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THE MUUMMI AJ5T0II I , .V. ASTORIA. OREGON. Fit WAY, AUGUST 14 Established 1873. Fublished Daily Except Monday by SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Bv mail, per year By carrie-, per month 60 WEEKLYASTORIAN. By trail, 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 publicatioa TELEPHONE the:weather Oregon, Washington Fair, thunderstorms east portion. Idaho Thunderstorms. BRYAN ACCEPTS. west William Jennings Bryan has form- ally accepted the nomination of the national democracy for the Presi dency of the United States. Let. us suppose, for the sake of in dulging in the fabulous and the sen sational, that he had refused it point blank, and finally!. What illimitable and stupefying confusion and chagrin would have swept the democratic ends of this country; what a maddening scramble for the great post would have been precipitated among the martyrs who were turned down at Denver, and their friends; what an access of tone and volume the Hearstian howl would have taken on; and what added fame and glory would instantly, and per manently, have attached to the name and character of the great, and mod est, surrenderer!. His hour has come, and gone; his one opportunity for achieving undy ing renown and the profoundly grate ful esteem of this, and subsequent, generations of the American people, has been frittered away at the very moment of supreme test, and Wil liam Jennings stands convicted of the cheap propensity for political prefer ment, after all the warnings that have been given him!. It is a sad com mentary upon the weakness of a na ture beset with a pitiful mania; he knows that the nomination is all that is coming to him; that time-proven results await him in November; that it was the better part of wisdom to anticipate and forestall the inevitable when it could have been done with grace, and even telling unction; that he is, once for all, in line for a knockout that will last him the rest of his life; that he might have laid in a brand new quality of national promi nence by rejecting the empty honor and posing as one who has dallied with fate often enough to realize its inevitable and crushing fiat. Ah! Well, the die is cast; but he might have spared himself this third and annihilating blow!. TEMPERANCE. We claim a wide differentiation for the terms temperance, prohibition and regulation, as applied to the old and unsolved problems of the liquor issue, and we believe that if the proper dis tinctions were drawn as among these movements and our public demon strations were made, clearly and con clusively, upon sharply defined bases of text and 'effort, far more good would be attained, than we realize from the hotch-potch methods now in vogue. Prohibition carries with it the idea of annihilation, peremptory and com plete. It is the term and guage of war, instant, decisive, uncompromis ing; it bars all mediation and admits of no middle-ground whatever; it in vites fight and finality one way or the other; is all aggresion, without a hint of conceding anything nor of placat ing situations nor people; it is a radical challenge and the mailed list done in one parcel, and damns its enemy while it strikes. , Temperance, on the other hand, as a term, and policy, is amenable to more rational interpretation, and ap peals to the equities that certainly J exist, in this as in all other matters of public safety and concern. Taken in its farthest definition, it means but the wise regulation of physical and moral appetites and attitudes, and yields something to the good that can be found in all the things we are so quick to condemn and cast out. It is the most available aid to total ab stinence itself, since it must natural- THE J. S. DELLINGER CO. .$7.00 MAIN 661. ly figure in the course that is direct ed to that consumation. It also bears the frank admission of the rights of others, while establishing a me dium between the extremes; it offers a haven to the man disposed to re pudiate both intemperance and total &bil- anJ hfd inst he . rors born of hysteria and the impas sioned blunders of those who ignore all doctrines but their own. It is a safety valve which permits the escape of the unessential elements of this supremely great argument and con test, and is the most sensible base from which to operate in either direc tion as the case in point may de mand. Regulation is the part assigned to the law in the scheme of adjustment and speaks for itself always, either through its failure or its success, and fortunately for all men, we generally hear of it as accomplishing fair meas ure of the good it was designed to achieve. Regulation will regulate if the people get behind it and stay there, and not leave it to the whims and interests of the departmenal in termediaries; and it is all we need to bring potential peace from out the chaos our own indifference and the fallacious programs we have wrought. This is written merely as a passing hint to all to whom this grave sub ject is near, and by way of warning against a too radical estimate of their duty and interest in the solution that is to come some day. Japan is likely to make baseball its national game. If , Japan can beat Uncle Sam at the sport, Mr. Hobson will be justified in getting excited. Grapes promise to be as abundant as usual this season, but the Bryan drv face over Hearst's refusal to fuse indicates that they are awfully sour. Mexico has recently increased the salary of teachers in primary schools 40 per cent. The Diaz Government is always busy somewhere in the line of progress. In only two preceding years has the cotton crop in August been as promising as it is now. The crop prospects of 1908 are in themselves a prosperity boom Both President Roosevelt and Wil liam J. Bryan are trying to kill the trusts. And to accomplish their purpose they will need the help, of all the neighbors. Governor Johnson is almost as en thusiastic for Bryan as Senator For aker is for Taft. The only wildly enthusiastic man in the country is Judge Alton B. Parker. Some of the old-time Democratic leaders who are reluctantly climb ing into the Bryan band wagon will have to be provided with easy chairs and all the comforts of home.' Granulated Sore Eyes Cured. "For twenty years I suffered fiom a bad case of gr-nuiated sore eyes, says Martin Eoyd of Henrietta, Ky. "In February, 1903, a gentleman ask ed me to try Chamberlain's Salve. I bought one box and used alrtut two-thirds of it and my eyes have rt given me any trouble since." tb-5 salve is for sale by Frank Hart leading druggists. COFFEE Your grocer must , sell roor coffee; we can't all be comfortable; . but he needn't sell it to you; Vonr prorcr rrtiirru ymt ironcj i joa doo like icti!..L,' Lwi. u p..) L.su. EDISON THE VICTOR. Ht Humblad the Prida af tht Pari Talagraph Operator. Edison tuiulo his Urst record as n telegraph operator lu Memphis. Acou temporary says he came walking lnt the office oue mumlng looking like veritable hayseed. Ho wanted n Jo!. and, although bis appearance was tn-t prepossessing, the office was shot t banded, nud be was assigned a desk at the St. Louis wire, the hardest In the office. "At the end of the line was an operator who was chain llghtulug nn.l knew It." says Francis Arthur Jones' "Life of Edison." "Edison had hardly got seated Defore st Louis colled. The newcomer re sponded, and St. Louis started on a long report which he pumped In like a house afire. Edison threw Ills log over the arm of his chair, leisurely transferred a wad of spruce gum from bis pocket to his mouth, took up a pen, examined it critically and stnrtivl In about fifty words behind. He didn't stay there long, though. St Louis let out another link of speed, and still an other, nud the lustra ment on Edison's table hummed like an old style Singer sewing machine. Every man In the office left his desk and gathered arouud the Jay to ee what he was doing with that electric cycloue. "Well, sir. he was right on the word and taking It down In the prettiest cop perplate hand you ever saw, even crossing his 't's' and dotting bis 'fs' and punctuating with as much care s a man editing telegraph for printers. St Louis got tired by and by and be gan to slow down. Then Edison open ed the key and said: " 'Hello, there! When are you golftg to get a bustle on? This Is no prlur class. "Well, sir," said the gentleman In conclusion, "that broke St Louis All up. Qe had been rawhldlng Memphis for a long time, and we were tcrrl'.'ly sore, and to have a man In our off-e whe could walk all over him made is feel Uke a nan whose horse bad wis the Derby." THRILLING SPORT. Rafting Down the Canyona of an 1,'n mupped Glacial River. With previsions for only ten dayi a party of explorers in Alaska found one 6ep1ttnber that they must build rsfts and take their chances of letting the swlf river carry them to settlements whe food could be obtained; otHer wis Ice and snow would shut tbcm lu fron; all trnpe of rescue. In "The Sharoelesf Iiiary of an Explorer" Eol ert lunn tells ojt the Journey on the roughly rondo rafts. "At 11 o'clock today began the roost thrilling eport I know, rafting down the iuky canyons of an unmapped glacial river. "Fred and I captained the Mary Ann II., he oth-r three the Ethel May. We rasped and hauled them over the grr vel shadows 't our tributary, shot out between tBe main walls of the stream and se'zed upon that boiling current. "We recched silently from cllh to cliff, Jammed pike poles Into the slate shelf overhead, twirled out of eddies. We bumped and grounded. We dashed overboard and on the run eased her across shadows. We tugged half an hour to nvike an Inch at each sbove through the gravel, suddenly plunged In to our icks, and she leaped free as we scrambled on. "Bowlders rose through white ruffs of water la mldchannel. We might or might not hang on them for a perpen dicular minute. "You mnst be very bandy wlfi a pole. You must have a hair line eye for moving angles, the strength of an eddy, the 'Jepth of foam ruffling fiver a stomp. You must be surer of the length of Tout pole than a polo pl?yer of tBe rer:h of his mallet. You must be qulcke- than a Slwash dog. Tou must knew the different weight of each log trown to ounces, the balance of the duffel piled high like a dais, covered w?th the tent and the bean pot, the mackliaws and the ax lashed to all the Iasnlngs. It's a pretty gam?." A Risky Subject. "Do you think, sweetheart," queried the youna man with the evenly divid ed Kalr, 'that your father will con sent to otfr marriage?" "Well," replied the fair one, "of court pa&a will be sorry to lose me, bnf- "But," Interrupted the rash yorth, "I will rewind him that Instead of los ing it daughter he will gain a son." "Dearest" rejoined the wise maid, "if you really want me you mustn't say anything of the kind. Papa has thren such sons boarding with him now, and he's a little touchy on the subject." Queer Milk. Many specimens of unconscious hu mor are received by the editors of that monumental work, the "Imperial Gazet teer of India." A district was said to be "an extensive rolling plain, consist ing of alternate ridges of bare stony hills and narrow fertile valleys." An interesting item of natural history was afforded by the remark, "The buffalo differs from the cow In giving milk which is richer In butter fat, In rolce and In having no bump." Lofldon Globe. Poured. "I havu poured every day tb Is week at some function or other," remarked the vivacious girl. "Well, well!" murmured the old gen tleman who overheard her. "Now I know what is meant by the term 'a reigning belle.' "St. Louis Republic. POSTAGE STAMP CHEATS. Foolish Parsons Who Run tha Risk of Going to Prison, "You would be surprised." said a postolllte clerk, "at the efforts people make to avoid the pnyineut of postage. And quite often It Is not the work of children either. The most common trick Is to take the stamp that has been canceled by hand and tho Impression Just tone lies the etliio of the stamp After pricking the marked edge with a plu or cutting It with a pnlr of shears to resemble the punctured edge of tho stamp or tearing away that part the stamp Is put on an envelope for an other voyage. All these are placed In the hands of postal Inspectors for In vestlgntlon. "Others try to give the impression that a stamp had been put on an en velope and become loose aud lost in transit by sticking a stamp on the en velope and then pulling It with part of the envelope sticking to It off again. These as well as underpaid letters, un less they hare a foreign destination, where postage Is then collected, are marked 'Returned for postage' and seut back to the sender. Second class matter, as a roll of newspapers, Is of ten sealed against Inspection by hav ing the stamps overlap the cover. Whether foreign or not It Is returned for postage. When It again shows up. tho mistake recti tied, upon Inspection It Is usually found to contain written letters, photographs (unmounted), Jew elry, merchandise of all kinds, making the package underpaid; hence It Is again returned. "But the limit of foolishness comes -when a person tries to efface the In delible ink from the stamp and with half the features of the stamp missing or rubbed away and some of the Ink still remaining affixes It to an envelope, with the address of the sender upon the back to facilitate Investigation. "This, though. Is stretching It a lit tle too much: A postcard that had been put through a canceling machine and delivered to the addressee had tho canceling Impression and the address scratched off with the aid of sharp knife and a new address substituted and a written message pasted on the reverse side." New York Sun. AN OLD GORMANDIZER. On. Man Who Livad That Ha Might Simply Eat and Drink. In a little yellowed English mnga elne, dated April. l&M, 1 came across the following amusing scrap: If the Duke of Q. does not extend bis life to a still longer period. It will not le for want of culinary comforts and those oilier succulent arts by which longevity Is best promoted. II in grace's sustenance is thus dully admin Istcred: , j "At 7 lu the morning he regales lu I warm milk bath perfumed with aim ond powder, where he takes his eonVe and a buttered muffin, and afterword retires to bed. He rises about 0 and breakfasts on cafe au In It. with new laid eggs Just parboiled; at 11 he Is presented with two warm Jellies mid rusques; at 1 he takes a real cutlet n la Malnteuou; at 3 jellies utid eggs re peat; at 5 a cup of chocolate nnil rusques; at 7:30 he takes a hearty din ner from high seasoned dishes uud makes suitable libations of claret uud madeira; at 10 ten, coffee and mulllns: at 12 sups off a roast poulet. with a plentiful solution of lime punch: tit I In the morning he. retires to heir in high spirits and sleeps till 3, when u!s man cook, to the moment, waits upon him In person with, a hot and savory veal cutlet, which, with a potation ol wine and water, prepares him for fur tber repose that continues genera !l uninterrupted till the morning sum mons to his lacteal batb. "In this routine of living comforts are the four and twenty hours Invarla. bly divided, so that If his grace does not know, with Sir Toby Belch, 'that our life Is composed of four elements he knows at least, with Sir Ague Cheek, 'that it consists In eating and drinking.' "-London Chronicle. Subscribe to the Morning Astorian, TRANSPORTATION. Astoria and Portland ROUND TRIP DAILY (Except Thursday) Str. Ctias. E. Spencer FARE $1.00 EACH WAY For Portland and Way Landings. Leaves Callender dock, Astoria 2:30 p. m.; arrives Portland 9:45 p. m. Leaves Washington St. dock, Port land 7 a. rn.; arrives Astoria 1 p. m. SUNDAY EXCURSION FARE $l.p0 ROUND TRIP Leaves Washington St. dock, Port land, 8 a. m.; arrives Astoria 1 p. m. Leaves Callender dock, Astoria 2 p. m.; arrives Portland 9 p. m. Connecting at Astoria for all Seaside Resorts. . Renowned for Speed, Comfort and Courteous Treatment. CAPT. E. W. SPENCER, General Manager, Portland Astoria Office, Callender Dock. FREE TRIAL-AN ELECTRIC IRON Saves backs, footsteps, blistered fingers, and faces fuel and You feel no electricity attach to any incan descent socket low expense would sur prise you let us explain to YOU. ASTORIA ELECTRIC CO. John Foi, Pres. F. L. Bishop, Sec Astoria Saving Bank, Tress. Nton Troyer, Vice Prei. and Supt ASTORIA IRON WORKS DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF THE LATEST IMPROVED . . . Canning Machinery, Marine Engines and Boilers COMPLETE CANNERY OUTFITS FURNISHED. Correspondence Solicited. Foot of Fourth Street I THE TRENTON; First-Class Liquors and Cigars 102 Commercial Street ' 1 t Corner Commtrctal and 14th. ItMIIM t STEEL & EWART Electrical Contractors Phone Main 3881 .... 426 Bond Street THROUGH TICKETS sold and baggage checked through to all points via the Northern Pacific. Great Northern, O. R. & N.O. S. L. and Union Pacific and Southern Pacific. Steamship Tickets Via. All Ocean Lines at Lowest Rates. THROUGH TICKETS ON SALE For Rates, Steamship and Sleeping Car Reservations, call on or address O. B JOHNSON, Oen'l Agent 12th St., near Commercial St. ASTORIA, OREGON. THE OEM C. F. WISE, Prop. Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars Corner Eleventh ASTORIA, TRANSPORTATION. The "K" Une PASSENGERS FREIGHT Mil ha a p.jv, Steamer - Lurline Night Boat for Portland and Way Landings. Leaves Astoria daily except Sunday at 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. ' II lp",'r.illi L-l r tempers. BBSS ASTORIA, OREGON MMlin 4 1 and Commercial. OREGON U 4 n CSS"! My stock of men's and boy's shoes is unsurpassed for qua lity. Close buying and low expenses enable nie to sell the best qualities at lowest prices. S. A. GIMRE 543 Bond Street Subscribe to the Morning Astorian, 60 centi per month. I i HID