The morning Astorian., July 30, 1908, Page 2, Image 2

THE MORNIN& ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
.THURSDAY, JULY 30
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Established 1873.
Published Daily Except Monday by
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Entered as second-class matter July 30, 1906, a the postoffice at As
toria, Oregon, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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the:weather
Oregon and Washington Fair and
warmer except near the coast
A TENTATIVE INTEREST.
Much as Astoria has wanted the
definite interest of the Northern Pa
cific Railway Company, of which she
is, practically, a sea terminal, and one
of the largest towns on the system
outside of Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma
and Portland, she has never had but
a tentative share of the concern the
road lavishes on her inland commun
ities. We are moved to this by the
text of an advertisement running in
the "Missoulian" of Missoula, Mon
tana, in behalf of the road's summer
tourist traffic, all of which apparently
ends at one of the Sound cities or at
Portland; there is no word of As
toria, the coast resorts near by, nor
any point west of Portland and the
Washington cities. It has a Charle
tonian ring about it that don't set
well down here.
The absorption of the Astoria &
Columbia River line by the N. P. put
this city and her contiguous resorts,
at this season at least, well within
the purview of the company's summer
advertising, but it has been remark
ably chary about doing anything con- j
spicuously attractive in the way of
advertising the best summer resorts
in all Oregon, and our people are
noticing it on all sides and comment
ing upon it
The N. P. officials " have allowed
themselves to pose as good friends
of this section, city and county, but
in reality they have done nothing for,
and a whole lot, against Astoria since
they came into power here. There
has been plenty of talk, but no sub
stantial and favorable action what
ever; and the conclusion is justifiable,
and active, hereabout, that we are
getting the worst of it.
This may be politic on the part of
a new concern like this great road
but we fail to discern the sense or
efficacy of it as an initial program in
the scheme of making friends and
business. It is felt here, and the
company will hear of it in the future
if it shall desire certain things that
will be hard to get from a commun
ity with a long memory.
ALL IN KNOWING HOW.
The arrival of the wrecked steamer
Minnie E. Kelton, at the O. R. & N.
docks in this port, yesterday morning
at 11 o'clock, on the hawsers of the
bar tug Tatoosh, Captain William
Bailey, commanding, furnishes a les
son in practical salvage that may be
of benefit to many more or less in
terested in the business.
Just 24 hours before that docking,
she was an abandoned derelict on
the shore seas of Oregon, the open,
free guerdon of any man with skill
and interest enough to go after her
and save her. She has been wrecked
practically three distinct times; once,
and originally, on the Oregon coast
near Yaquina harbor, and twice in
this bay; the last time breaking away
from a carefully devised system of
preparation for hauling her inland for
dry-docking. She broke from this,
and was allowed to go her way, and
worked in the tides on the inside of
the Columbia bar from Sunday night
last to the afternoon of Tuesday when
Captain Bailey, with the Tatoosh,
secured her with lines and set about
towing her to port and safety, there
by, not only making a sheer gain of
whatsoever the courts shall allow, but
ridding an important channel of com
merce of one of the worst menaces
that could beset it.
It is, apparently, all in knowing
how to do these things. This is not
said in an invidious way, nor in un
friendly spirit, but, taking into con
sideration the immense amount of
work that has been done upon the
ship from the hour the steamer
Washington fastened on to her and
towed her into this port to the con
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summation of Captain Bailey's task
yesterday, it would seem that some
system of manipulation and preven
tative might have been employed
against the constant mischance that
has served her for the past 60 days.
PORTLAND'S ESCAPE.
All Astoria is glad that Portland
escaped the rigors and losses of a
desperate conflagration on Tuesday;
that her buildings and her fire-depart
ment combined to spare her the hor
rors of such a visitation as other
great centers in the country have
known. There was every promise of
such an outcome, from what eye
witnesses have said on returning to
Astoria; the high-winds and the
shack-food that abounded in the
threatened district; and the entire
incident goes to the very root of the
fire-problem, to-wit, the perpetual
menace of the worn-out, dried-out, in
flammable, hideous and repugnant
shack, and the retarding principle of
brick and stone and high blank walls
to bar and break the fury and range
of the flames.
Such incidents as this in Portland,
make our own position" painfully ap
parent to the thoughts that arise on
the heels of such a report. Astoria
has been wonderfully immune from
devastating fires; but it is well never
to permit such immunity to operate
to the point of convincing us that
nothing can happen of that sort. We
are prepared in so far as we are able
to prepare against such things, but
we would find it a mere bagatelle in
the face of such extraordinary condi
tions as do arise when least expected;
and the lesson at hand, is eternal
vigilance in the home, office and shop,
since it is to that quality, as well as
to an admirable fire system, we owe
the wonderful freedom we have en
joyed for years.
INDEPENDENTS.
The Hearst party has been launch
ed; the "Independent" party of
America, is abroad in the land, and
its particular destiny is to defeat
Hon. William J. Bryan for the presi
dency of the United States. To that
end, it has our deep and devoted good
will; it can ever do anything half so
good and grateful, and if it succeeds
it will not have lived in vain. .
Hisgen and Graves, who lead the
party ticket, figure but lightly in the
huge and wholesome perspective;
they are good men, without doubt,
and will do as well as any for the
purposes of organization and objec
tive. We care not who contributes
to the defeat of Bryan, so they do
not forsake the proud quest they have
chosen and later enlist under the
lure of the "silver tongue."
The war department's idea that it
must keep up with the times in aero
nautics is sound. To be prepared at
all points is the best assurance of
considerate treatment and peaceable
relations.
There is method in Mr. Bryan's po
litical' optimism, for he makes valua
ble use of his time between cam
paigns, but the enthusiasts who pre
dicted his election in 1896 and 1900,
and are still at it, are the most de
voted of mankind, with the smallest
return. ,
Last year, according to the report
of the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion, the employes on railroads num
bered 1,672,074. Mr. Bryan recom
mended this addition to the list of
COFFEE
There is a time for good
tea. and a time for good
coffee; there is no time for
poor ei! her. ,
Ynur urif'fr r'-tnrnu vrnr mrnrr II on dco I
government employes, but has since
executed another of his espert craw
fish movement,
London claims to have a new wrin
kle in the encouragement of excur.
sion trains for shoppers. It might
have dropped in on Astorian years
ago and found a multitude of visiting
buyers provided with cheap transpor
tation. '
Seattle declares that its .Alaska-Yukon-Pacilic
Exposition will be
ready on the opening day, June 1
next, and in full running order until
October IS. Among the outing points
for 19H9 Seattle will hold one of the
foremost places.
DON'T RUB AND SCRATCH
CURE THE SUMMER ITCHES
All Forms of Itch Caused by Warm
Weather and Perspiration Can
Can Quickly be Cured
Mosquito bites nettle rash prick-
'ly heat hives and all forms or itch
can be instantly relieved and quickly
'cured by a simple wash of oil of win-
uiivvii an vf i v i j'wi : ivgvtnwiv
compounds. If you are troubled with
prickly heat, hives, rash or any form
of itch common to hot weather, do
tnot rub and scratch, thereby increas
ing the itch and irritation, and many
times resulting in a poisonous sore.
lApply a few drops of this liquid and
instantly the itch is gone and you
feel sootheil, calmed and relieved.
Msquito bites, summer rashes, poison
ivy and the like will no longer
trouble; in fact the second and third
applications will begm to allay the
eruption. -
This liquid is known as D. D. D.
Prescription. It is the standard re
liable eczema remedy and we posi
tively vouch for its effectiveness in
ill summer rashes, mosquito bites,
poison ivy, etc. Charles Rogers &
Son's, druggists. .
Thackeray and tht Cabman.
Thackeray loved to relate Jokes on
himself, and one he especially enjoyed
was about a Reading hacknian. The
author was unacquainted with the
town. ! and the moment he emerged
from the railway station' he told a
hackney coachman to drive him to the
nearest hotel. The driver closed the
door ceremoniously, mounted his box.
and they started. In half a minute the
cab was at a standstill, and Thackeray
saw the cabmau at the door.' bowing
to him to come out. He did so without
a word and found that he was at the
portico of the station hotel, which be
had failed to see was not a dozen yards
off.
But he banded the man a shilling
and was entering the hotel, rather
pleased with his own sang frold. when
he was amazed to see the cabman tak
ing off bis coat and offering to "fight
him for the other sixpence." It ap
ears that on that day a resolution of
the Reading town council had come
Into operation empowering hackney
coachmen to charge IS ponce for any
distance within the township. This
was Its first fruits! It Is unnecessary
to add that the cabman got his money
and Thackeray a good story to tell at
the clubs.
Her Mean Amusement
"I love to make visits In the morn
ing." "Do you?"
"Yes. All the other women are busy
cleaning bouw. and It Is so funny to
see them try to act glad to see me."
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DOllO
HE BLARNEY STONE.
An Old Legend Tells How It
Found Its Way to Ireland.
THE MAGIC OF KISSING IT.
Origin of the Quaint BelUf That It Im
part to tho Lips That Touch It tho
Power to Uttor Hansytd, Coaxing and
Dolutlvo 8pch. ,
The blarney etoue takes its name
from the village of Blarney, In County
Cork, Ireland, near which stand tho
ruins of tho famous Blarney entitle,
dating back to tho fifteenth century,
and tho grove of Blarney, which en
Joy ac equally wide reputation. A riv
ulet flowing through them bear tho
same name. The nam Blarney it
from the Irish "blalrne," a little field,
the Gaelic form being "bltilr" or 'War."
a plain. The village It four miles north
west of Cork and baa a few hundred
Inhabitants. In the grovea of Blarney
stands the ruined castle, In one tower
of which ,1s the world famous atone,
the kissing of which Is reputed to
endow on with the gift of coaxing,
wheedling and flattering.
Tho true atone la declared to be one
In the castle wall, a few feet below
the summit of the tower. To reach
and oseulate it It ts necessary for one
to be held over tho parapet by the
heels. But so many persons traveling
In the Emerald Isle desire to report
that they have kissed the real blarney
stone that one la the top of the wall
Is held to be sufficiently near the real
thing for the fiction to be maintained
that It Is the true stone with all the
powers of the original. And even to
aged nr,d Infirm persona one near tho
ensile entrance Is declared to be the
original. On the true stone, near the
top of the tower, a half effaced In
scription reads, "Corniack McCarthy
Fortls Me Fieri Faclt A. D. 1446."
Of the blarney stone Father Prout,
the Irish poet, declared that It was the
palladium of liberty for Erin. lie de
scribes the stone and relates number
of legends regarding It one that It
was brought to the Island by the
Phoenicians, who are reputed to bare
colonized the region, and that It had
long been in the custody of the Cartha
ginians, who from it gained the reputation-
for Insincerity which Is trans
mitted In the phrase "Funic faith,"
and that before that it belonged to the
Syrians, who were credited with
speaking with double tongues after
kissing it According to the story,
some Carthaginian adventurers be
came enamored of the stone and ap
propriated It They sot sail for Minor
ca, but being overtaken by a storm,
were driven Into the harbor of Cork
and left the stone In that vicinity un
til It was made use of In the construc
tion of the donjon tower of Blarney
castle.
As to the origin of the belief In re
gard to the qualities secured by kiss
ing the Btoue, Crofton Croker says
that In 1002, when the Spaniards were
urging the Irish chieftains to harass
the English, the owner of tho castle,
Cormack McDermod McCarthy, who
then occupied It concluded an armis
tice with the lord president on condi
tion of surrendering It to an English
garrison. But he pnt him off from
day to day with specious statements,
fair promises and false pretexts until
the lord president became the laugh
ingstock of the ministers of Queen
Elizabeth, and the honeyed and delu
sive speeches of tho lord of the castle
became known as mere "blarney."
The word found Its way Into litera
ture In the last century. In the "Jour
nal" of Caroline Fox, which appeared
In 1835, there Is this use of the word:
"Mme. de Stael was regretting to Lord
Castlereagh that there was no word in
the English language which answered
to their 'sentiment' 'No.' be said,
'there Is no English word, but the
Irish have ono that corresponds exact
lyblarney.' " Samuel Lover wrote
"The blarney's so great a deceiver" In
one of his Irish novels. President
James Buchanan" wrote, "The general
has yet to learn that tny father's coun
trymen (I have ever felt proud of my
descent from an Irishman), though
they themselves do blarney others, nre
yet hard to be blarneyed themselves."
Washington Irving In. "The Traveler"
wrote, "So he blarneyed the landlord."
James Russell Lowell In "The Fable
For Critics" says:
The cast clothes of Europe your states
manship tries
And mumble again the old blarneys and
lies.
The name of the old time castle and
town has added a noun, a verb, an
adjective and a participle to the lan
guage. The most comprehensive defi
nition of the noun "blarney" Is "ex
ceedingly complimentary language;
flattery; smooth, wheedling talk; pleas
ing cajolery." As to the origin of the
word, one lexicographer quotes Grote
as crediting the derivation of It from
the phrase "licking the blarney
stone," "applied to Incredible stories
told of climbing to a stone very diffi
cult of access In a castle of that name
to the county of Cork, Ireland." But
he added that Dr. Jamlcson derives It
from the French "balwerne," ''a He;
frbalous talk," and defines It "gross
lattery; unmeaning or vexatious dis
course (Low)." But the word seems
to have outgrown this restricted mean
ing since the latter part of the eight
eenth century. Every Irishman south
of the LIffey Is popularly supposed to
have kissed the. blarney, stone, and It,
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There is only one way to cure It.
The perfect way it to cure the kid
leys. A bad back means tick kidneys.
Neglect it, urinary troubles follow.
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and being impressed with the good
reports concerning them, I procured
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Plenty more proof like this' from
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All nations are endeavoring to
check the ravages of consumption,
the "white plague" that ' claims so
man victims each year. Foley's
Honey and Tar cures coughs and
colds perfectly and you are in no
danger of consumption. Do not risk
your health by taking some unknown
preparation when Foley's Honey and
Tar is safe and certain in results, The
genuine is in a yellow package .
During the summer kidney irregu
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drinking or being overheated. Attend
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all doctor bills, but can save a good
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CONDENSED STATEMENT OF
Scandinavian - Ameri
can Savings Bank
July IS, 1908, as called by the Bank
Examiner:
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts,,,,. .$ 84.3S7.4S
Warrants , . 13,513.99
Overdrafts . . ............ , 31.65
Furniture and fixtures 4,405.41
Due from banks.. $8,787. 17
Cash on hand 9,611.52
18,398.69
, $120,707.19
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock 50,000.00
Deposits . . 68,169.42
Undivided profits 2,537.77
, $120,707.19
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My stock of men's and boy's
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expenses enable ine to sell the
best qualities at lowest prices.
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543 Bond Street
TRANSPORTATION.
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Way Landings.
Leaves Astoria daily eicept Sunday
at 7 p. m.
Leaves Portland DaDy eicept Sanday
at 7 a. m.
Qalrk Service Excellent Meal
Good Berths
Landing Astoria Plavel Wharf.
Landing Portland Foot Taylor Ik
J. J. DAY, Agent
Pbont Main 2701.
DAIRIES.
TheVermont Dairy
All milk aerated before bottling.
Specialty made of one cow's milk (or
Infants. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Phone 14 Farmers line.
W. J. INGALLS.
WINES AND LIQUORS.
Eagle Concert Hall
(320 Astor Street)
Rooms for rent by the day, week, or
month. Bes rates in town.
P. A. PETERSON, Prop.
MISCELLANEOUS.
HOT OR COLD
Golden West
Tea
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CLOSSET & IDEVERS
PORTLAND.'ORE.
Plate Racks, Wall Pockets,
Music Racks, Clock Shelves
Just in See us
Hildebrand & Gor
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