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8" THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 2, .1905. GREAT INTEREST IN POLISH BILL Von Buelow's Measure Expro priating Landowners Would Lead to Disaffection. MEANS LOSS TO PRUSSIA Iiudical Legislation Against Poles at This Time Regarded as Inop portune and Its Passage by Diet Is Very Doubtful. BBRL.IN. Feb. 1. (Special.) Strong op position is developing to Prince Von Bue low's bill expropriating- the Polish land- ! ' A i l-JL 'ill :r 1 - ' I L fpHrSf?' . ' n ' r- 1 1 Tf-h i - j I I I flf : if i 't EAST S1DK MASONIC TEMPLE IS NOW FIVISHKH. The new East Side Alasonic Temple, on the corner of East Burnside and East Eighth "streets, is finished throughout, and is being occupied by the various Masonic lodges that have been meeting in the Burkhard Hall for the past 12 years. It was erected by the Washington Building Association ai a cost of $2."., 300. It is three stories.- 63x100, with four stores on the first floor, and the two upper floors are occupied by the lodge room, banquet apartment, and other rooms used by the lodges. ..White brick were used for the outside facing of the walls, and the building is one of the most attractive on the East Side All the lodges are moving into and meeting in the new hall as fast as their meeting night arrives. " owners, and its passage in the Prussian Diet is problematical. A Polish states man of profnincnee. In giving Ilia views of the measufe "this week, said: "The fact that Prince Von Buelow has proposed to the Prussian Diet a measure so extraordinary as the eonipulwory ex propriation of Polish landowners is. proof of the great importanco attached by Prussian statesmen to the Polish ques tion. The Introduction of a bill contrary to the received principles of modern legis lation and creating a precedent for the arbitrary violation of the rights of prop ertya precedent which may in future be most welcome to the Social Democrats, the bitterest enemies of the Prussian state cannot be explained by any real Internal contingencies. Yet even if it is the object of the Prussian Government to divert the attention of the people from constitutional and social questions by ex citing an unhealthy hatred of their Polish fellow-subjects, it was by no means necessary to go to such lengths as have been reached by the expropriation bill. It is absolutely incredible that the most powerful state of continental Europe should in reality be afraid of 4.000,000 Poles who have not given cause for the slightest suspicion of active disloyalty for 60 years, who have hitherto offered effectual resistance to all Socialist agita tion, and who would be' mad if they wished to exchange Prussian for Russian domination at least, as long as they are allowed peacefully to cultivate their lan guage and to develop their nationality under Hohenzollern sway. "Wide Influence of Poles.. The motives of Prussian statesmen .are to be sought not in-their home policy, but in, their views of foreign affairs. Both in Russia and in Austria the Importance of the Poles is out of . proportion to their number. They represent almost every thing that is tradition, education and civ ilizing influence over nearly the whole area of the ancient Independent Polish state, which is larger than Gernjany and includes the whole of Galicia and of Western. Russia., ..In these. -lands their influence is so great that though the speech of . the peasants differs as much from Polish, as from. Russian, Polish lit erature has-brought fortli its 'best fruits there. Galicia has beeifnecessarily gov erned by Poles ever since Austria became sincerely constitutional; Western Russia took part In the Polish insurrections of General O. O. Howard's National Service Tribute to a Distinguished Soldier and Civilian Well Known in the "Oregon Territory." " To the Editor of the Boston Transcript: The President's toast to Admiral Dewey as "the man who has done more for and reflected greater glory on America than any other man now living" invites com parison. I would not in the least detract from 'the just fame of Admiral Dewey, for I have personally and favorably known him and his late father and brothers from my early manhood, but the form of the President's eulogy affords opportunity to call attention to the great services of a man now living who has in some quarters not been adequately appre ciated. I. refer to Major-General Oliver Otis Howard. Raised on a Maine farm, graduated -at Bowdoln and at West Point, commander of a brigade in the Irst battle of Bull Run: losing his. right arm at Fair Oaks but soon returning to the service, com mander of the Eleventh Army Corps, the Fourth Army Corps, the Army of the Tennessee after the death of McPherson at Atlanta, commander of the right wing of Sherman's army in the great marches from Atlanta to the sea, and from Savan nah to the surrender, all before he was 'M years of age. thanked by Congress for selecting the ground on which the battle of Gettysburg was fought, organizer and chief of the Bureau of Freedmen, Refu gees and Abandoned Lands, of which a committee of Congress said: "Its opera tions extended over 500,000 square miles of territory devastated by the greatest war of modern times, more than 4.000,000 of its people sunk to the lowest depths of 1S30 and 1863, and the Russian government has extended all the exceptional measures taken against Poland'to the western prov inces, where, indeed, those measures have been much more severely applied than In Poland proper. In so far as the peasantry of these re gions is not under the social and political influence of Polish leaders, it either sub mits passively to the biddings of the Government or It follows demagogues whose radicalism inclines even more towards anarchism than towards social ism, for the Ukrainian and Lithuanian national movements have not yet found a path leading to moderate and practical ends. The Poles have rendered the mpst essential services to constitutional Aus tria. Polish statesmen, in particular, brought the formerly dilapidated finances of the Hapsburg Kmptre Into their present flourishing condition. The Poles would render analogous, perhaps even more im portant, services to Russia in helping the really liberal non-revolutionary elements of Russian society in the work of reform that is so urgent; they would prove indis pensable in the western provinces, the richest and most advanced of the whole Russian Empire, as the Poles are the only element that can effectually oppose the ever-rising tide of uncouth, revolutionary radicalism, ready to destroy tout unable to reconstruct. Policy in Russia. The Russian Poles have long been will ing to do this work on condition of en Joying general liberty and respect for their racial'- and religious rights. This condition has been refused by the auto cratic bureaucracy, which, in the oppres sion of one-third of the Empire, has cre- ated for Russian officials a school of ar bitrary despotism in which were trained the men who have oppressed and exhaust ed Russia herself and led her to disaster In the Far East. It is notorious that the oppression of the Poles, both in Prussia and in Russia, has been a strong link be tween the two powers and the pledge of a friendship which is a lasting and potent factor in the changing flow of diplomatic combinations, a facor in comparison with which the Triple and Dual Alliances have been mere shams. The maintenance of arbitrary rule and of oppression in the Empire of the Czar provided Germany policy with a double prop; it not only doubled the Influence of Prussia In the councils of Europe, but was also so potent and so effectual a drawback to Russian de velopment that, despite its immense size, the real power of the Russian empire could never be compared to that of Germany. Change During Japanese War. The first change in the Polish policy of the Russian government occurred before the Japanese war. was over and before Russia had a Parliament. Re ligious liberty was granted to iloman Catholics, and the - Poles were again allowed to buy land in the western governments. They have since mate rially profited by the freedom of the press and have obtained the right to found private schools. In the, first two Dumas, Poles represented not only the electors of Poland proper, but also those of a great part of Lithunania and Volhynla. The reactionary tendencies prevalent in Russia of late have been unfavorable to the Poles, who, not only know , that no further consessions are to be expected from the present government, but have themselves been almost nullified as a political factor in the state. Public opin ion at Warsaw, as at St. Petersburg, ascribes tills hostility towards the Poles, in great part to Prussian influences ac tuated 'by the same motives as have pre vailed at Berlin for more than 40 years. Nevertheless, the Poles in Russia are certainly better off now than before the war.' ' " ' ' Vnless the future Russia be one of con tinuous progress towards liberty and Jus tice, the empire will be convulsed bya series of revolutionary outbreaks and re- ignorance by two centuries of slavery and suddenly set free amid the fierce animos ities of war free, but poor, helpless and starving. Here, truly, was a most appal ling condition of things. Not only the destiny of the liberated race, but the life of the nation itself depends up6n the cor rect solution of this intricate problem." During six most trying years General Howard solved it and in a way, as de scribed by Sydney Andrews in Old and New Magazine, "set idlers at work, aided in the reorganization of society, carried the light of the North into dark places of the South, steadied the negro in his struggle with novel ideas, inculcated kindly feeling, checked the passion of whites and blacks, opened the blind eyes ?f judges and jurors, taught the gospel of brbearance,' encouraged human sympa thy, distributed the generous charities of the benevolent, upheld loyalty, assisted In creating a sentiment of nationality" all this so successfully that the congressional committee further reported that "the world can point to -nothing like it in all the history of emancipation," that "no thirteen millions- of dollars was ever more wisely spent" and that General Howard "Is deserving of the gratitude of the American people." Incident to this work and following it was his great part in founding 128 colleges and other institutions for fitting teach ers, and 131 public schools, among them being the Hampton Institute (the parent of Tuskegee), Fisk University and How ard University, which have been immeas urably more successful than were either actlonary suppressions which must lead to something approaching chaotic an archy. Even in this case it would be fortunate, not only for the people of what is now Western Russia, but for the cause of civilization in general, if the catastro phe should find the Poles in a state of mind so reasonable as to permit them to unite their efforts with the efforts 6f all those who would then have.'to save civili sation and' society. , It is in these circumstances that Prince von Bulow has thought fit to bring in a bill empowering government officials fn western prlvinces . of Prussia arbitrarily to expropriate any citizen they choose. If, contrary to the expectations of those who believe jn the conscience of the great German people, this bill, should be passed, everything might be feared from a gov ernment so heedless of the common law of civilized nations. Assuredly, Polish disaffection will not be decreased by this new move, executed by the Prussian Gov ernment at the very moment when a conservative party, in process of for mation among the Prussian Poles, Intend ed to attempt the work of pacification. Fermentation among the Jrussian Poles cannot but influence their brethren elsewhere. IRVING'S DRESS IN DISPUTE Opposition to Representing Dead Actor as Hamlet. LONDON'.' 'Feb. 1. (Special.) A burn ing topic among the leaders of the theat rical profession in London is the dress in wliich Thomas Brock, the sculptor of the Irving memorial Katue. is to repre sent the great actor. In the statuo by Onslow Ford, which stands in the Guild hall, 1 Sir Henry Irving is presented as Hamlet, but objection has been taken to the same idea being utilized by Mr. Brook, on the- ground that the statue is to be a memorial to Irving, not to Ham lev ' . ' The view was strenuously put forward in some qaurters that modern dress is not 'at all so tigly as most people have been led to believe, and that the sculp tor might do worse than show the dead actor in ordinary walking attire. When, however, the controversy got to this stage it appears to have strui-k somebody that Mr. Block himself might like to have sometiiing to say in the matter", and ultimately u was decided to leave the question entirely in his hands. The statue is to lie erected in Charing Cross road, at the back of the Natior.il Gal lery, and, with the plinth, -will stand 22 feet high. Sir John Hare, pi sh i nt and treasurer of the' fund, and Cecil Raleigh, the chairman, state that the subscription list will close March 1. by which date it Is hoped that all outstanding promises will be redeemed, and that those actors and actresses who have not yet joined in contributing towards this tribute to the memory of. their illustrious leader and friend, will have contributed. Cannot "Carry On' Their Babjv ' Ry promising to keep, their baby daughter off the. staffe during their stay in Oregon. J. H. Watson and wife, two melodrama actors appearing at the Empire this week, were permitted by the Juvenile Court yesterday to re. tain possession of the child, which Is barely 6 years old. They pleaded ignorance of the law In extenuation of their conduct in letting the baby ap pear at the Empire. . Faithful Sunday School Attendance. ASTORIA, Or., Feb. 1. (Special.) Mtsw Edna-W cotton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wootton, of this city, lias prob ably the best record of anyone in Astoria as to continued attendance at Sunday school, she not having missed a Sunday for over three years. Miss Wootton at tends the First Methodist Sunday school. Harvard or Tale or Dartmouth in the first century of their existence. After all these services. General Howard was sent "by President Grn on a successful mis sion of peace to the warring Apaches, and later he commanded the departments of the . Columbia, the Platte, the East and the Military Academy, and he gave his eldest son to the country, whose life was lost in the Philippines. In addition to all this. General Howard's services to sur viving comrades and to moral and reli gious causes have been unremitting. In fact, his services since the Civil War have been so illustrious that many have almost forgotten' that he led the way un der fire across the pontoons at Freder icksburg, that he helped Hooker to fight the battle above the clouds on Look out Mountain, supported Corse at Allatoona, based upon which one of his staff officers. Major D. W. Whittle, wrote the stirring hymn, "Hold the Fort," cap tured Fort McAllister near Savannah, and made harder marches and fought greater battles in the Carolinas than those which form such brilliant chapters in our Revo lutionary history. Surely it can reflect upon no man, living or dead, to allude to these features in General Howard's won derful career and it is gratifying to know that he- is enjoying a. preen old age at his beautiful home In Burlington, Vt., in the society of the wife of his youth, and that he is surrounded by troops of friends wherever he goes in this country which he has done so much to save, to pacify, to, regenerate and to make glorious, ALBERT CLARKE. IS CHATTEL Englishman Comments on the American Wives. HAPPIEST ON THE EARTH Have Solved Problem of Domestic Life, but Position Is Lotr Than. That of Certain Class of French Women. .'LONDON',. Jan. 23. Lucas Cleeve, who lived several years in America, has written an article upon "The American Woman," in which he declaijjJ the American woman is still regarded as a beautiful, rare chattel. - "While it is true," says Cleeve. "that American women have solved the prob lem of domestic happiness to the com plete satisfaction of their own ambitions, and that they can claim, without any fear of contradiction, to be the happiest women on- earth, except when their minds go title gathering in Europe the question remains: Are the ambitions of the American women as high a those of European women, and in particular of French and English women? "Those who have studied the question will appreciate that one should mention French women before English women, for in France, ' notwithstanding the French novel, the women of the bour geoisie, especially of the 'haute bour geoisie.' hold a position which is un equaled by any women on earth, and it is a position attained and maintained in spite of socially adverse conditions, which is due entirely to their own men tal superiority and to the finesse of their intellect. "In England and .it is England which forms the most interesting contrast with American women, because , the shades and degrees of difference are more grad WOMAN No Food Commissio'ner of any State has ever attacked the absolute purity of Every analysis undertaken shows this food to be made strictly of Wheat and Barley, treated by our processes to partially transform the starch parts into a form of Sugar, and therefore much easier to digest. Our claim that it is a "Food for Brain and Nerve Centers' is based upon the fact that certain parts of Wheat and Barley (which we use) contain Nature's brain, and nerve-building: ingredients, viz.. Phosphate of Potash, and the way we prepare the food makes it easy to digest and assimilate. ' Dr. Geo. W. Carey in his book on "The Biochemic System of Medicine" says: "When the medical profession fully understands the nature and range of the phosphate of po tassium, insane asylums will no longer be needed. . ' '' "The gray matter of the brain is controlled entirely by the inorganic cell-salt potassium , phosphate. "This salt' unites with albumen, and by the addition of oxygen creates nerve-fluid, or the gray; matter of the brain. .. .. "Of course, there is a trace of other salts and other organic matter in nerve-fluid, but potassium ;- - phosphate- is the chief factor and has the power within itself to attract, by -its own law of affinity, all things needed to manufacture the elixir of life. Therefore, 'when nervous symptoms arise, due to the fact that the nerve-fluid has been exhausted from any cause, the phosphate of potassium is the only true remedy, because nothing else can possibly supply the deficiency. . . The ills arising from too rapidly consuming the gray matter of the brain cannot be overesti mated. - "Phosphate of Potash is, to my mind, the most wonderful curative agent ever discovered by man, and the blessings it has' already conferred oii the race are many. But 'what shall the harvest be when physicians everywhere fully understand the part this wonderful salt plays in the processes of life? It will do as much as can be done through physiology to make a heaven on cfarth. "Let the overworked business man take it and go home good-tempered. Let the weary wife, nerves unstrung from attending to sick children or entertaining company, take it and note how quickly the equilibrium will be restored and calm and reason assert her throne. No 'provings' are required here. We find this potassium salt largely predominates in nerve-fluid, and that a deficiency produces ' well-defined symptoms. The beginning and end of the matter is' to supply the lacking principle, and in molecular form, exactly as nature furnishes it in vegetables, fruits and grain. To supply deficiencies this is the only law of cure." v BRAIN POWER Increased by Proper Feeding;. A lady writer who not only has done good literary work, but reared a fam ily, found in Grape-Nuts the ideal food for brain work and to develop healthy children. She writes: "I am an enthusiastic proclaimer of Srape-Nuts as a regular diet. 1 formerly had no appetite in the morn ing and for 8 years while nursing my four children, had Insufficient nour ishment for them. . . , "Unable to eat breakfast I felt faint later, and would go to the pantry and eat lold chops, sausage, cookies, doughnuts or anything I happened to find. Being a writer, at times my head felt heavy and my brain asleep. "When I fead of Grape-Nuts I be gan eating it every morning, also gave Ft to the children, including my 10 months' old baby, who soon gTew as fat as ft little pig, good natured and contented. "I wrote evenings and feeling the need of sustained brain power, began . eating a small saucer or Grape-Nuts with milk, instead of my usual indi gestible hot pudding, pie or cake for dessert at night. "I grew plump, nerves strong, and when I wrote my brain was active and clear; indeed, the dull head pain never returned." uated and difficult to discern, detect or define than those between the American women and the women of any other country there is the similarity of the difference, which might well be ' said to resemble the likeness of cousins to each other, brought up by different parents under different surroundings. . American Husband Kow Tows. "The difference lies in the women themselves. In their ideals and their am bitions more than In conditions. In America the law has been on the side of the woman, and the husband has been, or seemed, subservient. In Eng. land . the law is less favorable to women, and the husband is, outwardly at least, the ruler, and the difference lies In the following facts The woman of America is content with the law and content with her husband's worship, while she does not claim to be the companion of his brain nor his soul. "The English woman despises sub servience in the man, and, while in sisting on his greatness, aspires to be the companion of his soul, his hand, and his pursuits. The obvious conclu sion that one must come to is that the American woman is content with a position which, from a certain point of view, is a baser one, and the dem onstration of it is clearly observable from the fact that American women take but a lukewarm interest in the vote question and have spared the world the humiliating spectacle of 'suffragist riots.' Lawmakers Always Gallant. "That the .American woman is con tent to let polities and business alone is probably the result of the luxurious confidence in which she is steeped, that she can always count on the chivalry and protection of the lawmakers of America, a luxurious confidence which is extremely becoming to her personal appearance, and which prevents one meeting in America, at least among the well. to-do cla.sse3, so many of the harassed,, furrow-lined, intense faces that one does among the women of Great Britain, while in Justice to the men of the United State3 one must concede that so far women have had no reason to regret the confidence they J have placed in them, while sincerity compels one to comess tnai a certain doubt transcends when one for a moment contemplates what the posi tion "of women .In England would be If they did not now and then ' make a dash for liberty. "The women of America will tell you that the reason they do not help their husbands and brothers in their political career is because politics hto too corrupt. Please observe that Phosphate of Potash is not properly of the drugshop variety Dut is best prepared by "Old Mother Nature" and stored in the grains ready for. use by mankind. Those who have been helped to better health by the use of Grape-Nuts are Legion. "There's a Reason" Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., while the idea of assisting in their puri fication does not seem to have occurred, to them; and the men will tell you, even in the present day, that the woman who mixes in politics is a 'lobbyist,' which is tantamount to being an adventuress, while they look on with amused toler ance and treat with mock deference the clubs of women 'and that newly added horror to the world, the clubwoman. Still Treated as a Child. "Whether the American women have realized that to enter the field of politics is to soil their hands,- or whether the men realize that they could not reveal the secrets of 'graft' without soiling their women's minds, is also too large a question to deal with at once: but the fact remains that while worshiped, pet ted, admired and spoiled, the American woman is treated by the American man as a child and a chattel a beautiful, rare chattel, which is never to be al lowed to know that it is a chattel, but a chattel nevertheless. "The American man does not want her to mix In his politics or his business; she is the companion of his leisure hours, and he lets her have everything on earth that she desires and do every thing under the sun that she wants to do in order that ebe should not interfere with his business.' That he occasionally resents this position was illutrated lately by a doctor suing for separation because his wife insisted on coming into the consulting-room during the visits of women patients." Our , American sisters seem content with their lot, which our Enslifeh ones do not." RUSSIA BUYS BIG CRUISER Rurik Is Giant or Her Class, Resem bling Battleship. LONDON". Feb. 1. (Special.) Russia is going ahead with the construction of her new navy, and hap just obtained one of the most formidable cruisers afloat from Vickers' Sons & Maxim's yard at Barrow. The name of the new warship is the Rurik. and for a cruiser she is a monster. With three huge funnels ' and one mast abaft, the funnels towering to a great height and painted dull gray, she more than resembles in appearance a battles-hip. Of course neither her guns nor her ar mored -protection is of battleship heavi ness. No other cruiser, apart from the ships in the British and Japanese fleets, possesses such deadly weapons. She has on board a full crew of Russian offlcerp ood. Battle Creek, Mich. and men, and is now ready to sail for Libau. The Rurik is of 13.000 tons displacement, lf.700 norsepowei , speed 21 knots and length over all -190 feet She carries four 10-inch and eight S-inch guns. Her ar mor belt is six Inches thick and her decks are covered with shot-resisting cement. SEES ONLY MEDIOCRITIES London's Lord Mayor Bewails De generacy of Kngiish. LONDON. Feb. 1. (Special.) Sir Mar cus Samuel, the former Lord Mayor of London, has a very poor opinion of the latter-day Englishman. He lias just an nounced his retirement from business and In connection therewith says: "I should never have retired if I could have found among contemporary states men any man of the caliber of Lord Bea consfield. who placed a government rep resentative on the board of the Suez Canal Company, and who would have taken-similar action in the all-imporlant matter of retaining under British con trol and guidance the greatest oil field for liquid fuel in the world (that of Bor neo). But we have fallen on degenerate days, and the men at the head of affair however high-sounding their names, art mediocrities, never looking beyond tomor row, afraid of responsibility, and utterly lacking in business experience. Sir John Fisher is the only man 1 have found witii any backbone. Although 1 have realized a large fortune and some fame, I am a disappointed man." President Approves Priest. RENO. New, Feb. 1. Presidential ap proval of the sermon delivered in the Catholic Church here Sunday, January 19, has been received by the author of the opinions. Rev. Father Tubman. A letter from Theodore Roosevelt tells of his indorsement of the priests' re marks, and the assertions that "cell. bacy is false to God, false to country and false to self are essentially up held. The President applauded the state ment that racfc suicide, affinities and "other outgrowths of modern marriages and divorces" deserve more than con demnation from the clergy. The priest's utterances created a sen sation at the time because he said he: desired no unmarried men or women to remain in his parish. Perfect fitting glasses $1 abMctzger's. WISE CLERK Sandwiches and Coffee far Lunch. Qulln The noon-day lunch for the Depart ment clerks at Washington, is often a most serious question. "For fifteen years," writes one of these clerks. "I have been working in one of the Gov't Departments. About two years ago I found myself every afternoon, with a very tired feeliiiK In my head, trying to get the day's work off my lesk. "I had heard of Grape-Nuts as a food for brain and nerve centers, so I began to eat it Instead of my usual heavy breakfast, then for my lunch in stead of sandwiches and coffee. "In a very short time the tired feel ing in the head left me, and ever since then the afternoon's work has been done with as much ease and pleasure as the morning's work. "Grape-Nuts for two meals a day has worked, in my case, Just as ad vertised, producing that reserve force and supply, of energy that does not permit one to tire easily -so essential to the successful prosecution of one's life work.'" "There's a reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the "Road to Well vllle," in pkgs.