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10 TIIE MORNING OREGONTATC, THURSDAY, MAT C. 1913. rOKTLuXND, ORKUO.N. EAteird at Portland. Oregon, . I'oslotTics aj . stc-oud-class waller. Subscription Hates Invariably In advanca (By Mall.) IDaily, Sunday Includvd, one year , luily, Sunday included six months.. . Aially. Sunday included, three month, ltally, Sunday IncludL-d, du month. ... liaily. v lthout Sunday, one year. . ... . Jally. without tiuiitluy. six montba. . ... 3 iatl , w lthout Sunday, tbree muntbi. Pally, without Sunday, one mouth..... Weekly, one. year. Sunday, una year , .i u&day and Weekly, ono year.. iBy Carrier.) raily, Sunday Included, ona year Ealy. Sunday included, ma month.... IS.OO 4.115 li.'-ii .74 .uo 3. Hi 1.78 .so 1.60 2.o0 3.i0 S9.00 .J How lo Kemlt Send FootoUlce money or. eiwr. exprea order or personal check ou your local bank, btanips. coin or currency are at vender's risk. elive. postofrice addreaa in lull. lucludlnc county and state. rootage Kates IJ to IS pases, 1 cent; IS to U- a., 2 cents. SI 10 4s paces, 3 cents; 60 to liu pages, 4 cents; t- lo 7tf pages, o cents; 7s to V- pages, 6 cents. Foreign post age, double raias. f-'.astern Business Office Veree s Conklln, ; e-vv York, Brunswick buildiug: Chicago, laugcr buildlug. til Framlwo Office It. J. Bidwell Com pary, 74J Market street. l'OKiLAM, 1HIKSD.W, MAV , 1915. WHAT ARB TROs-PKCTS OF rKACEf Speculation on the duration of the v. ar has been reduced by Lloyd's to a betting- proposition. That Institution, which is ready to gamble on the chance of any event from an earth quake to the death of a King, asks Ha clients to bet 90 to 10 that peace will not be declared on or before August 31 next.: It expresses the odds In in surance rates per cent as follows, as to various dates for ending the war: .a nr. CSopt. Sept. Oct. Oct. -Nov. Nov. Ie. lrc. .1 fin. 1013. . 1115. . JK15. . 1II5. . r.ii5. . 11115. . 1K15. . 1015. . 11115. . 90 5 SO Feb. Keb. Mar. Mar. A pril April May May Juue June 15, 1016. . 2s. lino.. 15. T.M6. . 81, 1!H0. . 15. lino.. 00, l'.l5. . 15, 1!10. . 1U1U. . 15. 1!16. . ;io, mm. . 01, 1U16. . 40 lio 3-i oO 15, ;t. 15. at, 15. :io. 15. HI, 55 50 46 15. l1o. Jan 31. 116. Oec. The Literary Digest has endeavored to assist us in forming an opinion by obtaining expressions of opinion from the leading newspapers of the several belligerent countries. Its success has been hampered by the censors' dis couragement of such discussions of peace .terms In Britain, France and Germany, but it received answers from many newspapers in spite of this veto. Not a word in reply came from Austria-Hungary. Most of the replies are to the same general effect. The allies say they will make peace when decisive victory is won. when the Ger mans are driven from Belgium and France and when Prussian militarism is crushed. The Germans say the war will continue until they have thor oughly defeated their enemies. Several German newspapers take occasion to deliver a lecture to the United States on our sale of war mu nitions to the allies. They say we can best forecast the end of the war, for we aro prolonging it by "strengthen ing the declining forces of our (Ger many's) enemies." German newspa pers are forbidden to discuss "the present position of our cause or any prognostication of the terms of peace," hence their replies have been summed up in these few sentences. Some French provincial newspapers go mors into particulars than those of Germany. The Limoges Gazette du Centre predicts "a speedy collapse of the German army under the vigor ous pressure of the allies both by land and sea." The Toulouse Telegramme rejects all such eventualities as the In tervention of Italy or Roumanla, revo lution in Hungary or economic distress in Germany, yet It has no hesitation in thinking that "late in the Fall Ger many and Austria will be suing for peace." The i.'antes Telegramme fore seen peace before Christmas, its pre diction being bated on "the lack of munitions on the German side, the statements of German prisoners that they are short of food at the front, the Impossibility of Germany's raising new levies of men and the utter fail ure on her part to inaugurate a now offensive." That must have been "written before the new German of fensive at Ypres and in Galicla and Courland. 'The French Press Bureau says in the Figaro that the Germans have dissipated their advantage in military resources and have transferred it to the allies and predicts that every fur ther development will diminish "the general value of the German armies' and "bring nearer the moment when Germany will be at the end Of her military resources." DJavid Be the Turkish Minister of Finance, is quoted by the Paris Matin as saying that Germany will be "un willing to make a second Winter cam paign" and as expecting "a definite solution toward the end of October." , A neutral diplomat returning from Germany is quoted by the Paris Temps as saying:- The people are united In the, belief that the Ttussiuna will be defeated within twe months and the French soon afterward. They hopo that France will than make a separate peace, receiving half of Belgium, and will join tha Germans in crushing Finland. - The Pctrograd Vyedomosti, on the ether hand, says Russia could win vic tory now by sacrificing 200,000 to 300,000 lives, but "rather than bring about such slaughter, fully assured of final victory, thinks it'better that tha war should be prolonged." .- Among Irish newspapers, the Bel fast Xews-Letter stands by Kitchen er's prediction of a three years' nvar and says "when the power of the en my is broken, the war will end": that "this Is a war of exhaustion, not only of men but of munitions." The North ern Whig of Belfast deprecates dis cussion as likely to "encourage the enemy by causing the impression that Britain is growing weary or faint hearted" and says: Lot it be six months or six years or even longer, tho people of the British Empira will not turn ba-k or pause until the war Is ended, and ended tn victory. The Cork Examiner foretells that the fall of Constantinople will be fol lowed by an offensive against Austria, from the south by. Italy, Serbia and Roumania and that, in that event, "the Summer should not be far ad vanced when Germany will be com pelled to seek peace." Scotland and Wales seem to agree tha,t the war must be fought to a fin inn, and the Glasgow Evening News sayp "the British people are giving but little thought to the probable date on which the war will end." The Manchester Guardian replies with a series of "ifs." If the allies win decisive victory in the West be fore Autumn, "Germany will have nothing left to bargain with, and tho beginning of Winter should see seri- mm proposals for. peace." The other "iiV are: " If the fighting is Indecisive, and Germany retains any considerable part of Hclaiuin Mdes tho Ardennes, she may decide to fro on through another Winter; ;; if the fight Injr in the West goes against the allies th war will lat into next Spring. In any case it seems possible that the war will end fceftua lbs -Koine is crossed (except possibly. on its upper reaches). Should it outiast the expulsion of thc.Gcrmans trom Belgium, our part in the war would lie in all probability not in the inl.irlor of Ucrmany, but in com bined operations by sea and land against the North Sea porta and narat . bases of Germany. Hilaire Belloc. the military critic, is quoted by the Manchester Dispatch as saying- that "the late Spring or early Summer will be the critical moment," marked by "one of those actions in the war which will tell you the way it is going to end." The Londom Daily Malt pins its faith to the statement of Sir Edward Holden that Germany has pecuniary resources for another year of war and adds that she has at least 3,000,000 men of military age to place in the field. It therefore disagrees with the opinion of the Sunday Pictorial that peace will be under discussion In June. One consideration which must be borne in mind when speculating on the probability of early peace or of any of the allies deserting the others is the effect produced on the people's minds by stories of German atroci ties. Though many in this country attribute these stories to overheated imagination, they are 'firmly believed in France, Britain and Belgium and have provoked implacable hatred of Germany and deep-seated dread of German domination. Thus the Ger man "cry "God punish England" is met by the allies with "God punish Germany," and this sentiment binds them closer. Rancor is so great on both sides that exhaustion or utter defeat alone, could induce either to make peace before the other was beaten to its knees. TWO EXPLANATIONS. Onr Republican brethren are charging the Democratic Administration with being; the causrt of these conditions. Of course this is unfair because the thinking: man, providing he is honest and unprejudiced, knows that the foreign war Is the main cause. Tt has prevented the tariff law from operating- as it wojld under normal conditions, thus cre ating the so-called "war tax" in time of peace. Had normal conditions prevailed, the increase in Importation of foreign goods would have greatly Increased and their sale In our markets, In competition, would have reduced the price of domestic-made goods and a. consequent reduction in the cost of living. The war. in effect, amounts to a prohibitory tariff. Sclo Tribune. Our Santiam Philosopher has pon dered fruitlessly over the economic ailments that beset us when he evolves the strange theory that the war did it. For he is wholly out of tune with the urrent statistical literature of Secre tary Redfield, who chortles with glee over that immense trade balance, all due to the war. We are almighty prosperous indeed, for have we not already for the greater part of the current fiscal year sold abroad seven hundred million dollars' worth of products more than we have bought? By June 30, 1915, the trade balance will be a billion. A staggering beneficence is that war which enables us to roll up so stu pendous a trade with the world. One can fairly see prosperity oozing out of the National pores. Now if "normal conditions" had prevailed and we had had large for eign Importations, and had thus been able to buy abroad, Santiam thinks the Underwood, tariff would have been huge success, for the high cost of iving would thus have been reduced. That's it. The way to prosperous times at home is not to buy at home. That is what the mail-order houses think and mail-order buyers practice. But we fancy Santiam does not like it. When we buy heavily abroad, there is no great trade balance and Secre tary Redfield has to invent a new ex planation for our abounding industrial health. But Santiam comes through always with the same old explanation. PRESmtNTTAL AGES. "The Oregonian," says the North Takima Republic "omits Elihu Root from the list of Presidential eligibles on account of his age, and Borah be cause it thinks the Idahoan comes from a point too far West." It would be a little more accurate if our North Yakima rriend nad said that Mr. Root had definitely with drawn himself from consideration as a candidate because he thinks he is too old, and that Mr. Borah has said he is not and will not be a candidate, doubtless because he thinks that he cannot overcome the Idaho geograph ical insignificance. But it is true enough that the public has not yet excised either Root or Borah wholly from consideration as available mate rial. Mr. Root is over 70 years old, hav ing been born February 15. 1845. No one has yet been elected President at so advanced an age. William Henry Harrison was 6 8 when he became President, and James Buchanan was 65. Andrew Jackson was 61 when he was first elected in 1S2 8, and 65 when re-elected. Yet Old Hickory lived for eight full years after his re tirement from office. The Nation chooses to remember him as a rugged and powerful old man. Aa a young man Jackson has no place in the pop Ular imagination. Senator Borah is exactly 50 years old, an ago which many men regard as still young. It is the ideal Presi dential age, for few men under 50 have been elected President. Roose velt was one, Cleveland was another. Borah is a genuine National figure, and . in the energetic and anxious search by the Republican party for a candidate, it would seem to The Ore gonian that his supposed geographical ineligibility might cut . small figure. It is possible that Senator Borah felt that he would stand less chance of the nomination if ho asked for it than if he did not. No one doubts that Borah, If nominated, would be a strong can didate. NATIONAL- COMPLIMENTS. Outsiders who take a benevolent in terest in the progress of the war and its accompanying incidents may find entertainment in the exchange of com pllments which . goes on constantly between Germany and England. The other day Puck had a cartoon showing a middle-class Prussian family "en- Joying its morning hate." Papa and mamma sat by the breakfast table with their kindly faces drawn into malignant curves. Little Gretchen scowled over her kitten and Wilhelm ferociously brandished a toy sword. This matutinal exercise is supposed to develop a fit psychology for annihilat Ing the detested Britisher. A German writer in the Cologne Zeitung avows his belief that "Eng land will never be able to suppress the dreaded growth of German intellect. and he adds that "England is the best evidence of the depths to which a na tion can be brought by resting on its past laurels" and never trying any thing new. II. G. Wells retorts that "the Germans have been made into a kind of scientifically equipped Zulus' by the machinations of the Prussian militarists. In his opinion "the Prus sian has taken the mind of Germany and clenched it like a fist." Perhaps it is just as well for the mutual displeasure ot the English and Germans to work itself oft in harsh language simultaneously with bullets and bayonet thrusts. Some psycholo gists tell us that, an oath is a .highly moral bit of expression, inasmuch as it prevents passion from becoming putrescent in an inner dungeon. Years from now, when the war is over and its numerous follies are being re viewed by both Germans and English in the calm of mutual good feeling, they will all be deeply ashamed of the billingsgate which they are now throwing back and forth. THE ART OF CONVERSATION. ' Are you fond of conversation? We do not mean gossip, but real conversa tion. The art is said to be lost, but that signifies nothing. All the good arts are lost if we hearken to some people. Their heads were set on their shoulders with the eyes to the back and they see only into the past. The poet Cowper laid down some excellent rules for conversation. He was able to formulate them all the more wisely because he was too bash ful to have much to say himself. His rule for telling a story is wonderfully apt. Who would not like to be rated a good story-teller if he could? The tale, says the poet, "should be judi cious, clear, succinct." No wordy wanderings. Go to the point as swift ly as you can. "Hasten to the close," as Cowper puts it. Above all things, don't be bashful. THe poet "pities men who feel the pain of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain," and he diagnoses their com plaint with unerring accuracy. The cause of their sensitiveness and bash fulness is, he declares, their own se cret vanity. Are you bashful? Search our heart and see if Cowper tells the truth. A $10,000 PRIZE. The demand for good photoplays is great and likely to become greater. No business has grown so fast as that of the movies in our day. People love the film drama and the better it is the fonder they are of it. There is no ground whatever for the common be- ief that the people prefer filth, either at the movie theaters or on the regu lar stage. They accept filth when they can get nothing better, for the dramatic instinct is too powerful to be suppressed, but a clean, romantic, swiftly moving picture play will please more people than any other if it is in teresting. The trouble with many of the films is that they are not Interest- ng. Their ideals are stale, their inci dents have been used over and over again, their plots are worm-eaten. With these lamentable facts in mind. the American Film Manufacturing Company offered a prize last Decem ber for the best photoplay "idea." The prize was not offered for a full-fledged play, nor for a short story, nor for a model of literary style, but for a. germ idea from which a photoplay might be evolved. Nearly 20,000 persons entered the contest. . The manuscripts were all sent without the writer's name. Each competitor designated himself by a number or some other symbol which was placed both on the manuscript and a sealed envelope containing his name, and only when the envelope was opened after the decision of the judges was the fortunate winner known. In this case we use the word fortunate" advisedly, for the prize was (10,000. It went to Roy L. Mc- Cardell, a well-known manufacturer of literary wares on the large scale. His reputation, which is very great, was of no advantage to him in this Instance, for nobody knew who had written his "idea" until the prize had been awarded. Everybody stood on the same footing. Mr. McCardell won by sheer merit as much as if he had been a beginner. The Chicago Tribune publishes an Interview In which he describes the way he went to work to gain the prize. It seems that Mr. McCardell had been studying the picture play business for several years and had carefully at tended to "what the public wants. His conclusion is that it wants something clean, amusing, romantic and mildly elevating. Not a sermon, of course, but not a debauch either. With this standard to work by he wrote his photoplay, taking infinite pains with it. He says the manuscript was rewritten nrty or sixty times Think of thatj ye budding geniuses who "dash oft" your creations in the frenzy of inspiration and never cor rect them when the frenzy .is over. Mr. McCardell's methods of work give us a hint why he has been so success ful. If he had only a little literary genius, he might have been a rival of Shakespeare. Asjt is, "he has supplied the reading public with vast stores of entertaining matter which, as it moves swiftly toward oblivion, will lighten many a heart and contribute to the innocent gayety of the world. The American Film Manufacturing Com pany now offers another J 10,000 prize It is for an idea to serve as a sequel to Mr. McCardell's photoplay. The latter is called "The Diamond From the Sky." Everybody, young and old grave and gay. is invited to participate in the contest. The prize may go to you. gentle reader, if you try hard enough to win it- Full particulars are obtainable from the Chicago Trib une, which takes a benevolent interest in the matter. RUSSIA'S GIFT TO THE WORLD. Russia's contributions to civilization are not so well known in the Western world as they should be. Americans in particular understand very little of the work which the people of that country have been doing for the last half eentury. Wre are disposed to think of Russia as a land of intellec tual darkness dominated ruthlessly by ecclesiastical and secular tyranny, where every impulse toward progress is inexorably stamped out. This view is a great deal nearer the truth than one could wish for the good of Russia. The universities of that country are repressed cruelly. Scholars who would be honored and advanced to high po sitions in other lands are sent to Si beria to dwell in dreary solitude, sometimes at hard manual labor, and literary men are more often punished than rewarded for their achievements But in spite pf these disadvantages the Russian genius has been active in many directions and has produced works of lasting value. We are all familiar with what Tolstoi did and many readers have some acquaintance with Turgeniev. Tchekoffs plays have been widely read .during- the last few j-ears. The art of staging plays has been profoundly modified both in Europe and America by Russian inno vations. and Tsehaikowski with his co- laborers have made us admire the Slavic genius in music. But the story does not end with this by any means. We have received ft small pamphlet entitled "Russia's Gilt to the World,' which seeks to bring home to West ern readers the true weight of Slavic contributions to science, literature and The little book is one f symptoms of a warm de- J the fine arts. among many sy sire on the part of east-Europeans to make themselves better understood In this part of the world than they have been heretofore. American sympathy has suddenly acquired an unprece dented value, for the best of reasons. We are rminded by this pamphlet that the inrentor of the "Non-Euclidean Geonzetry" was a Russian, Loba chewskl by name, while another Rus sian, Hvolson. has written the best textbook of physics to be found in any country. The Slavs have been among the foremost astronomers for many- years. The observatory at Pulkova, which has been particularly active. has -done an immense amount of good work. Americans will recall with pleasure that it was the Pulkova ob servatory which sent to our own cele brated astronomer, Simon Newcomb. a monumental vase carved from a mam moth block of precious marble to com memorate the completion of his great work on the motions of the planets. There is a traditional friendship be tween the United States and Russia not only in matters of science, but in matters also of public policy. When we reflect upon what that country has accomplished with its handicaps of bad government and religious fanaticism we cannot help anticipat- ng wonderful results when its peo ple shall have finally won their lib erties and come under the stimulat- ng influence of democratic institu tions. ' The article on the British Cabi net in the May Atlantic gives the reading public interesting information about Mr. Asquith. He is commonly' supposed to be a somewhat lethargic man, dependent on his colleagues for ideas. But we are now told that he has a first-rate mind and a capacity for initiative unsurpassed since Pitt. British energy In the war is said to be argely due to Asquith's Influence. The Oregon Historical Society sends out a souvenir of the seventy-second anniversary of the vote for Oregon's provisional government. It is a pam phlet decorated on the cover page with a pioneer log cabin. Among other information it gives a list of the voters for and against the organiza tion at Champoeg; with a striking pic ture of Joe Llet k, the hero of the day. National sovereignty includes neces sarily the right to navigate the high seas. A country which surrenders this right loses to that extent its independ ent sovereignty and becomes a subject power. The right of search is for the protection of neutrals, not an injury' to them, since it affords them an op portunity to prove that cargoes are non-contraband. The gilded young bloods who speed their automobiles recklessly care lit tle for dollars, but much for jail. Dad gives the dollars and they go as easily as they come but ten days in Jail is another story. It would be Interesting to see Judge Stevenson ex periment a little with the jail. The Independent says Cleveland is the only "flylees city" In the country and a woman made it so. Her name is Dr. Jean Dawson and she is a teacher in the girls' normal school at Cleveland. - She did the deed by or ganizing 125,000 school children into an anti-fly brigade. Chocolates suffused with gin are the latest wile of the Demon. The beaux and belles devour them and experi ence all the delights of the epicure and the tippler in delectable combina tion. Are these enticing tidbits an adulterated food or an unlicensed beverage ? The California House is not fair in asking Wilson to stop the war by seiz ing all the Nation's food supplies and saying nothing about powder and other war material. The session of that Legislature is dragging along into a degree of nothingness. Mr. Lincoln i5 riorht in savins- tin- ping would continue if his Pullman nnrters wero w oil riairl- Too msinv people want more attention than is given others, and only a blind man can withstand the uppity mien of the snubbed African. The lowest-paid employes of the Federal buildings in this city will lose wages for a week or more before July because Congrexs failed to pro vide the necessary money and Demo cratic policy makes the weakest suf fer. The charges against Chief of Police Sebastian so disgusted two-thirds of the Los Angeles voters that they did not vote and intensified the devotion of his friends. Such charges at elec tion time are usually a boomerang. Ha! Let the poor, downtrodden ora tor on the soapbox observe! This is not a Nation of class distinction. The White House chauffeur paid a fine for speeding, and Tumulty was his pas senger, too! Again ha! When the submarines sink or chase out of the North. Sea all the-English trawlers, they may begin on the war ships. In- which event there will not be any trawlers to rescue 'survivors. If Germany continues to fight with asphyxiating gas and if Britain resorts to "similar expedients," a rough-and- tumble fight will be the height of civ ilization by comparison with war. One Lebanon family has all the scholastic honors this year( its twin daughters being valedictorian and sa lutatorian on the high school programme- One ray of comfort shines through the Oriental gloom. A frenzied, fight ing Chinaman with the blood lust can not mistake white folks for Japs. The case of Sebastian cannot be taken seriously, since a large percent age of Los Angeles voters nominated him for Mayor. Secretary Redfield gives three cheers when the War comes to his aid in creating a favorable balance of trade. That May drive of Kitchener's seems to have been with reverse Eng lish. Welcome home. Admirals, Rear-Admirals, Commodores and Captains all! Revive the rockpile and let the speeder, effervesce thereon. t 1 ' 1 - Kitchencr's beginning of the war in May has a good tart. -The parade season' is at hand, Stars and Starmakers Bt LEONE CASS BIER. A SALEM youth who elopca with a cabaret girl fron. Eugene, immedi ately after the ceremony released three carrier pigeons which reached the resi dence of the bride's peevish paw and maw on schedule time, each carrying the happy message, "Gladys and I were married today Arthur." Guess what paw and maw had in a stew or potpie for dinner that day? Actor chap and actor lady who quar reled and separated twenty-odd years ago have Just become reconciled and are married to each other. Well, if it takes that couple twenty-odd years to make up after one fight, they aren't going to have time for many domestic spats. This from a San Francisco publica tion called "The Rounder" tells an un usual story, whether or not it's true. The fact that the actress lived in Port land, too, adds a flavor of the personal Interest. Maybe some one here remem bers her, or knows something about the case and can help her in her "dark" troubles.. Says the account from San Francisco: "Unable to pierce the veil of mys tery enshrouding her origin, but as sured by & physician that she is not a negress, as she had believed, Mrs. Mar garet Buckman Lytle. a beautiful young vaudeville actress of 24, is seek ing to secure a divorce from Dr. Wil liam N. Lytle, a Los Angeles negro den tist, whom she married seven years ago. "Miss Buckman, as she prefers to be called, made the discovery that she is a white woman as a result of a chance remark dropped while visiting her attorney, Herbert Choynski, in con nection with a theatrical contract. " 'You wouldn't think that I had negro blood in my veins,' she remarked to the attorney. "The young woman was scrutinized by Choynski and he was unable to de tect any signs of negro origin. She has dark-brown hair, blue eyes and a fair skin. "Choynski advised her to consult a physician. Miss Buckman did so, and after a scientific blood test was assur ed that there was not the slightest trace of negro ancestry in her veins. " I woke up In a convent,' said the young woman. "By that I mean that my earliest recollection ts of a con vent in Portland, where I was reared. My only visitor was a negro mani.ny named Buckman, and after I was grad uated 1 went to live with her among the negroes in Los Angeles. I could never learn anything about my par ents, but I was told that I was a negresa.' "She consented to marry Dr. Lytle only after the 'mammy' had Insisted that she was of Lytle's race. "After living four years with Lytle, during- which time a child was born. the young woman left hiro three years ago to go on the stage. "She is remaining in seclusion in Oakland pending the divorce action Bertha Mann ' has been engaged to assUt Charles Emerson Cook, late press representative for David Belasco, in making successful a repertoire com pany at Stamford. Conn., at tha theater, conducted by Emily Wakerr.an, herself an actress, and successful busi ness woman. a V Oza Waldrop ig playing ingenue leads with the Manhattan Players at the Ly ceum theater in Rochester, N. Y. This week they're presenting "Nearly Mar ried." This ts the Edgar Selwyn fatce which Marie Tempest will present at a matinee and a nicrht performance on Saturday -at the Heillg. Tonight this English comedienne opens her engage ment in "The Marriago, of Kitty," play ing It again tomorrow night. She brings her own company from The Playhouse In London, and after her Coast-to-Coast tour she is going back to London to present new plays. a Ida Gold, who appeared here aa the "Widow" in "The Candy Shop," is niak ing arrangements for a vocal fling in vaudeville. She Is an Oakland girl. Howard Rusell is appearing this week as the son in "Madame X," at the Wigwam in San Francisco, one of the few stock companies in the United States that is really doing business. After next Saturday Willie Collier, the collar-button comedian, will be at- llberty. On that date George M. Cohan's self imposed philanthropy, by which he un dertook, to keep Collier in a job, will come to an end. Thea it is expected that Collier will begin making- faces at a motion pic ture camera, and will for a space hunt under sofas and bureaus on the screen for collar buttons. It will be hard for him to ring in ihe rest of his family into the movies, as has bjen his habit on the stage. Movie producers are more particular. As to Property Rights. SANDY, Or., May 4. (To the Editor.) Please answer through the columns of The Morning Oregonian the follow ing questions: A owns an old house, which he rents to B. B buys water pipe and runs water from & spring belonging to V to the house, which he has rented from A, running the water outside the house into a barrel. Can B, on moving away, take with him what pipe he can get without destroying any crop? If not, who owns the pipe, A or C? Also can B remove windows which he bought and put into A's house while living in same? SUBSCRIBER. Unless there was an agreement to the contrary, the pipe would become a fixture of the property, and? would therefore belong to the owner of the property. Likewise,, the pipe on Cs land would be a fixture of his prop erty. If permanently attached, the windows would also be fixture property. Impartial la She. Jurie. Iter suit's a Kus.-ian blouse affair. In color Prussian blue; Her hose are. one resplendent glare Of London purple hue. A nifty German submarine She wears upon her head. YV'ith follnse of Paris green And buds ot Turkey ret. Her shirtwaist is of filmy stuff, tus?etive of Japttn; Around her nenk she wears a ruff Of ancient English plan. The .costume may not match, I Vno Nor make for harmony; . The maiden merely means to show Her strict neutrality. Trials of Suburbanite. Judce. Es'-h eprinjtime makes him sick of life. While pulling up the -eeds; Tha chl.-k-ns clu-k M see hifl wife .Nos plununs ilower aceds. r.lSMVG OF U.nG rREDICTKD Conventional Cade Mill iia Way of Sa less sid (ambtlMar In One's Opinion. HANKORD, Wash.. May S. (To the Editor.) Some people talk as if there was no other amusement by dancing was no other amusement but dancing natural for the sexes to want to b together. Yes, it is perfectly natursl. but that is not saying they should be so close together that you can't put a sheet of paper between them and that they can feel each ether's breath and heart beats. There are alj the exer cises to choose from of boating, swim ming, horseback riding. Ice skating, also roller skating, jf done out in the pure, fresh air, baseball, tennis, clog and claKic dancing and athletic sports of alL kinds for the benefit of amuse ment, health and strength, without the sexes embracing each other. There is also the theaters to Ro.to to see pood, moral plays. You want to look out for the people that claim they are so pure-minded and unsophisticated that while they are dancing there could not possibly flash across their -mind a thought or a feel ing through their body that they should not have. When the Bible speaks of dancintr It certainly does not mean such dancing as that. You have seen children sing ing and dancing around in innocent glee when they are happy. Well, that is more like what is meant In the Bi ble. It Is a positive crime to teacb little children to dance, embracing the opposite sex, teaching them something mat win lead up to temptation later in life. If some of them prefer dan cing to any or all the other amuse ments and healthy exercises, why, there is the fancy and classic iancinr. also clog dancing. In resrard to regulatlnir danclnz and dancehalls: That is nothing but a blind. inere ts just as much harm done at private dances and dances of the "Four Hundred" ss at public dunces, onlj maybe not In such a vulgar ami no ticeable way. The moat any "social worker" or "inspector" can do is to put a fellow out of the hall if he sees him ragging or setting a little too hilarous, and he lets the smooth, aulet. sedate waltzer go. who probably is the one wno nas done the most harm. What "social worker" or "inspector" can put himself up along side of the Almighty and be able to know the wrong thoughts, feelings and influences of the dancers. What social worker can put a young man out of the hall for whis pering something he should not to young girls or somebody else's wife, while he is under the influence of hav ing them in his close embrace, wliere tney nave no business to be. The only time it fs right to be In such close contact with the opposite sex is when a couple is betrothed, married or blood relation, and then they wouldn't go parading around In each other's arm in public or with every Tom, Dick or Harry. Another thing against dancing, apart irom tne moral side of it. is: It is most always indulged in way Into the night and "wee" small hours of the morning, thus robbing people of their strength and health-giving sleep, besides breathing deep into their lungs for nours ciouns or duat swished up b mo sniri.i ana ieet ot tho dancers. 1 m sure 1 don t see anything healthy about it. Many a person is in ttie grave from getting overheated exer cising indoors like that In the, emit dust-laden air. where if thev hni t- clsed outdoors, in the cool, fresh, pure ir. ii wouia not nave happened. . Just as soon as the maioritv of en. Pie see and realize how harmful it is in every way, it will bo abolished, the same as the saloons, gamblinc nH all other evils that are detrimental to the ii ii man race. r course it will die hard as it is so much more alluring and en ticing man any or the other evils MRS. RICHARD ROZELL. Republics and Their Rulers. PORTLAND. May 4 To the Ed ltor.) Please Dubllsh a list of th rw,nr. archies and republics of the world and mo names ot the rulers of tha repub "- SUNNY HILL SCHOOL. i he human family Is subject to SO different forms of government. They may be classified, as to form, as fol lows, based on conditions just before tne European war began: Absolute monarchies Abyssinia, Af ghanistan, Morocco and Siam, Limited monarchies Albania, Aus trla-Hungary. Belgium, British Em pire, Bulgaria. Denmark. Germany, ureece. Italy, Japan, Montenegro. Neth erianas, Norway, Persia, Roumania, Russia, Servia, Spain, Sweden and Tur key. RepublicsArgentina, Bolivia. Bra sil, Chile. China, Colombia. Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic. Ecuador France, Guatemala, llayti, Honduras, Liberia, Mexico, Nicaragua, ranamit Paraguay, Teru, Portugal. Salvador, Switzerland, United States of America, Uruguay and Venezuela. Besides these are the undefined des potisms of Central Africa and a few insignificant states. The Presidents of the republics are: Argentina. Victorino de la Plaza; Bo livia. Ismacl Montes; Brazil, Wenccslaus B. Pereira Gomes; Chile. Ramon Rarra Luce; China, Yuan Shi Kai; Colombia, Jose Vincente Concha; Costa Rica. Al fredo Gonzales; Cuba, Mario Monacal; Dominican Republic. Ramon Baez; Ecuador. Leonidas Plaza; France. Ray mond Poincare; Guatemala, Manuel Es trada Cabrera; Hayti. Oresta Zamor; Honduras, Dr. Bertrand, Liberia. D. E. Howard: Mexico (since Huerta abdi. cated or was deposed several months ago Mexico has no recognized Presi dent, although several have been elect ed in the despotic sense of being "elect ed" by the leaders of the factions); Nicaragua. Adolfo Diaz; Panama, Beli sario Porras; Paraguay, Eduaido Schaerer; Peru. Dr. Robert ' Leguia (claimant); Portugal, Manuel do Aria ga: Salvador, Carlos Melendez; .Switz erland. Giuseppa Motta; United States of America, Woodrow Wilson; Uruguay, Jose Battle y Ordonez; Venezuela. V. Marquez- Bustillos. If l' ST CH'B DISCLAIMS LETT Kit Samuel V. Kerr's Reqaeat ef Mr. Venn !Wt Made Milt Body's Sanction. PORTLAND. May S. (To the Editor.) An article in The ' Oregonian today, beaded "Trade for Votes ltefuied. Mr. Yeon Delays Reply to Club He cause of Election Intimation," makes it appear that a letter written by Samuel C. Kerr, a member of the Port land Hunt Club, in connection with a bridle path on the Canyon road, was written by authority and in behalf of the Portland Hunt Club. Such was not the case, as the club, through its prop er officers, had some weeks previous to Mr. Kerr's letter, taken up with both the County Commissioners and Mr. Yeon. the matter of the bridle paths, and had very courteous acknowledg ments of their communications both from the County Commissioners and from Mr. Yeon, weeks prior to -Mr. Kerr's letter. Mr. Kerr's letter was written solely on his cwn responsibility and without the knowledge of the Portland Hunt Club. We will be pleased to have you give space to this letter. PORTLAND HUNT CLUB. James II. Murphy, President. SharivtT ar (ealnc e. Life. 'Aren't you ever depressed by some vague sense of upprrssion. the dim Fhartow of some i-oniin; disaster?" "Yes. I feci that way very Summer before, my wife comes back from the Lhore. ' Twenty-Five Year Ago Chicago The carpenters have sained all the points tliey asked in the con troversy with their employers in Chi cago. It is held a vl.tory for labor throughout. Washington The marriage of Gover nor O'Toole, of Montana., and Miss Rose crans will take place Wednesday and will bo a qtliet affair. The boom for Cleveland in 1832 was started, according to the Washington Critic, at the meeting of the Free Trade Reform club in Was hlngton a few nights ago. When Sheriff Kcliy broke the siat in the Republican county convention it was reported that Chairman Lotan would "knife" him. This Lotan denies emphatically, and Kelly announces h does not believe the rumor. James L. Laldlaw. the New York banker, is at the Hotel Portland. n. W. Mitchell loft last night f-r Grays Harbor and Shoalwater Msy. He. will write up his trip for The Oregon ian. Officers Barry and Griffin yesteruay afternoon arrested O. M. Thune, who has been wanted by the Dakota author ities since October. !!. Jio Is want ed on a charge of embezzling at Mil nor. He has gone under the name of Micbaelson. Nat Goodwin scored a hit in his "A Gold Mine" at tho Marquam Grand theater last night. In this play Mr. Goodwin takes his first steps In desert ing the field of farce comedy and horse play t enter upon legitimate comedy. Owine to the rising of the river trucks were kept busy on many of the docks removing freight from the water edge yesterday. The season so far much more resem bles a New England Spring than the usual Oreyron season, in which inter fades Imperceptibly Into Summer. Th ; ool weather of April, c-used cy tne vast amount of snow in the mountains, held vegetation in check till everything was away behind its usual time. Then the warm weather came and vegetation progressed in leaps and everything in the vegetable kingdom seemed pushing forward to make up for lost time. Tne Elks held an Important session May 3. The chief topic of interest was the ratification by the lodge of the hall cominltteo in leasing the hall at Second and Balmon, now used by tho Redmen. and during the past Winter by Professor Cardinell for a dancing hall. Last Saturday afternoon there ar rived in this city two confidence men, who have undoubtedly come here for the purpose of plying their vocation among business men, as they have done in the suburban tow lis. Somebody w ill be taken In by them if not very care ful. The Builders' Exchange will hold an adjourned meetlnif tonight to take fur ther action relative to the lo.-ked-out carpenters and tho other mechanics who struck in sympathy with them. The men believe that further conces sions will be made. The people of Portland realiza what the- delay in building operations Is costing the city and sincerely hope that soma reconcili ation will be ctieeted. The free bathhouse is no more and it Is doubtful whether another will be built to take its place. The structure was washed away in the February floods and nothing remains as a monu ment to the public-splritednesa of tho good citizens through whose push and untiring efforts tho erection of tho bathhotKa was due. From Tha Oresonlan, stay 0. 1S&3. The Charleston Courier of March 1 says "tho recruiting offices in Charles ton are head over heels in work. The colored men are flocking to the sup port of the United Htates by tho dozens and tlio score. Companies aro formed In ii single night and regiments In a week. It has been decided that the First Mains Cavalry is entitled to bear the names of So actions on its regimental standard, which Is rijrht morn than tan be claimed by any other cavalry regiment In the Army of the Totomac. A few years ago our state was far removed from the center 'of trade had few resources developed nd but a limited demand for its products. Tho mines have since been brought almost to our doors and the opening of the rich mineral fields of Idaho to tho world has afforded the producers of Oreaon an ample market for all their produce, the fault being that tiie fann ers have too often left home to follow the precarious fortunes of tho miner instead of remaining to secure the sure reward that awaited his labors at home. In many respects this Mate of iers to the emigrant the best home to be found on the pacific Coatt. Those who have laughed at the rains bt tho Willamette Valley in past year have learned to appreciate tlieni as Insuring to us the full harvest of each succeed ing Summer and Autumn. Eastward we have a great extent of country un developed. We have unintentionally omitted to notice the appearance on our table of a neatly printed and nulte readable tri weekly that lias lately come out under the name of the Umatilla Advertiser. We are disposed to congratulate the people of Umatilla. The bark A. A. Eldrldae, Captain Williams, which arrived from Honolulu yesterday, brought important dis- -patches from his Hawaiian Majesty, "be ing no leas than the credentials as. Consul for that Koveriuiicnl t our fel low townsman Colonel John McCraken. to act for Oregon and adjoining terrl- -tories. resident in Portland. A flas of the Hawaiian government was pre sented to Colonel McCraken In connec tion with his credentials of office by lion. A. llolbrook In the presence of Mayor Failing and others, whereupon Mr. McCraken entered formally upon the discharge of his duties. The steamer E. 1. Baker, which was wrecked In December. 18S3, In the Transportation Company's lino between Portland and Oregon Ctty. has been a long time nothing but a hull, yet, in the capacity of a barjte, rho Is still very useful and we notice is Bt present in the lumber trado between Oak Point, i anq r,ajt i-ortinnn. TELL ABOUT YOUR GOODS This is a bury world. Teople have little time to hunt you up. You may have just the goods they most desire, but peoplo are not likely to know it imlc you tell them. They are espcr enough for your messugo and they look for It each day in the advrrtifiiig columns of tlir favorite, newfpapcr. Each day the news of your aroodh and service is not there, is a day lOft. Why not tell them row and reap the profits? , Half a Century Ago V