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Postasre Rates 12 to IS pages. 1 cent; IS to S2 pases, 2 cents; 34 to 4S pages, ft cents; ftO to 60 pages, 4 cents; 62 to 76 pages, 5 cents; 73 to 12 zages, 6 cents. ForeiKn post, age, double rates. Eastern Business Offices Verree & Conk Un. New York, Brunswick building. Chi cago, steger building. SsftS) fVanclwo Office R. J. Bldwell Co., 742 Market street. PORTLAND, TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1914. ItOEB IIOMJ-: KILE A1KAX CIVIL AVAR ? Final passage of tho Irish home rule bill through the British House of Commons for the third time is a his toric event of double Importance. It closer a struggle by Ireland for au tonomy which has extended over more than a century and It is the first occasion on which the Lords' veto has a prospect of being dis pensed with. The forces of the hith erto dominant minority in Ireland and of the entire aristocracy are therefore united against the bill. Tbe bill must again be laid before the House of Lords, but, if It is re jected there for a third time, it will be presented to King George for as sent without having passed the Lords and upon his approval will become law. Premier Asquith has promised to follow up the passage of the origi nal bill through the Commons with an amendatory bill, giving each of the nine Ulster counties the option of voting themselves out from under the bill for a period of six years, at the end of which period they would automatically come under the law unless it has been amended In the meantime. The Unionists demand that the Ulster counties be given the right to vote themselves out indefi nitely, but the government has re fused this concession and the Nation alists refuse to consent to the six year amendment unless it Is definite ly accepted by the Orangemen. Possibly, finding the government firm, the House of Lords may defer action on the original bill until the amendatory bill has passed the Com mons and may then pass both, rather than permit the precedent to be es tablished of a bill becoming law de spite its veto. If the Lords reject the original bill, they may nevertheless pass the amendment when convinced that the Cabinet will stand firm and that home rule is destined to become a fact against their will. The King is rarely asked to act counter to the advice of his Minis ters, but it may prove on this occa sion that the "die-hard" Unionists will Importune him to refuse his as sent to the bill, particularly if the Lords should reject it. He would then be between two fires. On the one side the Unionists would plead that royal assent to a bill which had not passed the Lords would be a deadly blow to the aristocracy, the bulwark of the throne. On the other side would be the Liberals urging that refusal to approve the bill would cause resignation of the Cabinet and a general election on the issue wheth er the King shall be a personal or a constitutional ruler. That issue is supposed to have been decided in 1688 by the deposition of James II after almost a century of strife with the Stuarts. By raising it the King would raise the issue of monarchy itself, which radical Englishmen are ready to fight out. That Issue would overshadow all others and would be kept to the front until settled. In modern times such an issue is almost invariably decided in favor of the people. Tho King knows this and is not likely to raise it. Then home rule may be considered practically sure to become law with or without the Lords assent, but it cannot be put in practical effect without much turmoil and possibly civil war in Ireland. In that coun try the hitherto dominant office holding class has stirred up the re ligious bigotry of the Orangemen to resist the rule of an Irish Parliament on the plea that the majority will be Catholic and will impair their religi ous liberty. The same class has raised fear among some loyal subjects that home rule is synonymous with reparation of Ireland, sooner or later, from the British Empire. These elements bitterly oppose home rule and demand that if it must come those counties of Ulster where Protestants are in the majority shall be excluiJed and shall remain under the direct rule of the Imperial Parliament. Against them are ar rayed three-fourths of tho Irish peo ple, who demand a united Ireland and condemn Mr. Redmond's agreement that the Orange counties be even temporarily excluded. Both parties he.ve organized and armed volunteers. Animosity has reached the boiling point and the royal assent to the bill may be the signal for serious riots or even for Civil War. Doubt has existed from the begin ning of the enrolling of the Ulster volunteers whether they would actu ally fight when called upon to make a definite choice. An impartial ob server has said that many of them nro mere youths tvho have been pressed into the ranks by the moral coercion of employers and that some of them are home-rulers at heart. They are commanded by experienced army officers who must know that if war actually broke out they would be in rebellion and would be opposed by three-fourths of the Irish people, of whose earnestness there can be no ( doubt, and by the British army. At that point enters the element of doubt on which tho Unionist leaders have harped to convince the volun teers that their cause is not hopeless of victory. They have been led to : believe that the army is in sympathy '. with them and would not fight against them. It may be that the recent orders : for military movements in Ireland were given for the purpose of ascer- tainlng by a test how much truth there was In this talk of disloyalty in the army and for the purpose of "smoking out" the disaffected. If so ; It was successful. It proved that some of the highest officers would resign rather than move against Bel fast. It strengthened the government by branding as mutineers the officers who refused to obey orders, by fas tening popular attention on aristo cratic control ot the army and by transferring from the Nationalists to the Unionists the brand of disloy alty. It prompted a labor leader to warn the King not to interfere. That warning . may well have its effect when the bill comes before King George for his royal assent. The gov ernment can row carefully select trustworthy troops for any movement against the Orangemen that may be come necessary. The Unionist lead ers know that their opponents are ready to use extreme measures If provoked. Both parties must have counted the cost of armed conflict. To one viewing the controversy calmly at long rango it seems Inconceivable either that the government will yield or that the Unionists will provoke war. If either party yields, it must be the Unionists, and Mr. Asquith is too keenly alive to his responsibility not to make the way as easy as possible for them without betraying weakness on his part. ONE MORE IIRKLESS IJI.TI.MA.TCM. Ten days ago Secretary Bryan, voicing the righteous indignation of the American people over the disap pearance and probable murder of Private Parks, notified the tyrant Huerta that his failure to produce Parks, or to account for him imme diately, would be regarded as an "un friendly and hostile act." This was on May 16. In the intervening ten days the Mexican government, through Huer ta, has not lifted the mystery about the loss of Parks, and has not even deigned to notice the threat of the Secretary of State. It is a little significant that Gen eral Funston now calls attention to the fact that It has been ten days since the Parks Inquiry was suspend ed. It is apparent that the General thinks the American Government In tended to do no more, following the Bryan ultimatum. President Huerta has been the tar get of previous ultimata from Wash ington. He thought, of course, that Parks would soon be forgotten, along with the other Americans who have been slain in Mexico. Huerta makes a mistake in thinking they will be forgotten, of course; but he makes no mistake in assuming that there is no real meaning to a Bryan ultimatum. HtTNTUfO THE REASON. The nomination of Dr. C. J. Smith to be the Democratic candidate for Governor is thought by the Portland Advocate, the most Influential of Portland weekly papers (except the Labor Press), to be due to the per sonal Indorsement of Governor West. The Oregon City Courier (U'Ren Democrat) says it was The Orego nian's opposition that nominated him. The same opinion has been expressed by the Tillamook Herald, the Albany Democrat, and several others. One or two Democrats have written to say that The Oregonian was engaged in a diabolical plot to procure the nomi nation of Dr. Smith, in order to guar antee a great Republican victory in November. From motives of extreme delicacy, The Oregonian must decline to ex press an opinion as to the results of Its own influence upon a Democratic primary. But we are moved to won der where these left-handed compli ments to The Oregonian, all from Democratic sources, leave our dazed neighbor, the Portland Journal? If The Oregonian did it, the Journal didn't. Is it possible that it is the consensus of Democratic opinion that the Journal, reinforced by Governor West, is able to Influence less than one-third of the votes in the Demo cratic primary? For Dr. Smith won by a bare 1500 plurality over Mr. Bennett, and is a plurality nominee. A great majority of Democrats, then, did not want Dr. Smith. Unless we greatly miss our guess, they don't want him now, and will not want him in November. Is it possible that they have been brought to that way of thinking through the wicked influ ence of The Oregonian? Or is it possible that Democrats as a class are not deceived by clamorous buncombe ' about Jaw-enforcement and economy, and that they resent the brazen effort by Governor West to make of the Democratic primary a cheap convenience for naming his own successor? TWO SOXXETS BY K KITH. Perhaps the general turning of popular attention to poetry accounts for the fresh awakening of interest in Keats. Perhaps the approach of tho centenary of his first book has something to do with the phenome non. Keats published his first collec tion of poems in the Spring of 1817. in two years a full century will have elapsed since then and tho mind of the English-speaking world is no doubt preparing to celebrate his memory. This is natural and proper, since he was among the greatest who have ever made verse, though his first book was rather vapid and gave no promise of his ultimate pre-eminence. The other day The Oregonian men tioned some new letters and a trivial poem or two of Keats which have recently been brought to light. These treasures are now supplement ed by two new sonnets which have appeared in the London Times. They both refer to a humorous Incident which happened at Leigh Hunt's house. Leigh Hunt was a good friend to Keats. He comforted the sensitive poet in time of trouble and took him into his house when he felt forsaken by the world. At one of their dinners, which may have been a. little gay, Keats and his friend crowned each other with laurel wreaths. They were determined to recognize their own fame even if the world ignored them. The affair was a piece of boyish sport, but the two sonnets which Keats wrote to cele brate it are as serious as funeral ser mons. It is doubtful whether he ever composed a mirthful line in his life. Neither Keats nor Shelley had a ray of humor and Coleridge, who be longs to their time, had very little of it. Wordsworth showed the same de fect. He not only never made a joke, but he could nbt understand one made by anybody else. Byron was the only poet of that early nineteenth century group who possessed genuine mirthfulness. This fact may account for his enduring popularity, while the others, in spite of their supreme mer its, are slowly sinking into oblivion. Of course scholars will remember and read them always, but the common people will not. Another new branch of education is announced. It is exclusively for girls, but boys might profit by it. The new study Is "the art of buying." Another name for it is, "how to get the most for your money." Women s a rule are better shoppers than men, but of late they have forgotten the practice of personal buying for dining-room and kitchen and the family has suffered for it. Perhaps the new study working in unison with public markets will effect a reform. OREGON'S rSJTBY. That this year's prices on dairy products have been forced lower by the removal of the tariff seems to be beyond dispute. The Oregon farmer may conservatively check up a loss of 2,500,000 against the Underwood bill as representing the depression in price on his butterfat. Of course there are more consum ers than producers of butterfat in Oregon, so it is well to inquire also whether they will attain a corre sponding benefit. The consumer may observe a slight reduction in what he is charged for butter In the time of flush production, but there is not much promise for the Winter months. Butter is low now because this is the period of large production in Oregon and the creameries and storage plants are not packing large quantities for later consumption. At the time when storage butter would otherwise find its ready sale fresh New Zealand but ter will be in the market. If the dealer puts Oregon butter in storage he stands to lose money when it comes in competition with the fresh imported article. As he is not stor ing Oregon butter, competition will be minimized and the dealer in New Zealand butter may be expected to take a correspondingly greater profit. It thus appears that the advantage to the consumer is but temporary, and even so it is offset by the general depression resulting from the tariff changes. Taking butter alone, it is noticed that the foreign product has crowded Eastern domestic butter out Of the Oregon market. We have been a customer for the producers else where in our own country, who in turn have been customers for our lumber, fish, fruit and other products, of which Oregon produces more than it consumes. The less prosperous our customers are the less they will buy. We are now helping to make them less prosperous. Of course butter prices alone will not affect the prosperity of a country of diversified resources. But Amer ica is importing 60 per cent more Australian wool than ever before and this importation affects the prosper ity of our wool growers. The lumber producer now finds himself in more direct competition with his British Columbia neighbor who employs Ori ental labor and secures lower ship ping rates by water than can the American mill man. The effect of the tariff change is thus not to be wholly measured by what one element gains or loses in one particular. Every producer is also a consumer. The farmer, the wool grower, the mill man buy as well as sell. If the lumber the farmer uses comes from Canada and his clothing is made from Australian wool; if the mill man buys his wool In Australia and his butter In New Zealand; if the wool grower goes out of his own country for his lumber and his butter, and foreign buying extends to others whose chief market for what they produce themselves is at home, there cannot be general prosperity. SThe few cents the consumer notes iV his bills here and there are offset by a reduction in the price of his own product. In the case of the work man the "saving is counteracted by failure to sell all the labor he is capa ble of performing. Low cost of com modities Is a blessing to the consumer only when he has the price to pay for them. The new tariff not only di minishes the profits -of the producers particularly Western producers but diminishes their power to buy. FRANCIS KOSSUTH AXD HIS FATHER. Although Francis Kossuth reached the ripe age of 73 he died a young man compared with his more cele brated father, who lived to be 92 in spite of grief and disappointment. All tho ambitions of his career had been shattered and most of his plans had failed. The national aspirations which he formed in his youth were crushed In bloody defeat and his lat ter years were passed in hopeless exile, but his buoyancy seems never to have failed him. Up to the day of his death the valiant old man was still able to make speeches for Hun garian liberty, quarrel with his fellow-exiles and denounce the tyrants of Europe. Francis, who has Just passed out of life, removed his fath er's body from Turin, after his death in 1894, and transported it to Buda Pesth, where it was buried. Like Hannibal, Francis inherited a burden of international hatred and was bound by a vow to devote himself to the lib eration of his country. Ever since 1S94 he has been a leader in Hun gary's politics and has done worthy service in the progressive ameliora tion of its relations with Austria. When Lajos Kossuth, the father of Francis, was in America after the failure of the revolt of 184 8 against Austria, his audiences wondered at his excellent English. He spoke the language better than most natives. The marvel would have been in creased if they had known that he acquired it in prison. The two books which -were hl3 only teachers were the Bible and Shakespeare. By dili gent perusal of these immortal works in his solitary confinement he made himself a perfect master of our tongue. The cause of Lajos Kos suth's imprisonment seems trivial to us in these days of liberal thought and free speech. His offense consist ed in sending out reports of the vari ous Hungarian county assemblies to hla friends and adherents. The Aus trian government had forbidden the printing of this matter and Kossuth to circumvent such a piece of sense less tyranny wrote out his reports by hand. Perhaps the government, with all its bigoted intolerance, might have overlooked the letters if they had been mere reports, but they were a great deal more. Kossuth embel lished the proceedings of each coun ty assembly with his own fiery elo quence and made his letters revolu tionary documents of the most excit ing nature. His public career opened about the year 1825, when European patriots were just beginning to breathe again after the despotic reaction following the French revolution. Austria had taken the leading part with Russia In suppressing every vestige of lib eral thought for a number of years and the Hungarians' had felt the iron hand with more severity than most other nations. Hence the beginnings of new life first broke out among that energetic and gifted people. Kossuth went to the national Hungarian Diet as Count Hunyady's deputy, or sub stitute. This gave him the right to speak, but not to vote, and his elo quence soon made him a marked man. Ha issued a series of reports of the debates, but the Austrian gov ernment presently suppressed them, and, in 183S, suppressed the Diet it self. It was then that Kossuth turned to the county assemblies as centers of revolutionary activity and his persist ence in circulating his accounts of their proceedings finally led to his imprisonment. Kossuth's exile In Western Europe and the United States followed upon the failure of the uprising in 1848. Owing to his great abilities and in comparable eloquence Hungary be came the leader of this movement, which permeated the whole of Eu rope, and Kossuth was its most ro mantic, if not its most astute, figure. The revolution might have succeeded as far as Hungary was concerned If Russia had not interfered. Ever zealous for despotism, that country sent its troops- to the aid of the de crepit Austrian' government and one campaign was enough to rout the Hungarian forces. Kossuth then fled to Turkey and thence to Asia Minor. From that refuge he was brought to Marseilles on an American warship. Forbidden to cross France, he went on to England, where his speeches aroused wild enthusiasm and inten sified the hatred of Russia, which ultimately caused the Crimean war. From England Kossuth came to the United States, where he fascinated great audiences by his matchless elo quence. His purpose w-as to interest our Government in the Hungarian struggle for liberty, but his efforts came to nothing. Perhaps his own unpractical character hindered his purpose, but our National policy has always been to keep clear of Euro pean complications. The rest of Lajos Kossuth's life was passed in exile, first in England and afterward in Italy. After his death his work for Hungary was taken up by his son Francis. The history of the Gypsy Smith tabernacle has been brief but varied and interesting. It began as a refuge for lost souls and ended as a shelter for hungry bodies. When Gypsy Smith preached there it would hardly hold the crowd. La Follette filled it full. The Colonel did not do quite bo well. The musical festival held there last year burdened its promoters -with a deficit. The tabernacle has dem onstrated our want of a big auditor ium and crudely supplied the want. When it is torn down we shall mlsB it. There is hope for a youth who pre fers Jail to morphine slavery. In three months the chap who begged Judge Stevenson for that term of im prisonment may break his addiction to the drug, but we should not expect Jail surroundings to help him. The drug addict needs cheerful and up lifting companionship and the best of food and care. He may get all these in jail and again he may not. We will hope for the best. If Huerta had fired that '-salute at Tampieo and if Admiral Mayo had made the same mistake as to its meaning as was made by the federal troops at Mazatlan, we might have been actually at war with Mexico at this day. The Mexicans can't distin guish between a fight and a salute. Prince William seems not to enjoy a throne in Albania, on which he can only be held by Austrian and Italian bayonets, and the Albanians eem not to care a whoop for those same bay onets. Prince William's Job is about as agreeable as that of referee at a cat and dog fight. If the liquor interests captured' and held a prohibition orator in Illinois they committed a grave tactical blun der. The influence of such an out rage reaches farther than the efforts of any Individual orator. There is no cause for Governor West to be out of a Job when his term expires. He would make an ef ficient detective of blind tigers for the Anti-Saloon League. A dictagraph report of the conver sation between the President of the big stick and the President of the watchful wait would make money. Teddy and Wilson will confer. Wil son's part in a talk with the voluble Colonel will be confined to "good morning" and "goodby." Irishmen at Dublin are warned against migrating to the United States. Police departments are all tight up. An early end to revolutions in Santo Domingo is predicted. What are the natives going to do for a living? A Chicago policewoman who has a late shift wants a policeman to escort her home from duty. Object, matri mony? Wilson will this week resume his heart-to-heart talks with newspaper men, but he will choose the topics. Mexicans fired on American aero planes. No matter. The Mexicans seldom hit anything they aim at. It Is time "we discovered a paving material for our bridges that Is less inflammable than wood and tar. Reports of investment in dead horse, as filed with Secretary Olcott, make Interesting reading. Teddy will find himself at the head of a corporal's guard if he persists in that Bull Moose delusion. But if mediation should succeed, how'll they split the $40,000 Nobel peace prize? Another crisis in Mexico is predict ed for this week. But what's a crisis in Mexico? Now's the time to take especial pains with, your prlzewinnlng rose bushes. Huerta may think he is called by Heaven, but they'll throw the switch on him. Rain is getting to be a regular week-end affair. Having put out the forest fires, the rains will cease. C. W. Post was worth $20,000, 000 and left it all. The aristocracy of the dog is shown by his muzzle. ' Ulster, must be expected to do a lit tle bluffing. The Ulster ulcer is about to break. Mount Hood By Richard Carter Warlner. Mount Hood. I. Oh, Oregon! Dear Oregon! Again the Summertime has come. Amongst thy mountains clothed in green. Beside thy lakes In glifrlng sheen,' "Beside the brooks, which still flow on" "To feed the streams of Oregon." A weary, wand'ring dreamer comes To gaze upon thy snow-capped domes. rr. It seems a privilege most good To gaze upon thy face. Mount Hood; To watch the shifting shadows creep From dome to dome, from peak to peak; As, glist'ning there in robes of white. You fade away and sink from sight Into the darkness of the night. And leave me here, alone alone Beneath the shadows of thy dome. IH. At dawn, I'll see thy sunlit peak. Mute Sentinel, you never speak Save In the language of the wood In whispers, if in pleasant mood In awful thundering voice, perchance. When ruBhing wild the avalanche Breaks forth upon thy mountain side And rushes on to swell the tide' Of streams which flow forever more To kiss the Paciflo'B sanded shore. IV. " Or, when the winds, which seldom cease. Sweep on, to leap some deep crevasse; Then, do I hear thy voice again. In strangely wild, and weird refrain. As if some demon in thy drift Were caged within thy Icebound crypt. V. I wonder if. within thy depths. Some mystic Sprite with noiseless steps Dwells there within that icy home; And never cares, or dares, to come Where Sunshine's happy wholesome , smile Bathes thy snowdrifts for a while Then creeps into the Western sea And sinks from sight of you and me? VL And so I sit and dream alone Beneath thy wondrous white robed dome; The pride of every Native Son, Snow-capped Mount Hood, of Oregon! TARIFF IS STILL THE BIO ISSUE What Republicans and Democrats Re, spectlvely Are. Pendleton Tribune. When through some such cause as provoked the split of 191S the Demo crats come into power and attempt to foist their free trade policy and other vagaries to which they cling oh tho country, their lease of life is brought to an abrupt end as soon as the peo ple have an opportunity to manifest their resentment. That the Repub licans are right on the tariff question and the Democrats wrong on the theory of free trade is manifest. Whether a man is a Republican or a Democrat at the present time can be settled very easily and simply in his own mind by considering a single proposition. The Democratic National platform declares that it is a funda mental proposition of the Democratic party "that the .Federal Government has no right or power to Impose or collect tariff duties except for the pur poses of revenue." This means that if Congress sees fit to impose duties higher than Is necessary for revenue purposes, and expressly to protect home against foreign production, the duties are illegal and ought to be con tested. The Republicans declare for tariff duties on all kinds of competitive products, independent of revenue du ties, high enough to equalize the dif ference in the cost of production and the wages of labor. Do not be fooled into thinking there is a middle ground between these two propositions. There is absolutely no middle ground. It is a clear-cut po litical division between the two par ties. Is there any doubt as to which of these two propositions appeals to the farming class of this country? Is it not true that whatever benefits in, farmer and the manufacturer also benefits the great army of breadwin ners? EAGLES TO FIGHT AIRSHIPS Novel Flan for War Devised by French Array Aviation Corps. New York Tribune. For the protection of the pilots of its wonderful fleet of aeroplanes the French War Office has devised the amazing scheme of employing golden eagles to harass the enemy such, at any rate, is a statement made by a writer in the ..well-known German sporting -review, "Allgemeine Forst und Jagdzeitung." Pastor Schuster, who is responsible for this story, took up ornithology after retiring from the pulpit, and writes with an assumption of assur ance and with an impression of inti mate acquaintance with the facts of the case. He implies that he has re cently visited the French aerodromes at Chalons and Nice, where, he says, the birds are kept, and where be has seen them. His description of the pro cedure is as follows: "The military at Chalons and at Nice have bought six eagles, which are to be employed in attacking the aviators and aeroplanes of the enemy, for a successful attack on aerpplanes could be made by powerful birds flying against the machines and rendering them unserviceable. First, the eagles are accustomed to the roar and rattle of the machine and to the sound of gun fire: this lesson lasts three weeks. Model flying machines are made, to which scraps of - meat are fastened, and in the meantime the birds are kept on starvation rations. Then when the aeroplanes are thrown into the air the eagles fly at the scraps of meat with tremendous force, and thus destroy the models. Later the birds are ex pected to wound the pilot with beak and claws, rendering him hors de com bat." MANY BIRDS ABE LONG LIVED Ravens, Which Head List, Sometimes Live to Be 200 Years Old. London Answers. The question of which birds live the longest has never been settled satis factorily. But the raven comes very high in the list, and Is said to reach the great age of 200 years. Eagles and vultures also enjoy long lives. Indeed, an eagle owl is known to have lived 90 years in captivity. In this particular case the bird began to lay eggs after 60 years, and during the last 40 years of its life brought up nu merous little ones.,, A hundred years is probably a con servative estimate of a parrot's age, and it is recorded that one of these birds also started nesting after 20 years of captivity. With ordinary luck, both the crow and the swan may rea sonably expect a century of life. It is not by any means the largest birds that enjoy the longest Uvea For instance, the sparrow sometimes cele brates his 40th birthday. Other ages reached by birds are: Hens, 10 years; pheasants and partridges, IS years; larks and nightingales. 18 years; pig eons. 20 years; canaries. 24 years; pea cocks, 30 years, and herons, 60 years. Question of a Snlnste, Judge. Spinster Why can't women have trousers pockets into which to put their hands? Bachelor They have the married ones.. WOOL PRICE PAKFCL SURPRISE. Professed Democrat Grieves for Con sumer, but Holds Out Hope. PORTLAND, May 15. (To the Ed itor.) I was surprised and pained to note In The Oregonian that wool is higher priced than it bas been for many years. Surprised,- because, not withstanding the world-wide shortage, I was hopeful that the removal of the robber tariff would depress the market so that the manufacturers could pur chase at their own figures, and thereby be enabled (if they saw fit) to put more wool in the workingxnan's overalls and sell to them at a corresponding reduc tion. I am sorry my theory has proved in correct. It is not the policy of the Democratic party, to which I belong, to raise the price of anything .except soupbones, and I trust this one excep tion will not materially affect the chances of our nonpartisan candidate for re-election to the United States Senate. You will remember that personally he was opposed to the removal of the duty, and. If his pleadings had pre vailed, the wool tariff would still be on and the price of the product lower than ever. You should now realize the wis dom of his position. He stands for the common people whenever he Is permit ted to do so, and he saw clearly that the present tariff would raise, not low er, the price of wool. There are but few woolgrowers and many consumers of wool. If my party has unintentionally, raised the price of wool by removing the tariff It should be remembered in its favor that under its beneflcent ad ministration those who desire to em ploy labor can procure it at very rea sonable rates, and this will, of course, eventuate In lower prices for every thing, which Is, of course, generally to be desired. JEFF. MAYBE THERE IS A THIRD SEX English Statesman So Classifies a Type of Modern Masterful Woman. London Cor. Kansas City Times. "A new sex is growing up; a third ex women who deliberately abandon all feminine attributes and honestly do not care for love or passion." That, according to Sir William Bell, member of Parliament for Hammer smith, in an article in the Academy, is the real reason for the growth of the woman suffrage movement. "The young women of half a century ago who did wool work also wasted thousands of hours of valuable time In practicing on the piano," said Sir Wil liam. "In nine cases out of ten she had no taste or Inclination for music, and is now as defunct as her grandmother, who swooned in graceful attitudes on every occasion. Women nowadays are taking up a more aggressive position in the world; they travel unchaperoned; they ride alone in taxis, and live like bachelors by themselves in flats, if they think fit, without scandal. "They want to live their own lives; they do not want to get married or ex pect It. They Imitate men as far as they can in their attire. They smoke cigarettes, and lead useful lives as clerks, typists, telegraphers, actuaries, doctors and take up a hundred other occupations which were formerly for men only. They do not want men; they are learning to be independent of them. "I do not pretena that all women who follow these occupations are of this class, but I maintain that there is a large and growing proportion of what is practically a third sex. Inasmuch as the proportion of men over women is Increasing, I see no harm in it, but good. Spinsterhood Is no longer the reproach It once was, and women lead far more interesting and brighter lives than they ever did before." MOKE TUNNELS UNDER CHANNEL English Engineer Predlta Present Proj ect la Only n Forerunner London Chronicle. "When one tunnel under the English Channel has been completed, another will have to be made very soon after It, and possibly a third.", This confident prediction was made by Sir Francis Fox when talking to members of the House of Commons on the engineering difficulties of the pro posed tunnel. All parties were repre sented, and it was curious to notice how the prejudices that prevailed at one time against the project have died down. Sir Francis told of a recent conver sation he had with a high military au thority who was at one time a strong opponent of the scheme. "But," Said this authority, "now that we have aero planes and airships, the problem is en tirely changed, and it has become a matter of National necessity that the tunnel should be made." Sir Francis Fox rapidly ran over the details of the scheme. It would cost 16 million pounds, half of which Is to be contributed by England and half by France. A revenue of 1.655.000 is es timated and an expenditure of 1.135.-000. Stock Running; at Large. PLEASANT HOME, Or., May 23. (To the Editor.) We are continually both ered with livestock running at large and what I want to know is, who are the proper persons to notify? We try to have and to make our home and place beautiful with roses and shrubs but cannot on account of horses, cows, etc., being turned loose to run at their will. Hoping you can give me some advice, as I want to see those people abide by the laws who help make them. CITIZEN. Chapter 120, page 218. Session Laws of 1913. provides that elections may be held in any county or precinct to de termine whether stock shall be per mitted to run at large. Such an elec tion may be called in any county on petition of 100 legal voters, or In any precinct on petition of 15 voters. Where it is unlawful for stock to go at large, the fine for the first conviction is $10, and $20 for each subsequent conviction, Chapter VI, Title XXXIX, Lord's Ore gon Laws, provide. For further details of law see last chapter referred to. Panama Canal Tolls. MEDFORD, Or., May 23 .(To the Edi tor.) I am 82 years old and have lived in Oregon 54 years and have been a reader of The Oregonian for over 50 years and have derived much valuable information from your paper and would like some more. On what basis are tolls through , the Panama Canal rated? Are they charged upon the registered tonnage of the vessel or on the tonnage of the cargo as shown by the manifest? If a vessel of 1000 tons register loads with a cargo of 600,000 feet of lumber, estimated weight of two tons per 1000 feet, how much toll will it have to pay? If a vessel without a cargo should pass through in ballast how much toll would it have to pay if it registered 1000 tons? J. S. HOWARD. (1) William H. Taft, when Presi dent of the United States, fixed the toll at 11.20 a ton, collectable on the net registered tonnage of the vessel, so the charge would have no bearing on the amount' of cargo carried. (2) $1200. (3) $1200.' A polos; y. With a Serine. Life. "This is no place for such a petty squabble," said the police court judge. "Now, Mulligan, you apologize to Ho lm for calling him a liar and I'll dis miss the case." "All right. Mister Ho gan, I apolyglze for callln' ye callin' ye what ye are." Twenty-Five Years Ago From The Oregonian of May 26, 1SS9 Seattle, May 25. The Puget Souni National Bank and First National Banl were today victimized out of $3000 an $2500 respectively by a shrewd forget named V. M. White. Vancouver, W. T-. May 23. Thi streetcar track from the ferry landln to the garrison was completed today Washington. May 25. Secretarj Tracy has decided that the remains ol the inventor Ericsson shall be taker back to his native land in the United States ship Chicago. New York, May 23. The Oregon Pa cific 6 per cent gold bonds have all been taken. San Francisco, May 23. Paul R. Deady. of Portland, is in the city. One of the most enjoyable enter tainments of the season was the Dairj Maids' Festival and Cantata, given al Taylor-street Methodist Episcopal Church. The milking stools were do nated by Hou. J. C. Carson. Local sports are awaiting the arrival of Peter Jackson. Australia's swarthj champion pugilist, from San Fran cisco. The Astoria & South Coast Railroad has been graded from Skipanort, It miles In the direction of Seaside, and tracklaylng Is now In progress. V K f v. c. R. Shields, pastor of Mixpah Presbyterian Church, was given a sur prise party Friday evening, and Mrs. Penumbra Kelly presented htm with a purse of $45.75. C. N. Kester, who owns the wood turning shop on J street. East Port land, lacerated his hand with a circu lar saw Friday. Mayor Wheeler, of East Portland, la considerably improved. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonion of May 26. 1864. On May 17 $1,000,000 was handed over to the Sanitary Commission by the chairman of the Metropolitan Fair com mittee in New Y'ork as the first install ment. The joint convention of Umatilla and Baker County has nominated J. M. Pyle for the State Senate. Gulnney's Station. Va.. May 21. The Army of the Potomac Is again on the move toward Richmond. During the night Hancock's corps, which held the left of our line In front of Spottsyl vanla, took up the line of march, and tonight finds the head of the column at Bowling Green, IS miles south ot Fredericksburg. Other corps have been today following the same general line of march and are now passing this point. By this the commanding General has effected a turning movement of Lee's right flank, which is now hastily falling back to take a new defensive position. New York, May 24. The Senate passed the Pacific Railroad bill yester day by a vote of 23 to 5. It now goes to the House. The Washington correspondent of the Sacramento Union under date of April 21, says: This morning the Senate passed a bill making Portland. Or., a port of entry. Immediately afterward the bill to authorize the erection of an assay office at Dalles City, Or., was called up, when Nesmlth offered an amendment that a branch mint and as say office be erected. The amendment was adopted, but went over on a mo tion to reconsider. The- Grand Lodge of the Order of Oddfellows held its annual communica tion at Eugene this week. The follow ing officers were chosen: Grand master. Samuel E. May; deputy grand master, O. L. Stlnson; grand warden. J. W. Will lams; grand secretary, Chester N. Terry: grand treasurer, G. M. Stroud; grand representative, S. Ellsworth; grand marshal, Henry Cunningham; grand conductor, J. P. Bloomfield; grand guar dian. J. M. Bacon; grand herald, Sykes. . Married At Olympia, W. T.. May 22, by Rev. Mr. Rutledge, Mr. John Dick son, of Victoria. V. I., to Miss Susan S. Dixon, late of Urapqua, Or. Rev. George H. Atkinson, of this citv, delivered a lecture on "The Citizen Sol dier" before the Ladies' Sanitary Aid Society in Vancouver on Tuesday. A collection was taken up. which netted $121. This sum, together with the amount on hand, was placed at the dis posal of Dr. Bellows at San Francisco through favor of Ladd & Tilton. frep. The superintendent of the telegraph lino. Mr. Haines, transmitted tho dis patch also free. A pack train from down the coast passed through our city the other day. and the whole concern appeared te be "greaser" from the tapojos and apara Joes to the drivers. -- - The Income tax for the last year is now due. A little son of Thomas Glbbs was taken by a large panther, while near his father, who was at work in the gar den near Forest Grove. The child was rescued and the panther killed. A gentleman of undoubted veracity and liberality offers to be one of 10 who will give $100 each to make a purse of $1000 to be sent to the Sani tary Commission Immediately. ALL POLICE FORCE CHRISTIANS Only Three Out of S7 Formerly Pro ' leased the Faith. Waco (Texas) Cor. New York World. Waco's entire police force arose and professed belief in Christianity and promised to live Christian lives to the best of their ability. Police Chaplain Oscar Myre and At torney "Tom" Hamilton conducted tho services at a special meeting held in the City Hall. So far as can be ascertained. Waco is the only city on earth having a police force composed entirely of men who profess Christianity. Only three of the 37 policemen pro fessed to be Christians at the time they went on the force. You Can't Lengthen Your Vacation But You CAN Strengthen It Your vacation: A delightful period of leisure completely surrounded by hard work. You cannot, by taking thought, add a day to its quantity; but you can mightily increase its Quality by heeding vacation suggestions in the advertising columns of this news paper. There's a wealth of such sug gestions day after day regarding routes and resorts, camp equipment, comfortable duds, fishing tackle, and all the other Items that spell vacation pleasure. Your vacation is a most impor tant occasion. It means health and strength and Increased vitality. 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