The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-07
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The Usual Experience Of Pacific Coaster.

| The Usual Experience OF Pacihc Coaster
Capt. al. Harris, of the life saving
service, got back yesterday. from 8
visit to the white settlements. He
has taken run through New York
Pennsylvania, Canada, etc., the first
time for % years since coming west
His is the usual experience. When
he got home he felt disappointed
Babies that he had left in their
cradles were sedate matrons; boys
that he used to buy balls for were
grave business men with children al
school; folks that weren't in existence
at all when he left were on deck, and
of those that he used to know, many
of them had gone to sleep.
The hills weren't SO high, the trees
weren't 80 big, the river had shrunB
up; the creek that he fished in was
damned up and covered with mills
the site of the little red school house
he used to 60 to school in was GOV.
| cred by q plate glass factory; the
cornfeld he used to shoot robins in
was covered by big buildings.
He hadn't been "back home" more
than three days before he dropped on
one thing that every body does who
goes back east from the Pacific coast
He had to ego slow" in telling about
| things out here. He had to 60 under
the truth, for the exact facts would
be incredible. To tell a man that
we raised fifty bushels of wheat
to the acre made him mad,
to tell of our logs 100 feet long 24x24
started him to swearing, and to talk
OF 75-pound Astoria salmon capped
the climax. So that everything had
to be toned down and understated OF
he would lose his character as truth.
full man.
In the rural districts a dollar is a
big lot of money, and a man who
spends four bits at the village store is
a little tin god on wheels. Cents are
carefully counted and q penny more
or less will send a man to the other
town to do his trading. Down in
Bradford, Pennsylvania, the gas lamps
were alight all day long. 1t was
easier to let them burn than to bother
about putting them out. Natural
gas, everywhere. When a woman got
the dinner on the stove she turned on
the gas and the whole business was
cooked in less than no time.
In northern and western New York
state the people are wild on
politics. Every old farmer has
a piece of bunting on his
house or fence. and all that Capt.
Harris saw say that they will vote for
Harrison and protection. A good
many told him that in November, '84,
election day was wet and they didn't
bother about going to the polls, be-
cause they were sure Blaine would be
elected anyhow, but this year they
we're going to turn out to a man and
get in vote for Harrison, if it took leg.
The New York Democrats are very
confident and will slap up money to
cover any proposed bet on Harrison.
In Indiana the people are plumb
crazy. The whole state is political
battlefield and both parties are mov-
ing heaven and earth and the other
place to carry the state.
Capt. Harris got the impression
that Harrison's election was as sure
as sunrise.
He brought back some magnificent
views of Niagara Falls; says he is
glad to get back, and never realized
SO clearly what grand place Oregon
and Washington is to live in and how
much better off we are out here than
the folks "back in the States