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(jive poetoffiee address In Xuli, including county and state. . 1-oataz-e Mates 12 to lo paces, i cmt; 18 to i2 paxes, 2 cents; 34 to 4S pages, 3 cents: 60 to tlu pags, 4 cents; 62 to 70 pages, 5 cents; 78 to ua paces, U cants, Foreign post age, double rates. Kastern Uualnras Office Veree Jt Conklln., New York, liruuswiuk building;-' Cnlcatfo. Stens-er building-, ran i'ranioo Office R.J. Bldwell Com pany, 74a .Market street. POKTLANI). THURSDAY, AI'KIX 89, 11S. ;; 8THATEGY ON THE STHAIT3. ;;The resistance encountered by the allied forces which have landed at the Dardanelles is a result of haste in attempting- to force an entrance Dy naval attack alone. The allies appear to have imagined that they could as easily force the straits as Dewey entered Ma nila Bay and that, once in the Sea of Marmora, their fleet would have Con stantinople at its mercy. They over looked or set at naught several con siderations. One is that Germany has imbued the Turks with a degree of ef ficiency which the Spaniards did not possess, and that Enver Easha, the Turkish War Minister, has German training and the aid of able German officers. Another is that the cur rent facilitates the drifting of mines through the straits against a hostile Xfeet. ;Their greatest seeming mistake was their failure. , to apply the lesson l&vrned in Belgium. This is that ar tillery stationary in forts cannot long Mold out against mobile artillery, ( either on sea or land. The allies were able to batter, down some of the forts, just as the Germans battered down those of Belgium, but the Turks brought up artillery on the roads which run along the peninsula of Oalllpoli. T6ey may also have removed guns from the forts. These guns appear to have been planted on the wooded hills along each, side of the straits and to have re newed the defense. The fleet could not land sufficient force to. do more than atfpmolish the forts and then recall the landing parties to the ships.. Even then slme parties had hot encounters. The ceily means of holding their gains was fpr the allies to bring enough land forces to hold the ground from which ijve fleet had driven the enemy, to ad viuio'e up the heights and with field artillery to overcome the Turkish guns cjmeealed on the wooded heights. The allies not only failed to hold the Advantage gained by their naval bom bardment, but their attack alarmed tfco Turks Sufficiently to cause con centration of the latter's forces for defense. When the attack began, the Tjurkish army was widely scattered ipr an invasion of Transcaucasia and 1 J " T 1 1 unH fur1 flnfimun ie TV- a r t i n I n afeainst the British Indian invaders. They no sooner realized that their capital was in danger than they began assembling a large army around the city , and planting guns on the hills. Tjijius the former operations served as nttice to prepare. Had the naval bom. biirdment been followed by prompt landing of an army, a relatively small ferco might: have sufficed to accom plish what now requires several hun-dl-ed thousand men. v The obstacles which the allies have encountered were foreseen by the Lon tiin Times when the naval attack be gkn. In its issue of February 26 that jmper said the facts "lead us to the conclusion that bombardment from the s4a will not carry such a project very fjr, unless it is combined with troops." TJiis warning was followed by an other from the Times correspondent at! Mitylene, near the scene of opera tions, written on April 1, when the al-lir-were gathering forces for a land aiiack, in which he Said: The British public, which mny have taken tdd liftht-hearted a view bf the campaign RCSinBt the a-iites of the Turkish empire, viill have to exercise patience nnd be pre pared to accept heavy lasses with equanim ity'. For a varioty of reasons the Turks nnd tltetr German advisers have had time jrreatly to - strengthen their positions on each side of-the Sti-nits. They hove also been en-friurg-ed by the events of March 18 (the pinking of four nllied ships). They, have a fwjr supply of artillery, including many mo bile pieces from 4-irtch to rt-lneh caliber, ned they have excellent artillery positions which the naval guns of the allies cannot always rench. Undoubtedly the Turks real ize'' that failure means a worse disaster for themselves than the loss of their rebellious provinces in Kurope. , There Is nothing to show that any consid erable proportion of the officers nre disaf fected, or that the absence of camaraderie between the Oerman and Turkish officers diminishes the fighting efficiency of the afmy to any considerable extent. defensive operations, too, are those in which the Turk is. at his best. Much hard fighting In which the allies must suffer heavily may there fore be counted on before tliey can train tltelr-" guns on the Makrikeui powder mills and the Sublime Porte. The facts on which the Times laid stress two months ago and which are obvious to any civilian who gives them aiM thought must have been known to the heads of the British and French army and navy before they began op erations. Strategic reasons must have y(Jlded to other reasons. What were they? Russia about that time suffered her second great defeat in East Prussia and rumors were afloat -that she had received proposals from Germany for a separate peace. France and Britain rqigjit well be alarmed at such a pos sibility and might well overcome rea sons; of strategy with reasons of state or of higher strategy. Having barely held their own against half the army oGermany, they, had good cause to doubt their ability to withstand the entire armies of both Germany and Austria. The prize they offered to keep Russia in line may have been Ctofistantinople and the. Dardanelles, an,d" they may have tried to rush the straits without regard to prudence, merely to convince Russia of their sin cerity. If successful, they would ret war munitions into and wheat out of Xtussla. The allies had other motives for forc ing the issue with Turkey. The moral effect of a decisive success against that country would be great in fore Jng the hands of Italy and the neutral Balkan states. The spectacle of the Turks in the last ditch might stampede these states to the allied cause, hun gry for a share of the spoils. The elim ination of Turkey as a belligerent would enable the allies to concentrate their forces against Germany and Aus tria. The stake which might be won was so great that the allies appear to have considered themselves Justified in taking a chance that they would win quickly. They did . not win quickly and the adverse effect of abandoning the enterprise- would be so injurious to their cause that they now intend to persevee, though success can probably be won,, if at all, only after an entire Summer of hard fighting-. THE COLUMBIA "WILDERNESS." The Youth's Companion remarks that "the-opening of the canal in the Columbia River af The Dalles, in Ore gon, in the first week In May, Is an im portant event, for- the new waterway makes the river navigable for 500 miles farther into the wilderness." Virile youth treasures its dreams and fancies. .The Eastern lad stiil un derstands the West as a land of tan gled forests . and deaperado-ridden plains where the chief diversions are Indian fighting and killing grizzly bears. Some of their elders, it seems, do not . know any better, either. The fact that the "wilderness" to be made penetrable for vessels by the Ce lilo Canal consists- of boundless grain fields, great orchards and productive irrigated lands, in which are set down prosperous cities with paved streets, churoU-es, theaters, and schools, is prosy Indeed. "ASl,lSEt'AT THIS SWITCH" KO EXCISE. Those members of the Legislature who are accepting seriously the Jour nal's buncombe about tire land grant resolution and are trying to get from under by pleading ignorance or mis information as to its contents and pur pose may thank the Portland newspa per for their predicament. That newspaper knew of its exist ence, although it now terms it a "mid night resolution," three days before it passed the House. On page 2, Febru ary 18, it reported the passage of the resolution by the Senate and was aware that in due course the resolution would reach the House. It had ample oppor tunity to warn that body. But at that time the shocked organ of reservation was so busy cartooning legislative "bosses," lambasting the Senate and endeavoring to promote a deadlock between the two houses In an effort to save the jobs of a few political favorites that it did not have time to pay attention to constructive matters. For the benefit of those members who now say they had something slipped over on them it may also be stated that The Oregonian published on February 17, page 8, the fact that the resolution had been introduced and gave a brief resume of its provi sions. It would seem that a member of the Legislature ought to be as fully aware of the contents of a bill or reso lution as a newspaper reporter. The fact that some legislators fail to in form themselves as to what is going forward and willingly permit others to do their thinking for them makes boss ism possible. Were We to grant that the resolution was "slipped across" nd should not have been passed which we do not we should still feel that the man who voted for it and then attempted to excuse himself on the ground that he was asleep when he did so had 'not justified himself in the slightest degree. MEAT FBOX THE EATER. For moderns there is a better answer to Samson's rjddle than the one he gave the Philistines through his wife. "Out of the eater came forth meat and out of the strong came forth sweet ness." This was the riddle. The Phil istines had three days to guess it and failed. Samson then explained that "the strong" meant the lion he had killed with- his bare hands and the sweetness" that came . forth from it was honey which a swarm of bees had deposited in the carcass. This explan ation is too baldly literal for the subtle modern mind, though it did passably well for the benighted Philistines. Were Samson alive today he would probably give us to understand that by "the strong" he meant the Kings and Kaisers who at their pleasure plunge the world, into war, while the "Bweetness" of the riddle signifies the compensating benefits that sometimes flow from fighting and slaughter. A few benefits of this sort Canada is ex periencing at this moment. Two of them are particularly Con spicuous. The first is a check upon the consumption of alcohol. Canada is hot in the thick of the fighting, but she has contributed her share of men and money and sbe has felt in return the wave of prohibition sentiment that has followed the war almost every where. The growth of hostility to liquor which has been so noticeable in the United States of late years did not seem to affect Canada much until very recently, but now there is a prospect o stringent restrictions, across the border. . At the same time .;ihe .'Canadians have set about Cleaning up their poli tics. Corruption has-been as plentiful there as in the United States,f but we have not heard a great deal about it In . fact is has been treated lightly, more as a joke than a matter for seri ous consideration. But the war with its exactions has aroused the public conscience and new election laws are contemplated Which will make the way of the transgressor a good deal harder than it has been. Democratic institu tions are not likely to endure unless some way is found to make politics clean. Perhaps the Canadians Will find the way before we do. If that happens we may thank the war for it. TltOIXOPE'S CENTER ART. Anthony Trollope's . centenary was celebrated on April 24. The celebra tion was not particularly lively. It caused scarcely a ripple in the literary world and not even a ripple outside the circle that cares more for books and authors than for anything else. Trol lope is usually reckoned as one of the four principal "Victorian novelists." The other three Were Dickens, Thack eray and George Kliot. Probably Trollope survives more feebly than any of the rest. George Eliot still has her devoted readers and In Mrs. Humphrey Ward she has found an imitator of a certain ability. Thack eray is ardently praised by critics who wish to be deemed more than com monly cultured and a few people enjoy reading him. Dickens is the most thoroughly alive of the four. His nov els are quite as popular as they ever were and his characters are perfectly familiar to the reading public. Thou sands understand an allusion to Pick wick or Silas Wegg who remember nothing of Becky Sharp and Colonel NeWcome. Trollope was master of a drab and homely art. His books flowed from the press with great regularity for many years and were more or less widely read to the last, but long before Ms death his vogue had declined and the tide has been ebbing ever since. There is no especial reason why he should be remembered by future gen erations. His descriptions of British life are of photographic accuracy and will always be valuable to social his torians, but there is little worth re membering In his stories outside of their documentary value. He ground out novels like a grist from amill, working industriously and regularly without a particle of inspira tion. His style is as prosaic as a rag carpet. He could lay down the frame work of a plot with admirable skill and move his characters through it with unerring precision, but he could not always make them interesting. This was regrettably true toward the end of his life, when he continued to write books which diminished his rep utation and made readers forget how good his former works had been. OUR WEU-DE8ia"ED PLANET. The question whether the other planets of the solar system are inhab itable turns pretty largely on the pres ence or absence of an atmosphere similar to ours. The gases which en velop the earth are wonderfully well adapted to sustain and protect living creatures. Of course some other com bination of gases might do the same thing for animals differently organized from men and their humble compan ions, but that Is another matter. A scientist has lately described for the press some of the exquisitely in genious adaptations of living creatures to the earth's atmosphere. One of the most interesting relates to the daily manufacture of ozone byithe ultra-violet rays of the sun. If these rays were to fall upon us with their full vigor all life would be destroyed. That calam ity does not happen because most of their energy s Used up in transform ing the oxygen of the air into ozone in the upper layers. This ozone shields the earth from the destructive chemical rays and "at night disappears by virtue of its insta bility. This is one among hundreds of facts which look as if the earth had been specially designed for man. THE STUPID PRESS CENSORS. Protests made against the press cen sorship, both in England and Germany, show what abuses arise from confid ing to individuals despotic power over discussion of public questions. A pos sible adverse effect on the nation's fortunes in war is made the pretext for forbidding publication of matter which has only a remote or indirect bearing on the war. Supervision over what facts the people shall learn is soon en larged to supervision over what they shall think until gradually the public falls under the rule of a horde of petty despots composing a modern inquisi tion which suppresses freedom of speech and would, if it could, reach into men's minds and suppress free dom of thought. The tyranny of the censors is equaled only by their stupidity. By keeping the British people in a fool's paradise of constant victory, they tempted workmen in armament and munition factories to loaf on the job and thus injured the cause they thought they served. By condemning a German paper for discrediting the absurd story that the Germans had captured Belfort with 350,000 French troops they paved the way for a panic and an outburst of fury against the German government, should the allies invade Germany. There is no excuse for the censor ship to go beyond preventing publica tion of facts about the size, armament, movements and position of the armed forces of a country. Suppression of news of a defeat or publication of news of a fictitious victory serves no purpose except to deceive the people and to discredit what truth is permit ted to leak out. A nation which has been thus deceived is ill-prepared to receive news of a disaster which the censor cannot suppress and which may cause it to "go all to pieces" at pre cisely the time when calm and forti tude are most needed. A WARNING AGAINST HJSTERICS. A salutary warning against hyster ical legislation is found in the sober facts of the cotton situation. At the outbreak of the war the South had a 16,000,000-bale crop on Its hands, but could not get it to market because the war deprived it of ships and stopped all foreign buying. The South "went up in the air." It called on Cohgress to do something from issuing bonds se cured by stored cotton to authorizing a direct loan. Only with the greatest difficulty were the Southerners kept from tying up legislation until they got what they wanted. Everybody was asked to help the stricken South by buying a bale of cotton and all manner of schemes were proposed to create a demand. The banks were so far impressed with the necessity for doing some thing that they formed a pool of $135, 000,000 to be lent on cotton. Just about that time ships were obtained, exchanges were reopened and exports were resumed. Only $25,000 of the $135,000,000 was actually lent on cot ton, and the pool was proved unneces sary. The price is only 7 ?i cents a pound, which is about the cost of pro duction, but the South has saved its capital. Cotton Is cheap because there was too much of it, but exports since August 1 have only decreased from 8.138,000 to 7,013,000 baies, and the war demand for guncotton promises to absorb much of the surplus due to the big crop. This demand is believed to have added 1,000,000 bales to the world's normal consumption of 14,000, 000 bales. The panicky South has turned much cotton land to other crops and may thus cause a scarcity which jvlll boost prices and enable it to re coup its losses. All of this shows the need of keep ing one's head in times of excitement. People w-ho are in temporary distress fly to the Government for relief as the teamster In the fable called upon Jove when his wagon sank in a chuckhole. Jove's answer is the one that should be given to many of those who call on Congress, which lacks the omnipo tence of Jove as well as the wisdom. 8COLDINO THE PAINTERS. A good scolding is exactly what some of our less decorous painters need and the critics have set about giving them one. Henry R. Poore has been rebuking their unfortunate ten dencies for a long time. Charles Ve zln comes to his assistance now with an article in the American Art News. The latter gentleman accuses the younger and more "advanced" paint ers of , "yielding to the fascination of depravity." They paint by choice re pulsively vicious subjects and mask a fondness for filth under a thin veil of devotion to art. Of course this reproach does not apply to those artists who seek sub jects which teach a social lesson. They are not disciples of art for art's sake," but on the contrary use their genius for the good of mankind. Medi cine must not be rejected merely be cause it tastes bitter. But when a painter uses his brush and pigments to incite low propensities merely be cause they are low there is no excuse for him. Mr. Poore laments that art ists of this undesirable quality cannot be expelled from the fraternity as law yers can be disbarred. . When art becomes as intimately re lated to our dally lives as the law is something of this sort may perhaps be done. In the meantime, while we wait and long for that blessed consumma tion, it may be some comfort to reflect that painters are not the only sinners of this sort. For many years some of Our most popular writers of fiction have been of deliberate choice enter taining us with criminals and degener ates. Sherlock Holmes in all his glory Is a morphine fiend, and it would be difficult to estimate how many youths have been led along the primrose path by his miserable example. Criminals of the Raffles sort fairly swarm through current fiction. The "gentleman bur glar" is one of the most popular mod ern characters. No doubt he also has his imitators in real life. The old fashioned dime novel with its scalping and tomahawking was wholesome lit erature compared with this stuff. Mr. Poore rather weakens his case against the Yilth vendors by insisting that art should be a "gentlemanly-profession." Few really great artists have ever been members of the kid glove and swallowtail fraternity. Those who cultivate elegancies of that kind are usually quite as degenerate as the lovers of criminal types. There is little choice between them. Art is never healthy except when it is in close alli ance with the workshop and then it sees no more fascination in the jail and gutter than in the drawing-room. Militarism does not consist in na tional readiness for self-defense. It is, as Wheeler says in "Are We Ready?" "a state of mind." Both Germany and Switzerland are nations trained to arms, but they have applied the idea differently. No cool-headed American can find "any fault with the Swiss ap plication. We simply urge' Americans to apply the idea in the Swiss fashion in order to guard their country against attack and in order, when it is at tacked, to save their men from useless slaughter. Colohel Roosevelt's testimony con firms the popular belief that He has a remarkably well-disciplined con science. This docile monitor has al ways directed the Colonel to do exactly what his interests required. The con flict between interest and duty that moralists say so much about never has bothered him. Happy the man to whom the right is always what he wants. The women's congress at The Hague is not likely to secure the "immediate truce" which it demands, but that is of littlfe consequence. Such a truce now would be merely a pause to prepare for another war, while the women's congress, something never seen in the world before, will lay the foundations of an influence that will modify all fu ture history. A dispatch from St. Petersburg brings, the news that the Germans are bombarding towns "on the coast of Poland." If this is true the war is really working wonders. We shall ex pect to hear soon of a naval attack on Switzerland. Poland had a stretch of seacoast In olden times, but it Was lost long before the final partition. Jane: Addams as president of the Women's Peace Congress represents the benevolent neutrality fef the United States.1 One of the mildest women in the world. Miss Addams' stands inflex ibly for justice tempered by kindly feeling. Her life shows how much sun shine can do in the everlasting war fare upon misery. Seventeen-year-old Willie Sidis, the Harvard prodigy, is not the first lad to vow eternal celibacy and he will not be the first to break his vow. The mis ogyny of youth is a pretty serious mal ady, but It does not last long. Two ruby lips, a pair of laughing eyes and a dance usually complete the cure. The war is likely to affect European labor as the Black Death did in medie val times. It Is killing so many men that labor will be scarce and wages high when peace comes. Hence we need not look for a heavy immigra tion to the United States. The tide may even run the other way. 'David Warfield has played his part in "The Auctioneer" 1400 times to the delight of audiences in every city of the land. The play is mediocre in plot and sentimental, but Warfleld's acting redeems It. His ability deserves a bet ter field in which to display itself. The London Post lt hysterical in sug gesting German millionaires in Eng land be put into bullpens and interned. The nations at war are supposed to be civilized, but if all advices were heeded would soon be worse than our Apaches of long ago. The statement that Oxford Univer sity soon will stop the use of intoxi cants makes many wonder why a great educational institution countenances them. Why does not somebody show to the British fleet the sixty-eight German war vessels said to be cruising in the North Sea? American employers may soon de mand a law forbidding assisted emi gration of their skilled workmen to Europe. What the Kaiser telegraphed to his sister, the Queen of Greece, would make interesting reading. - Major De Bequer 1 kept busy fight ing first for his father's and then for his mother's country.- When the war is over and the royal kin' sit at a celebrating feast, who will be Macgregor? The Queen of Greece is the Kaiser's sister and Wilhelm will make it a family matter. Oregon, unlike the suffering East, does not mix its Summer with Its Spring. City Auditor Barbur did the courte ous thing in allowing a, rival to file first. Austria has not much of a navy, but one submarine Is In the effective class. Governor Strong has vetoed the bill and Alaska will continue to hang. What the world needs Is moving pic tures of the Roosevelt trial. Who said "Lewiston to the sea," was a dream? .. Star and Starmakers BT LEONE CA83 BAIK, COULD you say that the unhappy husband of a talkative tango mad wife is a victim of the "foot-and-mouth" ailment? - Actress weighing 283 pounds crawled through an 18-inch crack in pursuit of a fleeing burglar. She's some cracks man herself. Read where "England now controls the world's copper supply." I always thought that most of our coppers came from Ireland. e e e An English actor gent who has Just died left all his big estate to his second wife. This is in accordance with the ancient law that "the last shall be first," while the first gets left. Also the Incident should tend greatly to popularize aecond marriages. e e An orang outang which was on Its way from Africa to go into a vaudeville act committed suicide by Jumping from the steamer into the sea- Doubtless the animal had in some way been ap prised of its destination. m Poor little Lena Rivers, whose or phaned childhood was the motif for more tear-shedding than the woes of Leven Madame Vine or Dora Thorne, is coming to ua in film version by way of the Heilig next Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. e e e ' In the recent war dispatches there ap peared a brief mention of the death at the front of Captain--Claude Casimir Perier, the only son of the late Presi dent of the Republic of France. He was killed in one of the violent engage ments north of Solesons, and was buried by the Germans. Perhaps few in this country who read the news recalled that Captain Perier was the husband of Mme. Slmone, the distinguished French actress, who ap peared in this country under the di rection of George C. Tyler. Just before the outbreak of the war. Captain Perier was in this country on a business trip. He was under 35 years of age, and had been promoted to a captaincy for bravery in the battle of Marne. e e e Answer to "Subscriber," Forest Grove. George M. Cohan is Irish. His father, Jerry M. Cohan, has just been elected to the presidency of the Catholic, Actors' Guild. e Richard Carle, Fiske O'Hara and Mary Shaw, three stars of the legiti mate, made their debut in vaudeville at the Palace on Monday. Mary Shaw leaves the cold heights of intellectual drama to present the very human ana very interesting, "The Dickey Bird," by Harriet Ford and Harvey J. O'Higgins, which has been used as a curtain raiser to "Polygamy" at the Park The ater recently. Fiske O'Hara, the popu lar Irish-American tenor. Kings a repertoire of his famous ballads, ap pearing by arrangement with Augus tus Pitou, Jr. Richard Carle will star in the musical farce, "If We Said What We Thought," with a supporting com pany of 15. e Leo Linhard, a Pacific Coast stock actor, is playing in Jersey City. J. e e The title of "the grand old lady of the American theater" is now the le gitimate possession of Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, the delightful old actress soon to be seen here with John Drew In Charles Frohman's Interesting revival of that actor's greatest success, "Rose mary." Mrs. WhifTen came into the quaint title on the deaths of Mrs. Gil bert and Mrs. Yeamans. She is a player with many long years' artistic accomplishment to her credit, aird in her time she has been seen with many of the most famous players whose careers have made history for the American drama. In "Rosemary" he is seen as old Mrs. Crulkshank. the role supplying her with splendid oppor tunities, of .which she avails herself delightfully. . Mr. Drew comes to the Heilig Theater May 10, 11 and 12. e e The wife of a theatrical booking agent, in suing for a separation, charges that she "has had to wear stockings with holes In them and Is still wearing stockings with holes in them." I easily can understand how improperly ventilated hosiery would cause a woman much mortification dur ing this showery April season. But a little personal application to the old fashioned art of darning might patch up her domestic peace. e Alia Nazlniova. playing In "Wftr Brides," has been given a taste of a little real strife. Miss Rosalind Ivan, also of the histrionic profession, haa begun in the Supreme Court an action to collect J7000 from the Russian ac tress. About March 1, last, when "War Brides" was first projected, alleges the plaintiff. Mme. Nazlmova gave her a contract to adt the leading role at the agreeable salary of $250 a week. Her engagement was to last for the entire vaudeville season, whatever that is, continues the complaint. Anyway, alleges Miss Ivan, she stood ready and willing to be a "War Bride" in return for $250 per, but when the Russia i actress opened in her sketch, she decided not to avail herself of the plaintiffs services. Miss Ivan still says she stood ready and willing at all times to act out on the stage, but the defendant's refusal to permit her has caused her a pain of $7000 magnitude. The defendant was apprised of her difficulty when a copy of the complaint was served on her at the Colonial Theater. The name of the actresa is given in the court papers . as Alia Bryant, that being her cognomen In private life. She la the wife of Chaw-lea Bryant, who is also her leading man. e "Cousin Jane" is the title selected by Charles Klein for the new play written for Julian Eltlnge. The lat ter, by the way, ended his tour in Min neapolis last week and has gone to New York to confer with Mr. Klein. Next season Mr. Eltinge plays his New York engagement at the theater named after him. Adele Blood la- to head a company at the Teck stock theater in Buffalo this Summer. She will feature her blonde hair. e e e Mrs. Herbert Garr Reed is almost an actress, at least she's an unuaually clev-ir amateur, bo I can put in here her observation on opportunity." She Opinrs that too often when Dame Op portunity knocks at ur tfoors she find ua in ear pajamas. Twenty-Five Year Ago from The Oreconlan, April 29. 1990. Washington Major McKinley is much pleased over the reception ac corded his tariff bill. As shown by in terviews gathered by the New York press the measure appears to be high ly acceptable, and Mr. McKinley now believes it will pass both houses easily. Albany, Or. There is a report cur rent here that the Jefferson Flouring Mills had failed and that the farmers concerned would lose 32,000 bushels of wheat and oats. Roseburg An enthusiastic mass meeting was held here tonight. The town is wild with excitement. The necessary subsidy for the building of the Roseburg-Cooa Bay railroad has been subscribed. Washington The United States Su preme Court yesterday, through Justice Fuller ruled adversely to the consti tutionality of state laws providing for the seizure of liquor brought into the state in original packages. Such law, the court holds is an interference with Interstate commerce. Boston Radbourn's phenomenal work In the box won for Boston against New York yesterday in the Brother hood League, S to 1. J. W. Whalley has Just returned from a hunting trip up the Valley which he took with Walt Monteith. of Albany. They bagged a dozen swift winged tld-blts. . C W. Knowles and Mrs. Knowles who have been sojourning in Califor nia for four weeks returned yesterday. The State Medical Board last night granted licenses to the following: Dr. Bismarck Lleemann, Dr. John M. WelW Dr. H. S. Stevens, of Portland; Dr. J H. Brewer, Sllverton; Dr. J. J. Plummer, Baker City; Dr. Robert G. Black, Mc Minnvlllc; Dr. (Miss) Orpha D. Bald win, East Portland. The following Holmes Business Col lege students have accepted positions as follows: Cornelia Fowle, with Forbes & Breeden; Edward Nile, of Albany, With Hoffman & Bates; Lillle B. Peter son, with W. S. Bowers & Co.; James McGill. of Astoria, with Frank Wool sey; Ed Short, with Olds & King; a. A. Newberry, of Albany, with Albany Iron Works; Maud Healy, of Colfax, with Theodore Cushing; Jlina Smith, with Telephone Company; Allen C. Smith, with Bradstreet's Commercial Agency; Lillian Cotter, with Oregon Land Com pany, and Mrs. Parka Morden. with Northwest Houston Electric Company. Hon. George D. Geoghegan, of Van couver, Wash., left for Ellensburg last night to attend the Grand Army en campment, N. S. Seargent, better known as 'Richard" at the Arlington Club, leaves tonight on a trip to Puget Hound. Mr. Seargent has been assistant to Head Steward Beakey for five years, dur ing which time he has had no vacation. The directors at the last meeting, ap preciating his services, voted him a four weeks' vacation. The Portland ball team will leave tomorrow to open the season with the Spokane. The Portlands are going in for the pennant, says Manager Dwver. Tom Parrott is one of the pitchers. He was formerly of the Willamettes. He will be backed by Paul McCarthy, formerly of the .Sacra men tos and the old Portlands. J. O. Munday. late of Grand Forks. Dak.. In the other twlrler. W. B. Bray, who hails from the name place, will stand behind the bat for him. The other members of the club are: Shortstop, P. L. Howard, late of the Texas League; first base, Jt. 10. Dwyer, of Omaha; setrnml base, Charles Gessner, of IJavenport, la.; third base, "Jlggs" Parrott, formerly of the Wil lamettes; left field. Judd Smith of Far go, Dak.; center field. Frank Buchtel, formerly of the Willamettes. The right field plane is not yet filled, but Will iam Ueorge, formerly of the New York State League as pitcher, in 1HSS and more recently of Indianapolis and r"o lumbus, may be the man selected. The uniform of the Portland consists of buff shirt and breeches with maroon trimmings, caps, stockings and belts of maroon and "Portland" Tnblanoned across the breast of the shirts. CHAMPOKO I.Y MRRITS .OTICB Celebration ef founding of Orraon Sat urday Call All to Attend. PORTLAND, April 28. (To !) Edi tor.) "Champoeg day." or "Founder's day," commemorating the famous and very Important meeting that was held at Champoeg on May 2, 1843, attended by "all the inhabitants of the Willam ette Valley," will be celebrated this year at Champoeg on the exact spot of the original assemblage on next Sat urday, May 1. I write this communication in order to call the attention of Portland peo ple to two facts that are worth serious ly considering. First, the significance of that first Champoeg gathering Is such that it merits recognition at least once, every year by every loyal and appreciative Oregonian, whether pio neer, native son or daughter or one whose citizenship comes by adoption. Second, the trip to Champoeg at this time of the year, when the "green witchery of Spring" frames the beau tiful Willamette. "In whose crj-ptal depths inverted Spring a picture of the kT." one of the most inspiring and charm ing to be had anywhere on the Pacific Coast. On the theory that most business men keep their noses too clo.se to the grindstone and that most of us, if not all of us, know too little of our state and its interesting pioneer history, this is an opportunity and an occasion when thare should be hundreds, even thou sands, who will avail themselves of its alluring call. And since there are about 1000 teach ers in the Portland schools, there should be about 1000 teachers In at tendance on that occasion next Satur day in order that they may be the more fully equipped to impart to their pupils, the future men and women of Oregon, the beautiful hiatorio story of the Champoeg meeting on May 2, 1S43, its significance a to the subsequent acquisition of the "Oregon country," the connection of the career of Ewing Young with the beginning of govern mental authority here and the founda tion work so splendidly laid by the pioneers in that far-away time much of which is but dimly understood by the vast, majority of our teachers, as well as most other people. Such an outing will be enjoyable from every point of view, instructive along beneficial lines, healthful and helpful, inexpensive, and. since it ia within the reach of practically every body, practically everybody should take a luncheon along and become an active factor In the celebration of an event that was so pregnant with far-reaching consequences to all this Northwestern territory. T. T. GEER. Policeman or Florist? Baltimore American. "I am looking- out for a porch-climber. Can you direct me where to go?" "Weir, sir, until you particularize, I don't know whether you want me to direct you to a florist or to m police man." Man With m Staarlo Opinion. Life. A man with a single opinion la apt to spoil it by ever-eoffdllnar. Just as be would an only child. Half a Century Ago From The Oresonlan of April 20. 186B. We learn today that J. Wllkea Booth, the assassin, has met hia fate. Not what he deserved nor what would have been half his deserts upon the gallows, but hunted down by the avengers of his crime, made stranger to the haunts of men. Hon. Elwood Evans, of Washington Territory, haa been In town for a few lays past and was present at the ere monies Thursday. Mr. Evans is on hla way up the Columbia to prosecute the canvass. He will address the citizens of Clarke County at Vancouver thla evening. Judge P. P. Prim, of Jacksonville, who ia by seniority the Chief Justice of our Supreme Bench, lias been in town for a few days. A gentleman now in this city and lonfr a resident of Nashville, where he knew President Johnson, says that the malicious stories of 4he President's drunkenness are unfounded. He says that nobody who ever knew I'resident Johnson would believe that he would drink to excess under any circum stance. Several gentlemen member of the committee in getting up the cercnto nies for Thursday request us to give special thanks to W. F. Wilcox, Messrs 10 mil Lowenstein & Co., Messrs. Brels ford & Ewry, Joseph Buchtel and others for their efforts In preparing and or namenting the Catafalco. The Common Council met last even ing, with Mayor Failing in the chair. The following bills were allowed: H. L. Pittock, $21; J. II. Kagan. J23.50; M. McCobet. $21.60; C. H. Myers, $34.62; Sherry Ross, $4.50; Daniel Wright, $613. 90. It Is worthy to remark that the frreat ball lately given in Paris by the Prince Napoleon, the first that has been given in the Palais Royal for nine years, that not a single invitation was given to an American secessionist or a Russian, In a speech at the serenade to the President and. Missouri Congressmen at Washington Henry Ward Bcecher satd: "If God pleased he would one day travel over every state in the South and would preach in Charleston, Sa vannah, Mobile, New Orleans and in St, Louis. And when that day arrived he could preach the Uoapel and not be hanged for It." GEXE1UL LEE'S LOST LETTERS Confidential Military Dispatches to Jeff Davia Are Disclosed. More than 200 confidential military dispatchos to President Jefferson Davis from the great Southern chief ts in. Robert E. Lee, which historians had feared were hopelessly "lost," are to he given to the public by their owner, Wymberley Jones De Renne, of "Worm sloe," icorgia, and are to bn issued in May by the Putnam under the title of "Lee's Confidential Dispatches to Davis." l6a-lS6.ri. These dispatches appear to be a pri vate file kept by the Confederate Pres ident from June, 162, to April, 1S65. and they contain many letters which are expected to throw new light on obscure passages in the annals of Southern arms. One of the letters, evidently intended only for the eye of Mr. Mavis, debates whether General Jarkaon shall bo brought from the Valley of Virginia and used to strengthen Lee's army in front of Richmond for an attarU on McClelian, or whether Jackson shall be reinforced and ordered to advance into Pennsylvania. Anot her reviews the ( ;tt'shurg cam paign, expresses llrneral Lee's deter mination to take the responsibility for tiie outcome jind contains his opinion us to the wisdom of 1'lckell'H cnatKe on the third day of that famous fight, Sllll another contains General Lees advice to Mr. Davis when the latter was preparing to relieve Joxeph V.. Johnston of command and to substitute John 1'.. Hood, one of Lee's former lleu tenri nts. Mui:li of the correspondence relates to the withdrawal from the Kspldnn to the James, wlit'-li haa be n re!.ndod by tumorous writer on trie war between the States aa tieneral Lee's timet bril liant feat of arms. Constantly, In the letters on this movement. General Lee speculates on Grant's plius and on the probability of the latter'a crossing the James River and attacking Richmond from the South the course (rant finally adopted. The lost" letters also contain much new information regard ing the proposed evaluation of Rich mond, the line of probable retreat, and the attack on Fort Stedman. The volume Is edited by a Sori'thern editor and historical student. Dr. Dnut laa Southall Freeman, of Richmond. RKKCl'l.VU Til E XIMiINt, E EM War Modent See Wna-Je of Time and Sunplirn In So Itolns. PORTLAND. April 27. (To the Edi tor.) Considerable mention Is made in Enirlish papers of their having rescued 1000 German naval men at times which were perilous and which sometimes were prejudicial to HnKliKh tutval op erations. It is stated that no one Eng lish or British naval man haa been ao rescued by the Germans. This appear In a recent Issue of the London Dally Mail, now being distributed through the country free of charge, one copy of which was sent to me. I would like to place a question for the public in your column on this point. Why should a man-o'-war stop to save swimming members of the en emy's ships, anyway? If England takes the trouble to sink and destroy German ships, and sailors, simply because a few of them don't die In the beginning, why should they trouble themselves about the others? Does not Knaland know that they will have to feed and clothe these German prisoners? Or It they get away they will re-enter their home service and again prove trouble aome? Why, then, should Germany be criti cised for not also engaging in this foolish waste of time, clothes, food and efficiency in naval operations, if so they do or do not? I am neither German nor English, and my queation arises purely from a military point of view. From the standpoint of war, I see absolutely nothing but foolishness In such sal vage. All hands enter for what comes to them. If their ship sinks, lt'a over. Why worry, one aide or the other? WAR STUDENT. Designer of Hla Wife's Oown. Puck. Hla Wife Oh, William! What do you think! The man who designed thla gown has been killed In battle! The Brute That ao? Hard luck! I wanted to get him myself. The Satisfied Customer Every storekeeper knows that the very best advertisement he can have Is a satisfied customer. For that reason the modern mer chant frowns on the practice of sub stitution. When a customer sees an article advertised In this newspaper and rails for it by name, the alert storekeeper will be ready to pro vide it. Indeed, the more up-to-the-minute retailers co-operate directly with reputable manufacturers, and when the latter'a advertising appears In this newspaper they show the Kuodi in the window.