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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY FEBRUARY 8, 1901. Dhe rggwuon Entered at the PesteSice at Portland, Oregon, as second-class matter. TELEPHONES. Editorial Reeas 1OT Business Office.. .607 REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Hall (postage prepaid). In Advance Caily, with Sunday, per .month $ S3 Dauy, Sunday excepted, per jear 7 SO Dal.y, with Sunday, per year 0 00 Sunday, per year 2 00 The Weekly, per year, 1 50 Th Weekly. S months 60 To City Subscribers Iaily, per week, delivered. Sundays exeepted.l0c ZJai.y, per wee, delivered. Sundays lnduded.SOc POSTAGE RATES. United States, Canada and Mexico: 10 to 16-page paper............ ........ .....lc 8 to 32 page paper ..........2c Foreign rates double. News or discussion Intended for publication In The Oregonlan should be addressed invaria bly "Editor The Oregonlan," not to the name of any Individual. Letters relating to advertis ing, subscriptions or to any business matter should be addressed simply "The Oregonlan." The Oregonlan does not buy poems or stories from Individuals, and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts sent to it without solici tation. No stamps should be inclosed for this purpose. Puget Sound Bureau Certain A. Thompson, office at 1 J 11 Pacific avenue, Tacoma. Box 055. Tacoma Postfflce. Eastern Business Office The Tribune build ing. New York City: "The Rookery." Chicago; the S. C Beckwlth special agency. New York. For sale In San Francisco by J. K. Cooper, 748 Market street, near the Palace Hotel; Gold smith Bros., 23 Sutter street; F. W. Pitts. 1008 Market street; Foster & Orear, Ferry News stand. For sale In Los Angeles by B. F. Gardner. 259 So. Spring street, and Oliver & Haines. 106 So. Sprmg street. For sale in Chicago by the P. O. News Co., 217 Dearborn street. For sale In Omaha by H. C. Shears. 105 N. Sixteenth street, and Barkalew Bros., 1012 Farnam street. For sale in Salt Lake by the Salt Lako News Co , 77 W Second South street. For sale In New Orleans by Ernest & Co., 113 Royal street. On file In Washington D. C with A. W. Dunn. 500 lth N W. For sale in Denver. Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrl. k. 900-81:: Seventh street. - TODAY'S WEATHER Fair; northerly winds. POUTLAAD, FIIIDAY, FEBRUARY 8. The Oregonlan could, if It chose, write a great deal of matter on subjects be fore the Legislature; but it refrains. It could tender a great deal of advice, but withholds IL It could put in a lot of warning-, and a further lot of caustic criticism, but will not. A Legislature may as well be left to its own sweet will. It will have its will, or its way, anyhow. The forces that move a Leg islature lie not in admonition, expos tulation nor criticism. To an extent it Is a creature of chance. Its acts are resultants, as mathematicians would say, of a vast variety of forces, whose consequences can seldom be foreseen. There is a tangled skein of interests, opinions, prejudices and purposes, and nobody can wind it off. Few measures before a Legislature go on their own merits. Most of them are mixed up with party, faction, log-rolling Interest, or political play. No argument, no ap peal. Is good for anything against such conditions. Legislatures, therefore, may as well be let alone. The only appeal that can have any real effect Is to be made to the people at large, In follow ing elections. In Pennsylvania there Is an effort on the part of the, barbers to obtain repeal of the law that closes their shops on Sunday, as in Oregon there is an effort on the part of Journeymen barbers to have a Sunday-closing law enacted. Before the Legislature of Pennsylvania the parties to the contention are now trjlng to thresh It out The barbers In that state want to open the shops on Sunday mornings, but the Sunday-law people, or Sabbatarians, oppose. It is r..t a clash between the shop proprie tors and journeymen, as here, but a contention over the observance of Sun day as a "holy day." The Philadel phia Press says: The effort of the barbers to obtain a repeal cf the law closing their phops on Sunday will have a latge share of sympathy from the pub lic. It cannot be claimed that the opening of barber shops for a few hours on the first day cf the week detracts in any sense from the solemnity and good order of the day. The chips are not places of resort or centers of noise or disturbance They are as orderly as drug stores, the opening of which is not op posed Custom has made It necessary for xnany men to have & shave on Sunday, ami It Is no desecration of the day that they should be ac commodated. There have been many changes In customs and habits since the law forbidding eh;-s to be opened on Sunday was passed. Its repeal now will be only an answer to the demands of the time. Fond parents of promising sons "good boys," every one of them will no doubt properly resent the declara tion of Lawyer Shepherd, made in the Municipal Court a few days ago, that "no boy is a very good boy when he is ycung, all having to learn what disci Illne means," and thank the fates that their sons were not born in a country where boys are "larruped with the tawse" a wretched Instrument of bar barism, made of leather, the ends of which are Are seasoned to make them tough. This process, though warranted to turn out orderly men and good citi zens, may be all right for Scotland the birthplace of Lawyer Shepherd but the fiery, untamed American youth, whether he be school-boy, choir-boy, just an ordinary good boy or a street gamin, will not submit to It not if his parents can help it, and they think they can. There are not many "mothers bos" in these days of adolescent in dependence, until some one advances the old-fashioned idea that boys ought to behave themselves or submit to dis cipline. Then every culprit Is a moth er's boy whose only offense is that his playful moods are not understood by unfeeling outsiders, who talk -of the "tawse" and other odious means of dis cipline. Next thing some bumptious lawyer will have the effrontery to quote Solomon, before the Police Court or School Board, in supporting the obso lete idea that "a boy must learn what discipline means," and further stigma tize himself as brutally old-fashioned. One does not need to be a fruitgrower to And many things of interest in the rroceedings of the Northwest Fruit growers' Association, whose annual con vention was held in this city the pres ent week. It is enough that he knows good fruit and enjoys it, or wishes to enjoy it, upon his table every day in the year, to make him listen with in terest, while men who have given the close and careful attention of years to applegrowing tell of ways and means whereby the apple may be grown to perfection throughout large areas of the Pacific Northwest, while a very ordi nary consumer one who is not so much Interested in quality as in quantity, hears with satisfaction that a standard apple box of a designated number of cubic Inches is to replace the haphazard box of past seasons. These are, how ever, personal considerations that give a flavor of local interest to the ques tion of applegrowing. Of much wider significance are the suggestions relative to our widening market. Transporta tion facilities have practically elimi nated distance from this problem of a market. There is no reason why, in this staple product of our orchards, Minnesota and the nearer, though in the matter of freight charges equally far, Dakotas shall not be added in due time to our market. Montana is likely to be eliminated from the list in a few. years, becoming herself a producer and exporter of apples. But to the north of. us and to the far East the market Is open. It remains t for our orchardists under proper commercial guidance and co-operation to say whether they will take a leading place in their markets or not. Not the least of the arguments against the compulsory pilotage graft is the personnel of the men who are push ing the matter at Salem. Not a single man who has the Interest of the city or state at heart, or is in the slightest manner interested in making this a cheap and attractive port, Is endeavor ing to force compulsory pilotage on this port. None of the big shipping houses or owners of water-front property, who would certainly be the heaviest losers by the discontinuance of any necessary aid to shipping in this port, are making any effort to have this bill passed, but, on the contrary, are using their best efforts to prevent the handicap again being laid on our port. The best record ever made by the Columbia River pilots has been made in the past two years, while there was no compulsory pilotage on the river. Shipmasters no longer ap proach the pilots and humbly ask for their services in going up and down the river. In the case of sailing vessels, the towboat pilots take them through promptly on time on orders from their employers, and with no unnecessary delays on the way. With steamers, the abolishment of compulsory pilotage has left an open field, and the rivalry be tween the pilots is so sharp that none but the best men can secure ships, the others being retired or sent to Salem to beg the state again to provide them with a living. If the merits of these pilots who are seeking the passage of this law will not admit of their making a living in competition with pilots who are on the river attending to business, a much less expensive method for tak ing care .of them would be In the form of a pension. Portland has the same pilotage system at the mouth of the river as New York, Boston, San Fran cisco and other seaports. There Is no compulsory pilot system between Port Costa and San Francisco, and none is needed between Portland and Astoria. A CREDIT Olt NOTHING. If Oregon is to be represented at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, Its representation should be a credit to the state. From the estimate made up by the commissioners it is apparent that $30,000 is the least sum that can be used with good effect. These esti mates are as follows: Freight on exhibits $ 4,000 Freight on exhibits, returning 1,500 Collecting forestry exhibit 1,500 Collecting mining exhibit 1,500 Collecting agricultural exhibit 600 Collecting horticultural exhibit 1,000 Collecting educational exhibit 00 Collecting flne art exhibit 500 -Installing exhibits 1,000 Advertising, all kinds 7,500 Help 10.000 Miscellaneous expenses 1,000 Total $30,800 California is spending 5GO.O0O, "Wash ington 540,000, Idaho $25,000. In view of the impression it is desired to create at Buffalo in favor of the Lewis and Clark centennial at Portland in 1905, an appropriation of $50,000 for Oregon would not be amiss. The sum of $30,000 is little enough, and should be given gladly. The complaint Is often heard that no body In the East ever hears of Oregon or Portland, while Washington State and Seattle are well known. One rea son for this inequality Is the willing ness of our northern neighbors to pay the price of advertising their resources and advantages. Washington has promptly set aside $40,000 for an ex hibit at Buffalo, and as usual there are protests against even a less expendi ture here. A good way to kill the Lewis and Clark centennial is to start In with a programme of parsimony toward simi lar enterprises elsewhere. THE CRAXKDOM OF KANSAS. Mrs. Nation is a rioter in petticoats; nevertheless, the Kansas Christian Temperance Union has voted to give her a gold medal, a temperance organi zation in Massachusetts has passed a resolution commending her work, and a New Jersey preacher has applauded her antics from his pulpit But all the temperance folk have not yet gone daft over this ginmill Iconoclast, for the Cambridge, Mass., W. C. T. U. has unanimously condemned Mrs. Nation, who has insulted the sober common sense of the country to which the tem perance cause must appeal. There is nothing remarkable in the sudden erup tion of Mrs. Nation. She is nothing but another expression of the mob spirit that has always pervaded Kansas, which has always been inhabited by that worst of all lawless people, viz., those who are continually pleading "the higher law" of what they term their conscience as a justification for their lawlessness. Certain Kansas men are not satisfied to let the law take its course with a negro murderer, so they proceed to "go as they please" and burn him to death at the stake. Kansas has never been a sober state, no matter whether she had prohibition In her fundamental law or not. It has been a prohibitionist, a populist, a fiat money fool; it has without moderation damned ex-Confederate soldiers and then has elected an ex-Confederate sol dier to the United States Senate. It has been everything by turns and noth ing long. It has been just such a state as might be expected from the fact that its first settlers were composed about equally of enthusiastic ruffians and ruffianly enthusiasts. David R. Atchi son and his "border ruffians" from Missouri could plead "the higher law" quite as eloquently to their band of pro slavery squatters as John Brown could to his band of abolitionist outlaws. This was the kind of creatures that stood around the cradle of "bleeding Kansas." During the Civil "War Quan trell's guerrillas murdered Union men in cold blood, and Kansas "Jay Hawk ers" did likewise. Kansas has been crankdom during all Its state life. .Noisy enthusiasts and vociferous charlatans have thus far fixed the fate of hysteri cal Kansas. Its Senators In Congress have always been fools like Peffer or accomplished demagogues like Ingall3 and Plumb, evangelists of dishonest money and populism. "With a wild war whoop of satisfac tion, Kansas several years ago planted prohibition in the constitution. Liquor selling is unlawful in the state today, but the people of the state, while lack ing the manhood to repeal the prohibi tion amendment, have enacted legisla tion that virtually licenses liquor-selling in every township, for in 1S93 a stat ute was passed providing that liquor sellers should pay a certain fine when arrested for illegal traffic, and should not be arrested more than twice a year, so that license fees are collected in form of fines for violation of the law. The authorities have thus permitted the saloons to multiply so rapidly in viola tion of the constitution of Kansas that there are 117 saloons in Leavenworth and more than 100 in Topeka. No won der that a state whose authorities are openly engaged in constantly violating their own fundamental law breeds law lessness. No wonder there is a mob one day In Leavenworth burning a negro and the next day a desexed woman leading an anti-saloon mob in Topeka. PRIMARY ELECTION LAWS. What is known as the Day primary election law has been applied to Hen nepin County, Minnesota, which in cludes the City of Minneapolis, with so much success that it is now proposed to enact such a law in Wisconsin for all elections, local, state and Congres sional. The Governor of Wisconsin ad vocates the scheme, and a bill embody ing it has been introduced In the Leg islature which will probably be enact ed. This measure sweeps away all po litical conventions; the rank and file of the party name the candidates, the candidates make the platform after the nomination; caucuses and conventions are abolished. To secure a place on the official primary ballot, under the so called Day law, each one must secure names to the number of 5 per cent of the number of votes that the party cast In the previous city election for the same position. The names thus in dorsed are then presented to the City Auditor or other designated official, within eleven days of the date of the primary election, and each candidate so indorsed pays a fee of $10 as a con tribution to the expense of preparing the ballots. At the appointed time the Auditor groups the candidates by offices and delivers the tickets to the printer, post ing sample ballots in a public place. Each party is accorded a separate bal lot, and independent nominations are accorded a separate ballot when backed by 10 per cent of the voters, only those parties being officially recognized other wise which cast at least 10 per cent of the total vote at the next previous election. The primary .elections are held on the same day for all parties, and In the same places and manner as a final election is held. The voter goes to the polling-place. Is recognized as hav ing registered, and is then given two ballots, one for each party, or three or four ballots If so many parties are in the field. He marks In seclusion the names he prefers on the ballot of the party he wishes to act with, folds all the ballots together, and deposits them In the box. The primary Is kept open until 9 P. M., and the regular election f officers then proceed to count the votes. The name among several which re ceives the most votes becomes the nom inee of the party at the approaching election. If a person marks more than one ballot, that alone figures In the count on which there are the most marks. The other ballots In the indi vidual bunch are cast aside. Mr. Day, the author of the law, says in a letter to the Chicago Record that the votes cast at the recent primary or nominating elections in Minneapolis under the first trial of the law ex ceeded by 10 per cent the number cast in the city at the previous state elec tion. The pending Wisconsin measure provides for the nomination of Presi dential Electors by the state central committee of each party, but otherwise it would extend the Day primary elec tion plan to all nominations save Judges, and town, village and school district officers. The .delegates to the National party conventions under the Wisconsin bill would be elected by the people, the four at large by the voters throughout the state, and the district delegates by the voters of the Congres sional districts. All party conventions, state and local, would be abolished. The judicial candidates are nominated by petition, and this would continue to be the case. The state party platforms are to be promulgated by a gathering of the nominees of each party for state and legislative offices, and all voting on the adoption of the platform must be by roll-call, so that each candidate shall be put on record as to his princi ples and policies. Such a law was In dorsed by the Wisconsin Republican state platform at the last election, and Is advocated by the Governor. NEED A "REFORMER" BE A FOOL? When Ralph Waldo Emerson was asked to join a "reform association," he declined, saying that it had always taken all his time, and attention to achieve half-way reform within himself, and that he was not arrogant enough, with his own personal reformation sadly incomplete, to assume to reform others. Mr. Emerson thought "moral reformers" were prone to the vice of self.-rlghteousness rather than to the Christian virtue of humility. He had observed that many persons in their anxiety for the reformation of their neighbors neglected to reform them selves. He believed that the best "moral reform" work was self-reformation on the part of the individual. Suc cess in this direction was the shortest road to the salvation of society, while "moral reform associations" were in danger of losing their own souls In their feverish anxiety over the possible fate of others. Here in Portland the Rev. Ray Palmer Is so dull In his moral sense that, while deploring "the strong tend ency In America to ignore law," he glorifies Mrs. Nation, who is a law breaker. She Is a riotous person. She has not been clothed with any legal powers to destroy the property of "joint-keepers." Mrs. Nation is not an officer of the law authorized to confis cate the goods of those who keep places for the illegal sale of liquor. Two wrongs do not make a right, and be cause the authorities of Kansas have, in contempt of the state constitution, practically licensed the sale of liquor by allowing liquor "joints" to exist oh payment of periodical fines, is no rea son why Mrs. Nation is free to destroy the property of persons whom she deems violators of the law. The situation does not differ practi cally from what has recently been the fact here In Portland, when Illegal gambling was permitted by "public graft." Suppose the authorities had declined to shut up the gambling houses and decided to continue the pub lic graft in defiance of the law would some "Mrs. Nation" here, whose worth less son had lost his money at cards, been worthy of moral glorification If she had with her ax demolished the fix tures of a gambling-house? We think not. Mrs. Nation is a fool, who assumes that because the authorities in Kan sas do not enforce the prohibitory law she has a right in law and morals to "absolve" the lawbreakers with her ax. Mrs. Nation Is a rioter; the leader of a mob, and as richly deserves punish ment for her pranks as any other crazy Constable seeking to enforce the au thority of Judge Lynch. The "temper ance" reformer addicted to grossly in temperate thought and speech is a just subject of hearty contempt for every man of sanity and intelligence. Dick ens, in his "Pickwick Papers," has drawn an accurate picture of the aver age professional temperance evangelist who does not know how to be a re former without talking like a fool. "Brother Tadgers" and the other whoopers of "the Ebenezer Brick Lane, Temperance Association" in "Pickwick Papers," still live and move and have their being today in "temperance unions," whose speakers describe the "Gottenburg system" as "nationalizing vice" and favor "putting the liquor traffic on the same plane with robbery and burglary." The temperance cause cannot afford such intemperate speech. It can no more afford to cut loose from common sense, justice, truth and moderation than religion can. The temperance cause cannot afford to sink under one common curse the temperate and the drunkard without repulsing a very large upright, intelligent and influen tial public opinion. A common ory of these arrogant moral cranks Is that to them "prohibition is religion." On the other hand, to thousands of men at least as wise, as good and as useful as these Intemperate thinkers and talkers, prohibition Is not a religion at all. It was not religion to Washington, to Sumner, to Emerson, to Dean Stanley, to Gladstone, to Matthew Arnold, to Tennyson, to John Stuart Mill, to Her bert Spencer, to Huxley, to Lowell, to Oliver Wendell Holmes, to Longfellow, to John A. Andrew, to Rev. Dr. Bar- tol, to Archbishop Ireland, and a vast number of other great and good and useful men, some of whom were total abstainers, and all of whom deemed it legislation born of Utopia to try to keep the whole world sober by statute. Your modern, prohibitionist is intellectually and morally derived from the ancient Puritan who was described by Macau lay as prohibiting bear-baiting, not be cause of any sympathy felt for the bear", but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Of the Army officers promoted under the new law, Lieutenant-General Miles will be retired in 1903; Major-General Young Jn 1904, while General MacArthur will not be retired until 1909. Major General Chaffee entered the regular Army as an enlisted man in 1861, and Is about 59 years of age. General Schwan, who began his career as a private sol dier in the Tenth United States Infan try in 1857, will probably soon be re tired. Brigadier-General Robert H. Hall must be near the age of retire ment, as he was graduated from West Point in 18C0. Brigadier-Generals S. S. Sumner, George W. Davis, George M. Randall, Lloyd Wheaton, John C. Bates and Robert P. Hughes are all gradu ates of the Civil War and are not less than 60 years of age. The promotion of Colonel Chaffee, of the Eighth Cav alry, to be Major-General in the regu lar Army, is without recent precedent in the history of the Army, but is in tended as a recognition of Colonel Chaf fee's great services in the field before Santiago and in the march to Pekin. If Qeneral MacArthur is relieved from the chief command in the Philippines, it Is probable that Major-General Chaffee will succeed him, as he Is excellently fitted by his long service in Indian war fare to bring to a speedy close the guer rilla warfare In Luzon. It is now thought probable, as an ob server of wide experience at Washing ton declares, that the shipping subsidy bill will pass the Senate before the end of the month, and go to the House, where, it is asserted, "opposition among Republicans is widespread, and were the ballot to be secret the measure would stand little chance of passage." The same authority says: "It will be a tussle of strength between the great forces behind the subsidy, Including Mr. Hanna and the party regularity idea for which he stands, and the natural reluctance of men who believe a sub sidy to be wrong in principle and Its application politically Inexpedient. The Indiana delegation and the Iowa dele gation are said to be solid against the bill, and that it is their present inten tion so to vote. Mr. Burton (Rep. O.) tellsrhis friends that the bill will be beaten in the House.'1 In matters of this kind the House is always safer than the Senate. Its members are nearer the people, and must sooner take their chances for re-election. An Astoria paper says: "The Orego nian is making a great outcry because the river pilots have asked the passage of a compulsory pilotage bill. If The Oregonian is so very much Interested In the welfare of the Columbia ship ping industry, why doesn't it advocate the passage of a bill abolishing compul sory towage charges? If a vessel makes port under her own sail, she must pay the towage charge when going to sea just as if she had engaged the service of a tug both in and out of the harbor." It is necessary to maintain both tow age and pilotage at the entrance of the Columbia River. Pilotage on the river Is a very different thing, because the conditions are ail different. The tow boat can carry the vessel up and down the river, with safety and dispatch, and a separate pilot, with his "compul sory" fees, Is an unnecessary burden to commerce. The Oregonlan will not oppose the purchase of a statue of Senator Baker, to be placed In the Capitol at Salem; vfor Baker's matchless eloquence and patriotic sacrifice are yet a memory, and should be an everlasting memory. But The Oregonian still must say that Baker's family made a sad mistake when it caused his remains, borne from the battle-field, to be interred at San Francisco, rather than In the soil of Oregon. Had the interment been in Oregon, years ago a fitting monument would have been erected to his mem ory. Baker's words, read after this lapse of time, are still an Inspiration for patriotism. They start the pulsations of the heart; they move the spirit; they stir the blood like the notes of a bugle. The remains of Baker should yet be removed to Oregon. Representative White, of North Caro lina, the only colored Congressman, who goes out of offlce with this session, recently made a speech valedictory of his race, closing as follows: Mr. Chairman, In the trial of Lord Bacon, when the court disturbed the counsel for the defendant. Sir Walter Raleigh raised himself up to his full height, and, addressing the court, said: "Sir. I am pleading tor the lire of a human being." Tho only apology that I have to make for the earnestness with which I have spoken la that I am pleading for the life, the liberty, the future happiness and manhood suffrage for one-eighth of tho entire population ot the United States. Mr. White's historical Illustration provokes a smile, as Sir Walter Raleigh had been dead about two years when Bacon was put on trial. It is probable that Mr. White was thinking of Dan ton, who, when Interrupted in his speech by the president of the revolutionary tribunal, exclaimed: "The voice of a man pleading for his life ought to si lence your bell." A bill has been introduced by Repre sentative Mattoon, of Douglas County, providing a bounty of from 3 to 5 cents for crows scalps. The honorable mem ber, In connection with this bill, ar raigns the crow as an "egg-sucker," and offers to bring the testimony of 1000 good and true citizens of his county to substantiate the charge. The state should by all means bend Its energies toward the extermination of this black and graceless robber of other birds' nests. There are hawks, too, that should be looked after, and skunks and weasels and other "varmints" of preda tory nature, that have a fondness for raw eggs and nestlings. All of these should be hunted down and scalped, and the bill for so signal a public serv ice sent to the State Treasurer, to the end that game birds may not be de stroyed in embryo, and the pleasures of sportsmen curtailed by feathered and furred "egg-suckers." The plea of insanity in the case of the youth Clyde Vaughn, of Jefferson, who in a fit of jealousy committed a mur derous assault with an ax upon Lulu Jones, several months ago, calling the girl from her seat In the schoolroom for that purpose, has been denied and he will be put on trial In due time for his very grave offense. While It Is prob able that the boy Is not up to the aver age in intelligence, his chief deficiency seems to be in the power of self-control. Upon this point, as shown by his fero cious assault upon the girl, with whom he thought himself in love, he is mani festly unfit to be at large. His commit ment to the Asylum, as desired by his father, would be but temporary, and not in any sense a punishment. The safety of society demands that un tamed human animals should, when caught red-handed, be so securely caged as to cut off entirely their opportunity for deadly mischief. The continued and serious illness of Mr. L. B. Cox affords cause for grave concern to his friends, and they are the number of his acquaintances. His life in Portland for many years has been an inspiration of good to all with whom he has come in contact. As a lawyer above reproach, as a true pa triot, as a citizen who bears the com munity's interests sincerely at heart, as a devoted husband and father, as a kind neighbor and steadfast friend, his character and services are among those assets of community life which, once taken away, can never be replaced. The city and the state hope ardently for his recovery. His loss would be irre parable. His place cannot be filled. Queen Wllhelmina of Holland was born August 31, 1880, and is the young est sovereign in Europe. Alfonso XIII of Spain Is but 15 years old, but he is still In his minority, the government of Spain being intrusted to his mother, the Queen Regent. The oldest sover eign in Europe is the present King of Denmark, who is S3; King Oscar of Sweden Is 72; the Emperor of Austria is 71; the King of Saxony 73; the King of Belgium 66; the Czar of Russia is 33; the Emperor of Germany Is 42; the King of Italy is 32; the King of Bavaria Is 53; the King of Greece is 56; the Sultan of Turkey is 59; the King of Portugal is 38, and the King of Servla is 25. The duties of life tread closely upon the heels of death. The life of one in dividual, however valuable to the com munity, or the state, is not indispensa ble to Its happiness, except briefly, or to Its prosperity. The King of Eng land, but now so grief-stricken in the presence of death, has already regained his cheerfulness, and the English peo ple who mourned their Queen sincerely last week ask that the period of public mourning for her be materially short ened. This is well. The needs and pleasures of the living are paramount to sorrow for the dead. Combination of the vast iron and steel Interests of the country has been com pleted. It Is a great syndicate, which will control" product and make prices. Time has come when protective tariff should be wholly withdrawn. Refusal to withdraw it, together with enactment of such schemes as the ship subsidy bill, will be interpreted by the country t as putting the Republican party wholly' on the side of monopoly and vast wealth, and will most certainly turn It out of power. The Issues on which the next elections will turn are being made up now. The law creating the State Board of Barbers' Examiners ought to be re pealed. The only effect of the law Is to provide picnic excursions, with accom paniments, the year round, for a few official dead beats. But as this was its object, it, must be said that it fulfills Its purpose better than some other laws. Brownell's resolution for a constitu tional convention probably will not be adopted. It would reopen the question as to the state capital and location of all the state Institutions. If ever we get a constitutional convention this business will be ripped up from the bottom. NEEDS OP OREGON FRUIT INDUSTRY The year 1900 witnessed a remarkable revival of Interest and work among the fruitgrowers of our state. Tho entomologist and the spray pump contributed largely to that revival. Ex periment followed experiment and grad ually fruitgrowers became convinced that they were masters of the situation and could repel the attacks of pernicious scale and other Insect enemies which threatened the destruction of their orchards. Another cause of renewed Interest was the constantly expanding rame of the ex cellence of our horticultural products and the Increased demand for them, that fol lowed. The apple crop last year was a phenom enal one, not only In Oregon but In near ly all apple growing countries, and It seemed inevitable that the markets must be paralyzed. Such, however, was not the case and fairly remunerative prices were realized. This was owing probably to wide areas of distribution, rendered possible by transcontinental and ocean lines of transportation. Oregon apples in 1900 were distrubuted to a small extent half way around our glooe. A slip of pa per placed In a box of Hood River apples requesting consumers to communicate price paid and quality of fruit, was an swered by a man in New Orleans. "Price $2 50; quality, splendid." "While a soldier in the Philippines reports: "Apples ar rived In perfect condition." I have before me at this writing a letter from the owner of a boat on the Yukon River, stating that Gravestelns arrived at Dawson In flne condition last Fall, and In quiring as to what other varieties will be in season for shipment before the river closes in September. And yet another letter, requesting that samples of our choicest apples be ex pressed to the largest fruit-dealer in Fin land, as he thinks he can handle large quantities if they are equal to the repu tation that has preceded them. The presst the Columbian and Trans-Mlsslsslppl Ex positions, our Board of Horticulture and our fruit-dealers have all contributed to this wide diffusion of knowledge relative to Oregon fruits. Oregon has an unlimited amount of land adapted to the production of fruits that no country can excel, and they will be produced If markets can be assured. We aro teaching Europe to use Indian meal, made from Mississippi Valley corn, and why not Introduce our splendid fruits fresh, evaporated and canned to the pal ates of the spunky little Japs and the Czar's subjects In vast Siberia. The De partment of Agriculture sent one of our wise men to France to study the prune, and why should it not send a competent party to exploit the markets of Eastern Asia for the products of our orchards? In answer to your inquiry as to needed legislation, I have little to suggest. The state Is divided into Ave horticultural dis tricts with a Commissioner for each. These districts are too large and we rec ommended that they De increased to seven. In order to reduce their size. Tht law provides for the appointment of dep uty inspectors, but no provision is made for their compensation. This should be remedied, as it Is utterly impossible for one man to watch all the points of ship ment In his district. Iror instance, while Commissioner Reynolds is on duty at Sa lem, there is nothing to prevent the ship ment of infested fruits from Albany or Eugene. This matter of inspection and the enforcement of wholesome regulations I consider of great importance. It com mences with the young trees In the nur sery and nursery stock', and extends to the orchards and fruits offered for sale or shipment. Tho shipment of infested trees or fruits is the prolific source of dis tribution of all the enemies the fruitgrow er has to contend with. It is utterly im possible for the State Board of Horticul ture, with its limited means and immense territory to do this work thoroughly along the lines contemplated by the statute, except in the nurseries and a portion of the orchards. The Postofflce Department recognizing the danger of new pests from our insular possessions, has directed that all plants coming through the mails into Oregon from these places shall be re ferred to our State Board for examination. Recognizing our inability to cover the entire matter of inspection, we have en deavored to build up a sentiment for the voluntary observance of the law and with partial .success. Unsound apples were shipped to California last year, and hawked about the streets of San Fran cisco as Oregon apples, to the discredit of our state and the injury of our fruit Industry. These shipments should never have left the state, but, escaping the in spector here, should have been condemned on their arrival in San Francisco. It is due to the man who raises clean, sound fruit, that the markets should not be demoralized by flooding them with the diseased, unsprayed products of uncared for orchards. Fruitgrowing in Oregon Is a large and promising industry maintain ing a large number of people. Our or chards comprise over 60,000 acres, and in addition we have many commercial nur series and plantations of small fruits. A large amount of capital Is also Invested in our evaporators and canneries, and these give employment to many laborers. The value of our orchards alone au proxlmates $6,000,000, and their product for 1900 approached closely $2,000,000 In value. Under intelligent direction this Industry is capable of indefinite expan sion. The latest facts gleaned from the experiment stations In the field must be collected and popularized, at times the restraining power of the law Invoked by some authorized agency. The annual ap propriation of $4500 to defray the expenses of the Board of Horticulture, consisting of six Commissioners and secretary, in cluding compensation and expenses travel ing over districts larger than Eastern states, including also the printing of bul letins and current expenses of the secre tary's office, Is quite inadequate to carry out fully the scope of our horticultural laws. E. L. SMITH. Hood River, February 5. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPIIE11S Precaution. "What are you doing for that baby?" "I'm simply avoiding all the advice my friends have given me." Harper's Bazar. Butcher Leg o' mutton? Tes'm. Mrs. Do Rlgeui-And let It bo off a black sheep, if you please. We're in mourning, you know. Phila delphia Record. She Worried. Nlpp My wife worried all last week for fear I should die. Tuck Were you sick? Nlpp No; but my life insurance policy ran out and It was several days before I got it renewed. Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Failed to Work. "If you would always think twice before you speak. Johnny, dear, you nev er would get Into any of these troubles with your playfellows." "Huh, you don't know Arth Stapleford! Tou hain't got time to think once 'fore ho hits yet" Chicago Tribune. Sanitary Question. Ho gazed at the Individ ual who was spread over four seats in a crowd ed railway car and murmured: "May I ask you a question?" The individual grunted as sent. "Have the Government Inspectors exam ined you yet for trichinosis?" Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. The Situation Appreciated. "Now," said the envoy of civilization, "I'm going to tell you the exact truth. And I trust you will keep this Information to yourself." "I shall," said the Chinese statesman. "I fully realize how low you would fall In estimation of your fel lows If it were known you had been telling the truth." Indianapolis Press. A Feline Slap. Tess It's quite likely that my uncle will leave me quite a fortune. He's dying, you know. Jess Oh. isn't that dis tressing? Tess Er yes, I do feel sorry for the poor old Jess Nonsense! I was sympa thizing with you. dear. To think that all this wealth should come to you when It's almost too late to do you any good. Philadelphia Press. . "Miss Minks," said the proprietor, "do you know anything about the new minister who Is going to have charge of the church in Have lock street hereafter?" "yes," replied the shop-woman. "He Is a tall, flne-looklng man, about twenty-eight, and he isn't married." "Miss Minks," said the proprietor, briskly, "you may put all the new bonnets we have In the front window." Tlt-Blts. NOTE AND C0MMENX The Queen is married. Long live Do mestic Felicity. Bernhardt has left Chicago, and Richard Mansfield is himself again. Mrs. Nation must be tired by this time. She Is certainly in need of arrest. Neely says all he wants is a fair trial He may think differently after he has had one. There is one advantage of becoming an officer in the Salvation Army. It Is not necessary to be hazed. Is Cleveland going to kill foxes, or only to get a few pointers from them to use in the next campaign? The Cincinnati slug-fest has been sub dued temporarily, but It Is likely to break out In Nevada at any time. If there Is a scalp bounty law In Colo rado what a bill Roosevelt will have against the state when he returns from the chase! A movement Is on foot to start a lob ster factory In Maine. "Why Maine? Isn't the raw material plentiful in every state In the Union? The Queen of Holland has married a Duke, and some unfortunate American heiress must go without one. The sup ply Is limited. When you see a man around a state house who Is trying his best to keep from being taken for a lobbyist, you will know that that is his occupation. Vote, brothers, vote with eare. And always vote up in the air. (The foregoing is respectfully dedicated to the members of the Legislature.) The King of England, It appears, has been writing poetry in his youth. Ho also once played baccarat, but as long as he shows a disposition to reform, why smirch him with the follies raked from the dead embers of the post? George Lynch, the English correspon dent, recently said to his friends in New York City "that for generations to come the progress of Christianity In China Is absolutely killed. It will be generations before the recollections of this latest atrocity Is erased from the momory of the Chinese people." The electric bells In the offices of the various bureau chiefs of the War Depart ment began to ring wildly the other day, indicating that the heads of the depart ments were wanted by the Secretary of War. All went post-haste to the scene, wondering who could have occasioned tho "general alarm." Mary had a little lamb. Possessed of many rocks. And also very much Inclined To deal In railroad stocks. The lambkin down on 'change ono day Was spotted by a bear. And when he left the pit he was Away up in the air. Now Mary has no little lamb, For, having a great head. She shook him when he lest hla fleece And took the bear Instead. "Well, gentlemen, what can I do for you?" Inquired the Secretary in mild sur prise when the delegation arrived. "You rang, sir, did you not?" "No, I have pot touched the bells." Much mystery surrounded the affair un til a messenger explained that he had dis covered a little boy in the outer office pounding with both fists the rows of push buttons arranged on the desk. A lady had called to see the Secretary, and, going Into the inner private office, had left the young man to amuse himself in he ouer bz man to amuse himself in the o'Uter room. Afternoon Tens In Xcw York, New York Times. Entering the parlor, the hostess greets you and expresses pleasure at seeing you there; then her eye wanders anxiously to the door to see who is coming next. If you do not take the hint, she says, "Alice is In the next room, she will be so glad to see you." You pass on. Alice says she is glad to see you, and Immediately polnt3 to the refreshments and Invites you to move on. In the refreshment-room a lady Is In charge whom you may not know. Her conversation is strictly busi ness, and brings the waiter to you, if you desire to partake of anything by yourself, for if you do not happen to see some one with whom you aro acquainted you are left to yourself; there are no Introductions; there Is no time to stop tor such amenities. If you linger at the re freshments you feel that you are In tho way, or may be suspected of not having enough to eat at home. You say good-bye to the hostess and leave. On the street again you note the time six minutes since you entered the house. Others are arriving; others are leaving: the mill la grinding them through 120 an hour. If you meet other visitors with whom you are acquainted you can prolong your stay by conversing with them until you feel that you are remarked as a wall flower, but your Intercourse with the hostess and family amounts to not more than two or three minutes under favorable circum stances. The Man Behind the Bar. Chicago Times-Herald. The man behind the gun may have a nerve that's No. 1, He may rush, without a tremor, on the foe. But the danger he must face Is only as tho merest fun Compared with other terrors here belowt When the women get their hatchets and set out To scatter costly glassware all about When the wrought-up Mrs. Nations madly go to Jam and Jar When they hammer down the windows and the doors, WTien they spill the firewater on the floors. It is worse than common warfare for the man behind the bar. And he's lucky to escape without a scar! It may be a thrilling moment for tho man behind the gun When the decks are cleared for action, out at sea. But It's forty times more thrilling when a dozen women run Through the streets, dead set on letting liquor they hold their spattered skirts up and begin To cut the hoops and knock the stoppers In When they open up tho cases where the, fancy Juices are When they fiercely rush to tear the faucets loose When they render tho free lunch unfit for use Then there's always something doing for the man behind the bar If he hasn't wisely sprinted fast and far. Oh, the birds are sipping whisky from the cow tracks all around. See the streams ot seltzer spurting here and there! Behold the cloves and ceffee that are spilled out on tho ground Yonder goes a leather dice-box through the air! Newer faces are appearing In the fray. And there's terror In the places where the drink dispensers are, For the sounds of falling mirrors swiftly spread The men who lift tha schooner drink la dread. And frem Kansas to Chicago folks are going ferth to mar The features of the man behind the feaxj