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vmvs- rip-wwv '""V? "pWIPS T? 'Bjppisswwr'pW 'P''P 3- tMrT!:F'WS-Wt!s - THE MORNING OEEGONIAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1900. Wlwg$Qoxivcm Entered at the Postofflee at Portland. Oregon, as second-class matter. TELEPHONES. Editorial Booms..., ICO Business Office 657 REVISED SUBSCniPTIQX RATES. By Hail postage prepaid), la Advance Dally, wttb Sunday, per month $0 85 Dally, Sunday excepted, per year 7 CO Dally, wita Sunday, per year 9 O0 Sunday, per year 3 Q Toe Weekly, per year............. 1 68 The Ceekly. S month. M To City Subscribers Dally, per week, delivered. Sundays excepted-15a Dally, pes- week, delivered. Sundays ir.e5uded.20e News or discussion intended for publication la The Oregonian should be addressed Invariably "Editor The Oregonian,'" not to tne same of any individual. Letters relating to advertising. subscriptions or to any business matter should be addressed slmpjy "The Oregonran." The Oregoalan does not ;buy .poems or stories from individuals, and .cannot undertake to re turn any manuscript -sent to Jt -without solicita tion. No stamps should he Inclosed .Tor this pur pose. ,. Puget Sound Bureau Captain A. Thompson, office at 1111 Pacific avenue, Tacoma. Box 855. Tacoma postofflce. Eastern Business Office The Tribune bulldlnc. New York city; ""The Rookery,' Chicago; the S. C. Beckwith special agency, New Torla. For 6ale in San Francisco by J. K. Cooper. 748 Market street, near the Palaee hotel, and at Goldsmith. Bros.r 30 Sutter street. Fcr sale In Chicago by th9 P. O. News, Co., 217 Dear-born street. TODAY'S LEATHER. Occasional rate; con tinued warm -weather; brisk southerly winds. PORTTAiOJ, FRIDAY, JAXUAjn' 12. OX "AWKWARD ATTITUDES." Little partisans find much fault with The Oregonian. It is to be expected. They never can -understand an inde pendent, newspaper.- Indeed, they do not want to understand it. A favorite theme with them. Is The Oregonian's "Inconsistency." Yet so inconsistent are they that they will themselves fol low their own party in all its tortuous coursesnow for expansion, now anti expansion; now for gold, now silver; now in bitter opposition to issues of paper currency by the government, now defending such issues and 'clamoring for more; now for free trade and now for a tariff that protects trusts a tariff so had that their own president (Cleve land) denounced it as "an act of per fidy and dishonor" and refused to sign it. But whatever bears their party's name or suits their party's present pur poses they accept, without a word of criticism or objection, regardless of its want of consistency with former posi tions of their party or its antagonism to safe and rational principles. 2vow here is the Albany Democrat. It seldom or never prints an editorial not devoted to carping at The Orego nian. It thinks it a pity that The Ore gonian should be "hampered with a Eig zag reoord" on tariff and other sub jects. First, let The Oregonian say that It doesn't feel the need of this sympa thy. During its career of many years this journal has found it necessary to deal with many questions, in their con stantly shifting phases. Discrimina tion has been necessary in examination of the innumerable phases under which such a subject as the tariff has been presented. Of course, The Oregonian could not expect such .as the Albany Democrat to know or to care anything about the actual facts in such matters. It is enough always for such to accept whatever is put forth in the name of "the party," and The Oregonian haB had no thought of trying to supply them with intelligence to understand anything. This journal is not a be liever in '"protection" as an economic system or doctrine. During many years it has made this plain. But It has not accepted the democratic party's method of amending the tariff. It has shown that method to be unfair, par tial, fraudulent, violative both of sound economic principle and of fairness and justice to various interests. The demo cratic party has not proposed a policy of tariff reform, and The Oregonian has shown it. But stone-blind partisans like the Albany Democrat accuse The Oregonian of "Inconsistency," because it has not accepted democratic tariff measures as true tariff reform. Even President Cleveland repudiated the democratic tariff act of 1894. In a let ter to the leader of his party in the house of representatives he declared that sound principles had been surren dered In the preparation of the bill; that the course the party was pursuing was well calculated to justify the charge of its opponents that it was wanting in abiHty to manage the gov ernment; that outrageous discrimina tions and violations of principle had been forced into the bill; and that such course, in view of the promises of the party, was nothing less than perfidy and dishonor. 2lr. Cleveland indig nantly, or contemptuously, refused to approve the bill, and it became a law without his signature. But it was good enough for the Albany Democrat, because it was a. party measure. Since that paper has asked "How docs The Oregonian like this little sketch of itself and of its attitude be fore the public?" The Oregonian will say that it likes it doubtless quite as well as the Albany paper will like this "little sketch" -of itself and of its party. The truth is that neither party has ad hered to any true principle In handling the tariff question. The republicans have adhered too much to extreme dogmas of protection, and the demo crats have devoted themselves chiefly to the effort to place the products of certain sections of the country on the free list, and to save protection for the products of other sections under the name of tariff reform at the same time looking out for the interests of the sugar, coal and iron trusts, as Presi dent Cleveland set forth in his letter to Chairman "Wilson. The Oregonian Is not disturbed by charges, of "inconsistency" in its treat ment of this whole business. It has not expected such as the Albany Democrat to follow any discussion of these com plicated Setails, or to understand where any principle lay. All such are too in dolent or too dense. It suffices them to pronounce the party shibboleth end carp at what they can't understand. He who takes the position that his party is right and always will he right on every subject, and that those who criticise it are always wrong, may es cape fatigue of mind and of spirit, and deem that escape sufficient reward. Such, questionless, is- the Albany Dem ocrat. The release of seized flour and the rule said to be promulgated leave something still to be desired. No flour, we are told, will be considered contra hand, unless intended for the enemy. A good share of the American flour, by the confession of its consignees, was! intended for the Boers. Why, then, should it he released? It is evident that the body of facts upon which an Intelligent view of the Delagoa affair can be. made up. is: inadequate ' Ihe Hale resolution should in due time bring this information, which would doubtless have come along in due course through Mr. Choate. The one thing certain Is that the excitement of hotheads, both in Germany and the United States, has been without justifi cation In fact a preliminary whose? ab sence Tarelyinterferes wtih activity of antMsm or race hatred. RECOGNITION AJfD ADMOXTTIOS. Portland pwes a debt of gratitude-to the nine merchants whose terms,, as trustees of the Chamber of Commerce, expired Wednesday. Theirs wa3 a busy year, and the new life given to the in terests of the city and the state at large by their enterprise and energy will long be felt. The trustees devoted, on the average, half a day a week to meet ings of their board, and of the general body. In addition, there was a vast amount of committee work, painstaking research and .preparation of reports. This was willingly and cheerfully done. General Beebe merits special praise for his visit to the East in behalf of the city. For several weeks he neglected his large private interests to devote his time to the welfare of the community. Perhaps the most important achieve ment of the Chamber of Commerce last year was the embarkation of troops for the Philippines. This was formal and substantial recognition by the war de partment of Portland's fine harbor. In line with this .accomplishment is the work the Oriental committee is doing for larger trade in Asia and the Pacific and for making Portland the depot for through traffic between the United States and the Orient. The decision of the chief of engineers. Indorsed by the secretary of war, to give the- mouth of the Columbia a forty-foot channel is the result of years of active campaign ing by the Chamber of Commerce and Its immediate predecessor, the old board of trade. The chamber has made wise choice of officers for 1SO0-190L Mr. Taylor, the president; Mr. Hahn, the vice-presi dent; Mr. Fleischner, the secretary, and. their associates on the board of trus tees, are men of large interests and long experience in commercial affairs. They are men In the full vigor of life, energetic, enterprising and conserva tive, and they may safely be depended upon for "the long pull, the strong pull and the pull all together" that counts. There Is nothing of the mossback in their make-up. Among the many sub jects commended to their care ar-e: 1. A SO-foot channel'to Astoria and a 40-foot channel at the mouth of the Columbia. 2. A drydock at Portland. 3. A smelter at Portland. 4. A "United States assay office at Portland. 5. Encouragement of hemp and flax growing and other industrial enterprises. 6. Boat railway between The Dalles and Celilo. 7. Trade development In the Orient. 8. Permanent general hospital at Vancouver. 9. Reduction of Philippine import duties. 10. Permanent exhibit or Oregon products. 11. Enlargement of the federal buildings- at Portland. 12. The Nicaragua, canal. 13. Enactment of laws for Alaska suitable to conditions existing there. The work the new trustees have be fore them requires not only their time and energy, hut the active support of the entire community. Great things cannot be accomplished unless the sen timent of the people Is behind the object sought to be accomplished. Continued work of the hardest kind will be neces sary to keep the government steadfast in its purpose to deepen the channels between Portland and the sea. At times, funds In excess of those derived by the chamber from dues of mem bers will be required by the trustees. Money and the substantial backing of all interests they should have. Port land's people must heartily co-operate with the trustees in every movement undertaken in the interest of the city. PIiAIXLY SAID. It is imperative that parents and oth ers having in charge boys and girls, men and women in an immature sense, recognize the fact that the individual safety that was one unquestioned feature of pioneer conditions in which everybody in the community knew and had a friendly interest in everybody else, no longer exists in our social life urban pr suburban. Evidence of this fact is, unhappily, not far to seek, since it has been spread with appalling fidel ity to detail upon our court records within a few weeks; while whispered but nevertheless revoltingly audible statements in regard to the attempted debasement of young boys by creatures known and hailed in the community as men, have supplemented the record of a murder of a lad that took place within the city limits a few months ago under circumstances that left no doubt that the mo'tive for the .killing was moat vile. That the danger that has tracked civilization to this state In the form of the sexual pervert, duly disguised with the cloak of decency, and dominated by a brutal cunning that enables its possessor to evade apprehension, or, being apprehended, to outwit justice, is not confined to the city is well attested in the story that comes irom a rural community in Lane county -of an al most Incredible outrage perpetrated upon a young girl on her way home from church, alone, last Sunday even ing. Plainly, this -was a preventable occurrence, and the means of Its pre vention were most simple. "It a girl cannot go to church alone in safety, where can she go?" it is asked. The answer is plain "If after dark, no where." If there is no one to go with her, she should stay at home, even though this means a monotonous, dreary evening supplemented by going to bed at S o'clock. This may sound harsh and unsympathetic. It has, on J the contrary, its basis in true sympa thy. It matters not that the young girl protests after the manner of the Inde pendent American lass that she is "not a bit afraid." Neither bravado nor courage, unsupported by physical strength, will save her from the assault of robust villainy when opportunity of- j fered by helplessness, darkness and solitude presents Itself, any more than innocence and trustfulness .will save her from the wiles of smooth-tongued, polished villainy that finds its opportu nity in long, lonely rambles. The sim ple safeguard of youthful innocence and helplessness Is in parental care and watchfulness that provide proper es cort for the girls of the family when going out in the evening, or insist upon the alternative of their remaining at home; that establish a basis of confidence between the boys and their parents, to the end that the where abouts of the former may at all times : be known, and the old-fashioned rule of j "early to bed" become the -law of the family. The prevention of crime against chll- di;en along these lines- should not be difficult, while of remedy after the deed is committed it is useless to speak. Surely, the men and women of a com munity, of the family, ought to be able are able to control the, children for the latter"s own good. Therein lies the only safeguard of innocence, the only sure protection of the physically help less from the-possible assault .of the sexual pervert. NEVER SURE OF HIS FACTS. The address of United States Senator J J)enew in memory of Vice-President Hobart is marked by his characteristic J fluency and fatal facility in the manip ulation of historical facts. To illus trate: Mr. Depew says: With Adams and Jefferson -was the mutual repulsion of the Puritan and the Cavalier. In Jefferson and Aaron Burr tne revolutionist -Was seeking to destroy the patriot. The practical JacTtson and the philosophic Calhoun were eeon at war. Tl'e man of action threatened to hang f the theorist, if he carried his ideas to tnelf logical conclusions. - This is absurd. The enmity between Adams and Jefferson was not born out of any such nonsense as "the mutual repulsion of the Puritan and the Cava lier." Adams was perhaps something of a Puritan, but, like all the Adamses, he quarreled with everybody, not be cause he was a Puritan, but because he was an "Adams." Fisher Ames was of Puritan stock, but he did not quar rel with everybody. Nor did Adams quarrel with Jefferson because of "the mutual repulsion of the Puritan and the Cavalier," for Jefferson did not stand for the Cavalier stock of "Vir ginia in his social or political theories. He came of well-to-tdo farmer stock, of Welsh ancestry, but there was no "Cav alier" ancestry or aristocratic quality about Jefferson. His father was well to do for his day, and Jefferson was a well-educated man, but he was of as radical democratic sympathies as Pat rick Henry. The only man of distinc tion In Virginia in the Revolution who was pf Cavalier stock was Richard Henry Lee, and he and Adams were always warm friends, as were Lee and Sam Adams. The "repulsion" felt be tween Adams and Jefferson was not thajt of Puritan and Cavalier; it was only the natural Adams hate for a smooth, skillful, successful political rival; the same hate he felt for Hamil ton, who was certainly not a "Cava iler," but who tried to "throw" Adams In his own party. This "Puritan and Cavalier" talk is all rubbish that has no historical foundation, and Senator Depew ought to be ashamed to try to make it do duty again In a speech. Professor W.Gordon McCabe, of Rich mond, Va., a gallant ex-Confederate soldier, In a noble speech made at the New England dinner In New York city on the 22d ult., treated this Puritan and Cavalier fetich with deserved con tempt. Among other things, Professor McCabe said: Even as thirgs were the typical Puritan of our time never saw Plymouth Hock, and no drop of Pilgrim blood coursed in his" veins he who "stood like a stone wall In the shock of battle," the perfect type of that glorious Scotch Irish stock from which we sprung- that daunt, less race, in whose- heart beat bo strong the fear of God, that there was no room left for fear of any other thing; while our Ideal South ern cavalier, "from spur to plume. the very etar of chivalry," Albert Sidney Johnston, the Idol of his Southern Ettldlery, wee of purest New England strain on both sides of his house. Not less ahsurd is Senator Depew's intimation that Jackson and Calhoun quarreled because Jackson was a man of action, a. practical man, while Cal houn was a philosophic' statesman whom the "practical" Jackson threat ened to hang if he carried his ideas to a logical conclusion. The truth, accord ing to historical evidence, is that Jack son hated Calhoun personally because Calhoun, in Monroe's cabinet, as secre tary of war, had denounced Jackson's lawless action in hanging Arbuthnot and Ambrister. Jackson never forgave a personal criticism, and while Jack son had-, defended the doctrine of state supremacy in the case of the Cherokee Indians vs. the State of Georgia, he be came a fanatic unionist the moment he found that Calhoun was the leader of the nullificationlsts. Mr. Depew's speeches are full of historical illustra tions, but usually, as in this case, not bottomed on historical facts. THE SOUTH: AFRICAN WAS. All news from South Africa suddenly stopped, about five days ago. Since then there has been absolutely nothing. Its seems to be the ominous silence that precedes great events. General Buller must now have from 30,000 to 35,000 men at the Tugela river, the passage of whloh at this season of the year is a matter of extreme difficulty. It can be executed only by a flank movement, which may not be possible without more transport service. In the total absence of news there is nothing but conjecture as to what General Buller is doing. But it may be set down as certain that very serious work is pend ing. If the passage of the river can be made, a mighty effort will be put forth to break through the Boer lines, but if the British gain a victory they will be compelled to pay a tremendous price for it. But they will pay It without flinching, if they think they see any kind of fighting chance. They are working up to the point of resolution where they will be ready to pay for victory as much as they paid on such fields as Albuera and Talavera. And yet such Is the advantage assured by modern arms to troops In defensive po sitions the British may go to defeat in all these efforts to end the war by hard fighting, and may only succeed at last through the superior resources which will enable them to wear their ene mies out. The British forces In South Africa will soon be twice as great as the greatest forces the Boers can put in the field. It is only the peril of their garrisons that makes present effort on the part of the British so urgent; for it has been apparent from the first that there was great danger that all these garrisons amounting at the beginning of the war to 24,000 to 26,009 men would be lost. Archbishop Nozaleda has asked more than he willget if Archbishop Chapelle; elects to reorganize the Catholic church in the Philippines on the basis of the administration of the affairs of the church in this country. In the matters of title to property and parochial au thority, he- wants restoration of the friars to the position they held under Spanish rule; the church to be allowed I to administer Its affairs without state interference; the teaching of the Cath olic catechism in the primary schools; the establishment of a new college for the instruction of native priests; con tinuation of parochial fees and, control of pawnshops. Many of the questions Involved concern only the Catholic church, and Archbishop Chapelle, as papal delegate, has full power to settle them, Religious instruction, in public schools is repugnant to Americans, and would not be tolerated. Once begun, there is no telling where it would end. Control of pawnshops is a civil func tion Archbishop Nozaleda probably is pleading the case of himself and the Spanish friars. The Filipinos- detest him. They remember him as the prel ate who recommended the suppression of the Tagal insurrection of 1896 by wholesale execution. At any rate, it io pretty near time for the Catholic church in the Philippines to go out of tne government touslness Representative Stephens, of Texas, has introduced a pension bill which provides that veterans, or others now pensionable, who shall possess $1000 worth of property, or who shall receive a salary from the' government or from any state, county, municipality or cor poration, in excess of the amount of the pension to which they are entitled, shall be no longer pensionable-. No more pensions, according to the terms of this bill, are to be paid to persons residing abroad who are not citizens of the United States. It also provides that the commissioner of pensions shall have the authority to summon pension ers before examining boards, with a view of ascertaining if their disabilities cannot be lessened or cured by treat ment, and, if so, to ascertain why the pensioner has not employed such treat ment. On failure to comply with the recommendatlonss to employ proper treatment, the pensioner is liable to be dropped from the rolls. Pensions to heirs of any person, except for military service, are prohibited, and the exist ing pensions repealed, except where the recipients show that they have become impoverished in property since the granting of the pensions. This bill ought to become a law. The Tammany administration in New York has. increased the salaries of office-holders $2,000,000 yeaTly and cut down the appropriation for free libra ries. In the meantime, the teachers of the city have vainly clamored for their pay for months, payment being de ferred in the name of economy, supple mented by the plaint of "no money." Still and this applies as well to the taxpayers of Multnomah county, who are chafing under the cost of official ism New Yorkers are getting what they voted for, either directly or in de fault of public duty, and therefore they merely advertise their folly or derelic tion by complaining, Early exhaustion of the borrowing power obtained by British authorities from parliament compares unfavorably with the more statesmanlike provisions made in similar case by our 'Congress, which promptly authorized emergency bond issues of $400,000,000 and due bills of $100,000,000. Revenue measures hur riedly started up additional income. We had plenty of money. Yet com plaint Is a necessary accompaniment. Britain is censured at home because her funds run low, and pur antis are scan dalized because we have enough and to spare. . . . Gotham Is endeavoring to solve the problem that has long perplexed civili zation the servant girl question. An economic association has been formed there to supply kitchen autocrats, but mistresses must furnish certificates of character and deposit acceptable proof that they are not unreasonable. An anxious public will await with bated breath the outcome of this deferential policy toward her ladyship, the house maid. Mr. Bryan's latest declaration of anti principles marks considerable ad vance over previous ground. The doc trine of contiguous territory only is abandoned, together with the alleged unconstitutionality of expansion. But as he finds the Filipinos unfit to be a part of the United States, is it too much to ask that he explain how, then, they can be fit for self-government? Quarrels between Free Staters and Boers are easy to manufacture. Wishes breed opinions with great fecundity. There Is not enough evidence of their truth, however, to do more than sug gest, for they do not prove, the old truism about the impotence of barbari ans to prevail against civilization, through their inability to combine. Delay in make-up of the state tax levy Is due to no fault of Secretary of State Dunbar, whose promptness in acting immediately upon receipt of the tardy rolls from the counties is to be commended. Multnomah Is tHewchief offender in this respect this 'year, ' as frequently in other cases. Mr. Edmunds thinks discriminating duties are sufficiently set aside by the reflection that they can also be used by our competitors. It Is curious he does not seem to see that the same point can be raised against the subsidy scheme he so unreservedly advocates. Were the Filipinos capable of self government they would have restrained themselves from making war on the United States. Their attack on our troops showed in a most striking Way their lack of power of self-government. The one mortal affront Great Britain can offer William will be to smooth over the Bundesrath matter before he gets his naval hill enacted. DIPLOSIACY WDLL EXOT7GII. But We Mast Be Willing: to Fish , . for Our Asiatic Trade. United States Investor. Nothing of a formal nature is to be ex pected as a result of Secretary Hay's re cent negotiations regarding the continua tion in perpetuity of our existing treaty rights in China; and it necessarily fol lows that the assurances about which we are now hearing so much are of no more real value than the paper on which they are written. Does any one, for instance, who is acquainted with the character of Russian diplomacy suppose for one In stant that the foreign office at St Pet ersburg imputes a serious character to the poHte note Which it has conveyed to the representative of the United States government touching its future policy in China? No one is -so credulous. The Rus sian foreign office Is somewhat notorious F for the ease with which it promises, and the still greater ease with which it un blughlngly ignores its promises. Its con ception of diplomacy Is truly Oriental and 1-mediaeval. The whole question of our future status in China rests, aslt al ways has rested, upon tho display of force which we are prepared to make. ' Let us not be lulled Into forgetfulneea of this fact. The question for us to con sider is, Does the Orient hold out to us trade possibilities worth the shedding of blood? This question might have been answered in the negative a few years ago, but not now. The East, and par ticularly China, is believed today to hold out richer trade prospects to the United States than to any other country pro vided free competition is not prevented by arbitrary and-high-handed sequestra tion of Chinese territory by European powers. It Is useless. to sneer at the mercantile greed, so-called, which Is likely in the future to embroil us in armed conflict with, more than one o the great powers. It Is as idle to attempt to stay the policy of territorial aggran dizement for trade purposes as it would be to sweep back the Atlantic. It will be well for this country, if it desires to se cure that trade with the East which should naturally fall to it, to keep it3 powder dry. Q ft 1 i. THE GOAIi OF THE) INFLATIONISTS. Drift of the Democratic Party Im nerinnry Money. Memphis (Tenn.) Scimitar (Dem.). The drift of the silverite inflationists to ward the populist doctrine of absolute fiat money has frequently been noted In ob serving the evolution of Bryanlgm In the democratic party. That this is the inev itable goal of the 16-to-l advocates Is ap parent; for having affirmed that money is "the creature of law," and that the government stamp can give 40 cents' worth of sliver bullion the value of 10Q cents, they cannot logically dispute the proposition that the government can make a bit of paper worth as much. And paper being more convenient to handle than sil ver, it should be preferred. This is certainly the view taken by John P. Altgeld, who 1b far and away the ablest of the "cheap" money apostles. In answer to the question, ,lWhat will be the status of silver in the year 2060?" he said: From present Indications both gold and silver will pass out of use as money and -will be sup plemented hy a philosophic or rational cir culating medium and meaeure of vahte. The absurdity of making the world's Industry, pros perity end haplness depend upon the accident f mining is already attracting the attention of all thinking men, and tne atlll greater ab surdity of haying a large portion of the ener gies of the human race spent In digging aorae thlng out of the ground that shall be a mere meaaure of value and he in Itself of no earthly use to any human being, when the government, under proper regulations and limitations, could furnish the country a. circulating medium and measure of values that would cost practically nothing. If the theory thus expounded will ha sound ICO years hence, it Is sound today. Time can have nothing to do with the question whether it is essential that the material of which money Is to be made should have Intrinsic value. Practically, therefore, Altgeld declares for the old grenback proposition, and would discard the precious metals as money material. In so doing he takes at once the posi tion to which the less courageous cheap dollar advocates are gravitating by de grees. AVERY SWEET TOOTH. Enormous Consumption of Sngrnr n the United States. The current number of the Sugar Trade Journal estimates the consumption of sugar In the United States during the year 1SS9 at a total of 2,094,610 tons. It Is the calendar year just ended that Is cov ered by these figures. The equivalent in pounds would amount to 4,691,925.400, equal to nearly 61 pounds per head of the pop ulation. The Trade Journal's computation on this point is 61.7 pounds per head In 1899, against 60.3 in 1S9S. The largest con sumption per head occurred in 1B92, when it amounted to 67.46 pounds, to which maximum It had jumped at a bound from 54.56 pounds per head in 1891. This sensa tional increase of consumption in 193 was due to the removal of a susar duty of about 2 cents per pound. It shows in a marked manner how quickly the reduction In cost finds a response in the growth of consumption. Of the sugar used in the United States last year only 249,968 tons were produced in this country. Of this I amount 120,400 tons were cane sugar, 79,36$ tons were beet sugar, 5200 tons were sugar made from domestic molasses, and 5000 tons were maple sugar. The total con sumption of foreign sugar was 1,829,643 tons. Practically the whole of the sugar used In the United States Is refined sugar, the direct consumption of raw sugar be ing only about 50,000 tons. In Great Britain raw sugar enters Into consump tion much more largely than in this coun try; indeed, we have understood that cer tain fine flavored qualities of raw sugar enjoy a decided preference over refined sugar on the tables of wealthy Britons. The Retort Effective. Washington Post. It was at a department store bargain counter for odds and ends. The crusn was terrific. Women squeezed and el bowed and shoved to get alongside the counter. Frequently two of them hap pened to pick up the same bargain at one and the same time, and then they both retained their clutch on It, and looked dag gers at each other until the stronger of tht two won the victory or the bargain was rent into ribbons. A haughty matron, with an electric seal coat, picked up a box containing three cakes- of Imported soap for 8- cents at tne same moment that a hunmble-lookmg lit tle woman in a faded tan coat had fas tened her grasp on the box. "I believe I Was the first to take hold of this," said the matron In the electrio seal coat, freezingly. The humble-looking little woman held on for a minute, studying her antagonist, then she slowly relaxed her hold on the bo. rWeIl, you can have It," she said ami ably. "Tou look as if you need the soap." The bargain counter is the place to ob serve how they love one another. o Tho Exclusive Hyde Part of London. Americans visiting London for the first time are more than likely to hall a han som the day tbey arrive and start prompt ly to see the Row. Half the books, sto ries, newspaper articles, etc., treating of English life, make prominent mention of this, the smartest driveway in the world. London society circles largely about Hyde park and naturally enough tourists regard it as a good starting place from which to study British manners and peoples. Im agine then the indignation and the disgust of a pair of pretty girls, accustomed to traverse home drives in any fashion they like to be warned back from Hyde park entrance by a six-foot arm of the law. No tips, no remonstrance, no pleading has tho slightest effect upon stern "bobby," who simply orders cabby to depart, and tells his fares to get a more correct equipage if they desire to take part in the Row parade. It 19 livery or nothing and if the visitor continues to long for a glimpse of the Hyde park show, she must have boots and breeches to drive her, thereby having at least the semblance of a private estab lishment. No admittance Is the standing exile for the ostensible cab. Her $12 Patent Leather Shoes. New York Tlmea. "Oh, dear," says Miss Grace Elliston, the Lady Curtoys in "Wheels Within Wheels," the patent leather shoes I wear with my tailor suit in the play are lovely. They cost $12 and I don't suppose a soul In the audience knows that I so much as wear shoes, to say nothing of such pretty ones." a. 0 E - A&reed. Detroit Journal. "The soir," remarked the economist, "la what supports us Here the lawyer admitted that land Is the cause of three-fourths of the litiga tion, while the doctor1 did not deny that effluvia from the ground leads to much sickness. THE OREGONIAN'S ANNUAL Oregon It it Second Choice. Lafayette, Ind., Journal. The Portland Oregonian makes a 60 page special edition as its greeting to the new year. The Oregonian has done more in developing the farther North west than any others one agency, and de serves all the prosperity its nine-story office building testifies it has received. The paper in question has 500 illustrations of the scenic attractions of Oregon, and they are very seductive. If Tippecanoe county were not the paradise It Is, one would advise all prospective "movers" to settle In the region The Oregonian has made famous. S)t 91 1 u 1 a f) r n u n?-m e.t te3 iJD?oming Oregonian" in ottfano, SOre., ift eme ioutnaliiiif- lam Mftnnq. 'n iflufttitte iilat tm IjHit ii6ft 600 mnauctfiri? augefuric flennegenbtn Oxeqon' fotoie for be fe$utfibfln Snbuflrieanlqqen bee tpa? clficTiifte- S&r Owgoniau" ift bis nffuureid)fte titunq hit natbligjtii HianFrcflaaten anb fcat m Oregon, SJaFftnajoru Sba&o, Urtt luefUidjcn Sftonfan'a unb 3riitfcfr Golumoia 301 rdCefcr. SDaS Sfcit fte$t ante antrgrfdjer. nsb falser fijilung, h" ben m- tmtJcfante 5ieuiat5"ni:mmec Oreeron's Pronperity Advertised. Salt Lake Tribune. The Portland Oregonian Issued a mag nificent annual on January 1, containing 60 pages. The year Just closed has been the most prosperous in the history of the etate. The statistics of marvelous growth are so elaborate that justice cannot be done In limited space, but the articles are well prepared and put in attractive form. No section and no industry is overlooked, and tho whole forms a valuable addition to any library. Not content with this, The Oregonian has an Illustrated supple ment, printed on enameled paper, giving over 500 views of the scenic attractions of the Northwest, that la a work of art It is a very masterly effort. Justifies Pride. Troy (N. T.) Times. The annual number of The Oregonian (Portland) contains sixty pages of read ing matter on the various sections of the state, their present industries and the possible new ones, such as that of silk culture, already tested. The Targe, illus trated supplement, on calendered paper, embraces fine half-tones of the shipping, railroads, natural curiosities of the state, Indian types, panoramic views of the city of Portland, portraits of public men, etc. No feature of interest seems to have been neglected, and the whole Ib a production that justifies a large amount of pride. One of the Best. Leadvllle Miner. The Morning Oregonian of Monday, January 1, 1900, Is a magnificent specimen of newspaper enterprise. In conjunction with Interesting and complete descriptive articles setting forth the wealth and re sources of the country tributary to Port' land, It has issued a volume of half-tone cuts, printed In an artistic manner upon heavy book paper, illustrating the Indus tries and beauties of the great North west. The ensemble is Striking, and The Oregonian has produced one of the best annual reviews that has yet reached our table. One of the Handsomest. St. Louis Star. The annual number of the Portland Oregonian, printed on January 1, has Just been received, and it is one of the handsomest special editions which have appeared In many a day. The illustrated supplement contains over 500 Illustrations, all printed on the finest quality of enam eled book paper, the views embracing all the noted scenic attractions of Ore gon and covering every important Indus try of the Pacific Northwest. The Port land Oregonian has reason to pride itself over the Issue. "Work of Art and Instruction. Detroit Tribune. The annual number of the Portland Ore gonian has been received. It 13 a credit able Issue. The supplement is a work of art and very valuable to those Interested In that section of the country and the Industries of the Pacific coast. The Illus trations are both handsome and instruc tive. o Overcoats in Restaurants. Can a man who, on going into a restau rant, hangs up his overcoat on a peg near his table, recover from the proprietor of the restaurant If the overcoat disappears while its owner Is enjoying his meal? A decision to the contrary has been handed down In New Tork state in a case involv ing this point, heard before the appellata term of the supreme court. We- quote part of the decision. The rule to he adduced from, an these cases la that, beforo a restaurant-keeper will ba hld liable for the loss o an overcoast c a cus tomer while such customer takes a meal or re freshments, it must appear either that the over coat -was placed in the physical custody 01 the kejer et the restaurant or his servants, or that the overcoat was necessarily lahi aside under circumstances aho-wimr at least notice o the fact and ot ouch necessity to the keeper o the restaurant or his sarvants, In -which there Is an implied bailment or constructive custody; or that the Icsa occurred by reason ot the in sufficiency of the general supervision exercised by the keeper of the restaurant for the protec tion of customers' overcoats temporarily laid aside. After all, each case must largely de pend upon. Its own. particular facts and cir cumstances, for It Is well known that there are an kinds of restaurants. In some of them good taste and. etiquette require that a customer should remove h'o hat and overcoat while eat ing a meal or refreshments, while la others, especially the so-called quick-lunch establish ments, customers frequently remove neither hat nor coat. mi a 0 Obscure Martyrs. Edwin. Arnold. They have no place In storied page. Nor rest in marble shrine; They are past and gone with a perished age, They died and made no sign. But work that shall find Its wages yet. And deeds that their God did not forget. Done for tbalr love divine There wero the mourner3 and these shall be The crowns of their Immertallty. Oh, seek them not where sleep the dead, Te shall not flhd their trace; No graven stone is at their head. No green grass hides their face; But sad and unseen la their silent grave It may be the sand of a deep sea wave. Or a lonely desart place; For they needed no prayers and no mourning bell They were tombed In true hearts that knew them well. They healed eick hearts till thelra were broken. And dried ead eyes till theirs lest sight; We shall know at last by a certain token How they fought and fell In the fight. Salt teara of sorrow unbeheld. Passionate cries unchronicled. And silent strifes for the right Angola shall court thesj and earth shall sigh That she left her best children to battle and die. NOTE AND COMMENT. At last accounts General White had not managed to escape to Buller's relief. If this Is winter. We shall be in need of fans and ice cream soda by Easter. The populists will nominate Bryan in haste, and he wtH repent or. It at leisure. The people who swore oft In '93 are now making resolutions to take effact January 1. 1S0L The proceeding to oust Mayor Storey seem in a fair way to tsrmlnate simul taneously with his term of office. Senator Pettlgrew is making a hard race for the position of chief clown in the sen ate, but Mason Is still maintaining a good healthy lead. If England could exchange every big warship In her possession rar a little gen eralship, a more speedy termination of hostilities in South Africa might be ex pected. The Chicago Tribune keeps a record of gifts to educational, religious and charita ble Institutions, of which public announce ment is made, and its figures for the past year are phenomenally large. Altogether they rise to $79,749,956, as compared with a total for 1S33 of $23,9S4,900, $33,612,814 in 1S97, and about the same figure in 1S95. The 1SS9 record includes $38,000,000 turned over by Mrs. Leland Stanford to tho university of that name, and $10,000,000 given to the university of California by Mrs. Phoeba Hearst. Hobson Is not the only great man with ! a penchant for osculation. On the recent visit to Portland of the famous pianist. De Pachmann, he was Introduced to two ladles and a gentlemen, who had heard hl3 recital and expressed a desire to meet him. The pianist bowed low over the hands of tho ladles, and Imprinted en each a "chaste salute," but when the gentleman was presented, he was gripped fervently by both hands and kissed as K he had been the musician's long-lost brother. At last reports he was still recovering from his surprise. "Is your wood dry?" asked the house holder, over the telephone. "It burns well," answered the conscien tious fuel dealer. "It is Inside wood." When the householder discovered it dumped in the mud and obstructing the froe flow of his gutter, he found that It certainly was Inside wood. Such chunks a foot square had the inside track on any ax. and needed giant powder to split them. Only Oregon trees could produce such Inside chunk3, which had been In side the river at no very remote date. But the patient woman who has to cook with such stuff struggles on in the hope that electricity will eventually revolution ize cooking and abolish the everlasting struggle with wet wood. Statisticians are always figuring out how many million miles of gold chains couil be built with the money spent every year for tobacco; but somehow they never glvo any figures as to the number of boxs of good, comfort-yielding cigars that could be bought by tho money spent on gold chains. Here Is a conversation between a reformer and a smoker, which is now going the rounds: Reformer How much did that clgat l cost? Smoker Twenty-five cents. Reformer How many da yousmoke a day? ' ' ' Smoker Ten. Reformer Do you know that If you had not smoked for 20 years you couWi own that fine building across the street? Smoker Do you own itj Reformer No. Smoker Well. I do. A deed signed Mrs. and husband seems to partake of the new woman fla vor, where the man Instead of the woman Is the Insignificant end of the bargain. A deed or legal instrument executed, for ex ample, by John Jones and wife is the usual form, but as tho result of 19th cen tury civilization wherein woman is grant ed fall Individual property rights, the husband now frequently has to play sec ond fiddle In these matters, and- deeds In which the name of the wife leads are becoming quite common. Tho indignity, however, of a husband having to permit his wife to be the legal head of the fam ily is compensated for when a man does business in his wife's name after he has exhausted his own credit, and can no longer safely hang out his own shingle without fear of being pounced upon by his creditors for old obligations. The fact that there has been no snow in Portland, and but comparatively little In the mountains from Which the Willam ette "leads away," will save Portland from the disastrous effects of a midwinter rise, and from the equally disastrous prophe cies of one. Last year tho merchants on Front street were put to conslderabla ex pense moving goods to upper docks, on the strength of a forecast which had both precedent and probability behind it. But the weather cooled, the waters abat ed, and the merchants had their scare for nothing. There la, as usual, a good sup ply of snow In the mountains that feed the Columbia enough to AH the river far overbank and make things lively on the water front if the right conditions shall prevail, and there will be no. end of talk of high water and dire prophecy, from river men, oldest Inhabitants and In dians. But there is no help for that. It Is perennial. -. Compensation. Rudolf Stelnhagen in Boston. Transcript. I know not how the grief of mind. The fevered doubts and hopes and fears Will mingle In the lapsing years; And yet I hold that God is kind; That emlles from sorrow's tears will grow. And harvests from the sower's seed'" That each self-crucifying deed Will bear fruition's bloom of snow. To dream of glories' yet to be Embodied forth In perfect thought. That In the cycles win be wrought Into the temple's majesty; To lock from attic casements, where- The silent, shorelera seas of night Gleam with sidereal voyagers bright. And guide the wayward fancy there Amid the music of the spheres. Io more than wealth or conquest glvesj Our dreams, In which the spirit lives, Are golden towers that It reara. The pallid, care-seamed, yearning face Turned heavenward with eubttme uiweat Has sung the song we love the best. Or carved some statue's perfect grace. And It may be some deed of love. Some silent sacrifice of mine "Will, like eve's Jeweled planet, shlna Eternal in the heavens above. The violets know not that tiey give A sweetness to the common air; Nor sunsets dream their glories rare Havs made the glowing canvas Hve. Then do thy work, my soull Thou'lt sea The earth-born spirits reap the gain. "What matters here to strive la valaT Thy meed ia immortality I