THE MORNING ASTOKIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1008.
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THE WEATHER
Oregon, Washington, Idaho Fair
and warmer.
TAKE MORE TIME1
It behooves the councilmen of As
toria. and the property-owners as
well, to scrutinize the text of the
proposed ordinance creating the fire
' limits of the city, and the fixing the
character of the construction and re
pairs incident to that district. The
object of the bill is, of course, excel
lent and wholly commendable .and
emphasizes the necessity for the exact
and safe framing of the law.
The district is negligible to start
with; it begins at the harbor line at
the foot of Seventeenth, thence to
Exchange, thence to Thirteenth
thence to Duane, thence to Sixth,
thence to the harbor line, and east
wardly to the beginning. "It should
take in Franklin avenue from Seven
teenth to Seventh, and thence to
Duane, Sixth and the harbor line, in
order to comprehend the best build
ing sites on the levels and the near-
levels.
The rules for construction and re
pair are very full and exact (though
carelessly framed), and would serve a
high purpose in any city that did not
have a period of tranistion from piling
to terra firma ahead of it; as they
read they are far too exacting and will
work a hardship on every owner, at
least, until the city is equipped with
a new datum plane and a set of com
mensurate grades, and until a sea-wall
or other basic program for filling the
tide levels has been designed and ac
cepted by the people. It is positive
folly and injustice to force
measure of this kind, with the basic
grades of Astoria at "sixes and sev
ens" as they are now, and no deter
mined project, or prospect, for future
handling of the great work of meet
ing those grades by reducing, filling
and levelling, , the legitimate,, com
mercial contours, existing, and de
sired.
commercial facilities on the Western
hemisphere and is in direct line, for
the best and last exploitation of those
agencies. There is nothing we will
hesitate, nor balk, at, if we are once
assured that this is the ultimate for
which' Portland and the State are
striving. Portland cannot renounce its
selfish policies any quicker than we
can, and .we care not where the insti
gation for such a "flop" shall come
from. We are out for the good of
the State and, being a commercial
place, with an abundant share of na
tural appointments at hand, nothing
appeals to us so strongly as such a
project as this..' r a,
Hie initial phase of it all, is, of
course, ample and permanent depth
of channel-way across the Columbia
bar; that gained and maintained, the
rest is easy. The issue is an enormous
one, and must comnjand the interest
of the Government in the provision of
those aids to navigation that will be
absolutely and economically indis
. M.
pensaDie, once tne gate-way of an
immense commerce is thrown open
to the world.
HIST!!.
, Give ear, oh, ye people!. The Port
land Oregonian is out baldly, boldly,
naked and unashamed, for 40 feet of
water on the Columbia bar!.
it actually is urging the imme
diate employment of the dredger
Chinook, or some other machine of
quality and capacity, upon the bar to
eke out the fine work there and
achieve the good "forty feet" that
mean real commerce; unlimited and
abundant and paying commerce.
What?
All the same we are glad to have
the great paper take this matter up.
It has been inspiringly silent on the
proposition for years past, save an
occasional declaration in favor of the
general improvement there. And it
is so thoroughly and heartily in line
with all that Astoria has been praying
and preaching for all these long
months (especially in the matter of
the dredge) that we are quite perkef
'up over Monday's clamorous editorial
in that, paper.
We want two dredgers, both of the
biggest and best types; one for the
bar and the other for the rivers, hence
to Celilo and Portland. As the Ore
gonian says, the commerce of the
Columbia Valley is to grow immense
ly in the next five years; and that
period is to be the critical era during
which all things that make for its
permanence and v'olumne will be
applied. And nothing under the
canopy of Heaven will contribute so
much, and instantly, to, that great
program, as forty feet of water from
the bar-crest to the gate-levels of the j
locks at Celilo and Oregon City.
Astoria will be no loser by such a
consummation; but will, rather, be
come an ardent, and we hope potent,
factor in the ultimate demonstration
that the Columbia affords the finest
ADMONITORY HUNCHES.
Whenever nature does one of her
spectacular and hideous "stunts," such
as forest-fires, land-slides, tornadoes,
floods, earthquakes, man, with coward
ly knowledge of his real deserts,
cringes and weakens and quakes, and
does the bit of thinking he should
do at less suggestive moments; not'
that nature has any particular aim or
relation to or with him in the matter,
but upon the simple hypothesis that
her untoward and frightful activity
so transcends his paltry and restricted
place and power, that he crumples in
the contrast and turns instinctively
to the cleaner and. dearer things of
life, by way of propitiation and in
voluntary penance, as it were.
This is the lesson that is yielded
by the tremendous visitations such
as has swept the Southland during
the past few days; it is the residium
of every great holocaust; and perhaps
it is well those disasters come as they
do. Man needs some palpable rebuke
every hour of his life for the mean
ness and craft and weakness that he
hides beneath the frippery of civiliza
tion we are prone to harp on so much.
There is but little ground for exalta
tion, these hard, money-governed days
and the call of "first principles" such
as Nature frequently and terrifically
presents, may move us to the assump
tion and use of some of them, to our
immense advantage.
Arid s ee wit ai
you'll izk
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EDITORIAL SALAD
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All the world loves a lover, and
all the world laughs at a fortune-
hunting and title-hunting matrimonial
dicker.
Read It Before
You Eat It
Gold has begun to travel back to
Europe. The flurry in confidence is
hardly entitled to a jlace among the
panics.
The frequency with which large
dams are carried away by floods sug
gests that more risks are taken in
their construction than is advisable or
profitable. -
If Congress will drop around at the
governors conference in the White
Hi-use next month, it will have the
privilege of hearing an extra message
before it adjourns.
One-fourth of the work on the Pan
ama Canal is said to have been com
pleted. The experts trained there in
digging dirt will come in handy for
future river improvement.
"Where is the most lonesome place
on earth?" asks somebody, and the
Boston Globe remarks, "Guam must
be pretty near it." Ring up Lincoln,
Neb., on the evening of November 3,
next.
TEA
If the tea is good you
ask for' a second cup; if
not, you ask for the
money.
Tour grocer returns joat money U yo don't
CU Schilling Beit; w. pay him.
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the
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similar trait of human nature is to
be observed when a man discovers
something exceptionally good he
wants all his friends and neighbors
to share the benefits of his discovery.
This is the touch of nature that
makes the whole world kin. This
explains why people who have been
cured by Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy write letters to the manufactur
ers for publication, that others sim
ilarly ailing may also use it and ob
tain relief. Behind every one of these
letters is a warm-hearted wish of the
writer to be of use to some one else.
This remedy is for sale by Frank
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from start to finish in a very artistic
and thoroughly effective manner. The
presentation was one to remember for
a litetimc. ucorge w. Sanderson,
Teacher of Expression, Seattle High
School.
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