THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5
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THEr:WEATHER
Oregon, Washington and Idaho
Fair tonight and Wednesday; north
westerly winds.
BOUND TO GET SERVICE.
The Astoria Common Council has
granted an open franchise to the
Northwestern Long Distance Tele
ohone Company, under the terms of
which a complete and new service to
be installed in this city within seven
months (which, under permissable
leeway and lapses will probably run
to ten months); and the Pacific
States Telephone Company is mov
ing "heaven and earth" to renew and
advance its plant to a point of mod
ernity; so, that by the first of Jan
uary next, we are likely to have all
kinds of tip-to-date service, along
with the rather comical, and certainly
annoying, mix-up, enjoyed by those i
cities and towns in which the dual
systems flourishe (?).
But, with all the discordance in
prospect, we are sure of good serv
ice; something we have yearned for
many a dreary day, and we may
meet the incongruities of the "double
lines with the patience always given
to new and strange troubles, finding
comfort in the ease and despatch of
communication when you know which
line to use. Thus, from a dearth of
service, we are about to have a sur
feit of it, with the enhanced costs.
Alright, we'll make the best of it and
thank the powers that be for a shift
in the nature of our troubles.
the law, as such, is framed to deal
exact justice to all, the frequency of
the rich man's plea, has had a tend
ency to warp the administration of
NEW YORK LETTER
XEW YORK, July, 4.-With the
prospect of king the first printed pa
ges to penetrate the .uppermost polar
region, two sets of American books
are to-day sailing the northern seas,
snugly set up in the hold of Lieut.
Peary's stout ship "Roosevelt." Re
ports that these two of their $3,000
floating libraries were going into
brisk circulation among the arctic ex
plorers when the party finally cast off
for the pole have reached the head
quarters of the American Seamen's
Friend Society in this city to-day.
That some of this nation's literary
marks may eventually be planted be
side the flag at the "farthest north"
is the object of the determined crew
who are to enjoy their solace in the
bitter solitude of the next two years,
Months before the "Roosevelt" wa
finally commissioned for its latest
dash toward the pole, the preparation
of these libraries, which were to oe
cupy the minds of the men through
th Inw a trifle ftnf rtf ntnmh ac if
... - ,... .... , the long polar night, was carefully be
fS OUR HIGHWAYS.
Our suhurban friends are complain
ine bitterly against the ardent, pro
vocative and perennial thistle, of all
varieties; and our urban fellows are
equally protestant about the ubiquit
ous wood-pile that affronts them at
everv turn in the citv's streets. The
wood-pile's destiny is easily fore
fasted; it will go to the cellar, thence
to the stove, thence to the circum
ambient air, in due and reasonably
short time. But, the thistle is an
other and graver proposition. We
'shall mourn our present neglect all in
good time and cherish it alone, with
no one but our fool-selves to blame;
Which in the case of the wood-pile, is
not so, for we have the delinquent
citizen who is directly responsible
for that, if anything goes wrong, by
name, street and number and com
mon repute, and may make it inter
esting for him if the occasion de
mands; but the thistle is nature's own
gift, and the tiny seed comes and goes
on the summer winds, unseen, un
sought, unminded until the threaten
ing plant is above ground with all
its suggestive destructiveness in
plain sight and as plainly inviting de
struction itself, the which we ignore
in the rush of larger (?) affairs, from
season to season, until it masters our
land and us and puts us squarely on
the defensive in more ways than one.
These are but two of the endless
list of troubles, public and private,
that afflict us; and the thistle really
deserves more attention than we give
it; but all in good time we will be
come alive to its menace and go
about our campaign of obliteration in
earnest. Our momentary neglect
simly increases the scope of that
task, and this is the way of the world
with all its serious engagements.
capped with its extraenous and spec
ious bearings.
Hon. William H. Taft, republican
nominee for President of the country,
is a lawyer and a good one; he has
seen enough service at the bar and on
the bench, to apprise him of this in
congruity; and being man clear
through, he now finds himself in a
position, to enter a plea for the proper
balancing of the codes, and he in
tends to prefer it at the meeting of
the Virginia bar association, of which j
he is to be an honored guest.
We are anxious to hear from this
presentment. He is making it as a
high-minded lawyer, rather than as a
candidate for political preferment and
he will argue it profoundly and sound
ly, since his auditors will be of a class
to stand for nothing short of this.
He will champion the poor man and
his known disadvantages at the bar
of the land, and suggest specific
remedies, and at the same time pro
claim and prove himself the friend of
the "under dog."
It is a great task, one surrounded
with danger, and alive wih opportun
ities for misconception and biased
conclusions; the occasion will be one
to try the amour propre of the pro
fession as it stands in Virginia, since
those to whom he shall talk will be
of opposing political strain, and every
man of them will have to keep the
noblest tenets of his noble profession
before him constantly and finally in
order not to transgress the ethics of
the situation. But they will do it,
alright, because they are well trained
lawyers to whom pleas for simple
justice are as bread and meat and the
crux of all they are committed to.
The event cannot fail to have a wide
influence upon the country for the
simple reason that the huge majority
of our people are "poor" in the res
tive application of the term and are
directly in interest in the matter as
he shall offer it.
Nothing helps the industrial situa
tion so much as the certainty of re
publican success in November.'
Bryan's name was hissed at the
Hearst convention, but there was no
attempt to break the hour-and-a-half
record.
MAN'S DAY IN COURT.
There are few of us, indeed, who,
in the course of life, do not "have our
day in court." Some people, practi
cally, live in court, and move and
have their being under the aegis of
the law, while others are content,
gratefully content, to figure there
but once in all their careers. The
rich man being a person of larger
affairs and wider connection in com
merce and business, is there far oft
ener than the poor man; and while
If the democratic party ever fuses
with Mr. Hearst again it will have to
forgive and forget a large assortment
of epithets.
Mr. Hearst appears to be hostile,
but Mr. Bryan can fall back on the
fact that the democrats recently car
ried Walla Walla.
Mr. Hearst refers to the Bryan
party as Falstaffian. Those men in
buckram vanish at a wonderful rate
in the November count.
Mr. Bryan talks of looking to the
Middle West for a majority, but in
choosing a national chairman he
turned to the state of New York.
A season of drought is reported in
Nebraska. In view of this condition
Col. ,Bryan is anxious to be notified,
in order that he may embark upon an
other tour of the water tanks.
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COFFEE
Schilling's Best is a business-like
name; you know
what it means; and it
means what you want.
Ili: K, t.t;
gun. From a list of the 618,400 vol
umes which they have placed before
4-12,230 sailors on every sea in the
last fifty years, the officers of the
American Seamen's Friend Society
chose two sets best calculated to sup
ply the hungry brains of the isolated
explorers. Those books of travel, ad
venture, history, religion, fiction and
biography which have come back
most thumbed from almost a hundred
thousand fo' castles were finally se
lected. In two of the society's ship
shape book chests the collections were
arranged and sent to be set up in the
mess room of the Peary ship at Shoot
er's Island, where it was being final
ly outfitted. A dictionary, bible, at
las and Pilgrim's Progress were in
cluded with the fiction favorites of
the seamen.
It is the more sober works that
stand the mei in best stead in the
long test' of the arctic night, Lieut.
Peary declared before leaving this
city to join his ship. In his last "Far
thest North" expedition the explorer
found one of these American Sea
men's Friend Society libraries a stea
dy resource for his men, marooned in
the ice packs. The books which ser
ved through that long night siege
from October 12th to March 6th are
to-day lying in their weather-beaten
case at the headquarters of the so
ciety. The lighter fiction is much
more free from the tell-tale dogears
which mark heavily the more serious
volumes that were thumbed over and
over in the frigid solitude.
If Peary succeeds in planting these
treasured volumes beside the Ameri
can flag at the pole, the twenty-six
thousand libraries which the Ameri
can Seamen's Friend Society has kept
afloat for half a century will have pen
etrated every region on the globe
known to the seafarer. From almost
every state in this country applica
tions to set one of these book chests
on its constant course have now been
received. F.ach library is registered
and regularly reported in its wander
ings to any one who may pay twenty
dollars to launch and keep it afloat.
To President Roosevelt, who as a boy
of ten presented one of these libra
ries for the society, the sight of the
two book-chests on Peary's ship was
as familiar as it has now become to
hundreds of thousand of sailors the
world over.
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SOLDIERS WORK HARD.
National Guardsmen Find It Isn't All
Play.
TACOMA, Aug. 4. An inkling of
the hard work to be done at Camp
McKinley, American Lake, came yes
terday with the tirst drill, tvery unit
worked faithfully. Company and bat
talion drills were the order for the in
fantry and cavalry, and formations by
batteries in attack for the artillery.
The first really big event of the en
campment comes Thursday when the
first, third and sixth battalions of the
Second Infantry, the Fourteenth cav
alry, fourth field artillery company B.
engineers company and hospital corps
and company E. 'enginers will deploy
in brigade against an enemy outlined
by patrols. Colonel T. C. Woodbury
of the Third Infantry will be in command.
The first day's work of the Wash
ington National guard has been a
complete surprise. Despite the fact
that none of the companies have
had battalion drill" since the camp of
instruction two years .ago, and but
very little of it then, their apparatus
and conduct on the field this morning
shows that they have been making a
close study of the battalion drill regu
lations and understand them thor
oughly. The Oregon guard arrived yester
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J. Q. A. BOWLBY, President
O. I. PETERSON, Vice-President
FRANK PATTON, Cashier
J. W. GARNER, Anlatant Caihla
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