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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-10-04

1t was chance, perhaps, that led the
members OF the Rivers and Harbors
committee OF the House to inspect the
Great Lakes at time when all records
in transportation for a month had just
broken. According to report just is
sued by the Department OF Commerce
and Labor, commercial movements on
the lakes in August reached the enor
nous total of l2,591,s66 net tons-the
greatest monthly total ever recorded by
the Bureau OF Statistics. The rapid
growth of this traffic is seen in the
fact that the August traffic was 10 per
cent greater than that of August OF last
year and more than 81 per cent in ex-
cess of the figures of 1905. This remark,
able increase is due to the improve
ments to harbofs, docks and channels
made both by the federal government
and the state governments. 1t already
has gone far toward paying for all
expenditures in the amount of freight
saved to shippers. The wheat, iron and
coal that has been carried in the bot
toms OF lake freighters, if sent by rail,
would have cost the people OF the United
States nine times as much in freight.
This is what the National Rivers and
Harbors Congress long has contended,
and time is proving the correctness OF
its argument. Water transportation is
the greatest regulator OF freight rates.
and if the organizations demand that
the government eXptnd $500OOOO0 a
year in prosecuting this work is ac-
ceded to, the rate question will be solv-
ed naturally and without friction in
courts or legislatures.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-10-04

Senator Burkett, OF Nebraska, made a
flying trip to the capital this week for
the purpose of seeing President Roose-
ve1t before he left for his trip down
the Mississippi. The Senator attended
to several matters with the depart
ments. He will leave for his home state
in time to take part in the fall cam
paign, for he is anxious to see that his
friend, Judge Reese, is elected to the
Nebraska Supreme Court. Early in the
summer Senator Bnrkett visited the
Pacific Coast, and he reports the senti-
ment there as very strong in favor OF
absolute exclusion of the japanese. As
for politics, he is authority for the state
ment that never before has there been
time when sentiment in favor of the
administration ran SO high.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-10-04
New Grocery Store.

Try our own mixture Of cofee-the
J, p. b. Fresh fruit and vegetables.
Babollet L Co. grocers. Phone Main
1881
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-10-04

The Liberty Bell Social Club will give
another one OF their popular dances Sat
urday evening October 5th, at Logan's
Hall. Excellent music.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-10-04
$500 Saved by Buying Tickets
at Astoria. See CIV. Roberts,
Agent, 0. R. & N. Dock.

Through tickets for all points in the
United States and Europe. Quick time
and excellent service.
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Oliver typewriters and automatic
stenographers at A. r. Cyrus. 4aA
Commercial street. n.
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new TO-DAY.
Rugs

Largest and most complete line Of
rugs. Hildebrand 4 Cor.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-10-04

Columbia and vicxor graphophones
and latest records at 424 Commercial
street. A. r. Cyrus. II.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-10-04
Meeting Notice.

Gateway Rebecca Lodge No. II will
meet in regular session this evening
MISS MAMIE CLINTON. Secretary.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-10-04

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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-08-29

Skillful advertising is much more
the duty of public officials, even of
national administrations, than is un-
derstood by the general public. 1t is
a duty to explain policies and educate
voters to knowledge of what the
government is doing and wants to do.
The prompt and amusing way in
which the present administration
gress is a case in point. The congress
was called to meet in Denver for the
understood, If not the acknowledged.
purpose of attacking the administra-
TONS policy in setting aside such
great domains as forest reserves. A
program containing list of 81 ques-
tions was prepared, and general in
yitation issued to all who cared to
take part. A special invitation was
sent to Secretary Garfield to be pres
ent, and bring such of his assistants
as he chose. The secretary secured
the list of questions, called in the
commissioner of the general land Of
fee, the chief of the reclamation Of
flee, and Mr.. Pinchot. head of the for
estry service. These men prepared a
set of answers to the 81 questions
which gave the congress information
it could have obtained nowhere else
than from the men whose business it
is to have it. That is the best kind of
advertising.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-08-29
A MOVE FOR Two-CENT FARES.
Attorney for Kansas Railroad Commits
sion viii Bring the Subject
Before the Board.

Topeka, Kan.-Frank Grattan, at
torney for the state board of railroad
commissioners, Friday announced in a
signed statement that he will at once
file complaint with the board for an
order that the railroads establi5% = e.
two-cent passenger fare in Kansas.
The complaint will probably be filed
Saturday.
Mr. Grattan Endorses Governor
HIGHS message. He thinks that if the
board makes an order and the roads
do not obey, the governor should con-
vene the legislature In special session,
so that Kansas can get the benefit of
a two-cent fare while litigation is on.
After the complaint is filed notice
will be served upon all of the defend
ant railroad companies, who are given
ten days in which to answer The
date of hearing is then set, and ten
more days notice given, which will
make the hearing probably twenty
days from Saturday. The board will
then, If the evidence warrants it, make
an order.
Mr. Grattan's action stops all spe-
cial talk for at least month or more.
All of the railroad commissioners are
at their homes and Secretary Sinner
will not talk.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-08-29
SECRETARY PLAYS GOLF AND
FISHES IN CANADA.
Not Considered Great Man by Boat
man-Justice Harlan and Ohioan
Constantly Chair Each
Other on Links.

Manor Richelieu, Pointe au Pic,
Quebec.-The stout gentleman over
there addresses the ball with unusual
vigor and enthusiasm observed the
Canadian member of parliament,
but" and here he adjusted his eye
glasses, IF it was his intention to
land on the fifth green he has taken
an easterly direction, while the green
is In the southwest. His elderly COM
panion seems to be making a better
record over the course
BY and by the stout gentleman and
his elderly companion, each trailed by
little Canuck caddy, appeared on the
broad veranda of the clubhouse
where the Canadian member of parlia-
ment had the pleasure of being for
mally presented to William H. Taft
secretary of war of the United States
OF America, and to Justice Harlan, of
the Supreme court of the United
States of America.
II you were to ask the secretary of
war, as he sits summing himself in the
open, with his cap tilted back from his
broad forehead, what interests him
most in his daily routine of vacation
he would reply, Hardening my mus
Giles, training down and tanning my
nose"
To go oyer the green's, climb the
hillocks and cross the stretch of half
swamp with Taft and Harlan is a treat
. to one who likes to study human ma
tire. The two men chaff each other
tfCA the time they set out until they
leave the links with the awful bogy
still unbeaten.
The judge is 70 years old, as straight
as an arrow, with bald head and a
halo of long, grayish white hair that
sticks out at skies and sevens. His
eye is as keen as an eagles, his pro-
file like a Roman and the color of his
cheeks is as red as a cherry. He
dresses loosely for golf, an old pair of
baggy brown trousers, heavy brogans,
red golf jacket, duck cap and, as
astonishing as this news may appear
to golfists, he carries an umbrella.
Creaking wagon springs tell when
Taft goes out to ride. He usually has
his brother as companion on these
trips, as he also does when he goes to
swim. 1t is in a bathing suit that the
secretary of war appears to the best
advantage. The muscles of his great
arms stand out in distinctive rolls so
easily traced that an anatomist might
label them. His chest development is
nearly as pronounced as his girth
While there is flesh in abundance it is
not fiabby. If Taft has gained weight
or lost it since he crossed the border
the story told by the scales is kept
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-08-29

keep the government from despoiling
it, Miss Lydia Conley, the only In
dian woman lawyer in the country,
has erected cottage in the center of
Huron cemetery here, and with a
shotgun will drive off those who at
tempt to take possession of the prop
erty.
Uncle Sam has undertaken to sell
the property, which is the last rest
ing place of the old and famous tribe
of Wyandot Indians. which once &C.
cupied the whole state of Ohio, and
which was driven slowly westward,
making its last stand in Kansas
The government, at the request of
the city authorities, has had a COM
mission appointed to dispose of the
property.
Miss Conley sought to prevent this
in the federal circuit court, but she
has been ruled against, and it was
the ruling that caused her to prepare
to guard her mothers grave when the
time comes. She says no one shall
move the bodies of her loved ones
from their last resting place so long
'as she is able to lift a hand in pro-
test.
Miss Conley has many of the popu-
lar attributes of the Indian. 1t is her
boast that illness is a stranger to
her, merely by reason of the fact that
she instinctively obeys the Indian
rules of health. She can work for
days without food, and yet without
feeling fatigue. In fact, her whole
time is spent in a manner that would
put girl less hardy out of the run
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-08-29

At last there is to be real Ameri-
can opera, the scene being laid in the
gold fields of California. 1t may or
may not be regretted that the writer
and composer is not an American;
that can be decided after the opera
has been produced But the fact is
that he is Giacomo Puccini, the
Italian. He says the idea came to him
after witnessing a western play in
New York. Certainly there are limit
less possibilities in the phases of pio-
neer western life, now rapidly passing
away, says Troy Times, and our story
writers and playwrights have done
much toward utilizing the material.
But grand opera founded on life in a
mining camp must strike the world
as real novelty, and there will be
much curiosity to see how the prima
donna, the tenor robusto and the
basso profundo, to say nothing of the
ballet and chorus, will deal with the
wild and woolly."
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-08-29
The Souvenir Mania.

1t happened on one of the United
States cruisers at Hampton Roads,
says the Washington Herald. A lieu
tenant, having met two very charming
ladies while ashore, invited them on
board for luncheon. They came and
were shown over the ship. They lin
gered long in the lieutenant's room,
which was daintily furnished, and
they admired his photographs of
home. When he was summoned on
deck he left them there Returning.
he took them to luncheon, and, hav-
ing to go on duty in the afternoon, he
excused himself so as to get into uni
form. Alas! he found that every but
ton on his best coat had been cut OF,
and then he remembered that one of
his fair guests had been rather impor-
tunate on the souvenir question. He
got her alone after luncheon and &C.
cused her of the theft, and after some
prevarication she confessed that the
buttons were in her corsage. With
some firmness the lieutenant led the
culprit to his cabin, pointed silently to
the denuded coat on the bunk, pro-
duced needle and thread and, going
out, locked the door on the outside.
In half an hour he returned. unlocked
the door, found that his coat was once
more in excellent order, and then with
great gallantry bowed the lady over
the side. She has not been invited
to luncheon on the same ship since.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-08-29

What irrigation can do is epitomized
in the announcement that the erection
of the great dam in Egypt by which
the waters of the River Nile are con-
trolled and distributed where most
needed has increased the value of
lands affected at least $15O,000,000. A
plan to increase the height of the dam
and thus assure still greater benefits
is under consideration, and this if
carried into effect will result in pro-
portionate addition to the farming
value of the historic Nile valley. To
ancients the Nile, rising in flood or
subsiding as the rush of waters
ceased, was a sacred stream because
of the riches it left in its wake. What
would they say of the engineering
that bottled up and equalized the
riches so that the general advantage
would be vastly promoted and the fer
tility of the region enormously en-
HANGED?
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-08-29
WANTED. TO HASTEN TIME.
Younsster Was Ambitious to Shine
Like His Papa.

There is a certain young hopeful
who is ambitious to reach the years
of discretion. He admires his father
very much, and this is the basis for
the ambition.
The desire to reach this happy state
was voiced not very long ago as the
result of midnight conversation with
the aforesaid father. The latter had
attended banquet, and for the sake
of festive ornamentation he had worn
a red rose in his button-hole. Upon
arriving home everybody was asleep
but his smallest son. who sat up in
bed and surveyed the paterfamalias.
The rose caught his eye.
Papa, where did you get the wed
rose?" he queried.
Someone gave it to me-" was the
reply.
: why did they give it to your"
"Oh, I'm hot sport, and everybody
gives me flowers" was the oIhand re-
ply, as the red rose was passed over.
and with it clasped tightly ne fell
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-08-29
The PRESIDENTS SPEECH
There Will Be no Change in His
Policies.
Criminals, Rich and Poor. Will Con-
tinue To Be observation-disclosures
Corporations Protected.

Provincotown, Massachusetts,
laying OF the cornerstone of the
Cape Cod Pilgrims memorial mon
ument Tuesday gave President
Roosevelt his first opportunity of the
summer to break silence upon pub
lie questions, and the 40 minutes
speech which he delivered from a
platform on top of Town Hill, was
one of vigor and directness upon
matters of national importance. The
feature of his address was his ad-
vocacy of a national incorporation
law and his stand in relation to vio-
lions. With emphasis he declared
that the administration would not
WAIVER in it's determination Ito punish
certain malefactors of great wealth."
continuing he said:
There will be no change in the
policy We have steadily pursued, no
let up in effort to secure the honest
observance of the law, for l regard
this consest as one to determine who
shall rule this government, the peo-
pie through their governmental
agents, or a few ruthless and deter
mined men whose wealth makes
them particularly formidable be-
cause they hide behind the breast
works of corporate organization
Il wish there to be no mistake On
this point. 1t is idle to ask me not
TO prosecute criminals, rich or poor.
But l desire no less emphatically to
have it understood that we have I'M
dertaken and will undertake no &C
ton of a vindictive type and above
all and no action which shall inflict
great or unmerited suffering upon
the public as a whole. Our purpose
is to act with the minimum of harsh
ness compatible with obtaining our
ends. In the man of great wealth
who has earned his wealth honestly
and used it wisely we recognize a
good citizen worthy of all praise and
respect. Business can only be done
under modern conditions through
corporations and our purpose is to
heartily favor the corporations that
do we'll. The administration appre-
ciates that liberal but honest profit
for legitimate promoters and generous
dividends for capital employed either
in founding or continuing an honest
business venture, are the factors nee
essary for successful corporate &C
tivity, and therefore for gener-
ally prosperous business conditions.
'All these are compatible with fair
dealing as between man and man, and
rigid obedience to the law. Our aim
is to help every honest man, every
honest corporation, and policy means
in it's ultimate analysis healthy and
prosperous expansion of business ac-
tivities, of honest business men and
honest corporations.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-08-29
BAD DREAMS
Frequently Due to Coffee Drinking.

One of the common symptoms of
coffee poisoning is the bad dreams that
spoil what should be restful sleep. A
man who found the reason says:
formerly 1 was slave to coffee.
was like a morphine fiend, could not
sleep at night, would roll and toss in
my bed and when 1 did get to sleep
was disturbed by dreams and hobgob-
Inns, would wake up with headaches
and feel bad all day, so nervous 1
could not attend to business. My writ
ing looked like bird tracks, l had sour
belchings from the stomach, indiges-
ton, heartburn and palpitation of the
heart, constipation, irregularity of the
kidneys, etc.
Indeed. began to feel had all the
troubles that human flesh could suffer.
but when a friend advised me to leave
off coffee | felt as if he had insulted
me. l could not bear the idea, it had
such hold on me and l refused to
believe it the cause.
But it turned out that no advice was
ever given at a more needed time for
l finally consented to try Postum and
with the going of coffee and the COM
ing of Postum all my troubles have
gone and health has returned. 1 eat
and sleep well now, nerves steadied
down and write fair hand Gas you
can see), can attend to business again
and rejoice that 1 am free from the
monster coffee"
Ten days trial of Postum in place Of
coffee will bring sound. restful. re-
freshing sleep. There's a Reason"
Read THE Road to Wellville, " in pkgs.
Some physicians call it "a little health
classic"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-08-29
FOR Selfish ENDS.
The Efforts Being Made by the Ameri:
can Medical Association.

The Political activity of the Ameri-
can Medical Association has become
so pronounced as to cause comment
in political circles especially as the
the avowed purpose of the Doctors of
the Regular or Allopathic school, of
which the Association is chiefly COM
posed, is to secure the passage of such
laws as will net only prevent the
sale of so-called Patent medicines,
but will restrict the practice of medi-
cine and healing to the schools" now
recognized. This in many states would
prevent the growing. practice of Os-
teopathy, and in nearly every state
would prevent the healers of the
Christian Science and mental science
in which the faith of so many intelll.
gent people is so firmly rooted.
The American Medical Association
has a Committee on legislation
and the committee has correspond
ents in practically every township -
some 10000 correspondents in all.
This committee at the last session of
the American Medical Association
held in June of this year expressed a
hope that a larger number of physi-
clans than heretofore will offer them.
selves as candidates for Congress at
the first opportunity. In its annual
report this Committee said: ITO meet
the growing demands of the move
ment, however, particularly if the
work of active participation in State
legislation is undertaken, q larger
clerical force must be employed
This is almost the first time in the
history of the United States that any
organized class has frankly avoTed
the purpose of capturing Legislatures
and dominating legislation in their
own selfish interests.
The American Medical Association
has about $4,000 members of whom
$4,000 are fully constituted men,
bers" and the rest are members be-
cause of their affiliation with state or
local societies. The Association owns
real estate in Chicago valued at SILL
1871 and its total assets are $751;
567S9. Its liabilities, at the time of
the annual report which was made at
the June meeting, amounted to only
S21,906. The excess of assets over
liabilities is increasing at the rate of
about 100000 year, and the purpose
of the organization is to dominate
the field of medicine, and by crushing
all competitions by securing the pas
sage of prohibitive legislation, compel
all of the people-of the United States
to pay a doctors fee every time the
most simple remedy is needed.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-08-29
THIRST WAS FIRST THOUGHT.
Familiar Sound Cause OF Young Mans
Bad Break:

John c. Risley of Detroit, at the
New York convention of the Interna-
tional Society of Hotel and Restaurant
convention notable for
it's condemnation of the tipping system
said to reporter:
1.-THE public thinks that we walters
get rich off our tips. The public. is
very ignorant in this matter. When
1 think of its dense ignorance am
reminded of political meeting l. at
tended last April. There was chap
at this meeting who knew nothing Of
parliamentary procedure, and, besides
that, he was half full Well, in the
course of the meeting there was a lot
of excitement and shouting. 1t grew
worse and worse The chairman, Id
the end, had to hammer on the table
and yell:
"'orderi order!'
"'Beer for me, said the ignorant
young man."
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-08-29
Patron Saint of Lawvers.

This story is told at the expense of
Francis H. T. Maxwell, a well-known
lawyer. The members of the Taunton.
Mass, Bar association thought they
ought to have a patron saint, but after
much wrangling they could not hit up
on any particular saint
Finally a committee, of which Mr..
Maxwell was a member, was appoint
ed to make selection. They made
a trip to New York, and there visited
a gallery where most of the saints were
carved in marble. 1t was decided to
leave the selection to Mr.. Maxwell,
and after making the rounds he placed
his hand on one in a group of two.
This one will do" he said. He had
his hand on the devil, whom st. Mi
chael was driving before him.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-08-29
They Slaughtered the Moors.

Paris, France.-Vice Admiral Phil
ibert commanding the French naval
forces off Casa Blance, telegraphs
that while the Moors were advancing
on the French camp near Casa Blanca
Wednesday, under cover of
fog, the fog lifted and permitted the
French batteries ashore and afioat to
she'll the Moors with deadly effect.
At two o'clock Wednesday afternoon
Gen. Drude had moved forward his
field guns to a ridge, situated about
four miles from the camp, whence he
shelled the Moors, who were then in
full flight eastward.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-08-29
GOLF BALL HITS HAIRPIN.
UnIucky Accident by Which Scotch
Player Came to Grief.

Boston.-The story comes from
England of a golf match lost under
conditions in which a wonan's hair
pin played leading part.
The Scottish ladies' gold champion
ship was played over the Troon links,
and when the Hillhouse cup scratch
competition, open to Ayrshire golfers,
was played over the same course
Robert Andrew, the holder, had an
unlucky experience. Playing to the
twelfth hole, his ball fell on a lady's
hairpin, which must have been stick
ing in the ground points upward, as
both points were firmly imbedded in
the ball. He struck his second well,
but it went no distance, and he took
four to get on the green.
AS there was no rule bearing on
the point, he putted out with the
hairpin adhering to his ball, but the