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OKECiON. MONDAY, V I7 1 IV Att Y JA-Hi DDITIQU MDPPAn" IPOE'S COTTAGE. AMERICA'S GREATEST LOVE UMHOimmUimi I rnnmr ,, nr p.wrn m nnQTtDITV A Very Simple Matter (ll'KNING a bank i"'t at the Pil'st Nn. in;,1 i, very very easy. Adding to it may . n Utile hard at first. Bt l,ot1' ul1' sury to success. Leave your name, signa ture and first deposit nt New Accounl tie ,,nrliueiil. If you can't eoiuc in, open your , mmt, mil dl ohvlu run rujiuun FAT PLUM FOR DESTROYERSWILL DEFENSE STOPS L( z Ruils Ahandoned As Fruitless By German Leaders Attacks to Be Appointment of Raymond Baker of Nevada as Director of Mint Arouses Enmity Main Qualifica tion Is That Me Is Crcnie of Tu multySenate May Hold It Up. British Naval Attache Describes Method of Frotectiiui Merchant Ships Half Dozen Destroyers Will Shield Thirty Sl'i.ir NcJtra's Not British Beintt Blockaded. count my Mail. I.il eic.l Interest Savings and Time pcposils. V' -y-f :,y;: Made at Intervals to Keep Air Craft Guns From Front-Wilson Capital $100,000 Protests Zeppelin Warfare. mr,nA'nn ir Tr rA( KIA J" : : TUMULTY LANDS 'SPEEDY BRITISH If Iffi i itiaiiW . . BOON COMRADE BREAK BLOCKADE EPPELIN RAIDS "I itm In ti'.s l Uy OTLKON OA M iSF.lt. WASHINGTON, t"fl. !'.. Another "bnddic'' f Joe Tiimiiilv has landed a c,ood Jul). Kuyinonu i.nkci in .m-1 ,,.. vudu bus been nuincd tn siicoed I'. , iiiovinir T vn K.,m.lk.n us ilii lor of tin- llritiiin mint. Baker graduates to lliis posi tion from being Boerctiirv to the for mer American ambassador to Russia, Ucorgc T. Muryo. linker lnul Hoiiiethiiin lo do with the management of Senator Key I'itt nuin's first ennipuien. Lulcly he Iiiih been living nt the Willnrd nnd sport ing a l'nekard ear with a colored chauffeur, and the i-cncrnl idea has prevailed tiiat his business was lobby ing for the l'helan oil bill, which Sec retary Daniels lias been trying to check. It is certain Hint Senator Pitt man is on tho wrong side of this bill which has had a fierce and expensive lobby here in Washington. Woolley Is Slighted. Yun Kngelken, who succeeded Itob Woolley as director of the mint when Woolley resigned to take charge of tho publicity for the democratic na tional campaign, leaves voluntarily to become head of u farm loan bank in I'Turido, but the surprise is caused bv the fact that Woolley is passed over, lifter bis valuable services in the cam paign, nnd n minor party from No vadu, whose principal business is sup posed to be lobbying, gels the appoint nient. linker's most vnlunble nssct as i iob-irotler is umiucstiunubly his mli- muey with the secretary lo the prcsi dent. The two have been for nearly three years "ns Ihick ns thieves,'' and it should not cause surprise that the best plum knocker in the udininislrn t inn for such is the secretary to the president should pull down some thing fur n favorite eroney. J'lttmnn Aided. Pillmnn, of course, helped, and I in understood that some other west ern senators also went to tho front for linker. The president may have made the appointment under the im pression tliul lie wns uppointint; liny Ktnunui'd linker, cx-cxpose mnn for the American Mugnzine, and nnony mmis author of the David (Iruvson books. This linker bns been an en thnsinstio nnd vnlunble Wilson sup porter for five yenrs. There is a good deal of feeling iu Wushington over this appointment critical feeling nnd ill tho senate there may be opposition. Indeed may be another (.'nroy Uinyaou case .Xu Serious ChargVH. There is nothing very tangiblo or serious to be charged nipiinst linker, but there is a feeling that the mini who bus exclusive charge of tin pur chase of all (he gold, silver, ropprv and other metals needed bv the gov ernment for making its coinage, ouclit to lie something more than whnt linker is. 'flic pnivluise of void is conducted by the iniiit on automatic lines, but the iiurehnse of silver is made at the direction of the mini di rector in the open market. A director might buy when the market is iloun.j as Woolley did, thus makuie. eiioiedij on the pnrcluiM' to run nil the mint service for a year, or lie niiht buy when the market is up. thus p'.-ivuu: into the hands of miiim: m dutors. The suuie is true of o,.p,.-r, of v. Inch the government is a in rue ouri-luiscr in the open market. Ilesidi ibis, the director is responsible for the sate keeping of the bullion and coin of the renhn, to the extent of mnnv millions, 'fhe office, iu shoit, is one v. hi-di should be filled bv a man id' iiiiipics tiollcd resptmsiliilily. liv IIIOKIIFKT J. DI CKWOUTII. NKW Voile.', Feb. Ill With con vovs of her newest iU-knot destroyers I heavily tinned, circling ut express td around tleets of sluw icichunlinen and freighters, expects lo frustrate the anil most menacing tactics ol . . . - , . , i .. Jcrmunv s suliniurino i)io-,-mi,o. Contain Guv Guunt, It. X.. Ilritish liuviil itttaehe, described to me todnv in his office nt tho Ilritish consulate tho motliod that will be used to pro tect tho cargoes on which Ilrituin must depend for her very life. In protecting our mercantile nin- at the present time, we have simply to consider tho bubiiinnne, said Captain Gaunt. "Half u dozen last destroyers will bo able to afford ndciiuule protection to a fleet of, say, 110 merchantmen. The range of visibility ot a l- hoat is not more thnn three miles. This means that the destroyers will not bo compelled to steer a course more than three miles from the ships being protected. Method of Convoying. The big steamers will take the center of the convoy and the smaller tramps tho fringe. Now, these small shins do not draw much water, which will make it necessary for a L'-boat oaiinander in attempting an attack cut bis tornedo lo travel at not more than three feet below the sur face. "This would mako it very uncertain whether Ihe torpedo would ever reach its target, for at but three feet below Ihe surface the torpedo would be verv apt lo 'heuk water.' In coming to tho surfuco the torpedo wouiii pnm- nblv bumi) a wave nnd have its gy nil unset. There would be no telling then when it would eventually limit. II might start off for Ihe North 1 ole and hit tho equator. Willi overy lnerchnnlman m the convoy armed, nnd with the destroy ers ever on tho alert, a convoy ol tncvchanlnien would be a very danger ous job for n submnnno conininndcr to tackle. Ilritish Iteeognie Danger. . 'The Ilritish government is fully alive to tlui new submarine danger and is prepared to lose mnnv more ships. That is the price we are pay ing for the command of the sens. Hut von will notice that Ilritish ships arc 'sailing iust the same. We slill have thousands of ships oil nil the sens. ''We nre not being blockaded. H is tho neutrals that are being block aded. "Ily Rctling our merchant ships inin flc-fu and convoying tlu'in in Ihe manner 1 have de-eribed. nnd bv other menus, I think we shall survive. "One of our greatest difficulties is lo get our merchant captains lo obey admiralty orders. Our snilfts ftVcm to court danger. When we tell them lo avoid certain routes, tbev seem to I .ike a fiendish delight ill positively running right into danger. Explain I'milen Success. "The success of the F.mdcn was due lo lln-. stubborn trail ol our sanors. We warned all merchant ships to moid the regular trade route be tween Ceylon nnd Cnlenltn, yet when wc came to examine our losses we found that not n -hip had iloiialcd inure than ten miles from its usual cour -e. All the I'.mdcn hud to do wns to cruise along the recognised route, usiiully followed by Ilritish vessels, nnd pot the ships as they came along. "We have been fighting Ihe suhnm- thc beginning ol the v. nr. going to niodily (1KNKVA, Teh. J !!.-( Kroin a shift' correspondent of the Associated Press) The Zeppelin cuinpiiign against London has been found to be unprofitable. The cessation of Gcr man air iittueks on the Ilritish me tropolis after the latest appearances of the big dirigibles over Ihe city last full has been due, not lo fortuitous corcniiistnnces, but to tile deliberate leicrininiilrbii of the German 1 tiders to abandon these attacks, tis has long been done iu Ihe case of Paris. .Not Enliiely Abandoned, The correspondent, who wus then in Ilei'lin, was informed trom n trust worthy source a few days after the final London raid of the decision to send no more Zeppelins and sist ships of the Sehullehinz type against London. Air ranis against Kngland, the col respondent was told, would not be ubnudoued entirely. They were considered lo be of great service in holding nt home guns, airplanes nnd men of the Ilritish aerial defense, which otherwise would be freed for service in France, but iu future the attacks would be directed against the provinces instead of London. 'file next and final expedition of the year on November 27, w as directed against the Midland counties, in accordance with the prophesy and resulted in the loss of two Zeppelins. llofciiso Slops ItJiids. The predominant reason for the decision to discontinue attacks on London probably is the increasing strength and efficiency of the air de feases of the city, but Ihe effect of the raids on neutral opinion, in view of the then contemplated pence over- lures, may also have been a factor. It may be interesting iu this con nection to record a bit of unwritten history of the war. In the curly days of the conflict, when the air raids were just beginning, President Wilson caused lo he conveyed to hinpcror William nnd the Gcrniun government n personal and iinoflicial message. which set forth Hint airship and piano raids upon populous eilie ay? a 1- s XKW YOItK, Fell. 19. Though the teninles of (ireecc and Itonie nro! crumbling Into din t, and the wor.slilp per: nt Iho shrines of Venus and Aphrodite are now on!y u memory. America hard, money making, com-1 moreial, practical America is about to erect a bhiino lo the Goddess ol Love! On this anniversary day given over to the shy glances and murn:ui"2d sighs of lovers, the greatest love slu ino in America is being rescued from Ihe oblivion which threatened to overtake It. Tho llltle while collage which for four years was the home of America's most tender lover and poet Edgar Al lan Poe la now a public possession, securely placed In appropriate sur roundings In Poe park, In the llronx. It has been turned over by the city to the Ilronx Society of Arts and Sci ences, and is to be refurnished in har mony with the period and character ol' its appointments nt the time of its oc cupation by Edgar Allan and Virginia Poe. In old daguereotype, etching and picture on the walls of the cottage, and in the few articles associated with his life, the sweet, but melancholy story of this man, whom Tennyson culled "the most original genius America has produced," Is told 1 v -- fen l I ml MEDFORD niiiiiinjassaasiHBSBss JUlgav Allen I'oe's cot tune in tlie ISionx, New Yoik, wherein bo lived with Virginia, bis girl wife, and iviolo "Tlio Haven." picturesque Fordbam cottage, which is now being restored and preserved. In January, 18-1", In this cottage, Viiinia Poe died. For long months afterwards, night after night, Poo would rise from his sleepless bed and wander to the grave OREGON m II wsmr ii LUMBER HANDLERS WANTED AT WEED 20 men for sawmill sorting tables. Wages on contract basis of 20c per thousand feet. Average wage on this basis wilFamount to approximately $2.90 per clay. Write to . Weed Lumber Company, Weed, Cal. for further particulars. An orphan at a tender age. afterward j of his lost lov In 181", Poe had visited Providence, where lie saw in her garden a beautiful .iir- wcre looked on with disfavor by the Ameri can people and contributed largely to stirring up anli-Cicruian feeling in the I'nilcd States. ' In view of this, the wisdom of their discontinuance was suggested, i lie message uio noi inn entirely on dent' cars but the views of the military party prevailed and Ihe air iittueks, then Ihe only German nenns of bringing home Ihe realities of war to the people within the Ilrit jsh I.les, continued. Later they ceased for a lime to the displeasure of an element, which openly accused Chancellor Von I'.ethmnnn-llollwcg of shealliiee his weapon in deference lo neutral opinion. This element was appeased but little by Count Zeppe lin's published letter to the chancel lor wherein the count disavowed re sponsibility for this accusation. The raids were resumed with the object of tying up w ithin the islands nnd elimi nating from the Sonmic offensive as large a number ot nnt'.-nirslnp guns. Mirn'nnes. searchlights and men to equip I hem. as possible. Aside from this service, which is of considerable inilitnlv value, the role ol the Zeppe lins in bind warlare is now ivgaubd in expert circles iu Germany, as de- eidedly sccoi'dliry lo their great value ns scouting agents for operations of the fleet. an inmate of his aunt's home, Poo early became enamored of his little cousin. Virginia, eight. Under his tutoring, this beautiful girl at 14 wns'intcllectually mature and de veloped. ,; A tender love bad sprung up between them, hut the marriage was opposed by Ihe family, since Virginia already showed signs of the dread "while plaguu" that finally ended her briel' life. Notwithstanding objections, the two were married, but Poe separated from his bride at the altar and it was not until a year later that he saw her again. During Ihe year's separation Poe wns afflicted with the dread melan choly that pursued him through life, and became a victim of drink. Although his work both In poetry and story writing was receiving recog nition. I'oe himself was very poor. Devoted to his frail child-wife, be was forced to sec her puffer for the very necessaries of life. Susceptible iu certain moods lo a senso of Ihe supernatural. II Is thought I'oe's poem "The Raven" was inspired by a vision of his beloved x irginia ai readv dead and himself shut off from her forever. In 1M6 I'oe. with his rapidly failing wife, and her mother, removed to the young woman, Mrs. Snrab Helen Will; man. "The ttaven" brought about the meeting and romance with Mrs. Whit In tho little cottage at Fordhum I'oe penned the love letters to "Helen," which have been compared lo the glow ins letters of Abelard and Hloisu for the fire and urgency and consuming hirst to be loved Hint they display. DESTROYES JAPANESE RED CRO0S HOSPITAL TOKIO, Feb. 10. The Japanese Red Cross hospital at Mukden was destroyed by a fire on January G, ac- ocrding to Mukden advices. After desperato efforts of tho medical staff and nurses the pateients were all re moved to" a place of safety. at times WILSON ASKS CONGRESS TO INDEMNIFY COLOMBIA WASHINGTON, Feb. 1!). Prcsi dent Wilson has sent a letter to Chair man Stone of the sernte foreign re lations committee, urging action dur ing this session of congress on iiic I trentv to indemnify Colombia fei the i pari ition of Panama. BARD WELL FRUIT COr STEWART FRUITCO. Distributors Lime and Sulphur, by Barrel or Bulk Arsenate of Lead and All Orchard Supplies PACKERS AND SHIPPERS "SIGNAL BRAND." 11. (!. BARDYV KI L, MMiiatrrr. . V. K WAUL, See. Office and "Warehouse- opposite Mail Tribune, l'lione 124 SENATE REFUSES No'nilh eiuite sov .olution t SALKM, Hie. Feb. PL standing the fact thut the eral weeks ngo pnss,-( t t, the effect that Hen llinghiiin. son of Seiintor Itinghnni, was not nn au thorized clerk ill lite sctiiite. the scc rctnry of slide's ofn.-c put Itc ghain on the payroll for S.".. Ily a itnr.iii niolis vole t lii- nllertioon ihe s,.,mi.. refused lo npproc of i'ic shI.i'v ;;! lownlice and llin-.di.tin ill 'i' l be given the fund ei,.;;li,l to Imn b Secretary Oleott. Wr :iic now simply our tnclie.." Fioin another source I learned that the I'.nli- li proposal i- not to convoy ship- to and from the I'nilcd Slates nil the way across the Atlantic nn - le-s ihe Germans start a ennipnign over hole with their super-siilnna- lilies. I'ntil Ihe waters on this si,! conic dangerous, ships from North American and South American ports will meet ut a rendezvous, sonic :',un or HIP miles I rum the Ilritish 1-lcs. the nosilion of which will be flashed lo them bv win-less m seel This meeting i.'.nec oil til will he changed for everv e be ct code Atlantic MOSEi HELPED THE NORMAL SCHOOL BILL We nre today in receipt of a left from Itelircsenlulive lien. Sheldon lelling of the passage in the state senate of Ills Normal School measure, In which the people of this section of the state are so Interested. Mr. Shel don attribute the success of the mca sure In Ihe senate very largely to the personal influence of Senator Moser, of Portland, president of the senate It Is one of tho few nuasiiies in which Mr. Moser has taken n per sonal Interest and his successful sup port of Sheldon's normal school mea sure should be remembered by the people of southern Oregon. NKW YORK, Feb. C. ban liner Philadelphia Liverpool February I I I, with passengers repot t The Anur which left New York 1 her post! loll Willi Mcdford limle Is Meilfonl made bv wlieless toduv .o.v York at t " a l, lo do,k Tlinuii 1.'. iu ii asl Why the OWL? THE question is answered many times a day by our friends who buy the OWL. Why the OWL? Because it's a mellow smoke. Because it's a fragrant smoke. Be cause it's a free-drawing, even-burning, satisfying smoke. Because it's a uni: formly good smoke. Get in the OWL smoker class. It costs only a nickel to belong. ' The Million Dollar Cigar -r.a, fSij 'C-1""'-JJJ N j M. A. CONST SCO. n v a verv sninl loan ol ine io- u re iM( OK r'l 1KA I H.1J III 111 Wo Can Increase Your KainiiiR Capacity nt tho PACIFIC BUSINESS COLLEGE In Sparta Iliiildlnix, over Gates Auto Salesrooms COMflA Ti: rOMMKltClAfj, 1IOHTIIAND, CIVIL SEHVICE, ANU TYIM AVIUTINO COl liSKS, SPEI.MNO, I'.I SINKSS ENGLISH, C'O.M MEF.C1AL LAW, AKITHMETIO, lUPII) CAI.CFLATIOX, PENMAN SHIP, ETC. TWENTY-SIX YEAItS EXPEltlEXCE IX ItlSINESS OFFICE AND COMMERCIAL WOI1K. NltlllT SESSIONS IlKfaX 7 O'CLOCK MONDAY EVENING', l'El!. 101TL I'lIONE oll-X. W. E. SHANK, Principal. QUIT aving your Carpets and Rugs Beaten to Pieces, r.sc tlio J lust less Mot In il to renovate Extcrm- 21 1 Ol H ill Hill . 'ilintps viiAlhs ftr I Pi'oinptiicss nucl tllOV- ougnnt'ss my mono. Phone Jacksonville 282 Harry A. Wysong a verv small part of the lo' il rc- icived here. Il.'nlth Commissioner Klneison estiniales the set.n nliout one llflh of one per .11 ri als. The Portland Hotel PORTLAND, OREGON The liose City's world-famed hotel, occupying an entire block. All outside rooms. Superior dining and grill service. An atmosphere of refinr mcnt, with a service of courtesy. European Plan, $1.50 and Up RICHARD W. CHILDS, Manager
