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Astoria. Oregon, Sunday Morning, September 30, WS.
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AN EMIGRANT TRAIN.
A night in a western emigrant
train is thus described by R. L.
Stovons, in Z.onyniait's Magazine.
I lir been suffering in ray
heftlth a good denl all the way;
and at Inst, whether 1 was ex
hausted hy my complaint or pois.
oned in some wayside eating
house, the evening we left Lara
mie, 1 fell sick outright. That
was a night which I shall not
readily forget. The lamps did
not go out; each made a faint
shining in its own neighborhood,
and the shadows were confounded
together in the long hollow box of
the cur. The sleepers lay in un
easy attitudes; here two chums
alongside, Hat upon their backs
like dead folks; there a man
sprawling on the floor, with his
face upon his arm; there another
half seated, with his head and
shoulders unon the bench. The
most passive were continually and
rousrhlv shaken bv the movement
of the train; others stirred, turned
or stretched out their arms like
children; it was surprising how
many groaned and murmured- in
their sleep; and as I passed to and
fio, stepping across the prostrate,
and caught now a snore now a
ras. now a half-formed word, it
gave me a measure of the worth-
lessness 01 rest in that unresting
vehicle. Although it was cold,
was obliged to open my window;
for the degradation of the air soon
became intolerable to one who was
awake and using the full supply o
life. Outside in a glimmering
night, 1 saw the black, amorphous
hills shoot by unwcariedly
into our wake. TJiev that long
for morning have never longed for
it more earnestly than I, and yet
when dnv came, it was to shine
upon the same broken unsightly
quarter of the world. Miles upon
miles, and not a tree, a bird or
river. Only down the long, ster
ile canyons, the tram shot hooting,
and awoke the resting echo. That
train was the one piece of
life in all the deadly land; it was
the one actor, the one spectacle
fit to be observed in this paralysis
of man and nature. And when I
think how the railroad has been
pushed through this un watered
wilderness and haunt of savage
tribes, and now will bear an immi
grant for some 12 from the At
lantic to the Golden Gate; how
at each stage of the construction,
roaring impromptu cities, full of
gokl and lust and death, sprang
up and then died away again, and
are now but wavside stations in the
desert; how in these uncouth
places pigtailed Chinese pirates
worked side by side with border
ruffians and broken men from
Europe, talking together in ;
mixed dialect, mostly oaths, gam b
ling, drinking, quarrelling and
murdering like wolves; how the
illumed hereditary lord of all
America heard, in this last fastness
the scream of the "bad medicine
wagon," charioting his foes; and
then, when I go on to remember
that all this epical turmoil was
conducted by gentlemen in frock
coats, and with a view to nothing
more extraordinary than a fortune
and a subsequent visit to Paris, it
seoms to me, 1 own, as if this rail
way was the typical achievement
of the age in which we live, as if it
brought together, inio one plot, all
the ends of theTorld and all the
degrees of social rank, and offered
to some great warrior the busiest,
the most extended and the most
varied .subiect of an enduring
r.. r .
Uiterary work. It it be romance
if it be contrast, if it be heroism
that we rcauire, what was iroy to
this?
Transmutation.
An object lesson in the trans
mutation of virtues is conveyed in
this paragraph from an eHiange
"Tennyson can take a worthless
sheet of paper, and by writing a
poem on it make it worth 5,000.
That's genius. Vanderbilt can
write a few words on a sheet, and
make it worth 5,000,000. That's
capital. The UnitedWstates can
take an ounce and a quarter of
gold, -and stamp upon it an 'eagle
bird' and 'twenty cURara.' That's
monev. rue mecnanic can iau
2nani(
the material worth $5, and make
it into a watch worth 100. That's
skill. The merchant can take an
article worth twenty-five cents
and sell it for SI. That's business.
A lady can purchase a very com
fortable bonnet for 10, but she
prefers to pay $100. That's, fool
ishness The ditch digger works
ten hours a day and shovels out
three or four tons of earth for $2.
That's labor."
Boys of the old Hind.
"When any man who has been a
boy himself attempts to put on
dignity and take the hoys of the
present day across his journalistic
knee because the' indulge m
"idiotic enthusiasm," he starts the
Irish in us, and the red hair snaps
like stroking the fur of a cat the
wrong way. J-i2t tne euiior so in
clined look back twenty-five years
and think of the deviltry that was
going on among the boys at that
time, and compare it with the
quiet of to-day. Twenty-five years
ago boys never thought of paying
to go to a show, but crawled up
to the window on boards, and got
in, and-the audience could consid- j
er itself m luck if they didn't:
raise Hie root. l tic ooys oi a
quarter of a century ago were reg
ular cowboys compared with your
truly good boys of the present
da'. Why, man, don't you re
member when a Sunday morning
in summer would have seemed
tame indeed if the people on the
war to church did not find a pro
cession of fifty wagons on Main
street, placed there the night be
fore by the "boys." Don't you
remember how every wagon con
tained a crockcr' crate, with a.
dog inside, and each cage labeled
with the name of some rare ani
mal caught in the jungles of Afri
ca or lassoed on the plains of
Venezuela by Indians. Of course
your great mind can go back to
the time when every sign in town
that was not printed on stone or
cut in marble in the sidewalk,
would appear in the wrong place
in the morning, and you can recall
how the long-faoed citizens who
could not see any fun in such
monkey work,, snid those boys
would all fetch up in slate prison.
"We have watched the state prison
records for a quarter of a century,
and not a single name of one of
those old boys is recorded in any
prison, but we can point out fif
teen of them who occup' high
position in all branches of business.
There arc lawyers, as good as the
state can produce, among those
nocturnal menagerie organizers
and smoke-house movers of the
olden time. There is a judge of a
western, state who used to make a
specialty of putting zebra stripes
on a white dog with a black brush.
His decisions are said to be
marked with no evidence that he
ever worked half the night to car
ry the northwest corner of r.
smokehouse around a block to
have it ready in the morning.
There is a capitalist living in this
city,twho helped place a 200 pound
wooden boot, stolen from the
front of a shoe store, upon a school
house at Whitewater one night,
but the exercise did him good,
and nobody was
Sun.
harmed. PecJSs
A man was carrying a coon he
had caught when he met three lit
tle boys in the road. All of them
said excitedly, "Mister, give me
that coon, give me that coon, give
me that coou mister?" "Well,
boys, I'll tell you what I will do.
If you will tell me what party you
belong to and why, I'll give it to
the boy who gives the best reason
for his faith." "I'm a Republican,
because that party saved the
Union," said one. 5tl'm a Green
backer, because that party is in
favor of plenty of mone3r." When
the time for the third boy came, he
said: "I'm a Democrat, 'case-I
want thecbon." Arsio Orleans
Democrat..
A thousand "million dollars is
the estimated shrinkage- of Wall
street values within tw.years.
The agriculture of Western Ore
gon will soon be governed by
different conditions. The pro-,
ducts of this region will be re
quired to supply the wants of a
city of one hundred thousand pop
ulation, and other business points,
on Puget Sound, and the Columbia
will require as much mor. It is
within the reason to believe that a
quarter of a million population of
cities in Western Oregon and
Washington will have to be fed
within"" ten years from this date.
It shall be the aim of our agricul
ture to supply the needs of this
home market so thoroughly as to
leave no room for California pro
ducts to find sale. At the present
time the carrying of products from
California does much to support
the line of steamers between San
Francisco and Portland. Wo im
port butter and cheese by the ton
twice a week; fruits and vegeta
bles, dried and canned products,
manufactured products of many
kinds that could be grown and
put up here are brought here by
hundreds of tons, and in return
we send them the money received
for our staples wheat and wool.
A condition cf things that should
not exist. Willamette Farmer.
A London cable special says:
The reneral feeling throughout
Europe is of real uneasiness. It
is felt that the relations of the
great powers are daily growing
more uncertain and dangerous and
that the universal strain cannot be
much longer sustained. The
foreign policy of France has no
part in producing this situation,
but all diplomatists look with anx
iety to the Balkan peninsula and a
growing probability of a rupture
between Ptussia and Austria.
In the mean time Prince Bismarck
is maturing and strenghtening his
great alliance, which has 1 - its
first object the relief of Germany
from her intolerable military bur
dens and for its sec-Hid general
trannuiiity of Europe. It is not
probable that .Mtiier can be at
tained without a struggle, but a
swift and decisive contest in the
east, from which France could at
present be excluded, would have
no terrors for either Germany or
Austria.
Absolutely Pure.
Tills powder never varies. A marvel o
puilty, strength and wholesomencss. More
economical than the. ordinary kinds, and
cuinoL be sold hi coinnetitiou with the mul
titude of low test suort weight, alum or
phosphate powders. Soldtmlii in canx. Hov-
Ai. j;akdo i'owdku uo.. 10a waii-sr. i. x.
WEI. EDGAR,
Dealer In
Cigars, Tobacco and Cigarettes
Meerschaum dhvl Brier Pipes,
GENUINE ENGLISH CUTLERY
Revolvers and Cartridges.
Shiloh'8 CuiUyrjIl immediately
relieve Croup;- to&boeing cough and
uroncmus. aom uy y, in. jement.
mi sir
I set ?J CSm
p d
U1H
2TOIS
neuralgia, sciatica, uumbago,
Backache, Soronoss of the Chest,
Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Sro
ings and Sprains, Burns and
Scalds, Genoral Bodily
Pains,
Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted
Feet and Ears, and all other
Fains and Aches,
Ho Ttt iwratlar on earth equals Sr. Jacobs Ok.
as & safe, sure, simple and cheap External
II era eJ j. A trial cntaiU but the coopar&Uejr
triCinc outlay of 50 Cents, and every oao suffer
ing with rain can li&To cheap cd pordtire proof
of its claims.
Directions Id Eleven Lancnigta.
SOLD BY ALLDEUGSIST8 HUB D2ALSE3
IN HEDKHHE.
A. VOGHLBR & CO.,
Jialtitnorc, ZZ2 XT.O.A,
..... . . '
Speaking of the early history of
the Northern Pacific the Helena
JndcendeiU says: Thomas Jeff
erson commenced the remote his
tory of this road in 1803, when he
commissioned Lewis and Clarke
to make a reconnoissance across
the continent to the mouth of the
Columbia river. .-Captain Mullau
continued it in tho cot struction-of
his. wcgon load over -the main
range. Jefferson Davis uoui
meno! the immediate history
tfon he commissioned Governor
Stevens to make the survey of the
northern route to the Pacific. This
road will do the carrvinjr trade of
fifty millions of people before - its
future history will end.
SYHFTOSS OF A DISEASED LiVTB.
Pain In tho right aide, nmler oilgc of
ribs, Increasing un promurc; KometltneH
tli jmin is on the left aide; the patient is
rarely nb!c to lie on tlie leit side; aomo
tlmes the pain is folt under the iiou?dr
and is sometime taken for Rlieu::ai:n
in the arm. The stomftrh is affected with
loss of appetite and sickness; tho bowels
in general are costive, sometimes aiter
n. lngwlth lax;ty; the head is troubled
wit-. in. accompanied with a dull.heavv
sensuii in the back part. There is gener
ally a cmisiuerauie loss oi memory, nceom
named Willi anamrulscnsjition of imring
left undone something 7liich ought to
nvc icen clone. A silht, ur couicn r
Kometluios nttcudsut. The uationt eom-
plains of weariness and debility; he is
ensily startled ; his feet are cold or burn
ir.K, and he complains of a prickly sensa
tion of the skin: his spirits nro low. and.
although he iHsriiibticd that exercise woulu
be beneliclal to him, yet he can scarcely
hummon up fortitude enougli to try iL " I
If you have any of the nbove symptoms.
you can certainly he cured by the use of
tlie fienuiue uti. o-sicLAJiJ-rs x.ivjjk
When you buy Mclinc's Fills, Insist
on having UK. C. 2IcIiAKE,S CliHE
niUVTEI) IA VKIJ VlIAJi, made by X'lcm
Inir Urns., Pittsburgh, Pa.
if you ran not cet tho ccnuinc I)R.
C. JlcIVXirs L1VKK l'H.LS. Fend us
as eeuU by mall, and tvc will send thorn
to you.
FLEMING BROS.. Pittsburgh, Pa.
In forerand Aruo district? in tropical and
" . . vimiouncs, ana lu-
dood in nil localities wbera tho conditions aro
unfarorablo to health, this famous vegetable
inrigorant and alterative, Hostctter'a Stom
ach Hitters, has been found a potent safeguard
oven to foeblo constitutions and fra?il frame?,
while as a euro for indigestion, biliousness
and kindred comploints. it is witnout a rival.
For salo by all Drusrists and Dealers
generally.
Notice to Taxpayers of School
District Ho. 1 8.
THE SCHOOL TAX FOR SCHOOL Dis
trict No. IS. Clatsop county, state of Or
egon, Is now due, and the School Clerk win
hV frtliml 4t lilc nfff nn Wot- eih
near Wall street, to receive and receipt for
tut- same
- Taxes . unpaid after sixty days from the
date of this notice will be delinquent.
SaVe extra cost and pay vour tax. N
, C. W. SHIVELY.
x . - Clerk School District No. 1&
Astoria, Sepr..5, l ssx septc-im
ilOSTEntift
ZB.imid
iviJSLS AND RESrAUKAXTS.
PARKER HOUSE,
If, 13. IWXtXEK. Prop.,
ASTORIA. - - - OREGON.
EP. PARKElt, - Manager and Agent.
Ai.CHOSBYj - - Day Clerk.
ridl. BOWERS, - - Night Clerk.
Jas. PUFFY lias this Bar and Billiard room.
Pirst Class in all Respects.
Fit EE COACH TO THE HOUSE.
IT IS A FACT
. TITAT
JEFF'S CHOP HOUSE
ox
Concomly Street is the Best in
Town.
-THAT
He lias Aliruyfj on Uaurt FIXESH
Shoal TTaler Bay aud East
ern Oyster
THAT
" JEFF IS THE'BOSS CATERER.
-THAT
lie tins boeii Proprietor or tkc "Aurora
Hole'" In Kiinpptoa seven years.
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.
COSMOPOLITAN
Chop House and Restaurant.
OPEX DAY AND NIGHT,
jlcals . cents anil upwards.
a. 20UIiAItE, -5ZA1.V
STltSET, - -
Uroprietor.
- ASTOSIA.
ss, a. ass. 3s: as
DKAIiKU IN
Bfay, Oats, Straw.
Urns, Brick, Gsn-ent and Sand
Wood I?r.iivcrcd to Order,
Bufrr.:.,ij'an3yreiss Business.
Uorsne ana Carriages for Hire.. .
WINES, LiQUOHS AMD CIGARS
FtttKT V.iAHH
wiioiomtieaud Tetail dealer; in.
MILL FEED.
Giass and Plated Ware,
TROPICAL AND DOMESTIC
FRUITS A HB' VEGETABLES.
Tcnjother with
Winss, LiquorsJobacco.Gigars
BUY THE BEST!
OURS
Srish Flax
Salmon Net Threads
Wooriberry. and Needle Brands,
SEINE TWINES.
AND
.in K iwnv nil)
i'ish PunudH, Weincs, and Xets
Imported to Order. A
LarpSlocMMBiJislLiies
AND FISH HOOKS
CONSTANTLY ON HAND.
KENRY DOYLE & CO.,
517 and 519, MARKET STREET
SAN FRANCISCO.
J"Agcnts for the Pacific Coast.
FOAE33 & STOKES,
WE HAVE OPENED AGAIN
In Ilume'sMewBuilH
And are Ready to Supply
the Wants of Our
Customers.
A FULTj STOCK
OF -
Fresh. Groceries;
PLUMBING
Gas and Steam Fitting .
TONKY RUDDOCK & WHEELER. AT
U fair rate. Also a complete stock' of
goods in jour line, estimates given anu
work cuara'nteed.
Cass street, in rear of I O O F balldinff.
next to uas co omre.
S.ARNDT & EERCHEN,
ASTORIA. - OREGON.
The Pioneer Machine Shop
BLACKSMITH
SHOP
AND
Boiler Shop
All kinds of
ENGINE, CANNERY,
AND
STEAMBOAT WOEK
Promptly attended to.
A specialty made ol repairing
CANNERY DIES,
FOOT OF IiAl'AYETTK STREET.
ASTORIA IRON WORKS.
Benton Stkrkt, Nkab Parker House,
ASTOPiIA. - OREGON.
GENERAL MACHINISTS AND
BOILER MAKERS.
LANMMARDffi MIMES
Boiler Work, Steamboat Work
and Cannery Work a spe
cialty. OASTIKTGcS ,
Of all Descriptions nade te Order
at Short Notice.
A. D. Wass, President.
J. G. Hustleb, Secretary,
I. W. Cask, Treasurer.
JOHNFox.Superintendent, -
0. H. BAIN & CO.
DEALERS IN
Doors, Windows, Blinds, Transoms
Turning, Bracket Work.
SIiop Wor3i
A specialty, and all work guaranteed.
Oak, Asb, Bay, and Walnut lumber ; Ore
gon and Fort Orf ord Cedar.
All kinds of boat material on "band.
C. XI. BA1X A. CO.
LOEB & CO.,
JOBBERS IN
WINES, . .
LIQUORS,
AND
CIGARS.
AGENTS FOR THE
Best San Francisco Houses and
Eastern Distilleries.
Tumblers Decanters, and All
Kinds of Saioon Supplies.
B'-AU goods sold at Sou Francisco Prices.
MAIN STKEET.
Opposite rarker House, Astoria, Oregon.
GENERAL STEAMSHIP AGEHGY.
Bills of Exchange on any
Part oi Europe.
1AM AGENT FOR TIE FOLIOWING
welt known and commodious steamship
lncs.
STATE J JNE, RED STAR.
WHITE STAB. a
ILVMBUUG-AMERIOAN.
DOMINION LINE,
NATIONAL, and AMERICAN LINE.
Prepaid tickets to or from any European
port.
For full information as to rates of fare,
sailing days, etc, apply to
I.W.CASE.
BOZOBTH & JOHNS.
Real Estate and General insurance
Agents.
ASTORIA,
Oregon.
WE WRITE POLICIES IN THE WEST
em. State Investment, Hamburg, Bre
men aud Nortb German Fire Insurance Com
panies, and represent the Travellers' Life
and Accident of Hartford, and the New
York Life. ofN.Y.
We bave tbo only complete set of township
maps In the county, and nave made arrange
ments to receive applications, filings, and
final proofs on Homesteads, Preemptions.
Timber Lands, eta, bavlnpr all the official
blanks therefor. Our maps can be exam
ined in the office, upon the payment of a
rtatrmdblc Ice.
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,
REMOVAL.
The Astoria Passenger Line
TT7TLL AFTER THIS DATE HAVE ITS
T V headquarters at Its Stables next to B.
B. Franklin, two doors below Tint Asxo
niAx office. Pkai-ctaBS Livery service. Oarts
with horse famished, for one dollar per
hour. Carriages on application
The Astoria Passenzer Line Hacks will
leave for Upper Astoria from the stables.
Horses taken to board.
3IKS. T. 0'.BIiIEN.
BUSINESS OAEDS.
Q K. THoaiSOflf,
Attorney and Counsorat Law.
Boom No. c, over "White House,
. ASTORIA, OREGON,
J XAT. MUDS OS,
. "Attorney at I&w.aad Xtary.
'OcS'eilows Building Aatoria, Oresori,
G
rtKVciiT02
1 1 'aTTORTsTTTT at t.aw.
Rooms S and C Odd Fellows Banding.
J AlOWISX,
ATTORNEY AT LAW. . ;
Chenamiu treet, - - ASTORIA, OREGON
J. CURTIS ,
ATTT AT LAW. -
Notary Public, Commissioner oi Deeds for
California, New York and Washington Ter
ritory. Rooms 8 and 4, Odd Fellows Building, As
torlajOregon. N.B-Clalms at Washington. D. C. aad
collections a specialty.
AaterlaAxeat
Hamburg-Magdeburg
and German-American
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES.
jg C. HOLD EN,
IS'OTAEY PUBLIC,
AUCTIONEER, COMMISSION AN1 IN
SURANCE AGENT-.
JX. X. C. BOATMAX,
Physician and Surgeon.
Rooms 9 and 10, Odd Fellows Building,
ASTORIA, OREGON.
jay tuttIlE, ae. d.
PHYSICIAN AND STTEGEOIT '
Office Rooms 1, 2, and 3. Pythian Build
ing. Residence Over J. E. Thomas' Drug
Store.
JTjl P. MICKS,
PENTIST,
ASTORIA, - - OREGON
Rooms In Allen's building up stairs, corner
uassana sqemocqne sires .
J. K. XiSFOKCJE,
DETSTIST,
Room 11. Odd Fellows Building, Astorb, Or.
Gas administered for painless extraction
of teeth.
QELO p. PARJTJEK.
SURVEYOR OF .-
Clatsop C-Bty,aH4 City ef Asterla
Office :-Chenamus street, Y. M. C. A. hall
Room No. 8.
J J. JOES,
STAIU BUTLBEB,
Ship and Steamboat Joiner.
NORTHERN PACIFIC EXPRESS
COMPANY
Are Now Ready For Business.
3-Offlce with Bozorth & Johns.
KA.NOYES,
Agt.
GEO. P. WHEETEB. "W. L. 310KB.
WHEELER & ROBB.
GENERAL
REAL ESTATE, INSURANCE, AND
COLLECTION AGENTS. .
Real Estate bought and sold on Commis
sion. Accounts adjusted and Bills collected.
Correspondence from abroad solicited.
"Office In Hume's new building, on Soue
moqua street, next door to Foartf & Stokes?
Has re-opened his
CIGAR AND TOBACCO STORE,
I Qn tlHBBlwv . nenr his old location. He
Twilrkeeii W at3rrlfcaftkstCle
ana iodoccos. aua a inu m
tides. Including the fin
pipes. He will be please!
irienus at u is new siana.
Cleaning Mepi
NEAT, CHEAP AND QI
GEORGE JaQ-
Maln Street, opposite N.
ANNOTJNCEME'
MRS. T. S. JEWET1
(Successor to Mrs. E. S. Warrei
Fashionable Dressmal
Dealer In Millinery and Fancy Gool
Squemoqua street, next door to Odd Fel
lempie.
SOLID GOL1
JEEL
Scarf Pins. Chains, Watches,
SXLV&RWARX,
Of every description.
The finest stock of Jewelry In Astoria.
STAR goods warrantedasrepreeented
GUSTAV HANSEN, JEWEL!