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ere of separation, and Jerome ac
cepted It and txrtmt King of West
phalia. and contracted another mar
riage with Catherine of Wurttemberg.
which was more to the Emperor's
liking. Luclcn. an aggressive poli
tician, a born democrat, and a brll-
xiMnrR or tin a-hociatt.t rrgi:".
T- A 1 a ' H FTae ta ese'ttalaarv lf''d
a l -a ua f'-" rrf ..-tn ef a I naw a a--na
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t-.-.t m er". -m tb irai mm ef ronsultlnt I-lnlaad aa to Us new
.-a hr!i ara .aa rarY'i.
Itant orator, had contracted 'a ma
liars beneath hlin (in the Napoleonic
estimation), and he ou(rlit to cancel
it. and persuade Lurlen to marry th
widow of the Kins; of Kiruria. Th
oKotlnate Lucien derllnrd.' and Ion
was at odds with his brother, only to
he reconciled during; the stormy days
of HIS. It was I.ucien who. In 179
aa President of the Council of Kiv
Hundred at I'nrl.i. saved the day for
Napoleon by closing- the sitting', at
time when Napoleon had obviously
loxt control of the councils of France,
and by brlndnf in the soldiers.
No lionaparte Is today on any
throne, and It would be dl.Tlcult. with
out an encyclopaedlnc search, to say
who Is the successor of the first Bona
parte. It was the fashion of Na
poleon I to find crowns for his broth
rrm. his relatives and his General
without consulting the people con
rerned. Those were not the days o
"self-determination of peoples." Th
Kaiser may be wiser. lie at lea.
guee through the form, or pretense.
rTt-in. roY. Nixrii is. ieia.1
, K.AIr ASD ArOLEO?t.
"The word camouflage Is sadly eTer
gj.'sd. but It seems to have a, special
pertinence In V application to the
reported rat ef the FlnnLh ror
emtcent for the KaUer to bestow on
It the Inestimable favor of maains the
Orman Ir1nce Owar King of rln-
,Unt The Kaiser hsppUy has) a targe
and adaptable family of Irtncelings.
an-1 It will b easy for hla to spare
Trninr (rrartront the Immediate Im-
rortal clrclv It 1.. Indeed, the roval
room of ari rreat conquerors to be- h'P Inconsistencies of Its ex
slow on sobtturmted nations the bene-I pression. Among-other o Its vagaries
Mo? ntxnrc o-rimTiaaxnir.
In diantaalKg sea-rrtlsnahlp. Ttia Ore
rnlsa aara: A till maturar Ju1rmrn
ta thai a tiHi.TarttMn la so Inlanaa partuari
of a cAaf !rra.l minorlir aavking m war le
tool tba ana)arltr. Tfuia w liara a raaaa
Slvai br Th I'ltfon . a Itaftlf for Ita ra.
a that tli Nattoaai Alrrnntatrstana
lkalt be lMD-parftaa; whr It tnd)r"-l o
baarMI that lamooa toon pa rt kn laalr.
iwaalnr Cbambrlaln. snrl hi noo-parttaan
w ar t'abta arhame. famailmaa we hare
rttr-4 whr Th Or-otilaA rotild
narraalr pan !m a In atate affatra srl o
llbarally rtoa-aarttaan In National affair.
but now the franh rvnffnn makaa Ita pur'
arftlr plain had loc'ral. aa (rtiiai
Ua losle . aaicm Capital Journal.
The Orrgonlan has long rnarvrled
at the peculiarities of non-partisan
f.la tt ml thj-uarb near kinsmen. It
snmetMnr more than the practice
ef that diplomacy which deiee In
terroarrtace between Imperial fArnllic
and Invurea. or Is Intended to Insure,
r!vTva-tio permanence all around. It
la war to keep a f rra hold on other
la the unanimity with which the
bngus non-partisan press declares
agaUiat partisanship (that Is to say,
IpuUlran partlsarsMp) In state af
fairs and resents criticism of Pemo-
cratlo partisanship In National affairs.
I-et us say that The Orrgonlan does
rtat and at the some time to gather I not find fault so much with non-par-
tgtrer as many thrones aa possible
In nna family.
The el.ist srn of the Kaiser Is as-
tirrd ef the taerman succession, un
. ef roursax the empire throug! a
reolu'lon or otherwise should decide
t end the long reign of the llohen
ttsanshtp as with the pretense of non
partisanship. The sole aim of the
organised non-partisanship of Oregon
Is to promote the fortunes of the
Isemocratlo party. There Is no word
of complaint from the humbug non
partisans when the preseut National
Su'.l-m. Hut there are five other I Administration Is partisan, only when
royal prinrrs. and. If tlrrmany Is to (the state administration la partisan.
run-iuer the world, what more natural I as It sometimes Is.
t"-n that a kingdom should be pro-l ro. or do not, the Capital-Journal,
vi.'.. for each of the sons, to say I and others of Its kind, think the ITesl
Itothlng of a soa-ln-Iaw and numerous I dent should summon to the service
cou'ias? I of the Government, for the war. hUrh
Caesar founded a dynasty, thouch statesmanship, demonstrated cfUcicncy,
he left no son. and Napoleon realised I proveo leadership, from the body of
Ms imperial ambition to be the begin-I loyal American citizens. Irrespective
ring of a royal line, though he, too. of party?
1-ft only an anemic direct heir, who I Or should some men be chosen be-
tiled in younc manhood. Hut the I cause they belong' to one party, and
Kaiser Is not troubled about the sue-I other men lrnored solely because they
cession, and has made abundant pro-I belong to another party?
vision In the way of male Issue. There
short. In proportion to population, of
that in the United States.
The problem of women's labor en
farms in this country is intimately
associated with that of men. It is
largely a question of finding; 'compe
tent workers and fitting- them to the
Jobs. Kates of wages enter into it.
too. 'But there Is. in the case o
women "working- out," a special need
of suitable housing-, facilities. This
problem was only partly solved last
year by the establishment of women's
camps In central locations. Conditions
of living are more important In the
rasa of -women than in that of men.
Where a group of men might regard
a certain amount of roughing It as a
lark, this would not be tolerable-where
women's labor Is employed. Social
questions of a more or less pressing
nature are also Interwoven with the
whole.
Success of the women's farm labor
movement . would seem to depend
largely upon not attempting too much,
and upon thorough organization which
will permit the assignment of volun
teers to the work in which they are
likely to be productive in the best
sense. Any wholesale attempt to
pitrrhfork women Into all the places
formerly held by men. Including- the
heavier forms of labor, would be fore
doomed to failure. Tet one venture.
started b- a committee appointed by
the Mayor of New ork in 1917. indi
cated 'that women who were wisely
assigned to taska within their physical
powers were capable of earning satts
factory wages. .
But It Is also the opinion of rtn-
dents that the widest field for women's
agricultural activity lies on the farms
w here they are members of the family.
rather than In any extensive plan of
working- out." Women living In farm
homes will serve best by educating
themselves to obtain greater results
In already tried departments. Many
now OjXcel In farm management, and
the farm garden movement last sea
son owe'l a large part of its success
to the planning, as welt as the actnal
labor, of weuten. Women's oppor
tunity In the crisis Is large, but It does
not follow that there must be a return
to primitive conditions or that we
should revert to a peasant system in
which both men and women Joined
ranges. It requires only the most cur
sory observation of the Tlora of the
country to determine the areas of pre
vailing rainfall. To this we owe our
forests. Including the spmce with
which we are now engaged In helping
to win the war. Timber and under
brush exist In the Blue Mountains, but
they are not nearly so rank as in the
West. The lnterlying region contains
stretches entirely devoid of timber ex
cept for the scattering growths which
obtain, their moisture from Nature's
sublrrigation systems along the creek
bottoms.
Kastern Oregon and Washington
will be the Mecca' of 'tourists at the
but both were very great.' And, It is
a tribute to -his 'versatility that, not
withstanding the considerable volume
of his purely American work, perhaps
half, of all tha? he wrote dealt -with
the 6cenes and. the history and
legendry of European civilization. He
taught Americanism without paro
chialism, and morality without di
dacticism.. " -.
The plan of the projected "Long
fellow University" may be considered
quite apart front the movement to
preserve Longfellow's hirthplace. .The
rormer is yet in sine neouious stage.
It is desired to , create a "volunteer
faculty" from among the members of
time scheduled, for the eclipse. There I the Longfellow Society, who will do-
will be numerous pbints from which I nate such time as. they may be able
to choose. The fewest rainy days in I for the instruction of young and old
June, (according to a table presented in as many communities as possible,
by Professor Townley, occur at Fort without fees or dues, and in accord
Simcoe and Blalock, and the average I ance with plans to be formulated by
June rainfall is lightest in Kennewick the university, management. It aims
0.28 of an Inch. But the June rains) at an ideal, and it seems visionary,
are light along the path of totality
after the main range Is crossed. There
remain only the disturbing possibili
ties of gathering clouds, which might
Experience has not shown that volun
teers are dependable for sustained
effort of the kind desired. But dls
cussion of the subject will .be profit
only threaten rain but would- interfere I able, as has been said. If It only serves
with the detailed observations which to revive Interest, not only In Long.
are the dream of the astronomers. But
June 8 is rather 'early for thunder
storms, although these have . been
recorded in exceptional years in May.
Professor Townley's conclusibn 4s that
unless the Summer Is backward'
early June will be a favorable time for
an auto trip to Oregon.
fellow himself but in the other whole
some but old-fashioned Americans
who graced the nineteenth century.
A LONGFELLOW REVIVAL?
Formation of a International Long
fellow Society, with the avowed pur
pose of creating a fund to save the
birthplace of Henry Wadsworth Long
fellow, to the people, and the estab
lishment of a "Longfellow University"
as a memorial to the poet, wU serve
a good purpose if they only revive a
somewhat flagging Interest In the
works of one of the leading figures
in American literature within the
memory of men anil women who are
still comparatively young. For Long-
STATUE TOR BISHOP ASBCRT.
The current Issue of the ..Pacific
Christian Advocate has - on Its first
page a photographic reproduction o
the proposed statue of Bishop Asbury,
taken from the working model of the
sculptor, Augustus Lukematu, Appro
priately It represents the great father
of Methodism in America as on horse
back, with book (perhaps the Bible)
in hand, knapsack, holster, cape and
all the paraphernalia of ' the circuit
rider. The proposal Is to erect the
statue In Washington (I. C). The
cost will be about $50,000.
It Is Interesting to note that the
Methodist Episcopal Church (North)
and the Methodist Episcopal Church
South have Jointly, through their
fellow's was essentially a healthful and bu5hop. various conferences.! tin
a wiioiesoine inuuence. no uvea 111 ai ... , - .,. n. .
period when our literature was at its
best. One cannot think of htm with
out at the same time recalling
the sum, while smaller portions have
been assigned to other branches of
the Methodists, such as the Free
Methodists, African Methodists, and
so on. Clearly the geographical split
In tria prant orpunixatlon Is rrn rl 1 1 M 1 1 v
v , . , "v. y ' 3 healing. Time is doubtless approach
In MenticuJ physical labor ot the hard-1 such names as Lowell, Holmes,
est kind. I Whlttier and Hawthorne, who were
his friends and intimates. There .was I
rrpunuiNii unirnrita
Pol.c. magistrate. aH over the conn- ZJZ a7ow om tted .S?"5
. .. . . .. "V" . " -''" or in wmcn tncy give mute eviaence i know n Buib divls,on
wi io.r uuiiub in urn ok wur t'j in-1 or oeing unreaa, win raise
grave
ffictlng heavy penalties for all forms doubts whether our literary taste has
of hoodluoiism committed within their improved. .It Is certain that their
Jurisdiction. They are drawing a sharp I place has not been worthily filled by
istinctlon between the spirit of bcl- the so-called "new school" of poetry-
llgerence that wants to get at th It was a pleasing and well-nigh
enemy and that which simply tries to! universal custom in the schools of a
make trouble at homo. Street gangs past generation to-require. even of the
are being broken up: "toughs" of younger students, something more
than a modicum of cultivation of the
memory. e.nd some of our old-fash
ioced taskmasters were in the h-ablt
of setting prodigious tasks for "rhet
orical days." Acquaintance with th'
all kinds are being sent to Jail: and
masher" hasn't a friend left In
the country
On of life latter gentry was ar
rested m Chicago recently for mis-
are. Indeed, stories that clashes be
tween the Crown ITIncc and his royal
Ire are frequent, but their quarrels
are evidently not over the succession.
The t'zar. Indeed, had the right to
name his royal heir, but that privilege
Is not given to the Kmperor. Perhaps
It Is fortunate for the eldest Hohen
sollern son that his crown is other
wise assured.
As the Moscow campaign was an
Irretrievable disaster for Napoleon, so
the IiusaUn enterprise of the Kaiser
may Involve htm in difficulties from
which h may not recover. Aa the
ambition of Bonaparte to rule through
his brothers resulted In uniform fail
ure, th Kaiser may be wis enough
to avoid his mistakes. Tet the Pin-
BECS'O A Vr.C.ET 1RIAX.
Whatever the scientists may sa:
and they dlsngrco on tho subject as
to the sustaining power of a vege
tarian diet. It Is certain that the man
who can live on th product of his
own garden stands a better chance of
being happy during the coming year
than he who, through habit or other
wise, demands other foods.
An Kngllshman. head of a family
of stx. writes to a London newspaper
that he, his wife and four children
have lived for fourteen weeks on
diet consisting entirely of raw vegor
tables made of grated turnips, carrots.
parsnips, beets and cabbages, together
with fruit salad, toast and porridge.
AH the vegetables used were grown In
.l.X trtl.u-a w.,,1.1 annt n In JU- I.
that he think, he can achieve what th home rden and stored for Winter
Napoleon eouM not.
Thr were four brother" and three
slaters ef Napoleon, most of them pos-
ese4 In som measure of th llona
parte ambition, selfishness and ability;
and there was a mother who retained
tt th last her deslr for maternal
control, but who never forgot her
common. If not plebetan origin, and
. who looked forward to the day when
'tie purple woui i oe taken from ail or
ttem. On their own account at least
two of Napoleon's brothers would have
been conspicuous men. and on sister
had qualities of real greatness. The
Intrigues of brothers and sisters, their
constant demands upon th greatest
Iionapart for favors, and th deter
mination of Napoleon to manage the
demesne and other affairs of his crsrl TBI WOMEXI LAND AUfT,
relatives, ar a part of th Bonaparte I Difficulties; In the way of making
Mstory with which th world Is not further us of th labor of women on
familiar: yet It had vital and con-1 the farms, of the United States, ac-
trrntng relation ta th Napoleonic I cording to reports of Investigators,
career. I hav not been entirely overcome
Joseph Bonapart was mad first th result of experiments ma Je -last
Klug of Naples and then Klnr of I season. It will surprise most persons.
.-'p:n: I-out was King of Holland: I however, to learn that the number of
use. The writer say. that they use
neither tea nor coffee.
It seems to be a cas of "If a man
likes that sort of thing. It Is th sort
of thing he would like." It Is not
probable that the diet In question
would commend itself to many per
sona, and It Is even possible that most
of us would not thrive upon It. But
think how fortunate on would be
who could learn to Ilk It! No grocery
bills to pay. No danger of being ac
cused of hoarding food. Just a little
labor In the garden and one's board
bill U paid. i
Those who ran' thrive on vegetables
are lucky. They are about the most
Independent people In the world.
Jerome King of Westphalia: and Lu-r-tea
iTinc of Canlno: while his In
fant son by Marl Louis was mad
King of Horn at- birth. Th eldest
sta'er. Martann Kllsa, vaaa made
Crand Iuchs of Tuscany: Marl
Paulina received the title of Ducht
of Uuastalla. and Marl Ann unci ta I
Carolina married Joachim Murat. a I
Napoleonic Uenaral. who became Oov.
rnor of Parts. Marshal ot Prance.
and. finally. King of Naples. When
Napoleon was First Consul and had
women engaged In agriculture In the
United H tales In 110 Is given ty the
United Htatea census for that year as
1.107.050. whereas la 100 the num
ber was recorded as TT.SSC, showing
an tncras In tun years of nearly t
per cent.
Th Increase, In th number of wom
en classified as agricultural labor
ers' la the same period was 1Z9 per
cent from (.1.101 In 1900 to 1.614.-
107 In 1110. It Is true that most Of
these were employed on their home
not et taken the bold step of making I farms, but by no means all of them
himsa-lf Tr.mperor cf France, but was. I were so engaged. The number rw
navertheleaa. th sot ruler, h gave I corded In the censuj as "working out"
his own stepdaughter. Hortense Beau-i in 1J10 Is 317.6:..
harnala. to hla favorite brother. Louis,
a; union that was not happy. Prom
this union, however, came the Napo
leonic line, for after the death of th
King of Home (Napoleon 11). without
Th director of the census la Ms
analysis of th figures for 1910 mad
th significant comment that th de
tailed percentage Increases were "use
ful mainly to show that the increase
Issue, the heir to th French throne I In female farm laborers was general
was the second son ot Loula. the first throughout the United States and was
(Napoleon Charles) having died. The not confined to th South." and. con
way by which Napoleon III secured sequent)-. It did f!ot Involve a question
the throne, and lost it, and the Prince of race. He admits that there may
Imperial, his son. was killed In the have been errors In enumeration, by
Zulu war' (139) Is no part of this which too many children were clasal-
t,orr.' fiad as farm laborers, and he makes' an
t - The dlfScuttles bet ween Napoleon allowance for probable errors, which
and Joseph were chiefly over the sue- reduces the who) number of women
reasion. Joseph had no male heir, engaged In "agricultural pursuits" to
and neither had Napoleon (until much 1.1IS.9&0. Even the smaller number,
niter, after his divorce from Josephine however, will be a revelation to those
and r marriage to Marie Ixulse): who have not studied the subject care-
axid Juph Insisted that under the fully. It show, that nearly one-sixth
law of primogeniture the royal line of ail the women employed In gainful
attould b vt.l In him. It was a occupations In the country are actually
plan to which Napoleon never agreed, at work on farms.
and from which Joseph never de- It Is comrnonfy supposed that a
sHted. The Napoleonic purpose at muoh larger proportion of women
first was to name the son of I-ouLs. have been engaged In farming in Eu
bit the newer Idea of an Austrian rop than In the United States. How
marriage and a direct successor super- ever true this may have been as to
vened. th Continent, the figure, for 1911
L For the bitter controversies In the for Great Britain and Ireland give
pin a parte family, th greatest mem- only 1S0.O0O as the number of women
bar was not wholly blameless. He doing agricultural work. There was
was extremely angry, for example, at an Increase" of 44.600 between April,
tie American marriage of the youth- 1914, and April, 1917. and of the
fol Jerome, at Baltimore, and sought 1. 000. 000 women In England at pres
to have It nullified. Upon appeal to ent under th military law as war
the Pope." this request was refused, workers. 0.000 ar enrolled In the
fid to Utcr lS3ud tva Ifli icf Ul Cq "JdOl WW' Xb cumbec lj aUll
conducting himself In the presence of I American poets was expected, not as
woman streetcar conductor. The evidence of higher culture In a lim
magistrate before whom he appeared ited sense, but as a matter of course.
sent him to the workhouse, and the I Perhaps Longfellow contributed as
Chicago Post quotes him as having j much then to our youthful Joys as any
punctuated th sentence with these other two poets together. He "was easy
remarks:
Tour trpe ef rowdyism must taa curbed.
Men have bn calle.1 away to th front.
and patriotic woman hav bean takhic their
plar. Z propoa to throw every safec-uard
around women conductor, particular tiioe
wdo wora at nisbt on our car.
As Francis Asbury was the founder
of Methodism In the American col
onies, by commission from John Wes
ley,, so was ha the original itinerant.
He traveled ceaselessly day and night.
with unparalleled devotion. In the in
terest of his church, and he lived to
see it grow from a few hundred mem'
bers, when he landed In America
(1771) to a powerful organization of
250,000 members 'and 2000 prea,chers
when he died In 1816. The available
statistics are that the aggregate Meth
odist membership, all sects, now Is
7,472,000 communicants hi the United
States.
Itinerancy Is, so to speak. -the trade
mark of Methodism. To an extent the
practice has been abandoned, yet it is
the rule that the minister shall go
where he Is sent, and serve willingly
In any field. When the missionary
to remember," partly because of a cer
tain facility of phrasing and an alto-
4 V. V. 1 lit... .... rtt'ln what-
evrritTcrrnkTrave-slldroJt MeUl not
It, U,im B13U VT:VdUSl3, IT . . - 1 V..O-U cuj
other writer of his day, he gave ex-
There 1. no excus for rowdyism, pression to the emotions of Ameri- the ghost OF mark TWAEf,
The least that a stay-at-home can do cans- There was In his work none oi who shall say whether the plan
la behave himself. There Is a dlspo- tno subjective method, for example, chette or the ouija board is the better
sltlon In some quarter, to take advan- of the Russians, and while he was medium of, communication with the
tage of the employment of new and surpassed by some of his co-laborers in spirit world? , Perhaps the literary
Inexperienced men on police forces tho literary vineyard In certain tech- crjtics will be able to decide after
whose membership has been depleted I nical excellencies, he was outstripped comparing "Jap Herron," & novel
by the call 'to w ar. The time to check by none of them when the spirit of w hich Miss Emily Grant Hutchings
It Is In Its lnclpiency. Both Kngland 'l that he wrote is taken into con- and Mrs. Lola Hays say was dictated
and Germanv found this out esrlv in i slderation. He was a teller of stories.
th war. When h aiithe-ritioa r. not profound, but essentially pure. If
busy with war preparations, the gang ho was not subtle, it was oecause
spirit ran wild for a time. It was
hardor to suppress it after It had had
Its way than It would have been to
prevent It In the first instance.
Americans are not subtle. He was a
non-transcendentalist in a time when
others were falling under the influence
of Kant. But that which he wrote
to them by Mark Twain, and a series
of messages which a Miss Eunice
Winkler makes claim to having re
ceived from the same dead author,
and which are published in Azoth, a
monthly periodical devoted to the
study of the life beyond. The first
VIElt'l.VO TUB ECLIPSE IX ' jrVB.
The forthcoming eclipse of the sun.
on Jun S next, will bo an event otL-,riy spread of foreign culture In the
especial moment In the Paciflc North- united States, he was first ot all an
west oecause me central line or the American of Americans
moon . shadow, or the path of totality t would be difficult to overvalue
or me eclipse. Ilea along the approxl- the influence of "The Building of the
mate course or the western reaches of shir,- ia welding- the Nation. It Is
the Columbia Kiver. which it -crosses .ood ooetrv now. As. tor example;
a suon uisiauco iruiu mo point, wnere . r
mJ i"n I.., aua muisi Hum a H(.-h ,rt .,ron a anodlr aaaaaL
southerly to a westerly direction. In- That ahaii laugh at all disaster.
terest Will be further heightened by And with wave and wnirlwlnd wraaO.
the occurrence of the event in June, And Its concluding lines, which have
in a dellghtxul Urn ot year lor an I been recited by more schoolboys, per
outing. I haos. than any others in the language
Sidney uean lowniey, an astrono-
was popular, and it exercised a direct named work was conveyed, so the
and uplifting influence upon the lives "amanuenses' say, by means of the
of many men and women, and, al- I ouija board; In the latter instance the
though Longieuow was a lactor in me author employed a planchette; Tak
ing advantage of the greater latitude
sport with so serious a subject as the
longing qf all people to know what Is.
behind the curtain of death.
The Mark Twain we knew was riot
a materialist. It is not hard to believe
that when : he departed this life he
"doubted nothing." He was perhaps
as well prepared as any man to "And
out the . great truths for himself."
Now we are told that, he has reached
the "mental plane," - and that his
teacher, has given him permission to
Impart his knowledge of his present
life "little as It is" to the world.
He has not been confined to the
cramped quarters of the astral plane.
He has' traveled through and around
and above It and has seen everything.
Then he nuts in a word for the medi
ums when, --after denying that there
aro such things as ghosts,, he writes:
The Administration Co
ordination Bill.
William H. Taff. In the Philadelphia
Publie Ledger.
SENATOR CHAMBERLAIN Introduced
a bill creating a war council of
three members- to be appointed by th
President to co-ordinate under his su
pervision all the energies oi the Gov
ernment in the prosecution of the war.
He also Introduced a bill creating a
munlYion bureau reporting directly to
the President to take charge of ths
production of our arms and munitions
of war. . These bills, though favored by
the members of the Senate military
committee attending the investigations.
- Tou mortals never really sea us. If we
want to aDDuf to vnu fnr antnuthliia or
other,-wa tlx up an elemental to look like have been, vigorously objected to by
n- ' - "on t tninic you are Deinfr cheat- the President and the Secretary of War.
deceased relative who la standing there, atlll Tne reason for their opposition was
the warning- cornea from tha relative. Thai supposed to be that war work was
elemental acta aa a medium. proceeding well, that no such new coun-
The messages. however, contain a cil or board was necessary, and that
certain philosophy that ought to have the correlation desired or desirable was
a reformatory influence on those who obtainable under the nre-ent law. Kf
credit them. Satan Is not one devil. fort was made by the President to stop
dui several or tnem. ne is composed discussion of defects in war prepara-
7 l" cv" tions, but in vain. Senators Hltc' ock
orgies. x ou can easily imagme now. and AVadsworth made atrong argnl
ments to show how much tlmo In set
ting ready had been lost because oX
a lack of correlation. '
a
Now, as out of a clear sky, the Ads
adds to his stature." There are other
devils of murder, and drink, and of
greed for food and greed for gold. But
there are counter-influences which
give us reason for Joy. Every time
ii. I .. . I t 11 ( i -a t i.. I
Z, ..k . ,, . , J ministration, through Senator Overman,
hitrmir' "hn r avatv t i m o O 11. 1 a wnrL- I
weea . "-'-- ""v " v hl)H nut In a hill , -. V. T..i
off (according to the law of Karma),,,,,' 7 ' ,,! . "
ha. chrinL-a i,( ' I dent "to co-ordinate and consolidate th
some of the devils get too big for their "ef ""V,e bnrau. agencies and office
nam fnmfr.r an1- nr.aanllr thuv I i OWUHUIIiy ana more
,-ld. which arrmints for thn vast auminjsirauon or me uovern-
number of devils In the universe. ""L "ems maeea to nave Deea
And whether it comes from Mark a "oiana ror the military commlt-
Twain or not. It is not hard to believe lee uiiver. it abandons the view
that "true happiness lies in helping that no co-ordination is neceasary and
others." No one, says one of the plan- I confers a complete and unlimited
chette messages,, can realize the true 1 power of co-ordination by executive
earth and its contents and dwell there edict. This has no precedent in ths
In- utter happiness. "No man is ab- I history of the country. The bill gives
solurely happy but the kasane. Look the President the authority to unite de-
for th. happiness of helping others, partments or divide them ud. to tram
There is no other way. Help others fer bureaus from one to another de-
or go crazy, xou nave your cnpice. partment, to consolidate them, to create
But the spirit writer says repeatedly new ones with new powers, to transfer
iirat. lie is nappy, inoufe-u.ua is awars ,....,,,,. ... th 0 e,i
'T f""' M ,.nn auuu. to new agencies; indeed, to melt all the
wnicu ne writes, xara ia muro uuuua- i . , M .
i.TOi,. - .,o-,f Ha (Present structure of the great execu-
U J -" vwfti. av-. I t ira rlnno Pimento alll. .k.
More messages from Mark Twain "- ...Uo
are to be expected. Thl wonder work- maf 8 toto1M departments, bureaus
ers seem to have selected him as. their and Wlea for the better carrying
brleht narticular star. Past exDeri- on OI lne war ana -ne more erreotlve
ence teaches us not to emect too exercise of his powers as commander-
much of literary excellence. But all in-chief of the Army and Navy. Ha is
will be forgiven if, having found his given specific authority to employ by
voice, as it were, and an ear "to hear executive order any additional agency
it, he will tell he world in plain or agencies and to vest therein the per-
language things it most wants to I formance of such function as he may
know. I deem appropriate. Thus the President
may create an office and its duties and
Th a hle-h vnliia nf the, Armv train- appoint a man to fill it in the same
Ing Camus as "melting pots" is illus- executive order. The only limitation
trated by such Incidents as the one is that the office shall not last longer
reported from Camp Wadsworth, near than the war, and the duties or the of-
Spartansburg, S. C, where an artillery flee created shall have some relation
chaplain has voluntarily established a I to the carrying on of the war. The
school for the teaching of English to I whole purpose of the bill seems to be
soldiers who have practically no ac- I to exclude Congress from any voice lu
quaintance with the tongue of their framing the machinery for co-ordinat-
adopted land. . Most or these men ing war agencies and to exclude the
have picked up enough to understand genate from any power to confirm co
the military commands given them, ordination. The creation of an office
but. as their usefulness is obviously ls ordinarny regarded as a legislative
rrau,ueu 1"uu' rV" function. The Constitution permits
pieie ituowieuge, Liiey am biuuiui,
are
hard to atone for the deficiency. In
this artillery unit alone there are
about 100 Poles, fifty Italians and sev
eral each ef Greeks, Russians and
Armenians and one Persian. All are
volunteers. All are also eager to
learn. The chaplain who is conduct
ing the school is a Catholic priest,
and he has as assistants a secretary
of the Y. M. C. A. and two enlisted
men 'who are members of the Young
Men's Hebrew Association,
Congress to dispense with confirmation
by the Senate only In case of "inferior"
offices.
Doubtless the ability of Congress
thus to abdicate its functions and that
of the Senate will be said to rest in
the undefined "war power." This has
never been supposed to permit the
amendment by the President of the
civil structure of the Government,
especially when war is not flagrant In
the country, when no foe has set foot
on our sou, when congress and the
Senate can be In constant session with
in cr of note and a professor of higher
mathematics at Stanford University,
has written a monograph for the
Astronomical Society of the Pacific in
which he discusses the relative chances
F-ar not each sudden sound and abode.
Tie of th wave and not the rock;
"Tie but tha flapping ot a aall.
And not a rent made by th ffalel
In spit ot rock and tempeat'a roar.
In aplt or falae llsnta on the ahora.
Sail on. nor tear to breaat tha aea!
for Observing the eclipse from various I uur heart, our hopra, our prayers, our taara
most accessible points In Oregon and 1., ' -,. th.7i
Washington. Incidental', ha kjlvs that I
many people have an enUrelv erro- We would be poorer If the simple
nooua Idea concerning the climate of tal of Evangeline" had not been
these statear "Orea-on usod to be nlrk- written, and American literature
named the web-foot state suggesting would ,08e a distinctive flavor without
a country where It always rains."-But wiawatna ana me ourtsnip oi
It does not always rain In Oregon, as
the astronomer Is at much pains to
show by data from th official records.
and th eclipse will have served one
good purpose If it gives publicity to
the fact that one need not go to" Cali
fornia in search of clear skies.
"The Summer climate of Washing
ton and Oregon. east of the Cascades,"
say. Professor Townley, "ls very simi
lar to th Summer climate of Cali
fornia. The rain, continue later in
the Spring and begin earlier in the
Fall in the northern section than in
the southern, but the monthsof June.
July and August are rainless, with
the exception of "occasional" thunder
showers.
The astronomer has considered the
chances of obtaining an unclouded
view of the eclipse -from such points
as Heppner. Baker, Goldendale. Qulnns,
Squally Hook, Blalock and Rock Creek.
The observer will have the greatest
mathematical chance of finding clear
weather at the point where the path
of totality crosses the Columbia, near
the mouth of the John Lay River, but
here he must make allowance for the
possibility, rather remote at the par
ticular season, of encountering a sand
storm. The occasional thunder storms
of the Blue Mountain region, the as
tronomer points out for the benefit of
prospective visitors from the states
farther east, -are not to be compared
as to frequency with those of the East.
There are "perhaps two or three. a
season, -and not two or three a week.
The climatology of Oregon and
Washington is intimately associated, boys If they-possessed the acqualnt-
f course, with It topography. The ance with Longfellow that some of
designation "webfoot" was derived their father, had. "The Wreck of the
Miles Standlsh." And "The Village
Blacksmith" showed the almost in
finite possibilities of a commonplace
topic, with Its moral that may well
serve for all time:
Thank, thanks to the, my worthy friend.
For the leeson thou bast tauirhti
Thua at tha flaming forg of life
Our fortunes muat be wrousht;
Thus on Its Bounding anvil ahaped
aca burning deed and thought.
Or, In the lines which occur earlier in
the poem, and which contain a pro
found philosophy:
Each morning sea aome task begin.
Each evening aeea 1ft cloae;
Something attempted, aomethlng dona.
Has learned a night's repoaa.
It would be Interesting to know
whether the "Psalm of Life" ls read
as much as it used to be. It and
Excelsior" - were In ' every acrapbook
and almost every reader half a cen
tury or more ago. The former; has
property of "quotabllity" which
few poems in the language possess.
Tell me not In mournful numbers,"
thing, are -. not what they seem,"
" 'Dust thou art, to dust returnest,'
was not spoken of the soul," "Art is
long and time ls fleeting," "let the
dead past bury Its dead," f Aotprints
on the sands of time," and let us.
then, be up and doing," arous mem
ories of a time when they were on the
tongue of everyone. And this, which
also rings true today:
In the world's broad field ef battle.
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driw-rr cattlal
Be a hero la tb strirel
It would be the better for all school-
from the occurrence "of rain In a rela
tively minor area: The course of our
storms Is mostly from west and north
west. A large percentage of the mois
ture Is extracted by the Coast ranges
and the Cascades. Still more Is con-
Hesperus," "The Belfry 6f Bruges,"
"The Skeleton In Armor" and "Paul
Revere'. Ride" were ones on every
tongue, as. the collections . of the
Poems were on every, parlor center
table. ' The Influence of his poem.
denscd by the Blue Mountains Little I surpassed that of his formal teaching
Xftlla ft th la,teUj betwooA tha two, aa ft i'Siiwsp oX modern tenuafeg.
permitted by the planchette, he has 11
lustrated his writings. Inasmuch as
Mark Twain was not noted as an artist
in this life, the rather inferior qual
ity of the sketches will not excite
wonder; but we still may be permitted
to marvel that his literary style, both
In the novel and the messages, reveals
so little of the genius of the old day.
on earth
Of the two, the gullible will And
more interest in the letters which Miss
Winkler says she found pinned to her
bedroom wall after an evening of ex
perimentation with the planchette.
We note again the employment of the
conventional mediumistic properties
la these revelations. Miss Winkler
had her mother sleep with her a few
nights after the communications be
gan mysteriously to appear, and the
result was a brief message from the
author: "Mother breaks current." It
is singular how fussy the spirits come
to be after a sojourn on another plane.
Mother withdrew and the notes were
resumed. At first they were "silly,1
which ought to be evidence by Itself
that Mark Twain didn't write them.
but they afterward becahie IntelligU
ble. If not up to the Mark Twain
standard. Only once does the writer
strike the vein of self-deprecatory
humor that the author himself mined
so well, when he nsed to disarm ill
feeling by making himself the butt of
his kindly Jokes. This is In a descrip
tion of the state of happiness found
In the "other world and of outward
conditions there. He trenches upon
the field of theosophy, for example,
when he says:
This plane ls fall of beauty and love and
truth. Wa ourselvea are of a rather re
markable nature, beautiful, of course. I
don't want to aeem stuck up. but I know
that I am beautiful.
I look nothing at all like the physical er
astral, Earn Clemens. I am an egg 4ln
form, that is;al am not aa embryo chicken)
beautiful eirg saining witn a orignt.
rosy, golden lignt. i Qescnoe myseit do-
causa that ls easiest. as ereryooaf eise
looks like roe. In desenmng myself. I de
scribe elL We radiate a sort of phosphor
escent light, visible only at. Bight. Thus,
day and night are all one up here. At day
th a, m iizht us: at night we light . our
selves. -
But, alas! he does not Illuminate the
understanding of his friends on earth,
He is hazy as to details. He has not
gone beyond the reach of the sun
some sun for there still are day and
night on the plane to which - he haB
attained, "but he does not tell us where
It is, although the planchette is ready
to his hand and it is fluent enough
for .-other purposes. ; What the World
expects from 'its departed spirits is
particulars definite and understand
able and It gets only trivialities
Mark Twain in the flesh had an under
lying purpose In all his humor. His
popularity was due to the thought that
underlay his funmaking. He made
game of the shortcomings of his fel-
low-crcaturate, but he did not know
ingly disappoint their cravings for bet
ter things. It Is inconceivable that!
At last China ls to have a chance to
get actively into the war. But It is
nfortunate for the cause Of liberty .... intemmtlon and when both houses
mat me repuuiic iiua iiiauo ixluu ur
no- progress in military preparation.
What an army it could send across the
border into Siberia if only It were
efficiently trained!
have shown indubitable evidence of
their earnest desire to provide any new
legislation needed in carrying on the
war. It was ror this end that uie war
council and the munitions bills were
Introduced.
Although . the United States Is lf ,hese bll, ar. not a(leauate or
charging the allies more for money 8uitabiei wny doe, the President not
suggest the changes he wishes in the
than formerly, Uncle Sam ls not in
any sense a profiteer. It costs more
to borrow money on short-time loans,
and he is simply protecting himself
against loss.
departments and the bureaus, and tha
new offices or agencies he wishes
created? If he or Mr. Baker has any
definite plan of better co-ordination,
why should it not be presented for con-
The Kaiser's son, Oscar, having been sIderatlon Dy the legislative branch of
assigned to ruie over jnniana, win the Government and its action in a con-
take his new Jod as soon as travel
becomes perfectly safe. If there is
anything the young Hohenzollerns do
know how to take care of, it is their
health.
stitutlonal way? .Not one definite pro
posal of this sort has been made to
Congress.
These circumstances prompt the bus
plclon that neither the President nor
Rfinretarv Baker has now anv definite
There Is a new kind of lip service. Dan of Detter co-ordination, and that
It consists of not using them to repeat thelr desire ls to rid themselves
of the necessity of sharing with Con-
scandal circulated by friends of the
Kaiser In this country. "Idle prattle
may lose a battle" is a good motto for
these times.
The Russian revolutionary army has
captured Jamburg, but until it has
demonstrated that it can hold the
place there need be no hurry about
changing the name to Jamgrad.
Overpayment of income taxes ls ac
ceptable to Uncle Sam, not only for
the money It brings into his coffers,
but because it reveals a new set of
patriot, behind the firing line.
W are just getting our stride In
the- production of spruce. Colonel
Dlsque's figures are encouraging. Now
the obvious thing to do ls to 'keep up
the pace until the war ends.
Montenegro, never having valued
peace much In ordinary times, cer
tainly is not going to seek it while
there ls a chance for as much good
fighting as there ls.now.
The first consideration in fabrlcat
lngsa war costume should be comfort
for the worker, for comfort will add
to efficiency, "no matter what may be
said about style.
Maxk Xwaia ia tiM eWt posit vaAx
General Pershing's request for more
cavalry is encouraging. It looks as if
he expected to get into the open coun
try, perhaps behind the present Ger
man lines.
Accounts from Switzerland seem to
agree that the Teuton offensive is
about to begin on all fronts, but as to
where it will end, nothing at U1 is
said. ' -
There ls a man In San Francisco
who wants to be called a Bolshevlkl.
Which shows how true it is that there
is no way of accounting for tastes.
- The really great day for Russia will
be the one when a little red school
house dots tho landscape of .every
township , . ...
gress the power and responribility of
waging war. With such dictatorial
powers they might experiment, and
after much lost motion might frame a
satisfactory co-ordinated agency and
find men to conduct it successfully.
Neither the President nor the Secretary
of War, however, has made such con
spicuous success in proper co-ordination
or in selection of competent co
ordinators as to make It safe for-us to
put Congress on the shelf and vest such
autocratic powers in them.
Senators opposing the war council
bill have urged that It was invalid, in
that it cut down the powers of the
President as commander-in-chief. If so.
what ha. theyto say of the validity
of a law In which Congress delegates
to the executive such a large part of
its legislative powers as this Adminis
tration bill?
It ls good to hear that the President
has asked Republican and Democratio
members of both houses to confer with
him on this general subject. There is
not the slightest reason why out of
such a conference may not come a sat
isfactory compromise. Doubtless the
President needs new agencies to help
him bring all the great war functions
into correlation. But this can be don
and ought to be done without putting
Congress in a state of suspended ani
mation or fighting Kaiserlain with
Kaiserlsm,
I
License to Peddle Smelt. ,
RIDGEFIELD, Wash.. March 7. Tc
the Editor.) (1) Does a man having
license to catch smelt have to hav
license to peddle tbn to the consumer
In the state of Oregon or the city ot
Portland?
(2) Can a man sen out. of his boat ..
at a dock in Portland without a licensor.
B. C.
(1) A license would be required to
peddle in the city ot Portland. It costs
$15 for three months.
(2) He can sell out of hla. boat aft
the ocit without a liccnsa,