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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-04-21
AN AUTOGRAPH COOK BOOK

A gift suitable to any time OF the
year, original, home made, one that
will bring JOY to any housewives
heart, is described in the April Wo-
mans Home Companion. Have you
ever thought of making an autograph
cook book? 1t only requires a little
care and patience, to have cook
book filled full Of original recipes Of
dishes fit for king.
First make list Of your intimate
friends. Those noted for their good
cooking and housewifely virtues OF
course should head the list. Write
to each of them personal note, ask
ing them to write out and send you
their favorite recipe In each note
enclose a stamped envelope with a
sheet Of paper Of uniform size for the
written recipe. Then wait
Presently in will come whole Aocks
OF white envelopes, each enclosing
the recipe which is the particular
pride of the particular housewife who
donates it. And before long what a
collection you will havel When all
the names have been accounted for,
you must get to work and bind the
sheets into book. Vellum makes
good cover, and if more service
able one is desired, ooze leather, pur-
chased at leather shop, may be used.
Red leather, lettered in gold or black,
looks well, and the initials Of the
lucky recipicn should be added in one
corner Just see what delight this
gift will bring, and you will, ! am
sure, feel amply repaid.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-04-21
TAKE YOUR CHOICE.


Have you ever almost run into
some one on the street, and ther
lodged from side to side for half Z
minute, vainly endeavoring TO pass
while the other person by some
strange fatality blocked your ever,
move by trying to pass you in th'
same way?
Such was the recent experience o
a young man in Portland. Maine. HI
and a strange young woman had beer
going through this performance fol-
several seconds, when his unwilling
yis-a-vis staggered him by saying:
"Well, hurry upl Which is it to b.
"a waltz or a two-step."-Woma
Home Companion for April.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-04-21
PEOPLE IN THE SADDLE.

The people have quiet way Of as
serting themselves on popular issues
and no man may say them nay and
hold their favor.
The people of Oregon have
made a ringing declaration in favor
of that element Of their own law
which says that the man carrying the
endorsement of the people for the
United States Senate, shall be sent
there by their representatives in the
Legislature, and it will probably be
done; or there will be an accounting
in old Oregon that viii go far to the
eternal laying of partisan power and
individual domination, OF which the
people of the United States generally,
are sick and ashamed.
Parties are all right; and the Re-
publican party is, happily, peculiarly
and forcefully right in its present at
titude before the people; yet, with
all its prestige, it is in the most criti-
cal way OF CHANGING public offense
because, unless it discovers, and
champions, the popular desire, it viii
sacrifice the hope of the people anC
that was never forgiven. The presen
hope Of the people lies in a widel
political freedom; in the assumption
of exact powers heretofore delegated
and wretchedly abused; in curbing
and even dispensing with, one-mar
control everywhere; and in the res
ervation to the electorate of the las
and lawful declaration upon all mer
and issues, at the bar Of public dis
elimination and selection.
We shall contend for the perpetua
ton Of the highest ideals of the Re
publican party, national, state anc
local, and strive to elect the men wht
stand for them, always; but the large
and nobler task Of divinjHg an herald
ing the will of the people, swinging
it into the very front of party knowl
edge and treatment and champion
ship, where it must serve its purpos
of defeat, or victory, as the rank ant
file shall elect, is still our best AM
gravest duty and we shall do it t.
the limit of our capacity.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-04-21
AN INsIDIoUs DANGER.

One of the worst features of kidney
trouble is. that It is an insidious dis
ease and before the victim realizes
his danger he may have fatal NAL
ady. Take Foley's Kidney Cure at
the first sign Of trouble as it corrects
irregularities and prevents Bright's
disease and diabetes. T. F. Laurin
Owl Drug Store.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-04-21

lie interest is deeply conferred, is .
foregone conclusion with every man
who knows anything about the care
that is given such priceless posses
sions. The Government will not risk
the ships on the Columbia bar nor in
the Columbia river because there is
mot sufficient water to make their
visit assuredly safe, 1t is bitter
disappointment to hundreds of thou
sands OF people in Oregon, but even
that is infinitely cheaper than the
piline up OF ships that cost from 81
100000 to $l0,0Oo,o0o on the bars and
shoals of our great waterway
We may thank Portland, for the
denial. She has blown hot and cold
on the Columbia river and bar inn
provements for 10. these many years,
and the river has been channelled TO
meet the bar, while the bar has been
kept back so as to admit nothing that
could not ascend the river TO Portl
land; hence, at the supreme moment
of desire, we are confronted with
the keenest rundown in our history
And by way of accentuating this
situation, we may call attention to
the fact that when Portland realized'
that Colonel Roessler was one Of
those engineers who stand for the
quick and wholesome prosecution OF
their duties and was making tell
ing record in jetty-work and bar imt
provement, she gets quietly to work
to have him supplanted. and by a.man
who, while an able master OF his
is socially amenable and
rather more given to dawdhng over
the Job that has already taken fan
too many years to complete. Twol
more years of Colonel Roessler's
program at the jetties, would have
seen them completed, and 80 to 4ol
feet of water on the barrier; and that
was altogether too good thing for
the lower Columbia with a beggarly
26 feet of water in the two rivers
that flow between Portland and the
sea.
Just how long the United States
Government is going to be hood
winked on this proposition is to be
seen. But we do hope for the credit
of the State and her normal expan-
sion commercially, some man may
reach the Congress and tell the
straight truth about the Columbia
river and the Columbia bar. God
knows the story is we'll enough
known in all Northern Oregon; 1t is
one of the foulest traditions Of the
State, despite the infrequent and in
spired chirpings of the Portland
press for bar and river improvements
Give us 40-foot channel from the
sea-curvatures of the bar to the rock
barriers Of The Dalles and the Falls
of the Willamette! That's our plea;
the plea that Portland will not and
dare not echo!
The Armada will not be here. Even
our great June food will not tempt
it in and up the river. Portland has
taken care of that, alright, alright!
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-04-21

"I'm not sure" said Miss Plaine,
"that you're just the photographer
I'm looking for. I've been told YOU
do very handsome work and make
very pretty pictures
"Yes," interrupted the photographers
eagerly, "but can give you an exact
likeness if you wish. sh."-Philadelphia
Press.
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THE WEATHER

Eastern Oregon, Showers and thun-
derstorms.
Eastern Washington, and Idaho
Cloudy and occasionally threaten
ing but little if any rain.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-04-21
A Comprehensive Repentance.

didn't mean to do it;
l surely meant it well,
Nor knew you wouldn't like It,
But how was to tell?
didn't need to do it,
But / didn't know it then,
I'll ne'er do so again.
--Harper's Weekly.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-04-21

A cough cure than can be given to
children without chance of harm is
Kemp's Balsam, the best cough cure. 1t
does not contain pOiSons or harmful
drugs. Druggists sell IL.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-04-21
EDITORIAL SALAD

Now they are worried lest the Re
publicans reduce the Democratic rep
resentatice from the South That j:
about the taly place left in which tc
continue the work of reducing it.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-04-21
NO WARsHIPS HERE.

That the Columbia Valley is to
denied the presence of the great fly
ing feet of war vessels in which pub
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-04-21

The great question of craftsmanship
is whether the Sherman antitrust law
shall be a dead letter, or whether it
shall apply only to those other
fellows.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-04-21

Governor Johnson of Minnesota
continues to give signals to the
prompter that he is all ready to be
dragged struggling to the centre Of
the stage.
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yestigate and Investigations and ex-
tensiye excavations at his own ex-
pense to determine what manner OF
beings occupied Japan in prehistoric
times. The Japanese Of to-day, he
says, are mixture of Mongolian in
yaders from Malaysian and Negrito
settlers from the south and small
tincture OF Aryan stock, probably
Persians with blending OF the
original Anus.
The prehistoric Japanese Is not the
Japanese Of to-day at all, any more
than tthe prehistoric American, the
aboriginal Indian, is the American to-
day. He has wholly different feature
and skull conformation.
Dr.Munro's more recent unearthing
Of two complete prehistoric skeletons,
about three miles from Yokohama,
together with FIVE or six skulls, which
show bony characteristics identical
with those Of the Ainu, long bearded
peculiar type Of aborigines found
n ,where else on the face OF the earth
and gradually disappearing from
Japan.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-31

Following the death from hydrop'
hobia Of prominent business man
who had not been bitten by. mad
dog but had become infected through
q scratch on his hand which was
licked by a canine pet, New York has
had a serious scare which has deyel-
oped a number Of cases diagnosed BY
the doctors as pseudo-rabies. In
other words many persons have be-
lieved that they were afflicted with
hydrophobia who had no more rea-
son for assuming this than for think
ing that they had leprosy or bubonic
plague. The health authorities have
pointed out that rabies is really one
Of the least Of the dangers Of life in
the Metropolis and that last year
there were only twenty-five deaths
from this cause. in the city while
more than two hundred victims OF
dog bite were successfully treated by
means OF the serum discovered as
prevention OF this disease. They
have called attention also to the fact
that this serum treatment could not
have been discovered and could not
be continued except for vividection
experiments which large number OF
well meaning people tried 10 induce
the state legislature TO forbid by law
last winter, incidentally the present
wave OF alarm Is having one good ef-
feet by causing a vigorous effort TO
rid the city OF stray dogs,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-31
Capital City Has Had Strenuous
Week
CHICAGO CONVENTION TALK
Interest Centers Whether Senator
Burrows VIII be Temporary Chair
man or Not-President Planning to
Take His Outing Abo.t June 20.

WASHINGTON, Nav 80. - The
Capital City has seen some strenuous
days during the month Of May, for
it has been lively work following the
doings of Congress, the Governors
and various other conventions, and
the operations OF the sundry candid
ate for the Presidential nomination
at the hands OF their respective part
les. However Washingtonians are
fortunate in having had with them
for some seven years an able instruc-
tor in the game of being strenuous,
and hence they have managed to give
a good account OF themselves. Many
and diversified have been the topics
discussed in Washington during the
last few weeks, but at the present time
everything else practically has become
dry and uninteresting, and speculation
and interest center around the seiec-
ton OF Senator Burrows as tempor-
AIRY chairman of the Republican ma
tional convention and its possible out
come. Despite the fact that most
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-31

Steamers Of considerable size may
soon be constructed in Office build
ings in the heart OF New YorRs man
ufacturing district and launched upon
the busy pavements, il the precedent
established this week catches the
fancy OF naval constructors, AT any
rate a thirty foot auxiliary racing
yacht has just been constructed in a
second story loft in the center OF the
east side downtown district and
launched, via the windows, not into
the briny deep, but instead on to a
specially constructed track which
bore il triumphantly to the nearest
water, which happened to be the
North River, about three-quarters OF
mile away. This novel aerial
launching was accomplished not to
the accompaniment OF the shattering
OF champagne bottle, but instead
to the breaking of four window
frames. the necessary removal OF
which was incidental to the launch
ing OF a boat on city street for the
first time in history. The boat to
make this novel record was by no
means toy, her length being IS feet
with ten foot beam and sixty
horse power engine. While no at
tempt has been made in the trials so
far for any records, it is believed that
this aerially built boat will make over
twenty mlest an hour In view of
the success OF this first attempt at
launching boats into the city street,
the builders is now preparing to con-
struct a much larger racer in fifth
story loft more than a mile from
water.
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ASTORIA, OREGON, SUNDAY, nAY 81, 1908

people VINO make Washington their
headquarters are political cunuchs,
great interest always is manifested
here in politics, and especially Presi.
dental politics that any one Of
them are 50 vitality concerned over
the result Of the quadrennial contests,
but principally for the reason that
when Congress adjourns and every
body who can goes home, there's not,
for those who perforce remain, much
left to talk about. Therefore it is that
when piece OF shrewd politics or
brisk factional fight is scented, every
body here sits up and takes notice,
intent on letting no detail escape them
the while speculating freely and MAX
ing all sorts Of representations. The
big question that is agitating the pub
lie mind right now is, will the two
branches OF the G. o. p give
Twentieth Century exhibition OF the
Damon and Pithias act at Chicago
next month, or will they get together
in another sense and lock horns for
preliminary test Of strength If there
is anyone who feels sure he can fore
cast this matter, the $3l5,000 residents
Of the District Of Columbia are Of one
mind in hoping that he will keep his
knowledge to himself, as they prefer
to be kept guessing; they must have
something to tide them over the dull
summer and the dog days, and politi-
cal guessing is certainly fascinating
these days.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-31

That New Yorks streets and street
cars will always be overcrowdcd is
the hopeless conclusion OF Mr.. Fl, p.
Strong, a transportation expert who
has been studying local traffic condi-
tons Apparently his conclusion is
we'll founded for each new bridge,
tunnel or a subway that is opened,
while II may lessen the ovcrcrowding
at n certain point, creates new cent
tcrs Of congestion. The opening of
the Williamsburg bridge across the
East River did not put an end to the
daily Brooklyn Bridge crush which
Governor Hughes has called the most
appalling spectacle in New York. 1t
did provide, however, another crowd
center at its dangerous spot in the
city. The building of the subway
did not lessen appreciably the num-
Der OF straphangers of the elevated
trains but its own cars are packed to
suffocation at the morning and even
ing rush hours. Now a new prob
lem confronts those who wrestle
with transportation difficulties in the
Metropolis in the announcement by
Vice President Rea of the Pennsyl.
vania Railroad that upon the compile
ton OF the tunnels which his road is
building under the North and East
rivers 100000 passengers will be
dumped down every day at the new
terminal at Thirty.third street. He
wants to know what the city authori-
ties propose to do to carry this army
of daily travellers to their destina-
tions and suggests that new subway
is needed for the purpose, Nobody
questions this but the city's debt
limit has already been stretched sew
eral times to provide for necessary
improvements and there is not
enough money in sight to care for
the projects that have been under
taken, to say nothing of new ones.
The truth is that New York is out
growing its clothes faster than it can
buy new ones, Ten thousand per-
sons, enough to form hourishing
city by themselves are added to its
population every month while the
army Of visitors increases in size all
the time and such expensive require
ments as subways and tunnels can
not be provided fast enough to take
care of this increases comfortably.
Perhaps when airships become as
commonly used as automobiles are
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-31

That part of Broadway known as
the Rialto, which extends from Her
aid Square to Longacre, has resumed
its wonted summer appearance. That
is to say it is thronged with actors
and actresses-thousands Of them
who have been released by the clos
ing of the season for most OF the
road companies and are back at their
favorite rendezvous, For the present
they are occupied chiefly in telling
one another of the adventures, sue
cesses and failures that they have
encountered during the past season,
1t is estimated that there are thirty
thousand persons actually engaged
in the theatrical business, the major
ity OF them making their headquar-
ters in New York, and on pleasant
afternoons it seems as though most
Of them were in evidence along upper
Broadway, According to the man
ayers the season just closing has not
been profitable one although they
agree that the latter half was much
better than they expected, following
the panic Of last fall, As the the
alter is regarded as an accurate indie
,ator of business conditions this is
accepted as evidence that the country
generally was not seriously affected
by the financial furry.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-31
More Comfortable Feeling In All
Lines Of Business
WALL STREETS ACTIVITY
New Transit Problem For city--Mad
Dog Scare Brings Out New Disease
Vessel Launched in New York
Suee.-Actor Army Back to Rialto.

4 NEW YORK. May 30,--For the
first time since the October panic
there is general agreement here that
the prosperity which has been so
much discussed and 30 eagerly
watched for is actually returning
The error which too many OF the
eager enthusiasts have made here
tofore has been in expecting the
wheels OF industry to resume their
interrupted revolutions at full speed
Immediately. This OF course Is i'm
possible but IL is evident 10 one who
goes about the city that there Is n
feeling OF encouragement in almost
every line OF business Wall Street
shows this influence plainly in the up
ward trend Of prices and Wall Street
is a pretty accurate barometer Of gen
eral conditions. Undoubtedly there
has been manipulation by big hnan-
cial operators 10 encourage the rise,
but the very fact that they have se-
le..sd the present period for these
sderations shows that they consider
sthc time ripe for the beginning OF the
i upward turn. The excellent pros
poets for good crops throughout the
country and the fact that the situa-
tion in regard TO the presidential
nominations is beginning more set
tied are regarded by the financial ex-
pcrts OF the downtown district as
factors riding the return OF conf
dencc.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-31

stone in his Presidential career. Ere
another vacation-time rolls around he
will once more be Citizen Roosevelt,
care-free and at liberty to indulge his
every fancy for strenuosities-geo-
graphical, geological, or, mayhap,
political. Mrs. Roosevelt and the
children probably will precede the
President by some days, for it is
likely that preparations for the COM
ing convention and campaign will pre-
clude his leaving before the date men
toned.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-31

President Roosevelt is planning to
make his annual getaway" along
about June 20. Unless his present
plans miscarry he will, for some
after that date, direct the af-
fairs of government from his sum-
mer home at Oyster Bay, L. l. The
Chief Executive is said to be eagerly
looking forward to this last official
vacation, for it marks the last mile
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-31
EN- ROUTE TO WASHINGTON.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 3o.-John
S. Leech for seven years director of
printing at Manila, has arrived here
en- route to Washington where he is
to assume the duties of public printer,
succeeding Chas A. Stillings who was
some time ago by order IF
President Roosevelt.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-31
PREHISTORIC JAPAN
The Japanese Race Three Thou
sand Years Ago
BY DOCTOR N. G. MONROE
The Prehistoric Japanese is Not the
Japanese of Today Any More Than
the Prehistoric American Indian is
the American of Today.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 80
Three thousand years ago and more
Japan was exclusively peopled by the
Ainu, the long bearded, now almost
extinct aborigines still to be found
in the far north Of the island.
This interesting declaration is made
by DR.. n. G. Munro, a physician, an
author and member Of many anth-
ropoligical and scientific societies who
has devoted the past few years in
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-31

now comfortable means Of getting
about Manhattan Island will be deycl.
oped. Until then apparently New
Workers must cultivate the prehcn-
sivc abilities Of their ancestors by
dangling from straps on their way
between their Offices and their homes.
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SOLDIER SHOOTS HIMSELF.
A private in 10th Company of Coast
Artillery.

SAN FRANCISCO. May 3d.
James Black, a private in the sixtieth
Company o. Coast Artillery shot him
self at the Preside yesterday and
died later from the effects Of the
wound. Black who was rs years Of
age, was born in Burlington, Iowa.