REACH LIMIT IN ABSORPTION
RECORD PRICE FOR SPEECH IN THEIR LAST LONG SLEEP
Small T h in g * Like the Turm o il of a
G reat W a r Cannot O isturb
Chest Devotee*.
C hainccy Depew Tells of Occasion
When a Few Spoken W o rd * W e r*
W orth Much M on*y.
B eau tifu l Spot in W hlch H a v * Been
Laid Am erican S oldìer* Who
Died in L ib e rty ’* C au**.
T o It * devotee* cite«* I* the most
nhsorhing of all mental activities, the
tin me that above all other* bring*
complete forgetfulness of the world
to those who play and those who
watch the moves, observe* a w rite r In
the New Y o rk H erald .
A striking example of this self-ale
sorption has been shown recently In
the rooms o f a local chess club when
distinguished eximrts struggled for su
premacy In the mim ic Held heedless of
the stupendous four-year struggle that
was fast draw ing to a close on Eu
rope's shell-torn, blood-soaked board.
W h a t was the reekless slaughter of
thousands o f Germ an soldiers In eom-
parlson w ith the sacrifice o f a single
Ivory pawn standing gunrd before It*
queeuT
W hich one o f those wtio
moved the piece* or o f the greater
num ber who watched them w ith fu r
rowed brow * and fast-heating heart*
thought o f the kaiser's peace offer
w hile the queen's gambit was passing
before th e ir eyes? The pope ntny lift
ht* voice In words o f solemn counsel,
but they heed him not. The only ec
clesiastical pow er that they recognize
1* th at o f the m itred bishop sweeping
Into the h eart o f the enemy's country
and sm iting the rock as It stands.
T o read the printed accounts o f this
tournam ent I* to recall the old Puck
picture o f two chess players carried
In th e ir ch air* from a burning build
ing w ith the hoard between them. Nor
do w e wonder at the fact that It was
ouly w hile absorbed In his dally game
th at the exiled Napoleon could forget
S ir Hudson Lowe.
In commenting upon the death o f
Mrs. Russell Sage, Cliauncey M. IV -
pew, who knew Mrs. Sage for 40 years
and was an In tim a te associate of her
husband fo r a longer period, told how
he made n $120,000 speech at her sug
gestion.
M r. IV p o w st at «si that although M r.
Sage accumulated a vast fo rtu ne he
rarely gave away any money, adding
that the reason fo r this was the con
fidence which he reposed In the Judg
ment of his w Ife as itu aide and ex-
ix-rlcnced philanthropist. H e said that
years ago he received a le tte r from
Mrs. Sago In v itin g him to tnuke an
address ut the Euium W illard school,
a t T ro y, N. Y„ upon the occasion of
the donation by M r. Sage to the school
of a large sum o f mouey fo r use In
erecting a building.
T ills was the
school o f which Mrs. Sage was a grad
uate.
“I replied," said M r. Depew, “that
I was so overwhelm ed w ith engage
ments to iq>onk that It would b e ,Im
possible fo r me to accept the Invita
tion. In answer I received by special
messenger a note from Mrs. Sage,
sayin g:
'Russell Is going to give
$120,000. H e w ill not give one cent
unless you make the speech. T his Is
Russell's first excursion Into this field.
Don’t you th in k he ought to be ei>
eoumgedT1
“ M y Im m ediate reply w as : ' I w ill
make that speech.’ "
On thè wooded siepe o f a sleep bill
thut rise* high over a great bend in
thè Itlv e r Scine Ile * a little plot of
c a rili tim i I* as limoli Am erica ns I*
thè uatloiial cenietery ut Arllngton or
thè hnllowed ground o f G etlysburg. It
Is a qulet nnd peacefiil spot, for nl-
thoiigh P a ri* I* nenr— thè aleniler pill
imele o f thè E iffel to w er Is In pialli
vlew over thè tives— thè city t* sepa
rateti from thè Am erican cenietery al
Stirtiesues by thè green expanse of
thè B oi* de Boulogue. T h e heart of
thè city th at Is thè heart o f thè world
Is not file ni II os nw ay ; you would
thlnk It at toast fifty. I t Is s *i* d far
rciuovod freni wnr, and yet there «re
enough of thè uccoutreiuents o f wnr
abolii it to rondini thè visito r tlm t Mio
700 g rave* Iu re are thè grave* of sol-
dlers mosti)- o f soltllera who dled of
tlie lr wounds ou thè Journey In freni
thè fro n t or ut one of thè hospltnls In
o r nenr thè capitai.
E u rth er up thè
slope fro w n thè rnuiparts o f thè fo ri
o f Mouiit V alerteli, one III Ilio cimili
o f defenses tlm t surround Ptirls.
Dar-
lag hostllltles pinne* flew freni fichi lo
fichi. Mie (Irono of th clr m olerà never
so clear us In Ibis q u id rotinir.vsldc.
And more w a rllk e stili, nu occasionai
camion shot echoetl from a testlng
ground In thè uelglihorhotMl. Tln- lit
tle cenietery Itself. w ith Its well-
allgncd rows of w h lte wooden crosso*,
w i l l some (I h . v he as green and fa ir a
God's Hcro as auy In F rin ire .
It I*
becotulng so as fusi as thè lovlng
h au ti* of thè llvtng ran convert It luto
otie.
Eveti In Illese fresh fa ll iluys,
thè g rave* are all nhlooin, nnd hard}'
shruhs ndd a touch o f stunher beauty
to Mie little corner* nnd round potuta.
— Stara and Strlpes. Parts.
EPIGRAPHS PROVE A PUZZLE
Explanation of Hieroglyphics Adm it
tedly V ery Old W ill Surely Be of
the Greatest Interest.
A m ateu r archeologists o f C alifo rn ia
are endeavoring to Interest profes
sional scientists of the East In the
epigraphs which abound on the rin ks
o f Round Valley, not fa r from the city
of Bishop, and which are believed to
be as old. I f not older, than the hiero
glyphics o f earliest Egypt, to which
they bear a strange resemblance.
I t is believed by many th a t the
strange
markings
constituted
the
names by which ancient tribes marked
the source of w a te r supply fo r the
benefit of those of th e ir num ber who
lived roving live*.
These hieroglyphics hnve never been
deciphered, although they are m atters
of record iu the leading museums of
the country, it is said. T h e Indian
tribes now livin g in the vicin ity de
clare they are the work of the Indians
of N orth Am erica and th at they ante
date all aboriginal lore.
Some
who
have examined
the
strange markings in the flin ty bowl
ders say the helroglyphics closely re
semble those o f earliest Egypt and
may replace the la tte r as the first
w ritte n language o f hum anity.
They are found always In the vicin
ity of w ater supplies, the same m ark
ings discovered near Bishop appearing
also on rocks extending through the»j
Canadian border, down through W ash
ington, Oregon and C alifo rn ia to the
Mexican line and beyond. This fact.
It Is argued, indicates that prehistoric
tribes marked a highway fo r th e ir m i
grating members or fo r th eir armies,
giving specific directions as to the best
w ater supplies along the way.
French Live Stock on the Decline.
T h e United States food adm inistra
tion has railed attention to the large
decrease In live stock in France since
the beginning of the war. In cattle
this decrease amounted to
up
to December. 1917; in sheep the de
crease amounted to 6.238,000 head ; in
hog* to 2,869.0110 head. In the period
since owing to the food shortage there
has been a still fu rth e r shrinkage. F ig
ures lik e these indicate that there w ill
be a large and insistent demand for
live stock from this country fo r the
foreign trade fo r many years a fte r
peace is finally establsihed.
Good Am erican Fam ily.
T h irty years ago a girl came to this
country from Russia to m arry Louis
Fleshner, an Im m igrant from the same
country.
They settled In Springfield,
Muss., and when the United States en
tered the w a r they had four sons, the
oldest 23.
A ll of them entered the
arm y nnd »he eldest has distinguished
him self In battle.
H e Is the young
man who, having lost an arm nnd an
eye w hile carrying ammunition through
shell fire, optim istically exclaim ed:
“I'm the luckiest Jew In the array.
Any other man In my place would have
been killed ."— Am erican Israelite.
COMPLETE CHAOS IN RUSSIA
Inevitable Anarchy as the Result of
Insufficient Supplies of Food
fo r the People.
B y fa r the most te rrib le toll o f the
Russian w in te r w ill he taken In the
(HMisant village«, the home o f nine-
tenths o f Russia's 190,000,000, O liver
M. Sayler w rites In the Saturday Eve
ning Post.
T h e sullen and defiant
muzhik, who has planted for him self
and only fo r hituself. hasn't taken In
to account the possibility that superior
force from the city or from his own or
a neighboring village may selxe his
grain. W hen the calam ity befalls, an
endless tra in of disaster and bloodshed
and starvation w ill follow in It* wake.
Reprisal on some w eaker peasant
w ill be the next step, and from that
the flame w ill spread to v iru len t bor
der w a rfa re w ith whole villages on
the tru ll to plunder the grain bins of
others or Intrenched to protect th eir
own. In some districts, even before I
le ft, this most cruel form o f civil strife
had broken nut.
I contemplated returning from l ’et-
regrad to Moscow by sleigh overland
In case the Germ an advance enveloped
the railroad outlets. C areful Investiga
tion. however, disclosed the fnct tbnt
machine guns, brought home from the
fro n t, w ere mounted on all the roads
lending into many villages nnd tra ve l
ers upproached them a t th eir peril.
W orld's Greatest Troopship.
One of the devoted women who hnve
not spared themselves at the emer
gency nhl rooms told this story among
the flying needles the other day to
her co-workers.
A le tte r from the
fro n t has brought the Intelligence:
A pompous Germ an m ajor had fallen
Into the hands o f our valorous Penn
sylvania troops, and a fte r they had
questioned him, he ventured to ask
them fo r Inform ation.
“ H ow many men have you on this
side o f the water?” he Inquired.
“T w o m illion,” answered a young
lieutenant.
“H o w did you get them over?" was
the Incredulous query of the Hun.
“One boat brought them all over,”
was the answer.
T h e Germ an stared.
“ H ow so?
W h a t boat was that?"
T h e Am erican gave the Germ an n
searching look. “T h e L usitania,” he
answered, q uietly.— Philadelphia Lead
er.
T a llo w Dips In Denm ark.
Dentnnrk has a lighting problem so
serious th at the Danish government r e
cently purchased 400 tons of tallow
from which to make candle*, Com
mercial Agent Norrnnl Anderson re
ports from Copenhagen.
“T h e re Is a scarcity o f kerosene also,
and electricity Is, of course, not a v a il
able to the Isolated farmhouse,” says
M r. Anderson, who quotes f-o m the
T ld s s k rift fo r M u M , which. In dis
cussing the possibilities o f «icetylene
nnd
alcohol
Illu m inatio n ,
stntes:
“Acetylene may now legally he used
and may be Included In fire Insurance
risks.
As a result the m anufacture
of acetylene lamps has flourished greut-
ly and at the end o f the year 180
types had been put on the inurket."—
Exchange.
“ Olive'» O il.
O ver 500 different types of husked
Y p erite, New Poison Gas.
rice or paddy were under exam ination
J. Bn min line and J. de Poliakoff
last year a t one o f the government
(B u lle tin de 1’Acadenile de M c d ld n c )
ag ricultural farm s In Burma, nnd over
call the reader’s attention to the cftl
200 types o f sassamum were grown at
another, H ith e rto much o f thp sassa- | denc.v o f hot a ir In the treatm en t of
burns caused hy yperite, a gas used
mum grown In Burm a has been ex
by the Germans In th e ir offensive of
ported to Europe, where it Is used fo r
M arch, 1918. These burns, even when
the production o f the so-called “olive
very srrnll, cause extrem ely sharp pain
o il” fo r which France and Ita ly have
nnd sleeplessness. A number o f cases
long been famed.
were rapidly healed hy hot a ir a fte r
various treatm ents had failed.
T r y a Trico rn .
Stop to th in k how often a certain
clerk in the bakery departm ent o f a
certain downtown store helps you to
decide on a round m arshm allow cake
or a square chocolate In preference to
a three-cornered devil’s food.
“Look at the tricorns le ft again,”
snickered the w hite aproned diplom at.
“ Never catch ine rootin' for trl's ; too
bard to yrr«j>.”<«-lndla{uijK>ii* N**«.
Oh, Boy I
T h e w a r departm ent recently Invited
bids fo r the follow ing to supply 12T>
M o m e n ta : Seventeen thousand five
hundred sets o f boxing gloves, >.000
baseball hats, 21,160 hnsehnll*. 35,000
playground balls, 3,000 rugby football*
7.000 soccer footballs. 350 volley halls
and 1,750 medicine hulls.
WAR DEMAND FOR PLATINUM
I* Essential In Production of Sulphuric
Acid, Indispensable In M anufac
tu re of Explosive*.
__ _
T w o universally known products—
one a rare m etal, the o ther a common
a d d — have lately assumed Im portance
th a t Is m ystifying to the la ity . P la ti
num has become v irtu a lly the king of
m e tal*, and Kiilphurlc a d d the king of
chemicals. T h e reasons fo r this arc
most simple.
P latinu m Is obtained
chiefly from the I ’ral m ountain*. Owing
to chaotic conditions In Russia. Iltth-
o f It Is being mined. It Is absolutely
essential la the m anu facture of sul
phuric n d d . W ith ou t a sm all amount
o f It being present, oxygen, w ater and
sulphur dioxide w ill not unite chem
ically.
Sulphuric a d d , on the other
hand, wus probably the most Indis
pensable product used In the pfo*ocu-
tlon o f the w ar. Its tremendous a (Tin -
Ity fo r w ater made It v ita lly Im portant
In the m anu facture of high explosive*. I
F o r Instance, one obtains a fa irly [
harmless liquid by m ixing glycerin and
n itric acid. I f sulphuric a d d Is added.
It combines the tw o chem ically bl
inkin g an atom o f hydrogen and one
o f oxygen from the n itric n dd , an (
atom o f hydrogen from the glycerin,
fo rm in g wnter. and taking it unto I t
s e lf.* O ne then lias nitroglycerin. In a
s im ila r m anner sulphuric a d d Is need
ed fo r the m anu facture o f guncotton 1
and T N T .
Thus we had the pecu
lia r cycle o f circumstances that made
It u np atrio tic fo r an Am erican to hnve
In his possession more than nn ounce
o f platinum In the form of Jewelry.
In cid en tally, however, there Is said to i
be good reason fo r the belief th at n I
very Inrge proportion o f the so-called
platinum In modern Jewelry Is corn- I
posed w holly or a t least In part of [
cheaper m etals.— Popular Mechanics
Magazine.
Substitute fo r Tea.
I t Is said th a t there are now on
♦he m arket ns a substitute fo r tea
the leaves o f a p lant which Niebuhr
described ns long ago ns 1775. The
p lant Is the Cntha edulls, or Arabian
tea, which is cultivated or grown w ild
on the East A fric an coast from Abys
sinia to N a tal, In the N ile valley, and
In A rab ia.
T h e leaves are called hy
th e natives “ knt," and when boiled give
off a liq u or which Is said to he
a p ow erful stim ulant.
T h e natives
d rin k this ten before starting on long
inarches or other strenuous labors.
T h e tea Is said to have a pleasant
arorna and to he useful against neu
ra lg ia , w hile In many regions the
p lant Is considered to be a protec
tion against plague.
A ll He H ad L eft.
T h e conjuror was giving a sleight
o f hand perform ance. One of Ills fe a t*
w as to mnke a marked d o llar b ill dis
appear In the sight of the crowd, which
he did successfully.
“T h a t mnrked d o llar hill w ill he
found In the vest pocket o f that gen-
tleinnn,” said the conjuror, pointing
w ith his magic wand at Snrn Law-slug.
A ll eyes w ere riveted on Sana, who
advanced to the front, took some
m oney from Ills vest pocket and snld:
‘‘ Boss, h<*re’s your change.
A h’ve
bad tw o beers nnd a elgnr out of th at
d o lla r you told me to keep In mn
pocket till you called fo r It.”
Peace Ambassadors.
G eneral M angln possesses n vein of
sardonic hum or. When, In the autumn
o f 1916, he had helped to undo In n
few days the w ork fo r which the I
crow n prince during eight months had 1
sacrlfied the flow er of the kaiser's
arm y, at Verdun, G erm any launched I
a pence offensive. Review ing Ills men
one day, Mangln eyed them over nnd
rem arked w ith a grim smile, "Ab,
you're the sort o f peace ambassador«
the republic w ant»,”
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COLUMBIA
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Contains 3 4 1 0 Calories to the Pound
and zaveg a worth while sum on your nrorrry bill. Tastes «ood
on bread— fine for frying and baking— sweet, pure, wholesome—
not touched by hand in manufacture or packing
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F R E S H D A IL Y
T U T U P IN
W A X E D O DO I a * R O O T L'ARTONH
A QUALITY PRODUCT OF THE
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PORTLAND, OREGON
HUNGER DRAWS THE MAP
A food rnnp o f Europe today show*
n»>t a single country In which the fit
tlire docs not hold threat o f serious
difficulties nnd only a small p art which
is not rapidly approaching the fam ine
point.
W ith the exception o f the
Ukraine only those countries which
have m aintained m arine commerce
have sufficient food supplies to meet
actual needs until next harvest, nnd
e \c n In the U krain e, w ith stores a r m
undated on the farms, there Is fam ine
In the Inrge centers o f population.
Belgium nnd northern France, ns
w ell as Serbia, appear on the hunger
map distinct from the rest o f Europe
because they stand In a d ifferen t re la
tion from the other nations lo the pen
pie of the United .Stales. Am erica has
fo r fo u r years m aintained the amull
w a r ra tio n * o f Belgium and northern
Fran ce nnd Is already m aking special
efforts to care fo r th e ir Increased
a fie r-lh e w ar needs, which, w ith those
o f Serbia, must he Included In this
plan, are urgent In the extrem e nnd
must hnve Im m ediate relief.
T h e g ratitu de o f the Belgian nation
fo r the help Am erica tins extended to
her during the w ar constitutes the
strongest appeal fo r us to continue our
w ork there. T h e moment Ihe Germ an
s m ile * w ith d rew from her soil nnd she
wii h e s t a b l i s h e d once more In her own
seat of govern it- ot Mie little nailon s
first thouiMil was lo express her grnll
lude lo Mie Commission for B elief In
Belgium for preserving thu l li c * of
ndlllons of her citizens.
Germ any, on the other blind, need
noi figure In such a map for A m eri
can* because there Is no present Indi
callón Mini we símil tie called on at all
lo lake thought for Ihe fund neei Is of
Germ any. G erm any probably can cure
fo r her own food problem I f she Is
given access lo shipping and Is enabled
♦o distribute food »lo Mie eitles w ith
dense popiilnlloriH, which are Ihe tro u
ble cenlera.
England, France, the Netherlands
and Portugal, all . ' which have In.....
m aintained from
Huerican supplies,
have sillfii-lent food to meet liiim cilliltc
nceils, hut th eir f lu re présenla seri
oils dltfii-nltlcH. T h e same Is true of
Spain and the northern tie n im i coun
tries Norw ay, Sweden nnd Denmark
whose ports h n \i- been open nnd w ho
hnve been nMe to draw lo some degree
iqion foreign supplies.
Most o f lliissla Is nlrendy In Mie
throes o f fumine, m il 40.000,000 people
there are hoy on I the possibility of
help.
Before m. other spring thou
sands o f them Inevitab ly must die
T h is applies ns well to Poland anil
p ractically throughout the B altic re
glims, w lih condition* m o*l serious lo
Finland.
Bohemia, Serbia,
llom nnnla and
Montenegro have already rcuched the
j fam ine point and lire suffering a lunvy
lull o f dentil. T h e Arm enian pop'll*
Mon I* fallin g each week ns l)uu.,er
takes Its toll, nnd In Greece, Albani*
and Uomini Ida so serious are Mie final
shortages Mult film ine Is muir
Al
though starvation Is not yet Imminent,
Ita ly , S w itzerland, B u lgaria and T u r
key lire In Ihn throe* o f aerim i* strin
gencies.
In order In fu lfill Am erica's pledge
In world re lie f we w ill have lo export
every ton o f food which ran tie hsn
died through our port*. T lila means nt
the very Ieust •• m inim um o f 20.000.IHiO
Ion* rompa red w ith fl.iNHMHH) tons pre
w nr ex ports and 11.820,000 Ions ex
ported last year, when we w ere hound
by Ihn tie * o f w a r to the European
allies.
If we fall |o lighten Ihe hlnek spot
on the hunger map or I f we allow any
portion* to heroine d a rk e r the very
pence fo r which we fought and hied
w III he threatened. Revolt and anarchy
Inevitably follow faxulix*. Should MR*
happen we w ill a r tr iti o ilie r parts of
Europe a repetition of Ihe Russian de
bucle and our light fo r world p e a r*
w ill have been In vain.