guar anty & Trust Bank and its shameful status, accentuating, and adding im mensely to the general confidence in the banking business of the State. It is a revelation that will stand the business in good stead henceforth and should contribute proof of the irrational and groundless suspicion that is at times permitted to undo the soundest and safest of banks. LIQUOR ORDINANCES. New Ordinances in Bay City to Regu late the Sale of Liquor. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18,-Two ordinances to regulate the liquor traffic were introduced in the Board of Supervisors by Supervisor Mur dock yesterday. One fixes the retail license at $1000 per annul, while the other imposes a $500 license on sell ers of liquor in quart quantities or more. The new ordinances are more sweeping in some provisions than those now in force. The sale of liquor is prohibited at places of amusement and within 250 feet within any schools or church Permits from the Board of Police Commissioners are necessary and must be renewed every three months. The penalty for violating any pro visions of either ordinance is by tine not to exceed $500 or imprisonment not to exceed six months or by both fine and imprisonment. The ord nances if passed will be in effect July 1st WE DONT WANT WAR. THE REED ROMANCE. The saving of Mate Dubie and his two companions from the open boat and the high sea, derelicts from the wrecked ship Emily Reed, tragic and bitter as it reads in the despatches, will be turned to romance when the weight and horror of it have passed from the minds of the victims. It will become the tale of their lives and go to heighten and color the revealed history of the men, as tens of thou sands of other stories have been given forth to charm and interest mankind. It is the old, old tale of chance, cour age, endurance and timely rescue, ever new and ever engaging ,and con tsitutes the principal fascination of the endless and thrilling history of the hoary old main. All men are supremely glad these three are alive and that the chronicle of death sent up to us from the Nehalem has been abated by the sum of their lives. THE CHATAUQUA, COMMERCIALLY. The purchase of 10 or 20 acres in Clatsop by the Chatauqua Association and the establishment of a branch resort of this famous and popular in stitution, means a good deal commer cially, as well as morally and ethical ly, for the whole community. And one consideration is quite as equitable and pertinent as the other. It is a good thing however one may view it; and its relative merits ought to be understood by all in interest These summer gatherings are pro verbially popular and afford some of the best entertainment known to the culture of the day, embracing as they do a lecture course at which only the acknowledged leaders of the ros trum appear, and these, with the class work and the incidental programs of amusement and interest, make for a season of real delight to the thou sands who attend them. There are rarely less than a thou sand visitors to the Chatauqua camps and they are usually of a class that is not hampered for funds and who do not stint the measure of enjoy ment in their outings, which Usually last the full two weeks of the sea- It might do some of our friends up Portland-way good to ponder on the figure Astoria would cut in the event of a war between this country and Japan; how the interest of the whole Northwest would center here, where the only protection the inland valleys have against invasion is located; and especially if England, in conformity with her treaties, should close the Straits of Fuca to our commerce and our navy. It is just a passing thought but it has meat in it for those who are disposed to treat the mouth of the Columbia as a mere bagatelle. IMPROVEMENTS ON HIS DAD. Soma 8igns of Advancement Diaoov- ared Down In Georgia. I was In a Georgia postoffice when a young colored man who was banging about the corridor approached and ask ed for 10 cents to bny himself some thing to eat This gave me an oppor tunity to ask him if he thought his nee was Improving any, and n promptly replied: - Tea, sun, de eull'd man am Inv provln' right along." Too notice that, do you?" "I does, sah.", "Take your own case. Do you be lieve that you are better posted than your father was?" "Humph! De ole man couldn't hold a candle to me. I was arrested a month ago for stealln' chickens from Kurnel Johnson, and I's lest got outer JafL Dey proved dat I stole five chick ana, Bah." "Well, if you were convicted of It I don't see where your sharpness comes in." Bight yere, sab. I stole a pig at de same time, and de kurnel laid it off on to anodder man and bad him sent to aO fur three months. If my fadder had been alive, de kurnel would have proved dat he stole his bun drove and had him sent up fur lifer 8t Louis Post-Dispatch. MUSEUM OF ART FLOURISHES. NEW YORK. Feb. 1&-That last year was the most successful in the history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is stated in the annual report just issued. During the year 800,763 persons visited the museum, the larg est attendance for any year, except one, since the museum was organized. During the year 278 persons bought memberships, paying from $10 to $5000 according to the different classes of membership. The report speaks in detail of the large number of valuable additions to the museum's collections during the year. BACKACHE IS A BAD SIGN NOW MANY WAIT UNTIL TOO LATE -TRY THIS SIMPLE HOME PRESCRIPTION FOR KIDNEY AND BLADDER TROUBLE. Take care of backache. A great many cases of kidney complaint nrc reported about here, ulso bladder trouble and rheumatism. An authority once stated that pain in the back, loins or region of the kidneys is the danger signal nature hangs out to notify the sufferer that there is something wrong with the kidneys, which should receive imme diate attention. Only vegetable treat ment should be administered and absolutely no strongly alcoholic pat ent medicines, which are harmful to the kidneys and bladder. The following prescription, while simple, harmless and inexpensive, is known and recognized as a sovereign remedy for kidney complaint. The ingredients can be obtained at any good prescription pharmacy and any one can mix them: Compound Kar gon, one ounce; Fluid Extract Da mil lion, one-half ounce; Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three ounces. Shake well in a bottle and take in teaspoonful doses after each meal and at bedtime. This preparation is said to restore the natural function of the kidneys, so they will sift and strain the poisonous waste matter, uric acid, etc., from the blood, purifying it and relieving rheu matism. Backache will be relieved, the urine will be neutralized and cleared and no longer a cause of irri tation, thereby overcoming such symptoms as weak bladder, painful, frequent and other urinary difficulties. This is worth trying and may prove just what many people here need. Fisher Brothers Company SOLE AQENTS , a ; . Barbour and Finlayioti Salmon Twins and Netting McCormlck Harvesting Machines , Oliver Chilled Ploughs Malthold Roofing Thorples Cream Separators Raecolith Flooring Storrett'i Tools Hardware, Groceries, Ship Chandlery Tan Bark, Blue Stone, Muriatic Acid, Welch Coal, Tar, Ash Oars, Oak Lumber, Pip and Fittings, Brats Goods, Paints, Oils and Class . , , . Fishermen's Pur Manilla Ropt, Cotton Twin and Sslna Web Wo Want Your Trodo FISHER BROS. BOND STREET FEAR IN BATTLE. and REASON ENTHRONED. Because meats are so tasty they are consumed in great excess. This leads to stomach troubles, biliousness and constipation. Revise your diet, let reason and not a pampered ap petite control, then take a few doses of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and you will soon be well again. Try it For sale at Frank Hart and leading druggists. CHESS GAME BY CABLE. NEW YORK, Feb. 18.-Five mem bers of the American sexette to play the cable chess watch with Oxford and Cambridge on March 21 were picked yesterday at a meeting of the cable match committee representing Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Prince ton. The players selected are: W. H. Hughes, formerly of the University of Pennsylvania, L. F. Wolf, Columbia; H. C. Black, Cor nell; H. Blumberg, Columbia, and K. S. Johnson, Harvard. To determine the sixth man of a team a match will be played between C. E. Jefferson, Yale, and L. Wil liams, Princeton. There Had Been Trouble at Homo. "As odd a client as you can imagine," said Jerome K. Jerome at a lawyers' dinner, "called on a legal friend of mine in Bye one morning. "She was an extremely pretty client, but her clear, soft eyes were red with weeping. Indeed, she was in tears as she entered my friend's office. Her little form shook with sobs. " "Well, my dear,' said he (perhaps I should explain that this client was hardly more than seven or eight yean old) 'well, my dear, what can I do for you? . . " Tleasc, sir,' said the child, weeping plteously, 'I want to get a divorce from my papa and mamma.'" Woman'f Home Companion. 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 enred by its use. 25 and 50 cent sizes. For sale by Frank Hart and leading druggists. Amorlean Names. If we have some growing sense of a desire to touch with poetry the termi nology of our American towns, we nave succeeded, so far only in securing a slightly picnic grove atmosphere such as is given off by Lakewood or River side. The rich sentlmentallam of the real estate dealer has done what it could, considering the hurry be is in. If we have a new manufacturing sub. urb, the chances are we shall be too lazily and flatly patriotic, call it Lin coln and be done with it, or too crude ly romantic, in which case the secre tary of the company will report to the directors that he has bad the place Incorporated as Ivanboe. With the slightest dash of poetry in his soul he might keep true to the strenuous char acter of the place, with all its prospec tive labor agitations, and at the same time give a tinge of beauty to the sit uation forever by calling it Fretley, or if it Is a place where hammers are to ring from morning to night why not call it Stroke Instead of naming It Bmlthvllle after the present chief stockholder in the concern? Atlantic. roderick the Graat Ran Away, Grant Was Afraid. Some of the greatest soldiers whose names adorn history's pages entered their first battles with a feeling of fear In their hearts. Frederick the Great simply lost his bead at the battle of Molwlts. Had he not been a king it is safe to say that he would have been shot at the next sunrise. In the heat of the car nage he got an idea that the army un der bis command was being over whelmed, so he put the spurs to bis horse and dashed headlong among bis soldiers. He rode many miles before he stopped in his wild flight Late at night be was discovered hiding in an old mill, awaiting, as be thought, cap ture by the enemy. Then he discover ed that the army he deserted had won the battle. ' As Frederick was a prince, every body tried to forget the incident Just as quickly as possible. And after that when the king went to war he was Just as brave as any other soldier. General Grant in his memoirs tells us that despite the fact that be was not new to the ways of war, be bad a strange fear In his heart when as com mander of the Union forces be found himself on the eve of bis first battle of the civil war. He adds, however, that be came to And that "the other fellow" had a similar feeling. In American history there is no more reckless warrior than the dashing Light Horse Harry Lee. It seems strange, therefore, to find that at the outset of the Continental struggle Washington had to reprove him for bis "prudence" in battle. Lee, though, up and told Washington that he was just as brave as the general In chief, and be made good his word. Cleveland Plain Dealer, Have The You Seen Wash? In Our Hardware Window The Foard & Stokes Hardware Co Incorporated Successors to Fotrd & Stokes Co. Maraschino Cherries " 1 '... i ..... . DELICIOUS Try'em 75 c and $1.00 a bottle at the AMERICAN IMPORTING CO. 589 Commercial Street ; Subscribe for the Astorian. ICE TROTTING RECORD. MONTREAL, Feb. 18. -A n world's record for trotting on the ice was recorded in the free for all at the Delorimes Park races yesterday when in the first heat Dave K. came home in 2:16. This is a second and a quarter better than the previous record made last year at Ottawa, by Phoebe W. COFFEE Poor coffee has to be sold in bulk, it isn't worth packings Tour fiocer returns row Bona? If jroa oWI Vkt Scbllliof ' Beat: wa par htm Dancing School KEARNEY HALL. Exchange Street Opposite Skating Rink. BEGINNERS CLASS. Monday Evening Feb. 17th. Latest, Quickest, and Most Approved Method! Taught WHEN YOU WANT PRICES THAT ARE RICHT Write us, we're here for that curoose U The Work We Do Anything in the electrical Business. Bell's Hon. Pl,.! IT-. J Ji 1 TV . . .. . taubiuc wuinjj bbq rixmres installed and kept in repair, f We will be glad to quote you prices. OUR PRICES WILL DO THE REST STEEL & EWART 426 Bond Street . , . Pbon, Mal m John Fox, Pres. P. L. Bishop, Sec. Astoria Savings Bank, Treaa. ! Nelson Troyer, VJce-Pres. and Supt ASTORIA IRON WORKS DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS , OF THE LATEST IMPROVED ... Canning Machinery. Marine Engines and Boilers C2M2LETE CANNERY OUTFITS FURNISHHn. ' CoftespAHclted. . Foot of Fourth ! scow It brass & Stmt II IfflKS !A8TOIA. OREGON I JON AND BRASS FOUNDERS i LAND AND MARINE ENGINEERS Up-to-Date Sawmill Machinery. , Prompt attention criven in all rain U tAfl " ' '': TeL Main 2461. i 18th and Franklin Ave. Sherman Transfer Co. s HENRY SHERMAN, Manager. npped. Ms aln Phone 121 Q. A. BOWLBY, President. 0. 1. PETERSON, Vice-President. FRANK PATTON, Cashier J. W. GARNER, Assistant Cashier Astoria Savings Bank , . " rats. ANN UM.. , First National Bank of Astoria, Ore. Capital $100,000 '