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A . : & . 'XlTrrent TOPICS OF INTEREST,' .; Z fii :- FORrMEK AND WOMEN READERS : r-r ; -r- MATTERS OF SOME IMPORT TO DWELLERS IN TOWW AND COUNTRY VOL. XIX. 'TWENTY-FOUR PAGES PORTLAND, OREGON SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 28, 1900. PAGES 13 TO 4 NO. 4. . GADS BY -';,." ihn&lwr '--' ' ;.,:,';; ":-';; ' - " " W M THE HOUSEFURNISHER Gadsby Block ,Cor. Washington and First Sts. iiiiisissssif IMllllllilrffiP lllf iilliiiif f II iJffl Our Spring, Styles voiiCarpets . ARE NOW ON EXHIBITION This large, high-arm and high-back Cob bler seat Rocking Chair, polished, lnff-f CA Golden Quarter-Sawed Oak, at JT JU Others as low at $1.95. All the ; , NewestEffects ' In... Body Brussels Axminsters Moquettes Roxburys '' Tapestries Ingrains At the Old Prices OUR LINE OF FURNITURE Is unequalled for assortment in the city. Rich and poor alike can be suited at our store- our prices are always uniform and right. SOME PRICES ON STAPLE GOODS - Bedrqpm tSuits, hotel, 3 pieces ...; .$io,75 - . - i "'-. Beardom Suits, Ash, Mirror i8x24;inches -13.00 z'' i Bedroom Suits, Ash, Mirror 24x30 -inches .'. 17.50 Bedroom Suits, Solid Oak., best.in city at price.. 20.00 Iron Enameled Bedsteads, full size '3.50 Woven Wire Mattresses .......... 1.75 Soft-Top Mattresses ..!..... ,2.50 Hair. Mattresses, 30 lbs., gray .... io.op ,. Chiffoniers, large and capaqious 6.66 Sideboards, Solid Oak, as low, as . 12.00 Cane Seat Chairs, 6 for ,.... 4.50 Wardrobes, large size, Spruce : ." 6.50 Kitchen Cupboards, wire fronts .'4.00 WE GAIN EVERY DAY In popularity, simply because we give our customers more and better value for their money than they. can. find elsewhgre. You can always buy your goods -of ais at prices thaz will jleasexojj- We ,are .sellers, of- high-grade. "at-thowt!st liwSnfe'prlces. TCs -always give satisfactlon,becausewe , always give the most and best for the money;- "We gain the confidence of the public by fair dealing, and we keep it simply because experience teaches that it pays to trade with us. Try us and you-will like our fair and square business methods. Go wine thy flight from star to star, .v. From world( to- luminous world jj"5 far js '.' As the universe spreads Its-flaming wall; 4 ' Takeall'the pleasures of all the spheres ' And multiply each through endless years One moment of heaven Is worth them all. Lalla Rookn. URBSTONE religion Is a condition not-pe-culiar' tooths Pacific coast, but It flourish es here as ..perhaps In no other section of the country. It is a fact that, in propor tion to wealth and population, as many fine- churches and as many Christian pas tors exist In this-sec-" tion as in !any 'part of the Union: " The open-air preacher follows in the wake of the pathfinder- and the - .pioneer. His movements will " probably- die of their own weight. In a few years, as developments broaden, many-'of the re ligionists known as "cranks", will sink from view, as silently as they- arose. Many of, them .are mildly Insane," and all ot-them ride hobbles. ' There are in Portland some 160 churches. These ' are presided over " by preachers of various creeds, degrees of Intelligence and grades of piety. There is a sufficient variety of .-beliefs to satisfy the most ex acting or. fastidious. Some of the services at these churches are well attended; some of the structures, are always crowded, and others moderately well filled. It-is the opinion tOf.some'observers that the open-air presetting mat is done !Etfv)I In Tjfe ) Js "X 1 YM W1' '7ttW , .kf 1 UsJ -'". - - Wfaimi if5; WW! imm .MMMmi1 - & , 7n m ' -' II 7 ...? ttt mm ek?w3k v tmrm. Wmt l"i''5vv "'"'V " "P rw sjv ilraMs! iy ( 1 -v' -v Portland keeps many people away'from" the churches," and that, were it not for the curbstone clergy, all the churches would "be filled every Sunday and new houses of worship, would have to be erected to accommodate the overflow. The Reasons. Several reasons exist for -this belief. It Is argued that many of these street-cor- Sim WfM Wk ffAvaK?,V7 WS ml1 I WM. GADSBY wSZ"sl - Wgkf ) -. ... Mm i T imM&iMeh Iff C L si Wlw&WzL 4 J IB F$ I ' L TfyK j&ftf'' M t In Hvv - tJSp) mK & &mbA III IBj3 4 ''" ' r'fl ' ' interested .In Christian progress. j?Sr"'"r"J vl 11 I -l r8 ' 4 '-' ''" Itis ls?'urSecl tnat. while the asylums v S Kf If I ' w " '.$' . t:- '"!! contain many insane s persons, whose W( J. ?" P3 II R V - A' "' "'inin'ds-have -become deranged over relig- :- .- 'MZ some picturesque, fanciful and often ex- of them wouldn't know.the Holy" Eucha- record for the first three weeks in Janu ary is 116 conversions. Sixteen was the record for last week. Tlie Wbrklngmen's Home. Kaln, rain, rain, my Savior! Rain, rain, ralri; ,my Iiordl Rain, rain, rain, jtny Savior! Half a saclt of flour and a dollar'sworth of lard. . -' Salvation Army . melody. The. Portland Worklngmen's Home is one of the practical branches of the Sal ivation 'Army work in this city. It "has '-.been maintained for-the past nine months, , in a commodious two-story building, at ' 2B Burnslde street. It has been sup " ported ' chiefly through . the . liberality bif the friends of the Army in the city. Dur ing' the period specified the home has sheltered 427X people, of. whom 260 were 'admitted free of coat. The others paid opiy the small sum of- 10' cents for their lodging.' The building is entirely too small for its purposes; otherwise the. good results would be greater, than they-are. r- Meetings are also held In and from this building. This branch is in charge of ; Corps No. 1, oflicered, by Captain and ' Mrs: Hubbard, Captain Holden and L'.eu . tenant Charles Tucholke. This building is far. enough from the saloons to draw for Its clientele fewer hobos and more work ingmeri In trouble than one would.' sup--, pose.. It is patronized by a more respectr able class of people, apparently, than fre quent some of the other cheap lodging -housed in the community. . ,:.: . ' I Married the Bis Swede. "Sphere comes a rift within the lute That sometimes makes its music mute. -'. ' -.- &x, ' Tennyson. ' "When a Catholic girl takes the veil and renounces the world, Its pleasures and al lurements,, she,' takes It for keeps.J No power; no passion, no temptation will cause.;her tocast longlng..glances..back to the glittering shores' of" sin. '':Is it the sanie. with the Salvation Army:-lassies? Sometimes, although evidently Playwright David Belasco thought otherwise when he wrote "Naughty Anthony," the play in which Blanche Bates, a Portland girl, has set all the tongues In Gotham wag ging. According .. to the play and Miss Bates' interpretation of it, three Salva tion Army lassies are made to forget-thelr, homejy ,attlre by the mere" sight of doz ens of pairs of fancy, sllk-embroldered "stockings being tried - on. They liked dainty lingerie and wished they had silk stockings, too. . One bright ,and- rather pretty Portland 1$? - 7il& hrlwho should have known better, felt . t ""o'-'V,-' "bfffi ' it,was"!'her-'4nission to 'join' theSalvation'' she laid aside her pretty dresses and lpus matters, much of insanity thus oc- "donned- the blue" poke bonnet with red . casloned is due to' the peculiar brand of- strings. She had" a pretty contralto voice, piety that is dished out on the street and her share of the "work" was. to sing . -j, corners'; and which often makes its' ad- on the street corner and pass around he ; herents as-mad-'as a-March hfife.-v- -tambourine. Nickels and.' dimes- came in W """-JTlie ' iSalvationvArniy. 7 "' .freelyaiter her "turn," and,.;bne uuspi- So those servanto wen- out Into the gi,. .cIou"-fnIght, her voice fell on the earelof a ways ancl "gathered together all as many .'as big Swede. , they found,,' both -rood and .baa; and the-wed- ' jq-ls didn't get saved, hut he 'kept ding was furnished with guests.-St. Matthew. hanglnff around He beCame. acquainted Do people listen af. the Salvation Army wlth the glrl( and wooed her, poke bonnet :. gatherings? Oh, yes. That crowd of soul- and an Hls &ult prospered, and "then the churigry, sin-stained faces, the prodigal boys - independent spirit of"Nels asserted it- yTof a thousand homes, that group around SQ He told, his Inamorata frankly that' the.ring wherever the flag of ,the Salva- nc.be'st'glri;of his should' wear. such rldtcu-S tion Army has been hoisted, listen because ious attire: that she had come to the part- cee.dlngly gotesque songs, to a crude .ac companiment of mus.Ic from cornets, gui tars, tambourines and often ' screeching accordions. The- officers preach around In rotation, a few. minutes each; . col-.1 lection is taken up, and the band marches to the 'hall, where "the meeting's thrown ' Open1' for testimonials." In the peculiar parlance of .Its members, accepting the , orthodox plan of salvation is "getting ; saved," and every night men of all; na tionalities, all stages of Intelligence, . and of alldegrees Of cleanliness, claim?1 to be saved. The armory Is a great resort for rls.t from, a baptismal font. -Had Xoat His Job. . "?... A story is told of a Swfeda who had reached Portland with a;jretry. gbo'd J9U'; and had gonje. the! usual, .gait ; vsrhlie'irlt lasted. After his money 'was a4Itgone' and while yet '.partly Inebriated,, he reefed into the armory, v He w&3 tackled, by a, sister, who asked him to come up -and. "work' for Jesus."" The Idea- struck him favorably," and he expressed himself 'as belne willing' to work for anybody. ' in, giving tys "testimony! be saidi "I bane' working .for sawmill -in Minnesota,, but j'tfn ' .' - -- "- M -v 'j 1 J 1 0 ff -4V TSZ " 'Jh A&&L ''"' - .' niw ' -JUt"'' ' ' fm ' ' 1 I X ' v '"- ':y ' ' 'm ? r .x. i n v'x " J J y xi- g: VaX A si . , M I l v t IIK: v.t .' :;&& - ? they'are talked to by the ex-prodlgals, .who have tasted the bitterness of sin's cup." .The tear In the speaker's eye, the tender' tones in the lassie's voice, the song set to a-popular melody that has swayed jo. naT tloil's heart, awaken a responsive echo In that thoughtful, silent throng. The an- ner revivals are so supremely silly and archist hd the burglar stand' side by side; ludicrous as to reflect discredit- arid bring derision ind .reproach URon.- Christianity In general. To many Illiterate people ing of the ways and must choose. The result of this reading of the riot net was that, next Sunday, the girl went to' church "clothed and in her right mind." She afterwards married the big Swede. It is to be hoped they lived happily, ever after wards. ' The -'Volunteers of America. preaching Is preaching,. and they see out landish proceedings carried on under the silent stars, and naturally believe that a similar .programme Is carried. out In the legitimate houses " of" worship' Another reason, perhaps-the gravest of all, is that these out-of-door perform ances 'tend to convey, and perhaps are intended '.to convey," the, impression that the worklngman and the tramp are there, too. What about the drum? Booth Tucker -" Balllngton Booth and Maud.Shls wife, I have made history. Chateaubriand. says that thousands owe their salvation' to It. Boys who cannot be forced to -church with a rod or' bribed with a db.llar, drop their games and catch up with the proces sion. Army Headaanrters. The headquarters of the Salvation -Army for "Washington, Oregon and southern Jdaho are In Portland. The divisional headauarters are In rooms 620 and 622 worklhgmon and poor people generally are hot welcome in church. : The idea' Is.. Cnamber of-Commerce building," and 'this iaise, -ouc 11 is easy 10, mane a laDonng class, of people, already dissatisfied with " their condition, believe it All In all, it is a serious, problem which deserves the . careful consideration of those who are division is ruled by Brigadier Stephen Marshall. He Is assisted by Staff Captain "Willis, who' is also general secretary, and by Mrs. "Willis, who is financial secretary and stenographer. Adjutant Evans is junior secretary and adjutant," and Mrs. Shulz have charge of the social work. bullded better than they knew when they left th parent stem the Salvation Army and organized the Volunteers of America. It Is a distinctively American institution and is patriotic in Its proclivities. As Is well known, prior to this movement, Gen eral Balllngton- Booth was the commander-in-chief In the United States of the Salvation Army movement. The Booths were popular with people in the "higher walks of life in the big Eastern cities, arid wealthy men were liberal In their support of the Army. General "William Booth, the founder of the order, Instructed Balllngton to resign as American commander and prepare.to go to other countries. It is believed that the old general was becoming jealous of Portland has' three;corps., dorps No.-1 Is -BaHlngton and also disliked ( to; see -the on Burnslde street, and is. under.thedohtrql of Captain and Mrs. Hubbard. Corps' NO. 2 Is maintained at East Sixth and Oak streets, and 13 under the jurisdiction of Captain and Mrs. Melby. Corps No. 3 wag formerly maintained at Alblna, but the. barracks are now dark. Corps No. 4, whjch lsethe most prominent of the Port land" branches, has Us headquarters' on First street; between Alder and Washing ton, streets, and is in charge of Adjutant and Mrs. Hawkes and Lieutenant ; Huds peth. This corps always turns out the largest street parade. The Rescue Home. I know not, heart. I -care not; what guilt's in thy Thomas-"Moore. The crowfalng feature of Salvat'on Army, work in Portland is the " Fourth street home, which is conducted under the per&dnal direction of. Ensign : Morgan and Gaptaln Kinney, two estimable' women who, .day by day, "vjislt the fallen women In 'their resorts and beg .them, td reform and. offer- them sheitpr. Fifty-five of these -daughters of, sorrow were rescued through, this agency In Portland last year, and most' of them were kept rescued. The home for, fallen women usually has '12 or 15 Inmates, and situations and homes are provided .for -them as soon as practi cable. The rescued! glrla jhave organized Army become Americanized, for. the old Salvation Army is English . or it is noth ing. Wealthy Americans had faith in Bal llngton Booth and asked him to retrain In the country. After consideration, 'he did so, but gave up the property of the Army in the Eastern cities, which was vested hi. his name.. The result of this was the organization of the Volunteers. The or ganization was a success from Its lnclp iency, and there Is no doiibt that Maud Booth Is as popular a woman as lives In America today, not "even excepting Eliza beth Cady Stanton or Mary Ellen Lease. She has .endeared herself to thousands, by her untiring efforts on behalf of the "prison boys," as she calls them, and of those 'in trouble anywhere. Through her efforts a number, of i'homes" have been established in different states for ex-convicts, 'and. in time positions" are found for the :mpst worthy .'pf the latter.' , The Portland Post. The local post of Volunteers of Ameri ca is under the command of Captain El liott, who is assisted by Alde-de-Camp Zachman and -"Lieutenant Grant McKay. Their headquarters is th;e armory on Sep-, ond street, between Burnslde and Couch" streets With them "cleanliness is next to godliness," and the armory is kept clean;, the entire .quarters are 'well ven themselves into-s league vcallecj: the,;."Out t'lated. and are comfortable. Here meet-lr of Loves,", and fcontrj Wtlons kf rpni this 4ngsarg;heldsevery night, af terthe -srandr organization, in adargfray hfelp to. niairj Joult-ctf-dopreffort. ,;'T 4,.. jf . - tain the -home. ?T ; :" ; The operi-air meetings are from 7:30 to . During- the month of December last 13b 8 o'clock. The post gathers, at the armory, , - conversions were, reported through Salva-. marches out to the. front of some den of--ttloii Army influences' In Portland. The. vice or crowdedrstreet corner, -and sings' , -.: - : .-v.'- ' " ' --"Hvi--J:- vr" " ' -"' -" foreigners; and many. ..of; them, bng, lost my . ..J " -. . .- ; :.;..: w- -i Many of the-tesUmoTiie3;:aro- nearly aa ridiculous. ' ' -. ; The volunteers frequently give- needy men a meal arid' a bed, and many men of the hobo variety often coma, in and "get saved", for the loaves- and fishes; They think it Is easier to cometo-a warm. ,. Hall on a rainy night and "get religion'' than It is to walk- the streets and braca ' strangers" for bedv:niotiey. ' ' ."'.. '. " ... '. The Volunteers do nqt.co.nfne thr'.'prlc . . to the salvation -of, souls . but. are; working for the corporeal good of the masses' aa ' well. They have "a free employment bu reau and sometimes get positions for men who really want to work. They also have a -free- reading-room, but unfortunately there Is very little in it to read- In a, rear room are a half dozen or so beds- that aro given to needy strangers to sleep In-, and almost .every night they are occupied- by .unfortunate fellows.r who are '(broke." Only a few eights: ago? -Cap tain- Elliott was on his way to the- "armory, and as ho- ' t,J.was passing one1 'of the near-by isalooiis, saw a Dig. Duriy, wniterapronea oartenqor kick a poor, drunken, chap out- through the door. ,The drunken manlanded on his head and cut a hole in his. cranium as big as a walnut. Captain" Elliott carried the wounded sot td the armory..and caredVfor his injuries- That's the kind, of, religion, that keeps menqut of jalt Theses things i, are of frequent occurrence uv the-'quartera bf the Volunteers of America. ' -' " !; "When the Spirits Commlnslo. There'i naught so much the spirits cheer As rum' and true religion. - - f "'" Old Hymn-. . ' But It's when some half-brilliant; .half-re'K- sincere, half-lnebrlated feilcw falte xmder the influence of the street preacher,. and wants to talk,, that things become lively , in an out-of-doors, gospel picnic In. the , " ' slums. It Is a difficult thing for the man- ager, or, as for that matter, the general public, .to detect street-corner religious :?.. frenzy, as distinguished frohi geniria NOrth .End druhkmetfme3'"rehIska.o-'-;-j vtha -basis--of many fervid'. exhcltio-perln. 4-.iis jfrohtTof First and. Second-street-saloons;,. -." -sometimes, a sudden conviction of sin causes it, and sometimes it Is a-'commlng- ling of the spirits; It has- been" suggested,1 that the open-air religion that is some times seen In the North End and the pe culiar brand of whisky dispensed in those classic precincts"h1ive a kind of" afHnity for each other. In other words, a; too lib-, eralr dose of the one causes a hankering for the other. . .; Acting on "this belief. It" 13 said that & Burnside-street saloon-keeper is" alwaja' a liberal contributor to a band of out door preachers, so long as they will sing and shout In front of his den of vice. It draws a bigger- and a dryer crowd than the broken-dowiju vaudeville actress on. the Inside; and It comes cheaper. This state "ment may not be : literally true, but many people believe It. - " An llllterntcHobo. And there are men aa good as he "Wh03e verbs and nouns do more agree After Bret Harte. Nobody seems to know his real name. He has been called "Hobo Kelly" so long that he has probably forgotten that he ever had another name. Hobo Kelly, on the occasion of his last visit, tp Portland, connected himself with the Volunteers of America. He was dressed In quasi-clerical style. His evangelical lawn tie had once been white. He wore a very long and shiny Prince Albert coat, and a derby hat made on the block known as 'the -'"pancake style.- These hats are much .affected by low; comedians in second-rate farce-comedy"" "companies. His trousers were something Immense, and were much too. long, after several reefs had been taken In them. But his talk in the Vol unteers' meetings did not cause people to enthuse very much; and, for this and other reasons his' connection with: tha band was ruthlessly severed. Then Hobo Kelly set up a sideshow. "Wherever Mary went, the- lamb was sure to go." So soon as one of. the Volunteer spielers would begin to talk on .a street .corner, "Hobo" would open up-ion. tha .opposite corner, and would give hisaudl .'enco.a rare treat to billingsgate,: taking fpr-his subject "TJae Volunteeranof, Ameri ca." " He was ordered to desist by" tha police, and-he moved on, seeking hewer and greener pastures. , . ' j. K Other Outdoor Preachers. vMr, and Mrsi JoiuWGIasscpe, two coW ored people, conduct a mission fbif alMfcaces . $.t ' the corner of Second and,'' Yarnhlll ; " . streets, but they rarely preach In the -.open . air., A Chinaman, who has been prose-' . ,1yted by the Baptists, hang3 out every' - Sunday in the vicinity of First and Alder streets,, and preaches Christianity . to his! - countrymen. -Itfs doubtful if ha has any" success. The Chlnes.e1 are too conseryatlva and hidebound to adapt themselves to newt religious beliefs, and It is a question wheth er there has ever- beenva. Chinese conver sion to Christianity., either In China or! America that was not promptediby conH mercial or social reasons. ' No one would speak of the crazy woman who preaches in various parts of the city nights and Sundays, except In sorrow. That she has been so long permitted to outrage decency Is a burning shame. Just who is responsible for this poor unfortunate being allowed to continue this blasphemous- per formance Is a question thousands' of. Port land people have asked; The Christian Army, which marches "two by two, like the elephant and "tha kangaroo," and God's Hegular Army aro cheap imitators of the more pretentious - . & a it . & & 3jvltboi money.and'yust repoYjjring'froni a "jag," find it a haven of rest and a shelter in times, of-storm, and come in and "get saved" without possessing the re motest idea of the plan of salvation. Soma Salvation Army.. X t