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4 TWE 3IORXTNG OREGONTAK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 86, 1914- 3 ALLIES JAPAN IN MAY AID FAR EAST France and Russia Seem Await Call to Aid Their Eastern Ally. to AMBASSADOR READY TO GO Count ton Rex and Staff Prepare to Sail for Seattle on Steamer Minnesota Report of Jfaval Battle Rife on Streets. TOKIO. Auz. 35. 10 A. M. Signs hero today indicate that four nations may combine to rout Germany from the Far 1 Kant. British, ."ussiau and French em bassies are flying the Japanese flag as symbolic of their alliance with the .Mikado. Thus far only English regiments have Joined the Japanese in preparing for onslaught upon Kiau-Chau, but the waving Russian and French flags are taken to indicate that another mon archy and the ally republic are likely to enter the fray. All is set for Japans pounce upon Kiau-Cliau, and. as far as Tokio knows the battle already may be under way, Vice-Admiral Tomosburo Kato has been appointed commander-in-chief of the first squadron. Vice-Admiral Sadakichi Kato commander of the second squad Ton and Rear-Admiral Tsuchlya com Blander of the third squadron. By order of the Emperor national mourning over the death of the father will end August 29. Contradictory reports have been ctr culated concerning a battle between British and German warships. There has been no confirmation of such a bat tle, but it is the main street topic among the American. English and Ger man popuw--. Count von Rer. the German Ambas sador, is ready to leave Japan. He and his staff have completed arrangements to depart for Seattle on the steamer Minnesota. be used to advantage in Pittsburg. Mayor Armstrong declared that he saw riothing in all the large cities there that he thought valuable enough to adopt. Street regulations in European municipalities are superior to those of American cities, lie said, but they would be valueless here for the reason that appearances of street surfaces there are considered more important than the convenience of pedestrians and drivers of vehicles. Most teams in London and faris are rubber-tired, horses are smoothly shod and the greater number of vehicles are electrically propelled. The greatest care is taken of the street paving and the necessity of street im provments occurs in Europe rarely. Mayor Armstrong was in Paris when war was declared. Tnere were many Americans there at the time. From the beginning of hostilities Frenchmen were non too sanguine of the outcome of the fight into whico they entered re luctantly. The Mayor said that he saw many persons congregated before a pic ture of Napoleon Bonaparte, and in genuine French anguish bewail his ab sence from among them. "If we only had you here yet," he said he heard one man exclaim, and then heard many others answer him with a fervent "Amen." SCANT GARB STYLE EL VOGU ONG AGO Historian Delving Into Past Pinrs Mrtady of 1802 Wore Clinging Dress. POCKET COULD HOLD GOWN in MENTAL DISEASES TOLD DOCTORS SAY BR I IX. I : PLAYING .tFFLICTIO IXaR.BLE, IS Alcoholic Called Baby Who May Be Weaaed Uaally from Bottle By Long Confinement. CRIPPLE WEDS HIS NURSE Railroad Clerk With Sprained An kle Marries Girl Attending Him. CHICAGO, Aug. 21. Hubert C. Retdel stepped off an Illinois Central train at the Van Buren street station on July 28, stumbled and sprained his ankle. He was taken to his room in the Great Northern Hotel where the house surgeon examined the injured ligaments. He recommended a nurse That evening a trim young person reorted at Mr. Relders room and said she was Annie Laurie, the nurse who had been summoned. She fixed Mr. Keidel's bandaged foot up In a com fortable style on a pillow and read bim a story from a magazine. This sort of treatment was Just the thins: the young bachelor needed, and in a day or so he was able to take a walk. Miss Laurie accompanied him on a stroll through a park. Here it was that Mr. Reidel told all about his home in Syracuse. N. Y., and gave An nie Laurie his promise true. Mr. Reidel said. In effect, he would lay down and dee for her. If occasion demanded, and she took him at his word. Miss Annabelle Laurie and Mr. Reidel were married by a justice of the peace in the city hall. A second ceremony was performed by Father -Plpp of the Paullst fathers In St. Mary's Church at Wabash ave nue and Ninth street. Mr. and Mrs. Reidel left for Syracuse and a honey moon In the East. They will return to Chicago. Mr. Reidel is a railroad clerk. "And which ankle was injured,'" the reporter asked. "The right one. of course," answered Mr. Reidel, and his bride allowed that was correct. Nurses always notice buch details, she said. GOVERNOR IS ROAD BOSS Mtaaoturf Executive, Soaking Wet, Yet Directs Convict Crews. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 21. Gov ernor Elliott W. Major got soaking wet while serving as a Road day volunteer near Jefferson City recently, but he continued to direct the convict road makers who were helping him. W hen the day's work ended the Gov ernor said he had advices from through out the state that indicated the re sponse this year was almost as large as last. diverts are being built, trees cut down and rocks and stumps blasted, hills pared down, valleys filled In and stretches of road crowned. ATTACK ON LOUVRE FEARED ArU Treasures Protected From Dam age by Aeroplane Bombs. LONDON, Aug. 25. 4 A. M A Paris dispatch to the Standard says that the authorities at the Louvre have removed the Venus de Mllo and other art treas urer, gems and state Jewels to the vaulta They have also strengthened the roots of all the picture galleries with sand bags and other protection against an aeroplane bemb attack. BATTLE ON S0UTH BORDER Desperate Conflict Continued Since Friday Evening. LONDON. Aug. 25. 3:13 A. M. A dis patch to the Express from Ostend says: "A great battle has been In progress In the Province of Hainut, on the southern frontier of Belgium, since Friday evening. French and British troops have been ergaged in desperate conflicts north of Charlerol and Fleurls with Germans who crossed the Meuse at Huy. "Saturday French troops which had spread from Lille met the German right to East Flanders." NEW YORK, Aug. 21. Bridge play ing for prizes by women is a mental disease for which there is no cure. The alcoholic is nothing but a big baby who can be cured by keeping his "bottle" away from him and treating him kindly. Wanderlust or hoboism, out of which springs the great American tramp, is another mental disease, and the cure is to provide an exciting position for tnose anTlicteu. New lork physicians who attended the annual convention of the alienists and mind experts of the country re cently in Chicago are much interested in these three conclusions reached by the neurologists. The physicians decided that the crimes of men are very often due to Insanity and they are punished for crime when they should be treated for disease. It was also stated that many times when men are sent to prison they adopt religion and are seemingly reformed, but when they leave the place and are again attacked by their mental ailment the crimes are repeated and they are soon back in prison again. One of the most interesting papers was by Dr. W. S. Lindsay, of Topeka, Kan., who asserted that it Is all too easy to keep outside of an insane asylum. He believes that a patient may be sent to an asylum whenever there is any sign of defectiveness or he Is unable to manage, his affairs. Dr. J. C. King, of Atlanta, Ga., at tacked the women bridge players. "We see society encouraging Imprudent speculation, intemperance and vice, augmenting the desire to gain wealth by speculation rather than by honest labor, converting our youth into idle vagabonds, filling our prisons with de faulters, forgers, bank robbers, thieves and murderers," said the physician. "What inducement is there to honest labor and virtuous endeavor when a mother, a leader in society, a woman of untold influence, spends the greater part of her time, mentality and energy in winning a prize at a bridge party that would equal in cost the heaviest losing at a $1 limit poker game during a sitting of four hours?" It was Dr. Charles F. Read, superin tendent of the State Hospital for the Insane, that advanced the theory that the inebriate was only a baby, and that only a few of them really craved liquor after they had been separated from it for a week. In two weeks' time, the physician said, they have no more physical desire for it than an abstain er. It was the physician's theory that the trouble lies not in the call of the chemistry of the body, but a longing for the effects of the alcohol. "The inebriate misses his fostermoth- er. said Dr. Keed. The loster motner who speaks kind words to him when things go wrong, who entertains him and causes him to forget this is a real world with sharp corners on it. He is a big baby and nothing more. Take his bottle away from him and he cries until his attention is distracted, and then he learns to do without it. The logical, practical manner of deal ing with this man is to commit him to a colony where he may be weaned from his fostermother. taught habits of industry and built over into an ef fective mechanism. The alcoholic's appeal to drink Is closely allied to a sensitive child who runs constant!- to his mother to be comforted and reassured. Figures were produced of the study of 117 families of alcoholics made by Dr. Alfred Gordon, of Jefferson Medi cal College, Philadelphia. It was found that in the first generation of 90 fam ilies of alcoholics 200 of the offspring were mentally affected and 180 of these were epileptics. Of these children seven-eighths began to use alcohol when from S to 16 years old. In the second generation of 20 alcoholic grandpar ents "8 were deficient mentally and of a lower type than that found In the defectiveness of the first generation. Twenty-one of the descendants of the third generation of seven alcoholic families were imbeciles. Dr. Read said that 25 per cent of insanity is due to alcohol. The wanderlust seizes a constitution ally inferior class, it was stated. An inferior class of people have a craving for continual excitement and live close to the border line of insanity. The road calls strongly to them and there are hundreds of them wandering about, committing petty crimes. Naked Arras and Bared Shoulders Noted by Writer in Paris Years Gone by and Justin Mc Carthy Cites Daring Fashion. NEW YORK. Aug. 22. With our con temporaries in the public prints and elsewhere ever holding up to our fri volities and eccentricities of fashion the mirror of their satire and scorn, it Is with a feeling of triumph- that we venture to direct their attention to past extremes, an opportunity richly be stowed on us by our considerate an cestors. "We need go no further, for example, than the description of Empress Eu genie's delicate day slippers, or her bootmaker's triumphant cry of self- inctifintlnn wHon ch hart f nranla inpd. shnwinsr h m some shoes whicn re- sani.rti. n. m'v. TOO MUCH TANGO CAUSES NEURALGIA Violent neuralgia of the head gener ally attacks overworked women who lack sufficient sleep, fresh air and red blood. With the prevalent craze for dancing at all times and places it is becoming noticeable that women whose blood is thin anaemic become subject to neu ralgic pains when they dance too much and rob themselves of sleep and open air exercise. The woman who makes great de mands on her strength, either by over working or overdancing, must keep her blood in condition or suffer. The pain of neuralgia is simply a sign adopted by nature' to show that the nervous system is being starved because the bloo'd no longer brings it what it needs. The one great cause of neuralgia is, debility with anaemia or blood less ness. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are a tonic for the blood and nerves. They begin, at once to enrich the blood and enable it to furnish the nerves with the ele ments they need to restore them to health. A booklet on the home treat ment of nervous disorders that will enable you to help yourself will be sent free on request by the Dr. Williams Medicine Co, Schenectady, N. Y. Your own druggist can supply you with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. ANNIVERSARY SALE STILL ON FULL BLAST DOUBLE STAMPS TODAY TODAY IN OUR TEA ROOM AND FOUNTAIN Delicious Ice Cream served free with our 25c lunch. French government his Curtiss hydro aeroplane. Thaw has lived in Paris fori several years and tinder the tutelage of French aeronautical experts has become proficient in flying. CANDY CORNER ENGLISH CANDIES 35c Reg., special, jar 19 50c Bon Bons, pound 37 90c Chocolate Dipped Almonds, pound 68 ARCHERY BEING REVIVED FRENCH INVOKE NAPOLEON J'ltt-hurg Major Says Many Gath ered at Emperor's Picture. PITTSBURG. Aug. SI. Mayor Joseph G. Armstrong arrived in Pittsburg re cently from his European trip, accom panied by two daughters. Misses Edna and Frances, and his secretary. Fred U Roberts. He was greeted at the Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad station by his family, a reception committee of Lodge No. 4t. Loyal Order of Moose, and many city officials and a number of personal friends. Though he went to Europe with the hope of learning something that could VOTES FOR SQUAWS URGED Cbippewa Indians Unanimously Fa vor Woman Suffrage. ASHLAND. Wis., Aug. 18. Chippewa Indiana of the Bad River tribe, at the largest council held in years, voted unanimously In favor of woman suf frage. "No Indian should oppose the right of our women to vote." said William Obern, one of the Indians, in a speech. "The hardest part of the home life falls on them. They help clear our lands and build our homes. They own prop erty, too, and know how to take care of it. They are more likely to vote for the real welfare of our people than the men." OPERA SINGERS ARE TAXED Treasury Department Orders Aliens to Pay Income Assessment. WASHINGTON. Aug. 20. Opera sing ers and other artists who come to the United States and later return to their foreign homes hereafter will have to pay income taxes as do American citi zens. The Treasury Department has issued Instructions to internal revenue collec tors providing for collection of tax on income of non-resident aliens derived from trades and professions in the United States. It affects many persons living just across the Canadian border who work on the American side of the boundary line. vealed holes after one day's wear: "Ah, I see how it is! Madame, you have walked in them"' to know what inac tive, languid creatures must have worn these and similar frail footgear. "We all know through quaint old prints and portraits the pseudo-classic mania during the First Consulate in France. It was then that clinging dra peries or, rather, the lack of them, were carried to an extreme which make our own scanty attire seem but a mild fancy. Hmr, Kei-amicr's (larb Scant. Mme. Recamier, as portrayed on her couch, is well known, but a glimpse of her walking in Kensington Gardens, in London, in 1802. in the self-same scant attire is new. "She appeared in a thin muslin dress clinging to her figure like the folds of drapery In a statue, her hair in a coil of braids at the bacK and arranged in short ringlets around her face; a large veil thrown over her. head completed an attire which not unnat turally caused her to be followed and stared at." Mme. Jerome Bonaparte, of whom the following story is credited, was the most daring exponent of clinging dra peries of her epoch and famous for her costumes. It was or ner wedding gown of sheerest muslin and old lace that a man present at her marriage said ho could easily put the whole of it into his pocket. Another writer of the time deplores the custom in Paris, and after her gos sipy fashion descriptions relates that nothing Is to be seen save naked arms and gowns falling off the shoulders, re gardless of the season." and "that never before In Paris were pulmonary and nervous complaints so frequent." Crinoline Braves Ridicule. It seems a far cry to hoops from these costumes and as we may readily imagine, these monstrosities brought down a torrent of abuse. No longer could the saying of a wit of 1805 hold good that the change in female dress of late must contribute very much to domestic bliss: no man can surely com plain now of petticoat government for, with hoops, often no less than three or four petticoats were worn. Justin McCarthy, in his "Portraits of the Sixties," tells us, however, that "its reign defied all contemporary ridicule," and that it was worn by women of all classes. To quote at length: "The boys in the street sang comic songs to make sport of it, but no street bellowing of contempt could incite the wearers of this most inconvenient and hideous ar ticle of dress to condemn themselves to clinging draperies." Fur and Lace Worn In 1800. The present fancy of the dainty Par isienne for wearing furs with her Sum mer finery seems to have had a historic birth in 1800, for many old piir.ts of that period display such combination. The reverse, too, seems to hold true, in Winter, as a fashion paragraph from the 1803 Port Folio says: "The contest between muffs and muslins is at pres ent very severe among the ladies, most of whom condescend to keep their hands warm though the cold and thin clothing should dye parts of their sweet persons an imperial purple." For the change of fashion a writer in 1829 sees only charitable and praise worthy reasons, and writes from such a kindly and lenient point of view that surely she deserves our gratitude as well as attention. I quote at length: "The history of woman is the history of the improvements in the world. Some 20 or 30 years ago, when manual labor performed all the drudgery, some five, six or seven yards of silk or muslin or gingham would suffice for the fitting and flirting of the most gay pnd volatile of the sex. Extremes in Bonnet. "But as soon as the powers of steam were applied and the labor changed from physical to intellectual, the ladies in their charitable regard for the oper ative class of the community, begin to desire means for their continued em ployment, and as the material Is pro duced with half the labor, the equilib rium must be sustained by consuming a double quantity." Other extremes included the Olden burg bonnet introduced by the sister of the Emperor of Russia an 1814. Simi lar bonnets were also very large and often projecting so far over the face that the wearer could neither see to the right nor to the left. in; i 'Pi i , POPULAR. Although A'ever IVatlonal Pastime in This Conntry, Practice Always f-lxtenaiive. PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 20. Twenty years ago in this land of the free it was considered distinctly funny for a man to play golf. The game was new to the public, and offered a rich field for the comic artist. Since that time there has been growing steadily a'n in terest in that type of outdoor sport where the element of competition or "fight" is subordinated to the element of skill. This flood tide has brought with it. -among other things, a revival of interest in archery. Always popular in England with cer tain circles, and at times rising to the dignity of a genuine national pastime, archery has until recently aroused lit tlo enthusiasm on this side of the At lantic. Of the early clubs, the only one which lasted long was the United Bowmen of Philadelphia, founded in 1828 and continuing up to 1859. Twen ty years later there was a revival. A National association was formed, which in very recent years has taken on a new lease of life. Philadelphia has always contributed her quota of bow men to the National contests. The antiquity and honorable history of the bow are such as to call for no latter-day panegyric. The sport comes to us from the Assyrians and Persians, through Greece and mediaeval Eng land. The Stuarts raised archery to the position of a social accomplishment. During mid-Victorian days it sank to the level of croquet, and still in the minds of many evokes the inevitable concomitant of afternoon tea. Yet archerv Is a fine SDort. worthy better things than this, and is gradually be ing recognized as such. Conan Doyle's stirring lines, beginning: "What of the bow? The bow was made in Enriand: Of yew wood, of true wood The wood of Enqlish bows. And hearts that are free. Love the brave yew tree And the land where the yew tree crows. What heart through which flows a drop of Saxon blood but beats faster to their time! Archery, in a word, is English archery, with all the good and bad of it. It is perhaps significant that the writer on archery in the new Ency clopedia Britannica. In tracing the his- OREGON HONEY PURE EXTRACTED Many axe using this particular brand for cooking; flavor deli cious and lasting. Have you tried it? Price 25tf, 40, $1.00 IMPORTED GINGER ALE Special, dozen $1.75 HEINTZ TOMATO KETCHUP 15 and 25 DISCOUNTS ON RELIABLE GOODS 50c Shaving Brush 33 75c to $1.25 Shaving Mugs . .63 $1.50 Razor 77? 5c Colgate's Shaving Soap, 6 for 25 25c Resinol Soap 19 25c Poslam Soap 19c4, $5.00 Ladies' Handbags. .$3.33 75c Vulcanoid Hair Brush 54 c 50c Nail Brush 33tf $1.00 Pinkham's Compound 69 50c Capillaris 33c 75c Saxolite 59 75c Mercolized Wax 59c 50c Spermax 33 50c Antiphlogistine 33 25c Crude Carbolic Acid .... 19c 25c Formaldehyde 18c 10c Powdered Alum 7c 10c Boracic Acid 7 10c Epsom Salts 7 10c Bird Sand 7c 50c Bay Rum (pint) 39C tory of bow-shooting from earliest times, makes not one single mention of the greatest bowmen the world has known the American Indians. From this entirely different point of departure such boys' organization as the Woodsmen and. in less degree, the American Boy Scouts, have been at tempting a revival of shooting with the bow. Mr. Thompson-Seton and sir. uan Beard have both ranged themselves on its side. Might there not be just here a hint for American archers that, if taken, would lead to somewhat more vitality, not to speak of popular inter est in the sport? SKULL !S TROOP LEGEND Prussian Hussars Swear Victory or Go to Death on Meld. NEW YORK. Aug. 21. A standard of the famous German regiment, the Death's Head Hussars, which was formerly commanded by Crown Prince Frederick William, is reported to have been captured by the French in the fierce battle of Haelen. This regiment is composed of the flower of the Ger man army, pledged to win or "go to glory." In previous wars it has made good its reputation for valor, covering the Kaiser's arms with glory. This badge of the Death's Head Hus sars is composed of the head and crossed arms of a recumbent effigy. The addition of the words "to glory" makes the application of It obvious. Other nations have had these regi ments. In 1759, when Colonel John Hale (who came to London with the news of Wolfe's fall and the conquest of Canada), raised the Seventeenth Light Dragoons, now styled the Lan cers, King George ordered that "on the front of the men's caps and on the left breast of their uniforms there was to be the death's head and cross-bones over It. The grim device they still re tain, like the famous Pomeranian Horse who. since the days of Gustavus Adolphus, have worn skulls and cross bones on their high fur caps, and In Sweden are now known as the King's Own Hussars. This device was also worn by the Black Brunswickers, who charged so gallantly at Quatre Bras in 1815, where their leader, the young Duke of Brunswick, fell. They never gave or took quarter, on account of the Duke's father having been mor tally wounded at the battle of .lena. in 1806. WAR SCARE HITS HOBOS hit the free lunch which follows ech Sunday afternoon meeting of the Broth erhood Welfare Association In Manhat tan Lyceum. "It's us workers, the producers of nil the wealth, that get hit nil the llmr." said the first speaker, who was able to met the tloor after the sensation hnd been sprung by J. Ends How. founder of the association and financier of the commissariat. "It's an outrage." "Outrageous!" the hobos chorused. Mr. How tried to talk, but was un successful In getting a hearing until some one near tkc platform made out that he was trying to say that the free lunch would be served Just the sum-, war or no war. The underground spread the good news, and In an Instant there Was silence, interrupted only by the ap plause that followed the founder's prom ise that lemonade would continue the hobo beversge, even though the war had sent up the price of sugar. Welfare Association Assured Lunch Will Continue. Free NEW YORK. Aug. 20. Two hobos nearly fainted yesterday and others turned pale under their coats of tan when they learned that war prices had Old (inn Reclaimed 1-Voni sea. London Times. There has now been mounted in the forecourt, outside the main entrance to Lloyd's, a 12-pounder gun recov ered last year from the wreck of Ms majesty's ship Lutlne. off the Island of Vlleland. The Lutlne was wrecked 115 years ago October . 179 whll bound from Yarmouth for Holland with a large amount of specie. The amnut of ore handled ou the Or".t T.ks ach year amount to 4.VKn. r DOCTORS STUDY PELLAGRA Physicians Gather Victims to Find Some Method of Cure. PINEV ILLE, Ky., Aug. 20. Phvsi- cians from almost all of the Southern states were present here recently when a clinic was held for the study and treatment of pellagra, a disease which it is estimated has 15.000 victims in this state. The physicians gathered on the call of Dr. A. M. McCormack. secretary of the Kentucky State Board of Health. Sixty-three victims of the disease from various parts of the mountain sections were in Pineville for observation and personal study by attending physi cians. THAW AND DREXEL ENLIST American Millionaires Will Serve in French Infantry. PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 17. Word has reached here of the enlistment in the French Volunteer Infantry of William Benjamin Thaw, millionaire, of Pitts burg, brother of Harry K. Thaw, slaver of Sanford White. The reports indicate that Thaw has been accepted along with J. Armstrong Dresel, of the famous Drexel family, and has started for the front. In addition Thaw has donated to th NATIONAL HEltO SflUES" NO 8 Daniel OXjbnnell The liberator ERIN has given the world many a genius and many a Lover of Liberty, but none greater than the eloquent O'Cbnnell. This noble Irishman unselfishly devoted every moment of his life to regain the Freedom of his rather land. His oratorv. because of its flaming earnestness, exercised a powerful influence over the House of Commons and hastened manv reforms for Ireland. Daniel O'Cbnnell was the first to realize the irresistible strenyrth of a union of mil lions of Irishmen, and to this end he labored night and day. Huge mass meetings were everywhere organised through out Ireland and addressed by the masterful O'Cbnnell. When confident of success and with victory in sight he was arrested and condemned to prison. When liberated his splendid constitution was shattered, but he continued until his dying hour to work and pray for Irish Liberty. It is needless to say mat Daniel O'Cbnnell was opposed to any Pro hibitory legislation which invaded the Natural Rights of Man. He would no more vote for such tyrannous enactments than will our millions of kish-American citizens. They know that there is no evil in the barley brews and light wines of their fathers EVIL ONLY IS IN THE MAN WHO MISUSES THEM. For 57 years Anheuser-Busch have honestly brewed honest beers, and they are proud of the popularity their great brand Budweiser enjoys with those of Irish blood. Our Irish citizens have helped to make our nation great among the nations of the world. Seven thousand, five hundred people are dailyrequired to keep pace with the natural demand for Budweiser. ANHEUSER-BUSCH ST LOUIS, USA. Blumauer & Hoch Distributors Portland, Oregon Battled only at the home plant Budweiser Means Moderation i