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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1908 S-t i.,.,iniM Established 1873. Published Daily Except Monday by SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mail, per year .... By carrier, per month WEEKLY By mail, per year, in advance Entered as second-class matter July 30, 1906, a 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 publicatioa TELEPHONE MAIN 661. THEWEATHER Oregon, Washington, Idaho Fair and warmer except near coast. OUR DEBT TO ASTORIA. The first and deepest obligation of every man owing to his home city and county; the best quality of pub lic spirit is his faith in, and allegience to, the locality that furnishes forth his livelihood and citizenship; his duty is plainly and initially, there. When he has done his best for it, it is time to turn elsewhere and invest his substance, or its excess. We all owe much to Astoria. It is ours; we have built it and set it up as a place of consequence and inter est, and we must preserve it intact and further its de9tiny at alt times, and hazards. If we have any super- ficial interest elsewhere it, should notare believing; but with this differ interfere with our logical and impera tive sense of home interest What we need in this city and county is to be "Hood Riverized," "Eugenized"; to know surely, devout ly believe, and say, candidly, and often, and truthfully, that this is the one best, spot on earth for the investments of the home-seeker, the iudnstrialist, the man of commerce; prove it, and get him in here by the honest allurement of every conces sion that pride and interest can de vise and grant. Nothing short of this is ever going to put us up in front and keep us there; and there are none to do it but ourselves. In all Oregon, indeed in all the great Northwest, there is no place that would respond to the unified and aggressive spirit of its people more surely and quickly than Astor ia; and there is no time like the present for the summoning of that ardor, mergence, and action that are to save us and make us a command ing factor in the commerce of the country. This has been said before a thousand times, perhaps, but it is still a vital and vibrant truth, and we had best apply it in the way that common sense and common interest dictates. THE SPYING WORLD. There is no quest known to man so absorbing, fascinating and com pensating as spying out human and natural secrets. Since, the dawn of creation it has been a principle of action with men and animals and must go on eternally. There is no stopping it; the penalties inherent in the custom are, perhaps, the most severe and conclusive of all known reprisals; yet the task is never re linquished on that score; risks of the most extraordinary and dangerous character are taken hourly in. the al luring pursuit of finding, and deter mining, the forbidden secrets of the elements, and ' of their highest type and servant, man. There has been a great deal of conv ment in the press of the world of late about the Japanese and their insati able search for military and naval secrets of the great powers; they have been detected time and again in this country, and all over Europe, prying into the systems and stations and methods that have to do with the offensive and defensive ' equip ments of the nations; but one never hears a word of what becomes of the spy. But the Japanese is no ex ception to the rule of spying; all peoples have their spies out, and keep exact and voluminous records of the reports that, are filed by them. We arc doing the same thing all the time and everywhere; we must do it to keep abreast of the day and its demands, and to guard against the exigencies of war and the chance of invasion. In hiding our own secrets we are inspired to know the range and quality of others. It is a perfectly natural and, in the main, defensible course. THE J. S. DELLINGER CO. .$7.00 .60 ASTORIAN. . ..$1.50 The results arc 4 often mmcnsc'y valuable to the nations; and the score of acquired knowledge tends to preserve the universal peace we en ju,. .- i v,uW .v. glorious mysteries, that goes on un- interruptedly, with its tuii meagre ot sacrifice, to the aoounuing gooa oi numanity anu me ueamiess nonor OI its sons ana aaugmers. inuw run MiuAuiiH For years Astoria has patiently abided the solemn promises of the Pacific States Telephone Company to modernize and vitalize its public ser vice here, only to be crowded to the rear and bear with the company's failure to make good. That patience exhausted, and the lapse made duly manifest, has evoked a late, and last, pledge that we are to have, at once, a proper and acceptable service, along modern and effective lines. Again we ence: That if the good faith of the company is not immediately and practically demonstrated there will be such a campaign started for the nullification of its franchise and the introduction of new and better utili ties at other hands, as will, for all time, bar the P. S. people from the field and its profits. The essential thing with Astorians is a better and ampler service; they are not so particular about who shall render it, and are quite willing the present company should do it, BUT IT MUST BE DONE. The com pany hasfsaid it will do it, and com plete it by the first of January next And if the people are to' be, held tractable and amenable to the wait, there must be some early and earn est signs put forth by which to guage the real purposes of the projectors. The day of dawdling is past and it is strictly up to the Pacific States people to make good. Having arrived at the age of 60 Dr. Osier admits that he has resolved to take better care of his health than ever. European papers remark that the two platforms , contain numerous planks that are alike. As the Repub licans were first in the field it is easy to identify the party that is stealing thunder. Some of the Bryanites are claim ing Iowa, whose majority against Bryan was 65,552 in 1896 and 98,543 in 1900. How volatile the Iowans must be in the opinion of a sanguine Bryan boomer. One of the Tammany callers on Mr. Bryan said: "If we don't carry New York for you this time I'll never shake hands with you again." If this fails as a jolly it will serve as a touching valedictory. Since the flurry of last October the export of farm products from this country has kept up at almost the highest known mark. The American farmer is unsurpassed as a tower of financial strength. The proposed increase in the rail road freight rate on sugar between the Atlantic ports and the West is about one-fiftieth of a cent per pound. Consumers should remind dealers of this figure if the retail price is advanced. COFFEE The world is full of anonymous coffee : ' 'Java and Mocha. " Who returns your money if you don't like 'cm? Tpr frMr nIwm mr mt tf rw Ml New York NEW YORK, July 27,-New York with its debt limit reached, now tiiuls itself confronted by the unpleasant necessity of raising $J,500,000 or" else seeing its famous Central Park re dueed to a dust heap. Nearly twen ty years ago the importance of this problem was brought to light and dis regarded. Since then matters have been getting more and more serious until today the city finds itself in dan ger of losing its greatest spot of na tural beauty, a well as its greatest breathing spot. For years it has been increasingly difficult to continue the growth of trees, shrubs, flowers and grass. Not in forty-nine years, that is since 1859, has the soil been re newed or adequately treated. As a result it has just about come to the point where, all vegetation is due to 'disaoDear. So loiW has all considers- tion of this matter been sidetracked that nothing short of heroic, treat ment can keep this wonderful park rom .generating into an eyesore of ;( vegctation. Ordinary me ,hods wi n(), flow suflr,ce ,0 savc it fxpertJ MWftf ,hc soi, being 0Q (,xt inipoverishe(L Treatment never be fore umk.rtakcn wJj have t0 be re- sorted to. for so exhausted is the soil a, prcsent ,ha, practically nothing could be raised on it. inis in risen is serious enough but in addition there is the question as to the manner . . t. Ml . If in which Father Knickerbocker is to raise the money necessary to save his park. With his borrowing capa city exhausted the problem is ex tremely serious. Indeed real estate men who have prophesied that sooner or later the park would cut up into building lots see in the present sit uation the likelihood of an early ful fillment of their prophesy. Poor Hetty Green is now raaping the financial whirlwind. Her brief sojourn in one of New York's most expensive hotels has gotten in its in- qnitious work and undermined the fi nancial training ot years, for now, alas, Hetty-America's wealthiest wo man actually gives "tips and that to the astonishing mount of four dollars a week. . It is even whispered, that she now spends nearly a thousandth part of her income. In two brief months she has thrown aside the eco nomy of years. On the first of May she was living in a $19 a month flat in Hoboken, with all other expenses limited to $9 a week. Four weeks later the money spending madness having seized her she was installed in a $450 a month suite in a metropo litan hotel where meals cost ten dol lars a day. So severe a strain was this on an income of a couple of mil lions a year, and the largest cash bal ance in, New York, that she has re moved to a Madison Avenue board ing house. But the weeks of expen sive life arc now claiming their due, for it is stated that in her present surroundings her exenscs for her dog, her daughter and herself average forty dollars a week. And the wo man who was never known to tip un til her flight into exclusive metropo litan hotel life, is now, it is stated, giving thirty cents a day to her wai ter, and as much more to others who serve her. It is now announced how ever that she is to retire to her Ver mont home where her expenses will be only $20 a week. Thus has the sinister influence of New York ruined the good principles of one more wor ker, and now that the scandal of her tipping habit has leaded out her ac quaintances fear that the woman whose income is several thousand dollars a day may yet throw all pru dence to the wind and hire a cab some rainy morning. Just what New York's canine and feline population amounts to has long been a matter of dispute. It has been estimated however that there are no less than one million dogs and five millions cats in the city, an estimate by the way-which many persons who have been kept awake by barking and yowling consider it foolishly small. It now seems, however, as a matter of coldfigures that this estimate is too low for while no sensus of the living has been taken, figures have been compiled on the number of cats and dogs which as strays have been de stroyed in the city since the first of the year. For this period the total reaches more than 77,000 which even though it has to do only with waifs and strays take no consideration of the more fortunate pets, is nearly twice the human death rate. During the month of June no less than 21,985 stray dogs and cats were "seized, ga thered and collected" as the langu age of the report has it, an increase of 11,454 over June 1907. During that year more than 100.800 of these ani mals were destroyed while the total News Letter this year promises to nearly double the' number, During the last four teen years 1,2(10,000 stray cats and dogs have been "humanely disposed of," cW,WH) of the former and 4(10,00(1 of the latter. From these figures it would seem that the feline population is twice the canine, but as a matter of fact it is. more than five times grea ter, Tabby being a much more dilTi cult animal to catch than I'ido, Tak ing all these various figure into con sideration it is not an extreme cs timatc .which cives Greater New York in its metropolitan district 6, iHHi.UK) cats ana i,5UU,ixw dogs-n very remarkable population. . The famous bar of the now almost demolished Fifth Avenue hotel, over which more famous drinks were serv c' to nwrc fan'0" men than over any other in the country, is to enter a new service, and Broadway is to have a new sensation. That sensation is to be the opening of a box in the center of the Tenderloin over which , only temperate drinks will he sold. The bar itself is to be the one which for more than half a century did service in the old hotel, and the mahogany over which the country's most promi nent men have at various times tak en their favorite tipple will now know nothing stronger than ice cream and soda water. Shades of President Ar thur, Roscoe Conkling, even Richard Croker, and many others, will groan in dismay. All the fixtures of the fa mous old bar have been purchased for the opening of the new and nove "soft drink cmporium."Even one of the old benches which occupied a fa mous nook in the old hotel will be present with a sign above it reading "Amen Corner" so that old timers may feel thoroughly at home so far as the fittings are concerned. For such of the old guard of the city's greatest political center as are left shake their heads sadly at the idea of an Amen Corner surrounded by ma tinee girls drinking ice cream sodas The old traditions may go with the bar to its new home, but it is a safe bet that the old politicians will not. If President Roosevelt is correct in his statement that playgrounds are necessary for the development of wholesome citizenship in large cities, New York should soon lead the hole country in the dim of her citizens. With the public schools closed the playgrounds show nn un precedented registration with .180,775 members enrolled in Manhattan and 156,127 in Brooklyn, making a total of more than half a million future de sirable citizens. The enrollment in these vacation classes is purely vol untary and the fact that under these onditions the number is two-thirds of the public school attendance, with truancy laws and officers to help it, indicates the manner in .which New York youngsters are taking advan tage of the chance for summer edu cation. While popularly known as playgrounds, the vacation school ses sions as a matter of fact are largely held in school buildings and aim to each useful trades. There, are vari ous classes in domestic science, mc chanicaT occupations and .nature stu dies. The girls are taught how to prepare simple foods and how to min ster to the sick, while the boys are instructed in carpentering, chair rati ng and similar trades. Particular at tention is paid in every case to the proper development of the body. Al together these summer sessions pro uable undertaking in the line of pop ular juvenile education which has ev er been undertaken in the country, Subscribe to the Morning Astoria. j . -ji... s enna Cleanses the System Effect ually, Dispels Colds andrleaclr aches due to Constipation; jcis naiurauy, acis iruiy as T 1. n. Jjanltve. Best forMenimen and Children-young and Old, Ho et its Beneficial Effects Always Kuvtne Genuine which has ihe jull name aj the Com pany CALIFORNIA fia Syrup Co. by whom it is manufactured, printed on the front of every package, SOLD BY ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS, one size only, regular price 5(Kptr bottle. yrupsffig x A 0TB ' How many American women in lonely homes to-tlny long lor thin blessing to oome into their lives, and to be able to utter tneoe worua, du beeauHo of some onronlo derange ment this hiuutlness u denied them. Every, woman interested in this subject should know that prepara tion lor noaitny maternity accomplished by the use LYDIA&PINKHArTS VEGETABLE C0MP01O Mrs. Mnwrie Gilmer, of West Union, S. CLwrites to Mrs. Ilnkham " I was greatly run-down In health from a weakneita peculiar to my eei, when Lydla R l'inkham' Vegetable Compound waa recommended to me. Jt not only remorea me to perreoi neaun, but to my tfolipht I am a mother." Mrs. Joseuhme Hall, of Dardstown, Ky-writes: 'I was a very great sufferer from female troubles. andmTphvalclan failed to help me. Lyilia K. Piokham Veffe table Compound not only rentored me to perfcet health, but I am now a proud mother. " FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN For thirty years Lyuia E. link ham's VeTtable Compound, made from roots ami herbs, has Ix'cn the standard remedy lor female Ma and has positively cured thousands n women who haw U en troubled with displacement, inflammation uloera- Hnn ftl.r.titl fllninru Irnimi larl Inn periodic pains, backache, that tear ing-down reeling, tlatulency, indiges tion, dizziness or nervous prostration, wny don't you try it 7 Mrs. rinkhnm Invito all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Muss. THE PERFECT WAY Scores of Astoria Citixens Have . ' Learned It , If you suffer from backache, There is onljone way to cure it. The perfect way ia to cure the kid ic'ys. A bad back im-am hick kidneys. Xeglect it, urinary trouble follow Doan's Kidney Pills are made for kidneys only. Ceorge K. Tarrish, 372J E. Oak street,, Portland, Ore., says: "Not a symptom of kidney trouble has ever returned since I used Doan's Kidney 1'ills some years ago and I am picas eu to conlirm the statement l gave in their favor at that time Prior to using them I had suffered a great deal from dull heavy pains in my back and through the region of the kidneys, this trouble having resulted from a severe cold. I was gradually growing worse when Doan's Kidney Pills were brought to my attention md being impressed with the good reports concerning them, 1 procured i supply. As stated above they com pletely disposed of my trouble after a short use." Plenty more "proof like this from Astoria people. Call at Chas, Rogers & Son's drug store and ask what cus tomers report. For sale by all dealers. Price SO cents, Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United. States. Remember the name Doan's and take no other. . B. Burhans Testifies After 4 Years G. B. Burhans, of Carlisle Center, . Y.. writes: "About four years N aero I wrote vou statine that I had been entirelv cured of a severe kidnev trouble by taking less than two bot tles of Foley's Kidney Cure. It en tirely stopped the brick dust sedi ment, and pain and symptoms of kidney disease disappeared. I am glad to say that I have neveY had a return of any of those symptoms unng the four years that have elaps d and I am evidently cured to stay cured, and heartily recommend Foley's Kidney Cure to any one suf fering from kidney or bladder trouble" Stimulation With Irritation That is the watchword. That is what Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup does. Cleanses and stimulates the bowels without irritation in any form. T. F. Laurin, Owl Drug Store. Subscribe to the Morning Astorian. ru ,13 CPE iWVMWVS My stock of men's and boy's snoes is unsurpassed for qua lity, Close buying and low expenses enable me to sell the best qualities at lowest prices. S. A. GIMRE 643 Bond Street TRANSPORTATION. Thf "K"Uni PASSENGERS FREIGHT CriiirsvvtiiV.iiV'r S " -li- iiMii mil ..nit. Steamer Lurlinc Night Bott for Portland and Way Landings. Leaves Astoria daily except Sunday at 7 p. m. Leaves Portland D&y eicept 8o4ay at 7 a. m. Qilrk Service Excellent Ileal Good Berths Landing Astoria Flavel Whart Landing Portland Foot Taylor lb J. J. DAY, Agent Phone Main 2711. DAIRIES. TheVermont Dairy All milk aerated before bottllnf. Specialty made of one cow's milk for infanta. Satisfaction guaranteed. Phont 14 Farmers Una. W. J. INGALLS. WINES AND LIQUORS. Eagle Concert Hall! (320 Astor Street) Rooms for rent by the day, week, or month. Bef rates in town. P. A. PETERSON, Prop. MISCELLANEOUS. HOT OR COLD Golden Tea Just Right closset & ;devers,s PORTLAND,rORE. Plate Racks, Wall Pockets, Music Racks, Clock Shelves Hildebrand & Gor Old Bee Hive Bldg. MEN AND WOMEN, Das Bin for unnatural dU:lirB,infliniutlon, Irrltatlooi or ulceration! ot muooui niombran.i. Paiulemi, and not a.lr!u (juhkSV'I nu.r.at.iia U ItkeEvansCiiemimiCo, gnt or polnonoua. old by DranlaU, or lent In plain wrapper, br xpr!Mi, prepaid, for SI. 00, nr8 hot Una 12.78. Circular lent oa reuueit. kOIN0INNTI,O.r 1 if West