12 THE MOBNESg OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, "ISflrj. Jttfe I Meier & Frank Co. Meier & Frank Co. Meier &FrankCoTs " L - J Olds & King GRAND CHANCE NOW To buy Holiday gifts. No crowds plenty of time to select and DEEP PRICE CUTS IN MANY CHOICE HOLIDAY THINGS. Here's an Incomplete list of after-Christmas bargains. Toys Reduced Every toy in our splendid col lection priced from 5c to $18 each reduced this way: 51.00 toys at 82c each. $1.25 toys at $1.00 each, etc. Doll Sale Our entire doll family at greatly reduced prices. EX TRA SPECIAL PRICES to close out all open stock. ' BISQUE DOLLS with slightly soiled kid bodies. Otherwise uninjured. None nicer when dressed. Prices ridiculously low. 20c dolls at 10c 30c dolls at 15c 40c dolls at 20c 50c dolls at 25c 60c dolls at 30c 80c dolls at 40c $1.00 dolls at 50c $1.35 dolls at 62c $1.50 dolls at 75c Handkerchief Story Worth Reading 1000 Richardson's pure linen ladies' hemstiched handker chiefs, slightly mussed Says"3 lOC C3Ch Odd Pieces of Decorated China Under-Priced A fine lot to choose from. Judge prices of others by these. Decorated German China Cake Plates ---20c Salad Bowls 27c Cups and Saucers- -16c Decorated Haviland China Cake Plates 60c Salad Bowls 48c Cup and Saucers---33c SPECIAL REDUCTIONS ON CHOICE LINE OF FRENCH CHINA PLATES. QUICK BUYING PRICES ON Smoking Sets Bronze Statutes Toilet Cases and Sets Calendars Albums Celluloid Novelties, etc., etc. These are proportionate reductions. 10c values at 6c 50c values at 35c 20c values at 14c to $16.50 values at $12.50. REMNANTS OF SILK AND WOOLEN DRESS GOODS. A big lot accumulated from holiday selling. BELOW VALUES. MARKED WAY 1st floor annex. THE J. K. GILL CO. Now Is the time to look after office supplies for the beginning of the year. We have every thing that you want. DIARIES CALENDAR. PADS DATE BOOKS INKSTAXDS LEAD PEXCILS FOUNTAIN PENS BLANK BOOKS ORDER BOOKS COPY BOOKS INDEXES TRIAL BALANCE BOOKS MEMORANDUM BOOKS Call and examine these goods in our office sup ply department, THE J. K. GILL CO. THIRD and ALDER ST. k -t i 2-' r Ki'i - m USEFUL AND ORNAMENTAL For the Holidays A nice pair of Andirons, or Fire Set. M. J. Walsh 245 Washington St. SUCCESSOR TO FRANK HOLCOMB & CO. Headquarters for high-grade artistic fire place furniture, grates and grate renewals. , Estimates given on the construction of tile and brick mantels and fire-place repairing. Call up on either 'phone. CITY'S L90 1 BUDGET Principal Departments Ask for $244,388. FIREENGINES AND HOSE NEEDED Km New Machine Haa Been Bought In tke Past Eleven Years, and the Horses Are Growing Old in Service. Police department .........$ 85,000 Fire department .......... 102,006 Street-cleanlngr department. 50.322 Inspector of Plumbing:. .... 2,200 Garbage Crematory 3,060 ' Total ?244,3SS In accordance with the provisions of the charter, the Boards of Police and Flro Commissioners and heads of other departments filed their estimates of the expenses of their departments for the year 1501 with the City Auditor. Police Department. The Board of Police Commissioners asks for a total of 5S5.O00. The Items which go to make up this amount are as follows: Salaries j7SC00 Care of prisoners rgoo Care of horses 5X Bicycles 3N Repairs to Jail building 473 Patrol wagon 500 Fuel I" log Light C5 Books and printing " 200 Telephones Coo Alarm system 500 Contingencies 1O0 Where the rest of the money Is to come from remains to be seen. Fire Department. The Board of Fire Commissioners asks for $102,905. The several Items of the es timated expense are as follows: Salaries .. ; 67,500 Rent of houses eoo Repairs to houses 2.OOO Repairs to apparatus 2000 Horse-shoeing 1 400 Veterinary surgeon 276 Feed Harness and repairs Fuel Lighting Stores Telephone service 4.S00 2S0 1,000 S00 800 Incidentals 1.0m -nyurajiL repairs ................ Cistern repairs Office expenses and printing. Flro alarm telegraph repairs.. New Material. Two first-class steam engines 10000 Horses 600 Hose 4.000 Hydrants 1,000 Fire alarm boxes 1,000 600 200 200 500 Total SS3.000 The amount In sight for the depart ment from taxes is about J47.500 net. Total 5102.905 -Tho Commissioners report that It has been 11 years since an engine was pur chased, and about two years since any hose was laid In. More than half the horses In the department are from 14 to IS years old. The Superintendent of the Street-Cleaning Department estimates that that de partment will need $30,322 to get through next year. The Inspector of Plumbing will need for his department J220o. The garbage cremator "will require $1500 for fuel. 52160 to pay employes, and 53O0 for repairs; total. 53960. ONE FACTOR OVERLOOKED. Another Correspondent Deals "With Evolution. ROSEBURG, Dec 25. (To the Editor.) Of late I have been much Interested in the discussion of the theory of evolution in your columns by able advocates, pro and con. The disputants on either side have given, doubtless, their honest opin ions on the subject, but it occurs to me that each one overlooks or ignores one very Important factor In the case. It 1 this: The special creation advocates must admit that the Creator designed the char acter and disposition, as well as the forma of animal life, upon the earth, In the waters and In the air. Just as we behold them. He designed the carnlvora to seize, tear, rend and devour the herbivorous an!- ic5 A Group of js? js? Interesting' Sales 100,000 Yards Torchon. Lace Three to five inches wide; in sertion to match, yard, special 5c Sacrifice of Handkerchiefs Soiled or mussed in holiday dis plays. 20c, 25c, 35c soiled handker chiefs at 13c, 15c,. 23c, special. Handkerchiefs in fancy boxes. 50c, 79c, 83c, $1.50, $1.75 at 33c, 59c, 79c, $1.13. $1.23 t Special Great Ribbon Sate Eight-inch finest liberty silk rib bon, pink, blue, nile, lavender, special, 59c Umbrellas dT tZfl Special tpLZjJ Tight-roll Gloria, steel rod and Paragon frame, self case and rib bon tassels. Ladies' 26-inch size have Princess Congo handles. Men's 28-inch size have Congo crook handles, with or without silver nameplates; value $2.25. Today and Tomorrow LADIES' WHAPPE11S Made of fine flannelette, also of dark percale, with full front, new dress back, extra wide skirt with deep flounce, new dress sleeves, fancy yoke with ruffle and braid trimmed, at 98 Cents Golden Fleece Silk Floss Cushions Special Sale. 16-in., regular 25c, special. .18c 18-in., regular 35c, special.. 28c 20-in., regular 50c, special.. 35c 22-in., regular 60c, special. .43c 24-in., regular 70c, special. .53c French Flannels Solid colors navy, golf green, reseda, violet, cadet blue, golf red, creme, dark cardinal, royal blue, yard, EZr special J Sale of Jllarm Clocks New Haven alarm clocks, nickel cases, p q special OOC Bargains In Men's Smoking Jackets, plain and jacquard plaid, new est styles. s More Bargains Entire section near Fourth street entrance is piled high with bargains in holiday goods. Attractive; useful articles at greatly reduced prices. Holiday Handkerchiefs, Perfumery, Opal Ware, Calendars, Dolls, Candelabra, Five o'Clock Teas, Mirrors, Celluloid Sets, Wicker Baskets, Medallions, Pottery, Chafing Dishes. All at greatly reduced prices. INDIAN CALENDARS, 75c and 85c KIND REDUCED TO aac (Book DentA Throngs of eager shoppers lined the Muslin Underwear counters all day yesterday. There's money to be saved if you buy now. Great "Advance Sale" of Muslin Underwear Mountains of dainty white lingerie at exceedingly low prices is the most important of store news for today's shop pers. This is a good Muslin Underwear Store the year round, but we are making extraordinary effort to have this "Advance Sale" go into store history as the best Muslin Underwear Sale we ever had. A gathering of the very best and most attractive pieces at prices far below value. (2d floor.) White Petticoats 83c, 98c, $1.19, $1.29, $1.09, $1.59, $1.60 up. 4000 Corset Covers 21c, 25c, 27c, 43c, 61c, 63c 67c, 83c, 98c up. Night Robes 47c, 69c, 83c, 98c, $1.27, $1.68, $1.98, $2.59 up. Drawers 24c, 31c, 47c, 53c, 83c, $1.69, $1.98 up. Something of interest to women is an exhibit in one of our Fifth-street windows (No. 3 from Morrison street) of the gloves worn hy Queen Elizabeth at her coronation June 15, 1559, and the gloves of Queen Anne, worn by her in the year 1700. They are both authentic and very valuable. They were made by Fownes Bros. & Co of London who are still in business, being one of the leading glove manufacturing concerns of the world. We are their Portland representatives. Handkerchiefs 6000 at 3c each 6000 handkerchiefs, lace corners, hemstitch ed with colored initials, great variety of them, used in the construction of the two large me chanical windows. Over 6000 of them to be sold commencing today and continuing until all are soneat 3c each Special values in Furs of all kinds. (2d floor.) I $1.25 I Wrappers 89c SnSSK Friday Surprise Sale f C?rffir3fflt-, ft Hmiffi affile iSiS fSSs $M$ ffil Three-Fold at $L19 ea For the 605th Friday Surprise Sale we offer 87 3-fold Screens, 5 feet high, filled with pretty figured Silkoline, in the best colorings. Remem ber, only 87 of them, no more, no less. Your choice while they last $1.19 each. (Elevators 3d floor.) Special lot of Flannelette Wrappers, flounce and ruffle, good quality flannelette, braid trimmed, all sizes. Regular $1.25 value at 89c. 85c Mugs 69c Children's Silver-plated Mugs. The regular 85c value at 69c. (Basement.) Special values in Ladies' Dressing Sacques. (2d Floor.) 2000 yds. Crash at 34c yd. 2000 yards of Bleached Cotton Crash, 17 inches wide. For today's shoppers, So a yard. mala. He, the great, good and merciful God, designed that the Hon, tiger, wolr and cat should live upon the Innocent and helpless deer, sheep, goat and antelope; that the condor, eagle, hawk and owi should prey upon the birds; that the shark and other sea monsters should llvo upon the little fishes. Not only that, but he, the beneficent God, sends the cyclone, flood, famine and pestilences to destroy human life. Including the Innocent babes, by the slow, torturing process, often by starvation. All this, according to the spe cial creation theory, for It Is only a the ory, God sends to man, as well as the gentle, life-giving and life-sustaining zephyrs, rains and dews of heaven. Then, again, God has created man with inherent base passions which lead him to oppress, defraud, defame and murder his brother man. All the foregoing calami tous doings can be accounted for accora lng to thp evolution theory without vio lating common sense and reason; but, ac cording to the special creation theory, the above catalogue of evils violates every sentiment and feeling of humanity. It mocks at mercy, crucifies sympathy, ns nores justice, derides innocence, ridicules philosophy as atheism, denounces liberty of thought In its search for knowledge as a monstrous evil, and calls down upon the head of the scientist -the anathemas of high heaven as Is amply shown In his tory. The scientist contents himself with an inquiry Into and an Investigation ot the facts, laws, elements and phenomena of nature and her works the proper thing to do; it Is his legitimate mission leav. lng "jarring sectaries" to wrangle over dogmas, faiths and creeds and torture each other as occasion favors the one or the other. W. P. BENJAMIN. COMFORT IN TRAVELING. Comfort is the most necessary requisite in a trip across the continent. Persons contemplating a trip to Chicago, St. Paul, Omaha, Kansas City or New York natur ally take the line having the most mod ern and comfortable cars, smoothest road bed and fastest time. The O. R. & N. Co.'s double dally train service fills all the requirements, being equipped with the latest types of Pullman Palace and ordi nary sleepers, electrically lighted engines, and makes hours better time to Chicago or Omaha than any other line. Call at the ticket ofilce. SO Third street, corner Oak, for folder showing through time, connections, etc. Killed by a. Trnln. BRYAN, O., Dec 25. While Wayne Crowell, aged 24, and Charles Canan, aged 21, were crossing the TVabash Railroad tracks near Blakeslee last night, on their way to a Christmas dance, they were struck by a passenger train and instantly killed. Mrs. Canan was notified of the accident, and the shock caused her death. HISLOP'S PURE SPICES The spices you usually buy are a great er affront to your intelligence than is the alleged immorality of the city. Investi gate this spice phase of law breaking. It will repay you. If your grocer docs not Keep Hislop's, call, write or 'phone CoL 97. Drink Triumph Ksuted Cof fees. 63 Front Street MEIER & FRANK CO. 1 IsS llirSr V 4r 4 IT I I -! B -" CtI We have an Immense - . mmm Mock-iakino iatess3!S5t U S il O 1 VpES2a$'SSf WT" PI BN lf - order to reduce It be- J L. I II W I syS3&P$Z u I m H forc tck.taklng we have made very libera! reductions In every de I UlwJ flflHS. I UlVji ! SjBpJppg' vmw MEN'S SUITS MEN'S OVERCOATS j i, 1 -5W15S: $10to$16.50j j y: llfep25 YOUTHS' SUITS BOYS' SUITS fi( HP" k 1 2KS&iK?,eSfi 5ft W 5ft Ent?rc "ne of Kn Pa" s I fltff $ j Breasted Salts v"'"") 'JU at manufacturers cost. I M N 0 O IN Jl GENTS' FURNISHINGS ! M& flm$M I erby Ribbed 7C fAnfc Men's Soft and rkf WF)) AV ((fljp j Untfenvear 3 IcUlS Stiff Hats $Ull ydmn VYUuicii muss j C. T. Roberts, Mar. 85 Third Street Discount on every article in our establish ment We have just received from our New York " buyer a handsome line of Suits, Rain sKirts, etc. SILVERFIELD Largest and Leading Furriers of the West. 283-295 Morrison St. PORTLAND, OR. GENUINE ALASKA SEALSKINS K SPECIKLTY uur wen Known exclusive iaciimcs lor od- f taming Sealskins in the raw state make competition impossible. We arc the acknowledged lead ers for stylish Furs. Our garments are always distinguish able for their superior quality, unrivaled workmanship and their excellence of fit and finish. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE MAILED FREE. H. LIEBES & COMPANY OF PORTLAND. JNO. P. PLAQEMANN, Mgr. 288 MORRISON STREET ESTABLISHED IN 1870. ESTABLISHED IN 1570. FURS! FURS!! FURS!!! G. P. Rummelm & Sons MANUFACTURING FURRIERS 126 SECOND ST., Near Washington Alaska Sealskins Our Specialty Animal Scarfs In Gray, Black, Sable. Pointed Sable. White, Red and Blue Fox. In Brawn, Black and Blue Lynx. CLUSTER BOAS STORM COLLARS BEAR BOAS MUFFS Call or send for Catalogue COLLARETTES CAPES JACKETS, ETC ROBES and RUGS FURS DRESSED ANTI-RUST UMBRELLA FRAME Wo are the Inventor and only manufacturer of an antl - rust umbrella frame, the only frame, suitable for this wet climate. It pays to have an umbrella recovered. If you have a good frame It -will pay you. "We will reduce all frames recovered on our antl-ruat patent FREE OP CHARGE, and your umbrella will last three times as Ion? as any umbrella on the market. We do all kinds of umbrella repairing and recovering. "We make all of our cover goods. "We carry the largest assortment In um brellas, parasols and handles In the city. Phon. Grant 276. JQHN ALLESINA, 0p0D.MpOo?,t,SSc!.teet, jttt H.M n m M N,iM.M! :.AjM.i m.mm .0 e$&