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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, MAY 23, 1915. 7 FRENCH SENTIMENT GROWS IN HOLLAND Increasing Friendship Shown in Consignments of Flow ers for Wounded. PLANTS BLOOM AT FRONT Caricatures Aimed at Teutonic Al lies Isold Openly for Benefit of lied Cross Austrian Am bassador Protests. UY CAROLYN VVICM-S. Op i isht. "M.". hy the I'hleaKo Tribune. l'Libll-'li',J bi a rra iiBCliiru t. ) I'AMIS, April 27. "-There is increasing evidence that Holland is growing more friendly to France. Lartre consign ments of hyacinths and tulips are be ing unit to the French wounded. Three hundred cases are now on their way and are lo ho distributed in the military hospitals. Too. hear ing of the little gardens which blos som in ledges of the trenches, they have, pent bulbs to the front. How the soldier? hive their flowers! Wherever It is possible they have their little flower beds, and their little trav eled paths beside them, even if the house the garden belongs to is a dug out and not a. house at all. Hero Kind Joy In ltjnrlnth. One of Cazeneuvc's comrades was telling me the other day that before that hero was killed, esch day he hurried in the. morning to look at the little, plot of ground where he had a hvaeinth crowing. What Joy there was among the. whole battalion the morn ing it first showed tender sprouts of green. Later came the stocky prom ising thcr of flower still green. And they speculated tr the hyacinth would he 'purple, or while or perhaps a pale pink. " But it flowered too late. The day after Cazeneuve was killed in a splen did attack the buds burst and it flow ered a somber mourning purple. So we dus it from the trench, mademoiselle." said his comrade to me. "and we planted it above his crave. Nor is it yet dead. Perhaps he knows und is pleased. Who can tell?" Autl-Tcutonlc Caricatures Sold. Another thins showing the- attitude f Holland is the series of drawings nd caricatures which are beiner sold there for the benefit of the French lied Cross. Fp to the present I have seen oulv one collection of them here, brought "from Holland through Kns hind lo France by a man who had been there on business. They arc hy the artist Louis Ttac-mak-rs. who has already incurred the hatred of the Germans and whom the Austrian Ambassador has endeavored to have arrested on the charge of libel and lese majestc. The particular caricature to which the Ambassador most objects Is simple and terrible. It is the stable of Beth lehem. The three magi come to offer their gifts to tho child. They are on their knees before him, and in their bands they hold their gifts. Gaspar extends a shell the favorite 420. "Meleholr has a huge cannon, and be hind him is Ballaznr caressing a min iature but overflowing graveyard. And these three are the rulers of Ger many, Austria and Turkey. The infant child is hiding his face In Mary's-arms, afraid to look at the gifts which arc ottered him. Pictures Far From Neutral. Another picture is that or a man gone mad. with tho body of his little child In his arms. "It is my little Toinette, whom they have killed as a franc-tireur." Or another of three men dead before a wall, and near by a mother who tries to warm to life the stiff arm of her boy; for. says the Inscription, "Culture has passed by here." Or another called "The Hostages" a priest with his eyes turned toward tho skies: a father and son, evidently of the better class perhaps the Mayor; this has usually been the case all about to be shot. l.'p to now none of the drawings have been for sale in France. They are all well done, Willi a careful attention to detail, a simple, awful realism, and yet an art that makes one think of Rem brandt, or, in some of the landscapes, liobbema. Way outside the realm of neutrality, I suppose you are saying. And selling them in Holland for the French lied Cross! Raemakcrs has defended himself to the Austrian Ambassador with the say ing of Professor Tietss that there is no neutrality in the face of crime. I hear that the erstwhile Princess Marie of Sweden, ex-wife of Prince George, the second son or the King, is making up for all the criticism she laid herself open to by her varied tempera mental scandals by nursing the wound ed In Poland as a simple nurse. At the time that she Iert her husband and came to Paris to "Jive her own life." as she put it. she had plenty of money, many estates in Russia, and, seemingly, many friends. As the Grand Duchess Marie, cousin of the Czar, she expected to remain in possession of this Income, but the Czar, scandalized by the way she "lived her life," cut off her possessions, suppressed the honors of her rank and refused her admittance to his court, although for merly she had been one of its most welcome members. , He told her the best thing for her to do would be to enter a convent of the KARI.V STEAMBOAT ENGINEER v AAO I'lOMOCIt OF 1N4S UILIS. f' f . y. L ...-... -vt-u Ytlrir- - - - - -J Charier Hunter Hamlin. Charles Hunter Hamlin, pioneer of 1S4S. died at the home of- his son. K. .1. Hamlin, La Center, Wash., Monday, May 3. at the ago of SsO years. He was born in Ohio January 29. 183r. and came to Oregon in JS4S. He lived at Thirty-first and Holgate streets for many years. He was engineer on the first boat ever navigated above 'Oregon City falls. He married Olive K. Iaskcy in 1S5S and ten children were born to them, eight of whom survive. The children are: Mrs. Flora A. Nelbauer. Gresham: Mrs. Wini fred McJntyre, Brightwood, Or.: Mrs. Inez lleitschniidt. Portland; Mrs. .Essie Harris, Orient. Or.; Mrs. Sylvia Ramsey. Seappoose; K. J. Hamlin. La Center; Mrs. Floy Eiehenberger. Astoria, and Mrs. Fay Messenger, Astoria. The body was brought to Port land and Interred in Lone Fir Cemetery by the side of - Mrs. Hamlin, who died in November. ISO 7. strictest order. This last year she has been living quietly; one rarely heard of her. Rut when the war broke out she passed her examination as a trained nurse and took up her duties without ostentation. Few people in the hospital in which she works know that she is a cousin of the Czar, who is so pleased with her behavior that he has promised to re store her to her former rank at the court if she continues her good work until the end of tho war a reward for which we Judge the young nurse is working harder than for a mere Legion of Honor medal. 'PAINFUL SURPRISE' IS FELT IN VIENNA Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Hands Note to Italian Ambassador. ALLIANCE IS REVIEWED to participate in Joint maneuvers with Company G of Aberdeen. An advance post left earlier to pitch camp. The local company will encamp east of Gate and Company G to the west of the town. The maneuvers will be held un der the direction of Major Carroll, commanding the third battalion of the regiment- There will be a night attack tonight and drill .work tomorrow morn ing, the remainder of Sunday being de voted to a ball game and track meet between the two companies. TEACH LOVE FIRST-IS PLEA Mrs. May "Wright bewail Would de press National Wrongs. SAN FRANCISCO. May 22. "There must be an international force to re press national wrongs." This was the dictum of Mrs. May Wright Sewall. chairman of the organizing committee of the Woman's Peace party, at the National Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associations in con vention here today. "Isn't it frightful," she demanded, "that the Internationalism of the age is most marvelously expressed on the battlefield?" Mrs. Sewall spoke on the subject of "The Training That Will Secure to Our Children the Blessings Pronounced on the Peacemaker." Mrs. Milton P. Higgins, president of the Massachusetts Congress of Moth ers and vice-president of the National Congress, spoke on moral training. She said parents should teach love from the beginning of the opening con sciousness of the chiPI. Baron Burian Says Violation of Original Compact Was Deplored, but Italy Followed With Impossible Demands. VIENNA, via London. May 22. Baron Stephen Burian von Bajecz."s.he Aus-tro-Hungarian Minister for Foreign Af faire., today handed to the Italian Am bassador a note expressing "painful surprise" at the decision of Italy to "put an end in such an abrupt manner to the treaty which was based on the community of our most important po litical interests, which has guaran teed security and peace to our states for so many years and which has ren dered Italy meritorious services." When the conflict assumed a Europ ean character. Italy proclaimed her neutrality without "throwing out the slightest suggestion that this war. which was provoked hy Russia and prepared so long beforehand, could he of a nature to deprive the triple al liance of its raison d'etre," and "made no communication which could Justify the belief that it regarded the pro ceedings of Austria-Hungary as "a flagrant violation, both in letter and In spirit, of the alliance and treaty.'" Original .Neutrality Deplored. The Cabinets-of Vienna and Berlin, even though deploring Italy's resolu tion to remain neutral, "a resolution which, in our view, was hardly com-) patible with the spirit of the treaty, nevertheless loyally admitted the view of the Italian government, and an ex change of views which then took place, established unaltered the maintenance of the triple alliance." Under article seven of the treaty Italy presented claims which aimed at securing certain compensations in the event of Austria-Hungary obtaining advantages from the war. territorial or otherwise, in the Balkan Peninsula. Austria-Hungary accepted this view point and declared herself ready to submit the question to examination, at the same time pointing out that so long as the eventual advantages accruing to Austiya-Hungary remained unknown it would bo difficult to fix such com pensations. Italy field to Ilnve Agreed. Baron Burian von Rajerz contended that Italy shared this view, ss was shown in the declaration made by the late Marquis Antonio di San Giuliano, dated August 2f last year, in which the then Italian foreign minister said that "it would be premature to speak of compensations." Nevertheless, Baron Burian contin ues. Austria-Hungary always has been ready to begin conversations on tho subject and when Italy made her de mands Austria-Hungary accepted everi this as a basis for negotiations, al though in its opinion Article VII of the treaty never referred to the territory of the treaty-bound parties, but related purely and simply to the Balkan peninsula. While it was impossible to accede to all the demands, Austria-Hungary, with sincere desire to reach an under standing, made sacrifices which were only Justified by "a desire to uphold the alliance existing for so many years to the common advantage of both coun tries." . Ouaranteeo Are Offered. Replying to the Italian objection that the concessions offered by Austria Hungary were only to be realized ai an indefinite time, namely, at the end of the war. Baron Burian says that Austria-Hungary was ready to offer all necessary guarantees for the pur pose of preparing for this transfer and insure "its even being carried out at no distant date." In conclusion, the note says: "The Royal Italian Government, in an arbitrary manner, has disburdened Itself of all its obligations, and tho Austro-Hungarian Government declines responsibility for all the consequences that may arise from this procedure." LAD TENDS DAIRY, STUDIES Creswell Winner ot Trip lo Kair Manages Herd of 15 Cows." OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Corvallis. May 22. (Special.) Boys' dairy herd record-keeping is both prof itable and practical. Oscar Schneider, the young Creswell student who won the state prize in the dairy record pro ject, is managing his father's dairy herd of 15 cows, while his father lives on another farm some distance away. Besides managing the feeding and milking operations, Oscar milks half of the cows. He Is also adviser of the Creswell Industrial club of 40 mem bers, does his work in the high school, and takes music lessons. Most of all, he is an enthusiast in herd record keeping and is himself engaged in the project for the second time. Like the other nine winners of the trip, to the Panama-Pacific Exposition, he is look ing forward eagerly to June 20, when in company with all other project win ners he will start on the trip under the supervision of County School Su perintendent Seymour, of Polk County, and Mrs. Seymour. . . MOTOR OWNERS IN DOUBT Washington License Law Iluling Is Made by State Secretary. VANCOUVER. Wash.. May 22. (Spe cial.) Many automobile owners in the city and county have, been perplexed re cently concerning the now automobile law, which becomes effective June 1U. Practically all licenses for motor ve hicles expire May SI. and the new ones cannot be issued before June 10. Some believe that a license will be necessary for this time, while .others hold that th old license will do. Mrs. May R. Haack. County Auditor, has received an answer to an inquiry sent the Secretary of State, in which he said that a person who holds a license which expires May SI doe not have to pay another license until the new Jaw goes into effect, June 10. Another question decided by him was that no license can be issued for less than a year. NEHALEM FISH EXPORTED Wheeler Cannery Sends Two Cars for Trans-Atlantic Shipment. WHEELER, Or.. May 22. (Special.) The Union Fisheries Co-Operative Canning Company here is shipping two carloads of 1914 mild-eure pack to New York for trans-Atlantic passage from there. The exact destination has not been mao"e public but it is known that tlie purchase was made through a Oanish firm. The net weight of the shipment is about 64,000 pounds. the price being rumored at 10 cents. The cars are being refrigerated here .from the can nery's new ice plant. More shipments are said to be pending and there is every prospect of a good pack for 1915. 3823 pan . HI J ' ..-. 1 f J I ttttttz: :ttnx 7 I 1 II tit Copyright Ilart Sciaffncr & Marx Varsity Fifty Five a trouble-saving suggestion If you've been looking for a suit that's enough different from the rest to be distinctive, yet not too extreme for good taste, you want this new Hart Schaffner & Marx design for men and young men; it's here in all the latest fabrics and in some inter esting variations. You'll get the quality a good custom tailor would charge much more for; here you pay only $18 to .$35 UfSam'l Rosenblatt &(Jo. The Men's Shop for Quality and Service Northwest Corner Third and Morrison sented by T. J. Cooper, president of the Board of Kducation. Guard Companies to Maneuver. CEXTRALIA, Wash., May 22. (Spe cial.) The members of Company M, Second Regiment, National Guard of Washington, left tonight for Gate City Ashland Plans for Memorial llu. ASHLAND, Or.. .May 22. (Special.) Ashland civic and military bodies and fraternal organizations will unite in the observance of JDecoration day in tho Chautauqua tabernacle Monday. May 31. H. A. Canady. of Medford. will deliver the address. A union memorial service will be held on the Sunday preceding. A feature of the observance here will be the reading of the Initial announcement of Decora tion day services under official orders of General John A. Logan, first Na tional commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, issued 48 years ago. Orange Gives $180. to County I-'alr.' CATHLAMKT, Wash.. May 22. (Spe cial.) The Pomona Grange, which met at Skamokawa this week, donated 18u to the Wahkiakum County Fair Asso ciation for premiums for school ex hibits. A committee was appointed to investigate the advisability of forming a stock company for an independent telephone line in Wahklahum County. Graduation Exercises Held at Pasco. PASCO, Wash.. May 22. (Special.) The Pasco schools closed their seveuth annual commencement exercises here last night. K. .1. Klemme, city superin tendent of Ellensburg, delivered the commencement address on "The Unfin ished House." The diplomas were pre- VICTIM IS WALLOWA MAN Walter l'ay, Killed by "Vaqiii In dians, ell-Know ji Veteran. ' WALLOWA. Or., May 22. (Special.) W;lter A. Kay. one of the Americans killed in the recent attack on the American colony by lhe Yaqui Indians at Xogales. Sonora. Mexico, was well known here. Mr. Kay was reared in the Wallowa Valley, his parents be ing one of the early pioneer families. He was a Spanish-American War vet eran, enlisting with the First Idaho Regiment at Iewiston, Idaho. While in the Philippines he was made one of the sharpshooters from the regi ment. In March. 1!04, lie was married to Miss Ada Johnson, daughter of Mr. J. F. Johnson, a prominent pioneer of this county. Mr. Fay was a member of the Stand ley Lodge 113. Ancient Free and Ac cepted Masons,- of Wallowa. The body was buried in Mexico, as it was im possible to have it brought here for burial. Hughes, of Okanogan, that Wenatchee would be the most feasible city. The last conference was held in Pullman and as the Coast cities will be crowded with various conventions thla Summer, it is thought it would bo boat to bold the meeting in the central part of the state. Cowlitz Koad Contracts Made. -J KICIO. Wash.. May 22. (Special.) Contracts have been awarded by the Board of County Commissioners of Cowlitz County for the improvement of two sections of highway in this county. One mil? of grading and rock surfac ing on the Pacific Highway south of Kelso was awarded to N. I-. Willis for $10.4it0. The other road contract to construct 6860 lineal feet of concrete roadway on permanent highway No. 2, near Woodland, was awarded to Jeffrey & Button for $10,440. NEHALEM HOME IS BURNED Andrew Klein Suffers Loss or $5000 liy J-'ire While Absent. NEHALEM. Or.. May 21. (Special.) Fire late tonight destroyed the home of Andrew Klein while the family was absent. The loss was about J.louO and insurance of $3000 was carried. The origin has not been determined. The house was situated outside the city limits and the fire department wa unable to reach it. Wenatchee Seeks Gathering. WENATCHEE, Wash.. May 22. (Special.) The next conference of the county agriculturists will be held in Wenatchee if the plans under way go through. The Wenatchee Commercial Club has extended an invitation to State Leader liyron Hunter, of Pull man, asking that he choose Wenatchee as the meeting place. The conference will be called during- the early Fall, lit is the belief of County Agriculturist Hogs Driven to Pair Reach ISosebnrs RO.iKBUrtO, Or., May 22. (Special.) Lriving four hogs hitched to a small wagon, A. Brissette, of Cottonwood. Idaho, arrived here this week on his way to San Francisco. Tho expedi tion was arranged by the Cottonwood Commercial Club and the novel outfit attracted much attention in this city. Mr. Brissette left Cottonwood on May 2, and expects to reach San Francisco early in July. On the, side of the wagon to which the hogs are hitched are the following words. "Cottonwood hogs are mortgage llftern." Cottage Grove Koads Day May C7. COTTAGE GROVE. Or., May 22 (Special.) Cottage Grove will cele brate Good Roadri day again this year, but on account of the continued wet weather that has made work on tin roads difficult the celebration has been postponed to May 27. The roi.d supervisors of the dl.strlin nirroiin.l inu: the city have been inite.i to mcrt. with the Commercial Club next Mon day night, when plans for the celebra tion will ho formulated. Many Patents Issued Tor April. The Northwest Patent Bureau report the following patents issued to Oregon inventors in the month of April: Ahlnd. (Iiarlrs I (. Willli-oii. nut-lnrk; Beaver-tm,. Hov K. 1'umi-, fty una-,i-ment fur railway pfl in . H.r.il. It-iy t. Vinyarti, f-ej nir-hunlRni : I'arltfiu, ;.-r::o M. Weber. tvcr!i--al carr.er; K"-it ;rovi, William M. I'ullock. ln.-t; 1 1 ..... 1 lliur. Walter 1. rnltm-:-, fruit bu,-K,-i ; K'litn.nli t-'ullH. 1 imeu ii-o K'r, 1 1 1 h i.nt'ii fur , - hi,-ira; Lrxinpton. Ralph 1 U'Tik'. hi-c-I.t; l.lnnton. William 1 . Sisaon, livtns Im..I; I'ortlail'l. Olaf O. Marlin, t y p v r i ! i n c In i -i-hln.: ll:irvy 1'. ftaitiliart. w i-M d rn; :i r ; 'liarlm M. Clarke, iijmI puller; Ira l. W 1,1 iauiff, automatic wlnlitv -atcli; II. M. SI.'T maii, iiiH-Krlnl Intr tnftrtni.f: ,t i K H. .v and James Stewart. hniMini; an-1 i ,n 1 1 martilne; it ,,hu r$c. William II itenjamin, brakr-; Oitnirt 11. si,k leetel, l,,jt mjtrr; rcappuobe, levey K. Iciehu i ilson, j,enhlir. Klamath Sell Sl t ars or Horses. KUVMATH FALLS Or.. May 'Z':. -(Special.) Six corloads of horses, or about 121 head, left this week f'ir Denver, consigned to the f'crwer llor.-e and Mule Company. These horses wciti purchased during the past week or ten days by Messrs. Tlll.-ou and Treasnr who left nearly $16,310 in rush wlili Klamath County farmer ami stockmen, the price per hor.e averaging about $1J5. The., horses were all of tho blocky build that i.s desirable for war stock and weighed from I loo to li'io pounds, and fi'li was tested for wind before being purchased. AUSTRO-ITALIAN FRONTIER AND DISPUTED PROVINCES WHOS E POSSESSION IS ONE OF ITALY'S CHIEF REASONS FOR ENTERING WAR- CHILDREN You can win the Second Prize for Comp osition as advertised in the Contest for Ideas by Reading Cor rectly this 3 rn JUST RECEIVED FROM A CONTESTANT FOR IDEAS ALL ANSWERS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE CONTEST MAN AGER. Ill FOURTH STREET, NOW OR BEFORE JUNE 1 JUST RECEIVED A large delayed shipment of Scotch and Worsted Suit ings. Regular $35, $38 and $40 value, Early visitors will have MADE to ORDER now $30. largest assortment. NICOLL Tlie Tailor Jerrems' Bono ' From the Loridou Trmea. Trient. which forms a saJjent between Lombardy and Veuitia. is inhabited chiefly by Italians, who chafe Wilder Austrian rule. The i n:E la true of Trieste, on tat rlihi. bui oitlln irt mora likelj- lo take Place on Trleate-Venetla frontier, owing to tii fact that Trient is io the heart of the Alp and tne passes have bero ilint l-.i.,.r- - i kotk aide. Uillne. IutJj-. near lhe border of Trieste, is Dow the soeo of what appears to be the chif Italian milltaxx concentration in the north. -' 108 Third Street. Fred F. Boody, M gr.