THE MORXIXG OREGOIA MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1907. 3 EN D DF WAR IN SIGHT Hondurian Forces Whipped and President in Flight. i FALL OF CAPITAL EXPECTED Mearaguan Minister Reports Hia Countrymen Masters of Situation I n Cen t r a 1 America M a y Recruit Fresh Forces. MANAGNA. Nicaragua, March 24 San tos Romirez, Director General of the Tele graphs and Telephones, today made the following statement to the Associated Press: "The Niraraguan forces have captured Choluteca. Honduras, which was held by the Honduran and Salvadorian troops, and President Bonllla has fled by boat. "Steamers will pursue, the fugitive president. I believe the war is ended." The Government is without further ad vices concerning the capture of Choluteca, but details are expected shortly. It was here, some years a so. that ex President Vasquez was defeated Dy allied : revolutionists and Nicaraguans. EXD OF WAR IS iPKKDICTED Capture Hondurian Capital Is Ex pected to Take Place Today. WASHINGTON. March 24. President Bonllla has fled from the battlefield and the Central American war has practically ended, according to cable dispatches re ceived here today by the Niearaguan Min ister. The fall of the Honduran capital. Tegucigalpa, tomorrow, is predicted by the Nicaragua!! Secretary of Foreign Af fairs Mr. Gomez. The cablegram from the Secretary of Foreign Affairs follows: Choluteca. taken. Salvadorian and Hon duran combined armies defeated. Presl . dent Bonilla hidden in San Lorenzo with v,2fln men. Sent steamers to capture them. Tegucigalpa will be taken tomorrow." General Romirez, director general of telegraphs and telephones sent this mes sage: "It is my opinion that the war fs ter minated. Bonllla has fled from Choluteca to sail." When shown the Associated Press dis patch tonight announcing that President Bonllla had fled from Honduras, Minister Corea said he believed the fugitive presi dent would go to Salvador and again re cruit his army for a second attack on Nicaragua, unless the United States and Mexico exercise their good offices to the extent of insisting that Salvador and Guatemala maintain neutrality. If this Is done Mr. Corea says the war is ended, otherwise he is firmly convinced that It will only be a question of a short time un til hostilities are again returned. The Nicaraguan Minister tomorrow will ask Secretary Root and the Mexican Am bassador Mr. Cree! to take some steps to force Salvador and Guatemala to keep their neutrality pledge. LARGE MA UNDER WATER REPORTS AT SACRAMENTO FAR FROM ENCOURAGING. Levees Crumble Away and Falling Barometer Gives Indication ot Continued Rains in Valley. SACRAMENTO, Cal., March 24. The Jiews from down-river points received by the Union today were far from encourag ing. Saturday night levees crumbled and islands containing thousands of acres were inundated, while the people were yet battling to save them. The situation today Is pronounced as most despera.te. Two feet of water was flowing through the streets of Isleton, and Courtland represented that it was feared the Pierson district would -be gone before morning. Communication was cut off with Freeport and Walnut Grove and It is (thought there is a change for the worse a 11 the wn y f rom Freeport to Sherman Island. Everywhere the farmers are fighting against the highest water ever known and the prospect Is for the com plete inundation of the island country. On top of the discouraging news from the South. Weather Observer Carr, of this city, announced today that the bar ometer was falling rapidly and there was indication of heavy rains in the valley. Conditions on the Southern Pacific lines nre much improved today and although much inconvenience and delay was oc casioned a line was opened all the way from San Franc lsco to Ogden. It will be many dayn before traffic to Portland can be resumed, as there is a bridge out above Redding and several washouts. AGENT TO HIRE FARM HANDS Walla Walla Wheatgrowers Form an Organization. WAl,IA WALLA. Wash., March 34 (Special.) At an enthusiastic meeting of the farmers of the valley yesterday a. farmers' labor agency was established and it was decided to pay the agent $lo a month. This money is to be raised by contributions from the farm ers themselves, those present contribut ing $r each on the spot for the support of the enterprise. As the season gets older, the labor conditions are becoming more acute and the farmers are at their wits end for men to plant their crops, but it Is thought that the means now adopted will be successful in bringing men from other points. it is the intention of the farmers to proceed energetically to work and advertise their needs in vari ous centers of population. KOI G H TOY AG K 1 N LAUNCH Party of Drummers Have Narrow Escape From Newport Waves. NEWPORT. Or.. March 24. (Special.) This afternoon a party of seven travel ing salesmen, while enroute from To ledo down to this city in a small launch, underwent a thrilling and dangerous experience which they will carry up permost in their minds for a long time, and from which they were exceedingly fortunate to escape with their lives. The party left Toledo about 10 o'clock A. M. The weather was wet and slightly breezy, making the trip down the Bay very disagreeable, but alt went well, however, until a short distance above Newport, when a t errif ic southwest squall suddenly swept in from the ocean and within a few short minutes the hitherto comparatively calm water of the bay was whipped into a scene of wild confusion and the air laden with sheets of water that stung the face like a whiplash. . The frail Utile launch pitched wildly about in the huge waves until it shipped enough water to put the gaso line engine out of commission and in this helpless condition was buffeted by the wind and waves, narrowly escaping capsizing repeatedly, until she was blown ashore on the beach in front of the residence of J. A. Olsson, where the badly scared drummers were successful In reaching terra firma, thankful that they were alive. It was largely due to the cool-head-edness of Superintendent Liiidton, the owner of the launch, that the little craft ever reached the shore. The names of the party were D. Web ster, Alf. R. Kelley, J. p. Burns, C. B. Pre witt, G. A. Cable, J. K. Pratt, C. G. Rawlings. OTHER VESSELS REPORT GALE Coquillc River Is the Only Craft Damaged. ASTORIA. March 24. (Special.) Ali the steamers arriving today report encoun: tering a terrific gale while coming up the coast, but aside from the steam schooner Coquille River, none of them suffered any material injury. The tug Sea Rover, which arrived foday with the bark Rufua E. Wood in tow. hap been off the mouth of the river since Friday morning await ing an opportunity to croes in. The steamer Santa Ana reports sighting a square-rigger well 'off shore last evening. The vessel is supposed to be a loaded French bark. RIVER HIGHWAY FAR LOGS MAY OPERATE SPLASH DAMS IN XORTH YAMHILL. Injunction Asked for by Trullinger Against Howe Is Denied by Judge Galloway at McMinnville. M M1XNTIIXE. Or., March 24. (Spe cial. )- J udpp Galloway, of Department No. 3, of the Circuit Court, made an impor tant deoLslon yesterday in the Trullinper vs. Howe case. The case la of special inter est to the lumber interests of the state and to the northern part of Yamhill County. Trulllnprer. who runs and operates a flour mill about four miles from Carlton, sought an injunction aerainst W. A. Howe, alleging? that the splash dams used by Howe had tilled up his millrace and the lOR-a had broken down his dam. The case Involved the questions whether Trullinger would have a right to main tain a dam to divert water for power purposes: whether he could acquire a right by prescription to maintain a dam across the stream; whether Howe could use splash dams In the mountains for the purpose of assisting; In driving logs upon the stream. In deciding the case the court held that the North Fork of the Yamhill River is a navigable stream for the purpose of carrying logs to market and finds ithat since 1S73 the stream has been used for the purpose of carrying timber and mer cantile stuff to the Willamette and open markets. , The court further found that Trulllnger cannot acquire any right by prescription or lapse of time for obstructing the stream and can only maintain such a dam as will permit of the free use of such stream as a public highway. The court by decree permits Howe to maintain and operate his splash dams, subject to being answerable to any ri parian owners on the stream for any dam age caused by the operation of such dams. The court denies the injunction asked for by Trulllnger and dismissed the suit. The decision of this case is most impor tant, since 1. 500,000.000 feet of lumber could be brought out of the mountains by .this means only. 9000 acres of this timber Is owned by Howe, which he. de sired to bring to his sawmill at Carlton. HORSE FAIR A BIG SUCCESS Fine Stock Exhibited Prizes Award ed Address by Fulton. WOODBL'RX, Or., March 24. Notwith standing the inclemency of the weather there was a large attendance at the horse fair In this city. Much Interest was manifested in the different classes on ex hibition, and a magnificent sight was presented when all ihe studs were con gregated. The committee In charge of the successful fair were: Fred Dose, president; Gregory Reillng, secretary and treasurer; Dr. W. H. Gou let, general superintendent; C. G. Cul liford, grand marshal, and R. M. Hicks. The judges were Alex Iafolette. of Wheatland, Charles Claney of Seattle and B. G. Boedigheimer of Salem. S. A. Miller's 2-yeax-old black percheron Ver non. Aurora, got the sweepstakes. In the black percheron class prizes were award ed as follows. Piston, Zeigler and Brown, Gervals, 1st; Baladeur, S. A. Miller, Au rora, 2d; Castel, G. W. Speight, 3d. Shire and Clyde class: Black Shire. Roosevelt, P. L. Kenady, Woodburn. 1st; Clyde. Dtipont, D. M. Dryden, "Woodburn, 2d. Standard trotters: Broadheart, A. Pratt, 1st: Vinmount, G. C. Pendleton. 2d. The afternoon's programme consisted of a parade of all stock and speaking in the Association hall, the principal speak er being Senator Charles W. Fulton. CITY OF COLFAX FLOODED Jam of Logs Causes Dike to Break and "Water to Enter Streets. COLFAX, Wasli., March 24. (Special.) High water and a log jam in the Pa louse River in North Colfax today caused the dike above the dam to break and property in North Colfax was flooded. Several houses had a foot of water in them. The Potlatch Lumber Company float logs to their Colfax mill down the Palouse River from Idaho. The late rains and the logs caused the trouble. At a late hour the river is lowering. Owls Will Make List 23. HOOD RIVER, Or., March 24. (Spe cial. ) Official Organizer George Marsh is here endeavoring to form a lodge of the Brotherhood of Owls. He says that he recently formed a strong lodge at The Dalles, and thinks he will meet with success at Hood Rirer. Should the new lodge be organized, there will then be 23 organizations of a beneficiary or fraternal nature in this city. Astoria Will Debate Eugene. ASTORIA, Or.. March at. (Special.) Tvan Guilliume and Misses Jennie Jeffers and Birdie Wise have been selected to represent -the Astoria High School at a debating contest with the Eugene High School to be held at Eugene on April 19. The question to be debated is, "Re solved. That the United States should no longer maintain the principles of the Monroe Doctrine." Judge Harris "Will Preside. MMINNVIL.LE. Or.. March 34. (Spe cial.) Judge Galloway, of the Second Ju dicial District, because of the necessity of his presence in Tillamook, will not hold court in Albany, and Judge Harris, of tile Third District, will preside In his stead. Cathartic or purgative pills do more harm than good. Carter's Little Liver Pills do only good, but a large amount of that. Only one pill a dose. TRIBUTE TO TYRANT Russian Press Pays Respects to M. Pobedonosteff. HE FAILED, HENCE PRAISE Spoken of as Man of Irreproachable Personality, Devoid of Selfish Motives Most Dangerous Enemy to Liberty. ST. PETERSBURG. March 24. The newspapers today call attention to the death of M. Pobedonosteff. ex-Procurator-General of the Holy Synod, and unite in appreciation of his commanding personal qualities, irreproachable character, inde fatigable energy, deep erudition and great powers of mind and will, by reason of w-hich he was a dangerous enemy to Russian liberty. The failure of all the aims to which he had concentrated his life permits the country to judge him without rancor. His death is accepted as the boundary be tween the sombre epoch when Its guid ance was supreme and ithe new era of liberty against which he fought inex orably, the sight of a complete triumph Judge S. M. IJndaley. of Ftica, y. I Judge S. M. Llndsley. of Vtlca, N. t T., Past Supreme Regent of the Royal Arcanum, arrived in Portland yester- day- A reception will be tendered him. J by the members of the Multnomah. I Oregon and Willamette Councils In i the K. P. Hall, Eleventh and Aider. 7 this evening. Willamette Council I will initiate a class of candidates on ? that evening. Judge Llndsley will t deliver an addrees. as will also local 4 J members of tne order. Judge Lind- ley Is making a tour of the Pacific t f Coast in the Interests, of the Royal T Arcanum. Last Friday he installed the Grand Council of Washington, 4 and Tuesday. April 2, he will officiate f at the same ceremony In San Fran- I Cisco. A of which death spared him. The coun try views the dramatic moment when he is lowered under the tombstone beneath which he endeavored to keep the nation, but from which the nation already has escaped. The greatest interest is attached to the appreciation of him by Professor Paul Milukoft, editor of .the Reeh, in which the guiding personality of the new era estimates the career of the guiding spirit of the old. "With Pobedonosteffs whole era, Rus sian history sinks into the grave. To him personally Russia is Indebted for 25 years of postponement of constitutional life, which has made the delayed process of liberation so stormy and painful now," says Professor MJlukon. "As the mentor of Alexander III. he personally was the author of the famous manifesto about the maintenance of the autocracy, -which blasted the hopes awakened by the re forms of Alexander II. His role in re actionary circles was peculiar. "Aversion to a change In ithe organic law was a trait of Pobedonosteff, which grew with his passing years and led him to try to stamp out every manifestation of life. "Popedonosteff personally was Irre proachable. He never was suspected of selfish motives and did not seek power or influence. These came naturally be cause the dreadful dearth of men In Russia left him without a competitor in the chief sphere of influence. When he lost influence he stepped out without a struggle, confining himself to an old man's mutterlngs of predictions of an unavoid able future of cataclysms. He always was afraid to permit the full play of life. Several years ago no one could have guessed that he could survive . himself, but this actually happened." Turks Kidndp 'English Lad. 6AT-A3XTKA. European Turkey, March 24. Robert Abbott, the son of a well-to-do British subject, was kidnaped today from his father's garden, which is in the immediate vicinity of the British Consulate-General. It Is believed tbe deed was done with a view to securing a ransom. The authorities are acting energetically. IN PRAISE OF MAYOR COMBE Penrose Declares He Alone Saved Brownsville on Xiglit of Raid. SAN AXTOXIO, Texas. March 24. "Mayor Frederick Combe," said Major C. W. Penrose, who was yesterday ac quitted by a court-martial of the charge of neglect of duty in connec tion with the Brownsville raid by negro soldiers of the Twenty-fifth In fantry last August, "was the only man in Brownsville who could have handled the situation. I believe he was solely responsible for the prevention of a dis aster, and he did this work through his personal force and will. "Dr. Combe said to me that when he met that band of 300 armed men that night he told them to return; that, if they were contemplating marching to the post they did not appreciate what they were really doing In going against three of the best military com panies in the world, arid that they would be wiped off the face of the earth. It was through his indomitable will and courage that he prevented Brownsville from being in ruins today, for. if that mob had come to the post that night all I could have done would have been to defend myself, and which would have meant the ruin of Browns ville." Major Penrose is under orders to I ' PAST KTPREME REOKNT OF f ROYAL ABCAXrM AKIUVE8 T I TODAY. I r IS 4 t U, ""K, i f 'ft 't Kfs tfr t X I 'jr X ;:,?f:j li : Vvr " x x f mint i vd aa&m&:,.Jkmmmmm I proceed to Washington to testify be fore the Senate investigating committee. INCREASED MEAT EXPORTS Total Value of Products Sent Out Last Year $250,000,000. WASHINGTON, March S4. The total exportations of meat, dairy products and food animals from the United States last year aggregated over J2C0,000.000 in value, according to a statement issued today by the Bureau of Statistics of the Depart ment of Commerce and Labor. This represents an increase of $76,000,000, or 45 per cent, during the decade from 1896 to 1906. More than 60 per cent of last year's exports went to the United Kingdom. Of the 25O,O0O,0OO worth of meats, dairy products and food animals passing out of the United States last year, 140,000.000 was in live animals, Jo8, Ono.000 worth in lard, $36,000,000 in bacon, 2..000.0") in fresh beef, t21.000.000 in hams, J18.000.000 in oleomargarine. 14,00O.ono in pork other than bacon and hams, 4,600,000 in butter and $2,500,000 In cheese. TO INCREASE DIRECT TAX Minister of Finance Defines French Government's Policy. LYONS. March 24. Minister of Fi nance Calliux made a great speech here today defining the government's economic policy as directed toward the gradual diminution of Indirect taxa tion and the substitution of a direct tax proportionate to the means of the taxpayer. The income tax, he said, was the first great step In this direc tion. He was willing to modify the measure, he declared, for he did not pretend it could not be improved, but he insisted that the principle remain Intact. TWO KILLED BY DYNAMITE Workmen Iose Lives In Explosion at Huntington. HUNTINGTON, Or., March 24. B. Alonzo and A. Garran lost their lives last night by the explosion of 200 pounds of dynamite at Gouldsmith & McDonald camp. GILLETT REFUSES TO SIGN Governor Objects to Bill for Stand ard Insurance Policy. SAN FRANCISCO, March 24. Governor Glllett has refused to Rlgn a bill passed by the Legislature providing for standard form of insurance policy. HEARD IN THE ROTUNDAS LINCOLN STEFFENS, of the Ameri can Magazine staff, who Is now a guest at the Hotel Portland, drifted into the newspaper business, from whence he graduated into the magazine, through chance. When a young man, he was made to hustle for himself and to gain a livelihood he took to the newspaper busi ness, which was his stepping-stone to suc cess. Mr. Steffens comes of splendid parent age and his family has always been well-to-do. He graduated from the University of California in 1SS9 and then went to Eu rope, where he completed his education in various universities. When he had come to the conclusion that he had had enough of Europe, he returned to the United States, intending to visit his father in California. In New Tork a check was awaiting him and also a note from his father, saying that from then on he would have to take care of himself. The father recited in the letter that he had given the young man every advan tage and every opportunity to equip him self with the world's knowledge and that his idea was to make his son shift for himself. He said that the hard knocks would make a man out of the boy quicker than anything else and concluded by say ing that there would be no more checks from home. Shortly before being thrown upon his own resources, Mr. Steffens had married and he had another besides himself to look out for. He knew little or nothing about business and so he decided to try newspaper work. By persistent inter views with city editors, he obtained a po- sitton on the New York Post. He made a reputation for himself as a reporter and soon occupied one of the editorial chairs on the paper. Every reader in the coun try is .conversant with his career of re cent years. 3 D L. HOWE, who lives at the Hotel L Portland, has probably the finest col lections of hotel labels in the country. He haa an assortment of nearly 10.000 labels and is steadily accumulating more. Every country on the globe has contrib uted labels to the collection. In fact there is not a first-class hotel In any country that is not represented. Mr. Howe, who travels considerably himself. has picked up most of them but some of the most valuable or most rare of his labels came from friends of his when traveling in foreign countries. All the Continental hotels take great pains with their labels and some of them are masterpieces in design. These labels are pasted upon the trunks and luggage of the tourists and serve as advertise ments. Large prizes are offered by hotel keepers to induce artists to design labels for them. Mr. Howe is a traveling man. At the different hotels in the United States where he is considered a regular patron, he Is known as a label collector. Several times his friends have literally covered his trunks with labels as a means of hav ing fun with him. THE HOTEL PORTLAND has the reputation of being a first-class ho tel, but there was a recent guest at the hostelry who thought It very much out of date. What Is more he showed no hesi tancy in expressing himself. He lives in one of the Central Oregon villages in the bunch grass country. One morning this particular guest called at the hotel desk with a frown on his face a yard long. He inquired for his bill and after paying it floored Allan A. Wright, the chief clerk, with the parting shot, "I thought this was a first-class hotel." "Why, of course, it is." replied Mr. Wright. "Hasn't everything been satisfac tory?" "Well. I should say not," retorted the guest, "there wasn't even a tooth brush or comb in my room." PERSONALMENTION. H. G. Eilers returned yesterday from an extended trip to Puget Sound and Spokane. CHICAGO. March St. (Special.y Port land people at Chicago hotels: Sam Veatch, wife and daughter, at the Grand Pacific: H. N. Hossick, John E. Atkinson, S. B. Lanenburg, at the Auditorium. Police of New York City arrest 122 per Mons each day for Intoxication. Easter Week Sale Good Merchandise $2.25 Kid Highest Grade V ery finest quality imported Kid Gloves, taken regular stocks, sold kid in all light shades, some with fancy stitchings white, tans, slates, reds, navy, green, pearl, mode, cream, Nile green, delft blue, pink, light blue, lavender, lemon, salmon, rose, Alice, etc. Perfect in respect and regular $2.25 Silk Eton Jackets $10 ValsM $6,85 Special' for today just 50 ladies' silk Eton Jack ets of finest quality black taffeta, made collarless, with fancy braid trimming. New elbow sleeves with braid-trimmed cuffs and all lined with white satin. Sold regularly at $10. Most extraordinary value, for today 65c Neckwear As a special Easter offering, we will sell, today and Tuesday only, all of our 65c Neck- A.Qr wear, special, at "OW Complete new. Spring stocks of Ladies' Neck wear, including every new style, at every price. 60c-65c Veiling 48c Yd. As a special Easter offering, we will sell for today and Tuesday only .all our 60c t,Qp and 65c Veiling at. . . . TxOfc HOLDS PUBLIC DISCUSSION THE SWEDEXBORGIAX SOCIETY OPENS HAItli TO DEBATERS. "What Is Religion?" Is Subject Con sidered Rev. Hiram Vroonian Leads in Argument. "What Is Religion?" was the sub ject discussed at a public meeting of the Swedenborgian Society, held at the Knights of Pythias Hall, Eleventh and Alder streets, last night. The meeting was the first of a series of experi mental sessions that will be held for the public discussion of religious topics. Next Sunday evening the topic will be "The True Conception of God." At last night's meeting the subject of religion was presented by Rev. Hiram Vrooman, who also concluded the debate after a number of the audi ence had given their opinions as to what religion Is. Among those parti cipating in the discussion was Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway. The discus sion took a wide range and a variety of interpretations were offered as to the term religion, while one speaker savagely denounced the Bible as a compilation of mythical tales, replete with contradictions and "musty fabri cations." "Religion." said one of the speakers, "is one of the original elements of hu man personality. It is the highest and best automatic impulse of the soul." A majority of the speakers were agreed that religion is improperly associated with the church or the temple, ex clusively, whereas the highest type of religion consists, they contended, in seeking to benefit one's fellow man. "To discriminate between religious experience and religious theory is of vital importance," said Mr. Vrooman, in introducing the subject for the evening's discussion. "Religion is pri marily a personal experience, whereas the theory of religion Is secondary and incidental to the experience of re ligion. Every man is governed by his ruling love. And every man whose ruling - love Is at least 51 per cent altruistic or unselfish in quality, ex periences religion, whereas the man whose ruling love is less than 51 per cent altruistic or unselfish does not experience religion. "Bear In mind that I am giving in my own words an epitome of the Swedenborgian definition of religion which represents at the same time my own deep and firm belief. A man's in tellectual conceptions are organically related to his personal experiences. In deed, experience always generates thought feeling and thinking Invari ably accompany each other. Hence, our religious beliefs are vitally and organically related to our religiSus ex perience, which Is our religion. "Any man whose predominating love is at least 51 per cent altruistic or unselfish will experience a serious and friendly and reverential regard for truth. He will be seeking Increased enlightenment with the same persist ency that water seeks its level. The primary purpose of altruism or unsel fishness is an ever-increasing useful ness and it seeks trutn as the indis pensable guide to this increasing use fulness. On the contrary, any man whose predominating love is less than 51 per cent altruistic or unselfish is seeking. In the place of truth, ration al excuses for selfish practices and in dulgences that are not useful. Hence, there are certain kinds of unbelief and agnosticism and false belief that are but the leaves of an irreligious and Satanic experience. The religious beliefs of the man whose predominating love is at least 51 per cent altruistic or unselfish will be. at their core, essentially true, not withstanding that they may be cov in the Suit Room Offers Great Values Only Quality Considered Our Prices Are Gloves for Easter, $1.47 Real Kid Gloves in Light Shades at $2.25 pair. Made y values for At $4.95; Hats ever placed on sale anywhere. Included are many copies of the imported models, trimmed in a variety of ways that possess verve and distinction. All styles and every new Spring color. At $7. ever shown. They come in Milan, chip and fancy hair braids, trimmed with ribbons, flowers, fruits, etc. the entire range At $9.95 $6.85 only. perfectly beautiful, these smart effects are entitled to that distinction. Parisian ideas were never imitated more perfectly nor colors blended so harmoniously. at 48c ered with external husks and chaff of misstatement. The opposite will be true of the beliefs of the irreligious man. No one should be too hasty in deciding that altruism or unselfishness predominates in his ruling love.- The man who takes thiB for granted with out tile proper - self-Inspection is a spiritual egotist. Self-deception is one of the commonest of experiences. Everyone of us, without exception, in herits prejudices that are liars which deceive him in matters pertaining to himself. "Until a man first begins to locate his own misleading prejudices and to discriminate between the good and the evil in the inclinations of his own heart, he may take it for granted that he has not as yet started upon his re ligious career." NEW CUE WHITE PLAGUE TREATMENT BY VACCINE INOC riATION. Medical Scientists at Tufts College Satisfied Their Experiments Are a Success. BOSTON, Mass., March 24. (Special.) Hope for sufferers from the great white plague ia held out by the success of ex periments with vaccine Inoculation as a cure for tuberculosis, not only of luna. but on ofher organs of the body, by the faculty of Tufts College Medical School and pathological department of the Mas sachusetts General Hospital. The treatment has already been tested in the case of Mrs. Curtis Guild, Jr., wife of Governor Guild, with mosC en couraging results. At Tufts' Medical School the work has been in charge of Dr. Timothy Leary, professor of pathology and bacteriology in the Massachusetts General Hospital, and Dr. James Homer Wright.' Dr. Wright calls the treatment "the Opsonic method," from the fact that the opsonins in the human blood are stimulated to greater activity. In the case ot disease when dangerous bacteria attack the body, the opsonins set to work to destroy the bacteria. If they succeed, the patient recovers, but If they fall, the disease progresses and fhe deadly absorption of the vital organs be gins. Dr. Leary says of the preventative with which he 13 experimenting: "What we are trying to do, and what others in every part of the medical and scientific world are at work trying to do. is to elaborate a specific which wiil so strengthen powers of the human blood that their resistance to the inroads of disease will not only be Increased but prolonged: which will make them immune against the inroads of the bacteria and keep them up to the point which they must possess in order to perform the work for which they were Intended by nature." White Ribboners at Hood Rivera HOOD RIVER. Or., March 24. (Spe cial.) The Wasco Countv Convention of the W. C. T. V. will be held here Monday. The meeting will take place in the Church of United Brethren, and will be presided over by the state president of the organization. Mrs. Lucia Faxon Additon will act as lead er and a programme has been arranged that provides for sessions commencing 100 Doses $1 True only of Hood's Sarsaparilla, in' the usual (liquid) form ; or in the new and equally effective tablet form. 100 Doses SI Always the La west from our fgsV soft elastic .flZfetSg every A- &ift$mSQ) Easter Millinery "We offer at this price the largest line of desirable Dress C These Hats are the cleverest and most practical we have of new colorings is shown; If there ever was a lot of Hats deserving to be called Hat Flowers, Foliage, &c Fairest That Grow in Fashion's Garden Included are small, medium and large roses, cornflowers, daisies, cowslips, lilacs, forget-me-nots, poppies, geraniums, chrysanthemums, field flowers, etc., besides all the different leaves, buds and foliages. Rnsfs. three to bunch, Violet., 19U 29. 19C, 251. 39c P- 39C up. Cowslips 2rC Foliag-e...l5? and up Bluets 29t Wings. Quills. Wire Cherries 39 Frames, Braids, Oma- Buds ....25 and up menta, Black Flowers. at 10 o'clock in the morning and ex tending throughout the day and eve ning. Horses Fall Into Well. SCAPPOOSE. Or.. March 24. (8prial.) While "VV. F. Rfrkert, a farmer, residing ten miles west of Scappoose. was plowing near an abandoned well this week, the wall of the well collapsed, carrying both his horses to the bottom. This well was over 50 feet deep and partially filled with water. The horses were clrowned. ALL WILL BE GONE BY SATURDAY CO-OPERATIVE PIANO SALE AT EILERS PIANO HOUSE ENDS THIS WEEK Chance to Buy High-Class New Pianos Greatly Under Price and on Pay ments Ridiculously Small, by Means of Co-operative Piano Club Member ship, Closes Within the Next Few Days Several Splendid Webers, Also Two Chickerings and Three Choice Kimballs Left to Choose From. If you have been putting off attending this great sale of pianos, or perhaps, if you have felt there was nothing at tractive in the proposition, but simply a new "advertising scheme, it will pay you, and pay you handsomely, if you'll take a few minutes today or tomorrow to carefully investigate this co-operative club offer. Our house is too large, too well known and has too much at stake to risk its reputation for the sake of sell ing a few pianos. All we ask Is your In vestigation. Only three fine Webers, two superb Chickerings, three elegant Kimballs. a few Scburaanna, some Story & Clark, several of the old reliable Marshall & Wendells, a very few Bailey pianos, are still available at the greatly reduced prices, and on the specially easy terms of payment. In our piano clubs. There are also a number of Lester pianos, which Club B members will se cure on payment of $1.50 a week (or $6 monthly), for $258, plain cases $11 less. All the remaining instrument in Club A now go for $137, $218. $156. $174. These prices are almost half what dealers usu ally ask for this grade of instruments. Remember, payments can be arranged as low as $1.25 a week. Never again, we are sure, at least not for years to come, will anyone in Portland see fine new in struments go at such enormous discounts. Some singularly beautiful Weber pianos In very choicest of mahogany are obtain able in Club D. This means payment of $2.50 weekly, or $10 a month. Never again will genuine Webers go for such small prices and on such easy terms. There are three families in Portland today who have not yet definitely located, and who are each one of them paying us rent for Weber pianos at the rate of $40 a quarter. Do you wonder that th shrewdest buy ers have recognized this Co-operative Club sale as the piano-buy iixg opportunity of a lifetime? There are 4S9 pianos originally included In these clubs. There will be none by next Saturday. Depend upon it. all will have been taken during the coming week. Write today for catalogs of whichever piano you think you would like to pur chase. Chances are it is obtainable in this sale, and If so, you can save fully a third, if not more, of the purchase price. Pay all cash if you want to. take advantage of the easy terms if it bet ter suits vour convenience. If you live within a 'hundred miles of Portland It will surelv pay to take the first train in here and investigate this matter person- ally. All city buyers should come first thing this morning. Nothing is to be gained by waiting, for prices are reduced to the very lowest point ever heard of, and terms of payment are so easy that no one should hesitate in arranging for a piano at once. 253 Washington street, corner of Park. Is the address of Eilers Piano House, biggest, busiest and best dealers, with stores everywhere, known as the Houses of Highest Quality. . 4