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PJ k - r L 5T Wxt gnttg Jlstorian. ASTORIA. OKEGON: THURSDAY &.PRIL 7, IS87 OUR FOREIGN SERVICE. Thk diplomatic and consular service of the United States has uever received the fair and gen erous consideration which its im portance merits. The policy respecting it has alwaj's been nar row and illiberal, contrasting strongly with that pursued by other greit commercial nations. There have always been men of influence in congress and elsewhere to decry it as for the most part an expensive luxury, and instead of its being an inviting and honora ble field of Inbor fcr the best ability of the country, it has gen erally been parceled out to anti quated or shelved politicians. This was especially the case before the war, and no very earnest effort was made in the direction of im provement for many years after. The public mind was so entirely preoccupied with domestic affairs during the first twelve years fol lowing the war that only a per functory attention was bestowed upon our foreign relations. Dur ing this ?eriod.the diplomatic and consular service declined to prob ably a lower plane than ever before. One of tlie most meritorious fea tures of the Hayes administration was the effort, largely successful, to improve the efficiency of this service, and its standard since has been comparatively good, though still inferior to that of other coun tries. An effort was made at the last session of congress to still further liberalize the policy of the government with respect to this service but it encountered an opposition which prevented full success. The great majority of our foreign representatives are inadequately paid, and it is no justification of the penurious policy that has been pursued to say that there are always men to be found very will ing to accept these positions. A rich and prosperous county should not deal with its serv ants abroad upon any such nig gardly basis. Many of these for eign representatives are compelled, in order to maintain their present and official respectability, to draw largely upon their private fortunes, and those who have not this re source are thrown into unenviable comparison with the better paid representatives of other nations. This is neither to our "credit nor our advantage. The consequence is well stated b' the American minister to Sweden and Norway, who in a recent interview said "the tendency of our foreign service is to restrict representation to men of wealth, and men who are not in the young vigor of life. Only those who are very wealthy and who can afford to spend twice or thrice their salary, or are too old to care for the ac tivities of life and are oblivious ol the loss of business identity in their native country, can afford to enter the service." fhese classes are not the men who are likely to make the most careful and efficient ministers and consuls, and so long as the service is in the condition to favor only these classes it can not be brought to the highest measure of usefulness. "realthy men who go abroad for honor and enjoyment will not give very close attention to the details ol their du ties, which are generally the most important, and the veterans cannot do so. The service should in vita men of the highest intelli gence, who have also the vigor and energy to perform all their duties promptly and thoughtfully, and they should be compensated wfth reasonable lib erality. It is not doubted that un der any circumstances the demand for these foreign positions will al ways exceed the supply, but this is no excuse for a niggardly policy the effect of which is to narrow to the government the opportunities for the most desirable selections. H?$H J. Brattle editor of the Tombstone, Arizona, Demo- cmt, finished writing a series of brief biographical sketches of the members of the late Arizona legis lature last Thursday, and died the following day. Death had no ter rors for him. Last Tuesday's vote in Chicago was on the question "Shall the American flag or the red flag be carried at the head of the proces sion?" The American flasr won, by a large majority. Long may it wave: HOW FICTION BECOMES HISTORY. The late Colonel Scott, of war rec ords office, who died recently, often confounded many a story teller. It was he who had the documents at his el bow to furnish the exact truth in regard to every battle and campaign, and every order or report in regard to them.. To him went a host of people who wanted light on the war. A few weeks before his death. Colonel Scott said: "There are innumerable calls on me from officers on both sides for exact information abott various movements and engogements. Most of them deal with personal affairs. Some fellow who led a scout wants to hunt up a report where his name is mentioned. A major-general is not often any more sure of facts twenty- hve years old that a private and a dispute with a brother officer sends both here for the record. It not in frequently happens that I unwittingly deal some of my best .friends crnel blows. A western senator came here a year or so ago and got documents from me that made Admiral Porter ridiculously imaginative, where every body supposed he was precisely his torical, in regard to President Lin coln's visit to Richmond at the surrender, and an alleged interview en route with Duff Green. The greater part of the story turned out to be fiction. One day an old officer came rushing in, and, in an excited tone, exclaimed:,, " 'Have you said 1 was not m the second battle of Bull Run?' " " No, not exactly that,' I said.' " Well, Bob Scott, I was told you said so, and I came in hero to put daylight through you if vou stuck to it.' " " '0, no,' Ij replied, laughing, 4I never said you were not in that battle. What I said was that you yourself, in an official report dated the day of the battle, had said that you were in the Cumberland valley, 100 miles from Uentemllo and Bull Run.' " "His eyes looked dizzy and his face was a most amusing picture of con sternation. What I said was true. I tapped a bell, called a clerk, who brought the officer's official report, and there in his own handwriting, over his signature, in black and white was his own word that he was not at Bull Run. He read the report through twice in silence so solid you could slice it. Then he took his hat, and, without a word, arose and loft the building. "A prominent officer of my ac quaintance has described often in my hearing, with great minnteness, the battle of the Monitor and Merrimac: Ho told the story as au eye witness, described his field glass and the point of observation. I paid no attention to the matter until I heard the tale told twice. Then I became curious-, and hunted np the official reports made by this officer. I found that if he saw the Monitor and Merrimac in that battle his field-glass was a most powerful one. He never saw the Monitor and Merrimac fight, but was at Falls Church the day of the battle, if his own reports are to be believed. There is a good deal of fiction in our war stories. "The greatest number of inquiries about war history," said Colonel Scott, "come from the south. The I Johnnies fought well, and, in the ab sence or. a goou deal else to give them satisfaction, take great pleasure in their fighting. Nearly all tho promi nent conreaerate officers have visited this old building, and hardly a day passes that we do not receive a dozen letters from southerners asking for information." THE PIE OF C03I3IEROE. I have received a letter from nnm- niercial men at large, stating that at the Halliberfc House. Red Cloud. Neli.. the proprietor cuts a pie into sixteen pieces. They object to this minute division, and ask my advice as to what they should do. I would like to treat this matter in a way to insure harmony between the traveling man and tlie hotel, if nnRR- ble; and yet I must confess that I cannot reier to pie in a purely nnpar tisan spirit Pie, I may truthfully say, seems to Ke nearer my heart at times man anyming else witnm tlie great I know that commercial men are prone to ask too much of the hotels at times, and thus they inflame the proprietors. I have known of many such instances in wliinh the frmriaf was clearly in the wrong; but the out rages were niways perpetrated by traveling men whose early lives had been passed in obscurity. They were men who knew how to catch a train, or tell, in a rich, Union-depot tone of voice, how many goods they sold in that town, but they do not adorn so ciety very much. These are the ex ceptions, however. They are men who lepresent small houses, and sleep on four seats in the day coach, with their feet on the velvet "collar of the unassuming capitalist who sits in the. adioininEr new. But I wm a traveling man once for two weeks, ana x nave always sympa thizedwith those who followed the hnRmess for a livelihood. . Ior some years I had yearned to bo a commer cial man, with a sorrel traveling bag and a bold signature. I intimated to several large concerns that my services could be secured at a nomi nal figure, but there is nothing so JJUUVU up ui ou oguiiguvm no a ywo perous business house, and so they continued to struggle ou without me. Finally, I went on the road in the interests of Warner's White Wfne and Tar Syrup a preparation that would take a pair of second-hand lungs and brighten them up so that a man needn't be ashamed to dress up in them and wear them in the best so ciety. People say that traveling men are too forward and too bold, and oughtjto do a little more of the blush-unseen business, but I found when I was on the road that I" had to be bold, espe cially at the hotels, for the clerks were" bold, the porters were bold, and the dining-room girls were also in several instances extremely so. If I did not demand the bridal chamber I generally got tea chest No. Q, with no knob on the door, and when I would punch the button on the de nunciator it would fall off with a low tremnlous sound and roll under the bed. Speaking of doorknobs reminds me of a hotel man in Washington territory who has a novel way of keeping these handles clean at a slight expense. He has knobs on all doors, and they are so arranged that they may be eas ily removed. He has two sets for the house one set being white and and the other a dappled baj. When one set gets soiled he removes the knobs, placing them in the soap diahes of the various rooms, where the guests rinse them off thoroughly in a vain attempt to get a lather out of them. After they aie dried the proprietor replaces them on the doors and the soiled set go into tho soap dishes. This is hotel now called the door-knob chop-house, and with the slippery elm towel adopted there a polish is given to the guest which he might otherwise never secure. In conclusion, I hardly know what to say. Pie enters into the life of every true American, and an unfair division of pie will certainly lead to open hostility and possibly intestine war. The tendency of tho age seeoi3 to be toward the centralization of pie. This is bound to make the thin man thinner and the fat man fatter From statistics now in my hands I have ascertained that we have enough pie in America, if properly distrib uted, to give to each adult, exclusive of Indians not taxed, one-eighth of a full grown pie, and still leave one sixteenth pie for each child of school age. William Nye. Greatly Excited. Xot a few of the citizens or Astoria haye recently become greatly excited over the astounding facts, that several of their friends who had been pro nounced by their physicians as incur able and beyond all hope suffering with that dreaded monster Consump tion have been completely cured by Dr. King's New Discovery for Con sumption, the only remedy that does jiusuiveiy uure an uirum ami lung uis eases, Coughs, Colds, Asthma and Bron chitis. Trial bottles free at W. E. De ment & Co.'s Drug Store, large bottles SI NEW TO-DAY. Check Lost. CHECK NO. 9. OX I, V. CASK'S DANK, favor of Louis Marcelme for $191.10, Kinder will please leave with Thompson & Boss. parfment OF Tim Astoria Fire Department, For the Benefit of the STATE FIliKMKN'S ASSOCIATION. TOUHXAMKXT FUND at Ross' Opera House. Ou Monday Evening, April 11th, 1887. Under Le management ol the Board ol Foremen of the Astoria Fire Department. Committro of Arrangements : C. J. Trenc'iard, "W..I. Barry, 1. Wi Holt, B. S, Wofcley. Reception Cemmittee: Ed Hallock. C. Brown. "V7. G. Boss, C. W. Fulton, C. Adler, Dr.J.Tuttle. Floor Managers : AY. E Warren. V. Sup renant, A. E. fahaw, F, L. Parkw, 1. M. Ear hart, T. S. Jewett. ' The Western Amateur Brass. Band has kindly donated the music for tho parade of the department during the day, and for the ball In the evening. Tickets - - SI. 00. By order of the Board of Foremen. By E. Z. FEKGUSON. Sec'y. Supper by the Woman's Belief Corps at Liberty Hall. SALOON AND RESTAURANT AUSTIN MELIN, Proprietor. Dr. Kinsey's Building. Best of Wines, Liquors and Cigars. A Good Meal Supplied. The Public Patronage Respectfully Solicited, HO! FOR THE SUPERIOR! Two more Carload of those famous SUlItIOB Stoves ani Knnges just ar rived from the Factory. Tue.se goods are what their name indicates, none S V Milli on In the Market. rirebackH to these Stoves are Guaranteed 15 Years. Every Stove AYarranted Cid! and Inspect them at MAGNUS C. CROSBY'S. Notice. mHEBK WILL BE A MEETING OF THK A Stockholders of the Astoria -Building and Loan Association, Tuesday, April 12, 1837, at 7 :C0 r. ai.. for the purpose of organ izing, electing directors and to transact such busluess as may come before them, at the court house. Astoria, Oregon. 1" AV. NEWELL, SI R. GILSTR A.P .1. Q. A-BOWLb'y, C. W. FtJLTOX .1. P. DICKINSON, M. FOARD FRANK K.STOKK4. A. SUTTON. JAYTUTTLE. u" Incorporators. Sunny Furnished Front Rooms. OVER THOMPSON & ROSS' STORE. IN Suit or Single. Net Corks For Sale. FROM TEN TO TWENTY THOUSAND. Inquire of WM. HOWE, THE CRYST PINE STOCK OF Watches, Clocks, Jewelry and Silverware JUST RECEIVED. ALSO ANOTHER LARGE INVOICE OF Fine Watch Repairing a specialty. GABX ADIiEK, Manager. CHAS. W. GIBBS, Watchmaker and Jeweler. Get The Best The New Improved Family And Manufacturing SINGER Sewing Machine. Ca'l and Examine at tho American News Depot. A. BALM AN NO, AGENT. To Rent. IjMVKACKK TUACT FOH A TERM OF . years. Well lecated: Will be leased on faorable tenn. Apply to "MRS.WErMAN. Chicago nonse. MURRAY & C0.,i GROCERS : And Dealers in Special Attention Given to Filling Of Orders. A FULL LINE CARRIED And Supples furnished at Satis factory Terms. Purchases delivered In any part of the city. Office and Warehouse Iii Hume s New Building on Water Street i P. O. Box 1X5. Telephone No. 37. ASTORIA, OKEfiOX. G. A. STINSON & CO., BLACKSMITH1NG. t Cant. Kogers old stand, comer it Cas and Court Streets. Ship and Cannery work. lIorauMioetn'-'. Wagons made and repaired. Good work guaranteed. CBlfiU Saws ! BOOTS and SHOES Genuine English Porpoise Shoes For Gents. Ladles Flexible Sole Slides in Fienuli, Kangaroo and Dongola Kid Boys and Youths Shoes of all Kinds, Misses and Children? and Infant heelsand ."Sprinfr hPOls. WK IKAI. IX HOOTS ANO SHOES OHI4Y. F. J. GOODMAN. IS LIFE WORTH LIVING? That Depends on the Liver. The Liver Depends on the Food. If What You Eat Doesn't Agree With Y.ou, GO TO A. V. ALLEN'S And Get Some of His Choice Provisions. Ask to See Some Novelties and Specialties In FINE GROCERIES. Swiss, Holland and New Cream Cheese; Smoked Herring, Holland Herring, Caviar, Anchovies, Tongues and Sounds, White Fish and Mackerel, Schrimps, Lobsters, French Sardines and Oysters. Shrewsbury Ketchup, Chili Sauce, Tobaaco Sauce, CelerySalt, French and German Mustard, Leiblg's Ex. Beef, Sea Foam wafers, Van Houghton's Cocoa. Triticnra, Geriea, Epicurean Food, Oat Porrite Rolled Oats. Oranges, Lemons, Nuts, Figs, &c, &c. CITY BOOK STORE. Direct from the Factory a Fine Assortment of Baby Carriages, Bird Cages, Croquet Sets, FISHING TACKLE, ETC. BOTTOM F3El.XO:E2&. GRIFFIN & REED. Magnus C, Crosby Dealer In HARDWARE, IRON, STEEL, Iron Pipe and Fittings.. STOVES, TIN WAR E AND HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS SHEET LEAD STRIP LEAD SHEET IRON, 3?3jcl AND Ooxex- rank L Parker, Dealer in Eaocj ana" Staple Groceries. Flour Feed I Potatoes Headquarters For ASTORIA WOOD YARD. $67,000,000 Capital Lherpool & London & Globe. North British and Mercantile of London and Edinburgh. Hartford of Connecticut, Commercial of uauiornin Agricultural, or watertown. New York, London & Lancashire of Liverpool, Eng.. Fire Insurance Companies, Kepresent- iii a capital oi ?h,uw,wu. B. VAlfe OFSKN Agent. The Em For the Next SO Days We will sell all of our Ladies' and Children's Cloaks m 25 per cent. Less ttwn l-'onni-r Price. Wo have .lust Received a Laro f.ot of. the celebrated Browns ville, Oregon, Woolen Goods in Men's and Boys' Clothing, Underwear, Flannels and Blankets. Also, Direct from the East, Gents', Youths', Boys', and Children's Fine Clothing- and Hats. AU of which we will sell at the Very Lowest Prices. Our Stock of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods is one of the most complete north of San Francisco. Our past reputation justilies us in saying that We Lead in Quality of Goods and Prices. W. T- PAUSES, Manager. . J3L Bi PJLXtiXSiXSXfi.; DRALKU IX Baj,:0ab, ani Straw, Lime, Mel, Cement, Sani ani Plaster Wood DellTered to Order. Dra) Inc. Tt-amliii; and Kx press Huslaes. TEK apply to the Captain, or to Furniture and Upholstering, Mattresses Made and Repaired. Paper Hanging, Carpets Sowed and Laid. Furniture Sold on Commission. Snoi corner Main and Jefferson Streets MARTIN OLSEN. JLC. OOTTHSTT-ST Coroner'.-? Office, Undertaking ttooms next to SfiHs 5J.B0USr JO VXP' fV4f4!ANL' ' v J. R. LEESON & CO., BOSTON, SOLE AGENTS AX I) IMrOUTEKS. The Jotatone (ScotM) anil &ratton (Mass.) Prize Linen Threads AND Salmon Net Twines. r-rSA, oSr, The, only Linen Threads awarded a Prize Medal London 1851 and New Orleans Worlds Exposition 1881, Did not exhibit at Philadelphia 187G or Paris 1878. First Prize Awarded Wherever Exhibited!! Keferencea for the Scotch Salmon Net Twines: EVERY CANNER or FISHERMAN who bought it last season. IT GAVE UNIVERSAL SATIS- FACTION. Agenta for theTacifio Ceast: . .. KITTLE & QO., 202 Calif a St., San Franoisco, Caty Store. SrE.13IF.BS tuu nun Eben P. Parker.hlaster. 1 Kor TOWINO. FKEUin T or CHA ti ll. IS.' PARK RK. American News Bepot ON SALE; Tlie latest Magazines "and Illustrated papers of the day. Swedish, Danish and German paper. Books and Dictionaries. . Lovell and Seaside libraries. School Books. Stationery, ete. A BALMANNO. Cnenatuus St. near Main. E0SS, OOB - OIfBR, A . First Olasa Undertaking Establishment A FINE HEARSE, Newest style Caskets and Funeral Material, Ererjthlng Neat and Well Arranged. Antorlan ofllce, (B. B. Franklin's old stand.) !&&!, S: