THE MORNING ASTOIilAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 4
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Established 1873.
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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 Fair tonight, warmer
south and east portions. Tuesday
probably fair; westerly winds.
ALL IMPORTANT.
Among all the things needful in this
city and county the building of the
electric line to the seaboard towns is
the most important just at present.
Because of it there will ensue a line
of development in farming, garden
ing, dairying and fruit-raising that
will be as astonishing as it will be
profitable; aside from the new life
that will be injected here by those
who shall come to us and add their
numbers and patronage to hundreds
of collateral industries and busi
nesses. We believe it will be built,
and as quickly as possible; and the
sooner the better, if only to bring
about a reduction in the transporta
tion rates for freight and passengers
now prevailing. No city of Astoria's
size in the country pays such a scale
of fares and freights on an 18-mile
haul as is paid here at present, and
this is another reason why every aidj
should 'be given the venture at hand. I
It is not a question of men who own,
control or stand sponsor for the new
road, it is an issue solely of its build
ing and the relief that must come in
the way of time, cost, and development
debtedness, when a city has her
hands measurably full of that sort of
thing; and the time to do the think
ing and adjusting and limiting is
before we commit ourselves irrevo
cably.
What is to be done along these
lines must be done by degrees and at
such times as are most propitious.
"Look before you leap," and don't
leap at all if you cannot do it with
safety. Public enterprise costs money
and there is no sense in blanketing a
community already a bit uneasy
"under the sheets." -
This is said with all the loyalty that
can inspire any citizen and is not to
be taken as retroactive nor hide
bound nor in derogation of a single
mooted improvement in city or
county; but simply as a warning
against the undue launching of ex
traordinary projects that may involve
us beyond all limits of communal re
sponsibility. Do them; but do them
wisely, slowly and in such manner as
will permit us to pay for them, year
by year, as they progress. And before
we do any of them, re-establish the
grades of Astoria fairly, fully and
finally!. . '
FAIR PLAY IN BUSINESS.
There are those who think that a
newspaper is a public institution to
be used as a general convenience
and an alround boosting agency with
out reference as to who pays for the
service; that it simply MUST boom
and push and hurrah for things be
cause it is a newspaper. This is not
only folly, but a sheer injustice to
the people who have good money
sunk in the enterprise and maintain a
pay-roll as well as other business
houses about it. x
It is true that the newspaper with
public spirit behind it is sure to do
vastly more than it is ever paid for,
but it is just as true that the home
paper is entitled to the home patron
age of those whose ends it serves as
the leaders and promoters of local
celebrations .entertainments, recep
tions and other schemes of business
and enjoyment. It is also true that
every dollar spent for these things
outside the home town is a detriment
and denial of the home-spirit, and a
wrong to those who do business in
that line here.
Don't expect too much of the
newspaper that is ignored by you;
spend your money with it, and you
are not likely to want full measure
from it; it's a poor newspaper that
does not invariably exceed the de
mands made upon it in matters of
public exploitation, and it is a grave
blunder to overlook or neglect it.
'Fair play in home business and home
advertising and home celebration is
quie as essential as in any other line
of home effort, and in each and all the
newspapers is entitled to just, and
first, consideration always.
GO SLOW, GENTLEMEN!.
No one denies, for an instant, the
necessity and efficacy of the big
things that public-spirited Astoria is
striving for, and which she must have
in the natural course of her civic de
velopment; but "the piper must be
paid" in the end, and we are not im
mune from his insistant and unesca
pable demands.
The logic of natural, commercial
and industrial development hereabout
makes the seawall, the port of As
toria, the electric suburban lines, and
all the rest of the great expedients
absolutely indispensable; but there is
no logic that warrants . aj reckless
plunge into incalculable public in-
TOLSTOI'S LATEST.
The tremendous denunciation, hurl
ed at the House of Romanoff and its
satellites and systems and the myriad
atrocities attributable to them, by the
venerable apostle of human freedom,
Tolstoi, is one of the noblest pleas
against the last stand of tyranny and
civic murder that has been penned in
a century. It is the one passionate
outcry of a man grown old in the
awful fight for human rights against
the human lust of power, and is writ
ten as the very martyrs write when
they know their hour is near and seek
to hasten it.
To thi heedless world, at large, it
offers an accounting for all that is
detestable in the Russian character,
for its lines reveal the dreadful
courses that have warped a splendid
people to the dregs of moral and
spiritual life and made brute strength
and brutish vengeance the command
ing characteristics of a great nation.
The document is certain to create
a profound impression everywhere
and may start a revolution in the
land where, and for which, it was
written'. It may not be lightly an
swered if there is a conscience or a
heart left in high places at St. Peters
burg, and a wondering world awaits
the response that must come Tolstoi
toog care that its reading should be
made possible throughout the civilized
world at one and the same time, and
silence in the autocratic circles of
Russia will surely be construed as
full and unavoidable confession of its
dreadful truths.
What a New Jersey Editor Says
M. T. Lynch, editor of the Phil-
lipsburg, N. T., Daily Post, writes: "I
have used many kinds of medicines
for coughs and colds in my family
but never anything so good as
Foley's Honey and Tar. I cannot say
too much in praise of it." T. F. Lau
rin, Owl Drug Store.
Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup is sold
under a positive guarantee to cure
constipation, sick headache, stomach
troble, or any form of indigestion. If
it fails, the manufacturers refund
your money. What more can any one
do. T. F. Laurin, Owl Drug Store.
COFFEE
Why do we drink so
much poor coffee?
Because good coffee is
so good.
Your (rmccr return! your monr if 70a don't
Ui. StUIJiftrf' Tim; pay im,, ,
ATHING OFTHENIGHT
The Dark and Deadly Misston of
the Modern Torpedo.
ALMOST HUMAN IN ACTION.
It Starts Ittalf, Regulatea Itt Speed
and Dpth and Steers Ittalf to It
Unsuspecting Prey Diabolical In
Ita Ooggtd Determination.
Unseen and unheard, the torpedo Is a
thing of the night. The gun tin
uouncea Its presence with thunder nud
flame, but the torpedo steals silently
from the aide of an unseen craft, ami
only those who released Its deadly
energy know that the missile is on Its
way.
Look at It lying upou the deck, the
burnished body glittering ta the sun.
It Is hard to believe that an object
only sixteen feet long and weighing
1,200 pouuds contains sufficient locked
up force to sink a battleship of many
thousand tons displacement and cause
the loss of hundreds of lives and mil
lions of dollars.
And yet there Is a suggestion of tre
mendous force about the cigar shaped
body that looks so threateningly solid
and strong. Indeed, the torpedo at
once attracts and repels the "observer,
having much the snme effect as a
beautiful snnke.
Deadly as are Its powers, a child
could prepare the weapon for Its mur
derous task. Nowadays simplicity Is
synouymous with Implements of war,
and man's Ingenuity has made It as
easy to kill our fellow men as to shell
the proverbial peas. So everything
about the torpedo works automatically.
Uullke other marvels of machinery.
It Is not even necessary to press the
button. The torpedo presses the but
ton for Itself. From the moment It
enters the sea It Is freed from human
Interference. It sets itself in motion,
regulates its own depth below the sur
face and even steers itself with a cer
tainty that Is almost human.
You can see the steering as you
stand npon the deck by watching the
double line of bubbles which mark Its
course, bending first this way and then
that but soon steadying Into an un
swerving line straight to the distant
target.
There Is something diabolical in the
dogged determination with which this
mass of metal refuses to be diverted
from its goal.
The little rudders in the tail are nl
ways working, keeping the head point
ing on its path. One might well imag
ine that a diminutive man were secret
ed within those shining wails, so accu
rately is the uil&sile steered.
Strange as it may seem, this devilish
Ingenuity, for It is nothing else, owes
Its being to a child's toy. Think of the
incongruity! The most deadly weapon
the mind of man has ever conceived
owes its practical existence to a "mag
ic top." primarily designed to amuse
children.
But such Is the case, for here again
we find the wonderful gyroscope using
its well nigb human Intelligence for a
sinister purpose.
This terrible Ingenuity, however, has
one great udvantage, and that in a
peaceful direction. Practice can be
carried out effectively and without
danger. For this purpose' the "war
head" containing the charge Is replac
ed by a "dummy" filled with wood to
bring it up to the exact weight.
Three buoys are usually moored a
mile or so away as a target, and the
torpedo seems to spring from the ves
sel like a living thing, eager to reach
the center buoy.
Two rows of bubbles streak from the
ship In an ever lengthening line. The
center buoy heaves slightly as they
pass, and several hundred yards far
ther on the bdbbles suddenly cease as
a silver head protrudes for a moment
from the sea.
Then, with engines at rest, the shin
ing body heaves gently up and down,
consciously waiting, as It seems, for
the boat to tow it back to the ship.
More than this, lest it should be over
looked In a heavy sea the torpedo
breathes a spiral of smoke and flame
into the air to show the seekers its
whereabouts.
Harmless, as we see. In practice.
but think of its powers in war dead-1
ly certainty of action, human intelli
gence added to superhuman powers
working In secret! At any moment a
veritable "bolt from the blue" may
shatter a great battleship from stem
to stern.
Imagine the terrible uncertainty of
It all night following nlgbt of anxious
watching, long hours passed peering
Into the darkness to see if a black
craft Is lurking In the shadows! Every
speck dancing before tired eyes con
stitutes a menace to the weary brains
behind.
And then when fears are lulled, since
the danger never comes-and vigilance
is relaxed, a gentle heaving, the pre
lude to n deafening roar, and the split
ting of steel plates and the rushing of
water, a 'brilliant flare In the dark
ness, the cries of men on the verge of
death, and the work Is done.
Afterward slU'iice. while the mantle
of night closes round again, and under
Its welcome screen a tiny craft steams
In search of another prey, leaving be
hind only n few floating sparks to
mark the last resting place of a mighty
battleship and 800 human beings.
Imagine this, and you will know the
tremendous moral force locked a;;
within those burnished walls. Ex
change.
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DIARRHOE
That la no need of anyone suffer
Ing long with this diaeaae, for to
effect a quick cure it la only necea
try to take a few doaee of
Chamberlain's
Colic. Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy
In fttct, in moat caaea one dose la
sufficient It never fails and can be
relied upon in the moat severs and
dangerous casta. It is equally val
uable for children and la the mean
of saving the Uvea of many children
each year, .
In the world'a hlatory no medicine
has ever met with greater success.
PRICE 25c. LARGE SIZE 50o.
Men Past Sixty in Danger.
More than half of mankind over 60
years of age suffer from kidney and
bladder disorders, usually enlarge
ment of prostate glands. This is
both painful and dangerous, and
Foley's Kidney Cure should be taken
at the first sign of danger, as it cor
rects irregularities and has cured
many old men of this disease. Mr.
Rodney Burnett, Rockport, Mo.,
writes: "I suffered with enlarged
prostate gland and kidney trouble
for years and after taking two bottles
of Foley's Kidney Cure, I feel bet
ter than I have for twenty years, al
though I am now 91 years old." T. F.
Laurin, Owl Drug Store.
She Likes Good Things.
Mrs. Charles K. Smith, of West
Franklin, Maine, says: "I like good
things and have adopted Dr. King's
New Life Pills as our family laxative
medicine, because they are good and
do their work without making a fuss
about it." These painless purifiers
sold at Charles Rogers & Son's drug
store. 23c.
3ATU
Ml 1 WOMAN'S WORK
Hi
LYDIA E. PJNKHAM
Nature and a woman's work com
bined have produced the grandest
remedy for woman's ills that the
world has ever known.
In the jrood old-fashioned days of
our grandmothers they relied upon
the roots and herbs ol the Held to
cure disea.se and mitigate suffering.
The Indians on our Western
Plains to-day can produce roots and
herbs for every ailment, and cure
diseases that baffle the most skilled
physicians who have spent years in
the study of drugs.
From the roots and herbs of the
field Lydia E. Finkham more than
thirty years ago gave to the women
of the world a remedy for their pe
culiar ills, more potent and effica
cious than any combination of drugs,
Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable
Compound is now recognized as the
standard remedy for woman's ills.
Mrs. Bertha Muff, of 615 N.C. St.,
Louisiana,' Mo., writes :
" Complete restoration to health
means so much to me that for the sake
of other suffering women I am willing
to make my troubles public.
"For twelve years I had been suffer
ing with the worst forms of female ills.
During that time I had eleven different
physicians without help. No tongue
can tell what I suffered, and at times 1
could hardly walk. About two years
ago I wrote Mrs. Pinkham for advice.
I followed it, and can truly 6ay that
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Corn
pound and Mrs. I'inkhatn's advice re
stored health and strength. It is
worth mountains of gold to suffering
women."
What Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege
table Compound did for Mrs. Muff,
it will do for other Buffering women.
FINANCIAL
h Q. A. BOWLBY, President j FRANK FATTON, Cashier
O. I. PETERSON, Vice-President. ' J. W. GARNER, Assistant Cashief
Astoria Savings Bank
Capital Paid In $115,000. Surplus and Undivided ProBti, $100,000
Transacts a Ceneral Banking Business Interest Paid on Time Deposlli
FOUR PER CENT PER ANNUM.
Eleventh and DuaneSta. Aitorla. Orejen.
HWrl
I A jyj&l A DA
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3 CENTS
A Small Savings Bank
A Small Savings Account.
An Example in Thrilt.
A Small Fortune. A happy home,
THE BANKING SAVINGS AND LOAN ASS'C'N. f
1G8 10thSt. Phone Black 2184
First National Bank of Astoria
DIRECTORS
Jacob Kamm W. F. McGregor G. C. Flavfx
J. W. Ladd S. S. Gordon
Capital............... ., ...$100,000
Surplus.. 25,000
Stockholders' Liability...... 100,000
i:STAHLIH!l!:i) 181,
SCANDINAVIAN-A M E R I C A N
SAVINGS BANK
ASTORIA, OREGON
OUR MOTTO: "Safety Supercede! All Other Consideration."
Sherman Transler Co.
HENRY SHERMAN, Manager.
Hacks, Carriages Baggage Checked and Transferred Truck, and FuraJtare
ipped
Main Pfcoaa 121
wagons rianos Moved, Boxed and Shipped.
U Coram erclaj street
A SUMMEK DEM
Unfermented Grape Juice
absolutely non-alcoholic
Concord... 5oc quart
Catawba Coc quart
Welch's Grape Juice
Nips loc
AMERICAN IMPORTING CO.
589 Commercial Street
Fisher Brothers Company
SOLE AGENTI
Barbour and Finlayaon Salmon Twin, and Netting
McCormick Harvesting Machines
Oliver Chilled Ploughs
Malthoid Roofing
Sharpies Cream Separators ''
Raecolith Flooring Stoifett's Tools
Hardware, Groceries, Ship
Chandlery
Tan Bark, Blue Stone, Muriatic Acid, Welch Coal, Tar,
Ash Oars, Oak Lumber, Pipe and Fittings, Brass
Goods, Paints, Oils and Glass
Fisheicene Pure Manilla Rope, Cotton Twine and Seine Web
We Want Your Trade
FISHER BROS.
BOND STREET
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SCOW BAY BRASS &
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ASTORIA, OltEGON
W AND BRASS FOUNDERS LAND AND MARINl EKCIKEERS
Up-to-Date Sawmill Machinery.
18th and Franklin Ave.
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