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CO 1 1 . . Vol. xix. Astoria, Oregon, Saturday Morning, August 18, 1883 To. 119. BILL KYE. Reports an Interview with the Au thorities at Balaam Lake in Regard to Official Religion! Up in Polk county, Wisconsin, not. long .ago, a man who had lost eight children by diphtheria, while the ninth hovered between life and death with the same disease, went to the health officer of the town and asked aid to prevent the spread of the terrible scourge. The health officer was cool and collect ed. He did not get excited over the anguish of the father whose last child was at that moment hov ering upon the outskirts of immor tality. He calmly investigated the matter, and never for a mo ment lost sight of the fact that he was a town officer and a professed Christian. "You ask aid, I understand," said he, "to prevent the spread of the disease, and also that the town shall assist you in procuring new and necessary clothing to replace that which you have been com pelled to burn in order to stop the further inroads of diphtheria. Am I right?" The poor man answered affirma tively. "May I ask if your boys who died were good Christian boys, and whether they improved their gos pel opportunities and attended the Sabbath school, or whether they were profane and given over to 3abbath-breaking." The bereft father said that his boys had never made a profession of Christianity; that they were hardly old enough to do so; and that they might have missed some gospel opportunities, owing to the fact that they were poor and hadn't clothes fit to wear to Sab bath school. Possibly, too, they had met with wicked companions and had been taught to swear; he could not say that they had sworn, although he thought they would have turned out good boys had they lived. "I am sorry that the case is so bad," said the health officer. "I am led to believe that God has seen .fit to visit you with affliction in 'order to express His divine dis approval, and I cannot help you. It ill becomes, us poor, weak worms of the dust to meddle with the just judgments of God. Whether as an individual or as a quasi cor poration, it is well to allow the Almighty to work out His great plan of salvation, and to avoid all carnal interference with the works of God." The old man went back to his desolate home and to the bedside of his only living child. I met him yesterday and he told about it all. "I am not a professor of relig ion," said he, "but T tell you, Mr. Nye, I can't believe that this board of health has used me right. Somehow I ain't worried about the little fellers anyway, and they was not posted on the plan of salva tion, but they was always kind and always minded me and their mo'ther. If God is using diphtheria agin perfanity this season they didn't know it. They was too young to know about it and I was too poor to take the papers, so I didn't know it nuther. I just thought that Christ was partial to little kids like mine, just as he 'used to be two thousand years ago, when the country was new. 1 admit that my little shavers never went to Sabbath school much, and I wasn't scholar enough to throw much light on God's system of ret ribution, but I told 'em to behave themselves, and they did, and we had a good deal of fun together, roe and the boys, and they was so square and cute that I didn't see how they could fall under divine wrath, and I don't believe thev did. "I could tell you Jots of smart little tricks that they used to do to Mr. Nye, but they wa'n't mean or cussed. They was just frolicky and gay sometimes because they felt good. I don't believe that God had it in for 'em bekus they -tkevpther boys, do you? For if I thought so it would kind of harden the old lady and me and make us sour on all creation. "Mind you, I don't kick because I am left alone here in the woods, and the sun don't seem to shine, and the birds seem a little back ward about singing this spring, and the house is so quiet, and she is still all the time and cries in the night when she thinks I am asleep. All this is tough, Mr. Nye tough as the old Harry, too but it's so, and I ain't murmurin', but when the board of health says to me that the ruler of the universe is makin' a tour of northern Wisconsin, mowin' down littlp boys with sore throats because they say 'gosh,' I can't believe it. "I know that people, who ain't familiar with the facts will shake their heads and say I am a child of wrath, but f can't help it. All T can do is to go up there under the trees where them little graves is, and think how all-fired pleasant to me them little short lives was, and how every one of them little fellers was welcome when he come, poor as T was, and how 1 rastled with poor crops and pine stumns to buv cloze for 'em, and didn't care a cent for style as long j university, over 121 young men, as they were well. That's the? and sti11 they call woman the kind of a heretic I am, and if Godwcaker vessel who cannot saf is like a father, that settles it. He wouldn't wipe out my family to establish discipline, I don't be lieve. The plan of creation must be on a bigger scale than that, it seems to me, or else its more or less a fizzle. "The board of health is better read than I am. It takes the pa pers and can add up figgers, and J do lots of things that I can't do, but when them fellers tells me that they represent the town of Balsam Lake and the Kingdom of Heaven, my morbid curiosity is aroused and I want to see their stifFvkits of election." A Cleveland robber, caught at work, said that he had been sent to America by the St. Charles Christian society of London. He had been in Portsmouth prison for robbery. After leaving prison he was on ticket-of-leave for eighteen months, and under police surveil lance for five 3'ears. Therefore, when the society proposed to give him 30 "for good conduct" if he would emigrate, "of course he came at once." He said that four other convicts came over in the same ship. To a question, he said a good many rogues were sent to America in the above way, adding: "They don't like to leave the old country, but they are allowed more money by the government if j they do, and get a free passage from the Christian societies." Our glorious republic is wide and broad, but there is not a foot of it so useless as to afford standing room for a pauper or criminal from the old world. Mrs. Mary Lynch died at SeVan ton, Pa., last Saturday, in her 110th 3'ear. She probably was the oldest person in the United States of whose age there was ac curate data. She was born in Sussex county, N. J., in March, 1774. Her father, Jacob Bunsick, served in the revolution, and her husband, James Lynch, was a soldier in the war of 1812. She was the mother of eight children, four of whom are living, the youngest being 75 years of age. She retained her mental faculties in a remarkable degree, used no glasses, and refused to use a cine when walking. Her health has always been good, and three days before her death she refused to eat, and lay down and calmly passed to rest. "For a number of years I suf fered with rheumatism of the back and hip," said Mr. Thomas Mor gan, Superintendent of streets, Cincinnati, Ohio. "1 was waited on by physicians, but they gave no permanent relief. It was in a fit of desperation that 1 resolved to try St. Jacobs Oil. My rheu matism began to weaken at the first attack of its great enemy St. Jacobs Oil and soon T was as well as ever." That Hacking Cough can be so quickly cured by Shiloh's- Cure. We guarantee it. Sold by W. K. Dement. A Queer Tree. The queerest of trees must be the baobab, or monkev bread. It grows to the height of forty feet but its girth is entirely out of pro portion to its height, some trees being thirty feet in diameter. An oid baobab in Africa is, then, more like a forest than a single tree. Their age is incalculable. Hum boldt considers them as "the oldest livinjr organic monument of our planet." Some trees are believed to be 5,000 years old. You can cut a good-sized room into the trunks of the baobab, with com fortable accommodations for thirty men and the tree lives on and flourishes. It produces a fruit about a foot long, which is edible. As an example of slow growth in England, a baobab at Kew, though more than eiirhtv years old, has only attained a height of four and a half feet. A kindred species to the Africa baobab grows in Aus tralia. They have beem measured, being thirty feet high, with a girth of oishtv-fivc feet. Mary Crowell won the litera- rv cssav prize at the Vanderbilt oc " steu witn tne uaiiot. Absolutely Pure. This powder jicvt'r varies. A man-el o lurit3 strength ami whalcsomeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in competition with the mul titude or low test snort weight, alum or phosphate powders. Soldonlufn cam. Rov- Au JSAKIXG rOWDKK CO.. 105 Wall-.St. N. Y IrW STOMACH ilostotter'sStomach Bitter?, by increasing tho vital rKwor. and rendering tho physical func tions regular and active, keeps tho system in rood working order, and protects it against disease. For constipation, dyspepsia and liv er complaint, nervousness, kidney and rheu matic ailments, it is invaluable, and it Affords a sure defence against malarial fevers, besidoj removing all traces of such disease from tho system. For sale hy nil Druggist and Dealers generally. Hardware and Ship CWerj A. VAN DUSEH & GO., DBA LRUS IX Hardware and Ship Chandlery, Pure Oil, Bright Varnish, Binnacle Oil. Cotton Canvas, Hemp Sail Twine, Cotton Sail Twine, Lard Oil, Wrought Iron Spikes. Galvanized Cut Nails. Agricultural Implements, Sewing Machines, Paints ami Gils. Groceries, etc. BLACKSMITH AND Horseshoeing Establishment. I HAVE LATELY SECURED TJIE SER vices ot,A competent horseshocr from Il linois, anft.will guarantee satisfaction in that work. Cannery work, and general black smlthlng done at reasonable rates. Shop near Kinney's canncrv; JOHN FEELY. (" 1 ifOSTETTEift Jl CELEBRATED 1 Pi hlfe&&L j .S? i&ttt RHEUMATISM 3 Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Backache, Soreness of ihe Chest, Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swell' ings and Sprains, Burns and Scalds, General Bodily Pains, Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted Feet and Ears, and all other Pains and Aches. Ko Preparation on earth eqtudt Sr. Jz.com Oil. ts a safe, sure, simple and cheap Externa! Remedy. A trial entails but the ttwpiratiTelj trifling outlay of 50 Cents, and ererr one suffer ing with pain can haro cheap end pocdtlra proof of lu cliimi. Directions in Eleven languages. S0LDBYALLDBUGGIBTSANDDEALEB3 IH MEDICINE. A. VOGELSR & CO., Ualttmorc, Ztd., V. .. A. An experimenter says: "I dis covered many j'ears ago that wood could be made to last longer than iron in the ground, but thought the process so simple that it was not well to make a stir about it. I would as soon have poplar, bass wood or ash, as any other kind of timber for fence posts. I have taken out basswood posts, after having been set seven years, that were as sound when taken out as when first put in the ground. Time and weather seemed to have no effect on them. The posts can be prepared for liss than two cents apiece. This is the recipe. Take boiled linseed oil and stir in pulverized coal to the consistency of paint. Put a coat of this over the timber, and there is not a man who will live to see it rot." A LETTER FROM GERMANY. i . i.r.N, January t. IS. Very esteemed irs: The pmisc your Liver Pills have willed forth here Is wonderful. After taking one and a half boxes of your genuine nit. c. XcLAXE'S LIVKIi PILLS, 1 hv en tirely recovered from inyfonryea:sSuncr Ing. All who lv"vnv mo wonder how I, who, for m many years, had no ajmetfle. and could not sleep for iKickarlip, silu-h in my side, and general stonm.-!, m plaints, could have recovered. An old lady In our city, who Ji:iM::-:vd for many years from uldnev !is-M, mi. I tl.o doctors haI given her up. ton!; tvx.f your Pills, and cot more relief than ?he has from all the doctors. Yotu- 'ml J. vox Dhi: r.!;::.. BEWARE OF IMITATiGHS. The genuine are never sugar-coated. Fvery box lias a ml wax seal on the lid, vitli the impression: J clonic v Ati Mil. The genuine McL.ANK'S l.JViac PILLS bear the signature or C. McLaju and Fleming ltros. on the wrapiers. Insist upon having the genuine li:. t 51 cLANK'S .LTVKIt PILLS, prewired l.v Flemiug Bros., of Pittsburgh, Pa.. jl-.V-market lielng full or imitations of ;h. name McLane, spelled ditl'erentlv, luu same pronunciation. If your storekeeper does nut haw :b genuine im. c. ai clank's cklic- JHtATKI) LIVKU PILLS, send us sr. cents, and we will send you a lox lv mail, and a set of onr advertising card. FLE3IIXK IJR0S., rittsuur-;!. Pa. A. . Allen, (SOGCKSHOK TO PACK & Al.I.KN.) Wholesale and retail dealer lu Provision Glass and Plated Ware, TROMCAL AND DOMESTIC FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Toxcther with Wines, LiquorsJobaccoXigars J. H. D. GliAY, Wholesale and retail dealer in. GROCERIES, FLOUR, AND FEED, Hay, Oats, Straw, Wood, Etc. LIME, SAND, AND CEMENT. General storage and 'Wharfage on reason able terms, toot of Barton street. Astoria Oregon. uLRMAN 8EMEU f. HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS. I'ARKEB HOUSE, A. ASEIili, manager. ASTORIA, OREGON. FIRST CLASS HOTEL. ALL MODERN IMPROVEMENTS. i50T ASI COJ BATHS. None But White Help Employed. rtt-FKEK COACH TO THE HOUSE.- IT IS A FACT -T1UT JEFF'S CHOP HOUSE ON Concomly Street is the Best in Town. THAT Hi- lias Always on Hand FRESH i Slionl Water Bay and Easl I vvn Oysters. THAT " JEFF" IS THE BOSS CATERER. -THAT lie hm hvvtx l'roprlctor.er tbc "Aurora lintel" lu KnapptoH seven year. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. PIONEER RESTAURANT AND LODGING HOUSE. l!etlitel throughout : thelTable supplied with the best : the beiN clean and comfort able. AFirst:class ITousc. Board by the week, - $3.00 Meals to order. J. G, EOSS, Proprietor. COSMOPOLITAN Chop House and Restaurant. OPEX DAY AND NIGHT. Sleals 2. rciitH and, upwards. :. noUjit;, -mms stkf.et. - - Proprietor. - - ASTORIA. 3TEYILLE & CO. Pacific Wet and Twine Co. Sax FitAXCisro, April lltli,1883. Dkah Sn:s; v- For general convenience, we have sent a supply of. Wo. 30, 12 l!y 2czmixic Scotclx Salmon Net Twine, to the care of A. M. JOILN'SOX & CO., Astoria, which will be sold at low enough figures to wake it an object for all net menders to use it for repairs, in plaeeof the more costly No. 40, 12 ll.v. Fishermen v'ho have heretofore nsed this grade of twine for repairs, claim that the durability or the patch is equal to the balance of the net, after the latter has had a few weeks uso. We think it will be money in your pocket to try it. For prices and samples apply to A.M. JOHNSON & CO., Astoria. Neville & Co. Sole Agonts, l. s FranM, 31 and California St. f han rancwco- ! A.M. Johnson &Co. DEALERS IN A FULL LINE OF Mists' Materials. DRALRK'IX Hay, Oats, Straw. Lime, Brick, Cement and Sand Wood Delivered, to Order, Draying, Teaming and Express Business, Horses ana Carriages for Hire. DEALER IK YINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. K1KST CLASS 20 BOATS CANNERY SITE FOR SALE. milE PKOl'EItTY KNOWN AS A. P. CO.'S JL Net Racks. adlolnlnttFort Canby. 20 23U foot boats, good fr linker's Bar or up river hsiimk ; H net racKs complete ; ironiage -mj feet running to deep water; one block on shore with mess house. This is the most convenient rlace for salmon nets, trans and seines and decidedly the best location on the Columbia river for a salmon cannery. "Will sell for cash or will take stock with toer&Crocta satisfactory Fishermen's racking Co. BOZORTH itJOHNB. WILLIAM HOWE -DEALER IN- Doors, Windows, Blinds, Transoms, Lumber. All kinds of OAK LUMBER, i GLASS, Boat Material, Etc. 1 Boats of all Kinds Mad to Order. -Orders from a distance promptly attended S. ARNDT & FERCHEN, ASTORIA. - OREGON. The Pioneer Machine Shop BLACKSMITH SHOP and mmmxiX3mmf,7t Boiler Shop All kluds or ENGINE, CANNERY, AND STEAMBOAT W0EK Promptly attended to. A specialty made of repairing CANNERY DIES, FOOT OF LAFAYETTE STREET. ASTORIA IRON WORKS. BstXTOx Street, Near Parker IIousk, ASTORIA, - OREGOX. GENERAL MACHINISTS AND BOILER MAKERS. LABMMMHGIES BoilerWork, Steamboat Work and Cannery Work a spe cialty. OASTIKTGrS , Of all DescriptionH made to Order at Short STotice. A. D.Wass, President. J. G. Hostler, Secretary, I. y. Case, Treasurer. J ohk Fox, Superintendent. LOEB & CO., JOBBKR3 IN WINES, LIQUOKS, X8D CIGARS. AGENTS FOR THE Bsst San Francisco Houses and Eastern Distilleries. Tumblers Decanters, and All Kinds of Saloon Supplies. 0T"A11 good3 sold at San Francisco Prices. MAIN STREET. Opposite Parker House, Astoria. Orecon. BUY THE BEST ! BARBOUR'S Irish Flax Salmon Net Threads Woodberry, and Needle Brands, SEINE TWINES. AND CORK AND LEAD LINES Fish Founds, Seine, and XetH Imported, to Order. A LarieStocMMiiJisliLiiies AND FISH HOOKS. CONSTANTLY ON HAND. HENRY DOYLE & CO., SI7 and 519, MARKET STREET SAN FRANCISCO. JSTAgents for the Pacific Coast. FOARD & STOKES, WE HAVE OPENED AGAIN In Iliinic's New Building, And are Ready to Supply the "Wants of Our Customers. A FULL STOCK OF Fresh Groceries. AND Bracket Work A SPECIALTY. to, and satisfaction guaranteed In all cases BUSINESS CARDS. J W. FUliTOX, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Rooms 5 and C, Odd Fellows Building. C. IIOIiDEX, NOTARY PUBLIC, AUCTIONEER, COMMISSION AN1 IN SURANCE AGENT. JpVY TUTTJQE. 31. . PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Offick Rooms 1, 2, and 3. Pythian Build ing. Residence Over J. E. Thomas Drug Store. QELO FAKKKTt. SURVEYOR OF Clatsop County, and. City of Astoria Otflce :-Chenamus street, Y. M. C. A. hall Room No. 8. Jjl 1. HICKS, PENTIST, ASTORLV, - - - OREGON Rooms In Allen's building up stairs, comer f Cass and Sqemocqhe stret . J O..A.BOWI1BY, x ATTORNEY AT LAW, Chenamusi'treet, - - ASTORIA, OREGON J J. .lOXES, STAIR BUILDER, Ship and Steamboat Joiner. JQ)K. J. E. iaFOJRCJE, JEITIST, Room 11, Odd Fellows Building, Astoria, Or. Gas administered for painless extraction of teeth. Q J. CUitTIS, ATT'Y AT LAW. Notary Public, Commissioner of Deeds for California, New York and "Washington Ter ritory. Rooms 3 and 4. Odd Fellows Building, As toria. Oregou. N B Claims at "Washington. D. C, and collections a specialty. GEHERAL STEAMSHIP AGENCY. Bills of Exchange on any Part oi Europe. 1AM AGENT FOR TIE FOLLOWING well known and commodious steamship Ines, STATE LTNE, RED STAR, WHITE STAR, HAMBURG-AMERICAN, DOMINION LINE, NATIONA I., ami AMERICAN" LTNE. Prepaid tickets to or from any European port. For full information as to rates of fare, sailing days, etc, apply to LW.CASE. BOZORTH & JOHN'S. Real Estate and Genera! Insurance Agents. ASTOK1A, ... Oregon. WE WRITE POLICIES IN THE "WEST ern. State Investment, Hamburg, Bre men and North German Fire Insurance Com panies, and represent the Travellers 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 nave made arrange ments to receive applications, filings, and tlnal proofs on Homesteads, Preemptions. Timber Lands, etc.. having all the official blanks therefor. Our maps can bo exam ined In the ofllce, upon the payment of a routonaofe fee. We also 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, WEI. EDGAR, Dealer in Cigars, Tobacco and Cigarettes Meerschaum and Brier Pipes, GENUINE ENGLISH CUTLERY Revolvers and Cartridges. Grace Church Parish School. Rear of Church Building. THIS SCHOOL "WILL RE-OPEN M0N- Ing of the children will be carefully watched. ami nuiuu u aiiccuii jiuuiu. ill aaUlUOn 10 the ordinary course of study there will be instruction in the elements of Vocal Slu mp, Drawins and Calisthenics. If found desirable or expedient, classes will be formed in Higher Mathematics, Botany, As tronomy, Advanced Music and Drawing for which light extra charges will be made! Terms-?2 a month, strictly in advance. OFFICEBS. REV. M.D. WILSON. - - Rector MISS ANNIE "W. CURTIS, - Principal MISS M. C. TREN CHARD, - Assistant For further particulars applv to REV.M.D.AVILSON.