14, 1913. 11
OKEGOXIAX,
FEBRUARY
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IRISH WITH BRITAIN
SAYS T.P. O'CONNOR
- i i a I i:
i tmmeni Leaner Analyses view
on War Generally Held by
Countrymen at Home.
HOME RULE IDEA APPLIED
!rinc)ple or Nationality Violated by
Germans and Defended by Allies,
Statesman Believes Russia's
Promise Thought Sincere.
. commfite. of representative lrum-Amerl
itu In Portland:
BY T. O'COXSOB.
I am favored by American friends
with extracts from some. American pa
pers and occasionally I receive letters
some eulogistic some abusive. I an
driven to the conclusion that there is
considerable difference of P"
among the people of my race in the
United States on the present war.
This strikes an Irishman living in
Great Britain as rather surprising. lor
among us there is no difference of
opinion. . , . ,
There may be 100 Sinn Feiners In the
300 000 Irish people in London; perhaps
30 in Liverpool, perhaps 20 in Glasgow,
but outside this infinitesimal section
the Irish in their 2.0C0.000 are to a man
and a woman for the allies. .
I have addressed meclngs. both pub
lic and private; have yet to come across
a single case of dissent from my
views. Some of the meetings might
well be called Jingo, so fierce was their
tone against Germany. All of them
have been crowded and what is much
more unmistakable demonstration of
Irish opinion In Great Britain. Irish
men have Joined the British army In
creat numbers, at least to the number
of 50.000. . ', .
In Newcastle on Tyne "000 Irishmen
joined in the first weeks of the war.
t!ien came the permission to form Irisn
battalions there; 4000 more Irishmen
have joined these battalions.
I propose to set forth calmly, even
frigidly the reasons which have
brought about this extraorrttnsry una
nimity of opinion amonsr us. I am out
wilting what I have already said at
ttiese gatherings, public and private.
I have asked my countrymen to con
jl.l.T the issues of this war from two
points of view, from the point of the
principles of an Irish Nationalist and
from that of the interests of Ireland
and especially or home rule.
View of War Analysed.
What are the principles of an Irish
Nationalist? .
The first and supreme- principle is.
of course, the principle of nationality.
That again Involves resjtect as great
for the nationality of small as of big
nations. , ,
Applv that principle to the present
strusieie and I find that the principle
of nationality is violated by Germany
and defended bv the allies all through
Kurope. It Is violated in Belgium, it Is
violated In France. Whose destruction
as a great power was the -avowed ob
ject of the German Invasion. It is vio
lated In the case of all the other non
German races that are under German
rule; In the c:se of the inhabitants of
Alsace-Lorraine, of the Poles and of
the Danes. ..."
If I look to Germany's ally, Austria.
I find equal disregard to the principle
of nationality.
The Slavs and the Roumanians both
In Austria and Hungary are ienied
racial equality: their language, their
rights of self-government and to
racial development along their own
lines are ail not only denied, but se
verely and even brutally oppressed.
If in reply I am reproached with
supporting a reactionary power like
Russia, I have to answer that Itussla
has also promised to liberate the Poles
a race whose history has strong anal
ogies with that of my own race. And
I am sure that every man Liberal or
Conservative in Great Britain will
throw all his weight into the scale of
Polish liberties when the time for set
tlement comes.
Next, every Irish Nationalist is by
necessity a democrat as well as a Na
tionalist; he Is a pacifist, and he be
lieves in freedom and in free institu
tions. How can he reconcile such
principles with support of the mili
tarism of Germany, with Zabern as its
symbol in peace and Louvain in war?
" To us German militarism is a curse
and a nightmare to Kurope; it has
now taken hold of the soul of all Ger
many, until we have an entire nation
,.. Intolerable anil
dangerous mania. Ami until the ghost")
Is lald-wc cannot see any chance lor
the ideas of freedom, peace and Justice
iu w hich we believe.
Ireland Stirred to Depths.
Any doubts as to the real and inner
character of this principle of militar
ism have been removed by the conduct
of Germany in Belgium. There is no
country In tho world In which Ger
many's cruelty in Belgium has excited
such violent and universal indignation
a in Ireland partly because Belgium,
lke Ireland, is a small country; partly
, because it is a Catholic country; partly
because the cruelties have been exer
cised so much on priests, on civilians,
and on women and children.
So fierce is the anti-German feeling
in Ireland that some poor Russians In
Dublin engaged in little businesses
have had their windows broken and
their shops pillaged under the errone
ous Idea that they wore German shops.
I am glad to say that these incidents
have been few. and have been univer
sally condemned.
I come to the second branch of the
question, namely, the Interests of Ire
land and of home rule. And first let
me call attention to the fact that the
attitude of the Irish leaders from
Ol'onnell to Parnell. and from Parnell
to Kedmond. has always been the same,
and that attitude has been that if Ire
land received home rule, she would rc
upoiiil by abandoning her old position
of antagonism and would become a
loyal and contented member, like other
self-governed communities, of the Brit
ish Empire.
Addressing a vast and enthusiastic
gathering in Limerick recently, Mr.
Kedmond recalled these words of Par
nell: "If home rule be carried Into law
the Irish people will cheerfully accept
all the duties and responsibilities as
signed to them and will Justly value
the position they have won In the Im
perial system."
Mr. Redmond himself, of course, and
every other Irish leader, has used sim
ilar language. Our home rule move
ment has always been a constitutional
movement: It is not and it has never
professed to be a separatist movement.
And we should therefore flagrantly vio
late all the pledges on which we have
obtained home rule and we have ob
tained it if we did not give loyalty In
return for liberty.
Results ( Broken Pledges Seen.
as easrly as Germany swallowed those
w 1 1 n recara m .
be the consequences to Ireland and to
home rule? I have no hesitation In
saying that the home rule act would
become a scrap of paper, and that both
home rule and Ireland would be
drowned In blood- Kngland has given
home rule to a friendly Ireland; she
would refuse to a hostile Ireland; and
especially to an Ireland hostile when
Kngland was passing through her
greatest travail; and when England. In
addition, from our as well as the Eng
lish point of view, was fighting the
battle of nationality, of small nations
and of freedom. '
It is represented by some German
and even Irish writers In America that
this gigantic risk would be worth tak
ing, because Ireland would be able to
offset the enmity of England by the
friendship of Germany.
What does this language really
mean?
Does it mean that Germany is to in
vade Ireland and conquer it from Kng
land: and if she did. what then? It
la Impossible that Gernuyiy should
conquer Ireland from England. The
British fleet stands between the Irish
shores and any expedition that Ger
many could send to Ireland; all that
would happen would be that the people
of Ireland would be subjected on the
one side, like Scarborough, to the Ger
man shells, and on the other side to the
vengeance of the British army fighting
against an enemy at home who tried
to stab it in the back when it was
most In danger.
Some Irishmen in America, I gather,
ana asking whether Irecland should
forget the wrongs which England has
Inflicted on her In the past. My answer
Is that every generation must live in
the conditions and in the spirit of its
own time.
New Ireland and England Here.
In the last 25 years there have grown
up not only a new Ireland but a new
England; an Ireland where 300,000
peasant proprietors own the soil they
till, and are advancing hourly in pros
perity, in health. In self-confidence, and
laying the foundations of a happy, con
tented and well-to-do nation; an Eng
land in which democracy has won suc
cessive triumphs over the control of
England by the selfishness, the arro
gance and the cruelty of aristocratic
government. The England of today is
Incapable of Inflicting upon Ireland the
hideous wrongs that belonged to an
epoch when the English democracy had
as little control over the policy of its
rulers as Ireland herself.
We Irish Nationalists are all demo
crats I mean in the general sense, not
in the American party sense and our
faith is great in democracy as the
force that will ultimately bring peace,
freedom and justice to mankind. We
have found confirmation of these con
victions in the fact that from the mo
ment England became democratic Ire
land began to advance to the light,
until today she has her self-government
embodied in an act on the British
statute book. We promised to make
peace with the English democracy; we
mean not only to keep our promise, but
we also find it easy to do so in view
of what our country owes during the
last quarter of a century to the en
lightenment and the good will of the
English democracy.
In my frequent visits to America I
have had the experience of hearing
some of my race make sneechos in
which they announced that Ireland
could only win home rule by force at
the cannon's mouth and on the battle
field. The gentlemen who uttered such
heroic sentiments had the advantage of
both ignorance of Irish conditions and
their separation from the Irish battle
field by the Atlantic Ocean. If a re
bellion were justifiable in Ireland
and in my opinion and in that of every
Irishman at home who Is not a fit can
didate for a lunatic asylum a rebel
lion would be an insane crime; there
are no materials for it.
It could be drowned in blood in a
few hours, and with the final result
that Ireland would be at once robbed
of home rule, and subjected perhaps to
another century of castle rule Instead
of home rule.
Method TVot Understood.
There seems to be a strange misun
derstanding of the character and the
methods of the movement for which
Parnell and the modern Irish leaders
have been responsible. You would
think from some speeches that it had
been won at the point of the bayonet,
and from a frightened enemy in Eng
land, running for its life. It is a ridic
ulous travesty of the historic and in
disputable facts.
Not a home ruler ever carried a gun
till six months ago; not a shot was
fired. Home rule was a great consti
tutional movement, adopting constitu
tional methods, and it won not because
it frightened, but because it convinced
England; and England was convinced
because with all its faults and errors
mainly in the past and under less
democratic conditions England has
faith In freedom and enjoys free in
stitutions. Home rule came not from a fright
ened, a hostile, but from a convinced
and a friendly and sympathetic Eng
land. For years I have seen Englishmen
give to the cause of Ireland their time,
their money, their health and often
the sacrifice of some. of the reforms in
their own land on which their hearts
were most set. For the last three
vears I have seen the biggest men of
business In England walk wearily
through the division lobbies whenever
Ireland's fate was at stake, not for
personal reputation, for most of them
remained silent, and in abandonment or
neglect at least of their great busi
nesses, of their distant homes. On
Llovd George finance, on Welsh dises
tablishment, the Liberal ranks often
wavered, and sometimes hroke: home
rule had only to come again on the
Parliamentary scene and disunion at
once disappeared and the Liberal ranks
were once again solid, enthusiastic and
eager. To forget these things of to
dav and to dwell on a dead and irre
vocable past Is a stupid anachronism.
Kngland'n Cause Held Just.
Finally we in these countries, and
especially we In Great Britain, have
better means of appraising the politi
cal situation than those who are far
away from either the realities or the
P'l 'believe and so do we all that the
cause of England and her allies is a
Just cause; that our principles compel
us to take up that side: ttfat the inter
ests of our country impose on us that
side, and we look with some suspicion
on those gentlemen who have always
prophesied our failure, have always
embarrassed us, calumniated us, tried
to break us up.
And to threaten England 3000 miles
away from England seems to all who
live in England a kind of bravery that
might be mistaken for cowardice.
Road Bill to Be Protested. t
WEN'ATCHEE, Wash.. Feb. 13.
(Special.) A - joint meeting of the
Wenatchee Commercial Club and the
Chelan County Good Roads Association
! to be called to protest against the
bill introduced in the lower house on
the route for the extension of State
Road No. 13. Under the bill this prim
ary highway is to be located east from
Ellensburg: to -the Columbia, thence up
the Columbia to Wenatchee. a cir
cuitous route, making the distance
nearlv 100 miles between Ellensburg
and Wenatchee. Over the Wenatchee
Mountains, either by the olockum or
the Blewett Pass, a direct route of 50
miles can be obtained.
Furniture Made of Horns Shown.
ROS5BCRG. Or.. Feb. 13. (Special.)
W" L. Dyslnger. proprietor of a local
planing mill, is sending six chairs,
table, foot rest and hall rack, which
are made almost exclusively of deer
horns obtained in Douglas County, to
the San Francisco Exposition. Mr.
Dysinger says the eight pieces of fur
niture required 170 pairs of horns, and
represents nearly five years of effort
The exhibit will be placed In the Ore
gon building. Mr. Dyslnger values the
collection at (2000.
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goods that will render honest service,
the medium cost goods, and also the
most expensive. Every homefurnish
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to the utmost advantage of the buyer,
both in quality of merchandise and
economy in outlay.
We offer a broad, convenient credit.
This feature of our business is a popular
one, and its privileges and advantages
are freely offered to all.
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Numerous Advantages and Many Important Special Offerings
Four Floors of our Fifth
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out its equal in the entire
Northwest. You are cor
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through our stock.
, Special Sale
Duo Loom Lace Curtains
Two-Piece Effects' in a Variety of
Patterns, With Decorative Colors.
Regular $7.0(1 Curtains for $4.25
Regular W.0O Curtains for 3.75
Regular $5.0 Curtains for $3.00
Regular :PI Curtains for 2.2o
Lowell Axminster
Carpets Reduced
Regular $2.00 quality in this fa
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for years -without showing wear.
Mostly, new Oriental designs. Laid
on your floors com
plete at low price of
the yard .
designs, iaiu
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Ruer Bargains
500 Axminster Rugs in Oriental
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$4.00 Axminster Rugs, flJO OC
36-inch, special P5ieOJ
$1.60 Rag Rugs for the bathroom;
size 27x54; all this week QC.
special
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The Home of Good Furniture , Cor. Washington and Fifth Streets,
Branch Store Bargains
Second and Morrison Sts.
$80 Solid Mahogany Napoleon
Bed, handsome, massive. . .$40
$70 Ccnuine Tuna Mahogany
Napoleon Bed, finely finished.
for f 45.00
$50 Circassian Walnut Napo
leon Bed, an attractive pattern,
for $35.00
$30 Cenui'ne Mahogany Dresser,
with 24x30 French plate mirror:
45-inch case $17.50
$32 Quartered Oak Dresser,
with 24x30 French plate mirror,
45-inch case, golden wax finish.
for $18.25
$29 Circassian Walnut Dresser.
Colonial style, with oval mirror,
for $19.35
$48 Bed Davenport, Early Eng
lish finish, mission style, covered
with imported French velour,
for . .$27.00
$60 Golden Oak Davenport,
massive Colonial design, covered
with best quality imported hrench
velour; ample storage space,
for $38.00
$125 Otvens-Davcno, complete
ly overstuffed in finest French
velour $68.75
Many odds and ends in single
pieces of (iirnltuiu at I'liirs
Isr below normal. ion ar
.nviteil to call ulul look over
the ditsphiy. -d uud Mo'tIhoii.
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METHODIST PEAC
HOT YET REACHED
After Two-Hour Arbitration
Conference Breach Gates
Still Far Ajar."
CHRISTIAN SPIRIT NEEDED
"gruest day" last Monday. An excep
tionally grood programme was presented.
It was devoted to the encouragement
of the musicians, poets and artists of
the state. The first number was a piano
duet by the Misses Loynes and Phyllis
Miller. Mrs. Charles Hlnes recited
"Beautiful Willamette," and Miss (ioldie
Peterson BRtg "Four Leaf Clover." Mrs.
Weister, of the Art and Psychology
Club, of Portland, spoke on the artists
and poets of the state. The club is hav
ing a prosperous year, and is engaged
in many liass of civic improvement. It
has recently organized a Home and
School League.
Judge Gatens Says Church Trouble
Not One for Court, Anyway, and
He Will Not Surrender Action
Till Sort of Peace Reigns.
Not one of the 20 members of com
mittees arbitrating the difficulty
within the First Methodist Episcopal
Church would venture a statement that
any progress had been made after a
two hours' session held yesterday aft
ernoon behind closed doors in Room
309 of the Y. M. C. A. building.
The only thing to which they would
aEree was that the breach within the
. , ar.A tha ol rl WOUndS
could not be healed in a day. After
the two hours' parley ine own
-i j rn..iA..ct.oit rhiirch were yet
UIU AttJW "v.
locked as securely as before.
The committees wui uc ----.
. -a-iint took nlace
Ciai SiaiCIIICUL iD vw .. -- '
at the meeting. When questioned last
night all evadea aeiinne w". -.-
"You'd better ask someone else about
that."
-Whole Hon or None," Saya Judge.
.1 ! n 1 maVA YTIimh TITOSC-
ress."'said Circuit Judge Gatens, who
presided as umpire
"Propositions and counter-propositions
were made, but they both seemed to
Insist on "whole hog or none.' ,
... T .on oil 7 Id that
ine oniy tnms . .-
they showed good spirit albeit a rather
stubborn one. uney win meet i..ii
-, tt-tn rtVlnrlr Mnndav
in in v i-uui . " " '
morning. We'll see if we can't make a
start there. It we can i, i won i ici ui
in trving to onus t'ov .v.-v...
the two factions. This isn't a case for
. . m,.i..
court anyway, its rt v.,..-.-fians
to show a little Christian spirit."
Samuel Connell acted as spokesman
for the "insurgent" committee, and A.
King Wilson for the "regulars." C. D.
MInton resigned from the "regular"
committee yesterday on grounds that
he could not be in the city for the
afternoon meeting. His place was filled
by M. A. Zollinger.
Trial May Run Longer.
Yesterday's cpnference was the re
sult of the sudden halting of a four
days' suit in Circuit Judge Gatens'
court over the closing of the old
Taylor-street church last October by
the church quarterly conference. Should
arbitration fail, it was said yesterday
that hardly half of the evidence was in
and the trial probably would last at
least four days longer.
The "regular" committee was in the
room yesterday some time before the
ten "insurgents" arrive. When they
did get together there was a general
handshaking, with a fair degree of
warmth.
Dr. Frank L. Loveland, pastor of the
First Church, is said to have reiterat
ed his offer to eliminate himself entire
ly if his resignation as pastor could do
anything toward patching up the
breach. He was assured by members
of both committees that he did not con
stitute a bone of contention.
Bishop R. J. Cooke, who was on the
witness stand undergoing cross-examination
when the trial was halted
Thursday afternoon, was not present at
yesterday's meeting.
Portland Man Trades.
One hundred and sixty acres of tim
ber, cruising 13,000,000 feet, located in
Lincoln County, and owned by H. O.
Wishart, of this city, have been ex-
j .uarn I nnlTrmroved lots
CUBIICU iv - ' .
located in various parts of Portland.
The consideration has been wtinneia
for the present. Callan & Kaser acted
as agents.
Forest Grove Club Has Visitors.
FORKST GROVE. Or.. Feb. 13. (Spe
cial fhe Forest Grove Woman's Club
received many visitors at its annual
BIBLE TALES INTERPRETED
"Allegories" Are Applied to Modern
Times and Conclusions Drawn.
ESTACADA. Or, Feb.- 10. (To the
Editor.) It Is wonderful that folks
who profess to be so erudite are un
able to interpret Bible symbolisms.
Take, for example, the story of Noah
and the ark. The ark was a system of
religion, an economic ana yviii -un-We
might get that from the word
economy, which means the law of the
house. A house is an ark and a law
Is a cult.
The animals in the ark were differ
ent kinds of people. The deluge was
It seems there was a migration under
uun to ine iiie,,lttius Ul memo. w.
In the course of time this religious
cult Decame corrupt ana aegeneraiou
into the idolators of Egypt and Chal
daea. Then Abram was called out of
Chaldaea and Moses out of Egypt and
Liiriu WHS IV new w.oa.'v . - -
ark. This was the Hebrew cult, which
in me course ul me jcwiau uidiiciw.-
tion degenerated into meaningless rit
uals and mummeries. Then Christ came,
and he was the ark of a new cove
nant and cult, that of Christian dispen
sation. The story of Adam and Eve is an
other allegory. Adam in the Garden of
l-j ..... n rh.ief in PDl.ctino fllone
among the animals all the tame ani
mals. Herod was a iox; me man-
sees were woivua in bhvcii a ...v.t....0 ,
the Romans were the "she wolf's lit
ter. Ail tne Deasts oi me neiu
the iunele- were there, and all the
fowls of the air.
Adam fell into a deep sleep wnen
Christ died on the cross. The woman
that was taken out of him was the
church. The word rendered "rib"
means strength or virtue. This was
-v.- i t .ni.u n. trhno that nASsed
mo iiuiji ui"'
over to the church. The church was
the bride, the iew Jerusalem, nm
old Jerusalem or Holy City passed
away.
In passing down the Christian Dis
pensation this church or cult has be
come corrupt and In the book of Rev
elations she is represented as a scar
let woman, the mother of harlots, sit-
. i - v. . with onvpn tipnrlH and
ten horns. This beast Is a symbol of
the European military ana iuuiv.oi.
. WV.11A tli. 1 ti lur hji.at with two
heads signifies representative govern
ment, as we nave it in mo uu..
States.
It may be news to some people to
learn that we are now living before
the creation of the world, but it Is
true, nevertheless. We are in the con
dition Of religious and political -chaos
described in the first verses of the
i - - i-?-.ABlD Th. .arth 1a without
UUUfl V. v 1. 1- -J -
form and void and darkness is on the
face of the ,deep.
But there is to be a new creation,
new heaven and a new earth. The
New Jerusalem, the mother of us all,
is the new universal church that is to
be made manifest. Eve in the alle
gory is the church. Adam Is the state.
Eve is religion; Adam is law. Eve is
the soul: Adam the mind or intellect.
These are to be married.; That is
the wedding of the King's son and the
Princess. It means that the balance of
power, the harmony between God and
man and nature will be restored. The
times are out of Joint and everything
has- gone to the devlL I think we can
all put off our battered masks of op
timism and agree on this unanimously
But everything must be recreated and
restored. "Behold. I make all things
neAdam and Eve are Just the same as
Osiris and Isis. In ancient Egypt Isis
was the veiled goddess of nature, the
mother of us all. In the new dispensa
tion the mysteries of nature will all be
revealed and the goddess will be vis
ible in her beauty and glory. In the
Bible somewhere is the prophecy: I
will remove the veil that covers the
whole earth." This veil is ignorance.
J. Li, JUMa.
FORTUNE IN MUD?
Typist Gets Expert Opinion on
How to Get Rich.
POTATOES AND CORN AID
Econom'y
soap dish.
shouldn't extend to the
John Martin, AVlth FlTe-Year Lease,
Finds How lie Can Clean Vp
$15,000'Fir5t Yeartnd $20,-OOC-Next,
but Holds to Job.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. John Mar
tin hammers a typewriter In the press
of the Municipal building and
draws pay from an afternoon news
paper in the daytime; at night he
dreams of a fortune in pedigreed corn
and potatoes from the black mud of
. .1. .ina h.tvAnn tho
tne Anacosna i"fi
Army War College and the Government
Hospital ror tne insane.
John Martin s Knowieagre m
. i i..iAniij anonoH WR.S eained
Lure vLiivx muu..w
. i m of h flower bed
at Fourteenth street and Massachu
setts avenue, wnere me eii'
statue of General Thomas looks down
.1 s . , 1. u i a Thn window
upon mieo . ----
of Martin's apartment overlooks the
spot.
Last Summer a nsning ejmeumo..
took him to the south shore of the
eastern branch of the Potomac, near
the Firth-Stirling steel plant, where
. , . ... .. t hu a huilt. un acre after
mo v I"""".
acre with mud dredged from the chan
nels of the brancn. (jongress ua
worrying tor a tong time over mo
n-nMplnc revenue from these
menus " w..- r.
flats, and when the District Commis
sioners were asked to pass on the ques
tion of leasing these acres of river mud
for five years Martin got the tip and,
having some money laid by, decided to
go into agriculture.
Business Proposition Made.
a. uA AiitB.1 however, he realized
that the variety of husbandry era-
i j v. .. , v. ..itv'a mrHRnerf on the
canna lily and fuchsia beds of Thomas
Circle is slightly aircereni irom lauu
i "fiota" of the Eastern
Branch, so he went to the Department
of Agriculture ana maae mem a. ijiupw-
Bition. xle onerea to uacfc mo woh.
ment in any little experiment it might
hi. "form " which is 113
acres in extent and was secured from
Uncle Sam at a ftre-year rental iigure.
Martin's "farm" being within tho one
carfare sone, and hence, in the city
l z : . .. . .! ., rlmiint Y T1'1 T" t 1 1 TT1 t(P(i
at the chance of experimental land so
close to home.
John pointed out the location oi nis
i . V. .. lha iibo of tho miin of
ricn ttiw u 3 - -
the district, and described it as being
almost in the backyard of the Govern
ment Hospital tor ine insane anu vim-
1 l I Aaia-nr.a of the ArmV War
College. He brought up some mud for
them to examine, ana iney iuiu una
11.... nw;n(r to the nresence of much
acid In his soil he would better plant
. : . .. i .- . V.
corn tne nrsi year, as iu uiiuuuawa mo
acid.
Martin chartered a negro and two
mules and some farm machinery and
started plowing his land in the Fall,
and the department told him where to
buy his cprm
"But." asked Martin, "how much
can I make out of 113 acres of 'flats'
in every-day corn? I've got this land
for only five years and I haven't any
time to kill."
It Looks Easy."
"That's "easy," said one of the de
partment scientists. "You buy 30 bush
els of very aristocratic, high-toned seed
corn and raise a crop of it. Allowing
13 acres for failure, you've still got
100 acres for the good corn, which
ought to average around 150 bushels
Have Your Piano
Tuned Now
This is the time of year you should
have your pianos thoroughly tuned.'
nolished. reeulated. Best service, best
enuiDment. guaranteed work. Also let
us tell you about our yearly tuning con
tract, whereby your piano will be kept
in perfect condition the year round at a
great saving of money. Eilers Music
House, Broadway, at Alder. Phone
Main 6655 or A 2350.
to the. arre. This will make 75 bushels
of shelled corn to the acre, and with
such corn finding a ready market at
Vi a bushel you ought to clean up about
$15,000 gross on your first crop."
"And after that crop what shall I
plant?"
"Then the department, if you are
willing to pay the expenses, will ex
periment a little with potatoes, lou
sec, the soil will have been rid of its
excess of acid by that time and pota
toes will exceed the speed limit grow
ing in that black mud. Seriously,
though. 200 bushels of potatoes to an
acre on that soil is a very conserva
tive estimate, and, allowing the mar
gin of 13 acres for failure, you will
have 20,000 bushels of potatoes, while
the department will have an oppor
tunity to try out, close at hand, some
Ideas on potato culture which are be
lieved to be revolutionary. Your sec
ond crop, you see, should net you
about J20.000 gross."
John went back to his typewriter
In the District building, wrote an
Item about the laying of a new sewer
pipe line In Fifty-sixth street. North
east, and then began to go over the
figures of the scientist. It seems
there is no mistake in tne ngurmg.
So John is wondering where he can
find a nice little apartment-house, say
for about $75,000, as an Investment
for the gold he can't help thinking
will be grown out of the mud of those
Anacostia "flats."
As yet, however, he hasn't kicked
over his typewriter.
Sclo Pythians Have Band.
ALBANY, Or., Feb. 1J. (Special.)
Members of the Knights- of Pythlns
lodge at Scio have organized a band.
This lodge recently dedicated a new
Pythian building at Sclo.
TURN HI DARK
WITH SAGE TEA
If Mixed With Sulphur It Darkens
So Naturally Nobody
Can Tell.
Ta old-time mixture of .n T
and Uulphur for darkening. r.
stresked and lHieu hair is srano
mother'a treutment. and folks are
again using It to keep their hair a
good, even color, which Is quite inl
ble. as we are living In an when
a youthful appearance is of the reat
est advantage.
Nowadays, though, we don't hsve ths
troublesome tank of gathering the ease
and the mussy mixing at hom. Ail
drugstores sell the ready-to-use pro
duct called "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur
Compound" for about 00 cents a bot
tle It is very popular becnue no.
body can discover It hss been appllnt.
Simply moisten your comb or a soft
brush with It and draw this throus.li
your hair, taking one small strand at
a time; by morning the gray hair dis
appears, but what deligiils the ladles
with Wyeth's Suae and Sulphur Is
that, besides beautifully darkening the
hair after a few applications. It also
produces that soft lustre and appear
ance of abundance which la so at
tractive; besides, prevents dandruff.
Itching scalp and falling hair. Adv.
Diamond C!wavaa4- Poo C
of-
Quality
P-T.Trr-Tirn hv m with critical rnre. w
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PREK Sweet Pea Honk of the Ore
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quest to each purchaser of sweet
pea seed.
KARMOOKR M For Sweet Peas,
makes beautiful flowers.
Nasturtium Novelties
Among the latest novelties we offer the
NEW WaRI' NASTURT1I-JIS and stand.ird
varieties especially adapted for beautiful
bedding and borders. Woom freely until
late Autumn. May be planted at once.
ROSES Plant Now
Standard varieties
and latest novel
ties, 3 ds.andup
Tree Hoses,
91 to !
Climbing Itoses
S3 doa. and n
Vines, Trees and
Perennials
Clematis. HZr
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nnder tho personal
for
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