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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-10-05
OVERRIDING THE THING.

TIE onerous fire insurance tax is a
heavy burden on an Astoria business
man. He is taxed to support an efficient
fire department, and pays that tax cheer
fully, for he realizes that is as it should
be, but the additional insurance tax i'm
posed by the greed and cupidity of the
insurance managers Is a different thing!
No one objects to paying a good high
rate for insurance, but it IS out of all
reason to charge SO exorbitant rate.
And in their way of doing business
they have the best of it: they have the
drop on one. There is no use in going
to an insurance agent in Astoria and
kicking. He will say, and truly. "Well,
well; what can l do? can't help il, !"
and he can't. 1t is "the compact" that
mysterious intangible insurance trust
with neither body to beat, nor soul to
damn, that one has to deal with. Even
that is composed of different insurance
companies, whose managers, when ap-
pealed to, say 1--WE are gagged; we can do
nothing. You're right, of course you are:
it's gouge, but what can We do?" And
so it goes.
Astoria insurance agents send away
over $1,000 every month.
This is no supposition: it is fact.
Here is over 100000 a year sent from
here, of which, at least 80 per cent. is q
gouge.
If we had no fire department at all
the insurance rates could be no higher;
for, to put them any higher than at pres
ent would be like making saloon keep
er's license $4,000 a year-it would be
prohibition.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-10-05

Try the Chase & SanbOrn Seal Brand
cOffee-beSt in the market-at ThOmp-
son & Ross.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-10-05
Meals Cooked to Order.

Private rooms for ladies and families
at Central Restaurant, next to FOard &
Stokes,
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-10-05
Real Estate Auction
SALE.
Valuable and Eligible Lots In Adair's astoria.
Saturday, October ), at 2P.M,

AT RObb & Parker'S Real Estate Office
Where Plat of the Property can be Seen.
Instructed by w. B. Affair, E.G.. agent
/ will offer az PUBLIC AUCTION. on the
above day. the Lots i'm BLOCK co, ADAIR'S
ASTORIA, as recently subdlvided. replatted
and recorded Ia The County Clerks Office.
This property is admirably located, com
mandS fine View of the Columbia River
bar, is only 3 blocks from high tide water
line and 3 only from the street car line now
running. Ii is one block south of the Pow
er'S Avenue, which is laid out 1876 It, wide
Each lot is cleared and Staked of and a ma
jorIty of them are now under cultivation by
Chinese gardeners.
Persons desirOuS Of examining the prop
erfy before The day of the sale will please
take the plank road south of KOpp's Brew
cry. The lots are now quite accessible A
carriage can be driven within one block of
the north west corner of Block 60. Terms
at sale. Title perfect. Warranty Deeds.
z. c. HOLDEN,
AuctiOneer.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-10-05

LudlOw'S Ladies' $500 Fine Shoes
also Flexible Hand turned French Kids
at p. j. GoCDMAN's.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-10-05
Saratoga ChiDS

Are clean, convenient and palatabIe
Ask your grocer for them. For sale
everywhere. Get sample and try them
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-10-05

Coffee and cake, ten cents, at the
Central Restaurant
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-10-05
WeinhaPdsS Beer.

And Free Lunch at the Telephone Sa
loon, 8 cents.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-10-05

To forestall adverse criticism The As
ToRIAN comedies that this plan is not
perfect: perfection is an attribute denied
the work of plain ordinary mortals; it
is an attribute possessed solely by the
compilers of the Coast ReUielo, and by
the general managers of fire insurance
companies in San Francisco; but it will
give us reliable insurance and free us
from the bondage of the San Francisco
pirates, who at present conduct this i'm
portant branch of business and levy trib-
ute on this commercial community;
tribute that resembles plunder as closely
as the mist resembles the rain.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-10-05

Insurance against fire is a necessary
part of prudent business management;
it is precautionary measure, and those
who do the insuring should be protected,
and should charge sufficient premium to
pay ell necessary expenses, a reasonable
profit, and sufficient TO accrue requisite
reserve fund.
But this Octupus that envelops US in
the shape of an insurance trust tran
scends all precedent and demands more
than precedent or experience show is
necessary or proper.
They may sit like swollen spiders in
the dark corners of their webs, fat with
the juice of their victims, but if they ad-
vance into the light must expect to be
smashed.
No man or set of men is to be denied
the right TO make money, and as fast and
as much as possible, with due regard to
commercial canons.
But there is a limit to greed, and the
itch that inscriptions men have for
money for moneys sake.
This limit the fire insurance companies
on this coast have passed, and in self
preservation the people of this city
should make substantial objection.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-10-05

GUAYAoUIL, Ecuador, Oct. Ain the
forthcoming message to congress the
president will recommend the immedi-
ate enactment of a law forbidding fur
ther Chinese immigration. The entire
press has been urging the measure.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-10-05

The AsToRIAN's plan is briefly this:
Organize fire insurance company here,
with capital of 100000, of which not
more than $4,000 need be put up.
There are surely 100 men in Astoria who
can put $500 apiece in a paying enter
prise of this kind. Then divide and
scatter all heavy risks: place them in
eastern companies who will be glad to
get them at far less rates than we are at
present paying.
In this way We can keep at home tens
of thousands of dollars now sent away.
The Dickinson press., 1889-11-16
Paper in tho Household.

do not propose to speak of the many
useful and wonderful articles that are
manufactured from paper, but merely
of the valuable uses to which it can be
put by tho housekeeper Few house,
keepers have time to black their stoves
every day, or even every week. Many
wash them in either clear water or dish
water. This keeps them clean, but they
look very brown. After stove has been
once thoroughly blackcd, it can be kept
looking perfectly well for long time by
rubbing it with paper every morning.
If occasionally find Il spot of gravy
or fruit juice that tho paper will not
take off, rub it with wet cloth, but
do not put on water enough to take off
the blacking. find that rubbing with
paper is Il much nicer way of keeping
the outside of my tea kettle, coffee pot
and tea pot bright and clean than the old
way of washing them in suds. (The in
side of coffee and tea pots should bo
rinsed in clear water and never in the
dish water.)
Rubbing with dry paper is also tho
best way of polishing knives, spoons and
tinwarc after securing. This saves wet
ting the knife handles. If little flour
he held on the paper in rubbing tinwaro
and spoons, they shine like new silver
For polishing windows, mirrors, lamp
chimneys, ETC., | always use paper in
preference toa dry cloth.
Preserves and pickles keep much bet
ter if brown paper instead of a cloth is
tied over the jar. Canned fruit is not
SO apt to mold if n piece of writing pa
per, cut to fit the can, is laid directly on
top Of the fruit.
Paper is much better toput under car
pet than straw. 1t is warmer, thinner
and makes less noise when one walks
over it. a fair carpet can DO made for
a room that is not in constant use, by
pasting several thicknesses of ncwspa-
per on the floor, over them layer of
wall paper, and giving it coat of var
nish. In cold weather | have often
placed newspaper between my bed
quilts, knowing that two thickncsscs of
paper are as warm as quilt.
If it is necessary to step upon chair,
always lay a paper on it; this saves rub
bing the varnish. Mary johnson in
New York Mail and Express
The Dickinson press., 1889-11-16
,,orses In scotland, ,xos.

The original roll, which is said to have
been kept at the herald's Office, has disap-
peared, and the earlier existing copy is
only Of the Sixteenth, and the latter of
the beginning of the Seventeenth CEN
tury. The rolls of the horses illustrate
the custom of recording the description
and value of every horse employed in
campaign in order that, if it was killed,
the owner might claim its price. The
horses entered in the rolls are described
either as chargers, or hackneys, or as
being of Welsh breed, or else are dis
tinguished simply by color. The highest
price at which charger is assessed seems
to be 10 marks, which, considering the
purchasing power of money with respect
to other articles, was certainly a large
sum. William dc Ferrers, who followed
Lord Hugh lie Dispenser had black
charger, assessed at that price; but the
average value of a good charger seems
to have been about go marks. Some
hackneys were valued as low as 5lnarks.
though 10 and 12 marks were the more
usual prices; in few cases, however, "a
and even 80 marks are entered as the
worth of hackneys. Pouncede Varesc, for
example, had "unum runcinum sorum
bauzain pied sorreD precii Xxx mar"
Tho names of all the riders are given,
and when 4 horse was slain the place
and date of the loss were recorded in a
marginal note.-The Saturday Review.
The Dickinson press., 1889-11-16
Killing His Stomach.

"Give mo a great double barrcled,
center fire, back action drink of soda
and phosphate" ordered jolly customer
at Kecshan's drug store last night. "Do
you know what this favorite of yours is
doing for you:" asked the venerable
druggist, as the customer drained his
glass. "Killing the nausea in my ston,-
ach," was the reply. eyes, and it's
killing your stomach, too. Some of
Of these days you'll want it copper
plated, and you'll want in vain. Phos-
phateis is ssomething that no one should take
except after a full meal. Why? Well,
1 will explain. You wouldn't think that
the infammablc ends of matches were a
proper thing to cat, would you? But
phosphate is derived from pilosphorous,
and if you use it to excess it will burn
out your stomach just as alcohol would
if used in excess. You feel benefited by
it now. but if you keep on the time will
come when you will wish that you had
never heard Of phosphate. OF course,
we sell it because there is foolish craze
for it, but advise no one to use much
of the fiery substance" "Should one use
it at all:' "In moderate quantities just
after full meal it will not hurt any one;
but beware of using it in excess or on an
empty stomach, for if you do that organ
will need half soling and heeling some
time."-Cincinnati Times-Star.
The Dickinson press., 1889-11-16
How Minor Actors Grow Famous.

Mrs. Madgc Kendall in her racy thcat-
rical sketches says: 81 have often been
asked whether actors who play minor
parts conspicuously well spring sudden
ly into more prominent positions The
question reminds me of an incident which
occurred in play by Arthur Skctchlcy,
the we'll known author of tho Mrs. Brown
series. Helad written three act drama
called Blanche, which my husband and
|, on a tour at the time, were playing at
tho Alexandria theatre, Liverpool. The
plot was taken from an old French drama
and consisted of woman being falsely
accused Of poisoning her husband 1t
was very hard work, remember, for
three acts for every ono in the play. In
the last scene, when the villain steps for
ward and dcnounces the heroine with the
words, you poisoned your husband saw
youput the poison in the glass at such and
such n time, black man servant comes
forward and says 'Liarl' am sorry to
say that this was tho only occasion for
genuine applause throughout tho play.
So great was the success of the minor
actor that he Immediately jumped intoa a
most prominent position in the provinces
and became a leading man. Whether he
has kept his position till now do not
know, for l have lost sight of him. New
York Star.
The Dickinson press., 1889-11-16
Chemical Transformation.

Alcohol, one of tho best known prod
ucts Of chemical industry, may serve as
evidence to what degree of perfection the
composition and decomposition of chem
ical compounds has been brought. AS
tho chief constituent of Intoxicating bcv-
erages, alcohol, together with carbonic
acid, originates by fermentation from
sugar; but this is not tho only possible
way to produce it. Tho brightness Of
electric lights, by which public places,
roads, stores, ETC., of our cities now are
Illuminated at night, is emitted by an
electric current passing between two car
bonpoints. When such passage of cleo
tricity takes place in a glass balloon filled
with hydrogen, the electric current causes
this gas to unite with carbon, forming
acctylcne, a gaseous compound, whicl, in
contact with morehydrogen readily takes
it up, forming second gaseous com
pound - cthylcne which is the chief
light giving constituent of Illuminating
gas.
Ethylcnc, when brought into contact
with sulphuric acid, forms liquid com
bination, and this, when treated with
potassium hydrate, is converted into al
cohol. Having thus built up from its
clements a substance formerly known
only as n product of fermentation, we
may proceed at once TO decolnposc it
again into its elements. We can easily
regain the carbon which it contains by
heating alcohol with sulphuric acid,
which again converts it into cthylene;
and this gas, when mixed with chlorine
gas and lighted, burns away, leaving
carbon, which, as Il dense black smoke,
fills the vesscl.-W. Bcrnhardt in Popu-
lar Science Monthly.
The Dickinson press., 1889-11-16
Tie Isarbaric Splen,lor,

Nothingo on earth equals in magniticcnce
the barbaric splendor of those old czars.
visited the museum where they showed
me with great pride the products of the
Russian mines. Here was the largest
nugget Of gold in the world; the largest
lump of silver, the largest specimen Of
,nalachite, and tho largest lapis lazuli
witha hundred and one other thing from
the Siberian mines
l saw the saddles and caparisons of
some Of these old warriors. One, | re-
member, had large saddle blanket, az
you might call it, made of cloth of gold
At distance it looked perfectly white,
and it was large enough to cover the
greater portion of the body of the war
horse. y closer inspection showed that
it was covered all over with diamonds of
the purest water. The larger ones were
sewn on in the form of stars and other
figures, but the entire surface was COW
cred with these gems.
The blanket was worth thousands aud
thousands of dollars.
Then, in one Of GATHERINGS palaces,
saw columns of pure amber, with the
walls of entire rooms covered with the
same costly stuff.
And yet, in other countries of Europe,
amber has become SO scarce that it is al
ls.tost impossible to secure pure article,
ard imitation amber is used for jewelry.
DIR. Barrett in Atlanta Constitution
The Dickinson press., 1889-11-16
Chonin's ,Ietl,o,l.

George Sand has given us vivid
sketch of Chopin's conscientiousness as
a composer. "IIe shut himself up in his
room for entire days." she says, "wecp-
ing, walking about, breaking his pen, re-
pcating and changing Il bar a hundred
times, and beginning again next day
with minute and desperate perseverance.
He spent six weeks over a single page,
only to go back and write that which he
had traced at the first essay" (Oh, mod
crn composers, read and learnY AS re-
CARDS his creativeness, George Sand says
that cit descended upon his piano sud-
denly, completely, sublimely, or it sang
itself in his head during his walks, and
he made haste to hear it by rushing to
the instrument" 1 have already mcn-
toned the fact that when he wrote his
last muzurka ho was too weak to try it
on the piano. In one Of his letters lie
speaks of Il polonaise being ready in his
head.
These facts indicate that he composed
mentally, although, no doubt, during
the improvisations many themes oc-
CURED to him which he remembered and
| utilized. Some times tho pictures i'll his
mind became SO vivid as to form real
hallucinations. Thus, it is related that
one evening when he was alone in the
dark trying over tho A major Polonaisc,
which ho had just completed, he saw
the door open, and in marched u process
sion of Polish knights and ladies in
medieval costumcs-tlc same, no doubt,
that his imagination had pictured while
he was composing. He was SO alarmed
at this vision that he fled through the
opposite door and did not venture to
return. Another illustration of the re-
lation between genius and insanity
Chopin and Other Musical Essays
Henry T. Finck.
The Dickinson press., 1889-11-16
Afraid to Lie Down.

Who knows why birds sleep standing
on one leg? The position seems most un-
natural. Reasoning in advance, we should
pronounce it a tiresome, if not impossi-
bic, attitude. Yet the canary tucks its
bead under its wing, draws up one foot,
and goes to sleep, apparently with quite
as much comfort as we experience on the
best of mattresses. \ writer in Horse
and Stale notes a similar, though less
abnormal, habit on the part of horses,
who, it appears, are in many cases very
averse to lying down.
The writer once rode n mare seventy
miles in a single day. The stable in which
she was put for the night was as COM
Portable rs it could well be made, but she
stood up all night long. She ate her oats
and hay and then went to sleep, leaning
forward With her breast against the
manger.
There are horses that have never been
seen to lie down, nor have any marks of
their having done SO ever been found
upon their bodies. l recall one that for
fifteen years occupied particular stall
in my grandfather's stable. Up to the
hour he died no one ever saw him lying
down, although special watch was some
times kept after he had been driven for
eight or ten hours.
Unless horse lies down regularly his
rest cannot be complete, and his joints
and sincws stiffen. 1t is true that some
horses that always sleep in standing
position continue to work for many
years, but it is equally true that they
would live longer and work better if
they rested naturally.
Young horses from the country are
liable to refuse to lie down when first
put into stable in town, and the ill.,
furious habit may become confirmed un-
less special pains are taken to induce a
change.
The indisposition to lie down is often
very pronounced in sick horses. They
seem to have an instructive fear that if
they lie down they may never be able to
rise, and continue on their feet till their
limbs refuse to bear item up.
The Dickinson press., 1889-11-16
Present and Old Ideas.

Between London and Edinburgh the
greater part of the journey is done at a
speed not exceeding so miles an hour;
tho $50 miles between Grantham and
Kings Cross averages "a miles for the
whole journey, and some time ago the
4;1S p. III. train from Grantham was
timed to run "a miles in % minutes,
1 mile being done in 46 seconds, or at the
rate Of "a miles an hour. Compare this
with the anticipations of the last genera
ton. In 1925 The Quarterly Review, in
an apprcciative article on the proposed
Woolwich railway, deprecated any wild
estimates as to speed. "Wc will back"
it said, "old Father Thames against
the Woolwich railway for any sum. We
trust that parliament will in all railways
it may sanction limit the speed to 8 or 8
miles an hour, which is as great as can
be ventured on with safety. THE Nine
teenth Century.
The Dickinson press., 1889-11-16
Tho Joy. of the Autumn.

With the rosy tints Of autumn not only
is the heart made glad, but soon the CRATE
full people Of earth will revel in its abun-
dant store Of other things whose good
ness, while not especially charming to
the eye, appeal to our appetites and
stomachs. We allude to such tempting
good cheer as cider, buckwheat cakes,
scrappel, maple syrup, winter apples,
and, best Of all, fire in the crate. Raise
up your voice, o ye people, and fall to
on the feast that is prepared for you. In
the enjoyment of such toothsome. whole
some products and provender, whoi is the
churl that will murmur? Out upon him!
-Williamsport Sun and Banner.
The Dickinson press., 1889-11-16
$500 PER ANNUM
The Dog and tho Lamb.

A certain lady had once valuable st.
Bernard of excellent pedigree, carefully
trained, and in all respects of well nigh
ideal excellence save for one fault: he
would kill lambs. He was beaten, he
was imprisoned, the body of the latest
lamb which had fallen q victim to his
fury was fastened around his neck as q
badge of shame, but all to no avail. His
mistress concluded that it was impossi-
ble to break him of his fault and that
she must sell him.
While matters were in this state a
friendly farmer who had upon some oc-
casion got into his head the fact that tho
dogs mistress was fond of pets sent her
a snowy cosset, all gay with ribbons and
looking as innocent as innocence itself.
The lady was in despair. She expected
that her dog would fall upon the lamb
and tear it limb from limb; but having
in tho past had much experience with
pets she said to herself that if this catas-
trophe was to happen she did not pro-
pose to have it postponed until she be-
came deeply attached to the newcomer,
and so deliberately led the lamb up to
the dog, said to him that it was her
lamb, and directed nim to watch it.
The dog looked at her rather wistfully,
evidently requesting permission to tear
the pretty innocent, but she sternly
shook her head and departing left the
pair together on tho lawn.
She is willing to admit, now that the
:rial proved successful, that she had no
idea that it would, and that she expected
to find the lawn strewn with tho dis
mcmbcrcd fragments of the lamb. When
u few hours later she returned, however,
the dog was found to have taken the
lamb into his especial favor and under
his especial protection. He lay down
with it, he followed it about, and seemed
to have become uncommonly fond of it
in Il way not at all allied to carnivorous
instincts. In short the lamb and the dog
became the closest of friends, and as long
as the two did live they continued to
dwell together in peace and affection.
And tho remarkable part Of tho tale is
that from that day the dog no more mo-
Tested any lambs whatsoever. 1t was a
plain case of similia similibus curantur.
Tho dog was at once and forever cured
of his vice, and his fond mistress relates
this story to admiring friends with ming
led pride and atfection.-Boston Courier.
The Dickinson press., 1889-11-16

In the matter of tolerating social nui
sanccs, Americans are accused of being
a very long suffering people; but what
ever their own practice, they will always
bo ready to cry: ":Scrvcd him right!' ia
every case like the following, the story
Of which comes from England. In
railway carriage sat pale, middle aged
lady, a slender youth hardly out of his
teens, and burly looking squire.
At neof the stations young man got
in, holding lighted cigarette in his
hand, and as the smoke curled in the
lady's face, she coughed.
''This is not smoking carriage" said
the youth.
'I'm not smoking" retorted the new
conner. ~ dare say my cigarette will
keep till we get to the next station"
Tobacco smoke makes my mother i'll,
and must ask You to put out your Gig
arettc."
SIN not smoking, and 1 shall not do
it."
"rhcn Ill make you'll" said the lad.
His face had grown pale, and as he rose
the other put out formidable fist which
would probably have crippled his oppo-
ncnt.
And now u strange thing happened.
The burly squire had hitherto remained
quite passive, but he now produced some
thing which glittered in the sunlight;
there was a click, and the young man
with the cigarette was securely hand
cuffed.
'You will pick up your cigarette and
throw it out of the window" said the
esquire" who proved to be detective
dressed for some important work.
Tho cigarette was clumsily picked up
with both hands and dropped out OF the
window. Just then the train rolled into
a station, and the young man, mutter-
ing, very sorry-won't do it again
had no idea''-was given his liberty,
which he hastened to use by slipping at
once out of the carriage.-Youth's Com
panion,