THE DAILY ASTOliIAJ, ASTOKlA, WEP.NESDAY MORN1NU, AUGUST 21, 1895.
THE DAILY PAPERS
A Visitor Comments on the
Duties of Readers.
HE WHO READS AT BREAKFAST
Dot Not Realize the Labor Xces
ary U Prepare His News of
(he Morning.
To the Editor:
We read our iiwrr.ins papef. goxl
raitwedty or gruubltogly, according to
the mwod in tuiilch wo liave risen, with
out tuvougbt of th many minds anil
toindbi trJt have labored to produce H.
Doe it wvr occur to u to wnir how
t'he new can be gathered from all quar
ter of the (Hoc?, urr irf 1 in an attract
ive manner to lui: the individual ta?t?
of tvery one; H the events of local in
ttitm, tven to "he daiih of a pet cat
witfh auitable obituary noilce, detailed In
full; progwrtttcatlant on all topics, to
give opinion to tno2 who ihave none;
each peraon'a advefltlBameat inserted In
Uhe very best part of the paper; all tu:
the paltry coet to the reader of Ave cenlts
cr les?
Do me ever for an instant Stop to con
sider t'he Immeirae expense of running a
newspaper, reckoning iixtn by item, (he
elemtmlw that (have been put in force
and tlie energies exerted -while we are
quietly sleeping Hhait we may be advised
over our morning coffee of tthe .whoCe
world's progress?
Moro than all do iwe think of Uhe one or
two persons conmecud iwlth every news
paper on wfliom tine reqpuntfUblllty of the
whole fu-Hg? These must bear and lues,
any Utune, and 'be responsl'ble for all
thait appears on the pages of itlie paper.
Is tDrare no duty Incumbent on the
reader? If the newspaper of a emu 11
town is eatn"Uy and aUy run in a man
ner worthy at a large city. Why does not
the reader Show bim appreciation of that
fudt toy expressing suilulsfaculon to the
editor, and give to that toller for tht
pubo, praise for Ms unwearied efforts.
I do not mean tihat a subscriber should
substitute praise for pay, but give praise
and pay, where b?tih are Justly due. Do
not 'take It for grunted that the editor
and owner of a piaper work K astMluouB
ly Just for the love of work, and w
have nothing to do but read and growl.
Let us que&tiion oursetves to see whether
we are criminally careless in our ap
preciation of nil the forces that, are at
work In our behalf,
A VISITOR.
The Daily Antorian positively guaraii
Wei to advertitr.i l a larger City circulation
than all other pupere published in Asloiu.
combined.
HOTEL ARRIVALS.
ASTOR HOUSE.
R JV Hardenbrook,
PortOand.
C Allcorn, N Shore
M Cartoon, Ft Btevj
L H Mullen, Ptland
J U twnuth, Ptilandi
C C iMcOorkell, Sa
lem. J Hobeck, Portlnd
Mrs O U Llund and
dlillilrcin, Ohino.)k.
O H Helknap, Chi
nook. J R Kdlwurds, Ral
Ston. Arthur HlUstrone,
Knappa.
Alfred HWlstrone,
Mr and Mrs Conor-
ton, Vancouver.
O W McXiftyre Ptld
M S Gotkey, Ptland
Fred Walsdel, Cltyl
Miss Dlalsdei, Port
Townmand.
C F Lester, Wrnltn
J H Peterson, Clink
Knappa.
Wm Workimaster,
City.
' BUYERS AND SELLERS.
The foMowlmg real estate transfers
were filed for record In tho office of Re
corder Gundarson yesetrday:
H. F. MoElroy to MeircOMnt's Na
tllonui H.tnk, lots 1 to 10 inclu
sive. Railway AkMiMon $ 1
United Statee to Richard 8. An
drews, we.4t haOf. of northwest
quarter section 12, ttownsihtii 0
north, range west, patent.
Sam Hendrlckwon and wife to
Walter W. lUdvihulgh, morthiwemt
quirlter section SO, township 8
nomt'h, range S west 3r0
NOTICE.
The annual meetlnir of the stockholders
of the Odkl Fellows' Land and llulldlng
Auoolatlon will be held at Odd Fellows'
Hall on Thursday, August 3M, at 2 o'clock
p. tn.
Hy order of the President.
A. J. MEOLER,
Secretary.
MANUFACTURER'S WARRANTY.
Huy a piano from a manufacturer who
warrants his own Instruments and not
from one who won't warrant hl own
goods, but depends on a local agent to
warrant them for him. Every Kimball
piano Is baeked by the Kimball Com
pany's Ave years' written guiraaty.
The Daily At'vrian positively guaran
tret to mUtititert ti larger City and
found ciie'itud'oH than all other paper!
publithed in Attoria combined. .
HORACE GUHUUCY'S HANDWRITING
How Two Chicken Cocks Wrote an
EeMtkwiiil for 'll'lin,
Chief Englnevr Lord of the Columbine
hands the Autorlan the foCCowI'ng amus
ing extirat't:
'Uiptupus of the nJt'.irlously iu,d hajul
wvlung of Horace Grectoy, and the
(rouble it gve the compvixltor of the
Tribune, lllaydvn Carrmh Cells a good
story In Har(irr' MnWily. tno jf these
coii)el.tois named Larkway, a cliurac
tw In ttis cotmiOBliiir room as Gr en-ley was
In tho ediuorlal sanvltuin, tomb tuned for
being ttl to mrnke something out of
antihlnK Mr. GreeHey iwrote. On one
occatduut tvj live young roosters tst a
new otmln were sent to the editor as a
presuN!, but h cumplnilned that they ate
up m Ms paste, and h gve them to
the foreman of the composing room to
get rU of tliwm. Whait followed Mr.
Cirrutrt tells thus:
"After they had Ibeen with u a couple
of wet ks the boy on day Urft the ink rol
ler of the proof press on tflie ftuor. One
of the roosKers walked over It and then
across a plo of whlto paper. Ths fore
nun tw him and a great tight burst
In upon Ma mind which meardy stunned
hkn. H s'apped his wiith his hand
harvl snotKth to break U and ihut his
Jw togeUher lks a vtes to ke.p from
breaking out In a volcano of laughter.
H walked to Ms kh'sk as If (n a trance,
keeping his y on Larkway. Itefor he
wen home he spok to the proof-re .neVer
and bn or tiwo others. iwl Wwy frno
tureJ their l-:ga iwith their Minds and
then tihvy a".l went off to the hospital for
the nlgiht.
i "The next afternoon they iwere back at
I the office two hours before the usual
time. Toe foreman caught, one of the
j roosters and the proof-reader the other,
and tihey took tin em over In the corner be
hind the imposing stone. They had pre
viously sent the devH down 'to Mr. Gree
ley's room to get a dozen sheets of the
paper he always wrote on. These thty
spread on kme floor in the form of a
square, carefully Inked the feet of the
fowls and set Hiiiem to flgh'Ung on the
paper copy. They had Just had a meal
of cockroaches and they went at each
o'Jher savagely. livery two or three min
ute tthe men woutd take them off, ink
the ibattama of their feet and toss them
Into the ring again. At t'he end of twenty
minutes every sheet of Uhe ipaper was
covered with their itracka, and Uhe fore
man gathered up the pages, numbered
them ami scrawled a head on the first
one, The Plain Iuty of Oongress' In the
; Imitation of Greeley'ts hand, marked the
'wnole Ufrevler Ioub.e Head,' and hung
It on trie copy hook.
"Pretlty n 'the men fc;gun to drop in,
but they had all heard the game that
Ud up and pckei around the article.
After a whJe L l"w.ay came lumbering
akng. He had -r.ide a new pipe
out of tine Ibigjest corn ever raised in
Cayuga county and a partScularly orookel
pig's 'tall from BaltMetnoro', Vt., and
seemed unusually pert. He started the
conftagTatfoft in his pipe and put on his
spectacles and walked to the h'ook.
" 'Hey! You feKera, still eoldlerlng,
ain't yuti?" he crltd. 'Still afraid of
the otd man's Siutt, hey? Can't rastle
wi-itfi it, can't you? Had to leave it for
old IarMway, cHdnlt you? WeH, that is
all right. I like It. You do me a favor
when you leave It Ito tne.'
"He took it, walked over and s'.ammed
it duwn on hte upper oa.se, .plam'ted, a
handful of leads alt tlhe bottom of It,
and picked up his stick. Every man In
the room held Ms eldes and watched to
see the old man flabbergasted, but by the
Goodness of Trtftlh he began to set It.
"Yes, Uarkway (Wanted to set it. At
the end of the second Gine he began to
look troubled, laid down his stick, ana
we thought our moment of victory was
come, hut he only ewiore a little,
knocked the ashes out of his pipe, re
filled ti, with one of the husks from
the outWde, picked1 up his ritlck and went
on. You could have packed every one
of us in a hit box. The old cave- dweller
worked on and inevtr looked up again
until he had got almost to 'tlhe bottom or
.he laat page. Here he stuck on 't'he place
vhere the reaster had Blapped down the
J..d of his wing, also inky. Larkway
.itudled over it for a long time, then
yaid to the foreman:
" 'larn If the best of us don't get hung
Jp in a word once and a While. What'
.nac dawn there?'
" 'Don't ask me, said the f ireman.
You know that 1 damnot read 'the rituff.
ej down und ak the old man, himself.'
"Lau-kway BhufTCed out with a long
face carrying his pipe in one hand and
the copy in the other. He went Into the
chief's room and said da a low tone:
'Mr. Greeley, I'm stuck. What is that
word ?'
"Greeley snatched the itfheet from his
hand impatiently, studUed for a moment,
ami then squeaked in his h.ghest voice:
'Unconstitutional, sir! Great Jehosha
phat, It seems to me sometimes as If this
ofllce was full of pesky college graduates,
end after I have given the Janitor strict
or-rs not to allow one of them In the
building."
GOLD IN IOAHO AND uMONTANA.
The Engineering and) Mining Journal
sys: "While we do not hear quite .
much of the increase in gM production
from placer mines in Idaho and Montana
as we did a year ago, there is still a
great d-.-.il of such' work going on in a
quiet way, the results of which will be
apparent In 'tlhe returns for the year.
In Idaho especially the nuimiber of placer
miners at work is large and the seaH?m
so far has been fairly favorable. In Ore
gon also .Uhe placers are being prospected
more t'horouxhly than for a long time
past, aired in several cases axtenslve oper
ations have been undertaken. It must
be remembered that in these northern
states tiher are ulltlcuUls in tthe way of
prospecting which are not found in the
regions , further south. In a country
where tMie climate permits work to be
carried on for six months in the year
at the most a larger capital is needed
for operations, und the Individual pros
peeteor's Held Is much restricted. More
over, in Oregon and AVaah'lngton, and
in a large part of Idaho and Montana
also, t'he dense forest growths ure a
very serious hindrance to travel and ex
ploration. They not only render pro
gress slow and dllllcult, but prevent the
ready examination of the surface Indi
cations, which Is easy in on open coun
try. Under all the clrcuni..!unces it was
to be expected that the development of
the mining resources of the northern re
gions would piwed more slowly Kian
that of Colorado and New Mexico, In
spite of their undoubtedly great r.
sources." The Daily Artnrian poniHtrli guaran
tees to adverlitert a lafger Citii, Ctninty
and State circulation than nil o'kc paper
published in Astoria combined.
MONSTER SNAKE.
Wl.h a lijdy as Hhr Aiound as u Water
Pall.
New York (RecorVIer.
The people of rth'ls (neighborhood are
very much alarmed ovi?r i.ihe fact that a
muntftw Biwke h'aa been at large on the
oultteklrts'iof the tvn for a number ot
dayts, a.nd it fa feared that oomebody will
be alMavki;d by the ewpeiu befeird ft la
killed or captured.
The mont-Uer wals flrstt sect about three
w.(kM ugui by Justice Veutor, Since then
It hti bi.cn, seen at Mlervuls by I. W.
Va1erJttnL. 8Upvr4rttiendt:J: cf the Bap: Is;
ITirl ti Sunday edhtol, and by Dr. Oliver
Joiki. The luitltw chased the snaki initio
t'he wA-Ja : an effor't to ceiirtur.- It, but
wills 'UniaiKcesvfu'l.
All lagreod ttliat the snuko Is about It
fei.lt In ki'ig.h, ivJth a ibavly as big u round
as a p.H. lis fiiceid is dinmoml shaped,
amd ith'. Hiop te mi-mounted by a crest
t'lilit la shajn.d like u crown.
t?.me tme a. Dr. Weiiod, a resident ot
(has place, died, bu't before his K-ai:h
he llbervited a rrumber of large s.uikea
wihteh h'j Itield daptiw. The snake which
has txvn seen tu bellevtl to be one ot
them. TUne fliomeiter Is refxm-U ro by th'
people Mereubouta as the "King of
Snakes."
Boston Post.
One cf the hardest things oVletiMmes
Is to be patient with ourselves. Boys and
girls who hear nothing but words of re
proof or complaint, anet sit dowa at the
end of the day without having heard o.te
word of encouragement, say to- them
selves. It Is no use trying. Dr. Arnold
relates that h? was once bending over a
boy who was slow at his sum, and spoke
to him roughly. Th boy said: "Dr. Ar
nold, why do you speak so harshlyt I am
doing the best 1 can." and the doctor
said the words haunted him so during the
riuht that he could not sleep, for think
ing who he was that h should be im
patient with one who was doing the best
he oould.
CHINESE OBJECT.
But WK1 No Doubt Yield the Point.
Washington. August 20. The 6ta.e de
partment was Informed today that there
was some disposition on the part of the
Chinese officials mot to allow the Amer
ican and British officers to be present
at the Investigation of the Ku Cheng
riots. It is stated at the department
that the usual hitch has occurred in
which the Chinese officials have refused
to allow any Interferencei with the Brit
ish forms of procedure.
In every case where there have been
investigations of this kind, ihe same ob
jections have been made, the Chinese
officials feeling that they may lose pres
tige with 'their people if they allow for
eiimers to participate In their courts.
These objections have always ended in
submission of the Chinese Piter some
delay.
It to understood' tihat the Chinese min
ister has Informed his government that
the best interests of China will be sub
served by according to the American
and British officer thorough facilities
for obtaining all the Information desired.
The attention of China ha been called to
the fact that When the United Stats
government was investigating the Chin
ese riots in this country, the officials
of the Chinese government were asked to
be present to obtain all particulars.
"WASHINGTON'S NEW STAT13HOUSE.
Olympia, August 20. The state capitol
commission met today and openea mas
for the construction of the superstruct
ure of the capitol building. But two
bids were on tile, one from w, M. bnew
ry, Chlcagj, who bid $1,223,700 for the
complete building; the other from jon
athan Clark & Sons, Chicago, for $1,054,
X4. Both were rejected because not In
accordance with the call for bids in that
they exceeded the limit placed on the
cost of the building by the act of the
legislature, and also wire not accom
panied by sufnoienit bonds.
A new call for bids will be made to be
received up to November 19.
COXEY IN THE FIELD.
Guthrie. August 20. General J. S. Coxey
ths Populist candidate for governor of
Ohio, Is, according to the statement of
a leading Oklahoma politician, after the
congressional nomniatlon from this ter
ritory. His recent trip to the southwest,
it Is now said by prominent Populists
here, was for ithe purpose of looking over
the field preparatory to taking up his
residence here. It is understood that
he will return to Oklahoma after the
Ohio election, If he Is not elected, and
run for congress next fall.
WEATHER REPORT.
Portland, August 20. For Washington,
showers, followed by fair weather In
the western portion. Fair weather In
eastern portions.
For Oregon Fair w-:ather.
The Asfoiian is an es'aWished institution.
It va!i here jestfrduy, and last week, and
twenty years a?o. It will b here tomorrow,
and next rear, and twenty years after that. It
ii of known cirrulation twiro as great as all
tin other papers iif this riiy combined-and
yonr advertisement is always read; Our ad
vertisers are nut fools. They advertise in the
Morion liberally and well bcenuse it pays.
The Wiley B. Allen Co.
Branch, 710 Commercial Street.
Chickering Pianos
Hai'dmim Pianos
Fischer Pianos
Estey Organs
Tarrantl & Votcy Organs
Low IJrlce.
Easy Ttmis.
All Instruments Warranted
Canadian Pacific
RAILWAY.
AMERICA'S
Greatest -f- te-CoatiMt
Railway System.
TO OC
-IN-
Palace Dining Room and Sleeping Cars.
Luxurious Dining Cars.
Elegant Day Coaches.
ALSO -
Observation Cars, allowing Unbroken
Views of the Wonderful Mount
ain Country,
$5.00 and $10.00
Saved on all tickets Hint. Tourist car Ihe
beat on wheel. IquipuienO o! the very flnest
throughout.
-ALSO-Ccmodlari
Pacific
royal ill mm UK
-10-
Chlna and Japan.
China steamers leave Vancouver, B. C.
Empress of India
Empress of Japan
Empress of China
Empress of InJia
l-mpress of Jaran
Empress of Chios
Aug. ?th.
Aug 10th.
Sept lOih.
tKt. nth,
Nov. mh.
DfC. !h.
Australian steamer leave Vancouver, B. C
toth ol tvery month.
For ticket rates and Information call
on or address
JAS. F1NLAYSON, A?ent,
Astoria, Or.
W. F. Carson, Traveling Pass. Agt,
1 acoma, Vah.
Geo. McL. Jirown, Dist. Pass. Apt.,
Vancouver, B. C.
Why
Is it the masses buy their
Because
He carries the most complete assortment and the best
of money.
Prices
Of clothing have simply
Clothes from $10.00 to $15
Youths' Clothing in the same
Awa
i
With the idea of thinking that you don't vant a.New Dress or a Cloak ior the coming
fall, for as sure a3 you look at the New and Stylish Goods in these departments and the ex
tremely low prices, you will select,
Down
Goes the prices and out goes the goods. Wehave teen
and we are determined to give our patrons the very best
quality ol goods und at the very lowest prices.
THE LEADING
REFERENCES.
First National Bank, Astoria, Or.
Astoria Savings Bank, " "
Astoria National Bank, " "
Ladd & Tilton, Bankers, Portland,
Dry Goods and Cloth
Citizen's National Bank, Tacoma, Wn.
Dextor Ilorton & Co., Bunkers, Seattle.
Capital National Bank, Olympia, Wn.
First National Bank, South Bend,
E, L.
470 6z 472 Commeicial St.,
Clothing and Dry Goods at C.
SEaJjy
been cut in two. Today you
00 that formerly used to cost
pruport;on.
HEW GOODS
flfJlVlG DAILY
C. H. COOPER,
OF ASTORIA.
Loans and
Estate5
We handle more Property than
any other Firm in the City, and
are Sole Agents for the Astoria Ad
dition to Warrenton.
Or.
Wn.
BOYLE
H. COOPER'S?
values for the least amount
can buy a nice Suit of Mens'
$20.00 to $30.00. Boys' and
very busy during the past week
value by selling only the best
ing House
Investments.
& CO.
-Astoria, Ox.