; -:: book itEvikwsg ;:: J ; f plJS MIBllSSll - 1NES: j i ' -V" . - ' ' "V- V- ' ;' -f PORTLAND,""! QREGQN, SATURDAY, FEBRl . ,Y 5, -j91&' .-j.-A " ' ' V'"'-' ' 3?S'1-1 ' ' fvr " " ' " " ' .. 1 " - " r - : ; " ' . ' - . " - : : 1 ' ; " ". r- :..V. . ..... ,. . r. : : : PREPAREDNESS AND potmcs DISCUSSED Current Magazines . Handle Subjects With Articles on : the Great .War,' George Harvey discusses in the cur rent issue of The North American Re view the question of -Wilson ana Second Term. Ex-Secretary of State Richard Olney contributes to this Issue- a paper In which he urges the necessity of "a speedy and comprehen sive, revision" of our ifetln-American policy before we can hope to embark upon an effective' program of prepar edness, In the ; same vein of sober warning i Rear-Admfral Fiske's ar ticle on "Naval Defense." "The Ad ministration's Military Policy" la an other discussion of a momentous cur rent Question. i:Tfc i Review's- group of articles re lating to the great war and its prob lem is further enlarged by Demetrius C. Boulger' "The Truth About Ant werp"; Charles Johnston's presenta tion of the military and political situ ation at Suez; Henry Rutgers Mar shall's "War .and" Human Nature." and E. Q. Nourse's "The War and the Back-to-the-Land - Movement," In which this, author explodes a number Of fallacies concerning his subject. ... In "The Proposal for a Tariff Com mission,. 'Professor F.. W. Taussig' of Harvard; throws a light into many dark corners. Edith Wyatt has a pen etrating study of the late Stephen Phillips; and the young English poet. (Wilfrid Wllsdn Gibson, contributes piece of " verse, "The Plough. In his discussion of the month's events In "Drama and Music." Lawrence Gilman writes of the famous "Russian Ballet. of the new Russian opera, at the Met ropolitan, Prince Igor,- and of current dramatic productions. Under the title, "The -Biography of an Amorist." Mr. Gilman discourses' about -a certain "Book of the Month." The Scientific Monthly, s'; The Scientific Monthly forwFebruary contains th . following articles "The "Avoidable Loss of 'Jife, by Dr. J. Howard Beard; "The Causes of War," by- Professor I. W. Howertb; "The Islands of the Mld-Paclflc," by Dr. Alfred , GoIdsboTOUgh Mayer; 3attles and Rainfall," by Professor Alexander McAdle; "The RacTes of JUritain." by Wm. i if, Babcpck; - "Some Phenomena of Fluid Motion and . the. Fight Of a Baseball, by Professor W. S Frank lins "Hunger and Food, by Professor George J. Peirce; "The Reincarnation of James EUghts, Antarctic Explorer, by Dr. John M. Clarke; The Columbus Meeting . of the American Association for the: Advancement of Science; The Ohio State University; Scientific Items, r' - . For a Lack of 'Fuel Beavy Baows Save tendered It Im possible for Oil 'Wagons to Beach the Institution. After keeping open as long as possi ble, Reed -college has finally had to close for a short time owing to the In ability rb get fuel. The dormitory students are making tha best of vvthelr "captivity," cards being enjoyed most every evening and part of the day while classes are topped. After supper dances-also help to pass away the time.. Last Wednes day night Arthur House and Robert D. Leigh took turns at the piano, and an orchestra Was improvised with Earn est McAllister playing the mandolin. Dean Coovert, the ukeVele, and Miss I lies Goltra the banjo. 60 far the fatalities have been two perfectly good hats, belonging to day cholars who have tried to get to town. One of these was recovered. The second was blown off a student's Head and lost on. the campus. -' No damage has been done around the buildings, but a number of trees have had limbs blown off. and one large one bad the too blown' off. The tennta courts on the athletic field, hava suffered also, the wire netting around7 them baying been nearly ail wtwwa gown; . ru The handball : court in the gymna sium, has,, also been ytJut ' out of use. The furious wind blows the snow in through every small crack and the floor Is covered with snow and ice. No classes were held- today, and uoue wiu oe neia until rurher, notice. Printers vs. Writers. An old woodsman friend -who knew that Henry Oy en. author of "The Man Trail,- a tale of lumberjacks, had been In newspaper work, but who had only a vague idea or what that was, recent ly met Oyen's brother uir north, and af ter greetings -caid., "' "I ain't seen Hank lately. What's he com now?" ' t t " "Oh replied the brother Henrys quit the. "newspaper business and is writing' stories. Had a book "publishes just a snort time ago." . The- .old fellow shifted -hia cud around and pulled hi whiskers. "Wrltln stories, - eh." ha said. "What's the matter, couldn't Hank make -a go of it as a printer?" David' by . "Pottyanna's" Author anna." will have a new book published in Aiarcn oy uoughton-MUfun com- CUT. .-It 1st h iMrr nf lltd. W "Jusr David. he -calls hlmselt-and the phrase is taken .aa tha tlUa of the " - . nwu buw V0 . W llnlst, and the publishers say Mra. Porter, who was a professional mu Blcian before he : became a y jiovellst. orawn nis cnaracter and told his story wua aveiy sympathy ami skill, Operate on Adele Rowland' 3 New Tork, Feb. 5 (L J. 8.) Adele Rowland, the actress, is today reCoT rinff fromran ammtlnA .fn k. xnoval of a. fibroid tumor In the fleshy I art vi u uow- . , ; ;i WRITES OF PLUCK OF GIRL OF SOUTH " r - ' . , ' Ss, , " i i :::vft:i.:v':.;-:? I i IL . I S V' 'a. ' S- r s S , ' j Ellen Glasgow, whose new novel, "Life and Gabrielia.'- tells the story of a southern girl who refused to be bound by circumstances, was born and still lives in her favorite setting, Richmond, Va. Miss Glasgow's first book, "The Descendant." was published in 1897. and has been followed by a number of popular narratives, among " them "The Ancient Law," "The Deliverance." "The Battle Ground," "The Romance of a Plain .Man," "The Mfller of Old Church" and "Virginia.', "Life, and Gabrielta" is on the Doubleday-Page lists. ' Phy sician Writes of Painless Childbirth Painlea ChUdberth." by Br. Carl Henry Davis, associate tn bstetrW and gynerolosy, Rash MedU-s.1 College. Clilcsgo. Forbes Co., Chicago. 1.00 net. In this book Dr. Davis discusses the various methods employed .In the attempt to secure painless childbirth; and gives, the; first report of the re sults of varied experience with tne nitrous oxld-oxygen analgesia, which he says will undoubtedly become the analgesic of choice in. obstetrics. Dr. Davis believes that in tne cry for painless childbirth the desire of . . " i - . i i . . i . roomers is nur euuwm uoi nmucoii. Granting that' painless obstetrics Is desirable the author ' pleads for safer and better obstetrics. He claims . that with all the modern progress in pre ventive" medicine that there has not been a corresponding Increase In the safety of maternity. Recognizing the need for relieving pain in many cases of childbirth. Dr. Davis offers a treatise on the nitrous oxld-oxygen analgesia method. This method was used successfully In Eu rope in the early '80s and the results there have more recently been dupli cated in the ' Presbyterian and other American, hospitals. The 'author gives in detail the technic for administering nitrous oxld-oxygen analgesia in - op erative as well as in normal labor. While the advocates or "Twilight Sleep' agree that it should be used only in an especially equipped hospital and by a specialist. Dr. Davis believes that nitrous oxld-oxygeu analgesia is may be used safely and efficiently by every physician who is trained in the science of obstetrics. He believes that nltrou oxld-oxygen analgesia Is local method of relieving the suf fering during childbirth and a grt aid In securing eutocla. Cartoons for February. . Seldom have : the cartoonists had such an opportunity as was afforded them by the Junket of the Ford peace party. Cartoons Magazine for Feo ruary presents a resume of their ef fort. Thus, the New Xork Herald cartoonist rechrtstens the Oscar H" The Flivver" (cranks at either end) and shows this strange craft full of-: dummies, one tire punctured, and with ; Mr. Ford at the wheel, speeding past) very much battered figure of the emperor of Austria.. j How tne Anglian view the approach ing conscription crista Is shown by a number of cartoons from British news papers. The "Persia tragedy and. the Ancona" correspondence furnish ma terial for other strong cartoons. James Meivtn Lee of New Tork uni versity contributes an article entitled "Lincoln ' as Vanity Fair Saw Him" that . will Interest . every student of Abraham Lincoln - and his times. Among other contributors are ZinV' and Helena Smith-Daytonr,who intro duces In clay models some new small town characters that all will recognise. The Limit of Devotion. Dear Heart, I'll :.- dance with you all night. - From eight to -any-hour you please. But this I swear with all my might. f IKwlll not go, to Dancing Teaal . . . To trlp with you Is pure delight. Tou float like milkweed on the breeae. But though I love to trot, alt right - , I will not go to Dancing Teas!. - . j Pale, "lender youths whose brains are - Can- trot all -afternoon with ease, But I don't cJass with themnot quite. ;.: I will not. go to .Dancing TeasI vi: At nlght-'tlroe;,wheBttheilghta bright. ' -111 one-step till I strain my knees; ; By day,J('ve too much - work in sight,! . I-wlll not go to 'Dancing Teast ". BERTO.N BRALKy in Harper's Mag azine for February. - . j ' The Three Things!: Is Popular, C A sixth printing is announced - by Little,; Brown & Co. of Mrs. Mary Ray mond Shiproart'AndreW'B little book of fiction, . "The Three Things. , . Short Hand as -. Fame's "Short Cut" The Gregg Publishing company, 1123 Broadway, New YOrk, has Just Issued an attractive brochure containing sketches of some of the many men and women who began life as stenog raphers and who have sine attained national prominence. Among those whose ' careers have been shaped by a knowledge of short hand are mentioned such statesmen as President Wilson, George B. Cortel you. William Loeb, Jr., and John Hary; such legal lights as Kenesaw Moun tain Landis, and Justice Guy of the supreme court of New Tork; among captains of Industry, Hugh Chalmers, Colonel Bope, and Samuel Insull; such auth rs"-and . Journalists as. Charles Dickens, Arnold Bennett, James Op? penhelm, Irvin Cobb and Edward BoC In the more than 200 celebrities whose- progress Is briefly traced, are congressmen, senators, judges, law yers, presidents of giant corporations. railway off lciais, bankers and financiers,- educators and physicians, Gill Writes Book On Oregon's Fishes Oregon Agricultural College, Corval 11s, On Feb. 8. By request of th history department of. the Oregon Ag ricultural college. John GUI of, Port land, has written and published an in teresting, descriptive booklet ; entitled "Common Fishes of the Waters of Ore gon." This booklet includes 20 large ingnviBKi ia nie cwor ox lO Oilier-1 ent varieties of trout and salmon found within the borders of this state. The scientific information which it contains is worked up Into an interest ing sportsman's story. Argument' by Epithet. Of all sneers none is so carelessly thrown as the charge of cowardice. To call a man a coward Is almost to ob literate him from discussion. The man who uses the term always implies that he himself, of course, is a brave man. He acquires at once a kind , of moral superiority, and puts his -opponent on the defensive. , Caution and reason thus become positive vices, every honest doubt Is made the mark of a timid soul. Those who want 20 dreadnoughts regard as cowards those who want JO; the ad vocates of 40 dreadnoughts look with acorn upon the advocates-of 20. Men who wish to prepare against one pos sible enemy are cowards In the eyes of those who wish to . prepare . against two possible enemies. The proposers of . a much larger For Ton a Rose in. Grows. Portland '.Vol. 7. SAT. EWG ALIBI Res Umpau, Ed. and Pab. Pub. rnoo, Ou iitaay. Jannary 29, 1910. EDITORIAL. BTBITS TO Our editorial last wk. was criticised as being too long. TOW' TALES. Jimmy black eye. McCool has Geo. Irwin towed Dave Smith home the other night. That Is. he towed liave's car home. Folger Johnson wants a scientific investigation of glacial condition on Wil lamette Hts. Ed L. Moses is a lawyer. Most lawyers are Moseses In a way. They are tound in the political bulrushes. Major Wm. O. Oberteuf fer, who baa diplomatic whisk ers but talks more than the average diplomat, says he hardly ever gets his name spelled right, and we print this -item to show him that it can be done. Miles Standieh. the w: k. Ad club minstrel, lives in a houseboat - out at the Oaks, and he says that you simply can't shovel the snow otf -the roof with a palm-leaf fan. - T. Amsley Botts. the w. tc bard, write from Beaver- ton that he isn't able -to get out of the bouse and Mr. Botts can scarcely keep ; enough wood split. .- He is Working on an ode .to Ml ' HOOd.v , 4 ' ' Nat Stevens, of Island, on the Ore. City line, has de cided to build a steel tube down the hill to the station, instead of an open chute. He says a chute would fill up with ice. and the Island ers would , be no better off than they are now, sliding down the hill. " - J J. S. Flint, of Jet. City Was the only, shipper who got into ' the-,' Union stock ' yards one itlay this wk- .nd Hy Cohen, who dearly loves : a Joke all of his own. aaya it .was hard for Flint, and then laughed; but - we can'jt : see why. , . - ; Eddie Miller used to run a .haberdashery in- he - Port land notel ouuaing. - uacie Billy Johnson used to meet him -elsewhere in the hotel. Uncle Billy noticed the oth er day that the place where the -haberdashery used to be had closed up, and he met jM oted IN ovelist in Snapped in Moment of Streisurie : - o ' ffr'Tm in '"i '','v'"r"" ' jf j !. r ct zthw I if) N J" if K WJ'JJ . jTT' pJ ' I VI -'-'ll ' -4T': :.::; f . : : x-: :j5-:i f t -ii' js-.:-!W : . Tr-f ' y-: Ci,-: , , ( 1 Vil ? Jf f -v "1 Its -.rjes-- ' l It fc3irs5sfc-f M Ld P-is-iiJy" Wi&M 1'W '" - I $ MUa Mdria-Thompton'Doviesa m "pia&MP, of cM cibim adjoining ker tntnpaloto at Btceetbriar Farm,'- n Harpeth VaUey, near NoMkville, Tenn where she wrote "The U tiling of MottyT and her latent &aJfc, "The Dare devil," now in the hands of her pubUsherg. ' army are tinged, with yellow, in the eyes of the eoascriptloniata. In Amer ica we are fast getting into the frame of mind where the scale of. courage Is measured by what -the wildest - jingo proposes as the correct method of lick ing creation. The' New Republic OST PORTLAND, OR, TJ. 8. 4FOR YOU A ROSE IN "STUTB pampon mi, cot have? 1 f (t'u. vrr ro2- hrou cor my Boseyi set it. rTsCv 1 ' 1 1 1 "M- Eddie and said, "Hello, Ed die, I see they've closed .up your old place at the Port land." "That so." said Ed die; "what did they do with .the glassware?" - what we want to know Is, what was Eddie thinking about 7 Miss Nona Lawler. the beautiful, accomplished, etc, society -editor of - our est. ev'g contemp.. The Journal, is reducing, or something. Anyway, she rolls down staira on FTt. afternoons as If. It were a regular thing. J. C. Ivy, who lives at Courtney, on the Ore City line, raises bulldogs, but he don't look ,11. Frank Coulter, the fiddle maker, reports everything working very smoothly on the hillside out at. River dale In fact, he says, it's mo smooth that the other night he - went out to get some wood, ' and the next thing he knew was when he hit the railroad track. Imp Tur Hot. Q wynne Hoss is " still trotting in single harness. Pride Ooetb Before a Thaw. Judson Henning says that Providence sends us a bard, winter once in or 10 years Just to keep us from getting too proud to associate, with people from Dakota and Michigan. .:.v. . '.- j; another Setractlon. - sr LETTERS 'Those 3avls Boys. Ed Alibi: I have felt for several years that Ore gon -has a Texas flavor. After a strenuous research I have discovered that Texas haa her "Cyclone" . and Oregon her "Pike." Can you tell me which Davis has the best of it? Sanfleld Macdonald. . e e - Neither. Both are unique. Richard Harding Davis also proves the rule that, there is nothing like a Davis, not even another one. trader Advisement. Mrs. A. W. Nicholson told ye scribe he needed a hair cut and we have taken the matter; under advisement. . Weather, Bo VoUttes. Kap Kubli. the prominent ex-resldent of Gold Hill. Is wearlhg gum boots these days, but young PhU Mets chan says it has no poli tical significance whatever. - Bishop Is Sprightly. V Bishop Sumner wears1 a cane these days. . - but he ' really doesn't need It.. He ; has not yet got all the Chi-. ' casro -climate out of his ' system, and .rain. Watch "Kernel J. Last wk. this paper stated that the -nine Jani tors at the Customs house had lost 8 lbs. from shov-. ellng snow. This was part, ly wrong, there being only seven 'Janitors -and one cus todian. .The other may have McMinnvllle, article for The Alibi on "Weather vs. Climate," -which he saa is tbye burn- . Ing. question of the day. We: don't know, .but we - believe ' -some one- has been telling Kernel Cooper about- our woodpile. e ; ; ;. ; -; vf How Big a Xet Cart?7-' Oarl Reiter. who takes . the census over at the Or pheum - ' twice Cm day. and tbafs all he has to do wa telling how easy It Ii to; get press agt. stories la the r -papers back in Omaha, and, . he saM it was "Just as easy , as fTblUng. a log ; ; .- Zenie, laeeale, BOnie. 1CoV Professor rlckey" Ogden.'' W. k. piano and organ ar tist, who plays the sehtl- been a volunteer, out . it .isn't 'likaly.eany r Great' Zadlgnatloa. .There is great indignation Out at Oak Grove -over .the condition of the streets. - we are one of - the most Indig nant, and Justly so, -seeing that we haven't shoveled th- snow off our. aide walk.. If Bill Stokes were mayor, we'd atart a movement' to have him recalled. --- Somebody ought - to be - to y blame - for conditions out there. Just the same, as in Portlands , ttomely wJt "Kamona" in the Films . An elaborate: ' moDKnplcture, produc tion of Helem Hun tackson'a -famous American novel, ii'mona,." Is ; being made in southern Cifornia for 'early release. " " --w-.w isiii iian in1- - " us Bat WEEDS OBTB."- A JANUARY 29, 1016. PORTLAND FROE- ment l stuff and rag time at. ie Majestic movie houst i feels the need of a vacation. He will leave soon . to recuperate. While recuperating he will inter est himself In the- prepara tion of a musical vaudeville sketch When he gets it readyTip expects to go on the-atage. AJtotaarSodalng " Zadnstry. We-I n that one of our mil lie( houses is making a new, tind of flowers. TO US called! are tma of nats. rd flowers. of various if done fncldeat. Ge C- Ober ; has sprao ' iDriUsit ' wrist. should e a warning to other as he sprained it when t was trying to wind ni W7 I watcn.. Why BotT Tout t Clyde Beals ' says - that it , some of the Reed college - boys could parade in the bathrobes, there d be test1 talk about the loud i sweats the girls wear. . - ,s'..v ; ... 'i.-.V-v. ;-;, ; -sHTrhev Zdaeatioa. ' ? Ree college having de I stated rating the cold snap; 1 10 iof. he -tried young stu dents ' nushed out to ace ?what i'ae main bldg. looked - Ilka wi ten it was closed. says he ; likes J . - . (sttoXt tha Matter With . A Portland,"" . , An enterprislngr ' clttsen named. Goldstein is now making a cigarette in Port-, land, ah ' he has named it the "Neutral.-- It may , t e. but:re never saw onev ' omebody Tail XlaV :-' , Maah Dana wants to Tot Xt. C. Cooper, of an Js writing L know .what service or ity fur on the top Of wom en's shoes has. This is the 1st , time we ; have ever known : Marsh to be in dbubt4about anything. An,-; rhmre Tmf .' '' v." Prof. Colin -v. - DymemV who teaches Journalism at . the U. o-f-O, was here this 'Wk.. and while, he didn't teli us so. we know that he-writes - poetry and that he doesn't want It - known, although we will gladly print any that he sends us at our usual rates. ; , . :- Father of Browniesi Is 75 Tears Old -. .-.-. i . ' .. ' S: ' i"; Palmer Cox whose "Brownie books sre perennial favorites with children. recently celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday anniversary, i , Though v a naturalised American cltlsen, Mr. Cox is a Canadian by birth and spends the greater part of each year In Granby, Quebec the Tillage where ha was bom and whence, . from his home. Brownie CasUe.1hean see the Adlrondacka and tne ureen mountains.. V In a recent interview Mr. Cox com mented on the tendency of many comic artists to show childhood at its worst. amusing children by .making - Jokes which, turn upon some ' exhibition of youthful depravity. The Brownies, he said, -never cause pain. Just as they never suffer pain.,. Mr. Cox believes that stories and poems for children should always leave a pleasant Impres sion in the reader's mind,-constantly preaching without seeming to preach. If there had ever been a German trans lation" of the Brownie books, he ob served, humorously, and if the kaiser and the other imperial leaders had been brought up on it and had ' really ab sorbed its message, they never could have sent their armies into Belgium. - - . Manual of Athletics From the South "Xskias- a Mam," by William Grew Harrison. . Book deoartment of II. 8.. Crocker company and Canningbam, Curtis "a Welcb, San Fran cisco. I1.Z3 net. "Maklnsr a Man" is an illustrated manual of athletics, the author having been at one time for a number of years, president of the Olympic club of Ban Francisco, and always a power on the coast for good athletics. Mr. Harrison deals In an entertain ing as well In an Instructive man ner of the science of body and muscle building, his Illustrations being of well-known Pacific coast athletes, past and present. . The book will prove a valuable addi tion to the active man's library. Tarkingtoa Is Playwright. Booth Tarklngton, author of "The Turmoil.' who has been spending some time In New Tork,' Is this week In Co lumbus to see how a play of which he is co-author strikes Ohio people, some of whom are the chief characters. "The Turmoil" was located over the line in Pennsylvania, most readers recognis ing the city aa Pittsburgh. Mr. Tark lngton on finishing Ms dramatic la bors, will , return to New-Yorkto cor rect the proofs of a new book which Harper tc Brothers are to publish this spring. n isrf iikii im t ssi i i ssm s i isr i tstii i ssTn assa i a asssi ssssn issssi i Where to Find It No One Knows. No. 46w Ring Out. Mild Bells Blag. Will T. Wright, v.-p. of the Scandinavian-American bank, was married in 8.r F. last Sat. to Mrs. B. C. Martin. They were school days sweethearts back in old Kentucky, and couldn't forget it. Of course, speak ing .from experience, we know they - won't -agree about -everything.' and If they did life wouldn't nave much variety. - We trust they were both old enough to know what they were doing, and .that they will never regret it. We con gratulate Mrs. Wright on marrying a banker Instead of a newspaper man. Bong. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Moore celebrated their sil ver wedding out at Oak Grove last Fri. Mr. Moore fave Mrs. Moore some lowers that he picked in a store down town, and she blushed and put . them in her belt, lust aa she did 25 yra. ago The.Moores are gfod neighbors, but their chief claim to distinction, perhaps, is that they are the -parents of Tracy Moore, the w. k. ragtime troubador who 'works, so to speak." for the Pac. telephone com pany, and who married a pretty girl and lives in a -flat and goes home nights and is trying to save his money, some time ago. Olena Zs gaining. Olenn Husted. the w. k. barrister, haa gained a pound since starting to take a cer tain Standard Oil by-product. He now weighs 93. OOOaTB BTX0BATZS BTt7BBXEOZ.T. . They kinds a which util This bird Is getting hence - as fast - as - possible.- He wouldn't fit the other way, . which fa Just as well, for being head down, it shows that .he is getting south as soon as . possible. He saw ' the Ad.- club's . shirt-sleeve - parade, and decided to stay, 'but changed his mind. - . BOOK NOTES OF "THE : ; WEEK JUST PAST si Peter Clark Macfarlanej'wbo InTHeld to Answer,: a- -recent .Little-Brown is sue, offers, his first noveL Js widely known for his previous book of sympa thetic social studies,' "Those Who Have Come Back." The telling new narrative is founded on the personal 'experiences of the author. Mr. Macfarlane Is said to have received a "record price"- for the serial rights of the sale. POLK COUNTY TAX IS : PLACED AT $383,183 -FOR TtiE'YEAR 1916 Total Includes $242,830 for State, ; County, - bridges,' Ferries and : General Fund. Dallas, Or.. Feb. 5. TJie assessment rolls for Polk county-for ,1915 -show a total valuation of $14,284,180, on which a total tax of f3tl.18t.98 la to be col lected. Of thlsamount, $242,850.21 Is for state, county, bridges, ferries and the general school fund. Taxation for general road purposes, outside of Dal las and Monmouth, which maintain their own roads and bridges, amounts to $38,726.10. Taxation tor Dallas road fund Is $3938.69. and for Mon mouth road fund, $760.36.' - Special city taxes Included In the roll are as follows: Dallas, 14.S mills, $16,317.01; Independence, 19.1 mills, $9876.23; Falls City, IS mills,. $37S.03. Monmouth. 10 mlllsv 12327.32; West Salem.. 8-mnis, $1201.64.' . .,. : - . . ! .4i. j Count jr SHpefintendcnt Elected. Dallas, Or., Febi- ". After , being deadlocked for ' more than ' a month, members of the Polk county court yes terday elected W. J, Reynolds, a teach er at Hopville," county superintendent to succeed H. C- Seymour, -resigned to accept a position as field worker with the Oregon Agricultural college.' Mr. Reynolds was formerly principal of the Dallas schools, and several years sgo was county superintendent for one term.: ' . -'" ' " - -v The court also elected E.-E. Paddock Justice of; the peace 'at .Independence, toiueceed E, T. Henkle, deceased.- - Petition for la junction Denied. Dallas. Or Feb 6. Jadge . - it Belt,- In-, the circuit -. court.- yesterday denied the injunction asked by. Mayor E. C Klrkpatrlck of Dallas to restrain the county court from -levying a spe cial tax on - property: within the .cor porate limits of Dallas for the purpose of building an intercounty ? bridge at Salem. Mr., Klrkpatrlck contended that Dallas, being aa Independent-road dis trict, was. not subject to' taxation for roads, bridges and ferries outcide of the city.- - -.. - . . i Horse W. Shocked. Dallas Or Feb. SMre. 3. C. Gay- nor this weeg sold ner suae score in this city - to - Frank j; Chapman of Salem. The business v is one of the oldest 1b - Dallas, having i been.' estab lished by -the late J. e Gay nor mors than 25 years ago.;. : , -, . A horse hitched to a delivery wagon stepped into' a pool -of" water on-- a street '.hera yesterday. i The -pool ihad become charged from a grounded, elec tric wire, and . tha .horse . was . knocked down." it was necessary to turn aft the ' power at the : plant, affectlnr the entire town, before the. horse eouid . be rescued. The animal -was not Injured. ' llrs Bloom IMaa. Dallas,-Or- FeW Mrs Mary' M. BXoom, . who - died : at Mill -.City about Bloom; ;wboUed .at.MUl Clty .about six years ago, died at - tha home ef her son,- Dr. . F. -M.- Bloom. In this city Wednesday midnight.-. Khe-was a na tive of Pennsylvania, and-was 3 years of age, -.- She was. the grandmother of JT. E- Bloom, one of the publishers of the Tolk. County Itemlser .of thla city. Broken Jw Causes Deevtn" Woodland." Cal-eb. 6 (U. P.)A broken Jaw : prevented F. ,8. 'Sax ton from ' eating so he died-of .starvation. w , CRITICISM IS NEVDEPARTUr. VivaVoce I Reviews by Dr. Slosson Now .Feature of :': . Instruction. - A HW; departure in the art of lit erary '-criticism T baa - been lntrodacei Into the Institute of Arts and. Science, which forma part of the Extension De partment of Columbia university. . J Edwin E Slosson, who, as litrr-ary-editor of .The Independent. Laj been - reviewing booka for the last 1 : years, has come out from behind t:. -shelter of anonymity and print 'sr. i finds it pleasanter and more effective to talk about the new books than to write about them. ' The audience which assembles or.cn ' a month at 4 o'clock in the lecture room of ' the university for one of these "Oral Book Reviews"- finds on the blackboard the titles and author 3f the works to be discussed and c. the table in front the , booka them selves, a doseQ or more, to be Inspect ed afterward by "those Interested. ; -,:.-eTlew "Are Staplo. ; f A dozen books an hour many see n rapid fire criticism, but really the re viewer can tell mora about each or. i than he could get space to say In print. As he peases along- the line of book he points- out the distinctive rr.trit? and defects of the volume," compares It with other works on the same sub ject new And old. reads a bit here ar. i there to illustrate his points, and per haps tells something of the author's life.' -.- . sTaort Work of Borne. Some, books" are dismissed with a few sentences in order to- give time for the consideration of whmt the reviewer-regards as the most interes' ing or Important booka of the month. For instance, in one of his recent lec turee Dr.- Hlosson gave a coraparativk survey of the r latest - books on t war, read a few, of Gibson's BattIe ' poems, and I then devoted the rest cf the' hoar to Arnold Bennett's trilosy of the Five -Towns,: f which Dorua has recently published the . concl ucl i n r volume, "These Twain. - This new. scheme of vocal review, ing haa the advantage of actually in troducing, -the books themselves t their . prospective readers and givtr.sr them an opportunity f asking ques tion of the critic or even chalier.r!r the-opinions he expreasea a - S This privilege of talking back at t? s erltio r Is appreciated -; by readers w h o have suffered -from the pain of in growing objections. ; irig Horses for Work- in - Alas!:: -l Chehalla.1 Wash-, Feb. Si A shir ment of 20 head of draft horses s: ' 61 head of 'lighter animals will 1. thts city. Sunday for the White Raliroad company In Alaska. 1: horses were fathered by Ed. K. Carr and George Robinson in Lwls, I .. clflc, Cowlits and Thurston count!'-. The . lighter horses will be used c stages in tha territory. The shlprr.- ; represents a value. of approximately $16,000. Deputy Sheriff Goe: After George Willey rsrmar Clerk of District Court Went 2 to Answer .Zadlctment Charflsg tzia- ay yropilatioa of Fa silo roads. Deputy Sheriff Ward left last r.ir'.t for Aberdeen with a warrant for tre arrest of George Wllley, former clerk of ths district court,-recently Indict 1 on a charge of misappropriating pubhs funds. - willey has been traveling with a motion picture concern showing pic tures of the -Pendleton Round-Up, ar ' haa kept in touch with the authorlti-, but Inability of officials to reach M. by wire, resulted In the trip north ty Mr. Ward, to bring him back to si. swer to the charge. - - . The sums appropriated by Wii:ev. are estimated at $3000 or 14000. for which his bondsmen made compU restitution. It U alleged that con siderable of the money was loaned to various other employes- - . . Saiesman Arrested On JJriusual Charge - - As a result of a young woman leav ing the body of a new born babe sndfr a seat in a -moving picture bouse ion. time. ago. Bam Pernar, a shoe cUrk. was arrested last night by Deputy Sheriff Buckman, at his apartments .' the Caplea hotel. i - He was placed in the county i-'- i tinder $1000 bail, which was not fur nished, . . It Is alleged that he is t- ? father of the .child. The mother, Stephanie Fuche, was recently reiea-i from aa asylum where she had te . detained after persisting that she hA i fallen heir to an enormous fortune ar. i passing bad- checks for hundreds c I dollars oq the strength of It, - Swiss Bring Down : Italian Aeroplan " Xxndon, Feb.- 6. (I. S.) w: -soldiers fired' upon and brought do an Italian aeroplane, near Llar Swltxerland.' according to Ligano c: patcbea received here today by Keuterf News Agency. "j I , : . .WlIl'Appesi Oil Decision. Washington, Feb. 6. U. P. ) T department of Justice :deflait:y t elded today to appeal the Cheyeri court decision, adverse to tne r'ver ment 'n the fight to oust c 1 c ; r on withdrawn Wyoming: and Ca:.: r. oil lands..'- ' POKO