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THE aiOKyXSTG OBEGOiNTAar, TTJESBAX, PEBElAET 26, 1S95.
TALES OF MR: 1PBRIDE
OL3J FIUEXDS TELI OF THE SENA
TOR'S EARLY DAYS.
How He Found TVJiat Was In a. Dyna
mite Cap A Thrillins: Expe
rience at Collece-
"Physlealiy unlucky, but politically the
luckiest of men," vas oe or the most
striking- of the many remarks heard dur
ing the past two days concerning United
States Senator-elect MeBrkle. Among
all the remarks, however, not an un
friendly word has yet been spoken. "O,
yes, I know George McBride; known him
for years," sys everybody now, generally
adding something about being connected
with the McBride family by marriage of
some more or less remote relative to some
of George Jfc Bride's numerous brothers
and sisters. The new senator seems to
be popular with republicans and demo
crats alike. Mr. Frederick V. Holman,
who is described by some of his republican
friends as the "worst democrat In seven
states," said:
"Of course, I would like to have seen a
GEORGE TT. XcBKIDE, UXTTBD
democratic senator elected, had it been
possible, but as it was not, 1 am pleased
to see George McBride get it as any man
in the state. I have known him all my
life, and have a very high regard for him.
The only point upon which there has
ever been a difference between us is a
political one; he is a republican and I am
a democrat. We decidea long since to let
that point "remain undebated, and agreed
each to make no attempt to convince the
other. He is a man whose admirable
qualities and manner have made a friend
of everybody he ever met. Never having
engaged in politics, he has made none of
thov enemies inevitable to a man who
pushes an active political campaign. He
would undoubtedly have made a first
class stump speaker, hud It not been for
h!s physical weakness. But he has never
tried to bank on his physical misfortune.
"Politically, he 1ks always been lucky.
Immediately after his election to the leg
islature h was made speaker of the house.
"When he was llrst nominated for secre
ting of state, it was on personal popular
ity and ag-aimt the slate of the conven
tion. He received the nomination for the
sr-ond term as a matter of course, and
now he ltapjtened to be the available man
for the MHMtorship, and he got it. He
niaj not have been thought of until the
last minute, though there was hardly a
prominent republican in the state who
had not been mentioned at some time or
other during the session. Even LouU
Barin's excessive modesty dkl not pra
rnt him from saying that the only so
lution of the senatorial difficulty was the
election of IjOUIs Barin.
" Well. George McBride deserves his suc
1 1 --, Probably the !est index to the ehar
: trr of the ms.n is that he did not take
i Ms. bed as an invalid aud resign liim
f If to be oared for and supported by his
I Natives aiwl friends; instead, hi the face
vt infirmities that would have rendered
most men useless to themselves and the
world, he has made for himself his pres
..t proud place in the world."
Not many anecdotes are told of the
nator-elcct. "He is not an anecdotal
man." said Judge L.. L. Me Arthur, "but
ho is a gentltiiuan, and comes of good
stock. Man; of his famtyy have held, or
arc holding, positions of honor," and the
Judge proceeded to give Mr. McBride s
pedigree iu a manner that demonstrated
his familiarity with the history of the
McBride family. "As to his physical
v eakness." wlwt of that?" continued the
Jud?e. "It will never prevent him from
making a good senator. He may not oe
Vsieally robwec but his brain is O. K.
There was Thadeus Stevens, leader of
t.e house at one of the most critical times
In the country's history, yet lame and
Fk-k;. Alexander Stephens was a man of
t v tellingly frail body, while Oliver Mor
ton was paralysed from the waist down.
." I .-Bride's brains ate all right, and I am
Elal he was elected."
"George McBride was always a reckless
fellow," said a man who has known him
for many years, "and yet he was not. In
one way. For example, he would never
pull a gun after Mm through a fence; nor
snap a pistol at any one under the iir
presion It wasn't loaded. When he was
16 or 1? be hammered n giant powder
cartridge to see what was in it.' It ex
ploded, and he was thereafter minus a
linger. But the actual cause of an injury
vrhuh affected him permanently was reck
less driving. George always was a reck
less driver. It happened this way: He
was returning to St. Helen's from a hunt
ing trip in the mountains. He was a
good shot and fond of hunting, aad gen
erally went off alone In a one-horse dog
cart, in which he frequently drove at
breakneck speed, over all sorts of rough
roads. Well. It was late on n dark night,
as he was returning from this particular
trip, driving rapidij, as usual, when he
went slap against a stum. He was
thrown out, and sustained a very serious
Injurj" to the knee, an injury very much
worse than half a doxeu broken ribs. The
knee never improved to any extent, until
he went East, not long since, and had
it treated by eminent doctors, who also
arranged an appliance for htm te wear.
He now peta about fairly well with a
cane.
"It Is net an easy matter to recall many
anecdotes of George. His life, you see.
has been comparatively uneventful. He
has never married. But he was always
a genial, generous and companionable
man. Kad his health permitted he would
have bees a very active man. He came
of a rugged, active stock. His father, old
Dr. McBride, was once a Kentucky slave
owner and a planter on a large scale, but
the doctor awoke to a realizing sense of
the Iniquity of slavery, and became as
ardent an abolitionist as ever lived. The
doctor, I believe, liberated all his slaves
before coming "West."
Among others who chatted about the
newly elected senator was W. H. Adams.
To I know George McBride?" said Judge
Adams. "I ought to. "We went to school
together. Once since he became secretary
of state, some one asked him 'If he knew
me. 'Well, I should think so, said he; we
grew up in the same potato hill. Our
fathers each owned a section of land ad
joining, and they lived together in the same
cabin In MS and '48. Both farms are now
owned by Captain R. R. Thompson. tr.
McBride had an Immense family; there
were 14 boys and girls, all told, and George
was the youngest. The youngest is pro
verbially the smartest, you know; but the
whole family was very bright, and all but
one were witty. The only one not much
given to joking was a studious boy, who is
now filling some very honorable position In
the Bast, I believe. George was always
good-hearted and particularly liberal.
Money was never an object with him, and
acquisitiveness was not among his char-
STATES SEXATOE ELECT.
acteristics; yet he was never a spendthrift
in any sense. He simply had not the gift
of accumulating, or it is more likely that
he may have had it, but did not dare to
exercise It. We went to school together at
Christian college, at Monmouth, in Polk
county. He was one of the most popular
boys at college, a favorite with the girls
as with the boys. In our class, there were
also two who were afterward judges of
the supreme court of the state Judges
Bean and Wolverton. There were also W.
D. Fenton, the prominent attorney here,
and Dr. Lon Cleaver, at one time land of
fice register at La Grande, and now a den
tist. "I remember a rather amusing Incident
that occurred at the college in the winter
of 71-'72. Professor Campbell, who was a
curious old character, in that he possessed
some remarkable notions about propriety,
had issued an order forbidding the. young
men to sit with the girls at church. Pro
fessor Campbell said it wasn't proper, that
in the best-regulated communities the
female portion of a church congregation
sat on one side of the building, while the
male portionoccupied the other; and the
professor even asserted that such was the
custom in Portland. This matter created
quite a sensation at the time, and there
was a disposition among the boys to rebel.
George did rebel, with a few others. He
had been down to Portland, and knew that
the ridiculous old Puritan custom did not
obtain there, as the professor had asserted.
George claimed that the old professor
didn't know anything about etiquette, and
said that it was wrong and absurd for a
fellow to take his girl to church and leave
her at the entrance to hunt a seat for her
self on one side, while he sought a seat on
the other. The upshot of it was that the
professor's order received no attention."
One Result of Dnlph's Defeat.
WASHINGTON'. Feb. 25. Although
everybody speaks in the highest terms of
McBride, yet the loss to Oregon is every
where commentedupon. Already Dolph's
place on the foreign relations committee
is parcelled out ttr" Wolcott of Colorado, a
senator opposed to the Nicaragua canal.
His "place on commerce will go either to
Squire or AVIlson, of Washington, and the
chairmanship of public lands, which
Dolph would have when the republicans
reorganise the senate, will go to Dubois
of Idaho.
General Satisfaction In Union County
UNION, Or.. Feb. 25. There is general
satisfaction among the republicans of this
part of the stateover the election of Mc
Bride to tho senate.
Glass no rojre resembles the real dia
mond than the cheapest baking powders
resemble Dr. Price's. It is the jewel of
leavening agents.
IN THE JUSTICE COURT.
Officers Fee Stay, and Everybody
but the Taxpayer I Happy.
Monday proved a busy day in Justice
Oeisler's court, ami not only the judge
himself, but all the court otiicials were
in the best of humor. For a good many
days they had been on the ragged edge
over the possible cutting off of their fees,
but the legislature adjourned on Saturday
night without any such drastic measure
becoming a law.
Vincent Reichinto. charged with cruelly
to anlmal3, was discharged, it being
shown that the accident through which
a horse Belonging to E. Moran had a leg
broken, was due neither to malice nor
criminal carelessness.
James Riley, arrested on complaint of
his father, Patrick Riley, for the larceny
of $416. will have an examination today.
Edward Clay, a young man who took
occasion to knock F. W. Kleiu down for
making some uncomplimentary remark
about his horse, was nned $29 for his
amusement.
Joep Work, employed as a motorman,
accused by his father of the larceny of a
watch, will have an examination today.
Henry Morgan, in jail for defacing a
b-iikiing and threatening to kill "Lame
Jennie." his wife, an ex-convict, will have
an examination today.
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A BLOW AT MB. SEARS
A SEW LAW MATERIALLY CURTAILS
SHERIFF'S EMOLTODEXTS.
Board of Prisoners to Be Het Trr Con
tract 5o Soft Snap 1ft. Tra.'uspocrt
injr Persons to Salem.
There was one economic measure passed
by the recent legislature, and approved
yesterday morning by Governor Lord, that
will result in a great saving to the tax
payers of Multnomah 6ounty. When sen
ate bill No. 40. introduced by McGinn, and
passed by the senate, reached the house, a
vigorouse onslaught was made upon It by
the tax-eaters, who swarmed the lobby.
County officials from Multnomah were
particularly active In efforts to defeat the
bill, which cut down their fat official fees,
and they succeeded. Elated with their suc
cess, they paid no notice to senate bill 161,
introduced by Butler of Polk county. As
originally introduced. Senator Butler's bill
provided for the fixing of fees and compen
sation of sheriffs In the various counties of
the state. Before it was placed on third
reading in the senate, the Multnomah
delegation caused to be Inserted an amend
ment that in counties having more than
50,0(X1 population the county court should
let by contract to the lowest responsible
bidder the boarding of all prisoners con
fined In the county jail. Another amend
ment secured by the Multnomah delega
tion to the bill was one requiring the state
of Oregon to pay to the treasurers of coun
ties having more than 50,000 population all
fees allowed for the transportation and
conveyance of insane and idiotic persons
to the asylum, and all convicts to the pen
itentiary from those counties, the sheriff
or other representative of such county to
be allowed only his actual expenses after
they had been fully verified. A third
amendment, which was also accepted and
made part of the bill, was on: providing,
that in all counties of 50,000 or more inhabi
tants it should be lawful for the sheriff
to collect mileage in all civil cases, but
he should not be allowed any in criminal
and execution proceedings.
This Is the one economic measure, and
the only one, that the Multnomah delega
tion succeeded in passing; but this little
will save to the taxpayers several thous
and dollars.
The conveyance of prisoners to the peni
tentiary and insane persons to the asylum
has always been a profitable source of in
come to the sheriff of Multnomah county.
During the years past, as high as $2 50 for
hack hire from the courthouse to the train
and a similar amount from the station at
Salem to destination, has been charged
up against the state, while the per diem,
mileage and extra fees for guards amount
ed in the aggregate, for the transportation
of some prisoners, to more than sufficient
to make a first-class trip to San Francis
co and return.
In the matter of prisoners' board for in
mates of the county jail, competition for
the contract will bring the cost of meals
down to a minimum price. The city pays
only 9 cents a meal for prisoners confined
In the central station, and, while this pro
hibits luxuries being served, wholesome,
plain food, as a rule, is furnished. It now
costs the taxpayers a considerable sum to
feed prisoners held In confinement, and the
contract system Is expected to materially
cut down the expense.
An emergency clause having been at
tached to Senator Butler's bill, it goes Into
effect immediately upon receiving the sig
nature of the governor yesterday. A certi
fied copy of the bill will be received here
today, and furnished the county court for
its guidance.
Notwithstanding the emoluments of
Sheriff Sears' office are curtailed by the
new law, he will doubtless be partly com
forted to know that his $4500 salary re
mains, and he is allowed one deputy at
a salary of $1500. and such others as the
county court may allow him at salaries
not to exceed $1200 each.
"Can't cook as mother did." Not un
less you use Dr. Price's Baking Powder.
A household favorite for 40 years.
ZE GAY CAPTAIN IS GONE
RidlnK-Master Dilltnn and "Wife
Leave, to the Sorrow of Creditors.
Captain Joseph Dilhan, erstwhile di
rector of the Portland Riding Academy,
and for three years past the undisputed
authority in equestrian matters, is miss
ing, and circumstances would seem to
indicate that he compelled himself to be
absent from the city, because of some
pressing creditors. And the captain's
charming wife, Madam Dilhan, has also
been missing from her usual haunts.
Rurom says "that they are enjoying life
in San Francisco, among the leaders of
fashionable society, who have gone mad
on equestrian sports since the great horse
show a few short weeks ago.
The captain was somewhat of a char
acter himself, and there Is scarcely a
man, woman or child in Portland who Is
not familiar with his corduroy breeches,
riding boots and spurs, and his general
equestrian air. He is a Frenchman, and
while in this city posed as an ex-officer
of the French army. While not a master
of the English language, he certainly un
derstands the art of being polite, and he
made the most of it. Captain Dilhan
came to Portland nearly three years ago.
He was without funds, but that seemed
to worry him but little, for he always
lived well, and made friends easily. He
always posed as a horseman, and he un
doubtedly was one of exceptional ability,
as all who have seen him ride can vouch.
So was his charming wife, the madam, a
mistress of the equestrian art, and when
they appeared on the streets together on
horseback, they were targets of general
admiration.
About the time Captain Dilhan came to
Portland, some of the leaders of the best
society were very anxious to learn to
ride properly, and they eagerly accepted
a proposition from the suave Frenchman
to start a school. The Portland Riding
Academy was then incorporated, and a
fine riding ring and stables put up at
Nineteenth and Northrup streets. Cap
tain Dilhan was installed as the director
of the academy. So long as he confined
his attention to the affairs of the riding
ring, he gave great satisfaction, and many
of the most graceful riders in the city to
day, both ladies and gentlemen, owe their
entire knowledge of the equestrian art to
the captain. But business ability Captain
Dilhan seemed to have none. He seemed
to have no knowledge of the value of an
American dollar, an'd the result was that
the academy, under his management, did
not prosper, and a few months ago he
was relieved of his position, but retained
as riding master on a salary. The captain
lived well during his stay in the city, and
always entertained his friends in style.
Last Tuesday morning Captain Dilhan
came to the stable at the usual hour, and
asked that his horse the only one he
owned be saddled. He had some words
with the present director, Mr. Nicols, over
a bill of $150 he owed for the board of his
horse, and then rode away. He never
came back. It was ascertained that he
disposed of his horse and saddle that same
day for $30, and then probably took the
train for San Francisco. Madam Dilhan
was missing the following day. Both
leave creditors to moura their absence,
but for how large an amount in the ag
gregate cannot now be ascertained. They
owed the academy nothing, and that in
stitution is out of debt to them.
Of Madam Dilhan, or "the madam,"
as she was known about the academy,
much might be said, but little will suf
fice. She is a handsome French woman,
and speaks English perfectly. But "he
had a will of her own, and a temper that
she evidently did not attempt to control.
It Is said that she sometimes made things
lively about the academy, no matter who
might be present, and the management.
In order to avoid a scene, agreed to pay
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Odds and Ends of Decorated China and Decorated
Semi-Porcelain Pieces.
In Havlland and other beautiful decorated
China we offer, for one week:
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14-inch meat platters........
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Vegetable dishes .
Creamers .-.
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Gravy bowls 1.00
Pickles 20
Covered butterdishes 1.00
And a large lot of useful table pieces.
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Granite Ironware and Tinware at Bottom Prices.
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If you do, you need a good pair of bicycle shoes. "We are selling them very
cheap, and they will save your other shoes more than the price youpay for them:
Men's hest grade, high-cut bicycle shoes ... $2.75
Men's best grade low-cut bicycle shoes .'. 2.30
Men's good grade low-cut bicycle shoes 1.50
Ladles' good grade low-cut bicycle shoes 1.25
Boys' good grade low-cut, sizes 2'A to 5Vi 3.25
Youths" good grade, low-cut, sizes 11 to 2 1.03
Child's good grade low-cut, sizes S to 10J 5
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One Hind or? Fore Quarter? for 25s
All other Meats In Proportion. PORTIA"D 31KAT CO. Inin Ofllce
nml 3Inrkct, Third nnd Alder. Branclie-FIrat and Columbia, and Six
teenth and PcttysrroTe Streets.
her traveling expenses to her home in the
East. She sold the ticket with which she
was provided, and went to San Francisco,
by boat, returning here a few weeks ago
to make things more interesting. Madam
Dilhan is a very accomplished horse
woman, and her riding, on horses trained
by herself, has often excited the admira
tion of the Portland public.
THE HISTORY OF MONEY
Mr. 31. C. George's Lecture Before the
Historical Society.
Mr. M. C. George, ex-United States con
gressman, lectured before the historical
society, at the First Congregational
church, last evening, on "Our Monetary
System and the Silver Question." For
nearly two hours he held the closest at
tention of a large audience, and at the
conclusion of his address was the recipi
ent of many congratulations. Mr. George
illustrated his subject with an immense
chart, showing the monetary history from
its inception down to the present day, and
particularly the present situation. This
chart is an invention of Mr. George's, and
has cost him an immense amount of study
and labor. It is very comprehensive, and
so easily read that to follow Mr. George
through so intricate a problem seemed but
a pastime. , , ., ,
For many years Mr. George has studied
the monetary question from the standpoint
of a student, and as a result he has accum
ulated a mass of facts and figures that
covers the whole subject, from the time it
first was recognized as a matter of nation
al importance down to the present day.
As it would require several hours to treat
even briefly, of the many phases of so im
portant a question, Mr. George announced,
at the outset, that he would only attempt
to discuss those phases more nearly relat
ing to silver, and would, necessarily, en
tirely forego any mention of money and its
relationship to prices, the policy of keep
ing money good, the relationship of the
panics of 1S37, 1S57. 1S73 and 1S93, to the
question of money; where gold enough can
be found to answer all demands, paper
money, fiat money, greenbacks and Sher
man money, and many other interesting
phases of the monetary discussion: also,
with reference to foreign countries, to the
rise and progress of bimetalism in Eng
land, France and the Latin Union.
Mr. George then proceeded to discuss,
briefly, the free and unlimited coinage of
silver, under the ct of 1792, when provis
ion was made that both metals be coined
at the ratio of 15 to 1, and claimed that in
thus changing the market ratio, gold was
driven out of circulation in this country,
and what was practically a silver cur
rency substituted, until 1S34, when the
country changed to gold currency by
changing the ratio to IS to 1, and we have
since been practically on a gold basis. Al
though the law was bimetallic from 1792 to
1S73 in theory, in practice it was mono
metallic silver up to 1S34, and gold since.
Mr. George especially explained the sub
sidiary act of 1S33. whereby the use of sil
ver was secured in this country. He held
that the act of 1S53 was copied after the
English act of 1S16, when England went
to a gold basis, and that all the silver cir
culation we have had since 1S53, down to
and including coinage under the Bland
and Sherman acts, has all been on a gold
basis, and has been kept at parity with
gold through the credit and policy of our
government. Ke gave the history of the
American silver dollar, and showed that as
part of the currency of America, even un-
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Close our sale of Ladies', Boys'
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In pretty decorated Royal SemI-ForceIaIn"Ware
we offer the following bargains:
8-Inch meat platters -........... 9c
0-inch meat platters 12c
10-lnch meat platters.. ...........20c
12-lnch meat platters SSc
14-Inch meat platters.., ....50c
10-lnch meat platters 00c
C-inch vegetable dishes ....12c
7-inch vegetable dishes. .................. ..14c
S-Inch vegetable dishes 20c
O-inch vegetable dishes 30c
And a grand assortment to select from, for a
few days only, at
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MEAT CO.
der the free and unlimited coinage of sil
ver, at either ratio, both gold and silver
dollars being equal legal tender, it practi
cally never circulated to any considerable
extent as money, but was used as mer
chandise, or shipped abroad, principally
for the manufacture of coined silverware.
The lecturer explained how and why
President Jefferson .had stopped the free
coinage of silver in 1S0G, and told how bullion-dealers
carried! on a lucrative business
under the act of 1836. The act of 1873, he
said, was not responsible for the decrease
in the price of silver bullion in the world.
The causes were many, and the movement
against sliver world-wide. Silver com
menced to fall In 1859, and has been going
down ever since. Since that time the
United States has produced 700 times more
silver than it did in all of its previous his
tory, and the silver production of the world
has been vastly greater. The movement
against silver has extended over a century,
and embraced the leading civilized nations
of the world. Germany, in 1S71, practically
discarded the currency of sliver for gold.
In 1S75, the United States passed a law
whereby a market was made for more than
$50,000,000 worth of silver, to be coined in
place of trade currency.
Under the Bland and Sherman acts, Mr.
George said, this country has bought and
made available for circulation, between
$500,000,000 and $600,000,000 worth of silver,
either in bulk or coin. In its effort to hold
up silver, the United States has suffered
the loss of $200,000,000 in the depreciation
of silver purchases. It has done more to
uphold and sustain silver as a money met
fcl during the past 20 years than any coun
try on, earth. The free and unlimited coin
age of silver or gold at the rataio of either
16 to 1 or 15 to 1, whereby both metals have
been made legal tender, historically speak
ing, has been an undoubted failure. After
reviewing at some length the history of
the monetary system in France, and of
international bimetalism, Mr. George said,
in closing:
"I believe in the use of both gold and
silver as money, not as a monometalist,
but as a practical bimetalist. Some policy
should be devised whereby gold can be
available for the settlement of great mone
tary and international balances, and silver
f6r the bulk of ordinary business transac
tions between the generality of mankind.
I believe that the system known as the
free coinage of silver, whereby unlimited
quantities of silver could be coined at a
ratio of 16 to 1, and made legal tender for
all debts, would simply make silver take
the place of gold in this country."
3Iajor Dnniivay.
The appointment of Mr. Willis S. Dunl
way as assistant adjutant-general, with
the rank of major, gives general satisfac
tion among guardsmen in this city. Mr.
Duniway is a native Oregonian and has
been a resident of Portland 'for many
years, until a few weeks, ago, when he ac
cepted the position of secretary to Gover
nor Lord and went to Salem to live. The
office of assistant adjutant-general is
purely an honorary one so long as the adjutant-general
is able to act, but in his ab
sence from his post of duty the cares of
his office fall upon the assistant. The office
has been vacant fqr more than a year.
Major Duniway it is now, if you please.
Suit the people, because they are tired
of bitter doses, with the pain and grip
ing that usually follow. Carter's Little
Liver Pills. One pill a dose.
People who give Hood's Sarsaparilla a
fair trial realize its great merit.
T
LAI AM
SILKS Kaikis, Taffetas, Jaequards, Habutais, in a
bewildering variety of designs, and in all the new
est color combinations.
DRESS GOODS Serges, Plain and Fancy Cheviots,
Cachemires, Prunelles and new lines of French
and English Suitings.
THE RAGE in Paris and New York is a waist of soft
woolen Plaid Goods, worn with a black or navy
skirt. We have just received a line of the most
popular PLAIDS.
Fibre, Chamois and Hair Cloth at our lining counter.
NEW CAPES AND SKIRTS - Spring styles in our
cloak department.
SPECIAL SRLkE
ofXD GliOVES
Itfondciy, Tuesday, Wednesday
Foster's 7-hook and S-ineh Mousquetaire Gloves
in black, white, tans, browns, reds, yellow, navy,
green, mode and heliotrope,
At $1.1? a, Fedr
Regular Prices ?1.75 and 2 a Pair
MEIER&FRANKC0
PEOPLE MO TOOS 01 Mil
Five Yeatfs Kgo and Sought a
Piece of Fait Ltand
Are Well Fixed Now
AND OTHER PEOPLE WILL BE SO IN FIVE YEARS
VH0 TAKE THE SAME ADVICE NOW.
The easiest, safest and -wisest plan to get a piece of land Is
to take out one of our
. ..,-..,.. Home Guarantee Cootracls fdra.5jAcffi.HaEB-
You can deposit Fifty Dollars and add to it $20. OO a,
month for eight months until contract issues.
One year from that time you can add 5100.00
Two years from that time you can add lOO.OO
Three years from that time you can add 100.00
Four years from that time you can add lOO OO
Five years from that time you can add 100.00
Five years and 3 months from that time you can add. . . 250.00
And all the time after contract issues have your money subject
to recall, with 7 rjer cent interest on it.
At the end of five years and three months you must take
your cnoice the orchard or your money back with interest.
For $200 an acre you get the land, have it planted in fruit
trees, have the trees cultivated and pruned for S years, have the
life of the trees insured, have all taxes and assessments paid, all
care assumed, get the full value of five years' growth of the
trees, get the full increase in value of the land for five years.
You can sell and realize at any time, and have ample security
that, if you are not satisfied with the investment or specula
tion, you can have all your money back, with interest on it.
We guarantee to plant and cultivate the trees, and insure
them to be in bearing at expiration of contract.
You can sell the land or trade it at any time during the
five years -while the trees are growing, as freely as ir you
owned it in fee simple.
YOU CAN DEPOSIT THE MONEY
WITH THE TITLE GUARANTEE & TRUST COMPANY,
Chamber of Commerce, Portland, and they will tell you that
we can't touch a cent of it till we have deposited with them
the amount of land you apply for, and that then we can handle
only so much as is required on voucher for filling our contract
with you, till you have elected to take the land or take your
money back, with the interest.
This is the safest investment and the best way to get a
fruit-land home. It must be in every way satisfactory. It
must be well taken care of, and the title must be good.
Give this matter careful consideration. We know that
our proposition is a good thing for both parties.
STEAMS FRUIT LAND CO.
275'Statfk Street,
ickrkirki
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