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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, APRFL 18, 1915. 11 dox. "Lilith" is a powerful love poem, and suggests Shelley. The best poem, because it appeals both to intellect and heart, is "The Dead Scientist," which unfolds the growth of scientific prog ress and shows the man of science as he passes on to the other life: His brain is stilled, and all the thoughts he cast In studied phrases, while be slowly trod The laboratory's length, are but the past Babblings-of genius bound to a testing-rod. Yet on his lips a smile tells how at last He passed the baffling curtain, and found God. PHOTOGRAPHIC SPOTLIGHT BRINGS TO VIEW NOTABLES FIGURING IN WAR Dr. Helfferich's Task Is Supplying Germany With Cash Italian Ambassador Tittoni Causes Gossip of Rome's Entry. Into Conflict American Is Spy-Suspect Veteran General Haig Is General French's Chief Aide. S 1 The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, by Enos A Mills. 1.73. Illustrated. Houghton, ailfnin Co.. Boston. To read this excellent book Is not only to enjoy It, but the pleasure Is such that the reader feels he has been outdoors among breezy mountain heights, and that he has enjoyed a va cation, mentally. "The Kocky Mountain Wonderland" contains 363 pages, is attractively illus trated with 24 pictures, and is the record of the wondeful experiences of a Kocky Mountain professional guide. Not only is it a fine mirror of the natural beauties of out-of-doors, but it contains many an amusing estimate of behavior of mountain tourists and human-nature-on-the-tramp generally. One of our author's surprising state ments is that a grizzly bear Is such an omnivorous feeder that he "will eat anything edible, fresh meat or carrion, bark, grass, grasshoppers, ants, fruit, grubs and leaves, He is fond of honey and with It will consume rotten wood, trash and bees stings and all. He is a destroyer of many pests that afflict Titan, and in the realm of economic biology should be rated high for work In this connection. 1 wonder whether many dozen cats, hawks or ewls an nually catch as many mice as he? But in some localities the grizzly is almost a vegetarian." A Colorado newspaper writer said re cently: "It was Knos A. Mills who con ceived the idea of conserving nature's wonderful workmanship in the Long's peak region by placing it in the keep ing of the United States Government, and, single-handed, he set out to ac complish this result. Single-handed he brought it about, for all the forces that have contributed to the victory were lined up through his efforts. Others have helped, to be sure, but it was by Knos Mills persistent labor that they were made supporters of the movement. Ha fought against, apathy at home and active opposition in Washington, D. C The lack of interest that existed in Colorado he finally turned into en thusiasm. He had already aroused more public Interest in the East than he found at home." These quotations from the book will be found to possess notable interest: Ex'ftld straight line ."it miles north west from Denver and another line UO miles southwest from Cheyenne, and these lines meet in approximately the renter of the Kocky Mountain National Park. Long's Peak. "Kiiin of the Rockies," is the dom inating peak and rises to the altitude of 14,230 feet. There are 10 or more peaks in the. nark that tower above 13,000, and up wards of 40 others with a greater altitude than 1U.OOO feet. Between thee peaks and their out-Jutting ' spurs are numerous can yons. The Park is from 1 to IS miles wide, its greatest length is ?5 miles, and Its total area, is about 3o0 square miles. A line drawn around the park on the ooundar line would only in two or three places drop below the altitude of 9000 feet. The area thus is hiph-lying and for the most part on edge. About one-fifth of tne entire area is above the limits of tree-growth. The peaks are rocky, rounded, and sharp. Here and there they are whitened by compar atively small snow and loe fields. Prom the summits the mountains descend through steeps, walls, slopes, terraces, tablelands, spurs, gorges and mountain valleys. This park Is a wilderness. Though entirely sur rounded by settlers and villages, it is an al moBt unbroken wild. Mnny of its leaks are as yet unclimbed. There are ' pathless forests, unvisiteri gorges, .unnamed lakes and unknown localities. "A few tlmber-llno trees live a thousand years, but half this time Is a ripe old age for most timber-line veterans. The age of these trees cujmot be judged by their size, nor by general appearance. There may be centuries of difference in the ages of two arm-in-arm trees of similar size. I ex amined two trees that were growing within a few yards of each ather in the shelter of a eras. One was 14 feet high and ltl Inches In diameter, and had ai!" annual rings. The other was seven feet high and five inches In diameter, and had lived 4H1? years: One day by the sunny and sheltered side of a uQiuoer i xouuu a tiny seed-bearer at an al titude of 11,800 feel, How splendidly un coiircIous It was of its size and Its utterly wild surroundings! This brave pine bore dainty cone, yet a drinklng-glass would havo completely housed both the tree and Its fruit. Our stage in the San Juan Mountains lis Just gained the top of the grade when an alert, riderless pony trotted into view on a near-by rldne. Saddled and bridled, she was returning home down a zigzatr trail after carrying a rider to a mine up the mountain side. One look at this trim, spirited "return horse" from across a narrow gorge, and she disappeared behind a cliff. "That is Cricket, the wisest return horse in these hills," de clared tha at a Re-driver, who proceeded to tell of her triumphant adventures as he drove on into Bllverton. When I went to hive Cricket, her owner said that I might use her as long as I desired, and proudly declared that if she was turned loose any where within 30 miles she would promptly eoine home or die. A trip into the moun tains beyond Tellurlde was my plan. I spent a few days about Tellurlde riding Cricket up to a number- of mines, taklnn photographs on the way. Whenever we ar rived at an exceptionally steep pitch, either In ascending or in descending. Cricket In vited me to get off and walk. ITnhldden she -would stop. After standing for a rew seconds. If I made no move to get off, she turned for a look at me; then If I failed to understand, she laid back her ears and pre tended to blto at mv feet. The Red Fleece, by Will Levlngton Comfort. M.25. George H. Doran Co., New York; City. This novel is inspirational and emo tional in its thrilling word-pictures, which are a protest against war as a wicnea waste of human life. Young Peter Mowbray, American, newspaper correspondent at Warsaw, Russia, for the States newspaper, goes out with the invading advance of Rus sian troops in company with his friend Eoylan, of the Rhodes News Agency. Lonegan is Mowbray's newspaper chief, and this is the former's advice to the "cub war correspondent: "Boylan will help you get through. You oon 1 Know nun yet. some time, perhaps, you win 250 pounds of soul. He'll do all lie can to get you the same chance h has because I asked him: and then he'll try to jiihko me Mttiea ioojc oDsolete as a news paper, wherein, of course, he'll fall. But he'll try. If he takes to you, it won't make him try less, but he'd do your stuff and hie it you fell sick. There Isn't another Boylan a great newspaper man, too. The States will watch closeiy. knowing that Rhodes will get everything possible from Boylan's part of the front. The point is and I think he'll want It. too you'd better work together on the main line of stuff, as we do here. Your letter on the aide should be better than lus, because you're a better writer. As for war stuff. Boylan is the old master Pekin. Manchuria and the Balkans that 1 think of; also the Schmeddlng Polar Failure. That last was war a spectacular eApeumon ot me Germans - "I might as well make this a lecture, now that I've started," Lonegan went on. "The war game isn't complex. All the be wildering technicalities that bristle from s military officers talk are Just bl-name stuff designed to keep down the contempt or me crowa tne oiaest professional trick. Whenever the crowd gets to understand your terminology your game la cooked. You know how it is in a drug store, and you've seen tne old family doctor look wise. . . There a a lot of different exploslv which they fire by mathematics, and which you can learn in part from our homely en cyclopedias, but the main game will be fougrht out on the same principles that Attlla fought It and Oenghis Khan num bers, traps, unexpectedness, the same dull old flanking activities, the raid of supplies and communications, the bending back of wings, the crimp of a line by making a hole In one part and all that archaic rot. As I any, the game is extinct, so tar as our modern complicated intelligences go, and the men whose names are biggest In the papers from now on are the same old beefy type of rudiments whom a man wouldn't asso ciate with in times of National quiet. . . . I will end this by saying that the big story is the man the peasant, the trooper, the one blinded little dupe, who dies, or plunges, or loses his legs in the name of the father land " Here is Mowbray's view of actual war: Now oiin of the peasant soldiers was run ring up the slope from tho an of the staff, lie was bare-headed, shocky-haired, and btarded. making queer, high sounds like a squirrel as he ran quite out of order and amazed at himself. He -would have 'been struck down by his nearest neighbor te- days later felled with the nearest officer"; sword, but there was funic and a bit of dls- BLSSD 15 THE IRISH GIFT OF FOKGETrULrlNErSS. - - ' i K s - IVX , & ; his ? r 1 1 'w , " ' 11 f If IP- u if Mm - H f ' or 'f5 I " . 'S' v :-----'-r --;--" --v . -,- ?'.- ... 4 , r5 ' i J - " ' . 3 may In the heart of the raw division that suffered the soldier to make his way to the staff. Lifting his legs lumberhigly, he held fast to his left wrist, where a bullet had started the blood. He held the wound high. This was the red fleece lus drips of blood were in each raw soul now. A little way'farther and the staff awoke. An officer spoke. The peasant was caught and booted quiet. Kol vllir licked his lips to keep them still. He perceived that Mowbray's eyes had fastened upon his mouth. The Hps opened again. The order came forth for the soldier to be flogged." : ' . . It was their particular friend. Dabnttz, a lieutenant of the staf who was given the execution-of this order. When Peter's friend, Samarc, is found in a hospital: They had not searched 10 minutes (calling "Samarc" softly among the cots where the faces were bandaged before a hand came up to them. It was I'etcr who took It: and as their h&uds met, the .whole fabric of the man on the cot broke into trembling. They understood Samarc had been lying there rigid with his tragedy. Peter's touch had been enough to break the dam of his misery. "I have ceased to kill," he said. The head was twice as big with bandages; yet under the effigy, so terrible was the In tensity of the moment, Peter became con scious of ruin there, also of a sudden Icy c.ld In the morning air. Samarc's power ful hand still clutched his. The voice that had emerged from under the cloths was stiil in his ears. It had aeemed to come as water from a pipe loosely, the faucet gone. The hand was unhurt. . . He had come In the night. I did not speak but my heart was fighting against the guns. He was moving here and there. He turned to me, as if I had sud denly cried out, 'What shall I do? . . . 'You can cease to kill,' he cried." They were in the street again, moving close to the walls, for the cavalry was crowding the narrow highway. They crossed finally to a stone-paved area at the side of Judenbach's main building. Their feet were upon the stone flags of this court, when suddenly Labnlts hurried forward, with a gesture for them to stand back. "Just a moment, my friends," he said. "A little formality, but very necessary- " Peter lifted his eyes, perceived three men standing bearheaded against the wall of headquarters, 20 paces away. One of them exclaimed, his voice calm but penetrating. "We are not spies. We do not care to turn our backs. Ve are not afraid to die, for we have made our lives count " It was the voice of a public speaker: the voice of a man making good many words. . . rabnitz stepped between Bo3lan and Mowbray, stretching out hi arms be fore them. It was all in an Instant. They saw Dabnitz' apologetic smile and a Rus sian platoon at their right, rifles raised then the ragged volley. Each of the three fell differently. A friend gives ePter this message for American It is the long night of Europe. France sits in dust upon the ground, staring toward the end. Mother England has called for her sons and some have not answered. She turns her frewt-rimmed glass from the grim horizons to the grimmer skies, and al ways in the movement of the darkened sh'adows Is written the word. "Disaster." . Smileless Germany, stricken as never a nation was stricken before, save by the wrath of Gold, still holds to the- fatal en chantment "of a fatherland of the ground, While the change In the Prussian boundaries a,re marked In fire and blood of her children. . . . Russia is looking southward, furious to open her- casements upon the perilous seas gloomy millions of the tundras, mighty millions of the ice-ringing plains looking southward. marching southward, today marking time, tomorrow a league, but south ward as a ship in passage. Russia, the young, holy genii battling with demons In her breast, everything to win and only the bruits of her world-shocking fecundity to lose southward to slaughter through the long night. ... A call to America through the long night the voice calling for her to put on her splendid, her initial magic. The voice from the vision of sorrow illumined men In frozen bivouacs, crying to America to hold fast to the dream of her founders, lest the vessel of the future be drained of vital essence. Indeed to hold fast until we come . . . crying for America to answer, not with rapacious In tellect, not the answer or a militant ooay, but answering from the soul of the New World, with Its original vitality In the fatherhood of God. Dainties for Home rarties. by Florence Wil liams. 50 cents. Harper & Bros., New York City. Our author was formerly of the Me chanics and Pratt Institutes, of the East, and her little book is one of first-class excellence and usefulness. It Is a cookbook for dance suppers, bridge suppers, receptions, luncheons ar.d other entertainments. The German War, by A. Conan Doyle. 73 cents. George H, Doran Company, New York City. Of course, this distinguished English author the creator of Sherlock Holmes presents tho British view of the present war, and shows just where he thinks tho Germans have been to blame. The British position Is lucidly explained. There are nine essays: The Causes of the War; The World-War Conspir acy; The Devil's Doctrine; The Great German Plot; The "Contemptible Little Army": A Policy of Murder; Madness; Great Britain and the Next War; Afterthoughts. A Belgian Christmas Eve by Alfred Xoyes, I. Illustrated. Frederick A. Stokes- Co., New York City. Complaint has been made that Rud- yard Kipling has written no poetry as yet worthy of the theme or the pres ent warN,in Europe. The promised poetic salvation may come from Mr. Noyes. "A Belgian Christmas Eve" is made modern and the idea is evolved from the "Hada which was such an admirable play, based on events in the last Balkan war. This play takes as its text the occupation of Belgium by German sol diers. Kuin, tears, bloodshed and drunkenness and debauchery by some German soldiers aro depicted. Of course the sentiment oX the play is British and anti-German. The title comes from the actions of one of the characters, a half-crazed schoolmaster, aiwl also the fact that the action takes place in a Belgian village on a Christ mas eve; The epilogue .is a poem called. "In tercession" and is one of the best things ever , written by this poet. One stanza reads: Now tho muttering gun-fire dies, m Now the night has cloaked the slain. Now the stars putrol the skies. Hoar our sleepless prayer again! They who work their country's will, KiKlit and die for Britain still. Soldiers, but not haters, know Thou must pity friend and foe. Therefore hear. Both for too and friend, our prayer. The Truth About Twilight Sleep, by Hanna Klon (Mrs. Frank ver BecK). 51.au. Illus trated. McBride, Nast &. Co.. New York City. This is a common-sense but learned, authoritative book - on a personal in vestigation of the Freiburg method of painless childbirth, through the use of two certain irugs and special medical treatment by experts. The subject is open to dispute, for and against the system. Some say that the drugs' used afterward affect the newly-born child and other judges argue that this viuw is unsound. There you are. The book tells you all about the af ftrmative side of the question, with numerous examples of the efficacy of the metnod specined. The IWnrv of a Beauty, by Molly Klliot tfieawell. $1.25. J. B. Lipplncott Co., Phila delphia. A novel that is a decided novelty. It is bright and clever. The heroine. Miss Luella Baird, is poor girl, but she is blessed (or cursed) with extraordinary beauty and develops from a rustic girl in an American village to a society and stage star. bometimes she Is unfortunat but on the whole her path is full of sunshine and her bread buttered for her. Secrets of Success, in War, by Edmund Dane. SI. George H. Doi'an i:o., Ne v York Cltv. Based on the letters of Prince Kraft Zu Hohenloche Ingelnnger, this admir able and instructive book shows how modern armies organize. train and fight. Illuminating -comparisons are made of the British and German mili tary systems. The author shows why General von Bernahrdi's expectation or tne instant success of the German military system and policy have not as yet been fulfilled. A Russian Comedy of Errors, by George Kennan. 1.2j. The Century Company, New York' City. George Kennan knows his Russia as few other men do. He first visited it 40 years ago. In this volume of S31 pages we meet with reprinted sketches of many stories that have made Ken nan famous. These Russian stories are humorous, dramatic, adventurous and all worth the while. Resursam: Poems and Lyrics, by O. R. How ard Thompson. :iti pages. William M. Balrui. Philadelphia. Eighteen poems, polished and intel lectual, some exotic and some finely sentimental. The poems. "The Christ Child" and "The Agnostic, f.re ultra- liberal in thought and scarcely ortho Bred of the Desert, by Marcus Horton. 1 1.30. Harper & Bros.. New York City. A nearly human story of a horse, an American story told with wonderful pathos. - KEW BOOKS RECEIVED. Grocer Greatheart, by Arthur H. Adams, $1.25, a healthy, interesting story of a ship wreck in the South Seas and life on an island: and The Snare, by George Vane. $1.25, a novel, pricipally of aristocracy (John Lane Co., N. Y.). . . A Girl of the Blue Ridge, by Payne Ers klne. SI. 35. a fascinating novel of people and places In me mountains of Xorth Carolina, I.ittl. Tlr.vn X- Hn.lnn.l Books Added to Library DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL. Anderson Peftples of India. 1S13. Dole Spell of Switzerland. 1013. Lucas Wanderer in Venice. 1914. Neve Thirtv years in Kashmir. 1913. Redwav & Hinman Natural introductory geography. cl07 irevor-uatiye aaipuig in v. ic, i.iu. FICTION. Murfree The storm center: a novel, by C. E. Craddock, peeud. Wallace uaunt gray wone; a. taie ut -venture with "Ungava Bob." FINE ARTS, ilkin T.e vent (The wind) grande etuda flans lo genre pathetluue, for pianoforte, op. 15. no. a. cl90f. Arenskv sclierzo. op. a. piano swio. wvm. Ball Art of the photoplay. Ed. 2. cllS. Bird Menuet. op. 81, no. 1 piano. cl2. Branscombe Love in a life, song-cycie; Ith nlano accompaniment, words from Sonnets from the Portuguese," by E. B. Browning. cl907. Chnmlnade Arlequine. pour piano, op. o n H Coleridge-Taylor scenes rrom an imagin ary ballet, a suite of five pieces lor tne pianoforte, op. ii. cum. Couperln Les barricades mysterleuses, rondeau, piano solo. n. d. DavtuaoD caucaticnai meiuiirrun. ipio. Dltson. Oliver, co pub. l'J14 vocal la- Edwards, comp. Book of anagespeare son as, with musical settings oy various com posers, linis. KnntH Nnnn. on. o. ciatfz. Qabrilowttsch Theme varle. pour piano. up. 4. n. d. (iaynor An aioum ox boii buusb, Gavnor Rose songs. cl815 Gluok Favotte. transcribed by Jon. Brahms. cl'J06. Godard Album of songs. clab. r.nnHrLh "Ave Maria" (Victor von Rchpffeii. for chorus and orchestra. cl897. Hadley Four Heine songs, set to musio, up. 14. clSiiH-1000. Hadley Twelve songs for medium voice, op. 12. clS98. Hallock Muckey Volo production ana analysis. 1897. Haydn composition en lur pianoione. d. Heller 20 preludes, novella serie, pour piano, op. laii. low. Hind William Hogarth, his original en. cravinER and etchings. 1912. Hjertberg Athletics in theory and practice. 1914. Homer Bandanna ballads, five songs with piano accompaniment, op. 22; poems by ' , , , , an, wnMdn. gihui. Huckel Richard Wagner, the man ana nis work. 1914. Jonas Fantaslestucke ( rantasy-pieces j op. 10. for pianoforte, cisaw. Klein. -d. Bisoham son? album. clW'8. I.anner Lanner-album. sammlunsr der be- lieotesten waitzer lur pianoiorie zu z nanucn. a. Leschetizkv Les deux alouettes, am- nromntn on. 2. no. 1. nour piano seul. n. d Mendelssohia-Bartholdy Hear my prayer, motet for sirano solo and chorus, word! by w. Barjp iomew. n. a. Moszkowski Caprice espagnol, op. 87, piano solo, c1899, Moszhowskl Valso brillante, for piano. C1882. Moussorcsky Boris Oodunoff. drama mas- lcale nopolare in un prologo e anattro atti; nuova cdizfrone, riveduta rltoccate e strumen- tata da N. Rimsky-Korsakoff. C1909. Mozart Pastorale variee, avec cadenza. for the pianoforte. C1880. Oestcrle. ed. Anthology of modern clas sic for the piano. civ04. Kacnmaiunov i-iacnmaninoit aioum, eigns favorite nieces for pianoforte. 1913. Repertoire classlque, oeuvres cholsles pour piano. nv. n. d. roidini v aine ue i evemau, op. -i. no. i: "WALL GARDENING IS HELD CERTAIN TO BECOME POPULAR IN PORTLAND Hillside Sites of Some Residences Make Other Ways of Planting Impossible, but Offer Natural Advantages to Those Who Would Have Plants Growing Out From Between RockB Some Suggestions Are Given. aw " i iJ siLZ j II It h BT STELLA WALKER DURHAM. WALL GARDENING is bound to become a popular form of Floral planting for Portland people. The location of some of the best resi dence districts on the hillsides makes It the most natural and therefore the most desirable kind of flower garden ing for a great many people who wi3f. to make' the best use of their grounds. In fact not a, few residences on the Heights afford no other opportunity for gardening. An abundance of rocks is another reason for following out the sort-of gardening that nature is for ever suggesting to the dweller on the hillside. But the reasons are so many and the charms so great that the .mak ing of a wall garden should ' be at tempted by everyone having a natural site for it. But be sure that you, do have a natural opportunity for it be fore you try the making of a wall gar den. If the grounds are perfectly level and there are no rocks within a mile It Is better to stick to more orthodox if less interesting kinds of gardening. Garden Solve Problem. But if the land is sloping and re taing walls are necessary, by all means have them built so plants can grow in them. In many places the problem of what to do with a steep slope, where it is difficult to make grass grow and more difficult to get it mowed, can most happily be solved by doing with out the grass altogether and turning the terrace into a wall garden. If the slope is a long one, it is better to build the wall in tiers. Grass or graveled paths may form the divisions between the tiers. For convenience in cultivation the wall should be con structed so that every part of it can be easily reached. The planting of the wall may be done either Uuiins its construction or after r in- fjr L rVlBW YORK, April 17. (Special.) I Quite as important as the ammu nition and the men in the schemes of I war Is the financial side of the problem. I Dr. Helfferich, the head of the Deutsche! Bank of Berlin, has had the chief re sponsibility of financing the war, for the German government and he has worked so successfully to preserve Ger man credit that the Kaiser recently conferred a decoration on him. s Europe is watching with feverish in terest every sign which might indicate the final determination of Italy in re gard to the war. It was much excited, therefore, when Ambassador Tittoni, who represents Italy in Paris, was re called to Rome a few days ago for a conference. The gossips took this as a plain indication that Italy was about to take sides with the allies. Raymond Swoboda is the American now under arrest in Havre, on suspicion of being a spy and of having set the French liner La Touraine on fire. Swo boda was a passenger on the ship at the time the fire occurred and some re marks he made .to other passengers caused suspicion to fall on him, espe cially as the fire broke out in the vicin ity of some sample cases of his. He says that he is American-born and that he was merely trying to sell American manufactures to the allies. General Sir Douglas Haig is a veteran of the Kile expedition and the South African War, and for gallant services has won many decorations. He is now serving as first aide to General French. Reports emanating from Germany to the effect that all of Germany is not and Fantasle fur pianoforte zu zwet banden, op. 3a. n. d. Rles Morning, a cantata; English words by J. S. Dwlght. n. A. Scarlatti Saprlcclo: arr. for concert uss by Carl Tausig. clUOl. Scarlatti Pastorale in E minor, arr. for concert performance by Carl Tausig, C18SS. VIOLINIST STEALS MARCH Cafe Entertainer Weds St. Paul Newspaper Man "on Quiet." MINNEAPOLIS. April 11. Diners at the Rogers cafe the other night discov ered that Miss Beatrice Berrum, the violinist, was missing. Inquiry revealed that Miss Berrum stole a march on her wards. But, of 'course, it must be built -with the idea of supporting plant life In mind. It must be put" together with soil-and without the use of ce ment. This is what is called "dry walling." The soil in the crevices should be of as good quality as would be used elsewhere for the growing of flowers. Essential Points Told. The essential points in the making of the wall are: (1) There must be no air spaces between the soil in the crevices and the earth behind the wall. The roots must be able to find a foot ing as far back as they wish to go. (2) ' Each stone should tilt slightly, so that it will carry water to the roots of the plants. (3) Each stone should be set back a trifle farther than the one below it. so that moisture can get into the crevices below. When it comes to the question of what to plant the wall gardener can have a delightful time making his choice, for there is an Infinite variety of things that are suitable. Many plants will thrive in the moist pockets of a well-built wall that would have a severe struggle for existence In the open border. In general it Is better to use plants that are close-growing or have a tendency to droop rather than those that make a prim upright growth. ExpoRvre la Factor.' Of course, the selection of the plants must depend somewhat upon the ex posure of the wall. A wall facing north would require different plantings from one having a direct southern expo sure. If an abundance of bloom Is de sired for a particular season, at a beach place, for instance, the planting may be done for concentrated effect in Spring, Summer or Fall, as the case may be. Grouping -or colonizing is a more at tractive way of planting than setting in individual gpecimens. however In- I i ,.i V V war , mad is strengthened by the stand of the German Socialists. In the Ger man Reichstag, where the Socialists are practically the dominating factor, they have, it is said, risen In all their elo quence to demand an immediate and lasting peace. One of the most active of these peace-seeking Socialists Is said to be Philip Scheidemann. With the aid of Liebknecht. the recognized leader. Scheidemann and a score of other ag gressive members, recently, it is re ported, caused a storm in the chamber of the lower house by demanding that friends and was married to Clare D. MacGregor. a St. Paul newspaper man. The. pair met In Duluth while Miss Berrum was playing there, at the St. Louis cafe and Mr. MacGregor was city editor of a Duluth newspaper. Miss Berrum's parents live in St. Paul. Cut College Course 2 Years Is Plea. LAWRENCE, Kan., April 11. Fresh man and sophomore years In college should be given to the high schools, thus cutting the college course to two years," Professor Charles H. Judd. of the University of Chicago told 200 Kan sas high school teachers at their an nual meeting at the University of Kan sas. The whole public school system of the United States Is built on a wrong foundation. Prof essor . Judd asserted. v 4 Zanes z'n rt Watts. teresting such specimens may be in themselves. Probably the eaxiost way to cover a wall with plant life is to train ivy over it. but If planted with other things, ivy Is likely to take entire po sepsion and when alone it is colorless and uninteresting. Some "tuftsteBtiens Made. If the wall is massive in effect, wichuriana, roses can be freely used. Cotoneastcr and Japanese barberry are ' ' I- - '-)' J . ir ,-'. I Vj'.' ; V $ -r- :. 2Z. r-. sSK'. the government take steps to end the war. Scheidemann protested bitterly against the government's aliened action in placing the ban on Socialist writings and speeches. Immediately after this Liebknecht arose, and. according to re port, in scathing terms, despite the hteses of the Conservatives, arraigned the policy of the government in Poland. The military authorities, angered by Liebknecht's criticism, have sent him to the front. splendid suhjecls for the tops of walls, especially If a Winter effect Is desired. Perhaps in beginning a wall garden It is Just as well to start with wild things. And, by the way, one of the charms of wall gardening is that it can be begun at any time and added to Indefinitely for blank spaces do not at all detract from it. as in beds or borders. In fact it is better never quite to cover all the rocks. Every bit of woodland about Portland contains enough suitable wild plants to make a wall garden interesting without using anything else. There are many vari eties of mosses and ferns that are splendid for a wall with northern ex posure, and for the sunny side there are native saxifrages that have good foliage all the year around and pretty blossoms. Plant Seem Just T Craw. Tn an old wall one will often find mosses and ferns that seem to have grown spontaneously. In the writer's wall garden there are most exquisite lace-like ferns that I am sure human hands did not plant. Whether I am indebted to the wind or to the birds for planting the seeds I do not know. But I suspect that the seeds were carried on the feet of chipmunks, who appear to have a subterranean village behind this particular wall. Every few minutes one will dart Into a hole and reappear again, with lightning-like rapidity, perhaps a dozen feet away. They delight in hldine: their exits and their entrances behind draperies of feBtooned flowers. 1 am often ask'-d if the chipmunks do not destroy tho plants, but they do singularly little damage. The wall Is planted with luxuriously growing things, not with valuable specimens, and 1 do not see that it Is any worse for housing the chipmunks. Chipmunks Make I'lautlngs. The little rascals frequently under take to make plantings on their own account, which I ruthlessly uproot, for their taste runs to hazel bushes and dogwood trees and the proportions of my small garden do not submit to such ambitious plantings. Probably the most widely planted of all rock plants in Arabis. or rock cress, which Is at the height of its bloom at this season. It grows close to the wall and the masses of white blossoms look at a distance like drifts of snow. It will grow in almost any situation and increases rapidly. Another similar plant is aubretia, a blue variety of which Is a favorite in wall gardens. The effect of the two, when generoUHly planted together, is charming at this season. The blossoms of perennial slys-um are Just comin? out and look like "Gold Dust," as the plant is commonly called. Primroses are very pretty in the pockets of the wall at this season. Thlme Hssfts Orarefalljr. The dwarf variety of baby's breath and perennial candytuft are good for masses of white after the rock crss Is gone. Bunches of thyme hang grace fully from between the. rocks and give delight with their fragrance and all year greenness, besides furnishing a favorite seasoning. Wall gardening is extensively car ried on in England and niont of the English - books devote a chapter or more to it. As has been frequently suggested In these columns, the Eng lish books are more helpful to the Oregon gardener because of the like ness of this climate to that of England. "The Small Rock Garden." by E. II. Jenkins, contains explicit directions for the construction and planting of walls and "Wall and Water Gardens," by Gertrude Jekyll, is a more elabor ate treatise of the same subject. Copies of both may be procured from the public library. Any Book reviewed on this page caa b found at your Book store. 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