The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, December 27, 1908, Image 50

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Newspaper Page Text' "1 THE . OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND; - SUNDAY MORNING, - DECEMBER 27, 1908. - X AUSTRIA A m INCUR DISLIKE IMandV Aversion Will Bc Switched From Germany If Ferdinand's Expansion - Folicy Is Successful Lu- . - By Changs p. Ptfwart, : (Stfft Corresptniflenl. United Press.) tendon. Dec 26vMGffrmany ' may not enjoy the distinction being England' pvt aversion much longOklt all de pends on the Archduke YiatA Ferdi nand's success in carrying oi bVjian for a greater Austria. If by any Xai billty Austria were to develop Into more formidable nation than Germany it would immediately" be England'scue to hate and handicap the former Just as It has hated and handicapped Ger many for the past f ew years. Maybe the islanders would even. And It to' their Interest to grow friendly with ,the now bitterly execrated Kaiser Wllhelm. And herein lies the explanation of all Eng land's European likes nd dislikes. The Knglish enjoy imagining them selves defiant of the bold, bad and pow reful; helpful and generous to the down trodden and virtuous. Their j motives, however, are Jiot as high or pure or holy as they pretend and 'perhaps really believe. They are simply pursu ing a well defined and tolerably success ful line of diplomacy. Their statesmen floured It out long ago that the best thing for England to do was to be ever lastingly pounding the biggest or the continental powers, while helping the little ones to annoy and injure the great. Their : theory was nd is that this would prevent any other nation from growing strong enough to make them trouble. Simulating friendship for some .weak and struggling country, it has been their custom to boost their protege until It began to look threatening, ndthen to knock It down again. European TtaaSlf Squabbles. When France -was the predominant European power England , fought the French unceasingly. Presently Spain commenced to grow aOarmingly. Eng land promptly stopped fighting France and took on Spain Inntead. The Span ish strength waned and, the English re sumed their campaigns against France. This was quite a while fisro. Russia was a more recent peril. England planned and intrigued and fought -against the czar until Japan shattered his power. It was Germany's turn next As the kaiser built up his army and navy, ex tended his commerae and began reach ing out after colonies, England s Jeal ously and dislike of him increased. No Englishman doubts that the two coun tries will have to light it out sooner or later unless Austria should crowd Ger many off the censor of the stage and get into the- limelight Itself. . . - The Archduke Francis Ferdinand, who will be rler of Austrian-Hungary when his aged and rapidly falling uncle. Francis Joseph, dies, hardly takes the trouble to conceal his determination to make his country overshadow Wllhelm s. If he manages it the entire situation will change In a minute. It will be England against Austria, v.. ., . Wllhelm Is not a bit friendly, to Francis Ferdinand's plan, either. He has always been ambitious to add Austria to his own dominions and for the arch duke to relegate him to comparative obscurity would certainly make him the latter"s moral enemy. - This would exact ly suit England a row ready made for the new power and the shift in the balance might reasonably be expected ito find Germany with no stronger backer 'than its present bltteaest rwal. t The St Petersburg. censor was taking a day off, apparently, when Minister Hart wig, Russia's diplomatic represen tative at Teheran, got back to the oxar's capital on leave of absence recently. The .minister was in a talkative mood. A 'reporter dropped In on him at one of lils most communicative moments. Be tween what the minister said, the re ported wrote, and the censor allowed It to get out of the country. A commo tion has been stirred up in England that promises to precipitate the long threat ened Anglo-Russia clash over the Pers ian situation In very short order. The situation is like this: England and Russia are both interested in 'Persia. Both would like to galn'control ofer it Internal disorders have made It possible recently for either one of them to interfere In the shah's affairs any time, under pretense of keeping the peace and then to hang onto the country long after peace had been established. Finally they agreed to maintain order jointly,- so that each would watch the other. Both promised to take no unfair advantages. England professes to have kept its part or me cargain. missis has been accused of ' encouraging the shah to do indiscreet things calculated to start a rebellion, which would give the cxar an opportunity for a "grab" Russia being nearer to the scene of action than England and consequently better able to rush troops there in a hurry. Oxar's Purpose Questioned. It was accused of this by everyone but the members of the English cabinet They insisted that Bt Petersburg was playing fair. The man most; suspected of misadvising' the shah was Colonel LlakhofT. a Russian officer who com mands the Persian cossacks and prao tically runs the entire army. The sus picious people said Lalkhoft was at Te heran as the czar's emissary. T-he czar said he was there In his Individual capacity. The Encrllsh cabinet accepted this assurance. The suspicious people gugarested that the cxar recall tJakhoflf to Russia as an evidence of good faith. The cxar ignored the suggestion. So did the English capibet. - - ' Now Minister Hartwla announces, through the reporter who visited him in St Petersburg, that the colonel Is a Rus sian military agent, that he takes orders from the commander of the cxar s cos sacks and that everything he says and Arm in Persia be is told to say and do by the Russian army authorities. . Minister Hartwlg didn't like - th arrangemnt It interfered with his own diplomatic negotiations, and It was in the form of a complaint that he told It to tho reporter. The English cab inet ministers haven't expressed them selves yet concerning the Hartwig In terview but the newspapers are wild over it and numerous , members of parliament are full of auestlons they expect to sslc 'Foreign Minister Grey concerning the Persian situation. They probably won't get to it before New Year's .feress. but when they do start the foreign minister appears likely to have hard -work convincing them that Russia hasn't -completely fooled him. English officialdom Is worried to de-' cide whatto do: 'With General Lord Kitchener when his tHm as commander of the British mllitaryMorees In India expires next year. - his jorasnip s own Idea evidently was that Jie was slated for a big Job- In the war-f flee. This seemed so natural a place to. put him that it was all but announced on gov ernment authority .some time a garths t he would get what he wanted. The war office heard, only Just in.' timtk what was threatened. Such a gallop ing of functionaries to others htgner up, of prayerful and almost tearful in terviews with cabinet ministers, such a multitude of conferences, such a pull- Ins- of strings ana russing with wires: "In the name of humanity, of mercy. of precedent," wailed all the war of fices - In chorus, - aon t sena mat mon ster here.", . . The outcrv was natural enough. The war office has been known for genera tions ss the great asylum for high born incompetents and idlers from all over England. Whenever his impecun losity has rendered it necessary to provide for some utterly worthless in dividual whose family connectlops made it undestrawe 10 leave mm 10 starve. e vacancy has always peen round in the war office. Kltcnener is not. only the mnst strenuousofflcer In the Eng lish army but about the most strenuous m i.;ngnsn military nisiory. rie s i. terlv reaardless of hereditary position woman hater Impervious to petticoat influence. . -.; Too Strenuous for Job. He's abusive, too. The things he is credited with having said at various times to offending - subordinates wouldn't do t all for publication. Now, what wouldn't that kind of man be liable to do in an Important post in a place , like the British war office? It looks as If the office's terrified in mates were going to keen him out how ever. Otherwise why the semi-official announcement that he Is to be made a field marshal and put to work on a plan for concentrating all the empire's land forces home and colonial on a single spot In, the event of a war great enough to need them bunched together In cne.blg army? The Administration doesn't pretend it thinks the plan .will ever be carried out- It's necessary to keep the troops scattered to look after the varlons col onies. It Is on the navy that the country depends to bring It safely out of any great conflict. It Is a plan that it is hoped will Interest Kitchener, however, and It will certainly keep htm out of mischief in the war office. Physicians In St Petersburg are sending out the worst kind of scare stories concerning the certainty of a fresh cholera outbreak In the sorlnr. They predict an epidemic of far greater violence than last season's and declare that, considering now far east it trav eled this year, it can hardly fail to Brread ail over Europe. What they particularly comblain of Is that the sanitary precautions taken during the summer have now been en tirely abandoned. The city re ceived a superficial overhauling. while me weatner was sun warm dui is as bod as ever again. Premier' Stolypln's sceheme for a sewerage system a thing the city hasn't a sign of now was dropped the minute the number of cases of the disease , began to dimin ish. . ; A single glassful of St. Petersburg ' LIST OF IIOTED DEAD OF 1 90S Loss of 'Men Who Could s 111 Be Spared Haa.Been Un- i commonly Great. " ' (Special Dlipatca to Ta Joarnal.i 'Washington, Dec, J-Mortallty has been unusually great among the dis tinguished men and - women 4 of ':. the world during the year Just drawing to a close.. Death loves a shining mark. It is said, and during the closing twelvemontjh he has, indeed, reaped a deplorably bountiful harvest among the great workers In all branches of human activity throughout the world. He has reelected neither rank nor station, neither nationality nor sex, neither pro fession nor merit. ,',."'' nfIu iur, rnuntrv has had to pay a heavy trlbnte to the stern reaper and In many cases the great men taken off could ill be spared, as they were In the midst of important work when the call cam and they were compelled to leave the crowning work of their life unfin ished. Many of them had reached the high tide of their usefulness and the world had a right to'expect even greater Ihlnira tmm thjtm than thOSS thCV had already contributed to the progress and betterment of the human race. The ranks or royaiiy ana -. nooimy Mr. DiinnMl hv the - death of several crowned rulers of nations. The most im portant loss was that causea Dy ins re cent death of Tsi-An. the dowager em-1 press of China, undoubtedly the great est woman oi ner time. the death, about the same time, of Tsai- Tlen, the nominal emperor of China, was an eveni-oi out itiu bssu""-"-Less important, though more shocking, was the death by assassination of Car los I, king of Portugal, and of Crown Prince LaiTs of Portugal, Among other members of royalty or nobility who died during the year may be mentioned Prince Ernest or Baxe-Aiienourg, rnro, Gustavo Ernst of Schoenberg, Duke Karl of Mecklenburg, Duchess Elisa beth of Brunswick, Prince Poniatowskt, Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke of Harcourt; the Earl of Derby, the Earl of Rosse, the Marquess of Linlithgow, Prince Y smash! ma of Japan, Prince Stephen of CMontenegro, Princa David of Ha waii, .the Duo de Chaulnes, Count Leo pold of Uppe, Viscount Chelsea and Lady IehUy .,.. Statesmen and Diplomats. The list of statesmen and diplomats whose thread xf " life -wa severed dur ing the year Just ending. Included not less than five former presidents of American republics, chief among them Grover Cleveland, f orme-presldent of the United States. The other ex-presl-dents were Estrada Palma of SCuba, J. M. Marroquln of Colombia, Ignae Vein tlmila of Ecuador and Marco A8otO of Honduras. F. Guachalta, president- loot nf Rnllvia. died before he had taken his seat In the capitol of his country. This country deplores tne death or tour unuea mates senators, W R Allison. Red field Proctor. W. P. Whyte and E. W. Carmack; Belgium the death of Senator de Merode. England suffered serious loss by the death of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Drummond Wolff, Sir Howard Vincent and Sir Nicholas O'Connor. Belgium was deprived of the valuable services of its premier, M. de Troos. To this list may be added Marquis Armijo, ex premier of Spain; Marquis dl Rudlnl, ex- premler or ltaiy; Baron von oiernoers, Igrtax von Plener, the Austrian states man; Count I gnat left and M. D. Poko tileff. distinguished Russian leaders; Count Tornielll and Count Prlnettl, dis- ttnsriilrihed Italian statesmen: E. H. iStrobel. adviser to Slam: D. W.- Stev ens, adviser to Korea; Kamel pasha, the Egyptian patriot and political lead er: Mariano Quinones of Porto Rico; Sayid Muhammed, the Persian states man, and the two English leaders, Sir Henry Pules ton and Lionel Sackville Wtst. ? Governor John Sparks of Nevada was the only state executive in this country who died during the year, but the list for former governors was decimated by the death of Miller of North Dakota, Murphy of Arlsona, Budd of California and Sawyer of New Hampshire. The Loss rrom the Churches. The church, in this country as well as In other countries, has sustained equally great losses by the death of dis tinguished dignitaries. The Protestant Episcopal church in the United States lost four great men, 'Bishops H C. Pot ter. H. Y. Satterlee, Edward Knight and Ellison Capers; the - Protestant Epis copal. Bishop Edward Wilson; the Methodist church. Bishop H. C. .Fowler; the Moravian church. J. - M. Levering, water, It is declared. Invariably makes a- new arrival there ill. The health authorities have posted notices warning people to boll - it Nothing else has been done. 'The disease hasn't disap peared, either, cold as it is. There are 25 or 80 fresh cases every day. 11 Be Your New Year Wi - DouMy Satisfactory IF YOUR TEETH ARE IN PER FECT CONDITION If you need any dental work, come in at once and we will give you prompt service no waiting, no delays: You can have a bridge placed in position within 24 hours, if you so desire, and all other work will be turned out with equal promptness." ' v At this' season, when so much money. is spent, some of it foolishly, wouldn't it be well to give yourself a pres ent of necessary dental work, or some relative who can't afford it? y 4 We use modern methods, gentleness and skill in all of our work, and the growth of bur business is the best indorsement of our success. v ' and the ' Roman Catholic church, Bishops Curtis, Horstmann and Tler- n.'y. Tne list aiso memoes otner dis tinguished ministers and dignitaries. among them Dr. Charles Cuthbert Hall end ur. Morgan - uix in tne , united Btates and a number of French, Italian and Spanish cardinals, archbishops and Dianops. .' s Qone rrom Army and Kavy. The armies and navies of the world contributed a considerable share to the list of tha dlstlngulsjied deaths of the year. "Three lieutenant generals were fathered to their -fathers in the United tates, A. P.. Stewart of the United States army and Eppa Hanton and Stephen Lee of the Confederate army. Following in army rank came Generals J os la h Pickett, . Henry Jackson, John Greene, Whlttler, Haskell and Mulford. Among the distinguished men of the American navy, who have gone to their last port are i Rear Admirals .; Balch, Crownlnshleld, Cogswell, Flthlan. Glass, Kane, McEIwell, Miller, RockUill, Thomas, Russell and Coghlan. England deplores the loss of General Sir Red vers Buller and Major General C. E. Luard; 'Japan the death of Gen erals Nodsu and Okasawa; Russia the demise of General Linevltch; France has lost General Jules Lewal and Vive Admiral de Premesnll;' Hungary, Gen eral Stephen Turr; Gerniany, General Count Haeseler; 'Turkey Its war minis ter, Rajab Pnsha, and General Osman' Pasha, and Uruguay. General Gulllerme Garcia. . . Sdacators and Boientlsts. v In the ranks of distinguished educa tors death also caused a serious breach, which it will be difficult to fill. The list of the deaths durina- the vear in. eludes Henry Hopkins, former presl-J aeni oi imams couege, Daniel c. Gil man, Professors E. G. Bourne of Yale, W. A. Wyckoff of Princeton, W. L. Montague of Amherst,. Henry Loom Is Nelson of Williams, Gaston Bolssier of Paris. Otto Pflelderer. Univemltv . nt Berlin; Fredertch Paulsen of the same university, roressor Fennelosa, . Pro fessor Frank Parsons,' Professor Wol- cott Glbbs" of Harvard and Charles El iot Norton. . ' - Among the shining lights In the world Of science who paid . their tribute: to nature during the- year just ' Hosing were. Henri Becquerel, " the discoverer of ttie ''Becquerel Rays"; Johannes von Esmarch, one of the greatest natomtsts and surgeons of his time; Professor C. A. Young, the astronomer; Sir John El iot the meteorologist r Alfred Marsh, the geologist; Dr. Brooks' and Profes sor Kellerman, soologists; Myllus Erich sen and Professor Leslie Lee, explorers; Hartwig Rerenburg and Professor F. L. Roehrig, orientalists; Anlceto iMenocal, Oliver w. Barnes and Samuel D. Burr, engineers, and Lieutenant T. E. Self ridge and Lieutenant Fonseca, avtatora Xltrary Ken and Artists. Literature did not escape the fate of science and the ranks of Its great men, poets, novelists, critics and translators has been ruthlessly - invaded by death. J he United States was robbed of its oel Chandler Harris, widely known un der the nom de plume "Uncle Remus" and J. R. Randall, the author of "Mary land, My Maryland." England deplores the loss of, Allen Raine, the novelist: France lost, its Ludovic Halevy, novel ist and librettist. Mme. De la Ramee, the novelist, Emll Gebhart, the historian and his rival Achllle ! Luchalre; Ger many Its Carl Ewaid, TheodOr Dain chen. ' The list also Includes Francois Coppee, Edmund C tedman,: H. H. H. Drachman. Jonas-Lie, Emll Carolath, Louise . Chandler Moulton and Susah Swett, all more or less distinguished Poets; John C. Collins, the critic; Li brarian A Ins worth R. Spofford and the translators, Katherine Wormlay, Annie Lee Wlster, John Durand and M. Bike las. Quite recently , "Ik" Marvel was added to tha list. . - Among the artists were several meri torious painters. Including Walter 6a terlee, George Chlckerlng, Munxlg. Marcel. Jambon, Pierre Maignan, An tolne . A, E. ' Herbert, Giovanni Fattorl, ,, Imogen Jtoblnson Morel Adolphe ' Stelnhell Baptist ' Man gold. William Callow and Frederick Warren Freer and three prominent sculptors. Harm Maamusson. Julius Mat chers and Harriet Hosmer. To this list may be added Ludovlco' Peltx, director of the Vatican museum, Peter Janssen, director of the Duesseldorf gallery, the architects Leopold Eidlitx end Ferdinand Meldhal and William Busch. the humor ist' and cartoonist"- - - ..-..A:;-".': Kusio 'ana the Stage. ' Muslo has suffered great loss by. the death during the year of several dis tinguished composers, among them Ed ward MacDowell, Klmsky-Morsakof f. Professor Fairlamb, Jaime Nuno, Deca tur Smith and William Mason. ; Three famous violinists, Pablo de Sarasate. August Wilhelmj and Marie Fischer, the prima donnas Clara Novella and Pauline Lucca and Augusts Vlanesi, the conduc tor, also went to the great beyond. The drama and the stage have been made poorer by the loss of three famous playwrights, Victorian Sardou, Bronson Howard and Alfred L'Arronge; while the list of players uponwhose life the final curtain has ' fallen, are Lydia Thompson, James H. Walllck, Boyd Pul man, Lily Hanbury, 'Tony' Pastor, Peter E. Dalley, "Gus" Rogers, Joseph Whee lock, Hugh Toland, Frank C. Bangs and Mrs, G. C. Howard, the original "Topsy." : JonmaUsta Who Have Qons... . "The realm of the press was also in vaded by -the merciless reaper, who gathered in, among others Sir James Knowles, founder of tha ' Nineteenth Century, Robert P. Nevln, - founder of the Pittsburg Times, Julian Banks, own er of the St. Petersburg Rech, Charles Emory Smith of the Philadelphia Press, Murat ' Halstead, long connected with the Cincinnati Commercial-Gaxette, Cros by 8.. Noyes of the Washington Star, Samuel E. Moffett of Colliers Weekly,, the , correspondents William L. Alden, Dr. ' Max Falk. James Jeffrey Rochi and Joseph Howard Jr.. and a large list of editors and writers. ; , The list of distinguished dead of the year would not be complete without mentioning some of the prominent phil anthropists and reformers, like-Ira D. Sankey, Edward Wetherlll. Sir William Cremer. founder of the Interparliamen tary union, the Rev. Benjamin Waugn, founder of the English National 8. P. C. C. Sir Joseph Duveen and James Wallace Pinchot V 1 The business world too has had se vere losses through the. death of men like Morris K. Jessup, William K. Vilas. George P. Morosinl. Oliver H. P. Belmont. George H.- Daniels, William Sells, John Baker Roach, John B. Jack son. Lord Harries of York, Sir George Lvesey, Baron- Iwasakl of Toklo, Ben ches Busullo of Madrid, Wllhelm Las sen of Sopenhagen, M. Von Schwane bach, . St. Petersburg, Rene Pan hard, Paris, and many others. ' - Canada'a Beata Boll. - The list of distinguished men in Can ada! who died during the year. Just endlnr is unusually Ions and contains the names of men, whom the country J must be mentioned Sir Adolphe Caren, former minister of militia and defense and postmaster general for the Do minion of Canada: Sir William White way, former premier of Newfoundland; Thomas Greenway, former premier of Manitoba; George - A. Walkem, former premier of British Columbia; and Hon orable Artnur Peters, premier of Prince Edward Island; Dr. Albert E. Douglas, speaker of the legislature of Prince Edward Island; Captain Charles Dawes, oppoaltion leader in Newfoundland; Sir Napoleon Cassault, former chief justice of the superior court of Quebec; Jus tice Drake, the distinguished Jurist and parlamentarlan; the Vevy Rev. James Carmlchael, -Lord Bishop of Montreal; thrae- prominent College professors, Rev. Father E. Paradls, N. R. Carmlchacl and John Bradford Chesseman; Canada's most distinguished poet Dr. Louis Honore Frechette; Brigadier General Beaufort Henry Vldal, inspector gen eral of the Canadian militia; John R. McCowan,- Inspector general of New foundland and Sir Robert Gillespie Relr, a prominent capitalist v and railroad bunder. ; n A Peculiar Couple. Conversation had turned to the sub, jeot of two men, utterly dissimilar, who nevertheless . roomed together. On of these men was generally conceded to be a "freak." His name was John. v "John and Jim are certainly a queer pair," opined somebody. "John and anybody are a queer pair," : Poor John! I I? DR. B. B. WBIOHT GOOD SET OF TEETH C C A A ON RUBBER PLATE. - JDu.UU BEST SET OF TEETH Q A A ON RUBBER PLATE. . .J)0UII PAINLESS LNTIST DR. B. E. WRIGHT 3425 Washington Street, Corner Seventh1 " OFFICE HOURSS a. m. to 5 p. m. SUNDAYS -9" a. m. to 12 rri. Phone Main 2119. Fourteen Years in Portland. ; WE AVE XTY BAYS 0 GET RID of $121,000; WORTH R ED 'SUITS "TAI LO This is the "most remarkable sale of Tailor-Made Clothing ever known in the city of Portland. Every suit made exactlytow your measure. ; We must not have a dollar's worth bfnaterial on hand in 60 days. You never heard teU of trvalues we are offering. Cost, pattern, style, desjgivweight or texture will have nothing to do with the matter Prices will be made on everything we have in stock, with just one idea in mind to get rid of the goods in 60 days. Such prices as we are making on the best Tailor Made Suits, Overcoats and Dress Suits will cause you to marvel V AS EVIDENCBOF THE CARELESSNESS WITH WHICH WE HAV& MARKED PRICES, WITNESS THE FOLLOWING: $50 TO $66 A limited number of the best Suits we (fTVTTT W (Th nritmn a ui Vrrx n nnsi ave n tock will be sold at these prices. X J U I ii njpQJr HJ' SUITS AND COATS srr.!p!!!!::.TO' 'Ea. y: '-y . ; 'y,r ' VHv.:. ; w i-'V':1 rv:'-';"'- Suits that you have been accustomed to jj " f fj 3R pay dearly for. Business Suits, Black . Suits and suits that" it is a shame to sell 1 6T 7CT1 -YT TUT for less than $40 JiZjVLirii SUITS SUITS This line of Tailor-Made Suits and Over f niy coats has never been sold as low as $20, ? - " not even by us. Take your pick, as long as they last Nothing better for the money S see 25 TO S5 2 8 At "gular prices . these. Suits and ''nftmrt'' ia miw " sis-w- Overcoats are worth more than we have VjIIIrW A III In ril A TQ asked for them. To sell them for $15 is a tremendous sacrifice 75 DRESS SWTS Made of unfinished worsted, plain or birdseye weave, silk-lined, with corded silk facingl ' Made in the ; best possible manner ..... MEMBER I The patterns in each of these classes are limited. To secure something exceptionally good, guaranteed durable and excellently well made, it behooves you call early and choose the one you want. . We have an abundance of material on hand and will be glad to. sell any of it by the yard to anybody? wishing it tailors, women or department stores at prices-that are actually lower than New York wholesale prices. We must be rid of the whole ) stock, $125,000 in value, within 60 days. This ad vertisement tells the whole story '; it means exactly what it says Columbia Woolen Mills t has. never done anything half way. You can bank on these -values. "" . - ' ' ' ....,.' THIS SALE BEGINS TOMORROW MORNING GRANT PHEGLEY, Mflp, SEVENTH AND STARK STS.