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THE MORNING ASTOIIIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY JUNK 16, 1908 listerias' Established 1373. Published Daily Except Monday by THE J. S. DELLINGER CO. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mail, per year .... By carrier, per month ....$7.00 .. .60 . WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in advance.. , $1.50 Entered as second-class matter July 30, 1906, at the postoffice at As toria, Oregon, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. . Orders for the delivering of The Morning Astorian to either residence or place of business may be made by postal .card or through telephone. Any irregularity in delivery should be immediately reported to the office of publication. . TELEPHONE MAIN 661. HELPFUL ADVICE THE WEATHER Oregon, Washington, Idaho Cloudy with possibly showers. "SOMETHING DOING! Half of Astoria is unconscious of the steady growth and expansion she is making; not one man in 200 of the population knows anything about the ratio of her home-building (which, by the way, is of the very essence of her stability); and this is not fair, either to the city, nor to himself. We are all creatures of habit; we pass to and from our own homes and businesses, day by day, over one un changing route; only at the rarest do we diverge and take our way to and through neighboring localities, and become aware of the wide range of improvement arid real investment; we note the new house, or barn, or gar age our next-door neighbor is putting up; and we note what is done on Commercial street, or Exchange, or Bond, down-town. And when we get up and out on the great hills on a sunny Sunday and begin to take notice, we realize that since we were on an excursion last year, it's no trouble at all to count the 40, or SO or 100 new homes and houses that have gone up in a given territory. The revelation is a pleasant one; but it should not be so much of a revela tion; we should know more of it as it transpires and talk it and pass it cur rent, so that the stranger in Astoria shall know it and take it away with him, as one of the cardinal things we are sure of and proud of. The home-area of a city is just as important as her business-area and the well-informed citizen, in justice to his business and its future, should be able to tell so important a truth as the steadfast record of Astoria's home-building for 1907-8, reveals. The home-owner and home-builder is far oftener the permanent citizen that the mere business man. are willing to forget that he missed being great; and are ready to guage his successor along the wholesome lines of real manliness and manifest capacity, with enough genuine cour age to bolster the twin-virtues.- The weak President of the future will be a pulling figure, indeed; and' the nation will probably spare itself any such spectacle. But, now that we have raised the new standard, we must stand by it loyally and insist that no one shall be put forward for the honor who is not able to meet the test that shall try out the best man going. Roosevelt is no extraordinary American; he is simply an extraordi nary national executive, whom the people, by good chance, secured to guide, advise, and govern; the coun try is full of his kind of men; it takes his type to make a nation and it is only when they are exalted and put where their characteristics perform the larger functions of national ad ministrative life, that we note their exceptional worth and train our selves to the standards they suggest. The country is marvelously better off for having had a season of such ex pression and intercourse, and he who follows Mr. Roosevelt will be a happy man if he can fill the eye and sense of the nation as Roosevelt filled them. Nothing less will do in this country! DECIDE YOURSELF. CLATSOP'S TWO-TO-ONE." While Eugene and Portland are bragging and rejoicing over the beg garly success of the University ap propriation bill at the recent Oregon polls, it may be well for both to re member the solid fact that Astoria and Clatsop contributed to the vic tory at the rate of two affirmative votes for every negative cast here; which makes the record in this be half, relatively, better than that of Multnomah. A circumstance which is broadly overloked in the arrogant chronicles put forth by the Oregon ian (newspaper) in this small his toric item. Mr. been MAN AND STANDARD. In the coming season of man worship in which we Americans are about to induge with quadrennial uproar and confusion, it may be well to look to the standards that have been set for the Presidency and try to adhere to them in the great parties of selection and election. The gift is immeasurably greater than it has been for years, by reason of the extraordinary latitude of in fluence it has acquired at the hands of Roosevelt. Great as it has always since the days of Washington, the office is, today, more formidable, more impressive, more .exacting; ot profounder quality in power and in representative strength; the electo rate behind is vaster, more enlighten ed, prouder and more insistant upon the popular prerogative; and the man who takes it over on the 4th of March next, must do so with deep knowl edge of the higher and better stand ards to which it has attained, and to which he must rise, or prove himself a national failure. We have had few great men in the Presidency (more shame to us), and the stamp-Rooseveltian is meraaica ble cut The Opportunity Is Here, Backed By Astoria Testimony. Don't take our word for it Don't depend on a stranger's state ment. Read Astoria endorsement. Read the statements of Astoria citizens. And decide for yourself. Here is one case of it: T. Pcdersen. longshoreman, living at 613 Commercial street, Astoria, Ore., says: For 20 years I was afflict ed with kidney trouble. I suffered a great deal from pain in the small of the back and was continuually tired and nervous. I had occasional head aches, and also a blurring of the eye sight. Every time I took cold it settled in the kidneys and added to my troubles, the secretions at such times being irregular and containing sediment. My rest was much dis turbed at night on this account. I began taking Doan's Kidney Pills procured at Charles Rogers & Son's drug store and found unexpected re lief for which I am very thankful. For sale by all dealers. Price 5U cents. Foster-Milburn Co., isunaio, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan s and take no other. THE BELL IN THE SEA How Ocean Liners Hear Their Way In Thick Weather. FOG SIGNALS UNDER WATER. You won't tell your family diH'tor the whole story about your privnto Illness you are too modest. You need not be afraid to tell Mrs. rink ham, at Lynn, -Mass., the tilings you could not explain to the doctor. Your letter w ill le held in the strictest con fidence. From her vast correspond ence with sick women during the past thirty years she may nave gained the very knowledge that will help your case, Such letters as the fol lowing, from grateful women, es tablish beyond a doubt the power of LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND to conquer all female diseases. "Mrs. Norman It. Uarndtof Allen- town, Pa., writes: 'Ever since 1 was sixteen years of age I had Buffered from an organic de female weakness : in consequence I had dreadful headaches and was extremely nervous. My physi cian said I must "go through an opera tion to get wen. A menu ioia ma Tvnt T.vdia. E. lMnkham'a Vegetable Compound, and I took it and wrote yo for advice, following your directions carefully, and thanks to you I am to dav & well woman, and I am tcllinir all my friends of my experience." FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the and has positively cured thousands oi i OTimpn whft have iwen trouDieaiYim displacements, inflammation, ulcera tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities, fag-down feeling, flatulency, indices- Cured Hemorrhages of the Lungs. "Several years since my lungs were so badly affected that I had many hemorrhages," writes A. M. Ake, of Wood, Ind. "I took treatment with several physicians without any bene fit. I then started to take Foley's Honey and Tar, and my lungs are now as sound as a bullet. I recommend it in advanced stages of lung trouble." Foley's Honey and Tar stop the cough and heals the lungs, and prevents serious results from a cold. Refuse substitutes. A Grand Family Medicine "It gives me pleasure to speak a good word for Electric Bitters," Mr. Frank Conlan of No. 436 Hous ton street New York. "It's a grand family medicine for dyspepsia and liver complications; while for lame back and weak kidneys it cannot be too highly recommended." Electric Bitters regulate the digestive func tions, purify the blood, and impart renewed vigor and vitality to the ojcalf and HchilitatPfl of hflth sexes. Stamp-Kooseveuian is mciau.vu t .. with us all. He has been so clean-' Sold under guarantee at Chas. Rogers and true and courageous that we at ion s arug store, ouc Gladstone's Peculiar Eyas. Gladstone hud peculiar eagle-like eyes. At n dinner at which he and Professor Blacklo were present tlio two men were opposite, and when Gladstone gave In a forcible way his Idea that Homer was no longer recited; but chanted, the professor cried out, "Mr. Gladstone. I don't believe a word of Itr Then he rose to argue the mat ter and said one sentence, but got no further. He had met Gladstone's gaze and seen his outer eyelids widened to their fullness In a steady glare, and his tongue stumbled, and be sank back Into his chair lu confusion. The writer concludes: "Go to the zoo for it Take your umbrella. Make your way to the place where eagles, vultures, falcons and such like creatures blink on their perches. Se lect a bird. Stare at hlra with Insult and you will see the outer lids expand as Mr. Gladstone's did. Toke at him with your umbrella. The filmy vertical lids through which he looks at the sun and opens to paralyze his prey will part, and then you will see what Blackie Baw and understand his feel ings." A Way They Have. Mrs. Griggs The way that friend Brown of yours hints for a drink of whisky every time he calls here would provoke a sulnt Mr. Griggs Never mind him, dear. He's only trying to provoke a smile. Bohemian Magazine. Excusable Mrs. Suburbanite John, that's twice you've come home and forgotten to bring the lard. Mr. Suburbanite It's so greasy it slipped my mind. Judge. r. ' Wl W Tixe Star DniSHi 69.1 is erecting a plant at PORTLAND, OREGON for the manufacture of their world famous PORTABLE WELL DRILLING MACHINES for water, oil, gas, etc., etc. , A moderate amount of money will start you in a profitable business. STAR PORTABLE DRILLING MACHINES have been proved by Competitive Tests to be The Best In The World. For full particulars regard ing well drilling machines, " tools, supplies, etc., write to THE STAR DRILLING MACHINE CO. PORTLAND. OfltOOW, or AKBON, OHIO. Method by Which the Submerged Gong It Operated and the Apparatus by Which the Sound Is Ploked Up Miles Away Port and Starboard Lights. ' To those 'who go down to tho sea In ships probably uo discovery In reeeut times hns Ihwu of more Importance or tends more to save life than that of the possibility of signaling from shin to ship and from ship to shore by sound, writes Sidney F. Walker In th London Mall. It literally, when fully developed, will enable steamers to "hear" their way under all conditions of weather and particularly In fog Just as well as they now see their way on clear nights by the aid of tho lights that each hlp carries and those dis tributed round the const of every civ ilized country. Tho whole apparatus hinges upon the fact that water Is a good conduct or of sound. The readiest example of this of which the writer Is aware Is to lie found usually at mineral baths. There Is nearly always pumping going on in connection with the baths, but under ordinary conditions the pump Is not heard. When undressing, for In stance, to enter the bath one can very rarely hear the pump, but immediately one Is in the bath if ono places one's head under water the pump is almost painfully evident, and an engineer could easily count the strokes bad he a watch at hand. For signaling purposes n bell is em ployed, immersed some distance under the water and Inclosed in a chamber, the hammer being worked by com pressed air operated from the surface. The sound of the strokes ou the bell Is transmitted to a distance of several miles and can be heard by sultablo ap paratus. The bearing apparatus con sists of a microphone, a modification of that we use every time we speak to the telephone, inclosed In a chamber inside the ship and connected with the bridge by wires in the usual way. The microphone chamber is filled with special liquid which the Inventors have found to answer the purpose best, and there arc, as at present ar ranged, one chamber and ono micro phone on each bow below tho water line. In the chart house on the bridge ere a pair of telephone receivers, sim ilar to those we put to our cars when we talk through the telephone on shore, and a switch, enabling the receivers to bo connected to cither of the two microphones. Several of the lighthouses on the coast of America and some, the writer believes, on that of the United King dom are fitted with bells as described above, which are rung at certain inter vals, each lighthouse having a different number of beats, so that any particu lar lighthouse is distinguished by its belL Just as In clear weather It is dis tinguished by the arrangement of its lights. An approaching ship can tell within a very close approximation, as mathematicians would say, how it lies with regard to the lighthouse, localise the bell will be heard loudest In thnt microphone on the side of the ship on which the lighthouse Is, and the officer of the watch can steer accordingly. All ships carry a red light at night on the left hand, or port, side and a green light on the right hand, or star board side, while nil steamers carry in addition a white light showing on both sides. Neither of the lights can be seen astern or for some distance toward the bows, the limit being what sailors call two points abaft the beam, a little astern of her middle point, so that when approaching a ship from astern no lights are visible to the ap proaching ship, but her full lights are visible from the ship approached. When two ships nre approaching each other from opposite directions end on, each ship will see the other's two or three lights and can easily steer to keep out of each other's way. There Is a simple rule for this, and Incidental ly It may be mentioned that the dan ger Is least In this case, provided that both ships are properly handled. The danger of collision arises principally from ships crossing each other, and for this also there are simple rules gov erned by what is called the rule of the road. Leaving out the question of sail ing ships for the moment, the ship which hns the other, the crossing ship, on her own right band (starboard) side has to keep out of the -way, and It does so by turning slightly to the right, or to starboard, presenting her left side to the other ship. Whenever a ship has to give way to another the color of the light of the other ship Is on the same side as that to which the helm must be moved. Thus when a red light Is seen on the right hand (starboard) side the helm is put to port, the side of the light seen. Similarly when a sailing ship la crossing from port to starboard, show ing her green light, that carried on her starboard side, the steamer puts her helm to starboard to clear. This rule could be followed quite as easily with sound signals. Subcribe for the Morning Astoiian, 60 cents per month. 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