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8 THE THOHXIXG OltECONTAN. TTTTTRRDAT. JUTA 1, 1015. man PORTLAND. OBXOOK. t Entered at Portland. Oregon. Postofflce as - - "cond-clAM ma liar. CubscrlpUea Hates Invariably la edvaacei (By Itail.) Rally. Sunday Included, on year. .. .M-) TJaily, Sunday Included, six months 4.jll - jauy, bunaay mciuaeo, inrw mODini.. Xailyt Sunday included, one month, ... : Xjaliy, without Sunday, one year. . . Dally, without ttunday. si months. ... TaJiy, without Bunday, una months. . Maily, without Sunday, one month.. ... v "IVaekly, ana year. ............. ...... . ; atunday, one year ; (Sunday and Weekly, ona year......... (By Carrier.) --Daily, Sunday Included, ona year...... 1aiiy, Sunday included, ona month. a. US 7a auo --4 1.IJ .BO a. 60 S.&U 9.00 .11 . How to Remit Send Postoffice money or .er. express order or personal check on your local bank, stamps, coin or currency ara at -sender', risk. Olva postoffice audresa In full. jUAcluding county and state. , -. Postage Kates 12 to If paces. 1 cent: la -a pages, 2 cents; 84 to 4a paces, cents; 'bO to ttu paces, 4 cents; 62 to pages, 6 'Cents; 7 to fi pages. B cents. Foreign poal- double rates. tajrtm Business Of flora Verreo tt Con k ; t. JBfunswjck building. New York; Verree st Conklin. SteKer bunding, Chicago; San ..i'rancisco representative,. is, J. Bldwsll, lei Market street. -PORTLAND, THURSDAY, JCLY 1, 181 J. DKAIB BLOW TO M'ADOOK SCUKMJJ " The' vote of the United State -Chamber of Commerce against the Ship-purchase scheme should put that - scheme to rest forever. It was so overwhelming as to leave no room for ;ioubt as to how the business men of the country, big- and little, stand. The ; efforts of Secretary McAdoo to swing the chamber into line for his favorite measure constituted an invitation to that body to declare itself, and it has one so. By a vote of 698 to 82 the 'Individual chambers declared against JCJovernment ownership and operation of merchant ships, and by a vote of stll to 64 they declared against Gov :nment ownership of vessels to be ? Xeased to private operating companies, r : Mr. McAdoo put his ship scheme in : the forefront of the programme "Which 2 lie laid before the Pan-American Fi- rtancial Conference. He endeavored to procure its indorsement by that C'liody, which was largely composed of Latin-Americans, who are accustomed It look to their own governments to "take the lead in all great enterprises .and who hope for nothing from pri vate enterprise without Government aid. Yet Chile alone proposed a .scheme for a line to the west coast of '" South America, closely parallel to Mr. ; McAdoo' 8. The countries interested in an east coast line proposed calling : TOr bids for the establishment of -steamship communication on these "general terms: ,-- Bidders to state the compensation Je : ynanded and the period of the contract. As part of the compensation for services ' rendered, said vessels to be exempt for five years from all fiso&l charges in the reapec live countries, and to enjoy all facilities "iaranted to any other vessels. Bids to be acted upon within three months end preference to be given, all other con ditions being slmilsr, to whoever will pro TYlde for earlier inauguration of the service. ....The governments of the respective coun tries to agree upon the proportionate charges Z be paid by each and upon all other de tails. Nothing there about Government ownership. Among a body of men which might be expected to lean . .towards the McAdoo scheme the rep , Tesentatives of only one country ln .. dorse it. All the others seem to favor some form of Government aid to pri ; -vately owned and operated lines. Had . the South Americans favored the Mc Atloo scheme, the United States would "still be the deciding factor, for this country would be Called upon to sup J Vy the bulk of the capital. . Since rejection by the Pan-American con 1 Terence is followed by rejection by the United States Chamber of Commerce, l voicing the business sentiment of the ', United States, the verdict should be decisive. " ' But Mr. McAdoo is still wedded to ; his idol. In his devotion to it he : magnifies the difficulties in the way ' of building up inter-American trans- - portation by means of privately owned : end operated lines. In an article on ' the conference published in the Na tion's Business, he says: . We have been told so often that private rapital in the United States will not engage In shipping enterprises under our present laws or without Government subsidies or I Oovernment aid In some form or other, that - we cannot expect prompt relief or any re , lief from that source. Perhaps it is true t that our laws do put our capitalists at a I disadvantage In the matter oX steamship enterprises, and perhaps they are fullv Justi 1 fled in not engaging In such enterprises. No '"no desires to quarrel with them on this J subject What the country demands Is re- lief and if they cannot eupply It. the Gov , ernment must. Tf our law rould be changed so radically as private capital has Indicated i that it will require, or even If steamship r subsidies or Governmental subventions could ultimately be secured. It would be at the 1 Sn3 of a long fight, and even then there " -s-ould be no guarantee or assurance that 'private capital or a sufficiently large scale , rould be enlisted promptly so that the f steamship facilities upon which enlargement . ft oar trade and commerce with South .America wholly depend, would be quickly Supplied. Terming development of steamship ! lines through private enterprise "a lilow and tedious process at best," he 'predicts that by the time it is com Jpleted. or long before, peace will have jbeen restored in Europe and our com petitors will reassert themselves In 'South America. ' In view of the declared opposition : of that element In the United States iwhich is chiefly interested in exten sion of our commerce, the process of procuring adoption of Mr. McAdoo's scheme promises - to be even more slow and tedious" than that of radi cally amending our navigation laws in suJh manner that private capital will ngage in the shipping business. The ar itself has greatly improved the "American position as a competitor ;with other shipping nations by raising the cost of building and operating ships under Other flags. . This im provement may continue in large Measure long after the war. If our 3aws were revised In such manner that the handicaps placed by them in the way of the merchant marine would fce removed, we might find that the shipping industry would revive with out any artificial stimulant. To a person not blinded by pride of opinion it must be evident that the adoption of either ship subsidies or - vjruveriiirieiiL anip-purcnase is lmpos i sible. If the advocates of these rival nostrums are unwilling to acknowl iedgi; that fact. It is time that those i who are disposed to approach the ; subject with an open mind, with a i sincere desire to restore our ocean '-.commerce by any means which pa- .tnotic wisdom dictates, should Come to the front and assume leadership. The patient is languishing while rival quacks are -wrangling. Let the honest physicians consult together, diagnose the case, define the disease and pre scribe the remedy. Mr. McAdoo Is only the latest of a long succession of quacks. JThere Is some talk In the papers about a simultaneous "revival" of James Fenimore Cooper and Sir "Walter Scott. Neither of them needs reviving. The works cf both these great novelists have always led a vig orous life. They are not so much read ,jjj.ow as fifty years ago, but their place in literature is secure and, in a way. they will always be popular. To ap prove of them It la not necessary to discredit Howells as some do. WHAT FOB? The loud call for an extra session of the Legislature to consider the railroad land grant situation cornea chiefly from voices which have sought through false witness, continuously and unscrupulously given, to under mine public confidence in all legis latures. What could the Legislature do that has not alread; been done In the so- called "midnight" resolution, setting forth the " state's primary Interest in the land gTant? What assurance can our extra-es-sion friends give that the Legislature would not pass another "midnight" resolution? Or do thsy desire it to be -under stood that a "midnight" resolution is the great desideratum of the time? THE TIME FOR HATING. Since the landowners of Western Oregon began to put up hay, say along in the '40s, it has been custom ary to set "the 4th" as the arbitrary date following which the farmer was to begin "haying." As a rule but lit tle or no attention Is paid to the con dition of the grass to be cut. whether ripe, over-ripe or under-ripe July 4 was the date set aa the final limit for beginning work in the meadow. This arbitrary method of procedure has cost the farmers of the Willam ette Valley hundreds of thousands of doMars, yes, millions of dollars, and Is costing a princely sum each year. Many farmers who are astute business men, wise in the manner of prepara tion of soils, rotation of crops, of feeding and fattening and general care of livestock, are simply numb skulls when it comes to taking care of the most valuable of all crops taken from the farm their hay. In other things they farm by rules laid down by those who know or from their own ripe experience. But they begin their haying operations on an arbitrary date set by their fathers and grandfathers, and thereby very fre quently lose from 10 to 60 per cent of the value of the crop. The time to begin haying Is when the grass Is ready to cut. This may be any time after the' 10th of June, possibly as late aa the middle of July, in extreme cases after the 1st ol August. But no matter when, if the grass reaches the proper stage that is the moment for the farmer to get all hands into the meadow and get busy. In speaking with -a. progressive farmer yesterday he said he had his hay about half in the barn, while only about one out of ten of his neighbors had begun their haying. "And yet," he remarked, "their grass was or is in about the same condition as mine. I can yearly note In my neighborhood an annual loss of over $10,000 due to this arbitrary method of putting off haying until 'the 4th.' " Perhaps It is a waste of time to mention this matter again. The doc trine of doing all farm work when it is ready to do has been preached by the press of Western Oregon since newspapers were a factor In our life and little heed has been paid to the preachments. Nothing short of death seems capable of upsetting: tradition. ALIENIST NONSENSE. 'Dr. Samuel W. Smith, who was for merly New Tork State CommlFsioner of Lunacy, has written a sensible let ter to the New York Time on the Fallacies of the Alienist in Court." r. Smith cites several cases which throw a curious light upon the sub servient and venal testimony of vhese pretentious humbugs. When Robin, the defaulting high financier, was lately tried In New York, five alienists of the most exalted eminence testified that he was insane and not responsi ble. Robin himself in the meantime kept up an idiotic byplay intended to befog the Jury. But the twelve plain men were not deceived. Disregnrdinfj the alienists' bought opinions and Robin's monkey shines, they found him guilty as he deserved and the judge complimented them on their good sense. When Thaw was on trial for the murder of Stanford White there were plenty of alienists who. for his money, swore that he was insane. In this case they won the jury over by their sophistries, but they did not deceive the public, which has always felt perfectly certain that Thaw was sane. Some were glad his defense of In sanity prevailed because they thought White deserved his death, but nobody outside the courtroom was fooled by it. The country looks upon the pres ent trial of Thaw's sanity as an amus ing farce. The pompous effort of the court to discover something that Is perfectly evident to everybody In the world is both funny and disgusting, like the antics of an ill-kept ape. If we cannot make up our minds to be sensible about Thaw we might at least contrive to be honest, one would think, after all these years of fraud and pretense. MR. BKVAN GIVES THE TEXT. Unintentionally, Mr. Bryan Is doing valuable service to the cause of genu ine National defense by his peace propaganda. The Oregonian calls it a peace propaganda rather out of cour tesy to Mr. Bryan than because it is correctly so termed. In its ultimate effects it is really a mar propaganda Mr. Bryan serves the cause he opposes by advancing arguments so obviously absurd that, as Macauiay would say, any schoolboy could trefute them. Mr. Bryan says: We are protected on either side by thou sands of miles of ocean, and this protec tion la worth more to us than any numbtr of battlaahipa. In so saying, he is measuring by the standards of a century ago. Our thou sands or miles of. ocean are little more protection to us now than the -"streak of silver sea" was to England against Napoleon. In order that he might in vade England, it was necessary for Napoleon to get control of the Eng lish Channel. He never got control and therefore never crossed, but the British did not rely on the sea itself. They sent Nelson with his fleet to chase the French fleet around the world and- they kept a naval guard on the channel. Lest Napoleon's flotilla of transports should get past the fleet and land troops, they armed and trained great bodies of volunteers. The United States needs a navy as much now to prevent an Invader from crossing our thousands of miles of ocean as Britain needed a navy to prevent Napoleon from crossing a narrow channel. It Is almost as easy to ferry an army acros the Atlantic In big steamers as it would have been for Napoleon to ferry his army across the English Channel in 1805. The principal thing which prevents Ger many from landing an army in Eng land is the British navy. Could she get command of the North. Sea. she need not fight her way by land to Dunkirk and Calais; she could aend the irmy from her own ports. Mr. Bryan proceeds to give us this guileless assurance: We have the men with whom to form an army of defense If ever we ara attacked: and it is known, too. that we would have tha money more money than wa would have had If all the surplas earnings et tha people had been rn vested in armaments. Napoleon's preparations ' to Invade England were known almost as soon as they began. They occupied much time during which Britain trained and armed troops before she was attacked. Under modern conditions preparations to invade this country could be con ducted on the other side of either ocean with such' secrecy that we should not know of them until they were complete. We should then meet a well-armed, well-trained army with an unarmed, untrained mob of citi zens. Brave individually, they would be worthless In war, and the first bat tle would be P- massacre and a rout. The invader would then take. In the forms of tribute, the great sums of money which Mr. Bryan boasts that we should save by not arming our selves well in advance of such an emergency. To what dimensions this tribute would grow can bo Judged from the fact that the total of Ger many's exactions from little Belgium is estimated at 1 1.500.000,000. By following Mr. Bryan's advice many of our citizens would lose their lives, we should lose vast sums of money and we should al?o lose our Independence. Mr. Bryan tells us he is going to change all this. He Is going to bind the world together by a chain of peace treaties which will make war impos sible. - Well and good; we will help every reasonable movement to trans form the world into a heaven of per petual peace. Meanwhile we observe that most of the world bears a closer resemblance to a hell of war, and we misjudge the American people If they do not take every precaution to pre vent the conflagration from spreading to their territory. It will be time enough to beat our swords into plow shares and our spears into pruning hooks when the rest of the work) shows a disposition to do likewise. BLVRIIS. A "blurb" is defined by the know ing to be the little paragraph which magazine editors are wont now-a-days to prefix to a story or article that they think well of. It glorifies the author and trumpets the beauty of his work. If this were all it did. the blurb n.'ght be silly, but it would be comparatively innocent. But the truth Is that It Is a sinner of the worst sort, inasmuch as it always contrives to give sway the best points in the author's article or blab the secret of his plot. It is said by some that the word blurb is de rived from blab. Anybody can see for himself that there is a great re semblance between the two. Some magazine editors are not satisfied with putting a blurb at the head of an ar ticle. They scatter them all through It in big type. There is one magazine whose articles, though they are un usually instructive, we never read. We only read the big fat blurbs that shout all their good points at us from the middle of the page. Who would go to the trouble of wading through an author's prosy preachments when all he really has to say is proclaimed in half a dozen highly capitalized paragraphs? The blurb Is like condensed food served in a capsule. It satisfies lhe literary appetite, but ruins the diges tion. Wisdom causes a surfeit If it Is taken In doses too concentrated. For wholesome use it neenls dilution. We foresee a dreadful day when the mag azines will print nothing but blurbs. It will be a great saving of time- and expense, and, as far as mere Informa tion goes, readers will lo.se nothing. The longest novel ever written can all be told in three or four pages of well- devised blurbs. The most sapient scientific article can be condensed into a couple of paragraphs. By com pressing their literary contents in this way the magazines would save a great deal of space for pictures and adver tisements, but they would destroy the minds of their readers. For a mind stuffed with facts and nothing elso Is pretty sure to perish of malnutrition in a short time. YALE AND HARVARD. Harvard's graduating class this Spring was the largest he has ever sent out. It numbered 1203. Yale's class was not nearly so big, but It probably contained as many big men. Harvard has outgrown her Connecti cut sister, but Yale has pretty steadily held the lead as far as eminent poli ticians and other magnates are con cerned. Not all these children are of savory reputation but their Alma Mater manages to cover most of their sins with a mantle of charity. The political eminence of Yale's sons may possibly be due in part to the habits of "team work' thc ncquiie at col lege. There is no Institution In the country where individuality Is so thoroughly subordinated to Common aims and discipline as it is at Yale. Harvard cultivates the individual spirit more and for that reason her sons shine in literature, philosophy and art rather than In politics. And ttill Har vard has pent out '"J or two notable winners of votes and popular favor. The presidents of both these great colleges touched upon the theme of war in their commencement addresses. President Lowell thinks we all owe a compelling duty to civilization. If it be not our lot to die on the battle field for the great ideals, then we must aid and comfort those who are at the frsnt. Tor they are fighting our fight. "We either fight or we do not fight for civilization." said President Lowell. What are those doing who teach that peace knd meek submtaslon are the greute.t of all blessings? President Hadley thinks the real menace to the country is the class of people "who indulge in the luxury of righteous Indignation" without count ing the cost. Indignant people rarely do count the cost. That comes later with the reckoning up of conse quences. Repenting' at leisure Is a rite not by any means confined to those who marry ,n haste. With their wisdom the presidents of Yale and Harvard mingle the usual amount of folly, if they did not. they would be more than human. President Hadley inanely says that the Ysle graduate of today "is a higher development of civilization than his father or his elder brother." If he had said "later" instead of "higher" we might all have agreed with him. The typical college graduate of today Is no higher In the scale of civilization than were Web ster, Thomas Jefferson and Longfel low. In some ways he Is a good deal lower. The college of their time ran to brain. Now It runs to brawn. President Lowell merited the dunce cap by saying that "a man reaches his prime at S3." A man is not even phy sically In his prime before 2S or SO. Mentally he ought to grow until SO. If he does not it is because there has been some deefct In his college educa tion, such as the nurture of self-conceit. The Berlin press assumes a little hastily that Russia has been "con quered" and that the big army may now be used to devastate France and destroy Paris. The Russian military power has scarcely been scratched by the Galtcian operations. We may take It for granted that the Kaiser has sense enough to keep a strong force on the eastern frontier for some time yet. The war is developing Into a strug gle by Germany to prevent the parti tion of Austria. Gallda la no sooner grabbed out of Rusala's hairy paw than Italy begins nibbling - on the south, and now Roumanla demands a slice on the cast. The trouble is that Austria is a mince pie. It would be avoided tf she had only one kind of nning that is. if she were really a nation. The use of white paint In the United States Increased 10 per cent In 114. Municipal campaigns for clean sur roundings and pretty dwellings are ac. countable for the Increase. Under the stimulus of the "clean up, paint up" slogan, our cities and villages are rap idly taking on a new aspect. With the neater appearance of things go better health and cleaner politics. Holland's new war loan looks a little ominous. She may feel that it is im possible to keep out of the war much longer. Her colonial empire, which Is large and rich, would be lost If she should offend the allies and strict neu trality may ultimately be construed aa an offense. The German frontier is Invitingly vulnerable on the side of Holland. Dr. Ogle told a few plain truths in Chicago the other day about young women who do not bear children In the early years of married life. The desire for "a good time" and fear of "spoiling their shape" In the Urat dec ajie are overcome later by the natural Instinct, but then Is when Nature re bels and many live and die childless. The news from every election where the liquor question comes up Is about the same. "More territory has gone dry" is its monotonous purport. Pro hibition Is bctbming fixed upon the country as a settled policy. It Is sim ple prudence for capital engaged In the liquor business to seek some other employment. Germany has carried state socialism farther than any other country. Indi vidual initiative has been annihilated by It, but the government's efficiency has been gteatly Increased. State so-ch.'.lj-m In German hassds has been as much of an aid to the military party aa the submarine. Our submarines have apparently not yet learned to navigate the under world in safety. Dispatched against a foe. they might overtake him and they might break their heads on the rocks. The chances thus far look about even. When the register of each able-bodied British male Is made up, we won der what svrvice to the Nation will be recorded as possible from those whom Cecil Rhodes railed "loafers" and Rudyard Kipling calls "muddled oafs." At last Montenegro has got Scutari while Austria Is too preoccupied to Interfere. Certainly some of the pow ers which helped to take It away af ter she captured it two years ago are now willing to let her keep It. Portland continues to contribute talent to the stage. To Blanche Bute and Guy Bates Post it now adds W. Krnest Crosby, who steps up from the grocery store. The Mayor's committee failed to find anything objectionable In the bathing suits, for the simple reason that anything objectionable does not wear one. ' Those who have scented Standard Oil In the Mexican revolution will llnd the scent strengthened by the adven tures of the steamer Maverick. If Tomaszow means Thomasvllle. why not. translate it and save us from tangling our tongues In trying to truhslato it? The British would be better occu pied in fighting the enemy than in circulating scandals about their Gen erals. Great Britain has an excess of naval recruits. No wonder. The tars have an easy berth, with the fleets tied up. There is a deficit of $40,000,000 in Governmental finances. A deficit Is a purely Democratic Institution. Yesterday was Indeed a rare day In June for Portland, with the mercury ranging In the 90s. Asquith declines to discuss Britain's peace terms. There Is too much blood in them. The man who buys a fake member ship in the Gridiron Club is sure to be roasted. The American horse chambermaids on the Armenian took a chance and lost. Great Britain proposes to card In dex the nation to uncover the skulk ers. Nobody ran fill O'Donovan Rossa's place, for the necessity does not exlst, The wearer of an X-ray skirt fears a chill on the shady side of the street. Spend an afternoon at one of the resorts while the mercury Is high. U-J9 Is doing her best to absorb the North Pacific wheat surplus. Cut the weeds and give the city a shampoo for the Fourth. Home-run weather at the ball park. Too hot for short sprints. And in six months sll will be yell ing for more steam. All Missouri took Champ Clark at his word. Champ Clark owned Missouri yes terday. The waves are calling. Twenty-Five Yeara Ago Vrorn The OrveonUn. July I. ISOL Washington Tha I'ostofTlce Iepart ment t cHl ay completed true readjust ment of salaries of (ostmasters who preside over offices of the third class. The changes In Cro which take ef fect In Oreron today are: Albany. 11700 to 11800; Arlington, fliee to fourth rate: Maker. tlu0 to 11700: East Portland. 11100 to SltOO; Kugene. tlCOO to (1700: La Grande. tlJuO to 11400; McMlnnvtlle. $1100 to l00; Pendleton. $1700 to 11100; Rose burg, tlSOO to $1300. The taking of the census In this dis trict ends today. In certain portions of the state It takes several days' traveling to get one name. Taccma iurinc the sojourn of Gov ernor Kerry In Camp Ferry, the scene of the National Uuarl encampment, much political discussion s rvd planning was done between himself and tha half score or more of prominent Re publican politicians who. aa members of the National Guard, participated In the encampment. The plans are kept secret, but thalr Intent Is to elevate Kerry from the Governor's chair to the fcenate. An Interest Inn game of ball was played at the Sunday betwe Oaks, in East Portland, n the Bemhelm Man- ner nine, of t hie city, and the Volun- teers, of tr.e Klder wiped Kast tlde. The East up the earth with the stde snd the game ended boys from this at the rinse o f the third Inning. IS to 0 In the East Riders favor. No one need of the game going -"ilt see any further. The Julia LlndsLy Mission Band, composed of 60 boys and girls, will Five an entertainment at the Klrat Presbyterian Church this evening. A spicy dialogue will be a feature. 30 children dressed In costumes of differ ent nations participating. The Waverly-Woodstock electric line has been pitrrhnaid by the Wil lamette Urit'ge Railway Company. The Willamette Rod and Gun Club elected officers last nicht aa follows: W. J. Riley, president: W. A. Btory. vice-president; T. IL Green, secretary and treasurer. "Jim the Penman" played to a bril liant audience at the Marquam Grand last nlsrht, Frederick Robinson played James Ralston and Mis Ada lys played Nina Ralston, wife ot the "penman." Maurice Barry more, aa Louis I'erclTal. did not have a very exacting role, but he la such a hand some fellow and so easy and graceful an actor that he did full justice to the part. Henry Woodruff as young Ral ston also was in the cast. Among the women In the audience were: Mrs. Henry C Allen. Miss Mabel Keck. Miss Heck, Mrs. Cooklngham. Miss Jose phine Cunningham. Mrs. XI. 1'. Deady, Mrs. Kuwnrd Khrman. Miss Anthony. Mrs. H. W. Corbett, Mrs. It. B. Knapp. Mrs. Charles Kohn. Mrs. Kolser. Miss Hersey. Miss Kvelyn I --wis. Mrs. K. A. J. Mackenzie. Miss Winifred Myrlck. Miss I.lsne Myrlck. Miss Krledlander and Miss Virginia Wilson. poets ok MMm:r:Tii tKSTinv Ylrlorlaa Kra .o A lose tt lie C oasla erea Tklska J. I. Trraaalr. PORTLAND. June 5. (To the Kd Itor.) About a year and a half ago I heard a professional man in this city deliver a lecture on Tennyson's "In Mcmorlam." In which ha said that Tennyson was the sreatest Kntrllsh poet or the Victorian era. and that "In Memorlam- was the greatest of Tenny son's poems. About a year later I heard the same man deliver another lecture on the same poem. In which he said that Tennyson waa the greatest Kr.Klish poet of the lth reuturr. and that "In Memorlam" was the sreatest poem ever written in the Kncllsh lan uK on the death of a friend. While It Is uulte true that Victoria's reign took up to years of the lth cen tury. rt there wera 40 years left, and during that 40 years there might have heen an Kngllsh poet greater than Tennyson. I beliaye he was right when he said that Tennyson wns the greatest poet of the Victorian era; but that he was wrong when he said that Trnny son waa the greatest poet of the lth cent ury. From "Kncllsh Literature In, the Nlnteenth Century" la the following extract: "The trinity of marvelous youth. Keats 17i-l:i. : years). Shelley 172-1::. SO year). and lSyron 1 1 TSs-l !:4. $ years), which burned It self out so quickly, left nn undying In heritance to the solid phalanx of great writers whose lives extend to our day. "The wrlllns of nil three poets fell between 111 snd 124. In this respect the most wonderful decade which poetic Knsland has enjoyed." Another extract from the same Is the roll owl rip: "Like Cromwell and Napoleon In af faire: like Shakespeare. Wordsworth and Goethe In his own department of letters. Mcott stands above criticism In the sense that, whatever his mistakes, no later comer has Improved upon him." Ia this placing Wordsworth along side of Shakespeare and Goethe? Is It saying that no latir comer than Words worth has Improved upon him? If the answer to each of these queatinrts la In the affirmative, that Is certainly plac Ing Wordsworth above Tennyson. For Tennyson came ai.cr Wordsworth, and lennyeon cannot tie placed on an equal Ity with Shakespeare, and. I should imagine, not on an equality with ;oethe Spetv-er Walpole. In Ms "History of i-.nitiana, - vol. i. page :41. says: "Byron Is probably the greatest roet that Hrltaln has produced since, the days of Uryden. He Is. perhaps, the most thorough master of words that ever lived. His most beautiful pass sges bear comparison with the noblest In the language." la not that placing Byron above both Tennyson and Wordsworth? Some time towards the end of last Winter a professor of Reed College delivered a lecture In Library hall. In this city, on the "Kngllsh Literary lenius. Toward the end of his lec ture he read a list he had complied of the 14 greatest poets England has pro duced. Byron's name waa not lt that list. Can It be possible thst Knarland has produced 14 poets, each one of whom Is greater than Byron? Shakespeare and Milton are each, of course, greater than he. and one would surmise, from Walpole's language? that he considered Pryden greater. though some people might disagree with him: but h as Knarland produced a fourth poet greater than Byron? Aa to the remark In the second lec ture on "In Memorlam" that that poem was the greatest ever written In the Kngllsh language on the death of a friend, Henry Cabot 1-odsre. In an arti cle in the North American Review for May. 1915. enMtled "This 'Review,' a Reminiscence." says: "Then Shelley. who admired Keats, wrote 'Adonaia.' the greatest poem on the death of a friend which the lensruase can show greater even than l.yerdas' or 'In Memorlam. Which of these two assertions is cor rect? Is "Adonals" greater than "In Memorlam," and. If It Is, where does "Lycedna" rank, above or he - w "In MrmoriaoV'T J. I. TEESIULK. Penafor laue's Aedreas. POHTLAND. June 2 (To the Kd Itor.) Kindly give Senator Harry Lane's aUdress while he Is slaying In Portland, as the writer would desire to Bel Into communication ltn him. W. V. Home address 2(1 Alnsortlt avenue; office. 211 Abtntfton bldx. European War Primer ly Tfatlosval Gesrraalra! s-rley. fTARKOW, whence the Austro-Ger- X man armies launched their great offensive across Gallcia to Umbers and beyond, marks one of the points of fartnerest Russian advance and also the point from which the Austro-Ger-man drive began Its sweep across Ita lic la- This little town Is situated upon the Cracow-Lemberg trunk line rail way, and upon a branch toward the south. It was here. 4S miles west of Cracow; that the Russian armies of invasion converged for their campaign against the ancient Polish capital. Krota Tarnow the northern Austrian railway runa east and south through Jarosiau to the fortreas. Prema 1. and then east and north to Lemberg. Tha way from Tarnow to Lemberg. which the German armies covered during Miv and June, measures 14 miles. lo4 nines to I'rsemsyi and to miles from the famous fortress to the lialtclan capital. The way Ilea through fa,lrly open country, the slopes long, with only bare and there hlil-broken stretches. The little city, with whose recapture the last mighty campaign developed. Is situated in the northern plain, near the confluence of the Rials with the tunaje River, a tributary of the Vis tula. The Vistula lies about ri miles to the north, and forms the Ualtcla-Russlan-l'oland border. Nearly half of the town's population of $2,000 are Jews. It had a growing Industry be fore the war. Its chief manufacture being that of agricultural Implements for use upon the fertile fields Of North ern liallcla. There were also Impor tant flour, glass and lumber manufac tures. The town possesses a cathedral In modified Uolhic style, and some In teresting baronial ruins, these latter connected with e0 years of Polish his tory. Among the seaports recently visited by the Austrian fleet. I'.iralnl. ancient Arlralnum." the Adriatic seaport oppo site the? diminutive republic of an Marino. Is a city of typical Italian charm, a place Intimately associated with the big events ot early history, fascinating lor the strange romances lived within Us bounds and rilled with memories of those absorbing contra dictions thst go to make up the Ital ian temperament. Rimini, just below l'ola, the Austrian naval base across the Adriatic, once an L'rabrlan colony, then an Ktruscan port, and later ac quired by Rome as a base against the Hauls. Is a picturesque monument to the past rather than a place of present large Importance. When growing Rome met Carthage for the mastery of the maritime world, Rlminl became an Im portant naval port. Here was stationed a Quaester of the fleet, and from here the merchants of Mdo'a city were har ried on their ventures through the Adriatic and Ionian seas. The power of Rome reached out through this port for the control of the Mediterranean, cf earth's one great mercantile sea. Klmlnl la no longer a point of significant strategic value to the power of the Italian peninsula, but in Roman days It was a vital element In the plan by which the Latin city became mistress of the world. The Viv Klamlnla terminated here, and the Via AernlMa started at this port. The best of military roads linked It to the master city. Auzustua honored the city with a triumphal arch and a massive lride of Istrlan marble. In the forum here. Julius Caesar fired the enthusiasm of his soldiers after crossing the neigh boring Rubicon on his march against Rome and her Senate. Karly In the sixth century lhe tSoths were staved without tha galea of Klmlnl'a fortifi cations, and later Rlminl became ona of the "five-city league. which In cluded Pesaio, Fano. tflnlgaglla and Ancona. Ktroclous. treacherous. vindictive, cultured, forceful and progressive, the great family of the Maietesta. the Wror.gheaa. so genuinely a product cf whimsical. beautiful. contradictory Italia, came Into power In Rlminl dur ing the lllli century. Lords of th the Castle of Verruchlo. tho Wrong heads brought forth In one of their violent race a character s wildly odd aa to make the story of his life Ul mlnl's master romance. Brave, gener ous, cruel, diabolical In hie cunning and cynical atrsiegy: etrong. learned, half devil and half angel, and all the shades between. Slglsmondo. most wrongheau ed of all the Wroiigr-eads. expressed the threefold soul of Italy, the Borgia, the Machlavelil and the I'ante. S'ejlsmondo was a leader In the early Renaissance, a scholar ar.d an artist. He bulX In 14$$. the castle, of which part remains, which was once held to be the strongest In Italy, lie was ac tive In promoting Kurope'a reawaken ing of spirit In he re-establlshment of a science and an art without the con straining bounds of the church. let he murdered three wives In succes sion lived a life of unbridled lust and was'sttached by the church for a long list of black, violent orfenses. How ever, the tribute that he paid to schol arship waa genuine, and between In trlguts. military duties snd his crimes he spent hla lime w ith J hllosophers. savants and artists. He built the Church of Si. Krnnceso at Rimini a strange work of classic art. utlt by Plunder, and sanctifying Its odd build er, and. in appcarsnce. more of a passn temple than of a Christian church. aerrea eueea Oatslde. r.rrTt.AN-tv June 1. t To the lCd- it In hanging a screen dour ... ihe wire of the screen be on the outside of the framework or on the InsVrleT A workman wa engaced to hang the door p'scetl the screen on the Inside. riease s;at " " A RK.VDKlt. The manager of a large hardware company's screen door department says most emphatically the sere, n should be on the outlde. The general sp pearsnce also dictates It should be on the outside. The woranian was wrens rtllaa mm Iadlata lass. PORTLAND. June S. (To the Kd Itor.) Can a person file on a mining claim which U located on an Indian reaervatlon that has never been thrown open t- the Government? W". J. C No such filing can be made unless there has been a special set ot Con gress throwing the land open to mln ernl entry. According to Information st hand the Coivllle Reservation, In Washington, la the only one with ref erence to which such action hss been taken. l arrearr I-aw la Ofteratlsw. POrtTtAXLi. June 2!. (To the Kdl tor) Will you please give me Infor mation of currency bill? Did It pass snd when? Has It gone Into efTect and a h. n? A tsCBiSCKlUKR. The currency bill became law De cember 13. 113. and the banks for which It provides were opened Novem ber 1, 191. aaae It favrtlasila. FOItFST GROVE. Or, Juue 29. To the Kdltor. ) I quote from The Ore gentsn. June !9: "Wsnted. by the I'ort of Portlarsd Commission, a name for a powerful new- steel d red ice being built for Willamette River operations." Tell them to name It for the greatest dig ger on earth. Ooethals W". J. ;i I1KAC1I. Na, BKAVKRTON. Or, June 2. (To the l'iitor.) Please state If a reient law gives a wife a eivoree on six months' desertion by her husband. v MARKltD WIFE. , Half a Century Ago Pram The Or Ionian. Jsi 1. Isau. The rebel Uovernor Hniwn. of Georgia, In lhe early part of May is sued a rail to the rebel Legislature of that state to assemble for the purpose of taking such action aa they might deem necessary In view of their for lorn condition. The rebel Uovernor's call betokened no contrition for bis crimes and no desire to yield submis sion to the t'nited Statea. Prealdent Johnson, of course, would not enter tain the proposition for the traitor Legislature to convene. General Wil son, commanding In Georgia, accord ingly, at the Instance of the ITesldent. sent H-own an explicit letter advising hiro that anyone who answers Brown's rail will be arrested and held. Another account from the new mines statea that parties there are realising fabulous sums. A letter In our pos session reports that rme are making f 1 00 per day. The California Plage Company's con tract for carrying our dally mall to Lincoln. California, expired yeaterd.iy. Mr. Itoeside, the new rontractor. haa yet made no arrangement for enter ing upon the performance ot hla un dertaking. Hence, no ms!i leaves this t lace this morning. The Oregonian shall go forward by express or In the hands of the stage driver with as little da isy as ia possible until the mll serv ice Is restored. In New O lesns (: suits hsve b-en laslituted for tha confiscation of the propertv of sundry rebels great snd small. Benjamin. Slldell and Jefferson laU are named with others whose property Is advertised for sale by the t'nited Statea marshal. The Carson. Nevada, correspondent ft the Territorial Knterprlse, says that the title to the mint grounja has at last been settled by subscript 'on on the part of the cttiiens there. The ex tra amount paid to make It perfect was nbout llt'0. If the appropration of lloo.uoo made by Congress ran be util ised now. the work will start soon no doubt and the money will return largely to the pockets of the merch.ar.ts there. Unfortunately we are still wl'.hnut Eastern news. A Fan Francisco dis patch Bays the Indians are l:!l so troublesome on the plains that the lines cannot be kept In working order. Hon. Klwood K'ans will give the oration on July 4. the day for which Portland and Oregcn In seneral hara prepared a most promising pro gramme. The spontaneous Interest Is most gratifying. A grand combination circus will habit In Portland July 3 and . Zoyara. the premium equestrienne of the world: Ross and Carlo, the great acro bats: Young l'urrov. Oeorce W. Ross and the great clown Joe Williams, sur- nained by the press. "Rex Jovundl. will be among the features. Miss Saloma Bell and W. 11. Witsell were married at the Farmer's Hotel June 29. by Rev. D. Rutledce. MltKK AUDIT sKUa" TKlllfcRlM Blssaarrk's Mate 1st l7e-71 later- re teal Kresa Ksr) rlseSla Areasaf. roHTUNP. June iTo the Kd- Itor.) Page SI of -Bismarck." by James yellfTe Mejullam. rraca as fol lows follow Inj Interview of Renedcttl with the Xing of Prussia st Kms In Jul). li;o: 'lie (ilia King of Prussia) deter mine! therefore to return to Berlin end ordered Abrken, Secretary to Foreign Office, who was with him. to telet-.rs.rH to l.isnitrsk an account of what had taken place, anil a sucsestlon that the facte sl.ouM be putl lehed . . ." Pace SI reads aa follows (at a meet ing ef Bismarck with Von I'.ooa and Von Moltke): . . . In the sug gestion that the farts should be pub lished Bismarck saw the opportunity he had wished, lie went Into the next loom and dratted a statement. He kept to the very words Of the orlmnal tele gram, but he left out mui h and ar ranged It to that It should convey to tl.e reader the Impreeaslon. not of what had easily occurred, but of what he would have wished should hsrpen. The New Larousse Hnr clopod!s. st the word "Kms." page Hi (tranalated) renda as follows: "... It Is from this report rf the King of Prussia), of which th Prussian Minister altered the meaning In communicating the same to the press, and throush it to the French a:o ernment. aa he sdmllte.t the fsct himself In 12. and as will show the Comparison of the original text, that the Franco-Herman war of 170-71 originated. N. K. I. I.OtKIN ON TIIK SKIMIORK. Loafln' on the aeashore. Wallerln' in the sand. Lls'nin' to tl.e brcakeis roar UMlyt ain't it grand! Kvery ocean-tempered breee Tellin' you to real, sense of Indolence and ease Cainplii In your breast Scarcely can believe It true Trouble ever worried you. Loafln on the seashore Morn in', noon an' lilnht. Soul soaked to its blootnln' core Full o' rsre dcl:glt. Bones a-takin' on the meat stripped from them by toil. System plum from head to feet Sesms to fairly boll With the new blood lo'iraln' through Then ol' veins Inside o' you. Loafln' on the seashore. lirramirt' hours aws. Not a week s-seemln" more Than a Imlf a day. Snoore an" dream ynu're over there 'Cross the mystic sea. Wake to rind the dream durn near The reality. Yawn an' stretch a bit an' then Cuddle down an dream again. Loafln' on the seashore, 'Huu-d you bathin' belles Wearln" clothes that sln'l no more Than the law compels. Tccgin' cut do-col-!-tay Wlurt the wishbone lies. Skirts allow in a display Tr)!n' to the eyes. Shaily limbs encased In hose Reachin' up to meet the clothes. Loafln' on tl.e seashore. Wallenn' In the sand. Lls'nin' to the breakera roar Say, it beats the band! Kvery cure you ever knew Gone ahlkln back To the has-been class, an" yo:i Jes don't seem to lack Anything to make the drtani Of contentment more supreme.. IAMKS BARTON' A PA MS r . ... : rromoit r or civilization A well-known advertising man styles himself a "promoter of civ ilisation." That 1s not a bad tribute to ad vertising for It Is the mlssior.sry that Raises qualities and fixes them. That low-era prices by increasing sales. That betters service. Thst brings production snd dis tribution together. Al! of which thlnss make for a better standard of living. Kvery advertisement In The Ore gonian Is tho voice or progress.