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Oakland, Cal W. H. Johnson, Fourteenth and Franklin streets; N. Wheatley; Oakland News Stand; B. 1. Amos, manager five wagons. (joldtleld, Nev. Louie Follln; C E. Hunter. Eureka, Cal. Call-Chronicle Agency; Eu reka News Co. . PORTLAND, TUESDAY. OCTOBER 82, 1907 THE PANIC THAT FAILED. Tl.n CI.nnllnt. I. . 1. . . V. . every man's opinions depend entirely upon his economic conditions. What we believe, in other words, is deter mined for us by the way we make our several livings. Without in any manner adopting such a sweeping statement, we can not deny that it contains ele ments of truth, and If a cogent illus tration of the fact were desired it might easily be found in Wall street. The views of Wall street upon every possible topic are imposed by its in veterate employment of gambling. "Values" to its mind are the fanciful ngures which it attaches, almost hel- ter skelter, to shares of stock. "Pros- Vperlty" prevails on those days when ' gambling Is lucky. When the wheel of fortune stops at the wrong mark, trtAtl triArA Q r hnrH timca anH artmA- body has to be blamed for it. Of course, the misfortunes of the gam blers, like those of other human be- ' lngs, are never their own fault. Just ; now Wall street is experiencing flnan clal stringency, with a corresponding state of the liver, and it blames Mr. : Roosevelt; exactly as a bad little boy ... kicks the dog when he stubs his toe, and with no more reason. : by an article in The Saturday Evening Post which discourses with infinite wit and wisdom upon the pending Dlitrht of the Wall street iramhlers. ' The venturesome writer, Mr. C. H. Matson, whose days may Allah pro long, has the temerity to remark that tnese gentry are toaay in tne same boat where the Kansas farmers found themselves some twenty years ago. i That Is, their economic condition is 4s the same: and therefore, quite natur v ally, they have adopted the same po J litlcal opinions. Mr. Matson refers to i tho breezy times of populism. With ; unparalleled audacity he declares that .Wall street, forsaklnor safetv and sun. 4ty, has become hysterical and popu list, while he clearly indicates, though he does not say so, that the great cor poratlon organs like the Sun and Times have become calamity howlers. , Oh, what a fall that has been if It is " true. And we fear 4t is true. In the giddy, gibbering days of populism out West, Kansas, to say 1 nothing of Nebraska and the Da kotas, was in debt to Wall street. t v hatevcr cash the railroads left to ' the farmers after their crops were marketed had to go to New York to v pay interest on mortgages. Banks and pocketbooks were altke empty; , money was hard to get; farms V were falling down the steep declivity ' of prices and the wolf stood per petually growling at the door. Nat urally the Kansas farmers bethought - them of ways to get money more plentifully.- Some of them desired the government to print money on neat little slips of paper and shower it like . the gentle rain from heaven upon the !', Just and unjust. Others prayed Uncle Sam to make sixteen ounces of silver equal to an ounce of gold by his om nipotent mandate. But Uncle Sam stonily refused to brighten the life of ':- the Western populists by either of those facile tricks, and gloom settled ..-upon the land as night descended . upon Pharaoh's Egypt. But not for aye. Unlike Wall street In its season of tribulation, the farm i ers went to work, and despite the piuiiut ring ui tut? lauiuuuD, liih trusts and the money sharks, they did finally : ; bearin to lav ur cash. Heaven sent great harvests, so big that not all could be stolen by any legal or illegal device. The populists began to pay off mortgages. Interest ceased to flow to Wall street. Money piled up in the ,.f country banks. The golden years continued to circle, and a day arrived when the despised farmers of the West beheld the haughty magnates of Wall street at their doors begging for loans. The plain truth is that New York has ceased to be the creditor of the West, and is borrowing money right and left from the country banks. The cessation of the golden stream of interest has made money scarce irt Wall street. To the same result the increasing canniness of outsiders in tho matters of buying shares has also contributed. A share must be worth something in order to find a purchaser now, which is- of course very, very wrong, but it seems undeniable. All of a sudden Wall street has found it self in debt without enough money to meet its obligations, precisely what happened to the Kansas populists in the long and long ago. And the same results follow. Stock values crumble Just as farm values crumbled in the days of greenbackism. Of course, tha stocks produce their dividends now exactly as the farms produced their crops then, and nobody suffers from the "depreciation" except in tho fond visions of fancy; but the shrieks of the Wall street gamblers are thunder ing up to heaven with a shrillness and volume which Mary Ellen Lease could never begin to produce. They, too, want an Increased per capita of money," or "a more flexible cur rency," just an the populists did. The debtor class is prone to want dishonest money to help it out of a scrape, and Wall street is now a debtor on a vast scale. It has shamelessly proposed an Issue of flat money. No less a per sonage than Mr. Leslie M. Shaw, late Secretary, of the Treasury, now' safe tn that paradise of good treasury of ficials, a New York trust presidency, has formulated a scheme for issuing flat money. He disguises it under placating epithets, but it is the same old trick. Thus the wheel of fortune turns and time brings in his revenges. Wall Btreet has our sincere condolences in its sorry plight, but we decline to be frightened. It Is a little dot on a little Island and the United States is very big. It has a gool deal of wealth. but the United statef has a good deal more, so much more that the ups and downs of the gamblers are imper ceptible In the tremendous ocean of our fortunes. Their screams are piti ful, but the country is too busy and prosperous to pay much attention to them. The country banks are full of money, everybody is working for high wages, the railroads can not begin to do the business that offers, and their dividends exceed all precedents. In the circumstances it Is really impossi ble for us to feel the least b't panicky, much as' we should like to do so out of sympathy for Wall street and ita sad predicament. . MORE OF YARD AM AN. Perhaps the most unaccountable of all human passions is the craving for notoriety. The knowledge that they are being talked about affords to some men a pleasure more exquisite than they could derive from the assured salvation of their souls and the certain prospect of heaven. What causes all the more wonder is the fact that it makes not the slightest difference to them what the talk is. If they are belauded they grin with satisfaction. If they are abused they grin Just as broadly. If they are ridiculed it is all the same. This passionate desire for attention from their fellow-men in duces some misguided persons, like Gulteau, to commit assassination. Others it beguiles into actions which are merely absurd. In all of them it Is probably half a disease, half moral perversity. We do not suppose that Governor Vardaman's craving for notoriety will ever make him shoot a President of the United States, as Guiteau and Czolgosz did. He is so situated in life that his actions, even the silliest of them, are done in the sight of the pub lic and are bound to be more or less discussed., . This will probably save him from those excesses to which cer tain persons of a temperament similar to his have been urged by ungratifled longing to. hear their name upon the popular tongue, but it does save him form doing some very foolish things. To insult the President is becoming quite a fashion among these seekers for easy fame. Nothing else that they could do, short of murdering some person of distinction, would bring them so conspicuously into notice. The notice is brief, of course, but that does not matter. When one transient wave of infamy or absurdity subsides it is usually possible to think up some new piece of folly to set another go ing. Mr. Vardaman, by hook or crook. manages to keep people talking about nim most oi tne time, ana, although what they say is not much to his credit, still he is satisfied. He will not meet the President "Because he is a cruel bear-chaser." We must not hastily assume that this reason is disingenuous. Mr. Var daman has Just sense enough to at tach great importance to a trifle of this sort, and ho may really suppose that Mr. Roosevelt's bear hunting jus tifies the boorish Insolence o- the Gov ernor of Mississippi. No doubt if Mr. Roosevelt were shooting negroes in stead of bears, he would receive Mr. Vardaman's delighted approval. One's tastein matters of this kind is largely a matter of education and habit. But does it not sound incongruous to hear a defense of bears from a man who has devoted his life to inciting riot and murder? SOME SMALL BUSINESS. . Whether one likes or dislikes the Telegraphers' Union, Itf is difficult to withhold a passing comment upon the fortunes of ex-President Small. The question of his honesty or dishonesty lies between him and his co-unionists. Outsiders have nothing to do with It. But the condemnation of a man un heard, no matter whether it occurs in a church synod, a political convention, a court of Justice or a meeting of labor union, is abhorrent to all right thinking minds. There is an excuse for Small's mis treatment by the men whom he had disappointed. They acted under the smart of failure and in the heat passion. Such conditions naturally exclude fairness and balk deliberation, To hiss him from the platform when he rose to make his defense was cru elly unjust, and it will seem to many persons to Justify the taunt so often made that ingratitude Is the principal characteristic of laboring men. One of the most effective speeches in that very strong play, "The Undertow,' was a statement of this very truth, or supposed truth, by the capitalist hero who occupies himself with the pur chase and sale of the souls of men Still, cruel and abhorrent as the treatment of Small has been, it was n&t so bad as would have been a deliber ate, cold-blooded plot to deny him Jus Uce, such a plot as St. Bernard and his fellow-Christians carried out, for example, at the mock trial of the phil osopher Abelard. The excuse is often advanced for such deeds that those who committed them merely acted' ac cording to the spirit of their time and could not have done otherwise. This is contemptible sophistry. The "spirit of the times" is composed of the spirits of the men who are then living. Each of them contributes his share to it and is in his degree responsible for the resultant. If an age is cruel and wicked, it is because cruel and wicked men are then dominant in the world. To say that men are bad because they live in, a bad age is to reverse the true sequence of causes and destroy the va lidity of the mural law. Those of us who expect to plead at the judgment bar of the Almighty that our sins are the result of our environment may rest assured that the accusing angel will demur to the plea and that his demur rer will be sustained by the Presiding Judge. MORE RECKLESS NAVIGATION. Another fine steamship, valued at more than $250,000 and much needed at this time for carrying grain from Portland to Europe, is pounding to pieces down on the California ' coast. The Queen Christina, which is the lat est victim of reckless navigation, was a much more valuable ship than the Tellus, wrecked near Grays Harbor several weeks ago. She also had a highly profitable charter out of Port land, and for that reason there is less cause for suspicion of foul play than there was In the case of the Tellus. But the Queen Christina was appar ently wrecked on a smooth sea, while In full control of her officers. The presence of fog will hardly offer a sufficient excuse. The California coast is strewn with wrecks caused by wild and seemingly uncontrollable desire- of shipmasters to hug the coast, regardless of the weather. Such a practice is highly dangerous when it is followed by men who have a perfect knowledge of the coast, with Its varying tides and cur rents; but when It is indulged in by the navigators of tramp steamers who are unfamiliar with the coast, it be comes much more serious. It is, of course, quite fortunate that there were no lives lost on either of these nexcusable and unnecessary wrecks, but this is in no degree to the credit of the navigators who sent the ships to their doom. If the master of a vessel has no better knowledge of navigation than to wreck his ship in fine weather, as was the case of the Tellus, or in a fog on a smooth sea, as with the Queen Christina, the crews sailing under such masters have been taking terrible chances with their lives in sailing where there Is real danger. In following a safe course, well clear of the land, between San Francisco and the mouth of the Columbia River, there would be at the most a loss of but a few hours on the voyage com pared with what might be saved by cutting the corners, as the master of the Queen Christina was apparently doing. The loss of the ship at this time is particularly unfortunate, not only because a fine new vessel has been destroyed, but because she was much needed to relieve the congestion on the Portland wheat docks and was also chartered at a high rate that would have proved highly remuner ative to her owners. Reasoning from precedent, we may expect the foreign uiiuerwmers to cnarge mis loss up against the Columbia River. The Queen Christina, like the Tellus, re cently wrecked on the Washington coast, was headed for the Columbia, and it would be a violation of all pre cedent to charge the loss of either of them up against a Washington or a California port. " A SEATTLE PHILANTHROPIST. It Is refreshing in these days of sor did, selfish rush for the almighty dol lar, occasionally to find a bright and shining example of real philanthropy which teaches us that the milk of hu man kindness has not dried up nor BUtlered undue dilution at the pump. In the bright role of a philanthropist. Mr. Morltz Thomsen, head of the big Puget Sound milling trust, towers above the common herd like a tall man In a crowd at a dog fight. It was Mr. Thomsen, who was one of the original discoverers of the alleged fact that the Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington farmers were not receiv ing enough money for their wheat. It was he who prevailed on the Wash ington Railroad Commission to order in a Joint rate not, as the narrow minded, selfish business man might infer, to enable the Thomsen mills to secure raw material at a low price, but in order that the price should be higher to the farmers. Herein we find a sacrifice which costs money, for with nearly all other millers in the Pacific Northwest there has always been a disposition to buy wheat at as low a cost as possible. Of course there are rude individuals who will question the sincerity of Mr. Thomsen's interest in seeking to ad vance wheat prices. Even some of the farmers In the charmed circle where the Puget Sound milling trust has no competition greeted Mr. Thom sen s expressed desire for higher wheat prices for the farmer with derisive "Ha, ha," which must have been painful to such a sensitive na ture. But Mr. Thomsen's Interest in ad vanclng wheat prices for, the farmers did not cease witl. his wonderful tes tlmony at the joint-rate hearings, Within the past ten days he has again appeared before the public as the farmer's friend by making an elabor ate prediction that wheat was certain to sell for $1 per bushel in the Coast markets. This prediction, coming from a man who is supposed to be in a position to know whereof he speaks of course has a tendency to preven iree senng Dy tne farmers, who are now marketing wheat at from 90 to 9 cents per bushel. Mr. Thomsen Is not yet ready to ; ay them the $1 per bushel, but he has their interests so much at heart that he will surely give them that figure later on. Envious critics of philanthropy will, of course, get out their hammers again. They will say that Thomsen Is predicting dollar wheat in order to check the selling for export until the Oriental demand for flour Improves and he again enters the market. If these predictions were taken seriously, all selling would stop, and when the decline comes he would have immense stocks pressing on the market an thus be enabled to buy at a low figure. But Mr. Thomsen's solicitude for joint rate in order that his wheat for milling will cost him more than It 1 now costing him is effectual answer to any insinuations that he is Insincere in his predictions of dollar wheat. I Is to be hoped that Mr. Thomsen' solicitude for his fellovs,-man will, not reach a stage where it Includes the yellow fellow-man who buys Mr. Thomsen's flour. If it should go that far, the problem of Increasing the price of wheat, to the farmer and de creasing the price of flour to the Chi naman would soon leave Mr. Thomsen In the condlton of one F. Augustus Heinze. The general public is In sympathy to some extent with the managers of the big department stores of Pitts burg on the question of "pompadours" worn by the girls behind the counters. With the reason given for the order to discharge all glials who persist in wearing this bushy topknot viz., that It required too much of the girls' time to take care of this mass of hair there is little sympathy. It is pre sumed at least, that the girl's hair Is dressed in her own time not the time of her employer. Hence, plainly speaking, it is none of his business how much time she takes for the task. It is only when the pompadour Is con sidered as the disfiguring mop that it Is a perpetuation of a fashion set by one of the most noted courtesans of history, and withal suggestive of un tidiness to a degree that this fash- on of halrdressing is Justly repro bated. However, the Pittsburg de partment store ci'rls won out in this ontest, so the pompadour is still "on top." Prosecutions for gambling have al ways been directed against the propri etors of gambling-houses. This has been found advisable for the reason that the patrons of a gambling-house must be depended upon for most of the evidence necessary to secure con viction. Since, . however, public ofll- lals are generally lax in enforcement of gambling laws and the private citi zen finds It necessary to emplc.- a pri vate detective to secure evfdence, It might be well to try the expedient of prosecuting those who patronize the gambling-house as well as those who conduct It. A few heavy, fines or terms of imprisonment Imposed upon patrons would be an effective deter rent. The man who patronizes a gam bling-house Is certain to lose his money anyway, so he might as well be required to pay it directly Into the county treasury. County Assessors need not worry too much for fear they will place too high valuation upon railroad property. The valuations have been too low for so many years that there Is absolutely no danger of injustice. Besides, if one of the railroads should take a no tion to go to law about an assessment and should undertake to prove the rate too high, there would be a splen did opportunity to find out just exact ly what the roads actually cost and how the construction money was ac tually spent. These are facts which the people hava been anxious to find out for some time. It would te worth some trouble and expense to get the railroad - builders on the witness stand, under oath, and subject to cross-examination. We might find out a few things to our advantage. The American citizens who have been in jail In Russia should have remained at home. The Russian gov ernment is a tyrannical institution and may soon collapse by the weight of its own Iniquities, but it is not at all clear that the collapse Is to be hastened by the interference of outsiders. We are prone to protest against the arrogance of the Russian anarchists who come to this country to exploit their the ories on government. It may be that the Russian government regards inter lopers from this country in the same light as we view those who come over from Russia to enlighten us on the best method of running a government. That $71,000,000 of bank .deposits in Oregon on June 30, 1907, should be very greatly increased by November 30 next. By the latter date Oregon farmers will have marketed the bulk of their crops and at very profitable prices for everything except hops. The greater part of our crops goes to Eastern markets, so that in return Eastern money comes here and Into the pockets of farmers and shippers. When the harvest money has found its way into the vaults of the banks, the figures will show a still better show ing for prosperity In Oregon. "Little boats keep near the shore. but larger ones can venture more," is a rhyme which is not at all applicable to the methods of the masters of good many "larger" boats which have been hugging the shore of the Pacific Steamships require water to float in, and the frequent attempts to take them overland at various Coast points have always met with failure. In a speech In the Philippines Mr. Taft remarked that the next time he visits the islands it will be as a private citizen. This was taken by some to mean that he will not be a candidate for the Presidency. No such infer ence Is necessary. Of course Presi dent Taft would not go to the islands personally. He would send his faecre tary of State. . Dairy and Food . Commissioner Bailey says that In Holland an acre of land supports more than three cows, Notwithstanding the superiority of Oregon soil and climate, it is difficult to get the farmer in this country to believe that one cow to the acre can be maintained. It Is less a question of soil than it is of management. While official figures of the gold output in Uncle Sam's domain last year are gratifying $94,000,000 is not to be sneezed at the precious metal as a source of National wealth is not comparable with the modest and lowly American hen. To international questions attaching to the arrest of William English Wal ling at St. Petersburg there is added the Interesting personal fact that th prisoner Is a fellow-townsman of Vice President Fairbanks and Senator Beveridge. Ambassador O'Brien has been 'con spicuously honored by Mr. and Mrs, Mikado with an invitation to lunch. In this new light, the necessity for sending our Navy to Pacific waters is not so apparent. If there shall be a second elective term, and if you should want to d any business with the Administration during that period, it looks as if you will have to see Senator Bourne. OUIIlOWUCik L WtWliUHJ, A .1.1.1... Roosevelt reports having eaten' 'pos- J- sum in the canebrakes. If this doesn't I placate the colored voter, what will T J HOW TO MAKE A SEWSPAPER PAY. Good Advice That Applies to the Preas In Large Places and Small. Pilot Rock (Or.) Record. A newspaper In order to receive the unstinted support of the community in which it Is published muBt be an active, living part of that community. This re quires years of earnest honest effort, which spells work. It must own its own printing office, paid for out of the earn ings of its own business; It should own Its own building and the ' proprietor or proprietprs should own his or their own homes. Such a paper should be a tax payer not a taxdodger able to hold Its head up when discussing city and county affairs and discoursing on matters rural lstlc. The trouble with the newspaper busi ness is that there are too many of them being founded on wind, and their "hot air" vaporlngs are taken at their full value by the general public. The man who comes to a town with a suitcase and runs a newspaper on an overdraft, is looked upon by the careful advertiser as no fixed part of the community in which he lives and at most destined to prove a brief sojourner and he will hesi tate to encourage his stay, lest his overdraft might precipitate a bank failure. Such a newspaper quickly de generates Into a scold; begs support; makes political deals; will favor or op pose prohibition; will stand in with gam blers and pickpockets; Is practically with out influence or standing; despised by its friends and shunned by its enemies; ekes out miserable existence for a time and finally dies without a tear being shed on its bier. A man who has made an absolute failure of everything he has turned his attention to, including poll tics, makes the mistake of his life when he Imagines he. can place a daily news paper on a paying basis In this utili tarian age, backed by his personality as his sole stock in trade. Why Xot Jones for Speaker! Walla Walla Union. If It Is true that Speaker Cannon has said that he will not make Repre sentative Wesley L. Jones chairman of the committe on rivers and harbors, why not make Jones a candidate for Speaker against Can non? That would be a much better position. Since the days of "Czar" Reed, the Speaker of the House has been the most powerful man In the Government o'f the United States. Speaker Cannon is not in accord with the Roosevelt administration on many important issues. He is a candidate for the Presidential -nomination in op position to Secretary Taft, the admin istration candidate. As the adminis tration candidate for Speaker, Mr. Jones would have a splendid show to win. His friends will readily concede that Mr. Jones is one of the ablest and .most popular members of the lower house, and as a candidate for Speaker he would have an excellent chance to win. Why not "Czar" Jones? at the next session of Congress? That would beat a forlorn hope for the Senator- ship. Kins; Alphonso la Henpecked. Madrid Dispatch. Queen Victoria of Spain, is losing the great popularity which was hers. Only recently her husband s people Idolized the queen and courtiers and nobles highly admired her. Now she is fast becoming one of the least loved of sovereigns. The Queen has plainly shown the nu merous members of the royal family that their society Is not congenial to her. She has done away with the dinner at which the King met all his relatives each day. From time immemorial all of the royal family and their suites have lived in the palace; now the Queen's exclusive ways and imperious manner have made the pal ace atmosphere so frigid for them they are leaving It. Many stories are afloat even among the people about the queen's fiery temper and the condition of subjection to which she has reduced King Alfonso. All Spanish diplomats who have served in England say the Queen inherits her hot temper, that her mother. Princess Henry of Bat- tenberg, ruled the English court in Queen Victoria's time and oppressed her husband until he became the merest lay figure. Btsr Winnings on Baseball. Pittsburg Dlspatcn in New York Times. "Shad" Gwilllam, the Pittsburg sporting man, cade a fortune on' the baseball series between Chicago and Detroit for the world's championship, The night before the series opened, at the .Auditorium Annex, in Chicago, Gwilllam bet $50,000 to $42,000. nainly with Detroit men, that Chicago would capture the series. The only bet ha did not win was for $5000 that Chicago would capture the nrst game. As it was a draw, the money was taken down. In the world's championship series between Boston and Pittsburg, iwllliam lost $29,000. He won $10,000 when thp Giants beat the Athletics, and lost $30,000 when the White Sox de feated the Cubs. Newspapers on Our WaraLlps. Washington (D. C.) Herald. -It is not generally known outside of the service that many of the ships of the United States Navy have their own newspapers, published on Voard by the jackles. The Kentucky Budget is Issued on .the battleship Kentucky, the West Virginia's bluejackets read the Ditty Box, the Pelican is the official organ of doings aboard the Louisiana, the Buck eye caters to the sailors on tha Ohio, and the Wisconsin's crew is proud of the Badger. All the news of the ship and its company is condensed into these little sheets, and many an issue con tains witty sallies at the expense of some comrade or a ditty descriptive of some feature of ship life. Big; Bear Marked T. It." Black Duck (Minn.) Dispatch in N. Y. World. Had President Roosevelt come up here on his hunting trip he would have found a giant black bear waiting for him, with the Initials "T. R" in white hair plainly showing on his right side. The bear was killed by Henry Savage, a homesteader. An examination showed that the bear had been through a fire in its infancy and that white hair had grown in where the original black hair had been burned off- The initials "T. R." are as perfect as though put there by a paint brush. Savage has refused $5 for the skin, which he will send to the President. Known Him by His Walk. Philadelphia Dispatch. William H. Green, -f the G.-A. R., had not seen Blair H. Galloway, of Indiana, for 29 years until they met recently In Philadelphia, but he knew him by his walk. For Art's Sake. Washington Star. He went out West and Bhot up towns And took ferocious drinks; Through various grafters' ups and downs He followed all the kinks. He violated social rules '. Until to Jail they took This rogue. And while his heels he cools He's going to write a book! The publishers all wish to get' ' Material from his pen. He's scarce grammatical and yet They call and call again, Hs said his goings on wars Just An effort to secure . The local color which one saust DWalay in literature. APPLE TIME IX KEW'YORK STATE. What - Hna Been Done to Kncourasse the Vae of Thla 'Fruit. Syracuse Post -Standard. The time has come to eat the Olden burg, the Hawley, the Pound Sweet and the other delicious Fall apples, and to pick the later varieties for Winter use. Good prices are being .realized in New York State. Some growers are reported as having refused $3 a barrel for Bald wins. Greenings, strange to say, are even higher, being scarcer. A Missouri agricultural paper figures that at this rate the consumer will pay $7.50 per bar rel for his fruit, and advises the grower to be moderate lest the market be charged more than it will stand. That would defeat the object of the Apple Consumers' League, one of the most adroit organizations of its kind since Adam. The editor of the Rural New Yorker founded the league. He had been in a New York restaurant and asked for baked apples. "We ain't got none," was his reward. In addition to calling the manager to his table and hauling -him over the coals for such a grievous lapse of duty to a patron, the editor founded the Apple Consumers' League then and there, the only duty of membership being to eat two apples per diem and to call for apple sauce, 'apple pie, fried apples, apple butter, baked apples, apfel-kuchen or somo other form "of apple delicacy whenever you sit down at a public table, and if the delicacy can't be had, find fault with the proprie tor. This simple unorganized work of apple eaters has, tho Rural New Yorker believes. Increased the consumption of apples fully 20 per cent. "Eat apples'. It Is more patriotic than to eat the for eign orange or banana!" exclaims tho league, forgetting that tha banana and the orange are also American fruits. Apple day will be celebrated In New England this Fall on the third Tuesday in October. New Hampshire set the fash Ion two years ago of taking children from the towns out Into the country on frea trolley cars to see the apple-picking and view the beauties of Nature. Last year tha day was celebrated with me morial services at the grave of Dea Thompson, at Woburn, Mass. It was ne who first called attention to the apple then known as the Woodpecker apple. which had come up as a seedling on the form of John Ball, at ilmington, Mass., In 1740, and had been cultivated for nearly half a century In that locality. Colonel Baldwin made the apple commer cially profitable and widely famous, is the Baldwin apple of today, the first of American fruits. AFTER A LAPSE OF 14 YEARS. Mysterlona . Stranger Drops In on Hlllsboro Merchant and Pays I p. Hillsboro Argus. On Monday a tall and well-dressed stranger walked into the Schulmerlch Bros.' store and remarked that he was "ready to pay for those shoes, now." Herman Schulmerlch carefully sized up the stranger and informed him that so far as he was aware there was no account against him, but the man persisted that he owed the firm a balance o $2 on a pair of shoea pur chased 14 years ago. "I'm sure of It," said the man, and he counted out the money, remarking: "It Is a pleasant October day," and went oat in the street, .where he produced a camera and took a view of the store. Ho did not reveal his name and seemed In good financial circumstances. Tho only excuse he made for his dilatory meeting of the obligation was that he went East shortly after he boy?ht the shoes and had Just returned to the state. Mr. Schulmerlch Is hoping that some of the other old-timers in Indebtedness will be taken with a spasm of hon esty and imitate the mysteriaus but honest stranger. Art reus Drives AVIth a Pin. New York World. Miss Gribbin, actress, amazed Central fcPark crowds by appearing In an auto mobile accompanied by a fat porker. The pig sat on the seat alongside the young woman, occupying the position formerly graced by a millionaire, and he appeared greatly to enjoy the outing. Miss Gribbin is prima donna of the Hippodrome, where a PitWburger fell In love with her. He Immediately began paying the actress violent court. He gave her many pres ents, but the two finally quarreled, with the result that Miss Gribbin took the pig afterward for an airing in place of her erstwhile sweetheart. Miss Gribbin said "There are some nice things about pigs. They can t talk and they are not rnlte worse appearing than certain men of my acquaintance. Besides, when you get tired of a pig you can have him served for dinner." The pig was Phoebe, a Hippodrome performer. Sudden Streak of Economy In Texas, Baltimore News. Hotelkeepers at the state capital of Texas say that business has fallen off since unti-free pass legislation, as members of the Legislature and poli ticians in general do not travel as freely as before. CURRENT COMMENT. While everybody Is Inclined to complain of hlph prices now, 20 years hence we may bo talking aboijt the-good old times of 1007. Toledo Blaae. Senator Warren,- according to a Western paper. Is also of the opinion that the Ameri can people may Jam Theodore Roosevelt back against the wall and force him to take the nomination. We await with confidence the spectacle of Mr. Warren being shown. Louisville' Courier-Journal. Bishop Moore says that Methodist minis ters should wear well-tailored clothes and collars that fit. The collar part mar bs arranged, but the average Methodist minis ter hesitates, at his present salary, to go into debt to tne tailors. umana ee. It Is stated that Great Britain will send a fleet of five warships to Esquimau early next Spring. It la not known whether they will remain on the coast for a long period. but they probably will. The British, like same Americans, have Just discovered that the Pacific is a big ocean and that things may be doing on it some day. San Fran Cisco Chronicle. The so-called stringency In the money market Is not the result of agitation ol discussion affecting the credit of either gov ernments or corporations or the earning prospects of the latter. It Is merely that capital has been on a little spree, and that the resulting nervousness and bad temper will be followed naturally by a resetoratlon to normal conditions. Evansvllle Courier. m There are some citizens who would prefer that the chief Executive take his outing In a less strenuous manner and-go In for mflde forms of relaxation than tne killing bears. But these citizens, reckon without the essence of the President's temperament. He must do things this way or lose his In dlviduallty. It Is his way Washington Star. . "Rear-Admiral EVans." said Secretary Metcalf to an Inquiry, "has the confidence of the President and myself, and the Ameri can people have nothing to fear in intrust lncr their spienam ueei to nis care during It long crdise to the Pacltlc." This ought ef fectually to settle the talk of shelving "Bob" Evans. He may not be popular with some of the dry-land sailors, but his ability as a seaman is unquestioned. .Boston Ad vertlser. '. Professor Burt O. Wilder, the eminent anatomist and neurologist, says that If h were "president of a college he would rather lose a donation or lu.vuo.oon. or any othe stmt. than abandon collegiate athletics. There Is little room for question that ration aL athletics will be found beneficial by stu dents, as by anyone else whose work 1b con fining. It does not pay to cram the head and let the body go without the exercise that is needed for health and vigor. Th objectionable point is reached when the student goes in for athletics too exclusivel and neglects his studies. Iudian&polis Star. UBLICATION In book form at Lon don, England, of the "state" let ters of tho late Queen Victoria, Is considered by competent judges over tho Atlantic, to be the greatest literary event of the past CO years. Obviously, all the Queen's love letters to her husband and other letters criticising living statesmen have been omitted. 1 Tho letters show very plainly a , woman's likes, and dislikes. The Queen . istrusted the great Lord Palmerston and speaks appreciatively of the friendship of this country. Her confidence in Lord Melbourne Is again reiterated. Probably it was the Premier's suavity that Im pressed the Queen's girlish mind. After the coronation, she is recorded as having written to Lord Melbourne as follows: "You did it beautifully; every part with so much taste. It is a thing you cannot give a person advice upon. It must be left to a person's own judgment." . The Queen held duty to be her first aim, yet she greatly preferred the quiet of country life to public appearance. She wrote in 1S52 "The great deal there -s to do, and the Importance of everything going on at home and abroad is unex ampled in my recollection, and very try ing. I am every day more convinced that wo women. If we are to be good women feminine, amiable and domestic are not fitted to reign." In this eplrlt the Queen exhibited the passionate doterminfttion to realize her Ideals of sovereignty. She In sisted upon being consulted in tho very smallest matters. King Edward personally supervised the printing and editing. The book Is having an Immense sale. How like a dream of the past it is to hear that two of the great-granddaugh ters of Robert Burns, tho Scotch poet. nave just finished a short trip through Scotland, and more especially Edinburgh, which Sir Walter Scott, the .novelist, called "mine own romantic town." The young women tourists in question are Miss Margaret Constance Bums Hutch inson and Mrs. Anne Burns Scott, grand daughters of Lieutenant-Colonel James Glencairn Burns, who was the fourth son of the poet, and was called after Burns' friend and patron, the Earl of Glen cairn. Lieutenant-Colonel Burns, on his retirement from the British army on a pension, settled at Cheltenham, England, which ever since has been his family home. Miss Hutchinson and Mrs. Scott of course visited all the old homes and haunts of "Bobbie" Burns, including Dumfries, where he died; Ellisland, where he farmed; Mossglel Ayr, Kilmar nock, the Trossachs, Glasgow and Edin burgh. The younger of the ladies. Miss Hutchinson, bears a striking resemblance to the portrait of Burns by Nasmyth, which that artist painted when Burns re sided In Edinburgh a work which is now one of the treasures of the- National Gal lery of Scotland. Mrs. Burns Scott has spent most of her life in Australia, and this was her first visit to Scotland. An English tourist once asKed a Scot: "Who is Bobbie Burns?" "Our national Poet," said the Scot. Never heard of him? No? That's strange. Did you ever hear of Scotch whisky?" 1 "Rather," replied the critic, knowingly. "Oh, then, there's some hope for you yet," said the Scot, consolingly. It does not look as if Rudyard Kipling, who is now touring British Columbia, will deign to cross tho border to see us this trip, unless his plans change. Kip- Ing, who brought on his head the wrath of all Canada because he described that land as "our lady of the snows," is un derstood to have a favorable opinion of the Oregon country, gathered from obser vations made when he fished in the Clackamas River and made a good catch. How different might have been the his tory of Oregon if such a discriminating English fisherman as Kipling undoubted ly is, had been sent here as advance agent In the early days when Great Britain and the United States were quar reling over the boundary line ot tha Oregon country. British people then wondered if Oregon was worth annexing to their empire, and they sent a secret agent over hero to spy out the land. With disastrous results ha fished in the Columbia River. , "Cede the d n country," read his re port, "the salmon won't rise at a fly." - Hall Caine, it Is believed, is the wealth iest novelist and playwright in the world. In theatrical royalties alone he has re ceived up to now $450,000 from England and America, and the huge eale of his novels must bring him In a much bigger Income. Mrs. George Bernard Shaw is a wealthy woman In -her own right end Is several years younger than her author-husband. At the time of the Shaw marriage, the London newspapers got a good deal of "cony" out of the incident. The misogy nist has become a benedick! The So cialist would soon be a Conservative! For nothing is so disturbing to the So cialistic viewpoint, they argued, as the acquisition of a bank account whether by marriage or some other form of servi tude. But the years have passed on. and though Mr. Shaw has accumulated a bank account, he Is as much of a Socialist as ever. Mrs. Shaw is one of the busiest women In London. But hers Is not the sort of work that brings her much in the public eye. Publicity of any kind she avoids with something like terror. "Mr. Shaw does the talking in our family," she reminds persistent Inter viewers. e How many people among the audiences who enjoyed the Faversham's fine presen tations of "Tho Squaw Man," at the Helllg Theater, knew that the book of that name is written by Julie Opp Faver sham, wife of the star? It's so. "The Squaw Man" was adapted from the play by Ddwln Milton Royle. Mrs. Faversham has quite a marked literary talent, and said to be a- protege of Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Criminal proceedings have been begun in Russia against Maxim Gorky on ac count of doctrines enunciated in his latest novel. "Mother." which the police have confiscated. Gorky is in Naples. "The Old Peabody Pew," a Christmas romance by Kate Douglas Wlggln, will be published In an illustrated holiday edition before the month closes. The publishers report that the advance or ders have already required the printing of two editions, making the total . 25,OiiO copies. The posthumous edition of Fiona Mac Leod's "Hills of Dream-and Later Poems" is soon to be issued by William Heine mann, the London publisher. It will differ materially from the volume which appeared in 1K9S under the same title, and it will contain all the poems written by Willlam Sharp under his pseudonym Fiona Maclx-od, with the exception of one or two lyrics which he discarded, Frances Hodgson Burnett has assumed the editorship of the Children's Magazine and has written a letter to the readers of the magazine In which she says that a little fairy at her christening bestowed upon her a curious gift. The gift Is that one part of her shall never grow up. and that however many years she may live that part of her will know what will In terest children, what will make them happy, and' what will make them ead.