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FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1908. 2 THE MORNING ASTORIAN "God Bless the American Navyl" That's the slogan we are putting up! TAKE YOUR TIME I. THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON, Established 1873. I Published Dail THE J, M . W. J 1 ,)aily nxcepi iuonuar ujr S. DELLINGEK W, stmsnRtPTION RATES. Bv mail, per year $7.00 By carrier, per month .60 wr trvrv ASTORIAN. 1v mail, per year, in advance.... $1.50 Entered as second-class matter July W 1906. t the nostoffice at Astoria, Oregon, under the act of Congress of March o, iay. tr Orders for the delivering of The Morning Astorian to either residence tr place of business may be made by postal card or tnrougn icicpnone. tny irregularity in delivery should be im mediately reported to the office of publication. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. THE WEATHER Oregon, Washington and Idaho Fair, probably warmer. SINGULAR SIGNIFICANCE. It is one of the mysteries of the hour that the issue of local option when paralleled with the political problems of the day takes supreme precedence over all other considera tions, men and policies and pur poses. Astoria has a liquor contest on, just now, in which the candidates for official preference are literally sub merged, and ' apparently, forgotten, beneath the all-absorbing controversy and interest attaching to the super eminent question. That the liquor question is full of significance always, in all its varied ramifications, goes without saying, but why it should take on such pecul iar and profound importance because it is raised and shoved to the front while it is no less significant and im portant during the quieter moments of non-agitation, is one o fthe conun drums socety is always asking itself. The campaigning for or against liquor restriction invariably brings forth the bitterest, most far-reaching, antagon isms that exist in a community and inspires all the abstruse vindictiveness .by way of attack, reprisal and counter-point, that otherwise remain dor mant and unheard of; and for this reason the engagement is always dreaded as a public try-out, indispen sable as it is at times. It has the faculty of yielding forth expedients, plans, tricks, animosities, personalties, and incongruous absurd ities, as no other popular contest ever r1i-H.- and its real essentials of merit and justice are lost, more often than not, in the rancorous confusion attendant upon its prosecution. And with this knowledge before us it were well if we used the soberer and pla cating agencies of dispassionate discussion and quiet acceptance, in lieu of lending ourselves, by word or act, to the fiercer agita tion for which the campaigns are as famous as they are infamous. SUPERB TEST MADE. Under the eyes of a million loyal Americans, in one of the glorious har bors of the world, on a perfect Cali fornia dav. the might and arms of the nation, as represented by the navy, have passed in review on the final movement of one of the most superb tests ever given a fleet of ships in the known world. It is a wonderful dem onstration of the skill, and materials, and industrial faculty of the nation in the modelling and building of such a navy, and gives the lie to the hyper critics that have endeavored to shame and belittle it. Of course it is not a war test; but it is a test of the fitness of the ves sels to stand enormous strains of sea and gale and all the stress of the main. And in the event of war, such ships in the hands of the right men, will leave their marks where they will do the most good, or we miss our guess. Thirteen thousand miles without break or delay or loss indicates a safe and solid construction that means something more than mere sea worthiness, and in face of the techni cal and far-fetched strictures that have been laid at the door of their builders and designers, we shall pin our faith to the last one of them and look for the old-time report of vic tory and success that has become the dearest tradition of the country. We can imagine the thrill of pride that swept the eager hosts on the heights about San Francisco, when the Armada swung in the Golden Gate and up the bay girdled with mountainous hills and island moun tains, and we wish the same sight might be offered us here in the great Columbia; but they are all ours, just the same; and our pride is not les sened one whit because of the denial. The Morning Astorian is quite as anxious to see every possible devel opment in and about this city and county make cood as soon and as fully, as anyone else may be; but we are of the opinion, along with number of other citizens, that the granting of a franchise for the laying of gas mains for the use of the As toria Gas & Oil Company, might bet ter be deferred until the gas has been developed and the oil has been struck, in such quantities as ensure the necessity of such means of dis tribution. Otherwise a valuable fran chise will be put out that will be o no definite use to the holding com pany, except as mere asset to be disposed of later at any price it may speculate for and Kef, and the real object of the grant be negatived. When the company has done its best to find one or both and has sue ceded there can be no possible rea son for refusing it the privilege it asks but until it has done this, the gift of a valuable franchise such as this, if granted at all now, should be hedg ed in which such reservations and re versionary rights as will bar its use as a collateral in the hands of the holders or its assignees, franchises are too aluable thee days for speculative and inconsiderate handling, and it were well to conserve their issuance and use to the hour germain to it, and save the chance of mis-use and the defeat of the real purposes for which they are uttered. Dog Smugglers. Smuggling by tlojjs Is greatly In vogue on tbe frontier between Italy and Switzerland notwithstanding all the efforts of the preventive men sta tioned along the hilly country north of Coruo. The dogs are trained for smug gling by first inculcating within them a mortal terror of tbe customs officers. This is done by dressing up a man In the custom house uniform, who thrashes the dog severely whenever he sees him, and the animal, having thus acquired a wholesale dread of the uni form, will fly for his life at tbe sight of a donnuier. The smuggler on the Italian side, who owns the dog. pets it and treats it well, and when the dog Is taken to the Swiss smuggler, whose tobacco is to be taken across tbe fron tier, it is first kept chained up without food for some days, then packed round the body with a belt containing the contraband goods and hunted off with blows and cries. Needless to say, the dog's miraculous Instinct makes him bead straight for home. He rushes off at full speed, and once across the fron tier be finds bis beloved master and a warm welcome awaiting him. . Jr Practicing the 1 Grocer Wink 1 and isn't it worth winking for Y&7 XfA when you get-? Well wink at y" Yiv-V the grocer and learn. I Read It Before I ' , You Eat It I GAVE UP WORK BECAUSE OF HIS WEAKENED CONDITION Two Cambridge University Jssts. Tbe fellow commoners were always at Cambridge called empty bottles, from the following circumstance that occurred at Emanuel: Wine merchants send their porters occasionally round the colleges to collect tbe bottles. One sf these men, during the bear of lec ture, knocked at the lector room by mistake and called out "Empty bot tles!" The tutor, then out of humor at being attended only by one fellow commoner when there were twenty In college, cried out: "Call again an other time. I have now but one." This sn gathered wind, and these young gentlemen of the first class went after ward throughout the university by tbe name of "empty bottles." As to professional students (some very few excepted), tbey are worse scholars leaving college than at their admission. I heard one tutor once censure a young man at lecture who had teen nearly three years at college by saying that he knew less than a freshman who sat next him. 'Well, and what of It?' retorted the youth. "He is but just come from school !"-Cornhlll Magazine. Mr. Earl McCoy, living at 1506 So. couraged and gave up hope of ever Branson street, Marion, Ind., has being well again. What Good Play Must Have. "A play should have continuous ac tion all the way through. When I al lude to action 1 don't necessarily mean physical movement and pistol play," says Daniel Frohman in Harpers Weekly. "A successful play must con tain continuous (struggle and battle the struggle of love with duty, to name the most frequent example. The char acters may be sitting In their chairs. talking pleasantly together, and still fulfill this purpose. And the action must go forward by leaps and bounds from one climax to another. The Ideal play will have the fewest characters, but it will hold the attention so that you won't know whether there are six or sixty, and two persons upon the stage will hold the audience entranced, as in the Greek drama. Like the Greek characters, too, they will appear as puppets upon a dark background of necessity, victims of the circumstance which they have helplessly brought Into existence." passed through an experience that is being duplicated every day in every town and city of any consequence in the United States. It furnishes abun dant proof of the correctness of L. T. Coope's theory in regard to the de generacy of the human stomach, and shows conclusively the merit possess ed by his New Discovery medicine to restore the weakened system to full strength and vigor. Mr. McCoy says: "For a long time I have been a sufferer from stomach trouble. I was unable to retain any food, and became so weak and run down that I was compelled to stop work. My system was nearly a wreck, and I had tried so many remedies and spent so much money without deriv ing any benefit, that I became dis- "I heard a great deal of Mr. Coop er's theory and medicine, and after much hesitation decided to try it. The result was a pleasant surprise. Be fore I had taken half of the first bottle I was able to retain all food eaten, and my strength began to re turn. 1 have taken six or seven bot tles, and am feeling fine. I eat and sleep well, do not cough at nwlit, and am able to perform a hard day's work. I can cherfully recommend Cooper's New Discovery, for it has done won ders for me." The Cooper remedies are meeting with remarkable success wherever they are introduced. They are with out a rival in toning up a weakened and run down system. We sell them. CliH'Ics Rogers & Son. 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