THE MORNING ASTOIIIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON,
TUESDAY JUNK 16, 1908
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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.
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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.
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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.
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