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Editorial Page of TEe Journal PORTLAND. OREGON, f FRIDAY, NOVSMBBK 11, 1901 I THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL AN I N D'E PENDBNT N WSPAPBH e t. JACtcsori OFFICIAL THE ROAD TO SUCCESS FOR DEMOCRATS. THE HOUR of moat disastrous defeat in ita whole history is, strangely enough, the hour which finds the true Democrat leaat demoralized and most hopeful. He can now see for himself, clear as a demonstration, two things that are essential to tha very existence of the party. First and foremost of these the fctues which circumstances beyond human intervention have settled, must be relegated to the lumber room; second, but also foremost, men must remain with the party not through party discipline but through convic tion of the justness of the principles which it expresses and upholds. Two whirlwind campaigns were lost on certain issues, hysterical in their manifestation and expression if not in their substance. Among them were the silver quet tion, the Philippine question and the questions of im perialism. Governmental policies may have put the Climax to the work, but natural conditions over which no government had control, gave the coup de grace to the silver question. This outcome should and must be accepted. , If it were all to do over again, if our foresight had only been as good as our hindsight, it is doubtful if we Should have burdened ourselves with the while elephant called the Philippines. But what we might have done or what we should have done is no longer the question, but what we did do. We took the islands and they are 0rs. We cannot go back, even though we Would. We are face to face with a practical question and we can not meet it with a theory. For weal or woe, therefore, wc have the Philippines and we must with them, remembering always the obligation which our trusteeship imposes upon us. And so with imperialism, socalled. Dewey's guna in Manila bay made us, willy nilly, a "world power." The progress toward central nation in the federal govern ment frorri the stirring days of Jefferson and the Ken tucky pike road, through the Louisiana purchase and even the expedition of Lewis and Clark, had in them all something not specifically warranted by a strict con struction of the constitution, but time and experience has abundantly justified them. And so with Webstef and Hayne in their great debate. If we were to remain as we were, or even if wc accepted the literal terms of the constitution, who shall now say that Hayne did not have the better of the argument? But if we wert to Hftet elbow room, if we were to burst through our swaddling clothes and realize our great destiny, wSo can ever get through admiring the breadth, the prescience and statesmanlike grasp of Daniel Webster whose proudest title is that of expounder of, the constitution? It is well to lay down lines and rules but all lines and rules, except we hope moral rules, must be modified to ateet the exigency of changing conditions if we are to reach the full fruition of ottr power or the crowning re ward of our labors. And so "imperialism" modified in degree and spirit, not rampant, bloviating and rapacious, has forced its own acceptance and met at least a qualified popular approval. In the two Bryan campaigns the Democratic party was unfortunate in that no distinction was drawn, or at least accepted by the voters, between its attacks upon wealth and predatory wealth. Hence misfortune over took us. But in the Parker campaign we were simply gelatinous, we really stood flatfooted for nothing and the men back of the canvass were open to precisely the anme criticism and On precisely the same around as, for a dozen years, we bd warrant edly attacked the Repub lican managers. But now at last we have1 reached solid ground after years of deep travail. Conditions have mapped out our fight for us and it is upon good old lines that will appeal to all true Democrats, to those who have sought relief through third party movements and to Republicans who place their citizenship above party fealty. The coming fight is not against wealth but against those combinations of the wealthy which pros titute the powers of the government to their own base uses. It will be waged, as Mr. Bryan well says, upon the good old Jeffersonian principle of equal rights to all, special privileges to none. The tariff which ex ploits the body of our own citizens for the benefit of a few will come in for radical attack. The trusts which have been fostered by the tariff and the trusts which now possess and agressively exercise the dangerous power of fixing the price, on the one hand, to be paid to the pro ducer and on the other which the consumer must pay for the finished product; the corporations which enjoy special privileges and concessions; the national banks which enjoy the free use of the public funds without a dollar or an-obligation in return and which seek to con ' trot the money function of the government itself as it did in the days of the old United States bank which An drew Jackson Shattered it is against these and leeches such as these that the coming fight is to be made. It is a fight which will appeal not alone to the patriotism but the self interest of the masses of the people, to TAZXJTO OOOKXVO LESSONS From ths Chicago Chronicle. Twelve men wilt bare their arms and learn to knead bread when the Woman's Domestic guild opens Its cooking school at the Northwestern University building, Lake and Dearborn streets. The 12 men will have no Intention of becoming professional chefs. More than half will be slnsle men who nave tired 1 of boarding-houses and restaurants and re anxious to take a flat and prepare their own meals. Several of the men will be the vlotlma of the reversal of things. They expect to care for the flat and prepare the meals while the wife goes down town and earns the liveli hood j The class will be the most interesting that has ever assembled at the Institu tion. Salesgirls, stenographers, even chorus girls, will gather at the univer sity bunding. The class will be under the supervision of Miss Leah Jennings of Milwaukee. Mrs. A. M. Wadsworth Is the superintendent of the school. "Several of the applicants art men," she said, "and It will be the queerest lot of men that you ever saw. The class will Include men who want to" get poel tlons as domestics. Then there will be nan young single men Who 'want to take a flat and prepare their own meals. Then there will be married men men with wives and children who want to learn to Cook that they may take charge of the house while the wives go down town. The eouree win be complete. Firs will come the art of baking bread. That will be ths Initial lesson. Then w(i! come the preparation of soups. Of coarse, nil food Will be prepared scientifically. Then will come the art of broiling rawti. Neat will come the salsd course Final ly will come the preparation of vege tables, and desserts. "Twelve lessons will be All that is nee essary to transform the most awkwsrd man Into the roost finished cook." said Mrs. Wadsworth "A month after a man enters the course he Will be able to take care of a fist and have food ss wholesome as any women can prepare. "There will be nothing theoretical PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. Sunday ) and every S unday morning at The Journal Building, Fifth aad Yasnhffl stresta, t oruano, uregoo. PAPER OF THE CITY OF PORTLAND the wage earners who have had no real share in the prosperity of which we may otherwise boast, to the capitalists who see in the growth of monopoly the ab sorption of the little fellows to ultimately end in the absorption of everything by an omniverous financial leviathan, in a word, to all men of means whose god is not money. There is a broad and secure, not to mention "sane and safe" foundation upon which the party may thus confidently rest in the absolute assurance that while in the beginning it will slough off cords of the dead wood and barnacles that have strangled it, the end will mean greater growth, greater self respect and the cer tainty of success because it is 'richly deserved and openly fought for. T step toward making Mexico a great commercial nation and world power. The completion of the canal may result in a revolution in the commerce of Mexico with the world in general and the United States in particular. Tampico and Vera Cruz will be but a comparatively short distance' from the new interoceanic canal, and steamers. The distance between Verm Cruz- and Man zsnillo on the Pacific ocean is nearly spanned -by rail roads already, and as compared with the distance be tween New York and San Francisco, it is but a step across this portion of the Mexican continent from the Culf of Mexico to the Gulf of Tehuantepec. Some day it is likely there will be an open waterway between those gulfs that will in some measure compete with the Panama canal, and thus Mexico will assume a position of great importance, and" this destiny will begin with the opening of the Panama canal. . Mexico's railroads are mostly owned either by that government itself or by "American capitalists; the gov ernment is said.'jio have a controlling interest in the Mexican Central railroad, but the majority of Mexican railway stock is owned by outsiders, largely in the United States. Trunk lines are already built or pro jected J different directions across the continent, with Matamoras and Mazatlan as the termini of one and an other connecting the capital with Corpus Christi, and as Mexico develops, as it is sure to do, there will be moire railroads, and the time may come when, as sug gested, they will become great arteries of interoceanic commerce. But what of Mexico's government, after the strong, vigilant and capable Diaz shall have passed away? Weaker or baser men may succeed him, and revolutions may follow, that would stop all progress; but Mexico has now been stable so. long, under Diaz' rule, that its former revolutionary habit has probably been defi nitely abandoned. If so, Mexico has the position and the natural resources for the making of a great country, especially as it lies contiguous to the United States, and its material development at least will largely be in the hands of people from this country. A BEAUTY SPOT NOTICED. WHAT, IF ANYTHING, is going to be done in or about that horrible hole in the giQund at the head of Alder street, right alongside Washington street on the south? If anything, who is going to do it, and when? These are questions that a good many people in that immediate vicinity in particular, and those who travel up and down Washington street in general, are asking. The good weather of the autumn is passing, is mostly gone, and yet that yawning cavity of ugliness and filth remains in just the same condition it was weeks ago, except that it has become the receptacle of a large amount of garbage and all sorts of ill-smelling and disease-breeding filth. It is private property, but it is not every case in which a private property owner can be allowed to do as he pleases, or nothing if he pleases, with his property, and this should be one of those cases. The rest of the peo ple of the city, and those living adjacent to this disgust nig blot in the heart of it, are not responsible for the owners having ground thus situated en their hands. Those owning it bought it as it was, and possess it as it is, but they should not be permitted to leave it in its present condition. A pretty sight that will be next year if nothing is done! There is too much laxity here about such things. No attention is paid to the law requiring weeds to be de stroyed. Noisome old shacks are permitted to offend the senses. And this "horrible hole" we repeat the words deliberately will apparently remain as it is, or rather grow gradually worse for an indefinite period. No citizen ought thus to be allowed to offend and injure a whole community, a whole cityfull of people. do the best we can about the course that will be given the men. A model kitchen has already been constructed on the first floor of ths uni versity building. There are ranges, large and- complete. There are tablee upon which stand measures and scales. "And when thesa men hsve gradu ated yon will not tremble with fear when you eat their food." continued Mrs. Wadsworth. "The art of serving and what should be served will also be taught. The vegetables that go well with meats will be Indicated, and you can eat a large dinner prepared by these men without fear of suffering later." The men will compose a email part of the class, however. The women who enter must, have the democratic spirit. Ths mistress and the cook, the stenogra pher and the bride, ths chorus girl and the girl who some day expects te become a wife, will stand side by side. "Tou know It partially solves the servant problem," said Mrs. Wadsworth. "The trouble with many mistresses Is that they know nothing about housework themselves and for that reason they are not competent to manage servants. We will have women In our class who will never have te prepare a meal. They are learning that they may instruct their servants and that they may know the faults of the domistlcs and so be la a position to correct them. 'The cooking school will lessen di vorces. The Stenographers, for Instance, spend their lives downtown. They have no knowledge of domestic life; they have never had the time to learn about It. They marry and are Ignorant In the arte of keeping a home. The cooking school will teach them that" It is ths same way with the chorus girls. Some of them are not In hive with the life behind the footllgtita They will prepare themselves for marriage. Oarfsw Bid vet "Curfew sbsll not ring tonight!" ex claimed the brave glrl "Bat." ssked the praeltoal girt, "how are you going to prevent HT" "Knslly," she snswered; "I shall M lech a puah-bUtton, like we have In our flat." JNO. . CARROLL FUTURE OF MEXICO. HE PANAMA CANAL may become of more importance to Mexico, relatively at least, than to any other nation. It may be the first long comzm or senator kom. Senator Hoar and Senator Bvarta ware Implacable enemies when it came to a passage of words, and the honors were about even. One day Everts came off with flying colors. Hs was ohalrman of the library oommtttee and Hoar was a minor - member. Rvart s was lasy and would not call his committee together from beginning to end of a saaslon. A measure which Hoar was anxious to have brought up had been referred to the library committee and there seemed doomed to sleep forever. Toward the end of the session Hoar met Evorts In the cloak room. "Whenever you are ready to oall a meeting of the library commit tee," he Said with biting sarcasm, "I wish you would notify my sxecutors." "I shall be most happy to notify your executors," SAld Evarts, with a smile. Senator Ingalls was one of those who had been eo often rapped by the late Senator Hoar, that he took keen delight In saying sharp things at the expense of the Massachusetts man. When ths Con-kling-Gerflsld episode came up Hoar wee so disgusted with the management of the affair that It was said that he threat ened to resign his seat. The question was under discussion In the cloak-room, and some one commented on the prob ability of Hoar's resignation. "Hoar re sign!" laughed Ingalls. "You don't know him. Whenever his resentment at any thing reaehee that pitch he will rise In hie seat and hand In the resignation of Oawea, hie coUeagUw." Senator Hoar hated Benjamin Butler he was the one man that Hear could not abide and hie son Inherited the feel ing, as witness this remark made when asked If he were go'ng to attend But ler's funeral: "No, I'm not going; but I approve of it." A Downward From ths Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. He waa sturdy, vigorous end experi enced. But, alas! he waa 44 years old. It waa therefore Impossible for him to obtain a position., or even get a Job. So of necessity he became a politician, and then the deeoent waa easy. j Small Change Four governors saved. Hurrah! Next year Senator Addleke. Whew I Oh, msks It unanimous aad Jet U go. I'ncie Sam is on a high horse. Let 'am scoot. Two former New York Judges are out of a Job. Mr mil need not retire. He's "done retired." La FoUette la still the big man In Wisconsin. . For once everybody waa fooled. Hur rah for Debs! It waa a good year for a "yellow dog" Republican to run. Mrs Woodcock will be sura that she did It Also Dowle. D. B. H. need net necessarily wait till January 1 to retire. ' Does Fairbanks imagine he can do tha same thing In 1S0IT Ths election being over, Port Arthur can fall whenever It Is ready. Cowherd le beaten. But he may not have to herd cows for a living. Perhaps Port Arthur la labeled: "Must be well shaken before being taken." No matter what one thinks of Roose velt, he must approve of November. The men who didn't vote for Roose velt are even fewer now than the ballots show. If It weren't for the salary, the few Democrats In oongrese might as well resign. Vote for Parker and Deris. Albany Democrat, Monday. They didn't mind, did they? The whirlwind of the campaign did not really put In an appearance tilt election day. It was Mayor Harrison of Chicago, we believe, who said that Illinois would go Democratic. Not a speech was made during the campaign In Linn Bounty, and It went just like the rest. A Hoboken woman drank 110 beers la one evening. She ought to come west where she ean vote. If not a Republican speech had been made tn Oregon, and If Chairman Baker had never opened an office, the reside would not hare been appreciably differ ent. "Big rote Insures success of Demo cratic party." waa a scare headline In tha Puget Sound American Tuesday af ternoon. Must hare been foggy over on Belllngham bay. With the voters of the country di vided nearly equally between the twe leading parties a chance of a few votea In each pfeclnct one way or the other may determine the result. Chicago News. Nov. I. Which shows that even a great metropolitan newapaper didn't know what wss coming. Oregon Sidelight a Madras now has about 100 Inhabitants. Irrigon has been made a money-order office. Ths Weston Normal school le pros pering. Oranta Pass le to hare a dally news paper. Irrlgon'a school has (I pupils, and to more expected. ., 'Tie a great fall for farmers let a hard winter come. If it wants to. - Three Pendleton men bagged 161 wild geese near Arlington In two days. Second-rate applea are plentiful In Douglas county at tl cents a bushel. The Oranta Pass Herald la trying to woke up Josephine county people to the importance of an exhibit at the fair. A man living near Baker City captured a big lynx, after a hard right, near hie house. The akin maeeured flva feet In length, Men not Republicans may not know how to vote, but they know enough to Stay In Oregon, the best state In the union, in eplte Of politics. Some Lake county stockmen, the Lakevlsw Herald claims, rales aa good grades of thoroughbred stock as are raised In the United Htates Since March 1 the Rook Creek cream ery, near Haines, haa distributed 120,000 among farmers and dairymen, 100 eows have supplied cream, and 1,000 pounds of butter can be made dally. In eonertlon with the disappearance of Monroe Miller of Halsey, It le also said a woman of that city Is gone, having die appeared about ths same time. Look for the woman In the cause, says the French proverb. Fails City Argus: Thursday night we had our type all ready to go to press We loaned our key to some parties to go In to the office fer a few things they had left Sweet hearts only see them seivee, so they over looked a small dog, and hs waa left in the office orer night he "pied" four galllea of type So our news you aee. Some Albany men. near Peterson's butts, unearthed a good assortment Of petrified clams, colons, splratta and other small things that hare been trans formed into stone by the process of the ages. These thing Indioate at some time an open Sea, through the valley, probably an Inland lake et one time. They also report finding the petrified eerk to Noah's life preserver, but they did not find his corkscrew Grants Paae Herald: The congrega tion of the Bethany Presbyterian ohurch haa asked the pastor, Rer. W. Oourlay Conned, to resign, on sccount of Im proper eon.duct and undue familiarity on his part toward asvsral young, wo men and girls of his congregation Re requestsd permission to conduct the praysr meeting but this wee refused Hs then asked to be ellowed to occupy the pulpit next Sunday morning and preach a farewell sermon, but this too waa denied him. Upon his earnest so licitation he was ellowed his salary for the remainder of the year. ?r rvkedives Surgeon Votes From the New Tork World Believing the right to vote to be an Americans' greatest privilege aa wall as his sacred duty. Dr. James Frederick Love, surgeon-dentist to hie highness the Khedive, comes from Alexandria to vote for his candidate for president. Once every four yeara Dr.' Love makes this long and costly Journey, and every other year he commissions hie friend. George C. Boldt, to purchase a tax receipt for him. United States Senator Holes sees that Dr. Love la provided with a legal voting residence tn the Seventh ward of Philadelphia, and that he is duly regis tered. Citizen of the world and atudent of men and thlnea. Dr. Love, during his brief stay here, has studied and seem ingly mastered the political ins or rnii adelphta. He blames the men of the better class for ths system that rules the city, and supports his position by quoting bis friend. David H. Lane, pro fessor of politics In the University of Philadelphia. "Lane tells me." said Dr. Lore, 'that hundreds of the beat-Informed and wealthiest men In the city never rote, although, as he puts It. they go to the polls regularly and mutilate ballots. They are too buey to study the elective chart and too much absorbed to cor rectly comply with its stipulations. Lane told me of a man Who spent 115,000 In one of the reform movements here and then Invalidated hla own ballot by put ting improper marks upon it. The con duct of an election in a great big city like this Is a formidable proposition, and before things can be any better elvery cltisen must resolve to do his full duty at the polls. I am assursd that Philadel phia la Republican by an overwhelming majority la any event, but this fact doss not Justify the conditions that exist" Dr. Love could not be Induced to talk about himself or his experiences at the capital of Kgypt, but his close friend. Dr. Edward Bedloe, diplomat, who haa spent much tlmeln Kgypt with Dr. Love and made severer toure of the world with him, said thet Dr. Lore occupies a pe culiar station In Egypt and one that pro hibits him from dlsousslng the politics or even the people of the country. With the titles of pasha and sheik, Dr. Love haa had recognition throughout Egypt not accorded to any other for eigner In the history of the country He sprang Into Instant fame and good favor durins the bombardment of Alexandria iy Admiral Seymour, - of the Britleh navy, July n and is, niz, wnicn mmw the first great break In the revolutions heeded by Arabl Pasha. The house of Dr. Lore at that time waa the mecca for all Europeans, and when Arabl Pasha mads his battle cry "Egypt fer the Egyptians I" aU roads led to the house of Dr. Love. Scores of American tourists and English travelers, knowing nowhere else to go, appealed to Dr. Lore for protection. Cruelties of the most revolting character were of hourly occurrence;, and a reign of terror waa at its height when the guns of Sey mour's fleet sounded In the harbor. The forte were falling, and the frantic horde led by Arabl Pasha was looting the city and carrying death Into the homes of the foreigners. Dressing himself tn a costume such aa la worn by the native sheiks. Dr. Love stood outside the door of hie house and these forced the maddened crowd In the etreet to do htm reverence. There he stood during the bombardment and retreated only when the shells from the ships levelled the fort that stood In a direct line with hie house. For this exhibition of personal bravery Dr. Lore waa accorded signal honors, and hla rapid adeancement in Egypt and his present position of power In the country are due directly to this circum stance. After the bombardment and when peace had been restored Dir. Lore who. by the way, la a graduate of both the Jefferson Medical college and the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, was called upon to attend Arabl Pasha. From him he learned the story of his early life on a state farm at Tantah. where he was born, and of his daring exploits as a sol dier. Arabl, It appears from an estimate of him written by Dr. Lore, waa not only a great soldier but a patriot who be lieved hfhrael inspired of Ood. Arab! advanced quickly from a private soldier to a lieutenancy, then he became a col onel, later minister of war, and finally pasha. At that time the title pasha waa reserved for princes of the blood. Dr. Lore attended Arabl until the sentence of death was passed upon him, and was Instrumental In having hie sentence changed to exile tn Ceylon. During, tha period of reconstruction that followed the bombardment Dr. Lore waa consulted by the aUthorttlea of all nations, and It la of record thet of all the bllle for damages presented the only one that passed unchallenged was that of Dr. Love. Dr. Lore Is a confirmed bachelor, and his chief embarrassment, according to Dr. Bedloe Is to avoid offending men of power in Egypt who would like to ar range) a wedding for him. Thie feature of hie life In Alexandria hee brought ebout a number of complications more amusing than Important Tne Play A few short yeara ago the dramatic editor of the St Louis Post-Dispatch Hiram Hayes by name wrote a libretto for a comic opera and located the action In Texae. He took It to various Broad way managers and naked them to con sider Its production. They laughed at him. The Idea of muste In Texas was eo utterly absurd that the wiseacres of the business would not eren read hla work, let alone giro a thought to its presentation before a sane, American populace. At about the sams time, Richard Carle, having made a hit In "The Storks," and therefore having acquired considerable "pull" with the manage ment of the old Dearborn In Chicago, enlisted the eympathy of that manage ment In a libretto of his own, which he celled "The Tenderfoot." and which was In many ways Identical with the book shelved away at St Louis. Hs secured a man named Hearts to set the lyrics to music, making him an equal partner. Then Hearts got What is commonly known ae "cold feet" He said the ven ture was too daring that it waa a fore doomed failure. "What will you accept for your music" aaked the Indomitable Carle. "Oh, I don't know; you name a figure. Bay, Dick, you eah have all my interest for HIS." "I'll take it." Carle went ahead with "The Tender foot." as sole owner of the worde and music, and while I am not informed as to how many thousands of dollars he has mad out of ths performances, with two companies on the road. It le an ab solute fact that the sales of sheet musto In New York alone have netted Richard Carle an even 110,000! And that'e the Wey of the shew business. Portland viewed "The Tenderfoot" for the first time lest night at the Marquam Orsnd and liked It. There le something i a ob or us OX cowboys aad cow girls, soldiers and Indian It Is ss different from ths usual romantic opera that It's no trouble at all to loss your self in the dusty atmosphere. Some one made It hard for the rest of us when hs called "The Tenderfoot" aa "Arlaone set to music. N9 other term expresses ths ease quits ao completely. Ths singing chorus of the western company Is far and away the beet heard here this season. Soms of ths ensembles last night were positively thrilling, from a musical standpoint, and were snooted with aU the grace and precision that weeks of training under the maaterhand of Carle could bestow upon ths com pany. The prtnoipal role, Professor FetU bone, le well done by Phil ltyisy. who Is remembered for his performance of Tweedlepuach in "Florodora." He knewe how to sing a topical song aad ths house kept him fairly busy responding to en corse. He Is a natural comedian never coarse and always laughable, without being of that quality that makee you fall out of your seat te a soream. The prima donna is Mary Carrlngton, who waa singing a fsw years ago with tha Jules Qreu oompany. She renders her solos beautifully and presents Marlon with the dash and vigor that rightfully belongs to the character. Thomas Cam eron, the tenor, displays his veloe to fine advantage In the solo, "Adlos," and la at ail times satisfactory. Ed Craw ford, aa Sergeant Barker, Arthur Wan ner as the Chinaman, aad Lucille Adams aa Patay carry their roles well, the latter pair being excellent dancers. "The Tenderfoot," aa a whole, la a de lightful musical comedy. It Will be on exhibition until the does of the week. RACE WHITNEY. Market Basket This is mushroom season. The late rains and the succeeding sunshine have combined to produoe one of the largest crops of thsse toothsome delicacies in late yeara. Everywhere mushrooms are growing and very, soon they will be cheap. They are now selling on the markets at 25 cents per pound. The supplies of Oregon strawberries are still quite large. Many people are under the impression that bariiea this late tn the season are not of good qual ity, hut the preaent offerlnga are ex cellent They are selling on the mar kets at tl and 10 cents a pound A few raspberries are la at the same price, but they are not of the-beet quality. With 'the exception of peaches, fruit la plentiful. Winter Nellla pears of good quality are in good supply and are 11.00 a box. Crape fruits sell at three for tl cents. The season for grapes is about ores, but the remaining Ore gon Concords are of fairly good quality and are selling at 40 oenta for a five pound basket. Some fair quality Cali fornia Tokays. Verdels aad Cornlshoas. which are not so hlgh-eslllng. go at the same values aa Concords. New crop oranges are now Just beginning to arrive In this market, hut their sour tests keepe many people from Indulg ing. Fancy navels can be bought from 40 to (0 cents a doaen. Apples of all kinds are now arriving from the qual ity that eella for Tl cents a box to the fancy Baldwins and Spltsenbergs that oome from the famous Hood Rlvsr dis trict. Spltsenbergs of the beet quality era going at 11.71 and It a box, while Baldwins are ILI0. Rhode I aland Oraealaga are now in and ars selling at 11.60. A few Newton Plpplne are com ing, but fsw of the markets have re ceived supplies. Oregon garden truck le la large sup ply, with good csuliflower selling at 10 to II cents a head and excellent cab bage at the same price, arson beans are here In fair supply at three pounds for 26 oents. and green llmas are com ing from California and sell at two pounds for Z6 cents. Brussels sprouts are again with us and find a good sals at 10 cents a pound. Celery from our own stale, from California and from Denver, Col., la in good supply at It cents a head for the beat aad I oents for the cheaper grades. Radishes, tur nips and green onions among the top vegetablee are tn good condition and bring I cente for thrse bunches. Prices on sgg plants sre now very low and a very good one may be bought for 10 cents, while the smaller alsee are going at I cente. Hothouee lettuce, the klad you like for salad, te In better supply, with fancy beads selling two for I cent a Oregon tomatoes are not of good quality Juet now and some very fair California stocks are tn and are quoted at 10 cents a pound. For that pie you need huckleberries. Thoss from Newport are all right and are cheap at three pounds for II cents. New rhu barb will also oome In handy for this purpose. Ae the supplies are now com ing from California prices are rather firm at three pounds tor II cents, but at that price the pies ought to be deli cious Hand-picked cranberries from New Jersey, the famous Penwlok kind, are now eoming and eall at 10 cente a quart but the cheaper grades may he bought at 10 and 16 cents. Thrse kinds Of chestnuts Oregon St 21 cents end eeetern and Italian. at II cents a pound, are coming for the holt May trade. New walnuts, new filberts and, In tact new Bute of all kinds, are in and prlcee are not ea high aa last year. Chickens are now cheap and vary good ones may be had from 21 to 0 cents, the latter being for the family stses. Turkeys are not eo plentiful, but are cheap this year at 20 cents. A good goose may be bought for 11.60, while a duck of quality may be bad for II. Wild game Is here, but prices are not so cheap ae laat year on account of the smaller suppllee. Retail prices are: Widgeon, 76 cents pair; mallard, tl, and tsal, tl oents a pair. WUd geese are worth 60 oents each and are more plen tiful than the ducks. Ia fish there are good supplies In all lines, salmon being especially plentiful Prices are: Salmon, two pounds II cents; flounders. 10 cents, rock ood. 12H oents; perch, 10 cents; soles, II cents; Sacramento striped bass, 13 cents pound; Puget sound smelt 1 cents; catfish, 10 cents pound; black cod, two pounds tl eente; halibut tha same pries. Sturgeon la now coming, tbe season having opened this wsek on the Columbia river. Prloes are two pounds for II oents. There are plenty of orabe and California lobstsra AT SAW From the Chicago Tribune. There le one thing In this world at least in such part of It aa la represented by the elty of Chicago that does not change. That la the average age at which people get married. Men may oome end men may go, eren a new mayor may be some day elected here, hut people will not begin to get married any younger or any older than they did when the city was new. At least that le what' Clerk Salmon son of ths marriage license bureau eaya "In the It years that I hare been at this window," said. Mr. Salmon so a. "the average ags of the thoueanda of couples that oome tn here for licenses haa not varied a year. While as the population Increases there occur mors frequently marriages of sxtremely youthful and aged couplee, the age of tha great mass does not change. About 21 for the man and 24 for the woman le the average that haa held einoe this bursas was Tke Secret of Life By Rar. Thomas B. Gregory. The moot araaalng thing that eerth ever witnessed was tha paasags from death to Ufa The . moment when that which bad hitherto been "dead" became "alive" was by all adds the most thrilling in all tha history of the planet How the Inert, senseless, unfeeling thing became the animated, self-moving organism la a mystsry beside which all other mystsrles are tamer than a "twice told tale." The origin of life Is a problem that Is as old a the human mind itself. From the dim beginning of human history men hare been trying to answer the ques tion: 'What le lifer' end the latest of the eons of time are otlli busy at the ancient task Tbe problem wea tackled by Pytha goras, Plato, Aristotle, by the alche mists of the middle ages, by ths chain lets of the Renaissance, by tbe savants of the eighteenth oentury, sad by none of them waa the old secret brought out into the light From Albert Magnus to Thomas Hux ley tha search for "spontaneous gener ation" haa ended In failure. With the help of chemistry, attempt after attempt haa bean made to gener ate life from non-living matter, but In every Instance the rssult has been a disappointment, Huxlsy, the best equipped aad keen est eyed scientist that ever lived, frankly declared. Just before he passed out from us, that not one of the Innum erable attempts to create life out of non-living matter had euooeeded. From the beginning tha old mystery had laughed at us, and la laughing at us stllL Since Huxley's death the search haa net been allowed tb lag, but what Hux ley eald 1 still true. Every little while somebody emerges from the seclusion of hie laboratory to Inform the publlo of a thrilling fact that he has discovered the great see-rot. but It goon turns out that it waa a false alarm. "I have found it I" exclaims one. "Life Is electricity!" "I have it!" eaya another. "Life le albuminoid and sugar." "I've got the secret!" eriee still an other. "Life is salt Just plain salt." But the old enigma holds Its ground! And te my opinion It is going to continue to hold it. The chemists of this year of grace, llOt. are having no better eucoeee than did the wise men of thousands of years ago, and beyond a doubt the wise men of the thousands of years to corns will have the same kind of success. It Is possible that the time may come when we shall know the method of life, when we will understand the conditions out of which Ufa arises, but the method i of a thing aad the thing Itself are quite different matters, and the knowledge of the one by no manner of means Implies a knowledge of ths other. It may be that by aad by wa shall learn how life begins, but It does not follow from that that we shall know what life la It la more than probable that to the dwellers Upon this planet life will al ways be a mystery. At any rate. It la well to bear In mind that, up to data, Blogeneele holds the fort and that too, without any immedi ate prospect of being driven out It doth not yet appear what life Is. hut this much la clear, that so tar as our knowledge extends, the production of a living organism la possible only, through the agency of living parents. No life without a prior life. Life only from life. Life from death, never. Life comes first And this being the oase. there le some ground for bellevlnx that it shall also oome last that It Is ths one eternal realty te whose uni veraal and unending reign "death" la but a trifling episode. Still surging, surging, surging onward. wave behind, wave before. Human billow battalions rolling to War's Insatiate shore. Curving, swerving, breaking, re-forming. ever replenished tide. Wending, they know not whither or why. to die aa their kin have died. From wailing matron and weeping maid te famishing homes afar; Roofless. Skeepless, heedless, lifeless. doing the will Of the But sloughing ths raiment of graecful peace, aad winged with tbe scales of war. And grafting on thoughts and things that were the things and the thoughts that are, Aa ancient people, Impelled by wrath at smart of a 'triple wrong. Than doggedly dauntless yet daontleos more, then ooloesal strength more strong. . -Scale peaks and passes, and clamber up cliffs that only the thunders know. Till ths granite Muscovite ranks are shattered, and scattered like drifting snow. And the strong young Selon of yet young Sire keepe watch, but with war flag furled. And British sentinels motionless stand at the fortress gates of the world. While Nemesis nsars fraud-pilfered Port with narrowing knots of steel. And the prowling Sloth skulks snewward mora, with the feet of Fate at his heel. And high in heaven reigns Right Divine, still wields the soentre and rod. And worshippers throng to Buddhist ' shrines, praising the will of Ood. Alfred Austin, In ths Independent. The MS ItH of Diss. Vegetarians will And hope la the Sta tistics comment In Collier's for Nov ember I which says: Ths census shows that Americans ars becoming addicted to less .meat and more vegetablee. cereals, tin products of the dairy. It la figured out that In 1160, 100 Americans ate 14 sheep, 111 hogs and 21 beeves, whereas. In 1100, they consumed but 10 sheep, 41 bogs and 20 beeves Cheese haa declined, but If egge and poultry are Included with butter and milk as belonging to the dairy class, the consumption of thet kind of food is three times what It waa 40 years ago. The total use of meat, reckoned by the price. Is reduced by 14 per cent In 1110, 100 persons ats 430 bushels of wheat and SO bushels of oats. In 1190 they ate Oil bushele of whest and 114 bushels of oste, end In 1890 the breakfast food movement was small to what la le today. Corn and potatoes have Increased about like wheat. The general gain in vegetable expenee le 10 per cent Meat still leads, however, al though It apparently will not do eo long We spent In 1100, 1 1.426. 000. 000 for meat and tl, 071,000,000 for vegetable diet. Among meats beef leads, by a long dls tanoe, with aheep second and eggs third. Americans have grown healthier In the half century which haa seen this change, probably, however, on account of more air and exercise and better cooking snd sanitation. The general question of ths beet relation of meat to vegetable diet Is still one on which tbe medical world la far from eeaoord,