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15 ARE YOU HUNGRY FOR MUSIC? THE SUNDAY OREGOKIAN, PQ&TIjA3j5, JANTJABY 29 ISpff. Do you care for music? Ever findthe days long and the evenings dull in your home? You have food enough f6r your stomach have you any for your head and heart? k"W"hen 'ou pass a house where music and voices float out to your ear, don't you always feel that here may be a happier home than yours? .DO YOU WANT A PIANO? If we can put one into your home with hardly any increase whatever to ypur expenses and your worries if we can make you happy with music and not- make you unhappy with expense will you consider this? , You cannot get something for nothing; that goes without saying, but you can get the greatest value for your money. You can be a shrewd and careful buyer with the money you have, to spend. The argument we give below is principally directed toward the women because the piano is for their home, and the home be longs to them. . . But if you ladies would rather not trust to your own judgment, ask your husband, or brothers, or father, and if they can see any flaw in our plan, then take their word for it. not ours, and don't come. Eilers Piano House Organizes Six Co-Operative Piano - Buying Clubs WHAT ARE THESE PIANO CLUBS? We will form six co-operative piano-buying clubs of altogether iooo members (each abso lutely limited to the number named). Each club will represent a certain grade of piano, and each grade will call for a certain deposit down and a certain payment per week or month. We will have practically every worthv make and grade of piano in the market in this club sate. Clubs will be desgnated Club WA?' "B," "C," "D," "E" and Club "F." Club "A" pianos sell regularly for from $200 to $300. Membership in this club is limited to 157, and those joining can secure their pianos for from $117 to 222. The deposit is $5 down and $r.25 per week. , Club "B" embraces the regular 275 and $375 styles. Initial payments $7.50 cash and $1.60 weekly. Prices to club members $186 to $278. There will be 232 members in this club. Club "C," membership 208. Among the most costly pianos to be found at Eilers Piano House. They are regular $350 to $450 styles. Payments $12.50 down and $2 per week secures Club C"pianos ana prices range fro 247 to $336. Club "D" contains the very highest grade American upright pianos in choicest and rarest woods elaborately hand carved and superbly finished, ranging in prices from $425 to $550, re tail. 154 members in this. club secure them at prices langing from S312 up; initial payment of $20 to $25, and $2.50 weekly. Club "E" has the costliest grands and uprights in special styles, all of them regularly priced at over $550. There will be 141 members only in Club E, who will effect an average saving of $147 on each piano. Payments are $25 to $50 cash, and S3 to $5 weekly. In Club "F" will be found numerous odd pianos, manufacturers' samples, discontinued cat alogue styles of Chickering, Weber, also instruments of many different makes taken in ex change for new Chickcrings or Webers or Kim balls and for Pianola Pianos. Not one of Club . F pianos, however, shows an3r sign of usage. There will be 108 members only. Payments are Sio down and S1.75 weekly. Members of any club may arrange payments by the month. Remember there are no ex tras, no red tape, no waiting and our absolute guarantee of money back if not satisfactory. One of the Clab C PUibos at a aviK of 9103; psyncats $12-50 cash aad 93 a ireelc One of the Clab B Plaaoa at a savins? of 997; pajnuesU oaly $1.60 vrcekly or $6.40 a month. 1000 PIANOS FROM FACTORIES TO FAMILIES Do you know what you could do if you could order iooo pianos at once direct from the fac tories? Do you know that there are very few dealers in the United States that sell that many in one year? Wc propose to handle these one thousand pianos in just a few days. If you will stop to think a minute you will see that this is not idle talk, but simply a practical business proposition, carefully figured out. Is it not the same for iooo people to order a piano each at the same time, as for one person to order iooo pianos at once? But it is also in the shipping and handling of these pianos that wonderful savings are possible by means of these Piano Clubs. They Mean a Couple of Train-Loads of Pianos Direct From the Factories Into Your Homes. Arrangements have been made with all of our Eastern factories for virtually two train loads of pianos. If you are in no hurry for your piano, it will be sent, as we say, straight from the factor)' to your home. But if you want it immediately, we will allow you "to pick it from our present stock and we will deliver it at once. The point is that almost the entire retailer's selling expense and profit is eliminated, for wc can hereby sell iooo pianos for the same prices or even less than we could sell them to regu lar piano dealers. You Save at Least 25 Per Cent, or $759 on a $300 Piano, and Correspondingly More on Costlier Ones We have numerous samples of every piano wc are going to sell right here m stock, so do not wait, but call now and see what a truly wonderful offer this is. If you do not wish a piano right now, you can join a club by paying a small deposit and take your piano whenever you get readj- for it. Only we cannot sell them ati these prices when the clubs are closed. If you live in the country, write for our catalogue immediately and get our lists of makes and prices. If you are here in Multnomah County let us ask you to come in tomorrow, for we want Monday to be the biggest and busiest piano day that Portland has ever seen. For the first five people in this city who join Monday morning, and the first three people in each county to join one of our clubs, we will put any piano they may choose free of deposit in their homes. We want samples of these club pianos placed everywhere immediately. Cut This Out and Mai! or Bring to Us. It Costs You Nothing. EILERS PIANO HOUSE, 351 Washington St., Portland, Or. Please reserve me one Piano Club membership; I prefer a Club '. piano; said membership to guarantee me at least a. $75 reduction on any piano I may choose, and to cost me nothing until said piano be selected by me. Name. . . NOTE. Membership without deposits will be held two weeks. Address. Some of the Famous Makes That Will Be Offered on This Sale Will Be The peerless Chickering 'of Bocton and its two sister celebri ties, the Weber of New York and the Kimball of Chicago. The famous Hobart M. Cable, the elegant Hazelton, and the Lester, the pride of Philadelphia. The wonderful Crown Orchestral, the piano of many tones. The lovely Haddorff. The high-grade and now so popular Story & Clark. The widely-known and sweet-toned Schumann. The Weser, Marshall & Wendell, Foster & Co., Clarendon, Bailey, Baus, also Starr, Ludwig, Kingsbury, Smith & Barnes, Steinway, etc., etc Cut This Out and Mail to Us. It Costs You Nothing. EILERS PIANO HOUSE, N 35 1 Washington St., Portland, Or. Please send catalogues and all information about the new piano clubs. Name Address. EILERS PIANO HOUSE, 351 WASHINGTON STREET, CORNER PARK, PORTLAND, OR. Peck's Bad Boy in Foreign Lands Dad Plays He Is an Anarchist in Geneva In Venice They Give Alms. By Hon. Georse XV. Peck. ex-Governor of XVlReoiuln, formerly publisher of Peric's Sun. author of "Peck's Bad Bor." etc Copyright. 1&05, by Joseph B. Bowles.) VENICE, Italy. My rcar Old Chum Ireno: Dad couldn't get out of Switzerland quick enough aftor he tot thawed out the day after ice climbed the glaziers. We found that almost all the tourists In Geneva were there because they did not want to go home and say they had not visited Switzerland, so they Just Jumped from one place to another. The people who stay there any length of time are like the foreign residents of Mexico, who are wanted for something they have done at home that is against the law. There are more anarchists in Geneva than anything else, and they look hairy and wild eyed, and they plot to kill Kings and drink beer out of two-quart Jars. XVhen wc found that more attenUon was paid to men suspected of crime In tholr own countries, and men who were believed to be plotting to assassinate King, .dad said it would be a good joke if a story should get out that he was sus pected of being connected with a syndi cate that wanted to assassinate some on., so 1 told a fellow that I got acquainted with that the fussy old man that tried to ride a glazier without any saddle or stirrup was wanted for attempting to blow up the President of the United States by selling him baled hay soaked In a solution of dynamite and nltro-glycer-lne. Say, they will believe anything in Swit zerland. It wasn't two hours before long haired poople were inviting dad to din ners, and the same night ho was taken to a den where a lot of anarchists were reveling, and dad reveled till almost morning. XVhen he came back to tho hotel he said his hosts got all the money ho had with him. through some game he didn't understand, but he understood It was to go into a fund to support de serving anarchists and dynamiters. He said when they found out he was a sus pected assassin, nothing was too good for htm. He raid they wanted to know how he expected to kill a President by soaking baled hay In explosives, and dad said it came to him suddenly to tell them that the President rode on horseback a good deal, and he thought If a horse was filled with baled hay and nUro-glycerine and the President spurred the horse and the horse jumped in ihe air and came down kerchunk on an asphalt pavement, the horse would explode and when the rider came down covered with sausage covers and horse meat, he would be dead, or would want to be. Dad said the anarch ists went into executive session and took up a collection to send a man lo Berlin to fill the Emperor's saddle horses with cut feed like dad suggested. Well, the anarchist story was too much for Switzerland, and the next morning dad was told by a policeman that h had to get out of the country quick, and It didn't take us 15 minutes to pack up, and here wc arc In Venice. Well, say, old friend, this is the place where you ought to be, because nobody works here, that Is, nobody but gondo liers. We have been here several days. and I have not seen a soul doing any thing except begging, or selling things that nobody seems to want. If anybuuy buys anything but onions, it is for cu riosity, or for souvenirs, and yet the whole population sits around in the sun and watches the strangers from other lands price things and go away without buying, and then everybody looks mad. as though they would like to jab & knife into the stranger. The plazas and the places near the canal are filled with huck sters and beggars, and you never saw beggars so mutilated and sore and dis gusting. I never supposed human beings could be so deformed without taking an ax to them, and it Is so pitiful to see them that you can't help shedding: your money. As hard hearted as dad is, he coughed up over $40 the first day. Just giving to beggars, and he thought he had got them all bought up, and that they would let him alone, but the next day, when ho showed up, there wre ten beggars where there was one the day before, and they followed him everywhere, and all the loaf ers In the plazas laughed and acted as If they would catch the cripples when dad got out of sight and rob the beggars. Dad thinks the way the people live is by dividing with beggars. A man who has a deformity, or a sore that you can see half a block away, seems to be considered rich here, like a man Jn America who owns stock in great corporations. These beggars pay more taxes than the Dukes and things who live in style. I suppose dad never studied geography, so he didn't know now Venice was sit uated, so he told me to go out and order a hack the first morning we were here, and we would go and sec the town. When I told dad there were no hacks, no horses and no roads in Venice, he said I was crazy In my head, and wanted me to take some medldne and stay In bed ior a tew days, out x convinced him, when wc got outdoors, that everything run by water, and when I showed him the canal and the gondolas, he remem bered all about Venice, and picked out a gondolier that looked like one dad saw at the World's Fair, and we hired him because he talked English. All the Eng lish the gondolier could use were the words, "you bet your life." and "you're damn right," but dad took him because it seemed so homelike, and we have been riding In gondolas every day. On the water you can get awav from the beggars. This is an Ideal existence. Tou just get In the gondola, under a canopy, and the gondolier does the- work, and you glide along between buildings and wonder who lives there, and when they wake up, as all day long the blinds are dosed, and everybody seems to be dead. But at night, when the canals are lighted, and the moon shines, the people put on their dress clothes and sit on verandas, or eat and drink, and talk Eyetallan. and ride in gondolas, and play guitars, aad smoke cigarettes, and talk love. It is so warm you can wear your Summer pants, and the water smells of clams that died long ago. It Is Just as though Chicago were flooded by the bursting of the sewers, and people had to go around State street, and all the cross-streets, and Michigan avenue, in fishing boats, with three feet of water on top of. the pavements. Imagine the people of 'Chicago taking gondolas and ridlnc nlontr th KfreAts. lanillnir at- 1 the stores and hotels, just as they do now J from carriages. J Wc had been riding In gondolas for : two days, getting around in the mud J when the tide was out. and going to ' sleen and waitlnsr for th tMp in nnmn in. when it seemed to me that dad needed some excitement, and last night I gave It to him. We were out In our gondolas, and the moon was shining, and the electric lights raaue the canal near the RIalto bridge as light as day. The Rialto bridge crosses the Grand canal, and has been the meeting place for lovers for thou sands of years. It is a grand structure, of carved marble, but It wouldn't hold up a threshing machine engine Ijalf as well as an Iron bridge. Well, the canal was filled with thousands of gondolas, loaded with the flower of Venetian society, and the music just maae you want to fall In love. Dad said If he didn't fall In love, or something, before morning, he would quit the place. I made up my mind he should fall Into something, so I began by telling dad it seemed strange to me that nobody but Eyetallans could run a gondola. Dad said he could run a gon dola as well as any foreigner, and I told him he couldn't run a gondola for shucks, and he said he would show me. so he got out of the henhouse where we were seated, and went back on to the pointed end of the gondola, and grabbed the pole or paddle from the gondolier, and said: "Now, Garibaldi, you go inside the pup tent with Hennery, and let me punt this ark around awhile." Garibaldi thought dad was crazy, but he gave up the pole, and Just then, when they were both on the extreme point of the gondola, and she was wabbling some. I peeked out through the curtains and thought the fruit was about ripe enough to pick, so I throw myself over to one side of the gondola, and, by gosh. If dad and Garibaldi didn't both go overboard with a splash, and one yell in the Eng lish language, and one in Eyetallan. and 1 rushed out of the cabin and such a sight you never saw. Dad retained the paddle, and had his head out of water, but nothing- showed above the water where Garibaldi was except a red patch on -his black pants. Dad was yelling for help, and finally the gondolier got his head, out of the water, and said something that sound ed like grinding a butcher knife on a grindstone, and I yelled, too. and the gondolas began to gather around us. and the two men were rescued. The gondolier had been gondollng all his life and he had never been In the water be fore, and they thought It would strike in and kill him. so they wrapped him up In blankets and put him aboard bis canoe, and ho looked at me as though I was to blame. They got a boat hook fastened In dad's pants and landed him In the gondola, and he dripped all the" way to our hotel, and he smelled like a fish market. I asked Garibaldi, on tho way to the hotel, if he was counting his beads when he was down under the water with noth ing but his pants out of the water, and he said: "You're dam right." but I don't think ho knew the meaning of the words, because he probably wouldn't swear In the presence of death. -Dad just sat and shivered all the way to the hotel, but when we got to our room I asked, him what his idea was in" jumping overboard right there before folks, with his best clothes on, and he said it was all Gari baldi's fault, that just as dad was get ting a good grip on the paddle, the gondolier heaved a long sigh, and the onions in his breath paralyzed dad so be fell overboard. "Then you don't blame your little boy, do you?" says I, and dad looked at me as he was hanging his? wet shirt on a chair. "Course not; you were asleep In the cabin. But say, it I ever hear that you did tip that gondola, it will go hard with you," but I Just looked Innocent, and dad went on drying his shirt by a charcoal brazier and never suspected me. But I am getting the worst of It, for dad and his clothes smell so much like a clam bake that It makes me sick. Well, old friend, you ought" to close up your grocery and come over here and go to Vesuvius and Pompeii with us, where we can dry our clothes by the vol cano, and dig In the city that was buried In hot ashes 2000 years ago. They say you can dig up mummies there that are dead ringers for you, old man. Oh, come on, and have fun with us. Your friend, HENNERY. HELL. The Useful Old One as Distinguished From the Ney, A Methodist Preacher In the Christian City. Hell has lost Its powers as a deterrent from evlL When men were born In fear, lived in dread and looked on death In horrorr hell was a philosophical, rational and useful basis of restraint. Do not mis understand me as suggesting that hell has died out. The place of Its burning has moved. it was made the terminus of sin, and of it men were afraid. That was rational and right. Wc must teach men to dread the fires sin lights vl thin. That Is more rational and awful than any fires that can burn without. Sin puts hell Into men. not men Into hell. The hell of medieval days and more modem times, as far as any practical helping toward righteousness is con cerned, has gone out But a more fearful hell Is burning. Only few have eyes to see It. The speculative hell Is subject for jokes of comic papers. Tljank God. tho hell of fact Is not yet a Joke with men. He who knows anything of sin knows that sin and hell are nynorayms. The church has lost tho assistance of the strong right arm of moral law. because she pushed into the speculative realm a question that belongs to present fact Hell Is a present fact to those who know the kind of flame that bums In every moral world. NO DEPUTY FOR MANNING DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND LAW MAKERS CANNOT AGREE. Both He and Multnomah Legislators Demand the Naming of the New Man. Unless John Manning' comes down off the perch he will probably not get an other deputy at the state's expense. Mr. Manning1 insists that he name the deputy himself, but the Multnomah legislators, who have the power to fcrant or refuse the extra office, are not willing that he should have that priv ilege. They wish to name the deputy in the legislative bill creating: the office, but Manning holds over them the veto club of the Governor, saying that he will choose the deputy himself. They :o spond by telling him he can then keep on paying the third deputy out of his own pockot Consequently, nothing may come of all the tugging- and pulling and things are likely to be left just as they are. Manning convinced the delegation that he ought to be allowed a third deputy by the state, but not that ho should make the upointment. When the legislators said they did not want any more Democrats In the District Attorney's office, he pointed to Gu? Moser. whom he regarded as a good Republican, who Is already In hla otflce. But Moser trained with the Simon fa", tlon In the last primaries, and with Manning's Democratic clement in th election: therefore, he did not 'lcoV good" to the legislators. Manning is ambulating busily amour the lawmakers and telling them Moser is a good Republican, but they refuse to be convinced. Rattler in Captivity. Pearson's. Of all the snakes, the rattler Is by far the .most intelligent, wherefor he suffers most in captivity. At a zoological exhibit he is housed in a large glass-fronted cage where day and night he lies on the arti ficially warmed sand, so cruelly different from the sun-bathed desert with its thick ets of Spanish bayonet and groves of dwarf palmetto. And as different as arc the wild and the -captive surroundings of the snake, as different is the splendid ren tile himself when seen at large or when viewed in a cage. The very spirit of tho creature sems broken. He coils, he sounds his rattle and he strikes at whatever in trudes, but the vim and Are is extin guished with the artificial home. No longer can he capture his food, the insignificant rat. Once every few days a dead rat Is thrown to him, for. were tho rodent given but half a chance he would pounce on the neck of the enemy and bite his spine In two before the viper had time even to maneuver In his narrow con fines. Two, rarely more than three years, a rattlesnake survives captivity.- In his own grim way he actually pines away for his freedom- And a rattlesnake dies as he has lived, alone, without sign of weak ness, without even a struggle. To tha farthest comer of a cage ho draws him self, colls his mighty body, turns his wicked head to the wall and rests his chin on his back. Once, toward the very last, he raises his tall and, quivering It. sends a last prolonged farewell. Then the tall sinks and the rattlesnake is dead a brave and honest snake and a little-understood and much misunderstood creature. Almost .Faultless Climate. Century. For the climate of the Everglades is almost faultless. It is singularly equable, showing no extremes of heat and cold, and not subject to sudden change. Even a "norther" coming out of the region of ice and wiow. Is soon softened to" milder, temperature; and the heat of the Summer is made genial, though the mercury may be well up In the 80s. by the ozonized air which Is everywhere In the Glades. The year Is divided into the dry and rainy seasons. The latter may be roughly spoken of as including June and Septem ber, although, well In the Glades, sudden light showers in limited areas are likely at any season, and in tho Autumn a high degree of humidity Is constant. A. life time might be spent In the region and no sign of malaria ever be discovered. Puro air. that moves in gentle breezes over a vast expanses of pure water. Is the perfect Assurance of health, as evinced in the fine physique, splendid coloring and ath letic vigor of the Seminole, who has a monopoly of as fine a climate as ther Is on earth. Gilmer Not Guilty of Wrong. WASHINGTON Jan. - Second Lieutenant David G. Gilmer, yf the Philippine Scouts, has been acquitted by court martial at Manila of the harges of embezzlement and wrong ful disposition of Government property.