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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1908)
, THE MORNING' ASTOB IAN, ASTORIA. OREGON. SATURDAY,---' AUGUST 3 t if 5. Established 1873. Published Daiiy Except Monday by SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mail, per year By carrie-, per month .. WEEKLY By mail, per year, in advance. . . 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 ,the:weather Oregon, Washington, and Idaho Fair. GOOD SERVICE COMING. However the telephone situation eventuates, under the present ar rangements, Astoria is certain to get excellent service, or services, in the near future, and there is lots of com fort available in the thought. What may arise by way of confusion in a uouoic service win uc, jjiuiiuiii, uui own fault in providing for two equip ments, and if our businesses are live ly enough to warrant the mainten ance of two 'phones so much the bet ter. At all events we are to have instant and convenient utilities in this line and that is a great deal, when what we have had is measured against what is to come. The development of the telephone issue, in this city, is an object lesson to the people in warding the inconsid erateness of public franchise-holders and forcing them to yield all that is paid for by the general public. Con certed and popular action, based up on righteous reasons, will bring any "corporation to terms instanter and remedy evils too long borne by the public. It is poor policy, this stupid patience that palliates, and waits and refuses to act; it not only gives color and substance to the defects and dere lictions of the public service com panies, bvt yields tacit license to them and fosters them as accepted and proper courses. When the public utilities are diminished or hap-hazard-ly served and this is known and proven by men of substance, then is the time to act and act unitedly and never fall back for an instant until the whole thing is straightened out. ; 'Astoria has reason to congratulate1 herself on the course she has pursued and the abundant re'sponse that is to be made. The victory was hers at any time in the past three or four years, had she gone after it. WATER ROUTES AND RATES. The report of the Interstate Com merce Commission, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908, shows that the railways increased their passenger revenue $54,573,760, over the preced ing fiscal year; their revenue from the mails, $3,007,511; their revenue from express companies $6,332,001; their net earnings from other sources $51,701,868, and with their net earn ings per mile of road operated rising from $3189, in 1905, to $3348 in 1907, and to $3686 during the fiscal year e'nding June 30, 1908, and, finally when it is considered that the official figures show an allotment of $449, 461,188 as available for surplus, the plea of President Ripley that "freight rates must go up because the rail ways need the money" becomes a plea bordering on the ridiculous, and so does the threat of Vice-President! Brown. It is beyond the plane of the ridicu lous; it is a phase of arrogance at once unmatched in commercial his tory and stinging insolence to he intelligence of the country. To thej man who will think it out it is a, moving cause for abandoning every j friendly concern he ever had for the railroads, and a solid predicate for( lending his personal influence to everything that shall reduce .their j dominance and circumscribe their outrageous greed. He is a fool who undervalues the railway as a commercial factor or who thinks they could be dispensed j with, or supplanted by any system of j transportation whatever, for they have done more to carry, and compel, j the range and power of civilization) than any practical agency in the', world. But even so great a prestige does not provide them with the al mighty faculties they are assuming in this land. They are making the blun der of history, themselves. They have THE J. S. DELLINGER CO. $7.00 .60 ASTORIAN. . $1-50 MAIN 661. simply cut out all idea of responsi bility to the people and have set up a cod- of -dicer aggression that balks and b-.ulgcrs at every demand made upon them, until they have lost the interest and respect of the power ti nt gave them life and prolongs i, It would seem that the people 'should he deeply 'iifii.lcci to these :'.' ti .vet U..-' :r apparently, utterly ttul'tferent, individually; and eiusc to signify any concern unless it is invoked politically and forced upon them by their Legislatures by way of measures drawn to abate the abuses of which they are practically uncon scious. There is an absurd tinge to the whole business, which we hope, will be wrought into something far more substantial before many years have passed. The keynote of change and final adjustment lies in the popular adop tion of the waterway, and the relief that dwells in the water-rate. Every rivr, lake and sea within touch of the country's traffic should be utilized to its last facility, in checl.ing ard minimizing the unparralleled rapa city of the roads. There is not better point in all America for such a demonstration a exists tight here at. Astoria, with a magnificent river at her doors and the wide free sea inviting the attempt. So far as we are concerned we shall hail the day with infinite satisfaction when every pound and ton of stuff, in and out of here, shall be shipped and landed to, and from, from the deck of a ship or steamer. By the time such a day dawns, the railroads will have learned something of what is due the people, their patrons and their best friends. HOLDING HER OWN. It does us good when a man like Marshal Kinney, of Portland, comes down here and tells us we are holding our own cleverly and are in as good shape as any city in the upper coun try (or better). It is cheering and comforting and adds tang and tone to the spirit of the hour. We are .quite conscious of the precision of his de ductions, because they are apparent to others beside Mr. Kinney; we are not mindful of the facts ourselves and the same word is left us by other good friends from abroad. There is a cheer here, an absence of all sloth, inertia; everybody on the streets looks to have a purpose in life and not too much time to carry it out; we have no beggars, mighty few loafers, and the Northwest minimum of dependent poor; our mills are all running, and the biggest , of them day and night 'the only mill in the coast country running double shifts); we are in the midst of the best fishing season we have had for years; and while there might he a few more tourists in the coast and mountain regions, we have enough of them to emphasize our in comparable summer and compensate those who are entertaining them. Astoria's alright!. Ten Years In Bed. . "For ten years I was confined to my bed with disease of my kidneys," writes R. A. Gray, J. P. of Oakville, Ind. "It was so severe that I could not move part of the time. I con sulted the very best medical skill available, but could get no relief un til Foley's Kidney Cure was recom mended to me. "It has been a God send to me." T. F. Laurin, Owl Drug Store. COFFEE Good grocers like Schil ling's Best, for it makes good-will and not trouble ; in case of complaint, the money is ready. Yew rretr retort ynr atMtr If yt ion't wttivtnr kt. ' E A Rather Easy Matter, the Musi cian Seemed to Think. SUCH A SIMPLE INSTRUMENT But Somehow or Anothtr tho ex planation Only Muddltd the Man Who Wanted to Ltarn and Who Dt eldtd to Tacklo an Aeoordion. The band was plnylug loudly In the Trlukfestbiergarten and the little bald headed man had his eyes fastened Inter estedly ou the trombone player. When the players stopped to recuperate he beckoned the man. who works the loos horn over to his table and ordered two glasses of schoenesbraue. "My name is Itittsrs. said the man whose hair was absent. "One of my lungs Is trying to quit work, and the doctor advises me to break up Its shift less habits by blowing a brass. The careless way you yank that pump horn looks good, and I want you to put me on." "What do you want to knowT asked the musician. "Just a hint about how you handle that wind machine so nonchalantly." "The trombone Is very simple." re piled the tnuslker, wiping' his Hps, which curled In thick, Ted volutese. "The slide is divided Into seven shifts, or positions, about three Inches apart. "Starting with the lowest note In the first position the slide closed you got B flat Push out the tube's and you bit successively A. A flut O. F sharp. F and E." "That's only seven notes." objected Biggs- "Yes. Getting the rest depends on how yon pucker your lips. In the first position you can make, figuring up ward. H flat. F. It Oat, D, F, B flat and C. in the second you obtain A, E. A. C sharp. E. O and A. The third giver, you A flat. E Cat. A flat. C, E flat ami A flat. It works out the same all the way down. "There are higher notes that I didn't mention, but you won't want to mon key with them. But a good player has a compass of more than three octaves." Biggs looked troubled. "Let me see," he said. "You start In the first position with B flat" "Yes." replied the. other-"that Is. provided you are playing In the bass clef. In the treble clef the first posi tion is C." "What."' exclaimed Biggs. "Ifs one note one time and another another?" "In the treble clef," explulned the musician, "the tronibono Is a B fiat horn. In the bass clef It Is a C horn." Biggs mopped his brow. "Say that again, will your he ap pealed. "Don't you see?" came the answer. "When the first position is C Its a B flat horn. When the same shift Is B flat It's a C horn." Biggs unbuttoned his coat. "You may call this thing simple." he said, "bnt If it Is I'll give myself up at the nearest asylum. You are talking antonyms." The musician grinned. "We'll take one thing at a time," he said. "In getting at what a B flat horn is let's consider a cornet" "Let's, if It's simpler," said Biggs hopefully. "It's because It's always a B flat horn," replied the other. Then he add ed, "Except when It's an A horn." Biggs gave a sickly smile. "The lowest note on a cornet when open when no keys are pressed down Is really B flat," said the bandmnn. "But It Is called C." "That doesn't make It C," said Biggs. "For all practical purposes It does," was the reply. "There Is a reason for doing this, but It's complicated and at present I'm keeping to simple facts." "Yes, Indeed," murmured Biggs. "In an orchestra, for Instance, when the first violins are playing In C nat ural the cornetlst's score Is two semi tones higher and Is thus written In D or two sharps. When the violins are playing In D the cornet player Is toot ing In E or four sharps. But If things kept on this way the cornetlst would soon be lost In a confusion of sharps and double sharps, so be slips an A crook on his Instrument. That raises the signature three semitones. When the fiddles play In A or three sharps the cornetlst Is blowing along the easy path of C natural." "Look here," said Biggs, "if my wife is playing 'Under, the Pink Lilac Bush on the piano, couldn't I play with her from the song score?" "Not unless you can mentally trans pose as you go along." said the mu sician. "The system looks queer at first, but It's logical. Its purpose Is to bring the same music within the nat ural compass of all the Instruments of a band or an orchestra. But If you are going to play the trombone you won't have to bother your head about any of this, as trombone music is now adays always written In the bass clef." "Then what have you been talking about It for and mixing me. up?" shouted Biggs, Jumping up. "What are you getting mad about?" asked the trombonist. 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V 1 A - tl . - f ' I . transacts a uenerai Dinning Business twcrcn im n imn vcposua FOUR PER CENT PER ANNUM. ( Eleventh and Duane Sts. Astoria, Oregea liASADAYii A Small Savings Bank, A Small Sayings Account. An Kxample in Thrift. A Small Fortune. A happy home. THE BANKING SAVINGS AND LOAN ASS'C'N. I 10810th St. First National Bank of Astoria DIRECTORS Jacob Kawm W. F. McGregor G. C. Flavel J. W. Ladd S. S. Gordon Capital .: $100,000 Surplus 25,000 Stockholders' Liability.... 100,000 t:sTAMLisiu;i) ihm. SCANDINAVIAN-A M E R I C A N SAVINGS BANK ASTORIA, OREGON OUR MOTTO: "Safety Supercede! All Other Consideration." Sherman Transfer Co. HENRY SHERMAN, Manaa.tr. Hacks, Carriages Baggage Checked and Transferred Truck! and Foraitire Wagons Pianos Moved, Boxed and Shipiwd. 433 Commercial Street Main Phone 121 A SUIMEE DRISK Unfermented Grape Juice absolutely non-alcoholic Concord Coc quart Catawba ... 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