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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 30, 1905)
i THE MORNING AJjTORJAN, ASTORIA, QREGON. THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1900. AN AWFUL PRAYER Subject of Sermon by Rev. Ralph Gilliam Last Night. OUR EARLY HISTORY AN INTERESTING APPLICATION Trte Methodist Church Crowded Lett Night and Two Service Were Held, Showing That the Interest in the Re vival Meetings Is Increasing. The Methodist church was crowded last evening and increasing Interest was manifest in the meeting. Several selections were sung by the large choir and audience, Rev. Herbert IL Brown offered an invocation and Mrs. Wat kins sang a solo. Rev. Ralph GlUlam announced as his text part of the 19th verse of the Hth chapter of St. Luke 'I pray The have me excused." It seems a thing inereditable, almost impossible to make us believe that any man or woman would offer up such a terrible prayer. There are people in this audience tonight saying to God I pray Thee have me excused. Preach ers are constantly telling their hearers that if they pray to God He will an swer their prayers. If men and wo ment pray to be excused God will cer talnly answer their prayer, and excus them. We are living in a day of dishonesty on the part of men and women, when peaking of the religious life and men and women are making excuses to get out of doing their duty toward God. It seems to be a very easy matter on the part of a large majority of the peo ple to make an excuse when called up on to perform some service for Jesus Christ. There is a tendency among some people to cling to what is wrong rather than to follow what is right The first excuse ever offered In this world happened In the garden of EJen When the Lord asked Adam what he had done he offered the excuse when Be said: "The woman she did it." And Eve offered an excuse when she said "The serpent did it." People in the churches are not unlike the people in the garden of Eden In making excuses ; How many times have people asked to be excused when they have been asked to accept Christ Some people make the excuse, I am afraid I can't hold out. I have yet to meet that man who relied upon his own strength that ever succeeded. Toose that put their trust in God make a success of the Christian life. If you quit falsify ing, if you quit your foolishness and become God's property, God will take care of His own. The blessings you think you have been deprived of is be cause you have been excused from ac cepting them. The Jewish people of fered an excuse when they brought 1 their king Jesus before Pontius Pilate and demanded that he be crucified. When Pilate asked them if they wanted to crucify their king, they an swered: "We have no king but Caesar That excuse has followed this race from that Jay to this. They have been driven out of Jerusalem; they have been driven into exile in Russia; they are followed on the streets and taunt ed of their nationality, and all "be cause they prayed to be excused from ;!, 82 (List of Lights. VUioy and Day marks, Pacific Coast. tag H). M;uvh ;j the structure from which this fixed white post lantern !lhl was sliown, on the northerly side of the MarshtloM i.muuri . vw'S river, w,s i.uiiru . ,. , a...,,- and the light is ,u.t now op- P01 Intercstmsl Reminiseense ol e a ion. The structure will be rpla-H I Astoria and Clatsop County. . soon as pmcueame. FROM THE OLD PIONEERS in, The Correct Solution. - Although the Astorlnn received over 20 answers, John MeUuIre, superin tendent of the railroad, received at least 50. besides a number that went to the city office, not one guessed ihe cor rect answer to the problem of the cmi- ductor who boarded a train ft Astoria and In irolng to Warrer.ton, walkeJ the length of the train which was s mile long, getting off th" engine at Warrenton. a distance of five miles. Most of the answers were lint h roJo four miles and walked one li.tie. Th ... ........ ,... la 1 ha I . mlUt I In v.'ittrIiiv s Anliirlan wits nuti ami walked on mile. It is rive miles I , . Wuv.., h- "shed the history of the building of conductor rode all the way. at the same the first hotel in Astoria, but A. Mont- time he walked one mile on tiie train. I gomery states that the Astoria n was Therefore he rode Ave miles and , error n, , tne tlme ,he hotrl wtul walked one mile. business property was sold at from ISO to $100 a lot that are today worth sev eral thousands of dollars. The town lte was laid out by Cyrus Olney and sold by a lottery tvheme, and a case was taken to the circuit court, presid ed over by Judge Upton, who decided the lottery m horn was void. The present court house was built several years after. The blok was donated to the coimty by Cyrus Olney, with the proviso thai It should never be used for any other purpose, and If so used, should revert back to him or , his hftrs. The court house- was built i. I Clothes Bought at Wise's Light Store Pressed Free of Charge Whenever You Wish. The First Methodist Church Built Astoria, the Court First Hotel, With Some of the Peo pie Who Were Here at the Time. during the administration of Judge J. built. It was stated that It was bul't In 1856. but Mr. MontKomety states that he came to Astoria In September. 1S52, and stopped at the hotel Astor, th, one built by 0p'ltl C. Bo"!!trijj H. P.. Parker came by steamer in June, I $52, and Mr. Montgomery came over- It is Interesting to converse -.villi the old pioneers and listen to them re count the hardships they endured, also Purely Imagination. Some person or persons who rea . tn, editorial in yesterday morning's Asto rlan, commenting on the Cassle Chad wick case and comparing the many acts of promotion with tl.e Nehulem Coal Company, tried to Impress upon M. S. Copeland that It referred pr- I land In September of the same y..r. sonally to her. Everyone in Astorlt. who knows Mrs. Copeland knows that, like a great many others, sV was an Innocent party In the Nehalem Coal Company, and the one that investel some of the good tlmea they had In the the most money, but no one ever nr- early days of Astoria and Clatsop cused her of doing a wront' act In re- county. Mr. Montgomery, one of the gard to it. or In the IS years she hit, lllhabltant. .tate. tha. nril. oeen in Business in Astoria, sne was not the promoter, but relied upon state ments of the promoter. There are on tn n' ln hhlveleys Astoria, an meddlesome people In Astoria, who are that RtfV- Mr- Franklin, whose widow never happy unless making trouble for "ves n Clatsop plains, was the first some one else, and It is due In part minister. The building was afterwards to this class that Mrs. Copeland re- partially destroyed by a wind storm, ceived the Impression that a compari- was flsei1 "P y Mr. Shivley. who son had been drawn with her in the 0,111 lled 11 a a residence for many article. There was no sucb lnter'ion. I 'ears- when moved In to It. the neither was she thought of. Mrs. Cope- steeple was still on It, but a short land has mJ msnv friend durlnsr ll,n' aerarJ it was blown down the time she has been In business in alld put ,0 other U8e"' w ""Jar- Astoria, and has won a reputation for stooJ Mr- Hontgomery to say that he Q. A. How I by, county Judge, The jail i . - .i - i i . .. .. f.. . . . i , - ...... House and the r,innri i,j Miuumr er, and nas neon me nuojovt of much ridicule and comment. The first cus tom hones In Oregon was located at Adair's Astoria and John Adnlr was the first collector. The building stood upon Its original location until two years ago. It hna been a difficult mat ter to define the exnet location of Fort George, but many state that It was located on the property at the cornei of Fifteenth and Exchange street, re. cently purchased by n. M. Leather. William Chance has probably more data of the early history of Astoria and Clatsop county than any other man, as h has made a business of compiling It. Mr. Chance Is possessed of a wonderful memory, and can clve the exact dates of many oecurrcneet In the early history of the city and county. If the data he has In hand could be published In book form It would make a complete history of the early days of the city and county and would make Interesting reading. These are maters that ought to be preserved The time may come In the distant fu ture when a celebration of the discov ery of the Columbia river may be mad a national affair, and Its early history would form a very Important matter In the celebration. The Astorlan will publish any articles bearing upon the early history of the lower Columbia river If It can be furnished. FREE ACCIDENT INSURANCE, With his usual enterprise IliSltMAM WISH has adopted a new Idea; as In former years he still Issues Christum Certificates -with every $10 a!; but In addition to giving a Christmas pres. ent to each customer who hat three or more of these certificates, Mr. Wise returns 110 to a customer for each certificate In case the cuitomer meets with an accident that disables him so thnt he la unable to work: the more certificates; the more accident Insur ance, and It doesn't roat nu a cent. AU Mr. Wise asks la time you trade with him steady. If you are lucky and don't meet with an accident and have three or more rertlflea'e Mr. Wis will give you a nl Chrl.unm gift the more certificate the nicer the present. Trad with ,WISK. honest business methods and fair deal ng with the public. HOTEL ARRIVALS. Occident. M. Wise. Portland. Bert Roberts, Portland. C. E. Palmer, Portland. Thos. Bufford, St. Louis. W. 8. Paige, Portland. T. G. Coleman, Portland. D. D. Young, Portland. E. H. Temple, San Francisco. William Timson. Belli ngham. Dr. Gelden, San Francisco. Walter Mack, New York. Delia Sougren. Cathlamet. J. A. Clemsensen, Portland. Miss Estella Foster, South Bend. L, Bloch, South Bend. O. H. Halley, South Bend. C. F. Taylor, Seattle. W. H. Lawson, Portland. Edmond P. Sheldon, Portland. was the first presiding elder In the church, but may have been mistaken. The first saw mill built in Astoria was the one mentioned yesterday and was located on the corner where Cleveland's bakery now stands. It was operated by II. B. Parker, and was ou of the old-fashioned gig saws. The capacity of the mill was about 5000 feet of lumber a day. The lumbei manufactured, was mostly cedar, some Of which is In building now standing and it is as good and sound as the day it was put In. The lumber for the Astor hotel, situated on the west side of Ninth, then Main, street, was cut at this mill. This la the building that lis now being torn down. It was the first hotel In Astoria, and many storlee are connected with the boarders of the hotel, and the experiences of the earlier settlers recounted. H. B. Parker states that there Is not a man living In Astoria today that was here when he first came here. Good Inoredible Brutality. It would have been Incredible bru tality if Cha. F. Lemberger of Syrn- cuse, N. Y had not done the best he could for his suffering son. "My boy. he says, "cut a fearful gash over his eye, so I applied Hu'klen's Arnica Salve, which quickly healed It and saved his eye." Good for burns and ulcers too. Only 25c at Chas. tloger'n drug store. A new lot of Australian lump coal just received. There Is no fuel so con vcnlent, satisfactory and economical as first class coal. Australian coal burns freely with little ash and no clinkers. , You can have It tacked oi In lumps. Free delivery. Ring up phone 1981. ELMORE h CO. A FACT PROVEN. The Colonel's Waterloo. Colonel John M. Fuller, of Honey Grove, Texas, nearly met his Water loo, from Liver and Kidney trouble. In a recent letter, he says: "I was nearly dead, of these complaUits, and, al though I tried my family doctor, he did I me no good; so I got a 50c bottle of accepting Jesus as their king. What your S1 E'ec'r'0 Bitters, which So far as they go, Schilling'! Best take doubt and difficulty out of getting your table supplies. I ynr fittu'n TT-tjtanej shall It profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul. There are men and women in this aud ience tonight that take this awful chance. Where is the profit? Excuse making always proves fatal. "For I say unto you, that none of these men that were bidden will taste of my sup per. If your chairs are empty after this service tonight, you can't say that you were not Invited. It is the Invi tation of the great God that is sent down to you. If you refuse the Invita tion I shall go right on preaching Just the same. The three excuses were: First "I have bought a piece of land." No man ever bought a piece of land without first going and seeing it. Second "I have bought five yoke of oxen and I go to prove them." No man ever bought one yoke of oxen without first having seen them. Third "I have married a wife anj therefore I can't come." God pity the woman that has to eke out a miser able existenec with such a man. And all of that kind of men are not dead yet. The best excuse you ever manu factured was not a whit better thnn the three offered. It would be no Joke if Ood would tnke you at your word and excuse you. I pray Thee, have me excused. Rev. Gilliam announced that at the meeting this afternoon his subject would be "Questionable Amusements." Tonight the subject will be, "The Un answerable Question." Friday after noon there will be a special service for women, and on Friday evening the subject will be "Skepticism." Notice to Mariners. The following affects the list of lights and fog signals, Paj'iV coast, 1934: Marahfkld Rear acon light, pge cured me. I consider them the best medicine on earth, and thank God who gave you the knowledge to make them." Sold and guaranteed to curt Dyspepsia, Billlousness and Kidney Disease, by Chas. Rogers, druggist, at 50c a bottle. II CeavUe Evea the Heat kef Ural f He Tnrth. If there It the slightest doubt In the minds of any that Dandruff germs do not exist, their belief Is compelled by the fact that a rsbblt Innoculated with ths germs became bald In six weeks' time. It must be apparent to any person therefore that the only prevention of baldness Is the destruction or the germ which act Is successfully arcompllahed In one hundred per cent, of case by the application of Newbro's Herplrlde. Dandruff Is caused by the tame girm which causes baldness and can be pre vented with the same remedy Newbro's Herplclde. Accept no substitute. "Destroy the cause you remove the effect." 8old by lending druiorlsta Bind 10c. In stamp for sample to The IlcrplcldaXo., Detroit. Mich. Eagle Drug Store, 351-SCS Bond 8t Owl Drug Store, 649 Cam. St., T. 7. Iurln. Prop. "Special Agent" .erman The Reliable Clothier and Hatter. Wise, -J m Has filtt-avs in stnrlr a - J - - o fine assortuicut of o 98 o o o BALL BRAND RUBBER BOOTS. 6 4404 V) O Call and See. Bond Street. o A. G I M R E 444)404)44) Boots and Shoes I 433 Commercial Street Phone Main 121 Sherman Transfer Co. I II EN It Y HJIKKMAN, Mauager Hacks, Carriages Buggag Checked aiul Transferrc! Trucks and Furniture Wagons- i'iuiioH Moved, IJoxed and Shipped. CALIFORNIA RESTAURANT. Reopened Under New Management John Blaslch has leased the Califor nia Restaurant and Oytter Rouse and la now prepared to serve the public. The best oysters and meals In the city. Family trade supplied. Good cooks, polite waltera and prompt ser-1 rlea. GOLD? GATE COFFEE urina it at home (not too fine) fresh each morning. Aroma-tight tine. Never in bulk. J A. Folger & Co, Establish la 150 San Fraaciao In the bath room You well Know how dirt accumulates In the bath-tub and wash-bowl. No trouble to Keep them clean with BANNER LYE. It Kills odors and destroys germs in toilets and drains Closed waste pipes are a menace to health. A half minutes worK and a tablespoonful of Banner Lye will remove the dangerous accumulation of grease and dirti BANNER LYE is safe and convenient. A little goes a long way lO cents at your grocer's The sending of 'your name and address and your grocer's nams will briny to you our valuable illustrated booklet 'The Uses of Banner Lye". THE J. K. ARMS BY COMPANY F RUT? CIS C O THE BATHROOM lii am e EkMH J J I Vf 7V F t I V f m 1