THE M011MNG ASTOIUAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. MONDAY, JUNE 4. 9. Sermons of Yesterday Rev. Gustaf V, Rydquist preached ' last night at the First Lutheran Church. His theme was, "The .Spirit of Joy and Teaee." He said in part: "Christ speaks in the words of our text of b peace which the world can not give nor receive. A peculiar peace therefor which it is well for us to try to understand. It is not a peace due to an indifference to everything that prtains to life's higher ideals and makes the heart seemingly calm. We can speak of the joy and peace of our theme in the first place a a condition of the soul. The man whose past i- not covered with regrets who is con tented, and can look with patience and hope to the future, is indeed in a state of joy and peace. The world nuin seek this equilibrium and harmony of the kouI. but he mistakes the means for . I arriving to such a condition. Thi joy and' peace is not won on the path of worldly ambition, though this may be an Ambition for honor and renown. The honor of men is frail and in their praise j do often mingle wort, of jealousy, 1 hatred and revenge Others gather riches in order to find in them tins ,oy , and peace. Others seek it in carnal j pleasures. But alas peace is not there. J! iL. l :.,U,J ;n nor., lll-a r ., 0 , 1 prospects. It is called Centralia, doubt butterflies, now thev were here, now J . 1 . . lss because it is situated midwav lie there, now over vonder, now no wliere. , . . ' , I tween Heaven and Hell on the Northern Alas they are gone; gone aiso is peace. Storms and tempests are raging and remorse is the awful storm-king reign ing supreme. Natural man is- depend ent upon conditions without for his joy and peace and as changing as thee con ditions are also his joy and peace. The Christian is not dependent upon condi tions for he has the spirit of joy and peace incarnated in his own heart. He is not indifferent to honor, for then he would not be a man striving for higher ideals. Words of encouragement are re ceived with gratitude. But he is not dependent upon these, for he hears a roice in his own heart, a voice that ap proves a good deed done, though no hu man eye saw it. and no human voice .was raised in its praises. This voice i sufficient for him always. He is not indifferent to good fortune, for he sees in it the good will of Providence. He is pot indifferent to innocent pleasure, the pure joys offered by friendship and so ciety. These are blossoms from a lost j Eden. Each individual is an entity in the great horao-eosmos. Each one has i his place to fill, and if rightly placed he will be in harmony and not in discord with the whole. His influence is also there. What this is we cannot judge. The sum .total of your influence and mine will be weighed out to us on the scale of eternal justice. One thing is certain as . ,. J ... , , vnnsuans we snouia not, De possesseu j with the fighting spirit, but with the J winning spirit of Jesus Christ which is I Sl ' 1 1 1 , 1 1 1 joy and peace in the Holy Ghost. ANARCHISTS WATCHED. LONDON, June 3. As the outcome of the investigation ordered by the gor ernment, a statement was issued today on behalf of the Scotland yards that no person known to be an anarchist has left the British shores while the two men concerned in the attack on Ring Alfonso at Paris a year ago have been for weeks under government observa tion in London. For a gooi share go to the Occident Barber Shop. Five chain No long waits. is made in Oregon from Oregon grown Bluestem wheat. The best that money and machinery can make. That's all III F0AKD 8 ASTORIA HE'S A BURNER. .Willapa Harbor Pilot Seems to Know Him Pretty Well. Pr. Seth 0. Maker, a former popular resident and practitioner of this city, has again broke into the world of let Ms, this time as editor of the Pessimist at Seattle. If any one doubts that Dr. Seth is 'a genius they may read a speoi- nicii of his characteristic writing which follows. This is reproduced not for the purpose of assisting the snappy din-tor in smothering one of the best towns in the Mate, but to show his absolute command of invective and the I'nited States language in general: Did you ever hear of Milpeta, IV Ell. or Muckilteo? or IV11 Van. Ips wich, or EskinoM Perhaps you have not. Milpeta is in California, and is noted for Wing the birthphuv'of Mose Gunst. P Ell and Muckilteo arc both in the State of Washington, and the inhabi tants are. tightwads who raie garlic and live on spinach made from tops. Pen Van is a Pennsylvania hamlet where it is a crime to chew gum on the Sabbath. Ipswich is in Michigan and none of the inhabitants speak English; and Eskinob is a village on the south .w-.., jif u'tiAfM tllrt 0I11SA has u u the only town on the American continent which has neither industry pride, nor ravine railroad. The inhabitants are white in colt but their characteristics are mottled, piebald and pink. All trains stop at Centralia so that the con stable may go through and collect poll tax. The, city revenues are kept up by dog tax. bicycle tax, crap games, and the ladies' aid society. The town was discovered by Edgar Willis Xye and was taken as a home stead by a big nigger named George Washington, in 1852. The town pros pered until his death, when it became the prey of politicians and preachers. In the heart of Centralia there are several hundred acres of fair grazing and a large loosely-kept cemetery. Sev eral persons now buried there are still holding public office in tlie city. The main street is. fcwol miles long, and no structure over one story high. Therv are a number of vacant store rooms to let, adjoining the post office. The lead- j ing citizens of Centralia are the Justice of the Peace and the Town Bull. There is no sewerage system in Cen tral The fact also that many of the leading citizen go barefooted, conveys the impressions to strangers that the place b dead. This, however, is not the case. Any ordinary man who can stay there three days and get away with his linderelntlis. !a pntitled to have his nor- . . , c. . . trait in the Seattle Argus. Among the inhabitants there is har mony and co-operation. The .ever-welcome stranger is the bone of contention; and when the unwary stripling ventures into their midst to traffic, he i pester ed, pilfered and plucked until his gar ments are threat-bare and his eye teeth are six inches long. . I have remarked that Centralia found subsistence on the bodies of those timorous persons who ventured there to trade, because none go there lor pleasure. To really enjoy life in .that burg of cockroaches, fleas and bad reputations, one should first live six months beyond the Styx and go to Cen tralia in armor. Personally, if it ever comes to choosing between that louse jnfested gravel bed and the home of Satan, I say, give me Hell. Willapa Harbor Pilot. STOKES C. AGENTS. WILL CLOSE BREWERY Local Option as Now Existing is Unfair. LEGAL OPiNION RENDERED R. E. Moody, Leading Attorney of Port land, Says That Present Local Option Law it Unwise, Unfair, and Dishonorable. The following opinion relative to the status of the breweiy here has been ren dered by Attorney R. K. Moody of Portland : June 2, ISHHi. W. E. Schimpff, Esq.. Astoria. Ore. Dear Sir: I beg leave to Mibmit the receipt of your recent favor in which you uak my opinion as to what effect it would have upon your brewery should local option be adopted in the county or the precinct in which your buewery is .located. Under Section 10 of the present local .option law it is provided that if a ma jority of the votes cast upon the ques tion of prohibition in the county as a whole, or in any subdivision in the .county as u. whole, or in any precinct in the county, are for prohibition, the county court shall immediately make an .order declaring the result of said vote .and prohibiting the sale of intoxicating .liquors within the prescribed limits. And said section further provides:: ."Thereafter it shall be unlawful to sell or exchange or give away any intoxi cating liquor within the territory in cluded in said prohibition order, except .as in this law provided." The only exception provided in the .law is that contained in Section 2 of .the said law, which permits the sale of pure alcohol for scientific or manufac turing purposes, or wines for church officials for sacramental purposes, and the use of alcoholic stimulants as medi cine in case of actual sickness, provided .the same be upon a written prescrip- j .tion of a regular practicing physician. 1 dated and signed .by him and certified ' on his, honor that he, the physician, has personally examined the applicant, nam ing him. and finds him actually sick , and in need of the stimulant prescribed as medicine. And this section further provides that when a druggist (ills this prescription he shall at once cancel and file the same and shall not be permitted to sell more than once upon the said prescription. . The sale or the giving away of intoxi- Lcating liquors is absolutely prohibited in a dry precinct except for these things just enumerated. I am, therefore, of the opinion that if ,the county or the precinct in which your brewery is located should go dry t the .coming election you would be prevented from further transacting busincs. at .that location. It has been suggested by those that are opposed to the adoption of the pro posed amendments to the local option law which amendments correct this hardship now inflicted upon brewer and wholesale liquor dealers, that under .the present law the brewers and whole salers could evade the provisions of Sec tion 10 by establishing depots in some ,wet precinct outside of a prohibited county and make their" sales from this depot and not from the breweiy located in the dry precinct, and that, therefore, the law in this respect requires no am endment. Thi might be true but it is a subterfuge and any subterfuge that is resorted to in order to defeat a plain If You're aud have never worn a suit of Hart, Schaffncr and Marx Clothes, you have missed oue of the good things of life, namely: UP-TO-DATE-NESS WE WANT YOU TO QUIT BEING BEHIND In Your Dress Ideas It is just as cheap to be known as "A Good Dresser" if you buy of us. P. A. STOKES "Good Clothes for Men Who Know." provision of law is both unwise and dishonorable. The presumption would always, be that a person would carry on his transact ions at his usual place of business, and should a proceeding be .instituted which made the question ma terial as to where the sle of your goods .was made, the burden of proof would V upon you to show that you ilid not mtike the sale at the place the law and business custom would presume you to have it. Yours very respectfully, KAU'H K. MOODY. JOHNSON, HENRY & CO.'S MEAT CANNERY. Johnson. Henry & Company are meet ing with most encouraging success with their meat cannery in N'ahcotta. It would seem strange that a small con cern with a limited output would com plete with the big packiug plants of the east, but it inn be done becausii of the immeasurably superior quality of the product of such eunneiic as that of .Johnson, Henry Si Company. The emlwlmed beef investigation of the Spanish war opened people' eyes to the fact that they might just as well cat sawdust as to eat the ordinary canned bee, because the meat packers had taken all of the nutritive juices out of the- meat before canning it to make beef extract and canned wmp. The N'ahcotta firm cans meat with all of its juices after trimming off the superfluous fat so that you get practically clear lean meat and deliciously flavored. They can it either spiced or plain. The linn con sists of J. C. .Johnson, of Oysterville, hix son tieorge and t lie N'ahcotta butch er, William Henry. Mr. Johnson, as has already been stated by the Journal, had Wn can ning meat for his own use fur thirty years and the present plant is the na tural outgrowth of it. Mr. Henry is an expert meat cutter and is the active manager. The price, of their canned product is a little higher than the beef trust out put, but it in more tluin worth the dif ference. Mr. Henry is now trying his hand at canning corned beef. South Ilend Journal. UNCLE JOE WAS WISE. Adjourns House Summarily in Order to Avoid a Quarrel. WASHINGTON. June 3 What might have been a sertous parliamentary snarl was dexterously avoided by the Speaker of the House yesterday when Murphy rose to present what he denominated a privilege resolution. The conference reports on the rate and statchod bills had been made and ordered printed, when Murphy presented a resolution re scinding the action of the House in sending the statehood bill to conference and providing for a vote on the senate amendment. Payne, leader of the ma jority instantly made the point that the resolution wa not priveligcd. The speaker held the resolution not a privi lege as the papers in the case were in the senate. He said there was serious doubt if the resolutions weite privilege even if the papers were in the house. Confus ion ensued, Murphy and a number of democrats springing to their feet to take exception to the ruling of the speak er. Above the din Murphy wu heard to say "Let's have a square deal, Mr. Speaker. I appeal from the decision of the chair," but the speaker" was obliv ious to the motion for an appeal and ad journal the house until noon Monday. There is one thing that you can bank on. The present day young women are keener, brighter, and better looking and mone self-reliant and less dependent. They ake Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets. Frank Hart, Druggist. Old Enough to Vote ON GUARD, REPUBLICANS! This is the hour for the broaching of the old, democratic campaign artillco of approaching lepublicaim with the story that Tom. Dick, and Jack, republi- , cans, are trailing, and swapping 4 certain leading republii-an noiiii- ner for certain democrat ie pininN in furtherance of ome personal preference or party 4 scheme! The trick is an old one; eisily seen, easily Iteiiten, lie on guard, republicans, and if a democrat approaches you with such a tale, today, tell him he lies; that hi party haa noth- ing the republicans want; that the sucker are all dead, and to go to the Devil! Tim republican tv,, on the best aud cleanent ticket ever put up in Oregon and in Clatsop, and not a man of them it for sale, or Ntcriucc, aud though treachery may lie at a premium in democratic circle there i 4 nothing to disturb, nor nullify. the merit and personnel of the republican ticket, today, from governor to constable! Be on guard, republican, until your ballot is in the lxx, record- ed, counted and declared, AN UNPLEASANT REACTION. Yesterday morning during high muss at St. Mary's Catholic church in thi city, the bluslertng and momentary gale from the southwest which was iiolable all over the city, struck that editlce with singular force and iiddenncus. Miss May Mugee, who was one of the victims of the fearful disaster at San Francisco in April last, was among the worshipers, and was overcome by the rigor of the wind' attack upon the building, and fainted. It was one of those unhappy reactionary effects that are inscpaitible from such experience as were Miss MageeV in that dreadful place and time. When chasing the butterfly of loveli ness there is one thing to keep in inind and that is, chase the right kind beautifulness that come by taking Hol lister's Rocky Mountain Tea. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets. Frank Hart, Druggist THE "A. & C." EXCURSIQN. The regular express on the Astoria & Columbia Itiver Railroad swung into the city on time yesterday morning, with eleven coaches comfortably filled with excursionists for this city and Sea side, and aggregating (100 people. They came in the rain but found plenty of sunshine and pure nir here and at the ocean resort, a little later. These ex cursions are getting to be very popular and should be, for it is one of the most lieautiful rides in all the northwest and at a figure entirely nominal, and they are thoroughly enjoyable at nil times. SULTAN'S FORCES BEATEN. TAXtilKR, June 3. Fighting lictween the forces of the Sultan and Tretendcr has lieen renewed. The Pretender bus driven back the Sultan's troops inflict ing considerable losses and also de vastated the territory of the Loyal Riff tribe. TAMERLANE WINS. HAMILTON, Rcrmuda, June 3. The yawl Tamerlane, competing in the Brooklyn Yacht Club's ocean race to Bermuda for the Upton cup was. sight ed at 11:30 this morning and crossed the finish at 3:25 p. m. The Tamerlane reports she has not seen the sloop Gauntlet. Hi WAY A plsee whers good groceries tr kept, I good placs to buy. Duy of us nd you will buy good goods, Fresh Strawberries arriving daily. A shipment of frwh vegetables Jus todsy. ASTORIA GROCERY Phone Main Ml 023 Commcreis! St "PaleBohcmlan Laser Beer" THE BEER FOR THE HEALTHY WEALTHY AND WISE on draught and in bottles Brrwcd tndrr Military condition ad prop! 1 7 nwl right nere In Astoria. North Pacific Brewing Co. ASTORIA, OREGON. OUR June Time SALE of White Goods is at its height Our unexhaustible stock of good things to choose from. Be one of our lucky Summer Shoppers J)0 t5he S ! 'JI M',' '&