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