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About The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899 | View Entire Issue (July 16, 1890)
-y?i.9Sf .. P) She gaiftj gMnu BRIGHTON ASTORIA, OREGON: lltSttlMIIIIIIIllIIlBUIHIIHIl 33SSCIIE3ISBSI1IMI8I393SHIH11CI WEDNESDAY. --JULYlG. 1890 ri Pj r I j ri ; HAPPINESS ON NOTHING A YEAR. I can see nothing as holy as unre laxed play and frolic in this bower Qoa has huilt for us." This sentence from Thoreau Philip G. Hubert quotes on the title page of his book, "Liberty ana a Living." Mr. Hubert, a tired newspaper man, who workea from 9 in the morning till 2 the next morn ing, suaaenly resolvea to break away ana regain man's primitive freedom the freeaom of the wooas, the sky, the waters ana the sunshine. He resolvea to go to the country. Everyboay warnea him against it, f or the woria is full of croakers ana people who have lost their enthusiasm ana become like putt, staying where they are stuck. In the city it was toil ing one's life away between walls. In the country the farmer arudged the Kime way, a slave chained to the soil. This newspaper man believed there was a middle ground, whereon a man might work just enough to make a good living, and be free, healthy and joyous. In such a way work would become a joy and pastime. It must be said that Mr. Hubert had already an income of SoO a month. This represents bloated luxury to the average farmec, but to the city man it is a starvation income. But with this certain sum to fall back on, the journalist gave up his situation on the newspaper and took a house with one acre of ground on Long Island, fifty miles from New York, and prepared to enjoy paradise. Ho has found it all his fancy painted, ana more. He himself raises all the vegetables needed. The family sailboat is ready for a sail or a fishing trip, as the case may be. Every day from June till October the whole family have a surf bath. He grabbles all the oysters they can use from the bed of salt water with his own oyster longs. And in the glor ious life of the sea air and sunshine, with the constant, ever changing occu pation, the overworked journalist has found that work may indeed be made play. It is the true secret of life. Mr. Hubert keeps chickens, which supply all the fresh eggs and poultry required, and more too. The luxuries of dress and fashion that city dwell ers require, this family do without, and are better off for it The luxur ies they do have a millionaire could not get for himself and family. Hu bert chops wood, cultivates cabbage and "tongs' for oysters like a regular fisherman. The $50 a month enables them to have all the music and books they need, with enough left to make trips to the city when any special attraction offers. It will bo enough, too, to educate the children if properly handled, in addition to what the father earns with his pen, for he still plays at writing, as ho does at everything else. After they are educated the children can make their own way in the world, as their father did. To sum up the gains: Mr. Hubert and his family have found perfect health and enjoyment He works at severe labor enough hours in the day to give him physical exercise and keep the family in fish, vegetables, poultry, eggs and honej'. He is at home with his family. All dress plainly, but they miss the frightful bother of clothes. Mr. Hubert says he would not recommend this isolated life to any body who does not love physical ex ercise and plenty of it, or to those who have not intellectual resources in themselves enough to bo happy with out gadding the streets of an evening to see a crowd. But those who are fond of physical exercise and have resources in themselves can find paradise in the country on a small income, as he has done. He even thinks he could find paradise there if he had no income be yond what he wrested from the earth and water. DON'T KICK, It you are a kicker and see the shadow of a failure in everything that 26 proposed to help the community, for heaven's sake go out into some secluded gulch and kick your own shadow upon the clay banks, and thus give the men who are working up the place a chance. One long-faced, hollow-eyed, whining, creeping,chronic kicker can do more to keep away busi ness and capital than all the drouths, sbort crops, chinch-bugs, cyclones and blizzards combined. Just as one specked potato will destroy the whole coatents of the bin, so one of these chronic croakers in a community will often neutralize the efforts of a whole host of energetic, enterprising, pro greedve citizens. If they would only content themselves with doing noth ing, and "give the men who are work isg a chance," it wouia not be so bad; bt while they will ao nothing them eelves to aavance the prosperity ana importance of the community, they are always reaay ana untiring in their efibrts to prevent its being done by others. Ax arrangement looking to the safe and quick emptying of the house has been adopted by a Boston theater. By simply touching a button in any oe of the eight handy places in the tkeater, seventeen sets of folding doors, leading to as many exits, open simul te&eoo&ly, actuated by electrical ap paratus. Half the uses of electricity fcaTe not yet been discovered. The time may soon come when the neces sity for going out between acts for e thing and another especially the latter may be obviated by simply prtwaing an electrical button. As Laid Out by H. ROBB & PARKER, General Agents, A most wretchea lie-awake of thirty-five years' stanaing, who for ten years thought himself happy if he couia get twenty minutes1 sleep in the twenty-four hours, saia: "I took hot water a pint, comfortably hot one good hour before each of my three meals and one the last thing at night naturally unmixed with anything else. The very next night I slept for three hours on end, turned round and slept again till morning. I have faithfully and regularly continued the hot water, and have never had one bad night since. Pain gradually less ened and went; the shattered nerves became calm and strong, and instead of each night being one long misery spent in wearying for the morning, they are all too short for the sweet, refreshing sleep I now enjoy." If the lottery company triumphs in Louisiana the $1,000,000 a year it will pay to the state will bo divided as fol fel fol eows: For levees, $350,000; New Orleans drainage, $100,000; public schools, $350,000; charities and pen sions, $200,000; In addition, it offers to advance $1,000,000 per annum in 1890 and 1891 for immediate use in re pairing levees. The pensions are for ex-Confederate soldiers, and the suc cess the company has won is eviaenco that few Louisianians are as sensitive as senator Foster, who said that the proposition was enough to make the Confederate dead rise from their graves to denounce it. "Women are the makers of men," said a very wise man some time ago, and the greatest men that ever lived have confessed that their best instincts, their highest aspirations and their better nature came from their mother. It is a rather hard commentary on our fathers, but it is true nevertheless. Daniel Webster gave credit to his mother for all he ever accomplished. A man debases himself it he will not confess that his better part is his wife if she be true. The king of Siam has a fortune of $50,000,000, with an annual income of $10,000,000 more. It looks as though his Siamese kingship was getting ready to come to this country and bid for the United States senatorship from Nevada. Scrap ol Paper Sures Her Life It was just an ordlnar;. scrap of wrap ping paper, but it sn'-ed her life. She was in the last stages of consumption, told by her physicians that she was in curable and could live only ashort time; she weighed less than seventy pounds. On a piece of wrapping paper she read of Dr. King's "New Discovery, and got a sample bottle; it helped her, she bought a large bottle, it helped her more, boujjht another and grew better fast, continued its use ami is now strong, healthy, rosy, plump, weighing 140 pounds. For fuller particulars send stamp to T. JI. Cole. Druggist, Fort Smith. Trial bottles of this wonderful Discovery Free at J. W. Conn's Drugstore. ADVICE TO MOTHERS. Mrs. Wixslow's Soothing Syrup should always be used for children teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind chohc, and is the best remedy for diar-rhoea.Twenty-five cents a bottle. NOTICE. Having secured a commodious office at Grmes' Hoteii, Seaside, we are afforded splendid facilities for hand ling Seaside Property, and parties leaving property in our hands are guaranteed the best possible figure. WARREN & WRIGHT. 55!) Third. Street. ASTORIA AND South Coast Railway, .Sunday. Leave Via Steamer Astoria Thompson c :00 A si Totter. 9:00 Telephone.. .. 4:20 tji Monday. Electric 4:10 " Tuesday. Lv. Clatsop Beach. 5:00 A MO 8:15 " d 3 : 40 r Mfc 3:40 r Mc Thompson. C:00am 5 : 00 A MO Electric 7;&0 " c 1 ; 10 r Md Pottsr. Electric. 2:00 PM 4:10 " Wednesday 6:00 A M . .. 8:30 " 4 : 10 P M 3:40 " e Thompson..... Electric- Electric 5:00 A mo 7:50 " c 3:4o P mc Thursday. Thompson C :O0 a m Potter 2:Oorji Telephoue 4:20 " Friday. Thompson. C : 03 a it Electric-. . 8:30 " Electric 4 -10 P M Saturday. Thompson....... C :00 a m Electric 8:30 " Telephone. 4;20pm Potter G:30 5 : 00 A Ma 1 :10 P Md 3:40 " b 5 : 00 A Ma 7:50 " c 3 : 40 P M6 5 : 00 A Ma 7:50 " e 3:40 P lib 0:00 " d a Connects with Thompson for Astoria and Portland. h-Connects with Telephone for Astoria and Portland. c Connects with Totter for Astoria and Portland. d Connects with Potter for Ilwaco. e Connects with Electric for Astoria, Hound trip tickets via steamers Potter, Thompson and Telephone for sale at Union Pacific and Telephone ticket offices. Baggage checked between Astoria and all regular stations via Union Pacific boats at Union Pacific dock, and on the tram. WM, KEID, President. HENRY B. THtELSEN, Chief Engineer and Superintendent. F. L. Logan Wagon Road From A. J. STEELE, President. L. O. CIlENAUIr, Vice-President ami isusiness Manager. Frankfort minium Paid-up Capital, 8300,000. Frankfort, - Correspondence Solicited. ASTORIA OFFICE, .... Flavel's Brick Building. P. O. Warren REAL ESTATE DEALERS. 559 Third St., GRIMES' HOTEL, Seaside. Special Bargains in Investments for La Fayette Park. Three Miles from the Postoflico and Custom House. Astoria Real Estate Co. 172 CASS ST., g-o to vpe: Columbia Bakery FOR FRESH BREAD, Cakes, and Fine Confectionery. All Orders Delivered. COOLEY BROS. FLYNN, The Tailor, KEE?S IN Finest Woolen Goods for Suitings. All the Latest Styles He buys for Cash at Eastern Trices. 'lie Guarantees the Best Workmanship on all Garments. Call and see for yourself. Barth Block. ASTORIA, OK. The Pacific Real Estate Company Sells tickets to or from any part of the United States or Europe with any line desired. Also Money Order or Exchange on European Countries. Astoria Grocery ai Canned Frail Co., JOBnEBS and RETAILERS, Carrying a Full Line of Groceries, Provisions, Green and dinned Fruits. No. 5 1 8 Second Street. Neimi & Engross MANUFACTUKING Jewelers and Watchmakers. Jewelry Watches, and Clocks Repaired at Extremely low Prices. 628 Third St., - Astoria For One Week. A FRONT CORNER RESIDENCE LOT, 50x100 in block 107, Olney's Astoria, next blrck to residence of A. A. Cleveland. Splendid view ol city and river, and rare chance to get a building lot cheap. Lots in vicinity selling for $800 to $1,000. rrice. SG0D. J. H. MANSELL. Real Estate Broker. Notice. BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED UNTIL 10 o'clock A. M. Friday, July 18th, 1890, at the oClceof county clerk lor printing, notices and blanks, or other printing ordered for Clatsop County, said contract to expire June 30th, 1891. The County Court reserves the right to reject any or all bids. By order of the County Court, Attest : C. J. TRENCHArtD, Clerk. JACOBS & PLMMGR, Contractors and Bnilte. Estimates Given on Brick. Stone, r Wood Work. Concrete and Cement Work, a Specialty. OFFICE, 384 Third Street. The Coining Terminus of Astoria J. F. BOUKX Sec. J. II. JONES, Treasurer Land Co. - Washington. Box 701. & Wright, - - Astoria, Seaside Property Non-Residents a Specialty. N Astoria, Oregon. STOCK THK- Z. T. WRIGHT, Foot of Morrison St.. Tortland, Oregon. Advance Threshers AND ENGINES, Parm, Church and School Bells. Inspirators, Injectors and Feed Pumps, Coal Oil Engines, Trahern Tumps, Kriebel Engines, Boilers and Steam Generators Zttundry Machinery. 2TarineMaehinrrj CHEMICAL FIRE ENGINES, Blacksmith Forges and Drills, Best Axle Grease and Compound In the world. Pow ell's Brass Goods and Iron Pipe. Send for Circular. GKLO r. PAKKEH. CKL A. HANSON Parker & Hanson SUCCESSORS TO C. L. PARKER, DEALERS IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE New Goods Arriving Every Steame THIS WEEK, Dress - Goods, The Old Stand - Astoria Oreeon. Carnahan & Go. SUCCESSORS TO T. W. CASE, IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE, Corner Chenamus and Cass streets. ASTORIA - - - . . OREGON Seaside Resort of Oregon. as Laid out and South Coast Railroad to the Resort, J.H. MANSELL, nPlI PflTITP ffSntfB KtftL tSIRIfc NOTA11Y PUBLIC FOK STATE OF OREGON. City Lots and Acre Property, Ranches, Timber Lands, and Water Frontage for Sale. Correspondence Solicited. V. O. Box 3C3, KstaKUn'tl isxj INVESTMENTS MADE FOR OUTSIDE PAliriErf. Next XV. U. Telegraph Office. ririnl t. As-n ria. On j;ui. "Mik CANDY To-Day-Fine Ice Cream Soda-Tc-Bay Also Handle None but the Finest Key West and Imported OIG-ARS. Please Call and Give me a Trial. THIRD STREET, Next W. U. TelcKraih OIHce I . L. MLfflMT, Real Estate Brote Office on Third St., Opp. Odd Fellow"-; Temple. P. O. liox JH1. ASTORIA, OREGON. Lots in WARRENT0N and WEST WABRENTON For Sale, On Installment Plan. Discount for C:v A residence in Astoria since 1872 enables XT7" y TT O T .T?JTT A "R r& me to give the best ol information respect- T Y U. U JLL JU UlLS JJL1SL i.4. J. ing property in Astoria and this vicinity. I AGENT. FRED Saddles and Harness A LARGE STOCK TO SELECT 3?BOM. GOODS AT SAN PEA5TCISC0 PRICES. I make a specialty of good work and guarantee satisfaction. At the Old Stand, Wes Side Olney Street, Near Wilson & I'iMior's. ASTORIA, OREGON. Ixa3.xaa.oiJLSo Stocli OF FURNITURE CHAS. HEILBORN. Two car loads received : More on the way. You are invited to sec the finest display of Furniture, Carpets, etc., in the city. Prices reasonable. THE OLD STAND, - ASTORIA, MERCHANT TAILORS". Dealers In Gents' Purnisbing Goods of All Kinds. Suits Made to'Ordarat Short Notice, at Lowest Prices. Always Keep New Goods on Hand. Also Cleaning and Repairing. 020 Water St, Asoria. Or. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN Groceries. Provisions and Mill Feed. o Crockery, Glass Plated Ware. 0 The Largest and finest assortment of Fresh. Fruits and Vegetables. Received fresh OYerv Steamer. BOOTS ASH SHOES! Of Best Quality, and at LOWEST PRICES, AT THE SICH OF THEJOLDEN SHOE. Notice of School Meeting IS HEKEBY GIVEN TO THE LEGAL voters of School District No. 1, that a meeting will be held in the school house of said district on Monday, July 21st, 1830. at 7 :30 p. m., for the purpose of levying a tax to support a school in said district lor the ensuing year. Also a tax to pay Interest on the present Indebtedness. Also a tax for incidental expenses. Also a tax to redeem some of the outstanding bonds; and to dis cuss the question of establishing a high school in said district, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting. By order of the Board of Directors of said: district. Attest : J. W . CONN, Chairman. J. G. HUSTLER, Clerk. Astoria, July nth, 1690. Stir aft $ B mBaSfil FACTORY SAIZ THE Largest z Stock I the Lowest : Prices I ;;-;::r;;:7'"--:""? Ti ZtmZZl 111 vfc Arim EB es OR. -" I. O. liox 210. m Wilson & Fisher, AGENTS. One Horse - - SoO OO Two " No. -1 - 05 OO " niff 4 - - 73 00 Tnc- DIAMOND PALACE GUSTAV HANSEN, Frop'r. A Large and Well Selected Stock of Fine Diamonds s Jewelry At Extremely Low Prices. All floods Bought at This Establishment Warranted Genuine. Watch ami Cloclc Repairing A SPECIALTY. Corner Cass and Squemoqua Streets I j If M$i Ti If itfcaterfgggjjijtjgjg )(-j nil RVW w Osborne lOffi Affording a Lovely NO We offer for sale our Entire COST. Surprise Orders from the Country and the benefit IwMHk TERMS OF SALE STEICTLY CASH. New York Novelty Store, Ravel's Brick Building, Pity book stor TT&l3.CVLLl?t&T?& IFor TJlank Books and Stationery of All Kinds. A Large Assortment of Novels Always on Hand The Latest Periodicals and Magazines received as soon as published. GRIFFIN : & : REED. Fine Wines, Choice Brands. I havo completed arrangements for supplying any brand of Wine in any quantity at lowest cash figures. The Trade Supplied, Families Supplied. ALL OKDE11S DELIVERED FREE IN ASTORIA. Yonr patronage in City or Country solicited. A. W. UTZINGER. Cosmopolitan Saloon. Stockton AND EMPLOYMENT OFFICE. City, Suburban and Acreage Property For Sale. MAIN ST ASTOHIA, OK., P. 0. Box 511. So curbstone brokers employed here The XaeacLing Tailor, has. McDonald. Call and See My Nobby Stock of Spring Goods Just Arrived. It comprises the latest goods in the market, and I offer them at prices never before heard of in Astoria, and guarantee the best and most comfortable fitting suits in the city. Next to C. H. Cooper's The New Model Range CAN BE HAD IN ASTOKIA, ONLY OF E Zt. H A irV jbSS 9 Afient. Call and Examine It ; You T7III be Pleased. E.K. Ilawea Is also Ageut for Mie Buck Patent Cooking Stove, AND OTHER FIRST CLASS STOVES. Furnace Work, Steam Fittings, Etc., a Specialty. A Full Stock on Hand. FIRE WORKS jSLt Tlie a'.A.ZE'LlKnESS.'EJ T? A ZAIEt., For All kinds or Fire "Works, best Tea, Japanese and Chinese Curiosities and Novelties, Fine Silk Goods. Rare Crockery, Lacquered Ware. Ivory Toys. Matting, Ladies' tfnder wear, Etc., go to WING LEE & CO. 521) TIIIKD ST., ASTORIA, OR. North Pacific Brewery, JOHN K0PP, - - Proprietor. BREWER OF EXTRA FINE BOHEMIAN LAGER BEER. EXTRA FINE STEAM BEER. JS-ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. by h. f. l. logan Drive. EQON OUT SALE! Stock BELOW ITS ORIGINAL Bargains Every Day. will receive prompt attention of the reduction. Opp. Occident Hotel. E Wine House. & Welch, Astoria, Oregon. ' -r