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8 TIIE. MORNING OREGONIAW. THURSDAY, ArRIL 22.. 1913. sgpmmt rURTUNU, OUEGON. Kntorril at Portland, Oreson, Xostoffics second-class matter. Subscription Bates Invariably la advance: (By Mail.) I'aily, Sunday Included, one year $8.00 J 'ily, Sunday Included, six months. .. 4.a.i Iai!y, Sunday included, three months.. 2.2. atly, Sunday Included, one month. . lail, without Sunday, one year.. ...... 6.U0 Taily, without Sunday, tx months..... -Pally, wtthout Huuday, three months... 1.76 Tat!v, without rtunday, one month so -vveMy, one year.... l.cO Sunday, one year Sunday and. Weekly, one year 3.50 tijy Carrier.) Xrsily. Sunday included, one year S.U0 Illy, Sunday included, one month 75 How tu Remit Sf.nd Postoffice money or der, i-spi'4'M ordr or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are At render's risk. Give postoffice address In including county and state. J'otae-e Jtutee 12 to pas. 1 cent; 18 to 32 pacs. 2 cents: 34 to 48 pages, 3 cento; r.u to tto pases. 4 cents; 62 to 7tt pages. cents: 78 to y2 paces. 6 cents. Jforeicn post nce. double rates. Kastem Business Office Veree fc Conk !in. iew York, Brunswick building; Chicago, totenjrer building. Mnt 1 raoi'lno Office 11. J. Bidwell Com- rany. 4U AlarKet street. rOBmstJ, THURSDAY, APRIL 2. 19J3. AMERICA AJBOVE ALL. The last words of President Wilson's ppeech to the Associated Press be fore everything- else I love America" should be the guide to the conduct, of every American in the present crisis of the world's affairs. We are a Na tion composed of "people from all na tion?, and the one bond uniting- us is our love for America. That love does not shut out from our hearts love for the land from -which each one of us sprang, as love for one's wife does not drive out love for one's mother. It usually follows that the more intensely a man loves his mother, the more de voted will bo his love for his wife. We love America because here we are working out our ideal of freedom, moral and intellectual development, domestic peace and material wellbeing. The contrast between, the blessings we enjoy and the progress we are making toward the realization of our ideal, on the one hand, and the miseries brought by war arid-hatred on Europe on the other hand fills us with sorrow and sympathy for tho several mother lands of many millions of Americans. We remain neutral not only because the quarrel is not ours, but because Also Ave could not take up the cause of one party without outraging the sensibilities of many brother-Ameri-tans whose sympathies are naturally :ind properly with the other party. We remain neutral not out of cold indif ference, but because regard for both parties forbids, us to help either; also because tho help which we hope In the end to give both in BCttling their quarrel can be given only if we con tinue to have the friendship and con fidence of both. The war in which half the earth is struggling for physical dominance has, without any effort on our part, lifted the United States to a position of moral dominance which is freely conceded by the whole world. It be hooves us to do no act, to say no word, which will forfeit this position for us. This position imposes upon us as a Nation a responsibility the weight of which Mr. AVilHon clearly feels. If we o comport ourselves that, when the scale of battle has turned decisively one way and iwheii the nations weary of fighting, they will with one mind turn tons for aid in ending their quarrels, the United States will be the real conqueror without having fircda, shot or struck a blow. . This Nation may then ho able to lead the way in inaugurating an era of peace during which" international law will be made a reality by the support of the united armed forces of the world in enforc ing tho decrees of the world's supreme court. Mr. Wilson has well defined the duty of this Nation and has nobly ex pressed the sentiments of the great body of the American people. The Oregonian says this the more cheer fully becauso we have found frequent occasion to criticise his policy. We have, however, never denied his pa triotism or hi.s sincerity of purpose. We have charged him with partisan ship, but we have never doubted that he was moved by conviction that his own party is the best instrument for promoting the National welfare. In aJl matters concerning our foreign re lations, the American people should sot aside party and rally behind him, in confidence that he will safely guard our interests amid war's perplexities find tha,t. should it fall to him to me diate between the nations, he will ably do his duty. SOIR RECKST ART SALES. Whistler's reputation is growing among art collectors if we may judge by the prices his etchings brought at the Ives sale in the American art gal leries in New York. The "Nocturne" brought the highest price, $2900, but others said almost as well. Most of the etchj'igs were bought by private collectors, going thus from one of the fraternity to another. The fact that almost every collection is dispersed within a few years does not deter en thusiasts from founding new ones. The death of a rival is their best op portunity, since it enables them to transport the spoils of his collection to their own, from which they -will again migrate within a few years to some other temporary resting place. The only permanent abodes for art treasures are the public museums, and even -these shelters are not wholy ex empt from the vicissitudes of time and war. Collectors are born with the pas sion for accumulating specimens hot in their bosoms. It even appears among the lower animals. Pet mon keys arc 'famous collectors of small articles left within their reach and crows adorn their nests with bright colored rags, silver forks and bits of shining copper. No doubt these miscel lanies are revealed to the bird con sciousness as .works of art, just as tho bibliophile discerns beauty in a. tat tered volume if it happens to be old, dirty and badly printed. Manuscripts from the hands of famous writers are much prized by collectors, though they do not as a rule 'bring extravagant prices. A Ba con manuscript signed by the author brought no more than J 16 5 at a New Tork auction the other day. Another by Thackeray brought J 126. These are imposing figures, but they do not shock one. There is a steady market lor old manuscripts which, is likely to become better with time. Authors of our day vise the typewriter so much that comparatively few pen-written books are offered for publication. Such manuscripts will therefore become jn i reaslngly scarce and prices will be likely to rise accordingly. On the other hand, typewritten copies of books may acquire a collector's value of their own. In the topsy-turvy world where these geniuses dwell prophecy is s rash as reason is rare. When the Turk of old bepif grd Con. I U.rti,noplc- lhcy dragged their .war thips overland from the Bosphorus to the Golden Horn and thus had the city at their mercy. The ships of the allies are too ponderous to be transported on skids and no doubt the Golden Horn is as thoroughly mined as the neighbor ing waters." Naval warfare was a much simpler matter before science took hold of it. OPPORTUNIST Senator Miles Poindexter's return to the Republican party after his latest political excursion is not accepted alto gether as a blessing by Washington newspapers. Perhaps if Mr. Poindex- ter had come back meek and contrite he would have been received with the Christian spirit to which, all repentant backsliders are entitled. But it is in his well-known specialty as opportunist that he removes the light of his pres ence from the bullmoosism. He is a candidate for re-election. Even the Spokane Spokesman-Review, which has done some flopping it self, treats the return of Poindexter as a candidate with considerable levity and some sarcasm. He is "errant but unabashed, his toga unbrushed of the clinging hairs of the bull moose and the Democratic donkey, but ready and willing to try another mount on the Republican elephant." By such stanch Republican newspapers as the Yakima Republic and the Aberdeen World he is termed a "turncoat," a "hypocrite," and is said to be "of no value whatever as a public servant." When Senator Poindexter's term ex pires he will have been on the public payroll almost continuously for twenty-five years. He came to Washington from the South a Democrat. When 24 years old he was elected Prosecuting Attorney, of Walla Walla County as a Populist. Upon expiration of his term he went to Spokane and very shortly was appointed Assistant Prosecuting Attorney,' which position he' held for six years. It is our recollection that he shone during that period as a Free Silver Republican. After h while, opportunity being good, he became a non-partisan candi date for Superior Judge and was elect ed. In 190S he was elected to Con gress as a Progressive Republican, and in 1910 was elected United States Sen ator -under the same political cogno men. After election he deserted the Republican party and announced that he was a Progressive. He fought the party and joined with the Democrats in passing a tariff bill Imposing free trade upon the basic products of his state. Mr. Poindexter has no definite polit ical convictions. They are so pliable that he can always adjust them to the convenience of job-holding, and does not hesitate to do so. Yet his re nouncement of the Progressive party was wholly fitting. The chief progres sive characteristic of Mr. Poindexter is in his itch for oflice. There is no stop ping it. He has it in its most progres sive type. But that disease is not men tioned in the "contract with the peo ple." TMIC BOCK, ISLAND FAlI.tRIi. While - the troubles of the Rock Island Railroad, which have culminat ed in receivership, were doubtless ag gravated by the same causes which have militated against the prosperity of nil railroads, they were primarily due to the organization of two hold ing companies by the syndlcato of frenzied financiers which has held con trol for some years. The railroad is owned by the "railway" company, 85 per cent of the stock in which is held by the "railroad" company, all of the stock in which is held by the Rock Island Company. These wheels within wheels are doubtless what President Mudge euphemistically referred to when he said "the financial organisa tion of the company prevented the sell ing of our securities," and that the road "did not spend enough money upon itself." Confidence in Rock Island securities was evidently impaired by the tangle of corporations in which the road was involved by the men who used it as a means of making unearned profits on Wall street, not as a means of earning profits on transportation. The road was unable to bear the presence of hard times because of this manipula tion rather than because of the Gov ernment's attitude toward railroads, for well-managed railroads have stood up under that pressure. The mis management to which the Rock Island and other roads have been subjected is responsible for any unreasonable ex tremes to which Government regula tion may have gone, and roads which are not open to the same criticism have suffered part of the consequence. It is well that the Rock Island Com pany should go through the purifying process of receivership. Care should bo taken, when it is reorganized, that it is not made the basis of an inverted pyramid of corporations, but shall be honestly capitalized and managed. When all the railroads which have been abused in the same manner have passed this process, the restoration of railroads to public favor will be greatly hastened. The public has never been hostile to railroads; it has only been and still is hostile to vicious methods of financing and managing them. HIE WAR AM) UTEB1TCRE. The New Tork Sun has published a symposium on the literary effects of the European war. It includes the opinions of such authors as Alfred Noyes, Ida Tarbell and Kdwin Mark ham and may therefore be assumed to express the latest and possibly the ripest wisdom upon this absorbing topic. Alfred Noyes thinks the war "has steadied us down into a central position. We are not interested in movements and by-paths of thought." He adds that "never again will the people of England grow interested in the vagaries of eccentrics, who call themselves futurists, imagistes and other queer names." Never is a long time. The war has certainly exerted a sobering influence but is it certain that the English will never again become flippant? It is illuminating to remember that the most flippant period in English liter ature followed hard upon the extreme ly sober and sobering civil wars of the days of Cromwell. The ways of the popular mind hardly ever coincide exactly with the foresight of prophets. Professor Noyes believes that "the ultra realistic novel, the novel of dis eased sensuality, is a thing of the past." Would that his prophecy might come true, but again .we are obliged to re flect that the literature of the reign of Charles II, immediately following the devastating wars of Puritanism, was the most sensual in British his tory. The Manchester Guardian quotes Sir William Robertson Nicoll to the effect that there will be "a great liter ature on the reconstruction of so ciety" following the close of the war. He may be right, but history sives no warrant for his prediction. The ruln- pus .Thirty, .Years .war : ..was followed, by no such literary outburst. Neither were the long Roman wars against Carthage, nor the Napoleonic wars, nor the Peloponnesian war which" de stroyed the influence of Athens in Greece, nor the wars of Frederick the Great in Germans-. Literary outbursts have ensued upon the conclusion of brief wars which awakened national enprgy without exhausting it, but not upon long and devastating struggles. Ida Tarbell believes that "in the next twenty years we shall have such a literary production as we have .not seen for many decades." She does not give the grounds of her hope. It would be interesting to know wliat they are, if she has any. A CHANGE AT YALE. Yale has clung longer than any other leading American college to the ancient system of rigorously formal entrance examinations. To satisfy her requirements a student must pass an examination under Yale supervision in subjects prescribed by her own fac ulty. No school was deemed strict enough to pass a student on a certifi cate. Nobody's word was sufficient to satisfy the faculty concerning a young man's attainments. The examination was as the law's of the Medes and Per sians. It must be passed precisely as Yale wished without variation or shadow of turning. The effect of this antiquated flum mery was to exalt the coach and de press the genuine teacher. The aim of young men preparing for Yale was necessarily to pass the entrance ex aminations, not at all to educate themselves. Hence the person who could stuff them most rapidly and ro ttindly with bare facts was chiefly in demand. Yale matriculates suffered habitually from a sort of wind colic produced by indigestible knowledge hastily swallowed and destined to be cast up again as soon as circumstances permitted. The venerable university has at last become aware of this state of things and has decided to forego the time honored examination system, at least in part. Students will now be admit ted upon the certificate of accredited schools so that a young man intending to go to Yale will no longer be de barred from spending at least part of his preparatory course in educating himself. BUY IT NOW. The late business depression was due to two sets of causes, one eco nomic, the other psychological. The economic causes have been removed and have been supplanted by other forces creative of prosperity, but the psychological causes persist. That Is the only reason why prosperity returns with a somewhat slow and halting step. Thinking hard times has become so habitual that we continue to thirrk them after all excuse for so thinking has passed away. We need but to re verse tho course of our thoughts and wo shall drive hard times away. The economic causes of hard times were already passing away when the war suddenly halted them and brought them back with temporarily redoubled force. So strong was our financial po sition that they were soon put to flight again by the wise, concerted action of our financial leaders.' The war set to work new forces, which hastened their flight and also hastened the return of prosperity. We now find our banks loaded with money which they are willing to lend at moderate interest on good security. We find our manufac turers willing to use this money in in creasing their output as soon as the people are ready to buy. We find the railroads willing to improve their lines as fast as traflio demands. We find investors so willing to buy securities and European holders so slow to part with them that prices rise day by day, that total daily transactions have swollen to old-time figures, and that the minimum prices, which were fixed as a precaution against a stampede to sell, have been abolished as needless. All these facts are evidences of re stored confidence on the part of in vestors, producers, carriers and sellers. The only thing lacking to set the full tide of prosperity flowing is buyers to set the factories in full operation, to set the trains moving and to employ the hosts of idle men. Throughout the last few years the people have been paying debts and increasing their sav ings by buying less, by going without things they need, through fear that hard times would continue. Whatever measure of prosperity we now have is due to abnormal buying by our for eign customers. All the conditions leading to prosperity exist at home except-the disposition to buy. Indus try, capital and labor, all are vaiting, ready and willing to work full time as soon as buyers put them to work. The time for unusual saving by go-4 ing without things we need has passed, for good times have begun, and wo can safely let a dollar go in confidence that another dollar will come in to replace.it. The time to postpone buy ing in the hope of buying cheaper has passed, for prices have reached bottom. have begun to rise and will continue to rise. The United States is supply ing the world with many things which the world formerly sold to us, and this situation will last throughout the war. After the war ends prices will remain high, for that is the experience during every period immediately following a great war. Hence the present is the time for the thrifty to buy, for they will not for many years be able to buy as cheap. Those who wish to save money can save it more surely by sup plying their needs, now than by hoard ing money, for delay threatens to com pel payment of higher prices far ex ceeding the interest their savings' will earn. . These considerations have prompted the buy-it-now movement. Starting with the agricultural papers among the farmers of the Missouri Valley a,nd granger states, it was promptly taken up throughout the Middle West, then it spread to the manufacturing dis tricts of the East and was taken up by the railroads. It was indorsed by President Wilson in his Indianapolis speech, when he said: X understand that your Chamber of Com merce in Indianapolis Is working: now upon the motto. "If you are going- to buy it, buy it now." That 1b a perfectly safe maxim to act upon, it is just as safe to buy it now as it evtr will be and if you start buying:, there will be no end to It and you will be a seller as well as a buyer. The same advice has been given by the Governors of Kansas, Minnesota and other states. It has not only, been given, but has been acted upon by the great railroad companies. The Balti more & Ohio bought 2000 freight cars, not because they are needed now, but in the hope, as President Willard ex pressed it, "that conditions will mend before long and that the 'new equip ment will then be required.". The Pennsylvania Railroad has bought 150,000 tons of steel rails, and 18,200 tons of other steel. The Chicago Great Western has bought $583,000 worth of material and the Chicago & North western about $1,ROO,000 worth. The .N.ew. ..York. ..Central has topught -7Q00 freight cars besides many raila and lo comotives. The United States Steel Corporation has increased its output month by month and has put more mills in operation until it is operating 70 per cent of its capacity, compared with 35 per cent last November. We all desire prosperity and the sur est way to promote it is for each per son to delay no longer in supplying his needs. Every man put to work is one more customer for those already at work, and one less person for the community to support without return. By buying now we can end the unem ployment of men and money and can expand our own business. A dollar spent usefully is not a dollar wasted, for it will surely return to the spender after going its rounds through many hands, but a dollar kept in idleness does no service, either to its owner or to any other person. The "buy it now" movement rightly started among the farmers, for they have had unexampled prosperity when every other industry was depressed. They have had banner grain crops at war prices. They are well able to buy whatever they need, and they have sufficient assurance of continued high prices to feel safe in spending. From them prosperity can be spread to the industries of both East and West. The starting of each mill will help to start another mill, for the people of this country compose an endless chain, through which prosperity can be trans mitted like an electric current. Occu pation furnished to each additional man makes him a buyer of commodi ties on which other men will be em ployed. Business activity can now be made by ourselves, each one doing his part. The way to do it is, whatever you need, to buy it now. The project of photographing young women on the street willy nilly and ex hibiting their pictures to be voted on by the mob at the movies in order to choose a Festival queen does not com mend itself to the judicious. The Ore gonian is old fashioned enough to be lieve that a young woman's face and name are her personal belongings to be sacredly respected until she permits public reference to them. The current predictions of an armis tice in Europe may not be unreason able. The war has the aspect of a deadlock in the east and tho west. The "great victories" reported on both sides are usually trivial as far as results are concerned. The hypothetical case of the irresistible projectile meeting an immovable body has been realized on the French and Russian frontiers, ap parently. Colonel Roosevelt in court amus ingly resembles Mark Twain's Colonel Sellers, who insisted on reciting the whole story of his life on the witness stand. But Mr. Roosevelt's story is both entertaining and diverting and we may thank Mr. Karnes for giv ing him a fitting stage whereon to deliver it and a Nation for an audi ence. It is interesting to read of Italian Senators quoting Dante in favor of "united Italy." That was the dream of the sad old poet, but it was never re alized. He was a "man without a country" except in the potent vision of his soul. To make Dante's dream come true Italy needs the "irredenta" territory which Austria holds. There is nothing strange in the street railway company's finding that "its best men are heads of families." A wise man said long ago that a man who marries "gives hostages to for tune." Solicitude for the hostages' welfare naturally tames and sobers him. Because he assaulted a motorman, Catcher Ainsmith, of the Washingtons, was given thirty days in the work house. He must have caught the plat form man off guard or it would have been that length of time in the hos pital. If he wanted to do the right thing. President Wilson would confer the honor of the double cross (twenty bucks) on Professor Don-Show Ko dama, of Japan, for ' the variegated horoscope. Premier Asquith is taking the sDng out of the hard things Lloyd George said about the British workman's drinking habits. A new Parliament is to be elected this year; that may. ex plain it. It is a long way to the new region in the Koyokuk district where men are taking $1635 to the pan, and $3 a day or less for labor on the new roads looks better to many a man here. After we have been congratulating the farmer on his prosperity, a. Govern ment expert tells us he has been losing money without knowing it. But statis tics will prove anything. Recent elections make more "dry" counties than "wet" in Illinois. This does not assure a "dry" state, for there is Chicago to consider in a general election. A gang of "dips" seems to be work ing this city on the way to the exposi tion. The man who exhibits his roll bids for their attention and generally gets it. The Austrians are admirable for optimism, at least. A new war loan is to be floated, repayable after the war "from an Jndmnity." Perhaps a British squadron has a right to He off New York harbor and investigate inbound vessels, and per haps it has not. The Spring transportation season to Alaska having opened, that territory comes forward with its usual gold stampede. Football will be suspended In Eng land until war is over, but when it is resumed the teams will need many new recruits. Turkish fortification of Adrianople implies decided lack of confidence in the friendly intentions of neighboring states. Women's willingness that men shall smoke on open streetcars indicates a reaction, from feminism. Oregon is doing very well in a finan cial way and has but 2 per cent of the emergency currency. Great Britain now has more than half a million live men on the firing line. All the "victories" abroad these day are important ones to Ihe . winners Stars and Starmaker BY LEONE CAS3 BAER. Things are surely dull in the theatri cal world when Maude Adams, who doesn't need o have such things hap pen, ia robbed of a 110,000 diamond necklace. See where an actor in New York, shot at by robbers, had his life saved by his gold watch stopping the bullet. Gee, it's getting so these days am actor hardly dares pawn his watch. e . Actress is suing a photograph con cern for $50,000 for using her face in an advertisement of a rodent exter minator. Looks as if the prirl has case. Any f ace ' that would, make an appropriate advertisement for a rodent exterminator might be said to be un fit for publication. Charlotte Vincent Gardner, actress, who has obtained a legal separation from her husband, Frank S. Gardner, aetor, testified that the latter is so fond of whisky that he habitually uses it for bathing. Accepting as authentic the emanci pated lady's nearly incredible state ment, this perhaps is the only recorded instance of an acto'r wasting whisky by external application. m m m Willard Mack has completed .the dramatization of Rex Beach's story "The Auction Block,"' which he has made for A. H. Woods. The play will be produced in the 'Fall, and probably with Irene Fenwlek lr tho principal part. Case of a Seattle man found dead iu Vancouver is said to be puzzling the authorities. Puzzles some of the rest of us, too. While I can readily see why any man would not care to live in Seattle, I can't see why he should go away from home to iie. Unless all signs are misleHriiiiB, Cyrl Maude, the English actor, who, like all his compatriots, is not averse to turn ing an honest penny, will at the ter mination of his tour in "Grumpy" this month, come to the Pacific Coast to gather iu the sheaves at a motion picture studio. Further details are lacking. Presumably conditions In London at this time make Mr. Maude willing to remain in America during a part of the Summer at least, more espe cially since thereby he may be able to enhance his sinking fund. e ju read wnere tne sale ol Viucert Mary's fan has added $16D0 to the war fund. Should think Kngland might prove a profitable field for a baseball evangelist. Mrs. Alberta Slcdinau Kay an and Joseph Klaw, the son of Marc Klaw, have acquired from Doubleday, Page & Company, publishers, the dramatic rights to the O. Henry stories. These stories, Mr. Klaw believes, are peculiar ly suited to stage purposes. Mr. Klaw and Mrs. Katran also con. trol the vaudeville rights to the stories, which number 279. Natalie Alt, who sang the title, role of Adele," has been engaged for the leading soprano role of the revival uf "The lfeomaii of tho Guard," by W, A. Brady. De Wolf Hopper is tho star of the company. "Cnlike most old men, it would scorn that old women gather wit with ayo and are keenest in the last phase. There are. and always have been, far more brilliant old women than brilliaut young ones." An article entitled "Beauty of Old Women," on which Alan Dale makes comment thusly: Yet ask these briiliant old women to sec Florcns Ziepfeld about securing positions In his "Follies" and J'll venture to bay that their "brilliance" won't register. "Bnl liance" may be an awfully handy thins: to have in the house, but theatrically, it is not marketable. " 'Tis true, and pity 'tis, 'tis true." tOr words to that effect.) Every once In a while whole lines left out of a newspaper story make it read surprisingly different from the way it was meant. Once Maudo Ful ton gave out an interview on the psychology of natural gestures. Ambng other things, she said that Nance O'Neil best expressed tragedy because she made her gestures with her hands held close to her body and from the waist downward. The story next morning said that Miss Fulton thought that Nance O'Neil expressed tragedy from the waist down. Miss Fulton, by the way, is going to collaborate with Jack Lait on a newspaper play. When her eeasog ends she is going to find a bungalow home in California and go in for free lance magazine writing. Lillian Kemblo and Charles Mackay are heading a stock company in Ham ilton, Canada. The vaudeville tour of Seymour Hicks and Gladys Cooper in "A Bridal Suite" is about to be terminated, owing to the expected arrival of an addition to the family of Miss Cooper, who in private life is Mrs. Stanley Buckmas ter, whose husband is a Captain in the English army. Miss Cooper recently secured a judg ment against the London Mail for libel, that paper having published an article without mentioning names, intimating that "a well-known actress" had been guilty of misconduct with several prominent men. Miss Cooper is already the mother of a 6-ycar-old daughter. s Inquiries among the San Francisco agents brings forth the information that the number of idle professionals exceeds that of former years at the time more than 60 per cent. Vernon Castle's sister, a well-known London actress, who has never before appeared in America, made her debut last week in New. York in "Nobody Home." I've always thought that Ver non could perfectly play a "nobody home" role and not have to act much, either. Incidentally the sister of Ver non Castle uses the real family name of Blythe, and her first name is Coralie. She came to America partly out of curiosity to see her famous brother as a real star and also because her husband, Lawrence Grossmith, the well-known English comedian, was making a trip to, America in order to secure the English rights to several plays. In "No-body Home" Mr. Grossmith has the leading comedy role. When Miss Blythe was a star In London Vernon Castle was studying electricity. His sister's success changed his entire career, and through her efforts he be gan his stage work in tho chorus of one of her companies. Twenty-Five Years Ago From The Oregonian April "2, IS'JO. Chicago. Samuel I . cioniperp, presi dent of the American Federation of Labor, is in the city and wi'l Kive an address on the eight-hour day toniilit. Tlie carpenters are leadinu the fight for the reduced working day. Washington. The Republican mem bers of the House yesterday held a caucus on the silver question and Windom's plan is subject to a notice able breacli of adherence on the part of the Republican members. London. In the lloufe of Parliament yesterday rarnell moved for t he re jection of the Irish land purcliuKe bill. He welcomed Balfour to the ranks of the land reformers as the latest re cruit. R. S. Bean, Republican nominee for Supreme JiiiKe. was elected in 1K82 as Judge of the Second lietrlt over .1. is. McFadden by a larye majority and was re-elooted in 1SS6 over John Bur nett, also by a big majority, lie be gan judicial duties at the early age of 27, but has proved fully able to wer honorably the judicial ermine. W. B. McEwen, former editor of the Ellensburg Register, is now ni.-i nacer of the Anacortes Progress and that paper shows the impress f his indi viduality. Dr. E. A. Sommer, one of the Spilng graduates of the medical department of Willamette University, has hung out his shingle at Woodhnrn and al ready is enjoying a lucrative practice. The discovery of natural bms st Drain, Or., has created nuite a little flutter in that community. Prince Bismarck's pension. wlih-h has been represented lis very large, really amounts to only Itr.O'l. Within two weeks electric ears will be running in Alhina to and from Portland, on Williams avenue. C. H. Baker, of Alljina, whose hand was seriously burned the other night when a lamp exploded, i.s mill in much pain. Sir. Baker kept his hand in a bucket of water all night instead of getting medical aid at once. I'Aivr koii t i.i:a..i I-" Iluildrra Uxcbange Srrrrlsrr I'oiala to Mine anil (.lira Tlfi." PORTLAND, April 21. (To the I.di lor.) In the clean up campaign May 4 to 11 which the Governor lias in augurated it will add to the net results very materially if our people will keep in mind the therapeutic value of paint all kinds of paint, except nwc paint and use lots of It. l'aint not only is Siinilary hut it adds value and appearance and ives. that lasting first impression that visitors to our homes and to our city carry away with them ami talk alioul. and it has the added point of chcapnrt-s in Hs favour for a tallon ge.es a long way and any one can smear it on or can employ P. IJ. pot and brush) Pcriputie and do the work over acain next year or employ a rcsponsi hie shop and get a Job that will last for liir years or more. It is well to hear in mind that it costs just as much l' spread poor, cheap paint as it cost to apply the best, but the yearly upkeep is all In favor tif the best grades and the re liable mini behind the briinli. Then there is the uuestion of color selection the matter of shades or tints. Few know the difference: it's the same as running a window shade tip or down: pull it down you "shade" the room: run It up you "tint" the interior. Tint for a dark, cloudy country, shades for Kaslern Oregon. Gaioiner on the tTirpqua was, when I uati on tho road, all while, w hii li v. .:s as it should be. 1 would say Portland should be "linted" or light shades used because of our clouded sky and abund ance of hade trees. And asoin the lighter the paint the more lead nint be use!, and therefore the more value for the price Per gallon. Yellow ochre and lamp black are (heap and go a long way In making paint and a gallon weighs unlv 12 to 14 pounds, while white or a light shade or lint will weish 17 or IS pounds and costs the same, the paint manufacturer aiming to make up on the heavy shades what he loses on the lighter stock. By all means for tho beauty of the city and the good of the pocket hook urse the liberal use of paint, for ir there is one thhng better for the "clean up'' object of this campaign than paint it itt more paint, and then some more. O. '.. Hl'tillSON. Secretary Builders' Iixchange, Worces ter Bldg. Tin: ( kv if tiik wiuownn. Dear Lord, we try to bear the cross. To say "Thy will be done": To feel thou dost the best for us From dawn till set of sun. But. while we see our fields run red With blood of those held dear. And. while our children cry for bread, We cannot feel thee near. We try to pray "Thou knowest, O God! Thou dost the right alway. Oh! let thy servant kiss the rod": Tis thus we try to pray. But, when we know that somewhere near. Our husbands, brave not free Are being slain. We can but fear, And cry: "Why must this be?" Oh. thou who hearest the raven's cry. Who knowest all our need: Is it thy will that they should die For others' lust and greed? As thou didst still the waters wild. Oh! make this tumult cease. Throuch blood of him, the "undefiled," Bring universal peace. Horace William MacNeal. WAR OX THK Tl'RK. And now they are about to jerk The leathers from the hapless Turk. Amid the roar of shot and shells Again the mighty chorus swells. Tho Bosphorus, the Hardanelles Invaded by the "infidels"! The lamp tho prophet proudly swore Should light the world f orevcrmore. Alas, for that historic shore, Tho laud the crescent flutters o'er. Tremblings of distress for thee. Ye dwellers on Marmora's Kfa. To arms! They come! The .Muscovite. The flashing rword of Gaulish rtilnht; They dare the turhatied host in flKht! They swear the eresceivt moon to blight! And louder still the "lion's roHr" Re-echo.s on the Dardan shore! Oh, where is Abderahman now? Othman of the martial brow? Oh, who shall rise to overthrow This wave of fate, the vaunting foe? Ye spirit world, a few, a few Of that departed warrior crew Who once the sword of Islam drew God and the prophet "Allah Hn"! G. H. SANDS. Deportment and GrarieR. GLADSTONE, Or., April 20 (To the Kditor.) Can you tell me through The Oregocian if a teacher in a Mgh school In which no deportmet.t grade is given has the rlht to deduct Irom the grades of the pupils on account of their behavior? HKNitY SPIICSS. School officials of Multnomah County advise that this Is a question governed by local practice in each school. The correspondent should make Inquiry of the principal of the school in ques tion. ' ll I v e r. K-VAri'A, Or., April in -To Ivditor.) What j.; the county seal .r leffeiboa County? fc'L "UiCIviBiii;. Half a Century Ago From Tho Ori-soni,in Ariil 'J, 1Mt.. Bois Flour has been commanding 60 tents a pound and is scarce mt that. There was a near flurry over tho lack of stocks on hand, but it ts believed now that the provisions will last ui.lil inure supplies arrive. I'nder orders of General M -Powell any persons expressing any approbation of the dastardly Hssassinat ion of the president will bu promptly arrested. A rrun Ke men t s f"r observing the fu neral obseouics. for the lale martyr president have been about completed and they will be observed on April '2. Governor li bits will deliver the eulonv. The I'nlon Vadette of March CI fax that there is a rumor in .alt Lake that Martin the wizard h.is recently moL with a very sud-den death. The assassiik of Ihe President .1. Wilkes Booth appears in the group on "Frederick t'ompany's Portrait Carte ie vi'site" one of which i.s owned by Mr. John Ward, of the Crystal mloon in this city. The i-nr.l was taken to Mr. Buchlel on the morning of the l!th iiik! enlarged, by Mr. Brink and copies of it are now ticing dis.t ribul cd. Governor Ilramlette M a messHRp to Ihe Kentucky J ,ea is la I u re rearets its action In fallinit to raliiv abolition ef slavery. lie s.is it would have been inueb more politic aTor tlinm to have ratified it than to have left the ques tion to he passed upon by their suc cessors, for In1 believes that slavery is irrevocably d"omcd. lleli n M. Tromiey and A ' were married April 1 by l3''. Aura Kev 1 . TOY ( AMU" M-:w vii:n i-. rtrct tirttve V oman Who alio ril foaled Tin lBUe A sralnc. KOI1KHT GRijVI-:. Or. April 19. (To the Kditor.) Do the inoihcjn ,jf Port land and small towns in Oregon Know that their chilm-m's lives s re in danger from the candy they arc buying every day ? I went to a small store In this place and hotifihl 5 i cuts' vwirlh of s soft while eicauiy candy coated w 1 1 h rhm-o. late. It uaa in fciiuares shout half an Inch Ihu-k and nearly an inch and t !i i ce -iia i lets square. As I was t.ilk In and carelessly eating it 1 fewal lo ed a lai se piece without chewing 11. If scencd to scratch my throat hi it went down, hut I thought It I he hard ehocelat" coating;. However, It lodged in the pullet fHrlhcr down, end such an aouy of pain 1 never endured before! I tried to et it down by i ri ii I. i i tr water, but ouly blood ram, l-'mally in the course of half an hour I succ led in Kelt In;; it on dow u hy swallowing dry, cruinhs of bread. After Ihe paiu lcgan ! examined the candy and found in ,,ne piece, a niarhle. In the next a metal whistle a ltd iu l-ie other what was burtinp me, a nulal soldier with sharp prickly points ntid a p'rt lied to It an inch and a half long so it could bo worn tin tho coal. Another piece had nothing In It. I Inquired where the candy ratne from and was told it was made til Port land. I Names of firms end store tun pl led on rci nest I. If this could happen so eastlv 1 1 me why not to many Ittiln children? II seems to nie this ia a cane for the health officer. I'Or.N'rilV WOMAN niaflKurlnar ('olna. iM i:ri-.Ntii;.vci:, u-.. Arm . iTn the editor.) Kindly inform inn tlirout;h ihe columns of The Oreso li la n as to whether thein is any law nain.t distil uriny t 'nited states money. AI-.TUrn KLK1N. The Government is Intensely Jealous of its coinage and riscnts any attempt to counterfeit it or issue spurious com of any kind. Sc-tion 16.i of the Fed eial penal code declares that anyone who shall frndutcntly bv any meyna deface, mutilate, falsify, nale or light en any gold or silver coin may Vie imprisoned for five vara. A ca?n i.s cited in which a jeweler was con victed for (rotd-plal in silver coins, al though he did so without any Intcr.t to l.-uue them as currency, designing tiiem for the purpose of making them into ornaments. One may. of course, make a silver ring out of a coin or mount coins on stick pins or watch fobs, if he is barbarian enough to do so. without being penalised. The in tent of the law is to guard against fraud iu the coinajro. Mull I'ound f'r Ameriea. Kl'GKXK, Or.. April it). (To the IJd itor.) I thank you very much for hav ing yiven space tu my remarks. I'on ci t iling your comment I beg to Mam Ihnt I do know that Ihe mail baps seized bv Knirland contained mall to American citizens, ns the sleamer was hound for New York. I K-t my German ps pers via Italy marked via Genoa, Italian Hteainer. As to the fact whether any of th mall was official (for Government pur poses). I should not consider this neces sary lo make it an Insult to our coun try. The interference with tho business and private affairs of American cltiens ouuht to be sufficient cause for pro test. 1-:. rSCIIYv'ABZSClULD. Why Thia t'ui(rnn Ia U:td. HI I.l.SHi lr. or.. Anrll I'O. (To the Kditor.) l'lc-ae tell me why this was called the ti'ld CoiiKreMs. Jt Is inoro than 6'1 years since t'miresH first, met and 1 cannot understand why it li so called. K. HOfiWIiLI. Tho first Coheres met In 17i9 mni bold oflice for two years. K''h sul seiiuciit Congress has held effbo for two years and the term of the Sixty, third began Mar-b 4, mi. TIIK tll.. -oti Hie apple blossoms .sva I it the southern bieijiit.-.' pla. The daisies and the buttercups uri; In the fields the lambs ate runnl n ; By the. pool the load Is I-u n n i u v : The butterflies ure jiorgeous as day. Ob. the. bumble bees arc bumming The b illuming birds are humming; All outdoors invites my coming. And 1 must be n my way. SABA BLA."""Hl: WRKN N'. "Don't Substitute" Is Two Edged Manufacturers are justly angered when retailers uttctnpt substitution. But the retailer should also insist that the manufacturer refuse to adopt the "just as i;ood" policy in regard to his advertiser. The retailer known that there Is no ad ve it Is i ng "Jast us good" art that which iipiieai s in the ncwrpapci s of his ity. He knows no jjiher form will hrlnn as much business to bin store. He .si oiiM s.iy to the manufac turer, "1 play fair v 1 1 h you and with my customers. Nov you play fair wild mn and eHn p.-,- twjin- i.oodn In the nevvs c: p' I- . l:' ell: te"H s I c.id." Victoria Ma jor .1. '. Illdce. the old Victorian has started for Paris whither he was summoned by telegraph from the Kmperor of the French. t is tlioutlit Major Itidtre will occupy a position In Mexico second only to that held by "Duke." tlwln.