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a, . 4.1 7f THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SATURDAY. JULY 8, 1916. The greatest thing a soul ever does, is to tee. Puskin. H Pleasure will be paid some ttme or other. MEWS OF JVEW ' .BOOKS, WRITERS AMD MAGAZINE'S. Twelfth Night. "Just David" Heads "Best Sellers" List For Current Month Fair Americans Appear in Picture News of National Interest 4 THE 0RIG1 KITCHENER'S "MOB'' The "best sellers" list for the current month, compiled from exhaustive reports to The ISookman (Dodd, Mead & Co., Katharine B, Judson Spent Four Years, One in Lon don, in Research, James Norman Hall Saw Service in the Field and Gained Promotion, i ni OREGON HISTORY FROM AMERICAN WRITES OF ML SOURCES of lie uni-j - Zarly Dayi in. Old Oreron. By Kathrrtne B. Jndson. Ill'tntratlor and nmim. A. C. Mi I'lurg 3c L'unicnT. Chli'sgix J 1. 00 net. This Is a history of Oregon Intended for children, the author being sub-11- brarlan of history at the New York atato library, Albany, N. Y. The author has gone to original re nounces, where possible, fur her mats rial, aft-d has presented her findings in almost story-book form Interesting and entertaining. Miss Judson explains: "I have given four years of devoted study to Orexon history, three of them among the spe cial collections of the northwest, and over a year In Iondon. In Kngland I had full access to the documents of public record office. Including llahed accounts of the various explorn Hons, and also what was a far rarer privilege, access to the Journals, dia ries and letters of the Hudson's Bay company. "Simple as this book Is, every state ment Is bflsed on original authority. Comment on the Hrlttsh and American claims to tho country 1s founded en tirely upon reliable sources. These in clude Journals written by fur traders In the 'mountains mid on the march, private letters between themselves, of ficial reports of chief factors to their company in London, diplomatic corre spondence of American, and English diplomats anil published works. In original editions, of exploration and discovery. "It has been my aim to make this volume a clear, 'straightforward ac count of the romantic discovery and settlement of old Orecon, especially Intended for children. Yet teachers of much higher grade, and'- perchance even those In college woik, will find in the summary at tho end, us well, s In the two chapters 'Who Owned the Oregon Country,' and 'Fort Van couver Hiid Dr. John Mclaughlin, ' ma terial from sources which have never before been made accessible." In view of this explanation by the author. It goes without saying that "Karly lmys hi Old Oregon" is worth while to citizens, old and youni?, de sirous of knowing more of his own commonwealth. New York) shows that "Just David" Is leading the demand 4t for fiction throughout the land. The list of six leaders fol- lows: - 1. Just David, Porter. Seventctn, Tarklngton. :!. Nan of Music Mountain, ft sit- Spearman. H 4. Bars of Iron, Dell. .". The Border Legion, Grey. 6. Under the Country Sky, Dt Richmond. Among the non-fiction much f In demand were the following: Tho First Hundred Thousand. J lay. Kat and irow Thin, st Thompson. Kear God, Take Your Own Part, Roosevelt. Andoclcs and the Lion, Over- ruled. Pjjgniallon, Shaw. On Being Human, Wilson. "Souls on Fifth" Is Satire on "Avenue" Boult on Fifth, by GranTilla Barker. I.ltUe, llrown &. ., n.mtmi. Cloth. $1.00 net. Taking the passage from the Acts concerning the man who "died and went to Ins own place as his base Mr. Bark er, pictures Fifth avenue (New York city, of course), filled with a great concourse of souls blown hither and thtther, beaten by storms, but unable to escape from the place of their earth ly nml ltlon. "Souls on Fifth." thus, is a satlr on fashionable life in the metropolis. NEW BOOKS IN LIBRARY AMONG THE MAGAZINES Among the books recently added to the Portland public library are the fol lowing: Books In Foreign Lang-nages. Benjamin Qaaparrt. Description and Travel. Fox Bulgaria. Rlnehart Through Glacier Park. Sutherland and Sanford Practical Exercises in Geography. notion. Bindloss For the AHInson Honor. Harcourt Pair of Silk Stockings. Newlin The I'npretenders, by Anne Warwick (pseud.). Prlchard The Pioneers Sidgwiek The Accolade. Fine Arts. Abraham On Alpine Heights and British Crags. Dolmetsch Interpretation of the Music of the Seventeenth and Klght eenth Centuries: appendix. Literature. Dryden Kssays. 2 vols. Smith Evolution; A Fantasy. Philosophy. Freud On Dreams. Wuneterberg Silence and Idealism. Religion. Brown Sunday School and the Home Crozier Religion of the Future. Fioody Scientific Basis of Sabbath and Sunday. Oesterley Books of the Apocrypha; Their Origin Teaching and Contents Pratt India and Its Faiths. Stebblns Home Department of To day. Vlvekananda Vedanta Philosophy. Sociology. Figgis Divine Bight of Kings. Hadley Undercurrents of American Politics. Kendall and Mlrlck How to Teach the Fundamental Subjects. Maury and Tachau Penny Lunch; Its Equipment, Menus and Manage ment Useful Art. Hughes Construction of the Modern Locomotive. Lindahr Nature-Cure Cook Book and A B C of Natural Dietetics. Reference. England Laws. Statutes. Ftc ; Housing of the Working Classes Acts 1890-109, and the Housing Acts, 1914 by C. E. Allen and F. J. Allen. Rlcbter Ausgewahlte Werke, 18 vols. Robinson Cartoons of the War White Manual of Naval Archi- lecture. Wieland Sammtllche Werke, 86 i ois. Children' Book. Adams Toymaking at Home. .Barbour Secret Play. Baynes Wild Bird Guests; How to Entertain Them. Brownie Character-Building n School. Carhart Masoud the Bedouin. Davis Motorboatlng frtr Boys. D la Ramee -Dog of Flanders. The numbers; Stove, and Other Stories. Dickinson. F.d. Children's Book of Thanksgiving Stories. Kggleston Lirt In the Eighteenth Century. , Fryer Mary Frances' Garden Book. Gibson Our Good -Slave Electricity. Griffin Headless Horseman; A Play Based on Washington Irvlng's "Legend of Sleepy Hollow." Grover--Suubonnet Babies In Hol land. Grundtvig Danish Fairy Tales. Hawkins Ned Brewster's Year in the , Big Woods. Hoxie Hanrlwork for Kindergartens and Primary Schools. Jacobs. Kd. lOuropa's Fairy Book. Judson Flower Fairies. Kane Adrift in the Arctic Tee Pack. Kipling Kipling Boy Stories. Knefland Smugglers' Island. Knipe Maid of '76. Kraft Power of Purlm, and Other Plays. Lounsberry Frank and Bessie's Forejtr. v Moore ManuM Training Toys for the Boy's Workshop. Pyle Six Little Ducklings. Rankin Cinder Pond. Rivers Conundrums. ; Roberts' Red Feathers. . Rossettl Poems for Children. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors; Jul ius Caesar: Tragedy of Julius Caesar. S Stein our Little Norman Cousin of L Long Ago, J! "Stock Songs of the Seasons. Taylor Ann and Jane Taylor. Towers Letters From Brother Bill. Varsity Sub to Ted. Captain of the Baachvjlle High School Eleven. :i Verrlll Amateur Carpenter; Uncle A: Abner's Legacy. Vs Warwick First Aid to the Injured. : Wynee Architecture Shown to the -i 5 Children. Atlantic for July. T!ie leading article of the Juiy At lantic "Saiflna Ahmar, ya Sultan!" by Alexander Aaronsohn t he record of an intelligent young man's experi ences In ami out of the Turkish at my. stands out even in these days of blood-smirched and powder-blackened ltternture as a unique contribution to the ('hronij'es of the Great War. Re Fides this there are five other arti cles on other phases of the great con flict. "The Failure of German-Americanism," by Reinhold Niebuhr, himself a German-American, Is an arraignment of the "hyphenate" problem from within. "Trans-National America" is a vision of the future of the United States as Randolph Bourne hopes to see It. In the field of the less strenu ous essav we have Wrlnlfred Kirk land'fl "The Woman Who Writes"; "Common Footing," by Seymour Dem Ing, a really delightful saunieiing. and "Ae Spark o' Nature's Fire," wherein Robert M. Gay tells eome If e r'&mrZ''&t, Villi , A fFvtr-l 4il . yv r a L 111 I 'f&t ,1 A Hill ilr-A 7iVt- lev. Aij HI 11 W -x'"t.'iWj II m 4iy4:y', - nUWf -4P-4v 111 II i'v -v- 4, , v ;'t ' i ? ' i III I I " ? VilHT V 'i & JTjz J fall Kitchener's Mob. TW J rimes Norman lis It. ' Ttie AdTenturei of tn A(iierl'nn In 'be Hrlt lxh Armv. Ilmtglitou, Mifflin OumkBy ' Hiwfuri . ft.2Snet. Mr. Hall, one of the first American .' to enlist In Kitchener's army, saw service in the Ypres section, partici pated in the battle of Lous, vnd had,' received his commission as second. Ikutenant In the army when h wif : obliged to return home. . It Is related by the publishers tliaf ' Mr. Hall's story In perhaps the first. narrative of the actual experiences ot a Holdler At the front to appear abso- . lutely uncensored. ..vv Mr. Hall's tale In vivM arid out- spoken, IjIm style being shown in.' tUa following hit 'overing a lively tr. . tlllery action: "Hlch explosive shells were iw;' bursting all along the line, throwing v tons of earth high in the alrt ThS . ground rocked beneath us. Oreal 'L masses of earth and chalk wera blown -n In. on top of men seeking protection " wnere there was none. I heard ' frimtic cries for 'IMcks and shovels! i 'Stretcher-bearers! Stretcher-bearers, this way, for God's sake!" The voices sounded as weak and futile as the miueaklng of rats In a thunderstorm. When the bombardment began, all Off duty men were ordered Into the deep- v est of the Hlicll-proof dug-outs. When they were reully nuite fcufe. ; "But those Kngllsh boys w'ers no cowards. Orders or no orders, the.' cam0 out to the rescue of tltelr com- ,' rudi H. They worked without a thought ' ot their own danger. I felt actuall -hhppy, for I was witnessing splendid heroic things. it was an vxperienca wl.icli khvc u man a new and unshak " aLle laith in ids fellows." Following in the footsteps of her strenuous, adventurous father. Admiral Robert E. Peary, Miss Marie Teary, on the left above, has taken up the study of aviation. She and her mother are spending the summer on the Maine coast, an Miss Peary is absorbing bok knowledge on the subject of flying, with a view of taking a course in actual aeronautics as soon as she has finished her preliminary work. (Photo copyright by Harris & Ewing). One of the sweetest flowers in the garden of Sec retary of War Newton I). Raker and Mrs, Baker, is Margaret, center above, four years old. (Photo copyright by Hurris & Ewing).. At the right are Mrs. Cornelius Van derbilt and her daughter, Grace, photographed at one of the recent charity affairs for the benefit of the European allies. Mrs. Vanderbilt 4ias Just given $25,000 to the New York National Guard, of which her husband is inspector general, for the purchase of hospital equipment. An automobile tractor with six trailers similar to the ambulance outfits used by the JYench armies, will be purchased. (Photo copyright by International Film Service). home truths amid the play of his humor. The July number contains some In teresting verse. Bookman for July. Fc)t literary people and others who would keep abreast of the times in the work of books and book-makers, the Bookman Is a wellsprlng. The July number contains much Interest ing chronicle and comment on writ ings and writers, and special articles by Carolyn Wells, Brander Matthews, Fola LaFollette, William Lyon Phelps and others, with some of the newer verse following. Some stories of the month are given some consideration, as are the newer novels. The "book mart" contains' the readers' guide to new books, sales of books during the current month and the usual lists of best sellers. American History Journal. The last Issue of the Journal of American History, just issued by the National Historical society, 30 East Forty-second street. New York, whose official magazine It Is, contains 49 rare Tho Last Heard of The Alibi's Mexican War Correspondent He Was Chasing Free Lunch Rumors in San Diego. "ITXITBODT WEEDS 0:E." This Was NOT What We Sent Him Down There For, and if He Don't Soon Send Some Facts or Other Stuff, He's Fired. Vol. 7. PORTLAND, OR., U. 8. A., July 8, 1016. No. 60. SATURDAY EVENING AUB1 Hex l.ampman. Kd. and Pub. July 8, 1010. EDITORIAL is sum imatABrrxD? This question, which think ing peopie have no time to worry aoout. is one that has long puz.zled the world of science. As for this paper we wish to call attention to it ai thi3 time, just as the big N. Y. and Chicago dailies do when there ure other things in which the public Is really interested but on which they do not wish to take a stand. We have no way of knowing whether Mara is inhabited or not, but tho question has its uses to those who must have something that doesn't matter to talk about. The Alibi takes no sides In this Controversy and will print no letters pro or con. However, In connection therewith, In accordance with its usual policy of staying conservatively aloof from saying things that might lead to a controversy. The Alibi today presents the following, facts: June bugs are descendants of lobsters. It Is 92.000,000 miles from the earth to the sun. The tower of Babel was taller than the Woolworth building, but constructed tor the same purpose. Oood intentions, if general use in a criterion, make the best pavirf material for a down grade. TOWN TALES OUR OWN SOCIETY MOVIE r i . m m 1 1 SB. i . i tfsii - n 5iflL --TFTfS IV am The actors above are seen waiting for a train at a suburban station, with W. A. Van Scoy standing In the auto by the movie machine thinking. Ford Tarpley is under the platform, changing his make-up. The reason they don't use the machine is because of having no gasoline. Soma vs. How. Hon. F. Myers, our w. k. and popular postmaster, made a patriotic pro-Wilson speech at Clatskanle on the 4 th and told the people that the coun try is prosperous. He pointed to one automobile for every 41 people in the U. S. Yes, Kernel Mullen says but look at ancient Rome, where there never were so many chariots as Just -before the empire went to smash. Fred Drake became a father 2 wka. ago. Oirl. Ye scribe became a father Thurs. of last wk. Boy. Frank Case became a fath er yesterday a. m. Boy. This paper congratulates the above citizens on tho facts as set forth above. Frank .Berry. dep. V. S. marshal, says he simply must take a vacation soon because he is so tired of resting. It is reported that Arthur Reinhard. S00 East Thirtieth street, intends to soon mi grate to Mexico and elimlnato Villa. The story, however, may be an exaggeration, and we don't vouch for its men dacity. Lee Maple lost two B0 tires off'n his high-power, 10 cylinder Chugmobile on the Glorieus Fourth, and seeing an ad next day of somebody finding a pair, he burned up $2.43 worth of Gasoline get ting out to Lents, to find the tires were made for Fords. Albert Beesley Of Rose CI tv Park, takes the car at 43d and Satldy Road everv morn ing at X o'clock and if ha doesn't the other people auk the conductor what s the mat ter. As if the conductor should know, Fred Leppert says, and people think street car conductors know every- Balpb Is Back. That w. k. Progressive lead er, Ralph E. Williams, has returned from New York where he is reported to have had a dish of ice cream with i Mr. Justice Hughes. It Is also reported that many w. t 1. Ul. I J .A i n c Penrose, Murray Crane and Ormsby McHarg are over Joyed that Ralph has become a Progressive. Wants to Lift Johnny. Ralph Kingery, who lives on Floral ave. in Laurelhurst, read in a paper that Jim Jeff ries couldn t lift Johnny Cou lon and came down town try ing to find Johnny to see it he wouldn't let him try it. SUra of the Times. Young Phil Jack-son got back last wit from further education in the east and went right to work. thing, true. which isn't strictly Clarence Reames, TJ. S. dist. atty.. is down at S. F. try ing to convince one of those California juries that It's against the law to do wrong. Dr. Emerson, the musical dentist, went to the hospital to have his tonsils taken out and the doctors took them out and went right ahead and took out his annendix. thus savins; him future trouble and expense. Leslie Scott is back from S. California with a high priced coat of tan. and says so far as he could see there is no abatement in the Cali fornia idea that the principal purpose of monev Is to be spent in that state. HALL OF FAME Sid Vincent, who used to have a regular job, is now in the real estate business. N. L. Cassldy. linotype man of our est ev'g contemp., has a pet calf named Josephine. Geo. L. Baker is in the movies, which is something we knew would happen sooner or later. Joe Gerber, the printer, and Tom Qerber, the newspaper man, are brothers and there are severe! other Gerber boys whom we have not space to mention at this time. Leone Cass- Baer. w. k. writer of dramatics, has gone to Billings to renew her ac quaintance with mother's cooking, for which she has been sighing pathetically for some time. Owls for Onrs- Ed Morlarity, of Jennings Lodge, would just as soon bet 50c cigars as not, but when he loses he says you can't buy such a thing as a 60c cigar this side of N. Y.. and he believes in keeping his money in Oregon. We believe he believes in keeping it even closer home than that. Environment Hakes Morals. Arthur P. Beckner, who. with his wife, has just re turned from 4 years as a gov't teacher in the hotter parts of the Philippines, says he was Immediately struck on getting here with tha quantities of clothes worn by our young ladles and that he cannot understand the criti cisms directed against them by our editorial writers and ministers. Out at Gladstone. The Chautauqua is now on, and Tom Burke, who had something to do with it, says the Pendleton Bulldogger had the right idea when it said a successful Chautauqua must be like a dinner with differ ent courses, some liking the soup, some the salads, and so forth, and Tom says they have everything at Gladstone from soup to nuts. POET'S CORNER Our Plain Duty. By C. T. Hoge. Duty calls in Mexico, where the whiskered cacti grow. What is that duty? I don't know. Shall we fight? Is it right? Should we, like the bulldog, bite? Right or wrong; weak or strong, short or lorn,', sob or song. Trump or gong? I can't tell shot and shell, peal or knell, heaven or hell! But this is plain as plain things go, simple 'tis as sheeting snow, Obvious to all who know Duty calls in Mexico. rred Hakes Clean-Up. Fred Smith, of Ore. City, who shuffles mall between this city and Ashland, where a man named Greer smote the taxpayer's rocks and the lithia water gushed forth, took nearly all the prizes in a fisherman's contest this week including a gold medal which he didn't need. The mfg of gold medals is one of our most useless industries, like putting- full-rigged ships inside of bottles. Ed Wants to Know. Ed Myrlck, who runs tho Columbia and needs a hair cut, says he's getting tired of peode calling him up and asking if Joe Malley's colored quartet is still there. Who is this Joe Malley anyway. Ed says. and wnat minstrel troupe was he with? Toxnro irzrw toxt so. curri xah PXdk.YXxra TEBTjrXS. He said It was all rig-ht to print bis picture, but please not to use his name. Weekly Alf Item. Alf Cridge..who is military ed. of our est. ev'g contemp.. The Journal, is so fussed up lately about events that he has done nothing to make it worth while to print anything about him. He is so nervous that he got on a street car and saluted the conductor and went to walk in, but the con ductor insisted on his paying him a nickel. It Embarrassed Ed. Ed James was standing near the mountain lion's cage in front of the Majestic, home of Theda Bara, one day this wk., and two 'good-looklns; young women came aJong and said my isn't he handsome, and Ed blushedand went in side although he knew they were talking about the Hon. Art Was Daisied. AeI Eckart. who clerks In Julius Meier's general store, was out on the Col. river highwav the other day with his Buick and there were so many big fine new 1918 model touring cars out there that the glare of their polish al most blinded him until he nut on his khaki colored glasses. Call for Mr. Clyde. What has become of Ralph C Clyde, who used to have his name in all the papers? Tes, Why? Because the wrastling in structor at the Multnomah club is going to take Tommy Tracey's place and teach box ing Jim Kelly, one of Tom my s nupils, wants to know why the swimming instructor doesn't teach music. Bad Hews. Dean Collins, the w. k. Jour nalistic jongleur, tells us that O. M. Plummer, who was for merly interested in swee peas, has discontinued his former pleasant practice of taking reporters out to lunCi. E. Denies Adam. Ev. Johnson, former um brella fancier, who used to live in Pendleton, says ha knew everybody there and so far as he knows there never was such a man as Adam Ruppe living there. Msltlng- Pot Stuff. Monro Goldstein asked Judge Dayton to go down to the Hibernian bank and iden tify him yesterday, and the judge said -he was a little superstitious about namee, but he'd go anyway. Kay Is Wasted. Much hay has been going to waste owing to the wet weather but there isn't any thing that can be done that we can see so we say noth ing about it. Music and Theatric Bote. Bill Pangle. who used to play the snare drum in Par son's orchestra, has cone into i the movies. engravings, a number of them con cerned with Washington' royal an cestry in England, an account of which Is given. An article on the Mound Builders by Emilius O. Randall, secre tary of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical society, one on the Codt ficatlon of International Law, by Ell hu B. Root, an account of George Rog ers Clark and the Revolutionary his tory of Illinois, and one of New Jersey?- Revolutionary Camping Grounds, are -features of the issue. There are engravings connected with early, Ohio history and five illustrations relating to Aaron Burr's conspiracy. Century for July. The opening feature of the July Cen tury, "A Lost City of the Andes," by Harry A. Franck, is the first .rticie to appear of a series by this uncon ventional young literary globe-trotter, the author of "A Vagabond Journey Around the World," and other books, describing his four years of travel and exploration in South America. Alfred G. Gardiner, editor of the London Pally News, who has made a name for himself by his brilliant character studies of men of today, con tributes a sketch of General Halg's per sonality, with an estimate of British generalship as a whole as exhibited in the war. "GalllpoH: the Adventures of a Sur vivor," is the personal narrative of A. John Oallishaw, a Newfoundlander who served in the British ranks during the Dardanelles campaign until he was dis charged severely wounded. Mr. Galli shaw, who Is now a student at Har vard, describes the horrors and the splendors of that Ill-starred British venture, as only one could who had been through It. "Among the other features of the July Century Include: the fourth Instalment of "The Leatherwood God," the Will lam Dean Howels serial; poems by Vale Young Rice, Margaret Widdemer, Ruth Comfort Mitchell, and Harold Kellock; "The French Peasants of St. Pierre and Mlquelon," a series of pho tographs by Edith S. Watson: "An Archaelogical Footnote." by Simeon Strunsky; "In Lighter Vein," "Current Comment." etc., etc. First Biography Of Jeff ery Amherst Jeffery Amherst. A Wogrsphy. by LawTnee Shuw M:ito. Keren llliiHtrntlim Tjongmaria, Green Company, New York. S2.00 net- This is the flrstiography of the EnglUrh general whose strategy and persistency brought the French and Indian war to a successful close and added Canada to the British empire. Heretofore the most extensive account of Amherst's life and activities was to be found In the Dictionary of National Biography, while I'arkman'e writings supplied the best history of his brief but efficient career in America. Of his earlier cam'palgns on the conti nent, of his association with Llgonler and Pitt, of his part Irr the conduct of the American war, of hie methods of quelling the Gordon riots, and of his personality there has been no connected story. This is supplied by the present work, which rehabilitate Amherst and gives him his proper place In the history of his time. It also gives one an Idea of what George III. thought of him and the opinions held by those who drank port with the general at his town house and at "Montreal." Novelist Is Soldiering. Rupert Hughes author of "Clipped Wings." and other novels has gone with his regiment, the 6fth. the first New York regiment to be mobilized. Captain Hughes wrote his publishers that be Is now a soldier and must lay aside for the time all book-making, and leave to them all the work of pre paring his forthcoming novel for press. Dramatizing "The Border Legion." "The Border Legion," Zane Grey's Just-published novel of frontier ad venturers, is to be dramatized and will bt ready for produiftion in the au tumn. Mr. Grey win write the play himself, assisted by the stage director who is to staK It. Finds Romance in New York Tenement Father Barnard's Pariah Pt Florence 01 ny . Ktead. Charles hcribner'a Hons, New Yuia. f :ZS net. A story of New York city by tha . author of "The Cloistered Romance, of recent popularity. "Father Bernard's Parish" In locals ; Is not of Fifth avenue. Broadway 01 even Wall street, but of Columbus c avenue, the tenement district, where Father Bernard becomes one of tha leading figures In a love affair ot considerable action involving person!' of three nationalities. The tale, develops a bit of the re mance to be found, if sought, tn "the . lives of the poorer classes of people ' mingling In a great city. Xorth American IKniew. George Harvey, writing in the July lFnue of the North American Review, discusses the national conventions with his customary acuteness and In dependence. On the whole, he says, the Democratic convention shone brightly In comparison with that of the Republicans at Chtcagoi "We are glad," he says, "that, unlike Senator James A. O'Gorman, Senator Oscar W. Underwood, Speaker Champ Clark. Colonel Henry Watterson, the Honor able Samuel Untermyer, James B. Re gan and others too few to mention, we went to St. Louis." Colonel Harvey's comment on the presidential candidates is that "neith- ee is' a superman, or Is likely to be come a popular hero; but each unques tionably personifies the best that his party has to offer; in addition, each is positively the strongest candidate they could have named." Leading Minds Tell Of P.-P. I. Exposition "The Exposition In Retrospect" Is the title of a volume of opinions ot the leading minds of America on t he value of the Panama-Paelf lo Interna tional Exposition at San Francisco last year. leading figures In politics, scientists, railroad men, and prominent" club women have contributed articles touch ing upon the far-reaching effects and; Influence of the exposition. The volume Is artistic in print, make up and binding. It is published by the exposition directors. Public Library Notes. ' . jb, rTi v fir inn ntw m h 11 nr i irr irri ptinnsnea ny tne jieaia company m this city, has Just been added to the . map collection or tne central uDrary. ; It is posted In the lobby, on the first" rioor. The following magazines and news papers have been added to the llbraryl Dental Register, Westermann s Monats- v. f 1 ......... i T.h. n..H ... . . -r . . O. A. C. Klennial llcKrt Received. " Receipt of the 1912-14 report of the . Doara or regents or tne uregon Agricul tural college is acknowledged. The vol ume contains the president's annual report, a general review of the college work for the two years, showing steady advancement; report of the registrar) , report of the extension worlfr; report of the treasurer and general Informa tion. July Architectural Record. The notable progress In American architecture during tne last 25 years Is reviewed in the July Architectural Record by A. D. F. Hamlin, professor of architecture in Columbia university. American Bishop Bucks -Railroad Tha ShaphcTd of the Kortk, by Richard Au merle Maber. Tht MacMillen com pan. Nw York. 11. S5 net. The story pt a big-hearted and broad brained American bishop who works and lives among his people in the wild Adirondack country. The plot follows his fight agaonst the greed of the en croaching railroad, the climax being a forest fire, started In retaliation for the bishop's victory for his parishion ers. The tale is wholesome and entertaining. A STORY OF OREGON H AP PY hit A BIG, gripping story of homesteading in the last of the virgin West. There is tragedy to touch the sympa thies, comedy to raise a smile, romance to fire the imagina tion, but best of all there is the cheerful, battling, indomitable spirit of the Pioneer the spirit of America. I VALLEYy if ii r sjniiiisniisMMi mmmmwmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i t7TZ By ANNE SHANNON MONROE All Bookstores A. C, UcCLURG & Co.. PUBLISHERS i