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6 THE MOTINIXG OKEG OXIAN". FRIDAY, DEOrarilim 2., 1914. ' FOBTLAKD, OREGON. Entered' at Portland, Oregon, Postoffice aa second-class matter. Subscription Hates Invariably In Advance: (By Mall.) . DaliV. Kundav lfifliiriAri nnn VM1 SS.OO vii;, ounaay inciuaeo, ox moDioi . . - - Ijally, Sunday Included, tbree months ... - uauy, bunaay inciuaeo. one month. ..... Dally, without Sunday, one ye liAilv. M'h hnnt Siitiilav t v mnntha ...... 8.25 laily, without Sunday, three month - 12J Lally, without Sunday, one mouth ...... Weekly, one year .......... tunday, one year tunaay and Weekly, one year (By Carrier.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year ..... 9-?U Dally, Sunday included, one month ...... - How to fiemit Send Postoffice money or. , er." express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, oln or currency are at . sender's risk. Give postoffice addraas la lull. - Including county and state. Fosters Kates 12 to 16 pages. 1 cent; IS to pazea. 2 cents; '84 to 4o pages. 8 cents: , CO to tio pages, 4 cents; 62 to pages, 3 cents; 78 to U2 pages, 6 cents. Foreign post age, double rates. Eastern Business Office Verree c"'f" Iin, New York, Brunswick building; Chi cago, stenger building. ban Francisco Office K. J. Eldwell Com pany, 742 2-iarket street. r rORIlASD. FRIDAY. DEC. 25, 1914. b t : THE UGHI OF CHBISTMAS. : And Mary brought forth her first- torn son and wrapped him in swaa ' tiling- clothes and laid him in a mau- ger, because there was no room for . . them in the inn. And there were in the same country shepherds keeping watch over their flocks by night. And ; the angel of the Lord came upon them and said unto them: Fear not, for be- hold, I bring you good tidings of great - joy which shall be to all the people. For unto you is born this day & Savior. Ye shall find the babe wrapped ' in swaddling clothes lying in a man ger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, Glory to " God in the highest and on earth peace, good will toward men. When the angels were gone away the wondering shepherds went into the vil- i lage of Bethlehem and there they found ; the babe lying in the manger. Beside 1 him sat Mary, infinite love in her heart, pondering on the marvels that had J come to pass, foreboding the future. The hope of the world budded in the Doay or her little cnna. it was ners - to nurse and rear. Hers to watch over '. as time buffeted and evil marred it. when he wrought the miracle or the ...In. n- mAWftntvA fnno in Pqnq Vila mother was there. When he stood be fore Pilate, forsaken of all, Mary wept on the threshold. She was at the foot of the cross as he died and she must have felt the black despair of his soul when he cried that God had forsaken him. Through such agonies was man kind redeemed. " It is believed by some that Jesus drew his intellectual inspiration from his mother. About his teachings there ; was a directness, an absence of mys- ucat speculation irnicn seexneu to pur- take of woman s clear common sense. The world had been fed on mysteries until it was cloyed. The Roman em J pire into which Jesus was born swarmed with religions, some that had ".. come down from the dim beginnings of the world, some that had been In i vented but yesterday. All of them were full of speculation and magic. All promised salvation to man, but none i had ever fulfilled the promise. They " sought the great end by rites, - cere , monies, holy words and potent incan- tatlons. The Son of Mary transcended all that." - He taught that the world f ' was to be saved by men's inner feel- lng and outer conduct. He gave to the v human soul the precept, "Love one an t other." He laid down the law of con- duct in the golden rule. The specu- lative generation that came after him forgot the essence of his teaching and wove round his simple precepts a web : of mystical dreams. Some of them were borrowed from' the surrounding religions, others were spun from I! Paul's fertile intelligence and in their difficult labyrinths men lost sight of the master's own words. But there were those who remembered. James summed them up in his terse precept that pure religion and undeflled is "to , visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction and to keep himself unspotted from the world," answering Micah's imperishable question, "What doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy and to (walk humbly with thy God?" James" contempt for ceremony and his love of deeds were as keen as Isaiah's. We can imagine him con ning to himself the bold words of the dauntless prophet, "Bring no more vain oblations unto me. The calling of assemblies I cannot away with. Tour new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth. Wash you, make you clean; cease to do evil, learn toi do well, seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead lor the widow." Jesus himself con stantly repeated the same teaching. Religion was a thing of inner love and everyday conduct, and it was nothing more. When one came running to ask him what he should do to inherit eter nal life, the Master told the secret in a single sehtene- "Sell whatever thou hast and give to the poor; and come, take up the cross and follow me."' No list of doctrines to study and puzzle over, no series of ceremonies to per form, but a plain deed to do. But deeds are infinitely harder than words. Self-denial calls for higher courage than ceremonial, and the man iwho had come Inquiring so eagerly went away "grieved." So the whole world has gone from that day to this. It has talked about Jesus. It has adored him. It has wept over his sorrows, but it has always gone away grieved at the thought of his clear and simple teachings. "I was hungered and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger and ye took ' me in; naked and ye clothed me; I was sick and yo visited me; I was in prison and ye came unto me." This is the re " ligion of Jesus. He said so ' himself and made it the .last test by which to Separate the sheep from the goats when he should come in his glory and all the holy angels with him. Jesus turned away from the philosophies that men had framed before his day. He put no faith in rite and ceremonial. j He taught- unwaveringly that if the world were saved at all it must be Baved by love, love working itself out in conduct. There never was a teacher bo utterly practical. He was despised and . rejected when he. walked the . earth. He has been despised and re J jected since. Men have tried every it ..Imaginable way of salvation but hi way. We. have spun philosophies as they did of yore. We have sought the J' kingdom of heaven through meta- physics. The world has tried to better itself by 'strife. But strife sends a J; heritage of hate down the years and m. multiplies the evils it would cure. We have sought the way out of woe by the light of science, but the beams that JJ" promised so much have betrayed us ;into new and hopeless misery. The evil passions of men seize upon the work of science and wreak death and destruction with it. Science is good when love informs it. All knowledge is good when it is irradiated with the serene light of the highest truth. And to , see that light in its pure, sweet beauty, the beauty of deathless love, we must bend with the shepherds above the manger in Bethlehem where the babe sleeps under its mother's eyes. WAR THE ANTIDOTE. The war alone has saved the United States from the disastrous effects of the Underwood tariff on our foreign trade balance. In 1913 our exports exceeded imports by $691,000,000, but in October of that year, when the new tariff took effect, the balance In our favor began to diminish. It continued to do so until April, when the balance turned against us, and it remained against us through the first month of the war, as the following table, com piled by the New York Mail, shows: IMS Excess 114 Excess of Exports, of Imports. April S S3. 1118,977 111. 200.544 May W,8J3,700 2,548,806 Juns 32,lru.u:iU 457,401 July , 2t,OOrt,(,nS B.53S,44 AUKUSt 30.257.4O7 . 18.40O.8U6 $218,819,791 $39,143,496 In October and November, this year, Europe began to recover from the first effects ' of the war and steadily in creased its sales of manufactures to us. When the wheat-shipping season opened we were looking to it as a means of stopping exports and start ing imports of gold. But for the war we might have continued to export gold every month in settlement of the adverse balance of trade. It Is a poor recommendation for a tariff law that nothing short of a gen eral war, which is impoverishing Eu rope, could prevent it from steadily impoverishing this country. THE AUTHOR OF WOLFYTLLE. While Alfred Henry Lewis was known to those keenly interested in Governmental affairs as an able polit ical writer, the larger area of his fame was acquired through the medium of his fiction. Where hundreds will re member him as journalist thousands will hold him in esteem for the pleas ant hours he has given them in the perusal of his books. It is asserted in his biography that the foundation of his popularity as an author was his Wolfville stories. It is likely that time will prove them to be the superstructure as well. They are tales of the romantic days now all but gone of the great Southwest. Mr. Lewis lived the life of a cowboy in the Texas Panhandle and he caught and preserved the dialect of the cattleman and the atmosphere of the locality as no other writer of Western fiction. His word pictures, like Remington's paint ings, were true to Western life. Mr. Lewis' earlier Wolfville stor ies gained a tremendous following in the popular magazines, but as a re sult, unfortunately for their perma nent reputation as a whole, he was en couraged to exhaust their novelty. Unlike Conan Doyle, who realized that the quality of his Sherlock Holmes stories could not be maintained indefi nitely and who can hardly be induced to bring his fanciful detective out of retirement, Mr. Lewis did not know when to stop. Yet there are among the Wolfville stories tales that for long years to come will be cherished as breathing the life of days in the West that had a charm and interest days that will never be known in real life again. HOLD OX EGYPT GROWS FIRMER. In replacing the Khedive of Egypt, who was held prisoner by the Turks, with a new Khedive, Great Britain is following the policy which she has pursued with much success in India. By keeping nominal power in. the hands of a dummy native sovereign. she caters to native prejudice and reconciles the people to exercise of ac tual power by her own servants. The ruling class is permitted to hold titles of dignity and of some emolument, and is thus conciliated. The masses of the people are governed with Jus tice, and measures are taken for the betterment of their condition, .while care is observed not to arouse religious bigotry and race antagonism. The people enjoy -ail the material benefits of British rulfe'ttlthout any accompani ments which? JQtfuld make it obnoxious, and therefore are content. Thus it is that British rule in India has inspired such loyalty in the native princes that upon the outbreak of war they poured their treasures into the war-chest. In Egypt the assembled Arab sheiks were informed that Tur key had become the tool of Germany and promptly swore fidelity' to British rule. The Egyptian army, proud of the victories it won under British of ficers in the Soudan, remains faithful. Reinforced by. troops from Great Brit ain and from India, it fights for the empire against the Turks. This spec tacle of the conquered won over to and fighting for the cause of the conquer ors is the strongest possible evidence of the justice and- efficiency of Great Britain as a colonizing power. Turkey's entrance into the war. while adding to the tax on the re sources of the allies, promises to prove an advantage to Great Britain, pro vided she is victorious. It enables her to end the shadowy Turkish suzerainty over Egypt and to clinch her power over that country by making the new Khedive an independent ruler under her protection. It enables her to re vise to her satisfaction the Eastern boundary of Egypt, over which she al most came to blows with Turkey a few years ago. ... But there will be some fierce fight ing before this is accomplished. A Turkish army has moved south from Damascus through Syria, gathering up the Bedouin tribesmen on its march, and has attacked the British and Egyptians on the frontier between El Arish and Akaha. The historic desert of Sinai seems to be the' chief scene of hostilities, for it lies between the frontier and the Suez Canal, which Britain must defend to the last in or der to keep open the route to India, China, Japan and East Africa. If the allies win, British power over Egypt will be so firmly established that it cannot be shaken for many de cades If they lose, Germany will in time take from the weak hands of Turkey control over Egypt and with it over the Suez Canal and the Orien tal trade and the development of the great Soudan empire will pass into German hands. The fate of one-half of Africa, of a large part of Western Asia and of all Asiatic trade is to be decided by the war in Egypt. The Federal Court in Arizona has followed a pretty well established prec edent in refusing to interfere with the prohibition amendment. It has been remarked by students that the courts will not try to dam a deep current of public opinion and could not do it If they did try. Daily experience seems to confirm this theoretical view. . PACJi JOSES' BAXD OX ENGLAND. The most noteworthy raid on the British coast' since the Norman con quest and prior to the German bom bardment of Yorkshire towns was the attack of John Paul Jones on White haven, on the coast of Cumberland, on April 22, 1778. He led thirty-three men ashore in two rowboats, surprised and drove away the garrison of two fdrta, reached the tidal basin and de feated the militia in battle. Jones then sailed away to St. Mary's Isle, hoping to capture the Earl of Selkirk and to hold him as a hostage for bet ter treatment of American prisoners In England, but the Earl was not at his castle and Jones men only captured a few pieces of the Earl's silver plate. Jones was denounced as a pirate, but he bought the plate from his men for $700 and returned it to the Earl with a letter of apology. . Unlike the Germans, Jones did not bombard private property, confining his attacks to forts and ships, and his return of captured plunder has no known parallel in the present war. He thus summed up the results of his raid: Its actual results were of little moment, for the Intended destruction of shipping was limited to one vessel. But the moral effect of it was very great, as It taught the Eng lish that the fancied aeaurlty of their coast was a myth, and thereby compelled their gpvernment to take expensive measures for the defense of numeroua porta hitherto re lying for protection wholly on the vigilance and supposed omnipotence of their navy It also doubled or more the rates of insurance, which in the Ions run proved , the moat grievous damirt of all. I That about describes the Vesults of the recent German raid. It has de stroyed British confidence in immunity from attack on the coast, and has com pelled the British government to make better provision for defense of the ports. It has Increased the sense of insecurity among ship-owners and has advanced insurance rates. By con vincing John Bull that his navy does not provide an impregnable defense, It has stimulated enlistment in the army and thus has helped him. By provid ing employment for a proportion of the land forces in coast defense, it has reduced the force available for serv ice on the continent, and to that ex tent has helped the Germans. It has also consoled them to some extent for their naval defeat off the Falkland Islands. , A ONE-SIDED BARGAIN. With some show of reason the rail roads maintain that Postmaster-General Burleson's boasted surplus of $3, 569,545 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, was earned by compelling the railroads to carry the Increased traffic due to the parcel post without equivalent increase of pay. They in fact accuse the Government of cheating them out of their just due and then of calling the proceeds a profit. On the face of the figures there is some justification for the charge, for railway mail pay was only 2.5 per cent higher in 1914 than in 191. while postoffice revenue was 16.7 per cent higher. That this increase in revenue was due mainly to the parcel post is suggested by the statement of Mr. Burleson that the postal service now carries 800,000,000 parcels an nually, while railway mail pay is still based on weighing of mail In 1912, before the parcel post was instituted. Against the claims of the railroads it is contended that their former rates of pay were exorbitant and that the increase of traffic caused by the par cel post has merely given the Govern ment approximately the service for which it .was paying. It is now pro posed by Representative Moon to change the basis of payment in such a manner as to give the railroads an immediate increase of $600,000 and a future increase proportionate to the increase of postal traffic, but the rail roads say the increase should be about $30,000,000 a year. Justice surely lies somewhere between the two extremes. Neither the Postmaster-General nor Congress is competent to decide what are fair rates for carrying the mails, for they represent one party to a bar gain, and therefore should not be per mitted to force their terms on the other party, which is the railroads. The-whole matter should be left to an Impartial tribunal. Rates of pay for carrying mail should be adjusted by the Interstate Commerce Commission, Just as are rates for carrying other traffic. The Government should not permit itself to "cinch" the railroads, nor should the railroads be permitted to "cinch" the Government. ECONOMY IN ARMY RESERVE. A large part of the opposition to the proposed increase of our available military force is due to a misappre hension. When the General Staff pro poses that the United States provide a trained force of 500,000 men supple mented by' from 100,000 to 200,000 volunteers, the conclusion is drawn that it proposes a standing army of 500,000 men, and immediately an out cry is raised that this would be mili tarism after the European pattern, that it would compel large numbers of young men to waste several years in military training and that it would impose an intolerable financial burden on the people. Senator Weeks, of Massachusetts, in a recent speech showed that no such plan is entertained and that no such consequences would ensue. He pro poses that the term, of enlistment be reduced from two to three years for the active army, but-that it include six years' service in the reserve; in fact he would use the regular army as a training school. In this manner, a large supply of trained soldiers could be provided at a relatively small, if any, increase of cost. A soldier in the regular army costs about $600 a year. Mr. Weeks estimates that we could maintain a reserve soldier at 36 to $40 a year. Thus we could maintain eight reserve men at the cost of one regular. By reducing by one-third the term in the regular army, we should be able to maintain a reserve army of several times the size of the regular army at the same cost. Mr. Weeks showed that an active army of 100,000 men and a reserve of 200,000 men can be kept for less money than an active army of 125,000 men with no reserve. The first army would have an effective fighting strength of 150.000traJ.ned men, 50,000 of less than one year's service and behind it 100,000 men suf ficient to keep it at fighting strength in a six months' campaign. The sec ond army would have only 62,500 trained men, 62,500 of less than one year's service and about 60,000 un trained recrulfs, a total of 175,000, which in six months would be reduced to 87,500. Our present system is wasteful in several ways. The annual pay of the officers of a regiment is $110,400. In order that the nation may get full value for this money, it is necessary that the officers be worked to their full capacity. They can handle in war 2500 to 3000 men. Mr. Weeks showed that, unless we provide trained men to fill up gaps in the ranks, the strength of a regiment would shrink in six months' fighting to 1500 men. Regi ments dropped to 300 men in the Civil War, and we had no means of getting additional men except by raising addi tional regiments, composed of un trained men. Officers can handle only half as many such men as of trained men. Thus at every point we waste money spent on officers by having no reserve. We waste, in another way, by re lying on green volunteers, under in experienced officers, as a reserve for the active army. Such troops lose 22 to 28 per cent of their strength in the concentration camps before ever going into a campaign and in six months' fighting will have lost-40 per cent and will be reduced from, say, 800 to 360 men. In this manner our boys are slaughtered by- disease through their ignorance of the proper way to take care of themselves, as we learned dur ing the Spanish War. If our army is not equal or superior in strength, training and equipment to that of a possible enemy, it Is fore doomed to defeat and all the money and labor spent upon it are wasted. Unless it is adequate to accomplish its purpose, it might as well not exist at all, for Ineffective resistance serves only to enrage the enemy and to pro voke him to reprisals. That is the ex perience of Belgium. Vizetelly's new book on "The De velopment of the English Dictionary" (Funk & Wagnalls) gives proper cred it to the great lexicographers on both sides of the water. It has a good pic ture of Dr. Samuel Johnson and an other of Noah Webster. Nor does it forget Joseph Worcester, who, as some think, made a betted dictionary than Webster. There is talk in New Tork of lengthening the school year from 180 to 200 days. The school property of that city will then stand idle only one third of the year. But, as the Chris tian Science Monitor remarks, that is too much. Schoolhouses in New York and everywhere else aren't to be used all the time. New Orleans is one of the few cities that will have their usual grand opera this Winter, but it will be in Italian. The natural preferences of New Or leans are French, but the choice just now is between Italian music or none at all, and Puccini and Mascagnl super sede for the present Offenbach and Massenet. It takes a great deal sometimes to kill a man. Joseph CJuerin, of Daven port, Wash, stood for an hour In five feet of ice water a day or two ago. It chilled him, but he survived, though he was a human icicle when he was helped out. On the other hand, a pin prick is sometimes fatal. It all de pends. Oklahoma is a state of tenant farmers. The older claimholders have "made their pile," moved to town and are living on rents. .The tenants are a hard-driven, discontented race total, ly unlike the typical American farmer of politics and literature. The change is not pleasant to contemplate. The "New Republic" opines that modern printers use too many com mas. It says they are pock marks symptomatic' of an inner thought mal ady, towlt. "over-niceness which can say nothing without sidestepping and ends by saying nothing." Rather a good hit-off, to our notion. From all the world over reports are unvarying that closing bars diminishes crime. This has been remarkably the case In Russia. In England the sale of liquor is only restricted by early closing, but even that partial measure has caused "an enormous decrease in crimes of violence." If men must board a moving car let them negotiate the rear platform or pass it up. If thrown it may mean a fractured skull, which is more merci ful to the victim than amputation of an extremity. But who heeds advice? Mrs. FItzslmmons says the pugilist kicked her In the shins. Why didn't he hit her "In the slats," as she com manded, In the memorable battle? If you did your part toward making others comfortable and happy you are entitled to enjoy a real merry Christ mas and a happy New Year. The Kaiser hardly could have ex pected Great Britain to agree on ex change of prisoners at the rate of five to one. That is his joke. After a brief layoff the Petrograd press agent is back on the Job and the Russians are winning all along the line. Now watch some enterprising Gen eral plan an attack for a Christmas present. This is the land of the Christmas tree, anyway. The woods are full of them. Let the. East have its white Christ mas. We are quite content with our green and gold one. , The city woodpile may be a handy source of relief before Winter is over. Give the postoffice people credit for doing good work the past week. The Germans give the British a fresh scare every day. . Well, did Santa prove a. prodigal old chap at your house? If yours Is not a Merry Christmas, where is. the fault? However, Christmas is but a mock ery in the trenches. There will be one Joyous week In Arizona? The Arizona flood was a "wet" cele bration. Sort out the duplicates and be thrifty. Only a few more days to write it 1914. But look out for tomorrow's reac tion. Christmas is the postman's labor day. More like a day in May. Merry Christmas. Stars and Starmakers BY LEONE CASS BAEB. Now that Russia, Turkey and France have officially put their feet down on a Christmas tree, it behooves Germany and England to show the beauties of the fraternal spirit by entering into some little Christmas alliance of their own. e e e "Where, oh, where, is the cave man?" wails a poetess. Extinguished is the cave man. through chronic onslaughts of the shave man. This same poetess has written a "Lay of the Cave Man." Why not a lay of of the cave woman? Might call It "Swat Me Again. Sweetheart," or "Biff Me Some More, Dearie." e At least one of the British soldiery Is laboring under a delusion, according to a letter Just received from Kathleen Clifford, who is in London. It seems that one of the schemes of relief indulged in by the Queen and the ladies of her court is the donation of tobacco to the troops. The last consign ment was marked, "From Mary R. (Re gent) and the Ladles of the Empire." "I don't know Mary R," remarked one raw recruit, "but I think it's jolly kind of those chorus girls at the Em pire." e ' Instead of giving a Cnristmas mat inee today at the Standard Theater, where she Is. playing in New York, May Irwin will celebrate the occasion by posing as Santa Claus in the theater lobby, dispensing gifts to poor little girls and boys. She purchased over a thousand dolls and toys, and says that no little applicant will require an O. K. from any charitable organization. In passing it might be mentioned that jolly May Irwin is physically a perfect Santa Claus. She'll need only a cos tume. , j "Seven Thousand Servians Lured to Destruction by Ducks," reads a. head line. Thousands of American men are daily lured to destruction by Chickens. e Charles Klein returns to London this week. He is keeping his house in that city open chiefly in order to give his servants a home in these trying times. e e A poetic love letter to a woman from an actor has no effect upon the victory of her separation suit. Actors are mucn too Imaginative to 'constitute even cir cumstantial evidence. see Now it develops that Evelyn Nesbit Thaw "has a singing voice." Whether she can sing Is of course another mat ter. She is appearing a? the New York Colonial in vaudeville and the critics say that her one song, " 'Tipperary,' was made most acceptable because of her clear sweet voice and spirited delivery." Besides this she and Jack Clifford have their dancing act. Evelyn is a recog nized headliner. . Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson gives a Christmas matinee today at the Cort Theater in San Francisco for the bene fit of the Dollar Christmas Fund for Homeless Belgians. The entire pro ceeds of the matinee will be devoted to this 'fund. Forbes-Robertson and his company will donate their perform ance, John Cort the theater and Je rome J. Jerome the royalties on his play, "Passing of the Third Floor Back," which will be acted on this oc casion. Sir Forbes-Robertson is mak ing his farewell appearance. ' His en gagement at the Cort is for three weeks. He opens in Portland at the Hellig on January 18 for four nights and a matinee, in repertoire of "Ham let," "The Light That Failed" and "Passing of the Third Floor Back." Sir Forbes-Robertson will be 62 years old next month. Folk who used to know Oza Wald rop when she was a Baker Player here can see a good picture of that at tractive and elusive young actress in the current issue of the Dramatic Mir ror, Oza is playing in the Eastern Company of "A Pair of Sixes." Hugh Dlllman has been added to the cast of the Shubert production "In the Vanguard." e Marjorle Ramjicau, who is playing her first New York engagement in the principal part of "So Much for So Much," at the Longacre Theater, has signed a contract to appear under the management of H. H. Frazee for the next two years. Following the run of "So Much- for So Much" In New York and other cities. Miss Rambeau will be featured In the title part of "Miracle Mary," a new play by her husband, Willard Mack. v e e e Jules Eckert Goodman's play, "The Silent Voice," founded on a novelette by Gouvernor Morris, goes onto the boards at the Liberty Theater in New York on December 29, with Otis Skin ner as the star. a E. Ii Southern and his wife. Julia Marlowe, have purchased an old man sion in Georgetown, the elite residence part of the National capital, and are entertaining Washington society -and being entertained. According to re ports, neither intends to act again pro fessionally. Another well-known play er who has made Washington his home is R. D. MacLean, who, with his wife, Odette Tyler, has long been recog lzed as a permanent fixture of the best circles of the capital city. a e e While Victor Herbert, the composer, Is grinding out melodies, his son is pro ducing a somewhat less musical output in the Ford motor car factory In other words, Mr. Herbert's son is not following in the footsteps of his distinguished father, but has gone in for the uplift of the motor Industry. Mr. Herbert sent bis offspring to Cor nell University, where he was allowed every reasonable comfort and luxury, and whence he graduated in mechan ical engineering with honors. Imme diately upon his return from Ithaca, the father looked sternly at the young man and said merely, "Now hustle." The youth forthwith packed his bags and started for Detroit.. There he is making progress in the Ford works, and his father points proudly to the fact that on a smaller revenue he is saving far "more money than he ever did out of his liberal allowance at college. - e e Charles Frohman has placed Madge Titheradge In the role of "Peter Pan," which he will produce at his Duke of York's Theater, London, next week. Miss Titheradge succeeds Pauline Chase ao "Peter Pan." Miss Chase, who was married a short time ago, has retired from the stage. Christmas in the Trenches By Deu Collins. Softly the seraphs sang their song of long ago; And as the red and angry East was heralding the morn. On the day that mortals honor as the day that He was born. Full silently the Prince of Peace walked forth across the snow. Wearily the Prince went forth, and low his head was bent; And frozen tears like diamonds hung and glittered on his beard; And he went beside the trenches where the sullen cannon leered; And his wounded feet left bloodstains on the snow crust as he went. Long and dark across the land the trenches cleft the snow. And. drunk with weariness the men lay sleeping by their arms. E'en in sleep attentive for awakening war's alarms But no one saw the Prince of Peace along the trenches go. Faint and far the seraphs' song fell from the starry skies; "Peace on earth, good will to men!" And in the trenches deep. The Prince beheld the fighting men uneasy In their sleep. And their breath rose on the frosty air as dead men's souls arise. And frozen tears like diamonds hung and glittered on His beard. And the Prince of Peace smiled ten derly upon them as they lay Like foolish children that have quar reled and blundered in their play. As he walked beside the trenches, where the sullen cannon leered. "Forgive them, O my Father, for they know not what they do!" The Prince of Peace is praying o'er the sleepers in the morn. "I still must wear the bloody crown a bayonet each thorn; They tear my old wounds open, and the blood springs forth anew!" Sweetly still the voices of the singing seraphs blent; But the sleepers in the trenches did not hear them as they lay. And the Prince of Peace passed by them in the dawn of Christmas day; But they wist not of the bloodstains on the snow crust where he went. THE CRY OP THE CRUSHED. . In the twinkling of an eye Thou canst change our grief to Joy; From the miry depths of want Thou canst lift us; thou canst plant Weary feet on solid ground. Lord, thy praises shall resound From our lips if thou wilt hear Lift these burdens hard to bear! All the wealth of worlds !s thine (Empty coffers, hands, are mine!) Cattle on a thousand hills; Golden grain thy storehouse fills: Air and earth and water give Food that man and beast may live. Yet, O Lord, these many years We have had but crusts and tears! Beautiful, this world of thine; (Sordid poverty is mine!) Beautiful beyond compare Thy creation everywhere. Only man, whose selfish greed Recks not of his brother's need. Fills with violence the earth; Crushes out its Joy and mirth. Youth and age on every side Famish for the good denied. What thou didst design for all. Some here snatched, like beasts that crawl From their dens at dead of night. Seizing everything in sight Orphans' cries and widows' prayers Furnish music for their lairs. Hear our supplication. Lord! Thou hast promised in thy word Ne'er to turn indifferent ear When thy little ones draw near. Now, in direst need, we call; Give us help lest worse befall. Stretch thine hand and set us free From our bonds and misery! Marie Craig Le GalU Salem, Or. RRHEHBER. Oh let not Winter's life-congealing chill Invade scant Penury's defenseless hut; Nor, while the mansion Yuletlde pleas ures fill. The gift-cheered guest to want his senses shut. If heaven to such and thee has been more kind. Some rich endowed, and o'er-abun-dant some. May this glad season thee and them remind From God thy talent and' its increase come. This Christ-time may we privilege but deem To succor need, to garment the Ill clad, The empty larder fill: And this esteem Our holiest Joy-to make the wretch ed glad. Your embers dulled make glow to cheerful fire; The 'laded tree build "high in gilded hall; To feast and gifts blest matron, chil dren, sire, And beauteous pendant mistletoe o'er all. But it ehn.ll render gift and feast more blest. Impart sweet flavor of a deep de light. To know the hungry fed. the naked dressed. And aiding these the'trlbute of your mite. JOHN WILLIAM DANIELS. NIGHT OF" THE5 STAR. Night of the star! Night of the star! Nizht when the angel cnoir. Sang where the shepherds watched their Hock, By smold'ring midnight fire. Night when two lowly travelers stopped At Bethlehem's crowded inn; And shelter found in cattle cave. Apart from crowd and din. Night of the ages! holy nightl That brought a baby's cry. Pleading for life in human garb. That God for man might die. First Christmas night of long ago. Night to our memories dear. Children and old alike, we keep Thee dearest of the year. SARAH A. BEAVEN. Christmas IJnty. Have you done your duty this Christ mas tide. As the call for, help comes from far and wide? To us who are peaceful, with plenty in store. The call of - distress comes as never before. For Europe, once prosperous, now Is laid bare. And her widows and orphans call for our care. And here In our home town, there's many a man Who's deserving of help; you should do all you can. Go out on the byways, you'll find some in need And your heart will be lighter for some kindly deed; Get away from yourself, try what good you can do; Do your duty and Christmas will mean more to you. S. RUNYON. Half a Century Ago Prom The Oregonlan, December 24, 1S64. Sunday school and gift books from the American Tract Society and the Mas sachusetts Sunday , School Society are offered for sale at Hurgren & Shind ler's. First street, near Alder. Rev. G. H. Atkinson, 'secretary and treasurer of the Oregon Tract Society, has called the attention of our readers to the books at the depositary. Dr. J. G. Glenn can now be found at his office in Portland with a full as sortment of dental materials and equipped to perform all operations in hi line. A. B. Woodward Sc. Co.! photograph gallery proprietors. Front and Morrison streets, have announced they are now equipped to take superior carte de visite and plain photographs from locket to life size. A. B. Wqodward, the artist, will also do oil and India ink work. The Oregon Intelligencer, the Demo cratic sheet, has expired and the vale dictory of W. G. T'Vault, the late editor, appears in the Sentinel. P. J. Malone. it appears, will take the mechanical equipment and start a. new copperhead paper, to be known as the Oregon Re porter. James St. Clair and Miss Betsy Nor ton, both of Portland, were married by Rev. D. Rutledge, December 22. By the arrival of the steamer John H. Couch we learn of the death of James Birney, of Cathlamet. Mr. Bir ney had been identified with the Inter ests of the Columbia River for more than 40 years. He came to this section with Governor Douglas, late of British Columbia, after Mr. Astor's transfer of his interest in the Northwest Fur Com. rjany. The office of Vlce-Admlral has been created in the United States Navy and the appointment of Rear-Admiral Far ragut has been made to the Senate by the President and immediately con firmed. General Lee is reported to have been wounded before Petersburg. It is not believed the wound is serious. The London Times remarks that Sher man's march equals that of Marlbor ough in Germany leading to the battle of Blenheim, and adds it is the most brilliant effort of modern times. Lon don has not heard the outcome, but adds that success will raise him to the pinnacle of highest rank, or ruin will be the recompense for defeat. Twenty-Five Years Ago Prom The Oreronlan, December 'J5, 1S89. New York Nellie Ely, the newspaper woman making a trip against time around the world, arrived at Hongkong December 23. Patti, the sweet songstress, has told a San Francisco Examiner reporter why she bleached her hair to red. She also explained that black hair could not be dyed red it has to be bleached. The reason, she explained, was that the Parisian fad and demand was for a blonde Juliet, and that, while Juliet was not a blonde, she compromised on & red-head Juliet to please the Parisians. Pattl did not explain why she left her eyebrows black. Attorney C. M. Iclleman has just vis ited his partner, W. Carey Johnson, at his home in Oregon City and found him to be a very sick man. iir. Johnson has suffered a nervous breakdown, and his recovery even now is doubtful. John Holman and E. Bingham re turned yesterday from a hunting trip, part of which was on Hauvie's island, where they killed 73 ducks and a goose. Dr. Harry Ciarfield, of La Grande, son of Seluclus Garfield, formerly a. dele gate to Washington, has fallen heir to $20,000 at Port Townsend. Judp-e Green and A. Hnrbauffh left . Saturday for Green's Lake and re turned yesterday with 101 ducks, among which were 78 canvasbacks. The Spokane Falls Chronicle says that George W.-Curtis, the well-known political mugwump, has for nearly 30 years been getting $25,000 per annum from Harper & Brothers as their liter ary and political adviser. Another bridge will be erected at the foot of Madison street to connect with the Hawthorne motor line on the East Side. Superintendent George Brown ha let contracts for the necessary piling in the Willamette River at the place men tioned. The bridge from wharf line to wharf line will be 1654 feet, this be ing the widest place of the river along the city front. Ahere Did Name Oregon Originate f SALEM, Or., Dec. 2.T. (To the Ed itor.) The story of Captain Pope. In The Oregonian, concerning the deriva tion of the name "Oregon" can scarcely bear investigation. Jonathan Carver, in his explorations, was not within 500 miles of the Rocky Mountains, much less down the Snake and Columbia rivers. So, the premitse being gone, the tale must go with it. Some day we may find , out a true explanation "of whence this beautiful name was derived, but thus far nono has been brought forward which takes the question beyond the realms of speculation pure and simple. J. C. MOREL AND. HQ,TED AWAY. My neighbors moved away today. From the little housa under the hill; And my world is strangely dull and gray With the place so barren and still. They've been my neighbors so very long That I never dreamed they would go. But now I miss the snatches of song And the hurrying to and fro. And I wish I had drawn nearer To the hearts of them while they were here. And had seen with a vision clearer That neighbors were meant to cheer. I wish I had oftener spoken And oftener waved my hand, Ere the fragile bowl was broken. Filled with afterwhiles I planned. But my neighbors moved away today. From the little house under the hill: And my world is strangely dull and gray With the place so barren and stilL "Summer moved away today. From valley, meadow and bill: And Winter soon will have its wa.y And cold winds have their wllL Fair Summer has been with us so long That I scarcely dreamed she would pass; But now I miss the snatches of song. And the bees and the tall, green grass. And I wish I had drawn nearer To the heart of her while she was here. And had seen with a vision clearer That Summer was meant to cheer. I wish I had known the full measure Of joys this Summer held for me. But broken now her cup pf pleasure. Nor filled again can ever be. Yes, Summer moved away today. From valley, meadow and hill; And Winter soon will have its way. And cold winds have their will. Mary H. Forco, Hillsdale, Or.