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THE MQ-RNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1901. IN NEW QUARTERS O.R.&N. Ticket Office With Palatial Fittings. ALL THE WOOD IS MAHOGANY Combination of Bronze, Plate Glaxa, Marble and Finest Wood, That Is "Without an JEanal on the Pacific Coast. Opening of the palatial ticket office of the O. It. &. N. Co.'. In the Falling block, at the corner of Third and "Washington streets, was the event of the day in "rail road row" yesterday. The office Is the most richly and elegantly fitted on the Coast, and It Is doubtful whether any ticket office In the country equals It in elegance. The wainscoting, partitions, counters, desks and chairs are all of ma hogany, so richly polished as to serve as mirrors, and so rich in color that they make a homely man appear handsome, while bronze fixtures, beveled plate-glass, broad leather-cushioned window seats, etc., all tend to give one, on entering, the Impression that he is on board the palace car of a railroad king. In fact, the office has been fitted and furnished so as to give visitors an idea of the swell cars used on the O. R. & N. line. A more minute and definite description of the furnishings and fixtures is neces sary in order to give one a faint idea of their richness and magnificence. The counter is a masterpiece of skill in the cabinetmaker's line. The panel of the counter front Is flush between pilasters, and consists of rich selected mahogany crotch veneer, matched on both middle, horizontal and vertical lines. Around these veneers Is a frame consisting of an inner line of ebony about an eighth of an inch wide, a band of East India mahog any at right angles, about a quarter of an inch wide, and next a line of ebony about one-eighth of an inch wide, outside of which is a paneled frame made of rich figured Mexican mahogany. The pilasters liave carved panels and capitals, and the edge of the ledge Is also carved. The base of the counter and the base of the sides of the public lobby are finished with Alps green marble. A map of the Union Pacific system, under a glass plate, sunk to a level with the surface of the coun ter, occupies a prominent place. The entire room Is furnished with a wainscoting seven feet high, which, with all the finish on the walls, Is of richly figured mahogany. The partitions are mado to match the counter front, and have openings subdi vided. The lower subdivision Is filled with metal-sash art glass, and the upper with metal grills. The screen on the counter is -made to match the partitions and the wainscoting. The face of the screen is of metal, fin ished antique. The openings in the screen are filled with bevel-plate glass, crystal lized, and metal grills, antique finish. The celling Is finished with wood beams, hav ing a cornice extending around the room, with paneled soffits at the finish of the windows. The desks, chairs, and even the typewriter's desk, are all of rich-colored mahogany, highly polished. The gas fix tures and other metal work ure of rich antique bronze, and the walls of the room are tinted a delicate shade of green, which contrasts well with the mahogany furniture. The company's signs. In brass plates, and on the windows in gold, fairly blaze, and contrast well with the red, white and blue of the Union Pacific shield. The broad plate-glass windows have wide seats, cushioned in leather, which will comfortably accommodate a score or more of people. It was not really Intended to open the office yesterday, but Ticket Agent Victor A. Schilling and his aids took possession to arrange their ticket racks, etc., and that settled It. There was no keeping the crowd out. and the place was thronged all day. The first ticket sold was routed over the Rio Grande from Salt Lake City and over the Burlington from Denver to Omaha. All the occupants of offices in railroad row called singly. In groups and collect ively and admired the new office, not one of them showing a trace of envy- They said It was all right; the O. R. & N. is Portland's own road, and is entitled to a magnificent ticket office. They christened Agent Schilling "king of railroad row," and the office "King Victor's Palace" and "Mahogany Hall," and Mr. Schilling had to stand no end of good-natured chaffing, which he could afford to, under the cir cumstances, and did with good grace. He was overwhelmed with suggestions of all Jdnds. which he requested be presented in writing. LOOKS LIKE SETTLEMEITT. Situation of Content for "Vn.ncon.ver Kalaxna Right of "Way. VANCOUVER, Wash., March 11. The jury to serve in the condemnation pro ceedings brought by the "Washington & Oregon Railroad Company for the pur pose "of obtaining title to the right of way of the Portland &. Puget Sound Railroad Company was drawn Saturday by direction of Judge Miller, the venire being returnable March 14. It looked for a time as though the proceedings would be delayed by reason of the efforts being made to get the matter out of the juris diction of the Superior Court and into the Federal Court. Transcripts of the proceedings had here were filed In the "United States Court at Tacoma, and Judge Miller was notified that the question of jurisdiction had been decided in favor of the Portland & Puget Sound Company; in other words, that the Federal Court would assume jurisdiction. Later Judge Miller received information, which he con siders authentic, authorizing him to pro coed with the hearing at the time origi nally fixed. It is now believed by well-informed per sons that the Portland & Puget Sound people have arrived at some amicable agreement with the "Washington & Oregon Company, and that the right-of-way pro ceedings will be practically uncontested. Officials of the "Washington & Oregon Rail road Company state positively that It is the intention of the company, if awarded the right of way, to commence actual construction of the line between this city and Kalama immediately and push the work to completion speedily as possible. ROAD MAY GO FORWARD. Prcpnrntlonn for Extension of the Portlnnd, Vancouver fc Yakima. It is understood that preparations are under way for an extension of the Port land, Vancouver & Yakima Railroad 25 miles or more from Battleground, Clark County, toward the Mount St. Helens mining district, in Skamania County, Washington. In fact. It is said construc tion operations are only awaiting the set tlement of some right-of-way claims near Battlvground. If those claims shall be made moderate, the extension. It is said, will go forward at once, but if the de mands are unreasonable they may greatly delay or defeat the enterprise. The dis tance to the Mount St. Helens district from the present terminus of the road is about CO miles. If all shall go well, it is understood there Is reasonable probability that the whole distance will be covered this year. Twenty-five miles of new track will reach a point well up the south fork of the Lewis .River. The whole distance will be . through a densely .timbered re gion. Rio Grande's Liberal Advertising:. The Rio Grande Western has sent out a batch of pamphlets, folders and maps that set forth the attraction of Utah in many styles. The chief of these is an octavo of 10 pages of descriptive text and illustrations in colors, entitled "Utah; a Peep Into a Mountain-Walled Treasury of the Gods." Then there are half a dozen smaller pamphlets, each an art gem, de voted to the scenery, the minerals, the baths, every feature of interest along the Rio Grande route. Several maps ac company the collection, and also a dozen ready-made newspaper notices, all tend ing to draw people over the Rio Grande route to the Pacific Northwest. Railroad Note. John H. O'Nell, traveling passenger agent of the O. R. & N. Co., has been ordered to San Francisco, to remain for several months. He will furnish home coming soldiers from the Philippines with information as to the desirability of passing through Portland on their way East. General Traffic Manager J. G. Wood worth, of the Pacific Coast Company, arrived in Portland from an extensive business trip down the Mexican coast. He will return to Seattle today. MUSIC DROWNED WORDS. Criticism br a. "Witness sf "A Mid summer Mgrht'a Dream." PORTLAND, March lL-To the Ed itor.) Skakespeare's comedy, "A Mid summer Night's Dream," has come to us and been magnificently produced, but alas, "that there is a thorn to every rose" seems to be true. The thorn In this case is the music Music is a great art and in its place 'is thoroughly ap preciated. It Is appropriate to the "com ing on" of stars or groups of characters, and its strains may be fittingly heard to "take them off" when there are no chorus and dance lines to speak, and no accompanying songs. But why music should be played when the characters are speaking their lines In incomprehensi ble. It was an adjunct of the old melo drama, it was a time of the old strut and mouthing of an ancient period. "We have reformed; we have rid ourselves of rant and roar and "tearing of pas sion to tatters." Now, in heaven's name, let the managers drop this dreadful habit of having the orchestra drown out the voices of the players. In these days when the practice of dis tinct articulation seems almost to be lost the stage. It is hard enough to catch the words at a little distance anyhow, and when the orchestra begins, we settle back and can only guess by the action what can be gonig on. Almost all of Hermla's lines were lost (and the lady who plays Hcrmla Is particularly hard to understand) though the playing of the orchestra, even Miss Kidder, (whose ar ticulation Is perfect) could scarcely be understood on account of the music Shakespeare's play is not an opera and it is not In a foreign tongue. If it were, then the music might go on and nobody would care. The majority of us who went to see "A Midsummer Night's Dream" are lovers of, and students of Shakes peare. We are on the alert to catch every word of the great master as it falls from the lips of the players. We do not want to lose a simple pearl of thought, and we are naturally aggrieved that music should be allowed to step out of its sphere to 6poIl our pleasure. This Is not the first play in which whole passages have gone uncompre hended "through interspersed music I have heard many say "I could get some Idea of the plot" If the music would stop. Let us hope that managers will, in the picture, give us soliloquies and dialogues without music For this fav or our overstrained and long suffering ears will be thankful. MRS. NINA LAROWE. IMPRESSIQN OF JAPAN. Her People Take Themselves as Se riously as the Rest of Us. In the March Century Bishop Potter relates the following experience while making a. tour of one of the principal cities of Japan: "Presently I found myself before a shop window not unlike such a one as might be found in our own Third or Eighth avenue the window of a place primarily for the sale of newspapers and periodicals, but incidentally for almost anything and everything else. Here, conspicuously dis played among other prints and pictures, was suspended a huge broadside, such as comes sometimes with the London Graph ic or illustrated News, representing the assembled sovereigns and rulers of the world. Their grouping nad In It a large suggestion, and furnished to the student of political history a very useful lesson. "In the center of this august group was seated the Emperor of Japan, and gath ered about him. In respectful attitudes were Kings and Queens and Presidents, among whom was our own chief magis trate, placed in what apparently, accord ing to Japanese art, was a position of ap propriate obscurity on the extreme left of the Emperor, while standing behind the imperial chair in which the Mikado was seated (this struck me, I confess, as cu riously contravening the Japanese tra ditions of good manners, was the vener able and venerated Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India, whose years and unexempled reign. If not her sex, would seem to have entitled her to one of the chairs in which, as I observed, the young German Emperor and our own Mr; McKInley was represented as loung ing. "But the chief value of the picture lay in the help which it gave to the traveler in recovering his political perspective. If a modern publisher should make a litho graph of the rulers of the world for Amer ican consumption I presume he would put our own President in the center. Just as In the Transvaal a Boer publisher getting out anything of the sort would put Oom Paul there The thing, in other words, for the traveler to learn from such an in cident is that Japan only like the rest of the world, after all, in that takes Itself quite seriously." MILLER'S FRIENDS WERE SLOW Oregon Man's Endorsement for Con sulate Came "When Filled. WASHINGTON, March S. The friends of H. B. Miller, of Eugene, Or., now on temporary duty at Shanghai, China, were slow in endorsing him for appointment to the position of Consul-General at 'Hong Kong, made vacant by the death of Consul-General Wlldman. Mr. Miller was last year appointed Consul at one of the smaller stations In China, through the efforts of the Oregon delegation, and. since his appointment, has made a good record for himself abroad, and with the department. The President, however, was very prompt about filling the consulate at Hong Kong, and only a few days after the death of Mr. Wlldman, the name of William A. Rublee, of Wisconsin, was sent to the Senate for confirmation as Consul-General at that post. The Sen ate acted promptly, confirming the nom ination without delay. All this took place before the endorsement of Mr. Miller reached Washington. There Is, of course, some doubt as to whether or not Mr. Miller could have secured this appointment, even had his endorsement been received in time, but his year's ser vice woulud have been a distinct ad vantage, and would undoubtedly have justified tht department In giving his name favorable consideration. THERE IS A. CLASS OF PEOPLE' Who are injured by the use of coffee. Re cently there has been placed In all the gro cery stores a new preparation called GRAIN-O. made of pure grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives It without distress, and but few can tell It from coffee. It does not cost over 't as much. Children may drink It with great benefit. 13c and 2Tc per package. Try 1L Ask for GRAlN-O. NOTED ARCHITECT DEAD R. H. MILLER, "WHO DESIGNED LATE SCHOOL BUILDINGS. Death Came After an Operation for" Appendicitis Sketch of a Use ful, Earnest Life. Rolph H. Miller, the architect who de signed the D. P. Thompson, the Holladay and other Portland schools, died in St. Vincent's Hospital at G o'clock yesterday morning at the age of 41 years, after 10 days' illness. Monday of last week he was operated upon for appendicitis. He ral lied from the operation, and there was every hope for a speedy, recovery. But Wednesday night he fell Into a state of coma, which became more and more pro found, terminating In death on the fifth day. His end, therefore, was painless and peaceful. It was due to complications THE LATE R, which existed before the operation, and which would doubtless have proved fatal even If he had not been operated upon. Since boyhood he had suffered from at tacks of appendicitis, but an unusually vigorous constitution and correct habits ,of life had hitherto enabled him to fight these off successfully. He leaves a wife, but no children; a brother. Dr. Herbert C. Miller, of this city, and a sister, Mrs. C. L. .Valrath, of Lebanon, 111. His pa rents. Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Miller, of Lebanon, 111., also survive him. The fu neral will take place Wednesday from the Unitarian Church, the hour to be an nounced later. He made a request that his body be Incinerated in the new cre matorium as soon as it Is finished. Mr. Miller was born In Missouri. He was a special student In Washington Uni versity, of St. Louis, which, in a city that has become famous for its work In man ual training, haU the distinction of intro ducing the first manual training school Into America. A request coming to the university from Toledo, O., for a capable organizer in this line of work, Mr. Miller was selected for the task. He founded the Toledo School of Manual Training, which is now recognized as one of the best schools of Its kind In the country, planned and erected the buildings and su perintended the work of the school dur ing several years. At the end of that time his energies not finding sufficient scope for themselves In the profession of teach ing, he became restless for other work, and accordingly took the course in archi tecture at the Institute of Technology In Boston, becoming an expert In heating and ventilation. Shortly afterward, in 1S32, when WMrtden & Lewis, of this city, found themselves in need of a man to su perintend the construction of the Port land City Hall, he was Induced to come West, and undertook the work. All the heavy mathematical work on the build ing was done by him. After completing this he went Into business on his own ac count. Some of the most beautiful homes in Portland have been erected by him. As a result of turning his attention spe cially to school architecture, he has given the city and state school buildings that In all that pertains to sanitation and per fect adaptation to the needs of the pu pils probably cannot be excelled for the cost anywhere In the West. His un expected death leaves many Important contracts unfilled. As a citizen Mr. Miller's sterling Integ--ltv of character. Fclentlfic training, sure Instinct for practical success and sanity of judgment mad him a valuable factor In the growth 'of the city. His energy was qu'.cl but unflagging. He organized th Pv'""rt Sketch Club and established a free class In architecture at the Y. M. C. A. He was a man of correct business methods, who established a reputation for requiring those with whom ho did business to live up to their agreement In NO PAIN, TRIFLING EXPENSE A Simple, llarmleas Remedy for the Care of Piles: A person contracts a cold, pneumonia, rheumatism and pleurisy from exposure; dyspepsia and liver troubles from dietary errors, and the causes of most diseases are easily traceable; but, although piles and rectal troubles are as common as any of these, the cause Is obscure. "Violent exertion, as in lifting, sometimes produces them, and a sedentary occupa tion Is by some supposed to be a pre disposing cause, but as a rule piles and rectal troubles appear without apparent provocation. There are many pile salves and olnt7 ments which give temporary relief, and when these fall, the patient, if he can afford the expense and Is willing to take the risk, has recourse to a surgical opera tion. But there Is one remedy which gives Immediate relief, and the regular use of which will bring about a perma nent cure, and that is the well-known Pyramid Pile Cure. In long-standing cases the Pyramid has proven to be the only cure except a dan gerous and exceedingly painful surgical operation, and Its advantages over any kind of operation are many, as It Is pain less, causes no Interference with dally oc cupation, and being in the form of a sup pository. Is always convenient and ready for use. The Pyramid Pile Cure Is an effective combination .of soothing oils and antisep tic acids. It contains no cocaine nor nerve-destroying opiates, and, unlike most pile salves, contains no bichloride of mer cury nor any Injurious drug of any kind. All druggists sell the Pyramid Pile Cure at 50 cents for a complete treatment of the suppositories. A little book on cause and cure of piles will be mailed free by addressing Pyramid Drug Company, Marshall, Mich. every detail, and In return those who placed confidence In him never found their trust shaken. Personally he was a man of unusual sensibilities and generous feel ing, qualities that greatly endeared him to his friends. HANGED HIMSBLF. Despondent German Farmer Near Hillsdale Commits Suicide. Despondency caused by continued Ill health led Wllhelm Friedrlch -Hess, a German rancher living near Hillsdale, to commit suicide yesterday by hanging himself from a rafter In his hog shed. Hess' ranch Is about 1 miles from the Hillsdale postofflce and four miles southwest jot Portland, and he lived there with his wife and young daughter. Two weeks ago he told his wife and several friends that he suffered so much from nervous trouble that he thought he had lived long enough. Last Saturday Hess visited Portland on business, and after ward went to the Main-street wharf and jumped into the river. He was promptly pulled out, and it was'hoped that the cold ii H. MILLER. bath would cure him of his suicidal mania. Sunday night he complained of heart trouble, and went to bed, and seemed to sleep more soundlv than usual. At fi o'clock yesterday morning Hess arose to auena to tne leealng of his stock, and was last seen going In the direction of his hog shed. Some time afterward his daughter was horrified to find her father hanging from a rafter In the shed. The body was cut down, but life was found to be extinct. Hess was 52 years old, and weighed over 200 pounds. The Coroner held an inquest Into the case yesterday afternoon, and the jury returned a verdict that Hess had com mitted suicide by hanging. Daily Treasury Statement. WASHINGTON, March 1L Today's statement of the Treasury balances In the general fund, exclusive of the $150,000.- 000 in the division of redemptions, shows: Available cash balance $152,251,653 Gold 87,727,230 . .;' ' FREIGHT ON EXHIBITS SATISFACTORY RATES FOR. BUFFA LO SOT OBTAINABLE. Pan-American Commission "Will Be Cramped for Funds Assistants Se lected, but Names Withheld. The Oregon Commissioners to the Pan American Exposition, at Buffalo, held their first meeting yesterday, In the Chamber of Commerce building. The main business transacted was the distribution of funds among the different departments, and the selection of 13 assistants to H. E. Dosch, general superintendent. The names of the successful applicants for these po sitions are kept secret by the commission, though It h not explained why. There were 41 applicants in all. The pay of the first assistant Is ?S5 per month, and of the others, JSO each. Transportation matters have not yet been satisfactorily settled, as the various railroad companies have thus far declined to make special rates, each Insisting on full rates on freight going East, but offer ing to return the goods to Oregon frea. As there will be 15 carloads of exhibits to be shipped to Buffalo, and only two to come back, this offer was not consid ered a favorable one. The exhibits will bo sold or given away at the close of the exposition. "At the Omaha fair," Mr. Dosch said, "we had 15 carloads of goods, and only two carloads to bring home. The exhibits were mostly presented to the museums of the East, where they became permanent advertisements of our state. One 11-foot block of Oregon spruce was sold to a Stockholm, Sweden, man for $50, and it Is now in the free museum of that city. A 63-foot fir timber, 30 Inches 'square, marked Oregon pine, now occupies a con spicuous position in an Omaha lumber yard, and attracts a great deal of atten tion all the time. Some of the exhibits have found their way to the Smithsonian Institution, and to other of the prominent museums of the Atlantic Coast. "The commission finds itself ham pered through lack of funds, as. It costs a great deal to obtain the exhibits and arrange them In their proper order before shipping. The forestry exhibit will cost fully $1500. and the mining department $2500. The salaries paid to the superin tendent and assistants will, therefore, suf fer, and no funds will be allowed for traveling expenses." The commission indorsed the pamphlet about to be Issued In Portland to advertise the great Oregon Exposition of 1905. Thousands of these pamphlets-will be dis tributed during the Buffalo exposition. The various special editions of Oregon newspapers will also be handed out to visitors. Mr. Dosch think this latter mode will result In the greatest good. The commission adjourned till 11 o'clock this morning, when the time will be spe cially devoted to the mining exhibit of the state. Mr. Dosch and his assistants expect to leave for Buffalo early In April. HADLEY ON TRUSTS. Dnnger of the Republic Becoming: an Empire. -NEW YORK, March 11. A special to the Times from Boston quotes President Arthur T. Hadley, "of Yale University, as saying: "We shall have an Emperor In Wash ington within 25 years unless we can cre ate a public sentiment which, regardless of legislation, will regulate the trusts." President Hadley uttered these words at the Old South Church last night, the report explains, before a congregation largely made up of the richest church society In New England. He was deliv ering the third in a Lenten address by college presidents, and his specific topic was "The Development of a Public Con science." In the course of his address he said: "How do things stand as regards the need of a public conscience in this coun- "A Few Piano Men Disappointed." January 1st the Wiley B. Allen Co. began a closing or rather "A Removal Sale," and expected much trouble in disposing of their immense stock of Pianos and Organs. Ten weeks have passed and the warerooms show the result of so many purchases. Very naturally the hard worked salesmen feel "happily disappointed." Should the sale of Pianos continue at the pres ent rate there will not be a "baker's dozen" left by April 30th. We have just as good Pianos today in our warerooms as we had at the be ginning of this sale. So that intending purchas ers will find as good bargains as those who bought in January. Do not delay the selection of your Piano but come early and look over the stock, which includes the Knabe, Steck, Sohmer, Hardman, Ludwig, .Fischer, and a great many other fine Pianos at satisfactory prices. Our three salesman: W. C. White, H. G. Reed and C W. Davis, will take pleasure in helping you to select a good Piano for your home. The Wiley B. Allen Co. 209,211 First Street try today? The American standard of personal morality Is, on the whole, high, as compared with other nations and other ages. We have developed personal virtues through Individual conscience very well. But our actions In politics and In a social and business sense prove that our moral standard in those direc tions Is desperately low. There Is an appalling contrast between our methods of dealing with each other as Individuals and the low standard in dealings between different parts of the whole organization of society. "Competition used to prevent a man from practicing great extortion upon his neighbor even if he wanted to, and in politics we once had at least a rough form of relative Justice. But today with our Industries organized into trusts and the imperialistic spirit developed In pol itics, the general development of the principle of trusts will become appalling unless we cultivate a higher standard of morality than ever before. "Legislation will never protect us from the evils of trusts, of deteriorated poli tics. The essence of a trust Is that you must trust the head of It to exercise his power wisely or to abuse It, according to the kind of conscience he possesses. Trusts have got to be regulated by pub lic sentiment and that public sentiment Is not merely the opinion of any partic ular part of the whole people, but is a readiness to accept. In behalf of the country, restrictions, independent of the question of whether you or 1 shall be personally harmed by those restrictions. "You say that the community will not be governed by thl3 principle. We must expect that the community will, how ever, for the alternative Is an Emperor In Washington within 25 years. Public affairs can no longer be played as a game, but must be directed by an Intelli gent and active public conscience. Indi vidual effort Is helpless and hopeless." PASSION F02. GAMBLING. Fashionable Society That Permit It Denounced. ' NEW YORK. March 11. The Rev. Dr. William Huntinston said In the course of his sermon preached before the New Eng land society of New York in Grace Church last night: "What are these stories we hear about the spread of an uncontrollable passion for gambling? Is It possible that there are leaders of society who lend their counte nance to forms of amusement that are against the very laws of the '.and? It may be hard to frame an argument against gambling that will hold in logic, but ship wrecked lives spcal: louder than any syll ogism. Is It mre that hostelrles are found In fashionable 'Ife Tho will let young men, whose hem sty Is their capital, depart Im poverished by losses at cards out of the drawing-rooms Into which they have themselves Invited them as guests? If it be true, I cry shame. Is It true that young women reputed to be of good family ami honest bringing up exhibit with pride the jewels bought out of profits of the saming table? Could anything bf more vulgar than such acts as thee? Nay. that is a feeble word. Could anything be more In famous? What avalis a crusade against policy shops and poolrooms, whether by 5. , 15 or 50, If behlnddoors which no detective ventures to pass such things as these go on? "Is there no need of the spirit of dis cipline?" Dr. Huntington asked. "What then Is to become of society? With SunJay lapsing Into a mere tradition: w'.th the day which a new England mystic, not over friendly to Christianity, made bold to call the 'backbone of our civilization. turned by common consent from a holy day to a holiday; with marriage, the corner-stone of the family life which. In Its turn. Is the corner-stone of the state, with j holy wedlock degenerating Into a mere ' last-ana-ioose contract, ana witn love oi j pleasure so omnipresent and omnipotent I as to have obliterated the very landmarks ' of decency, who shall say that the call for a revival of the spirit of discipline is Ill-timed? "Why do I tal my Illustrations rather I from women than men? For the reason j that In Christian lands, and nowhere I more conspicuously than In the United States, women are the custodians of mor. j als. Here, however It may be elsewhere. I men are largely what the Influence of I women makes them, and the more rapldly j the men desert public worship, substltu I ting the club and the lodere for the house "Warerooms open from 7:30 A. M. until the last customer leaves at night. of prayer, the more Is this supremacy of all men as the priestess of sacred Inter ests and the arbiter of conduct accent uated and defined." BUSINESS ITEMS. If Baby IS Cutting; Teeth, Be sure and use that old and n ell-tried remedy Mrs. Winslow's Ecothins Syrup, for chlldrei teething:. It soothes the child, softens the rums ailavo all pain rur' vnA rolir and dlarrhocaj DAILY METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. PORTLAND, March 11. 8 P. M. Maximum temperature. 53; minimum temperature. 37; river reading at 11 A M.. 0.3 feet; change la the past 24 hours. 0.00; total precipitation. 5 P. M. to 5 P. M., 0.32 Inch; total precipita tion since Sept. 1. 1000. 32.84 Inches; normal precipitation since Sept. 1. 1000. 34.82 inches: deficiency. 1.0S inches; total sunshine March 10. 2:23; possible sunshine March 10. 11:38. WEATHER CONDITIONS. The storm central off the Northwest "Wash ington Coast yesterday evening has advanced rapidly eastward, and 1b this evening beyond the limit of Teports received at this office Tho pressure has Inreased rapidly over California and the North FacIHc States. Light to moder ately heavy rains have occurred during tho last 24 hours in the Rocky Mountain and Pa cific Coast States, and on the mountains and more elevated plateaus some snow has fallen. The Indications are for generally fair weather in this district, except that showers are prob able west of the Cascade Mountains. WEATHER FORECASTS. Forecasts made at Portland for the 23 hours ending at midnight Tuesday, March 12: Portland and vicinity Cloudy to partly cloudy, with occasional showers; winds south erly, shifting to westerly. Western Oregon and Western Washington Cloudy to partly cloudy, with occasional show ers; winds mostly southerly. Eastern Oregon. Eastern Washington and Idaho Probably fair weather; winds mostly southerly. A. B. WOLLABER. Acting Forecast Official. AMUSEJJKKTS. MAP.QUAM GRAND CALVIN HEILIG. Mgr. cdiiLiday nii;ht. March 13, at S 15. Mr. A.bert .Marivj presents return engage ment of 1IR. AND MRS. UEOitG HENSCHEL. w A.U.IKS. GEOltG HtlNSCHEL. Mi. A.nD JUKrf. GEOHG HENoCHEL, MIC. AND Ait.S. GEOltG UE.sSCHEL. In urar.d Kcc.tai. Vocal and Instrumental. i"iices Er.ti-- j.rqueite. $1.50; entire par queue circle. 1 , bicuny. nrst 6 rows, 75c; s.-vund t' roA-. ,"oc. boxt and Ioges, $lu. Stats now sOting. I Cu.ui..ik'2 THEATER .ONE WEEK. COMMENCING SUNDAY. MARCH 10. SATURDAY MATINEE. THE jiuSI NATLxtAL 1'LaY OF THE AGE. "THE VILLAGE PARSON." THE VILLAGE PARSON." "THE VILLAGE PARSON." "THE VILLAGE PARSON." "TiiE VILLAGE PARSON." A PLAY o. iN'iE.NaS HLMA.N INTEREST. Special scenery. Excellent company. Produc- : tion complete in detail. 1 MUn.GPOLITAN THEATER ! CLARENCE H. JONES. Manager i Third and Y amtiil. Portland's Down-Town Theater. Phone Crant 741. Wk commtneirg Sui.djy. March 10. A mam mom c nL' . .oducLon of William Gil lette's, treat war play. "HELD BY THE ENEMY." Presented bv a rxiwerful pnznivanv. under the ' direction of Hmvarrt & Dnvlr. N'o Xorth. no 1 South; no villain. Simply the best American I ptr.y ever written. Pathos, mirth and patriot ism. iTlces that never change. N.jcs att. action "Master and Man." FREDERICKSBURG MUSIC HALL Seventh and Aider sts. SAM.VYOAS. The South American Wonders. POWERS & FREED, Musical ArtUts. THE GREAT SALVENI. LEONORE BALLIDEST. The Old Favorite, HATTIE WARDE. LUCILE CROMWELL. Baliadlst. XETV TODAY. NOTICE TO H0PGR0WER5 The Oregon Hopgrowers Association la pre pared to sell hop twine of all sizes at tho low est possible prices.. JAMES WINSTANLEY. XUnager. Salem. Or. Do you want a home? Lots at reasonable price and house built to your plan. We will help you. and you can repay us la ca3y Installments. Come In and see the Investment Co. E. Quackenbush. Pres., 244 Stark st.