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THE MORNING A5TORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
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POLITICS NEXT.
home, perfectly satisfied with all we
did to make them happy. Our own
people did well and had as much fun
as anybody, and there is a general
sense of pleasurable relief at the act
ual outcome; for the weather, and the
death of High-Diver Sullivan, at the
initial hours of the Regatta, befogged
the whole m situation with distinct
gloom.
The Committee in charge are enti
tied to plenty of credit for the way
things were dispatched and is getting
it on all sides. What mistakes were
made are forgotten, and what succes
ses were achieved will be long re
membered. Mayor Wise may pat him
self on the back for the faith that in
spired him to go ahead with the re
gatta after it had been negatived at
headquarters, for that we had one, and
a good one, is due in great measure to
his cheerful and persistant determination.
Each Torpedo Boat Destroyer Is to
Cost $800,000 and Each Must Have
i Maximum Speed of Over 30 Miles
Per Hour Guaranteed.
Astoria may take a welcome and
necessary breathing spell for the next
two months. The fishing season has
closed with a very fair record catch;
the Regatta has come and gone, and
left good humor behind it; business
is quiet, but not desperately so; there
is plenty of money going the rounds,
as usual, and the city and country is
in its customary easy-going condition.
We are to take up our political bur
dens and assignments next and dipose
them to the best of our ability, a fac
ulty that is becoming, happily, more
and more safely and sanely dispatched
year by year, thanks, to the sharp and
wholesome drilling the people have
had at the hands of th? President dur
in the past six or seven years, and the
thinking he has forced them to do
along these lines.
The press of the country seems to
be doing most of the commenting on
the leaders ?nd their policies, while
the people are saying little and saving
their faces for the hour that is their
own; at which grave moment they
will line-up and say the say from
which no man may appeal We be
lieve, with all sincerity, all hopeful
ness, they will call for Mr. Taft in
terms that will forever lay the ambi
tions of his opponent and put the seal
of righteous popular discrimination
beyond cavil; they want the certain
continuance of the Roosevelt theory
of government, with all its rugged and
frilless simplicity and directness of
purpose and action, and they are go
ing to get it if it be but the near
Rooseveltian doctrine they know the
great Ohioan will give them. There
is not much to disturb the common
people in this general election; they
have the popular mind pretty well
made up, and William Jennings Bry
an, with his threadbare prestige, may
not disturb a fore-gone and universal
conclusion as, well founded as theirs.
The local field has much more to
offer. The December elections here,!
are to be charged to the hilt with
Some pretty large Issues and people,
.and there are changes to make that
are very essential. What was satis- jt js sometimes remarked that the
factory, or relatively so, a couple of . panama Canal will chiefly benefit for
years ago, in several instances, has j ei-gn ships. Uncle Sam is pubiic-spir-proven
barren and inert and either so i jte(i enough to take this risk, and con-
WHOLLY COMMITTED.
While the ordinary citizen is think
ing out the telephone situation as it
now figures in Astoria, it were well to
remember that the Pacific States Tel
ephone Company is finally, and whol
ly, committed to a radical and ample,
line of improvements here. They have
been unconscionably long in getting to
the issue and on the record, but there
they are, and what they shall fail in
now, will be used against them dis
astrously. They have contracted for
their new headquarter home, and have
done a great share of the cabling pro
mised and their men are still at work
on the latter scheme of improvement;
by the first day of January they
should, and will, have a complete and
modernized service in this city, and if
this can be done without the addition
al burden and cost of a double and
conflicting service, all the better for
Astoria.
The city is fortunate in the present
status of telephonic affairs, and will do
well to let things go as they are, for
lie moment, and abide by the changes
and betterments now in line and guar
ateed as nearly as the P. S. people can
guarantee them. The policy of "let
ting well enough alone" is, it strikes
us, applicable just as this juncture.
NEW YORK, Aug. 31. Bids for
the construction of ten torpedo des
troyers, everyone of which must be
at least four knots, faster. than the Lu
sitnnia and equipped with apparatus
for burning oil as well as coal and
which are to be the largest ever built
for the American navy, will be opened
tomorrow. These vessels are to cost
$800,000 each and for every knot that !
the vessels lose on any of their trial i
trips under the contract speed the!
builders will have to forfeit $15,000 of
the contract price to the government.
The plans and specifications for the j
vessel are being kept secret by the
N'avy Department and they were sub-!
mitted in confidence to the bidders. It'
is knoyvn, however, that the vessels
may have a trial displacement of at
least 742 tons and that they must at
tain on those trial tests a maximum,
speed of 29 1-2 knots an hour, a speed
that will make them among the fast
est war craft ever constructed in this j
or any other country.
SILK AND KNIT
UNDERWEAR
harmful, or harmless, as to invite the
changes that will be surely made in
those various directions.
It is held, for instance that a deter
mined effort is to be made to retain
the police commission as a seggment
of municipal autonomy by those next
fident enough concerning his destiny
to believe that he will be able to hold
his own in the world's commerce.
Mr. Bryan pledges himself to keep
inside the Democratic platform. But
this is understood to include the plat-
and nearest that particular push, and form of the Nebraska Populists. The
if possible, the question is to- be with
held from popular consideration as
a charter amendment; this attitude is
to be met by a direct petition that will
be uttered in time to forestal all man
ipulation or attempts at chicane, and
the matter will be tried out to the last
limit of public consideration and ex
pression. These and several other po
tent and patent matters are to be
threshed out and several people re
lieved of places and charges they have
not taken the best care of. So it were
well to do a bit of good hard think
ing along these lines, in no partisan
sense, with a view to giving the city
the best service possible in all ways,
and relieve her of a few of raw and
reckless (and costly) burdens she is
carrying.
CUT ANOTHER NOTCH.
Astoria has cut another notch on
the fame-stick she started when she
inauguarated her annual regattas. The
fourteenth nick was cut just as deeply
and plainily as any of the preceeding
records, even if two out of the three
days of the pleasure season were giv
en over to rain and renigging. It was
a prime success, the most of the suc
cess being. crammed into the last 24
hours of the 72; but we got there all
the same, and those who honored us
by coming from a distance, have gone
Populists are the big end of the Bry
an party in Nebraska, and they are
fused with Democrats on the state el
ectoral ticket.
Mr. Bryan continues to ignore the
existence of a statute, passed by the
last Congress, prohibiting corporation
campaign contributions. Mr. Bryan
must have heard of the law by this
time, but his notification speech con
tains an argument that treats the sta
tute with silence.
Democratic editors are to be spe
cial agents in collecting campaign con
tributions for Mr. Bryan's fund. It
will be tough when a farmer whose
subscription is in arrears hands in a
$100 bill for the matchless one with
the silvery voice.
Candidate Engene W. Chafin ought
to take out a policy of insurance
agai'i't-drowning, asphyxiation, hur
ricanes, falling meteors, misguided
bricks, banana peelings, open switch
es, sunstrdke and the frosts of No
vember. . .
Of Interest To Many.
Foley's Bladder Cure will cure any
case of kidney or bladder trouble that
is not beyond the reach of medicine.
No medicine can do more, T. F.
Laurin, Owl Drug Store.
ASTORIA THEATRE. . .
Manager Hanlin begs to announce
to his patrons that for Sunday he has !
secured an extraordinary attraction,
the Cameron Opera Company, includ- i
ing Grace Cameron in the great musi
cal success, "Little Dollie Dimples,"
now in its second year, and which will
be presented with all its wealth of
electrical and scenic splendor.
The company is a large and notable
one, including such names as Harry
Benley, the celebrated mimic, who
has lately been the hit of the "Sam
Houston" production and also with
Thomas Ross in "Checkers"; Musical
Four, a quartette of real musicians,
rendering classical selections on
xylophone, brass quartette, string
and many novel instrument form
one of the added features.
A big electrical dancing specialty,
employing the services of the entire
chorus and the pony ballet, and a
terpsichorean expert, the national
dancer, Emma King, one of the
unique and novel features of the per
formance. The Elm City male quar
tette, will also render a pleasing
specialty.
Miss Cameron is well known to our
theatre-goers who have witnessed her
performance with the Bostonians,
"Foxy Quiller," "When Johnny
Comes Marching Home," "The Ten
derfoot," the "Normandy Wedding,"
"Piff Paff Pouff," and other notable
successes.
It's hardly worth while to tell how
great the bargains will be. Like our
other reductions, Tuesday will be ano
ther surprise party for bargains, and
you should not miss it. We have
practically been giving away goods
at this Fire Sale, and the bargains
yet to come will prove marvelous.
566 Commercial Street
0m
Telephone 1331
DOING THEIR DUTY.
Scores of Astoria Readers Are. Learn
ing the Duty of the Kidneys.
REPORTER OR THIEF.
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Aug. 31.-Ed-ward
Ferris, 61 years old, as arrested
yesterday on suspicion that he was
connected in the recent riot, which
culminated in the lynching of negroes.
The police found in Ferris' room silver
ware on which were engraved the
name of H. T. Loper, whose restaur
ant was attacked by a mob, Ferris
says he is from Mexico, 111., that he is
a journalist, that he came here to
write stories of the riot and of its re
sults, and that he found the silver
ware and kept it as a souvenir.
Grand jury investigations of the riot
will be resumed Monday.
How to Avoid Appendicitis.
Most victims of appendicitis are
those who are habitually constipated,
Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup cures
chronic constipation by stimulating
the liver" and bowels, and restores the
natural action of the bowels. Orino
Laxative Fruit Syrup does not nau
seate or gripe and is mild and pleas
ant:to take. Refuse sugstitutes. T. F.
Laurin, Owl Drug Store.
COFFEE
Five degrees of excel
lence: good; better;
fine; finer;
finest: all Schilling's Best.
Your grocer retursi roar money if rot doo'l
Kkolt: wt par biro
To filter the blood is the kidneys'
duty.
When they fail to do this the kid
neys are sick.
Backache and many kidney ills fol
low;
Urinary trouble, diabetes.
Doan's Kidney Pills cure them all.
A. P. Maney, Hawthorne Terrace,
Portland, Orcg6n, says: "My work
subjects me to much jolting and as a
result my kidneys became disordered,
causing sharp knife-like pains in my
back. This trouble bothered me a
great deal while working and being
desirous to rid myself of it, I decided
to give Doan's Kidney Pills a trial;
procuring a supply I found quick re
lief from their use and finally a com
plete cure. Although this was over
three years ago there has never been
a return of the trouble Since, clearly
showing that when Doan's Kidney
Pills cure, they cure permanently."
Plenty more proof like this from
Astoria people. Call at Charles
Rogers' drug store and ask what cus
tomers report.
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the
United States.
Remember the name Doan's and
take no other.
STEEL & EWART
Electrical Contractors
Phone Main 3881 . . . . 426 Bond Street
We have just received a new line of
The Malleable Eange
See the difference between it aad others in our HARD
WARE WINDOW.
The Foard & Stokes Hardware Co.
How To Get Strong.
P. J. Daly, of 1247 W. Congress St.,
Chicago, tells of a way to become
strong. He says: "My mother, who
is old and was very feeble, is deriving
so much benefit from Electric Bitters,
that I feel it's my duty to tell those
who need a tonic and strengthening
medicine about it. In my mother's
case, a marked gain in flesh has re
sulted, insomnia has been overcome,
and she is steady growing stronger."
Electric Bitters quickly remedy stom
ach, liver and kidney complaints. Sold
under guarantee at Charles Rogers &
Son's drug store. 50c.
They Take The Kinks Out
"I have used Dr. King's New Life
Pills for many years, with increasing
satisfaction. They take the kinks out
of stomach, liver and bowels, without
fuss or friction," says N. II. Brown,
of Pittsfield, Vt. Guaranteed satisfac
tory at Charles Rogers & Son's drug
store. 25c.
Sherman Transier Co.
HENRY f HERMAN, Muu.
Hack, Ctrrisges-Bsfgige Checked and Transferred-Trick aid Firaitwv
. - Wagons-Pianoi Moved, Boxed and Shipped.
4J3 Commercial Strwt . ifaJa Phtat in
Sept. Official Tide Tables
Compiled by the U. S. Government for
Astoria and Vicinity.
8EPTEMBER, 1908.
High Wbter.
Date.
TuesdayT
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
SUNDAY
Monday ;
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday ....... 10
Friday 11
Saturday . . t. . . .12
SUNDAY 13
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Tuesday ..15
Wednesday 16
Thursday 17
Friday ....18
Saturday 19
SUNDAY 20
Monday 21
Tuesday 22
Wednesday 23
WedneMav 23
Thursday ..24
fTiaay 25
eturaay ., 26
SUNDAY 27
Monday ....28
Tuesday ,..,,.,.29
Wednesday .... .10
A. M. I PTm.
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4:50 6.6 4:48 7.0
5:52 6.0 6:39 7.9
7:13 6.7 6:44 7.7
8:45 6.8 7:58 7.8
9:67 6.4 9:12 8.0
10:62 7.0 10:17 8.4
11:38 7.7 11:15 8.8
12:21 8.2
0:09 9.1 12:69 8.7
0:69 9.1 1:38 9.0
1:48 8.9 2:17 9.1
2:87 8.6 2:57 9.0
8:28 8.0 3:88 8.8
4:23 7.2 4:22 8.5
6:26 6.6 6:12 8.0
:40 8.8 6:10 7.7
8:04 6.2 7:17 7.4
9:18 6.6 8:28 7.8
10:15 6.9 9:33 7.3
10:58 7.3 10:27 7.6
11:83 7.6 11:13 7.8
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2:22 7.7 2:21 8.4
3:03 7.4 2:53 8.4
8:48 7.0 8:29 8.8
8EPTEMBER, 1908.
Low Water.
Date.
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Wednesday
Thursday .......
Friday
Saturday
SUNDAY
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday .....
Thursday
Friday .. n
Saturday 12
SUNDAY ......13
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Tuesday ...... ,.15!
Wednesday 10
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Friday 18
Saturday 19
SUNDAY ......20
Monday 21
Tuesday 22
Wednesday 23
Thursday 24
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SUNDAY .
Monday ....
Tuesday ...
Wednesday
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...27
...28
...291
...80
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