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f'J Vol. xix. Astoria, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, August i, L883. No. 105. PRESERVATION OF THE SIGHT The editor of the Huntsville Democrat who has passed his three-score years without the use of eye glasses, and can still, with his natural eyes read fine print, wishes to give other people near ing the sere and yellow leaf the benefit of his ocular experience. Therefore, he tells them that in 18G3 he found his eyesight failing, indicated by dark specks flitting over the page, and a hazy appear ance of the letters when he was reading. Remembering to have heard his mother say that cx Presidcnt John Quincy Adams (who lived to about eighty years) had preserved his eyesight and read without glasses by pressing the outer and inner corners of his eyes together. The editor tried the experiment. After retiring to his bed at night, he hac, ever since the fall of 1805, before going to sleep, pressed together the outer and inner corner ol each eye between the thumb and forefingers of the hand corresponding to the right and Jcft eye, applying equal simultaneous presure to both eyes. Or, using but one hand, he has put the middle finger on his forehead above his nose, and pressed together the corners of one between the thumb and forefinger, and the corners of the other eye between the third and fourth fingers, striving to give equal pressure to both eyes. The philosophy ol the experiment is explained in this way. As people pass the middle age, there is said to be (and we believe it) a tenden cy of the balls of the eyes to lose their convexity in common par lance, to flatten. The habitual pressure of the outer and inner corners of the eyes together pre vents flattening, and thereby pre serves the original normal con vexity of the eyes,, and thereby the original power of seeing. Near-sighted persons are the ex ception to the rule. Their near sightedness (as we understand) is caused by too great convexity of the eye. Oftentimes, as they ad vance in years, their eyes flatten; that is, lose their original convex ity and become more nearly like the good eyes of young people, and they can see better without glasses and lay tliem aside. Whether our philosophical ex planation is right or wrong, this one thing we know, that whereas we, over seventeen years ago, were losing our original power of seeing, now, by the manipulation of our eyes as above explained, we can see clearly without the use of glasses, and can read small print almost, if not quite as well as in our youth, while men and women many years our juniors, some of them our near blood rela tives, who have not resorted to our mode of preserving the eyesight, are compelled to use glasses. Believing it our duty to mankind to do them all the good we can, we overcome our native modesty about writing of ourself by the consideration that we may bene fit others by relating our own ex perience. The reason why both eyes should be subject to the equal simultaneous pressure is that, to see clearly, both eyes should be hold objects at the same focal distance, and this cannot be if the two eyes have not the same con- vexitv. If the two eyes should see objects at different distances, the objects would present differ ent images on the two retime of the eyes, and produce a confusion of images, and, of course, impair distinct vision. Instances occur of persons who have a natural in firmity of the eyes with different foci one eye seeing at one focal distance, the other eye at another local distance. In such cases oculists provide eve -classes of different foci, so accommodated as to correct the natural defect, and make both eves see alike. bays Dr. Jackson: "Marriage is no child's play." Very true, Doctor; but without child's play married life , is a mighty lonesome one at the best. Lee Alter the War. The oration upon General R. E. Lee, delivered at Lexington, Va., last week by Hon. John Daniel, was a perfect tribute to a great' soldier. Not many people knew j before that General' Lee had been offered the chief command of the ! army in 1SG1 and declined it. The j offer was made on the recommeu-! the national capital with a view o! daticn of General Scott, backed! entering a charitable institution, by the venerable Francis l Blair Ms a somewhat unusual one, yet Sr., who conveyed the tender of i such an event occurred in this the position to" General Lee in jetty to-day. This afternoon an person. It must have been great agftd lady, well dressed, but en- moral courage to decline the high-' . . .... . - I est position to winch he could puaruu ai piuiuu jieauiuurien mm ever 'have attained in his most am- j asked for aid in reaching Wash bitious dreams. One or two of ington city. In answer to in im .,iicm,... nr r;.. iv.n;ni nuiries as to her name etc., she not generally understood and I j will explain them. In 1SC5 tin; railroad wincn is now canea the Vinrinia Midland and its con nections was mainly owned by the English bondholders. After an expert had carefully examined the condition of things the committee of bondhlders held a meeting and tendered to General Lee the pres idency of the road and its connec tions under one organization at a salary of $.10,000 a year. About this time one of the most power ful of the Xew York life insur ance companies offered General Lee SI 0,000 a year and a house in i Richmond to take hold of and j bnihl nn thoir .Snntlinrn Illicitae I General Lee declined both of these splendid offers to accept a place as teacher of Southern young men at 3.000 a year. Can such j conduct be matched in history?! ani1 the sad story of her life is One more instance of his great- j undoubtedly true. Aid was fur ness: The duke of Beaufort,Lord nished her to continue her journey. John Manners and two other Eng lish noblemen tendered General J Lee a splendid estate in the West Riding of Yorkshire, with a hand-1 some rental equal to $25,000 a 3'ear for life, if he would accept it I and live upon it. Earl Spencer. now lord lieutenant of Irelaud, made the tender. General Lee, with a charming dignity that these men say was beyond anything they had imagined, declined the offer. It is a pity that letter cannot get into print. I think it would give the world a view of General Lee in a light he has never been in and shpw how lofty his nature re ally was. In this age and time of fierce competition for wealth and power a character so great and a i nature so simple is almost incom-j prehensible. Lee showed that the ; true greatness of manhood is in i those elements which make him Superior to fortune and equal to 1 , t any fate. if ashtnqlou Jlcriilo. any It is now understood that a' strong effort will be made this fall, to have our legislature pass i prohibitory liquor laws. .It is no j longer denied that the liquor ques- j tion is beginning to have its effect upon American politics, but we J think it should be used in the in terest of high license rather than prohibition. The average Ameri can is a subborn animal, who, when he is told that he cannot have an article, trill have it or per ish in the attempt. If you touch his pocket, in the shape of high license, for instance, you touch his heart, and do more towards de creasing drunkenness than you can with all the iron clad prohibi tory laws the mind of man can conceive. Columbia Chronicle. The farmers of Caledonia, Co-1 lumbia county, Wis., receive six- j teen cents an inch for their cream, i "All they have to do," sa-s the Jicyistcr, -'is to set their milk in deep cans surrounded by cold wa ter, in which the cream rises in less than twelve hours. The depth of an inch of cream as meas ured by a scale in the side of the can is estimated to make a pound of butter. And so the Caledonia fanners aregetting sixteen cents per pound for their butter without the labor of making it, and having the refuse sweet milk to feed their calves and pigs." 111 health generally comes from lack of the proper life forces in the blood. To restore the blood to a healthy state use Brown's Iron Bitters. The Story Toldbya Vice-President's Daughter. The Tribune Wheeling spec- ial of July 2Cth says: The spec- tacle of the daughter of a lormer vice-president of the United Slates and the wife of a minister to Kussia begging assistance ot strangers in an endeavor to reach tcly destitute of money, ap- I I 1 i 1 stated that she was the daughter of vic-president King of Pierce's 1817 administration and wife of Gen eral Iluntcr Jackson, minister to St. Petersburg. She gave her age as 74. She said she was married at the age of 14, her husband then being 82, and spent the first six months of her married life at the Russian court. She gave many de tails of her life and her gradual de scent from a life of affluence to her present low estate. She stated that she was from Memphis, hav ing beggod her way from place to place, and was endeavoring to reach Washington, where she had friends who would place her in a charitable institution, naming W. W. Corcoran as a p'.ayniate and schoolmate in childhood. The old ladv bears every evidence of lormer culture and refinement Absolutely Pure. ! ThN powder never varies. A marvel o : mini v.strpii!rlli anil wlulemiinpness. Mom economical llian the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in competition with the intd- titude of low test short weight, alum or , phosphate powders. Snldanlu in can. Itov- w. j.akim: j ovi jrk uo lot; uau-M. a. King of the Blood Is not a "aire all" It is a blood-purifler and tonic, Impuritvof the blood poisons thesvs tem, deranges the circulation, and tints In duces many disorders, known bv different names to distinguish them according to ef fects, but being really branches or phases of that great generic disorder. Impurity ot Jllood. Such are Dytpepxta, nilltounrj&, Liter Complaint, Omnlijtalinn, Xcrroim Dis orders. Headache, Backache, General WcaU p, Jfcnrt Dicae,Dmjtsu. Kidncu Difnsc, Pile, tlhcumatixm. Catarrh, Scrofula, Shin Diitnrtlcrx, Pimple. Ulcer. Sicdling, itr.. tic. Itincr or the Itlood prevents and cures these by attacking the cawe. Impurity of the blood. Chemists and physicians agree in calling it "the most genuine and efficient preparation for the purpose," Sold by Drug gists, SI per bottle. See testimonials, direc tions. Sc., in pamphlet, "Treatise on Diseases ol the Itlood." wrapped around each bottle. D. RANSOM, SON & Co.. Props Cor. of Chenainus and Benton Streets, ASTOKLV. - - - OKEGOX, Have the best facilities for furnishing CHINA LABOEERS Of all kinds, of auv firm in the city. jM-lni SOLID GOLD !JEBLRT, Scarf Pins. Chains, Watches, S X IU V 3K WjBlE:, Of every description. The finest stock of Jewelry In Astoria. t3yAU goods varrantedasrepresented GUSTAV HANSEN, JEWELER. W Troyal vvxzi . Ml . I Z 3 RHEUMATISM, Neuralgia, Sciaiica, Lumbago, Backache, Soroness of the Chest, Gout, Quinsy, Soro Throat, Swell ings and Sprains, Burns and Scafds, Genera Bodily Pains, Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted Feet and Ears, and all other Pains and Aches. No Preparation on earth equals Sr. Jacobs Oil &s ft safe, sure, simple and cheap External Ilemedjr. A trial enUils but the cropanUTeiy trifling outlay of 50 Cent, end erery one suffer ing with pain can hiTe cheap and podtire proof of its claims. Directions in Eleven Langnagts. BOLD BYALLDRUGGISTS AND DEALEES .IN MEDICINE. A. VOGEIiER & CO., Salt imore, 2Zd, IT. S. A. The supreme court of the United States has recently again decided in a case arising in Illinois, that a state has the right to regulate the charges of railroad companies within its jurisdiction, notwith standing the charter of said com panies may authorize them to fix such charges. That is t6 say, the charter is subordinate to the in herent sovereignty of the state, which entitles it to uphold and regulate that which pertains to the public welfare. The principle re peatedly enunciated by the court must bo taken to be the settled law of the land. tmmm m m iiiiiim.mmm.i SYfllPTQrViS OF VQRrYlS. The countenance is pale and leaden colored, with occasional flushes of a cir cumscribed spot on one or both cheeks; the eyes become dull; the pupils dilate; an azuiv semicircle runs along the lower eye-na; the nose is irriiaieti, swells, aim sometimes bleeds; u svelliUK of the upper lip; occasional headache, with humming or throbbing of the ears; an unusual .se cretion of .saliva: slimy or furred tonmic: breath very foul, particularly in the morn ing; appetite variable, sometimes vora cious wiin a gnawins: -sensation oi tne stomach; at others, entirely gone: Heeling mins in thcMomaeh; occasional nnuscu and vomiting; violent pains throughout the nlwlomeu; bowels irregular, at times osme; slools slimy, not unlrcouently tinged with blood ; Ih-Uv swollen and hard ; urine turbid; respimtlon occasionally diffi cult and accompanied by hiccough ; cough Miincliuicsdry and convulsive: uneavand dlsturlM-il sleep, with grinding of the teeth ; ti .iht variable, but generally irritable. Whenever the above symptoms arc iounu to exist, !)?. C. XcLAXE'S TEKMIFIHJE will certainly effect a cure. In having Vermifuge be sure you cr.'. the uenuine Hit. C. ZUcLAXK'S VKK.11I. rt'CK, manufactured by Klemitij; Ilro-., 21 WimkI Street. Pittsburgh, 1'a. The market is full of counterfeits. You will In- rluht If ll has the signature of Fleiu Inir Itnts. and C.IIcLiuip. If your storekeciwr does no: have Hie gunulue. please reiort to us. eiid us a three cent stamp for ! hand some advertising cards. FLEMING HUOS., PHtsIiiiRrh, Pa. A.M. Johnson &Co. DEALERS IN &r o ceriesa Gro cfcery A FULL LINE OF ts' ma s. i 20 BOATS CANNERY SITE FOR SALE. THE rnOPEHTY KNOWN AS A. 1. CO.'S Net Hacks, adjoining Fort Canny. 20 23t foot boats, good for Baker's Bay or up river fishing ; 11 net racks complete ; frontage 'JA) feet running to deep water; one block on .shore with mess house. This Is the most convenient place for salmon nets, traps and seines and decidedlv the best location on the Columbia river for a salmon cannery. "Will sell for cash or will take stock with satisfactory Fishermen's Packing Co. BOZORTH &JOnNS. tap Ti-Ai. v - zyz Ai ten HOTELS AND RESTATJKAOTS. PARKER HOUSE, A. ASEI,I,. manager. , AHTOKJ A, - - - OREGON. FIRST CLASS HOTEL. AI 1 MODKKN IMP1COVEMENTS. HOT Al COr.D BATHS. None But While Help Employed. .ea-l'KEE COACH TO THE HOUSE.-S IT IS A FACT -TIHT- JEFF'S CHOP HOUSE ON Concomly Street is the Best in Town. -THAT S!- has Always on Hand FRESH Mioa! AValer Tiny and Inst rzi Oy.slors. -THAT- "JEFF" IS THE BOSS CATERER. THAT He lias lie cn Proprietor of tke "Aurora Hold" in Knaiiiitnu seven years. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. PIONEER RESTAURANT AND LODGING HOUSE. Kclitted throuuhnut : thelTablc supplied with the best : the beds clean and comfort able. A Firit:cl.ss House. Hoard by the week, - $3.00 Meals to order. .i. o, hoss, rroptictor. COSMOPOLITAN Chop House and Restaurant. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. DIealM cents anil upwards. ;. uoiriAiti. MXIS -STKF.ET. Proprietor. - ASTOMA. NEVILLE & 00. Pacific Net and Twine Co. Sax FuAxnsco, April lllli,18S3. DkakSii:: For general convenience, we have sent a .supply of UTo. 30. 12 ply ieimiuc Sroteli Salmon IVet Twine, to the care of A. X. JOHNSON "v- CO- Astoria, which will be sold at low enough figures to make it an object for all net menders to use it for repairs, in place of the more cosily Xo. 40, 12- ply. Fishermen who luive heretofore nsed this grade of twine for repairs, claim that the durability of the patch is equal to the balance of the nut, after the latter has luul a few weeks use. We think it will bt money In your pocket to try it. For prices and samples apply to A. M. JOHNSON &COn Astoria. Neville & Co. Side Agents, ... p-.,.,,;, 31 and ."3 California St. f Jn 1 nl"c'sco MAGNUS C. CROSBY, Dealer in - HaRDWABI, iron, steel, Iron Pipe and Fittings, PLU M IJERS AXD STEAM FITTERS Goods and Tools, SHEET LEAD STRIP LEAD SHEET IRON TIH AND COPPER, CaBnery an! Flsiermens SnBDlies Stoves, Tin Ware and House Furnishing Goods. JOBBING IN SHEET IRON, TIN, COP PER PLUMBING and STEAM FITTING Done with r eatness and dispatch. None but first class workmen employed. A large assortment of; SCALE? (Constantly on hand THE LATEST STYLES WALL "PAPER AT B. S. FRANKLIN'S, NEXT DOOR TO ASTOKIAN OFFICE. A very large Stock front which to select. Window curtains made to order. rsMy patent Trimmer to cut Wall Paper will be lound convenient to my patrons. - PARKER, DEALER IX Hay, Oats, Straw. Lime, Brick, Cement and Sand lVooil lellvcrel to Order. Graying, Teaming and Express Business. Horses and Carriages for Hire. DEALER IX WINES, LIQUORS AND.CICARS. FIRST CLASS WILLIAM HOWE DEALER Doors, Windows, Blinds, Transoms, Lumber. All kinds of OAK LUMBER, ; GLASS, Boat Material, Etc. Boats of all Sinds Made to Order, j "Orders from a distance promptly attended S. AENDT & EERCHEN, ASTORIA. - OREGON. The Pioneer Machine Shop b lacks m ith . tt&nm&Fn J SHO AND Boiler Shop All kinds of in-vr n Tim r m wi-mTkTT STEAMBOAT WORK Promptly attended to. A specialty made of repairing CA5TNERY DIES, FOOT OF LAFAYETTE STREET. ASTORIA IRON WORKS. Bentox Street, Near Parker House, ASTORIA. - OREGON. GENERAL MACHINISTS AND BOILER MAKERS. LAM MARIE EMES Boiler Work. Steamboat Work and Cannery Work a spe cialty. OA STXIKrCS-S , Orall Descriptions made to Order at Short Notice. A. D. Was s. President. J. O. Hustler, Secretary, I. W. Case, Treasurer. johk Fox.Superlntendent. LOEB & CO., JOBBERS IN WINES. LIQUORS, AND CIGARS. AGENTS FOR TIIK Best San Francisco Houses and Eastern Distilleries. Tumblers Decanters, and All Kinds of Saloon Supplies. A11 goods sold at San Francisco Prices. MAIN STREET. Opposite Parker House, Astoria. Oregon. Barbour's No. 40 I2-Ply SALMON TWINE ! CORK MD LEAD LINES, SEINE TWINES. A Full Stock Now on Hand. HENRY DOYLE & CO., 511 Market Street, Hau FraueiMcu. Sole Agents for the Pacific Coast. A. V. Allen, (SUCCESSOR TO PAGE & ALLEN. Wholesale and retail dealer' in Glass and Plated Ware, TROPICAL AND DOMESTIC FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Toother with Wines, LiquorsJobaccoXigars LV- AND Bracket Work A SPECIALTY. to, and satisfaction guaranteed in all cases BUSIKESS CARDS. 1 W. FULTOX, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Rooms 5 and 0. Odd Fellow3 Building. , NOTARY PUBLIC, AUCTIONEER, COMMISSION AND- IN SURANCE AGENT. JAY TUTTIiE, 21. I. PHYSICIAN AUD SURGEON Office Rooms 1, i, and 3, Pythian BulUl- . Residence Over J. E. Thomas' Drug QISLO F. PARSER, t SURVEYOR OF ClatHop County, and City of Astoria Otllce :-Chenamus street, Y. M. C. A. liall Room No. 8. p P. HICKS, pentist; ASTORIA, - - - - OREGON ' Rooms In Allen's building up stairs, corner i ua anu sqemocqne stret . J l.A.1SOirXriBV, ATTOIINEY AT LAW, Clienamus treet, - - ASTORIA, OREGON J J. JONES, STAIR BUITDER, Ship and Steamboat Joiner. jyil. .1. K. IiaVOltCE, IEXTIST, Room 11. Odd Fellows Building, Astoria, Or. (las administered for painless extraction ot teeth. Q J. CUltTIS. ATT'V AT LAW. Notary Public, Commissioner of Deeds for California, New York and Washington Ter ritory. Rooms 3 and 4. Odd Fellows Building, As toria. Oregon. N. 15. Claims at Washington. D. C, and collections a specialty. GENERAL STEAMSHIP AGENCY. Bills of Exchange on any Part oi Europe. 1AM AC.ENT FOR TIE FOLLOWING welt known and commodious steamship ines, STATE LINE, RED STAR, "WHITS STAR. 1 1 AM B L'RG-AMEK ICAN, DOMINION LINE, NATIONAL, and AMERICAN LINE. Prepaid tickets to or from any European port. For full information as to rates of fan, sailing davs. etc, apply to I. W. CASE. BOZORTH & JOHNS. Real Estate and General Insurance Agents. ASTORIA, - - - OAfion. WE WRITE POLICIES IN THE WEST ern. State Investment, Hamburg Bre men and North German Fire Insurance Com panies, and represent the Travelleis' Life and Accident of Hartford, and the New York Life, of N. Y. We have the only complete set of township maps in the county, and have made arrange ments to receive applications, filings, and flnal proofs on Homesteads, Preemptions, Timber Lands, etc.. having all the official blanks therefor. Our maps can be exam ined In the oflice, upon the payment of a renxonaife fee. We alsa have for sale city property In As toria and additions, and farms and tide land property. Rents, and other collections made, and loans negotiated. BOZORTH & JOHNS, &RAfflF CLEAMCE SALE! I to make room for more Hariware and SMj Clanllery A. VAN DUSEN & GO. Will sell at cost their entire stock of HATS AND CAPS -VXD BOOTS AND SHOES. These goods must be disposed of as we are soon to receive another large lot ot Hardware and Ship Chandlery And must have room to store It. Hall's Safes. WE HAVE THE AGENCY FOR ASTO na of the above safes ; parties desiring to pnrchase will do well to call and examine catalogue and price lists. BOZORTH & JOHNS,
