sffl'l- f At MnHAM-mAi'Vl yR,MiM,l (WJtWW W'M (MU. "ft' THE MORNING AST01UAN. ASTORIA. OREGON. SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1908. Books for Astoria's School .Cherry The Store Ladies FOR ... Libraries ime. Women BEEliIVB Outfitters Is here and if you want the best the mar ket affords, at the right price, leave your order with us and you'll get satisfaction. Superintendent Clark Places Order for Ex ceptionally Fine Lot of Children's Reading Matter MILLINERY Last Call of Summer Millinery Every hat reduced many hats sold less than cost All Ladies' SILK SUITS reduced to cost Cheaper than you can make them MARINE MEMORANDA OF A DAY ODDS AND ENDS OF SEA AND RIVER CHAT GATHERED ON THE ASTORIA WATERFRONT YESTERDAY. The steamer Charles R. Spencer came down on schedule time yester day with 36 passengers for Astoria. Speaking of his arrest in Portland, along with Captain McCully of the Lurline, on. Thursday last, for ex ceeding the speed-limit in the Wil lamette river, Captain Spencer is concerned over only one feature of the case and that is that the port offi cers who were watching his steamer and the Lurline for this delinquency, failed to see the Bailey Gatzert, which was leading them both on the run. Portland's poor, restricted, tender little harbor -cannot stand many steamers of any kind, and no steamer speed whatever. It's too bad, for it is a pretty little estuary for boating!. When the Ronoke stopped at the Callender pier in the early hours of yesterday morning the first thing she did was to throw a heavying line through the office window and as she went out she took a fender pile along with her; much to the disgust of Mr. Crosby, the wharfinger, but it will probably be safe for her to come back. She had a big passenger list and lots of freight for her three ports of call. The tug Geo. R. Vosburg arrived in from Nehalem yesterday morning, having in tow the barge of the same name (Nehalem) recently built by the Wheeler Lumber Company for sea despatch. This trip the barge was loaded with 10,000 feet of lumber, and 150,000 feet of spruce saw logs, which will be reduced by the mills at St. Johns. The initial venture was quite a success. The bar tug Wallula took the schooner James A. Garfield to an an chorage off Brookfield yesterday morning, and the first O. R. & N. steamer down, will take her on to Portland- The steamer Yosemite departed from Knappton yesterday afternoon, for the open sea and San Francisco, with an immense cargo of Oregon and Washington lumber. The Wallula will probably go to Portland early next week for a gen eral overhauling, and the Tatoosh will take her place on the bar. The steamship Rose City is due down at 3 o'clock this afternoon, for San Francisco and will leave the O. R. & N. docks at 4, if all goes right. The steamer Sue H. Elmore went to sea on the early flood yesterday morning, bound for Tillamook City and bay points. The steamer Homer was an arrival from Portland yesterday morning and her departure was but little later. IS THERE COAL UND ER ASTORIA? and New Business Venture. Mr. E. G. Gunall has opened a boot shoe repairing establishment in the building at the corner of Eighth and Commercial streets, formerly oc cupied by N. Akerman. Your patron age is respectfully solicited. 7-lS-tf TEA Buy tea by the ounce until you get Schilling's Best ; it makes no differ ence then. Tonr crccer return year Mtq K fM tat Bk it; we pa? bia FINE SPECIMEN OF LIGNITE DUG FROM HIGH MUNICIPAL GROUND BY CONTRACTOR E. A. GERDING, YESTERDAY. A prominent and interested citizen came to this office yesterday morning and deposited a piece of good lignite coal on the editor's desk. The editor was glad to see both the man and the coal, because he knew the man would not have brought the coal along if there were not a story connected with it. Said this good citizen, in response to the mute appeal in the editorial eye: "This is a sample of coal just found, in the cut on Irving avenue, by Con tractor E. A. Gerding. It is not enough to fire a steamboat, but it is an indication of what may be beyond, and below it or in lands adjacent thereto. "I hope the Clatsop Fuel Company may be encouraged, by this find, to prosecute its explorations at an early day and feel that it will be amply repaid, either in natural gas, oil or coal as good as this; for the finding of any of these things, would give an impetus, to Astoria and her industries, greater than many of us imagine." The "pay streak" has not been fol lowed up that anyone knows of; the development may be merely a far out cropping of the true vein; so far as it has gone it is but a momentary showing, with a hint of possibilities behind it; yet, that it was found in heretofore undisturbed earth, and bears the record of good lignite on its black and rugged face, may be a hint to the wiser of us, to get in and search out the exact conditions attaching to the disovery. If there is a lead in this to paying veins of coal, then it were idiotic to sleep on it, and over it, for another hundred years. LUMBER SUPPLY To supply California, the southern half of which has been badly denuded of its original forestration, with an abundance of timber; to aid in the in crease of rainfall over a dry area which is destined in the near future y be called on to support an immense population; to supply more than 12,- 000,000 ties yearly to the railroads of the United States, and, last, but not least, to furnish a perpetual bee pastu rage for hunderds of apiaries these, all these, are the things which are beginning to be written in the history of one tree in southern California. That tree is the eucalyptus, of many species ,and the lumber from which has but lately been discovered to possess qualifications for use in cer tain industries possessed by no other tree, wild or dometic, known to man. As ' a mere beginning of this plan the Santa Fe Railway company has bought 10,000 acres of land in San Diego county, California, and is plant ing it as fast as possible to young eucalyptus trees six or eight inches tall. Several hundred acres of this vast tract have been set out already, and fully ninety-five per cent, of the trees have taken hold In good shape and shown signs of growth. One of the most interesting things about the Eucalyptus is its varities, of which there are at least ISO good species, with probably a third as many sub-species which are not com monly listed in the catalogues. They grow to be of great size; in Australia individuals of some varie ties have been known to attain a heigth of 300 feet. In California, where trees were planted about some of, the old haciendas forty years ago, they are still growing and their ulti mate size is entirely problematical. Superintendent Clark of the Astoria Schools yesterday completed the com pilation of a list of books for use in the public schools. They are for the school libraries and of course are not text books, but are of a general nature, The order for the books, numbering several hundred, will be sent to the State library board, which forwards' the order on to the company from which the ..purchases are made. The new list will be here in rime for the opening of the school year, it is expected, and it will be worth the while of the school children and teachers to read the list below to see what an cxcclcitt lot of new reading matter they will have to select from next year. The complete list is given below, and one book will go to each school library if not already contained therein: l List of Books. Classics, Old and New First Reader. Classic Old and New-Second Reader. Stepping Stones to Literature First Reader. Stepping Stones to Literature Second Reader. The Fairy Reader The Story of Little Black Sambo. The Brownie Primer. The First Year Nature Reader. Child Life First Reader. Child Life in Tale and Fable Second Reader. Brooks's" Second Reader. The Jingle Primer. Goops and How to Be Them. ' More Goops and How to be Them. Diverting History of John Gilpin Etc. i The House That Jack Built Etc. Rhymes and Jingles. Lullaby Land Songs of Childhood. Twilight Stories. The Indian Primer. I Fairy Life Third Reader.' Rhymes and Fables First Reader. Songs and Stories Second Reader. Oncc-Upon-a-Time Stories. The Sandman F'arm Stories. Household Stories for Little Readers. Stories for Children. Nonsense Songs and Laughable Lyrics. Book if Nursery Rhymes. The Robin Reader First Reader. From September to June, , Choice Literature for Primary Grades. Book 1. Choice Literature for Primary Grades. Book2. , Boston Collection of Kindergarten Stories. How to Tell Stories to Children. Stories to Tell. A Kindergaren Story Book. Ethics for Young People. Self Help. Old Stories of the East. The Golden Fleece. In Mythland. Vol. 2. Hellenic Tales. Nature Myths and Stories for Little Ones. . Four Old Greeks. Stories of Greek Gods, Heroes and Men. Tanglewood Tales. Wonder Book. Book of Nature Myths. Round the Year in Myth and Song. The Heroes; or Greek Fairy Tales. Story of Ulyssess. , Adventures of Ulyssess. Myths of Northern Lands. ' Norse Stories. Among the Law Makers. How the People Rule. Fables; Selected, Told Anew. Folk Tales of the Russian. The Wonderful Chair. Household Stories. Pretty Goldilocks and Other Stories. Undine. . Trusty John and Other Stories. i Little Red Riding Hood. . Reynard.The Fox. King of the Golden River. ' ' Animal Fables from the Dark Continent. The Rose and the Ring. Wonder Tales From Wagner. Famous Legends Adapted for Children. Ballads and Tales. Legends That Every Child Should Know. . Stories of King Arthur's Knights. Some Merry Adventures of Robin Hood. -Book of Legends Told Over Again. Stories of My Four Friends. Earth and Sky. The Stars in Song and Legend. Things a Boy Should Know About Electricity, Electricity Toymaking for Amateurs. ' Wireless Telegraphy. The Later Cave Men. The Story of Ab. Lodrix, The Little Lake Dweller. First Studies in Plant Life. . i The Story, of the Birds. Curious Homes and Their Tenants. Birds Every Child Should Know, Short Stories of Our Shy Neighbors. Bee People. Spinner Family. Rab and His Friends. , ' Lion and Tiger Stories. ,. 'Friends and Helpers. Jungle Book. Second Jungle Book. Story of a Donkey. Biography of a Grizzly. Krag and Johnny Bear, Black Beauty. ' 1 Boys Book of Inventions. Boys Second Book of tlnvenfions. , Triumphs of Science. ; Acme Grocery Co. HIGH GRADE GROCERIES 521 COMMERCIAL STREET PHONE 681 Town iJnd City. Augsburg's Drawing Book 1. Auu'burg'i Drawing Ilook2. Augsburg' Drawing Book 3. Art Studies for School. Songs of the Child World. Child Voice in Singing, Songs of All Lands. Motion Song for Public School. Games, Scat work and Sense Training. ... Three Hundred Things a Bright Girl Can Do. Home Games and Parties. Robinson Crusoe. Talis from the Travel of Baron Munchausen. Uncle Tom' Cabin. Gulliver' Travel Swiss Family Robinson. For the Honor of the School. Little Mi Phoebe Cay. John Halifax, Gentlemen. Southern Soldier Storic. Man Without a Country. Hope Bcnhuni. Midshipman Paulding. Reading-How to Teach It. Teaching of English in Elementary and Secondary School. Teaching of English. Literature and Life in School. Stepping Stones to Literature. Vol. IV. Stepping Stones to Literatnre. Vol. V. Stepping Stone to Literature. Vol. VI. Stepping Stone to Literature. Vol.VIk II. W. Longfellow's Complete Poetical Work. Special Method in Geography. Girl's Book of Famous Queens. .. Fifty Famous Storic Retold. Thirty More Famous Storie Retold. Blue True Story Book. Siege of Lcydcn. Stories of Indian Chieftains. . , Stories of Indian Children. ' Indian Stories Retold From St. Nicholas. Old Indian Legend Retold. American Leaders and Heroes. . 9 THE TRIPLETS DIE NEW YORK, July 17-Out in the Lutheran Cemetery in Newtown, QueeiisborHKh, Addph Licnpold' companions are digging three tiny graves ami this afternoon that num ber of white coffins will be lowered into the graves side by side. The cof fin will contain the bodies of Licp old's three children, triplets who died, one after the other within a period of three' day. Then three little granite slabs will be set up. The father of the three dead children is a gardener in the cemetery, with his wife, Eliza beth, he lives at Newton. The child ren were born Jan 10, Subscribe to the Morning Astorian, 60 cent per month. Steamer Nahcotta leaves O. R. & N. docks at 6:45 a. m. daily. Round trip fare to any point on North (Long) Beach, $1.00, Sunday's only. 6-23-tf NEW TO-DAY The Commercial Sunday Excursions to Long Beach. Steamer Nahcotta leaves O. R. & N. dock at 6::S a. m. daily. Round trip fare to any point on North (Long) Beach, $1.00, Sunday's only. . 7-1-n 'Oixvr!(fo Cleanses the System Ef f ect uatly.DispeU Colas andneaa aches due to Constipation; Acts naturally, acts truly as a Laxative. 4 BestorMenamen ana CnilaV i-yound: ana Ola. Hi et its ijenej'icial Effects Alwavs W the Genuine which has full name of the Com pany CALIFORNIA Eg Syrup Co. by whom '& it manufactured, printed on the front of every package. SOLD BY ALL LEADING DRUGGISU one size only, regular price 50 j-bottle. One of the coiieit and most popu lar retorts In the city it the Commer cial. A new billiard room, a pleasant sitting room and handsome fixtures all go to make an agreeable meeting place for gentlemen, there to discuss the topics of the day, play t game of billiards and enjoy the fine refresh ments served there. The best of goods'are only handled, and thit fact being so well known, a large business is done at the Commercial, on Com mercial street, near Eleventh. GOOD WOOD. If you want a good load of fir wood or box wood ring up KELLY the WOOD DEALER, The man who keeps the PRICES DOWN. Phone Main 2191 Barn, Cor, 12th and Duane. LADY MANICURIST ENGAGED. "The Modern," A. E. Petersen's beautiful tonsorial establishment, has been further modernized by the per manent engagement of a highly train ed young lady manicurist, who will alto serve the house as cashier. The very best board to be obtained in the city is at "The Occident Hotel." Rates very reasonable. New Grocery Store. Try our own mixture of coffee the J. P. B. 'Fresh fruit and vegetables. Badollet & Co., grocers. Phone Main 1281. The Palace Restaurant An phaae of hunger can be daintily gratified at any hour of the day or night at the Palace Restaurant. The kitchen and dining room service are of the positive best. Private dining looms for ladies. One call inspires regular custom. Try it. Commercial street, opposite Page building. The Clean Man. The man who delights in personal cleanliness, and enjoys his shave, shampoo, haircut, and bath, in As toria, always goes to the Occident barber shop for these things and gets them at their best. Shine Them Up. Ladies' shoes called for, shined and returned. Phone Main 3741. ' Subscribe to the Morning Astorian.