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THE WEATHER
Oregon and Idaho Fair.
Washington Fair and cooler in
northeast and warmer in southwest.
ALL IS NOT TOLD.
When the Astoria Council-Charter
Committee tells the people that the
sum of cost for the sea-wall will be
$300,000, and that $300,000 more will
cover the cost of filling in the front
age, and stop there, there is a feel
ing that they are not stating the limit
nor making a comprehensive estimate
of the probable costs of the enter
prise; that they have fallen short in
the duty of making clear the wide
range of auxilliary expense insepar
able from the undertaking. And even
the lump-estimates alluded to above
are based only upon rough and un
expert findings; there is no trained
and scientific computation behind ei
ther of them, because, forsooth, the
Committee "does not need an engi
neer to tell it about the cost of driv
ing piles," Mere vagrant and flagrant
appraisments of this sort are not go
ing to satisfy the small group of
property owners in this small city
that they should enter upon a scheme
of improvement costing nearly a
round million of money, without the
sanction of qualified and adept con
firmation; there must be something
more -tangible and acceptable than
this to bolster so great and essential
an effort; the whole array of expendi
ture must be submitted with some de
gree Of reliability, raised upon find
ings wrought from some other source
than happy enthusiasm.
It is rare indeed that such a pub
lic venture has been carried the length
this one has; to the very compilation
of the bill providing for it; to the
very act of public submission; with
out the calling in of tried and respon
sible engineers; without the render
ing of exact and comprehensive es
timates of every phase of cost as it
attaches, not alone to the original es
say, but to the collateral lines of im
provement that are indispensable. It
is as extraordinary as it is danger
ous, and the absence of all these
things must prove, long before the
work is half done, that haste and ir
responsible calculations are of poor
avail in so grave a matter, so big a
project.
We would ask the Commitee to give
us some idea of the cost, and neces
sity, of changing (raising) the pres
ent system of grades, and the con
sequent elevation of the streets, and
buildings, and sewers, to the new lev
els of from two to nine feet, but we
are filled to repletion with flimsy rec
konings, of the sort, and would much
prefer to have the report of a repu
table engineer in this instance, as
well as in relation to the primary
proposition. We do not dare attempt
such a calculation ourselves and we
doubt if there is nerve enough to
compass it outside the enthusiastic
coterie of gentlemen comprising the
present Charter Committee. None of
these things have been provided for,
nor accounted . .apparently, in ... the
prospectus of the Committee; but
they will not down, however persist
ently they are ignored; they must be
attended to before one single act is
done in behalf of the great work of
the sea-wall; or posterity will damn
us infinitely, let alone the cursing we
will all live to realize at the hands of
our fellows upon whom we shall im
pose so "half-baked" a proposition as
a sea-wall in front of a choked sew
age system.
COFFEE
Why doesn't your gro
cer" moneyback every
thing? Can't get the goods or
the money.
Tou rroeer return! your money if ft tort
Bu ScbiUinr'i Beit; vt pay him
No man knows, as yet, what we
are to have; of what quality the im
provement is to be; whether it is to
be a mere bulkhead of piling, a rock
way, a cement wall; but these things
are immaterial so long as the funda
mental questions of grades and sew
erage are ignored. And without de
precating Xhe scheme itself nor dis
crediting the work and ardor of the
Committee we beg, for the sake of the
Astoria public in general, and its tax
payers in particular, that the Com
mittee turn its attention to these re
qisites and get its colleagues of the
Concil to assist it in formulating
some plan and estimate touching the
new grades which are, above all
things else, an imperative basis for
the sea-wall itself.
TODAY-TOMORROW.
We would respectfully remind the
great group of men in Washington
and Oregon nearest to the salmon
fisheries, that there is a tomorrow in
the industry as well as a today; that
today's patience, foresight, restraint
and admirable good sense,-is tomor
row's capital in the business; that
pitiful jealousies and foolish acts, in
the name of the law, or beyond it,
will not compensate for a ruined en
terprise or make good wanton losses.
Tomorrow is the -most essential
consideration in this behalf.
Today we can meet the weight of
discomfort, denial, loss, if we do it
so we may devise against its repeti
tion. That is the main end in view
with all interested in .the Columbia
fisheries, or should be; and it were
well for the men holding the prepon
derance of influence in the craft to
exercise it promptly, even to the re
fusal to buy and pack fish. It is go
ing to take heroic steps to avert trou
ble and the sooner they are taken the
sooner the crisis will be reached and,
possibly, circumvnted.
Tomorrow we will need the great
industry as much, or more, than to
day, and folly never fore-stalled a
saving, in this nor any other"' behalf.
There are none to measure the losses
in this connection so accurately as
those upon whom they shall fall, nor
are there any to move with more cir
cumspection and . effectiveness than
they, the fisherman, the canner, the
packer, the broker, the men next and
nearest the great business. If they
cannot save it to themselves and the
country, perhaps it were better to let
it go; since the spirit that will calm
ly witness the disintegration of a fine
industry is unamenable to its rights
and profits. But this we do not be
lieve. DECIDE YOURSELF.
The Opportunity Is Here, Backed by
Astoria Testimony.
Don't take our word for it.
Don't depend on a stranger's state
ment " ' . t ' ' : ;
Read Astoria endorsement.''
Read the statements of Astoria
citizens. . ' ' '",
And decide for yourself.
Here is one case of it:
J. Pedersen, a longshoreman, living
at 613 Commercial street, Astoria,
Ore., says: "For 20 years I was af
flicted with kiddney trouble. I suf
fered a great deal from pain in the
small, of the back and was continual
ly tired and nervous. I had occasion
al headaches, and also a blurring of
the eyesight. Every time I took cold
it settled in the kidneys and added to
my troubles, the secretions at audi
times being irregular and containing
sediment. My rest was much dis
turbed at night on this account. I
began taking Doan's Kidney Pills
procured at Charles Rogers & Son's
drug store and found unexpected re
lief for which I am very thankful."
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New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name Doan's and
take no other.
Young women are often (Treat
sufferers for want of proper advice
at just the right timo.
Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn. Mass., has
always issued to young girls a apeo-
Sl invitation to write to her about
eir sickness. She is a mother,
and fully understands.,
In nine chances out of ten your
ease will he just the same as those ol
the young ladies whose letters follow.
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Miss Abby F. Barrows, of Nelson,
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"When I wrot to yon I wu rery
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and wu very irregular. Doctors did me
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Miss Elsie L Hook, of Chelsea,
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pound and your advice have cured me
of sideacbe, periodic pains, and a ner
vous, irritable condition after every
thing elae had failed."
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
.For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
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from roots and herbs,has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
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women who have been troubled with
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A Traveling Man's Experience.
"I must tell you my experience on
an east bound O. R. & N. R. R. train
from Pendleton to Le Grande, Ore."
writes Sam A. Garber, a well known
traveling man. "I was in the smok
ing department with some other trav
eling men when one of them went out
into the coach and came back and
said, 'There is a woman sick untc
death in the car.' I at once got up
and went out, found her very ill with
cramp colic, her hands and arms were
drawn up so you could not straight
en them, and with a death-like look
on her face. Two or three ladies were
working with her and giving her
whiskey. I went to my suitcase and
got my bottle of Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy (1
never travel without it), ran to the
water-tank, put a double dose of the
medicine in the glass, poured some
water into it and stirred it with a
pencil; then I had quite a time to get
the ladies to let' me give it to her, bu1
I succeeded. I could at once see the
effect and I worked with her, rubbing
her hands, and in 20 minutes I gave
her another dose. By this time we
were almost into Le Grande, where 1
was to leave the train. I gave the
bottle to the husband to be used in
case another dose should be needed,
but by the time the train ran into Le
Grande she was all right, and I re
ceived the thanks ot every passenger
in the car." For sale by Frank Hart
and leading druggists.
Good For Biliousness.
"I took two of Chamberlain's Stom
ach and Liver Tablets last night, and
I feel SO per cent better than I have
for weeks, says J. J. Firestone, of
Allegan, Mich. "They are certainly a
fine article for biliousness." For sale
by Frank Hart and leading druggists.
Best Treatment For a Burn.
If for no other reason, Chamber;
Iain's Salve should be kept in every
household on account of its great
value in the treatment of burns. Il
allays the pain almost instantly, and
unless the injury is a severe one, heals
the parts without leaving a scar.
This salve is also unequaled for chap
ped hands, sore nipples and diseases
of the skin. Price, 25 cents. For sale
by Frank Hart and leading druggists.
Don't be afraid to give Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy to your chil
dren. It contains no opium or other
harmful drug. It always cures. For
sale by Frank Hart and leading drug
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New York News Letter
NEW YORK, Sept. 18.-Ncver in
recent years has the fear of lire driven
this city to the emergency precau
tions which are to-dr.y being put into
force by the authorities An army of
detectives is quietly being pouted
throughout every crowded block on
the island, while watchmen, police
men and janitors are receiving in
structions for sleepless watch against
the fire-bugs, who have terrorized
not only the tenement districts, but
the whole community. With a re
cord of a score of incendiary blazes
a day in localities all about town dur
ing the pat week, the fireman is
straining at the tap of the gong and
the policeman is, at his wits end to
capture the bold band of pyromaniacs.
While every New Yorker knows that
no braver, better men ever stood in
shoe leather than the fire laddies of
his crackerjack force, the memory of
the shameful handicap of rotten hose
which politics has imposed on them
is still fresh in the public mind. No
one can tell to-day what extreme this
fiery carnival may lead; but every one
is eager for the capture -of the mys
terious fiends whose work it is.
Enveloped in a cloud of dust and
mortar, the disfigured facades of ex
clusive Fifth Avenue are a sorry sight
to-day as the city has finally begun
its gigantic task of splitting a few
feet wider the famous thoroughfare
of fashion. Pillars, porches, bal
conies, railings and steps that for
merly made up the ornate decorative
scheme of the fronts of the oldest and
most handsome buildings in the me
tropolis are being ruthlessly knocked
into ugly heaps of brick and brown
stone. The neat curb that for gener
ations has outlined the greatest pa
rade of fashion in the world has for
the first time been broken to bits and
strewn with the sidewalk flagging
back toward the base of the dismem
bered house fronts. Select Fifth Ave-
nue to-day has begun to bear a close
resemblance to a waste of brick yard
and it will be many a long day before
even a show of return to its old order
can be restored. To reshape the mile
of structures so pitilessly shaven and
shorn it is conceded will be the work
of a whole winter. .
Pumpkins, poultry, preserves, pigs
and pies are only some of , the real
farm products which rural Gotham is
to-day exhibiting with pride at the
county fair in the limits of the me
tropolis. Over on Staten Island,
where there is plenty of farm land
miles within boundar'es of Greater
New York, the city-country inhabi
tants have this year set up as genuine
a fair as can be found within the
slate. Trotting, judging and exhibit
ing is going on briskly within a twen
ty minutes' ride from Wall Street and
side shows swarm the crowded fair
Smile All the While
Look at healthy children look at
excesses of life to-day
food drink braces up
strengthens the body and enthuses
the brain into perfect activity
besides it pleases the palate,
too.
30 cups
of a delicious
drink
25c
ground to the delight of the metrop
olitan agriculturists. The entrance
grounds, where touring cars are pack
ed thickly by the hundred, are the on
ly clue to the comedy of the affair,
which New Yorkers are finding much
more to their taste just now than all
the' amusement of the Great White
Way.
In spite of the few remaining hard
times croakers, the splendid showing
of labor, employed and sturdy, on its
annuo 1 parade is regarded to-day as
a sure sign of mending business, Rank
by rank and squad by squad, New
Yorkers have watched as big and
hearty a body of wage earners step
in view as has ever been seen on any
Labor Day here. Someone must have
work and wages for this great army
of contented looking laborers, it is
argued, and every group of them
must mean some flourishing industry.
The much-heralded demonstration of
the unemployed felL flat, for the im
pfe reason that the men with jobs out
numbered the men without, a hundred
to one. Labor lias taught a lesson to
the reviving metropolis by this parade
and each day confidence increases by
leaps and bounds.
Now that the Foley Feast is over,
the women and children of the tene
ments have lost interest in politics
'till next year. This great gathering
of the lower East Side crowds, as
guests of the open hearted Sheriff Fo
ley, has for years been the one bright
spot in the lives of a host of mothers
and children of the poorer quarters.
"Big Tom" is worshipped as friend
as well as boss of his people, and to
all who will apply Jie has as usual
doled out ice-cream, entertainment
and cheer with a lavish, hand. One
glimpse at the beatific faces of the
weather-worn families, of the slum
after their day with the "big feller"
is convincing every one that their are
some things in politics that are really
well worth while, .
THEIR BIG SKYSCRAPER.
Chicago Association Of Commerce
Will Have $700,000 Building. ...
CHICAGO, Sept. 18. The next
skyscraper building to be erected in
Chicago will be the $700,000 fourteen
story Chicago Association of Com
merce building at the Southeast Cor
ner of, Jackson Boulevard and Ply
mouth Court. This announcement e
voked prolonged cheering from the
957 members of the Association gath
ered in the banquet hall of the Audi
torium Hotel last night in celebra
tion of the fourth grand rally of the
organization. ' . . .
The announcement was made by
David B. Morgan,- chairman of the
special committee to determine a ite
the healthy
wards off the
ocoa
the system
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for a permamcnt home for the Asso
ciation. The Iim floor will be give.) over to
shops and Mores, the second floor to
offices, the third and fourth to large
banquet halls, capable of seating 600
persons each; the fifth floor will be
the headquarters of the association of
Commerce the sixth the committee
and club room of the organization
and the remaining upper floors to of
fice and various other purposes.
FOR COAST DEFENSES.
NEW YORK, Sept. 18,-Two mine
planters may be sent to' the Pacific
Coast to augment the Coast defences
there, according to the present plans
of the war department. The mine
planters tentatively selected are Gen.
Henry Junt, now at Fort Wadsworth
and Colonel Geo. Armistcad at Fort
Hancock, Sandy Hook. Brig, Gen. Ar
thur Murphy, chief ot Coast Artillery,
is here to arrange for their departure.
They may leave with the fleet of the
lighthouse department next Saturday.
UPHOLDS OLD LAW.
LANSING, Mich., Sept. 18.-An
opinion filed yesterday by the Michi
gan Supreme Court sustained the con
stitutionality of the maximum freight
law of 1872, which has been ignored
by the railroads as absolute and dc
nontinced by them as unjust, unrea
sonable and confiscatory. The law
provides a fixed rate for carrying
freight in carload lots for short dis
tances, a rate of eight dollars for
transporting a car ten miles being
provided regardless of the character
of the freight.
ALL FOR THE BIRDS.
' REDDING, Cal., Sept. 18,-By an
order of President Roosevelt, about
70,000 acres of land adjoining the Oregon-California
line is to be set aside
as a reservation' for the propagation
and protection of all native birds. The
order includes all land not suitable
for agricultural purposes and prohib
its the taking or destruction of nests
or the killing of native birds of any
description. The land described is pro
bably the greatest breeding ground in
the world for water fowl of many
species. ; ' ,
TO CONTROL APPLE MARKET
Fruit Growers of Walla Walla Valley
Meet and Regulate Prices, Etc,
WALLA WALLA, Sept., 18,-For
the purpose of organizing the apple
growers' combination, which is cal
culated to advance the present price,
of Walla Walla Valley apples and to
successfully combat any advances in
transportation rates, a special meeting
of all fruit men from this valley will
be held here Pn Monday.
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