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. BOWLBY, President. ,
O. I. PETERSON, Vice-President.
FRANK PATTON, Cashier
J. W. GARNER, Assistant Cashier
Fisher Brothers Company
SOLE AGENTS
Barbour and Finlayion Salmon Twins and Netting
McCormlck Harvesting Machine
Oliver allied Ploughs
Malthoid Roofing
Sharpies Cream Separators
Raecolith Flooring Storrett'i Tools
Hardware, Groceries, Ship
Chandlery
Tan Bark, Blue Stoned Muriatic Acid, Welch Coal, Tar,
Ash Oars, Oak Lumber, Pipe and Fittings, Brass
Goods, Paints, Oils and Glass
Fisheiccn's Pure Manilla Rope, Cotton Twin and Seine Web
We Want Your Trade
FISHER BROS.
BOND STREET
SAVE A DOCTOR BILL
, BY DRINKING BASS' ALE AND
GUINESS STOUT WITH YOUR
DINNER" PUT UP IN NIPS. IT
IS A SYSTEM BUILDER. RECOM
MENDED BY ALL PHYSICIANS.
PRICE, $1.50 PER DOZEN.
Astoria Savings Bank
Capital Paid in $115,000. Surplus and Undivided Profits, $100,000
Transacts a General Banking Business- 1 Interest Paid on Time Deposits
FOUR PER CENT PER ANNUM.
Eleventh and Duane Sts. Astoria, Oregon.
AMERICAN IMPORTING CO
589 Commercial Street
pai!ngto.-.