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THE MORNING ASTOKIAN. ASTORIA, OREGON.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 10, 1908.
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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 . , , .
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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
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You Seen
Wash?
In Our Hardware Window
The Foard & Stokes Hardware Co
Incorporated
Successors to Fotrd & Stokes Co.
Maraschino Cherries
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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,.!
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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
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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 '