BAR, BAYJNB RIVER Senator Leaves tor the Bay City With Big Business. CAUBRIAN KING ENTERS PORT Lively Times on Bay and Bar Yes terdaySchooner Campbell in Win ter Quarters Alesia in From Asia Waterfront Notes. The steamship Senator arrived down from Portland early yesterday morning, San Francisco bound, with a big list of passengers, among whom was Mrs. Mary H. Leinenweber, of this city, who has been spending a few days at the metropolis with friends, and will put in the balance of the winter , season with other friends at the Cay City and at Oak land, The Senator left out at 11:30 a. m. Captain Thomson, of the British hin Claverdon. reports his fine ves sel ready for sea and Falmouth, Eug- land, with her big load of gram; dui he will probably have to wait for the high tides of Tuesday next, to per mit his present draft of 24 feet to safely pass the Columbia bar. ' The steamship Breakwater came down from Portland yesterday morn ing at an early hour and left out for Coos Bay almost immediately. She bad a good passenger list and plenty of freight The Portland-Asiatic steamship Alesia came in from the Orient yes terday morning about 8 o'clock, and after due examination by the customs and immigration officials, went on her way to Portland. She had a fair run over and an uneventful trip. She was flying very light for a vessel of her tonnage on a long voyage like hers. The Daisy Freeman arrived in from San Francisco yesterday morn ing at 7:50 o'clock, and went direct to the Tongue Point mill docks where she will load lumber for the return trip. The steamer Yosemite was among the early arrivals in this port yester day. She went to the Tongue Point mill for a short stay and then went on up the river and will load lumber for the outward voyage. The fine oil tank Atlas went to sea yesterday morning bound for the lower coast of California. The British bark Alexander Black went up to Portland yesterday morn ing and will load wheat for the United Kingdom. The French bark La Perouse, a well known visitor in these waters, arrived in yesterday morning from San Francisco, and will go on to the metropolis to load wheat for Europe. The British steamship St. Hugo came down from Portland yesterday morning early, grain laden for Liver pool, and will take the first available bar Outward. The schooner Alvena, from San Francisco, arrived in yesterday morn ing, and is awaiting orders for her loading. The schooner Jno. A. Campbell has gone into winter quarters at Tongue Point, and will stay there until she is hailed out for a load of some sort. The extraordinary cessa tion of the lumber transport business in which she has always figured so prominently hereabout, accounts for her retirement; and as the Oakland and Alameda waterfronts in San Francisco bay were so congested with idle vessels of her class, she was despatched here for her term of desuetude. The steamer Nome City came down from Portland yesterday noon, bound for the Bay City and went sea ward later in the day. The fine and lively schooner Irene came down the river from Goble, yesterday, and is ready to skip over the bar the first thing this morning, al lthings being as well prepared as she is. 9 The revenue cutter McCullough is due in this port at any hour. The last heard of her she was cruising off San Francisco. The customs authori ties at this port are in possession of her pay-roll and prepared to pay her men off when they shall arrive; and it would seem this fact ought to bring her here in a hurry. She will be wel come when she does arrive. The handsome tender Armeria, Captain Gregory, went to sea early yesterday morning and cruised wmi she found and picked up the truant gas buoy that broke from its moor ings near the lightship the other night She brought it in to the buoy station, where it will be repaired am then reset. The British steamship Amaxoii cleared from this port yesterday wheat laden for Birkenhead, England, for orders, and will sail today il possible. TO n 0 COUGH OR COLD A never failing home rem edy for coughs and colds is made from the following for mula to be mixed at home: "Two ounces of glycerine, one-half ounce of Concentrat ed oil of pine, one-half pint of good whiskey, mix and shake thoroughly; use in doses of a teaspoonful to a table spoonful every four hours." This, if followed up, will cure any cough that is curable 24 or or break up an acute cold in hours. The ingredients all can be gotten at any drug store. Concentrated oil of pine comes out up for medicinal use only in half ounce vials enclosed in small, tin screw-top cases designed to protect it from heat and light. The bulk oil and the patent medicine mnta- tions sometimes put up in wooden boxes should be avoided as they contain resin and other impurities that pro- duce nausea and permanent kidney trouble. To get the right article be sure it is the "Concentrated" oil of pine as this is really the only soluble pine preparation known to sci- ence and is the result of the experiments made in the pine forests of Maine where camps were established for the treat- ment of throat and lung dis- eases and where so many re- markable cures were effected ft NEW TO-DAY Holden House Room and board, $5.00 per week and up. Corner Ninth and Duane. 2-7-7t New Arrivals Spring styles of the famous Knox Hats at the store of Herman Wise. Ladies Order your spring suits of Guy R Osborne, the up-to-date ladies' tailor, 179 Eleventh street The Palace Restaurant The ever-increasing popularity of the Palace Restaurant is evidence of the good management, and the serv ive, at this popular dining room. For a long time the reputation of the house has been of the best and it does not wane as time progresses. The system used,-that of furnishing the finest the market affords, and all can be obtained, in season, is a plan that will always win, coupled as it is with the best of cooking and prompt service. A common saying nowadays is "Get the Palace habit." Guv R. Osborne, up-to-date ladies' tailor, with Carl Franseen, tailor, 179 Eleventh street. New Mattress Factory. Have your old furniture and mat- trees made new. 95 Ninth street You Don't Need to Send to Portland C. H. Orkwitz, 137 Tenth street, can cover your embrellas just as good as they can any place on the north west coast New Grocery Store. Trv our own mixture of coffee the J. P. B. Fresh fruit and vegetables. Badollet & Co., grocers. Phone Main 1281. Ladies' tailoring neatly done, also cleaning, pressing and repairing, at Guy R. Osborne's, 179 Eleventh St., phone 3711. 2-5-4t. A. V. Allen has just received his new line of white and gold Haviland China Call and see it. 2-6-it. The Commercial One of the coziest and most popular resorts in the city is the Commercial. A new billiard room, a pleasant sitting room and handsome fixtures all go to make an agreeable meeting place for gentlemen, there to discuss the topics of the day, play a game of billiards anrl cniov the fine refreshments serv ed there. The best of goods are only handled, and this fact being so well known, a large business is done at the Commercial, on Commercial street, near Eleventh. ANNUAL INSPECTION AND MUSTER MID-WINTER "GET TOGETHER" AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH -SPEECHES, SONGS, AND RE FRESHMENTS. A very interesting and most enjoy able social was held at the Presbyter ian Church last evening. As the slogan at the head of this story says :. ...., "it Tooethor" affair in good earnest. The plea for and ex empliticatiou of the broader acquaint ance. The address by Mayor Wise oi 'Good Citizenship in General" was full of sound sense and witty sayings in fact such a one as only May Wise can deliver. ThU was followed by the ma chorus and then Manager John H. wh nf the Chamber of Commerce an mtcrcstimr address on rhnrche and the New Astoria, He said "Churches and the New Astoria :. T.-t" fYintiininiur. Mr. White said: While some people have no pre tt for living, others arise to the dignity of the most sublime context. and still others have a text uiruM upon them A text is mute often only a pre text for saving something else and many a tex.t is ridiculous when con- VuU,. without context An occasion or an opportunity is necessary before one can have even a pretext ht speaking. "As this is a social ana a suu.v 1.1 ...,k- occasion, the amenities woum ,l.v best be observed by leaving tne discussion of the at-the-prcscnt-time hU mvstcries of our religion with the functions of the pulpit where they more properly belong, under- th.it knowledge is tne irum and that only the truth is eternal. "It is probably a fact that uui iew f ,v of ti ve tin to that measure of the truth which we already under stand, although it would be difficult explain why we do not do so, for all of us have doubl es exeprienced supreme moments .i, u,- have determined to do so and each of us would probably state different reasons why we have not done so. . . Pi-tv man is made up of a spirit ual and an animal part, a God-part and a flesh-part. Thus the Christ lived among men and exemplified that the spiritual part may entirely control the other part. "And because of this lesson of the Christ, the human race is exalting it self, is with each cycle becoming bet ter and better. "Religion changes through the processes of evolution and we do not believe in many respects what our forefathers believed, nor can we. Truth clothed in rags today sits on a throne tomorrow arrayed in royal robes. The heretic of yesterday be comes the hero; the leader of trium phant hosts on tomorrow. , Our grandfathers heard their ministers preach of a hell of burning brim stone in which the sinner who was not baptized burned and suffered for ever, though was not consumed. Now probably most of us believe that human suffering docs not and could not appease divinity. Probably most of us now believe with Tolstoi that no human creature has a right to approach any other human creature except love, and such truth comes from God. The philosophers oi our own generation and they tower like mountains over the graves of those the valleys of the past plved deeocst in social and oolitical economy, would prob ably be a unit in telling us that who imprisons another enslaves nimseii. W eonlv benefit the world as we re place wrong ideas and conceptions with better. "inasmuch as we all find great difficulty in living up to the ideals set before us. we should cultivate ct amount of mercy and charity for those who are judged to fnll still further below the standard. Upfnrmation and not destruction is now considered the highest aim of soriptv. But a law is a fixed pnn rinlo and can not be violated without consequent suffering and confusion, PUf the sun and the moon ana me stars might not stay in their places water miffht run uo hill, tenner is ignorance of the law any excuse for violating it. Christ, 1 Dencve never violated any law in the mani festations' of the so-called miracles but mcrelv demonstrated that he un derstood more of the law than the neonle round about him. And if we but understood the truth as Christ understood it I believe we could do whatever he did. "I am grateful to the cause of truth that we very seldom here nowadays discussion among representatives of various denominations iu to which church is the true church, us to which church it was the Christ, or the dis ciple of Christ really founded, for they have never profited anything and never will. I would rather see the nealou followers of good and truth striving to make the children, the men end the women around them better. I believe that a church library, a vhuMh gynasium, or a church swim ming pool will do more good than tin most able efforts of the most un comprinosing doctrinaire. I believ that Brother Gilbert did more good list summer by taking the small boys of his church for an outing up Saddle Mountain than he would have done had he remained in the city and preached at those boys twice each day. Religion is worth nothing to us excepting as we live it; as we prac tice it "In the course of the evolution of religion it is not now considered that a long, sad face is the sign of a good man The nearer one is to God the happier he should be and he should be able to radiate that happiness with continuous smiles of joy. Heaven is more likclv a condition that a place, a condition of supreme happiness and harmony with God, "In all nations among all peoples, the priests of religion have been the leaders of the people. Show me the man who controls the oehct ot a people and I will show you the real ruler of those people. Regardless of the criticisms that are to be heard constantly leveled against the churches of America, I feel very sure that the Aiucr'can churches arc now doing more good for the American nennle than thev have done at any time in American history, and that thev are doing more good for the world in general than the churches of all other nations cambincd. I be lieve that the churches of Astoria are doing more good for the people of Astoria than they ever have done. Dcnominationalism is the life of true religion, for through it the whole, truth will the sooner be learned. "Rut the positive opinions about the doctrines in most instances have given away to that broader, better feeling, the attitude and position of the student and scholar, that after all it is better to be an earnest seeker after truth, an honest man open to conviction, that it is to assert without reason that one individual opinion is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and that another individual opinion, just as eminent in every respect, founded just as thoroughly on logic, is false, whnllv faUc and nothing but talMty. The trrrat task of the preacher, ot i everv Christianity, is to banish suf-! fering in all its forms, whether pov I erty or disease, or that ignorance o! j ruth called sin. j "The thing called doctrine has j nn more to do with making a man i good or bad than the thing called nnlitir. A man is good or bad dc-1 spite whether or not be believes in; urinkling or immersion, and some the good Christians I know do not 1 believe in either. Only the fool says there is no God. Each one of us, must form our own opinion about God in our own way. ; "Mathematics is the only exact; scciencc. It is diliicuu u uemuii- stratc some so-called sciences be! cause of the number of theories ni-j olved. But all truth can be demon-j tratetl when it is fully comprc-; tended.. "Rverv man. woman and child in Astoria ought to attend the church which comes the nearest conforming, to his opinion. Every minister who has a positive conviction should ex pound his beliefs according to his ability and opportunity. "The churches of Astqria are a liv ing .breathing force for good. The usefulness of any church depends up on its minister more than all other things combined To illustrate, the acknowledged leading minister of one town may be a Baptist, of another a Methodist, or still another a Presby terian, and so on. "But one thing seems quite posi tive, that the predominating influence of religion, of the church in America today using that word in the gen eral sense which would include all denominations, is owing to the toler ent spirit of all the denominations. And from this time on, because of the power of education which of it self springs from religion, the de nominations will tend to approach closer, and closer together. The mys tries of life, of mind, of soul, of intel ligence, all spiritual attributes the God-part of man, is the only subject worthy of the attention of ouri highest intellects. ' "No city, no community can pros per without churches. The best citi zens will not settle with their fami lies where there are no churches. The first information sought by a pros pective newcomer is about his church and the second about the schools. HhBsS so if Copyright 1 90 by Hsrt Sihsmier ii Mux What's so? That P. A. Stokes has the largest and best as. sorted stock of men's and boys' clothing In Astoria. Don't be a doubter. Coma in and be convinced. ' Suits, style, fit and finish per. feet Quality best Overcoats -All styles and lengths. Underwear Nice warm ' woolens . . $2 ' Sweaters, V-neck, high collar and coat styles $3 up Hats Furnishings Shoes Agents for Dutchess Trousers IOc a Button, $1 a Rip Pant Satisfaction That's All Leader in Nobby Clothes. Your Regular Custom Is what we want and we will try to merit it by selling you good, clean Groceries, and .giving you prompt service and Courteous Treatment. HILL'S BROS. HIGH GRADE COFFEE IS THE BEST Acme Grocery Co. The Up-to-Date Grocers., c,t COMMEBCIAL ST. PHOHI Mi 1 THE GEM C. F. WISE. Prop. Choke Wines, Liquors Merchants Lunch From and Clgara n 130 a. m. to i ijo p. a. Hot Lunch at All Honrs. ss Canta Corner Eleventh and Commercial ASTORIA ' OBIOOH most of them know wherever there is a church there also will be a school. The church means enlightenment. "I wish that every church in As toria may prosper. Thus would As toria prosper all the more." At the conclusion of Mr. Whytc's address which was heartily applauded the Rev. Mr. Gilbert said he always had an idea that Mr. Whyte should have been a minister and now he was sure of it. The Glee Club rendered "Astoria" and then City Attorney Abcrcrombic talked about "Sociability and City Building." It was expected he would begin his remarks with "Your honor, and gentlemen of the jury," but he didn't the ladies' hats probably not looking familiar to him in his official capacity. However, his remarks were timely and delivered in the straight forward and convincing way that is characteristic of Mr. Abercrombie's conversation. He said socialibility sa the foundation of the nation without it Astoria would never be Unything but a flag station. He pleaded for unselfishness in social affairs and decried the so cial cxclusiveness which is the bane of all church so-called sociabil ity. Refreshments were served by the ladies and a general good time was the feature of the evening. . Surely Pastor Gilbert and his good wife can congratulate themselves up on the big success of the "Get Together." REASON ENTHRONED. Because. meats are so tasty they are consumed in great excess. This leads to stomach troubles, biliousness and constipation, Revise your diet, let reason and not a pampered ap petite control, then take a few doses of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and you will goon be well again. Try it. For sale at Frank Hart and leading druggists.