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SUNDAY, AUGUST 2 OCEAN RATES GO UP K1 Atlantic Steamship Lines An nounce Advance on Grain THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. Established 1873. Published Daily Except Monday by THE! 'j. S. BELLINGER CO. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mail, per year ....$7.00 By carrie, per month 60 WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in advance ' $1-50 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. BIG DEMAND FOR CEREALS Rise in Ocean Rates on Grain Went Into Effect Few Days Ago and is Likely to Hold Until Shipments From New York Fall Off. THECWEATHER Oregon and Washington Fair and warmer interior of the west portion. Idaho Fair. OREGON'S "34TH." The new Hood River county which has just been created by virtue of the untiring efforts of the people of Hood river, although the smallest county in the state, is one of the wealthiest Its assessed valuation for the year 1907 was $2,762,259, although its total area is but 500 square miles. Wasco county from which county the new county has been cut, contains three times the territory and less than half the assessed valuation of property. The population of the new county is 7500, 'while that of Wasco county will be nearer 12,000. The largest town in the new county is, of course, Hood River. Cascade Locks ranks second, Mount Hood, Dee, Upper Hood river valley, Wyeth and Viento. on the O. R. & N. are smaller towns. In Hood river valley it is estimtaed that there are still 40, 000 acres of fruit land uncultivated and enough standing timber to supply the big mill now in operation for 20 years. Moro Observer. friendly to labor. Mr. Taft is the friend of the labor er, a practical friend, and that is the only kind of friendship that counts in the final analysis. Ex. . NOTABLE WOMANHOOD. Among monumenti to woman in the country of their greatest intellec tual progress, that dedicated to Maria Mitchell of Nantucket, on the 15th, a combined astronomical observatory and library building, must ever pos sess a unique interest. It is a me morial to one who at a time when woman's cause was only in its cradle, had made het sex respected in every European university town, and in popular esteem for her brilliant at tainments, as an astronomer. It is now 60 years since the King of Den mar conferred a gold medal on Miss Mitchell for her discoveries of comets and a full half century since her tour of foreign observatories gave Europe a new conception of women's capacity in science. As professor of astronomy at Vassar she gave that colleage a wide distinction. She blazed the way for a new profession for women, one which they have fol lowed with aptitude, and in which they have shown an acknowledged proficiency. Ex. JIM HAM'S HIT. In point of humor, the hit of the convention speech making last Wed nesday was apparently made by the pink-whiskered Demosthenes of Chi cago, Col. J. Hamilton Lewis. What Bathhouse John is to the Cook county spouters facile princeps. Peals of laughter greeted such button-bursting scintillations of humor and jewels of epithet as "piebald man ikins" (the Chicago convention); the trust-teasing terror" (T. R.); the "delicate piccolo of Indiana (Beveridge), and so on. But a decent respect for humanity compels the assumption that the fol lowing hit at the Republican candi date for president fell comparatively flat: "The secretary of war was sudden ly called to the Islands. He went "despite the feeble begging of an aged mother, who lay on her bed gasping her life away." There was no need for Col. Lewis to season his buffoonery with that piece of arrant and indecent black guardism.. It might do for Cook county. It was too rancid for Wis consinMilwaukee Sentinel . f. LABOR'S TRIBUTE. The statement made by T. J. Do lan, president of the International Brotherhood of Steam Shovelers and Dredgemen, in formally presenting Mr. Taft with an honorary member ship in the organization of which he is the official head, affords a fair indi cation of the esteem in which Mr. Taft is held by laboring men who have served under him and with him. It was, in a way, the statement of a fellow worker, the statement of a man who had seen Mr. Taft's senti ments and sympathies put to a prac tical test, and that ought to count for a great deal more than theoretical professions. Speaking to Mr. Taft, Mr. Dolan said "we have always been treated by you in an eminently fair and just manner," and he added that "you have always shown your appreciation of our efforts in securing volunteers from, our organizations from all parts of the country, it being necessary to ask for volunteers because of the cli- matic conditions that exist on the isthmus." If Mr. Taft has treated the men m Panama in "an eminently fair and just manners," and these men think enough of him to make him an hon orary member of their organization as an evidence of their appreciation of the man and his efforts in their behalf, surely there is no reason why ,, laWincr man in this country, should be deluded into the belief that Mr. Taft harbors sentiments un- FOR THE CHILDREN. Apropos of Astoria's effort to fbund a park and playground for its young sters, the following, from the Seattle P. I., is of interest: "The formal opening of the city play-ground for children on Fif teenth avenue, between Yesler way and Jackson street, was an event of unusual interest to children in that section of the city, and at the same time afforded keen satisfaction to of ficials and citizens who are watching progress of this kind with keen and affectionate concern. "Playgrounds mean much in the modern city. They will mean a great deal more, and will become very much more necessary, in Seattle as the city grows. "Steady increase in population, and the erection of buildings in spaces now open, will in a few years produce a congested condition which will de mand the presence of such places as the Hill Tract municipal playground on Fifteenth avenue, and the officials are planning wisely when they pro vide these places aforetime. "Seattle should be amply provided with parks and playgrounds before the city enters upon a period of con gestion. For the child there is both pleasure and profit in these open spaces, for they make it possible for the child to escape confinement which is often too close to be good for the child's well-being, mentally, physical ly or morally. The city cannot have too many playgrounds." NEW YORK. July Aug. 1. The ocean freight rates from New York to the ports of continental Europe have been advanced by the steamship lines. To Antwerp the rate has been doubled and to a number of other ports it has been nearly doubled. This advance, coming at a tune when the steamship lines are protest ing to the railroads against what they term a discriminating freight rate that has diverted grain shipments front the northwest from New York to Mon treal, has caused comment among railroad men. The steamship men say. however, that the increase has nothing to do with the railroad ques tion and that the reason the cost of transporting corn, wheat and other cereals from New York to continen tal ports has been put up because large orders for grain have been plac ed recently in New York by Europe an agents, and that this has caused a shortage of freight space in the holds of grain carrying ocean steamships. The rise in ocean rates on grain went into effect a few days ago and is likely to hold until shipments from this port fall off. The lines on which the new and higher rate now prevails are the Hamburg-American running to Hamburg, the Red Star and Phoe nix lines, running between New York and Antwerp, the Holland-American line, running to Rotterdam and the Fabre line running to the Mediter ranean ports. The rate to Antwerp which prevailed until the recent ad vance, was 1 l-4d per bushel (sixty pounds) of grain. The new rate is 2 l-2d per bushel. The old rate on grain from this port to Rotterdam was 2 1-2 cents 'per bushel. The; new rate is 4 1- 2cents. To Hamburg, the old rate was 25 pfennigs per 100 pounds. The new rate is 35 pfennigs The old rate on grain to Mediterra nean ports was Is 9d per quarter (40 pounds). The new rate is 2s, 7d. TO CELEBRATE BIRTHDAY The shah of Persia has decided to remodal his parliament upon the Rus sian plan. It must be flattering to the czar's realm to know that at least once it has been imitated. Manaeers of amusement resorts would have given a fortune to have secured the loan, for a little while, of that alligator fight which took place at the Bronx Zoo the other day. Subscribe to the Morning Astorian, 60c pc: month by mail or carrier. Good cotlcc is partly in buying and partly in making; like everything else. Your grocer return roar mon? If yam deal Ills Schilling's Best; we him. , 100th Anniversary of Lincoln's Birth- day to Be Elaborately Observed SPRINGFIELD, 111., Aug. l.-Pre- parations are being made for the cele bration on an elaborate scale of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ab raham Lincoln, on Feb., 12, 1909. The exercises will be held in this city. The entire proceedings will be un der the general direction of the Lin coln Centennial Association, of which the following are the charter mem bers; Melville W. Fuller, Chief Jus tice of the United States; Senators Cullom and Hopkins of Illinois; Spea ker Joseph G. Cannon, Adlai F,. Ste venson, Gov, Deneefl, James A. Rose, Secretary of the State of Illinois; Mel ville E. Stone, New York; John W. Bunn, of Springfield; Horace White, New York; William Jayne, of Spring field. Invitations have been issued to the president, the members of his cabi net, and to the ambassadors, mini sters, and consuls of the foreign gov ernments. Among those who have been alrea dy agreed to be present if pos sible are Ambassadors Brycc and Jes surand William J. Bryan and William H. Taft. The program in Springfield will consist of formal ceremonies at the grave during the morning, a public meeting in the afternoon and a ban quet at night. Two features of the celebration have been practically agreed upon and the educational au thorities of each state will be asked to carry them into effect. These are that the same program which will be carried out in Illinois be also obser ved in every school house in the country, and that at a certain, hour of the day every school child in the land shall stand, and while facing in the di rection of Sprinfield repeat the brief speech that Lincoln uttered as he bade farewell to his friends and neighbors in Springfield the day he . left for Washington in 1861. Go where you will throughout the United States and you will find more people wearing Sclz shoes than any other make of shoes. There are two reasons for this: Selz shoes are made over copies of real feet. It isn't necessary to "break them in"--thcy feel eaty and com fortable the first time you wear them. Selz shoes are guaranteed to wear satisfactorily. You see Selz shoes contain no cheapening frauds. They are all leather. Often you think you are buying genuine, all. leather shoes when you are not. Shoes are cheapened in so many waas which can't be seen when a shoe is new. Selz shoes could not be guaranteed if they contained frauds like pasted inner soles instead of solid leather; cheap fibre or moulded leather counters instead of on piece sole leather; 'pancake'' heels made of scraps of lea ther pressed together instead of genuine leather heels. 1 The mark Sclz on the sole says plainly and positively to you: If this shoe fails to give you satisfaction: we will make them right. You will be surprised to" find Selz shoes cost no more than other shoes which bear no guarantee and where you have to trust to luck about wear. t FOR MEN $2.50 TO $5.00 Come in and see how easy and comfortable Selz shoes are. Welcome even if you come only to investigate, in tomorrow and just say "Selz " Come Luukinen & Harrison t Corner Ninth and Commercial Street yesterday to hold the meeting for the notification of E. W. Chafin, prohibi tion candidate for president on Tucs dav. Aucust 18. in Music Hall, tine arts building, Chicago. The not idea tion address will be delivered by Prof, C. Scanlon who is permanent chair man of the national prohibition co in vention. There may also be adddrcs ses by the members of the potilica tion committee. A public reception for the candidate will be held the same day in the par- Ors of the Auditorium hotel, The na tional prohibition executive commit tee will meet at the same place to consider plans for the campaign. "WETS" GETTING ACTIVE. CHICAGO, Aug. 1. It was decided SUNDAY AT THE CHURCHES . Norwegian-Danish M. E. Morning worship, 11 a, m, and 8 m.: Sunday school, 10 a. m. The choir will sing at. the evening service Scandinavians are cordially invited,. O. T. Field, pastor. ' First Lutheran. Sunday school, 9:30 a. m., Miss Es ther Larson, superintendent; morning service, 10:45; evening service, 8 p. m. Gustaf E. Rydquist, pastor. Rev. P. J. Cornell will preach in Swedish, both morning and evening. Memorial Lutheran (American) Sunday school, 10 a. m., Miss Alema Nyland, superintendent. Morn ing service, 10 a. m., theme for ser mon, "Brighter Scenes." All are cor dially invited. Rev. Rydquist will preach at Skamokawa Sunday even ing. Presbyterian. Morning worship, 11 a. Universal Awakening": THE GEM C. F. WISE. Prop. Choica Winea, Liquors Merchants Lunch Fr.m r 11:30 m. to 1:30 f. m. od Cigars . . a ft v not bunco ai au uoura. aj Cent Comer Eleventh and Commercial. ASTORIA, .... OREQOV school, 12:15; Y. P. S. C. 1?., 7:00; sermon, 8:00, theme, "The Message of evening worsnip, p. in., I lie Guide" All are invited. Wm. S. Gil bert, pastor. Holy Innocents Chapel. Seventh Sunday after Trinity. Morn ing service, 10 a. m.; no evening service. Christian Science. Services in I. O. O. F. building, corner Tenth and Commercial streets, rooms 5 and 6 at 10 a, m. Subject of the lesson sermon, "Love." All arc invited. Sunday school at 11 o'clock, Wednesday evening meeting 8 o'clock. Reading room same address, hours 2 to 5 o'clock daily, except Sunday. Amos." Everybody invited. L. Owen, pastor. Conrad Grace. Seventh Sunday after trinity. Morn ing service at 11 a. m., and evening at 4:00 p. m. M. E. At Hammond. Rev. William Snape, formerly of Cathlamet, will hold services in the M. E. Church at Hammond Sunday! at 3 0 clock. In the evening at 8 o'clock lie will hold services at War- reiiton. 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