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8 " " THE MORNING ASTOHIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 37, 1901 We oreheodqunrtcrs for all kinds S1EED Flower and Garden Extn Choice Variety of Sweet Peas, all Color and Nasturtiums. I A. V. ALLEN Pmonm Branch Ukiontowh Klin 711, Main 2871. ' Phone Main 713 Sola agent for Baker's Barrington Hall Steel Cut Coffee. Mrs. Fowler's Free Lectures At Astoria Theatre beginning Thursday, Feb. 27, 8p. nv, "Brain, the Tap-Root of Life," to all; Friday, Feb. 28, 8 p. m., to all; Sunday, March j 1, 2:30 p. ol, to alL t MADE IT RIGHT. Yet It Wat Net Eaiy For the Salesman to Qraip the Beta1 Seheme. In one of the auburbi of London then to a wholesale Ann the senior member of which may be known as Mr. Blank. The Arm has two traveling salesmen- single man, receiving 30 snJlunss Der week, and the other I married man, drawing 2 per week. A short time ago the single man. be- ventlemen onlv: Thursday. Feb. 27. S p. ul, to all; Fnday. Feb. 28, 8 p. m. that the married sales- to all; Sunday, March 1, 2:30 p. m., to j man was receiving 10 shillings per an. Phrenological examinations and health consultations given daily at Occident Hotel, from 9 a. m. to 9 p. till March 11th. Her classes on the use of electricity to cure dis ease will begin March 3rd at 2:30 and J 7 JO p. m. The Old Reliable Painless Chicago Dentists Cor. Commercial and Eleventh fits. ASTORIA, TORE.' ' Pbone 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 $1X0 Best rubber plate ...$800 Aluminum-line plate 510 to $15.00 These offices are modern through out. We are able to do all work absolutely painless. Our success is due to uniform high grade work by gentlemanly operators having 10 to IS years- experience. Vegetable Vapor, patented and used only by ns 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., over Danziger store. Some of the Trials of Writers. Professor Lounsbury of Tale calls at tention to soma of tlie diClcuitles of English grammar with which writers have constantly to struggle In their de sire to avoid obscurity aud be correct at the same time. In Harper's Maga zine Professor Lounsbury takes up the use of "whose" as a relative pronoun referring to Inanimate objects and Jus tifies its use since nothing better can be devised. He discusses the use of the singular pronoun with the word "everybody," as In "There everybody met his friends." This Is manifestly inadequate, and "bis or her friends" is clumsy. Jane Ansten, writes the pro fessor, avoided the difficulty by using the plural pronoun, as In her sentence, They say everybody Is in love once in their lives." He thinks no satisfac tory solution of this problem can. In the aatnre of the case, ever be reached. week mors salary than himself, while he (the single man) was selling more goods. He called Mr. Blank's atten tton to this and suggested that as be was selling more than the other fel low. he should at least tacsJve as much The senior partner sctaswledged the apparent Inconsistency tat assured his man that be would look into it and if the statement were correct he would make matters right Another week rolled by, and when the single man came to draw his sal ary from the bookkeeper he was sur prised to find only 30 shillings passed out to him the same as before. He de murred. The bookkeeper insisted be had received no instructions to raise his pay and referred him to the gov ernor. Approaching Mr. Blank, be said: Ten remember, sir, I spoke to yot. last week about my salary, statins that while I was selling more goods than the other traveler. I was recelv lng less pay. and I thought I should receive as much as he did. Ton assur ed me you would look into it and make matters right." Tes," said Mr. Blank, "I remember your mentioning the matter, and I made it right didn't IV "Why, no; I don't see how yon have, as the bookkeeper has Just paid me the same amount as before. I can't see how that is making it right sir." Ton don't understand,' said the senior partner. "I have made it right Too thought you ought to have as much pay as the other man. and I have made it right by cutting the other fellow's pay down."-London Tit-Bits. No one is immune from kidney trouble, so just remember that Foley's Kidney Cure will stop the irregul arities and cure any case of kidney and bladder trouble that is not be yond the reach of medicine. For sale by T. F. Laurin. : -5 ' A Metaphor With a History. To "know a hawk from a hernshaw" Is a metaphor with a curious history. It is a comparison drawn from falcon ry. "Hernshaw" Is a corruption of "beronshaw," or young heron, a bird which was a common prey of the fal cons. To know a hawk from a hern shaw is therefore to be able to distin guish the falcon from its prey. A fur ther colloquial corruption crept Into the phrase, "to know a hawk from a handsaw," a form used by Hamlet iu one place. Possibly the distinction be tween a hawk and a bernshaw was found not to be strong enough for the purposes of the proverb. Manchester Guardian. . Lane's Family Medicine is a tonic- laxative. It does not depress or weak en, but imparts a feeling of buoyancy and strength that is delightful At all druggglete 26c. Special Message of President Roosevelt to Congress. OF WIDE-SPREAD INTEREST "The Report is Well Worth Your Attention It is Thorough Conser vative, Sane and Just" Repreaents Mature Judgment of Qualified Men. frit I - Individually Molded desserts are bow considered the proper thing. The , moulds are hard to get outside the ' large cities, but users of JELL-O, The Dainty Dessert, can get them absolutely free. Circular in each package explaining and illustrating the different patterns. JELL-0 is sold by all good grocers at 10c. per package. Do not accept a substitute or you will be disappointed. A Feast of Kisses. "I once visited the little town of Hal magen, in Boumanla," said a strolling player who used to wander into the odd corners of the world, "but even 1 and my hair Is getting a little thin, and I wouldn't take first prize in a beauty contest got enough kisses in one day to last an average lifetime. It seems that Halmagen from time Immemorial has bad an annual festival, and on this day the population of about eighty vil lages come swarming in. Every young woman of the town, married or single, goes out on this day carrying a vessel of wine and a small garland of flowers. To every visitor they offer a sup of wine and a klss."-St Louis Republic. No Death Penalty. European countries which inflict no death penalty, however brutal or pre meditated the crime, are Italy, Hol land, Norway, Switzerland, Portugal and Russia, save where the lives of the emperor, the empress or the heir to the throne are concerned. The can ton of Zug, in Switzerland, Imposes the lowest minimum penalty in the world three years' imprisonment for willful homicide, the maximum punish ment being Imprisonment for life. London Chronicle. , ? WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 26.- I transmit herewith a Preliminary Report from the Inland Waterways Commission, which was appointed by me last March in response to a wide spread interest and demand from the people. The basis of this demand lay in the general and admitted inability of the railroads to handle promptly the traffic of the country, and especi ally the crops of the previous Fall. This report is well worth your at tention. It is thorough, conservative, sane, and just. It represents the ma ture judgment of a body of men ex ceptionally qualified, by personal ex perience and knowledge of conditions throughout the United States, to un derstand and discuss the great prob lem of how best to use our waterways in the interest of all the people. Un usual care has been taken to secure accuracy and balance of statement If the report errs at all it is by over conservatism. It contains findings or statements of fact, a number of spec ific recommendations, and an account of inquiries still in progress, and it is based in part on statistics and other information contained in a vol uminous appendix. The subject with which it deals is of critical importance both to the present and the future of our country. Our river systems are better adopt ed to the needs of the people than those of any other country. In ex tent, distribution, navigability, and ease of use, they stand first Yet the rivers of no other civilized country are so poorly developed, so little used, or play so small a part in the indus trial life of the nation as those of the United States. In view of the use made of rivers elsewhere, the failure to use our own is astonishing, and no thoughtful man can believe that it will last The accompanying report indicates clearly the reasons for jit and the way to end it. The Commission finds that it was unregulated railroad competition which prevented or destroyed the de- elopment of commerce on our inland waterways. lhe .Mississippi, our greatest natural highway, is a case in point. At one time the traffic upon was without a rival in any country. The report shows that commerce was riven from the Mississippi by the railways, with their convenient ter minals, gave quicker and more satis factory service than the waterways. Later they prevented the restoration of river traffic by keeping down their rates along the rivers, recouping them selves by higher charges elsewhere They also acquired water fronts and terminals to an extent which made water competition impossible. Throughout the country the railways have secured such control of canals and steamboat lines .that today in land waterway transportation is largely in their hands. This was nat ural and doubtless inevitable under the circumstances, but it should not be allowed to continue unless under careful Government regulation. Comparatively Tittle inland freight js carried by boat which is not carried a part of its journey by rail also. As the repdrt shows, the successful de velopment and use of our intersate waterways will require - intelligent regulation of the relation between rail and water traffic. When this is done the railways and waterways will as sist instead of injuring each other. Both will benefit, but the chief bene fit will accrue to the people in general through quicker and cheaper trans portation. The report rests throughout on the fundamental conception that every waterway should be made ta serve the people as largely and in as many different ways as possible. It is poor business to develope a river for 'navi gation in such a way as to prevent its use for power, when by a little fore sight it could be made to serve both purposes. We can not afford need lessly t.o sacrifice power to irrigation, or irrigation to domestic water, sup ply, when by taking thought we may have all three. Every stream should be used to the utmost. No stream can be so used unless such use is plan ned for in advance. When such plan are made we shall find that, instead of interfering, one use can often be made to assist another. Kach river system, from its headwaters in the forest to its mouth on the const, is u single unit and should be treated as such. Navigation of the lower reaches of a stream can not be fully developed without the control of floods and low waters by storage and drainage. Navigable channels arc directly concerned with the protec lion of source waters, and with .soil erosion which takes the materials (or bars and shoals from the richest por tions of our farms. The uses of stream for domestic aud municipal water supply, for power, and in many cases for irrigation, must also be taken into full account. The development of our inland waterways will have results far be yond the immediate gain to com merce. Deep channels along the At lantic and Culf coasts and from th Culf to the Great Lakes will have high value for the national defense The use of water-power will mcasur ably relieve the drain upon our dim inishing supplies of coal, and trans portation by water instead of rail only will tend to conserve our iron. Forest protection, without which river im provement cannot be permanent will at the same time help to postpone the threatened timber famine, and will secure us against a total dearth of timber by providing for the pcrpetua tion of the remaining woodlands. Ir rigation will create the means of live lihood for millions of people, and sup plies of pure water will powerfully promote the public health. If the policy of waterway improvement here recommended is carried out, it will affect for good every citizen of the Republic. The National Government must play the leading part in securing the largest possible use of our water ways; other agencies can assist, and should assist, but the work is essenti ally national in its scope. The various uses of waterways are now dealt with by Bureaus scattered through four federal Departments At present, therefore, it is not pos sible to deal with a river system as single problem. But the Commis sion here recommends a policy under which all the commercial and indus trial uses of the waterways may be developed at the same time. To that end. Congress should provide some administrative machinery for co-or dinating the work of the various De partments so far as it relates to water ways. Otherwise there will not only be delay, but the people as a whole will fail to get from our streams the benefits to which they are justly en titled. The Commission recognizes that the cost of improving our inland waterways will be large, but far less than would be required to relieve the congestion of traffic by railway exten sion. The benefits of such improve ment will be large also, and they will touch the daily life of our people at every point, uniting the interests of all the States and sections of our country.. The cost and the benefits should be equitably distributed, by cooperation with the States and the communities, corporations, and indi viduals beneficially affected. I heart ily concur in the Commission's recom mendation to this end. Such cooper ations should result in united effort in carrying out the great duty of im proving our inland waterways. While we delay1 our rivers remain unused, our traffic is periodically con gested, and the material wealth and natural resources of the country re lated to waterways are being steadily absorbed by great monopolies. Among these monoplies, as the re port of' the Commission points out, there is no other which threatens, or has. ever threatened, such intolerable interference with the daily life of the people as the consolidation of com panies controlling water power, I call your special attention at the pres ent session, to escape from the pos sibility of Government regulation in the interests of the people. These bills are intended to enable the cor porations to take possession in per petuity of national forest lands for the purpose of their business, where and as they please, wholly without com pensation to the public. Yet the effect of granting such privileges, taken together with rights already acquired under State laws, would be to give away properties of enormous value. Through lack of foresight we have formed the habit of granting without compensation extremely val uable rights amounting to monopolies on navigable streams and on the pub lic domain. The repurchase at great expense of water rights thus care lessly given away without return has already begun in the East, and before long will be necessary in the West also. No rights involving, water power should be granted to any cor poration in perpetuity, but only for a length of time sufficient to allow them to conduct their busincap'.profit- Mm: frti'A I z .... I V, r;a.''i'j .5-l v asm m ALCOHOL 3 PICR tlKNf. AcWnblfftflrttafrAi. slmllailirtitertodwIMij Promofes DiKonCkrtrlV ncr.samUi.'u'oiiialnsKittar Onhaxi.MarprUnt narMiaenL 'ami VT a asm I tlUft ilAlUUUVt MMNaBMIMMSSM W.'jIWI Arsftci Remedy forComflp M n . Scur StonKrh.UIrfwi iVoras i (XNwmait wna rx::olIossorSiECR NEW YOIIK. Tor Infants nd Children. 1 Tho Kind You llavo Always Bought Bears Sign; Enact Copy of Wrapper. ature AM kjh (ISO ji For Over Thirty Years 61)1 MNMWKMNin, MMM WTh ably. A reasonable charge should of course be made for valuable rights and privileges which they obtain from the National Government. The value for which this charge is made will ultimately, through the natural growth and orderly development of our population and industries; reach enormous amounts. A fair share of the increase should be safeguarded for the benefit of the people, from whose tabor it spring. The proceeds thus secured after the cost of admin stration and improvement has been met, should naturally be devoted to the development of our inland water ways. The report justly calls attention to the fact that hitherto our national policy has been one of almost unre tricted disposition and waste of natural resources, and emphasizes the fundamental necessity for con serving these resources upon which our present and future success as a nation primarily rests. Running water is a most valuable natural asset oT the people, and there is urgent need for conserving it for navigation, for power, for irrigation, and for domes tic and municipal supply.' The Commission was appointed to obtain information concerning our waterways as related to the general welfare. Much work was done, but more remains to be done before plan for their development can be prepared in detail. We need addi tional information on the flow of our streams, the condition of channels, the amount and cost of water traffic, the requirements for terminals, the area in each watershed which should be kept under forest, and the means of preventing soil-waste and the con sequent damage to our rivers. But it is neither necessary nor desirable to postpone the beginning of the work until are the facts are obtained. We have suffered heavily in the past from the lack of adequate transporta tion facilities; and unless a beginning is made promptly we shall suffer still more heavily in the future. Being without funds or an expert staff; the Commission has confined itself to principles affecting the whole problem and the entire country. Its report is a plea, in the light of actual facts, for simplicity and directness In dealing with the great problem ' of our inland waterways in the interest of the people, It submits no specific plans or recommendations concerning even the most important . projects. The first of these of course-concerns the Mississippi and its tributaries, whose commercial development will irectly affect half our people. The Mississippi should be made a loop of the sea and work upon it should be begun at the earliest possible moment, Only less important is the Atlantic inner passage, parts of which are al ready under way. The inner pas sages along the Gulf coast should be extended and connected with the At lantic waters. The need for the de veloping of the Pacific coast rivers is not less pressing. Our people are united in support of the immediate adoption of a progressive policy of inland waterway development. . i Hitherto our national policy of in land waterway development hat been largely negative. No single agency has been responsible tinder the Con gress for making the best use of our rivers, or for exercising (oriight in their development. In the absence of a comprehensive plan, the only safe policy was one of repression and pro crastination. Frequent changes - of plan and piecemeal execution of pro jects have still further hampered im provement. A channel it no deeper than jts shallowest reach, and to im prove a river short of the point of effective navigability is a sheer waste of all it costs. In spite of large ap propriation for their improvement our rivers are less serviceable for in terstate commerce today than they were half a century ago, and in spite of the! vast increase in our population and commerce they are on the whole lest used. The first condition of successful development of our waterways is a definite and. progressive policy. The second is a concrete general plan, prepared by the best experts avail able, covering every use to which our streams can be put. We shall not succeed until the responsibility for administering the policy and execut ing and extending the plan is definite ly laid on one man or group of men who can be held accountable. Every portion of the general plan should consider and so far at practicable secure to the people the use of water for power, irrigation, and domestic supply as well as for navigation. No project should be begun until the funds necessary to complete it promptly are provided, and no plan once under way should be changed except for grave reasons. Work once begun should be prosecuted steadily and vigorously to comple tion.' We must make sure that pro jects arc not undertaken except for sound business reasons, and that the best modern business methods are applied in executing them, The de cision to undertake any project should rest on actual need ascertained by in vestigation and judgment of experts and on its relation to great river sys tems or to the general plan, and never on mere clamor. 1 he improvement of our inland wa terways can and should be made to pay for itself so far as practicable from the incidental procce'ds from water-power and other uses. Naviga tion snouiu of course be free. But the greatest return will come from the increased commerce, growth, and prosperity of our people. For this we have already waited too long. Adequate funds should be provided, by bond issue if necessary, and the" work should be delaved no lonr. The development ' of. our waterways and the conservation of our forests arc the two most pressing physical needs of the country. They are inter dependent, and they should be met vigorously, together, and at .once. The questions of organization, powers, and, appropriations are now before the Congress. There is urtrent need for prompt1 and decisive action. ' THEODORE ROOSEVELT. February 26, 1908.