Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-04-30

PLAYING AGAINST SALvATIONISTS.
When they know the great adversary
of souls as well as do they will not try
TO scare him with cross eyed women or
hive him and his hosts by beating the
tambourine, the sackbut and the land
lord. Humanity, charity, soft soap and
unselfshness will do more toward Civ
ing Satan ''that tired feeling than all
the loud and onion favored hosannas of
misguided men and bleating women,
who seek to harass the hosts of hell with
"a bass drum while their own children,
with empty stomachs and unlaundried
noses, weep at home.
But l was speaking of Astoria. |
bought perpendicular lot there, with
pockets in it and brackets for holding
farm implements. Astoria was settled
in 1911 by Mr.. Astor, whose family are
said to be people of means His descend
ants live in New York and are among
our best people. The Astors and the
Nyes are quite thick. They often Dor
row dishes of us when they have COM
pany come in suddenly on them While
our ancestors We're catching whales, the
elder Aston was prospered, however,
more than the elder Nyes, for when pc
troleum began to squirt through the
ground our folks had TO hire out to Capt.
Kidd, while the Astors did well in the
fur, pelt and green hide business.
Astoria is really a good city and shows
much thrift and enterprise. The Astor
family would do a very commendable
act by establishing library or some per-
manent institution there worthy of them
selves and the thriving town. There are
1900 people in Astoria. The canned sal
mon is caught all along here, and the low
sob of the steamer echoes back from the
rich green velvety moss which uphOl-
sters the high steep banks, while ever
and anon the wall of the sawmill calls
forth the sympathetic tears of the highly
saturated sky, and the beautiful hills in
their fir trimmed garments give back an
answering sigh.
While l was there the president is
sued his annual message, warning the
seal poachers TO go right away from there.
By law he has to do this every year or
lose his pay. / wish could get a chance
to write a message for the president one
year, or, still better, prepare the speech
of the queen for parliament. Just one
would do me. l presume it would also
do everybody else. But it would possess
its merits. l would write a speech for
the queen which, if she could memorize
it and get some good elocutionist to fix
some suitable gestures for it, would at
tract and draw forth comment anyhow.
Instead of giving the long whiskered
and rather trite facts about being at
peace with the various foreign dynasties
that had married into, would give
whole lot of bright family gossip such
as must come to the ear of an old lady
in such position of trust and conf
dence as she occupies, and l would work
In little society notes and ii department
called "The Man About Town" The
annual message of the president, too, Is
open to criticism. Local hits about
Washington would make the document
far more juicy and generally read IN
stead of going ON with six or seven col
umns of nOnpareil advice and sugges-
tons to congress as to what to do during
L
to five lines by saying: Gentlemen, you
may go home and do your electioneering
if you please, instead of coming to Wash
ingtOn to do it. Leave your address
with me and l viii see that your salaries
are sent to you"
The salmon industry is not so profit
able now as it used to be. A salmon
that used to cost 25 cents now costs 81 %
to the cannery, so it is question with
them whether they can can or not Yet
suppose that after a certain manner. a
Man might do well in salmon cannery.
AL styles of business, however, ON the
river and Sound seem to be doing well.
IF we do not mention the canneries, there
are the pineries, tanneries, fisheries, eat
cries, drinkeries and town lotteries. ]
do not know how the real estate men in
Astoria are, but certainly their lots,
many of them at least, lead an upright
life.
/ just heard of young man in Port
land who came up with Us on the steam
err California along with other things.
He Dragged good deal in social circles
after he got home about how good
sailor he was, and made quite hero Of
himself. He made fun of his fellow pas
sengers great deal, and proceeded to be
the life of the party. After awhile a
young lady in the group began to look
over some photographs and stereoscopic
views. Gradually she artlessly got the
attention Of the rest, and then she pro-
duced one which showed the young man
ON board ship, exchanging his views
with the ocean. The picture spoke for
itself with no uncertain sound.
- lie had forgotten about there being a
Kodak ON board.
/ sometimes think that science will
eventually make prevarication utterly
impossible, but while there is still an OPP
portunity i beg leave to submit the
above, which was told to me by a man
in whom had formerly the utmost con-
fidence.
A curious feature of the shore along
the banks of the Columbia is the wood
aume. 1t is long trough cut v shape
and supported by high poles, making
long schultz, sometimes extending for