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THE JIOIt.M.MJ OR EGOS 1 AX, WEDNESDAY, AI'RIL 8. 1903. t (Drqpmian H BH BirTIO! RATKS. invahiabi.t in advancb. Mali.) Dll. Snfi1y fnclud.a. en . tllr. fun1w Included. month.... I'allr. Funrtny ln-luJad. thr. mr-nth.. .43 l'Uy. Furtaajr included. on month.. l)lly. without Sunday. an Jar J y"? Lai;, wlttiout Ki-n.lav. six month without frurdny. thra month.. 1 I a Uttiv. without Sunday, on month J Sunday, m yr J-JiJ Waakiy. i, ,,r (,i.,l Thursday ... ISO Bnnday and wakljr. can yaar 1 BT CARRIER. Ilr. )tmIa Included, on jar S2 tally, fturdny Included, on month TO HOW TO RKMIT nd potoBira manay fdr, pra older or pronal ch-lf on your local bank titnmpa, coin or currency r at th iimlir'i rHk. Olv notoltlr ad ra la ul. includln county and atata. rOSTAOH HATED. Cntar.4 at Portland, oron. Poatoftlc a Eocond-Claaa Matur. ia to i4 riH 1 i t a, rit'i cnt 0 to 44 F. rota to Kl Pa cnta PVralan poMa-. doubl rat. IMPORTANT Th pojtul law ar atrlcl. KwKptpn on whtrh pontaa ta not fully vrpald ara not forwardd to dtlnatlon. EASTftRX Bl'SINEM OFFICK. Th 4'. E'ckrrltB Wbd A"J Nw Tork. room B 60 Trlbun bulldlna Chi-aa-o, room 610 .113 Trlbun bulldioc ItEPT ON SALE. rhleaco. Audltcrlum Ann: PoatofTj'-a Ka to. 17 Uaarborn tret: Erruplr Ka Ptand. . . t. TanJ, Mtnn.N St. Marl. Cnmnwclal tatlon oloraifn Spring. CMo. Pall. H. H aovar.--Hamilton ana K-ndrtck. Eavanraanth atrt; Trait Iook tttor. 1J14 Flftnth trt; U. V. HanMD. B. Rica, Otnrf Caraon. Kanaa City. Mo Ttlckrkr Olfar Co.. Klnfh nd Uiltut: lomi N Co. Mlatrrapolla M. J. cavanauah. 00 South "Third Cincinnati, O. Toma Nw Co. llnrlud, O. Jam Puahaw. 0T a- a,.rlrr m-aat naahlnalon. !. C fchbltt Hmil. rn ;lADa avrntia; Columbia Now Co. I'lttahnrc. la Tort I'llt Nw Co. I'hlladrlphla. Ta. icyan I Tnrator Tick t Off!.; I'tnn N CO.; KarabU. A. P.. alio Lanctr avanua. Krm ork I lly Holallnc nawtuda. l Tark Ftnw. UStti and Broadway. -d and I'rnadwar and Jtroadway and UtHh. 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Sutfar atraat. Oakland. tY. H. Johnaon. Fourteenth and Franklin streets; N. TVheatley; tfakland ews Stand; B. E. Amoa minaior flv waaona; TVelUrahaxn. B. O. t.olrlAald. N. I.oula Follln. Fureka. Cal. Call-Chronlcla AsTncy; Ku teka N'lwi Co. PORTT.ANn. WFKNKSnAY. APRIL . llaOB. MR. BRTAM 4)N MtlNKT A44AIN. Sir. Rrynn soys Hint "froc colnaRp of sllvrr has hrrn pllmlnstctl ss R r litlrdl lssu, for thorp Is money rnough now." "But our position In 1S96." he rontlmir, "hsR hrrn vlndlraterl by the course o events. Money then wsr sesres; it is novv abundant. Hiirl the silver question Is no' longer an Issue." The silver fucstlon Is no lotiRer an Issue simply bprusc Mr. Bryan was beaten In lSiK, and Sualn In 1900. Those events restored normal mone tary conditions, which had been de stroyed by the continual sirltatlon for free coinage of silver for twenty years. Repeal of the stfver-purchase act nd defeat of Mr. Bry.n brought (jolt! out of hiding places, started the move ment of (told hack to the United States from countries to which our silver leg islation for many years had been ex pelling It. and restored credit through out the country and confidence erciy where In business. There is more money now than In 1SS6. because gold that had been expelled from the coun try by the cry for silver has been re called, credit re-estiibllshed thereby, and basis afforded for a much larger Issue of paper currency. What made money scarce and caused almost com plete suspension of credit was the per sistent and Insane howl for silver; and the very same consequences would be repeated, if the howl were now re newed and kept up. as then. But. of course, since the people have learned their lesson, any repetition of the de mand by politicians for free coinage of silver would merely txclte their de rision. That folly Is dead. Mr. Bryan's present statement is merely In the nature of an apology for himself. 'The quantitative theory of money." he says, "has been proved to be cor rect." That is largely true. Indeed. But the country kept the standard by defeating him. and got the quantity too. It was nothing but the crazy cru sade against the gold standard, of which he finally took the leadership, that reduced the quantity of actual money and produced the scarcity. The country was on the very verge ff losing the gold standard, and of falling to a paper currency based on silver, or to a paper currency re deemable in nothing. It was saved only by the heroic measures of Presi dent Cleveland, followed by the defeat of Mr. Bryan. Though the danger o the repetition of the silver folly, and of the' incon vertible paper folly, is past, there still are enthusiasts, not a few, who believe sincerely, no doubt, that a commercial millennium could be opened by un limited coinage of silver, or by a flood of promissory notes, "issued direct to the people." as called for by our friends of the People's party. Of this Illusion It may be said, truly, that not the wildest dreams of the alchemist, or of those adventurers tVio sailed In ciuest of an Eldorado, were more ex traordinary Instances of the human power of self-deception. This prodig ious fallacy has its origin in the equivocal use of a word; and from this fallacy Mr. Bryan, though he has been making progress during the last dozen years, has not yet fully recov ered. He and his followers have got into the mental habit of applying the name money to bank notes and to Treasury notes as well as to ;old coin: and the paper being current as well as the coin. It Is imagined that with both alike we buy goods. But the truth Is we buy only with gold coin, to which alone the name of money ought to be applied. No bank note. Treasury note or paper certificate in any form, or by whomsoever issued, is more thhn an instrument of credit. It Is an order, and a security (so long as the party issuing it Is solvent I for a sum of money, and is good for the sum It calls for only so long as gold can "be ob tained for it. In his thought on the quantitative theory of money Mr. Bryan confounds these notes of all kinds with the money In which they are to be redeemed. We have more of the notes now than formerly be cause we have mfire gold to stand for them: and we have more gold because we have ceased to expel gold from the country or to drive It Into hiding at home br ceaslnB the threat" of free coinage of silver and by stopping the purchase of silver for Issue of paper upon it. Mr. Bryan's recantation Is not clear enough nor full enough to dispel all the fears of the country as to his falla cies about money; and If he shall now go down, for the third lime, like a. drowning man. never to rise, his final exit will be due to the fear. In the great centers of business and Indus try throughout the country, and espe cially In the Eastern States, that the money question may again be present ed In some form on which he cannot be trusted to act with Judgment, pru dence and knowledge. (TOPI A AND RI.TKH U. The Socialists of Oregon appear to be supporting "the new legislation," apparently under the belief that any serious disturbance of the old order must, be favorable to their ideas, the ories and purposes. They do not ex actly know what the new scheme Is. or what It may portend; but It seems to mean change, or upset, and that is enough. When the celebrated letters of the still unknown Junius were appearing, Johnson wrote a pamphlet, even yet famous in political literature. In which he made some reply to the "Great Un known" noting therein that all the agitators of the Kingdom were parti sans of Junius, though few of them could comprehend htm. and fewer still could see the force of his great rhe torical style or discover the subtleties of his allusions and of his diction. But, said Johnson, "all this Is of little consequence to them, since those who cannot And his meaning hope he means rebellion." Such or similar appears to be the attitude of some, of our people of Oregon towards "the new legislation." If they can't under stand it. yet they will support It, be cause of their hope that somehow It will prove to be "overrulin' and up set tin'." lTtopian visions aro "about," in plenty, and have been since the days of Pinto's Republic, and perhaps much further back. "As the rainbow In the spray of Niagara." says Professor Goldwln Smith, "makes a cataract in a river, the appearance of Utopias has marked cataracts In the stream of his tory. That of More, from which the general name Is taken, and that of Rabelais, marked the fall of the stream from the Middle Ages Into modern times." The dream, through out the various stages of Its existence, has remained "all compact." The state is to organize human equality and per fect Justice. To this end the state Is to be the sole capitalist and the uni versal employer. Productive Industry is no more to remain in private own ership or under private direction. The state is to own the capital, direct tho production and distribute the proceeds. Everybody is to live In plenty and Jus tice Is to lift aloft her scale. "No man." as an enthusiastic Socialist writer puts It. "any more has any care for the morrow, either for him self or for his children: for the na tion guarantees the. nurture, education and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave." Now It may be that Oregon, hy "the new system," is to lead the way to this elyslum. It is evident that not a few of our active Intellects devoutly be lieve It. THE HARRIMAN MSR4:F.R. It has never been clear to the aver age layman why the I'nion Paclllc, a thousand-mile railroad, beginning at Omaha and ending at Ogden, could be In the strictest sense of the word a "competitor" of the Southern Paclllc, with Its 4000 miles of road, extending from New Orleans clear across the continent to l.os Angeles and thence up to Portland. As the short road and the long one were hundreds' of miles apart, and for practically the en tire length served a territory not avail able to both, it seemed hardly possible that one road could be prohibited from acquiring the stock of the other. In his answer to the suit brought for dissolution of the Union Paclflc-South-ern Pacific merger, Mr. Harrlman de nies that the stock of the Southern Pacific was bought for the purpose of restraining trade or for perfection of a monopoly. That he has grounds for his denial was made plain several weeks ago, when a member of the In terstate Commerfce Commission was quoted in the New Tork Journal of Commerce as questioning the right of the Government to interfere with the ownership of the two roads situated so far apart and serving territory that could not by a wide stretch of the Imagination be declared competitive. The Union Pacific, divorced from the Western roads with which it now connects, would be a valueless piece of property. When It came into posses sion of the Harrlman interests the con nections to the Pacific Coast, by 'way of the Central Pacific, which had al ready come Into the control of the Southern Pacific, were such that it was of vital necessity to the Union Pa cific that it secure a better outlet to the Coast. Two ways were open for getting this outlet. One was construc tion of a line paralleling the Central Pacific, an enormously expensive un dertaking. The other was purchase of the line already built. But the Central Pacific was not obtainable sep arate from the remainder of the Southern Pacific holdings, and, to pro tect his Union Pacific and Insure it an outlet on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Harri man bought control of the Southern Pacific, and through it fell heir to the Pacific Mall. The Oregon Short Line and O. R. & N. were also added to the Union Pa cific system to obviate the necessity of building another line into the rich traffic-producing territory In the Pa cific Northwest. Aside from the ap parent right of Mr. Harrlman to pur chase these necessary extensions to his Union Pacific, it is not at all clear that the effect on traffic would show any change, even should the courts order dissolution of the merger and sale of the properties now held by the Union Pacific. It would be folly to assume that these properties would be more valuable to some other system than they are to the Union Pacific, and nat urally. If the sale shall be ordered by the courts, the property, will simply fall into the hands of Mr. Harrjman's friends and the effect on rates or serv ice would be imperceptible. The eHect of Mr. Harriman's sale of the Southern Pacific to on Of his friends, who could bo depended on to operate It In accordance with Mr. Hart rlman's wishes, would not constitute, a victory of overwhelming proportions for th Government. A HI R4"H AN ft riTOMI'NITT fK'AMlAL It Is doubtful whether any woman' reputation was ever vindicated by a horsewhip wielded by herself or by a pistol shot discharged by her husband or brother. Anything that tends toward notoriety Is to be avoided by womanly women as certain to make a bad matter worse. The schoolboy may be excused for making use of the nstic argument in settling disputes, or as a penalty for "too much talk," but the woman who employs physical vio lence as her champion makes a mis take that Is inexcusable, first of all be cause such action Is unwomanly and again because It brings her,, not vindi cation, but notoriety from which all true women shrink. It is unfortu nate for any good woman when her reputation needs to be defended, but this sometimes happens. If she Is wise she wllf give the calumny over to silence as the surest means of plac ing a quietus upon It. A church row with a preacher or elder on one slda and a woman or two on the other Is disgraceful enough and deplorable enough when It Is confined to tho "sacred" precincts of the church building. When It Is noised abroad, as In the recent ease at Salem, by the thwack of the horsewhip In the hands of a woman or by a brutal blow from the elder's un-Chtistlan fist upon the mouth of a woman, It becomes In decent to a degree and Is a scandal to the ntlre community. If the brethren and slslers of the Free Methodldt Church In Salem can not dwell together In harmony. It Is surely not too much for a self-respecting community to ask that they be less noisy and violent than were these In their demonstrations of piety and principle. ' The world Is wide, good people. Why not go your, several ways In peace? Go to, charm your tongues, eschew the horsewhip as a regulator, and save the church and the commu nity a scandal. THR 4i41l I.Il DIVORnK. It Is likely enough that Mrs. Howard Gould is not as bibulous as her hus band alleges In his answer to her di vorce suit. One can conceive of sun dry excellent reasons that lie might have for exaggerating her love for the flowing bowl and the exhilarating wine cup. If he could convince the court that her life Is one continuous sprtee, beginning with cocktails when the rosy dawn arouses her from ' blissful slumber and ending with fiery cordials and Inflammatory highballs when she sinks drowsily Into the arms of Mor pheus, doubtless he would not have to pay her so much alimony as he would were his spouse a teetotaler. Thus doth her husband's cruel thrift mag nify the convivial peccadilloes of poor Mrs. Gould, and lead the Idle public to Jeer at her life as though it were an Incessant debauch. Certain literary works ot recent date lead one to be lieve that, even if Mrs. Gould Is as bad as her callous spouse makes It out. still she Is no worse than many of her fair sisters In the exalted circles of New York society. In Edith Wharton's "House of Mirth" the women are principally oc cupied In playing bridge and swallow-zing copious libations of strong drink. Seldom has gambling been so thor oughly Irrigated as that of Miss Whar ton's heroines of the better classes. When they are not In the act of mak ing a bet or devouring their food fhfy aro drinking grog. Ope would think that In "The House of. Mirth" de bauchery had been carried, to tho limit, but Mr. Upton Sinclair shows In his "Metropolis" that Miss 'vVhrtr ton was far from revealing the worst of the truth. She treated the dames of New Tork society very tenderly In deed, unless Mr. Sinclair is a preju diced witness. He makes his queenly j-oiing girls toss down a drink of whisky without the quiver of an eye lash. Nay, they toss down a continual succession of drinks with all the satis fied aplomb of an old toper. In reading "The Metropolis" one constantly ex pects these sweet young things to en hance the dramatic Interest of the tale by going off Into a fit of delirium tre mens, like Zola's hero In "L'Assom molr." How much of this never-ending spree tn high social circles is real and how much imaginary it is, of course, Impossible for any one to know with certainty unless he is permitted to sun himself In the glory of that enchanted world. It may all be scandal begot ten of envy. It may be fact. When women have nothing to do except grat ify their senses there Is no reason why they should not become sots. The current talk about the Innate morality of the sex has little foundation. Under sufficient temptation they fall Just as men do: and the temptation which be sets a female who has nothing to oc cupy her time except a vapid round of Inanities must be something fearful. Perhaps the wonder Is that they do not become homicides and adulter esses as well as sots. Some of them do, unless the reports are false. , Very likely Mr. Upton Sinclair has something yet to learn about the Inner circles of the elect, but what he re lates of them has at any rate the as pect of truth. According to his aston ishing book, the women of New York's best society not only drink like oid topers and gamble both day and night, but they also smoke and swear. Mr. Gould avers in his answer that his wife is given to profane language of the most shocking kind, which seems to corroborate Mr. Sinclair. Are these little indelicacies the result of the modern athletic cult among idle women? Has the right to play golf, ride and hunt brought with it the right to imitate men in their vices also? Is the difference between the sexes disappearing among men and women of the upper classes? Is it conceivable that there Is anything in the womanhood of these drunken soci ety dames that can still be martfed? Most of them are childless by reason of a species of murder which'the law cannot reach, and those who have children abandon the wretched crea tures to hired nurses while they lavish their own affections on cats and dogs. The modern Idolatry of these nasty brutes originates in the perverted pas sions of society women who think It bad form to love children but the height of elegance to kiss a cur. Is It not a little ridiculous for these women to pretend that their families could possibly be more despised and neglect ed than they are already? If Mrs. Gould is the sot her husband declares she is. then he is entitled to a divorce. A woman should not be compelled to live with a drunken hus band, and no more should a man be compelled to live with a drunken wife. From one point of view, the more di vorces these people procure the better. It Is a method of hastening the extinc tion of them and tholr kind. From the same point of view thetr drunken ness and other vices are also not with out consolations. Perhaps we may look upon them as Nature's way of clearing the world or Its human rub bish and making room for a better race. A Linn County correspondent, who has been quite prominent in urging w-hat he calls "our referendum. 1. e., the referendum against the appropria tion for the State University, offers this convincing argument In support of the wisdom of his position. In the premises and the unquestionable qual ity of his Judgment: "After nearly 70 years fn Oregon I surely know as well as any one can what are her needs along every line of earnest endeavor." There are doubtless those who will protest againHt the logic of this as sured self-etlmate as neither sound nor conclusive, though all must con cede Its modesty. The truth Is that wisdom does not always wait upon length of years, nor can It be said to find expression In vain theories. A man who points to the fact that he has lived in Oregon seventy years as conclusive evidence that he knows as well as any one possibly ran what the state needs In every line leading to her advancement forgets, apparently, that there were certain people here before him. some of whomlll linger on tho stage, whose Judgment In regard to matters educational, Industrial and political would not be confidently put forward as the essence of true wisdom. Length of years Is unfortunately pot always a guarantee of knowledge. Thoughtful persons are much more apt to ask what a man has done, when he proclaims his ability to guide the state In Important ways, than how old ha Is. Portland has apparently "arrived" at a position on the commercial map of tho Pacific Northwest. In proof whereof we note In tho Seattle Times the statement that "the bank clearings of the cities of the Pacific Coast, while not particularly Inviting as a whole, are conspicuous by the fact that Spo kane made phenomenal gains, while Portland did exceedingly well, Seattle only fair, and San Francisco and Los Angeles very poorly." This graceful admission of the existence of Portland would have been noteworthy In any circumstances, but when It appeared In tho Times In the heavy blackface type for which Colonel Blethen Is famous. It possesses unusual. Interest. Edward VII of England Is a good, eaay-going, passive sovereign. He dis likes responsibility, and the cares of state bore him. As long as no more onerous function than that of the opening of Parliament, a state banquet or a family dinner Is required of him, he does not shirk. He was brought up to duties ot this class and has always discharged them with dlgnity and hospitality. A crisis In the minis try Is different. He finds Biarritz un der such conditions more restful than London, and, being In a position to follow but his own Inclinations, he hies him across the Channel and leaves the other fellow to do the wor rying. Bonds having been voted, let the School Board permit no delay In "car rying out their purpose. Tn the mat ter of housing public school children Portland for several years has been too slow. By the time a new building Is finished it Is overtaxed for room. So rapid Is the growth of population on the East Side that It Is probable the new High School cannot be com pleted before the present two High Schools are overcrowded. North of Sullivan's Gulch reside a people not guilty of race suicide. We may ex pect soon to hear demands for a fourth High School. The retention of horses hy city fire departments Is probably a bit"of senti mentality. Automobiles would do -the work better and for less money, unless late experiments are misleading. The ambition of manufacturers to make tho automobile the universal vehicle may not be far from realization. Not only do they turn out costly ones for fire departments, but they have placed on the market several cheap but ex cellent de-signs for farmers. In a s-ear or two gas engines will be plowing and making hay. Emma Goldman as a shrewish agi tator reaches few hearers and of that few disgust the majorlt-: But Emma Goldman, the martyr, harried and per secuted by the United States, Canada and Russia, maif yet become a center of destructive 'influence that will test the resources of society. How much of the danger attributed to this half crazed termagant exists In the Imagin ations of police officers hungry for cheap notoriety? If there are any other members of the Gould family who have any dirty linen to wash while the spotlight is playing on the family, they should get in quickly. It is a coincidence that Howard Gould should attempt to prove how bad his wife Is simultane ously with the attempt of the rest of the family to prove how bad Anna's husbands, past and prospective, seem to be. "Don't you wish to have a vote yourself in the election of Senators?" Well, you won't get it, unless your man shall be nominated: and then Tiery likely he will be defeated before the people. Big humbug in this "don't-ycru-wlsh" appeal. W. J. Bryan has made a discovery. Ha announces solemnly that "the sil ver question is no longer an issue." It took him ten years to realize a fact that was apparent to everybody else when the ballots were counted in No vember, 1898. i When you consider that real Presi dential campaigning cannot begin un til after dog days, and that the first important convention isn't due for two months, doesn't it appear that we are having a surplus of oratory right now? It may be assumed that Katherine Clemmens Gould also has withdrawn opposition to her sister-in-law's mar riage with the French Prince. TEACH THRU M. ACTU AL BVMSRSS Advlar That School I htldrea Reefive t.eeinrea Br Trade Kaperls. VANCOUVER, Wash., April 7. (To the Rdltnr.) How can we put our school In contact with the practiesl and business world? This Is a question that has hot thus far been solved only In a limited way I would auggest the following plan: Let a merchant give a lecture to the pupils of the proper nae on the essentials of his business, how It Is conducted, the manner In which the detail are managed, how success in his line la accomplished, how good are bought and sold for cash Snd on credit, what the profits and losses are. in short, giving the facta a he know them In his business. These talks or lectures should he re peated at stated Intervals by different bitslnesa men of the school district, until the lesson Is thoroughly Impressed upon the mind of the pupils. The above pro cess could he related with all classes of business. Professional men could be per suaded to Impart knowledge to the pupils. A practical knowledge of farming snd stockralslng could In the same way be brought Into our schools. Such a plan as I - have outlined would bring the parents In closer .touch with the pupils snd teachers of our schools. Such kind of teaching would bring our young people face to face with the men and women who are actually doing the work of the world. Pupils and teachers are apt lo forgot that books are but the evidence of the actual facta to be taught, and as the lawyers ptit It. books are at best but secondary evidence, while the plan above outlined would bring the evidence of facts one atep nearer to the facts to be proven. The mothers of the vartotts school dis trict could render s. service of untold value to the young girls, hy Imparting to them a knowledge of weeping the home, and training the children. And doing the many things necessary fn a mother's life. We are ton apt In our schools to educste and graduate our scholars away from the practical Into the ' theoretical. And most of us find that after our school futya are ended, it takes several years to get back to a starting point where we can go at the actual business of life. O. R. PKRCIVAL. BATTI.RtlHIpa WORK A. mPCCTKO Practical F.nglneer Say Aceldent On Trip Would Have Been Surprise. PORTI.A.N'D. Aprlt 7 (To the Rtlllnr.) I am pleased to see by an editorial In yesterday's Oregonlnn that It takes a sensible view of the performsnoe ofour battleship from the Atlantic to the' Pa clllc. It would rnther have been a sur prise should there have been any ac cidents. , Our battleships are supposed to be and no doubt are, constructed of the best material obtainable., and they have also large craw and are well equipped in every sense of the word. Why should they not mske the trip, successfully, especially when they were prohsbly only going shout half-speed? If they had done whnt the "Carltnn" has done, "full sieed ahead" from tho time the pilot was dropped until she completed her 14,ono-nifle run. It would have shown what the ship and men were capable of. I believe that our American battleships are Just a good and manned as well ns those of ny other nation, hut to laud thla voyage as a great feat Is sheer nonsense, at least to those who are familiar with sea life. I spent ten years In the engine-room of deep-sea steamers and am familiar with what Is expected snd what Is done hy mercantile en gineers. Whenever they get "full speed ahead." they are expected to keep up that "llrk" until they "get there," he It 1(T1 miles or lo.ooo miles. And when the "Carlton" got to Sun Francisco. If the engineers got a week or ten days to tourh up things hofore agnfn starting on another M.Ono-mllo trip, they would con sider themselves fortunate. Our hnttleships are all right, but there Is no use for us getting excited over thla) yachting trip. J. A. PATERSON. RANKERS MABI-.R FOR BAD AI1VK E .Gerntsny Make Them Pay for I'nfor tanste Isreatmeats Reenmmenrtrd. United States Consular Reports. Counsul-General Richard . Gucnther. of Frankrort. advises that the Supreme Court of the empire, tho last legal reort In Germany, has. In several cases, fixed the responsibility of banker when advis: ing Investments to their clients. One of the latest decisions of this kind was rendered against a hank which, upon receiving sn order from a customer to purchase 30,000 marks (mark 23. cents) of a certain class of mortgage bonds. In stead of executing the order wrote to the customer advising him to tiny the mort gage bonds of another company, stating that the latter were equally safe and pos sessed some advantages over those or dered. The customer thereupon changed the order, according to the bank's advice. When the company Issuing the purchased bonds failed he brought suit, against the bank for the recovery of the money in vested. The court,' in its decision against the bank, held: "The bank has not done its duty In taking care of Its customer's in terests when it recommended the pur chased bonds to be as safe as those orig inally ordered to he purchased, because the bank- should have known that the latter had the quality of legal or trust Investment funds for widows and orphans, wards, etc.," whereas the bonds advised and bought for the customer lacked that important qualification. The bank was not asked for Its advice by the customer, but obtruded It. It was also proved that the bank received a much higher commission for the sale of tho bonds purchased than the percent age that would have been obtained In supplying the bonds originally ordered. A Blar Crop of Eaatrr Mile. New York Evening Post. According to passengers on the steam ship Bermudian the lily crop on the islands 1s large this year and prices will be lower. There was a swarm of flower merchants at the Quebec Steamship Com pany's dock to meet the steamship, all eager to get first news of the buds to be delivered this season. Owing to the blight of previous years and the early Easter last year, lilies were not abundant and prices were high. This year the crop averages high and already preparations are being made to harvest the buds. The Bermudian on her trip from the island arriving in New York on April 17 will bring about 10,0"0 boxes of the fragrant blossoms. These boxes contain five dozen buds to the box and wholesale on the dock at from 3.50 to S6 per box, according to the length of the stem. Last year the retail price was from $1 to 1.50 per stem, but the wholesalers on the Bermudian aay that the present crop is of such quantity and quality that the larger stems will retail at about 75 cents. The Noble Helle. t Louisville Courier-Journal. "Prince" Helie de Sagan Is a noble man of the Republic of France, which is something like being the Earl of Paw tucket or the Grand Duke of Kala mazoo, and a good deal more unsub stantial than being a titled Seminole of the Florida Everglades or a royal Yuma Indian of the cactus country, for the nobility of the uncivilized tribes of American Indians at least rests upon the popular recognition within the tribe. while the people of France repudiated the nobility some time ago. And yet the noble Helle de Sagan says that his rank prevents him from working for a living. The late Jay Gould was a somewhat un scrupulous exponent of frenzied finance, but he was at least a man. If he were alive today he would doubtless regard getting first a Count of the Republic of France and then a Prince whose titles are read in a dead language, and who are too noble to earn a living, a penalty sufficiently heavx to fit his crimes. FIS IICOM MISSION STILL EXISTS Attnrnejf-Oenpral Hinder Opinion Affecting Fishing: Iftdnstry. ORPXJON CITT. Or. April 7.-(0pe-clal.) Attorney-General Crawford has rendered a decision of particular In terest to the residents of Oregon City and other Clackamas County points, who are engaged In the fishing Indus try. In which he declines to uphold the ruling of the Justice t'otirt of this city.. The opinion was gl--en at the request of Msster Fish Warden Van Iusen. who questioned the action of Justice Stlpp In the esse against Henry Hlmter, charged with Illegal fishing on the Clackamas River. Hlmler's at torney contended that the state could not prosecute for the resson that fish ing wa prohibited within two mile below sny rsck maintained by the Klsh Commission of the Cnltod States Government, and that the Fish Com mission had ceased to exist, having been absorbed with the establishment of the United State Bureau of Fish eries. Attorney-General Crawford says th United States Bureau of Fisheries snd the United States Fish Commission are the same, and any right and privileges conferred on the Klsh Com mission by the law of Oregon In like manner apply to the Bureau of Fish eries. Mr. Crawford cites rulings of the Government officials, and the At torney Oenersl of the United States has ruled that the Fish Commission wsa never established by law. A com missioner's office and certain subor dinate office were created, and tr.eae are referred to hy Congress a the "Fish Commission." Mr. Crawford say: if th caa wna dismissed ao'ely upon the belief that the t'nlted Btt t Ftsh Commla alon no longer exlata, bt't has been auper aWled hy the 11nl-td 4tle Bureau of Flatt eries, that action was taken tinder a ml apprehension of fart, ami yll not warranted bv the attppoaad than of th Federal law, which. In faet.had ner been made. FIIFS PROTEST TO HIS KINK Captain of Aluterkamp pleads lg noranre .Astoria Shipping. ASTORIA. Or.. April 7. (Special.) Cap tain H. Schumacher, master of th Ger man ship Alsterkamp. filed a protest In the custom house today to the fMmo tine imposed against the vessel yesterday by Acflng Collector of Customs Parker for failure to hrlng a consular hill of health on her arrival from Caleta Coloso, Chile. The protest Is In the from of an affidavit. It asserts that during the latter part of January the ship was at Csleta Coloso and received orders to proceed to Tort land In ballast. There being no (Jermsn Consul at Csleta Coloso. the captain went to Antofoaasta and. this being his first trip as msster. he took the advice of the Jermn.n Consul there. He found It was necessary to have a bill of "health and procured ona from the customs authori ties at Caleta Coloso, but neither the Ger man Consul nor the Chilean officials In formed him It was neoessary to secure an United States hill of health. Had be known this, the Cnptaln aver, he would have procured one. The protest will be forwarded to the Department In Washing ton. The stPsmer Shuna Yak cleared at the custom house today for San Plcgo with a cargo of ooo.onn feet of lumber, loaded at Prescott. The crew of . the barkentine Echo, which arrived yesterday from Caltao. was paid off at the custom house today. PROHIBITIOV IS UMATILLA rretlloletl Tlint All tint Two Tre- rlm-tsj In County Will io Ilry. PRNDT.ETON. fir.. April 7. (Special.) That the number of places In Cma tllla county where one can quench a thirst will he reduced to two at the election In June, Is generally admitted by saloorimen. That the entire county will be ns dry as a sage brush plain Is the declaration of the anti-saloon workers. The two towns where the dispensers of wet goods expect to maintain their supremacy are Pendleton and Weston. They are tlso hoping to be able to keep Echo In line, hut they are not banking any on It. Echo voting alone would ho able to maintain Its reputation of being the only true frontier town remaining In Oregon, but the new town of Her rnlston is in -the same precinct as yet and It Is believed that the sntl-saloon element in that end of the district will bo strong enough to make It nil dry. The belief that at least one Pendleton precinct will also go dry Is so strong that the Pendleton Brewery Company is making strenuous efforts tn dispose of its saloon In that precinct. Milton and Freewater are both dry already, Freewater having followed the example of its sister town two years ago. Athena. Pilot Rock, Adams and Helix are all counted on to return ma jorities against the saloons. SLOWLY DECREASES ITS DEBT Astoria's Resources Still Behind Its Liabilities. ASTORIA, Or., April 7. (Special.)-The report of City Auditor Anderson for the quarter enrling on March, 31 shows the financial condition of the city to be as follows: ' LIABILITIES. Municipal warrant . 77,272 K7 Street Repair Warrants rta.ST Street Warrant 14.S2S 02 (Mty Hall Warrants 112.00 Municipal ftnnds IRO.OoO.oo Btrect Bond 4.0H8.22 Total Liabilities 2S,097.S RESOURCES. Taxes Outstanding $ 47 Oftfl K9 Real Property 66.2"0.00 AsaeBsmente: Due 17.524.91 Cafh on Hand 14.282..16 Total Resource $14S.9ejS.AH While the report shows the excess of liabilities to be S140.983.S6. still In spite of the expense incident to building a new City Hall and a new engine house and an increase in the fire department, the Indebtettness of the municipality is being gradually reduced. MAT TOTE TO INCREASE STOCK Hood Rlvef Apple Union Holds Its Annual Meeting. HOOD RIVER, Or., April 7. (Special.) The annual meeting of the Hood River Apple Growers' Union, which took place here Saturday, showed that the organi zation had a successful year and that its gross earnings were 19000, expenses $4000 and net earnings $5000. The meeting was well attended and the fol lowing directors elected: G. A. McCur dy, C. Dethman, O. L. Vanderbllt, C. H. Sproat. V. Wlnchell, L. E. Clark. J. H. Shoemaker. P. H. Martin and E. H. Shepard. The most Important proposi tion that came before the meeting was one to increase the capital stock of the union from $2000 to $25,030 for the purpose of erecting a cold storage plant. After some discussion the meet ing was adjourned until April 18 when the question of increasing the stock will be voted upon. Light and Power Trust Formed. SA"N FRANCISCO. April 7. The gas, electric light and power companies of San Francisco and Central and Northern California are consolidated under a deed of trust for J45.0CW.000 from the California Gas A Electric Corporation to tho Union Trust Company of San Francisco. They are controlled by the Standard Oil interests. SILHOUETTES nX ARTHUR A. O K K1QN R . If Christ (thoulrl fnm tn this country now h would probably have a hsrd tlmf with th American Mfttngln and C-llirt n Wekly. t A ftkeptlc is one who doesn't know nrd I honest enough to admit it. FJvery tlm I rend of a (nshlnnnlt!'" wri rflnR t aeem to hear th" low mirKltrn laughter of the divorce lawyer. The man who Hups must find it hard to send his name thundering down Hie nam. My tna of total depravity to evlnc an Interest In Hrarat'i Independent v-I-eajrue. k I find that mrtM of the people tn thin world who ara robbing Pr tor forget tn pay Taul. Jt la always ensy for men who liva tn monnstcrtrs to loll others how to resist temptation. At 21 we export to pni. our lives he coming famniw. A fw ynrs latT w a devnto mnat of niir time trying nnf to hecnmft notorious. Whr there's a gren t deal of amok ft you may always report to find thi tobacco trust rinse by. Cheer tip; tilings will t-,k h"Mer onn It's almost time ftr p-fk-a-boo waists to fnaM thlr appearance. Wise men do not carry lanterns befnr the blind: Neither do they arsue w H h fonts. A New York woman hiughf'd hrrlf to death the other djiy. Sin- miift have jut received wor4 that her alimony had b'n Increased. In spite of the agitation of the more enterprising, rnrtlnnrl goes right on par ing streets with th iiinterlnl iimm! in that 1own where t he worm dirt h not. M hen tM ( nmn flown. "When hours of light their hurried progress ma ke. Iay after day the uin of time innreslnff: From which naught Is returned and non may take The merest pittance hark again from Miser Fate. And when the sun, the Urcnt Accountant, leaves The terming workshop wher his million toil. He gives the keys to Watrhmen of thi Dark. "Who signal fmm the world's high battle ments. And night comes down. In nn Old Man's Ollmnmnnf. It was so Inng ago that none aurvlvn to remember that gnMen one Rumour, Save oil I v me. I mm nlil n vrrv. vMf old that tho world has al together changed; grown gray nnd hitter In Its heart, like me. I trend Iho by-paths nf memory with timid, unsure foot now. and my ryes are blurred with the mists of years. I lope the one familiar ways, but even now in the twilight my . steps ever lead me to the 11 tire of T'rad Hopes. It Is not a far pilgrimage, hut U Is In a different realm from that wlv-re men are busy. There are long, unramiy beards of funeral muss upon Die trrr-s. These solemn oak trees which shade the, ground from the buoyant sun until the very ferns and ivy are pale with the sick ness of the tornh. Thoye trees no Inpgf-r deck themselves fn the Joyous garb they wore when they were young with me. They will put nn no green this year. There are weeping willows and yew which still put fnrth to canopy -low-mounds under which are prisoned sleep ers who shiver with the mould s dank chill. The acrid flavor of rosemary and rue rise from the sod as I grope my way about among tho spectral stones which have been set up there. Mehens have half obliterated the Inscriptions and It is harder each time I visit there tn apel! out what Is written. The Place is becoming over-tenanted and the dwellers are crowding one another. I can hear them mur muring, low and sobhingly. In their dreams, complaining that there s so lit tle room. The dead can no loneer find rest nor comfort in their death.' Now and again a faint familiar voire comes to me out of the contralto requiem which the somber, reluctant breeze brings to my dull ears. The Place Is overt enanted, yrt it al ways growing larjzer. KHt time ! go there Its boundaries are widr-r and I am more aweary with making my way arros its unending vista. But I m-ver yet have failed to find at length the one spot I seek most often. Jupt as the niht wind Is strumming on Its niojinhig harp In and out of the narrow ainies. Some day I shall hare no more strength -for the quest, but still, then and forever, even when I lie with the rest murmuring in fitful Rlumhrr, my spirit will wend lis way to that loved mound and on it will place a wrejtth of memorj' one that is white like the stone at its head a wreath of Immortelles. STATE BUYS SCHOOL BONUS I if Best Bidder for Issue to Provide New Cliffs School. CLIFFS, Wash.. April 7. - Special.) The school district bonds have been sold. Ao election was held in the Cliffs school district recently, and it was derided to bond the district in the sum of j00o for the purpose of erecting a new sehool house. Upon opening the scaled bids it was found that the state was the lowest and best bidder, therefore the Ftate will purchase tho bonds. Plans and specifica tions are now hein drawn up for the new school house, and the contract will be let at an early date. Walker Case Thrown Out of CfMirt. NEW TORK. April 7.-.Iudge Hough, of the' United States Circuit Court, today granted the motion made by Maxwell Kvarts In the interests of Kdward H. Harriman to vacate the service of a suh pena on the latter brought by Hem v Melville "Walker. Thfs action by Judeo Hough throws the rase out of court. The motion was granted because, counsel for Walker, when called upon by Judge Hough, were unable to controvert Mr. Evart's statement that there was no property here. Walker asked permission to recover 1'. 000,000 from Harriman and other defend ants for alleged breach of contract. Canning Company Wins Appeal. SAN FRANCISCO. April 7 In the case of the Columbia Canning Company anfl R. A. L-eonard, appellees, against W. H. Hampton and J. P. Nelson, appellants. United States Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decree with instructions to the court below to sustain tho demurrer and dismiss the complaint- , I