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FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 3 THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, ASTORIA. OREGON. ftstorum. Established 1873. Published Daily Except Monday by THE J. S, DELLINGER CO. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mail, per year By carrier, per month ...$7.00 . .60 WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in advance. . 1. ..... . ..$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 bypostal .card ' or through telephone. Any irregularity in delivery should be immediately reported to the office of publication. i WARNED BY DESERTS What These Sandy Wastes Mean to Mother Earth. A DEATH GRIP ON THE WORLD They Indicate the Beginning of th End of Our Beautiful Planet, Which It Doomed to Roll Through Spaoo Parched and Lifeless Orb. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. ,THE3 WEATHER Oregon, Washington, and Idaho-Fair. ZEPPELIN. It begins to look as if Count Zep pelin is to figure among the great men of the century; as if he will mas ter the deep problems of aerial navi- inspiration that created that especial jurisdiction. It is uncscapable; and the sooner it is brought about, the less trouble and anxiety its officers will have in the future. FRUIT FRAUDS. Astoria lies at a tangent from all sources of supply, including the fruif orchards of the coast, and is helpless gation and put forward the practical 'against the impositions thrust upon thing that shall stand for the initial her by the wholesalers patronized ,by solution and demonstration of trans- her merchants. Through those mer portation of people and cargoes for chants alone, for the time being rnmm,rr;ai .,c any "lief to come. As a body they t . Vnr r. ,i. t. can a century, he has been a devoted stu- demand better grades of fruit, even if they cannot summon courage dent of the science, meeting failure after failure with calmness and reso lution, forging ahead slowly, yet surely, to the one aim and end; sub jecting his jurse and person to the inexorable demands of the situation,! with a bravery essentially fine and now, promisingly,- sure. The people of today have become i so intimate with marvels, o inured tc clianpp nnd the frtremp nf rhatir that they half fail to appreciate the werc au be"er. expednt t0 P" tremendous things that are being!haPs; b.ut fru,,t at th,Sas0n haS "J wrought abouV them, and take the tmpttons, ke,en and and wonderful access with a ate serenity approaching actual to charge any -higher prices for it. They owe something to the patrons who makes and maintain their busi nesses, and we have the right to bet 'ter treatment in this particular. Clatsop needs more fruit orchards iof her own to counteract the rank prescription now prevailing, and that 'takes time; we have only the mer chants to look to, and the' appeal should not be in vain. Fruit famine a: a t..m. i i uiucicncc. dui mis is nor. 10 De con- i , ..J ....1.... .11 sirucu as apamy; iney are very mucn : dispassion- . , , ... . 1H-r . - i. . tir i I not oi tne proper quauiy. wc mere ;fore invoke the friendlly concern of ! l . i. u a. ; c cfnfT ahve to the successes of the day and i . . . . .u- . c .,- . i to see to it that we get something appreciate them profoundly, but are . , , . . uu;. :.u i j ... beside the green or past-ripe goods so familiar with the long-drawn fail- . .. . . u ..,. u . I now handled; and if this cannot be ures and the consequent coaching!, ,, , , t. '. . . ... . , done, then we move for a communal they get in, the public prints, on the j ' ... '-, . Z. - s . . , strike against the retail purchase of art, or science, or industrial scheme, ... , . . . ..... t , . .. 'any fruit whatever, save that which that they grow neutral to everything 3 , ' , . . . . . . 4 . . ! may come to us fresh and wholesome save the culminating triumph. L 1 , , . ,ir .4 . . , 'i by any other agency whatever. VVe The world awaits the devebpmenti J .... u ' A a of this great science with eager andi , . . ... t. . . t i . . , , , (cheaper prices in a commodity that hopeful interest. It should revolu-:; v . t, , . . .lis richly profuse all over the Pacific travel and transport and relieve the strain and congestion with all their attendant rigors, of rates and discom fort, and develop new avenues of competition that should contribute to the abatement of the cost of living. Count Zeppelin ought to live to realize handsomely upon the splendid ardor and ingenuity he has given to the noble craft. JACKSON REID. The childish brain of Portland's in fant murderer is charged with a con ception of the real significance and horror of the deed he has done and his tudding life is wrought and warped to lines of misery and despair un bearable even by the hardier faculty of the adult. It is pitiably sad, but we doubt if the burden is much greater than that borne by those who mourn the dead man. The whole af fair is infinitely troublous to all con cerned, not excepting the officers of the law, because of the extraordinary elements injected by reason the ex treme youth of the slayer. The problem of properly disposing of the case with equal justice to all ets up exactions that must be met. all along the line of procedure , and calls for exceeding care on the part df the ad ministrators of the law, woo, inci dentally, must conserve the best in terests of society.. f The case at bar raises the issue of supplying the juvenile court with an adequate prison of its own. It is against all public policy to send this child to the penitentiary to be reared with the scum of barred humanity; we should see to it that the juvenile administration is equipped with some thing beside a court and code, a penal resort ,on a par with the provisions j surrounding the detection and treat- UlVlll Ul vl J1UU1CW3, tiiiu una by the earliest legislative action to be had. So far as the juvenile court work has been carried on at Portland, it is proven efficacious and admirable in many ways, and may be perfected by arranging for the adequate incarcera tion of the delinquent youngsters un der a regimen proportioned to the Coast. "Think," says an aeronaut,, "of transportation through the free, pure air; the realm of absolute liberty; no tricks, no franchises." Is this Ar cadian sure that the trust, the toll gate and the constable will be kept out of the atmospheric domain? An order for $100,000 worth of au tomobile gas engines, placed at I,o gansport, Ind., is to be cancelled in . . . .. if. case ot tsryan s election, n every thine that stands still awaiting the - - - o , result of November 3 could be reck oned uo the total would run into hundreds of millions. During the' last democratic admin istration the number of sheep in the United States fell off 10,000,000 and wool sold for 30 cents that now brings 60. A reversion to this state of affairs is what Mr. Bryan offers American farmers in return for their campaign contributions. Nantucket has just erected a me morial tablet to 24 of its citizens who fought with John Paul Jones on the Bon Homme Richard. As scarcely anything remained afloat at the end of that engagement the name of the ship is a sufficient inscription. Postage will soon be cheaper be tween' England ' and the United States than between v England and France, or any other part of Europe. The parcels post rate betwen the United States and England is less than the rate between any of our do mestic offices, and this doesn't look so good. Morning Astorian, 60 per month. COFFEE The dealing is simple. If you don't like Schil ling's Best, it costs you nothing. Your grocer return! jour moaej U jou iaa I wutti we pa? b.m Deserts already exist on Ilia earth, and the nameless horror that attaches to the word in thq thoughts of nil who have had experience of .ttiem or are gifted with Imagination tooucelve Is in truth greater than we commonly suppose, for the cosmic clrainiNtnnce about them which la most terrible Is not that deserts are. but that deserts have begun to be. Not ni local ev (ta ble evils are they only to be pictured, but as the gcueral. Inescapable iteiitU grip on our world, for It Is the bogtu- ntug of the end. What depauperates the forests to grass lands and tueuce to wastes must in turn attack the tea bot torus when they shall have parted wltb their seas. Last of the fertile sdoU upon tho planet because of the salts the streams have for ages washed down and of the remnant of moisture that would still drain Into them, eventually they must share the fortune of their predecessors and the planet roll a parched orb through space. The picture Is forbid ding, but the fact seems one to wulcb. we are constructively pledged and Into which we are In some sort already adventured. Girdling the earth with what It takes but little personification to liken to the life extinguishing serpent's colls run two desert belts of country. The one follows, roughly speaking, the tropic of Cn mer, extending northward from It; the other, the tropic of Capricorn. Ari zona Is In the northern band, as are the Sahara. Arabia and the deserts of cen tral Asia. Now, these desert belts are growing. In the great desert of northern Arizona the traveler, threading his way across a sagebrush and cacti plain shut In by abrupt sided shelves of land rising here and there some hundreds of feet high er, suddenly comes upon a petrified for est Trunks of trees In all stages of frac ture strew the ground over a space some miles in extent. So perfect are their forms he Is almost minded to think tbe usual wasteful woodebopper has been by and left tbe scattered products of his art In llttcwd confu sion upon the scene of bis exploit Only their beautiful color conveys a sense of strangeness to tbe ere, and. leaning down and touching them, he 1 finds that they are stone; chalcedony, not carbon! Form has outlived sub stance and kept tbe resemblance, while the particles of the original matter have all been spirited away. Yet so perfect Is the presentment one can hardly believe the fact, and where one fallen giant spans a little canyon one almost thinks to bear tbe sound of wa ter rushing down the creek. But it Is some millions of years and more since this catastrophe befell, and the torrent uprooting It. left It prone, with limbs outstretched In futile grasp upon the other side. A conifer It was. cousin only to such as grow today, and nourished probably In tbe cretaceous era, for the land has not been under water here since the advent of tertiary times. Nowhere near it. except for tbe rare cotton woods along tbe bank of the Lit tle Colorado, grows anything today. The land which once supported these forests is Incompetent to do so now. Yet nothing has changed there since except the decreasing water sup ply. During tertiary and quaternary time the rainfall has been growing less and less. Proof of this Is offered by the great pine oasis that caps the pla teau of which these petrified forests form a part and is kerneled by tbe San Francisco peaks. The height above sea level of the spot where the chal cedony trunks are strewn Is about 4,600 feet. The lower present limit of tbe pine in Its full development is 6,500 feet Two thousand feet upward the verdure Hue has retreated since tbe former forests were. And this Is no local alteration, for upon tbe other side of the plateau petrified remains of trees are similarly found. The line of perpetual green has risen because In desert regions the moisture is found most plentiful nearest to tbe clouds from which it falls upon a parching earth. Streams, Instead of gathering volume as they go, are lar gest near their source and grow less and less with each fresh mile of flow. The brooks descending from the AnU Lebanon, In Syria, water the gardens of Damascus and, thence Issuing upon tbe plain, lose themselves just beyond the threshold of its gates. So In tbe Arizona desert, though In a less de gree, and those who live there know It but too well.- From Perelval Lowell'8 "Mars and the Future of the Earth" MJMffll m A few doses of this remedy will in variably cure an ordinary attack of diarrhcea. It csn always be depended tpon, even in the more severe attacks of cramp colic and cholera morbus. It Is equally successful for summer dlnrrhrea au cholera infantum in children, and is the means of saving the lives of many children each year. When reduced with water and sweetened it is pleasant to take. Every man of a family should keen this remedy in his home. Bny it now, iTUCE, K3C. JUAR0BS1ZK, 000. FINANCIAL J. 0. A BOWLBY, President. O. I. PETERSON, Vice-President. FRANK PATTON, Cashier J, W. GARNER Assistant CaihUt Astoria ayins Bank Capital Paid In $11S,000. Surplus and Undivided I Fronts, I1M.0M Transacts a General Banking Business- Interest rd on Tims Deposits FOUR PER CENT PER ANNUM. Eleventh and DuansStt, Astoria, Or.gea. i illBlMSfHfflrTrTMiaiiMllili II IN ONE OR MANY COLORS LARGEST FACILITIES IN THE WEST FOR THE PRODUCTION OF HIGH GRADE WORK Itrtl At 10 At UtTlH RBBttS 1 A CHEMICAL FURY. In Century. Breaking Wirs. Anybody who has tried to break a piece of wire without the aid of r. pair of pinchers will probably agree that the operation is both a difficult and pain ful one. There Is a method, however. by which It may be easily accomplish ed. By bending the wire Into a loop and pulling both ends as tight as pos sible an Injury will be caused to the wire, which on being straightened will Immediately break. By this means wire up to No. 12 gauge may be suc cessfully dealt with. 1 Fluorine Is a Rabid Qas That Nothing Can Resist. The fury of tbe chemical world is the element fluorine, although, strange ly enough, It exists peacefully in com pany with calcium in fluorspar and also In a few other compounds. Although this element was known and named a good while ago, it long resisted tbe efforts of chemists to Iso late it-that is, prepare it in a pure state, unmixed chemically with other substances for tbe Instant the com pound containing ft was torn apart the free fluorine attacked and combined wltb whatever substance composed the vessel containing It. It was finally Isolated by tbe great French chemist Molssan. Fluorine is a rabid gas that nothing can resist It combines with all met als, explosively with some, or If they are already combined with some other nonruetnlllc element it mercilessly tears them away from It and takos them to itself. In uniting with sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium and aluminium tbe metals become heated, even to red ness, by tbe fervor of Its embrace. Iron fillings slightly warm burst into brilliant scintillations when exposed to It Manganese does the same. Even the noble metals, which at melting heat proudly resist the fascinations of oxygen, succumb to this chemical siren at moderate temperatures. Glass is devoured at once and water censes to lie water by contact with this is, which, combined with its hydro gen, at the same moment forms the acrid, glass dissolving hydrofluoric acid and liberates ozone. Even hydrofluoric add eats into and destroys every known substance ex cept platinum and lead. Exchange. LITTLE OVER 3 CENTS A DAY ;! : A Small Savings Batik. A Small Sayings Accouiit. An Example in Thrilt. , A Small Fortune. A happy home. THE BANKING SAVINGS AND LOAN ASS'C'N. 108 10th St. Ione Black 2184 First National Bank of Astoria DIRECTORS Jacob Kamm W. F. McGregor 1 G. C. Flavel J. W. Ladd S. vS. Gordon Capital 91OO.O0O Surplus :. 25,000 Stockholders' Liability 100,000 t:.STAItMKII:i ItHMI, m l ..-L ,1 .uu JJ..J.UJ i.ma SCANDINAVI AN-A M E R I C A N SAVINGS BANK ASTORIA, OREGON OUR MOTTO: "Safety Supercedes All Other Consideration." Sherman Transler Co. HENRY SHERMAN, Manager. Hacka, Carriages Baggage Checked and Traniferred-Tracks aad Furaitare Wagons Pianos Moved, Boaed and Shipped. 433 Commercial Street . . Mini Faoae 121 AH8UMMER MM Glaciers. It has been demonstrated that the glacier does not move in one block, but flows, accommodating itself to the channel in which it moves. Professor Tyndall planted a row of sticks in a straight lino across a glacier, and after a few dajs the line had become a crescent, with the concavity upward, showing that the middle of the glacier moved faster than the sides, Just as In a river the stream Is stronger in tbe center. Her Mild Ambition. , , "Tou expect your boy to become a good man?" The mother's face fell. 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