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ASTOEIA, OREGON:
SUNDAY.
.FERRUARY 10, 188J
FANNING THE FIRE.
More fuel, more flame, more Leal
as "well as more light, are demanded
by the religious needs of the time.
However comfortable any single de
nomination may consider itself "when
gathered around its own hearth
stone, sectarian fires are not capa
ble of raising to any high degree the
general religious temperature. It
must be confessed that devotional
coldness is one of the characteristics
of the time, and that we are making
little or no headway in counteract
ing it.
When we seek the causes of this
devotional indifference, we may find
one of them in the rapid increase of
material prosperity and that general
diffusion of comforts, which relieves
men to a great degree of any perma
nent sense of need. When we are
conscious of dependence upon the
underlying Life, we are made aware
also of relations which transcend the
physical. Absorbed in business, im
mersed in luxury, intent on having
rather than being, we forget .some of
the things which pertain to our
higher needs. Some hard, rough
places on the road of life may be
needed to jolt us out of our com
placency. Another reason for religious indif
ference is found in the influence of
eold, hard dogmas. Religion and
dogma have been made synonymous.
The inevitable reaction from dogma
that has taken place has carried with
it also a reaction against religious in
stitutions, and has enfeebled religious
expression. Old names, statements,
and creeds refuse to satisfy, and men
drop into negation and distrust
Still another reason for devotional
feebleness is the wide prevalence of
the critical spirit. The mind of the
age picks everything to pieces. It is
not content to play with traditional
toys; it wants to know how they are
made. Once taken apart, they are not
put together again. The critical test
pervades the realm of literature, his
tory, scienee and philosophy. It is
fruitful in investigation. It classifies
and accumulates knowledge, but it
does not develop faith. It may not
be inimical to it, but it is not its
feeder. Faith requires other nutri
ment Faith takes much for granted;
criticism takes nothing. Faith rises
into eternal altitudes; criticism does
not transcend the level of the under
standing. The critical altitude is not
that of receptivity. Cold, clarified
speculation is not a subsitute for the
healthy bloom of the sentiments.
No mere analysis of religion, no
new structure of dogma, can take the
place of religious belief. There are
many who arc turning unsatisfied
from the mere intellectual side of re
ligion, to seek again nurture and in
spiration in communing with the
Eternal Spirit
FEMALE TENACITY OF LIFE.
It appears from the gathered sta
tistics of the world that woman have
a greater tenacity of life than men.
Nature worships the female in all its
varieties. Among insects the male
perishes at a relatively earlier period.
In plants the geminate blossoms die
earliest and are produced on the
water limbs. Female quadrupeds
have more endurance than males. In
the human race, despite the intellect
ual and phywical strength of the man,
the woman endures the longest, and
will bear pain to which the btrong
man succumbs. Zymotie diseases are
more fatal to males, and more male
children die than female. Deverga
asserts that the proportion dying
suddenly is about 100 women to 780
men; 1,080 in lue United States in
1870 committed suicide, to 285 women.
Intemperanc e, apoplexy, gout, hy
drocephalus, affections of the heart
and liver, scrofula, paralysis are far
more fatal to males than females.
Pulmonary consumption, on the other
hand, is more deadly to the latter.
Females in cities are more prone to
consumption than in the country.
All old countries not disturbed
by emigration have a greater major
ity of females in the population. In
royal families the statistics show
more daughters than sons. The He
brew woman is exceptionally long'
lived; the colored man is exceptional
ly shortlived. The married state is fa
vorable to prolongation of life among
women. Dr. Hough proclaims that
there are from two to six per cent
more males born than females, yet
there are more than six per cent of
females in the living populations.
From which statistics we conclude
that all women ought to marry, and
as men are likely to become so scarce
they canuot be sufficiently prized by
the other sex.
Dup.ikg the past year there were
shipped to Portland, Or., from the
country east of the Cascade mount
ains, 308,019 hundred weight of wheat,
153,117 barrels flour, 7,9G0 hundred
weight of bran, 6,128 hundred weight
of millstuffs, 906,210 pounds of hides,
7,237,925 poundd of wool and 70,948
pounds of hops.
The following is a line from one of
Swinburne's recent peems: ''Spry,
smirk, scoff, snap, snort, snivel, snarl
and sneer." It is reported that Swin
bnrne can write first-class poetry
.irith one hand tied behind his back.
OlR COMMERCE. j
The reason our foreign commerce
languishes, is, that it does not pay.
Americans think thoycan make far
better use of their capital than build
ing or sailing 6hips. Our inter-state
and home trade are far more profit
able. There is more money made in
building railroads :and factories, and
carrying on home exchanges than in
any other way. The ships we need
for our coast trade and for that with
the islands and Central America we
can build. There we do not come
into competition with England and
Scotland. It is one of the glories of
our condition that we can live and
flourish without engaging in foreign
commerce, so far as furnishing ships
is concerned. We have a vast conti
nent, producing enough to make us
comfortable and independent We
can go to war with any country in
the world to-morrow, have our porta
blockaded, and all imports cut off
and still we can live. We can raise
all we need to eat, and make all we
want to wear,, Our internal trade ia
prodigous, and more profitable
than a foreign one, why hank
er for what iB unprofitable?
We export wheat and cattle and
salmon because we have more than
we can consume. If others, content
with using capital at one, two or three
per cent a year, can furnish ships
and do our carrying cheaper than we
can do it for ourselves, let them have
it We have a home market for our
money at high rates. We are the
most prosperous people of the world,
accummulating property faster, and
making greater strides forward in
every line of growth, getting more
solid comfort and happiness than any
of our fellows, why should we worry?
If there is any suffering let it make
itself known, and there are glad
hands to relieve it We are a busy
people and we ought to be. We are
not too busy for higher growth in all
things, but we are too busy to listen
to the groaning and the croaking of
those who want a change because of
present ills, who want a change
merely that they may get in by turn
ing their betters out Our commer
cial, financial, and all other affairs are
doing well, and we mean to keep
them so, mourning for no profitless
or non-paying business.
The bureau of printing and engrav
ing is just completing its addition to
the cabinet album for the present
administration. It is probably not,
generally known that such an album
exists. It is a custom 4or the bureau
to prepnre fine steel engravings of
each president and his cabinet These
engravings are in the highest style of
the art, and when bound in corre
sponding style make a handsome and
unique volume. The book thus made
contains the portraits of each presi
dent and his cabinet from Washing
ton down, also views of the White
house, capitol, etc, Only a sufficient
number of copies are made to present
the president and members of his
cabinet with one each and retain one
copy at the bureau of printing and
engraving. Tne volume is a very
interesting one, and of course quite
rare, for although there have been
twenty-one presidents and 212 cabi
officers since the beginning of presi
dents and cabinets in 1789, the num
ber is very small in a nation of 50,
000,000, and the habit of printing
these books only dates back half that
time.
Dr. J. W. Wild, F. R. G. S., sums
up as follows the result of recent in
vestigations into the causes of the
sea, and of the apparent discoloration
of the sea water in certain areas of
the ecean: "The various tints of
blue and green which constitute what
may be called tho proper color of sea
water, are due to a greater or less
portion of salt held in solution, the
color being an intense blue when the
water is very salt, and changing by
degrees to a green-blue, and green
color as the water becomes more
fresh. On the other hand, the ab
normally colored red, yellow, brown
and inky seas owe their appearance
to the accumulation of large masses
of sea weeds, from the gigantic Algae,
which fringe the shores of oceanic
islands, to the microscopic Diatoms;
but almost as frequently the discolor
ation is caused by myriads of animal
organisms collected in shoals at the
surface of the ocean."
In his defense of woman suffrage,
Prof. Huxley takes the dilemma by
the right horn, when he makes the
question one of humanity. He says:
"Suppose for the sake of argument
we accept the inequality of the sexes
as one of nature's immutable laws;
call it a fact that women are inferior
to men in mind, morals and physique.
How or why should this settle or ma
terially affect the subject of so-oalled
Woman's Eights? Would not this
very inferiority be a reason why every
advantage should bo given to the
weaker sex, not only for its own good,
but for the highest development of
the races f
Among probable candidates for
congressional honors at the coming
election may be mentioned J. F.
Caples of Multnomah, and C. W.
Fulton of Clatsop On tho Demo
cratic side Messrs. Fenton andBilyeu
are spoken of. The question of Sena
tor Slater's successor is a long way
off. W. Lair Hill, of Wasco, is first
choice in the minds of many.
Pomtekess is like an air cushion
there may be nothing in it. but it
eases the jolts of the world wonderfully.
A CINCH BILL.
The bill -now before congress to j
compel druggists to file in the patent j
office, the formula of all mixtures'
used for medicine, or put in food or
drinks, before advertisement of them
can be forwarded through the mails
is a startling one. Probably neither
the author nor anybody else expects
to pass it It is intended to bring
drupcrista and patent medicine men
into the lobby, and compel them to j
come down. In the first place, it will
create some fat places for experts. ,
Twenty dollars is to be paid down J
when the formula is presented at the
office. All sales to be secured byj
advertising through the mails, must
wait the tardy action of the experts, j
Then having the formula, anybody'
can mix and sell. It will be seen at
a glance how patent medicines, flavor
ing extracts, and all such truok, "will
fly on the wings of the wind.
If the bill could only pass, every j
man could become his own manufac
turer of patent nostrums. But the
device is too thin. Even the Demo
cratic house will hardly seriously
consider the bilL The venders of
medicines will not be greatly alarmed
and very little coin will flow to the
promoters, if the victims intended to
be bled, are cautious and shrewd.
But the attempt shows the animus
of the author. The flimsy pretense
of the public health is clearly seen,
when the ten thousand ways of ad
vertising are considered, and the ut
terly inadequate means mployed to
prevent the spread of villianous
mixtures. The whole scheme will
fall to the ground and nobody be
cinched.
"Shai.Ii women vote in Oregon or
not" is among the questions to be
ballotted upon at the coming June
election. It is a question of great
importance. Negroes were given the
right to vote sixteen years ago. The
world has now moved far enough to
allow the lyrnng of our sisters, wives
and mothers to be heard when they
say "we realize that the ballot is not
a privilege to use, but a trust to exe
cute, and we wish to guard that trust
with you. Numerically we are your
equals, mentally we profess to be at
least capable of sensible action in the
matter." In simple justice the
amendment should at least be given
thorough discussion; if decided
upon its merits it will ultimately win.
The New Haven Morning News re
cently had the follewing: Boy want
ed: Good references required; steady
employment Apply to G. D. B.,
Hubbard Printers' Warehouse, 379
State street A day or two after the
eome paper hod this netice: Born
In this city, January 4th, a son to
Mr. and Mrs. G.D. R. Hubbard." It is
supposed that the references repuired
were accepted as good.
APHmADELPHiA man stopped using
gas and bought lamps instead. Tho
very first night a lamp was upset by
the cat and the house burned down.
Moral Don't keep oats.
ThcAl
Fast Sailing Schooner
"GEN. BANNING,"
158 tons register, will leave Astoria, on. or
about
FJEBBUARY 13th, 1881,
ron '
Cray's Harbor.
She will take freight at Portland, and on
her return from Portland will leave Astoria.
For further particulars apply to.
J. H. D. GKAY. Astoria. Oregon.
NOTICE.
STATE AND COUNTY TAXES A It KNOW
due and payable at my office.
A. M TWOMBLY,
tf Sheriff Clatsop Co.
WIS. EDGAR,
Dealer in
Cigars, Tobacco and Cigarettes
Meerschaum and Brier Pipes,
GENUINE ENGLISH CUTLERY
Revolvers and Cartridges.
JORDAN & BOZORTH,
A FULL LINE OF
Crockery and Glassware.
0, Tell Me Where ls-Fancy Bre(a)d !
WHY, AT THE
Astoria Eatery & Confectionery
CHEPIAMUS STREET.
Not only SUPERIOR BREAD AND
CAKES AND PASTRY In great variety, but
also
THE LARGEST STOCK OF CANDIES
IN TOWN.
"Weddings and parties supplied with the
most elaborate ornamental work on thp
shortest notice and on reasonable terms.
This is the most complete establishment In
Astoria.
ED. JACKSOK. Prop.
Mrs. R. QUINN,
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS,
' Crockery aad Glassware,
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NEW GOODS CONSTANTLY RECEIVED.
Northwest corner Squemoqua and Main
Streets, ni7-3m
You Are Sure
AT THE
Leading
OF ASTOEIA.
CHAS. HEILBOKN.
T?fflF " ' ',''"''7,"7X7rs
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FOR THE
Hall, Office, Library, Parlor
and DINING ROOM, in
WALNUT, CHERRY, ASH, AND MAPLE.
We are without a doubt showing the Largest and Most Complete
line of CHAMBER SUITS in this city, unequaled in Design, Work
manship and Finish.
We Carry an IMMENSE STOCK OF CARPETS of All Designs
and Colors in
Body, Roxbury, and Tapestry Brussels, Three Plys,
Extra Supers and Ingrains.
FOSTER'S
THE
Billiard Parlors
Are not excelled by any
north of San Francisco.
Nothing but the best
dispensed, and every
convenience for the com
fort of guests.
Imported Wines, Liquors and Cigars.
The Most Complete Establishment in Astoria.
AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE 0: R. & N. BOCK.
VALENTINES
VALENTINES
Valentines!
VALENTINES
VALENTINES
Valentines!
Has lust received DIRECT from the EAST,
the LARGEST and FINEST .tock of
Sentimental and Comic VALENTINES
that have eer been displayed here.
Brides selling them CHEAPER
than any other house In Oregon
we also furnish STAMPS and
ENVELOPES with each
VALENTINE.
Remember the Place
REMEMBER
REMEMBER
Sew York Novelty Store
Opposite Parker House,
Main Street, Astoria. - - - Oregon.
jy THE V.
Qtew York Novelty
stere: yf
to be Suited
Furniture House
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Chamber
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EXCHANGE.
and Club Rooms
PIANOS
AND-
O RGANS
SMALL MUSICAL 1NSTRUME
OF ALL KINDS.
FINEST VIOLIN STRINGS,
S3ieet aiusic
Piano, and Organ Instructors
-CELEBRATED
STECK & KNABE PIANOS 1
USED BY
President of United States"
'Governor of Oregon,"
Astoria Musical Society,
Mrs. J. VY. Conn, of Astoria,
Aud other prominent persons. Pianos and
Organs of many leadlngraakes,
wholesale and retail,
including
CELEBRATED TABER ORGANS.
AND WONDERFUL.
LITTLE GIANT STECK PIANO
Largest House on This Coast.
GAB-DNEE Bros.,
1 65 First St., Portland, Oregon.
The Portland and Astoria
STEVEDOBE COMPANY
Is prepared to contract with masters and
consignees of vessels for the
Loading and Unloading of Vessels
AT EITHER PORT.
Promptness and satisfaction guaranteed
in all cases.
Reaiy for
Bis
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FRANK L.
Fresh. Fruits
FA3TCY GROCERIES.
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TEH apply to the r.iptatn. or to
EMPIRE
Fine Goods - Reduced Prices
Ladies desirous of procuring Goods
unequaled in Style and Finish will
take pleasure in examining our
Stock of
SILKS, SATINS and DEESS GOODS.
IN
GENTS' FURNISHING DEPARTMENT,
Everything is Complete
and of the best.
ToIin JL.
-DE LEU
Tin, Sheet Iron and Copper Ware.
A General Assortment of
HOUSEHOLD COODS.
Agents for
Magee Stoves and .Ranges
The Best in the market.
I'uimbing goods of all kinds on hand. Jot
work done lu a workmanlike manner.
ElM.".!'! :. "Jl
PLUMBING, GAS FITTING, AND CANNERY WORK
Attended to Promptly on Reasonable Terms.
Chciinmus Street, Kext to C X.. Parker's Store.
THE NEW MODEL
A FDIX STOCK
Two doors east of Occident Hotel.
-G::z:z;z:-
M. OLSEN.
J. OUSTAFSON.
MARTIN OLSEN &, CO.
EALERS IN JBP
FURNITURE 2 BEDDING.
Corner Illain and Squenioqua Streets. Astoria, Oregon.
WIHDbW SHADES AND TRIMMINGS; WALL PAPER ETC
A Complete Stock.
PRICES AS CHEAP AS QUALITY WILL AFFORD.
ATX. KINDS OF FFItlWTimE REPAIRED AIW VARHISIIED.
YOTJ CAN
TAKE THE CAKE!
And hy
Buying it at
F. B. ELBERSON'S
SEASIDE BAKERY
You will be sure that
It is worth taking.
Every Variety of
Fine Cakes and Confectionery
Special Inducements
For the Holiday Trade.
Candies, Christmas Tree Trim
mings, Etc.
The Best Quality of
Fl Tie Bread.
Delivered every Morning
SEASIDE BAKE&Y,
F. B. FJLBERSOX, Proprietor,
That Hacking Couch can be so
quickly cared by Shilobs Cure. We
guarantee it. Sold by W.E. Dement.
PARKER.
$ Vegetables
.VITAMER
CLARA PARKER
Eben P. Parker, Master.
For TOWING, FREIGHT orCHAtt-
II. It. PA1CX.EK.
STORE
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THE
fgomery,
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RANGE CAN BE HAD IN AS
TORIA ONLY OF
ft. BAWE9,
AGENT
CALL AND EXA5HNE IT, YOU
WILL BE PLEASED.
E. R. IIAWES Is also agent for the
BdcV gent Mm Stove
And other first-class stoves.
Furnace "Work, Steam Fit-t-isCst
etc., a specialty-
ALWAYS ON HAND.
ASTORIA, OREGON.
A. JOHNSON.
iifornia Exchange
The hest of California and Foreign
Wines and Liquors
Kept Constantly on Hand
Domestic and Foreign Cigars of
the best JBraads.
NATIONAL BREWERY BEER.
On Concomly between Benton and Lafa
yette streets,
lm GEORGE GORLTER
I. W. CASE,
IMPORTER AND WHOLESALE AND RE
TAIL DEALER IN
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Corner Chenamus and Cas3 streets.
ASTORIA - ,- -
OREGON