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THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1908.
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THE WEATHER
Western Oregon and Washington-
Showers possibly attended by warm
er; warmer.
Eastern Oregon and Washington,
Idaho Showers and thunderstorms;
cooler. ' .
THAT COMMON POINT.
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Astoria has no particular interest in
the grain rate that shall apply to the
city of Portland in the future and
cares nothing if that city shall get
her grain without any tolls whatever.
What this city and port wants is the
seaboard-terminal, common-point rate
on grain from the interior, that ap
plies to the Sound cities and San
Francisco. We are entitled to' it to
pat us on an equal and just footing
for the shipment of grain hence, for
eign; and we are going after it stead
ily and consistently.
The day is not far distant when the
right of Astoria to this rate is to be
tried out and the effort will cover the
whole range of fight and appeal,
hence, to railraod and Government
headquarters.
The Oregonian sets up the feeble
plea that to ship grain 100 miles fur
ther down the river on a down-grade,
water-level haul, on the same train
thta brings it to her doors, must of a
verity add materially to the cost of
transit; but fails to mention why it
does not increase the rate over the
heavy, sHort-train grades, that lead
into Seattle and Tacoma on an un
disturbed margin; nor what becomes
of the ship's expense-bills over that
same 100 miles' when she goes to the
metropolis after the grain she might
load within 11 miles of her offing;
nor that her transit is doubled on the
river as against her brief detention
and cargoing here.
It will all come in due time; and
we shall be glad to see Portland get
the benefit of any and all differentials
that may fall to her; but for the sake
of the Eastern Oregon farmer and
his neighboring compeer of Idaho and
Montana, we want the "common
point", along with the grain, or so
mUjCh of it as can be handled out of
this port with despatch and economy.
That is all we ask.
The first ship loaded out of Astoria
will fix the business at this port for
all time to come, however slow it may
be in maturing as a policy.
saloons of Astoria must close her
metically on Sunday, and for the 24
hours of that day. If that law is
obeyed the intervention of the harsh
er code need not, , and will not, be
resorted to; for it is not the wish of
the whole people to drive law-abiding
business out of cxistance; but the
constant and defiant breaking of that
law invites the greater force and
summary terms of local option, and
the saloon man has himself to thank
for all that follows. No business that
cannot be regulated by decent limita
tions has any right to existance and
prosperity and the sooner this is un
derstood to be the conclusion of the
people generally, the better it will be
for all concerned.
We believe the moment to be in
opportune for the introduction of the
local option program to the business
centre of Astoria; there are too
many large and valuable business
projects afoot that are liable to be
frustrated and even annihilated; and
the men to adjust the matter at once,
and perhaps for all time, are the
saloon men who have heretofore re
fused to close their doors when the
law bade them, a course of action at
once an injustice to the men in that
business who are trying to observe
the rule, and an insolent challenge
to the people and the power they hold
m reserve.
Wherefore, obey the law, and we
are with you; break it, and we are
against you!
LOCAL OPTION FLURRY.
The law of the land has placed in
the hands of the people a weapon of
rebuke and reprisal devised to oper
ate exclusively against the saloon in
terests of every community in Oregon
when there shall be a demand for its
application, to-wit, the local option
law.
Like all other special laws it should
be used with exceeding care and time
liness; sentiment is not all there is
to the application of the law; there
are always the elements of justice and
fair-dealing and orderliness, in the in
voking of these peculiar and definite
edicts, these single idea processes,
wherewith society is invested; and the
spirit behind their establishment is
"ot one of devastation and oblitera
tion, but rather that of an agency to
compel and maintain that regulation
that makes all businesses decent and
fairly acceptable to society.
It is safe to say that an extraordi
nary majority of the population of
this city and county are not in favor
of the exercise of this law at any time,
if the saloon people will obey the
other phases of the law regulating
their business; the main thing alwayst
in the treatment of these phases of
public expression, is not to invoke
them in the first place; to stand pat
upon the laws already in force and do
the simple and honest trick of obey
ing, where obedience is the cheapest
and easiest, as well as the legal, thing
to do.
The law says, just now, that the
POLITICAL GHOSTS.
It is high time that Astoria was ex
orcising its political ghost 1
It has hung spectrally over her
best interests for time out of mind
nd warped her best prospects and
ambitions until they have fallen un
served and futile; it has denied and
denuded her industrially, commercial
ly and politically; it has thrust its
dismal and grisly hand in the path of
her prograss and barred her from
achievement so often that she has
come to feel there is no such thing
as success, nor compensated enter
prise, nor a definite share for her in
the good things of the day.
It is the ghost of selfishness that
stalks in all towns and cities of less
than metropolitan dimension; the in
carnate type of bossism; the "leading
citizen" who uses his advanced posi
tion to swing all things to his net and
nest; the "boss" who bends every
thing to his peculiar sphere and makes
his sanction and support the issue of
the hour; the man and men who put
their personal interests first and be
fore the public needs and values;
whose only idea in the disposition of
large' and popular concerns, is where
they touch the line of his private
domain and personal relationship,
with no further thought of its wider
and wholesomer bearing; whose sole
use for the masterly position that
time and public confidence has con
ferred upon him, is the right to dic
tate to those who have honored him,
for the saving and bolstering of his
especial aims and holdings.
Astoria mut divorce business and
politics. -
She must shake off'the hold of the
selfish leader and hark back to the
commoner and happier code of work
ing out the general good rather than
conserving the particular and private
interests of her "ghosts." The sooner
she disclaims and ignores this type of
niggardly public spirit the better for
all concerned, even for the man and
men who have been used to dictating
her courses and her failures.
She must rise above the one-man
plane and do her commercial and in
dustrial stunts without taking cogniz
ance of the toes she is standing on
in the course of the task. What
serves the whole city serves its best
and least citizen, and while (the ad
vantage is common and at times in
determinable, all hands must stand
pat, make the most of it, and be glad
it is done.
Chuck the political ghost of re
stricted, selfish domination, and move
forward on all honest and promising
lines with Astoria for a slogan in
place of some man's personally in
spired whisper, however influential he
may be reckoned. Astoria first, then
the private citizen!
Let's wash the slate!
Chabmerlains's Has the Preference
Mr. Fred. C. Hanrahan, a promi
nent druggist of Portsmouth, Va
says: "For the past six years I
have sold and recommended Cham
berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarhoea
Remedy. It is a great remedy and
one of the best patent medicines on
the market. I handle some others
for the same purposes that pay me a
larger profit, but this remedy is so
sure to effect a cure, and my custom
er so certain to appreciate my recom
mending it to him, that I give it the
preference." For sale by Frank Hart
and leading druggists.
Headaches
re brain signals that your system is in some way disorganized and
unless the cause of the trouble is removed they will become mora
and more frequent, and gradually increase both lit duration and
intensity. The sympathetic nerves are weakened by the repeated
attacks, and the malady finds an easy lodgment whenever the
bodily and mental conditions favor its return.
On the first sign of headache you should at once take
D
pais
Complete recovery from sick headache, bilious headache,
nervous headache, throbbing headache speedily follows the use of
these famous pills. They settle the stomach, stimulate the liver,
act mildly on the bowels, improve the blood and quiet the nerves.
The tonic and strengthening properties of Beecham's fills build up
the bodily health and fortify the system against subsequent attack.
For all headaches, disorders of the stomach and nerves,
Beecham's Pills are '.
The Needed Remedy
la boxes with lull directions, toe. and Me.
SELLING) BATHS IN PARIS.
There is plenty of water in Paris
and quanities of it are used on the
streets by men with lines of hose
made in' metallic sections with, flex
ible joints, each section mounted on
wheels. But it is almost impossible
to get water above the street level
and quite impossible to get any quan
tity of it hot under normal conditions.
Only a few of the very newest houses
in Paris have water above street level.
This is true of hotels as well as of
private houses. A hotel keeper may
send up a quart of hot water to your
room, but filling a tub would proba
bly be beyond the capacity of his' establishment.
Many Parisians bathe in big bath
houses, which line the Seine, In
places these houses occupy a greater
part of the river. But if a Parisian
wants a hot bathe at home, he turns
to the peripatetic bath tub. This
originates in a bathing establishment
of which there are many. The bath
man, as he leaves this establishment,
has two straps over his shoulders and
he stands between the shafts of a
two-wheeled cart. On this cart is a
tank surmounted by a substantial
bath tub, provided with castors. In
front of the tank hangs two large
metal buckets and a yoke. The bath
man draws this apparatus through
the streets to your house.
When you want a hot tub, you
order one delivered at a time fixed.
The bath man comes around with his
apparatus, stops in front of your
house, lifts the tub frbm the top of
the tank, puts it over his head like a
hood and carries it upstairs to your
room. Returning to the street he
draws hot water in the buckets, hangs
them at each end of the yoke which
he carries across his shoulders, and
so conveys water to the tub. When
the tub is full he retires and .you take
your bath. Then 'he comes upstairs,
empties the tub by means of his buc
kets and carries the tub and buckets
away. His passage through the
streets is an everyday sight to the
Parisian and arouses no comment.
Technical World Magazine.
(Rene Bache in the Technical World
Magazine for May. That military
post is situated on the top of a con
siderable hill which affords an exten
sive area of level ground most suit
able for tests of the kind demanded,
All three of the machines are op
erated on the aeroplane principle.
That is to say, they have no gas bag,
and depend for their flying power
upon huge wings. They are, In short,
artificial birds of huge size, and util
ize the air currents to uphold them
while aloft, the power of propulsion
being furnished by automobile en
gines of a type which economizes
bulk and weight to the utmost prac
tical extent.
In these respects the three accepted
machines are alike. In details of
their construction, however, they dif
fer widely from each other. But it
is not possible to describe them save
in such general terms, because every
thing that relates to them is being
kept carefully secret. Models of them
have not been submitted to the War
Department, but such plans as have
been offered are regarded as strictly
confidential under the terms of the
contracts made by the government
with the inventors.
The first of the three contrivances,
for which contracts have been signed,
is the invention of the Wright Bros":,
of Dayton, Ohio. Their bid was $25,
000, for the construction of an aero
plane machine which should be sat
isfactory to the War Department ex
perts. The i second accepted bid was
that of A. M. Herring,' of No. 1931
Broadway, New York, the price to
be $20,000.
SOLDIERS WILL FLY.
Three flying machines have been
accepted by the War Department,'
and trials of them will be made some
time in June or July, at Fort Myer,
Virginia, across the Potomac from
he city of Washington, so writes
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House-Cleaning Time
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Mattings In all
UllllSllw'S
fIIffil thing new.
Go-Carts Baby
We have an excellent line in
Baby Go-Cartsthe celebrated
Allwin it is one cf the easiest
riders in carriages.
Prices $2.50 Up
Specials in Iron Beds
We have the largest assortment of IRON BEDS
in the City and your wants can be easily satisfied
in this line. ' Prices are always the lowest.
You will save moneylby buying your furniture
at
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630-634 Commercial Strbet
i Decorate Your House with Decorato
Renew Your Old Furniture with i
Lacqueret
For Constipation.
Mr. L. H. Farnham, a prominent
druggist of Spirit Lake, Iowa, says:
"Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets are certainly the best thing
on the market for constipation."
Give these tablets a trial. You are
certain to find them agreeable and
pleasant in effect. Price 25 cents.
Samples free. For sale by Frank
Hart and leading druggists.
TEA
There's plenty of hv.
bug in tea; not opc ounc
in a ton Schilling's Best.
Toor grot pi r!ur! youf inoae it jfoit dn
lk Ui pay lititt
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i : Foard & Stokes Hd w.! Co. carries a com- ; ;
plete line of Oils, Paints, Varnishes and j;
I anything the trade wants.
I The Foard & Stokes Hardware Go
incorporated
Successors to Fo-.rd & Stokes Co.
.. .New .Music
New J music arriving daily. Come in and try (hem
over on piano. Few better ones in Astoria. Morn
ing is the best time. Price ALWAYS 1-2 marked or
printed price. -
L FINE! BOX PAPERS
Just received 500 boxes of latest effects from 19c to
75c per box. Better paper than has ever been
shown here before.
Whitman's Book Store
MRS. PAULINE MI LLER-CHAPM AN,
Mezzo-soprano Dramatic, Who Will Appear in Recital at the Astoria
Theatre Wednesday Evening, April 22 1
THE G E M '
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, and Cigars 11:30 a. m. to 1:30 f. m.
Hot Lunch at All Hours. 9 Cents '
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