FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1908.
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THE MORNING
ASTORIAN
"God Bless the American Navyl"
That's the slogan we are putting up!
TAKE YOUR TIME I.
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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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and helpful publications describing the country through which this great
highway extends, or address
WM. McMurray
General Passenger Agent, Portland.
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With
RAY C. COLLINGS
"Dora Thome" at the Astoria Theatre, Sunday Evening, May 10.
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