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Neither growers*nor dentists infidelity. He had no proofs of his ac
ter, because it carries an authority and world.
'elutions between the two countries. magnitude of the struggle is now fully
have cause for complaint of " the Ameri- cusation, falling back on the statement
that the spirits had come to him in a
^ilhmiooh Ijeabligbt The spirit in which the president refer, demonstrated to the English govern significance that do not attach to a pop can appetite for sweets.
vision and told him his wife was untrue.
to these ought to convince the German ment and the English jieople realize the ular declaration of sentiment.
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Xn< C. Bak.r. rul.ll.h.r
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T he republican national convention That was all he had on which to base
government and people that our govern gravity of the situation, so there remains
T he railroads ask for more time in will meet in Philadelphia on the 19th of his outrageous charges, which drove his
ment is sincerely anxious to improve nothing for that country to do but con-
wife to the edge of the grave
Official PlimJIllMMk City and County these relations and to place them on a centrate a vast army in South Africa which to equip their cars with auto J“ne-
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A vigorous application of the law to
basis of mutual benefit. That this is with plenty of munitions of war and pre matic couplers. One of the reasons ad
T he anti-expansionists appear ai the frauds who profane the name of
pare for a sanguinary war. Whatever it vanced is the cost of making the
practicable
there
can
1«
ro
doubt
and
it
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION
Christ would have a healthful effect.
will be the fault of Germany if a way may costs, and at whatever sacrifice it change. Against this item of expense though they had lost their wind.
( strictly in advance .)
1 may entail, England must subdue the the employes put the year’s record ot,
There should be some legal means of
Oyc vear ............................................... 1.50 shall not be found to its accomplish
Danger in Sports.
I Boers, or her prestige as a great power 600 men killed and 6,000 injured in
ridding the country of these pestiferous
.75 ment.
Six monlbs
| will wane immediately. But with Eng coupling cars.
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Three month*-
Had the cars been
humbugs, who profess to have inspira
Those
who
oppose
football
are
finding
Office at corner of Main and 2nd streets.
In an address before the National land's vast wealth and resources, there equipped as the law provides compara-
tion from heaven.
.................................................... grange, recently in session an Springfield, is everv reason to believed that the peo tively few of these accidents would much delight in the morality record of
by Mr. Alexander R. Smith of New York, ple of that country are aroused and de- have occurred. It would appear that the season recently closed, during which
Blasts from Ram’s Horn.
HEADLIGHT pirate
a member of the New York commerce i mand that these resources be used to the lives of the men who work on the eleven deaths resulted from injuries re
Motives aie greater than methods.
the farmer’s interest in an 1 prosecute the war to the bitter end. No railroads should have some place in the ceived on the gridiron. It is noticeable.1
Doles Out Gems of Current Ì commission,
however, that these fatalities occurred
It takes a good man todogood things.
American merchant marine was ably soldiers in the world could fight with financial account of the companies.
in small schools, where expert training
Topics.
The biggest lights are not always the
presented. He stated that over $200,. more bravery and determination than
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was not had. Football is a severe test best.
p
000,000
had
been
paid
to
foriegn
ships
the
British
in
South
Africa,
yet
with
all
Ones more the co-ordinate branches of
T he United States ought to congratu
The real revival is sent down, not
the government is in entire political har ! in the last thirty years and that 75 per this the sturdy Boers have been able to late itself upon the easy manner in which of physical endurance and the man who
mony. The president is republican, the cent of the products thus carrie«! from repulse the advance of the British army. it came into possession of Spanish terri goes into the game should lie in the fit gotten up.
Discipleship means giving up, getting
house republican and the senate is repub. our shores were raised on a farm had a I I he reason for this is theentire Boer and tory in the late unpleasantness with that test condition. No sensible horse-owner
lic/in. Upon the republican party, there I vital interest in any movement calcu Free State armies are on the fighting country when looking at the sutbboni would enter for a race a horse that had down and going on.
fore, will rest the responsibility of both lated to engender conqietition, reduce line, aud which developed more strength resistance the English army is meeting not been properly trained and no cours.
The coward capitulates by changing
cimctnicnt and the execution <»f new cost of transportation and thereby I than the English anticipated. To over with in the Transvaal. Evidently it’s no ing man of experience would send his front before the enemy.
s. No party in years has had such secure additional markets abroad. The come this England will have to j ut at picnic in South Africa just now, for it is greyhounds down for the killing courses
When you have no aim you are not
complete power, such undivided responsi future markets for our growing surplus least 150,600 men in the field, for in war, cruel war, with all its horrors. No when they had not been thoroughly likely to make any mark.
bility. During Grant's last two years as products and especially those of the fighting in a country like South Africa it matter, however, whether there is much hardened in muscle and worked for wind.
Eternal life is the only certain way of
A “soft'' horse or dog not only has no perpetuating ourselves.
president and iu Hayes’ administration farm, he said, promised to be larger west is so decidedly in favor of the Boers that
or little fighting to be done, the Anglo-
chance of winning a race, but is very
the house of representatives was demo- of the Pacific than any where else in the it will take a vast armv to overcome
Science is a word that many use as a
Saxon will eventually come out victor
cratic and in the last two years of the world ; therefore the control of such an these difficulties and defeat them.
likely to injure himself through over wrapper for ignorance.
¡OUS.
latter the senate also. During the first i immense carrying trade should be in
exertion, for which he is notconditioned.
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The mud picked up by the wheels does
two years of the Garfield-Arthur term American hands, and our government
T he Cubans can find nothing in the If we have consideration for our brutes, not increase the speed.
Perhaps no other president in the his
the house was republican, but the senate should legislate in such away as to meet
It is poor charity to give thecrust that
tory of this nation has had so much fruit president’s message with which to find why should noteven more attention be
was equally divided, while in the last the expansive possibilities presenting
ful material for an annual message to fault, according to the telegraph re given to the physical development of our is too hard for your own teeth.
two the house was democratic and sen | themselves. The proposed shipping bill the nation’s congrees as hadPresidentMc ports. It is too early to form an ac young men who enter into severe ath
The strengthening of life is of more
ate republican. During Cleveland's first should be passed by the present congress
Kinlev in the preparation of bis message curate opinion of the subject. A day letic contests ?
importance than its lengthening.
administration the house was demo and to enable onr own ships to carrv
As to the casualties in outdoor sports,
which was delivered to congress. The or two for reflection will probably en
cratic, but the senate was republican, ! our own products to foreign markets,
last year has been pregnant with epoch- able them to discover something not to it may be said that all sports are indulg
Josh Billings’ Philosophy.
but the silver men of the party had al j A strong point to be considered in this
j making events in which this country their liking, The habit of finding fault ed in with more or less risk of life or
ready began to exhibit the spirit that I i connection in that it means the expend-1
limb.
If
one
argues
against
one,
he
has
become
too firmly grounded with
We allwuss dispize those whom we
' has taken part »nd from these have
later led them to abandon their organ | ing of hundreds of millions of dollars in
arisen questions and problems fraught the Cubans for them to break off so should argue against all. Otherwise, it kant flatter.
isation upon the adoption of the gold our own country and in the employment
is hardly fair to single ont one particu
Men flatter the improvident, but sei-
with deepest interest tn every citizen. suddenly.
Standard plankton the St. Louis plat of our own people. The subsidy bill is
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lar sport and urge that it is criminally dem flatter the caushus.
I Under the conservative, yet forceful,
form, and in the second half of that ad one that has been carefully framed so as '
T he Astorian is lieginning to he known dangerous.
guidance of the president and his cab
It is better to be kikt by a mule than
ministration tlie house became demo to be satisfactory to all the commercial '
During the short hunting season just to lie praise«! bi a fool
inet advisers every issue lias been met as the ranter, a bellyaching ranter, pos
cratic. The first half of Cleveland's sec interests of the country and as one that
with wise consideration and prudent ac sessed of a bad spirit when writing about ended, seven men were killed in Wiscon,
He who knows a grate menny trades
ond administration both branches of should have the hearty commendation
tion and the president renders to the the commerce of Portland. It keeps nag sin, while in the woods deer shooting. iz sure to be master ov none.
cougrcss were democratic, but even then of farmers as a class.
It has lieen re
ging upon this subject week alter week, In Michigan nine were killed, and in the
No man ever shouldered a ton yet,
the differences in the monetary question ported favorably upon by committees of congress an accounting of Republican and it is surprising how much nagging
Adirondacks twenty-three hunters lost either by the aid of tears or prayer.
stewardship. The accounting must needs
that split the pai ty in 1896 began to I m * both houses. It is true, as stated by
the citizens of Astoria can endure
If their lives in as many days. Two deer
Man’s pasbuns make him more terri
felt. In the second half of that admin the oppon juts of the bill, that the result meet with most enthusiastic commenda there was any possible show of the As
hunters were killed in Pennsylvania. ble than enny beast of the desert.
tion
from
right-thinking
people
who
¡¿tuition the house again became repub will be a heavy tax upon the industries
torian accomplishing anything by it Twenty.two moose and deer hunters
You kan’t make a man think accord
lican and has remained so tip to this of the people for the next twenty vears. feel an interest in the nation's welfare.
there would be some logic in it.
were killed in the state of Maine.
ing to law ; you may make him ackt so.
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time. During the first half of this ad It is questionable if the farmers, for in
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Nine baseball players were fatally hurt
There is no labor saving invenshun
ministration the house was republican, stance, will be called upon to pay one
The slovenly wife is a very unattractive
About the only persons who make on the diamond during the past season. , that komparcs with the eye ov the mas
but in the senate neither party had a dollar additional tax on account of sub jiersonality. A man would infinitely pre
money out of the overcapitalized trusts The deaths on the polo field numbered ter.
majority, though the republicans bad a sides proposed to be paid to native-built fer to be disappointed in his wife’s intel
and industrial combinations are the pro- three, while on the links two men were
What a man gets unjustly is harder to
plurality and succeeded by the help of and native-navigated ships. American lect than in her personal appearance, if
moters and the state cf New Jersey. killed bv being struck on the head with a hang onto than the hot end ov a poker.
protection democrats in passing the labor would be greatly in demand, from he has to be disillusioned on either one
The latter rakes in from$30,o00 to $50,- golfball. Eight pugulists were killed in
There is a grate diffrense between a
Dingley tar ill bill through that body. the mine and forest to the finished ships, point or the other after marriage, and
the prize ring.
brave and rekless man. and the two
The power and responsibility now de which is one more reason why American 1 vet how many women take chances with 000 |x*r month in incorporation fees,
while
no
one
knows
what
the
promoters
Mountain
climbing,
tobogganing,
ice
volving upon the republican party are farmers should be very slow to deny marital happiness by drifting into slov
should not be konfoutided.
greater than at anv previous time in a that they had no interest in an American- enly or careless ways, which are sure to get. The suckers who buy the watered yachting, skating, fox hunting, bicycling
Children are a constant anxiety. The
stock and the public who buys the pro. and other kindred sports each year adds
century. The party has retained its hold built merchant marine.
only time we can konsider them safe iz
disgust a man, no matter how much in duct foot the bills.
to
the
list
of
fatalities
that
occur
in
upon the house and regains full control
when they are fast asleep.
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love he may lie.
Do we not all of us
a a a
open-air sporting amusements.
of the senate at the elections in an off
Poverty is not dishonorable enny more
T he decision of the supreme court of know’ some such instance in our own
European engineers in this country
Football is a rough game and the men than sickness iz; it is only the cause of
year and with the most flattering pi os. the United States against the combina circle of acquaintances where a pretty
announce
that
they
intend
to
place
who
play
it
take
many
chances
of
injurv;
*cts ot cloaing the ccnlui \ in as full tion of pi|>e manufacturers, on the attractive girl has degenerated into an
it that may be dishonorable.
orders for $1.000,000 worth of electrical but the casualties in other sports show
mtroi.
One ov the most diffikult things in a
I ground that it was in restraint of in unattractive, woman within a few short [
machinery for an electric road in Egypt. that it is no more dangerous than the
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man’s karacter to judge ov is the aktual
terstate commerce, is a victory for the years of the time when she stood at the ,
others.
It
will
not
be
long
until
the
people
of
all
Wewtuld be gratifying to Americana,
act ot 1890 that gives it fresh vitality altar, radiant in the freshness of her !
amount of happiness he is possessed of.
parts ot the world will have ocular evi
irrespective of their p olitical affiliations,
( ami encourages the hope that it may youthful beauty, the delight of her hus
Even the liees will rob a week hive ov
dence of the excellence of American work
Divine Humbugs.
that foreigr opinion of the president's
i be found effective against other trusts band's eye and the joy of his heart?
its bunny; just so a week nation falls •
manship.
message, so far aa it refers to our in-|
I whose ojierations put a restraint upon i
Tliere comes a time when religious victim to the neighlioring strong one
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ternational relations, in so generally
trade between the states. The pi|»e
Happiness haz been beflned so often
Bishop Potter says that, coming of an fervor becomes criminal fanatacism. The
The recent manifestations of German
favorable.
The cultivation by the
combination was peculiar and we do friendship for the United State are very ecclesiastical family, he owes his love of ■ promulgation, in the name of religion, of and in so many different ways, that I
United States of friendly relations with
not know that there is another one like gratifying, but it cannot be said that preaching to “those grandfathers and doctrines that tend to unseat the mind am almost of the opinion that it doesn’t
all the rest of the world ia a policy
♦ii"
un2”e!*liO?ftb,’V
^orabie form’ and’thus ìiec^mingof great-grandfathers.” He adds: “I began and endanger lité may reach an extremity I exist at all.
which eveiy true American citizen will
I
there are others which, while not con- s substantial
■
The only way to find all about a man
value by the removal or preaching before kilts gave place totrous. where the law should step in and sup.
approve. While we should make no al-
ducting business on the plan of the pipe .
iz to set him on the top round of a lad
..»-.I of the discrimination ers. My pulpit was an empty stall in press the evil.
liunce with any Euro)>ean power, nor
trust, arc none the less restricting and against American meats and fruits. Ac the barn, my audience the chickens and
"Healers," who trifle with human life, | der and then stand off and take a good
enter Into an understanding with any
restraining commerce between the
through the ignorance or excitement of! l<M>k at him,
cording to a dispatch from Berlin, the 1 the hired man.”
Mttoit that or ght involve us in its in
states and therefore amenable to the representative of the German government '
their deluded followers, are none the less I | The best hits that Lav ever been made
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ternational •intentions and controver
coart
in this case seems to be broad who was a short time ago in Washing- I I Congressman Roberts appears to criminal because they are sincere and call ' hav been made just as the boy hit the
sies, we should always seek ui I m » on
enough to apply to a number of existing
g«)od terms with all countries. Wash
ton on a special mission relating to the I think his failure to get into congress is themselves "divine." The manv who pro- > woodcock on tl.e fly—bi picking up the
combination ot which it can certainly
ington counseled the cultivation of
trade relations to the two countries in j going to bring all kinds of disasters fesses to hare power to cure by the laying | fust -tone he could find and letting drive
be shown that they are destructive of
To a disinterested on of hands .«comes a menace to society without taking aim ; and the boy and the
peace ami harmony with all nations
an interview spoke cautiously with re upon the country.
and the advice is as good now as it was competition and thereby restrain trade ference to commercial issues, especially | spectator it would appear that so far when he practices his fanaticism in cases woodcock, both, were astonished at th®
and obtain increased prices for them,
where the disease is milignant. He is I result.
a centili v ago. We shall best conserve
the meat and fruit questions. He re ; Mr. Rolierts is the only sufferer.
selves. It we understand the language
our interest* and exert a larger influence
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more dangerousthantheignorant quack, |
market!, says the dispatch, that there j
of the decision moat of the trusts and
in the affairs of the world by continu
The Usual.
was a considerable difference of opinion 1 I A Missouri court has held that the whom the law assumes authority to sup.'
combinations are violating the anti,
ing to L»\h>w that admonition. The fa
press. Experiments on patients suffering
trust law. At all events, the decision regarding these matters and that Ger- promise of a deputyship by a candidate
The heartless landlond has come to
vord»le imprewion made in Germany by
' office
~ is a bribe tendered to a voter from certain ailments may be harmless
gives |.i vitality to existing legislation many was still justly complaining of dis- for
evict the widow with eighteen children,
the reference of th»» president to the cor
even
if
not
beneficial
;
but
in
conagious
or
.
.crimination
against
German
sugar.
in
violation
of
the
corrupt
practices
act.
which it was thought to have been de-1
dial relation* *uiwa*<ing between that
To lie a bribe the thing offered must lie virulent d.seases the practice of “ divine" • many of whom are teething.
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n i «»n and the Unkr< Hut»* is pecu privcd cf by the decisions of some of the
nonsense should he regarded a. an ot! But at the threshold the woman ware»
In view of th« fact that our govern something of value.
lower courts and this is a matter of no
liarly gratifying. br<*auw
has been
fense
and be «verely de.lt with by the him back imperiously.
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ment, as stated in the president’s mes
a considerable sentiment in Ustmany small significance It warrants the hope
‘‘Not today!" she cries.
The
man
who
raise«I
broom
corn
last
that the federal authorities will now sage. is maintaingan attitude of neu
unfriendly to th» country not
“Why not ?” asks the landlord.
In Chicago there i, a nest of these
year and held onto his crop will be able
trality
toward
the
conflict
i
n
South
take
steps
to
further
test
the
application
(or commercial reasons. Many (Wt-
pardonable enriousity.
the act of 1890. which it is posailde , Afevia. it would obviously be most ill- this year to sweep away his mortgages healers. • the brood of one Dowie. Their I
"»was have felt that the friendship be
“Because," the woman replied, "no
advised for congress formally to ex if he has any. The price is now $200 practice is not confined to that city but
vet
lie
found
sufficient
for
the
sup-
1 * ’•*» England and the United Statrs
» earned on over the country bv what pitiless storm of rain mingled with <ey •
prcssion
more dangerou* combi I press sympathy with either party to the per ton and promises to go higher.
whs driruwantal to friendly relations be
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sleet rages without!"
they term " aosent treatment ”
nations.
•rar. Unquestionably a very large ma.
tween theirNuiry
ours and th»
B zvam think, that th» financial bill
The land lord grinds his teeth in impo
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A few day. ago . poor woman went to
’Jority of the \mrncan peoplesvmpathixc
idea will. H may
to» taped,
('.MAT BaiTai*
to be getting with the Boers and hope that they will now pemlins before congress is a bad Lincoln pwrk with her two little ch.ldren tent rage; he mav trample under foot
he disaipated by
Ri»ur*rtce given th. wortt of it inthe w<Wlth
measnre That is mst what ererv popo- Mr the p„rp.w of d
the prompting» of his better nature but
Kor_
jng thim
«•Orecd and it is enlirvh proper for them
crat wooMeipcct him to say, but it doe»
whT
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» polwman. not the conventionalities established by
to declare their senti meats (n public
not make it so, however.
wh.fe offtnnK op .
prnTfr tohw| "mg usage.
'netting* or otherwise bat an expres-
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»bowed that her
- Subscrilie
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JPl^Nutcd State» consumes nearly h„.. L .
the Headlight,
the bed
husband, who was
°ne
Dowie » fol county newspaper- AH home print
|MM**P»aUdl.i accused her of contain interestiug news.
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