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v, TTIR DAILY ASTORIAN, ASTORIA. WEDNESDAY MORXINU, FEBRUARY 28, 1804. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION, DAILY. Served by carrier, pepr week.. 15 ets Bent by mall, per month 6t cts Sent by mall, per year 17.00 WEEKLY. Sent by mall per year, 2.00 In advance. Postage tree to subscriber. The Afltorlan guarantees to lt sub scribers the largest circulation of any newspaper published on the Columbia river. Advertising rates can be obtained on application to the business manager. This paper is In possession of all the telegraph franchises, and Is the only paper on the Columbia river that pub lishes genuine dispatches. The Bally Astorlan circulation is five times as great os that of the com bined circulation of the other dally pa pers of Astoria. The Weekly Astorlan, the third old est weekly in the state of Oregon, has, iitxt to the Portland Oregonlan, the largest weekly circulation in the state. Subscribers to the Astorlan are re quested to notify this otllce, without loss of time, immediately they full to receive their dally paper, or when they do not get It at the usual hour, By Co il' this they will enable the manage ment to place the blame on the proper parties and to Insure a speedy remedy. Handley & Haas ore our Portland agents and copies of the Astorlan can le had every morning at their stand on First street. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER. Local weather" the twenty-four V,,.,... oniUnir at R TV TT1. VPlterdaV. IUT- nlshed by the U. 8. Department of Ag riculture weather bureau. Maximum temperature, 64 degrees; minimum temperature, 43 degrees; pre cipitation, 1.58 Inches. Total precipitation from July 1, 1893, to date, ii.u incnes; excen ui f";,i'-i tntlon from July 1. 1893, to date, 19.32 inches. TODAY'S WEATHER. Portland. Ore.. Feb. 27.-For Western ir.. ami WMitprn OrAiron: Oc caslonal light rain, followed by fulr weather; cooler. For Eastern Oregon: Light snow, fol lowed by fair; slightly warmer. For Eastern Weshlngton: Fair weath er; slightly warmer. Bcattle is positive that it will hooii. have a large car works that will em ploy from 2,000 to 3,000 men. Astoria iius more advantages for manufacturing than any other city on but more will be said on this subject when we get the railroad. Many years ego Prof. George Edel bardt, of New York, gave it as his opin ion that no aurora would ever appear without a week's steady rain Imme diately following It, and his theory has never failed of proof on every subse quent occasion. The present rain that Astoria is experiencing has been com mon all over the locality where the late beautiful sight was witnessed. There Is something1 pathetic in the sudden retirement from the scene of ac tion of the talented author of tho Wll t?on bill. He took that bill very much to hearU He never had as hard a time In his life as when ho undertook to formu late tarllt reform. Hi hud the whole democratic party to draw upon for ns ulstance, and yet he got very little help. The protectionists fought him with all their heavy gunB. The free traders re viled him. When he grunted hearings, democrats Hocked to tho committee room, rampant for protection. Each democratic state seemed to have some thing that needed siwelal attention. Mr. 1 Wilson's pusrfloit was to enlurge the free list. Ho wanted to do more in that lino than McKlnley had done, which was more than anybody else had accom plished. He tried to save the sugar planters by cutting oft a thin Bllce ot bounty, but that would not do. The democracy wer fierce for the total abo lition of the sugar bounty. Mr. Wilson did not want the income tax thrust Into his tariff reformi bill, but It belonged there, If anywhere, and In It had to go. When Mr. Wilson msdo tho closing speech and was carried out of the house on the shoulders of hilarious reformers, he had sacrificed himself by putting coal on the free list; but now It ap pears he la to be saved In the senate by a duty on coal. In all probability there will not be much left of the Wilson bill when the senate committee Is through with It, the process of tearing It up showing, as plainly as the work In for ,.., w" mulating it, the lneoherency of u - . democracy They are evidently treating . , . ,, . the bill In the fashion of the foolish dog celebrated on the stump that did not know hr own litter of pupa. Clodstone has resigned. What this move may moan to contemporaneous history U n. too soon yet to talk about Observant people, however, have for Finn time considered that his rvslgna limi could not havo been long coming. U- Jlntppuitttcd the expectations of his mora flvry uiHilers In neglecting to make a tierce wis! aught upon the house of li.nls. Hi Ki'cvtli In moving the dls- ui-ife of the employe liability bill i I tumor, n'uty ii'-mtw ni v..v. -w.n os mild n It was short There was t permanent cur. Wo, Pnwf.'rt or nistl. 1 1'ln.Milara fr. Dr. TRosattlco. SJ Ar"h r !-,vi M .v, although tho Ii..;h and ' nwt, i'kiiuuolphi, i'a. bold by J. W. mhI .r li.uvil to inulie a formld- able demonstration of hostility to the upper house. He was in his moat ben evolent mood, and withdrew the meas ure without giving the signal for which his followers were eagerly waiting; His speech was characterl::ol by Ihe digni ty of the queen's prime minister rather than by tho ardor of tho leader of the English democracy. On that account It excited despondency and disappoint ment among his followers. There Is a German proverb that ''the devil lies In still water," and his friends thought it possible that Mr. Gladstone's amiability and mildness are more dangerous to his opponents than sternness, indignation and impassioned declamation. His dec laration that the bill was withdrawn be cause the house of lords had Impaired its usefulness and rendered it worth less to working people seemed to be significant as revealing his ulterior pur pose. They thought he was working up deliberately a case against Toryism and tho peers when his followers are clam oring for premature agitation. The re jection of the home rule bill excited the hostility of the Irish people. The mang ling and final destruction of the employ ers' liability bill irritated the working classes. The amendments to the parish councils bill, If persevered In by the lords, will be a direct challenge to Eng iiuh nnil Hootch radicals. If another session is opened and a Welsh disestab lishment bill and a measure In the In terest of agricultural laborers are bloc k . , ed in the upper house, the general elec- torate will be In open revolt against the conservative party with its stronghold of power In It anomaluos body of her- edltary legislators. Mr. Gladstone was always a good tactician, and he evi dently knows what he Is about by re signing. His last round at the political game which he has played so long and so skillfully may be bis best. HOMELY HONESTY. Now that tho south is in the saddle, It Is interesting to hear one of them speak out plainly on the objects and alms of that section. When Judge Lee, of Athens. Qa.. was lately reminded by a northern man If we lowered the tarllt wages would have to go down, too; that the people would be poor, nnd labor would be idle nnd poverty would come, he bluntly replied: "It will come to you northern Yan kees. Wo southerners don't have fac tories. We want free trade, and we don't care if It does stop your factories. Wo want to buy cheap in England, Im port direct and built up Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans, Galveston and our southern port towns. Yes, and we want wages to go down, too. We hire negroes. We want to hire them cheap. Your northern factories and McKlnley tariff keeps wages up. The cheaper the wages are the better It is for us. 'D n vour Yankee patriotism! We have southern patriotism and brains, and now enough of you Yankees have voted with us to put us in power, we are the nation, too, and you Yankees are out. You voted yourselves out. Now West Virginia, Georgia, Arkansaw and Tennessee made a tariff for the south. Cotton hoops free pork barrel hixp protected. We did not make the tailff for Manchester and Lowell. Let your tin mills rot down and your woolen mills go Into bankruptcy, and your workmen starve on the street. We will ship from England and Germany or you Yankees will lower their wages." "Hut how much shall we lower the wages?" I asked. "Why, till you work for German wages, plus the freight. Any fool can see that." "But Cleveland talks of foreign mar kets for us with low tariff." "Yea; but when you send Yankee goods to Germany you will work for less wages than they do Just the freight lew. Those Yankee democrats have been lying to you. We southern demo crats tell the truth. The northern demo crat will tell you that low tariff does not mean low wages. We know better." STANDS WITHOUT A RIVAL. Gentlemen: I havj been troubled with very sever headaches for years, and have taken a great many different remedies, but have never found any thing to give me as speedy nnd perma nent cure as Krause's Headache Cap sules. In my opinion they stand with out a rival; they have cured mo in ox cry case. JNO. N. WILKIK. 3d Adams ave.. West. Detroit, Mich. For sale by Chas. Rogers, sole agent, Astoria, Oregon. FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS Mrs. Wlnslow'i Soothing Syrup has ...... 1 ... tnathl,.- It uevn uon ... . ......i, soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cucim wind chollo, and u (h4 bej)t remedy for diarrhoea, Twen- ty-flve cents i bottle. Sold by all drug- B 10 IS iUi WUftMVMi - " UUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE. ml. h... W In fh wnrM text cula corns sna . , .Mn , er,.,. . - lit guaranteed to give iwrreot saturao- ilon or mmiey reiunm-n. i n v v.,,... orr but. For salt by Chas. Rogers, v lessor to J. O. benrnnt A EUKR CURB FOR PILES. Itch!n Piles a. known by moisture Ilka perspiration, c-iuihIiik Intense Iteliln nbeii warm. This fi-rm, as well as blind, lilredln or Protruding. yl'ld ot one , lit!.. l,um..llY- Vh'tltt-h tkCtB I M. I I, v m ., .....-.' Jbfctly o;i ths Prs aKet-tcd. lorls Tifvf lit i1 nrrr Ci.ilimtlon sud Strife "R-YNDOM SHOTS. Hill lost his temper and that much patronage. Lawler to Peckhnnr I know jes now you feel. 1 Many people devote too much oi ; their time to miscellaneous thinking. Dclsarte was nowhere alongside of a dog's tall In the art of expression. Drunkenness usually leads nooner or later to some kind of an explosion. Mrs. Lease continues to lady-manage affairs In Kansas With her usual force and vigor. The worklngman who works the worklngman is the most dangerous cap italist in this country. Now If Col. Mary had said that Bhe Is an Odd Fellowess, the claim might have been readily conceded. Many a man fights for his creed or politics who never thinks of carrying an umbrella for his wife. "Least said soonest mended" is ap parently not true of the present effort to mend the house of lords. It was a Manitoba high scheol boy who said there were four zones frigid, horrid, temperate and Intemperate. After all, as Mr. Peckham will reflect. It Is mean triumph to have been de feated by the Influence of D. B. Hill. A mother never quite forgives her son for marrying until he becomes the father of a baby that Is named for her. Brown Did old Strlngman give way when he heard the bad news? Jones Give nothing. He never gave anything In his life. Blood was drawn at a duel in Paris between a count and an ex-minister. If this occurs frequently duels will go out of favor. McKane Is locked up, but his medita tions are free. What does he think of the powers of courts and public senti ment now? Dozelelgh Why do you Insist upon the new pastor being a fat man? Dea con Broadalsle Because fat men are generally short-winded. If there Is anything that Col. Cockrell will accept of New York, he has only to nama it. He hns referred to Chicago as "a frontier city." Mrs. Snappy I wonder why she gave her age at 23 when she married old Moneybags! Miss Gappy I suppose she mude a discount for cash. Pastor Our church Is Just like one family. Mrs. Candid Yes, Indeed! I notice that there Is a. good deal of quar reling among the members. Upson Young Gotrox complains that his wife has commenced to kick over the traces already. Downes Humph! That's what comes of marrying a skirt dancer. No matter how much a man may love his neighbor he always notices Just where the dividing line between his sidewalk and his neighbor's sidewalk lies after a heavy snow. Now, said the medical professor. If a man were brought to you, Mr. Haw kins, suffering from an unmistakable case of smallpox, what would you do? I'd light out, said Hawkins. Editor What can I do for you, miss? O, please, may 1 examine your waste paper busket? I know a man who sends you poims and whose feelings toward me I should like to ascertain. Fare Why don't you feed your horse up? He looks quite starved? Cabby Starved! Law bless you, lr, 'e's got a bushel o' corn at 'ome, on'y 'e's so precious fond o' work 'e won't give 'Isself time to eat 'em. Miss Phllo (sweetly) I can remember when you made your debut, dear, years and years ago. Miss Caustlqiie (more weetly) How thoughtful you are. Now, I couldn't begin to remember When you made yours. "I think," said the teacher to the lit tle girl with the smeared face, "that your face would look much better If it were washed." "My maw says," an swered the little girl, "that If your face was washed It would be plum spiled." A Lakevlew druggist hus this ticked up conspicuously In his store: "Cigars, subject to the action of the democratic candidate." The candidates take the hint, and those "acting up" about Htht get their cards alonjrsldo of the notice. Tho legislature of Idaho now sees the wisdom of their not passing a law last session requiring that Jurors should be "sober and Intelligent," ns she would bo forced o Import her Jurors from surrounding states had It been placed on the statute books. SMOKE! RMOKK! 8.MOKU- SMOKE! If you want any thing good to smoke, Key West, Imported, or domestic, you must go to C'hus. Olsen. VKRY Ql'KKU Are the sentwillons experienced by the nervous and dyspeptic. Unaccountable palHtatlon. buxzlng In l.he em's. 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I wan troubled from child .od with an ac rrnv ii ed onso of Tei ' d 1 hreo buttles of -red, ..jri T; Our book on Wood and PTm Ilcasei) mailed 'ree. bwiT tSrtcmu Co., Atlanta, Ga. TT O 9 O-Itls the new shortening- taking the place of lardp fi or cooking butter, or & both. Costs less, goesg -farther, and is easily 2 ..digested by anyone. j AT ALL GROCSRS. 29 ig2 fST Rcfusa Ail Substitutes. Made only by fcN, K. FAIBBARK&CO., ST. LOUIS end CHICAGO, NCW YORK, S? iis . nnBTflN. Thcs3 tinv Ctrisu'.os nro supcriori to Balsam of Itopnlba, X Cubcl)3 and iDjoetiona. (fCJDY They cure in 48 lwura the samo diseases without any incon venience. SOLD DY ALL DRUGGISTS THE SECT BREAD MAM In this city Is A. A. CLEVELAND, the baker He kneads good bread for all who need good bread, and "takes the cake" for making the choicest confec tionery. Whenever you are not busy, and feel Inclined for a loaf, don't forget to call on CLEVELAND, at the Oregon Bakery. STAMPS Have changed colors very frequently of late; but our competitors change colors every time they see our work. We make wagons, shoe horses nnd do all kinds ot general BLACKSniTHINQ Perhaps you know this already. Cer tainly you do, if you have ever em ployed us. Q. A. Stlnscn & Co. Fop Yoat Stomach's Sake! You often need a little wine, nnd should never be without It in the house. lint be sure that It is good; bad wine mlj?ht injure your stomach, and cer tainly cannot improve it. Good liquor dealers have good custom ers and keep good wine. They can't afford to sell any other kind. Ve claim that ours is the best store In Astoria for every brand of wine, from champagne down to sweet Catawba. HUGHES & CO. liAKES AND THINGS. The little warm rays of sunshine drop ;iini In a little earlier these mornings, as the seisnn advances, plainly say, "Get ready, for folks will soon be want injt garden things!" So we AHE get ting ready our hoes, rakes, ppades, etc., etc., for your coming. Never mind the prices they'll be C3 little as anybody's, almost surely smaller. J. K, WYATT, 11 aril ware Dealer. C. P. UPSHUR, Shipping & Commission Astoria, Orccon. ASTORIA WOOD YARD D. & D. R. Campbell, Proprietors. Dealers In all kinds of First Class Fuel. T: Vine Maple, Spruce Limbs, Alder. Hemlock and Ash. Ahw, best ia W of Wellington. NVwcnstle. Cnnnv'l, fciiJ Cumberland coaL Lave ciders tt Canrahan & Co 'a TTTTTTTTT O What is It m" - . I f fc V; v' :' J '-o o fp-i '! r.-.'j s' r-Jk I ... 1 LP vlr. vr at ynvd, frjt cf Eprj;e siicvu Orders promptly filled, and SATISFACTION GUAHATEEO. 1095 Meals are needed to give one's family ..... r. u tlmn ta anpnt a year s growin. bo rom u mm; 1 In tho dining-room that it ought to be , ..,.. i., iha linnse. The ine urigniesu j.n handsome Plnlnrc Tables do not cost as much as a plain Kitchen table cost a r.cl see those we are celling for 0. CHAS. HEILHOKN & SON A. V. ALLEN, DEALER IN Groceries, Flour, Feed, Provisions, Fruits, Vegetables, Crockery, Glass and Plated Ware. Loggers' Supplies. Cor. Cass and Squemoque Streets. Astoria, Ore. EVERY REQUISITE FOR : first Class Funerals : AT POflLi'S Undertaking Parlors, THIRD STREET. Rates Reasonable. . Embalming a Specialty. 3)4 First Street, Astoria, Or, H. CHRISTENSEN. Prop. I A FREE CONCERT every night beelnninB at H o'clock. Good music. The best of wines, liquors and clears always on hand. Noe & Scully, Dealers In Stoves, Sheet. Iron and Copper Ware. Sole Agents for MAGEE STOVES AND RANGES. Jobblnuu Specialty. 431 Second Street, Astoria, Or. Washington peat Market. Corner Second and Main Streets. Wholesale an J Retail Butchers : and : Packers. Steamboats, Ships and Mills supplied on short notice. Families supplied promptly at the lowest rates. CHRISTENSEN & CO., Props. OGGlDEJiT HOTEL Is the Best of Its Class On the Pacific Coast. THE Ri UNEXCELLED TABLE. Rates, Si dally and upwards. J. A. FASTABEND, GGNERAL CONTRACTOR. Pile Driving, House, Bridge and WHARF FJUILDKIi. Address, box 180, possoflice- ASTORIA. ORE. ROSS HIGGINS k CO. Grocers, : and : Butchers Astoria and Upper Astoria. Fine Teas and Coffees, Tahle Delicacies. Domestic and Tropical Fruits, Vegetables, Sugar Cured Hams, Dacon, Etc. Choice Fresh - and Salt Meats. The FiistMail Koute. PUTS VOU in Chicago Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis and all Eastern Points X 24 to 36 Hoars Ahead X Of Any Other Line. Pullman and Tourist Sloeeta Free Reollnlng Chair Cars, Oln. Ing Cars art run da ly v!a the Union Pacific Flyer leaving Port, land at 7:00 p. m. Astoria to San Francisco. OCEAN STEAMERS SAILING DATES. Columbia, Saturday, Feb. 3. Suite. Thursday, Veb. 8. Columbia, Tuosdny, Feb. 13. State, .Sunday, Feb. IS. Columbia, Friday, Feb. 23. State, Wednesday, Feb. 2S. Astoria and Portland Steamers. Steamer n. It. Thompson leaves As toria at :4o a. m., daily except Sunday, via Washington side of the river; re turning, leaves Portland at 8 p. m., daily, except Saturday. The Thomp son makes landings cn both sldts of the river above Waterford, on both up and down trips. S. H. H. CLARK, OLIVER MINK, K. F.LLERY ANDERSON, JOHN W. IX) ANU. FREDERIC R. COUDERT. ! Receivers. For rates ar.d perioral Information call on or address G. W. LOUNSBERRT, A sent, Astoria, Or. W II. HTRLBURT. Ast Gen. Fas. Agt, rortlar.d. Or. CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY.. AMERICA'S Greatest Trans Continental Railway System. fW OCEflrl TO OCEflfl IN Palace Dining Room and Sleeping Cars, toxarioafr Dining Cars. Elegant Day Coaches. ALSO Observation Cars, allowing Unbroken Viems of the Wonderful ryiountain Country. $5.00 and $10.00 Saved on all tickets east. Tourist cars the best on wheels. Equipments of the very finest throughout, ALSO CANADIAN PACIFIC ROYAL KAIL STEAMSHIP LINE To China and Japan. Empress of India leaves Vancouver February 5. Empress of China leaves Vancouver March 5. Empress of India leaves Vancouver April 3. AUSTRALIAN STEAMER SERVICE Leaves Feb. 10 and March 10 for Honolulu and Australian ports. For ticket rates and Information, call on or address, JAS. FINLATSON. Agt, Astoria, Or. A. B. Calder, Traveling Pass. Agt., Tacoma, Wash., Geo. McL. Brown, Dlst. Pass. Agt., Vancouver, li, C. CHICAGO, pWflUHEE find ST. PflUli RAILWAY Connecting with All Transcontinenta Lines is the Only Line running ELECTRIC - LIGHTED - CARS BETWEEN St Paul and Chicago. AND Omaha and ' Chicago. The Express Trains consists of Vestibuled, Sleeping, Dining and Pa: lor Cars, HEATED BY STEAM, And furnished with Every Luxury known In moder railway travel. For SPEED, COMFORT and SAFETY This Line is Unequaled. Tickets on sale at all prominent railway offices. For further Information inquire ot any ticket agent, or C. J. EDDY, General Agent. J. V. CASEY, Trav. Pass. Agt. PORTLAND, OREGON. QUICK TIME -TO- Sfijl FRANCISCO AND fill It POINTS IH CAIilFOftNIA Via the Mt. Shasta Route of the Southern Paeifie Go. The Only toute Through Califor nia to Points East and South. THE SCENIC ROUTE OF THE PACIFIC COAST PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPERS AND SECOND-CLASS SLEEPERS Attached to express trains, affording sujeilor accommodations for second class passengers. For rates, tickets, sleeping car reser vations, etc., call on or address E. P. ROGERS. Assistant Ceneral Passen- i ger and Freight Agent, Portland. Or. ASTORIA IRON WORKS, Concorcly St. , foot of Jecson, Astorlt. General Machinists and Boiler Makers UnJ and Marine Engines. Boiler work, Sleam to.tt and Cannery Work a Speclaliy. Castings of All Descriptions Made to Order ca Short Notice. John Fox. President and Superintendent A. L. Fox :...VIce President O. B. Prael Secretary BOOTS and SHOES The Largest Stock, Best Quality ar.J Lowest Tckn at The S!a lh CoUcn 5boe. JONN HAHN & CO.