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THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1907. EDITOR TELLS WHY HE CHANGED F. Benjamin Fay Mills, of Oak land, Speaks to Three Port land Audiences. CREATES OWN RELIGION Noted Lecturer Says He Left the Old Pathways Because He No longer Approved of Ac cepted Dogmas. Benjamin Fay Mills, of Oaklajid, Oal., editor of the monthly magazine called "Fellowship," and a lecturer of note, spoke In tba morning, afternoon and night yesterday at Women of Woodcraft Hall, a large audience being present at each meeting. In the morning Mr. Mills took for his subject, "The Divinity of Christ"; in the afternoon, "Why I Changed My Op'lnlons," and at night. "The Tyranny of the Dead." Mr. Mills' address yesterday afternoon was characterised by a warmth and fer vor and by such a forceful expression of what he believes to be truth,, that It called forth numerous bursts of applause on the part . of the audience. Man, he said, never fell, and hence the vicarious atonement of Christ Is not needed. His address in part was as follows: Several years ago I delivered an address upon this toply In response to numerous requests. For 'two reasons first, because of the continued manifested Interest of those whp heard that address and of others who did not hear It. and, second, because I think I understand better now why my opinions were changed than I did then I have consented to select this topic for this occasion. I have not changed my fnith except to Set more of It. I have not chang-ed my principles except to see more perfectly the value of the great teachings of the Sermon on the Mount. What there was In my character that was -of value I have not changed except . as I have become more loyal to truth as revealed to me, and al though my theology has been altered I have kept my religion. Change "ot Sudden One. This was not a voluntary change. The causes of it were;ldden. It was not a sud a MhaTCwA ThT . -H . h.d Inns' been ma turing, and at last were ready to produce fruit. It was not a once-for-all change. It was not a substitution of one set of cptnions for another. It was the adoption of a new principle of Intellectual, moral nnd spiritual evolution, the adoption of truth for authority Instead of authority for "truth, the casting off the bondage of domination of outside authorities and casting myself wholly upon the ration al Institutions of my own soul. My former opinions concerning God. man and the universe had ceased to satisfy the demands of my Intellect. The foundation facts of Christian or Pauline theology are two first, the fall of man. and. second, the miraculous life of Jesus. The fundamental doctrines, namely, the universal condemnation of the race and the possible redemption of a few through the blood of Christ, are founded upon these foundation facts. Now. these fundamental facts are either not true or not susceptible of proofs and consequently the doctrines derived from them cannot be correct. The fall of man is not a fact in the sense In which It Is tauisht In Chris tian circles. There must be a sense In which the whole creation has "fallen' , that Is. by which the universe falls in the Knowledge and consciousness of God; but ever since we have known man on the earth he has been progressing mentally and morally. I decided that it was "better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not true." Dogmas Became Vnhearable. The ordinary medieval dogmas of all the orthodox confessions pf faith became In th-omielves to me immoral and demor alising, such as the failure of God. the ruin of man. the fantastic, unreal scheme of Justification, salvation by opinion, and the existence of eternal evil and eternal torment. The greater theology began to supplant the old until I adopted the principle: "I will bellove the best I can think, being fully persuaded that If it be not the truth it Is becauM something better Is true which Ism not yet able to comprehend." Furthermore, I changed my religious tplnlnns because those which I held did not satlty my moral nature. I saw that they stultified sympathy because of their ex clusive character, both as rugards their teaching of discrimination between the saved and the lost, and also through the monstrous doctrine of the separation of man from God. I discovered, also, that religion does not depend on opinion, and that the most re ligious people are a3 apt to be outside the church as in It. I saw that the great thinkers, reformers, piSts and loaders of the race were aimoat without exception counted heretics In their time. I have felt that It would be Immoral for me not to speak out the beet 1 can think. As Oliver Wendell Holmes said: "I cannot be a cow ,rd with mv Hps. who dare to question all things In my soul." This very attitude nd practice changes a man's opinions and pens undreamed-of doors Into the coun lels of the unseen reality. IUI xuriner i iuuhu m. .jr v... Ilglous opinions distinctly prevented my spiritual fcnfoldment. I mean this word spiritual to include the whole man. I had Ived up to the highest standards. 1 knew the best I could, and It was simply in follow ing out this principle that I needed a larger set of opinions to express the larger concep tions that caine to mc. I conceived of a man as a royal personage deluded as to his real character, and that he reconquers his territories by the endowment of his spiritual consciousness. I believe that it la true for HI. but I know that it is for me. tnat tne way of spiritual unfoldment la through self reliance Works Out Rational Religion. I believe I have worked out a scientific basis for rational religion. I never plead with anyone to get them to adopt my opin ions. If a man is thoroughly satisfied with his reliance on authority outside or nlmselt and if it really Introduces him to God. 1 would bid him continue where he is until he needs a larger environment to contain his growing soul. But if you are discon tented wltn your religious conceptions and environment, then I bid you have no fear as you entrust yourself to the revelation and. the guidance fr the uofl tnnt aweus witnin. The world is becoming filled witn people whose faces are turned toward the large light, the larger truth, the larger wisdom, the larger satisfaction and the larger life. In the words of another, let us write on our banners: "Freedom of reason and free dom of conscience the method In religion, instead of tradition and authority;- fellow ship the spirit in religion, instead of sec tarianism: --service the aim' in religion in stead of salvation for self: and character the test In religion, instead of ritual and creed." I have had many preachers come to me and tell me that It was all right for me to hold these views, but that this was not the time to put them before the public. When I was In Boston I used to have a chair which I called the preacher's chair, because in that ehair the ministers sat when they came to me to admit that they held the same views as myself, but did not believe In ex pressing them. In Oakland I still have the preacher's chair In my study, and at least SO preachers have confessed their views to be the same as mine. This week. Mr. Mills will give five lec tures In the Women of Woodcraft Hall, corner Tenth and Taylor streets. These are free to the public. This afternoon, t 3 o'clock, his topic will be, "Three Ways to Love." The topic for all the evening addresses, which will be given at I o'clock, will be, "Can a Modern Man Practice the Sermon on the Mount?" with sub-tool ca ajs follows: Monday, "About AITH Prosperity"; Tuesday evening omitted; Wednesday, "About Love"; Thursday. "About Non-Resistance"; Friday, "About the Final Judgment." GIVES ADVICE TO PARENTS Judge Frazer, of Juvenile" Court, Talks at White Temple. Judge A. - L. Frazer of the Juvenile Court addressed a large congregation at the White Temple last night on the work of the Juvenile Court, telling of the in- j fluences surrounding the lives of the de-. j brought up each week for trial.. The services were under the auspices of the Women's Home Training Association. Dr. Brougher Jocularly remarked before the service that the members of this associa tion are not banded together for the pur pose of teaching wives how to train their husbands, but that they may learn how to bring up the younger members of tire family. Judge Frazer said in part: In the Juvenile Court we are brought into contact with every phase of human life, with every variety of human - character. About 1SO0 children have been brought Into our Juvenile Court since Its organiza tion In June, 1005. We have had occasion to observe and to Investigate the conditions surrounding very many more, probably :!000 children altogether. We necessarily learn of every case of destitution and mis ery where children are Involved. We listen to the histories of most of the dls rupted homes. - The story may be one of disease and death, or it may tie one of crime and Immorality, of selfishness, or desertion. We hear the stories of all the children who have committed offenses against the law. or who have become immoral or are growing up In Idleness and crime. In every J case it is our duty to Investigate the home surroundings and the character of the parents of these children, and endeavor to find out, it possible, tre cause of the trouble. I have found that there is a general Im pression in the minds of the public that the children brought Into the Juvenile Court are very different from other children; thdt they are low and vile and mostly degener ates. I wish to say right here that, as a rule, children brought into the Juvenile Court are naturally no worse than your children or mine; they are Just as human, equally susceptible to good influences, and have Just as strong motives and incentives to do right as other children. Many children are allowed to associate with Immoral companions and to acquire habits of Immorality and crime through the mere carelessness of their parents. Such parents may lead honorable and moral lives, may have furnished pleasant homes, and may really love their children, and yet care lessly allow them to go without supervision at times and in places where supervision is necessary. A common Instance of this class of parent is the mother who allows her little 12 or 14-year-old girl to go to amusement resorts, skating rinks, matinees, or to go walking on the streets at night with another little girl of about the same ape. The most serious evil we have to con tend with In the Juvenile Court is the leading astray of young girls. Not a week passes that we do not have two or three, and frequently we have five or six of such girls brought into court during the week. The most of them fall because of the care lessness and thoughtlessness of their moth ers. ' The most common mistake that such mothers make la in thinking that It Is safe to allow her little girl to go to places of amusement or to go out on the streets with a neighbor's girl of about the same age. She would not think of allowing the child to go alone to such places, and yet the child would be infinitely safer alone. A young girl alone la usually not bold enough to take up with atrange boys or to go about places of doubtful character, but when two are together they link arms and seem to impnrt boldness to each other. They will go to a matinee or to a vaudeville perform ance in the evening, and together they will talk to the ushers or other dapper young fel lows who make a practice of hanging around those places. Or they will go to skating rinks together and take up with the young men who are employed there, or who have, perhaps, come there for the express pur pose of meeting such girls. They soon ac quire a liking for the excitement Incident to these exploits, and it is not long before they will deceive their mothers, and by a preconcerted arrangement each will obtain permission to visit the other. They will meet, however, on the street and spend the evelilng promenading up and down our streets or keep some appointment previ ously made with ,lwo boys. Where a young girl Is reported to us as having gone wrong we have found almost in every instance that she had a girl chum, who has traveled the same road; and ln al most every Instance it can bs seen that a little care and watchfulness on the part of the mother might have prevented the ruin ing of the young life and the breaking of the heart of the parents. ' VAN DRAN-MONTEITH. FEUD Mac Monteith Wants Kaspar Van Dran's Brother Removed. ALBANY, Or., Oct. 27. (Special.) An other chapter in the unusual hUtory of Kaspar Van Dran was recorded here late yesterday afternoon when Mac S. Mon teith. o Portland, filed a petition In the County Court here praying for the re moval of Chris A. Van Dran, of Albany, as administrator de bonis non of the es tate of Minne M. Van Dran. deceased wife of Kaspar Van Dran and sister of Ipar Van Dran's body dug up from its ' resting place beside the body of his wife and transferred to a new grave, tne Mon telths want to sever all connection of the Van Drans with their sister's estate. In his petition for the removal of Chris Van Dran. Monteith alleys the estate Is not' being properly admmlstered. About J2000 worth of property Is involved. When Minnie M. Van Dran drank a bot tle of ginger ale containing cyanide of potassium and died instantly at her home in Portland in August, 1905, her husband, Kaspar Van Dran, then a Portland saloon-keeper, was appointed, administra tor of her estate. Then when Kaspar Van Dran's lifeless ibody was found De cember 28, 1905, at his room In the Hotel Oregon, where he had killed himself by drinking cyanide of potassium, his broth er Chris A. Van Dran, proprietor of the Depot Hotel. In this city, was appointed administrator de bonis non. Mac S. Monteith and his brother. Watt Monteith, who recently died at his home in Portland, made no objections to this procedure at the time but last Fall Mac Monteith and his sister, Minerva Mon teith, also a resident of Portland, filed claims in the County Court here for a share of the rents which had been col lected from the Albany property and other amounts which they asserted were due them out of . their sister's estate, the claims aggregating $627.04. After a con test the court allowed half of this amount to each claimant, thus approving the claim In full. The next trouble between the Van Drans and Montelths, which arose over the yet unsolved mystery of the death of Mrs. Van Dran; came last month trhsu. .mu .iiuiiici i in ucuinuuen tnat ivaspar Van Dran's body be removed from the Monteith lot In the Masonic Cemetery in this city. In response to Mac Monteith's petition filed yesterday, the Court will issue, a citation requiring Chris Van Dran to ap pear and show cause why he should not be removed as administrator. Van Dran has not yet Indicated whether or not he will contest the proceedings. DYNAMITE KILLS THREE Workmen Meet Death While Trying to Break Oil Well Casement. v- SANTA BARBARA, Cat.. Oct. 27. Three men were Wiled at Santa Maria, in this county yesterday- afternoon by the ex plosion of a charge of dynamite with which they were trying to dynamite the casing of the syndicate oil well. The dead men are Clem Knoke, Albert Bryan and Dudley Hart. EXHIBIT OF 8CE?ttC PHOTOS. Klser'a new store, 48 Alder street PQRTLIO'S CITY JAIL II DISGMCE Rev. J. D. Corby-Preaches on ; Oregon's Method of Treat ing Lawbreakers. PRAISES COUNTY PRISON Finds It Strong Contrast to Munici pal Institution Pastor Sees Much to Criticise, However, In Entire Penal System. Rev. J. D. Corby, of the Unlversalist Church of Good Tidings, preached last night on "Oregon's Methods of Treat ing Its Prisoner." He has spent some time in investigating the county and city Jails, and used them as illustrations.- For the County Jail he had words of praise, but condemned the City Jail in strongest terms, declaring it a disgrace to Portland. He spoke in preface of the general ignorance of this subject on the part of the people, declaring that no cure for crime had yet been found, and that the theory that fear of punishment and torment would protect society and lessen crime had been proved erroneous. He even declared that the courts, in many Instances, and the jails and prisons as conducted today, are breeders of crime. In part Dr. Corby said: How far has Orrgon helped to find the true solution of this vexatious prison problem? My coming Is' too recent to make me fully acquainted with the state methods, yet what I have seen give encouragement to feel that the progressive people of the Mate are hos pitable to the new Ideas and readyMo put thm Into practice as soon as it Is demonstrated that they will accomplish the needed reform. Oregon haa proven this in her law which compels wife deserters to earn on the rockplle money- to support the family they tried to make a public charge. Our county is proving lis aggressive spirit by the maintenance of the Kelly Butte rockplle. where Industry Im coupled with detention and the law-breaker soons learns that he muct, support himself and obey, whether In. or out of prison. The Juven ile Court 1 a recognition of the value and rights of children which says to all the world that our state feels with Jesus, that of such is the Kingdom of Heaven. These are a good start, and in our young state are prophetic of larger things that are to be. To visit the County Jail im another encouragement, for it Is the pink of neatness, lacking any of the usual Institutional odors, and Is directed by a humane sheriff. But what is the gain of simply shutting a person up in a clean, comfortable cell? You confine, but not by" the widest stretch of imagination can you say that you cure. The woman dive keeper who Is confined In the County Jail 1 spending her month in quietness and ease, but no though fu I man believes that the weeks she spends there with idle hands and with no moral incitement is going to make her any better to help rather than to harm so ciety. Every man indicted, and those who are v convicted, will develop good character quicker with Industry then they will by sim ply killing time in idleness. When I entered the cells at the City .Jail I could only think of one of the many prisons I have entered thar It resembled, and that is the old copper mine In Connecticut,-: where they used to confine ' Tories during the ' revo lution. One wouldn't use the cell room for a stable If he cared anything for his horse. To commit a human being to such) quarters for ninety days, no matter how degraded he might be, would be certain to make him ten fold more the child of hell. It Is a survival from the early days, and the committee who are to erect a modern building should lose no time In haggling nor petering, for this old one is awful. Many of those who are placed in the cells at the Police Station- are drunkards. They are taken in to sober up, then' they are given so many hours to leave town or are sent "downstairs" for so many days. This method is just as antiquated and unintelligent as that Police Station. Imagine sending a man who had the smallpox out of town and exposing all with whom he came in contact with on yie road, and those he consorted with In the next town, to the ravages of the disease. That would be unscientific and criminally careless. Tet these moral wrecks are shooed Vt of the city to carry their contagion where they will. " What should you say if our Board of Health sent a genuine case of bubonic plague to the hospital for three days. Instead of until convalescence was established-. Would you not question the sanity of such procedure? Tet our present method of dealing with minor criminal cases is just as Irrational as that. . Over and against this old and outgrown method stands the wiser plan of scientific penology. Which declares that the whole ob ject of punishment Is the reformation of the criminal, wherever that Is possible. Second, the permanent isolation of all who cannot be cured of the criminal Intent. And third, pre vention so as to strain out the children and youth who now crowd the channels which lead to crime. With reformation Instead of retribution as its watchword, penology begins its . work with a study of the individual.- It goes back of the crime to the criminal. It recognizes sts problem as a human or pathological one. Each evil-doer Is a case to be studied. Just as he is. living animated by motives and temptations which play upon his life. For instance. It has been discovered" that five to ten of every hundred criminals are in sane. Forty are habitual criminals. Says another, "Criminality is a diseased condition of human character." And this disease mani fests Itself in -every class of human society. Crime can be eliminated only as fast as the Individual and society can' be healed of moral depravity. And the cure can be wrought on ly by a course of discipline which will de velop the solid qualities of virtue and in tegrity. We must begin by recognizing that body, mind and morals are co-ordinated in criminal as In normal charactpr. We mint rti n--nvr th physical, mental and moral defects of eaelf offender, then set about correcting these de fects and building up a sound 'and solid character. We can only do this by enforcing a regime of life. Involving every faculty and every hour of every day. My years of active association with a great reformatory, that saved over 65 per cent of those committed, convinces me that every agency is Justified, from a bath tub to classes in all kinds of in dustry, and from a gymnasium to careful in struction in theoretical and practical morality. - W have today In Oregon the Indeterminate sentence for Juvenile court eases and other petty cases. This plan does away with the old custom of sending a fire offender to jail with the old offenders. It releases him on parole, requiring him to report every week as to his employment and associates, and letting him know that he is liable to arrest when ever he is found visiting vicious resorts oiwith bad company. But the indeterminate sentence Is the only wise method of treating crime. Where it has been more widely applied its efficacy has been proven as a curative agent. Every man in this world should earn what he gets end pay for what he receives. The convict who goes behind the bars longs for liberty. Scientific penology says to the pris oner, "You can go free just as soon as you have paid your debt to this school of charac ter, to the last farthing." He earns his lib erty by changing his character from idleness and dishonesty to Industry and honesty. In order to- make a criminal earn his way out of prison he ought to know that 1 the only way he can get out. If he knows his freedom T'lll come anyway on a certain day, he cannot be made to feel the supreme importance of application. No Governor, no President, no official should have pardoning power. Noth ing but character should be the key to open prison doors. Instead of our present system of sentencing a prisoner to from two years to seven, there should only be the minimum sentence. The maximum ought to be decided by the control-; ling board of this prison university. Just as no college gives Its diploma to a youth sim ply because he has spent four years within Its halls, but because he has come up to the standard of the intellectual acquirements for graduation, eo In this prison university which aims to make Its students prorlclent in self control, industry and the beat life; it ia not the length of time thry are there, but what they have accomplished toward building up a character which will mace them dtsirable cit'.xens. ' .- - Tnder the old plan fifty "but of every hun dred convicted returned to crime; with this plan of the indeterminate sentence for all, where each man must work out his - own salvation with the many helpful aids provided by thoughtful and sympathetic soule, the num ber who return to crime has been reduced to less than seventeen, and they of course are returned to prison, se that even Uiese figures are not final. Of each 100 cases of smallpox 23 die: of each 100 cases of diphtheria 22 die; and medi cal discovery that would reduce these figures from 50 to 17 would be hailed as one of the greatest discoveries of the age. Foremost Inebriate Will Drink No Morq Joe Goggins, Slave to Chtn?se Gin, His Only lrr. Dies Peacefully In HI Well-Beloved North End. JOE GOGGIXS, one ot the old-time Chi nese gin fiends, a well known figure On Portland's streets, was found dead last night in the Worklngman's Lodging House, at Second and Everett streets. Goggins was, Portland's foremost Inebri ate, and it Is estimated by the police, that for the last ten years, he has spent three quarters of his time in Jail for drunken ness. Where he came from and whenr he m born were always wrapped in mystery. Nobody ever took the trouble to inquire. Joe came to Portland about 20 years aso and at that time was a young man. He was addicted to the liquor habit, but still kept sober the most of his time, and earnecf a living by doing odd jobs about town. About ten years ago, Joe took to drinking Chinese gin. From that day till yesterday, he has always been a slave to this deadly liquor. Police Court Judges iave tried In vain to reform him, police officials have threatened, coaxed and upbraided him for his weakness, but nothing could induce him to give up his deadly master. Whenever arrested, Gog gins was always charged with drunken ness ar vagrancy; he never stole or was accused of any serious crime. Goggins has done time in the County Jail, on the rock pile and in the Police Station. While at the city bastile, Joe was always head trusty, and took pride in the position. It was his duty to give out the meals, furnish the common drunks in the drunk cell with drinking water, and sweep out the station in the morning. He had but one fault, and that drunken ness. He was not brutal, would work hard when given a chance, and never begged when out of Jail, but earned a few cents by chopping wood. He was not a victim of other degrading habits, such as opium and morphine; his one enemy was liquor. Goggins was in 4 class with Jimmie Hill and Jim Casey,, two of the worst inebri ates In the citv Goggins' body was taken in charge by Coroner Finley, and will be burled in the potter's field. I GEORGIA NEGRO LYNCHED Victim Had Robbed Two Boys of 25 Cents and Resisted Arrest. MACON, Ga., Oct. 27. Passengers on the Central Georgia train coming from Byron, Ga., this afternoon brough an ac count of the lynching of a negro named John Wilkes at that place last night. The negro robbed two small boys of 75 cents. When Marshal Johnson made an effort to arrest him the negro attempted to shoot the-officer.! Quick work prevented this, however, and a general mixup followed, with the result that the--negro was ar rested and locked up. At a late hour un known persons dragged the prisoner from the jail and after carrying him a short distance the body was riddled with bul lets. It was then burned upon a log fire, prepared for the occasion. ROOSEVELT 49 YEARS OLD President. Observes Birthday With His Family at the W hite! Honse. WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. Today is President Roosevelt's 9th birthday. No celebration marked the event. He did not depart from his customary Sunday programme of worship, work and recrea tion. The day was spent at the White House fireside in a quiet family rejoicing. Congratulations in large numbers by mail, telegraph and telephone were re ceived at the White House during the day. Tonight the President 'received the Hungarian Club of New York In the East Room, when the visitors extended the Chief Executive their congratulations. O. R. & X. Refuses to Fay Taxes. BAKER CITY. Or., Oct. 27. (Spe cial.) The Oregon Railroad & Naviga tion Company has filed notice with the local Board of Equalization, which is now in session, that It will not pay taxes on the assessed valuation of 27.500 a mile, saying this amount Is excessive, unfair, unjust and illegal. It will not pay more than $13,0)0 a mile, so It rays. It alleges that the Board of Equalization is illegal and has no power to sit as such a body. Top Risky Ask, yur doctor if he does not think v Would be wise for you to keep a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral in the house. Ayers Cherry Pectoral REVISED FORMULA "A hard chill, pain through the chest, difficult breathing." If this should be your experience, send for your doctor. It may be pneumonia!" T.o doc tor yourself would be too risky. If your doctor cannot come at once, give Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. When he comes, tell him exactly what you have done. s We hate no secrets I We publish the formulas of all our medicines. J. C. AYER CO., Mannfacturuig Chemists, Lowell, Maw. EAST .SIDE'S-NEEDS' Populous Section of City Too Modest, Says Preacher. SHOULD VOICE DEMANDS Rev. H. C. Shaffer Urges Citizens to Secure Equal Representation in Council and Work With Will for Improvements. Rev. H. C. Shaffer, of the First United Brethren Church, on East Morrison street, preached last night on "What the East Side Needs." Hesaid that the church had been accused of not being in terested In temporal affairs, but that it was no Innovation for the church to con sider such subjects. He mentioned the movement of citizens to establish an East Side Library, to build another bridge to take the place of the present structure at Madison street ar.d to fill in the un sightly sloughs. Passing on Dr. Shaffer said: Then there should be a high bridge con necting Portland with lh West Side. In these days, - when everything fs done in haste, we have net the time to wait many minutes vr or easy-going boats to stop our trarnc as they now do. if we had a hlsh bridge, property values would doubtless in crease mo per cent Immediately on this side of the river. But the convenience that It would be to busy people is the greatest fac tor in regard to this need. We are grateful for the realization of our dreams and hopes for an East Side High School, but we face the possibility of hav ing it completely filled before the close of this school year. I am certain that I speak the sentiment of all the residents of the East Central side, when I say that the people of Alblna will have the full support of thia section to the end that North Albina may have as substantial, commodious and beauti ful a building as we have. If there is on. thing agreed upon by American people, it ia that their boys and girls shall have un equaled opportunities for an education. There Is afforded a minister ample ground for the advocacy of good streets. We may not pave them with gold here, but we must pave them. Here, too there is no room for the pessimist, for there has been a steady Improvement of our streets. Some have thought that these improvements were cost ing more than they should and after looklnx into thia question, somewhat, I am inclined to think that if the city were to own and operate a rock crusher, we should be able to Improve our streets at about one-half the amount that It now costs us. Still an other advantage- woiNd be that if the city did this work, the long delays would likely be a thing of tne past. It now becomes my painful duty to speak disparagingly of East Side citizens.. To be humble Is, according to the standard which I accept as final and perfect, a commend able trait ef character; but to suffer sn In justice, which not only affects me as an in dividual, but hinders the well-being and prosperity of this great East Side, with Ha ever-increasing population, is not the exer cise of either patience or humility; but the plain neglect of duty, that is ours today by our rights as Amevlcan citizens. It Is not a "square deal" for the smaller population on the West Side to have more wards and hence more Councllmen in the City Council than we have over here. A voter here, only exercises two-thirds pf the influence that a voter on the "West Side does. As a citizen he is only two-thirds of a man. When it is remembered that the East Side has no North End. and few transients, but is in Itself a city of homes and that ita voters are interested in the moral as welt as the commercial interests of the city. It should arouBe ua- to see to It that we have full representation in the City Council. Perhaps the most pressing need at this time, Is the securing of J23.00O for the pur pose of erecting an East Side library at East Eleventh and Alder streets. Some one' has said. "Thanks be to Cadmus, the Phoenicians or whonrever it was that In vented books." We are Indebted to old John Guttenburg for type and Caxton for the printing press. But the future genera tions . will bless the names of the enter prising and farseeing business men and edu cators and ministers, and physicians and lawyers and worklnjrmen of all occupations, and wives and mothers and young people ind children who give assistance to thl most, worthy object. Theoretically we all believe that what we think determines what we are and what we do. How important therefore that the world's best literature be st hand for our children and for us that the fountains of our thoughts are kepi pure. I should not be surprised when the solic itors make their report. If they should state that no person refused to help. People generally welcome a solicitor for a good cause, especially when It Is known that no one will be urged to give beyond hla means. The west Side has a good library, and there is no reason why the East Fide should not have a building in keeping with its importance as a home and business dis trict. i indispensable now, and it will not be very long until we shall have KOO.000 people over here, and until the East Side business district will reach out past the library site; when East Morrison. Haw thorne avenue, Williams avenue. Union ave nue and Killingsworth avenue will be solid business streets. .Grand avenue will have doubtless some of the nnest buildings In the city, and because of Its accessibility. Its width and its genial business and profes sional men and women. It Is destined to be one of the best streets In the city. The need are real and vital and we ex pect to see- them all realized In tne neat future. Among the things that we do not need are the garbage crematory, with Its foul stench, and a theater with its immor alities and bad Influence. Strike Because of Reduction. - SOUTH BEND, Wash., Oct 27. (Spe, clal.) The men In the Elsworth log-glng"-camp below town walked out and refused to accept the new wage scale offerred them, which was a reduction of from $3.50 and i per day and board to 3.25 'and J3.75 per day and board and the camp Is now at a standstill. HUNGARIAN NATURAL Cheap Effective Palatable BOTTLED AT THE SPRINGS, BUDA PEST. HUNGARY, NOME HAS ANOTHER FIRE PROPERTY LOSS AMOl'XTS TO ABOUT $300,000. Wipes Out Best Office Building in , Town, Other Blocks and Two Residences Origin Vnknown. TACOMA, .Wash., Oct. 27. Nome had another serious fire Friday, Involving a property loss of about J5CO.O00, accord Ins I Experiment With Nobody's Ailments I have left the experiment stage years be hind, I accept no case the like ot which I have never cured. What I have done I can do again. What I have In the past failed to do, I will not attempt to do. I, therefore, know Just what I can do and what I cannot do. I will tell you your exact condition, and will tell you whether I. ean or cannot euro ywu. You can rely abso lutely upon what I 'tell jou. 10 Is My Fee in any Uncomplicated Disorder "Weakness My success in curing those derangements com monly termed "weakness" has donu more to extend my reputation as a specialist in men's diseases than any other thing:. I was the first to discover that "weakness' is merely a pymptom resulting from a chronically In flamed prostate gland, and that to remove this inflammation Is the only method of perma nently restoring lost viyor. To thia day my sys tem of local treatment is the only scientific one In use. In years I have not failed to effect a complete cure. There are two reasons for thl: First, the unequaled effectiveness of my method; second, because I attempt to cure no incurable cases. My long experience enables me to recopnize those that have passed into an incurable stage, and J treat only such as I know I can cure. You Pay When Cured My Offices are open all day from 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. , y Sundays from 10 to 1 only the DR. TAYLOR co. 23434 Morrison Street. Cor. Second. Portland, Or. Specialists That Cure Men We Are the Leading Specialists. No Incurable Cases Accepted. v r We cure safely and promptly WEAKNKSS, LOST MANHOOD, SPERMATORRHOEA. SPECIFIC BLOOD POISON IN ALL STAGES. VARICOCELE. HYDROCELE, GONORRHOEA, GLEET. OR. ANT OF THE DISEASES COMMON TO MEN. Personal attention given all patients. Ml'SHROOM INSTITVTIOXS. In selecting a physician or specialist, when In need of one, some consideration and thought should be given to the qualifications, experi ence and lcngrtli of time an Institute or medical man has been located In the city. It stands to reason that an institution that has stood the . test of time and numbers its cures by the thousands is far superior to mushroom Institutions that spring; up' In a night, last a few months and are gone. We have been curing men 27 years and are the oldest special ists curing men in Portland. We Invite those who have deep-seated and chronic disorders to call and be examined. Consultation and examination Is free, and carries with It no obligation to encage oar service. WE CURB WEAKNESS. This is to men who lack courage, whose nerves are shaky, whose eyes have lost the sparkle, whose brains are muddled, ideas confused, sleep reBtless. confidence gone, rpirlta low and easily depressed, who sre backward, hesitating, unable to venture because they are afraid of failure, who want somebody to decide for them, who are weak, run down and restless. It is to men wVio lis'e part or all of tiiese symptoms end want new life, new energy. We especially solicit those cases in which many so-called treatments have fnilcd, or .where the money has been wasted on other methods of treatment. Don't experiment when our direct method offers a certain means of cure by local treatrrfenfc. One office are equipped with the most modern and scientific me chanical devices for the treatment of chronic diseases. Our charges are reasonable and In reach of any worklngman. Write if you cannot call. Our system of home treatment is always CERTAIN and most successful. All correspondence sacredly confidential. HOURS 9 A. M. to 6 P. M. ; Evenings, 7 to 8:30; Sundays. 9 A. M. to 12 noon. . . ST. LOUIS MEDICAL AND SURGICAL CORKER SECOND AND TAMHII.L PURGATIVE WATER. USES. For occasional or habitual constipation. As a safe, ordinary, and gentle laxative. In bilious attacks and liver disorders. For improving the complexion. For persons inclined to obesity, gout, or . rheumatism. - M Against results of errors in eating or drinkino:. ' to a cable-telegraph message received t by Jafet LJnderberg, of the Pioneer Min ing Companv. The Second-avenue office building of the latter corporation, the best structure of Its kind in the town, was completely destroyed, at a loss of (50,000, including $4000 in currency. The office of the Nome Water Com pany, the Snake River Grocery Company, the telephone company's building and the residences of Thomas Dyer and Joseph Brown, the Little Creek mining magnate, were destroyed in whole or part. Dyer't residence was the finest in Nome. Tiff fire burned four hours. No particulars are given in the messace rs to its origin. SEE Kl.SKK'S NEW STORE. 9ren!c Photos. 24S Aldr street. DR. TAYLOR, The Leading Specialist. Varicocele. Absolutely pain leu treatment that cure complMMy in one wen. Investigate my method. It is tho only thorough ly scientific treatment fr this disease being employed. Contracted Disorder. Be sure your cure Is thorough. Not one of my patients has ever had a relapse after be ing discharged as cured, and I cure In less time than the ordinary forms of treatment re quire. Specific Blood Poifion. No dangerous miner als to drive the virus to the Interior. but harmless, blood -cleansing remedies that re move the last poisonoufc taint. Stricture. My treatment is ab solutely painless, and perfect results can be depended upon In every Instance. I -o no cut ting or dilating what ever. OUR FEE 10.00 Established 27 Years in Portland. Consultation Free We Will Treat Any Single Uncompli cated Ailment for $10.00. Absolute Guarantee No Pay Unless Cured DISPENSARY STREETS PORTLAND, OREGON.