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impos tiers would have sought, in order to pre-
clude the certainty of detection They proclaimed
the resurrection of Jesus in the very city where He
was crucihed, in the very presence OF those who
planned procured, and executed the deed They
nrcached it fty-three days after those same enemies
rs seen m dead upon the cross; they preached
the city, seeking the occasions when contradictions
would have been most successful.
Unbeef accepts another mystery! But even grant
that they wished to deceive, would they have had
the courage to do so? They preached Jesus crucied
they boldly said to the Jews, to the leaders of the
people and to the Roman Governor: " You have
cruched your Godl thus accusing them OF the most
heinous crime imaginable they invited the tortures
which they had their Master undergo.
Who were the with such indomitable cour-
age? Behold them! poor fishermen, weak, cowardly!
When the Master was yet living, they fled for their
lives from those same leaders whom now they defy,
and the Master is dead. Behold Peter the leader
of the twelve while the Master is yet al e. denying
that he knew the manufacturing himself for the
fear of servants girl! Behold him now, with his
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any of the passions so natural to the human heart
even in the pursuit of the best and nobest pur-
poses. Can one conceive that lie could be
carried out SO adrotly that not in SO
But this is not all Many criminals can withstand
the most searching examination, the most damaging
testimony without sign of fear, only to break down
ANONYMOUSLY in the face of torture.
How many well-authenticated examples can his
tory produce ii men suffering cruelty ignonniny,
and finally death for the sake of lie? doubt if
can be cited even in thousand years. Yet at this
one period are we to believe that there were five
thousand persons-women as well as men-banded
together suffering together dying together for the
sake of what they knew to be false. Does it not
could be the greatest hypocrtes and liars the world
had ever known, and at the same time the worlds
greatest heroes?
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THINK not thy time short in this world, since
the world itself is not long. The created
world is but small parenthesis in eternity,
and short interposition, for time, between such
d state of duration before it and may
be after it. And if should allow of the old
tradition, that the world should last six thousand
years, it could scarce have the name of old
since the first lived sixth part thereof,
and Methuselahs would exceed its whole
duration.
However, to pa1liate the shortness of Our lives.
and somewhat to compensate our brief term in this
world, it's good TO know much of it /;
and also far possibly in lieth to hold such
theory OF times past, though we had seen the
same. He who hath thus considered the world, as
also now therein Things long past nave been answered
by things present; how matters in age have
been acted in another and how there is nothing
new under the sum- may conceive himself in some
manner to have lived from the beginning, and be
old as the world; and if he should still live en-
twould be but the same thing.
1t is brave act of va1or to contemn DEATH but,
where life is terrible than death, it is then the
truest valor to dare to live; and herein religion hath
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resurrection, CELSIUS Porphyrius and Julian the
Apostate used this argument, and this only. Will
position to form Judgment of the facts than such
astute men who burning with hatred for
Christianity? The pretensions of modern infdels
argument The argument Of the rst enemies of
Christianity shows the weakness of modern infdeitv
The arguments of modern nfdelity make it clear
what little regard they entertain for this argument
of antiquity. The argument of ancient inhdelity
shows the fundamental weakness of modern unbelief
For all time the argument of CELSIUS and the Apostate
must be regarded the buwark of infidelity. Yet
to-day, how absurd it isl
The sepulcher is sealed, and guard is set, with
instructions to keep watch until the third day.
They Roman soldiers, and they sleep-all sleep
at the critical moment. The tinid Apostles form
design to teal the body-the dead body. They
SUR Use the sodiers-the guard still sleeps-they roll
away the heavy stone from the of the tomb
the guard still sleeps-they the body
and the guard sleeps The sleeping guards testify
that the Apostles stole the body while they slept
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f1lId Iloo IliS oNAihi vi btlS
resurrection rests upon the
testimony of men who
swear that they were asleep
when the event that they
swear to transpired. If
the Jews believed this, if
the Romans believed this,
why were not the disci-
pies punished for defying
the power of Rome? What
foolishness, united with
temerity unheard of, for
the Apostles, who fled
when Jesus lived, to steal
a dead body and proclaim
a falsehood in the teeth
of their enemiesl We need
ed only this argument to
complete our chain of evil
dence in favor of the resur-
rection.
To conclude then, the
disciples were not deceived,
neither were they deceiv-
ers. The counter argu-
ment of infdelity rests on
a self-confessed perjury.
We must then, as reason
able men. accept the testi-
mony of the disciples of
Jesus Christ. If then, our
hearts to-day swell with an
exultation not born of
earth, if our joys are
more perfect, our sorrows
less crushing, our burdens
lighter, and our hopes,
borne up heavenward on
swifter, stronger wings, are
brighter, there is reason
for the hope that is in us;
for Our faith is not in vain.
Easy it is for men who live
at ease. with no domestic
trials, with no strong ex-
ternal temptations, to hold
to the faith of their fathers;
there? Is it not the lot of
down by discouragements,
stations, which breed doubts
ne very foundations of our
.ttempts to strengthen the
: beneficial, l trust, welcome
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Our adversaries furnish the most irrefutable and
our last argument The Jews proclaimed that the
body of Christ had been stolen from the sepulcher
while the guards asleep This is the only
answer of the first enemies of Christianity and it
must be considered the strongest against the
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companions, before the
multitude, preaching with
calm defiance-and the
Master is dead! Hypocrites
are they? Then assign some
reason for such -lparal-
leled hypocrisy. Is there
any advantage in this life
that could be gained by
such hypocrisy? And what
reward will the hereafter
confer upon a lie?
Even had they wished
to deceive, it would have
been impossible. Saint
Paul informs us that
Christ was seen after His
resurrection by more than
five hundred persons. His
testimony carries peculiar
weight, inasmuch as he in
vited as witnesses many
who were yet living. In
the midst of his enemies
not one of these witnesses
denied the fact. That this
is true is proved by the ar
guments of all the earliest
adversaries of Christianity.
What follows from this?
That about five hundred
people were united in a
lie, were bound together to
propagate a new religion;
that not one among SO
many was conscience
stricken and revealed the
imposture; not one who
realized the enormity of
his crime, how easily it
might be detected, how
severely punished, and how
little he was likely to gain
by his completely in such
a deception.
Once formed, the plot
must be sustained; not one
must falter; not one must
be frightened by the cons
contradict the other; not o
as to deny in his answers t,
circumstance of his narrati
fellows; not one must b
division, or discord; not o
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PROPERTY ADVANCING.

NEW YORK. Nov 2i.--The most
valuable Of the properties which tht
board OF estimate decided yesterday
to acquire for the projected Brooklyr
bridge terminal. is the Stats zeitung
building. The price put upon II by
the city's appraiser Is said to be about
Ss,000,Ooo. When erected In 1878 the
building togethe' with the land on
which 1t stands, cost 100000. 1t is
a five story structure of granite
The Stats Zeitung building doubled
in value In three months,
The Stats zeitung some time ago
bought a site for a new home on the
West side OF Elm street. from Duane
TO Pearl. where modern twelve story
building is to be erected.
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During the three months considered
In the report Of Health Commissioner
Darlington just sent to Mayor Nc
Clellan, exactly 191 persons found life
in New York too distasteful to make
1t longer bearable, and in consequence
escaped 1t by the suicide route--a
surprising total Of more than two a
day. Shooting seemed to be the most
popular route Of self dest uction, since
OF the total number IS selected It..
Twenty died by carbolic acid, twenty
hanged themselves, seventeen took gas,
one died by Paris green, nine by
Jumping from high places, one by
chloroform, and one by leaping in front
or train. Only three women hanged
themselves, while seventeen men died
by this means Sixty-seven persons
were killed by elect tc cars during the
quarter, Brooklyn living up to her
reputation in this respect by account
ing for forty-one who apparently did
not merit the title Of trolley dodgers"
The total number Of 965 deaths by ac-
cident and negligence du ing the three
months furnishes startling commen-
tary on the cheapness Of life in the
eountry's greatest city
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Six thousand one hundred and
seventy three people living in one city
block of five and one third acres
That is the reco d of the most con-
gested district in New York where
human beings literally pack them
selves together like sardines. This
block is not as might be expected on
the lower East Side, but on the West
Side of Central Park between sixty
first and Sixty-second streets. AL
together there ale flfty-one blocks in
the city having population of more
than 5000 each and Of these 81
are on the lower East Side below
Fourteenth Street, seven on the East
Side above Fourteenth Street, six on
the West Side, and one in the middle
and now called the "Fifth Avenue Fed
Grafton Districts" Overcrowding In
the city is undeniabIy on the inc ease
and the prophecy Of New York as
the living place of only the very rich
and the very poor is always gaining
weight. For example in 1900 the com
bined population Of the 81 most con-
gested blocks was 132,SS1 while IN
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SUCCESSFUL OPERATORS,
Orphan Boy Almost Blind is Perma'
nently Cured.

CHICAGO, Nov "a, Seven year old
Edward Behringer an orphan was pre-
vented ON becoming blind by an OPP
GRAFTON, said to be the first of the kind
ever performed in the United States
at the city Polytechnic Hospital A
worm which was slowly eating It's
way through the ball OF the eye was
removed, The Behringer boys home
Is on truck farm near Niles, Mich,
He had been In the habit OF eating
radishes and othe, truck just as Il
came from the garden and Il Is sup
posed one OF the radishes contained
the baeini OF tapeworm, which In
some manner lodged In the eye,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-11-25
New Workers Win Spend Ten Mil
lon Dollars.
METROPOLITAN OPERA co.
New Bank to be Started to Promote
Financial Interests Between the
United States and Several
Other Countries.

NEW YORK. Nov. 94,--Just about
one dollars worth Of music for every
one of New York's residents is to be
TURNED loose during the coming sea-
son; for the city with all the appea-
ance of being music mad has COM
pieted plans for spending something
between 100000 and s4,ooo,o0o on
sweet sounds, vocal and instrumental,
The greater part Of this fortune for
which when spent the public will
have nothing to show, win pour into
the Golfers OF the Metropolitan Opera
House during the seventeen weeks
season beginning next Monday. The
five regular pc formances week will
separate New Workers from $4,000
for each one, the seventeen Suday
concerts will cost $4,000 apiece. and
the special performances and benefits
will bring the total up well above the
million mark In other words In tais
one playhouse alone New York will
spend every week enough TO pay the
salary Of the President Of the United
States. to say nothing of the Vice
president and half a dozen senators.
And this is only one item. There Is to
be an opera SEASON at the Manhattan
also, and If the tenor, of whom little
is known, is anything of success,
at least s750000 will probably he
spent there, for while one swallow
can't make a summer, one opera sing
er can make an opera season. Aside
from the ope houses New Yorkers
will probably pay out another half
million dollars at Carnegie Hall,
where something like IT'S concerts
will be pulled off during the season.
The ten Boston Symphony concerts
alone will net $4,000. The Philhar-
monic. however. carries off the palm
as money maker, since after paying
fits director $1,000 for each perfor-
nance it nets more than $4,000 on each
pair of concerts. Other concerts and
musical will add another 100000 to
the total of s4,000,000 which New York
is about to blow in on music.
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New York has just taken one more
step in the direction of assuming that
first position In the world of finance
so long occupied by London and con-
tested BY Berlin and Paris, a position
Of honor and powe which have count
ed for much in maintaining the boast
ed English trade supremacy. now
steadily and rapidly giving way before
the advance of Yankee energy The
latest step in this invasion is revealed
in the announcement that prominent
New York financial interests have
just established an American bank
25,0000,000 marks. The chief aim of
the new bank, it is stated. will be the
promotion Of CONNIE cial and indus
trial relations with the United States
and other countries Of the three Amer
icas, 1t is only in recent years that
such an advance has assumed impor-
tant proportions. Practically the first
move on the part Of And lean finan-
cial interests in the direction Of ex-
tending trade through facilities af-
forded by the establishing of Amer
ican banks in foreign countries was
made in Cuba, at the close Of the
Spanish h-American war, when the
Trust Company Of America, then acted
as fiscal agent in the island for the
United States government, Geplaced
the cumbersome and practically use
less Spanish banking system by mod
ern methods. Since that time Amer
leans have invested about $500, 600 in
banking enterprises in Havana, sim
gle bank established in that city with
in a few months having been capital
lied at s5,OOG0OO Now Americans
enjoy practical monopoly of Cuban
trade,
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The old Sinclair House at Broad
way and Eighth street, one OF the
city's most famous and ancient land
marks, is TO be torn down to give ~ay
to the needs of modern business. Fif-
ty years ago when the house was the
center of social life and the eating
place par excellence OF the city such
an announcement would have aroused
a storm of protest not only in the city
but from all the county east Of the
Alleghenies, so well was 1t known
For nearly one hundred years 1t has
stood with varying fortunes. Built
originally by DR.. Parker 1t was in
tended as residence but was aban-
doned later as being too far outside
Of the city limits. It was bought by
Robe Sinclair and turned into road
house. Its reputation grew until It
was synonymous for fine game dinners
and rare wines. Coaching parties
wound up there and many elopers
made it their Gretna Green. Later 1t
was no longer outside the city which
extended almost TO what is now twen-
ty-thi Street, and it's fame increased.
In the heart Of the theatrical district
# was the most famous resort Of its
kind for many years. Politicians Of
the Tweed ring as well as men like
William Cullen Bryant and Horace
Greely ate there. Sinclair finally sold
the house to VIM. Niblo who in turn
disposed Of It to the present auction
eer. 1t is to be demolished to make
way for a twelve-story mercantile
building.
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BE CHARITABLE

to your horses as well as yourself.
sort--your horses need not suffer.
Try bottle Of Billiards. Snow Lini-
ment II cures all pains. ]. NJ. Ro-
berts, Bakersfield. Mo-. writes: Il
have used your linament for ten years
and find 1t the best I have ever used
for man or beast" Hart's Drug Store.
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AS dressing for sores, bruises and
burns, ChamberlaIn's Salve Is all that
can be desired. It Is soothing and
healing In It's effect. 1t allays the pain
of burn almost instantly. This salve
is also certain cure for. chapped
hands and diseases OF the skin. Price
rs cents. For sale by Frank Hart.
Leading Druggist.
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SUNDAY TRAVEL TO PORTLAND
Increases and $3.50 Round Trip Rate
via A. g. c. r. r. is Popular.

Travel from this city to Portland
on Sunday at the low round trip rate
Of $3.50 is on the increase and many
enjoy that day In the metropolis each
week This rate will be continued
throughout the winter and the volume
of travel toward Portland every Sum
day would Indicate that the public
appreciates II. iI-S-tf
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JOHN NEtMsTREET.

CHICAGO, Nov 24.-John Helm
STREET, who was 1O1 years old last
January, died at the Chicago Home for
Incurables yesterday He was born
at Rome. N. Y. in 1906.
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NICK PApAzoEREs,
THE GREEK DIVER,

has just received now diving ma
chine from the old country. Diyes
from GO to 80 fnthoms In shallow wa
ter: stays down half day at time,
Leave orders at AIT Bond st. Market,
or D. Fnlangos. clifton.
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1905 the number had increased 10
i5T,SS, or nearly $4,000, with more than
500 people to the acre nothing uncom-
mon. OF course rents are one great
cause OF congested population, for the
laboring man cannot AFFORD tho nee
essary space at the present prices, one
expert Investigator has reported four
dollars per oom per month for each
room Of tive-room tenement as the
lowest price. at which decency can be
required. While the Investigating
showed that $i.064 per year was the
lowest adequate living cost fur a man
With a wife and three children, actual
show that In many cases
families Of this size must live for far
less. Thus does the problem OF pre-
too great n congestion Of pop
alation become daily more apparent
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PROPOSALS.
NOTICE FOR BIDS.


Bids are hereby asked for the com
ple,lon Of the superstructure and In.
terror finish OF the new Court House.
Bids TO include wiring and plumbing,
but not heating. Said building 20 be
completed In accordance with the
plans and specifications on file in the
county clerks Office. All materials now
on hand and paid for by the county
to be considered by the bidders. Bid
ders 10 enclose certified check in tho
sum OF per cent OF their bid that
they viii enter Into contract when pro-
vision for payment is made Bids 70
be filed with the county clerk on or
before December 15, 1906. The court
reserves the right to reject any or al
bids. BY order Of the County Court
]. c. CLINTON.
County Clerk
Astoria, oregon, November 9. 1906
11-f0-s6t
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HELP WANTED.

WANTED--GIRL FOR GENERAL
housework, Apply 8. nanziger a
Co.
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The character OF the mosquito long
DETAINED, has at last found defend
er in the person of Mr. Doty. who has
been engaged in stamping out the
insect in territory contiguous 10 New
York. The doctors experiments while
eminently successful have evidently
shed some new light on the make up
OF the mosquito, fo he pictures It's
lot as a sad one, being quoted to the
effect that II either dies Of starvation
or under the strain Of captivity or
else is frightened to death II II can
escape these evils which heset II the
doctor sees no reason why 1t should
not live to a comfortable age. instead
OF for the brief span generally assigned
to 1t. This theory at least relieves
mosquito slaughter to one OF Its hor-
rors, for tender hearted persons win
doubtless be pleased to learn that II
Is not a CORY and brutal end which
the insect suffers when swatted by an
irate victim, but instead an instanta-
neous and comparatively painless
death from fright at the swiftly de-
scending hand. 1t is the price OF a
delicate sensitive o ganization. But
while DR.. Doty has done something to
remove the idea that the mosquito Is
not coarse and bloody robber, ne
has nevertheless been working hard
to exterminate him, and with such
success that New York's beaches may
yet become enjoyable and the Jersey
be removed from the stand
ing list Of summer jokes. Working
with an app lopriation Of less than
$4,000 the doctor tackled Staten Is
land and by a comprehensive scheme
Of bitches drained the salt marshes
where the pests bred. Strange to say
these marshes are now practically solid
ground for in spots where the ditch
diggers sank almost to their waists
in mi e, the moving machine harvest
ed crops of hay this fall And the
has practically vanished.
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FOR RENT-TWO NICELY FUR
nlshed housekeeping rooms. with
bath 414 Exchange st. il-20-tf
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WANTEp--RooMs.
MISCELLANEOUS.


TO OWNERS OF TIMBER CLAIMS
and timber--wc win buy for CASH
any good timber tributary to Neha-
lem River. win deal with owners
only No others need answer. Write.
giving full particulars. 10 BOX s, u.
p. station. Portland. oregon.
f1-2g-90t
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FOR RENT.

FURNISHED FRONT ROOM FOR
light housekeeping at 2Os Bond
st, tl-22-1w
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CAN FACTORY BU1IDINGS-BIDS
will be received for pIlIng and erect
ing can factory buildings up to and
including November 2s, 1906. Plans
and specifications can be had at the
office Of Sanborn Cutting Co. Right
reserved to reject any and all bids.
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wANTED--LADY OR GENTLEMAN
OF fair education. to travel and
collect for firm OF s25o.00o capital.
Salary, si.072 per year and expenses.
Salary paid weekly and expenses ad-
yanced references required. Address
with stamp. J, A. Alexander. Astoria.
ore. i1-20-3t
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wANTED-TWo GOOD SUBScRIP-
tion solicitors to work. First class
proposition, good pay. Apply Astorlan
Office.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1906-06-09
viii Need More Money.

Washington, May S0.-What men,
bers of the house committee on sppro-
priations regard as an absolute disre-
gard OF the law authorizing the con-
struction of the new building for the
department of agriculture is revealed in
the hearings betUre that committee on
the sundry civil appropriation bill. In
1908 congress appropriated 81, 800, 600
for this building. 1t was the general
understanding that this was for the
erection of complete building for the
accommodation of the entire depart
ment.
1t was with some establishment that
the members learned last week that
"somebody"ha had ordered the construe-
ton of two wings of what may be some
day completed building and that the
two wings have practically exhausted
the 81, 500, 900 appropriated for com
plete structure. The wings, when
completed, will, according 10 testimony
given before the committee, be made
ouate to house the. department force
and congress viii be called upon to sp
propriste another couple Of millions &c
I'll the space between the tvo wings.