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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1908. Established 1873. Published Daily Except Monday by THE J. S. DELLINGER CO. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. r By mail, per year ' ,...$7.00 By carrier, per month 60 WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in advance $150 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 publication. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. THEGWEATHER Oregon Fair, cooler, except near coast. Washington Fair, cooler east portion. Idaho Fair and cooler. ECONOMY: CITIES AND MEN. There is a widespread commercial and industrial lull sweeping over this country from East to West, and the fore-taste of it is upon this marge now. There is a notable abeyance in all kinds of development and business is flagging and sagging on account of it, everywhere. It is not essential that it shall go to a point of panic conditions; it is but the reaction of the presidential period, and will, we believe, pass with the ides of No vember because of the renewed con fidence that will spring from the elec tion of Mr. Taft. But all the same it behooves men to go slowly and draw upon their re serve source of patience; and cities, likewise and draw upon their reserve sources of patience; and cities, like wise. It is one of those periods that inspires care and deliberation in pub lic and private expenditure; when the resources of the country are care fully husbanded and people look ask ance upon unnecessary outlay of all kinds; not with a spirit of denial and deprecation of the things essential and desired, but upon the cautious basis of meeting exigencies and pla cating dubious conditions. It is not necessary to hypothecate the feature in any way; that will take care of it self; it always does; there comes the season of uplift and cheer and pros perity, on the heels of just such spells as this. We are up, and down, since there is no stable level to which we can cling and advance, un der the rule of human action of to day. It is simply a question of "cut ting our cloth" and making the best of a season we have every right, in the light of history and experience, to look for every four years. There is nothing abnormal about it. CHEAPENING OUR STANDARDS i Now that it has become necessary for the great hotels, rail and steam ship lines, of the country, and other concerns directly in touch with the American public, to brand their ar ticles of virtu an:j utility with the graven charge that this or that ar ticle has been "stolen from the " in order to shame and deter the s'ou-venir-hunter, it is time for us to look ourselves in the face and reckon with our consciences and our standards. This is a notorious fact. The cus tom is spreading everywhere and is serving its end admirably. But it does not sound normal, nor comfort ing. The fashionable faddist, or the unfashionable for the matte of that, has no call to steal the things that may be bought. Polite petty-larceny ies as inexcusable and as amenable to penalty as the grosser and coarser act of theft, and the man or woman guilty of it has, no claim to immunity that does not apply to the down right thief. The women are. pecul iarly to blame for the growth of the silly crime of stealing souvenirs; they have gone from bad to worse in the vain and profitless pursuit until, de spite their culture, style, place, and all the concessions admittedly theirs, they are making themselves and their country contemptible at home and abroad, and no better proof is needed than the inexorable rule now in vogue at all points of travel and re sort to bring them to their senses. THE GIRL PURSER. We seriously object to the girl purser on our steamship and steam boat lines. She is a dangerous inno vation. The "captain's table," that source of honor and interest toward which all astute travelers gravitate, will be outclassed and undone in the popularity of the "purser's table," which is not only a needless revul sion, but a gross infringement of ship's discipline and derogatory of our best traditions. And think of tTie peril of the young man traveling alone, and of the unchaperoned bene dict abroad on business?. Nit!. TAME POLITICS. So far there seems to be no partic ular snap in the national political game now afoot. Schedules and platitudes and formalities have the first call and there is no immediate promise of an old-fashioned, red-hot, vituperative and absorbing campaign. Even the issues that , have been set up to be knocked down are tame and unappealing, and it looks as if there was to be a woful lack of ginger this year, unless Brer tneouore snail manage to inject some snaps and snarls that will make things worth while, later on. This negative condition is due in a great measure to the thorough and ceaseless coaching the people have had of late years at the hands of the President and his official stalwarts. Their incumbency of the great posts at Washington has been characteriz ed bv the broadest of detailed candoY in all public matters; great and live questions have been put squarely be fore the masses for discussion, diges tion and disposal, that a few years ago were religiously withheld from wide and popular knowledge, let alone public action and determina tion; and we believe it the best pol icy ever followed. This is no pau perized, stupid, tradition-ridden, sub merged people, to be harnessed to the chariot wheels of the "bosses" of the land, and the development of pub lie interest and concern and kn'owl edge of national affairs, of late years has had a sharp tendency to minimize what of that curse we have known in the past and to set up blazoned bar riers against its further domination. We hope 'the campaign will unofld some principles for trenchant though and rational action by the whole peo pie in order that we may not get out of the habit of thinking for ourselves which as a living and moving doc trine that will serve us all with noarpr hnnestv and intensify the public sense of responsibility in all eovernmental matters of moment We have left government too much to the interested few in the past and ;t ; tJmo we were takine uo our birth-right in earnest and using it as it was devised and bequeathed by the fathers of the land. Over Thirty-Five Years. Tn 1872 there was a trreat deal of diarrhoea, dysentary and cholera in fantum Tt was at this time that Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera ana first brought into use. It proved more successiui . , , than anv other remedy or treatment, and has for thirty-five years main tained that record. From a small be ginning its sale and use has extended to every part ot tne uniiea oiaies ami tn manv fnreicn countries. Nine druggists out of ten will ' recommend it when their opinion is asKea, al though they have other medicines Uot ra,r them a o-reater nrofit. It it, a. K"J o . , can always be depended upon, even in the most severe ana dangerous cases. For sale by Frank Hart and leading druggists. Twenty-Five Cents is the Price of Peace. The terrible itching and smarting, incident to certain skin diseases. is almost instantly allayed by applying Chamberlain's Salve. Price, 25 cents. For sale by Frank Hart and leading druggists. Five i.'.:;;rccs oi excel lence; rood; better, fine; finer; finest: all Schilling's Best. Your trocar return! four money ii ou dou Uk It; we par blm PSYCHIC FORCES. TtMir ExtiUnc Provtd, Yet Scientists Ctfnnot Grasp Them. I have i'ou enough to tunko me be lieve lu Zolluer'a fourth dimension, but I don't. My uilud la so constructed that such wonders as we meet In seances produce very little effect on me. They are as normal .to me now as tho popping ot corn or the roasiinjj of potatoes. Uut as for belief-well, that Is not a matter of the will, but of evidence, and the evidence la not yet sufficient to bring me to any dellulte concjuston. In fact, lu the broad day and especially the second day after I have been through one of these ex periences I begin to doubt uiy senses, Iilchet sneaks of this curious recesNtoti of belief aud admits his owu Inability to retain tho conviction that at the mo ment of the phenomenon was complete. "No sooner Is the sitting over than my doubts come swarming buck upon me." he says. "The real world which sur rounds us, with Its prejudices, Its scheme of habitual opinions, holds us In so strong a grasp that wo can scarcely free ourselves completely. Certainty does not follow on demon stration, but ou habit" Maxwell says: "I believe In these phenomenn, but I see no need to at tribute them to any supernatural Inter vention. I am Inclined to think they are produced by some force within our selves." Just what be means by that I can't precisely explain. It's harder to understand than the spirit hypoth esis, lie goes on to say that, while be is certain that we are in the presence of an unknown force, he Is convinced that the pheuomena will ultimately be found orderly, like all other facts of nature. "Some future Newton will discover a more complete formula than ours." he prophesies. "Every natural fact should I? studied , and, if It be tea!, incorporated In the patrimony of knowledge." He then udds, with the true scientist's humble acknowledg ment of the Infinite reach of the undis covered universe, "Our knowledge la rery limited nud our experience young." -Hamlin Oatland In Everybody's Magazine. CUBE ROOT. Do You Know tho Method of Extract ing It Without PainJ Think of the Inestimable value of knowing how to extract cube root! Ah, there Is the priceless boon! Knowing that has saved us money many and many a time, to say nothing of the social blunders It has assisted us to avoid. Do I know yet bow It was done? Certainly. I know It just as well as If it were yesterday that I stud led It. You take the number whose cube root Is paining It so that nothing but extraction can relieve It, put It down on a piece of paper or on your slate and divide It off Into periods of three figures each. Write 4-11-44 to the left, multiply that by 300, divide it by something, then pour some red Ink on your handkerchief, tell teacher you have the nosebleed and go borne. That's the way I usually did it. No doubt it is done much the same way by the Ingenious youth, of the present generation. Is tbe?e a successful man living to day and holding up his head among other successful men who cannot pain lessly extract the cube root without giving the number an anaesthetic? If so, he should he ashamed of himself. He Is a freak,' and he attained distinc tion by n fluke. Some day the muck rakers will get to probing around, and when they discover that he can't ex tract the cube root of anything his career will be ended and his gray hairs will sink in sorrow to a dlniionored, Jlmson grown grave. The jails and asylums are filled with vacant faced and craven hearted wretches who never learned the way to remove a cube root, no matter if the number con taining it was threatened with blood poison. They don't know whether to run a horsehair loop down Its throat, as in the case of gapes, or whether to nse tweezers. Let us try to impress upon our chil drenby precept the Importance of Cube root extraction, but let us have business elsewhere In case they ask us to show them how. Strickland W. Glllilan in Chicago News. A Genuine Grouch. . A certain fanner noted for constant complaining was met by a friend one morning. "Fine weather, James," said the lat ter. "For them as ain't got to work," was the response "Tour farm looks In fine condition." "To them's as ain't got to dig In It." "Well, James, I'm glad your wife's better." "Them as don't have to live with her may be!" London Family Herald. The Rubicon. The Rubicon was the small stream separating ancient Italy from Cisalpine Gaul, the province which bad been allotted to Caesar, When Caesar cross ed this stream at the head of an armed force he passed beyond the limits of his own province and legally became an invader of Italy. Merely a Sample. "What is the matter, little boy?' asked the professor. "Have you the measles?" "Nope," answered the boy. "I've got the measle. Tbey's only one of em." "That's fclngular!" mused the pro fessor. Chicago Tribune. Sign of Precocity. First. Magazine Editor I believe my Three Days Only .$1.25 and $1.50 Books $1.18 Each Anne of Green Gables, Montgomery The Avenger, Oppenhcim. The Chaperon, Williamson The Stuff of a Man The City of Delight, Milltfr Mr. Crewe's Career, Churchill The Wayfarers, Cutting The Barrier. 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Llpplneott's Magazine, Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy Would Have Saved Him $100.00. "In 1902 I had a very severe attack of diarrhoea," says R. N. Farrar of Cat Island, La. "For several weeks I was unable to do anything. On March 18. 1907. I had a similar attack, and took Chamberlain's Cholic, Chol era and Diarrhoea Remedy which gave me prompt relief. I consider it one of the best, medicines of its kind in the world, and had I usecf it in 1902 believe it would have saved me a hundred dollar doctor's bill." Sold by Frank Hart and leading druggists. Boy's Life Saved. My little boy, four years old, had a severe attack of dysentery. We had two physicians; both of them gave him up. We then gave him Chamber lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea remedy which cured him and believe that saved his life. Willia'm H. Strol ling, Carboi. Hill, Ala. There is no doubt but this remedy saves the lives of many children each year. Give it with castor oil according to the plain, printed directions and a cure is cer tain. For sale by Frank Hart and leading druggists. Help for Those Who Have Stomach Trouble. After doctoring for about twelve years for a bad stomach trouble, and spending nearly five hundred dollars for medicine and doctors' fees, I pur chased my wife one box of Chamber lain's Stomach and fiver Tablets, which did her so much good that she continued to use them and they have done her more good than all of the medicine I bought before. SAMUEL BOYER, Folsom, Iowa. This medi cine is for sale by Frank Hart and leading druggists. Sample free. Subscribe to the Morning Astoria, 60c pc month by mail or carrier, j Cynthia in the Wilderness, H, Wales Mr. & Mrs. Villiers, Author Yoke Three Week, E. 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