THE MORNING A3TOHIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
THURSDAY, AUGUST. 13
Established 1873.
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Evolution
BY LANGDON SMITH
,the:weather
Oregon Cloudy tonight and Thurs
day; winds mostly southerly.
Washington Showers tonight or
Thursday; cooler east portion Thurs
day; winds mostly, southerly.
THE SUMMER RAIN.
A felicitous summer rain is upon
us here at the mouth of the Co
lumbia; light, steady, warm, and
quite wet. We do not need it a little
bit; it does not appeal to us just at
this time and we can dispense with it
easily, even for the asking.. It is sur
plusage at Astoria; we have our
rainy season and never have to com
plain of any shortage, hence, we
would be very glad to see this move
inland and pour its grateful flood on
fire-ravaged, or fire-threatened local
ities that are yearning and praying
for it. That is the place for it.
There is something incongruous in
the bounty which falls where it is
not needed nor desired, while the
places and countries where its last
trace and element would be a pro
found advantage, are denied it. We
are not solving insoluble problems
this morning and therefore decline to
discuss the subject further but leave)
it, with the large hope that this rain !
will pass on and do its prime and
glorious service up country where
great values and the safety and com
fort of thousands of people are at
stake".
problem once for all. Like Alexan
der, we may have to solve it our
selves, in part, by pulling the hills
dfwn to the datum plane of the city
and utilizing the vast bulk of earth
in filling in the tide-ways and solidify
ing the commercial areas of the dis
trict; always the dream of the As
torian through the century of her
existance. Yet, it is not certain that
this will remedy the situation alto
geher, for a soil that will not stay
where nature planted it, is likely to i
show treacherous symptoms at any
tjme and rebuke the puny hand that
tampers with it.
It is one of the few really grave
things that confront Astoria; and she
has contended with it faithfully. She
will never find surcease from its fore
boding action, until her beautiful hills
are levelled and the weight and im
petus that now urges the earth over
the soap-stone paths in its depths,
have been minimized to the point ap
proaching stability.
THE WAR OF WIRES.
The following spendid poem is the
creation of a famous New York news
paperman and war correspondent,
now dead, and is reproduced in these
columns through the courtesy of a
friend lately in Astoria with the
Harper troupe of players.
When you were a Tadpole and I was
a Fish
In the Paleozic time,
And side by side on the ebbing tide
We sprawled through the ooze and
slime,
Or skittered with many a caudal tlip
Through the depths of the Cam
brian fen,
My heart was rife with the joy of life,
Tor I loved you even then.
Mindless we lived and mindless we
loved,
And mindless at last we died;
And deep in a rift of the Caradoc
drift
We slumbered side by side.
The world turned on in the lathe of
time,
The hot lands heaved amain,
Till we caught our breath from the
womb of death,
And crept into light again.
We were Amphibians, scaled and
tailed,
And drab as a dead man's hand;
We coiled at ease 'neath the drip
ping trees,
Or, trailed through the mud and
sand,
Croaking and blind, with our three
clawed feet
Writing a language dumb,
With never a spark in the empty
dark
To hint at a life to come.
The war of telephonic wires goes 'Yet happy we lived, and happy we
merrily on in Astoria. , ,0VI'1.
, , And happy we died once more;
Manual and Automatic batteries . .. . . . ...
(Our forms were rolled in the clinging
are in full action; their thunder re- j n)0j
verberates thrillingly up and down ; Of a Neocomian shore.
the thoroiuhtares; while the fusil 'The eons came, and the eons fled,
lades of argument and counter argu
ment crack and rattle on all sides,
and the reading eye is riveted every-
And the sleep that wrapped us fast,
jWas riven away in a newer day,
And the night of death was past.
I carved that light on a reindeer
bone
With rude mid hairy hand.
I pictured his (alt on the cavern wall
That men might understand,
Tor we lived by Mood, mid the right
of might,
lire human laws were drawn,
And the Age of Sin did not begin
Till our'lmital tusks were gone.
And that was a million years auo.
In n time that no man knows;
Yet here to-night in the mellow light
We sit at Dclmonico's.
Your eyes arc deep as the Devon
springs,
Your hair is as dark as jet;
Your years are few, your life is new,
Your soul untried, and yet '
Our trail is on the Kimmeridge clay,
And the searp of the Purbeck flags.
We have left our bones in the Bag-
shot stones,
And deep in the Coraline crags;
Our love is old, our lives are old,
And death shall come amain.
Should it come to-day, what man
may say
We shall not live again?
God wroguht our souls from the Tre
madoc bell
And furnished them wings to fly;
He sowed our spawn in the world's
dim dawn,
And I know that it shall' not die,
Though cities have sprung above the
graves
Where the crook-boned men made
war,
And the ox-wain creaks o'er the bur
ied caves .
Where the mummied mammoths
are.
Then as we linger at luncheon here,
O'er many a dainty dish,
Let us drink anew to the time when
you
Were a Tadpole and I was a Fish
FREE TRIAL-AN ELECTRIC IRON
Saves backs, footsteps, blistered fingers, and faces fuel
and tempers.
You feel no electricity attach to any incan
descent socket low expense would sur
prise you let us explain to YOU.
ASTORIA ELECTRIC CO.
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nelson Tfojrer, vice-rres. ana Supt
ASTORIA IRON WORKS
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WASTED LITERATURE.
Astoria is one of the best magazine-selling
cities on the coast. Her
people subscribe for, or buy, and read
the whole gamut of monthly litera
ture that is 'published in that form
and there is a strong clientelle be
hind the Astoria library, all of which
shows that this is a reading public,
while our thousands of summer visi
tors absorb all the standard light lit
erature that is current.
' With such a host of readers and
such a supply of matter, it should be
an easy case to keep those who are
on the sick list, or on the outposts of
duty, or in the compulsory seclusion
of the jails, in endless supply of good
reading. The fact is we are too heed
less of our cheap and excellent books
and magazines and allow them to go
to waste about our homes and offices,
instead of sending them to the people
who are barred and denied them. ,
where upon the puDiisneu slogan oitThen ,j ,)t amJ swift thr0ll(?h the
the hour. The battle rages with all ; juge trees
the commercial adjuncts in active j We swung in our airy flightSj
operation, and the ordinary citizen Qt breathcd in the balms of the fron.
may dodge and hide and try to hold j (jej J)ajmSf
aloof, but he is in the thick of it all,! ln the mish of the mooniess njghts.
and is, at last, the supreme party n ; An1 oh! what beautiful years were
interest. j ,i1C5l.(
Every man should take a deep and j When our hearts cung each ,0
eager concern in the contention now i eacn;
going on here; he is the one the con-jWh ,jj f1,e( ;ul our senses
testants are after; it is his patronage i thrilled
the battling companies rely on in the. n the firs fajnt (awn o specch
end; it is his money that will keep)
. . , .... .i. . . ...:i:.;An : .v..? !
one or Dom ine great uuhuh " "
i- 11. 1 ' . nlnUa In .'id
neia; ne is in nu cuc a um.i - passed
engagement, ana ine sooner ne icn-, , .
izes his potenty as a real factor and;And brc;uh fay and fey
begins to sway things his way and to j
MS Own comion, jjcuuc anu jiu i.
.Thus life by life, and love by love,
through the cycles
the better
cerneu.
it will be
and
for all
con-
We followed the chain of change,
Till there came a time in the law of
life
When over the nursing sod
The shadows broke, and the soul
awoke
In a strange, dim dream of God.
A parcel can now be mailed from
any postoffice in the United States to
any postoffice in Bolivia, a distance
of 4000 miles, for 12 cents a pound.
The domestic parcels rate in this j
rn.mtrv is 16 cents a pound. Con- j I was thewed like an Auroch bull,
gress ought to explain why foreigners
re allowed this advantage in the
if neglected home interests.
UNSTABLE EARTH.
This is a lively place, this Astoria;
even the earth will not remain quiet
and in the place it is supposed to
have lodged for a million or more
years. There are several streaks of
uneasy soil traversing this peninsula
that have been, since time immemor
ial, the cause of anxiety, engineering
interest, and endless expense to the
public and private owners thereof;
they are all very narrow, and seem
to run from a point about two-thirds
of the way up the elevations, on thettiat wjH be sufficiently strong, suf
northern incline, and operate clear to j tjciently active and sufficiently eager
the river's edge. They make from ; tl) I1()V(, wiieru.ver American honor or
one inch to a foot of headway, per j American interests are in peril, and
annum, according to location and the j t j1e rc!il,it jn November will show that
subterranean enditions "besetting j lh(. Hllk 0f the votcrs in the United
each locality. They have never been States are of the same patriotic be-
And tusked
Bear;
like the great Cave
mails. It has become a glaring case And you, my sweet, from head 19
feet,
Were gowned
hair.
in your glorious
Wireless messages are to be sent
. ... . . .-. ft( Bwti ir flip fflnnm rt i Cirtiia 3v
across the Atlantic irom me wj ui v,. ...wo
the Eiffel Tower. A daily chat be
twen Paris and the New York sky
scrapers will be a pleasing accom
paniment of the flying machine experiments.
William H. Taft believes in a navy
checked successfully, yet, and will
probably interfere with the general
scheme of public improvements here
for all time to come.
All manner of clever devices have
been employed to obviate the move
ment and spare the buildings that
have, in times past, been erected up
on them, but human ingenuity seems
vain and profitless in this fight
against the obstreperous and unquiet
earth.
They are a constant menace to
street improvement, where the public
work touches the erratic soil and will
lief.
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COFFfiE
Good is so good and
poor is so poor; have
Schilling's Best tomorrow.
Vnnr rrrrw rnrn M If J..t
ever be, until science shall solve the uuif.mtptr bim
When the night fell o'er the plain,
And the moon hung red o'er the riv
er bed,
We mumbled the bones of the
slain.
1 flaked a flint to a cutting edge,
And shaped it with brutish craft;
I broke a shank from the woodland
dank,
And fitted it, head and haft.
Then I hid me close to the reedy
tarn,
Where the Mammoth came to
drink;
Through brawn and bone I drave the
stone,
And slew him upon the brink.
Loud I howled through the moonlit
wastes,
Loud answered our kith and kin;
From west and east to the crimson
feast
The clan came trooping in. '
O'er joint and gristle and padded
hoof
We fought and clawed and tore,
And cheek by jowl, with many a
growl,.
We talked the marvel o'er.. .
FINDER NAIL SCRATCH
RESULTS IN DEATH
A short time ago you may have
read of the remarkable case where
a simply scratch of the finger nail
caused death by blood poisoning. At
first it was only an annoying itch
caused by summer rash. This was
scratched by the finger nail to re
lieve the itch, but the .skin was torn
open, the irritation became worse
and finally resulted in a fatal case of
blood poisoning.
Do not scratch or rub the itch or
irritation caused by summer rash,
mosquito bites, hives, prickly heat or
any form of skin disease or itch, D.
D. D. Prescription, the best known
remedy for eczema and all forms of
skin disease, externally applied, will
at once stop the irritable itch. It
soothes and cools the skin and per
manently cures the itch or disease, j
Infants and children are saved many I
hours of agony and torture from the
unbearable itch if a few drops of
D. D. D. is applied to the afflicted
parts. Remember the itch is in
stantly relieved.
Call at the store of Charles Rogers
& Son and you can get a bottle.
Try it
I THE TRENTON
First-Class Liquors andt Cigars
f 102 Commercial Street
f Corner Commercial and 14th. . ASTORIA, OREOON
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TRANSPORTATION.
Stmr. Chas. R. Spencer
Spencer Line
PORTLAND-ASTORIA ROUTE
Portland: Washington Street Dock
Callender Dock, Astoria
Phone Main 8619
ROUND TRIP DAILY
Except Thursday and Sunday
For Astoria and Way Landings
Leaving Portland 7 A. M. Arriving
Astoria 1 P. M.; Returning Leave
Astoria 2:30 P. M., Arrive Portland
9:45 P. M.
FARE $1.00 EACH WAY
SUNDAY EXCURSION
Astoria and Return
Leave Portland 8 P. M. Return 9 P. M.
FARE $1.00 ROUND 'TRIP
Weekly Landing and Time Schedule
Leave 7:00.. Portland ..9:45 Arrive
8:30. ..St. Helens... 8:00
9:15...- Kalama ...7:05
9:35.'.. Rainier ...6:30
10:10.... Stella .. ..5:35
10:25. ..Oak Point.. .5:20
10:35.. .Eureka ...5:05
11:10., Cathlamet ..4:25
11:30. Skamokawa .3:55
12:05.. Brookficld ..3:40
12:18.. .Pillar Rock.. .3:30
12:30... Altoona ...3:10
Arrive 1:10... Astoria ...2:30 Leave
Heavy type denotes P. M.
Connecting at Astoria for all Sea
side Resorts. Renowned for speed,
comfort and courteous treatment.
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12th St., near Commercial St. ASTORIA, OREGON.
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Corner Eleventh and Commercial
ASTORIA,
OREOON
TRANSPORTATION.
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PASSENGERS
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Steamer - Lurlinc
Night Boat for Portland and
Way Landings.
Leaves Astoria daily except Sunday
t 7 p. m.
Leaves Portland Daily Except Sunday
at 7 a. m.
Quick Service Excellent Meals
Good Bertha
Landing Astoria Flavel Wharf
Landing Portland Foot Taylor St.
J. J. DAY, Agent
Phone Main 2761.
H
ESS
My stock of men's and boy's
shoes is unsurpassed for qua
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expenses enable me to sell the
best qualities at West prices.
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543 Bond Street
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