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-K ....vWl'',W',i"n'"'1'?W'',',' SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1908 THE MOBNJNG ASTORLAN. ASTORIA, OllKGON. Establiahed 187). Published Daily Except Monday by THE J. S. DELLINGER CO - i, , , .. ; SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mad, per year By carrie-, per month . WEEKLY ASTORIAN. $7.00 .60 About the only thing left for the. Uncle. Adlal E. Stevenson to do i, to join a golf club. Thanks should be included to the drought for holding off until the bit crop of 1908 were made. China's 400,000,tXX) will be glnd to learn that the president elect in the United States is known as the great pacificator. Entered as second-class matter July 30, 1906, a the postofrice at As toria, Oregon, ender the act I Congress of March 3, 1879. , Orders for the delivering of The Morning Astortan to either residence or place of business may be made bypostal .card or through telephone. Any irregularity in delivery ahould be immediately reported to th office of publication. ' , - . 7 ; i TELEPHONE MAIN 61. THE WEATHER Oregon. WasbingtoB and Idaho Generally fair. YOUR SAY, MR. TAXPAYER. We people, and newspapers, and candidates, and partisans, and semi- political champions, and opponents, may have a good deal to say in rela tion to the coming city election, but. at last, it is up to yon, Mr. Taxpayer, to say who, and what, shall be put Into office and administrative effect, and none of as may gainsay yonr decision for an Instant i You are the ones to declare whether Astoria shall atop at one million of public indeb tedness, begin retrenching, and re Tert to wholesome business methods or whether she shall take on ths second million and proceed with the ruinous program of non-essentials and the blasting cost thereof! There are enough of yon, the Lord knows, to "take the bit in your mouth" and qualify the entire situa tion; save yourselves from farther involvement and financial stress, quite irrespective of party lines and party prejudices and the game is yours either way you desire to play it As your agents and representa tives and friends, the above-named string of interlopers, and advocates, are doing what they think is best for you, but you know your own busi ness best; and if you think the City of Astoria and you who pay her bills, can stand for a few years more of trimming down on realty value and another million or two of public charges without enhancing the com mercial and industrial tip-lift of the place, why, it is tip to you to give impulse and sanction to the scheme. Of course, we boosters are doing the regulation stunt of advising and posting you and keeping you in touch with the sentiment of the hour, but you responsible, paying people, do not have to listen to us. You have the property right in your own hands; it is yours to govern as you please, to save or swamp or hypothecate irredeemiably to the fu ture of debt and interest, no matter what we think about it. Yes, Mr. Taxpayer, you are to have your way on the 9th of next month. GO TO ITI! Mr. Rockefeller's autobiography indicates tnat maicing a tonune ui everal hundred millions i a job singularly devoid f incident. MINUS? OR PLUS? About so often every organized community is called upon to do a sum in simple arithmetic. Astoria is struggling with her little conundrum of plus or minus, and must hand in her answer on the 9th of December. The arithmetical play . of "division" goes on uninterruptedly, anyhow, and has been for some time past; about 10 years past It is a plain question of adding another million dollars to her public obligations by the election of men committed unreservedly to that pro gram; or standing pat at the million now lodged against her on the pub lic records, and "attempting its reduc tion by the due course of practical business, by electing Samuel Elmore and the Republican candidates set up by the people here who believe they have about all the burdens they can stand in that line. Our future is as preciously import ant as our past ever was; and as well worth saving, as the past was of negation and debt and mis-rule. Just why the city should be chained down to the blunders (and worse) of the past has not been sat isfactorily explained to any of us, as set, and we are curious to see the answer that is to be given to the "example" now being worked out by the taxpayers of Astoria. BAR AND RIVER. One of te immense and living issues of the day, and of the years to come, is the opening of the great Columbia Valley to the commerce of the world by way of its own glor ious river. We intend to take but one ground in the premise, and that is, for the creation, and endless maintenance, of a deep commercial channel from the sea-lines of the Columbia bar to the uttermost in land reach of the great stream. To us, this is the only policy that can redound to the greatest good of the greatest number within the sphere of the development that is sought and which must come inevitably. Naturally, we believe it is primar ily essential to get the ships within the river, and that therefore the bar is the first and supreme element of consideration and effort For a 100 foot channel from here to the Snake would be of mighty little avail if the sea-barrier met it with a paltry 30 feet With 40 or SO feet on the bar, maintained steadily by jetty and dredge there would follow a cam paign for those depths in the river from a thousand points in the huge territory to be served. Nor do we believe that the State of Oregon, the Port of Portland, nor any other great local agency should bear the brunt of the effort and cost of opening and expanding this na tional artery. It may need the sharp lesson of a Pacific war to warn and warm the government of the United States in this behalf; and grateful as we are for what millions have been expended by Uncle Sam on the jet ties and the upper-river, we insist that he has but begun the system of practical and devoted " interest that the project demands at his hands as one of the primest of the prime things he is fathering. Missouri will occupy a prominent place in the inaugural parade of March 4. Xo more of the Bourbon eclipse for the most central of the states. In its attempt to shake up the United States, Oklahoma has had no better success than that of Sena tor Jeff Davis of Arkansas in caus ing the United State Senate to t-r-r-emple on its foundations. The Attantic Deeper Waterways Association has been in session in Baltimore in behalf of inside coast channets. All the 46 states are now pulilng for permanent deep channels. Congress will hear a great deal about the subject during the next year. The apple growers of the States of Oregon and Washington have built up a large and profitable busi ness by the most careful culture of their orchards and the attractive packng of the fruit for market. Last year some of the apple producers of the Northwest made money enough out of the crop to pay for their farms. Tragedy Luckily Prevented. What might have been a serious tragedy was narrowly prevented tv the confession of a young lady. One of the sailors had become so enamor ed of the captain's daughter that he found life unbearable, and was about to commit suicide, when the young lady decided to brave her father's anger and marry him in spite of all opposition. It all ended happily, as all comic operas do, and "Pinafore" is no exception to the rule. Don't fail to see it at the Astoria Theatre, Thursday and Friday evening, Dec. 3rd and 4th. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. Us Kind Yea Han Always Ec:fJ Bears the . Ciguatera of AT THE BAKERON Coming Sunday Matinee 'etie..-Joeie x i Something fun'ay Coin e and lan'gtf'witli us ' ! ; : One of the Comedy Acts of the. Season. ,, ,. ; Miss Francis Gray , V, ' in Pictorial Songs " t Admission 10c. - - Seats Free J OUR EARLY STATESMEN. anree'e Expansion Vi.we and Madi son's Population Gucea. Some of our early statesmen were tot erpausloulsta. Washington was pposed to assuming the ownership of lh Mississippi river, and James Mon roe when a member of the Virginia nventlon In 17S8 argued n gainst the idoptlon of the federal constitution for feographlcal reasons. "Consider," be laid, "the territory lying between the ft.Uao.Uc ocean and the Mississippi. Its extent far exceeds that of the Serman empire. It Is larger than any territory that ever was under any one free government. It Is too extensive to be governed but by a despotic mon ircby." And this from the man who thirty years later was elected president jf the United States extended fur lc fond the Mississippi and who became the author of the IMonroe doctrine." A year after the adoption of the con itltutlon James Madison thought he was making a bold guess "when he wtimated that the" population of the wuntry might, "In some years," dou ble In number and reach 6,000,000. He lived to see far beyond that. Tel It Is true that for a number of years the population waa largely confined to the original thirteen colonies. In 1789, when the constitution was adopted, New York city had 33,000 inhabitants. In 1817 It had 115,000, Philadelphia 112,000, Baltimore 65,000, Boston 10, 000, Providence 10,000, Hartford 8,000, Pittsburg 7,000, Cincinnati 7,000 and Bt. Loula 8.500. Chicago was but a fort, and Indianapolis was an unbroken wilderness. The country was not rrowded yet Exchange. , i. Pompeii and Herculanaum. , Pompeii was burled In ashes and was easily dhilnterrcd, while Herculaneum received the full force of the crimson lava, which hardened rapidly to the consistency of marble and must be quarried In order to reach the city be neath. Owing to this difficulty only a small amount of excavating has been done In Herculanaum as compared with that whl'.'h ha taken place at Pompeii. 1 In addition, another town sprang up o;i the lava above flercu laneum, v.hlch would have been en dangwtd by the undermining neces sary to exploration with pick and shovel. New York American. THE PRICE CF PEPPER. t Helped e Chance the Hitter of tha Old World. lt the elxtivnt'i cvntury nil the pep or consumed tit Kuitlaml was bought r the Kujjllsli 'tuerehnntH from the MWh, who Intwght It from India. wljt to raolnl Joultuiny, the Dutch .radora ttt i:m miwtl the cost from $ tltllHiiga to 0 BhltliutM per pound. Hits petty display of 111 feeling caused Mnldtrahl annoyance- to the Kngllxu jicrr-naiita and aroused In them thai iVIItig of Independence which has al ways bevii so characteristic of our They determined to Import their pe- per direct from India lu tlielf owu ships and for thta purpose formed a Mtmpany,. Vailed tb litivemur aud Company uf Merc hunts of t.ouhm Trading to the Knat Indies, which In hitter days Ucam eventually known as tie Kast India company. Their first voyrgosi embroiled them !n almost Innumerable Quarrels With the IHitch aud Portuguese, aud for a time the venture proved fluamtal failure. It was not until 1015 that the company' became successful and obtained lucrative treaties, Offing to their decisively defeating the Portu guese. Prom this time ou their powewiloiia gradually Wereasod, slowly at first and then very rapidly, uutll, by the wise aud beneltclal management of such meu as Cllve. Warren flastlngs aud Cornwallla, they exercised sover eignty over the. greater portion of In dia. In this mauuer It happened that an Increase In the price of pepper momen tously affected the history of man-klnd.-Lomlnu Standard. About Due. A' country woman residing near the town of fcllro, thinking her husband was rather lute In coming home on Saturday with hi pay, went to the police office 'to Inquire. If he was there "Is Pat here" slid asked. "No," replied the constable, "but 'Hit down. We're expecting him every min ute." London Oplnlca. ' ; When Bill Took Hla Oiscnaif. The Powder Manufacturer-Fancy old Bill of all people going luto the gunpowder shed with a lighted candle. I should have thought that that would be the last thing he'd do. The Workman - Which, properly cpeaklu', It were, slr.-Sketch. Knew What to Expect Walter flow will you turn yonr steak, sir? Guest-Have you the same steak yon had last week? Walter-Yea. air. Guest-Then I'll probably have It burned. Boston Post yvupj tgs Elixirsf8erina Gets fientlyyet prompt ly on me boweUcleanses me system ejjectually. assists one in overcoming Habitual constipation permanently. To get its beneficial ejects buy tke genuine. nanulacturcd by the CALIFORNIA jacSxHijpCo. SOLD BIT HADING DRUCGiSTS-KMBOTTU O A WOMAN'S WORK v &i( JMIIi .YDiA, E. P1NKHAM VnfiiNi am! wnman'a wnrV AT& ki.,.i li.n-.i miwliiiwi! tlin DTundrst ronwdy for woman's Ills tlurt Uie n-ni'M haa ever Known. Ia tha good old-fuahloned dayt of our granuiMouters uiev nunm wu the roots and herbs of the field to cure disease &nd mitigate suffering. Tt, Ttwiliina nn nnr eaurn uu a, ... ...... .... Pttitna ti-,lnv ran nrrwlurtt MM1M arid ft ... 4 W J " -' w " ncrbg ior every- wimcni, ewu iuo dweases that baffle the most skilled physicians, who have spent yers in tha at ad v of druea. Vnn, tha wmll onil VlArVi at tha fl..l,t T,-,ll V llnVhnm more than uviu y m .. thirty yeain ago gave to the women 01 uie worm a renioay iur vwu ihj- Miilitt f Ilia TtAM clous than any combination of drugs. Lydia Kv nnkham's Vegetable Compound Is now recognized as ths standard remedy for woman's Ills. Mrs. Berlha Muff, of 615 N.C. BK, Louisiana, Mo, writes: M Complete restoration to health means so mnon to ma iur tu. of other suffering women I am wuung "For twelve years I had been suffer l. l,k tl.a wnrat trmmn1 frmkls tilt. During that time I bad eleven different physicians wltliout neip. ro tongue tu T ,iffrft unit at tlmea 1 UU V- ' ' " ' " " " - - "I - could hanlly walk. About two years t . .. rr. Pnl,lim for futvliw I followed It, and can truly aay that L.yuia Cm l IUKuama rguw.uio wih Mr. lMnkhaiua advice re- atored health and strenith. It I worth mountains of gold to suffering women. What I.vdia E. Plnkham's Yens table Coniiun(t did for Mrs. Mull, It wuTdo for ouuir sunuruig woiucil CHICKEN TAMALES EVERY WEDNESDAY AND . SATURDAY EVENING HOME-MADE, and of the choicest ingredients; put up under supervis ion that guarantees their perfect freedom from all deleterious matter. MRS. F. WOOLLEY 284 Tenth Street Between Exchange and Franklin. Watched Fifteen Years, "For fifteen years I have watched the working of Bucklcn's Arnica Salve; and it has never failed to cure any sore, boil, ulcer or burn to which it was applied. It has saved us many a doctor bill," says A. F. Hardy, of Pat Wiltnn. Maine. 25c at Charles IT'S A GOOD THING TO REFER to the reputation of a store before making" any important purchases therein. Before you buy is the time to look up the matter. Ask questions. Find out if the store you intend pa tronizing keeps its pledges. Be sure that you learn if it sells the qualities it claims; if it treats ts customers honestly and fairly, then, if satisfied, buy there. Do all the asking you wish about us among your - friends, and that you will result in your com fng here regularly. Come in and see our $125 Kitchen Range. Foard l Win Mm "THE BIG STORE." AMUSEMENTS. AstoriaTheatre F. M. Hanlin, Lessee and Manager Sunday, Nov. 29 Joe Weber's Big Musical Girl Play D 1 I Only All Rail Route to Portland and sit Eastern Fulnti. Two daily trains. Steamship tickets vis sll Ocean Unti st Loweat Rts. For rates, steamship snd sleeping ear reservation, tall on or Address i f O. B. JOHNSON, OeiVI Agent? J 2th St, near Commercial St. ASTORIA, OREOOM. BWsamxfciiJauL. -tu. jist .xu "t-'i'W FINANCIAL rse . . i n I r ft i . urst national uanK oi nswia DIRECTORS' Jacob Kamm W.F. McGregor u..u. avbu J, VV. IADD 15. O. OOKDUN CapitAl ,........$100,000 Surplus 23,000 3 i StockholdcVs1 Liability 100,000 KHTAMUSHKn 18ml, With the Germans of quality Rice and Cody Merriest of all musical plays, - direct from New York A host of College b y and Girls Prices. $1.50, 1.00,75c.50c,25c ..Astoria Theatre.. Thurs. and Friday Evenings Dec. 3 and 4 The Comic Opera H.M.S. PINAFORE Martin K. Robinson,Director Benefit cf Astoria High . , School , ' Sung and Acted ;) ' ' ' IN' COSTUME " " by 50 Leading Singers' of' As toria 50 " v' ' Prices, 25c, 50c and 75c Seats at box office J. Q. A. BOWLBY, President J. W. GARNER Assistant Cashier O. I. PETERSON, Vlce-Preaident FRANK PATTON, Csabler ASTORIA SAVINGS BANK CAPITAL AND SURPLUS S232.C23 Tranucts a Oeneral Bankini Bushuss Intersst Paid oo Time Depoe'ti Four Per Cent. Per Annum k Eleventh and Duane Sis. Aatoria. Oregon SCANDINAVIAN-AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK ASTORIA, OREGON OUR MOTTO: "Safety Supercedes AH Other ConatderstW Shennan Transier Co. HENRY IHKRMAM, Manager. Hacks. Carriages-Baggage Checked and Tranalerred-Tmcka ts4 Farmltare Wagooe-IHanoa Moved, Boaed and Shipped. 4M Commercial Street " - M.ta Pfcee I i THE TRENTON First-Class Liquors and,Cigars C03 Commercii) Street Corner Commercial and 14th. ASTORIA. OREQON MMMMIIIIMMMIMIIMIMIMMHIMMIIMMKMl SCO! M BRASS & 11 WORKS AHTOKIA. OltF.CON Iron and Brass Founders, Land and Marine Engineers Up-to-Date Sawmill Machinety, Prompt attention given to all repair lth and Franklin Ave. work. TeL Main 24(11 STEEL & E WART Electrical Contractors Phone Main 3881 . . . . 426 Bond Street John Fo. Pres.. F. L Bishop, Sec. Astoria Savlnn B'mt, Treai Nelson Troyer, Vice-Pres. and Supt ASTORIA IRON WORKS , ' DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS ! ' OF THE LATEST IMPROVED . . . , i ' Canning Machinery, Marine Engines and Boilers COMPLETE CANNERY OUTFITS SURNTfiHen.. Correspondence Solicited. . ", .' .-: Foot of Foaxth Street TIDE TABLE FOR NOVEMBER NOVEMBER, 1908. High Watar. ' ATI Data. f h.m. SUNDATf.i,, 6:60 2 7:68 Tuosday .- 8 8:68 Wednesday i 9:47 ThurKday 610:83 Friday 6 11:17 Saturday .- 711: 67 HtJNDAT S 0:45 Monday 9 1:82 Tuesday , . lu 8:17 Wednesday 11 8:03 Thursday 13 1:61 Friday . 13 4:42 Saturday .,...,,..14 6:81 SUNDAY ' ......16 fl:24 Monday .'.,,;,. It 7:19 Tuesday .., 17 8:11 Wednesday IS 8:66 Thursday.,....;. 19 9:37 Friday ,,v 2010:18 Saturday ,.,...,21 10:69 SUNDAY 2211:84 Monlay .2.1 0:83 Tuesday ,.24 1:17 Wednesday 25 2:08 Thursday 20 2:60 Friday 27 8:88 Saturday 28 4:27 SUNDAY .... ..29 6:23 Monday 80 8:23 t.S 6.8 7.8 7.9 8.3 8.9 9.3 8.0 7.7 7.4, 6.9 6.7l .5 6.6: 6.6! 8.71 7.0 7.4: 7.8! 8.2 8.6 9.0 7.3 7.4 7.4i 7.2 7.1 7.0 7.1 7.3 P. M. h.m. 6:06 7:841 8:66 10:06 11:03 11:67: 128 1:11 1:47 2 : 2 r.l 3:05 8:47 4:36 6:87 6:48 8:04 9:12 10:10 11:00 11:48 12:09 12:46 1:24 2:05 2:60 8:42 4:43 6:58 ft 7.8 7.0 7.1 7.6 7.9 8.0 i'.i 9.6 9.8 8.9 8.8 7.7 7.1 t.t 6.2 6.1 6.8 6.7 1.9 7.2 M 9.8 9.1 9.1 8.8 8.8 7.6 7.0 NOVEMBER, 1908. !w Water. Date. SUNDAY ,; Monday Tuesday , , , , WodnoHday Thursday ,,, Friday ...... Haturday ,. , KUNDAY '.. Monday Tuosday , . , Wednesday , rrnuraOAy ... j' riuay iKalunlny SUNDAY'",.'..1. 1 Monday ;,,,,,, TunHlay , Wednesday iThurntey . Frl'lay f Palurday BUNDAYli.,,., Monday Tuesday .'.V.'l.V WednssJay ..n iThuraday ...... 'Friday I Saturday SUNDAY Monday , AM. h.m. I ft, 0.8 1.0 1.8 1.8 1.5 1.8 8.2 2.7 8.0 8.8 8.8 4.0 1.4 1.7 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.8 2.5 2.7 63 2.8' (.11 8.8 8.6 8 8.7 h.m, 12:361 3: Oiil 8:21 4:13 6:06 6:64 6:40 7:22 8:05 8:46 9:27 10:08 10:63 11:89 12:25 1:42 2:88 8:32 4:20 6:02 6:42 6:20 6:68 7:87 8:18 9:02 9:60 10:42 11:88 12:84 oil 0.4 0.8 -0.9 -0.8 0.4 0.1 0.6 1.0 4.0 8.1 u 8.0 1.8 0.4 0.1 0.7 l.t -1.1 -1.0 -0.7 -0.3 0.8 8.4