THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, HAY 8, 1903. MUNICIPALISM FROM HARPER'S WEEKLY "As recarfia municipal ownership.- wo are a Imndred years behind Great Britain." Harper rKfceklr. March 14. 1903. I showed that sentence to an English Snember of Parliament, -who has been twice Mayor and lor over ten years a. councillor or Alderman of ono of the larg est cities In the Kingdom. His comment Iras startling. "Happy America!" he ex claimed. "Long may she remain so." Ho went on to make a vigorous attack on the excesses of modern "municipal enter prise." The old form of It, the form known as "gas and water socialism," he approved. Experience had convinced him that there were certain undertakings which, being monopolistic in their nature, and vitally bearing on the health or safety or necessary comforts of the peo ple, could be more efficiently and xnoro economically controlled by a municipality than by a private company. He could not, and no more, he declared, -could any one else, lay down hard and fast lines as to the sphere in which municipal enter prise might legitimately move. Local conditions, as it seemed to him, could alone determine that. But he thought it unquestionable that when a municipality branched out into all sorts of minor trades of a speculative and even experimental character. Incurred Immense liabilities in prosecuting them, and raised local taxa tion to an almost unbearable height, a point was reached where it became a mat ter of principle and common sense to call a halt. That point, in his opinion, Eng land had not only reached, but passed. "Our local governing authorities," he said, "have gone crazy over municipal trading. England, without realizing It, Is settling rapidly down on a Collectivist basis. The municipalities are the social ism of the future in embryo, and the men who compose them, whether they know it or not, are playing the game of the Social ists to perfection. Of course, socialism has lost a good many of Its terrors. 'Wo are all Socialists now," as Harcourt said. But there is one thing that has not lost Its terrors, and that is bankruptcy. If municipal speculation goes on at Its pres ent rate, it is my opinion we must either end in a sort of local bankruptcy or else in such a widespread atrophy of private Initiative as will work our commercial ruin. That Is why, as a lifelong friend and admirer of America, I am glad to hear she Is 100 years behind us in the mat ter of municipal ownership. That is why I say, 'Long may she remain so.' " One hears opinions like this expressed on all sides nowadays. I do not think it would be too much to say that the lntelll gent public spirit of this country Is pre paring for a revolt from the extremes of the 'new munlclpallsm." Ratepayers de fense clubs, property-owners' associations, citizens unions, industrial protective so cieties, and so on, are multiplying all over the Kingdom, and endeavoring to arouse the average respectable citizen, whoso apathy "is at the root of mischief, Into some active sense of tho dangers that lie inevitably ahead. An invaluable series of articles contributed to the Times dur ing the Summer and Pall of last year ha.i given an immense Impetus to the move ment. It Is not an impossible undertak ing, but it is an exceedingly arduous one how much so may be gathered from studying the example" of Glasgow. Glas gow prides itself on being tho model municipality of Great Britain. It is, at any rate, the most active. Tho Corpora tionthat is to say, the City Council- DO METALS SUFFER FROM DISEASE? GERMAN SCIENTISTS'.BELIEVE THAT IRON, COPPER AND STEEL GET SICK Q TJEER experiments that havjj, been made recently in Europe with met als have opened a" new world for the -metallurgist a word full of marvelous, Almost inlry-llke. possibilities. The first striking discovery that was anade is that metals suffer from diseases. They become sick, and their strength or hardness or elasticity will vanish myste riously, and not from the ordinary causes known to metalworkers. Through all the -eges of metalworklng until now, these -curious .weakenings and unexpected de lects In apparently sound, high-grado metals have been set down as "flaws," and even scientists accepted this as an explanation; yet now that the recent studies and experiments have begun to solve the puzzle, it is evident to everybody that "flaw" really explained nothing. To call the defect a flaw was only to give a name, that meant very little, to an entire ly unknown condlition. Before the new experiment had gone far, it was discovered that metals can bo poisoned poisoned Just as readily and with as fatal effect as any organic body, such as an animal or a plant. Of course, with this development, the question arose at once. Is a metal an or-' ganlc body after all? But scientists did not dareN to commit themselves so far. They asked themselves the question in private at first. To ask it in public was almost to ask the world to change ono of its fundamental scientific beliefs, tho belief In a great diversion of matter Into two mighty classes, one of which Is organic and tho other inorganic. More experiments followed, some of them so elaborate that a single one re quired many months before It reached a result; most of them were so Ingenious that even ordinary scientific men could not follow the intricate processes intelli gently, and only specialists could perceive the real meaning that lay hidden in tho results. At last, however, the demonstra tions had multiplied so much and were so striking in their significance that hesita tion gave way to assurance and the the ory of disease of metals has been so lr accepted by the practical men of metal lurgy that tho Imperial Navy-yard in Wllhelmshaften, Germany, sends metals regularly to the "autopsy-room" and "dis secting tables" of Professor Heyn, one of the leaders in the new investigation. To Inoculate Metal. Now another of tho specialists In the new research, tho famous Dr. Hechhold, of Germany, has gone still further not In a mere conjectural theory, but with a conclusion reached as the end of a series of careful, logical steps fortified by ex periment. "Who knows." he asks In summing up his studies, "if metallurgy will not soon create a now and vastly Important branch for Itself the branch of producing Inoc ulating material for metals which shall change their timber and form swiftly. In stead of waiting for tho slow processes of forging and tempering that obtain to day? He explains this conclusion as follows: There are many organic and Inorganic substances in which sharp changes .of temperature produce changes of structure, or, as scientists put it, which assume new "phases" under such changed conditions. This alteration of form or structure can fce produced suddenly If the temperature point necessary for alteration is very de cidedly overstepped. But if the tempera ture does not go far above or below the alteration point, it is necessary generally to Introduce an artificial Impulse to con summate the change. It Is possible, for instance, under certain circumstances to cool water to a tempera ture well below freezing point, and still it will not Bolidlfy into ice until a crystal of Ice Is introduced. Then It begins to form Ice crystals at once, and soon is solid. Pure glycerine cannot be frozen with ordinary means, even If they produce tem peratures as low as 20 degrees below zero, until a bit of glycerine that has already been frozen Is introduced. But as soon as this crystal of frozen glycerine Is In, the IN -ENGLAND sr BY SYDNEY BROOKS supply the people of Glasgow with water, gas. electric light, cable and electric cars, and telephones; they control 31 public parks and galleries, 13 baths and wash-houses, a fruit and vegetable market, a dead-meat market, a home cat tle market, two foreign cattle markets, a cheese market, a bird and dog market and an old clothes market, "four slaughter houses and offices, four hospitals and one burying grbund; they are the owners of 24S8 municipal houses, 78 lodging-houses, of which they manage seven themselves; a family home, which they also direct; S72 shops, 49 stores, 43 warehouses, work shops, 12 balls, two churches, two hotels, one theater, one studio, ono pawn office, one nursing home, ono powder mill, one laundry, one bakehouse, one golf course and one GoEpel tent; they farm over 1000 acres of land, where large crops are grown, including all the bay used In the stables of the cleansing department, as well as crops of oats, wheat, turnips, etc.; they convert the city sewage Into solid matter and sell it to farmers ror manure; they carry on business as market garden ers; they possess stone quarries and 900 railway wagons; they build street cars. reclaim bogs, conduct a civic granary, raise $5000 a year on the clinker from the refuse cremating furnaces, collect and sell waste paper, and- are not above melt ing and disposing of the solder from tho old tin cans they find In the dust heapa. The contributor to the Times adds that this catalogue makes no pretense of be ing exhaustive. Such as It Is, however. It will probably suffice to startle even those light-hearted - New Tork statesmen who proposed the nationalization of the Penn sylvania coal mines "by the right of em inent domain." Glasgow, moreover, is only ono of many an extreme, but by no means unique, example of what Is going on all over the kingdom. The Times correspondent found and collected Instances of the same sort of "enterprise" wherever he looked. There were about ten or a dozen towns in England where municipal sterilized milk for babies is supplied. The local governing authorities not only furnish the milk, but feeding bottles with it tho purchaser be ing required to bring tho teats at specified Intervals to the municipal milk store that their cleanliness may be tested. From this to the municipalization of the entire milk supply Is only a moderate step. It has not yet been taken, but sooner or later It in evitably will be. Several local governing authorities run saloons. Several others have set up homes for inebriates. General hospitals are still, for the most part, left to the support of private charity, but san atoria for consumptives, smallpox and scarlet-fever hospitals are common ob jects of municipal benevolence. In one town tubes of serum are prepared out of the public funds for cases of diphtheria and puerperal fever, and sold at a nomin al price for all who' apply for them. Cem eteries and crematoria under municipal ownership and management literally abound. The control of local markets has always, and quite properly, been vest ed In the local authority, but municipal markets aro now swiftly leading to mu nicipal slaughter-houses, municipal cold storage houses, municipal Ice factories. Cardiff has a municipal fish market; Tor quay breeds rabbits on a large tract of land where water is collected for the municipal water-works, and tho profits from the -sale of them goes to reducing the rates tho experiment having answered so well that tho City Council has now gone in for sheep farming; Tunbrldge rest of tho glycerine, which has been so stubborn until then, becomes docile and begins to freeze beautifully. For some time past the process has been technically called "vaccination," because the term was so apt and convenient; but until the present day no one suspected how much truth lay in the accidental' name for the process. Vaccination, for Crystallization. Tet this process Is nothing more nor less than Inoculating an inorganic substance with crystals In order to "breed" in it the condition of crystallization which Is tho necessary first step to lead to freez ing. And the conversion of iron or steel is only a series of processes of crystalli zation. Now recently a strange thing in met allurgy happened. A ship was loaded with Banca tin in the straits and sailed for a northern port in Europe. When it ar rived there and the work of unloading tho valuable cargo began, the" merchants to whom It was consigned were amazed and : dismayed to discover that the entire ship ment had actually crumbled Into dust Here was a mystery. For a long time no one coftld solve it. Tears ago it would have been dismissed Anally with the state ment that there must have been a "flaw" or a "fault" in the tin. But the flaw theory had become unsatisfactory. Then Professor Bredlg came out with photographs that he had made In a church In Silesia. The pictures showed the rem nants of organ pipes, most of them full of queer, crumbling holes. "Whole pipes had vanished absolutely. There was no rust and all "investigation tailed to show any other of the causes that are known as destroyers of metal. All Investigators at last confessed them selves nonplussed, until Professor Bredlg, who had made a study of the new theo ries of tho diseases of metals, found a "wound." a genuine, open wound, in a pipe; and his careful, accurate and rigid experiments furnished the convincing proof that this wound had Infected the en tire series of pipes with a creeping dis ease. Scarcely had he finished his investiga tions In the Sileslan Church before a strango coincidence enabled him to ex tend his experiments, and at the some time obtain additional proof of the cor rectness of his previous findings. He was asked to inspect tho great tin roof of the Rathaus or Council House of Rothenburg. Arrived there, he was In formed that several years ago the roof, although it had been attended to carefully, painted regularly, and kept perfectly free from rust, had begun to crumble away. No one could Imagine what caused it Professor Bredig soon discovered a cen ter of infection. And he was able not only to trace tho gradual progress of the infection over the Council House roof, but to show where the disease bad actually spread to a tin roof near by. The "Wonderful Tin-Pest. The phenomenon has been named "tin pest," and tho explanation has been ad vanced that tin retains Its distinctive and most valuable attributes only In tempera tures above 20 degrees. In cold greater than this structural modification occurs quickly, and If the cold Is pushed to an in tensity great enough to disintegrate the tin, it often crumbles away In a grayish powder. In temperatures that do not often fall far below 20 degrees, the changes are .ex tremely slow, unless the tin becomes in fected with the "gray modification." If some of the gray powder of tin that has happened to disintegrate should attach Itself to the sound tin, then the disease communicates Itself rapidly to all parts of the metal. In the cases of tin plates such es are used for roofs, the tin Is not a chemical individuality of Its own, but is a- mixture of iron and tin, both of which have al ready passed, through several modifications during the processes of conversion into plates. Therefore, the process of infec tion becon.es complicated, and & tin roof offers a less resisting field than pure tin. Now, if metals can be thus Infected with disease. It follows that they can be inocu lated as organic substances can be. And "Weils grows hops, and Liverpool beetroots on -their sewage farms; at Colchester there are municipal oysters, which those who have never tasted an American oyster may conceivably relish; Brighton and sev eral other towns own racescourses; a few have built theaters; "West Ham not only manufactures its own paving-stones, but sells its surplus to contractors; many local authorities drive a good business in tho residual products of gas Manchester, for instance, trading in soap, oil, tallow and mortar; most of the corporations that supply gas are prepared also to furnish stoves and all the necessary fittings; Sheffield undertakes plumbing work, as a side issue to furnishing water; Liverpool has a municipal tailoring establishment, where the uniforms of the town officials and employes are made; Batters ea cuts all tho timber required for municipal buildings and street paving in its own sawmill; Cardiff does the same; Man chester manufactures for Itself all the wagona, brooms and brushes needed by tho local street cleaning department; the "Westminster City Council at the time of the coronation set up as seat speculators, and got most handsomely "left"; a good many local authorities provide hands In the parks, organ recitals, and free mu nicipal concerts; Nottingham runs both a university college and an aviary; the Lon don County Council makes a free distribu tion of plants at the end of each Summer season: Glasgow, Liverpool and Liecester provide window-boxes filled with flowers for cottages In the poor and crowded dls tricts; Blackpool, a seaside resort, spends thousands of pounds a year on advertising Its charms and subscribes considerable sums to the local "attractions": Harrow- gate goes one better by offering visitors municipal displays of fireworks; at least a score of local authorities own golf links and cycle tracks, and. on a somewhat higher plane, schemes are constantly be ing put forward for municipal Insurances offices, municipal banking, and municipal ownership of coal mines and canals. Side by side and Intimately connected with all this are to be noted a prodigious expansion of municipal indebtedness it now Btands at well over JLEOO.000,000 ana an increase In local rates almost as great The way In which local authorities plunder manufacturers. Industrial companies,- well-to-do traders and property- owners that some fresh municipal enter prise may be undertaken is almost Incred ible. Tho question of local rates is be coming as formidable to British Industry as the question of trade unionism. More over, it is a fact that the "new munlcl pallsm" is the direct outcome of tho con certed movement which English trade unionists, socialists and labor men have organized for the capture of the local au thorities. They have pushed forward this movement with an electioneering skill worthy of an American campaign man ager. One result of their Irruption Into City Cpunclls is that the best type of men are ceasing to Interest themselves in local affairs; another is that while the range of municipal activity is constantly widen ing, its efficiency is as steadily deterior ating. At the samo time a bureaucracy of municipal office-holders is being solid ly formed, and even the municipal em ployes are now a sort ef trade union on their own account. Add to this the un fairness of a local authority competing with and finally crushing private traders and professional men, add the paralyzing effect on invention and initiative, add further the recklessness with which wild cat schemes are plunged into and the ex travagant Inefficiency with which they are usually prosecuted, add finally the sus picion that a municipal balance sheet needs as close a scrutiny as a prospectus from Mr. "Whltaker Wright's pen, and you will understand why Englishmen envy America her 100 years backwardness. London. April 4, 1903. as science has gradually built a bridge- between animal life and plant life, so It appears possible now to find a bridge be tween the lower phases of plant life and the so-called inorganic or dead world. The "Life" of Metals. To the layman tho fact that metals can be treated Indefinitely by heat without destruction seems naturally to prove that they can possess the attribute which is called "life." But the whole course of plant Hfo depends on temperature and Its changes, and temperature affects all an! mals, Including man, even producing 111 ness and death when the changes aro sud den. In other words, as gradual and normal changes of temperature affect animal and plant life normally, so they do metals and abrupt and abnormal changes of tern perature change the structural form of each. The phrase "unchangeable as steel" is decidedly incorrect Steel in its making has to undergo all the changes that the animal body undergoes in the course of growth. It is a combination -of iron and carbon, and carbon is organic. The Ger man metallurgists have come to speak as a matter of course of the "life" that unfolds Itself In steel under the various temperatures that aro applied to It In working it During tho course of its changes, it often develops qualities that make it use less for Industrial purposes while they last Thus at one step it becomes brittle a. temporary diseased condition that yields to what might almost be called the medical treatment of heat properly grad uated. Poison this steel with hydrogen or hy drogenous matter and you sicken It so decidedly that It gets Into a condition where it is as brittle as If It had been ruined In tempering. Professor Heyn has been studying tho changes in Iron under all grades of tem perature, and he holds that the metal passes through various stages of disease that produce structural changes just as cells change In form, size and .position in tho forms commonly called "organic" He heated copper in order to find why that metal suffers from overheating, and his conclusion is that it becomes poisoned with copper protoxide, which so sickens it that its structure changes and partially DreaKs aown. FOR THE 1905 FAIR. Proposal to Get Loan of Queen Vic toria.' Jubilee Presents. PORTLAND, May L (To the Editor.) As a British-born subject 15 years real dent in the West I should like to sug- gest to those living In Oregon who were born in the realms of the late Queen that wo might unite In a petition to his present Majesty (whose regard for tho United States is welL. known) to permit his late mothers jubilee presents to loaned frcm St Louis" to bur Exposition in 1905. I am aware -of -tho difficulties In the way, such as insuring their safety in the Interval, etc, but if arranged, what a help It would be to an enterprise so dear to our adopted state, and we could only get a courteous refusal, at the most It seems to mer this would be the best way to strengthen any application for such exhibit which, if obtained, would be of immense interest to thousands of those born "across tho pond" and visi tors generally. Anyhow, I throw out the idea for tho consideration of the British organizations and the directors of the Lewis and Clark Fair. JAMES HEATLEY. Americas Capital for JLoBdoa Tifbca. NBVT YORK, May 2. Several of the most Important banks and trust compa nies In the United States have joined a syndicate to underwrite an Issue of $15, 000,000 5 per cent ten-year notes of the Underground Electric Railway Company, of London. England, the company con trolled by the Terkes-Speyer syndicate. The syndicate has been organized by Bpeyer & Co., of this city, and the ojd Trust Company, of Boston. The entire loan will be $30,000,000. the other 515.000,000 being placed In London. The payments will bo distributed over a period of 12 months, so arranged as not to disturb tho money market In any way. EatarffeeBt &4 te4e.wime.t-t! ot tle- vroo txtt stead &re cured by Ortfoa Kiiar X, ANOTHER FINE OFFICE THE 'Of O RTH-WESTERN ' ' HAS NEW OFFICE ON' RAILROAD ROW. The Heavy aad Constantly Iacreas lag Traflo From This 'Field. Calls for Larger Quarters. Portland, as the greatest railroad ter minal center on tho Pacific Coast is re ceiving, the recognition of the passenger departments of all the leading trunk lines that have any direct connection with the leading roads that reach tidewater on the Pacific Coast The railroad offices of Portland today compare favorably in ap pearance with the offices of Denver and San Francisco. Ko better evidence of Portland's rapidly Increasing Importance in the railroad world Is found than Is af forded in the demand the business of the city is constantly making on the pass en ger and freight departments of all the railroads that have interests here, for larger and better equipped office quarters, Mr. H. L. Sisler, general agent of the North-Western Line," has just made the' announcement to tho friends and patrons of his road that his new office at 133 Third street will be formally opened for tho inspection of the public on Monday next Tho new location on Third street between Washington and Alder, is in the center of Railroad Row, and In the heart t it of the best business district of the city, The Individuality of the popular "North- Western Line" marks everything put out by this road, from the handsome menu on the dining car of tho famous "North Western Limited," to tho finished appear ance of their fast trains, made up as these trains are of the best-finished and best- appointed cars run over any road In the United States. The counter, partitions, all the woodwork, the furniture, and tho dec oratlve work on the wall3 of the new offices are all In tho rich "North-West ern" style. The growth of Portland's business during tho past two years has warranted the "North-Western" manage ment In authorizing heavy expense of ODenincr tho new Portland office. Tho company has every confidence in tho fu ture rapid growth of Portland's rail traffic Tho "North-Western" has tho shortest line between St Paul and Chicago. The distance between tho two points over this route is 400 miles. Tho shortest compet ing line covers a distance between St Paul and Chicago or 408 miles. Tne "North-Western Limited" operated over this route dally Is ono of the finest trains In the world. Over one-half tho entire a V it distance of this route the line Is double tracked. Tho entire distance of 400 miles over this route will be double-tracked in the immediate future. The striking headlines that havo mado the "North-Western" famous aro repro duced In tho decorations of the new Port land office. Among tho most noticeable of these lines Is the well-known "Tho Short Line. St Paul to Chicago," and "The Best of Everything." Mr. H. L. Sisler. the able general agent of the "North-Western" In Portland, suc ceeded the late W. H. Mead on July 1 last Mr. C. J. Gray, formerly with the C. St P.. M. & O, Co. at St Paul, 13 assistant to Mr. Sisler at the local head quarters. SUNDAY SCHOOL WEEK. Workers inr This Field to Hold Convention Xcxt Weelc Th Oreiron State Sunday School As sociation will hold Its annual conven tlon. beginning Sunday. May 10, and riosinir "Frldav evcnlnrr. May 15. A line programme has been prepared and sev eral very Important meeUngS' In addl Hnn tn tha convention have been ar ranged for. Sunday evening. May 10, a, mass, meet ing for all lovers of the Sunday school will be held In the First Presbyterian Church and addressed by Mr. w. C, Pearce. of Chicago. 111. On Tuesday. May 12. an all day conference of primary. Junior and Intermediate workers will be held In the First Baptist Church, led by Mrs. J. TVoodbrldge Barnes, of Newark, N. J. Also on Tuesday an all-day ministerial conference will be held lu the parlors of the First Presbyterian Church. All pastors of evangelical churches In Ore gon are Invited to this conference, and many havo signified their intention to be cresent. Tuesday evening tho Multnomah County Sunday School Association will tender a reception to their guests and all dele- gates to the convention In the parlors of tho First Presbyterian Church. On "Wednesday May 13, an all-day Field Workers' conference will be held In Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, and this will Include all state and county assoclaUon officers. All Sunday school superintendents are Invited to this con ference. Mr. Pearce will preside and be assisted by Mrs. Barnes and Mr. Charles R. Fisher, of California. "Wednesday evening the convention proper will open at the First Christian Church and conUnue throughout Thurs day and Friday. Mr. Pearce comes from Chicago, Is one of the vice-presidents and also one of the central committee of the Field "Work ers' department of the International Sun day School Association, and has been leader In Sunday school work In Illinois. Mrs. J. "Woodbrldge Barnes comes from Newark, N. J., and Is secretary of the primary and Junior department of the International Sunday School Association. She Is the peer of any worker In this lino In America. Mr. Charles R. Fisher comes from Oakland, Cal., and Is the general secre tary of the California Sunday School As sociation. He Is a new man In the Sun day school work on the Pacific Coast. Other out-of-town speakers who will take part In "the convention are President H. E. McGraw, of Pacific College: PresI dent J. H. Coleman, of "Willamette Unl verslty, and Mrs. S. A. Lowell, ' of Pen dleton, or. ORGANIZED LABOR. From Independence' to Dependence, Happiness to Unhappiness. PORTLAND. April 30.-To the Editor.) Such are tho conditions of respectable me chanics before and after the present la bor troubles. I say respectable mechan ics, as they are the only ones deserving sympathy, and are the only ones that suf fer under the present condition of the la bor disputes. The chief aim of most peo pie Is to accumulate wealth. "We cannot all be rich, and when wealth la obtained, what good does It do? Money Is of use only for the good that can. be obtained by the spending of It Judiciously, but many capitalists employ their money In invest ments for the accumulation of additional wealth, and In their wills endeavor to con trol It after death. I did not start this communication to abuse the capitalist, for a man can be rich and yet do seme good in this world, as many do. If I were rich I might have the same Inclinations that seem to guide the average capitalist. Most good mechanics, before they were ordered out by the Irresponsible element In the unions, were receiving. Xalr wages and were, with their families, Independent and happy. Are they In that condition now? I believe that more real happiness ex ists In the homes of good mechanics .than. does In the homes of millionaires. Did any strike improve the condition of the mechanic? In fact, his condition has deteriorated, independent of the great loss of wages during any strike, causing his family much suffering. Before the days of unions the mechanic' had sorae thing to, look, forward, to ;by being skill ful and Industrious: but now all ambition Is burled and his industry and skill do sc5sSs)sS)3 cossgc5 in GREAT Prices that should enthuse . . n t Tirana clearance sale or snort iois ana uiscunuuueu mics ui uuys uu yuums clothing. All the newest and best-Spring goods at REMOVAL SALE PRICES. DRESS GOODS 38-INCH SCOTCH CHEVIOTS, all-wool, large assortment of colorings, nobby, serv iceable goods, sale price to 42-INCH IMPORTED ET AMINE in colors black and bright navy blue, worth $1 77 yd., sale price . V 44-INCH ALL-WOOL FRENCH BEIGE, as sorted shades of gray, good values for fifir $1 yard, sale price VILJ- SILKS 21-INCH BLACK PEAU DE SOIE SILK, fine firm quality our regular $1.25 quality, G&r . sale price .CJiJt- GUARANTEED TAFFETA, black and colors, 21 inches wide, extra bright finish, cheap J8r at 85c yd., sale price vfU WAISTS WHITE LAWN SHIRTWAISTS, trimmed with six rows of .embroidery insertion, ! . tuckQd back and front, sale price ... P 1 WHITE OXFORD SHIRTWAISTS, full mercer ized finish, large pearl buttons, worth CI Off $180 each, sale price piAvJ TAFFETA SILK WAISTS, made with fine tucks, all sizes, colors blue, pink, navy, red CO QC and black, worth $4.50, sale price.. PC7U BLACK MERCERIZED SATEEN WAISTS, fine quality, made with small tucks front and Qfip back, good values for $1.50, sale price. PERCALE WAISTS, dark and light colors, made in latest styles, all desirable patterns, CQp worth 75c, sale price vJCC DOMESTICS Cream Shaker Flannel, sale price . 4c ldcPercaies, 31 inches wide, sale price... . ,73c 25c all-wool Baby Flannel, sale price ......... 19c 60c full size Bed Sheets, sale price 45c $1.25 Summer Comforters, sale price 98c 12c Fast Black Sateen, sale price 8ic 8c Cretonnes, dark styles, sale price 6$c 15c Percales, all new styles, sale price 12c Ladies' Silk Lisle Vests Ladies' fine Silk Lisle Vests, in white and all the best colors, silk lace trimmed, slight imper fection in the weave; well worth 50c in the regular way. Sale price 35c Infants' Rubens 25c "The Rubens" is the best vest made for infants, no buttons, no trouble; regular 35c Values; in all sizes. Sale 0f price ArO 50c Ladies Lace Hose 25c Ladies' fine lace lisle Hose, in black, tan and brown colors; 50c qualities. To close, sale price vJv. 20c Ladies' Hose 15c Ladies' black cotton Hose, seam less, full finished, with white foot; regular 20c value. j Sale price IJC Fifth and Yamhill Streets Temporary uiy not count, as careless, ana sniiuess. Incompetent workmen "get as much for labor as he can, ana lew people nave enough moral courage to do more than absolutely necessary. And the only ones that can be benefited, by most strikes, are tho incompetent and idle workmen, and most of the benefits recelvea by tnem simply Increase the earnings of some sa loon, to the detriment or tneir ramiues. If they have any. There Is nothing of a fraternal nature In union organizations; If there was, they should exist for tnat nuroose alono and not for the purpose of Inflicting punishment on their members and families and ruining business enter- nr!9 that have been able to be created by the most prosperous times that havo existed for years. Durine our late business depression we had no strikes, and the mechanic was obliged to work ror any wages ne couia obtain, and often could obtain no -work at any price. If, this strike continues long, the same depressed condlUon will return and starvation Tates wlli again be paid. A great many mechanics aro forced to be long to a Union, or cannot get work. Durine the tie-up last Hummer many first-class mechanics left Portland In or der to obtain work and rid themselves of the burdens of tho unions, whose objects seem to be to pull down Instead of ele vate., L e, pull down tho skilled mechanic to the level of an ordinary one ana not to endeavor to elevatp the latter class to the grade of tho former class. Such a condition cannot live long, as skill, in dustry and amblUon must be recognized, but It may be after a struggle that win bemean all classes of labor ana cripple beyond resumption an industrial enter prises and cause all' Interested to gravitate from Independence to dependence and from happiness to unhapplness. MODERATION. Plaater Murdered by Xegrroes. VTCKSBURG. JIIss, May 2. William Long, a prominent planter living at Ad ams Landing, on the (Mississippi River., attracted to a burning house on his plan tation last night, was set upon by negroes and killed. Posses are scouring the coun try for three negroes suspected of the murder. A wholesale lynching Is -prob able If they are caught. Actor MacDoweU Was la Jail. TOLEDO, O., May 2. Actor Melboura MacDdw.eU and his manager, Francis Courtney, spent last night in tho county jail In default of $1500 ball each, on a charge of fraud, preferred by Thomas Hart, former manager of MacDoweU. 'Hart recently brought suit against the two pris oners to recover several .hundred dollars -alleged to be due as royalty an Sardon Forced Extension Big Removal Sale BARGAIN LIST every cautious, careful housewife into buying NOW. 1 -. J; J. li-.- t 1 J ...U' DRESS SKIRTS BLACK CHEVIOT SKIRTS, alfrwool, lined with fiL percaline, velvet facing, flared effect, CO OO 1 regular. $4.50 kind for pJJQ X BLACK CHEVIOT SKIRTS, trimmed with X straps, of taffeta silk, nicely bound Cf Off f arid Jined, worth $5.50, sale price J. . Pur'J fO WALKING SKIRTS,- made of medium weight (S) Melton cloth in Oxford and blue- CO Tff at gray, worth $3.50, sale price pAi kJ Lfr WALKING SKIRTS, made of all-wool cloth, medi- J um weight, dark, medium and ljght C4 ff A Bfa gray cqlors,"worth $5.75, sale price. P,JU ) LINENS & 60-inch Bleached Table Damask, all linen, ff f 65c quality for vJ4 fjL 58-inch extra heavy quality German Linen, QCfcr 50c quality for JJ 6 68-inch Bleached Damask, fine grade, fl&f fit worth $1.00 a yard for r .60-inch Table Linen, serviceable quality, OOr X sale price ....... 72-inch extra fine grade Bleached Damask, Qp jjfr sale price ' " 56-inch Turkey Red Damask, fast color, 1Cr 6 25c value for: : J 60-inch Oil Red Damask, satin finish, sale 'AEc price.. ....... "vJ- W TOWELS q Bleached Barber Towels, 50c dozen, or, ff ) each Bleached Crash Towels, size 18x36 inches, 95c dozen, or, each fifa Huck Towels, part linen,, size 17x3Hnches, Q, $1 dozen, or, each .- fy Huck Towels, mostly linen, size 18x34 Si inches, $1.25 dozen, or, each I I v. Huck Towels, mostly linen, size 21x39 ilr Jt inches, $1.50 dozen, or, each 1 Damask Towels, all-linen, large size, knot- OOf St ted fringe, each Ml SHOE DEPT. $2.50 Radcliff e Oxfords $1 .98 Women's patent leather and XX vici kid "52.50 Kadchffe Ox ford Ties,' English welt soles, medium weight, kid and patent tips. Special for Monday and Tuesday's Removal $2.00 Girls' Shoes $1.60 Girls' heavy, school, kid lace Shoes, medium weight, heavy soles, broad coin toes, patent tips; regular prices $2.00; sizes 11 1-2 to 2. Re- -t ftf moval price P Girls', of same quali- flr-fl ( ty, sizes 8 to 1 1 . . . P vlU $2.00 Boys' Shoes $1.60 Boys' box-calf, lace Shoe, solid leather soles, made for school wear, sizes 3 to 5K; regular $2 values. Removal tf:-f C( price v Boys', same quality, C1 Rf 12 to 2. 4) I OH PORTLAND'S FASTEST-GROWING uuuu3) uciils rurnisninys ana dramas, which MacDoweU and Miss Flor ence Stone have been, playing with the Empire Theater Stock Company here. The arrest was made because the plalni tiff, declared the defendants were about to leave the city to avoid the suit. Hurtlg and Seamon, owners of the Empire The ater, and Miss Stone are made party de fendants. Horrard ItefBsed Jfew Trial. FRANKFORT, Ky May 2. The attor neys for James Howard filed today three sensational affidavits In support of V their motion, giving their reasons for asking for a fourth trial. The affidavits are made by "W. L. Gradly, A. J. Woftord and H F. Johnson and charge that, prior to the trial, they heard both Jurors Renshaw and Neal say tha they were' convinced Howard was guilty and, that If summoned and accepted, as Jurors, they. would vote to hang Him. The jurors' In - Question, when examined, for qualification as jurors, both stated that they had neither formed nor expressed an opinion. The prosecution wUl later make answer to the motion. , The motion for a new trial was over ruled. t . Italian Laborers Enslaved. WASHINGTON, May 2. Nine Italian laborers who have' been working In. the vicinity of Beckley, W. Va., have, com plained at the Italla'n Embassy here of cruelty and hardships which they claim? to have endured in West Virginia. They I assert that on their arrival in New York they entered Into negotiations tor work for C. P. Harmon, contracting agent for the Chesapeake & Ohio. Railway In West Virginia, but on arriving at their destlna-. tlon tfcey were compelled to engage in dangerous and hazardous labor. Four of their party, which they say i tftoxale IasrcsPare,ShVWkiteSkLi tBda&astlfuCeBsiexiM, ' earn Xesema aad Tetter. Ab lolutsly and Peraaaeauj rexaorea Blackkeadc, J"r6 IcImPIbbIm. Kdce. Sa pots and Taa. Uied witi rmaoraI 8c9 ft Pwr , Sect ikla ia iarored. HTujMff ltifmiL. 1 yer boi tie, express pa4& Keraam-XejiOe gap, ttC eestts, by aaaO. )Ptrirmitsam& TJiiniaIs sent on. rtfitest. Ov Bottle FREE to Agwrts,; Laces New Applique Lace, in wave,, medallion and scroll effects all that is newest and best. 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