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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1908)
THE MORNING ASTORIAN Established 1873. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mail, per year.... V-w By carrier, per month. w WEEKLY ASTORIAN. y mail, per y.ar, in advance.. ..$l-5U Entered as second-class matter July 30, 1906, at the postoffice at Astoria, Oregon, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. tr Orders for the delivering of The Morning Astorian to either residence w place of business may be made by postal card or through telephone. Any Irregularity in delivery should be im mediately reported to the office ot publication. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. THE WEATHER Oregon, Washington, and Idaho Cloudy with possibly showers. WEEK HENCE, HICH NOON. At high noon, on Wednesday next, the great fleet of American warships will be off the Columbia bar, north ward bound for the Puget Sound ports. They will stay on the high seas and make no effort to cross the bar nor enter the great river that should have been open to them for hundreds of miles from its mouth. They will "sail on, and on", to the magnificent haven of the state of Washington and there move freely for scores of miles in all directions unimpeded and greatefully welcome; while we of this great valley gather on the forelands by the sea and watch them go bye. There is tremendous lesson in this ;c-nmfitinor circumstance: A lesson that Astoria, Portland and every town in the Columbia valley must take to heart and profit by, to the cer tain and speedy developement of the war and commercial channels of the Columbia river. The day has come when only the utter and widest expan sion of the one great sea-arm Oregon possesses will serve to redeem her from the lethargic and hopeless par alysis that has dominated her through useless years. A lessen she will not forget in a hurry but which she should hurry to make good upon and show that she is not altogther a "back number" in the Pacific group of States. There will not be a loyal Oregonian on the coast-heights on next Wednes day whose face will not mantle with shame for the barriers that have been allowed to stand in the way of the flight of these superb ships of which he is a constitutional owner and which he cannot welcome within his own gates because of the accursed philandering and jealousies of the transportation companies that have controlled the commerce of Oregon for half a cen tury aided and abetted by the sycop- .hantic grovelling of the commanding al center of the State, to their whims and extravagances. "Let the dead fast bury its dead!". Let us forget the blunders and weak nesses that have wrought this thing and turn our sense and strength to the UDbuilding of the Columbia from its bar to the farthest channel that can be utilized. The good name of Or egon is in jeopardy for want of some such purpose and movement; and it is up to us to save it and make the future of the river all that we have failed to make it in the past. If we had done our common and command ing duty, the Columbia river would have been an irreproachable harbor 100 miles long, to the very mouth of the Willamette, and Portland's north ern waterfront would now follow the lines of the greater river, rather than those of the lesser as at present. nrosentimr here for so much per; that some men in this city arc oener friends to the outsider than they are to the home people and home con-i ccrns. And it is well to know this. ft pivi the ucotile a chance to reduce the activities of these gentlemen to a minimum and to go farther for the ami i-mmtenance that should lie Astoria's in the doing of the real and helpful things her progress demands. At least, this is the way it strikes the ordinary man of sense hereabout, and the matter is open for wholesome qualification, pretty pronto!. HOPE IS ETERNAL. "I have long since abandoned the measured and proscribed prospect for this city and section, for the prospect fortuitous. Whatever comes to As toria henceforth will come as a gift not as an achievement wrought of her own unity and design. It is too much to expect her people to merge on any one large and excellent thing; it is not of her quality; it must come through the happiest inadvertance, the largess of hick and the benefice of some extraneous interest and agency; some other man's or towns' opportunity. I have been driven to this conclusion, finally and inevitably. "With the whirl of a great commer cial awakening in the Northwest she may yet come in to her own through the shrewdness of some friendly giant who realizes, at a glance, the potent facilities she offers for busi ness and advancement; this is her only resource." The foregoing is the substance of the talk put up by an ex-Astorian who still retains sharp interest in the city and county, and lately sojourning here. He speaks sorrowfully, with the honesty of resolute conviction born of thirty years of disappoint ment. And the thoughtful Astorian will do the wisest thing of his life if he takes this old ex-citizens words for what they are worth and weighs them in the scale of his own greater or lesser experience. The time is ripe for a genuine awakening in this man's town. Hope is left us; and with this and the undisturbed natural advan tages as eternal as that hope, we may rise to a unified, direct and successful program and field, that will annihi late such sad prophesies, deep found ed and justifiable as their prophet may deem them. EDITORIAL SAlD The Sixth United States Infantry celebrated its 100th anniversary at a station in Montana a few days ago. Uncle Sam, like other young folks, will get over it in time. VOORHEES AND MONEY. Th Famous Orator Wat Qtnlal, Qtn rout and CaraUts. A majority of congressmen are lm nrovideut nnd wlieu they - are com piled to leave Washington have ouly a sutncleut surplus on tiand to carry thorn Inline. It matters little how much these men make, the result Is the same, for they II vo up to their revenue. Auioug the many was Daniel W. Voorhees, no well known la his public career us a famous oratory a genial, generous, good fellow and boon com panion, lu money matters Voorhees was as sluiplo and Ignorant as a child. He parted with his tuouey with uo thought of Us value. The middle of the month generally found hltn "broke," but this worried hi in little, for bo uiau aged to got nloug Just as well uutll, pay day. He ordered what he wanted aud had It charged and then forgot nil about It. The fuuuy part of his uature was that, while he did not remember bis creditors, he always kept In mlud bis friends and would give them the last cent be had If they applied for as sistance. One day an old constituent of Mr. Voorhees from the Wabash, in Indiana, called at the capltol to see the senator. Not finding him In, he went to the wgeant-at-arms, that position then being held by B. J. Bright, also from Indiana and an Intimate friend of Mr. Voorhees. The old man told his story to Bright and the reason why be was In search of Voorhees. In effect It was that he was "hard op" and Voor hees owed him $150 on a note and be needed the money badly and was there to collect It Bright thought the story over and said: "Now, my friend, If you go to Dan to collect this mouey he will not pay you a dollar. On the other hand, If you will go to him, tell him a hard luck story and put up a poor mouth he will raise and give you every dollar he can." The man took his advice and, meet ing Voorhees, told htm what a bad fix he was in aud his need of a little as sistance. Voorhees affectionately put his arm over bis shoulder and said: "William, I am very sorry for you, and I will help you all 1 can. Come with me to the clerk's office. I do not know whether 1 have any money there or not, but I will give you all I nave." The clerk informed the senator that there happened to be over $200 to his credit This surprised Voorhees, but he said, "Give It all to my friend here, as he is a long way from home and needs it more than 1." Mr Vnorhws devoted the last ten years of his life to the Congressional llbrarr. Until his death He too no in terest in politics or anything else but the library, and to kim more man io any one else is due the completion "of fhe beautiful structure. He died poor and in debt.-0. O. Stealey in Success Magazine. fh. : v,. of fhe A poor man can not deviate from regular hours of toil, regular hours of rest, and a regular life in general. Only the idle rich can afford to be eccentric and dissatisfied- A Southern paper doubts if Sena tor Jeff Davis will ever be able to make a Tillman of himself. Mrs. Davis is getting many reminders that he has missed the way to the stars. Senator Bailey has not driven his adversaries inside the party into the gulf, but he has kept his word that none of them shall go to Denver to represent Texas as delegates-at-large. One of Mrs. Humphry Ward's lec tures is on The Feasant in Litera ture. In her book on America Mrs. Ward should insert this chapter "There are no peasants in the United States." PORT OF ASTORIA. Chairman Wingate, of the commit tee in charge of the formulation of the Port of Astoria bill, originating with the Astoria Chamber of Com merce, has, with commendable' frank ness, told his colleagues of the reason this important measure has been al lowed to lapse, namely, on the score of the opposition of the local attor neys associated with him in the work, to the framing and operation of any such bill whatever!. Mr. Wingate did the community a distinct favor when he made this re port; he simply verified, honestly and unequivocally, what has been well known here for many a day; that there is interested and insiduous con travention afoot in some of the larg est matters of public concern to As toria; that the home pride that should stand for her development- along all lines, is eiven over to the extraneous and baffling agencies these men are re- i Druggists. Biliousness and Constipation. For years I was troubled with bil iousness and constipation, which made life miserable for me. My appetite failed me. I lost my usual force and vitality. Peosin preparations and cathartics only made matters worse I do not know where I should have been today had I not tried Chamber lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. The tablets relieve the ill feeling at once, strengthen the digestive func tions, purify the stomach, liver and blood, helping the system to do us work naturally. Mrs. Rosa Potts Rirmineham. Ala. These tablets are for sale by Frank Hart and Leading Druggists. Bad Attack of Dysentery Cured. "An honored citizen of this town was suffering from a severe attack of dysentery. He told a friend if he could obtain a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem edy, he felt confident of being cured, he haying used this remedy in the West. He was told that I kept it in stock and lost no time in obtaining it and was Dromotly cured, says M Leach, druggist, of Wolcott, Vt. J? or sale by Frank Hart and Leading IS oxt It was too good to keep. Winks flew thick and fast about the grocers'. As a result all those sample packages of KelloggV Toasted Corn Flakes went in a hurry. Now the call for full size packages is enormous. We can't begin to fill the demand. Everybody who was fortunate enough to receive a sample wants more. Kellogg s Toasted Com Flakes is simply irresistible. There is something about the taste which is lacking in every other break fast food. There are many imitations, but they imitate in name only. 1 he taste the only taste oeiongs exclusively 10 Kellogg's. Your grocer has it in large packages 1 0 cents. Be sure and ask for e5pfe WIMB em mm O'r, Wy r ,v, m m Am mm w I'i i iii And look on the package for the signature of TOASTED FLAKES v f-. m Ml I amCMai.ttCN. ri fa FREE TRIAL IRONING DAY is a picnic Jday with an ELECTRIC IRON FITS ANY SOCKET FITS ANY POCKET ASK US ABOUTjjlT ASTORIA BL.ECTRIC CO. Sherman Transter Co. HENRY SHERMAN, Manager. Hacks, Carriages-Baggage Checked and Transferred-Trucks and Fumituri wagons rianos Aiovea, boxco uu auiyyw. 433 Commercial Street Main Phone 221 THE O E C. F. WISE, Prop. M Choice Wines, Liquors Merchants Lunch Frn and Cigars 11:30 a. m. to 1:30 p. m. Hot Lunch at All Hours. s Cents Corner Eleventh and Commercial. ASTORIA, - - - ok&uun THE TRENTO First-Class Liquors andCCigars '" 602 Commercial Street a iAt. . ASTORIA. OREGON VP VOmci wuuiumtwii riiu tiiu - w J. Q. A. 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