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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-10-21

II we understand Mr.. Bryan what
the struggling masses need is a good
50-cent dollar that viii be interchange
able at par with Wall streets 2OO-cent
dollar,-Kansas City Journal
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-10-21

A hacking cough is not only annoying
to others, but is dangerous to the per-
son who has 1t. One Minute Cough
Cure will quickly put an end to it.
Charles Rogers.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-10-21

on the bearings; Small house about
three-fourths mile NNw. Of cannory
I'M. E. VI NJ; cannery Hlll EsE. v
r.. outer North Point. MEN N.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-10-21
Sumptuary Legislation.

We sympathize with all wise and ie-
climate efforts to lessen and prevent
the evils Of intemperance and promote
morality.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-10-21

Pure blood means good health. De-
Wits Sarsaparilla purihes the blood,
cures Eruptions. Eczema. Scrofula, and
all diseases arising from impure blood.
Charles Rogers.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-10-21

Speed and safety are the watchwords
of the age, One Minute Cough Cure
acts speedily. safely. and never fails.
Asthma. bronchitis. coughs and colds
are cured by 1t, Charles Rogers.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-10-21
Free Ballot.

We demand that every citizen OF the
United States shall be allowed to cast
one free and unrestricted ballot. ana
that such ballot shall be counted and
returned as cast.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-10-21

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take laxative Bromo Qulnine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money II II
fails TO cure. 2bc For sale by Chas.
Rogers. Druggist.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-10-21
Commodious and
Comfortable Cottages

have just been erected Rt Indlo station.
that will be rented TO applicants at rea-
sonablo rates. They are furnished WITH
modern conveniences. supplied with pure
artosiAn water and 30 situated as to give
occupants all tho advantages to be 1e-
rived from more or less protracted
residence IN this delightful climate,
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-10-21

The schooner IIalcyon sailed yester.
day with n cargo Of 100000 feet Of lum.
bcr for Santa Barbara.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-10-21

The steamer Columbia sailed for San
Francisco yesterday morning with u
large freight list.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-10-21
A TwIsTER

A twister in twisting
May twist him twist
For in twisting a twist
Three twists make a twist:
But II one Of the twists
Untwists from the twist,
The twist untwisting
Untwists the twist.
That is. when It's twisted with any
other twlne than MARsHALL's.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-10-21
Lung Diseases and
Rheumatism
Many Remarkable Cures

The objections urged against Indio in
tho past bJ tho large numbers who
otherwise would have beOn glad to take
advantage OF its beneficial climate. has
been n lack OF suitable accommodation.
The Southern Pacific Company takes
pleasure In announcing that several
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-10-21

complete system of harbor and sea-
coast defenses.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-10-21
THE ABOVE PICTURE DOES NOT
REPRESENT

REPKEoEINl
A passenger train on the Chicago, Mn
waukee and St, Paul Railway No. Its
tarins are vestibuled, heater by steam,
and lighted by electricity Each sleep
car berth has an electric reading lamp.
It's dining cars are the best In the world,
and It's coaches are palaces on wheels.
This great railway, connecting as II
does with all transcontinental lines at st
Paul and Omaha, assures to tho tarveling
public the best service known. Tickets
via the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
halfway are on sale at all railroad ticket
offices 10 any point In the United States
or Canada. For maps, folders and other
information, address.
@. ]. EDDY, General Agent,
J. W. CASEY, Portland Or.
Trav. Pass and Tiki. Agent.
Portland. Or.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-10-21
Merchant Marine.

We favor restoring the early Ameri-
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-10-21

Is Ola miles from
SAN FRANCISCO
and 1870 miles from
Los ANGELES
Fare from Los Angeles

For further information inquire OF
any Southern Pacific Company agent,
or address
II. P. ROGERS,
Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt. 3. p. Co.
], B. KIRKLAND,
Dist Pass. Agt.
Cor. First and Alder ats., Portland, Or
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-05-09
How the yuItures Were Fooled.

Some sports recently took place at
a station in Upper Burma, n of
the events being what is popularity
known as a "Victoria Cross race
that is, the competitors have to ride
some distance, taking two or three
hurdles on their way, to II point
where there are arranged a number
of figures in stuffed cases shaped like
human bodies. They then dismount,
fire a round of blank cartridges, pick
up a dummy each and race back.
In this case after the sports were
over the dummies We're left on the
ground, and in about half an hour
after the ground was deserted | no.
ticed a vulture settled on the ground
close to the dummies. In about an
other five minutes more than 80 had
collected.
The birds seemed much puzzled as
they carefully inspected each lay
figure, walking from II to the next
all along the line and eventually,
after sitting in a circle for a short
time, flew away.
The birds must have discovered
the dummies by sight, though
have often heard that vultures rely
on their sense of smell as well.-
PearsOn's Weekly.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-05-09
story Of = Careful Man.

He was a careful and thoughtful
man. In fact, it may be said that
he was an extremely careful and
thoughtful man.
He was resting comfortably in his
easy chair with his feet resting on a
footrest when he discovered that his
pencil needed sharpening, ANY
other man would have taken out his
knife and begun work at once, but
he was too thoughtful for that, also
too careful.
He sighed, got up out Of his chair
and went across the room for a lit.
tie waste paper basket that was
standing in the corner Then he re.
turned to his seat in the easy chair
and placed the basket IN the floor
between his legs.
His wife smiled approvingly, and
he felt proud of himself.
He opened his knife, leaned over
his basket and began work on the
pencil.
"It is just as easy to be careful.
and thoughtful" he said as he de
tached the first shaving from the
end of the pencil. 49,.
ut is" replied his wife as she fol
lowed the shaving with her eye ant
saw it 60 over his shoulder and lane
on the carpet behind him.
But why continue? There are few
who have not tried to sharpen a pen
Gil over q small basket in some INC
ment OF temporary insanity.
When he had finished, there wer'
three sbavings in the basket, ant
| the rest were on the floor. .
That is usually the way it hap
peus.-Chicago Post. g -.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-05-09
Her Measure.

A new arrival as priestess of an
up town kitchen was giving to her
mistress the other day her formula
for a certain sort of gingerbread:
And thin comes the molasses,
num-" recited the cook. "Ye want
about three gullups of molasses."
"Gullups, ANN" interrupted her
wondering listener. What are
they?"
Och, sure, don't yek know, mum?'
replied Ann. "Whin molasses is
runnin out of the jug, it comes in
gullups like-them's what l mane'
New York Times.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-05-09
A BRIDE.
q Gay Custom In Russia That Has It's
Merry and Sad Aspeets.

Gay Custom In Russia That Has It's
Merry and Sad Aspects.
An ancient custom is vet main
tanned i'll Russia at the Christmas
season, in which the festivities of
the day L made to play a perma-
nent part in the lives of those who
are chief in the f%rolicking.
Some person Of Importance i'll the
district announces that the annual
fete will be held at his house.
Thither, at the appointed time,
hasten the young men of the coun-
tryside; thither come, no less eager
ly, but with deoorous hardness, the
maidens of the place. There are
dances and songs, games and feast
ing, but all else is but the prelude
to the great event, when chance is
made the handmade of love. AT the
arrival of the proper hour the host
ess gives a signal and withdraws
into an apartment, accompanied by
all the girls. The lasses are ranged
upon long benches, where they pose,
a tittering phalanx of freshness and
beauty, with naught in their smiling
affability to suggest that a scratch
on blooming cheek might reveal the
Tartar.
The hostess is supplied with long
strips Of broad cloth, and with this
she straightway mufdes each and
every maiden. She twists it deftly
over and about the head, until hair
and features are ~hopelessly yelled;
she winds it about the neck, the
shoulders, the waist and on until
the sprightly and l1ssom figure of
the girl is merged in the rude out.
lines of a papoose.
This is the preparation. The action
follows, when Il by one, in an Or
der determined by lot, the young
men of the party enter the room.
Each in turn approaches the yelled
row of loneliness and examines it.
Eyes and ears are useless; touch is
everything. The puzzled sutton seeks
to penetrate the battling folds and
locate the personality of his idol.
When at last he has made his choice,
he is privileged to remove the swad-
ding clothes and behold the identi.
ty of his prize. Then is the consum-
mation-tbe moment of rapture or
despair when soul answers soul in
the love light of the eyes, or when
disappointment speaks in the stifled
sigh or shows in the averted eye.
1t is the law of custom that this
twain should become man and wife.
If the custom is broken, a heavy
forfeit must be paid by the unwiil-
ing person. But it is rarely that
happiness fails in the result. Chance,
it is well known, is open to a bride.
And the lovers who would fail to
offer her brides would hardly deserve
happiness. In their whispers before
the hour of trial amorous conspira.
cies for the cheating of i'll fortune
are made, and the lover may depend
upon his ingenious inamorata tC
convey to him the concerted signal
whereby will be determined he1
identity and their mutual happiness.
New York Herald.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-05-09
Disappearance of the Quaker.

We take it that the Quaker idea
of cultivating 1.-THE stiffness and the
quietness' which have so great an
effect upon their children's educa-
ton is identical in effect with that
practice of retreat" for which
thousands of minds in our fussy
generation have sodeep and we may
add SO Intellectual a longing. Even
their peculiarities of dress and Ian
| guage have long since ceased to ex-
cite ridicule and are hardly more
distinctive than those of earnest So
cialists or of the newest successful
Protestant denomination. Perfect
federation, however, which has ben
Gifted so many creeds, has almost
killed the Quakers, and in the hour
of triumph of their most prominent
ideas their society is dying, OF near.
ly dying, of want of votaries. They
have leavened the community, and
they are being absorbed, into it.
One would have thought that thou
sands of families would have Joined
their communion as IA kind of intel.
lectual ''retreat," safe from the
pressure of a battling world, but i,
is not so, and if they have not for {
few years actually decreased they
are never without the apprehension
that, in this country at least, they
may disappear, swallowed up in the
multitude of those who agree will
and yet do not belong to their corn
munion. London Spectator.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-05-09
CONGRESS AS a MIMIC SHOW.
when General Harrison Says 1t Was the
Butt af ,yc,iousy and Rid;cuIa,

when General Harrison Says 1t Was the
Butt Of Jealousy and Ridicuie.
Practically there vas no union Of
the states, and certainly nothing
that could be called a national gov
eminent until the constitution was
adopted in 1880, writes ey-President
Harrison in The Ladies' Home Jour
nal. Before that we had a congress
consisting of a single body of dele
gates. All votes We're taken by states
"a majority of the delegates from
the state casting the vote of the state.
There was no senate, no president
nor any separate executive depart
ment and practically no judiciary.
The congress, either by the whole
body Or by committees, performed
the necessary executive functions,
commissioned officers, raised and
disbursed revenue, conducted our
diplomacy, audited accounts and ex-
ercised certain judicial functions. 1t
was a weak attempt to organize a
government, but it answered so long
as the common peril of British sub
iugation lasted. When that threat
was withdrawn by the peaceof 1853,
tho selfshness and je~alousies of the
states became intense and threat
ened to snap the feeble bonds that
held them in union. The congress
became the laughing stock of the
country, and the best men Stunned
it. It had contracted debts in the
prosecution of the war, and, the
| states neglecting II refusing to pay
their quotas, congress IA protested
and dishonored, for it had no power
to lay and collect taxes. Ithad made
commercial treaties with foreign
powers, and the states refused to al
low in their ports the privileges
guaranteed by the treaties. Con-
gross was a mimic show, the butt of
jealousy and ridicule. Great things
we're demanded of men who could
do nothing.
Each state made its own tariff
law. IF one, with a view to raising
money to pay its pressing debts, fix.
ed a high rate on foreign goods i'm
ported, another would adopt a lower
rate to attract commerce to it's ports.
1t was hence impossible for the
states to make a beneficial use of the
power to levy duties on foreign
goods. And besides commerce be.
tween the states was hindered and
bad blood was engendered by duties
levied by one state on goods coming
from another. New York laid a
duty on firewood coming down the
sound from Connecticut and upon
garden truck crossing the river
from Jersey. Out of these and
many like things grew the convic.
ton in the minds of u statesmen
and people that "a moro perfect
union was necessary; that We
must have a national government,
to which should be intrusted al
those general powers affecting espe
cially our relations with foreign
countries and the relations of tht
states with each other, and includ.
ing such as we're necessary to the
general defense and welfare.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-05-09
Hia Broker,s Advice.

Hicks-Want to consult your
broker? There's nc. dependence to
be placed upon the advice of a
broker.
Wicks-Not with some brokers
perhaps, but I have every confidence
in Pootsinkalls. I've consulted him
a hundred times, and + never re.
gretted 1t.
Hicks-And you always follow his
Advice7 =
Wicks-On the contrary, when he
says buy I sell, and I buy when he
saws ell.-Boston Transcript.
AT PARTING.
10, with a last goodby,
In this gray hour you die
To us, as we to you; . -.
Parting is dying, too, *
And distance, heart to heart despairing saith.
Is but . name for death.
Tomorrow we shall say,
"Our thoughts reflect today -:
His quiet room up stairs,
The lonely look it wears;
For all the house seems desolate and dim
With want OF only him.
What household things shall stand
Hallowed because your hand
Has touched theml We shall miss
Your help in ehat or this, a.. r..
And treasure even trivial words you said
AS memories Of the dead.
You will bear with you thus ~
Remembrance of us;
And, writing now and then
OF stranger lands and men, E.
Your tidings from afar shall reach us here
As from another sphere.
just as il you. ct last,
That greater sea had passed
Whose winds and waters yearn
Outward and never turn,
And. looking through the waste of silence lone,
You called from the unknown.
Even death is nothing more
Than opening Of a door
Through which men pass away
As stars into the day, ::
And we, who see 1t not, blinded by the light,
Cry, ''They are lost in night!'
Thus ever, near or far.
Life seems but where We are;
Yet those We bid goodby
Fin death is not to die,
As you, departing from our daily strife,
Go hence from life to life.
Clasp hands, and now FAREWELL
The words a passing knell, .
But ripening year by year,
Life triumphs there as here,
Nor dark nor silent would the distance be
Could we but hear and see.
A. st. John Adcock in Spectator.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-05-09
Nothing Like Asking.

Il was Oh a stage that runs llp
through Napa county" said Attor-
ney Martin Stevens, "when I passed
q farmhouse, with a half dozen boys
playing about the yard. Outside the
gate were a half dozen fat pigs, with
tin cans tied to their stubby tails.
The cans were filled with rocks and
ratified like cowbells every time a
pig moved. The porkers stood glar-
ing at each other while trying to
make up their minds whether to run
and squeal or stand still and grunt.
"'Nhy do they put weights on the
pigs tails?' inquired a young Eng
lishman who a going up into
Lake county to learn ranching.
Ito keep 'em from runnin all
tho fat off themselvesv explained
the stage driver.
".'Oh, ya-a-s! Novel idea, by
Jove!' exclaimed the Britisher.
just then we passed couple OF
dogs that were trying to gnaw the
tin cans off their tails.
But why do they put weights
on the dogs tails?' asked the Brit
Usher, who suspected the driver OF
lying,
"''Why, to keep 'em from chasing
tho hogs, O. course!
HE was satisfied that he had
much to learn about ranching."--
San Francisco Post.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-05-09
ErOnZe TurkeyS.

John Chamberlin, the epicurean
hotel keeper, prides himself on the
discovery to the outer world of the
superior excellence of the Rhode Is
land turkey in tirmness and sweet
ness of flesh and delicaoy of flavor.
These celebrated birds are the prog.
eny of ancestors imported from
England, and the hue of their plum
age has given them the other name
of "Bronze turkeys
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-05-09
The Siege of Lisbon.

When Lisbon was besieged by the
Spanish in the fifteenth century,
such Portuguese as We're captured
we're manned. Their eyes we're put
out, their noses, lips OF ears were
cut off, their finger nails or fingers
amputated, and in this miserable
plight they were sent back into the
city with the announcement that
when it was taken all the defenders
would be similarly treated.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-05-09
What Did He Mean?

Two young gentlemen met in one
of the P%ittsburg parks, according to
The Chronicle Telegraph. One Of
them was wheeling his firstborn son.
"Ah, good morning, Mr.. Belle
field" said the proud father. Now,
isn't this a pretty baby?"
1T is, indeed, said MI. Beilefield.
II have eve seen your wife, but
fancy the child must take after its
mOther.'
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-05-09

Animals are still cruelty tortured
on board the cattle ships plying be.
tween Ireland and English ports.
They roll about in bad weather and
are manned or tramp1ed to death,
they get blinded with the fumes OF
their own exhalations, and the dam.
age done to them as market produce
entails. o loss Of $500. 600 a year.
The American shippers make hu.
manity a part Of the investment and
land their cattle IN excellent condi;
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-05-09
How to salt" Almonds,

To prepare sailed almonds blanch
them by pouring boiling water over
them and rubbing the brown skin
off with q rough cloth. When they
are blanched and quite dry, measure
them, and ever each cupful of nuts
pour a tablespoonful of the best
olive oil. Let them stand for an hour
and thon sprinkle Tablespoonful of
salt over each cupful, mixing il thor
oughly. Spread them out or a fiat
tin pan and put them in a not toe
hot oven until they have become a
delicate brown.-Ladies Home Jour.
nal.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-05-09
ASsAlLlNG OUR LANGUAGE.
Its Pronunciation a Matter of Eewilder-
ment and Freaks.

Its Pronunciation a Matter of Eewilder-
msnt and Freaks.
A writer in The Atlantic Monthly
fercely attacks the English language
as being the freakiest and most I'M
reliable of any in existence, Ho
says: The words Of our language
might indeed be compared to the
countless leaves on the millions Of
trees in the world. each one of
which Is to a certain extent a law
unto itself and develops individual
peculiarities. l believe it eve hap
pens with any other tongue spoken
on this globe that people of culture
and even learning are i'll doubt as to
the proper pronunciation OF any
word and go to the dictionary to
settle the matter, finding often
enough that doctors disagree. l
have given some time i'll my life to
the study of foreign languages and
know that in all of them certain in
flexible rules govern certain com.
binations of oonsonants and vowels,
40 rarely. if ever, departed from
that it is possible at least to ap.
proach from books alone q correct
pronunciation. But i'll English who
ever knows from its spelling how a
word will get itself" pronounced?
Woe to the misguided foreigner
who should attempt to learn TO
speak our idiom from the printed
page only! / know of one such case,
attended, as might be supposed, with
most disastrous consequences. 1t
was that of "a German who came
here during the war, and having no
means enlisted in a German regi-
ment. In the leisure of camp life
he undertook to learn English by
himself by reading Dickens.
But, ye gods and little fishes! To
this day this man, who, it must pc
admitted, has exceptionally little
ear and equally little ambition,
speaks of the "won1y thing" he can
do and of the ''pewblic good" and
uses a jargon in general which it is
simply wonderful any American
mind should grasp the meaning Of.
But, then, for the matter of that,
why, really, should it not be
''wonlv" and '~'pewblic?' Can we
give the slightest reason why vow.
els sometimes have n sound and
sometimes another?
A little composition such as this
shows the mystery of our lronunci-
alton: THAT day, having some
chores to do and no choice about it,
/ went into the garden, but stopped
to listen to the chorus on choir OF
birds, although | had al ache in my
stomach from eating too much spin.
ach and q pain in my head from the
heat. My ear vas not affected, how.
ever, and it being still early I Cut
down q pear and found in it a pearl.
Otherwise it proved a disappoint'
ment, which l loved not. 1t was
somewhat tough and gave me &
cough, and as ] had not bought the
fruit ! let the bough slip back
There was no use, though, in hay
ing a sour soul, so I set off on a lit
tie journey, making a tour of thu
garden. My wife had not been able
TO sew, yet I had intended to SOW
some corn, but a SOW with her little
had eaten it, while the owl cam
forth to drink from her bowl. |
being near noon, ! took out my hool
to read, and having read some tim
marked with a bit of lead such pas
sages as had the lead
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-05-09
DisTuised.

A certain German professor of
music to be met with in English
drawing rooms is an entertaining
old gentleman. To him recently a
lady said, when one of his compost
tons ha1 just been rendered by one
of the guests:
"How did you like the rendering
of your song, professor?"' ,54 Y.
WAS dot my song?" replied the
professor. II vas not know him.
London Tit-Bits.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-05-09
The

There are SO called cheap stores in
Jersey. I happened to be in n OF
them. In the back part of the store
l saw a tub stenciled "Butterine."
I asked the clerk whether he pro-
nounced the zine" like the ''ine' in
"nine," or like the "een' in sixteen.
"Oh, no, We do not pronounce it
at all, was the smart answer. 1--WE
call it butter. Retail Grocers' Ad-
vOcate.