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
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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,