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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1906.
human church on
SOCIAL INEQUALITY
Its Position Set Forth in Ser
mon at Cathedral by
Father O'Hara.
POLICY OF EMANCIPATION
In Dealing With Mankind Catholic
Church Has Never Regarded So
cial Inequality as True Cause
of Human Misery.
r'ather O'Hara spoke at the Cathedral
last night on the question of social in
equality as rccoenized by the Catholic
Church. Reviewing- the history of the
church, he showed that it has . always
been the policy of the Catholic Church to
emancipate men and do away with all
forms of slavery, and to make all men
equal regardless of wealth and birth. He
taid in part:
The great social question which consti
tutes a perennial difficulty alike lor states
man and moralists centers in the fact of
human Inequality. Inequality of property
and power of culture and opportunity Is re
garded by many as the chief cause of so
cial discontent. It la a problem to be dealt
with in every attempt at social improve
ment. The Catholic Church, by the very
nature of her mission, has been confronted
by this problem In a way paralleled by no
other institution in history. Her universal
ity, her cosmopolitan character through so
many centuries, has brought her face to face
with every conceivable phase.
At the very beginning of her history she
was confronted in the Roman Empire by a
condition of unmitigated slavery on a scale
of great magnitude. The slaves existed
only for their masters, on whom they de
pended abjectly. There was the unspeak
able condition of woman worse than slav
ery and tnrough "her history she has been
compelled to meet this problem in some
form more or less aggravated.
In dealing with mankind the Catholic
Church has never recognized social inequal
ity as a true cause of human misery. She
was not blind, indeed, to the fact that
euch external Inequality could easily be
made the pretext for injustice; but she
never lost sight of the distinction between
a cause and an occasion. She proclaimed to
the world a doctrine, not of rights, but of
duties, of moral obligations based on ex
ternal law and supported by a divine sanc
tion. She began with the individual. Her
first work was to emancipate men from sin
and slavery of passion. She made men of
slaves by teaching them the worth of their
Immortal souls, she laid on the master the
positive obligation of kindness to his slaves
and of mlniKterlng to their spiritual wel
fare, and this broke the spirit of slavery.
In the face of the modern social problem
the church maintains the same attitude.
She preacnes duties, not rights. She knows
that temporal happiness does not consist in
wealth and power, and would not be ob
tained by sociul equality, even if that were
possible. As the divinely commissioned phy
iolan of mankind, she refuses to place her
conildence in a local application as a suf
ficient remedy for an organic disease.
Kconomic reforms are all well enough In
their way, but without moral regeneration
they can only cure tiie symptoms, while
tney drive the disease in. The radical re
form for social discontent is in the repres
sion of human passion on the one hand and
ait a recognition of mo ml obligation on the
other.
Those who possess wealth nre not to be
left in the comfortable delusion that they
can do what they please with tiieir own.
They have duties to thir fellow-men. They
have the duty of paying living wages to
their employes and of giving their assist
ance to those less fortunately circumstance
than themselves.
NAZARETH OF 1XNEU LIFE.
Dr. Heppe Tells How Many Chris
tians Really Kejeet Christ.
At Centenary Methodist Church, on the
Kast Side, yesterday morning. Dr. Heppe,
the pastor, spoke on the topic, "What if
Jesus Came to Our Church Today?" After
giving an exposition of his methods dur
ing his brieL' ministry here, Dr. Heppe
said, in part:
What if Jesus came to our church today T
Would he be received? But he has come.
He is present. He is performing no mir
acles. There is no nimbus around his head.
There are no angels accompanying him.
There are no trappings; nothing out of the
ordinary. He is here In the ministry of
his word and the worship of his saints. He
Is offering himself and his truth, and asks
you to conform your life to his. Will he
be received, or will the Nazareth scene be
repeated ?
His ministry was not uniformly success
ful. Matthew says: "He could not do many
tmlghty works there." He has failed 10,000
times since, and he has failed again in our
city today. Why this tragic failure through
the ages? The trouble at Nazareth is the
trouble In Portland. "He did not many
mighty works there because of their un
belief." Unbelief bus primarily to do with
the heart, the character, the conscience,
tne moral nature of man. It is that con
dition of the moral nature where there is a
want of openness and responsiveness to the
highest and best that lias been revealed,
whether it be in God, Christ, the word, na
ture, art, literature, ecience or life. It
may be a part of the believer. If the life
Is tuned to any wrong, unbelief reigns la
that part of the nature, and Christ can do
no mighty work in that Nazareth of the
inner life.
Sf'tne KO-called unbelievers are greater
believers and Christians than some believers
and ao-called Chrit-tuins. It is not what a
man believes, but what he lives, that gives
him his position in the kingdom of God. It
is nt how much orthodoxy a man can cram
into his creed, but how much truth, love,
purity, righteousness. Justice, mercy, broth
erhood he can crowd into his life that
makes him a Christian. These spiritual
-oir modftlrs come into the life, not as the
result of un orthodox faith, but because of
the openness and responsiveness of the inner
nature to the highest and best revealed of
God in Jesus Christ.
The president of a certain State Holiness.
Association ruus a factory and is said to
pay the girls in his employ such small
wages that they are thrown into the path
of great temptations to earn enough to make
r living. This man. according to the ortho
tlox standard, ie- a great believer and Chris
tian. N. O. Nelson, of the Nelson Manufac
turing Company. St. Louis. Mo., in answer
to an Inquiry made as to "welfare work"
in his establishments, w rites :
"I go farther than others Tiave done in
taking none of the profits myself, though I
am the founder and principal capitalist, di
viding toe pro tit, which are liberal, with
the customers as well as the employes, and
turning over the ownership of the concern
by paying the dividends in my stock. I also
go farther by saying that I have neither
claim on nor use for the capital that has
been accumulated or the Income from it.
It is nothing to me except to manage it for
tne best interest of the people connected
with it, and the public. While I am not a
church member or a doctrinal believer. I
am a very enthusiastic believer in the econ
omics and the religion of J.esus, as I con
ceive them.
Here Is an unbeliever according to the
orthodox standard which of the two em
ployers Is the greater believer and Chris
tian ? Which one receives and which one
rejects the Christ?
SERVICES AT THE V. M. C. A.
Rev. Henry Ma rootle Draws Lesson
From Character of Paul.
Taking his sermon from the 20th chapter
and flrM verse of Paul's epistle to the
Corinthians, Rev. Henry Marcotte
preached at the regular Sunday after-
rervces at the X. M. U. A. Dr.
Marcotte is the pastor of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church. He confined his re
marks to advice to young men. He said:
I will try to magnify Christ, says PauL
And with us. we magnify Christ when we
draw him near to us. when we can cee him
as the astrologer with his telescope magni
fies the stars and draws 'them nearer to his
virion. We magnify Christ and he becomes
real to us when we permit him to be the
guiding power of our lives. This was am
bition on Paul's part, and though ambition
may be considered wrong many times, it is
not the ambition but the kind of ambition
that is wrong. If you could know the secret
ambition of every man, then you could know
the character of the man. This ambition
of Paul gave him pace; peace and content
in turmoil; peace that made him content
and gave him courage In prison; in ship
wreck, and before the court of the king.
This peace gave him no fear of death and
he says I would like to be with Christ. Many
of our disappointed and hopeless people say
this when they are in the midst of trouble,
when th-lr prospects seem blighted. But
when Paul utters these words It is not be
cause of trouble; It Is because he has no
fear of death.
This spirit of Paul's also gave him joy.
In many of the heathen philosophies the
spirit of life was supposed to be the pur
suit of pleasure, but in none of these do we
find a lasting or noble character. The joy
that, is reached through the religion of
Christ is the only lasting or real pleasure,
for it gives both content in this life and
eternal happiness In the next.
Preceding the sermon H. Tv. Stone gen
eral secretary of the association made a
few remarks in which he scored the
Shakespearian play "The Merry Wives of
Windsor."
POKES FUN AT THE CRITICS
Elder G. A. Snyder Defends the
Prophecies of the Bible.
At the Auditorium last night Elder Q.
A. Snyder prefaced his lecture on the
prophecies with a brief reply to soma
questions which he said recently had been
asked him concerning the geological
theory of the antiquity of man. He said
In part:
"We were Informed not long ago by a
certain editor of a certain Portland paper
that no religion was good for anything
that did not conform to, the ever-fluctuating
theories concerning certain fossils
found in certain strata of the earth's
crust. Zittel. a prorsinent geological
writer, in speaking of these strata makes
this confession :
" "The last 15 years of the nineteenth
century witnessed very great advances in
our knowledge of rock-deformation and
metamorphlsm. It has been found that
there is no geological epoch whose sedi
mentary deposits have been wholly safe
guarded from metamorphic changes, and
as this broad fact has come to be realized
it has proved most unsettling and has
necessitated a revision of the stratagraphy
of many districts in the light of new
possibilities.'
"Now if these strata are subject to such
changes that geologists find it necessary
to revise their stratagraphy occasionally,
we think we are excusable for not being
able to adjust ourselves to the various
conflicting hypotheses of those who try
to show that the earth has gradually de
veloped like a big onion in successive
layers. If the layers are subject to such
great changes, how can we tell where
to begin to figure on this monstrous
theory of strata graphical cosmogony, to
demonstrate the hypotheses of evolution,
or 'creation on the installment plan'?'
In his exposition of the prophetic sym
bols of the Bible, Elder Snyder said:
"Those who scoff at the prophetic sym
bols of the Bible habitually make use of
the fame symbols themselves. If they
should pick up a morning paper with a
half-page cartoon showing a half-plucked
turkey with a broken wing and leg perched
on a limb just out of reach of a hungry
bear and lion, each showing his teeth and
looking cross-eyed at the other, they
would be delighted with the way in which
the artist had illustrated the jealousy of
the British lion and the Rusiaa bear over
poor old Turkey.
Our modern cartoons are valuable be
cause they enable us to comprehend at
a glance what it might take hours of
reading to grasp. So the prophetic pic
tures of the Bible enable us to see how
the great events of earth's history were
foreshadowed In advance by means of
just such symbols as are in common use
today."
He then proceeded to consider the sym
bols used in the seventh chapter of
Daniel. The lion he applied to Babylon,
the bear to Persia, the leopard to Greece
i&nd the nameless monster with Iron teeth
and brazen claws to Rome. The ten horns
on the head of this beast were applied
to the ten divisions of Rome, and the lit
tle horn that grew up among the ten
and plucked up three of them was applied
to the papal hierarchy, which gradually
grew into power untir it had subdued
every opposing element.
Elder Snyder announced for next Sun
day evening the consideration of a
prophecy foretelling the diabolical results
of the church-and-state propaganda of
Papal Rome. ,
CONFIRMED B' THE BISHOP
Three Chinese Boys Are Taken Into
Episcopal Church.
Saturday night at St. Mark's Episcopal
Chinese Mission James Ivan, Jack Kan
and Chen Yuong, three natives of China,
were confirmed in the Christian religion.
Bishop Scadding performed the ceremony.
It was his first confirmation In the State
of Oregon, and being a man of strong
missionary tendencies, he expressed his
pleasure on being enabled to confirm for
eigners of a heathen religion. The con
verts took first communion after their
confirmation.
Chen Yuong is superintendent of the
night school which is held at the mission,
and has rendered valuable service to Rev.
Mr. Simpson. About 30 Chinese boys and
young men attend the school at the mis
sion and are taught to write and read
English. Jack Kan tind James Kan are
both strong supporters of the school and
the missionary work in general.
Five Chinese converts have been admit
ted to the Chapter of St. Andrews. The
Portland mission is the only one on the
American continent which has a Chinese
chapter of St. Andrews. Bishop Scadding
preached a strong sermon and expressed
himself as well pleased with the work be
ing done in the Portland mission.
SERMON BY PROHIBITIONIST
Rev. John Ovall Preaches at Eben-
ezer Congregational Church.
At the Ebenezer Congregational
Church last night Rev. John Ovall de
livered a strong address to a large
audience on the relation of the church
to the liquor traffic. Rev. Ovall is a
strong Prohibitionist, and a prominent
member of the Anti-Saloon League.
Support was pledged to the League
In the following resolution:
We. the German-Amrlcan and other
American citisens in massmeetlng assembled
at the Ebenezer Congregational Church.
Portland, Oregon, the l!Sth day of October,
do hereby most heartily indorse the
work of the Anti-Saloon League of Oregon.
Its manager. Rev. Paul Rader. and his co
worker. Rev. John Ovall. and we pledge
ourselves, as far as we can, to give sup
port to the same, and we hope that sup
port will be given this league by all who
have the welfare of humanity at heart.
A Quick and Safe Remedy for Bowel Com
plaints. Twenty years ago Mr. George W. Broclc
discovered that Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy was a
quick and safe cure for bowel complaints.
"During all of these years." he says. "I
have used it and recommended it many
times, and the results have never yet
disappointed me." Mr. Brock is publish
er of the Aberdeen. Md.. Enterprise. For
le by all druggists.
TALUS ON PARSIFAL
Dr.
Wilson Makes Wagner's
Work Foundation of
His Sermon.
LEGEND OF THE HOLY GRAIL
Large Audience Listens to Story of
Life Tempted, Tried and Trium
phant, and to Music
From "Parsifal."
" 'Parsifal.' the Story of a Life,
Tempted, Tried and Triumphant," was
the interesting theme that Dr. Clarence
True Wilson had announced as his Sun
day night topic at Grace Methodist Epis
copal Church. A very large audience
gathered and Including the pastor's ad
dress on the unusual pulpit theme and
the music by the quartet and male chorus
and Professor Wilder's organ numbers
from "Parsifal," it waa an interesting
evening. Dr. Wilson said:
Tradition Informs us the swan lives to a
great age, sees its end approaching, and, in
spired by the vision of its future, sings a
wonderful song and dies. So Richard Wag
ner came to the end of his days and sang
his swan song, "Parsifal," and whether we
consider its matchless music, VUghting all
trained to appreciate it, or the dramatic
poetry with soaring sentiment and vivid
descriptions, or the powerful moral preach
ing, which depicts the subtle workings of
sin and the prevailing strength of righteous
ness, it is a masterpiece.
The legend of the Holy Grail, that has had
so many beautiful settings. Is that the pre
cious cup that Christ used at the last
supper and that one of his disciples used
to catch his blood as it dripped from the
cross, was preserved and carried by Joseph
of Arimathea to Gaul and later was taken
to Northern Spain, and among the moun
tains of Montsalvat was cherished and guard
ed by a hand of knights of the Grail. Wag
ner takes up this heart-moving story and re
tells it with an appreciation and revealment
of the Christian religion.
There Is a castle at Montsalvat that con
tains the Holy Grail. Titural, the king of the
knights, dies and leaves the sacred work of
guarding the Grail to his son, Amfortas.
But the temptress, Kundray, appears and the
young king toys with sin, loses his peace
and sacred spear as well. Klingsor, the evil
magician who had been expelled by the
Knights of the Grail, seizes the epear, and
with it wounds the king, then takes it off.
One sin. and purity is gone forever, and
something is lost which can only be restored
by the power not ourselves which makes
lor righteousness.
Now, the king cannot bear to unveil the
Grail; he is wounded and cannot go forth
to recover the long-lost spear. He and his
brave knights wait for a deliverer. He
must be pure as well as strong. He must
maintain his integrity though severely
tempted to evil. So Wagner places his
guileless hero in the very magic garden of
narcotic blossoms, in KUngsor's castle of
necromantic power of evil and lets him taste
the sorrow of the tempted: but he goes
through without sin. He can say with
another tempted soul: "Satan cometh and
hath nothing in me." He encounters single
handed the severer test which Kundry put
tim to and alone Is a victor. Then the
enemy tries by force to slay him with the
sacred spear, but he turns and captures
the instrument, of threatening into a sign of
triumph and returns to the Knights of the
Grail and uses the spear he has recaptured,
once used to the king's undoing, now to
heal the wound of sorrow. After the restor
ation of the king, Kundry Is saved and
the Holy Grail is unveiled, and Parsifal Is
crowned king of the knights.
The characters are all true to life. Kundry
Is the wickedness of the world in its most
enticing form, Klingsor, the dread magician,
stands for all those who instigate evil and
use others to accomplish malevolent pur
poses. King Amfortas, Buffering from his
open wound. Is humanity. Ine guileless
knight Is purity, and the inference is that
it may be maintained to the end of one's
days. I know there are those who speak
of such young men and women as "green,"
but better be green to old age than bear
the seared and ye;Iow leaf of a misspent life.
I love to view the varying green of Ore
gon's matchless forests and fields, rather
than the fading and decaying glory of the
yellow trees.
"Parsifal" is a glorious tribute . to guile
lessness, to innocence and to purity. And it
Illustrates the swan song of the Apostle
Paul: "I have fought a good fight. I have
finished my course. I have kept the faith.
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown
of righteousness which the Lord, the right
eous judge, shall glue to me at that day,
and not only to me but also to all them that
have loved his appearing.
PREACHES AGAINST TOBACCO
Rev, II. C. Shaffer Gives Reasons
for Abstinence.
Rev. H. C. Shaffer, of the First United
Brethren, East Morrison and Fifteenth
streets, who asks candidates for member
ship in his church whether they believe
in prohibition and total abstinence from
tobacco, discussed last night the topic,
"Is the Use of Tobacco a Sin?" Differ
ing from his fellow ministers, he draws
thft conclusion, from his own opinion,
that a man cannot be. a true Christian
and use tobacco. He gave 16 reasons why
he has arrived at this conclusion, and
said:
It must be insisted upon, that Christian
ity Is, in its inciplency. a matter of
faith. Some ministers and some of the
laiety are content that It should always be
cradled, and wrapped In swaddling cloths.
But tho great purpose of Christ is to make
men moral. His teaching is ethical. His
ethics are practical, and are to be applied
to every Question of life.
Science has In the recent past made such
remarkable discoveries regarding the effect
of the use of tobacco that the Church can
no longer neglect to warn against its use.
Axiom Whatever injures the body, mind
and soul (if avoidable) is sin.
Proposition Tobacco injures the body,
mind and soul, and is avoidable.
1. Many children of the poor have Insuf
ficient clothing and food, yet the father
spends 25 to 50 cents a week for tobacco.
and $600,000,000 is thus worse than wasted
every year in the United States.
2. Ninety boy criminals were arrested
in Kansas City during one month. Of these
all but two used tobacco. All who were
Induced to give up the habit were reformed.
The others were not.
3. Tobacco produces functional heart dis
ease, gastric catarrh, catarrh of the stom
ach. It checks growth, lays the founda
tion for consumption, dyspepsia, etc It
has caused cancer.
4. It causes insanity. An ex-superintend
ent of an insane asylum reports five cases
of insanity due to the use of tobacco.
5. It leads to drunkenness. Dr. Copland
F. R. S., of England, says: "Tobacco creates
thirst and vital depression, to remove which
alcoholic stimulans are often resorted to."
6. Many persons when converted to God,
give up tobacco, and they are more faith
ful than those who do not put tobacco
aside.
7. I have been a pastor for 30 years and
have met but one or two church members
who used it, who were regular and generous
in i neir (su is iu iue pour, auu io me worK
of the kingdom.
8- So many business men are now opposed
to it. There are Innumerable closed doors
against cigarette users. Including railways,
high schools, colleges. Insurance companies,
army and navy schools and certain positions,
department stores, etc.
9. Thirteen states haw prohibited the
manutacture ana sale of cigarettes.
10. In a test at Yale, the weight, height,
chest growth and lung capacity were noted.
The weight of non-users of tobacco increased
10.4 per cent more than the regular users.
In height the non-users increased 2-4 per
cent more than the user. In growth of chest
girth, the non-user has the ad van t a pre by
-6.7 per cent, and in lung capacity the
growth is in favor of the non-user by 77.5
per cent when compared with the user.
About the same figures are the result of
a etudy conducted at Amherst, class of '91.
11. Many physicians condemn Its use.
12. The testimony of many great men
is against lta use Horace Greeley. Lord
Roberts. Dr. GunsalUF. Senator Stewart, Gov
ernor iiss, and many others.
13. Athletic men oppose its use. Thomas
E. White, known as "the strong man of
Chelea." is against It. Jay W. Seaver.
physical director of Tale, says, "No man is
allowed to smoke when training for college
contests."
14. Tobacco Is offensive to tne great
majority of women.
13. The body is the temple of tne noiy
spirit, and the Bible cays, "If any man defile
the temple of God, him shall God destroy;
for the temple of God Is holy, which temple
ye are."
I think I have given proofs that tobacco
injures the body and mind and soul and
that therefore in this enlightened age it
is a sin to use it. I do not we how any
person can use It and claim to be a Chris
tian. I do not believe such persons are
saved now or will be saved in Heaven.
TOPIC "MORAL BACKBONE. "
Rev. William L. 1'pshaw Tells Where
Christians Fall Short.
'Moral Backbone" was the topic of the
sermon by Rev. William L. Upahaw,
last evening, at the Mississippi avenue
Congregational Church, it being one of
the series he is giving on this subject.
He declared that most of the churches
are dead in sin and have been so for
bo long a time that any sign of life in
them would be a surprise. Passing on
Dr. Upshaw said:
Some years ago I was given a great Jig
barn of a church with nobody in it. I did
everything 1 knew how to get the people
to that house; advertised, put out banners,
but if I got a crowd they soon drifted away
from me again. One day I was reading
about the raising of Lazarus from the
dead and my eyes fell on this verse: "And
many of the Jews were there which had
come not only that they might see Jesus,
but Lazarus, whom he had raised from the
dead."
I said that is what we want. If we had a
Lazarus in this church people would come
to see him, and In time God gave us the
most godless man In that town and it was
no trouble to fill the old church after that.
The crowds came not to see me, not to see
my master, but to see Lazarus whom he
had raised from the spiritually dead.
The most important kind of Christian
work, is personal work. We look at men
who stand on the platform and speak to
great crowds but I believe God pays more
ttention to the man who - sits down with
a single soul. The trouble with most Chris
tians Is they haven't the moral backbone to
speak to any one on the subject of religion.
If the Christian people of Portland would
wake up and each lead one soul to Christ a
year In less than four years the entire city
would be Christian, and If they would then
continue the work in 35 years the whole
world would at least have heard of Christ.
The advantage in personal work is that
anybody can do it. We can't all speak, and
that's a good thing. We can't all teach
in the Sunday School. Some people have
an idea that any converted person can
teach in the Sunday School. I think that
is a mistake. But any child of God can do
personal work the mother with a large
family and the Invalid can do that.
Preaching is general, but nersonal work
is personal. The trouble with a great deal
of our preaching Is that we aim at nothing
and hit it every time; and if we should
aim at the woman sitting on the front seat
she passes it back to the man back of
ner and he kindly passes it back to the
woman back of him, and so on until thev
pass it out the back door, and you have not
hit anybody. But in personal work there
is only one man or one woman .and there
can be no doubt as to who you mean.
SERMOX BY NEW BISHOP..
Attends Dedication of New Organ at
Good Shepherd Church.
The new church organ Dlaced in th
Chapel this week was dedicated yesterday
at tne uooq enepnerd iiscopal Church,
of Upper Albina. at the two services held.
morning and evening. Mrs. R. Mead had
charge of the music, which had been se
lected with special reference to the occa
sion. In the evening Bishop Scadding
nonorea tne church with his presence and
delivered the sermon.
Rev. John Dawson id pastor of Good
Shepherd. Coming from Roseburg three
years ago, he found the parish somewhat
run down, but all this has been changed.
The church has become progressive and
active in good work. All departments are
full of effective vigor. The growth of
Good Shepherd Church the past three
years -has been most gratifying.
fcrected 12 years ago, the church has
been outgrown, and a building fund is
being accumulated, and In time the pres
ent edifice will be replaced with a new
and larger structure.
CATHOLIC CLUB MEETS.
Plans Outlined for' Going Ahead
With Work in Albina Parish.
The Young Men's Catholic Club of St.
Mary's parish, in Albina, held an en
thusiastic meeting yesterday afternoon in
me parisn nail ana placed in nomination
36 candidates from whom the club will
select 15 directors, who will constitute the
board of management in the erection
of the proposed clubhouse and have
control of its affairs thereafter. Five
will be elected for three years, five
for two years and five for one year, so
there will be rotation in the directorship
and at the same time the board will
always have Ave or more experienced di
rectors on it. These directors will be
elected at a meeting to be held next
Sunday afternoon. This board will elect
its officers.
P. E. Sullivan presided at the meeting
and there was a large and representative
attendance of club members. There is
now a membership of about 75 and others
are coming in rapidly. The indications
are that the bonds which are to be issued
to raise money to erect the clubhouse
will all be taken in the parish. They will
be Issued in denominations of $10 each.
President Sullivan announced that appli
cations had been iiled for J100O of the
bonds. One man, he said, had offered
to take $2000, but the offer had to be de
clined, as the policy of the club -was to
distribute the issue as widely as possible.
Air. Sullivan said:
"A person who holds a $10 bond only
will have a personal Interest in the suc
cess of the clubhouse movement and
hence we aim to distribute them as widely
as possiDie in tne community. Jim Hill,
the railroad builder, it is said, has made
a greater success of his enterprises than
any other railroad man in this country.
for the reason that he induced a large
proportion of his employes to buy bonds
in his roads, and thus have a personal
interest in making them pay, and that is
our object in distributing the bonds, which
are well secured and bear 4 per cent in
terest.
Tentative plans and sketches of the pro
posed clubhouse have been prepared, but
the committee having that matter in
charge has not made a selection. After
election of the board of directors next
Sunday the power to select plans will
pass into its hands. Everything now in
dicates that the movement to erect this
clubhouse will be a success. There will
be two classes of members Catholics 18
years old and above, who will be active,
and women and non-Catholics, who will
be associate members. It will be man
aged very much like the Multnomah or
Concordia Clubs, and will be thoroughly
democratic. It will be made to pay its
own way, and is not a charitable in
stitution."
Arrivals and Departures.
ASTORIA, Oct. 28. Condition of the bar
at 5 P. M., moderately rough; wind south'
east, weather cloudy. Arrived down at 6
and sailed at 10 A. M.. steamer Johan
Paulsen, for San Francisco, and Yosemite,
for San Pedro. Arrived at 9 and left up at
9:30 A. M.. steamer F. A. Kilburn, from
San Francisco and way points. Sailed at
10:10 A. M., schooner Annie L&rsen, for
San Francisco. Arrived at 10:35 A. M..
British bark Oweenee, from Antwerp. .Ar
rived at 32:10 P. M.. American bark Star of
Bengal, from Eleele. Arrived down at 1
P. M., and aalled at P. M.. steamer Roa
noke, for San Pedro and way points. Ar
rived at 3:30 P. M., French bark Mareehal
d'Castrles. from Port Townsend. Arrived
at 11 last nighU steamer Nome City, from
San Francisco. Arrived yettterday. British
bark, Robert Duncan, from CoroneL
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pans; bins for flour, meal, sugar and salt; cans for pepper and spices; cup
boards for dishes; drawers for table linen, cutlery and the many things needed
in the kitchen work. Many styles have closets for china and glassware. "Where
one of the cabinets is used the work in the kitchen is actually reduced-one-half.
We are Portland" agents for the McDougall Cabinets, and show the com
plete line. Sold on the terms of $1.00 DOWN AND $1.00 WEEK.
SPECIALS IN THE CROCKERY DEPT.
BASEMENT
Two sizes in mixing bowls in granite enameled ware. Regular 35c size,
special, each, 20.
Regular 40c size, special 25.
Wash Basins in granite enameled ware; medium size. Regular 25c,
special, 15.
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HARRY J. MOORE COVERS WIDE
FIELD IN LECTURE.
Expounds Views of Darwin's Theory
of Evolution Before Large Audi
ence of Spiritualists.
Harry J. Moore, who addressed a large
congregation of Spiritualists on the Dar
winian theory of evolution last night,
seems to be an open book to those of his
faith, but to rank outsiders he is at times
hard to follow or divine. He makes con
tradictory statements concerning Christ
and the devil which are somewhat diffi
cult to understand, but there was no am
biguity whatever about his statement that
he would rather have risen to what he is
from a monkey than to have been born
perfect and deteriorated to his present
state. Mr. Moore said that Darwin never
argued that the evolution of man was
from the monkey, as is ordinarily be
lieved, but said Instead that each and
every species was separate, and that the
particular species from which man came
might have been even lower than the
monkey.
Whether Mr. Moore fully believes in this
system of evolution could not be judged
from ms address, but he was emphatic in
his opinion that the effect of environment
and suggestion during the prenatal state
was shown in the nature and disposition
of a child throughout its life, and that
study and care on this question would
bring the human race to a state of per
fection not otherwise to be attained.
"Let us have quality in our children and
future citizens rather than quantity," he
said. "If we paid half as much attention
to the propagation of our own race that
we do to the scientific breeding of horses
and dogs, we would have better results
and our asylums and prisons would be
empty." '
In this connection the speaker advanced
a number of ideas on the law of sugges
tion. He told the story of Napoleon Bo
naparte's mother having watched armie3
form and maneuver and its consequent
effect upon her son, and gave other in
teresting .illustrations of his theory.
"While I do not in any way excuse the
horrible crimes of the negroes of the
South," he continued, "is it not possible,
and even probable, that this instinct in
them is a reaction of natural law? Negro
women were outraged by their masters
during slavery when they were helpless
to defend themselves could not this be a
reaction?"
Mr. Moore has seen an educated ape
which is on exhibition in Portland, and
which is called by its owners the "missing
link." He was much impressed with its
human characteristics, and told of the
habits ,of apes in their forest homes.
"They build their huts in trees," he said,
"and when the enemy appears the male
descends to the foot of the tree, and will
defend his wife and babies with his life if
necessary. We have many men who make
a great fuss about this Darwinian theory
who has not the good impulses and the
manhood that Shano's family possess.
The speaker exhibited a statuette of
three Japanese monkeys, symbolical of
the Japanese adage. "See no evil, hear no
evil, say no evil," and wove it into a
practical lesson. His Scriptural text was
"Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs
of thistles?"
MORE ROOM NOW NEEDED
Receiving Home of Boys' and Girls'
Aid Society Crowded.
That the society will soon find it neces
sary to build an addition to the receiving
home by erecting- the long-talked-of north
wing- Is the news contained In the report
of the Boys and Girls' Aid Society for
the past month. Following" Is a summary
of the document:
"There are today 56 children at the Re
ceiving Home, 27 of whom are boys and
29 girls. Superintendent Gardner says the
past month has been the heaviest for ad
missions and adoptions or home-finding
since he has been superintendent. The
month started In with 51 children on hand.
This population fluctuated from day to
day, and the lowest number on hand at
any time during the month was 46, and
the highest 58.
"The latest admission from outside
counties was yesterday, when Sheriff
Gage, of Coos County, brought live little
ones to the home from Marshfield. These
children are Thomas S. Koska, aged 7
years; Alina Koska, 5; Andres S, Koska
KITCHEN
Are entirely different from any other piece of
kitchen furniture. Their arrangement and ap
pointment are the result of study and practical
experience of the kitchen work and the work of
preparing a meal. Every space is utilized to the
best advantage in fact, a whole month's food
supplies can be stored in one of these cabinets.
The McDougall Cabinets are mouse-proof and
dust-proof; there are places for pots, kettles and
8; John I. Koska, 2, and Amaria Koska,
20 months. This is a Russian-Finn fam
ily. The father is dead, and the mother
unfit and incompetent to care for them.
On arriving at the Receiving Home it was
found that the two younger children were
suffering from eczema, and tney were
sent to St. Vincent'B Hospital.
"There are quite a number of small
children at the Receiving Home to be
placed out for legal adoption, and appli
cations for such will be thankfully re
ceived. Any person wishing to donate ar
ticles to the home can notify the man
agement by telephone. East 5, and dona
tions will be called for.
NEW LINES IN CLACKAMAS
Capital Seeks Investment In Electrlo
Railways.
OREGON CITY. Or.. Oct. 28. (Special.)
Consequent upon an increase in popula
tion from 23.000 in the Spring of 1905, as
shown by the Assessor's census, to 30,000,
which is considered a reliable estimate
of the county's population at the present
time, Clackamas County is experiencing
a new era in its growth and development.
Several agencies are contributing to
this material development of the county
and its resources, foremost among which
is the building of electric railway sys
tems. Idle capital recognizes as a desir
able investment the building of trans
portation lines into Clackamas County,
where the various resources are still un
developed and merely awaiting tiie en
couragement that will follow direct com
munication with a market.
The interests back of the Oregon Water
Power & Railway Company, which has
already done a great deal in building up
this county, are recognized in the pro
posed building of an electric line from
Canemah to Salem, and this enterprise
is assured, rights-of-way having been
secured and surveys made over the entire
route. The same interests, it has lately
developed, caused the mysterious survey
to be made between this city ana Molalla
and Wllhoit Springs some three months
ago. This will be a branch line operated
by the same company and will penetrate
one of the richest sections of the valley.
Assurance is given that this line will be
built.
The survey is now being made for an
other proposed electric line between this
city and Molalla. with the celebrated
Wilholt Springs as the ultimate terminus.
This Is being done by the Oregon City
and Molalla Railway . Company, a cor
poration in which Oregon City business
men own a controlling interest. Its route
is via Beaver Creek, through a rich tim
ber and agricultural section, and the pro
moters of the enterprise promise to begin
construction work within a few weeks.
Oregon City is becoming metropolitan.
A free mail delivery service for tho city
has been ordered established December 1.
An improved telephone system is being
installed by the Pacific States Company,
while the Home Telephone Company will
begin installing its system soon, having
completed the construction of its line to
the Clackamas River, lust north of this
city. In addition, the public has absorbed
the sentiment that was initiated by the
Woman's Club for a Public Library and
a meeting has been called for November
16. when steps will be taken towards pro
viding the city with such an Institution.
The great increase in sales of realty is
added evidence of the growth of the
county. Large farms are being sub
divided and disposed of in smaller tracts,
with the result that a larger .acreage is
being placed under cultivation. The re
sult is an increased production that re
quires Improved marketing facilities. It
is this need that warrants the building
of the several electric lines that are
projected.
THOUSANDS ENJOY OUTING
Portland Heights Cars Crowded, Ow
ing to Balmy Weather.
The balmy weather of yesterday attract
ed Immense crowds to the City Park and
loaded to its fullest capacity every car
that climbed Portland Heignts In the di
rection of Council Crest. Men, women
and children returned later in the day
loaded down with Autumn leaves, and the
woods on the hilltops were overrun with
delighted visitors.
It is seldom that the mountains are so
distinctly visible as they were yesterday,
and everybody remarked the clearness of
the atmosphere. St. Helens proudly lifted
her snow-capped head above the 1000-foot
elevation of Council Crest, until she
seemed to tower in grandeur to an ap
palling height, while Mount Hood like
wise stood out in bold relief.
In the absence of the Park Band, whose
concerts last Summer proved such a
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drawing card for the municipal pleasure
ground, the throngs of visitors to the
City Park contented themselves yesterday
with inspecting the Zoo and placing the
digestive organs of its various inmates
out of commission with cakes, candy and
peanuts.
NEW LAW POINT RAISED
Court Decides Law Relating to Guar,
dians Ad Litem Still Stands.
In the matter of application of Emerette
M. Lansing to register title under the
Torrens law, a motion was made Satur
day for default against minor defendants
without the appointment of a guardian
ad litem. The object was to obtain a
ruling of the court as to whether the
registration act had by Implication re
pealed, so far as it was concerned, the
code section relating to guardians ad
litem. As this effects the procedure under
the act and the question will frequently
arise, it was deemed Important to raise
it now for judicial decision. Judge
Scars held that the section as to guard
ians ad litem was not repealed by im
plication and that they should be
appointed as in other cases. R. C.
Wright is attorney for the applicant
Mrs. Lansing.
Lad a Terror to Albany Police.
ALBANY, Or., Oct. 23. (Special.)
Harold Ward, a lad 11 years of age,
was committed to the Reform School
by Judge Stewart yesterday, upon
complaint of the boy's mother. The
lad is incorrigible, and could not be
made to attend school. For some time
he has been a terror to the city po
lice, stretching wires across sidewalks
to catch pedestrians, and playing nu
merous pranks of a dangerous nature.
Last Summer he stretched his wires
near the river bank, where the boys
who went in swimming would be
pitched into the water.
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I am very particular about tiio
Sole Leather that goes into
$3.50-$4.00 Shoe
Ton know roost Men are hard on Soles
and if these give out in an unreasonably
short Time, there is Trouble. That's
just exactly what I try to avoid. For this
Reason, I use a superior Sole Leather,
the "ATLANTIC" Oak, tanned especi
ally for the "ATLANTIC" Shoe.
Each Sole is tested for its "resisting"
Qualities and must come up to. the high
TRIEDMAK" Standard of Perfection.
You run absolutely no Risk, either as
to Sole or any Part of the "ATLANTIC"
Shoe. Ask tor the "ATLANTIC." If s
the Thing for you to do always.
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