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SUNDAY.
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FALSE STAXDAUDS.
Eechnt evont upon tho oiber side
of the Atlantic have brought into
especial prominence the class preju
dices and titled distinctions of our
u uexuoors, anil have provol;
m amount of American critic
somewhat disproportionate lSm
importance. ButinomeF " - their
tract the mote ot eo -orts to ex
racj;pom our Bar1" .ninal aristoc
ther issopift '" -i9h cousin's-eye,
orerloo. th' danger that we may
nxatejrja) .- beam of very similar
ftP" . which obscures our own na-
1 vision, and which requires he
roio measures for its removal. De
spite our principles of theoretical
quality and the boasted predominance
of the people in practical affairs, one
of the most prevalent of American
vices is the disposition to indulge in
certain forms o class worship. It is
a common assertion that the aristoc
racy of brains has, in America, a
larger opportunity of securing rec
ognition thau it meets with elsewhere,
and there is a degree of truth in the
statement But the reasons there
for lie, not in our greater reverence
for mental worth, but in our lower
standards for the estimation of brain
products, and in the smaller numbers
of competitors for intellectual hon
ors which the country, at present,
affords.
The most universally acknowledged
of these is the worship of wealth.
Money is a distinct means of classi
fying its possessor. Of a large part
of American society it might justly
be said that every door of approach
thereto is
"Barred with gold and opens
but to golden keys."
They are a motley group who hold
this talisman of admittance, with no
distinguishing class characteristics,
and no community of interests save
those of Wall street and the markets
of produce and exchange The ex--clusivism
they practice has grown
from an exaggeiated reverence for
the power of money making into an
indiscriminate respect for tho posses
sion of riches without regard to the
'means by which they aie acquired.
A less common, but equally object
ionable form of sycophancy i3 the
worship of place. This is in fact the
perversion of a legitimate tendency.
The honor rightfully accorded to the
winner of deserved preferment is mis
takenly extended to the occupant of
high position, howsoever attained. In
other words, tao icspect tendered to
the office holder is proportioned to
the emoluments and elevation of his
office rather than to the dignity of
the man. Born of this spirit is the
popular excitement which is created
by the appearance upon American
shores of some scion of a royal .house.
It signifies little, that from a stand
point of mere manhood, this repre
sentative of a kingly line is entitled
to scant ceremony, or that in person
al seeming, perhaps, he is the veriest
cub of royalty; the pomp of place
surrounds him with an imaginary
halo in the eyes of an American pop
ulace, and, for the moment, he is the
observed of all observers, the lion of
the passing hour. It is tho same
spirit manifesting itself in private
life which dictates the social recog
nition of the local office holder, v.ith
. out reference to his personal deserts.
Only under the direct illumination
of great events do we universally
acknowledge the worth of character
in high places.
But the most pernicious, because
the most anti-republican, and retro
gressive tendency of the times is the
worship of ancestry. The study of
genealogy is a growing passion in
American society. The publication
of works upon family descen is of
frequent occurrence. There is a mor
bid desire existent in many minds to
prove themselves of ancient or honor
able lineage, and, as a consequence.
"tfie shadow of a mighty name" is too
often looked upon as a shelter for
personal incapacity. The revival of
the use of insignia, although as yet,
happily exceptional, is symplomalic
of a very general drift The public
press may deride the employment of
the Brewster "coat-of-arms," but the
cfrcumstance, singular, perhaps, in
public life, is the outgrowth of the
attempted re-erection of the "family
tree"' of which theTevival of its ac
companying of symbolism is the nat
ural fruit
There is a public misfortune attend
ing this habitual tolerance of these
forms of class-distinction; a deterior
ation of the moral sense of society is
involved in the 'recognition of any
circumstances of fortune as a pass
port to special favor. Character, in
tellect, or eminent publio service
should constitute the sole exception
to the great principle of republican
equality, and the only key which
should unlock the doors of oppor
tunity in public and private life.
Wobk in all our navy yards is to be
suspended on account of the exhaus
tion of the appropriation for con
struction and repairs. This looks
like another -sale of old iron and
kindling wood. England should send
the United States o few more war
ships just to keep up appearances.
JohnB. Gtough declared in a recent militia men liable to military duty j mHE UNDERSIGNED WOULD re
lecture that the press is "the main- if necessary-of 6,419,912. If ouroa.jidTcffiS
fj of sin." Where u-ould John ' tion's naval strength and seacoast de- SBnSJJsUa,lce9'&on thb e
have been if the pres3 had not braced
him mp with pufis?
AUSTRALASIA.
There are strong symptom of a
union of all the Britiah colonies
about Australia. They had a confer
ence recently, to secure that part of
ew Guinea not occupied by the
JJuteli, and to purchase from Franco
the ew Bebria nrnt further
use of thens -ns penal coi0nies. These
-uiwuujr . . -.. nr;t;0ii ch.
y'cc amply able to govern them
.ves, and are willing to take in a
tow of their neighbors of other na
tions. And if the present ministry
do not listen to their petitions, assist
them in getting what they ask, it will
need only another Sara Adams to in
duce them to follow the lead of our
fathers, and declare their independ
ence. The escape of convicts from
the French penal colonies, and their
invasion of British colonial territory,
is very annoying, and the prospect of
more hereafter is exasperating. More
conferences and more vigorous efforts
to accomplish the purposes they have
in view must result There are manj
advantages accruing to the colonies
by the present method of their gov
ernment, but they are not of suoh
overwhelming importance as to deter
them from foregoing them for the
greater blessings of independence.
The United States of Australia would
make a strong nation, and the near
future may see them starting on a
wonderful career of prosperity.
A iiAEGE number of United States
senators who recently voted them
selves private secretaries at an ex
pense to the government of six dol
lars a day huxe. it appears, given
these nice positions to their wives or
daughters. This disposition of the
patronage in their gift has aroused
the opposition of a small number of
newspaper editors whose chief aim
in life is the preservation of the con
stitution. The great charter of our
liberties is, we aro assured by them,
in danger, and unless the senators
procure the services of some other
men's wives and daughters as private
secretaries the republic will fall into
ruins before the present congress
comes to an end. We cannot share
in this gloomy view of affairs. "Why
should a senator's fair daughter plot
the overthrow of the government
which pays her so handsomely? Why
should a senator's wife, with six nice
new dollar notes put away in her
pocket-book every twenty-four hours,
conspire to send things to eternal
smash? Tho Jeffersoniau editors
should be comforted. Let them get
elected to the senate and put their
v, ives and daughters on the govern
ment payrolls.
The report of the exploring expedi-
lion eeut out from London in H. 3L
S. Challenytr has lately been pub
lished. Nearly four years were given
to the examination of the currents
and floors of the four great oceans of
the world. The Atlantic, w e are told,
if drained, would be a vast plain, with
a mountain ridge in the middle, run
ning parallel with the American coast.
Another range crosses it from New
foundland to Ireland, on the top of
whioh lies a submarine cable. The
ocean is thus divided into three great
basins, no longer "unfathomable
depths." The tops of these sea
mountains are two miles below a ship
and tho basins fifteen miles. The
mountains are whitened for a thou
sand mile3 by a tiny creamy shell.
The depths are red in color, heaped
with volcanic matter. Through the
black, motionless water of these
abysses move gigantic, abnormal
creatures, which never rise to the up
per currents.
Rev. M. J. Savage recently preach
ed a sermon on newspapeis. "Peo
ple often hold,"' he said, "that the
world is more wicked now than ever
it was before. An explanation of
this, I believe, will be found in the
."ast that no inan who is not so utter
ly alone and so far away that what
he does and says cannot be reported
as news is safe to-day in the commit-
sion of crime, for the chances aro
that very soon ho will see his name
in a newspaper telling all about him,
tnd this, if you think of it, is the one
thing that the average man fears
more than he fears God, more than
he hopes for heaven, and more than
he dreads hell." On tho other hand.
ilr. Savage blames the newspapers
because he thinks they are generally
cynical in tone.
It is not creditable to congress that
the coffin in which the second martyr
president rests has not yet been paid
for. The bill has just been sent to
that body, and the chances are that
there will be a squabble over the
amount before it is ordered paid.
"Where are all the gentlemen who con
sider themselves the political legatees
of the victim of Guiteau? Mr.
Blaine's friends claim that he is the
heir. "Why not assume this little re
sponsibility and show his devotion to
the memory of his dead chief? "Where
are all the patriots who were incon
solable when he breathed his last on
the Long Branch beach? "Alast"
says old Rip Van "Winkle, "how soon
we are forgotten" by all except the
undertaker, whose unpaid bill keeps
our memory green on his books!
Thebe is now in the United States I
1
an aggregate organized military force
of 83,000 including officers and men, ,
and a. reserve force of unorganized
lenses were equal to ita military re-
sources we could defy the world.
Tms latest suggestion to deplete
the surplus comes from Ohio. Con
gressman Hill of that state has con
ceived the splendid idoa of giving
every town in the country with sec
ond or third-class post offices a nice,
new post office building. The entire
expense, he estimates, would be only
about one hundrod millions of dol
lars, which is, of course, a mere trifle.
If the bill is ever reported to the
house it sboulS1 be amended so as to
include a handsome, well-furnished
marble residence for the postmaster
or postmistress, as the case may be.
Why do things by halves? It would
be absurd to have the postmaster
holding forth in a splendid building t
during the day and going to home to
less pretentious quarters in the even
ing-
!
PhiiiAPelphia, that staid and sober
Quaker city, is excited. Tho cause
of so unusual a feeling is the discov
ery that negroes are regularly em
ployed on the Times and i-Ve&s, two
daily papers published in that city.
If the cullud gemmen can't make a
better fist of it than some of the al
leged reporters in that city they
should be promptly fired from the
force. The ability to do odd jobs of
whitewashing ought to bo or material
assistance to the darkeys in their new
avocation.
Bepeesektative Brewer has been
directed toteport favorably his bill to
impose a fine of $100 or punishment
by imprisonment in jail for three
months on any person interfering in
any way with a commercial traveler
selling goods by sample. This is a
good thing for drummers, but how will
the public protect itself from their
irrepressible attacks?
There is such a thing as spiritual
bloodshed. A changed light of suf
fering flows out over the countenance
of one who has been stabbed by
words, as distinctly and with an effect
as terrible as that of the scarlet life
tide which gushes from a physical
wound.
In the olden times "Wendell Phil
lips was in great demand as a leo
lurer. Among his stereotyped replies
to committees was: "I will come and
lecture on a literary subject for $100
a night and expenses; on 'shivery' for
nothing, and pay my own expenses.''
YiLiiARD is rep jrted well, and on
Wall street It would be poetic jus
tice in a new phrase if he couldyget a
new deal, and tip over the apple cart
of Jay Gould. Stranger things have
happened.
The Berlin papers are still insist
ing that Mr. Sargent must go, but he
has not budged an inch.
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ASTORIA, - O KEG OX.
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Portland ; .1. L. touy Tillamook.
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Cor. Sqiieinoqua and Olney Streets, Astoria
Juki KeeeUeU Kx Wall Walls
500 Tons Seattle Coal.
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w have tor sale at the new Buukers.
SEATTLE COAL
For Dime tic use. clean, 87.30 per ton ol
3.-240 lbs
Fo'-Me-iniuse, average. $3.50 per ton or
-1U IU.
Fur steam use, screenings. $4.30 per ton ol
1U IU3.
Also constantly on hand Firt-cliu
Cumierland Coal
For Blaiksmlth use, at market rates.
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J.in20-3m Agent.
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Royal Brand Flour
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Manager.
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jl si ring-Bimaiea in iane uount , iregon
arenuequaed for the cure of Catarrhal af
fections, Hheumatlsm. and Dvspepsla, as
in uxuiua luruuguuui. me itonnweSt Will
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pvno sees me nenenis i me waters
('Hrriipes leav thest Charles Hotel. Eu-
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lrect for tne Springs.
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Agents for
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Piumblng Roods of all kinds on hand. Jot
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PLUMBING, lAb F11TING, AND CANNERY WORK
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Special Inducements
For the Holiday Trade.
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The Best Quality of
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A. Nasal Injector free with each
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ZZ2 And other first-claM stoves.
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Wines and Liquori
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Domestic and. Fareiffar Clears mt
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NATIONAL BREWERY BEE.
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vette stret3. . - -
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