THE MORNING ASTOBIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1908.
Established 1873.
Published Daily Except Monday by THE J. S. DELLINGER CO.
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WEATHER REPORT.
Oregon and Washington Fair; not so warm in interior of the Western
portion; continued warm in eastern portion.
Idaho Fair, continued warm.
A COMMUNAL INVESTMENT.
When a community makes an investment of hundreds of thousands of
dollars for fine school buildings, creates and pays out heavy annual funds for
the equipment and maintenance of those buildings, taxes itself generously to
pay adequate wage to clever teachers of its young, the only interest accruing
to that community is the splendid mental development of its children, their
investiture with the adaptable advantages and graces of an education that is
to serve them (in part, and fundamentally) through life. The increment
is ample always, in this day of progressive educational work; no one under
estimates its value, nor disparages the return on the original, and the pro
tracted, investment; the supreme fact remains, therefore, that every phase of
the popular contract must be carried out to the letter; no part of it may be
safely disregarded, either on the part of the contracting people or on that of
its agents.
The teachers are the agents, from the superintendent down to the man
or woman handling the primary grades. The board of directors is but the
intermediary between the taxpayer and this esepcial department of public
business; all orders and all policies must come from the people; and it is no
less the duty of the directorate to obey the popular mandate than for the
teacher to obey the school laws, or for the child to observe the discipline set
up by the teacher. The entire system is retroactive, and failure, anywhere
along the line of prescribed procedure, causes friction, and defeats the
organic principle for which the schools stand.
This is the popular conception of the relations borne by the several
elements involved. There is no phase of public concern so sensitive to dis
ruptive influences as the school system, and none that should be more care
fully administered. If the people believe that they should pay a better salary
to the teacher and make provision so to do and publicly declare the policy,
the decision becomes fiat and must be carried to its logical conclusion. There
is no appeal save by, and to, the people, no matter who may dispute or
contest it.
For our part, we believe the teachers of Astoria and Clatsop should re
ceive the best limit of current wage in the business; and so far as the people
of the city and county are concerned, this feeling is almost unanimous. They
constitute one of the admirable administrative bodies of the public service,
and individually, rank with the best in the State, in point of personal qualities
and qualifications and readiness to do their full and final duty by the children
entrusted to them.
One of the real impediments to progress, now-a-days, is the fact, that
most of us are so profoundly absorbed in our own pursuits and interests, that
we fail too often to examine into, and guage, the excellence of things and
people about us, and for which, as electors and sponsors, we are directly re
sponsible. The schools and the teachers are not the least of these.
MAINE FOREST LAW
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Legislature Takes Hold to Pro
tect the Public
TREES STOP SOIL EROSION
JACK, THE JUDGE.
Uncle Sam is about to expend a few hundred thousand dollars, in his
annual outlay for tobacco for the men of the navy, and he has called in the
sailor-man, himself, to act as judge of the quality of the weed he is to smoke
and chew for another year. This is wisdom. There is no better judge on
earth in such a premise. He is the one to whom the real thing in tobacco
means the most, and it may be safely conceded he will get the best and
strongest and blackest and most enduring leaf on the world's market.
Apropos, of this, the writer recalls an incident that happened in the Pacific a
score or more years ago that bears aptly on the subject: The old U. S. S.
Saranac was coming home from the South Seas, to San Francisco, when one
morning early she sighted an old lumber drougher headed for the "Horn" and
flying all signals of distress known to the marine code. The Saranac's engines
were stopped, the whale-boat called away, and sent speeding to the ship in
trouble. As the naval officer in charge went over the side of the foreigner,
he was met at the gangway by a frowsley old captain and a bunch of ships
officers, all armed to the teeth, and evidently holding a crew of twenty men
in very questionable subjection. Mutiny was apparently rampant. The first
word spoken by the frantic master of the ship was "Got in Himmel, Sir, can
you save dis ship mit some tobacco?. Ve cooms from Hong Kong mitout a
case, und dese mens is gone crazy mit de want of it." In another half hour
twenty cases of good "old navy" were tumbled over the side of the merchant
man, and the ships parted amid the cheers of both crews that knew the exact
exigency of that hour better than any people on earth. Jack is a competent
judge, alright!.
Forest Owner May be Restrained
From Denuding Hillsides to Such a
Degree as to Send Down on Lands
of His Neighbors the Soil Wash.
PORTLAND, Me., June 30.
In holding that the legislature has
a constitutional right to pnss laws
regulating the cutting of timber on
private lands, if the cutting is liable
to be detrimental to the public wel
fare, the judges of the Maine Su
preme Court haiulded down an opin
ion of great importance to the owners
of forest land in that state, mid of
interest to land owners in all parts
of the country.
The opinion refers particularly to
the cutting of small timber which
should be left growing to give a for
est cover which will conserve the
water and lessen flood ravages and
prevent or diminish soil erosion and
consequent filling up of the rivers
and lakes. The judges specifically
state that regulations of that kind
cannot be construed as the taking of
private property for public use, and
that the state need not pay for young
growth which it may forbid the own
er to cut. I
This was not a court decision, for
no case was before the court for re
view, but a formal opinion prepared
at the request of the senate for the
guidance of the legislature in the en
actment of laws to regulate forests
and protect the interests of the pub
1ic. Similar question tiave come up
in other states and may be expected
to come up in the future.
In the proposition which the Maine
senate submitted to the judges for
their opinion it was stipulated that a
law should not be enacted which
for agricultural, mining or manufact
uring purposes, of for building sites,
or pleasure grounds. The purpose is
to forbid the total stnppin gof forest
land where a forest cover is neces
sary to prevent the wash of the soil,
the lessening of flood ravages, and
the mitigation of drought, and where
the public good requires that such
cover be preserved.
In submitting their opinion the
judges cited numerous examples of
legislation restraining property hold
ers from using their property in such
a way as to endanger the public wel
fare. A mbn may not erect a danger
ous building on his city lot because
it would imperil or damage the prop
erty of others. For the same reason,
a forest owner may be restrained
from denuding his hillsides to such a
degree as to send down upon the
lands of his neighbor the soil wash
to cover their meadows, choke their
streams, and injure them in their
rightful use and enjoyment of prop
erty.. It was declared that there is
nothing in the constitution of the
United States or in that of the state
of Maine prohibiting the enforce
ment of a forest law of that kind.
Maine's greatest wealth is in its
forests directly or Indirectly. In
several ways it has been a pioneer
in forest legislation mid nvanngenient,
It is one of the few states probably
the only state whose forests are
nearly holding their own. Lumbering
lias gone on there for n long time,
and every year there is something
ready to cut. The folly of stripping
land ami leaving it defenseless against
erosion is well understood in Maine,
and the legislature has taken the pre
liminary steps towards a law to com
pel unwilling forest land owners to
leave enough small timber and brush
on the ground to cover it.
LOST STUDENT FOUND
Indian Runner Brings Word That
Youth Is Found By Indian Tribe.
FRESNO, Cal., June 30,-From
word brought by an Indian runner, it
appears there is a possibility that
Kcnnncth Archibald the collage stu
dent who has been lost in the high
Sierras for several days, has wandered
in a half starved condition to Para
dise Valley and is being cared for by
an Indian woman in that almost de
serted place.
The runner arrived from the Para
dise Valley country last night and
told of a white man having wandered
into the camp of the Indians and be
ing very weak, and too ill to talk. The
Indian is one of the runners who
went with a searching party several
days ago. He left the party to make
a side-trip of investigation, lie can
speak English but brokenly, and a
party will start to-day to investigate
his story.
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NEW YORKTlune 30.-James
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vice power house of New York is in
St. Michaels hospital, Newark recov
ering from an electric shock.
It is estimated that 13,000 volts pas
sed through his body and physicians
arc at a loss to understand how he
survived it.
The current entered his body when
his left hand came in contact with a
wire. ,He was doubled up like a jack
nife and hurled from a platform to a
cement floor about ten feet below.
He struck on his head and sustained
a severe scalp wound. His left hand
and left foot were badly burned. 1
He was unconscious when he was
sent to the hospital. Later he said
he was all right except that he felt
sore from head to foot and the burns
and scalp wounds bothered him.
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DIRECT to us. We pay postage and send in plain wrapper.
PDFP 30 DAY8' TRSATMENT IN EVERY BOTTLE,
I KsLlZ We will send you sample of this wonderful fat reducing
remedy on receipt of 10 cents to pay for postage and pack
ing. The sair,le itself may br sufficient to reduce the desired weight.
Mention this iper. Desk 22, ESTHETIC CHEMICAL CO., 31 West
125th Street. New York. N. Y.
If you will make inquiry it will be
revelation to you how many suc
cumb to kidney or bladder troubles
in one form or another. If the patient
is not beyond medical aid. Folev'i
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Store.
COFFEE
Good coffee is partly in
buying and partly in
making; like everything
else.
Tow tracer returns rear noaty If ra imt
ttu Schilling'! Bed: par hia.
SHE'S A QUEEN
DEVELOP
THI
BUST
SHE'S A SIREN
ASTORIA ABROAD.
This is the season, and the sort of weather, in which Astoria may safely
challenge the world to find a more beautiful and congenial spot for resort
purposes. Day by day through the years this city is becoming better known
and appreciated and is more firmly fixed in her lodgment upon the map of
the Northwest. People are beginning to appreciate the fact that there is more
to Astoria than the mere old-time name the Portland and the in-State press
bestowed upon her; that she has business, and does business; that she is a
modern, lively, ambitious, progressive city, with all the elements for winning
and holding and achieving, and able to account for herself in the swing 6f
events and the movement of people. Astoria abroad, as at home, is a vastly
different place, in the popular estimate, from what it was reputed to be by
our unfriendly neighbors some years ago. Old standards fall as time and
people and cities forge ahead into new alignments and relations to commerce
and society; and Astoria is no exception to the rule. ' '
FOUNTAINS FOR SCHOOLS.
The problem of furnishing drink
ing water in public schools has long
been a bone of contention among
boards of education and school com
missioners all over the country. It
is conceded that the use of a cup or
glass is unsanitary and that germs of
disease are often transmitted by one
pupil to others by this method. Prob
ably the best remedy is the flowing
pedestral fountain, which practically
eliminates the possibility o fthe trans
mission of germs in this way. The
water continually running during the
hours when the pupils are using it
keeps the cup covered and always
clean. The lips only come in contact
with the running water and do not
touch the metal. Popular Mechanics.
is an expression that is always heard at sight of a well
developed woman. If you are fiat chested, with BUST
undeveloped, a scrawny neck, thin, lean arms the
above remark will never be applied to you. "SIREN"
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and . produce a fine firm, voluptuous bosom. They fill
out the hollow places. Make the arms handsome acd
well modeled and the neck and shoulders shapely and
of perfect contour. '
Send for a bottle oday and you'll be pleased and grate
ful. SIREN wafers are absolutely harmless, pleasent to take and con
venient to carry around. They are jo'd under guarantee to do all v ;
claim or MONEY back. -
Price $1.00 per bottle. Inquire at good drug stores or send DIRECT
to us.
CQpp During the next 30 days only we will send you a sample
riLL, oottle tnese beautifying wafers on receipt of 10 cents U
ioay cost of packing and portage if you will mention that yes
saw the Advertisement in this paper. The sample alone may be sufBcieci
if defects are trivial.
Desk 22 ESTHETIC CHEMICAL CO.. 31 West 125th
St New Yorff.
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Fisher Brothers Company
SOLE AGENT1
Barbour and Finlayson Salmon Twins tad Netting
McCormick Harvesting Machines
Oliver Chilled Ploughs
Malthoid Roofing
Sharpies Cream Separators
Raecolith Flooring Stotrett'i Tool
Hardware, Groceries, Ship
Chandlery
Tan Bark, Blue Stone, Muriatic Acid, Welch Coal, far,
Ash Oars, Oak Lumber, Pipe and Fittings, Brass
Goods, Paints, Oils and Glass
Fish ei cien's Pur Manilla Rope, Cotton Twin an4 Seine Web
We Wont Your Trade
FISHER BROS.
BOND STREET
FREE TRIAL
Of any Household ELECTRICAL DE
VICE including
SMOOTHING IRONS HEATING PADS
TOASTERS CHAFING DISHES
TEAPOTS COFFEE! PERCOLATORS
FRYING PANS
SEWING MACHINE MOTORS
YOtJ call us up WE will dojthe rest
ASTORIAj) ELECTRIC CO.
THE TRENTON
First-Class Liquors andOCigars
602 Commercial Street ,.:
Corner Commercial and 14th. . ASTORIA, OREGON
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Lane's Family Medicine is a tonic
laxative. It does not depress or weak
en, but imparts a feeling of buoyancy
and strength that is delightful. At all
drugggista 26c.
ASTORIA, OREGON
HON AND BRASS FOUNDERS LAND AND MARINl ENGINEERS
Prompt attention given i ill repak sk.
T4 Hata24f
Up-to-Date Sawmill Machinery.
IStb and Franklin Ave.
Sherman Transfer Co.
HENRY SHERMAN, Manager.
Hacks, Carriages Baggage Checked and Transferred Trucks and Furnituri
Wagons Pianos Moved, Boxed and Shipped.
433 Commercial Street . Main Phone 121
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C. F. WISE, Prop.
Choice Wines, Liqnors Merchants Lunch Frem
and Cigars 11:30 a. m. to 1:30 a. m.
Hot Luoch at AH Hours. as Cents
Corner Eleventh and Commercial
ASTORIA, - - OREOC