THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND, ; AUGUST 22, 1920 7, V K V MADRAS ONLY TOWN IN OREGON THAT BOASTS NAME SELECTED FROM BENGAL BAY, INDIA Rancher Who Wanted Postoffice Christened After Him Peeved Department at Washington and Crook County Seat Got an Easy One; Maps Show Community on Rails, but Visitor Says Roads Are 50e Away. i 1 " - 15 "j PS -H ... 'r -Sis If:- r in I &jCjl7 Ztr-fj' JlrSTJ-; yiirar-if. mv Sbtssrj?y?Zzsj-jf-A-0Zs&' , 1 DOZEN' -rears or m rn I wrote t i .Cr rV-"i A DOZEN' years or so ag6 I wrote an ' article about a little town. then in Crook county but now. by the creation of a new county, in Jefferson, in which I told hoW the town of Madras happened to beget 1 its name. I do not now recall the Dame of the rancher who lived on willow creek and desired to have a postoffice established thereon, but if I remember aright he had a jaw breaking name and applied for an of fice by that name. At Washington the namers of postoffice decided that such a name should not be Used, so they went away off to the bay of Bengali in India and gave the Crook county office the name of a city in a far-away land, Madras. Before the railways were built Up the Deschutes, Madras was a busy little burg, for there was much traf fic through the town by stagecoaches and freight outfits. There was a stretch of road without a watering place between Mud Springs to the north and Trail Crossing of Crooked river to the south, except at Madras, and even there the little creek that oc casionally had water In it, "Willow creek, was mighty undepehdable. But there was always some Way to get some water there, even It one had to go down into the earth frohi 800 to 500 feet. Railways Not Far Away. If you will look upon a map of that section you will find Madras as situated on two railroads, the O.-W. R. & N. and the S., P. & 6., but that part of the road is called the Oregon Trunk. Well, in a way the town is located on those roads, but it Is about four-bits to one and 50 cents to the other, for both run along the hills above the town. I am ndt saying that as a drawback to the town, for the good people of that place can and do overcome far greater disadvan tages than the location of the rail roads. One of these days the Madras sec tion will have irrigation water. In fact, that bright day is not far dls' tant, for the irrigation district has been formed, bonds voted and sur veys made to bring water down from the upper Deschutes, about Benham falls or Crane prairie, 30 or 40 miles south of Bend. There will be a large storage reservoir there, the waters in the flood season impounded, then turned into the Deschutes when needed and taken out near Aubrey falls, where there will be a dam, and brought over the thirsty lands sur rounding Madras. The word sur- started. The Madras State has a cap ital of J25.000 and deposits of l9t. S12.71. Andrew Morrow is the presi dent and R. J. Olsen, cashier. The First National Was just opening up when I was there." W. H. Ratnsey Is the president and F. George Kern the cashier. The State bank has a nice little bank building of its own. The First National has finely equipped quarters on one of the best corners in town. The Flsber hotel fs the name by fiich the new brick hotel is run Fred Fisher and Mrs. Fisher are con ducting it. They are running It in good shape and doing a fine business. The old Hotel Madras, that Used to do such a business when the railroads first reached the town, has recently been worked over and is now a Very nice place to stop. It is under dual management, Harry Epsing serving the meals and Mrs. Joseph Seifert hav ing charge of the rooms. I got very good accommodations there. Lind sang are arranging: to celebrate the day. Jenny Lind was born in Stockholm of humble parents. She sang from childhood and famous teachers be came Interested in her. At It her voice entirely failed. Four years later it carhe back and her remarkable career began. Her first operatic role was Alice in Meyerbeer's "Robert le Di able." Having been acclaimed in her owh country and in Norway, she car ried her conquests to the continent and to England. she was- probably the most talkea- of person in public life in all Europe when Barnum, without having seen her or heard her persuaded her to make a tour of the United States. No sooner was the contract signed than the new impressario, "according to his autobiography, "began to prepare the public mind for the reception of the great songstress." The steamer Atlantic that brought her to this country was saluted at Sandy Hook and again as she plowed up the Narrows. Forty thousand people assembled at the landing and on the surrounding piers to greet her. Triulnphal arches marked her path-: way; Crowds surged around her hotel and clamored for her appearance. Auc tions for the sale of tickets brought thousands of buyers. Genln, a hatter a mad hatter" they called him paid $225 for the first New York ticket. His unheard-of extravagance made him famous. The highest price paid for a single ticket was in Provi dence, where the bit of pasteboard was knocked down to Colonel Ross for $650. 135 Concerts Gtren. The nightingale gave about 1J5 concerts tn this cdunt'ry more than 35 in Mew Jfork City. Everywhere audiences fought to Jtaih entrance to the concert halls. Everywhere they Stormed her with applause and everywhere admirers and charity seekers besieged her. Extra concerts had to be given to satisfy the throngs and Jenny Lind herself added mors extra concerts for charitv. People prominent in public life paid her great honors. Mayors and gov ernors presented their compliments in person. Jenny Lind broke her contract with Barnum- with 65 concerts yet to sing but the great showman and the Nightingale parted friends. While visiting in Boston, she was married to Otto Goldschmidt. composer and pianist, and shortly thereafteV re turned to Europe. In 1858 she tbok pup her residence In England, Where she died in 1887. There is no record of Jenny Liftd's voice. But the journals of her time, the feW living persons who heard her and those to Whom the memory has been handed down all tell the same story "It was wonderful!" AMERICA TO PAY TRIBUTE TO "NIGHTINGALE" JENNY LIND Centennial ot birth of Famous Singer to Be Celebrated by Reproducing First Concert Ever Given in This Country. NEW YORK, Aug. 21 America will pay tribute to Jertny Lind on October 6, the one-hundreth anniversary of the birth of the Swed ish nightingale, whom P. T.'Barftufh brought to this country in 1850 on her spectacular concert tour of nearly two years. The centennial is to be commemorated throughout the music loving world. In Sweden, in Eng land and in other countries where she sang, fitting plans are under way to honor the greatest singer ot her time the fine noble-hearted woman. whose Charity was as rare as her art. Her admirers in New Tork city will celebrated the event in an unique Way, rounding is used advisedly, for there They will give an historical concert reproduce the first' concert Jenny Lind gave in this country, bringing are magnificent areas of rich land all around the town. Wealth la Water. Madras has lying just to the north and northwest a great plateau called Agency plains. I would say there are in excess of 50,000 acres ot this land, lying almost as level as a dancing floor. Most of it has been farmed and in extra good years, when the precipita tion was sufficient and timely, great crops of wheat were taken from It. This land is now worth how much? I should say if it is to remain in its present state, without water, that it is ot worth 820 an acre; with water it ould be worth, as prices run today, tin excess of S150 an acre, an increase of 86.500,000, estimating the area at 80,000 acres. And that is only for the land in that one direction, while there are vast bodies ot equally ' as good land actually surrounding Mad ras. This water Is bound to come to the Madras section. It would be suicidal for the people of the state to sit supinely and blindly by their firesides and see this life-giving water flow by these lands to the sea when four or five million dollars would mean snore than 3.000,000 bushels of wheat a year in the MadTas section. Tom Has Lowest Altitude. Remember, now, Madras is at the lowest altitude of any part of what w call central Oregon. Look at the map. Bend, 3616 feet, Redmond. 2985 feet, Metolius, 2518 feet and Madras 2456 feet 330 feet below La Grande, 1030 feet below Baker! Let me tell you that the garden spot of the futuia central Oregon is in the Madras vicinity. - I was greatly astonished when I visited Madras a few days ago to find that since my last previous visit several fine brick buildings had been erected, among them a mighty nice hotel, a really modern, well equipped hotel. None of these new buildings have more than two stories, but they give the town an appearance of per manency that only brick and mortar can give a place. And I was surprised to see the large stocks of goods car ried by the stores and to see the trade activity. All day the streets were lined with autos and the stores filled with customers. , Paper 16 1'rara Old. The first place I headed for was the office of The Pioneer, that fine old weekly newspaper that mv old friend Howard Turner ran so long ana so successt uiiy. He sold it a few years ago and it is in the able hands of George T. Pearce. It Was started 16 years ago and has always been good paylnE paper and a fine news journal. Turner, now a bloated bond holder, is running an abstract office. x wisn i. naa nis income lax as an Income! Madras is enjoying all of the emolu ments and dignity of a county seat. It was taken away from Culver at the last election it will never be taken from Madras. The County affairs Have been mighty well bandied, no scandal of any sort has been un earthed or even hinted. The authori ties, when the town was named by the voters as the capital, took posses sion of the fine brick high school building as a court house and it makes an admirable structure for the pur pose. New Bank Started. The Madras State bank has long enjoyed all of the bank privileges and back the stage picture and atmos phere of that memorable night of September 11, 1860. The same pro gramme will be given. The proceeds of the concert will be given to the sarhe charitable Institutions to which Jenny Lind gave the proceeds of the original concert. Frieda Hempel will appear In the role of her famous predecessor. She will wear an exact copy of the gown wofn by the nineteenth century diva; will sing the same arias, and play her own accompaniments to the same group of songs on the same piano Jenny Lind played therrt a piano autographed by the Swedish, nightin gale on the night of her debut. The centennial concert will be giv en in Carnegie Hall on the evening of October 6, Castle Garden, the scene of Jenny Lind's first American tri umph) has been transformed into the Aquarium and thus is deprived of the honor of housing another -memorable audience. It is contemplated to hold a cen tennial exhibit, however, in the old circular building in Battery Park from October 1 to October 10. Many of Jen ny Lind's personal belongings and intresting relics associated with her tour here will be shown. The old concert grand piano will have its place of honor. On the afternoon of October 6, the park commissioners of New York City will present to the Aquarium a marble bust of Jenny Lind and a portrait of the famous singer, both made for her when she was in this country. Other American cities where Jenny FAIR IS .TO BE BOOSTED Hood River Valley to fee Toured by Corhmi'ttee. HOOD RIVER, dr., Aug. 21. (Sps clal.) To stimulate Interest in the approaching second annual county fair, to be held at Gibson field, the Hood River high School athletic ground, on September 16, IT and 18, members of the fair association Will go oil a rhotor tour of the Valley Fri day. Leaving the Hood River Commercial club at 9:30 o'clock Friday morning. the junketers Will visit, in succession. the east side places of K. F. Batten, Al W. Peters, C. T. Roberts and Billy Sunday. At Parkdale they Will stop at the stock ranches of Dr. E. L. Sco- bee, R. J. Mclsaao and Steinhauser brothers. A picnic lunch will be served at Lava Bed park. In the afternoon the party will visit the pear tract of Le Roy Child and Al G. Graff on Dee flat, and inspect the Jersey herd" of R. A- Collins. En route to the city over the west Bide, the championship butterfat herd of Jerseys owned by Dr. 1. F. Watt and O. L. Acree and cows owned by J. A. Hilles and Roy Hays will be in spected. On the Hilles place the junketers will? observe experiments with sun flowers as ensilage. Columbia Orchards to Be Sold. GOLDEN, B. C. Application has been mads to have the holdings of the Columbia Valley Orchards company placed with the Rattenbury Lands company for exclusive sale. The lat ter concern contemplates a big colo nization campaign and expects to dis pose, of much of the 15,000 acres of the Columbia Valley cothpany, located about 55 miles south of this town. A large section already has been sub divided and placed under cultivation. Twelve SOnirs by Francis Hopkinson. edit ed by Harold Vincent Milllgan. The Ar thur r Schmidt Co., New York city. Mr. Mllligan is remembered in this city as the organist and choirmaster ot Calvary Fresoyteria.n church, prior to the ptriod several years ago when he moved to New York city, where he has since become a noted member of that musical community.. , The Oregonian recently reviewed Mr. Milligan's first large book, "Stephen Foster: A Biography." Twelve songs, composed by one of the earliest, if not the earliest. Amer ican composers. ' Francis Hopkinson. and edited by Mr. Milligan, have just been received for review. The 1920 reader, and music student, well may say: Who was Francis Hop kinson? He was born in Philadelphia in 1737, was a politician, an ardent believer in the republican form of government, a composer of charming lyrical songs, a painter, humorist and political pamphleteer. He was one of those rarities, a poet who composed satisfactory music for his songs. Admitted to the American bar in 1761, he passed a year afterward in England, as the guest of his cousin, then the bishop of Worcester. .Re turning - to Philadelphia, he busied himself In the legal profession and as an active member of learned so cieties. Becoming a resident of New Jersey. Mr. HOpklnson was made' a delegate to th continental congress in 1776, signed the Declaration of Independ ence, Was judge of admiralty in Penn sylvania, 1779-80, suffered Impeach ment, Which failed, and afterward be came district judge. He died in 1791. Mr. Milllgan deserves credit for his earnest and painstaking researches into American music history, affect ing the lives of our early American composers. Many a half -forgotten American song has been brought to light by this Portland boy. Realizing that club workers and students of -musical history had ex hausted ordinary fountains of infor mation, the reference book and the encyclopedia, Mr. Milligan sought fresh avenues of research wnicn lea through collections Of rare manu scripts, family archives and long burled correspondence, to authentic records of the lives, artistic and per sonal, lived by the men who wrote America's earliest music. naturally such earnest, tactful research was rewarded by access to old desks, trunks and prized heirlooms rarely before ooened to alien eyes, belong ing to tWentleth-century aescenaants of pioneer composers. 10 jut. aimi- gan was intrusted the reproauction of precious daguerreotypes and' the cortipllatlon . of family letters pale with age. In his preface to "Six songs oy Francis Hopkinson." Mr. Milligan re marks: "In December, 1788, Francis Hopkinson of Philadelphia sent to his friend, George Washington, at Mount Vernon, a volume containing eignt original musical compositions. In the ouairit and courtly letter of dedl cation he said: 'However small the reputation may be that I shall oertve frorh this work, 1 cannot, i Deneve, be refused the credit of being the first native of the United States who has produced a musical composition. Mr. Hopkinson was the intimate friend of George Washington. Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. Yet, he found time not only to compose music, but also to organize concerts in his native city, Philadelphia, where he was one of the leading patrons of the arts. These songs have lain tor gotten and unsung for more than A century. None of them were written out irt complete form by the com poser and they have never before been put into modern harmony and notation." In "Ktx Songs by Francis Hopkin son" the reader meets with tlvese "Mv Days Have Been So Wondrous Free," "Beneath a Weeping Willow's Shape," "My Generous Heart Disdains, "O'er the Hills." "Come. Fair Rosina, ''The Traveler Benighted." These songs have been edited and augment ed Dy. MT. iVlUilJKttll, onu wt uu i iiuo of the melodies have been altered at several points, as some of the" phrases were unvbcal. . The songs, so far as the music Is concerned, have been re arranged, with due regard for the slmblicltv bf Style of the originals; In "Six Colonial Love Lyrics, by Francis Hopkinson," the titles are "Enraptured I Gaze," "My LOve IS ....................... T M rf Sir Robert fiefc-Porell, Sttlhot of "Scoutmaster hi p." i Gone to Sea," "The Garland," "See Down Maria's Blushing Cheeks "With Pleasures-Have I Passed- My Days," "Give Me Thy Heart." Fine sentiment describes the prin cipal qualities of the verses; and charming melodious beauty lives in the music. The vocal compass lies within the reach of ordinary voices, and presents ifb great difficulty to the average singer. These songs have been successful In the short time thev have been out It is stated that they have been sung by many of the best singers, including Lambert Murphy, Caroline . Hudson- Alexander, Olive Nevin. -Oscar Seagle Frederic Gunster, Alice Moncrieff, George Basely and 'Others. - 8coafmattorshlp. by BIr Robert Baden- Foweu. u. J". Putnam s sons. rew lorn city. We, the boy scouts of Britain, read with great eagerness and much en lightenment, all the literature that we can get hold bf which Is published In America oh the practice and methods of scouting for boys. Con ditions may differ, temperaments are not all alike, national characteristics may very, but for all that. I find In my experience that go where you will the boy is the same animal, bless him, there and here- and everywhere. Such Is part of the cheerful fore word of this message of helpfulness and international goodwill, a book of 1S4 pages and written by the best known and liked "boy scout" in the world. The book Is primarily Intended for scout masters, those In charge of boys, but much of the kindly advice the advice that comes from years of experience in the work is bound also to interest all boys, small and big. What Is contained lrt the book. Is not only written by our author, but extracts are given how ahd then from the practical experience of other scout masters ahd friends of healthy boys. One thoughtful sentence describes conditions in England: "In spite of 8,000,000 sterling subscribed annually to the Chntch of England, we teannot say that we are ahead of other forms or .belief. Including the Mohammed ans, In having a religion which really holds the masses of the population." (p. 22.) The central argument in the book Is that the trained boy scout receives powerful aid. In developing . Into i healthy, moral, helpful man ahd Citi zeu. Now Dr. Carlat is accepted by com petent authorities as a distinguished newrologist, as well as a student and an original contributor to the new science of psychoanalysis in obtaining a knowledge of the unconscious. Dr. Coriat, who gives Boston, Mass., as his home, shows In this book of 92 pages . a wonderful analysis oS Lady Macbeth's character. Dr. Coriat shows sympathy, eloquence In argument and decided power jn interesting the lay reader. It Is stated that "the hysteria of Lady Macbeth was produced by a repression of opposing wishes into the unconscious, there setting up a mental conflict. The somnambulism, as a symptom of the hvsteria. was an effort . to neutralize the unbearable reality of her conflicting experiences, into what is tffrhnically termed a flight Into disease. The somnambu lism Was A form of mental dissocia tion Which always results from men tal conflicts." Dr. Coriat argues from the testi mony of the physician in the tragedy bf "Macbeth" that Lady Macbeth before the periods of the murders had several times been subject to attacks of hysteria. Lady Macbeth, it Is thought, nat urally was a coward. The action of the play shows where she took alco hol to give her courage to do evil deeds and to have evil thoughts. "The repression of-the secret of the murder, the Imaginary wish to be the mother of a line of kings, here coin cides In consciousness with terror and excitement. The repressed emotions have thus been injured and out of this Injured repression the hysteria arose. The two complexes were al ready at work in the consciousness of Lady Macbeth, and it Is these com plexes or rather the repression of these , complexes which led to the mental dissociation. The ambition complex Is based upon day dreams of ambition, not so much for herself as for her husband. It is a substitute for her childlessness, or rather for the children she has lost, and it may be "termed a sublimated sexual com plex." Lady Macbeth's sleep-walking scene. in analysis, shows "it is neither gen uine sleep nor the prickings of guilty conscience, but a clear case of pathological somnambulism, a genu ine disintegration of the personality fcomnamoullsm may be defined as a mental state in which the subject pos sesses particular memories and does particular acts, but of which there is no more memfirv nrt rtnrn tn t i a I normal state of consciousness. Macbeth is thought to be an epilep tic. The Witches' prophecies bring to Macbeth embryo wishes and half formed thoughts." He suffers from "a mental contagion which he trans fers to his wife and which develops in her into a typical case'of hysteria, does not. This story of his describes Europe, especially what is now south-, western France, during the Mouston lan period of &0.000-25.UOO B. C. an; age in which animals and some hu-' mans spoke a common language. ' The hero of the novel is Pic. s-weapon-maker, the chum and asso ciate of the good-natured hairy mam moth and the wooly rhinoceros. All three travel together, and have ex citing adventures of nearly breath less Interest. Pic had a flint-blade weapon that made him a conqueror. His love story la unique. Chanteys and Ballads, by Harry Kemp. Brenton's, New York City. Mr. Kemp in his younger days was a sailor and when he became a lands man he learned he possessed the ability and will to write poetry. So we have these 100 odd poems in this book of 173 pages. Many of these verses are of the sea and tell of the old days of sails and wooden decks. Other poems are of strange texts, and still others reflect scenes from tfce Bible. Mr. Kemp tells in his preface that once he was in jail for an offense which he did not commit and, as the only book he had with him was a Bible, he read it. liked it, especially the stories of the disciples of Christ. The Kemp poetry has a hearty, manly ring and has a merit and class all its own, : Open the Door, by Catherine CarswelL Harcourt, Braes & Howe, New lort City. This is a strong story that womea especially will admire. I; is daring unconventional and settled along English lines. The worth of the story has so much weight that "Open ths Door" won the Melrose 81000 first novel prize in London. The heroine, Joanna, is emotional. almost reckless. Her love story is a tempestuous one. Joanna is the) daughter of a Glasgow family, poop of purse, but steeped in an atmos phere of severe, evangelical piety. Joanna glories in being a rebel. - The story shifts from Glasgow to Italy, to London, and then back to Scotland The Hysteria of Lady Macbeth, by Indor H. Coriat, M. D. The Four Seas Co., Boston. A learned Shakespearean critic once wrote:' "What caused Lady Macbeth, to act as she did? Her past life and particularly her ambition. That is as much as to say: Wrong doing leaves its scar on the mental Status of the person guilty bf such wrong-doing.. Such may be a lay man's .explanation, and within' the comprehension of the ordinary reader. What' the World Coming To? hy Rupert Hushes. Harper & Brothers. New York city. Mr. Hughes has a large audience In America, waiting for whatever he writes In the story line. He creates lively, up-to-date fiction, and here's another of the same in the present novel. It is an engrossing, smart love story in which the two "lovers. Miss April Summerlin and Robert Taxter- He latter a veteran soldier of the war in France have more inherited money than they ought to have. The armistice of November, 1918 Is described on page 15, and the ac tion after that, especially . in New York, is ushered along on skids. American World Pollrlew. bv Davjd Javne Hill. George H. Uoran Co.. New York City. With force and lucidity of expres sion our author writes a message of 257 pages, in which he discusses worli policies affecting this country pre sentatlons that are certainly worth reading. He argues that the" ratifi cation of the Versailles treaty with reservations is clearly the norma course or procenure; and that the so called league of nations" is an uncer tain experiment. Pig. the Weapoti-Makrf.' by George Tane- lord. Horn te Livenght. New l ork city, Quite an original, fascinating story and told with clever ingenuity. Some writers describe humans and animals of the cave-man age as being on the same level, . ut Mr. Langford Hidden Traill.. by William Pattaraea White. outleday, Paso & Co., Garden City, New York. There is a hearty ring in this story that gets a man. It is a cowboy novel of the breezy "west, with cowpunchers as the spotlight characters, and an old-time atmosphere of saloons and gunplay. The principal character Is' Johnny Ramsay.' cowboy, "a tall, lean young man with cool, sardonic gray eyes and a sunburnt face." He is interested in Miss Dorothy Burr, & pretty girl with lots of admirers, and the love tale is a lively, tantalizing one. The Golden Rlrd, by torothy Easton. Al fred A. Knopf, New x orK city. It seems that Dorothy Easton, a young writer, was discovered by John Galsworthy, the celebrated Ensjlish novelist, who in an enthusiastic in troduction speaks kind words of ap preciation for our author's message. The book consists of 33 sketches of quiet life nd home scenes in Eng land and France, but especially in th- southern countryside of England. These sketches are unusually good. and certainly possess the charm, to Interest the reader. Modern French Comnonitioa for Secondary hchooU aJid College, by Philippe de la Kochelle. G. f. Putnam's Sons, New York city. Written in easily understood style and extending to 181 pages, including index, this book covers the first year's work in the French language. The book may be used In connection with "A Modern French Grammar," by the same author, or independently of the grammar, as. desired. The author is head of the romance department, Co lumbia university, N. Y. He has dona good, educative, helpful work in tha preparation of this volume. The Ivory Disk, by Percy Brebner. Duf field & Co.. New York city. Dr. Bruce Oliver, surgeon and phy sician, is the author of this engross ing and able English novel romance in which there is not only a wonder ful love story, but an account of strange influence created by eastern mysticism. A remarkable "literary presentation. riajs. by Susan Glaspell. Small, Maynard &. Co., New York City. Eight modern plays and comedies worth acquaintance: "Trifles," "The People," "Close the Book," "The Out side." 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