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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1908)
,6 THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. TUESDAY, AUGUST 11 Mi SHOULD NOT! There Is No Physiological Reason For Death. THE BODY IS SELF RENEWING , Perfect Diet and Mode of Living Would tneure Exact Balance Between Bodily Waste and Renewal and Would Mean Physical Immortality, The last enemy that shall be tie tzvyed Is death," said tbe Scriptures, yet If some man attempted Bertously to reassert this ancient truth today we would look upon him as a mad prophet Indeed. Yet the time will come when men will be able to believe this prom Ise of the Bible, although they may rrer see It literally fulfilled. Death some day will be acknowl edged to be as unnatural in the econ ray of the creative plant as are sin and suffering. But whether or not in some; millennium period mortal man will be able to forego the gross proc ess of physical dissolution iu becom fcf a spiritual body Is a purely nieta fhyslcal question that does not enter sere. What does Interest us Is the enestlon, occupying the greatest scien tific minds today, whether the body as neb cannot be retained In perfect con ettlon Indefinitely. William A. Hammond, one of tbe great authorities, answers It by say feig, "There Is no physiological reason why man should die." Thomas J. Allen, M. A, LL. D., writ Jng In a similar strain, says: "The hu man body is not like a machine which mast wear out by constant disintegra tion, for It is self renewing. It is a simple, scientific fact that we get an entirely new body every few years, estimated at from three to seven. Every day Is a birthday, for the proc ess of waste and renewal never ceases. Perfect balance betwen elimination and renewal would avoid permanent waste." There Is no doubt that when we be . come more enlightened and understand perfectly the laws that govern and de termine our physical lives and when we conform to these religiously life win be Immeasurably prolonged. The decay of the body as evidenced hi old age Is unnatural. The aesthetic within us refills In merely contemplat tog Its apprc :eh. We feel that there arast be aomt'ilng self perpetratlve In tbe change v '.ieu the strong color In a earthy man :k1 the fresh beauty in a pore woman take their departure, when the bl o;u on the cheeks fade, when the bril.'.aut light within the eyes grows dim an 1 the full, red lips become pale and fallen. Medical science has pointed out the physiological cause of these conditions. Probably the time will come when it will be able to point out tbe manner of voiding them. ; TTe know that the body grows old be cause of the existence of an Imperfect lialance between the waste which the Body accumulates and the amount it is able to- throw off. During youth the fcUance fs perfect, because the body has more than its normal vitality and strength to throw off the waste matter, bat as we grow older this perfect bal ance becomes destroyed from one cause or another. I The strength that should go to eliml satfng impurities from the body is not ansbanded, but rather squandered in different ways. Then, too, we eat and 4rink those things that cause excessive waste. An Impure diet composed of foods containing uric acid, such as meat, or of drinks containing poisons, such as tea and coffee, taxes the ellmi natlve powers, and when the time eotnes when these give way a state of imperfect elimination has set in, and the wastes in part are deposited in the sys tem, settling in the arteries and joints of the body and accumulating until they become obstructive elements. .The blood stream circulates imper fectly, and when once this condition exists bad functioning of every organ of the body results, and old age and death gradually ensue. Mind, too, has a great deal to do in fastening or retarding the unpleasant signs of physical decay. Mental sci ence has satisfactorily demonstrated that mean, narrow, selfish and unpleas ant thoughts act destructively on the tissues of the body, while thoughts of a wholesome and positive character act wnstraeflvely. . And when the curtains of "the win Iowa of the soul" are drawn, when the temple's door Is closed and a final si lence Is within, when the spirit passes fee threshold to take up a newer and fner edifice of its own creation, science assures us that tbe body lives on. Here at least physical Immortality is ta assured fact. Theology has irreligiously taught us that the body returns to Inanimate iust The religious answer of science b that it returns to God. The latest word In the field of biology is that all nature, including the all mother soil, is animated and hallowed with the di vine principle of life. More than this, matter is indestructi ble and eternal. There is not an atom uiat can be lost in all the universe. For this reason our bodies do not really die. They are in the care of the angels f the elements. The peculiar cellular arrangement that formed them into a beautiful boil;. may be caused to disintegrate through the action of the oxygen upon It, tknt aiay change the position of the atomn composing It, but tbe latter still con tain within themselves tbe sacred anO eternal principle of life an iuuc& as docs the soul, mul they exist only to enter Into new and pcrtap more beau tiful combinations of llf Health. CROSSING THE LINE. Old Neptune and the Ancient of the Deep. Ordtr Tho ceremony of "crossing the Hue" Is a very much more elaborate affair nowadays than it ever has been despite the fact that Neptuue day Is so old a celebration that Its origin Is lost to history. When old Neptune, Impersonated by a sailor, makes his appearance on an American battleship nowadays when the vessel reaches latitude 0 degree, 0 minute, 0 second, to Initiate the Jackies who have never crossed the line before Into the mysteries and membership of the Ancient Order of tbe Deep he is accompanied by his wife, Amphitrlte, another sailor, They are both dressed fantastically hi clothes which have been designed and worked npon ever since the vessel sailed. How they get on board la un known, at least to the captain, who meets them and gives them permis sion to go ahead. An Immense tank made of canvas Is rigged up, and here the Initiation of all tbe candidates takes place. Devices for getting the candidate Into the tank vary on dif ferent ships and on different occa slons. Often he Is simply picked up and thrown In. Freouentlv he Is made to sit down In a "barber's" chair close to the edge of the tank. and when as much soap as possible. Das oeen put Into bis mouth and eyes he Is tipped over backward. Generally the soap has been mixed with tar. coal oil and many other Ingredients and Is Impartially applied from the waist op, so that the bath Is needed. In the tank the candidate Is attend ed, sometimes by "bears" with shaggy coats made of unraveled rope and sometimes by "cops" who act as the king's assistants and see that the can didate is held under water long enough to know It It Is a great frolic, prepared for days In advance, and when It is over the certificate Is issued and the candidates are free to get themselves as clean as they can before the next roll call. Phlladelphia Record. IF SNOW NEVER FELL The Effect Upon the World's Crops Would Be Disastrous. If all the condensed moisture of the atmosphere were to fall as ram and none of It was snow hundreds of thou sands of square miles of tbe earth's surface now yielding bountiful crops! would be little better than a desert. The tremendous economic gain for the world at large which results from tbe difference between snow and rain Is seldom realized by tbe Inhabitants of fertile and well watered lowlands. It is In the extensive regions where Irrigation Is a prime necessity In ag riculture that the special uses of snow come chiefly Into view. All through the winter the snow Is falling upon the mountains and packing Itself firmly In the ravines. Thus In nature's great icehouse a supply of moisture Is stored up for the following summer. All through the warm months the hardened snow banks are melting gradually. In trickling streams they steadily feed the rivers which as they flow through the valleys are utilized for Irrigation. If this moisture fell as rain It would almost immediately wash down through the rivers, which would hardly be fed at all in tbe summer when the crops most needed water. These facts are so well known as to be commonplace in the Salt Lake val ley and In tye subarld regions of tbe west generally. They are not so well understood in New Jersey or Ohio, where snow is sometimes a pictur esque, sometimes a disagreeable, fea ture of winter. In ail parts of the country the notion prevails that the snow Is of great value as a fertilizer. Scientists, however, are Inclined to attach less Importance to Its service in soil nutrition for some regions that have no snow are exceed ingly fertile than to Its worth as a blanket during the months of high winds. It prevents the blowing off of the finely pulverized richness of the top solL This, although little per ceived, would often be a great loss. Chicago Tribune. The Power of Advertising. The power of advertising is told by a manager of the' toilet department of a large New York department store. "We have six different makes of one toilet article," he said, "and they are so near alike in quality that even ex perts can't tell the difference between them, yet we sell as much of one as we do of all the others together, just because the manufacturer Is everlast ingly advertising It. . The other five sell In proportion to the amount of ad vertising given to them. If there Is any difference In quality It Is In favor of the poorest seller." New York Her aid. No Deadheads. 'Mandy was a young colored girl fresh from tbe cotton fields of, the south. One afternoon she came to her northern mistress and handed her a visiting cord. "De lady wba' gib me dls Is In de pa'lor," she explained. "Dey's annoder lady on de do'step." "Gracious, Mandy," exclaimed the mistress, "why didn't you ask both of them to come in?" "Kase, ma'am," grinned the girl, "de one on de do'step done forgit her ticket." Argonaut FLUNG INTOM SEA Experience of a Man Struggling In Midocean. SENSATIONS OF DROWNING A Tangle of Wild Thoughts Combined With Vague Notions of Time anj Specs The Dreamy Doit, the Ri cue and the Knife In His Back. Standing on a chair near the deck rail of an ocean liner, a auddeu lurch of the vessel flung me Into the Atlantl Instinctively ns I weut over I held my arms out for the dive, and while I was still falling I heard the cry ring out "Man overboard!" Down, down I sank, for tbe fall wit from a considerable height. Being able to swim a little, I was spared the first mental agony experienced by the non swimmer who unexpectedly finds him self In deep water. The surprise caused by the suddenness of the fall filled my brain, but as I struggled to regain the surface, my lungs almost bursting, the horrible thought of tin propeller churning out Its 100 revolt! tlons a minute (lushed upon me. Should I lie mangled beyond recogtil Hon In a second! Oh, for another year's sweet life! ould my leg be cut clean off or I could see the sky again, and I took a great breath of fresh air, though sick with fear. Then I saw the steamer had passed. I was spared mutilation to die slowly by drowning. How rapidly the steamer was vanish lng! I could catch a glimpse of It when a green wave lifted me high In the water. 1 would only be able to swim for ten minutes-ten little inln utes!-though I was still In the prime of life. Surely that cry as I fell would have roused somebody to action! And yet 1 was alone In the Atlantic, with possibly two miles of water between me and the bottom. I looked round anxiously to see whether a lifebuoy had been thrown There was nothing In sight but a wlild waste of water and the fast disappear ing steamer. My arms were growing heavy. All I tried to do was to keep my head above water, but I seemed to have been do ing that for an hour. My legs. too. were refusing to bend. The end could not bo far away. My arms must both be broken, for they would hardly move, and they acbed terribly. What a long time man could keep afloat! I was vaguely glad I could not swim very well, be cause it would have meant waiting for the end such a long time. It made one drowsy. Another wave lifted me up, and I saw the steamer had changed Its posi tion. It must be going back to Eng land to tell them at borne what bad happened to me. How soothing the sea was! If only I could stop trying to work my arms that aching pain In them would cease and I might go to sleep. Sometimes when I saw the ship, which never seemed to get any farther away now, I remembered I was fight ing for another minute's life. It bad been harder at first, but now the sea lulled me into happiness. What on earth were tbey playing at on the steamer? I bad nearly caught It np again, only somehow I bad got in front of it It grew bigger quickly, and It was coming straight on. If those ridiculous people were not care ful they might run over me yet ' Perhaps It would be better to go to sleep, after nil. My arms were easier, and I did not want to breathe so much now. It was getting dark and ever so much colder than it was last night The steward must give me an extra blanket Why was everything so hazy and the room stuffy? I could hardly breathe. And yet It didn't matter. Nothing mattered, but I wished dreamily that some one would stop digging a knife into my back, for I was Just dropping off to sleep nicely. e Next day I found the "knife" bad been the point of a boat hook with which they picked me up as I came to the surface. The steamer had turned In a circle and arrived juKt In time. London Answers. 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YOUNG JAPANESE WANTS SIT nation as porter In saloon and to help bartender; can speak good Eng lish. Address, Kubota, 415 Yamhill. Portland. f 8-9-7t roa SALS. FOR SALE A 100-PIECE SET OF Haviland China, in perfect condi tion, cheap. Inquire at the McCrea Ford studio. 7-15-tf FOR SALE CHEAP, ONE SCHOL- arship in the International Corres pondence School of Scranton. En quire Astorian oflice. 8-7-tf OLD PAPERS FOR SALE; FER hundred, 25 cents. At Astorian Oflice REAL ESTATE WANTED. WANTED TO BUY FARM IN the Nchalem Valley; state price, terms, improvement, location, etc. Address J. H., Astorian. 7-31-tf HOUSE MOVERS. FREDRICKSON BROS.-We make a specialty of house moving, car penters, contractors, general jobbing; prompt attention to all orders. Cor ner Tenth and Duane streets. MASSAGE. OLGA KANTONEN, FINNISH masseuse and steam baths, room 6, Pythian BIdg., Commercial St., As torian, Ore. MISCELLANEOUS. MAGAZINE BINDING OF ALL kinds done at the Astorian Office WANTED A SOUND. YOUNG horse; suitable for lady to ride Address "T.," care of this office. 7-6t LOOSE LEAF LEDGERS -ALL kinds made by The J. S. Dcllinge Company. WANTED TO BUY A HORSE weight about 1250 pounds; not over 8 years old; must be good driver and gentle, also city broke. Address As torian office. 6-9-tf. FARM FOR SALE. WILL SELL MY LEWIS AND Clark farm at a bargain, with or without stock, to suit purchaser. W. J. Ingalls. EMPLOYMENT OFFICE. J. T. NOWLEN Real Estate and Employment Office 473 Commercial St, Phone Have fine list of Astoria and coun try property. All classes of labor furnished. BIDS REQUESTED. FOR FURNISHING AND FILL ing not less than 5000 cubic yards of earth in James street on the north side of Reservoir No. 2 and placing proper drainage at bottom of fill and also laying the steel culvert from overflow of reservoir as directed by the engineer in charge. Bids to be filed with clerk .of commission not later than 5 p. m., August 21st, and to state time of completion; right re served to reject any and all bids. City Water Commission, by G. W. Lounsberry, Clerk. MISCELLANEOUS. HOT OR GOLD olden West Tea Just Right MM CLOSSET & DEVERS, PORTLAND, ORE. WINES AND LIQUORS. Eagle Concert Hall (320 Astor Street) . Rooms for rent by the day, week, or month. Bes rates in town. P. A. PETERSON, Prop. PROFESSIONAL CARD), Ln.-ii-rj-tnli-uruii.xi-L-LrLrL.. ATTO RNEYS-AT-LA W CHARLES H. ABERCROMBIE Attorney-at-Law City Attorney Offices : City Hall JOHN C. McCUE, Attorney-at-Law Page Building, Suite 4 HOWARD M. BROWNELL Attorney-at-Law Deputy District Attorney 420 Commercial Street OSTEOPATHS. DR. RHODA C. HICKS Osteopath Office Manseil BIdg. Phone Black 2063 13 Commercial St. Astoria, Ore. DENTISTS DR. VAUOHAN Dentist Pythian Building, Astoria, Oregon DR. W. C, LOOAN Dentist Commercial St " Shinihin BIdg. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. RESTAURANTS. Or.posite Ross, Higgins & Co, CoJee with Pi or Cake 10 Ct. FIRST-CLASS MEALS Regular Meals 15 Cts. and Up. U. 8. RESTAURANT. 434 Bond Street Cole with Pie or Cake, 10 Cts. First-Class Meals, IS Cts. MISCELLANEOUS. Smith's Special Delivery EXPRESS AND BAGGAGE Leave Orders at Star Cigar Store, Phone Black 2383 Res. Phone Red 2270. Stand Corner 11th an Commercial DENTISTS. TEETK ttitnout PIi!i9, COR. 11TH AND COMMERCIAL Office hours 8:30 A. M. to 8: P. M. Sunday 10:00 to 12:00. Phone Number Main 3901. Painless Extractions - 5oc Corner Commercial and 11th Sts. over Danziger store. FIXII If ARXET. 5 77 Ninth St., Near Bond Fresh and Salted Fish, Game and Poultry, Groceries, Produce and Fruit Imported and Domestic Goods. v P. BAKOTITCH & FEO, Props. Phone Red 2183 P, SCHOOLS AND You want the best money can buy in pleasures, etc., why not in education? Cl Butte Fish Me Portland's ..Leading1 Business College offers such to you and at no greater cost than an -inferior school. Owners practical teachers I More Calls than we can fill Teachers actual, business, men In session the entire year Positions guaranteed graduates Catalogue "A" for the asking I. M. WALKER, Pres. 0. A. BOSSERMAN, Secy. StCStOSSKtSKSSS UWDERTAIIM. J. A, CI 11,11 A I'd II & CO., Undertaker mul Kmluilitiera. Experienced l,iulv ANKlstuut Y licit lelrMl. Cull Promptly Attended Iaj or Sight. Tutton lldjr lStliamt DiuneSU AHTOItIA, OHL.UON MIDICAU UnpreesuMted Buooettte' of DR. C- CfE n TBI OEIAT CHINESE D0CT01 Who . U know throughout the United 'JBtaUt on aocouat oT kit wondtrful mine. No poisons or drug usee, lit furu t to our eaUrrh, asthma, lung sad throat trouble, rheumatism, ntnoun, stomach, liver ud kidney, female rota plaint, end all ohronle diNMuee. SUCCESSFUL ROME TKXATMIIT. If you cannot call writ for syniptoai blank sod circular, Inclosing 4 ent r itamp. THE C. CIE WO MEDICINE CO. H2 First 8t, Corner Morriswe. PORTLAND, OBtGOH. PImm mention the Astoriaa, PLUMBERS. J. PLUMBER Heating Contractor, Tinner AND Sheet Iron Worker VLL WORK GUARANTEED 425 Bond Street Youncc & Baker PLUMBERS TINNERS Steam and Cas Fitting All Work Guaranteed. 125 Eighth Street, opp. Poit Office. Phone Main 4061. LAUNDRIES. WE WASH Everything but the Baby and return everything but the dirt. TROY LAUNDRY Tenth and Duanc Phone Main 1001 CONCRETE WORK DONE ANY PERSON WANTING ANY CONCRETE WORK DONE AT THE , CEMETARIES, WILL ' PLEASE LEAVE ORDERS AT POHL'S- UNDERTAKING FICE. OF. E. NYMAN Astoria, Ore. O. Box 603 COLLEGES food, clothing home comforts ' MONTGOMERY ',, . f ; ' . ,