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THE. SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 31, 1915. MEN TALKED ABOUT FIND WAY INTO NEWS PHOTOGRAPHIC HALL OF FAME Refugee From Louvain Finds Professor's Chair at Princeton University Wealthy Man Accused of Plot to M or der Filipino Physician Announces Cure for Leprosy. ' - .Jk'' f" 7' V? 1 t ' II " -'J Hi- : Ill . huM N EW TORK, Oct. 30. (Special.) Professor P. Van den Ven is a refugee from Liovrvain who has found a place in America. He wai for. inerly professor at Louvain University, lie has accepted an Invitation to be Upencer Trask lecturer at Princeton and will lecture there this Winter on By cantine history and art. General Dan 1 in was the Minister of War of Gceece in the Venizelos Cabinet, lie is supposed to fa'Vor the allies. Rear . Admiral Charles Lionel (VauRhan-Lee has been made Director of the Royal Naval Air Service. He is a distinguished scientist. Born in 187, he entered the Navy in 1880. He first devoted himself to torpedo work and later was made assistant director of naval intelligence. He afterward commanded the Shotley Training Es tablishment and later the Portsmouth Naval Barracks. In December he was put in command of the "Thunderer." His appointment to his present post in dicates a determination on the part of the Government to make great im provements in the air fleet. Lawrence Addicks, a member of Sec retary Daniels Naval Advisory Board, is a distinguished metallurgical en gineer. Born in Philadelphia in 1878, he was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been since 1905 superintendent of the plant at Chrome, N. J.r of the United States Metals Refining Company. A mysterious criminal case in New Jersey is the charge of Harvey Studdi ford Moore, an ex-assembyman, that M. Edgar Wallace, a wealthy real es tate operator, tried to procure his mur der as the result of a Quarrel. Rumor associates the charge with Mrs. Moore. with whom it is said Mr. Wallace tan goed too often to suit Mr. Moore; but Mr. Moore denies that his wife is con cerned in the matter. Wallace has been -held- in bail. Dr. E. Mercado. a Filipino physician, believes he has demonstrated the effi cacy of a new cure for leprosy, hitherto believed to be an incurable disease. The treatment is with chaulmoogra oil, made from takatogenos kurzil seeds. The treatment has been used by others and in the London Lancet last year record was made of the discharge by Dr. Victor G. Heiser from the San La zaro Hospital, for lepers at Manila of two patients so treated who were de clared cured. Dr. Mercado has dis charged from the great leper colony at Culion, P. 1.. 23 patients who, he de clares, are completely cured of leprosy. Note Betrays Chicken Thieve. WOODSTOWN, N. J.. Oct. 22. A slip of paper which had been dropped by thieves who raided his hencoop has enabled Clifford Keen, a farmer living near here, to act as his own sleuth and round up three of the alleged culprits. They are negroes, and they have been held for triaL Some notes were scribbled on the paper. These gave Keen a clew and he set about to do some detective work on his own hook, until he connected the three negroes with the note. Officers who searched the house of one of the negroes are said to have found some of the chick ens hidden in a box in the garret. PROMINENT WOMAN FREE Reno Court Allows Divorce From Millionaire's Grandson. RENO, Nev., Oct. 24. Rose Mildred Taylor O'Donobue, prominent in New York and Washington society circles, has been granted a divorce here from Joseph John O'Donohue III. a wealthy Eastern real estate dealer and a grand son of Joseph J O'Donohue, late City Chamberlain of New York and a mil lionaire coffee merchant. Mrs. O'Donohue in her bill charged desertion and non-support. She recited that they have one child, a son 33 years old, and that an agreement was entered into by them that she and the father were each to have the custody of the- child six months during the year, but that neither could take the child oat of the United States without the written consent of th,e other. In the bill the date of marriage was given as April 27. 1911, the ceremony taking place in New York City. No mention of alimony was made. Mrs. O'Donohue has been living here in lux urious apartments for the last six months. NEW YORK. Oct. 24. The wedding of Rose Mildred Taylor to Joseph John O'Donohue III was one of the brilliant society events of the Spring of 1911. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy M. Taylor, of Washington and Allenhurst, N. J. Young O'Donohue is associated with his father in business. He is 27 years old. VIEWS OF FORTS MISSING Coaht Guard Cutters Searching Far and Wide for Germans. NORFOLK. Va., Oct. 22. Seven days after the yawl Eclipse and her com plement of six German officers from the interned cruiser Kronprinz Wil helm were Jast reported In Hampton Roads, the fate of the yacht and the men who failed to surrender their pa roles is as much a mystery as ever. With the sea being searched in every direc tion and Coast Guard cutters covering every neck of nearby Inland waters, not the slightest definite information as to the whereabouts of the Eclipse has been reported here. In local marine circles it is becom ing daily more a topic of discussion that the officers on the Eclipse have managed to keep her' whereabouts a secret if they had only four days start, and some believe that the yacht left port earlier than reported. Captain Theirfelder in his report to Admiral Beatty, ommandant of the Norfolk Navy-yard, said the officers left the Kronprinz Wilhelm last Sunday with liberty expiring Monday. This he re ported on the following Wednesday. One of the officers from the Kron prinz Wilhelm had 60 photographs of American ports, according to W. F. Johnson, former postmaster at Ocean View. Mr. Johnson says he was told that the prints were made by a young woman in Norfolk, and. that among them were views of American fortifi cations. EXPERT ADVISES THAT TOADSTOOLS HAVING DANGER SIGNALS BE SHUNNED Professor of Botany of University of Oregon Issues Warning on Mushrooms, Particularly Those Having Cup, or Anything like a Cup, on Lower End. BY ALBERT RADDIN SWEETSER. Profeasor of Botany in the University of Oregon.) UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene, Oct. 30. (Special.) While many or thd toadstools arfl edible there are some whose presence in man's di gestiveV tract are disagreeable, some that are dangerous and some that are deadly. The caution, therefore, must be constantly reiterated that the only safety for those who would eat these fungi lies in learning to know abso lutely a few unmistakable forms and sticking closely to them. This is well illustrated in the form under consid eration in this article, for while some of this genus are deadly, a few are edible; but the only safe way is to leave severely alone all toadstools which show the danger signals of this genus. This particular species is known as the fly toadstool or. speaking scien tifically, amanita musscaria. It reecives its name from the fact that its juice has been used by some people as a fly poison. It has a wide range of color, from a washed-out yellow to a brilliant yel low and, in some cases, red. Its growth and development is shown in figure 1. Figure 1. A. is a sketch of the young or button stage, the lower half being benVath ground. Figure 1. B, is a long itudinal section of A. The young plant is seen surrounded by a shell-like mem brane, the volva, and the cap is united to the stem by a veil. Figure 1, C. is a little later stage, showing the young toadstool growing and stretch ing and bursting its eggshell-volva, the lower portion of which remains as a cup on the bottom of the stem, while the upper part is carried upon the spreading cap and is broken Into scales on the top. As the cap is raised, as one would open an umbrella, the edges break away from the stem and leave the veil as a ring or annulus on the stem. Figure 2 is a photograph show ing two buttons, a mature plant seen on the under side with white gills, col lar and cup, and another mature speci men turned so as to show the red cap with the white scalelike remnants of the volva. In this group the most deadly are, perhaps, the most attractive and innocent-looking of all the toadstools and herein lies their great danger. In gath ering fungi one is too apt to break from off above ground without ascer taining whether there be a cup or no. All the deadly forms possess some sort of a cup, a ring, white gills and scales on top of the cap though the latter in- some species disappear early. In gathering toadstools, then, the safety-first motto is .void absolutely all forms having a cup or anything like a cup on the lower end of the- stem. The poisonous effect of this group is due to a definite alkaloid principle called muscarine. It is insidious in its action, gives no warning by its flavor and does not manifest itself for several hours. Atropia has been used success fully in some cases. In Kamchatka and Asiatic Russia it is reported that the natives use the fljr toadstool to pro duce a sort of intoxication. Here aman ita drunkards take the place of opium fiends. There is a large and meaty-looking member of this group discovered by Senator Lane in the possession of some Italians who had been eating it freely for some time. On sending specimens to Eastern authorities it was found to be a new species and Dr. Lane pub lished an account of it in The Orego nian for December 12, 1898. We conclude as we began: Let the r - 1 A. m ilsKata Veil Vol va mushroom eater confine himself to a few perfectly , known forms and avoid all others. CORN GROWS IN COTTON Cleveland Druggist Says He Feeds Plants on Chemicals. CLEVELAND. Oct. 20 J. A. Smith. manager of a drug store here, claims to have growing in his greenhouse healthy sweet corn planted in absorbent cotton, which has been treated only with the proper chemical food the corn requires. In another greenhouse, he declares, he has tomatoes thriving in washed lake sand. Mr. Smith has worked on his dis covery for seven years. He believes he has learned just what food each plant requires and in just what pro portions to feed it nitrogen, potash and the other necessary chemicals. He claims to have a diet formula for al most every known plant and vege CARD TABLE NUMBERS AND DESIGN ARE SHOWN HEREWITH i .o o 9 o Now that winter is really here card parties will, begin to be given on all sids. And there is nothing prettier or more decorative for such occasions than' em broidered numbers. These numbers may be embroidered on white or colored linen, in white or in colors. It ia an attractive idea to embroider them in the aoadea in wbiih the rooms are decorated. The detail drawing shows the method of working. In osing the printed design from the paper the directions are aa fol lows: If the material used is sheer, the easiest way is to lay it over the design which will show through plainly, aad draw over each line with, a sharp, hard pencil. If your linen is heavy, buy a of impression paper the kind that ' does not rnb off place the design over it and trace with a hard pencil- C7 r, : J' : .- V L b FJJ YLET, MJTLIN SATiH A NO vS7 ITCHES