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POBTLASD, MONDAY, KEPT.. 28, ' 1914.
PROGRESS OF THE WAR.
During what may be described as
the second phase of the campaign in
France the Germans have not fared
so conspicuously well. Taking advan
tage of superior mobility at the outset
of the war, the Germans made their
headlong dash for Paris, only to over
tax and oxerextend their lines and
thereby necessitate a retirement on
intrenchments prepared for just such
an emergency. Here the German line
was extended and reinforced until it
reached from Noyon to Verdun on
an east-and-west line, the western
point of which is fifty-four miles
north and slightly east of Paris. At
this point developed the battle of the
Aisne, which has now been raging for
a period of two weeks without conclu
sive results in fact, without much in
dication of what the outcome will be.
In the battle of the Aisne, the Ger
mans seek by direct assault and main
Btrength to do what they failed in
doing by more subtle strategy. Their
purpose is to break the French ma
chine. The French are fired by the
Identical purpose of breaking the Ger
man machine and expelling it from
French soil. If the Germans win,
Paris will be unmasked again and the
French will be placed at a serious dis
advantage in defending their country
from German military encroach
ments. If the French win the Ger
mans will be forced to reorganize their
campaign on France, and with greatly
lessened prospects of ultimate victory.
Realizing the importance of the
tattle of the Aisne, both countries
have the flower of their first lines
massed here and are reinforcing as
heavily as possible with reservists.
More desperate battle was never
waged. Both armies appear to re
gard the fray as a struggle for sur
vival of the fittest force, as the decid
ing factor in the present campaign.
Tremendous consequences, physical
and moral, will follow the breaking
up of either line. The advantage that
will come with winning the battle of
the Aisne is such that no reasonable
price in human lives seems too great
for the rival commanders, to pay.
They are shoving in their lines for
attacks and counter attacks on forti
fied positions, which mean the loss of
thousands of men in every advance.
Dispatches show that every foot of
ground is being bitterly contested by
both sides. Trenches are carried only
to be lost and then carried and lost
again.
The great battle of the Aisne" may
be far from an end at this time. The
French and British have proved that
they are better able to cope with the
dreaded German military machine
than was generally believed. In the
light of the battle of the Aisne the
spectacular German raid to the very
gates of Paris suggests the impetuous
boxer who rushes his opponent at the
stroke of the gong seeking to smother
him in his corner. The French were
dazed, but quickly recovered and are
now fighting the Germans shoulder
to shoulder, although with what hopes
of ultimate success remains to be seen.
It is safe to assume that the Ger
mans will pursue their campaign in
France relentlessly during the late
Fall and the Winter months, when
the Russian flood will be frozen up
or greatly minimized. The campaign
in Eastern Prussia and Galicia will
come to a practical close with Winter,
o rar as vital results are concerned.
The Germans may then withdraw con
siderable forces from the frozen east
ern frontier and throw them into the
comparatively mild regions of North
ern and North Central France. At the
same time France will get reinforce
omenta from her own country and from
Great Britain, so that the flames of
conflict can be fed by both sides. Ger
many's mission must be to crush
France before Spring, else she may
face utter defeat even in France, for
'when the Slav hordes press on next
year with the first thaws Germany
will need tremendous forces to pro
tect herself from her real and vital
enemy. In a sense it may be said that
when Germany falls to win in France
she loses, although this is not acutely
true at the present time.
Viewing the war from its several
aspects, no hint of a conclusion is yet
to be found in the campaigns. There
has been no naval action of impor
tance. The only decisive land battle
has been fought in Galicia, where the
Austrlaus have been whipped; but
that is of secondary importance.
A NEW STYLE OF DIPLOMACY.
There is a decided difference be
tween Rustem Bey and Baron von
Schoen as diplomats, though they
both have been guilty of the unpar
donable sin for a diplomat talking
too much and expressing their candid
opinions. The difference appeared
when they were called on to repudi
ate, explain or retract. The Baren
promptly repudiated; the Bey an
swered: "I said it, I meant it and I
stick to it."
While the Baron's repudiation of
the interview in which he was quoted
as predicting war between the United
States and Japan will doubtless be of
ficially accepted, it is not conclusive
proof that -the offensive words were
not uttered. Many a genuine inter
view has been repudiated when it got
the interviewed into trouble. The re
pudiation accords with diplomatic
usage when a diplomat's tongue has
slipped.
The standing pat' of the Turk is as
undiplomatic as his original offense,
' which it only aggravates. Turks, like
other Orientals, are proverbial for
concealing their real opinions, and
when chance expression of those opin
ions causes trouble, for repudiating
the expression. This Turk is unique.
Recent action of Turkey marks a
change in the attitude of that country.
and the Rustem Bey and Baron von
Schoen interviews mark as great a
change in the ways of diplomats.
After having for years eaten humble
pie served up to them by the Euro
pean powers, the Turks no sooner see
the powers at each others' throats
than they annul all concessions ex
torted from them and assume an atti
tude of independence, while their
diplomats express their frank opinions
of the Christian nations. A diplomat's
business is to prevent war by adjust
ing disputes, and their triumphs con
sist in averting bloodshed by a plenti
ful expenditure of ink and soft words.
This Summer they have miserably
failed and they seem now to busy
themselves with trying to draw other
nations into their sovereigns' quar
rels, i The diplomat is degenerating
from a peacemaker " into a trouble
maker. HUMILIATING SPECTACLE.
"It is painful to reflect that Oregon
has a Governor who has no fitting
sense of the respect due to his office.
An incurable passion for
sensatidn, a restless and almost law
less purpose to throw off the proper
restraints of responsible position, a
quarrelsome attitude toward his offi
cial associates, a snapshot Judgment
of all important questions and poli
cies, an immature and Juvenile under
standing of sound, political and eco
nomic principles, an immense egotism
and a fixed habit of balking the wise
purposes of persons not in his imme
diate counsel constitute a poor equip
ment for a Governor."
Thus said The Oregonian a year
ago, when the Governor was in violent
and unseemly controversy with the
Legislature. The picture was not com
plete. It must be added that no public
man in Oregon has ever before dis
played a spirit so vindictive and virur
lent toward those who oppose or cross
him.
The spectacle of a Governor de
scending into the gutter so as to
gather a mass of inuendo and false
hood and to cover over with such stuff
those he pleases to term his enemies
is an offense to decent citizenship and
a humiliation to the state. Not even
the cerements of the grave are a sanc
tuary from the Governor's vitupera
tive incoherencies.
Has the man gone crazy?
FOOD FOR THE DEMAGOG CE.
There is a measure on the ballot to
legalize a primary assembly, but be
fore the work of soliciting signatures
to the initiative petitions commenced
The Oregonian editorially condemned
it. On June 22 it said:
The Oregonian does not approve the pro
posal. It is a revival of the as
sembly system under the direct sanction
of law and not by volunteer organisations,
as proposed in 1910. The people have made
it plain that tney do not want the assem
bly as a supplement or gume to the direct
primary; and experience has shown that a
nominating assembly seeking to work
through the primary gets nowhere.
The proponents of the convention measure
have given the professional friends and
self-elected trustees of the direct primary
an excuse for reintroducing Into Oregon
affairs the assembly Issue. They are sup
ported by no political organization so far
as Tho Oregonian knows; the new bill is
but a personal emanation, a private ex
pression, an individual venture. It ought
to lau; undoubtedly it win fail.
This article, printed more than
three months ago, was truly pro
phetic. This "individual emanation"
has been seized upon by Democratic
politicians and Democratic speakers
as campaign material. The commonly
known fact that it is a "private ex
pression, an individual venture," has
been distorted and lied about in an
effort to arouse a fear among the
people that the direct primary is men
aced by a Republican organization.
The worst and most demagogic of
fender in this particular is the Gov
ernor of Oregon. In spite of The Ore
gonian's prominently expressed oppo
sition to this measure, dating from the
time of its very inception, he declared
In a speech at Oregon City Saturday
night that tho movement in behalf of
this bill was backed by The Orego
nian.
It Is the second public misrepresent
ation he has made about the recorded
attitude of The Oregonian concerning
measures on the ballot. Yesterday
we expressed the opinion that the
Governor's egotism did not permit
him to read a newspaper article un
less Mr. West were mentioned there
in. It Is the most charitable view one
can take of his looseness of tongue.
Tet we are beginning to doubt His
brag of economy in prison manage
ment in the face of a recorded in
crease of $25,000 annually in peniten
tiary expenditures and a decrease in
actual prison population and his claim
of having inaugurated prison brick
making, which, in fact, had been in
progress for thirty years, create ques
tion as to his Intent to be veracious.
What faith can be placed in anything
whatever that he says?
LET ALL. LIVE.
Football is beginning to sprout from
its chrysalis and it wiir not be many
weeks before the thud of the pigskin
will bo heard to the exclusion of all
else in athletics.
Before football becomes firmly
rooted, however, a world's baseball
championship series must be de
cided, and, from all indications, the
Boston - Braves will 'be the National
League's challenger of the title won
last year by the- Philadelphia Ath
letics. During the past fortnight Boston
has gained on the New York Giants,
and these two leading clubs will meet
In a five-game series, starting
Wednesday. But it will take a clean
sweep by New Fork to stem the tide.
and even then it is doubtful if New
York could win the pennant.
Never in modern history has a
major league ball club won four pen
nants in a row, and the time-honored
precedent, it seems, will be preserved
by the defeat of the Giants.
Under existing conditions nobody
will begrudge the National League the
lucky windfall of a sensational finish.
And yet, if it means added stiffening
for another year of demoralizing war
fare with the Federal League it may
not prove such a blessing after all.
The Federal League invaded the
territory of the older big leagues last
Winter, and since then has made a
clean fight for recognition. Naturally
it has had to recruit its players from
the ranks of organized baseball, and
this, together with the diverting of the
public mind from its former channels
of thought, has brought chaos into the
National pastime.
Nearly every minor league has lost
money, and unless the major leagues
come to some sort of terms with their
antagonists baseball will suffer" a
heavy setback. Already the North
western League has been forced to
quit before schedule time; our own
Pacific Coast circuit is in trouble; the
Central, Michigan, International and
several other circuits have had to cur
tail their seasons and change cities.
The Mexican embrogllo and the
conflict in Europe have all helped to
obscure the National pastime, but the
competition of the Federal League has
been the chieX,cause of failing reve
nues. It appears to have made good
in the quality of ball dispensed to its
patrons and organized baseball might
well swallow its false pride, extend
the olive bough ere another April rolls
around and adjust schedules so that
all may live. '
ROSALINE.
Madame Maeterlinck, the dramat
ist's wife, has a substantial literary re
nown of her own. She has written a
number of books under her pen name
of Georgette Leblanc and all of them
have found appreciative readers. Her
latest work, entitled "The Choice of
Life," is the story of a Norman peas
ant girl whom an idealistic woman
sought to develop into a leader of her
sex. Tho girl, whose name was Rosa
line, was stupid and mentally lethargic
to begin with and so she remained to
the end. The great crises of life left
her cold and placid. She was beauti
ful, gifted with a strong voice, and
charming in her manner. It seemed
as if she had been created to lead her
sex out of its servitude and prejudice.
But it turns out that Rosaline is a
case of arrested development. Her
beauty all lies on the surface. Nothing
can waken her soul from its slumber.
She remains apathetic in the presence
of Joy and -sorrow. Beauty, love and
great ideas leave her untouched. The
lady places Rosaline in a flower shop
where, amid the simple duties of her
daily routine, she is satisfied.
It would bo too much to say that
she was happy, for happiness is some
thing entirely different from the bo
vine serenity which Rosaline experi
enced. Perhaps we might say that
she had found peace, the kind of
peace which is 'scarcely distinguish
able from insensibility. The girl had
not even the capacity to fall in love.
Her friend tried to trap her into the
grand passion by one device and an
other, but it was all in vain.
The state in which the story leaves
Rosaline is one that many persons
look upon as the ideal of human life.
It is calm, unemotional, contented.
Nothing happens. Nothing is felt. The
face wears a perpetual smile, the
stomach digests well, the complexion
remains sweet and rosy.' Some have
called this state "blessedness" in con
tradistinction to happiness, which im
plies passion, strife and sorrow as well
as Joy. Happiness and life are synony.
mous. What poor Rosaline found was
a mitigated sort of death.
MAX NORDAU ON AMERICAN WOMEN.
Max Nordau, the iconoclast, is never
tired of dilating upon the failings of
American women and the feebleness
of our men, who patiently endure the
tyranny of the weaker but more wasp
ish sex. He is of the opinion that
American women are hopelessly un
cultured to begin with, but they man
age to substitute for culture a thin
Imitation, which deceives the men well
enough and awes the poor creatures
into submissive worship. It goes with
out saying that the American man
does not know enough to understand
the difference between genuine cul
ture and the tinsel counterfeit which
the women play off on him. His whole
education, from the primary school
through the college, has inured him
to revere humbugs, and he therefore
takes quite naturally to the. adoration
of humbuggery in his womenkind.
Such is Nordau's somewhat caus
tic criticism of our National habits.
He goes on to intimate that the women
in their secret hearts detest this shal
low nonsense and would be glad if
the men would take a more human
attitude toward them, but the revolu
tion is difficult to effect. Perhaps it is
impossible. We may never be able to
achieve frankness and common sense
in the relations between the sexes. We
started in the wrong direction, and the
chances are that we shall never get
ourselves righted.
So the pessimists reason. But no
doubt they are wrong, as usual. Every
mistake-can be corrected if the cour
age and intelligence can be found to
measure up with the task. Our Amer
ican theory of women contains two
propositions. The first is that the
sweet dignity of her adorable sex re
quires her to be as indolent as her
husband's means will allow. The sec
ond is that she must be made as dec
orative as possible. Our ideal woman
is one who never has soiled her hands
or brain by doing anything useful,
while she bears about her person Jew
els and fabrics worth a Prince's ran
som. She is popularly spoken of as
a queen, perhaps after the analogy
of the reigning sovereign of the bee
hive, who toils not, neither spins. But
the analogy is misleading, since the
queen of the hive performs in great
perfection an office which her human
analogue totally neglects. Perhaps she
even scorns it. The apiary never suf
fers from race suicide, while the
American home, under the sway of its
royal ornament, is on the way to ex
tinction for want of inmates.
It is a curious inquiry how Ameri
cans came to form their theory of
women, so, absurd in its biological con
sequences, so unlike that of any other
people. There is some likelihood that
It is an inheritance from pioneer con
ditions, under which most of us
formed our habits of thought and
feeling. Woman seeks peace and quiet
by the deepest instinct of her nature.
She craves, above everything else, an
environment suitable for bearing and
rearing children. Such craving is often
unconscious, but the unconscious part
of us is far more potent to control
conduct than the conscious. Under
pioneer conditions peace and quiet
were for a long time out of the ques
tion. In the tumult of unsettled life
the males throve while the females
pined and died. Everybody knows the
maxim about Texas in its primitive
days. It was said to be "Va paradise
for hen and horses, but. a hell for
women." -The Instinct of race preser
vation drove women imperiously to
alter these fatal conditions. They
brought. -a.11 their wiles and fascina
tions to bear to urge the men toward
fixed habitations and law and order
in the community. "Law and Order"
is woman's prime .creation in the
world and the great object of her
worship. She cares little for cruelty
and injustice as long as they do not
affect her own immediate circle, but
riot she abhors with quenchless pas
sion. The pioneer male was happy in the
saloon and the gambling hell. His
women longed for the church and
school of the land from which they
came. He found pleasure in horse
races and drunken fights. She pined
for sewing circles and quiet gossip at
afternoon teas. Thus a sex conflict
arose in which the men fought feebly
with guilty shame, while' the women
were made bold by the consciousness
that right and the Almighty were with
them. They brought In the Baptist
missionary and the Methodist circuit-
rider. They set up the corner post
of the little red schoolhousa and lm-
posed taxes on the absentee timber
and mineral barons to pay the teacher
her humble stipend. Under the influ
ence of tho pioneer women country
dances were changed from scenes of
drunken riot to peaceful marriage
markets. In some quarters they were
extirpated with all other forms of
amusement, since women, like other
conquerors, are prone to carry their
victories to extremes. But whether
they did this or not they acquired, un
der pioneer conditions, the habit of
ruling, while the men on their part
acquired the habit of submission. The
women posed for so many years as
the martyred victims of man's ruth
less adventurousness that this was ul
timately taken for their natural atti
tude and now it has become next to
impossible for them to change it,
while tho men havo grown so used
to lying at woman's feet in a penitent
and self-reproachful frame of mind
that we dare say they never will stand
erect again. Every American husband
sees in his wife a worn and haggard
martyr to- pioneer hardships. Every
American wife sees In her husband the
sinfully riotous frequenter of the sa
loon and the horse race, whom it is
herprlvllege and duty to civilize. The
husband meekly assumes bis burden
of imaginary guilt, quails before the
suffering piety of his spouse and con
secrates his life to "making up to her
for what she sacrificed in marrying
him." The relation is one of sheep
ishly repentant guilt on one side and
tyrannically triumphant virtue- on the
other.
Wo feel sure that Max Nordau, if
he were to look into the matter care
fully, would see some such historical
reason as this for the American man's
apparently irrational submlssiveness
to his womankind. Of course, the con
dition is bad for both sexes. It causes
the men to waste their lives in the
foolish pursuit of money in order that
their female connections may be idle
and decorative. It puts the women
in the situation of imperious dolls,
without any particular part in life ex
cept to make themselves pretty and
spend thejr husband's money. Modern
feminism, as it manifests itself in the
United States, is a revolt against this
insufferable state of things. At heart,
as Max Nordau says, the women rel
ish it as little as the men. Morally
and biologically it Is far better for a
woman to reap and plow in the fields
with her 'husband than to sit vacu
ously in a satin-hung palace as a mere
devourer and waster."
The appearance anywhere else than
in Benton. County of a snake twenty
two feet long would Berve to stampede
the township; but Farmer Johnson,
of Wren, is of material of which
heroes are made. His method of kill
ing the reptile, by roping It Just back
of the ears and choking it to death,
is unique,' to say the least.
Postponement of the radium bill
will give the radium trust ample time
to gobble all tho known ore-bearing
land. As usual, Uncle will get the
leavings. President Wilson would
have done good service had he de
nounced the insidious lobby which
smothered the bill and forced Con
gress to "smoke it out."
This matter of eugenics is going a
bit far when a great man in the
movement insists on sterilized' kissing.
If his suggestion to use a little square
of tissue paper that has been treated
in a sanitary solution between the lips
is heeded the race will become extinct
in the second generation.
If the first Forest Reserve Com
mission had gone through the coun
try as Chief Forester Graves has gone
through the Olympic reserve there
would have been much less treeless
grazing and farm land in the National
forests.
Why should not capitalists want the
interstate bridge bonds? Multnomah
and Clarke Counties have behind them
the security of a rich land at peace.
They are better than any nation's war
bonds.
Germany warns China that she must
pay for permitting Japan to violate
her neutrality. That has always been
the way. Whichever nation loses,
China pays.
"What Mexico needs is a perpetual
board of mediation and a law that no
one president may hold office for a
greater perior than twenty-four
hours.
Arranging the hair of the little
schoolgirl is a .problem for mother
and child; but the boy, for obvious
reasons, prefers the run of the clip
pers. French winemakers fear depression
in their trade owing to loss of the Ger
man market, but their wine will keep
and grow better with age.
The places Servia is capturing may
be of great strategic importance, but
they appear useful chiefly in tangling
the enemy's tongue.
Exposure of fake atrocities commit
ted on Red Cross nurses shows that
the yellow Journalist is at large in
Europe.
Lord Mllner's warning may cause
the British noblemen, to plow up their
parks and game preserves and sow
wheat.
It might be better for comfort of
State Fair visitors if these winds get
away from "westerly," veering to the
north.
Portland . will derive one benefit
from the war, in that it will be able to
buy some of Hood River's best apples.
For a half century the Oregon State
Fair has been the chief attraction in
the Fall. It is holding its own in 1914.
Having seized German Southwest
Africa, the reconstructed Boers can
now wear diamonds.
Construction work in the residence
sections of the city continues to be a
good investment.
Data show that France lost popu.
latlon in 1913. Not to mention the
present year.
The ' thrifty man is known by the
woodpile that decorates his curb.
Why not have a torchlight parade
to start the new voters right?
- Harvest of the German colonial
plum crop continues busily.
Arrange for a day at Salem this
week.
Let 'er buck!
HOW CLUCOSB IS M A - I'FACT CK E D
Commercial Product la Made From Corn
Starch, and la Wholesome.
CHICAGO. Sept. 24. (To the Editor.)
In The Oregonian September 14 ap
pears the following under the heading
of "Glucose and Corn Syrup":
Estacada, Sept. IS. (To the Editor)
P!ease tell us something about the manu
facture of glucose. I mean the stuff that is
sold in the stores under the name of Corn
Syrup. Is It made prlniarily for food, or
Is it a by-product from trie manufacture of
starch or something; else 7
J. L. JONES.
While some glucose may be made primar
ily for food, the most of it is a by-product
from the manufacture of cane sugar. Most
corn syrup is made by boiling corn cobs,
extracting the flavor and mixing it with
glucose.
All glucose or corn syrup is for food.
It Is one of the most wholesome foods
known to men. It is not a by-product
of starch, but is the conversion of
starch into dextrose by the chemist.
The process Is identical with the diges
tion of starch by nature and the con
version is the same. The normal blood
sugar is dextrose, or glucose, as you
may be pleased to call it. Starch and
cane sugar must of necessity be con
verted Into dextrose before the same
can be digested.
I notice you say "the most of it is a
by-product from the manufacture of
cane sugar." Dextrose Is not made from
cane sugar, molasses or otherwise, nor
can it be except as nature converts
cane sugar into dextrose or glucose for
digestive purposes. Cane sugar in-no
sense enters into the manufacture of
glucose. It never has and never will,
as the same would be a physical im
possibility commercially.
Then you say "most corn syrup is
made by boiling corn cobs, extracting
the flavor and mixing with glucose."
Corn syrup Is used Interchangeably
with glucose, because glucose is a syrup
made from corn. It"ia called corn syrup
because the United States authorities
decided that this was the proper char
acterization for this wholesome food.
The manufacturers of corn syrup last
year consumed 56,000,000 bushels of
corn, making out of this 800,000,000
pounds of corn syrup, which was con
sumed In this and foreign countries.
W. P. CUTLER,
Secretary American Manufacturers' As
sociation of Products of Corn.
Mr. Jones question was referred to
a Portland chemiat who wrote the reply.
In endeavoring to give a brief answer
he did not clearly distinguish between
glucose proper and commercial glucose.
Glucose as technically known in chem
istry Is obtained by inversion of sac
charose or cane sugar, and is a crys
talline substance; commercial glucose
Is uncrystallized, and is an imperfect
conversion of starch into glucose proper.
"Standard glucose syrup or corn
syrup is glucose syrup or corn syrup
containing not more than 25 per cent
of water nor more than 3 per cent of
ash." U. S. Department of Agriculture.
Schoolroom Methods at Capital.
PORTLAND, Sept. 23. (To the Edi
tor.) I hope you can find space in
your esteemed paper for an Arlzonian's
views on certain phases of the Admin
istration or rather mal-adminlstratlon
of the Democrats.
A review of the Wilson-Bryan Ad
ministration constrains one to exclaim
how long, O Lord, how long must we
submit to the weak, maudlin, foreign
diplomacy and hyper-profligacy and
mediaeval policies of the Democrats in
Washington? Could anything be more
nauseating to an American than the
part this Government has played in the
Mexican muddle?
President Wilson's methods concern
ing Mexico remind me of Buchanan's
Administration Just prior to the Civil
war, when all the arms and other mu
nltions of war were taken from the
Federal arsenals in the North and dis
trlbuted throughout the Southern
States. In fact, about all President
Wilson has accomplished in the Mexi
can trouble Is that he has indirectly,
by his vacillating policy armed and
ammunitioned most every greaser in
Mexico. - '
In a few short months the Democrats
have practically undone the years and
years of good work and upbuilding by
the Republican Administrations in the
Philippines. Under Democratic methods
a great majority of Filipinos are fast
reverting to the conditions that ob
tained under the old Spanish regime.
Are we to be embroiled with far-away
Turkey simply because the Ambassador
from that country stated a few un
varnished facts, a statement we all
know to be absolutely true?
I repeat, sir. that a review of the
Democratic administration of nubile
affairs constrains one to exclaim how
long, O Lord, how long must we sub
mit to the classroom methods and anti
quated policies of the Democrats in
Washington. LOUIS C. MILLER.
166 A Fargo street.
Two PoMtt by John Hay.
PORTLAND.KSept. 25. (To the Edi
tor.) I wish that The Oregonian would
print two poems written by John Hay,
"Little Breeches" and "Jimmy Blud
soe." D. C. MILL1CAN.
"Jim Bludsoe, of the Prairie Bell," and
"Little Breeches," two poems written
by the late John Hay, can be found In
the book, "Pike County Ballads," at the
Multnomah County Library. The pub
lishers are Houghton, Mifflin Co., Bos
ton. Portland residence should have no
difficulty in obtaining these poems,
which are too long to print in The Ore
gonian.
San and Save.
EUGENE. Or., Sept- 24. (To the
Editor.) All of the Oregon papers call
the tributary of the Danube, where
fighting is going on, San River, while
the correct name is Sau (Save). E. S.
Newspapers have carried reports of
some fighting on the Save River, be
tween Servians and Austrians, but there
is a San River in Galicia, along which
larger battles between Austrian and
Russians have occurred. It is a trlbu
tary of the Vistula. There is a smaller
San River which is a tributary of the
Save, but it is in Styrla, where there
have been no encounters.
Equal Rights for Women.
VANCOUVER, Wash.. Sept- 28. (To
the Editor.) The editor of the Journal
has evidently thrown a fit or several of
them since Mrs. Stubbs has come to
Oregon to advise the women how to
vote. I should like to know if it is
any worse for Mrs. Stubbs to come to
Oregon for that purpose than for Vice
President Marshall to came and advlae
men how to vote, or for old Doo. Bryan
to go to Maine for the same purpose?
I hope the women of the state will
resent the Journals attack on Mrs.
Stubbs or any other woman that comes
to the state in the cause of woman's
suffrage. MRS. . ANDERSON.
Why Taxes Grow.
PORTLAND, Sept. 28. (To the Ed
itor.) The main cause of the $100,000.-
000 war tax 1b the continuous increase
of officials at high salaries by each
succeeding Administration, each one
creating new offices, for friends with
out ever suppressing the previous ones
This is also the cause of the shortage of
funds of Governor West, who has been
appointing his supporters to all kinds
of Jobs and "commissions" since in of
fice like McCullough and others. Fed
eral Government and states are kept
broKe oy tne omces plague.
' GRAPE JUICE.
Our Wives and Our Antes.
New York Sun.
Munner In a way having a wife Is
much similar to owning an automobile.
Dunner How so? Munner It isn't the
first cost of either. It c the upkeep.
VOIR BACKYARD.
(Inspired by the platform back of the
lireboat David Campbell.
Now. I'm not a poet,
Nor even a bard.
But I'm going to sing "
Of your backyard.
"First and foremost."
As Browning would say.
There's everything In it
From sand to hay.
It would take Sherlock Holmes
To find a spot
In which some contraption
Or other is not.
There's all sorts
And varieties of bricks.
And the same profusion
Of boards and sticks.
There's coal as black
As the ace of spades
Dug up- from the forest's
Secret glades.
Alleyways cut
For the mice and rats.
And a special gymnasium
For the cats.
But what's the use?"
If I named a score
Of things there'd still
Be as many more.
I could travel for miles
And 'twould be hard
To find as well-stocked place
As your backyard.
There's food for thought.
There's food for dreams.
In every nook a romance
Gleams.
Oh, if I was a poet.
Or even a bard,
I'd make immortal
That backyard.
SHARPE FEE.
Portland, Or.
. I
THOU SHALT NOT KILL.
A rise of anger: a swing of arm:
A brother dying; this deed of harm
Is murder, and the assassin pays.
In death or prison to end his days.
The death-dealer meets with a tragic
late.
For that is the rule of the lawful state.
A disagreement must not bring ill.
For God has spoken: "Thou shalt not
kill."
A disagreement, but many men.
With arms uplifted in menace; then
Millions of dying: millions of dead!
"But this is war," so the world has
said.
Crime, devastation, sorrow and strife:
By mere human orders the loss of
life! .
Call it "war;" yes, or whatever you
will.
But the All-Mighty speaketh; "Thou
Shalt not kill. "
So "war is glory; to fight Is brave.
Tls noble to fill a hero's grave."
But Oh, Ye rulers, and Oh, ye" tools!
Why follow barbaric and, time-worn
rules?
Yet pause ere the current of life you
break ;
For can you give back what you reck
lessly take?
Nations, like one man. must bow to
His will;
And God has said it; "Thou shalt not
kill."
ROSE WINNIFRED BROWN.
Walla Walla. Wash.
A PRAYER FOR PEACE.
Father of Light and Love, who doth
preside
O'er destinies of nations and of men;
Stretch forth Thy mighty arm, and
gently guide
Out of the labyrinth our brother-men.
Pierce the black gloom with Thy be
nignant iignt;
Thy consolation send to those who
weep;
Banish the cloud of war, and let the
right
Now reign supreme, and bid the demon
sleep.
Be thou, O Father, merciful to all
Who sacrifice young manhood in the
strife:
Heroes who in the conflict fight, and
fall.
Who bravely give up liberty and life.
Like flowers floating on a stream of
peace.
O gently bear them to that brighter
shore;
Put reason in the minds of men to
eease
The conflict of this raging, bloody war.
LUCIA DOLPHIN.
Portland, Ore.
THE! BALTIMORE PLATFORM.
I was once a Joyous platform, by Bryan
I was made;
The people laughed and hollered and
the bands all came and played.
My planks were Joined so neatly that
the carpenter declared
'Twas a case of clear perfection and
he d lick the man who dared
Insinuate that I was anything but
staunch and good.
And now there ain't enough of me for
campaign kindling wood.
Where are now those vocal efforts and
those sentiments sublime?
Those tunes played gladly out of key
and mostly out of time?
Gone into deep oblivion, laid high upon
the shelf;
Dear, patriotic speeches, you're back
numbers, like myself.
They said they made me strong enough
to cope with any fate.
And yet I proved as fragile as a chunk
of armor plate:
To patriotic fire, I'd give some splinters
if I could.
But now there ain't enough of me for
campaign kindling wood.
ANONYMOUS.
PICS TENTH.
And so he died amidst a stormy scene
Yet not as Cromwell passed, or Bona
part. While the swift lightnings rent the
skies apart
And the slow crashing thunders rolled
between
This storm of human hate smote the
serene
And lofty citadel of his great heart!
So the fourth Urban, haunted thro' his
years.
By the conflict of factions, base and
mean.
Felt the sharp strife of Guelph and Ghi.
belllne
From Rome's wet streets assail his
dying ears.
But this good lord, of kindlier thought
than he,
Left no soul-blasting curses to the loss
Of holy- influence, but in charity.
Made for his tempest-hastened death a
cross!
J. M. HUGGINS.
Pomeroy, Wash.
THE RCBAITAT OF THE EGG.
Myself, the housewife, did eagerly fre
quent
The public market, where much good
com I spent
On various kinds of eggs, and then
I sampled Chinese and was well con
tent
Ah, eggs of my delight that never rot.
sseauctive dus oi saving thought.
Now oft hereafter will I have recourse
To palatial Joy when thou art bought!
A cozy hammock underneath the
bough,
A dozen Chinese eggs and thou
Beside me nibbling at the yolks
Oh, that to me were paradise enow!
HOWARD S. M'KAT,
Portland, Or.
Twenty-Five Years Ago
From The Oregonian, Sept. 25 and 2. 1SS9.
Washington. The acting Commis
sioner of the General Land Office has
granted a motion to review the deci
sion of Commissioner Stockslager of
February 23. 188S, for which" indemnity
for school lands in the Siletz and Grand
Ronde Indian reservations was refused.
The law granting school lands to Ore
gon provides for Indemnity in cases
where lands are sold or otherwise dis
posed of.
Washington. Theodore Roosevelt,
Civil Service Commissioner, has re
turned from a bear hunt in Montana
and a stay on his ranch in North Da
kota. Mr. Roosevelt said he knew noth
ing of his candidacy for the United
States Senate from North Dakota ex
cept what he saw in the newspapers.
Some of the European newspapers
are almost hysterical in their appeals
to the South American republics to
distrust United States advances and
continue to trade in Europe. A Vienna
paper says it isn't likely the states to
the south of the United States will sub
mit to the wishes of a few millionaires
of the Union. The articles have been
aroused by the Commercial Conference
of American Nations, soon to be held
in Washington.
Tommy Warren and Frank Murphy
fought 68 rounds at San Francisco last
night for the featherweight champion
ship and a purse of 11800. The referee
let them go for the 68 rounds and when
neither could whip ended the fight and
cleared the ring.
William Kern says the electric mo
tor line to Waverly and Woodstock is
not to be run by an overhead wire. He
has studied out a scheme whereby the
wire can be laid underground and kept
perfectly insulated.
Ben Simpson will leave at once for
Washington with the report of the Com
mission which negotiated with the
Coeur D'Alene Indians for the sale of
a portion of their reservation.
Ex-Governor George L. Wood was
taken ill yesterday while driving on
Eleventh, near Main.
The North Pacific Industrial Expo
sition opens tomorrow, September 26.
in Portland. Miss Edith Waldo will
formally put the exposition in motion
after speeches by Frank Dekum, presi
dent of the exposition, and Mayor De
Lashroutt.
The naval commission appointed to
select the site for the Navy-Yard on
the Pacific Coast, north of the 43d
parallel, has formally recommended Pu-
get Sound, citing Port' Orchard and
calling attention to a site behind Baln
brldge Island.
New York It is the general view
here, according to the newspapers, that
the Northern Pacific executive em
broiglio will end If Villard is able to
get his own way.
Richard H. Klippel and Miss Emma
L. Wandrel were married last night.
Rev. George Hartung officiating.
Half a Century Ago.
From The Oreconisn. Sept. 2S. 1S64.
The steamer New World, under com
mand of Captain Wolfe, arrived from
the Cascades last night carrying, it is
said, not less than a ton of bullion for
Wells, Fargo & Co. A large number
of passengers and emigrant stock was
on board.
The waters of the Willamette River
are at present as low as they have
ever been known by the oldest inhab
itant. At low tides the water recedes
to such an extent as to greatly facili
tate the wharf improvements and stone
foundations now being laid on the levee
grounds of the O. S. N Company.
The performance at the Willamette
Theater last night was good, and a
full audience witnessed it. Everybody
was delighted, and disappointed even,
not expecting to find such an excellent
troupe.
J. Thompson reports that a roan
horse came to his inclosures. about two
milA, hlnv t V i-itv ahAiii a mnnth
ago. The animal is about 8 years old,
and is branded "W" on the left hip.
Captain Turnball's new steamer, now
building in East Portland, will be
launched tomorrow. The steamer Van
couver will remain over on that day.
until the event transpires, giving the
friends of the new craft, resident at
Vancouver, a chance to witness its im
mersion. Washington. D. C. Sept, 26 (by over
land telegraph.) President Lincoln on
September 23 addressed a letter "to
Montgomery Blair, requesting his res
ignation. Mr. Blair had promised to
resign when requested, when the Bal
timore convention passed a resolution
declaring it necessary that harmony
should prevail in the National Council.
Lincoln has expressed the greatest sat
isfaction with Mr. Blair's postal ad
ministration. Washington. Sept. 26. Dispatches
from General Sheridan indicate that he
has driven the enemy f rom : Mount
Jackson without being able to bring on
a general engagement. He found rebel
hospitals In all the towns from Win
chester to New Market. Jeff Davis is
reported to be in Macon, Ga.
A person in a small boat, in pursuit
of pleasure, yesterday fell overboard
when opposite the city. The only
damage sustained was the wetting of
his linen.
Captain Hoyt, city marshal, received
a dispatch front Victoria, via Olympia,
notifying him to be on the lookout for
burglars upon the arrival of the steam
propeller George S. Wright in this city.
The bank of McDonald & Co. was
robbed early on the morning that the
ship left Victoria.
Yesterday afternoon a youngster not
above five Summers was picked up on
Front street, near Ash, where he was
lying quietly, flat on the pavement, and
could not possibly have escaped being
run over had a truck come suddenly
upon him. The street is now used con
stantly, and a word of caution may
save the life of a child.
Thinks It Is an Eatable.
New York Times.
Friend Did you see the place where
the Magna Charta was made? Mrs.
Richquicke (Just returned from abroad)
Yes, and if you could see how it is
made, you'd never eat another bite
of It.
Women and War!
American women will be directly
influenced by the European crisis,
through its effect on Fall styles.
The war came Just as the millin
ers and dressmakers were about to
bring over the creations of Paris.
The ' great armies of American
designers and manufacturers, sud
denly thrown on their own resources,
have been at work to answer this
question.
The decision is ready.
Day by day the Important fash
Ion news will be told in the adver
tising columns of The Oregonian.
Women will follow the advertis
ing with more than usual interest
because it is answering the very
questions important to their happiness.