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s THE 3I0RXIXG- OREGONIAX, jJIOTDAT, JANUARY ,St 190?, WW WIFE KES POISON When Husband Finds Her After Two Years' Search She Drinks Carbolic Acid. CAME HERE FROM ST. PAUL Railroad Engineer Was Heady to Forgive and Take Sirs. Eva Toy Back to Her Home in 3IInncsota. In the -presence of her husband, -who had traveled almost across the continent to persuade his wife to return to her home after a wayward life of two years In a notorious dive, Mrs. Eva Toy com mitted suicide by taking carbolic acid at Fourth and Davis streets shortly after 3 o'clock yesterday morning. Efforts of a physician to save her lite were unavailing, and the woman died in the eight of her husband, who would have taken her back to her home, not withstanding her past life. Mrs. Toy left a comfortable home in St. Paul two years ago, leaving no word behind. Her dis appearance was a mystery until last Sum mer, when a friend of Toy. visiting the Lewis and Clark Exposition, saw the woman here and located her in the North End. On his return to St. Paul he no tified Toy of his wife's whereabouts, but left him in darkness as to her mode of life. Toy is a railroad engineer, and as soon as he was able he got leave of ab sence to come to Portland. He had con siderable difficulty in finding his wife. As he was entering the room of the woman yesterday morning she tipped a two-ounce bottle of carbolic acid to her mouth and swallowed the burning poison before she could be prevented. The body was removed by Coroner Fin ley, and her husband yesterday made ar rangements to have the remains burled In Lone Fir Cemetery. The funeral will take place this afternoon at 2 o'clock. WOULD BUY BY WHOLESALE Advice to the Grange Given l)y J. J. Johnson. In his annual report J. J. Johnson, mas ter of Evening Star Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, read Saturday at the annual meeting, strongly urged co-operation in the matter of purchasing supplies for the household, in order to obtain whole sale prices. That part of his report fol lows: "While we should encourage the educa tional and social feature of our order In general and especially of our Grange, yet a most important matter, also, and "one that should be considered Is how to make the Grange more remunerative from a financial standpoint. Our insurance feat ures are good and substantial, if proper ly guarded, but It would seem that there could be a most material benefit also derived by a system of buying in bulk. Thjs, In my Judgment, is practical. Local conditions would necessarily dictate to a certain extent at least In carrying out the plan. I fully appreciate that objec tions and difficulties would be thrown In the way "by those affected by such a sys tem, if put Into operation. These will have to be met and dealt with as they may arise. One of the chief obstacles to the fullest consummation of this co operative plan is the want of cash in hand to buy in bulk. This, however, would soon be overcome in most instances by thrift and method thus encouraged. "Another most important feature and one to be carefully guarded Is to ar range the plan of ascertaining and ac cepting prices upon any bill of goods that would not be open to suspicion. This can be easily accomplished by having statements submitted to at least three competing stores by as many different of ficers selected for that purpose, and then accepting the lowest cash price offered. "It Is true the beginning would be com paratively small, but I believe that as soon as the experimental stage Was passed It would be generally adopted by our members, and prove of practical bene fit to us all." Mr. Johnson quoted an editorial which appeared in The Oregonian of December IK, 1903, In support of the plan. "Our Eastern Granges have proved that co-operative work along similar lines Is practical and remunerative, thus war ranting to the fullest extent the .favor able comment of our great metropolitan press." The report closed by recommending ap-' polntment of a special committee of five to investigate and report such plans as may be deemed advisable. FUNDS FOR JTHE HELPLESS Charitable Citizens Reniemher Little Sammy and Miss L-oubet. "I send your 25 cents for Little Sammy to help buy his legs. I got the quarter for my birthday. I am S years old to day." The foregoing is an excerpt from the many cheery letters which accom pany contributions for Little Sammy, the Portland newsboy with the stunted legs who is saving his money to purchase a pair of artificial limbs. The deficit that stands between the ar tificial limbs for the little cripple is steadily growing smaller, but many more contributions are needed. Contributions are sent into The Oregonian office every day by sympathetic and whole-souled per sons who have undoubtedly seen the lit tle red-haired cripple selling papers about the streets. A large percentage of the contributions are from children who can sympathize with Little Sammy more than the- grown persons. Sums all the way from a few pennies to 50 cents are receded from big hearted boys and girls. The newsboy comrades of Little Sammy have also been very generous. The following Is a list of the contribu tions received Saturday by The Oregonian for Little Sammy: Harold W. Smiley, 25 cents; James R. Smiley, 25 cents; Cash, 50 cents; Marlon and Henrietta Lawrence, $1.10; Cash, 50 cents;""Ruth Benvle, 50 cents. Miss Loubct, the young French woman vho suffered a broken back by falling ?rom a burning building near the Lewis and Clark Exposition, has .not been for gotten by the charitable residents of Portland and the vicinity. Contributions for her are still being received. The trav eling men in and about Portland have sent In a fund of $100 for Miss Loubet which they had raised among themselves. Mr. Moffat's Railroad. i FORTIAND, Jan. 71 (To the Editor.) Th$ news contained In yoar special teleerara from Denver regarding- D. H. Moffat's pro posed extension of his Denver Northwestern & Pacific Railway to Portland, I can verify as true except one mistake therein Which 1 will correct, it says, "Owing to financial difficulties the Oregen company could not fulfill Its obligations, etc.," which were to Teet the Denver & Rio Grande at "Wlnne jbucc. Nev. This latter 1 as error. The Oregon company, of which I was then vice president and manager, had no financial difficulties whatever. Indeed to JU rurprUa it had sold all its bonds In Great Britain at 10 per cent above par or 110, premium, and after it had built 1G3 mil en, 03 miles of which were from Ray's Landing via Woodburn. to. near Natron. 357 miles from Yv'inncmucoa, and was also finishing that line into Portland city, wst sice. It had In tho treasury abun fiance o money to reach "Wlnnemueca when in stepped Henry Villard. then building the Northern Pacific and O. R. &. X Cos Hnes and gave the Oregon com pany (aa your telegram calls It) a lease at 6 per cent on its stocks and tJbnda for 90 years, and on that lease against my oppo sition, tho O. R. & X. Co. obtained pos session, but two and one-half years there after repudiated its own lease as I pre dicted it would and th.o courts in 16S9 de clared that lease void. Nevertheless. T). II. Moffat never gave up his Intention to reach Portland on the sur-. veyed lines I had projected and some months ago I. furnlnhed him with maps, estimates and our engineers' mrveys and reports made while Major A. T. Sears was our chief engineer. This determination since was quite recently made to go to Portland and to the seacoast of Oregon for its tim ber. Although D. H. Moffat Is now well up in years, his Indomitable energy, perse verance, determination of character, wealth and Integrity, with his railroad- experience and the ease to my personal Icnowlcdge with which he can obtain money on bonds In Eu rope all combined insure the construction f the Denver Northwestern & Pacific Railway to Portland. WILLIAM REID. HEARD IN THE ROTUNDAS Railway Projected in the Goeur d' Alene District EP. SPAULDING. a Murray, Idaho, mining man, brought news to Port land yesterday -of the construction of a railroad to connect the north side of the Coeur d'Alene district with "Wallace. Mr. Spauldlng, who Is a guest at the Hotel Portland, arrived In the city yesterday morning. The company that will build and oper ate the road was organized at Wallace last week, and will be known as the Ida ho Northern. About $140,000 of the stock has been subscribed and the company will he capitalized at $2,500,000. Mr. Spauldlng, who Is manager of the Mon arch Mining Company, which will be greatly benefited by the construction of the road, will also be -manager of the Idaho Northern. Mr. Spauldlng stated yesterday that work would be started on the road early next Spring, and that It would be pushed forward to completion with all possible speed. It will run from Coeur d'Alene City to Wallace, and a branch will be built from Kingston up the North Fork to a point six. miles east of Murray. In all it will be S5 miles in length. Mr. Spauldlng stated yesterday that while for the present nothing beyond the construction of the road as planned would he undertaken that eventually the track would be extended to Boise, giving North ern and Southern Idaho direct railroad communication. He said he thought work would be started on this project within two or three years at the latest. The branch from Kingston to Murray will be the first part of the road to be con structed and the line from Coeur d'Alene City to Wallace will be completed later. "The building of this road Is of vital importance to the mining men of the Northwest, and it is indeed surprising that it has not been done long before this," said Mr. Spauldlng at the Hotel Portland yesterday afternoon. "It means that one of the richest lead mining dis tricts In the wprld will be opened up for development and the only thing that has retarded its growth has been the lack of transportation facilities. It is my belief, which. Is shared by others, who are ac quainted with the resources of that sec tion, that the north side will some day produce a. greater tonnage of lead ore than tho south side of the Coeur d'Alene district. "There are several splendid mines In operation there now, but thoy cannot bo operated to advantage because the ore has to be freighted .out which Is a very slow and expensive means of transporta tion. Besides the railroad will open up a. wonderful tract of white pine timber which is immensely valuable. "There is now more tonnage developed and actually In sight on the north side than was developed on the South Pork of the Coeur d'Alene River when the first railroad was built up that stream to Wardner and Wallace. It Is a section of heavily timbered mountains, abounding In mineral showings that mark it for one of the great. If not the greatest, tonnage producing districts In the world-famous Coeur d'Alenes." 6WHEN 1 flrst went shooting In W Oregon several weeks ago I found that the so-called native pheasant Is nothing less than the famous ruffed grouse of the East," said R. La Barre Goodwin, tho artist, who has a studio in the Hotel Portland, yesterday. Mr. Goodwin Is famous as a painter of small game, and he procures his own specimens. He has been in Oregon for some time painting the Oregon game birds, the pictures of which he will take East. "The ruffed grouse and the woodcock are undoubtedly the premier game birds ot the wcild, and Oregon ! particularly fortunate m having tl c ;r.rroer," said Mr Goodwin. "The sportsmen here do not seem to appreciate the splendid qualities of the ruffed grouse. In fact, they do not know they have these fa mous game birds right In their midst. There is no such bird as the native pheas ant. The ruffed grouse is so much su perior to the Chinese pheasant that there Is no comparison. "In the East the ruffed grouse Is a much besought game bird and is very highly prized. Sportsmen will travel hun dreds of miles to shoot It. But here in Oregon the woods are full of them and they are molested but little by the hunt ers, considering how other Oregon game birds are hunted. The Oregon quail Is also one of the finest game birds I have ever had the pleasure to pursure. These two birds Oregon will have in abundance for years, as they stay mostly In the thickets and are very wary. Oregon Is truly a hunter's paradise." ' O ERVICES were held In ihn Tinrlnre O of the Hotel Portland yesterday af ternoon by members of the local organiza tion of the Gideons' Christian Commercial Travelers' Association. It was the first meeting that has been held since the lo cal organization was formed about two weeks ago. T. B. Adams, secretary of the association, presided yesterday. Tfc,e services consisted of prayer, songs a id the recitation of personal experiences by various traveling men who happened to be present. Only traveling men are elig ible to become members of the assocla tion. Concluded to Gome by Land. -ABERDEEN. Wash., Jan. 7. (Special.) Mis3 Flora Beecher, a teacher, who has been housed on the steamer Chehalls dur ing two 'trips In which the vessel started for Gray's Harbor and found a tow each time, arrived here today overland. Child's life Saved by Chamber la bi's Ougfc Remedy. Mrs. John Englehardt, of Gera. Mich.. tells of the anxious moments spent over her mtie two-year-oia aaugnter, who had taken a bard cold, resulting In croup. She says: "I am satisfied that if it had not ncen lor ununoenain s -ougn liemedy kVir would have choken to deaths T mv this medicine every ten minutes, and she soon becan to throw up the uhlec-m. i can recommend it In the highest term?, as j. save aaotaec cinm isai. was cured in the same way. oy au aruggis-tg. SEES ONLY FAILURE No Good Has Come in Portland of Recent Revivals. OPEN LETTER TO CHAPMAN Rev. II. C. Shaffer Condemns Slcth ods and Says That 3Icctings -"Were Ruled "by Cheap Political Trickery SAYS CHATXAN MEETINGS WERE FAILURE. "It ia now almost a year since you with a corps of evangelist vllted Portland, sad conducted a revival. Before you came and for some days after, we were hopeful qi a sreat and good work belnjr accomplished. After fome days had passed, and we saw the methods you employed and the real lack of travail In prayer, we were convinced that -we were engaged in a magnificent display, with but little real work accomplished. Never theless, with the hope that souls would be saved, we spent our time and money freely and refrained from crltlcisinc the work. "Selfishness triumphed and political caucus methods and slates were In evidence. The advertising was im mense; considering the spiritual power on hand, it was overdone. The foregoing Is from a unique ser mon delivered last evening at the Unit ed Brethren Church, , East Fifteenth and Morrison strcots, " by the pastor, Rev. II. C. Shaffer. His sermon was In the form of an open letter to Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman,. who conducted the revival services in Portland 4ibout a year ago. After waiting a year" for results, Dr. Shaffer, who was one of the most active In that religious cam paign, comes to the conclusion that the meetings were practically a failure as far as definite results are con cerned. Dr. Shaffer reviews that effort and sets forth his estimates in the following open-letter sermon, delivered from his pulpit last night: 4That there were souls saved, we do not doubt, though the writer did not witness ono single conversion and he was In the thickest ot the effort. But with such unity ot purpose and such able expounders of God's word -as younelf and co-workers, there should have been thousands really and truly con verted. Among other reasons, the follow ing arc believed to be some of the most important, why the lasting results were not better; "First The arrangements were made with but little prayer, and the evange lists were assigned "by the committee of 1G in a meeting called for that purpose, during which there was no prayer except the benediction. Selfishness triumphed, and political caucus methods and slates were In evidence. "Second The advertising was immense Considering Uie spiritual power on hand. It was overdone. The Welsh revival has needed little or no advertising. Not by the might of publicity nor by the power of circulars, but by the spirit can a real revival be inaugurated. "Third The evangelists were not will ing for the people to do much of the work except the mechanical distribution of cards, otc. We hoard no testimonies and no prayers by the laity. The pastors sat on the platform like a row of Egyp tian mummies, and prayed In .turn. "FourthWhile hundreds were convict ed of sin, but few were "born again," as there was not real effort made to stay by a seeker until he was saved and had the witness of the word and the spirit. This was the great lack In the meetings, and from what we hear. Dr. Chapman, It Is the lack In all your meetings. East and West. "Fifth-All of this Is due to the fact that the holy' spirit was not given the right of way and did not control In all things. The Welsh revival Is character ized by the mighty presence of the spirit of God and by a deep and earnest spirit of travail by the church. "In closing this sermon-letter to you. Dr. Chapman, permit me to say that you are considered one of the two leading evangelists of America, and for thl rea son your responsibility Is the greater. Young men are following your leadership and your work Is shoddy and their work will be shoddy. The spiritual portion of the churches are sadly disappointed with your methods and their results. You have no right to disappoint them. They are waiting and praying and hoping for an old-fashioned holy ghost and fire type of revival. There are thousands of peo ple, unsaved, waiting for the. church to get on her knees and assist them into the Kingdom, but convicted of sin as they are, and crying out: "Men and brethren, what shall we do? We 'are In structed by you to answer that awful cry of the human heart for a Savior, by say ing to them: 'Sign this card, please, and state your church preference. "God forgive us. I write these words to you, Dr. Chapman, with no malice or bitterness, and with but one purpose- that is to express to you the profound convictions of dozens of people, whom I know, of Portland, and with the hope that God will bring to our beloved coun try a real and abiding revival of religion, I am yours truly, "II. C. SHAFFER." THE SHEEP AND THE GOATS Dr. Small Points Out Difficulties of Making; Separation. Rev. W. F. Small, of the First Unlver sallst Church, East Side, preached yes terday morning on the; subject, "Expur gated Membership." He spoke from the text, "Wash you, make you clean." Dr. Small said in opening his sermon that the question of dropping unworthy mem bers from the church roll had been raised by some Portland ministers, and he considered it a wise thing to do. "It takes courage." he said, "on the part of a minister to expurgate his membership, to drop the hypocrites and invite them out of the hack door of his church, and now the Question is. Will these ministers have the courage to carry out their convictions? It will be easy enough to drop some, hut how about the men and women of wealth and position who ought to go? Will this .movement reach them? Wisely raised Is this, ques tion of expurgating the hypocrites, but If all these wealthy hypocrites go It may leave the church purse not so fat and the pews may not be well occupied. What would be the result of a campaign that would sweep all this class out of the churches? But who is to be Judge, grant ed that they should go? None of us are as good as we ought to he. 1 read & newspaper report of a sermoa in which tho minister Is made to say that there was a murderer In a certain church. How about the deacon who returns from & collection tour and says that the man who paid him money for the church took him .Into a saloon aa gave him a drink? Talk about a muscled pulpit, but how about a church that would tolerate cr a condition an that? "I read la an editorial printed ia a Port land paper that It was dlfcovcred that a North End Joint was owned and rented as- such by a prominent member of a prominent Portland church. What kind of a hypocrita" is that church member who would rent hla own property for & resort of evil and vice? What sort of a muzzled pulpit is that which would re main silent with such a member on Its roll? There goes your church member,, Is said of a deacon emerging from a saloon, by the man of the world. What a shame and disgrace to the church. Some" churches forbid card, playing, and yet there arc members at whose places of business cards may be purchased. And there-arc the rich members and di rectors of corporations in the church doing things that are wrong and oppres sive. The pulpit does not dare to say anything about these; the ministers don't even dare to protest- And these great financial questions arc among the most important we have to contend with, but the preacher is muzzled. They read nice little essays on Sundays en ethical ques tions. They select silly and shallow sub jects such as the "Monkey Puzzle" and other topics, for they arc muzzled on the vital questions. Why they remain In a place where they are not free to speak their convictions is more than I can un derstand, but that they are In that posi tion largely there Is no question. There arc men in the pulpits who cannot, dare not, preach what they believe. I could not stay where I could not be free to speak tho truth. "I am glad that Dr. Wise has spoken out for an unmuzzled pulpit, and he has done this and every community a great service. I hope to preach on that sub ject next Sunday morning, and it would be a good thing if every preacher in the city would take up the subject." DR. ELIOT'S INITIAL SERMON Preaches on Call or Moses at First Unitarian .Church. Ac hCFIcst Unitarian Church yester day. Rev. T. L. Ellal, D. D., the successor of Dr. Q-csuy, preache3 his inltiaj sermon. The sermon was suggested by the call of Moses, as described In Exodus, third and fourth chapters. The dialogue there given was considered as a dramatic- form of an Inward picture of the wrongs of his peo ple, followed by the conflict between the prophet's conscience and hla unwillingness to take the burden of the reformer, and his final acceptance of the calL In part. Dr. Eliot said: "The divine selection of any one to be come the spokesman and worker against any social wrong Is always preceded by a general conviction of things which ought not or ought to be. Then there is the di vine call In general terms, 'Whom shall I send and who will go for us? At last one man hears this as a personal message and interprets it in terms of conscience and will as his living duty. God elects his prophets and spokesmen, but thoy first elect God select his general message about wrongs as, a personal call to him or to her to begin trying to right them. "The call of the world's saviors are all upon the same terms of the co-operation of the man with the divine message and grace. Jesus became the Messiah through the same profound law of the spirit and conscience. He chose God. in order that God might choose him. His conflicts of spirit, as pictured in the stories of the temptation and Gcthscmanc. arc the chooslngs of the man to receive the mes sage, 'Whom shall I send? Into the an swer, 'Send mc All the world of his day was longing for a Messiah. Jesus, in the mysterious -depths of his personality, of fered himself to be that Messiah, inter preting his office In original terms of di vine and human relationship and self-sacrifice. What was so epoch-making in his experience,,. 'the Word becoming flesh.' is the method of all onward experience, whero is heard the word. This ought not to be.' and the Individual takes up the burden of resolution and action." Dr. Eliot closed his discourse with em phasizing the life of a church as one of "stirring up the gift that Is within us." and of interpreting the general calls of God for service into the personal answer. "Send me." "The scnee of responsibility," sakl he, "Is the spiritual product of the man's seeking to know his duty, and the divine grace co -operant and inspiring the constant renewal of moral strength and spiritual Joy In service. All the evils ot public or private life are to be met In the lost Issue by individuals who. like Moses, find that God. through conscience, is speaking to them, and who choose the perilous road of personal duty and sacri fice of personal case in order that the world may be bettered. They become In truth brothers of Jesus in so doing, and Inheritors of the message given him in his baptism. This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.' " 3IUST GET RIGHT "WITH GOD Evangelist Scores Preachers Who Show Flowery Road to Heaven. Speaking on the subject, "Prepare to Meet Thy God," Rev. S. M. Martin, the evangelist who Is addressing a series of revival meetings at the First Chris tian Church, last night scored half hearted Christians and preachers who tried to twist the Scriptures about in order to advocate a religion which was very agreeable and easy for everyone to accept. There are many preachers who are constantly trying to keep truth In the background." ho said, "so that they will not smite the consciences of their hear ers too hard. Some of these men bear the title of D. D. They have been doc toring divinity for many years and It Is time for them to come back to the kind of Gospel that Christ taught. There are a whole lot of preachers who advocate education as the means of savins souls. They seem to think that all one needs to do to save a man Is to educate him. If these men are right, we may expect that when we die and apply for admission to Heaven, the first thing Saint Peter will ask us Is at what college we were graduated. I know many ignorant people who are good Christians and many college grad uates who are in the penitentiary, and more who ought to be. "Others claim tha morality will save a man. If morality is all there Is to It. then God Is not needed, and men can save themselves. But when a man can put himself in Heaven, he will be able to lift himself over a fence by his bootstraps. "Then there Is another class who claim That salvation comes through penance, and still others who say that all we need is to think that we are saved and we will be. Any one of these four teachings Is as wrong: as the other, and they are all absurd. Salvation oomcs only through faith, repentance and baptism. A man must get his heart right; then he must get his life right, and finally, he must get right with God." Poker-Players Arrested. In a raid on a gambling- game at S Union avenue, at 4 o'clock yesterday mornlng. Sergeant of Police Baty and Po liceman Eberznan captured George Peery, Henry Muller, Albert Lake and H. Onk ley In a barber shop at that street num ber. They were playing poker, and when the offlcers entered they found money and other evidence upon jhe table. The four were taken to police headquarters, where they furnished hall and were released. TOTTXK' IX SXKVICX. Qeee of River Beat Is Naw am the Aaiarto Eajoy a trip to Astoria ea the Potter. Yu wtlf always rtmMBbw It. Leaves Asu-street deck every Right at 8 o'deek, except Sunday. (Satardav alcat. M P. M.) Ru4 trip. U. Partleiars at TaJxA &M Watblagtex streets, FsrUia. At Your Own Figures This Week COATS and SUITS ArOur Clearance Sale Prices Up-to-Date Garments, Too A Tremendous Stock of Elegant Garments. Elegant Eton Style Suits' Black, wine, blue, new gray. $12.50 to $35.00 $7.50 Silk Petticoats, special $3.85 $1.50 Sateen Petticoats 75 While they last only. S2.50 Elegant Sateen Petticoats at half price 1.25 Elegant stock of Dress Skirts, new gray cir cular skirts, plaited skirts, fiill-flouncc skirts, in black, blue, brown and mixed. All at clear ance sale prices. THE J. REBUKE TO GREEDY Rev. Father Thompson Ex pounds Honesty. LESSON TO BUSINESS MEN Corporations Which Bleed tho Pub lic 3Iay Take His Sermon to Heart for Its Forceful Truthfulness. In course of a simple, earnest" and sin cere sermon on New Year's resolutions. Rev. George Thompson, assistant pas tor of the Cithedral of the Immaculate Conception, yesterday morning turned asJde from, his main theme to read a pointed homily to the business men of today whose consciences have become warped by their greed for gain and In whose minds graft and dishonesty have usurped the teachings of the Golden Rule. For the gas corporation, for Instance, which is robbing the people of Portland by scUlng them the free air of heaven at so much a thousand cubic feet for light and fuel; for the railroad corpora tions which nave descended to petty lar ceny and the tricks of the confidence man and footpad to increase their dividends; for the public official who has betrayed his trust and all the way down the social ladder to the tramp who cheats the world out of a living, the pastor's words were full of pointed directions toward the. lead ing of a cleaner life. during the year to come. leading Thought of Sermon. The leading thought of hl3 sermon was that the man who Is properly consUtuted. upon entering into the Now Tear, has the sincere purpose of making it the best year of his life. Growth and progress are laws of life, and it la only when ordinary men strive to improve that they fulfill the pur poses of earthly existence. Improvement is possible to. and. as a general prop osition, necessary, to everybody. There are some, perhaps, who entertain the idea that they are free from human faults, but as u general rule humanity is conscious of its faults and shortcomings, and anxious to mend them. Father Thompson said: "Different conditions at different times give importance to special virtues, but especially to those who are just entering upon life, two virtues are vitally neces sary and practicable, truthfulness and honesty. We know that In the judgment of the world the shrewd and clever busi ness roan is accorded considerable praise, but, unfortunately, we have reason to know that shrewdness and business cun ning are often only less harsh, terms for dishonesty and deceit. Principles of Itlght Idvlng. "From the standpoint of the Catholic faith, which we draw upon for our prin ciples of right living, any material gain that is procured at the sacrifice of per sonal Integrity, la not compensated for by any m-easure of worldly success. Though many of us would be doomed to lead lives of ccmfjaratlve obscurity through faith fully following the dictates of honesty and truthfulness, still It la far better that we sacrifice the plaudits of the crowd aad itttteBtly await the day when God shall render to every man acce-rdlnp ta 'The radical cauee oft political asd so Our Factory Has Just Completed the Best Covert Jacket in the United States No store but ours in this or any other city ever had its equal. All traveling men say this come and see them. WE WANT YOUR TRADE And remember, we own, operate and main tain a manufacturing plant for the making of Ladies' Garments, and have the real man tailors to fit you. The garments you purchase in our store will be handled in an expert man ner. You will find no such equipment else where as we maintain at our store. "We have a splendid line of -Silk Petticoats, Dress Skirts, etc.r etc. M. ACHESON CO. Fifth and Alder cial evil Is private iniquity, and all re forms, to be productive of real results, must be based upon true rellgian. which enlightens the Individual conscience and gives It an adequate motive for weU dolng." For Christian Morality. Following a general discussion of these propositions Father Thompson continued by saying that man was not an Indi vidual pursuing a solitary pathway through life, but was bound by ties of brotherhood which mingled his interests with the interests of the entire race. "We are members, -one with another, of the human family, not only with ref erence to the present generation, but also with reference to future generations yet unborn," he said. "Whatever there is noble or lofty in the life, of the world today has been be queathed to us by those who preceded us, and In like manner the plane which we attain In our day win be the start ing point of man tomorrow. As the past has paid its debt to us, so also we should pay our debt to the future. "By making the principles of Chris tian morality the guide posts of our daily life, by being Christians in deed as well as in name, we shall bring into our own lives the largest measure of true happi ness and lay up for posterity the ennob ling traditions of enlightened Christian men." PURPOSE XEEDEUIj IX LIFE Hev. J. A. Leas Preaches Sermon of Sound Advice to Young Men. From the text, "For this end was I born," John xvill:37. Rev. J. A. Leas, pas tor of St. James English Lutheran Church, preached, yesterday morning, a sermon on the necessity of an earnest purpose in life, with special application to the young man just on the threshold of his career in life. "Legend has it," he said. In substance, "that when Pontius Pilate committed sui cide his body was thrown into the Tiber and the waters were troubled. It was thrown Into the Rhone and the waters were boisterous; it was thrown Into the Lausanne and the deep pools of that wa ter were troubled. The legend demon strates the execration with which the world looked upon Pilate. Before him the Savior was arraigned, and before him Je sus confessed that he was born for a di vine purpose. In answer to his mother, after he had forgotten childish obligations and mingled with theologians of the tem ple, he said, with emphasis. 'Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's busi ness? "Every one at the age of 15 ought to be able to say, 'For this end was I born,' and the young man who, at the age of 21, has not decided what God wants him to do is to be pitied. Man in his entire organiza tion is evidence of the fact that he Is in tended for a purpose. Even the ruins of man bear witness to the fact that he was Intended for better things. I look upon the remnants of a man and say that or ganism, that body, that soul, was Intend ed for other and greater work than It ever did. "Let us rqmember that we are not re sponsible for our ancestry. We are not responsible for the failures of our fathers. Our responsibility Is with the present. "One reason why so many men fail in their life task is that their parents choose their profession for them, or they them selves decided without flrst consulting the guidance of Providence. Watch the boy. learn his tastes, hlg qualifications, and you have decided the momentous question of llfework. "Look at tho qualifications and the en ergies of a young man. and need you ques tion. Has .he a purpose in God's plan? If a man with HG.OGO worth of spiritual en ergy only produces $1(K worth of spiritual good, he Is not making proper us of his God-given-faculties. If a man lives for the drudgery or worry of business alone he is making a failure of life. "We must have some special purpose, some special object for which to .work. We mutt concentrate our efforts for some particular purpose,- and we a&all do soma kuKisg good." i WILL EXTEND LINE Rumor Says Hill Plans Rail road Into Tillamook. ACROSS NECANICUM DIVIDE Reported Sale of Astoria & Columbia Itiver Hallway Leads to Further Speculation Among the Prophets. Will James J. Hill, if the report is true "that he has purchased the Astoria & Columbia River Ralfroad, build on down the coast to the Nehalem and Tillamook countries? This is a question now upper most in the minds of the railroad proph ets, and most of them predict in the af nrmative. The rumor that the Northern Pacific has purchased the Astoria road is definite and seems to have good foundation. If It is based on facts, it seems to point to a new battle between the Hill and Harrl man forces In the State of Oregon. It is known to be a fact that President Ham mond, of, the Astpria road, has had sur veyors in the field for some time past, and that surveys have been made for a line extending from Seaside, the present terminus of the road, across the Kecani cum divide, and into the Nehalem and Tillamook countries. Takes Great Timber Belt. This would give the line access to a vast area of timber land and. would make the entire Oregon coast easily tributary to the line in the future. Stories have often been circulated to the effect that E. E. Lytle Intended at some future time to sell his Portland and Nehalem line to the Harriman interests. If this were to be done, It would. let the O. R. & N. into the country on an easy grade and through a. district rich In nat ural resources. This, It Is said. Is one reason why the Northern Pacific may have wished to acquire the Astoria & Columbia River road. Construction work has teen started on a line from Seaside toward the Necanl cum Pass, or divide, and It i3 said to be the intention of Mr. Hill to finish this line as soon as he has disposed of the other railroad projects he now has on hand In Oregon and Washington. An easy grade has been found for this ex tension of 40 miles, and the line could be economically constructed. ' Resources Are Varied. No richer timber belt is to bo found in the state, perhaps, than that lying along the route of this proposed road, while the dairying and agricultural industries, now awaiting the coming of cheap and quIcX transportation, will ultimately make it one of the most thickly settled and pros perous sections of the Estate. The sur vey extends back from the coast just far enough to make the proposed road eas ily accessible to the farmers along the route. It would soon becomef also, one of the recognized scenic routes of the Pa cifies Northwest, It is thought that the cost of construc tion, carried on with modern methods, would not average more than $1S,(X39 a mile, which would make it a paying prop osition from the first. People interested in Tillamook and its future are awaiting with eager interest for the official announcement of the pur chase of the Astoria ro&ry by the North ern Pacific and the .consequent exteneiea of the line down the coast