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About The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1884)
CZ he gatljj jtoran. ASTORIA, OREGON: SUNDAY. ...AUGUST 31, 18S1 A MATTER OF THE STOMACH. James R. Davis, inspector o teas for the port of New York, in a recent interesting interview, stated that within a month then just passed, he had been compelled to reject 2,000 , packages of tea from Japan and China, 200 from Canada and 4,000 from London. The occasion of this rejection of imports was the spurious character of the goods. It appears that no article is so easily adulterated as tea, and the reason of this will be apparent after a moment's reflection. A very little of genuine tea-leaf, adroitly mixed with a major part of imitation tea, will compose an article that will readily deceive all except experts. The indication is of two classes exhausted leaves, the strength being spuriously restored by use of dangerous chemicals; and foreign leaves, treated to resemble the genuine. The mass of the adul teration is of the first class named. The rejected lea is reshipped to the port from which it came, under the act of March, 1883, to prevent the importation of spurious teas. Under thus law tea importers are re quired to give bonds with sureties satisfactory to the collectors of ports, to export all spurious tea to some foreign territory, within six months after the examination is made. If the export is not so made, the goods are destroyed by order of the collector. This law is a beneficial one iu all re spects; but last spring a suplemental bill passed the United States senate that is much desired by collectors. Unfortunately the house of represen tatives failed to take it up, that body being too much engrossed with schem ing for the presidential campaign to take notice of this important mat ter. The bill must be passed at the next session, and every congressman in the Union shonld be pledged to that end, since the matter directly af fects seven out of ten of all the peo ple of the republic. The new bill strengthens the present law, cures some defects, and provides perfect remedies for tea imposition. It ap pears that our importers have been accustomed to send the rejected teas over the borders into Canada, that be ing the nearest and most easily reach ed foreign territory. But the Canadian government has recently followed the example of the United States, and now refuses to receive the adulterated . merchandise. The vast amount of tea consumed in this country being taken into consideration, the effect upon the public health of chemically prepared imitations, and all other frauds on the genuine article, may easily be imagined. During the month of June the report showsjthat over 6,000 packages of tea doctored by deleterious drugs and vile color ing mixtures and processes were re jected at the port of New York alone. If the next congress shall pass the law referred to, which all agree is needed, and has, indeed, no opposi tion, and it is enforced rigidly, it will be but a very brief time when the poisonous compounds will cease to arrive here. The foreign growers and exporters will very soon discover that the Yankee nation, which once dumped obnoxious tea for political reasons into Boston harbor, will not submit to having "its cup" drawn from the drug shops ofjthe world, and as a consequence the send ing in of such vile stuff will cease. If this result can be at tained iu the tea trade, it is very naturally suggested to the mind that by law, and faithful inspection, the food of the people in other respects can be protected. It is not done now. Fully one-third of all the cheap groceries sold are adultera tions. They begin in sugars, run through potted sauces, enter the realm of spices, invade the coffee sold in ready prepared papers, affect baking powders, soda and like articles, and render dangerous to health syrups, broken grains, meal, butter, liquid supplies, and so on through a long and startling array of goods that are doctored. In view of the vast amount of food adulteration, and the gross and daring character of most of it, it is simply marvelous that the health of the people is as good as it is. If it is true, as the science congresses are constantly asserting, that we are becoming a na tion of dyspeptics, it is unquestion ably due in no small measure to the vile stuff we send into the stomach in the guise of ordinary food. The very people most injured are the last whose .miseries we ascertain the poor, who are driven to buy the cheapest grades of food supplies. These, if no other considerations move legislators, are entitled to the protection of the state from the assaults made by unscrupulous makers and dealers in food. Mokooke D. Conway, reminds the world which is generally lost sight of that the Mahometans are Chris tians. He says the Mahometan's en tire faith in the present, as well as his .-hopes for the future, are based upon Christ. "Mahomet, the prophet, is lit ! 'tie'more to them than what "Wesley is to the Wesleyans the founder of sfheir' faith. The city of New York recently sold -$1180,000 3-per-cent bonds, ten to twenty years to run ,at a slight premi um. . Good credit A WONDERFUL SUBSTANCE. Fnoir the vile-smelling drugs of the petroleum still is evolved the snowy, pure wax called ozokerite. This comely, impressionable article, with all its smooth, soft beauty, defies agents which, can destroy the precious metals and eat up steel as water dissolves sugar. Sulphuric and other potent acids have no more effect on ozokerite than spring water. It is alike impervious to acids and to moisture. Its advent seems to have been a special dispen sation in this age of electricity. Every overhead electric light cable, or underground conduit, or slender wire, cunningly wrapped in cotton thread all these owe their fitness for conducting the subtile fluid to the presence of this wax. And in still more familiar forms let us outline the utility of this substance. Every gushing school girl who sinks her white teeth into chewing gum chews the paraffine wax. Every caramel she eats contains this wax and is wrapped in paper saturated with the same substance. The gloss seen upon hundreds of varieties of con fectionery is due to" the presence of this ingredient of petroleum, used to give the article a certain consistency, as the laundress uses starch. So that a product taken from the dirtiest, worst-smelling of tars finds its way to the millionaire's mansion, an hon ored servitor. It aids to make possi ble the electric radience that floods his rooms; or, in the form of wax candles, sheds a softer lustre over the scene. It polishes the floor for the feet of his guests and it melts in their mouths iu the cost liest candies. Paraffine wax is in large demand for many purposes. The demand for candles as yet heads the list. Then come the needs of the paper consumers. In 1877 a single firm in New York handled fourteen thousand reams of waxed paper. This year their trade will be three hundred and fifty thousand reams. Not only for wrapping candy is this paper invaluable, but fine cutlery, hardware, etc., encased in waxed paper is safe from the encroachment of rust or dampness. Fish and but ter and a score of other articles are also thus wrapped, and there seems literally no end to the uses found for the paper saturated with this pure hydro-carbon. In the chemist's la boratory it is invaluable as a coating for articles exposed to all manner of powerful dissolvents; brewers find it a capital thing for coating the in terior of barrels, and the maker of wax flowers simulates nature in sheets of paraffine. And yet, until Drake drilled his oil well in 1859, the exist ence in this country of this boon to civilization was unsuspected, and it lay iu the depths of Pennsylvania rocks, where thousands, possibly mil lions, of years ago it was stored by the hand of an all-wise Creator. Thebe is one point in Mr. Cleve land's letter which has the ring of the true metal about it. It gives promise of a fairer presidential election than has ever taken place in this country. It is the passage wherein he cham pions a "free and uncorrnpted suf frage." Let the news be spread all over the country among Mr. Cleve land's supporters that no man is to be coerced or corrupted. Let it be the watchword in the South that every citizen is entitled to his vote. If it should lead to the colored peo ple of Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina being allowed to de posit their ballots and to have them counted, it might give those states to Blaine or Butler; but it would bring undying glory to Mr. Cleveland. The fear that it may not bo so has been a torment to Mr. Beecher.Mr. Schurz and Mr. Curtis, who have long called themselves the blackman's friends. Now that Mr. Cleveland has shown his tender regard for the colored population, we hope to hear of it bearing fruit. Tire rage against bold Ben Butler is rising in the part' papers. The Cleveland organs are livid with pas sion, and the Blaine organs are in a state of suppressed emotion. Ben is developing great magnetism. His talks to the working people are hav ing marked effect The more he is railed at the stronger he grows. "While the other candidates aro closed in by the Chinese wall of custom after having delivered themselves of their letters, Bntler is abroad, preach ing, exhorting, chatting, pleasing, conciliating as if he had a hundred tongues. He talks home to working men. If the Republican party up holds American industry, so does he; if Cleveland bids high for labor votes in spite of his vetoes of labor bills, Butler bids for support as an em ployer of labor and points boldly to his record. He is a worker, and work tells. It is stated that some eastern dis tillers are sending large quantities of whisky to Bremen and other places in Europe to bo stored. This is done for economy. In Bremen it costs for storage five cents per barrel a month; in this country twice that amount Insurance there is less than one-fifth what is demanded here, and it is said that it only costs twenty cents a gal lon to send whisky to Europe, keep it two years, and return it to New York, while it would cost fifty cents a gal lon to keep it in the United States. Full allowance is made in the Euro pean -warehouses for shrinkage. The French army has as many offi cers as there are privates in the United States army. AMERICAN BOYS. "WniLE the American father is puz zled with what to do with his boys, the Americau manufacturer is com pelled to go to Europe for skilled workmen and this suggests that, coupled with other circumstances of an even day character, our American boys are unwilling to go through the drudgery of apprenticeship. Of course every one with common sense sees that we are making a great mis take in not preparing ourselves to fill the ranks of our own people, rather than be obliged to depend upon our too willing neighbors across the sea. One of the baneful results of the American boy growing up into idle ness and wasting the formative period of his existence, is patent to all, and needs no elaboration by example. The young man who has been taught to use the hand and eye, who has apti tude with fingers and tools, insures his own livelihood, and such a one has a great advantage over him who wants to earn his bread by taking office, keeping books, or selling wares. Does the skilled artisan harass any body for work? The thought in the thinking bayonets of the Germans conquered at Sedau. The industrial training of the North was more than a match for the chivalry of the South. In Germany prince and peasant must learn a trade' In France, yonug men pay high for the privilege of learn ing some kinds of trades, besides giving their entire time for several years to their employers. In this country we aro drifting away from the moorings on which industrial supremacy depends. England seems to think it odd that any other Power should feel the need of colonies. A great grab game is in progress in Africa, and other countries than England are taking a hand. First France grabbed at Northern Africa. Then Belgium, through its modest-looking but real ly ambitious International Associa tion, followed in the Congo region. There, also, France sent its De Braz- za. Now Germany puts forth its paw and claims a slice. It has more need of colonial outlets than any other great Power. For the past thirty five years a tide of German emigra tion has been flowing to the United States and doing no good to Ger many. If some of this stream can be diverted to Africa and so kept under the Imperial flag, so much the better for the Kaiser and his Iron Man. Germany's last grab is next door to an old English grab, and lo! the Lords of the Treasury and the For eign Office and the High and Mighty uoiomni secretary think it is a "blawsted shame." The London Eclio states that W. H. Vanderbilt told an intimate friend in England that he is worth S19i,000,. 000, and adds: "He can take life com paratively easy on an income of $12,- 000,000 a year." It ia estimated that the United States will produce this season 485, 000,000 bushels of wheat, or about niue bushels for each man, woman and child in the land. "Boiler will spend a milliou dol lars during the campaign." The idea of a "workingman's candidate spend ing a million dollars is decidedly unique. One of the newest campaign slan ders is that Mr. Hendricks plays theaccordion. Thisoughtto be nailed at once. NEW TO-DAY. Notice. TUP.IXG MR. HARCLAVS AHSEXCE Jur all persons havHijr business with win Hume, will please call upon Win. 1) Smith, ai Mar .MarKei. .!. J. BARCLAY. Manager. Tax Notice. 7T1HE ASSESSMENT ROLL OF SCHOOL JL District Iso. 18, Clatsop County. Oregon. Is now equalized and the Hon. Board of henool Directors for said district have Issued warrants for the undersigned to collect the school tax now due said district. Taxpayers win save cost uy paying me same 10 me School Clerk or his deputy who will be found at an times at his oince on west cth street, one house south of "Wall street. C. W. SHIVELY. Clerk School District No. 18. Dated at the City of Astoria. CUtsoii Co. Oregon, August 30th, 18S4. Dissolution Notice. riTfUIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE THAT THE jl partnership heretofore exist nc between M. Furney and N.Davlch In the Pacific market is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Air. m. loirney retiring from the business. Mr. X. Davfch will collect all debts and pay all outstanding Indebted ness. Astoria, August 31, 1881. LOEB & CO JOBBERS IN WINES. LIQUORS, AND CIGARS. AGENTS FOR THE Best San Francisco Houses and Eastern Distilleries. Tumblers Decanters, and All Kinds of Saloon Supplies. &yAll goods sold at San Francisco Prices. MAIN STREET, Opposite Parker House, Astoria, Oregon. Carnahan & Co. SUCCESSORS TO I. "W. CASE, IMPORTKBS AND WHOLESALE AND KKTAIL DEALERS IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE Corner Chenamus and Cass streets. ASTORIA -.-- OREGON Carpets! Carp We. bpsto call the attention of the pnlrilr Eatern manufacturers, of the X.AR&KST SSQTVaSCSS OF m Ever offered for sale hi till city, com pnshi? all grades, from the FINEST BODY BRUSSELS In the Newest Tints and Shades. To UiHowcst priced article in this Hue AW aie riVWitiinrd 1 dipo-i or ur stock of Carpets within the next four weeks, and to that end offer special inducement-, prei-huliiiK the possibility or Ileins l!nlernoIl by cny i-fou S'i:anp-ti.or. in Tin: - Furniture and House Furnishing Line We caii show you thp veivKEST GOODS at BOTTOM FIGURES, and shall be pleased to receive a call for inspection whether you purchase or nut. CBAS. HEILBORN. "3WSE w mmwt No 1 jaBHiK H IFgJBwii,' WIjmw Bra Carpets, Matting, Pictures, Mirrors, PICTURE FRAMES MOULDINGS, ETC., ETC. At Greatly Reduced Prices, And cordially invite a call from our friends and the publie generally. We intend to become a permanent fixture in this place and trust to receive a liberal share or patronage from the public. ASTORIA FURNITURE CO., Cor. Chenamus and Hamilton Sts. II. Du BUISSON, Manager. Wheeler & Kipp, PRACTICAL Piute Gas aid Steam Fitters ALL WORK Warranted, and Estimates Given. FULL STOCK Iron mid I.enil Pipe, Rath Tubs. Wntr Closets, and Has Fixture... Jobbing Promptly Attended to. A SPECIALTY is made of Tap ping Water Mains and Running Water Pipes, as We have Supe or facilities for doing this work. Corner Squenioqua and Hamilton Streets, Astoria, Oregon. THE LARGEST AND FINEST SASH AND DOOR FACTORY In "Western Oregon. A Full Stock on Hand and Made Up to Order. BOATS BUILT AND SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. Sashes, Doors, Windows, Mouldings, Etc., Of Best Material. Bids Furnished Contractors, Carpenters and Builders. AH bilLs due and payable at the end of the month, unless otherwise agreed upon. Wm. HOWE, Proprietor. H. B, PARKER DKAIEK IX Hay, Oats, and Straw, liIM :E2., Brick. Cement, and Sand. Wood Delivered to Order. Oraytng, Teaming, and Express Business DEALEK IN WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. JFIRST-C1ASS. I G. RAWLINGS, Wholesale and Retail Dealer In Tropical, Domestic, Green and Dried MJTS. CANDIES.DRIED MEATS, ETC. Fine Cigars and Tobacco. lie Fail ffl Next door to T. J. Arvold's, Squomoqua St. Of! rrQraafc! In our latest importation, direct from We take pleasure ii: announcing, that hav ing purchased the stock of the late firm of E. 1). Curtis & Co., anil ami having made many New and Attractive Additions1 We now offer for wile the MOST COMPLETE LINE FURNITURE HOUSE Furnishing Goods, THE CASPERSOH ELECTRIC LAMP. Burning With an Unrivaled Brilliancy OF ixly Candle Power COSTS ONE-HALF A CENT AN HOUR Tlte Finest and Chrappst Lijilit in Use. NO DIMNESS. NO SMOKE, NO BREAKING CHIMNEYS. One Lamp Will Last a Lifetime. "We guarantee all we say and court in estigatlon. This Lamp is f.ist superseding all old stvle oil lamps and needs bat a trial to prove 'its merits. FOK SALE IN ASTORIA, ONLY BY CARNAHAN & CO., AGENTS. TO CilJEEIlI, FISHERMEN, AND OTHERS. Having Secured the Services -OF- Martin Welch, We are now Trcpared to Contract Tor ALL KINDS OF BOATS, In Small or Large Quantities, at Very Seasonable Bates, all of Our Work TO HE PIRSTOLASS, ALL KINDS OF BOAT STOCK AND MA terial on hand and will be sold as low as the lowest. We have also on hand a very large stock of Sash Doors and Mouldings of our own manufacture, which wo guaiantee not to be excelled on the Pacific Coast. Examine Our Stock, Work and Prices, and Remem ber the old !. X. L. Stand of C. H. BAIN & CO, VISITORS TO PORTLAND Should not forget to call at Towne's San Francisco Gallery, where may he seen photograplis of all the leading men and women of Oregon and Washington Territory. Skillful operators always In attendance, and the most minute attentlou paid to pictures of children. Don't forget the location, b. W. eorner First and Morrlsijn strceUi, upstair!. No trouble to show specimens to visitors. Street railroads pass the door every ten minutes, and this Is the nearest gallery to the five principal hotels. 1 tt i , nggga?-. m-j Establishment! FmioMsii Soffletnin ill For The Pinest Groceries. For The Freshest Vegetables, For The Most Complete Assortment, For Absolute Satisfaction, In Filling and Delivering All Orders, Call at RANK L. PABKEES Family Grocery and. Provision Store, Corner Benton and Chenamus Streets, Opposite Custom House Square. KJ JUP !JWWSycglCiawgsggWwgWtT nvaMMH9MMIMMMrMtaMHMnnMMiPVHiiHHaM 3SJ 1 1 KKSJ i"Tl -L' TER apply to the Captain, or to EMPIRE STORE THE ON'LT Exclusive Drv Boods House XJST ASTORIA. Oir Stock Is Tie Most Complete, Our Prices At Sort Bottom And Our Anxiety To Sell Ts Unequaled! We Are Always at the Top of the Market And With Us You Will Find THE LATEST NOVELTIES IN OUR LINE As Fast As They Appear In Eastern Markets. WE INVITE INSPECTION OF OUR LATEST IMPORTATION -OF Ladies' and Infants' White Goods, Skirts, Parasols, Silk Mitts, Gloves in Lisle, Silk and Cotton, Fans, etc., etc. PRAEL BROS. John L, SSfX32,fgomery, DEALKlt TV Tin, Sheel Iron and Copper Ware. .V ie:ieral Assortment ot HOUSEHOLD GOODS. Agents for Afasee Stoves and Rangr The Hest In tlio market. Plumbing Roods of all kinds on hand, .'ob work done In n worknuuiiike :n;.:u;.-r PLUMBING, GAS FITTING.. AND CANNERY WORK Attended to Promptly on Reasonable Terms. Cheuanius Street. A'ext to C Tj. Parker's Store. ASTORIA, - OBKQOH. THE NEW MODEL iMMW VI ' ' "i irZri J A PUIili STOCK JIBffiiiBSiiiL M.OLSKX. J. OUSTAFSOX. A. JOUXSOX. MARTIN OLSEN 8c CO. DEALERS IX FURNITURE 35 BEDDING Corner Uluiu and Squemoqun Streets. Astoria, Oregon. WINDOW SHADES AND TRIMMNGS; WALL PAPER, ETC. A Complete Stock. PRICES AS CHEAP AS QUALITY WILL AFFORD. AIX IINIS OF FURNITURE REPAIRED ANI TARNISHED. FOR Finest Groceries, -GO TO- FflABB & STOKES. A FULL LINE OF HARDWARE AND Ship Chandlery. A NEW SLIP Just Finished In Bear of Store. HEADQUARTERS FOR Toys, Mcy Goods, Stationery, CUTLERY, ETC. Fresh Fruit Received Daily. A Full Stock of Smokers Ar.Icles. NEW GOODS CONSTANTLY ARRIVING. CHAS. A. MAY, Chenamus street, south side, ono door from Cass. J iiWivufMiwp.mjqBBMMMBMBaaBMMM vriuaiEit iyy PARKER Cben P. Parker, Master. F..rT.)VINc:. FP.EIttllT orCHAK- II. Ii. IMKKKK. ItANGE CAN BE HAD IX AS TORIA ONLY OP E. R. HAWES, AOEST CALL AND EXAMINE IT. V : WILL BE PLEASED. E. It. IIAWES Is also agent for tlir Bnci jatent Coolunj Store And other first-class AJ37W. Furnace "Work. Steai Fit tinKs. etc., a specialty ALWAYS ON HAND. THE LATEST STYLES WALL 'PAPER AT B. B. FRANKLIN'S, NEXT DOOR TO ASTOBIAN OFFICE. A very large Stock from which to select. "Window curtains made to order. J5?My patent Trimmer to cut Wall Paper will ho lound convenient to my patrons. Hardware aid Slip Chandlery A. VAN DUSEN & CO.. DKATKR3 131 Hardware and Ship CkaMNtry Pure Oil, Bright Varnish, Binacle Oil, Cotton Canvasr Hemp Sail Twine, Cotton Sail Twine, Lard Oil, Wrought Iron Spikes, Galvanized Cut Nails, Agricultural Ininlements. Sewing ItlacklHes, Falats Rd. Oils, Groceries, etc, Ir - v -i tL&;,Y- &! c . . " a. . t Urt., . j i, js tiV'-Jb. t- t-t.