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;;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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Leo Linhard, a Pacific Coast stock
actor, is playing in Jersey City. J.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.