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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-08-13
WASTED LITERATURE.

Astoria is one Of the best maya
zine-selling cities on the coast Her
people subscribe for, or buy, and read
the whole gamut of monthly litera-
ture that is published in that form
and there is strong clientele be-
hind the Astoria library, all Of which
shows that this is reading public,
while our thousands Of summer visi-
tors absorb all the standard light lit
erature that is current.
With such host Of readers and
such supply Of matter, it should be
an easy case to keep those who are
on the sick list, or on the outposts OF
duty, or in the compulsory seclusion
of the jails, in endless supply OF good
reading. The fact is we are too heed
less OF our cheap and excellent books
and magazines and allow them to go
to waste about our homes and offices,
instead of sending them to the people
who are barred and denied them.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-08-13
TELEPHONE MAIN 66l.

problem once for all. Like Alexan.
der, we may have to solve it our.
selves, in part, by pulling the hills
down to the datum plane OF the city
and utilizing the vast bulk of earth
in filling in the tide-wayS and solidify-
ing the commercial areas OF the dis
,trict; always the dream OF the AS
torian through the century Of her
existance Yet, it is not certain that
this will remedy the situation alto
geher, for a soil that will not stay
where nature planted it, is likely to
show treacherous symptoms at any
time and rebuke the puny hand that
hampers with it.
1t is one OF the few really grave
things that confront Astoria: and she
has contended with il faithfully She
will never find surcease from its fore
boding action, until her beautiful hills
are levelled and the weight and inn
petus that now urges the earth over
the soap-stone paths in its depths,
have been minimized to the point ap-
preaching stability.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-08-13
THE SUMMER RAIN.

A felicitous summer rain is upor
us here at the mouth OF the Co
lumbia; light, steady, warm, and
quite wet, We do not need it little
bit; it does not appeal to US just al
this time and we can dispense with it
easily, even for the asking. 1t is sur
plusage at Astoria; we have our
rainy season and never have to COM
plain OF any shortage, hence, we
would be very glad to see this move
inland and pour its grateful flood on
hre-ravaged, or tire-threatened local
tiles that are yearning and praying
for it. That is the place for it.
There is something incongruous in
the bounty which falls where it is
not needed nor desired, while the
places and countries where its last
trace and element would be a pro-
found advantage, are denied il. We
are not solving insoluble problems
this morning and therefore decline to
discuss the subject further but leave
it, with the large hope that this rain
will pass on and do its prime and
glorious service up country where
great values and the safety and COM
fort OF thousands Of people are at
stake.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-08-13
FINDER NAIL SCRATCH
RESULTS IN DEATH

A short time ago you may have
read OF the remarkable case where
a simply scratch OF the finger mai
caused death by blood poisoning, Al
first it was only an annoying itch
caused by summer rash This was
scratched by the finger nail to re.
lieve the itch, but the skin was torn
open, the irritation became worse
and finally resulted in a fatal case OF
blood poisoning.
Do not scratch or rub the itch or
irritation caused by summer rash,
mosquito bites, hives, prickly heat or
any form OF skin disease or itch, D.
D. D, Prescription, the best known
remedy for eczema and all forms OF
skin disease, externally applied, will
at once stop the irritable itch 1t
soothes and cools the skin and per-
manently cures the itch or disease.
Infants and children are saved many
hours Of agony and torture from the
unbearable itch il a few drops Of
D. D. D. is applied to the afflicted
parts. Remember-the itch is in
stantly relieved.
Call at the store OF Charles Rogers
& Son and you can get a bottle
Try it.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-08-13
THE WAR OF WIRES.

The war OF telephone wires goes
merrily on in Astoria.
! Manual and Automatic batteries
are in full action; their thunder re-
verberates thrillingly up and down
The thoroughfares; while the fusil
ladies' OF argument and counter argu-
iment crack and rattle on all sides,
and the reading eye is riveted every
where upon the published slogan of
the hour. The battle RACES with all
the commercial adjuncts in active
operation, and the ordinary citizen
may dodge and hide and try to hold
aloof, but he is in the thick OF it all,
and is, at last, the supreme party in
interest
Every man should take deep and
eager concern in the contention now
going on here; he is the one the con-
testants are after; it is his patronage
the battling companies rely on in the
end; it is his money that will keep
one or both the great utilities in this
field; he is in no sense a cipher in the
engagement, and the sooner he real
ICES his potenty as real factor and
begins to sway things his way and to
his own comfort, peace and purse,
the better it will be for all con
cerned
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-08-13

A parcel can now be mailed from
any postofice in the United States to
any postohice in Bolivia, distance
of 1000 miles, for Il cents pound.
The domestic parcels rate in this
country is l6 cents a pound. Con-
gress ought to explain why foreigners
are allowed this advantage in the
mails. 1t has become glaring case
of neglected home interests.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-08-13
THE WEATHER.

Oregon-Cloudy tonight and Thurs
day; winds mostly southerly.
Washington-Showers tonight or
Thursday; cooler east portion Thurs
day; winds mostly southerly.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-08-13

William H. TAFT believes in navy
that will be sufficiently strong, suf-
fciently active and sufficiently eager
to move whenever American honor or
American interests are in peril, and
the result in November will show that
the bulk Of the voters in the United
States are Of the same patriotic be-
lief.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-08-13

Wireless messages are to be sent
across the Atlantic from the top Of
the Eiffel Tower. A daily chat be-
TWEEN Paris and the New York sky
scrapers will be a pleasing accom-
panimcnt Of the flying machine ex-
periments.
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carved that fight on reindeer
bone
With rude and hairy hand
pictured his iall on the cavern wall
| That men might understand,
For we lived by blood, and the right
Of might,
Ere human laws were drawn,
And the Age Of Sin did not begin
| Till our brutal tuSks were gone
And that was million years ago,
In a time that no man knows,
Yet here tonight in the mellow light
| We sit at Delmonico'S.
Your eyes are deep as the Devon
springs,
Your hair is as dark as Jet,
Your years are few. your life is new
Your soul untried, and yet
Our trail is on the Kimmeridge clay,
And the Scarp OF the purbeck flags.
We have left our bones in the Bag.
shot stones,
And deep in the Coraline crags;
Our love is old, our lives are old,
And death shall come amain.
Should il come to-day, what man
may say
We shall not live again.
God wroeuht our souls from the Tre-
madoc beAn
And furnished them wings 10 fly;
He sowed our spawn in the worlds
dim dawn,
And know that il shall not die,
Though cities have sprung above the
graves
Where the crook-boned men made
war,
And the ox-wain creaks DER the bur
led caves
Where the mummied mammoths
are.
Then as we lnger at luncheon here.
Der many a dainty dish,
Let us drink anew TO the time when
you
Were a Tadpole and | was a Fish
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| faxed flint to cutting edge,
And shaped it with british craft;
i broke shank from the woodland
dank,
And fitted it, head and haft.
Then | hid me close to the reedy
tarn,
Where the Mammoth came to
drink
Through Drawn and bone | drave the
stone,
And slew him upon the brink
Loud howled through the moonlit
wastes,
Loud answered our kith and kin;
From west and east to the crimson
feast
The clan came trooping in.
Der joint and gristle and padded
hoof
We fought and clawed and tore,
And cheek by jowl, with many a
growl,
We talked the marvel o'er.s
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-08-13
TRANSPORTATION.
Stmr. Chas. r. Spencer

Spencer Line
PORTLAND ASTORIA ROUTE
Portland: Washington Street Dock
Calender Dock, Astoria
Phone Main 861o
ROUND TRIP DAILY
Except Thursday and Sunday
For Astoria and Way Landings
Leaving Portland 7 A., M, Arriving
Astoria P. NJ; Returning Leave
Astoria 2:30 P. NJ, Arrive Portland
GAS P. NJ.
FARE $l.0O EACH WAY
SUNDAY EXCURSION
Astoria and Return
Leave Portland 8P. NJ. Return 9 P. M.
FARE $1.OO ROUND TRIP
Weekly Landing and Time Schedule
Leave 7:00.. Portland ..9:45 Arrive
$3.50. st. Helens. 300
9:15... Kalama .7:05
o:35... Rainier $3.50
l0:10.... Stella ....5:35
1925. Oak Point. $40
1885, Eureka ...5:0s
11:10., Cathlamet AIS
1880. Skamokawa 1855
12:05.. Brookfeld $40
12:l8., Pillar Rock. $3.50
$780,. Altoona ...3:l0
Arrive 1910. Astoria ...2:30 Leave
Heavy type denotes P. M.
Connecting at Astoria for all Sea-
side Resorts. Renowned for speed,
comfort and courteous treatment.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-08-13
Evolution
BY LANGDON SMITH

/ The following Spendid poem is tn
creation OF famous New York news
paperman and war correspondent
now dead, and is reproduced in theS,
columns through the courtesy OF
friend lately in Astoria with tn,
Harper troupe OF players.
When you were Tadpole and | wa
Fish
In the paleozic time,
And side by side on the ebbing lid,
We sprawled through the ooze anC
slime,
Or skittered with many caudal flG
Through the depths OF the Cam
brian fen,
My heart was rife with the JOY OF life
For loved you even then,
Mindless we lived and mindless We
loved,
And mindless at last we died;
And deep in rift of the Caradoc
drift
We Slumbered side by side.
The world turned on in the lathe OF
time,
The hot lands heaved amain,
Till we caught our breath from the
womb OF death,
And crept into light again.
We were Amphibians, scaled and
tailed,
And drab as dead mans hand;
We coiled at ease meath the drip
ping trees,
Or, trailed through the mud and
sand,
Croaking and blind, with our three
clawed feet
Writing language dumb,
With never a spark in the empty
dark
To hint at life to come.
Yet happy we lived, and happy we
loved,
And happy we died once more;
Our forms were rolled in the clinging
mold
OF a Neocomian shore.
The cons came, and the cons fed,
And the sleep that wrapped US fast,
Was riyen away in a newer day,
And the night OF death was past,
Then light and swift through the
jungle trees
We swung in our airy fights,
Or breathed in the balms OF the from
ded palms,
In the hush Of the moonless nights.
And oh! what beautiful years were
these,
When our hearts clung each to
each;
When life was filed, and our senses
thrilled
In the first faint dawn OF speech.
Thus life by life, and love by love,
We passed through the cycles
strange,
And breath by breath, and death by
death,
We followed the chain of change,
Till there came time in the law of
life
When over the nursing sod
The shadows broke, and the soul
awoke
In a strange, dim dream of God.
was thewed like an Auroch bull,
And tusked like the great Cave
Bear;
And you, my sweet, from head to
feet,
Were gowned in your glorious
hair.
Deep in the gloom Of freless cave,
When the night fell Ger the plain,
And the moon hung red Ger the riv-
er bed,
We mumbled the bones Of the
slain.
faxed flint to cutting edge,
And shaped it with british craft;
L -. Had
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-08-13

Yet happy we lived, and happy we
loved,
And happy we died once more;
Our forms were rolled in the clinging
mold
OF a Neocomian shore.
The cons came, and the cons fed,
And the sleep that wrapped US fast,
Was riyen away in newer day,
And the night OF death was past.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-08-13

Entered secondas July So 1906, the postoHee
toria Oregon under the Congress of Marh3 1879
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-08-13

Then as we liuger at luncheon here
Der many dainty dish,
Let us drink anew to the time when
you
Were Tadpole and was a Fish.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-04-08
"The Blood is The Lite.1

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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-09-29
GUN CREW BLOWN TO PIECES
Many Others Injured in Accident
on a French Warship.
Bodies of Those Slain Hurled Into the
Sea-Horrible Scenes-Rigid
Investigation to Follow.

Toulon, France. During gunnery
drill one of the big turret guns on the
French armored cruiser La Touche
Treville exploded with terrific vio-
lence, completely wrecking the after
turret and killing outright the entire
gun crew of thirteen.
A number of men were seriously
injured, some of them probably
fatally.
The accident was similar to that
aboard the gunnery school ship Cou-
rome off Les Saline d'Hyeres, August
10 last, when by the bursting of the
breech of one of the guns six men
were killed and eighteen injured.
The drill had been proceeding for
considerable time when, without
warning, the whole turret seemed to
blow out. Dismembered bodies were
thrown in all direction, and several
of them were hurled into the sea
through the great breech caused by
the explosion.
The spectacle was horrible, the
dead and wounded, together with
shattered arms and legs, littering the
decks. A call to quarters was sound
ed, and as speedily as possible the
wounded were cared for.
The gun that exploded was 7.6
inches bore, of which the cruiser car
ried two. Happening so soon after
the accident to the Couronne, the ex-
plosion has caused a sensation in
naval circles, and doubtless will lead
ITO most rigid investigation.
The La Touche Treville carries a
complement of $40 men.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-09-29
Summary of Important
Political News


Senator Foraker gave out a long
statement, defending his course in
acting as attorney for Standard Oil
when it reorganized to comply with
Ohio laws, quoting many letters, said
he refused to represent it in other
matters, and assailed Roosevelt and
Taft.
Governor Charles N. Haskell, of
Oklahoma, has resigned from the
treasureship of the National Demo-
cratic Committee.
G.. B. Squire dictated statement,
saying he did not offer bride to At
torney-General Monnett, of Ohio, in
behalf of the Standard Oil Company,
that he did not name Governor Has
kell in the matter and that Monnett S
affidavit was false in its reference to
him. Monnett in a telegram denied
Squire's statements.
T. Coleman Du Pont resigned as
chairman of the speakers bureau and
member of the Executive Committee
of the Republican National Commit
tee, because of criticism of his cam
paign activity due to his connection
with the alleged powder trust now be-
ing sued by the Government.
Arthur l, Vorys was disbarred as
an attorney by the Pension Office in
1882 for Withholding money belong
ing to a woman client, paid the money
and fifteen years later was reinstated.
The executor of Grover Cleveland
will pronounced the posthumous let
ter published by the New York Times
to be forgery.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-09-29
POLITICAL RIOTS IN CUBA.
Many Injured at Conservati. e Meeting
Negro Party Rally Broken Up.


Havana, Cuba.-Political disturb
ances have begun to assume some
gravity in Cuba. A Conservative
meeting at Sancti Spiritus, in Santa
Clara Province, was the occasion of a
riot at which many were injured, and
in Havana meeting of the new negro
party headed by General Estenoz,
was broken up by Liberals, who kept
up continuous shouting.
Sancti Spiritus is the home of
General Jose Miguel Gomez, the for
mer Governor of the province, and
the present candidate of the Miguel
lstas and Zayistas for the Presidency.
The Mayor of the town and the police
are members of the Liberal party.
General Mario Menocal, former
Liberal, but recently nominated by
the Conservatives for the Presidency,
arrived here on special train, ac-
companied by large number of fol-
lowers Thousands of men, many of
them on horseback met the Conser-
vative leaders, and it was evident
from the start that trouble was brew
ing, as Menocal did not entirely lack
supporters among the crowds.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-09-29
SHIP SINKS OFF ALASKA
DEAD NUMBER no.
Star of Bengal Wrecked on Rocks
of Coronation Island.
BROKE INTO THREE PIECES
Details of Disaster on Alaskan Island
Vessel Total Loss, Only the
Ends of the Masts Showing Above
the Water-Tale of a Survivor.

Wrangel, Alaska. = The Star OF
Bengal is a total loss. Captain Far
rar, of the tug Hattie Gage, gives this
account OF the disaster on the rocks
of Coronation Island:
GAS we ran into the gale we could
see we were making leeway and
drifting toward Coronation Island.
The other tug, the Kayak, was light
and could do nothing. The Hattie
Gage could not handle the ship alone.
At O'Clock the Star of Bengal
drifted into a narrow blight and we
could see land on both sides abreast.
1--WE sounded and found eight faith
oms. We could see the vessel dimly
by the PHOSPHORUS rocks that were
all around. We cut the towline and
steamed out into open water. We
could not see anything in the driving
rain except one blue light burning on
the ship. The storm increased and
the tugs steamed to Shipley Bay,
twenty-siz miles away.
The total number of lives lost was
10. There were 1877 people on
board. The bodies recovered and
buried were those of Benjamin John
son, Siguard Nelson, Eric Pierson,
William Perischke, Peter Peterson,
John Peterson, Olaf Peterson, Einon
Swenson, Charles Buchanan, Carl
Bore, Joseph Griffin, Andrew Han
son, Frank Healy, Norman Hawkins
and G. Hendrickson.
The ship sank, after breaking into
three pieces according to the surviv-
ors. These tell of getting boat off
the doomed craft and effecting land
ing. They helped several ashore and
pulled Captain Wagner out of the
wreckage. He could not speak. The
breeches buoy was rugged to tree,
but the ship was swaying so that the
line was alternately loose and tight,
making it impossible to use.
The ships books and papers were
found on the beach. One man had
matches, and fire was built with
kerosene from the wreck. The fire
kept the survivors from freezing.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-09-29
NEW PARTYS CANDIDATES
Nominations For State Officers
of New York.
Standard Oil Letters Read by w. r..
Hearst Exposing Effort to Defeat
TiIIman, of South Carolina.

New York City The independence
party convention nominated this
State ticket:
Governor Clarence ]. shearn, of
New York.
nt-Governor-Dr Daniel
w. Finnimore, of Potsdam.
Secretary of State-Frank o. Stew
ems, of Nassau.
Comptroller-W Willard Glenn, Of
Onondaga.
State William I. Siro-
vich, of New York.
Attorney-G eneral--Widdiam A. De
Ford, of Albany.
State Engineer and Surveyor-M.
j. Cafiero, of Kings
Associate Justice of the Court of
Appeals-Reuben ROBBIE Lyon, of
Bath.
Pending the arrival of w R.
Hearst, who is State Chairman of the
independence party, at Cooper Union
Hall, Morris Block, delegate from
Ulster, called the convention to order
and introduced James A. Allen, for
mer Republican, as the temporary
chairman.
There was a dramatic moment
when Mr.. Hearst read letters to show
that John D. Archbold, of the Stand
ard Oil, had sent money to South
Carolina for the defeat of Senator
Tillman, and these same letters
proved that Tillman's colleague, Sem
ator McLaurin, was on confidential
terms with the Oil Trust. Then
Hearst declared that Archbold used
the Standard Oil money to elect a
Democratic Senator in West Virginia
at the same time that Archbold was,
through the aid of Representative
Sibley, debauching Republican Sena-
tors in Washington, D. C.
After recess James A. Donagan,
chairman of the Committee on Gre
dentials, reported that the contestants
of three Assembly districts had been
seated Temporary Chairman Allen
was made permanent chairman and
]. j. Howell was made permanent
secretary.
Clarence J. Shearn, chairman of
the Platform Committee, read the
platform. That part of the platform
putting the new party on record as in
favor of woman suffrage was loudly
applauded.
The candidates were nominated by
delegates on the floor Only one man
was named for each office, however,
and in each instance the secretary
cast the unanimous vote of the dele
gates.
The platform demands:
An honest election law and cor.
rupt practices act.
Laws providing for reasonable
transfer system and single fare
within any city or town.
The platform declares for:
A law condemning as Illegal the
blacklisting of employees.
Enforcement of the employers liza
bilities and an eight-hour work day.
1t condemns the arbitrary use of
the writ of injunction.
1t pledges the party to the support
of the three-platoon system in the
police department. Touching the
gas situation, the platform says:
In the event of the overthrow of
the present eighty-cent gas law,~we
pledge ourselves to the immediate en-
actment of an eighty-fve-cent gas
law"