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Newspaper Page TextTHE MORNING OREGONIAX, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 21, 1&07. MRS I T IN PM OF WHITE (Continued From First Faije.l "And you received letters from him?" Yes." "Were these letters among the packages of letters you burned after taking- them from a storage warehouse in this city?" Mr. Delmas objected and was sustained. "Didn't you visit a warehouse with a lawyer?" "Ves." "What was his name?" "Mr. HartrldRe." "Did you take some letters out of the house?" "No." "Examine any while there?" "No." "Didn't you visit the warehouse with another lawyer?" "Yea" "W hat was the lawyer"s name?" "Warren, I think." It developed that the 42 letters intro duced yesterday and identified by Mrs. Thaw were written by Stanford White to another girl. Demands White's Letters. "Where are Stanford White's letters?" "Mr. Martrldtre has some tof them." Mr. Jerome demanded theiproduction of th letters. Thaw's counsel made no response. "Did you give these letters to Mr. Hart tidf?e?" "No." "Who did?" "Mr. Thaw." "You gave them to your husband? "Yes." "Was there a single word of im propriety or Indecency in the letters from White to you?" "1 don't remember." "Did you keep all of Mr. White's let ters?" No." "Have you a copy of the letter you wrote Mr. White from Boulogne?" "No." - "Do you remember its contents?" "No." "How many letters did you give Mr. Th.iw?" "Fourteen." She testified that she gave the 14 letters to Mr. Thaw in Paris in 1903. Afterwards she received them from . Thaw's valet and gave them to Thaw gain. presumably after he had shot White. All of tnese letters were re ceived from White while she was abroad In 1903 and were given to Thaw. "Where are these letters now?" "I don't know." "When did you see them last?" "In Paris, 1903." "Have you been interrogated by the counsel for the defense as to their con tents?" "No." Do you remember their contents?" "Only In a general way." Mr. Jerome questioned the witness at length regarding these letters which were placed In a warehouse before she went to Kurope and taken out after her return. "What became of these letters?" Fails to Trip Her. "I gave them to Mr. Thaw." Mrs. Thaw fenced with the District At torney quite skillfully at times, keeping her wits well about her. Mr. Jerome spent an hour or more on the subject of White's letters, Mrs. Thaw declaring that the 14 letters which were turned over to Mr. Hartridge were the only ones she positively knew to be in existence. Mr. Jerome would ask occasionally a very pointed question, evidently for the purpose of tripping up the witness, but Mrs. Thaw would reply with an emphatic nod of her head: "I didn't say that." "Y'ou are sure these 14 letters in Mr. Hartridge's hands are the only ones In existence?" "There may be some in a trunk." "Where Is the trunk?" "In Paris." "Whereabouts in Paris?" Mis. Thaw save the name of a ware house in the French capital. umn t you in iwj take tnese letters from a warehouse In this city?" "Yes. I took some at that time." "Weren't some sent you afterward?" "Yes, from the trunk In the warehouse." Mrs. Thaw said the goods in the ware house were stored in her mother's name, and there was a row over letting her have anything. Stanford White arranged to get the trunk, however. . "I don't remember any letters in the trunk, however," said Mrs. Thaw. "Why did you not give Thaw all of Stanford White's letters Instead of just some of them?" , "I didn't say that." ."You said some were in a trunk in Paris." "I said they might be." "Didn't you retain some letters?" "I don't know that I did." "Thaw was pressing you all the time to give him all these details of this af fair with Stanford White, wasn't he?" "Yes." "Y'ou gave him the letters before your marriage" "Yes." That Night With White. Mr. Jerome here dropped the subject of letters and turned to Mrs. Thaw's story to her husband. "How long were you unconscious in that Twenty-fourth-street house at the time Of your experience with Stanford White?" . "I don't remember." "Was it after midnight that you became unconscious?" "Yes, I think it was." "Was it before daylight?" "Y'es, beforo daylight," replied Mrs. Thaw after hesitating. Mr. Jerome read from Mrs. Thaw's di rect testimony the statement that she sat up all that night. She replied that she meant the rest of the night after she had been taken home. "When did you first meet Ted Marks?" "I think It was in 1900, or early in 1901 in New York." "You received letters from him?" "Yes." "L'p to this time did your relations with your mother continue friendly?" "Yes." "There was nothing to show that your mother was willing- to sacrifice you for a pecuniary consideration ?" "No." Mr. Delmas was on Ills feet Instantly. "There Is nothing In this case that Is even an Intimation of such a thing. If I have said anything to the learned District Attorney to indicate that I think this unfortunate mother sacri ficed her daughter. 1 wish to emphat ically deny it." Relations With Her Mother. "In all the troubles you went through." continued Mr. Jerome, "you never thought anything hut that your mother showed a lack of Judgment?" -No." "What were in the letters Ted Marks wrote you?" "I can't remember everything. He Mid ho had seen my picture in the papers and would like to place me on the stage." She first met Marks at the Grand Opera-House at a Sunday night con cert. She could not remember what Marks talked about, but he said noth- 1 -1 ... . U BnnA CI.. J I -1 . i ii K tiMvui iuc BiBftc. oiia uiti not re momhr hnw Inner fihn waa with fo.va hat Sunday evening. She remembered id not know whether it was that e;ht or not. .Mr. Jerome asked what Mrs. Kesblt thought about her daughter going on the stage. "Mamma said I ought not to go out without her. She said the show was all right, but she ought to go along." "At this time did you know Francis Belmont or Edna Goodrich?" No." - "Or James A. Garland?" "No." Mr. Jerome next asked about a man named Hoppe or Hopley. He pressed her closely about this man, and want ed to know if he had not lived at the same house with her. "Not while I lived there," she re sponded. "Have you seen him since those days in 1901?" "1 may have passed him on the street." "I do not mean that way?" "No," said Mrs. Thaw, with a stamp of her foot. Carefully Guarded at Theater. Mrs. Thaw under questioning went through the story of her visit to the of fice of Mr. Fisher, a theatrical manager. They had a letter from Marks. It was on this occasion that Fisher said he was not running a baby farm. He finally agreed to take Miss Nesbit. "How long did you play in "Floro dora"?" "After several weeks In the chorus I went into the east. Late In July, I went with the Geisha." " "Your mother came for you every night?" "Y'es. until I met Stanford White." "Who introduced you to White?" "Kdna Goodrich." . "Where did you meet Miss Goodrich?" "At the theater, in "Florodora." " '.'You and she were friends?" "Yes." -'Did you see very much of ber?" "Not much." "When Edna Goodrich Introduced you to Stanford White, was that the first time you had been anywhere?" "Yes." "During the time you were in the 'Floro dora' company had you ever been out?" "Yes." "With whom?" "With mamma and Mr. Garland." . "Where did you meet Mr. Garland?" "At the boarding-house on Forty-eighth street." "Did you ever write any letters to him?" "I don't remember, I might." "Your mother was not pleased with Mr. Garland's attentions to you?" "Yes." "Y'ou had no quarrel with your mother about him?" "No." Went Yachting With Garland. "Y'ou went yachting with him?" "Y'es, mamma and I went on Satur days." "Your mother was not pleasell with that?" "Oh. yes: but she was seasick." "Is it not true that in the Spring of 1901, so far as your relations with your mother were concerned, you were getting un ruly, that your mother still stuck by you; that a married man " At this point Mr. Delmas interposed an objection to Mr. Jerome's reading from what he termed a statement by Evelyn Thaw's mother. "If the District ' Attorney "wants the mother's testimony in this, he should pro duce her on the stand," he said. "I'd like to, but that is impossible. You know where she is," said Mr. Jerome. The question regarding Evelyn's becom ing unruly was allowed to stand. "No," she answered decidedly to this question. "Is it not true that that married man was James A. Garland, but that he was getting a divorce, and that you and your mother frequently quarreled about him?" "No, indeed." "Is it not true that you went alone with him upon the yacht? "Mamma and I. yes." "Were you made a co-respondent in Mr. Garland's divorce suit?" Mr. Delmas objected. The record, he said, was the best evidence. Mr. Jerome withdrew the question. ( "Who was present upon the yacht be sides your mother, Mr. Garland and your self?" "No one. The men who worked the yacht were there." "You went in the yacht almost every Saturday?" "No, but we went several times." "This was when you were playing in 'Florodora?' " "Y'es." "Did George Lederer have anything to do with your going into the 'Florodora cast?" "Not that I know of." Xo Poses in "Altogether." "During this time did you ever pose for an artist in the nude?" "Never." "Ever have any cast made in the nude?" "No." "Do you know Mr. Wells, a sculptor?" "No." "How long did you know Mr. Garland?" "Not long." "When did your acquaintance with him cease?" "When I met Stanford White." "Isn't It true that Mr. Garland became very annoying when you lived at a cer tain apartment house?" "No." "Isn't it true that his annoyances caused your mother to get the telephone girl to refuse to send up his card?" "I never heard of it." "Did your mother meet you every evening at the theater?" "Yes, except when Stanford White came." "Did you ever go to Rector's, Burns' or Jack's to supper?" "I remember going once with mamma and another lady." "Did your brother Howard ever go to the theater for you?" "I think he did once when mamma was sick." "Did you go home with him?" "Yes." "Do you know your brother's writ ing?" "Yes." "Is this his signature?" Mr. Jerome showed the witness a document concealing all but the bot tom of the last page. - "Yes. think it is his signature," re plied Mrs. Thaw. Photographs in Decollete. Mrs. Thaw, was recalled to the stand after the recess and was asked to identify several photographs of herself. Some of these were additional copies of the famous picture In which, dressed in a kimono, she posed on a white bearskin. "These were taken at White's studio in Twenty-second street?" "It was not his studio. He told me it Delonged to some one else." Mr. Jerome exhibited the photographs ireeiy. Mrs. Thaw stated that the pictures were taken upon the day before her experience in the mirrored bedroom. "These are fair types of all the pictures taKcn tnat day. are they not? "There were some taken in low neck. "That day?" "Yes." "Your recollection is clear that you puea in araperies tnat day? "Yes." "Was there any exposure of the per son v" ''They were very low neck." "Y'ou said this morning there was no exposure of the person, did vou not?" "Y'es, I said Stanford White had some pictures put into a book and gave me the book." "Y'ot: have that book?" "Yes." "Will you bring the book here tomor row?" "Yes." . , "You had luncheon that day In the studio was it served from 9heriry's?" . "I don't know." Mr. Jerome here formally offered the photographs in evidence. "Were those c pictures copyrighted?" "I don't know." Checks 'From Trust Company. ' Mr. Jerome handed Mrs. Thaw several checks and asked if she knew In whose writing the indorsements were. Five had been indorsed by her mother: one indorse ment she did not recognize. 'In whose writing are the indorsements upon the others?" It looks like mine." 'As a matter of fact, does It not look more like your writing than that of any other human being you ever saw write?" Yes. "Where were you living in May, 1902?" "At the Wellington Hotel." "Except yourself and your mother. whose names were the same, was there another Evelyn Nesbit at the hotel?" Not that I know of." "Were you given checks weekly?" "Yes." "Isn't that check In the customary form of the checks you received?" Mr. Delmas objected. Mr. Jerome read seven of the checks to the jury. All were indorsed "Evelyn Florence Nesbit." 'While you were living at the Welling ton, were you not entitled to and did you not ;dra.w $25 a week when you were not playing? Who furnished that money?" "Stanford. White." Mrs. Thaw was asked to identify a number of receipts signed by tier and ac acknowledging receipt of various sums of $25 during 1902. The receipts read: "Received from the Mercantile Trust Company $25. .through instructions from Charles Hartnett' Mr. Hartnett was Stanford White's sec retary. Only Paid When Not Acting:. Were you to receive this money when act ing, as well as when not acting? I don't know. Have you any doubt, as you sit there. that you were not. to receive any money while .playing? I have. Then let roe show some letters by Stan ford White and eee if that will not re fresh ycur memory? Mr. Jerome delved Into a big leather pouch. Mrs. Thaw sat Tlgid. Harry Thaw straightened up from his bent do- sition over the table. Mr. fferome asked: Now, let me ask If you ever saw Mr. Harnett write?" No. Ever see his writing? Yes. Mrs. Thaw was given a letter written by Mr. Harnett, but it did not refresh her memory upon the point. Did you ever receive a letter written bv H. C. Demmlng, vice-president of the Mer cantile Trust Company? l don t remember. Do you. know If such a letter Is in ex istence? , No. If it ever was In existence, is it not now probably destroyed ? Mr. Delmas objected and was sustained. Mr. Jerome continued: I will show you a copy of what purports to be such a letter. Mr. Delmas objected. The copv was placed in evidence. After reading it. Mr. Jerome asked: Cannot Remember lottec.' . Do you now recollect receiving such a letter from Mr. Demmlng? I do not. I don't remember much about that time. I can tell you what I do remem ber. If you want to know. I'il get to that all right in time. Have you such a letter in your possession now ? No. Did you ever become aware In December. 1301. or January, 190--'. that a large sum of money amounting to $1350 had been depos ited with the Mercantile Trust Company with Instructions that oft your written ap plication they were to send you $25 weekly from January 1, 1902. to January I, 1903?. I could not pretend to answer that ques tion, shaking her head. It's too long. Wore you ever Informed that a sum of money had been deposited for your benefit in 10O2 or 1903? I am not sure of the date. What amount was deposited? I don't remember. Was it a larfire or small sum ? I don't remember. Did It make no Impression on your mind? No. Knew White Gave Money. Didn't you know who deposited the money Yes. , Who? Stanford White. What was the money deposited for? 1 don't remember. Did you not know the money b,ad a re lation to you? ys. Wasn't It to be drawn for your benefit when you were not acting? 1 don't remember. Did you write this letter? (Mr. Jerome handed the witness a paper.) Yes. The District Attorney read the letter as follows: Di'ar Sir I have not been working all last week a"nd this. Will you Kindly send my money at once? EVELYN NESBIT. To whom vas the letter addressed? I don't remember. From whom did you want the money? From the Mercantile Trust Company. I suppose. Did you ever have any money deposited to your credit before this? Yes. How much ? I don't remember. By whom ? - Stanford White. When? Late in 1901. At this point a short recess was ordered by the Court in order to gwe the court room an airing. 1 Still Cannot Remember. After the recess Mr. Jerome con tinued to question the witness on the subject of the money in the Mercantile Trust Company, endeavoring to have her admit that she knew she was only entitled to draw against the fund when not employed. Mrs. Thaw continued to parry the question. The examina tion continued: Didn't you on October 24, 1902, write a letter to the Mercantile Trust Company? I don't remember. Did you in the latter part of October go to play at Mrs. Osborne's Theater? I think so yes. What was the name of the play? "Tommyrot," I believe. Just before you began to play at "Mrs. Osborne's, had you not been Idle for a week? I think so. Didn't you at that time address a letter to the Mercantile Trust Company? I don't remember. I will show you a copy of a letter; may be It will refresh your recollection. Mrs. Thaw read the paper and hand ed it back to the prosecutor, saying: I don't remember it at all. Now. were you not told you could only draw this money when you were not work ins? I don't remember any such definite state ment. Who gave you the information about this money ? I don't remember. What were you told? Could Draw Money When Xeeded. I- was told that some money had been put in the Mercantile Trust Company and, when I needed it, I could draw on It. When we were back in the rent, my mother had more than I did. Were you not told that you could draw certain sums only when you were not work ing? I do not remember. Mr. Jerome then read the letter to the Trust Company, in which Evelyn Nesbit asked that ber money be sent her, as she was not working. He then asked: In view of this letter, do you not remem ber one of the conditions under which you could draw on the fund when you were not working? I do not remember. Mr. Jerome then read another letter as follows: Mercantile Trust Company. New York: Have stopped playing and wish you would bealn aandlnaejia lis weekly beginning this Friday coming, until I get another position. Yours truly, EVELYN NESBIT. The District Attorney also showed a check and receipt and asked: Do these not refresh your memory as to the conditions? No. sir. Don't you remember now that there was such a condition? Wrote at White's Dictation. I do not remember. From that letter I think I wrote It at the dictation of Stan ford White. It does not sound like a letter I would write. What makes you think Stanford White dictated it? Because all important letters about money matters Stanford White would dic tate and either my mother or I would have to sign them. Did you believe Stanford White when he told you all women were bad and some were Imply clever at concealing it. Yes. You believed all women unchaste? Yes. And you were just 16 years old? I don't know that I was 16 exactly I was 16. When did you beg-in to doubt that prop osition about all women being unchaste? Believed AH Women Unchaste. When I went abroad In 1903. You believed that all women were bad? Yes. When Thaw proposed to you and you re jected him, did you believe you-were bet ter than others because you had been rav ished against your will. No. .You had been ravished against your will, had you not? I did not have any will about It at all (In an Injured tone.) How old were you whenyou went to Eu rope? Eighteen. So you say that when you were 161j4 years old you believed all with whom you asso ciated that all women were unchaste and that some had simply been unfortunate enough to be found out? Yes. Have you ever read any fiction? Yes. What? Do you want me to remember all that I have ever read? No, just some of the books. Have you ever. read anything by Dickens? Y'es. . Scott? No. Went to Church Slightly. Were you ever Instructed In the Scrip tures the Bible? Slightly. Did you ever attend church? Slightly. Did you ever attend Sunday school? ' Slightly. What denomination? " T don't remember I went once to a Meth odist Church, 1 think, and to a Presbyterian church and once to a German church of 'some sort. In rejecting Thaw in Paris, had you any thing in mind other than your own unwor thiness? No. Did you consider yourself better than other women? . No, sir. Or worse? No, sir. Do you recall the state of the weather the day you had the experience with Stanford White? No, sir. Do you recall the day of the week? No, sir. The dy of the month? No, sir. Do you remember tho month? I think It must have been late September or early October. Are you sure it was not late October or early November? ' I don't think so. I don't remember exactly. I might find out from my mother. Yes, but you understand I cannot get your mother here. Will you try to exert your in fluence with her to come? Delmas Takes a Hand. Mr. Delmas objected to ..this and. ad dressing Mr. .Jerome, said: "You have a very full statement from her mother. You read, from it this morn ing." "So you assume," replied Mr. Jerome. "So I know," retorted Mr. Delmas. Mr. Jerome again addressed the wit ness: s You are sure it was in September or Octo ber? I am quite sure, but I may be mistaken. Mr. Jerome banded the witness one of the photographs she had identified at the morning session and asked: Did you wear this dress the day you were ravished ? T do not remember. When did you get the dress? As late as October. 1901? I don't remember. This dress did not reach to the shoetop? Oh. that was my long dress. You can't remember the day on which the Incident occurred In the Twenty-fourth street studio? No. Was it a holiday? ' I don't remember. Was It Sunday? No, for I came from the theater. How many performances had there been that day? I don't remember whether there were two or one. Bow long had your mother been away? One week. Champagne With Abo Hummel. Have you ever seen Abe Hummel since the day you saw the affidavits burned in his of fice? Ye. When? I think it was at some sort of a theatrical benefit. Was It the Children's Christmas Festival? Yes. I think so , Whowr yea: -with-' With a gentleman, a friend of Mr. Thaw's. Were you and this gentleman not the guests of Mr. Hummel at supper after the perform ance? Mr. Hummel was at the table. I did not know 1 was his guest. Were you not his guest at supper? 1 did not eat any supper. Didn't you sit down at the table and drink champagne as Abe Hummel's guest? I sat down at a table where he was and drank some champagne, but I did not know I was his guest. I thought I wes the guest of the gentleman I was with, Mrs. Thaw an swered defiantly. Did you converse with Mr. Hummel? Slightly. . When did you first see Mr. Hummel? In 1HOS. when Stanford White took me to his ofTice. Before or after your trip to Europe? After. Saw White After Return. Mr, Jerome Introduced the register of the Hotel Savoy, showing: that Eve lyn Nesbit arrived there October 24. 1903. Mrs. Thaw said the signature on the register, "Evelyn Nesbit, Paris." was in her handwriting, but the words "and maid" were not. Mr. Jerome then asked a number of questions in an effort to show when Whtte first visited the witness after her return from Europe In 1903 and when she went to Hummel's office. She could give no exact date, but thought it was at least three days after her re turn before she" saw White on the street anj he called her up on the tele phone. "our great love for Mr. Thaw could not have been crushed in less than four days, could it?" "No, sir," replied Mrs. Thaw. At this stage court adjourned until tomorrow. THAW SANE WHEN" MADE. WILi. Attorney Who Drew It Docs Not Rec ognize Published Document. PITTSBURG, Feb. 20.-John McCIeave. an attorney, today admitted he drafted Harry Thaw's first will and that he was asked to go to New York to testify in Thaw's behalf, but had refused. Mr. Mc CIeave gave it as his opinion that Thaw was perfectly sane when he drew the said he knew nothing about the codicil pffered in evidence and declared he failed to recognise any portions of the will which he had written as those now published in the newspapers. hafs i sr lk The chief attraction about McKibbin The Standard of Hat Value. it, not the price, $3 but die fact that it' worth the price and more. $2 saved that's attractive. BEST DEALERS if PIE GIRL'S"- TRAGIC FATE PRETTY SUSIE JOHNSON VICTIM OP RICH ROUES. After Brier Notoriety, She Married, Was Cast Off, Died and Lies in Potters' Field. NEW YORK, Feb. 20.-(Special.) Mrs. Harry K. Thaw's testimony at the trial of her husband as to the part -played by Stanford White in the so-called "pie girl" dinner has brought forth the story of that feast and of the fate of Susie Johnson, the girl who did the "stunt" of which White was so proud. The hunt of Susie Johnson's parents for their miss ing girl, who was supposed to be a prisoner in the studios, and the girl's reappearance, her marriage and her tragic death after her husband had cast her off. when he discovered that she had been the plaything of a great artist, were sensations in their day. Susie, Johnson is dead. Stanford White Is dead. But most of the guests of that dinner are alive and are holding positions of honor at the head of their craft. The dinner at that time referred to as the $3o00 chargpagne dinner was given by Henry c. Poor, the banker, in the studio of James 1. Breese, No. 5 West Sixteenth street, in honor of John Elliott Cowdin, a noted polo player, who then divided championship honors with Pox hall Keenc. Breese was then the fore most carbon photographer in the country. Mr. Poor gave the dinner to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Mr. Cowdln's mar riage. It was very distinguished company, in deed. Into which was suddenly introduced the shrinking little girl from the Ninth Avenue and Thirty-second street neigh borhood. Sixteen she was then, of good American stock, daughter of a well-to-do mechanic and a mother who had brought her up in the way she should conduct herself. . The girl's reputation was made from that night. "Engagements to pose were constant. September 7. 1S95. she disap peared and her parents heard no more of her. The case dropped out of sight and was forgotten until Susie Johnson's marriage again made he "pie girl's" story common gossip. 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MADE ENTIRELY OF PORTO RICAN TOBACCO That's more than can be truthfully said about many cigars sold you as Porto Rican. The recent increase in the cost of Porto Rican tobacco has brought forward many so-called Porto Rican cigars which are made largely from tobacco grown in the United States. That's why you should be more particular than ever to get the genuine ' Cigar S Cents This is one cigar you can be sure is Porto Rican in quality as well as in name, made in Porto Rico, exclusively of Porto Rican tobacco. El Toro cigars now being marketed are finer in quality than ever before because of the superior excellence of this year's to bacco crop in Porto Rico, from only the choicest selections of which El Toro is made. There's a band now placed on all genu ine El Toro cigars. El Toro is superior to any other cigar sold at five cents. Porto Rican-American Tobacco Company Manufacturer, Saa Joan, Porto Rico. MASOIV, EHRMAM A Co, Distributors. Portland, Or. IB mm i EL TORO Breva-f'inas (Exact tixt and tkapt) Also mad in Panetela and Panettla Finos SI FISH IS $10 iolit Methods R la- Any Caae Wit boat (mpUcatloaa. PAY ME WHEN CURED OF Treating Men Weakness1 In treating ao-called "weakness" 1 employ no tonics or stimulants. "Weakness" In all lta phases and In practical ly every case that comes to me for treat ment is merely a symp tom resulting from a state of chronic Inflam mation existing in the prostate eland. This In flammation may be a lingering reBUlt of some contracted disease or may have been brought on by early dissipation, excesses, etc. In by far the greater number of cases the general health of the patient Is perfect, there being no lack of either physical or nerv ous energy. No stimu lants or tonics are needed, and if employed would only result in temporary excitement of the functions and positive injury to the tender and already dis ordered prostate. My treatment ia a local one entirely. It removes all inflammation, swelling and tenderness from the prostate - g-land, estab lishes normal circula tion ' throughout th parts and restores per manently and complete ly all natural functions. By this method alone is It possible to brina complete restoration of trenRth and viator. Dr. Taylor The Leading Specialist The best way to do a thins 1 always the rigrht way. There Is usually one best way. If my meth ods of treating; "Weakness," Var icocele. Contract ed Disorders, Specific Blood Poison, Stricture and Piles are right. then all other methods In use are. in some dea-ree at least, wronr. because m v treatment in each Instance differs from the ordinary and Is original with myself. The treatment that Is quickest to cure, surest to cure, and that cures thoroughly and per manently. Is the rig-ht treatment. The test applied to my methods proves them so ab solutely right as to class all other forms or treatment as Imperfect and wrong-. I like, to make this test. I like to treat the diffi cult cases that other physicians have failed to benefit, because I am able to cure them both promptly and thoroughly. Instructive colored chart given free upon application. Consultation free at office or by mail The Dr. Taylor Co. 2344 Morrison St, eor. Second, Portland, Or.