" I COMPETITION SOON Ifl CITY LIGHTING Mayor Says Monopoly of Power Corporation Will Be Broken. OTHER CONCERN IN FIELD One of Largest Companies In United Mates, He fays, Will Tender Eid to City in Six Months or Year. No Long-Term Contract. t WHAT LE AND JOSSBLVX SAY. Mayor Ijin I consider the light ing monopoly broken. The Incorpo ration of one new electric company and the positive assurance I have that Mother larse one will be here within six months leairs me to be lieve that relief Is In sight for the people. I cannot say at this time whether any new contract with the presert company will be entered into. President Joeselyn I decline to say whether the company will dis continue the IlKhtlne service If no new contract Is awarded, as if I say we will cut off the lights, it would be construed as a threat to influence the Executive Board: but I am ad vised that unless the company has a contract with the city the company cannot collect for light service. Will the Portland Railway. Light & Tower Company shut oil the electric lights In this city at midnight Decem ber 31. IMS, unless the Executive Board awards the corporation a five-year con tract for the municipal lighting? This question Is regarded as one of the most Important before the people of Port land today, and when asked for a reply yesterday afternoon. President, Josselyn, of the company, said he did not care to make a direct reply, but made the fol lowing statement: "I wish to be very careful about mak ing any statement which would In any sense be construed as a threat to influ ence the Executive Board In awarding the company the contract, and tlierefore I regard It as at this time an improper ouestion. It would undoubtedly be con strued as a threat If I should say we will discontinue the lighting service un less the contract is let. Xow. I am In formed by counsel for the company that we could not collect for sen-ice rendered the city unless we held a contract to perform that service, if a single tax payer 6houid interpose an objection. We would therefore bo put In the position of taking a risk. It may be possible, tinder the charter, for the city to enter into a short-term contract, if the con tractor were willing, but this company will not enter into short contracts." When seen in his otflee at the City HaJ! Mayor Lane appeared to be in a happy frame of mind concerning the lighting situation. He discussed it freely, and declared that at present it looks more favorable Kin ever from his view point. Says Monopoly Is Broken. "I consider the monopoly broken." said the Mayor. -Yes. sir. it looks to me right now as though it is broken in Portland. With the incorporation Wednesday morn ing of the Portland Water Power & Electric Transmission Company a new era dawned for the people of this city, unless I am greatly mistaken. It means competition, the greatest thing we need here in the electric business. And not nly this, but I am in possession of posi tive Information from one of the largest and mos. wealthy corporations In the United States that it will put in a hid to furnish current or put in any kind of a plant Portland may need within six months, and not more than one year at the latest. This means that. If we can hold this thing off a while we will be able to get competitive bids for our light ing:, or we can take over the city dis tributing system or put in oirr own, and this is just what should be done." City Attorney Kavanaugh has given an opinion. In which he holds that the city can enter into a short-term contract, as month by month. In an emergency, if it is deemed wine, and that the company would be obliged to furnish the light tinder such a condition. It would be pos sible, he said, under the police power, for the city to take charge of the plant and furnish lighting for the city streets, to protect life- r.nd property. This, it would aprenr, virtually mukes it certain that the lights will not be shut off when the contract expires, even though a r-.v one is not entered into. It is known that Mayor Lane and the members of the Executive Board hare no fear nf the city being left in darkness, and that they ore prepared to take action to turn on the lights, if it should become necessary, In order to protect life and property, such aotlon being legal under the police power, as held by City Attor ney Kavanaugh. Will Xot Agree to 5-Year Contract. As a matter of fact, there is no reason whatever to believe that the Executive Board will enter into a five-year contract with the electric light company. The recommendations made to the Board by the Council will not reach the board .until next Tuesday afternoon: the entire matter will von.-, likely be turned over to Thomas O. Greene, of the Lighting Com mittee, for investigation and report and. If he follows his usual rule, he will re quire not loss than one week and very probably more to make a detailed report and recommendation, which would carry the m:tter several days beyond the ex piration of the present contract, and would test the question as to whether the company will turn off the lights. Mayor Lane refused to say yesterday whether it is likely any five-year con tract will be awarded under the com promise proposition made by President Josselyn. as he said the matter Is one for action by the Executive Board. The recommendation by the City Coun cil Is that a five-year contract he let at figures lower than those now In force, 'but there is a provision contained In the proposition which does not meet with the approval of Mayor Lane. This is that the city must bear the expense of instal lation where arc lamps are to be placed more than 600 feet from the nearest present lamp. The Mayor is afraid this will entail upon the city great expense, which is now borne by the company. There is a question under consideration In this connection, as to why the com pany has not Installed 10 new arc lamps, ordered by the Executive Board. Mr. Josselyn said yesterday that the company had been unable to secure the lamps from the factory: that this Is the only reason. Six weeks ago. Mr. Greene, chairman of the Lighting Committee, announced in the open meeting of the Executive Board that he had been noti fied that the company would not install any more lamps until It was settled as to the contract. Unless the company is unable, as stated by Mr. Josselyn. to in stall the lamps, the -refusal would be a violation of its contract BALLAST CAUSES DANGER Ship Boadk-ea Has Perilous Trip From San Francisco. VICTORIA. B. C, Dec. 24. The Brit ish ship Boadicea. which sailed into Royal Roads, was saved from founder in!? on her way from San Francisco onlv bv dint of untiring work of her crew when her ballast shifted during a heavy gale encountered December 10 off the Columbia River. Captain Thomas was shaken from his bunk, his sextant and chronometer were Jumped from their places and broken and daylight found the ship listed bad ly, dipping her yards with every roll. Captain Thomas and all hands worked untiringly shoveling the sifting sand ballast which was loaded at Valparaiso. It seemed as if the shifted ballast could not be trimmed when Captain Thomas conceived the idea of weigh ing down the unstable balla-st with great bags made with sails. Ten big canvasses worth J1000 were used, the ends being fastened to stanchions amid ships and the ship's side. Sand was shoveled Into these and the sails were sown up. making big bags which weighted the ballast in place. Three heavy gales were encountered during the long trip of 32 days from San Francisco, but the canvas bags kept the ballast from shifting again. The Boadicea is chartered to load lum ber at Vancouver for the United King dom. . The British ship Arranmore has been charterer! to load lumber at Tacoma. The contract for the repairs of the steamer Glenfarg has been awarded to the British Columbia Marine Railway Company, of Ksqulmault. and the dry dock at Esquimau has been engaged for Saturday to begin work. Marine News of Seattle. SEATTLE. Dec. 24. The steamer Jefferson arrived from Skagway via ports with 101 passengers. 10.000 cases of salmon and 237 boxes of fresh halibut. At 5 A. M.. December 22, the Jefferson was struck by an unknown steamer in Greenville channel. The Heffernan Engine Works has the contract for repairing the steam steer ing gear of the steamer Suveric. which was In heavy weather during her re cent run across the Pacific. The steamer Dora arrived from Dutch Harbor via Unalaska this morning, and will undergo annual inspection and re pairs here. The steamer Pennsylvania sailed to day for Valdez and Seward with cargo and 30 passengers. The steamer Minnesota, of the Great Northern line, arrived at Hongkong 2 P. M. Thursday, one day ahead of schedule. Captain Geer Buys Stranger. Captain A. Geer. who has been acting as pilot of the steamer Bailey Gatzert for the past two years, has purchased the steamer Stranger and will operate the craft as a towboat on the Willamette and Columbia Rivers. The boat belonged to the Regulator Line and was used as a construction craft during the building of the North Bank road. She Is a pro peller craft and was built at Portland in 1!03 especially for a towboat. Captain Geer will construct a number of barges which he will use in connection with the new towboat. Eugene to Keep Open House. EUGENE. Or., Dec. 24. (Special.) On New Tear's day the Ladles' Auxiliary of the Eugene Commercial Club will keep open house at the club rooms from 3 to 6 P. M. to welcome all newcomers and strangers in Eugene. DRAMA DEALING WITH LIFE OF CHRIST HAS YET TO BE WRITTEN -FOR STAGE Subject Has Been Touched Upon Maimes, but Jesus as Central Figure of Play Has Never Been Used by any Dramatist. JUST now the world is concerned with a more or loss attentive observation of a holiday that is connected with one of the most dramatic episodes in all the history of mankind. Divested of its religious significance, the advent of Jesus Christ is still fraught with such tremen dous importance that it must stand alone as one of the greatest incidents of his tory. The life of this man has affected humanity as no other life has or will, in all probability. From an obscure stable at a wavside stopping place outside the citv of Bethlehem in Judea has emanated an' influence that has swayed the mighti est nations and controlled the people who have in turn dominated the world. This Is easily understood for without regard to any of the divine attributes ascribed to the man bv his devout followers, he brought to the world a better form of crystallization of an ethical code so nearly correct in principle and application, that it has been adopted by all. Christian and pagan alike, as the right way of living. Solelv due to the element of sanctity that surrounds the author of this religion is the fact that no writer, either novelist or dramatist, has dared to use Jesus Christ as the central tipure of his work. At various times indefinite approaches have been made townrd this end. hut no witer as vet .has had the temerity to make Christ actually move and speak in a play. The Passion Play of Oheram mergau is not to be classed as a drama, although it is built on a framework re sembling that of a play. Lew Wallace came nearer in Len Hur" than any of his fellows to mak ing the Naxarene a character in a drama. He presents the outlines of the teacher as he went about on eartli with his disciples, and gives, probably more definitely tiuin any other novelist has In his indirect discussion of the topic a clear look at the real meaning of that brief earthly pilgrimage. In iimt lms been made from the I novel, the presence of Christ is hinted at onlv, hut the hint is lniromiccu ilu such dramatic circumstances as to make one of the dominant notes of the play. Matters reach such a pass that a miracle is absolutely needed, and here the stage manager has made just a lit tle more prominent the device adopted bv the novelist. Oeneral Wallace very dellcately sei'.ed upon one of the re corded miracles performed by Christ and adapted it to the uses of the novel, thereby restoring mother and sister to Ben Hur. and rounding out in a most conventional way the great novel on which the play is founded. In this In cident Is the nearest approach to the introduction of Christ as a character in novel or play. Paul Heyse. in "Mary of Magdala. keeps the presence of Christ always before his audiences, bnt never Intro duces him. The nearest he comes to view is in the scene where Mary is converted: here Christ is supposed to be walking with his disciples In a gar den adjacent to the house in which Mary is visiting with a Roman noble man. Heyse's handling of the theme, presenting the contrasts of Roman and Jewish character, animating Judas Is cariot with the same patriotic motive that prompted the son of Hur. in his preparations for war on the Romans, is masterly. These two plays. Lew Wallace's "Ben Hur" and Paul Heyse's "Mary of Mag dala." are the best that deal with the immediate time of the Sartor's presence on earth. Some really strong plays have been built, having for their central theme the effect of Christ's teachings. Of these the best known and most success- MQDERNDOCKSTO BE CONSTRUCTED Warehouses Will Be Built on Mayo Property Site at Foot of Hull Street. WORK BEGINS IN JANUARY Plans for Construction Are Not Complete, but Will Be Heady for Bidders Witliin two Weeks. Handle General Business. Shortly after the beginning of the new year the Terminal Dock & Warehouse Company will begin the construction of a new and modern warehouse at the foot of Hull street. The property controlled by the concern comprises 365 feet of STEAMER INTELLIGENCE. Due to Arrive. Name. From. Date. Senator Kan Francisro.In port Yosemite. . . . . . San Francisco Jn port Alliance Coos Bay.. ..In port S. II. Elmore. .Tillamook Dec. 2.. Nome City. .. .Pan Francieco.Dec. 20 Nebraskan. ... Salinas Crux. Pec. 26 Atro Tillamook Dec. 20 Nevadan -Salinas Cruz. Dec. 20 Numantla Hongkong. .. .Dec 26 Urtakviater. .. .Coos Bay. ...Dec. 27 Kose City San Francisco .Dec. 2S Roanoke L,os Anireles. Dec. 20 Geo.. W. Elder. San Pedro... Jan. 6 Nlcomedla .Honfckong. .. -Feb. 1 Alesia Hongkong Feb. 10 Arabia.-. Hongkong. .. .Mar. 1 Scheduled to Depart. Name. From. Date. Senator San Francisco .Dec- 23 Nebraskan Salinas Cruz. Dec. 25 Alliance Coos Bay Dec. 28 S. H. Elmore. . .Tillamook. . . .Dec. 20 Nome City. .. .San Francisco .Dec. 20 Atko Tillamook Dec. 27 Nevadan Pui:et Sound. Dec. 2S Breakwater... Coos" Bay ... .Dec. 80 Roanoke. . I-os Angeles. Dec. 31 Rose City San Francisco.Jan. 1 Geo W. Klder. . San Pedro. . .Jan. 8 Numantia Hongkong. .. .Jan. 25 Alcsla Hor.gkong. . . .Feb. 24 Entered Thursday. Roma. Am. steamship (Lawson), witii fuel oil. from San Francisco. Aliinnce. Am. steamship (Parsons), wltn general cargo, from Ciks Bay. Cleared Thursday. Roma. Am. steamship (Lawson), with ballast, for San Francisco. waterfront and from the harbor line In shore 440 feet. It is the intention of the company to build warehouses which will accommodate vessels of all classes and they will handle all kinds of cargo for deep water ships. Several months ago the deal for the property was put through by Campbell, San'ord & Henley and immediately after negotiations for the construction of a dock were under way. The property, described as Mays' tract, adjoins the water-front property known as Martin's dock, which is located at the foot of Seventeenth street. It is one of the best 'MM it I i! 4 II A FAMOUS PAIXTIXtt ful have been "Quo Vadis" and "The Sign of the Cross." Neither of them rises to the dramatic heights attained bv Heyse or Wallace. In the Barrett play the development of the love factor is seized upon as the central incident. In tho Sienklewicz drama tho love story is brought to the front, but alongside it are other incidents that at times seem to overshadow it. but both plays agree In making the merely religious aspect of the dramatic action an incident rather than a feature. Plays in which religion figures in one way and another are many and as varied in type as In authorship. "The Christian" is one in which both hero and heroine make the mistake of trying to apply abstract principles to practical uses. The atmosphere of religion in the play is decidedly tenuous and exists In a haze rather than as a true medium. It Is plain that the stage could and should be made the complement of the pulpit, if only the zealots on both sides f: ,i r . ' pieces of water-front property in Port land. Plans and specifications for the new dock have not been completed, but the company expects to be able to ask for bids in January. The dock will, be a double-deck affair and will be equipped with all modern apparatus for the rapid handling of freight. Whether a con crete bulkheads will be built at the har bor line, or dolphins driven has not been decided. Steamers Will Observe Christmas. Christmas will be generally observed on the waterfront today. Regular pas senger steamers have prepared a holiday dinner for guests and trees have been used to decorate the rigging and cabins. The dining saloons of the various vessels have been decorated for the occasion and people without a home who have en gaged passage on any of the steamers will not think Christmas a cold day. The steamship George W. Elder sailed last night and the Senator will depart this afternoon, both on regular schedule for San Francisco. Cruiser to Search for Steamer. NEW YORK, Dec. 24. The 10,000-ton French cruiser Amiral Mube, coming from St. Pierre. Miquelon. a French col ony, where there were recently disturb ances among the islanders, arrived at this port today. Her commander. Cap tain Constant, will hold a conference with the French Consul here with regard tn hecrlnnlnir a search for the Fabre Line freighter Neustrla. which has not been sighted since leaving xew 10m tor mo Mediterranean on October 29 last. Zapora Pays $1600 Fine. VANCOUVER, B. C Dec. 24. Captain Newcomb, of the Dominion government cruiser Kestrel, which arrived today from patrol on the North Coast, was surprised at the denial of Captain Johnson, of the Tacoma halibut steamer Zapora. who said that he was not fined by the Kestrel In the north. Captain Newcomb confirms the previous statement, and today depos ited the amount of the fine. $1600. to the credit of the government in Vancouver. Oregon Iumber Cargo Arrives. SAN PEDRO, Dec. 24. The schooner Esther Buhne arrived today from Coos Bay -with 400,000 feet of lumber. Marine Notes. The steamship Northland is loading lumber for San Pedro. The steamship Yosemlte will sail for San Francisco at noon today. The schooner Fred J. Wood will arrlva up from Astoria this morning. The steamship Senator will sail for San Francisco this afternoon. The steamship Alliance is scheduled to eail for Cooa Bay ports tomorrow even ing. Arrivals and Departures. PORTLAND. Dec. 24. Sailed Steamship Geo. W. Elder, for San Pedro and way. Astoria, Dec. 24. Condition of the bar at 5 P M.. rough: wind. routheast. IS miles: weather, cloudy. Arrlvedl down dur ing the night and sailed at 10:-5 A- M. Steamer Breakwater, for Coo. Bay. Left up at 8 A. M Schooner Fred J. Wood: at 1-40 P M.. French bark Eugene Schnei der. ' Arrived at 1:50 P. M. French bark La Tonr Avergne. from Hamburg. San Francisco. Dec. 24. Schooner ban Buenaventura towed into Coos Bay dismast ed Arrived Steamer South Bay. from Port land. Sailed at 11 A. M. Steamer W. S. Porter: at 1 P. M-, steamer Atlas, for Port- o'rt Harford. Dec 24. Arrived Steamer Asuncion, from Portland Point Lobos. Dec. 24. Passed at 11 A M. Steamer Nebraskan. from Portland. Tides at Astoria Frldav. Tliffh Low. A. M ...7.4 feet8:15 A. M...-3.3 feet T:."..", P. M....9-H feetjSiBO P. M..-1.4 feet i 4 - : 4i h'. 1 it " J: "n - it . - i OF THE SAVIOUR. could be brought to some sort of an agreement. The ethical purpose of the stage is admitted, and its educational force is also established Sermons are preached by the action of a play, just as potently as from the pulpit. The simple facts of the life story of Jesus Christ can be used in a way In which they have never before been used, and by the illuminative process of stage production can be presented with an effectiveness that cannot be attained by a mere recital of them. The imper ceptible Influence of the Nazarene' is really more of a factor in the life of mankind than is the direct. This Is ap parently a paradox," but it is easily established as a correct conclusion. If this be true, and the end to be obtained in the spreading of this Influence, why Is it not the part of wisdom to avail the cause of every possible avenue for reaching the minds of men? And what avenue more readily offers than the stage? OLD TIMES JOLLY Pioneer Christmas Days called by Parker. Re- TELLS OF HIS ADVENTURES Christmas Each Succeeding Year Found Well-Known Citizen in Xew Environment in Epoch-Making Days. Colonel Frank J. Parker, of Walla Walla, the well-known pioneer, has writ ten some interesting reminiscences of early-day Christmases on the Pacific Coast. His article fouows: I loft England In March, 1804, and arrived in Ban Francisco via Panama In April. With a friend who now holds a very re sponsible position aa a British Consul wo went to Virginia City, Nev with the idea that we would g-t a corner on the Com stock, then in the height or Its glory. We had about fa between us, and soon found there were smarter men than we were, so concluded to return to San Francisco. Arriving there, I got a Job to go to San Pedro. What it was I did not know and did not care, but on arriving there I found It was to drive a mule team some where,, but I was so Indifferent that I never asked where we were bound, but two weeks after I found wo were to - drive to Arizona and the Rio Grande with supplies to tho army posts In Arizona and New Mexico. In consideration of the fact that I had never seen a mule before, I was placed in the saddle of a wheeler and told to go ahead. I got a long pretty well until wn came to the San Gabriel River, where, by some mischance, I ran the wagon up against the bank of the crossing, and so caused a halt of the whole train. The wagon boss came up on hi mule and In very unparlia mentary language asked me what In I hired out as a mule driver for? I then found I had hitched my near leader on the off side. With a look I shall never forget and some more language and the help of some others teamsters, I Anally got out of my scrape. It was the last mistake I made and finally reached Tucson, and after a ew months we reached Las Cruces. Then, being tired of Government employ, with a few others who like myself were 'rough and ready and hard to curry." we reached Fort Union, in New Mexico. I soon obtained a job as United States expressman from tho fort to Santa Fe. I had orders to get all the Christmas good things I could get three days before the great holiday, so had to make time. There were two of us on the trip. Turkeys, geese and other good things were out of the question, but by the help of a friendly saloon-keeper we man aged to obtain half a dozen suckling pigs. They were all dressed but one, and he was alive, and I had to carry him. We left Santa Fo on the afternoon of tho 24th and must get to Fort Union by noon next day. Before we left Santa Fo wo were treated well (and after) and struck out for our 100-mile ride. The pig I carried both ered me and somehow he lost his tall before wo arrived at the fort. We arrived there In time to eat our Christmas dinner, and that was tho first Christmas I enjoyed in the United States. Soon after I enlisted in the First Cali fornia Volunteers and was sent to Fort Mc Crea, on the Jornada del Muerta (Journey of Death). Tho next Christmas I spent there, with wild turkeys, venison and some good old "commissary." After dinner some thing happened. I had been engaged in the Quartermaster's department and a certain woman, wife of a soldier, had been buying up bounty vouchers, and I generally made up the papers. As her husband (for three years, or during the war) was a worthless fellow, I made them out in her name. Ho found it out and did not like it. eo made mischief, unknown to the woman. After our dinner he camo to our quarters and began abusing me to such an extent that I gave him a licking and sent him home. He came up again and a third time. I was getting tired and he abused me so much that one of the sergeants camo up and said, "If you don't lick him well this time I'll lick you." There was but one thing to do. I had let him off twice, but knowing Sergeant Donelly would be as good as his word, I did my best, with the result that he was in the hospital for a month. Soon after his wife, whom I had been doing so much for, came to our quarters and had her say. She did not know then what a good friend I had been to her, so she went to the commanding officer and gave him such a deal that he ordered a squad of New Mexican infantry, who were quartered with us, to tako me to the guard house. Our boys did not like the Mexicans anyhow, and would not let them set font In our quarters. Then the commanding officer came up. pretty full, and raised hades, with the result that he was shot at and left. Then the First Lieutenant (Slater) ramp up, and being very popular, talked to the boys like a white man; told me it was mutiny, and as a friend advised me to go to the guard-house, and as the commanding officer was drunk he would see I was released next morning. So I went, and that is where I spent my second Christmas In America. The next ChrlMmas I ppent was in the Fort Stanton country, in New Mexico. We were on scout after the Comanches and Arapahoes; started with six days' rations. We were out '21 days. That Christmas day, tt.i, will ever be remembered. We had not a bite to eat or even a cup of coffee, so turned In on a wet night, our only consolation hem the good times wo had before. For two das after we rode along, horses tired out. until at last we killed a buffalo. My time In the army expiring soon after. I started for San Francisco, but at Tucson 1 was held up to take a dispatch to Camp Grant for a relief to go to Bluewater, near the alia River, to rescue a squad of the Fourteenth Infantry who had been ambushed by the Apaches, and Major Meltcr and Dr. Tappan had been I GUARANTEE A Cl'RE FOR ANY rSt'OMFLlCATED AILMENT FOR YOU CAS PAY MK WHE.V I Cl'RE YOU. IIt- TAYIjOR, The Leading SnerfnUst. I want every man who is aflicted with any special ailment to ' come and talk with rne confidentially about his case. A word of sufrps tion will often aid a patient to sret on the rlpht road to a quick and lasting cure if his case Is taken in time. Even diseases that have reached an advanced chronic stapre yield readily to my medicines and distinctive methods of treatment. I Treat and Cure Vnrlrwfle, Or ganltr WeakneMM. Coatrartod Din orders, S t ric lire and 11 1 en. ConeraHatfon and Dlnsrnnnlw Free. Office Hours 9 A. M. to 9 P. 31. Sundays 10 to 1. The DR.TAYL0R Go. 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I quit at that time and arrived In San Francisco In May, and then went off to the Big Bend mines in British Columbia, S00 miles above where Rossland now is. There I got broke, and after a desperate ride down the Columbia over Death Rapids, and some mining experi ence, finally arrived at Lewlston and went to a new mining camp some 40 miles north, where I spent the next Christmas, 'tirt. In lRflT I was in the Salmon River country and enjoyed my Christmas dinner on Salmon River with mountain sheep, and venison for the piece de resistance.. The next Christmas I spent In Lewiston. With great forethought myself ami two others -when we arrived there made friends with a restaurant man. and finally paid him ftIO each to "grub" us until Spring, when we would ko to the mines again. But "Phomme propos, l'Dieu dlspoes." After boarding a couple of weeks a fire happened and our restaurant man was burned out. so we were left high and dry. I got a job at a sawmill on the Assotin, and my Christ mas dinner was worried through there. The next two years I was engaged In running a tunnel In Florence to work Gold Lake. We had our jolly Christmas all right. I was a pretty good cook and used to make a score of mince pies at a time and put them aside to freeze until needed. I used beef tallow for shortening, dried applet, raisins and other stuff for filling, nut tney went pretty well. But one year, just about a week before Christmas. I examined into the condition of our supplies. 1 found a box of raisins 1 had put away for a plum duff all gone. The wood rats had got on to it and took every raisin in the box, but with great consideration had left every blessed stem behind. So we sent out to John Day's by express for another box. These are but few of the times we for merly enjoyed in the old frontier. Yet we enjoyed it as much as we would today at a Christmas dinner at the Hotel Portland. It was a time to enjoy, and we did our best in good fellowship to make our Christ mas day memorable, and today they are as a star at midnight in a cloudy sky. The young fellows now-a-days who coin plain of "hard times" know not what hard times are. Let them not complain that roses have thorns, but congratulate themselves as we did that thorns are surmounted by roses. Tacoma Shipping Xotes. TACOMA. Dec. 24. Tlie British ship Archibald Russell Tvlll put to sea the day following Christmas for the United Kingdom with her cargo of grain. The German steamer Setos, of the Kosmos line, is loading 2000 tons of grain at Tacoma for the West Coast and Hamburg. The steamer Tallac was in port to day to load 600 tons of wheat for San Francisco. The schooner Eric arrived today from San Francisco to load lumber at tho Tacoma Mill for San Francisco. The schooner Mary E. Foster towed over from Winslow to load lumber at the Tacoma Mill. Final Account in Thompson Kstate. "Willam J. Hawkins, administrator of the estate of the late R. R. Thompson, yesterday filed his final account in the County Clerk's office. This account shows the value of the estate to be J!i2. 296. Of this amount S:iS,9;6 is cash. The remainder of the estate consists of real property, valued at $83,340. The various Onr specialty is to build up health lo a per manent and perfect standard, and we believe in our ability to pet results. We believe honest statements can be passed out to honest men by honest methods and that men have confidence enough in. their fellow-men now to shy at every piidepost without investigating a little on their account. "We believe in working, not weeping, and in the pleasure of our work. We believe that a man gets what he goes , after; that one deed done todav is worth two deeds tomorrow, and that XO MAX IS DOWT AND OUT UNTIL HE HAS LOST I'AITH IN HIMSELF. We believe in today and the work we are doing; in torr-..,rro ..nd the work we hope to do and the sure reward which the future holds. We believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and honest competition. We believe there is something doing somewhere for every man ready to do it, and we are ready right now. Our experience and facilities are unequalled in Portland, and we have the largest referred practice in the city. We mean by "referred practice" patients referred to us by others who previously treated with us and voluntarilyrecommend their friends to us for similar treatment. Expert Medical 7 F Examination Our treatments are mild our results are quick. We successfully treat Acute, Chronic and Nervous Diseases, Blood Poison, Varicose Veins, Catarrh, Skin Diseases, Stomach and Bowel Troubles, Tiles, Fistula. Kidney and Bladder Ailments, Nervous Debility, and many other diseases of men not mentioned here. No business address or street number on our envelopes or packages. Consultation and advice free. If you cannot call at office, write for self-examination blank many cases cured at home. Medicines $1.50 to $0.50 per course. Hours 9 A. M. to 8 P. M. Sundays, 10 A. M. to 12. ST. LOUIS MS'.LcD DISPENSARY CORNER SECOND AND YAMHILL, PORTLAND, OREGON. Dose tell you, honestly and ne thinks of Ayer's Then do as he says. properties in question are located on Front, Second. Davis. Pine and Fourth streets, and are among the most valuable sites in the city. Rentals approximate $J000 monthly. A par excellent table d'hoto dinner served at the Perkins t5rill Christmas, 5 to 8:30. Reserve your tables. Fitted bags and cases, Harris Trunk The Stomach Does Not Cause Dyspepsia Neither Will It Cure It Because tha Lack of Gastric Juices Pro hibits Relief. The stomach Is a strong, powerful or gan, which is composed of muscles of great strength. It is filled during di gestion with gastric juices which, when tho stomach, extending and compress ing the food, dissolve it and separate the nourishment from the waste matter. If. however, these gastric Juices are lacking, the stcmach is not capable of digesting its food because it has not the tools with which to work success- fully. - . Tho gastric juices when in a perfect state do away with all foul odors, fer mentation and decay, reduce the food to a disintegrated mass and the stom ach then presses it into the Intestines where another form of digestion takes place. Then the intestines take from this mass of food all that is nourish ing and give it to the blood. The waste, matter is thrown from the system. If instead of nourishment the In testines receive impure deposits com bined Willi a poisonous and Imperfect gastric Juice, it can be readily seen that hey must turn such imperfect nourishment Into the blood. The blood then being unable to give each part of the body that which It requires, becomes impoverished and disease is spread broadcast. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets corrects such a condition at once. If the gastric juices are lacking and imperfect these tablets do their work just the same. Th-y build up the elements in the iutce which are lacking and remove) those elements which cause disturb ance. , , , Meat, grains, fluids, vegetables and delicacies, in fact each portion of a large meal have been placed in a glass tiai and Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets have digested them to a perfect fluid just as a healthy stomach would do. A large complex, hearty meal holds no terrors for a dyspeptic if Stuart s Dyspepsia Tablets are used. Abnormal eating, lute dinners, rich foods cause 111 effects to the stomach, but when Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are used one , ),.. n and what one will with- out danger of dyspepsia or discomfort. Forty tliousana puysunina and prescribe Stuart's Dyspepsia Tab lets end every druggist carries them In stock, price r,0e. Send us your name and address and we will send von at once bv mail a sample package free. Address F. A. Stuart Co.. 150 Stuart Hldg.. Marshall. Mich. Specialty Any Uncomplicated Spe $10 cial Disease Cured for