, THE MORNING' ASTOB IAN, ASTORIA. OREGON.
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Established 1873.
Published Daiiy Except Monday by
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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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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
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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!.
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. "For ten years I was confined to
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writes R. A. Gray, J. P. of Oakville,
Ind. "It was so severe that I could
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available, but could get no relief un
til Foley's Kidney Cure was recom
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Store.
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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.
"I'm not mad." replied Biggs. "I'm
only going to make my will and buy
an accordion." Washington Post.
No Longer a 8eeret.
"So that great inventor Is dead -and
bis wonderful secret is lost" ,
"Not at all. Ho told it to his wife
Just before he died."
"Yes; that's what 1 mean." Philadel
phia Press.
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Hay Fever and Summer Colds.
Victims of hay fever will exper
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J. 0. A. BOWLBY, President.
O. I. PETERSON, Vice-President
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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
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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
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Fisher Brothers Company
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Marbour and Finlayson Salmon Twines and Netting
McCormick Harvesting Machines
Oliver Chilled, Ploughs
Sharpies Cream Separators , . '
Raecolith Flooring ' Storrett's Tools
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Tan Bark, Blue Stone, Muriatic Acid, Welch Coal, Tar,
Ash Oars, Oak Lumber, Pipe and Fittings, Brass Goods,
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