32 THE SUNDAY? OEEGONIA27, POETIiAOT, MAECH. 5, . 1905. . Tales of the Street and Town IT is generally admitted to be good for the soul of man for him to consider his trays and repent him of his sins. To this end a religious revival, once or twice annually, or oftener, if necessary. Is thought to be of great efficacy. The enterprising young pastor of a local church has lately set on foot a plan for the spiritual regulation of mem bers of his nock and of as many outsid ers as possible. Its beauty is Its sim plicity. Every family whose head is a member of this pastor's church is expected to inaugurate . as much of a revival as possible, among Its own neigh bors. In this way nonchurchgoers will be Induced to so to church naturally to the family's church, and once inside that edifice the young pastor will put the lever of exhortation under their con sciences and lift tnem still more fully into spiritual grace. The success of the plan, of course, de pends largely upon the tact employed by each family. In the following story, told by a young lady of the East Side, it is clear that one family lacked both tact and good sense: ((IT 'most makes me mad," she said, I her yes snapping somewhat, "yet I want to giggle every time I think of It. Tou know the Blanks are pretty religious poo ple, but they are awfully nice" (this sounded so funny that we had to smile). "They live in the big house on the corner below us. Well, last night, while the Jones girls were over calling on us the 'phone rang and I answered it. " 'This is Sirs. Blank, said a lady' voice. 'We are having a little party over here this evening, and we want all the neighbors to come. It would be kj nice for us all to set acquainted, you know. Will you come over, with your mother? "I told her about the Jones girls, and she begged them to come too. We talked ft over a minute and we thought it would be real jolly to go. There arc a lot of nice young men in the neighbor hood whom we don't know and we thought it would be nice to meet them, as they would probably be invited aLo. 80 we said yes, and then all hurried to get into our best party dresses. Mrs. Blank and her daughters met us real cordially, -but it struck me there was a sort of solemn air about the place as though a funeral was on the programme. Well, we all sat down In the parlor and Mrs. Blank said we'd better begin with a song. 60 they all struck up 'Nearer My God to Thee. We sang too, and I began to think it really must be a funeral. "Then Mr. Blank said: ' 'We will now pray.' "Eo we all got down on our knees to the chairs, while Mr. Blank prayed a long, long prayer. Kate Jones nudged me and I thought I'd scream, but when Mr. B. finally got through, Mrs. Blank said: " 'Now, let us each and every one say something for the Xiord.' "She said something, then each of the daughters said something; and then Mrs. B. called on each of the others by name. Now, I don't think I am very irreligious, but I was beginning to got mad. There I knelt in my best party dress, and I couldn't help feeling that I had been what you call it? gold-bricked? So when Mrs. Blank called my name I made no reply. ' 'Miss Smith,' she said again. . "I kept still. " 'Why. Miss Smith,' said she, 'haven't you got Jesus in your heart? "That was too much, so I just said: " 'Excuse me, but I've got rheumatism In my knees!' " to come to a prayer meeting. He came, and, wonder of wonders, la the midst of things, when we all knelt down, John knelt, too. Everybody saw him. and the word went 'round for an outpouring of supplication on behalf of the pastor's son. Xadies prayed and deacons prayed, and finally the great evangelist took up "the subject with all the fervor and eloquence of which he was capable. "Suddenly John uttered a loud groan. The spirit is upon our brother at last,' shouted the evangelist, and 'Amen!' 'Amen!' shouted everybody. Members wept upon their knees and called aloud for the salvation of the sinner. But loud er than the preacher, louder than the aniens, and the groans of the congrega tion, groaned my brother. When at last the praying ceased and people rose from their knees, I saw John, with his faco white as a 'sheet, making for the door. "When we reached home, we found John at the cupboard still looking pale. Mother understood him pretty well, and she looked sharply at him as she asked: My son, why did you groan so? Has the Holy Spirit really touched you? ' "Mother.' replied that bad boy, 'Jack Smith and I raided Beacon Wilson's wa termelon patch just before prayer-meeting, and 2 guess you'd all have groaned worse than I did If you'd eaten as much melon as I did. Where Is the pain killer?" " -THAT story reminds me of some I thing that happened la my brother years ago," said one of the group that had listened to the young lady's story. "Our father was a minister, and John, my brother, was a bad boy a proverbial minister's son, though I do think that proverb holds good more often to its con trary. The older John grew the naughtier he became, and father often punished him for using bad words, or for chewing to bacco, or thingB like that. One Winter we had a big revival In our church. A revivalist came up from Boston, and he and father labored hard. Many were brought to grace, and a strong effort was centered on John. He had now grown to be a -young man. At last we Induced him ((I vHAVE always maintained that it's I usually a man's own fault if he gets held up," began the newspaper man. "You know a holdup man generally lurks along a dark walk and never pounces on anyone without first making sure that' no other pedestrians are in sight. Sydney Bell, the famous San Francisco highway man, who is just out of San Quentin after a long rest there from his labors in the Bay City, used to stand right under a gas light, where his victim could see his revolver in all its glory: but that method is risky. No one is in much danger close to a street light. He must look out in the darker places of the less traveled streets. When 1 see a man loitering ahead of me in such a place at night, I turn back or cross the street or turn into the next street. If I am walking behind two men and they pause a little and separate to let me pass between them I don't nass. In short T VrvAn a sharp lookout, and try to be sharp enough not to give a tnug a chance at me. I had an experience the other night which has puzzled me ever since. "YOU know. I ro home hnftrn SI an 1 o'clock at night a favorite hour for thugs and I usually walk. My route is a long one; through rather lonely streets. As I approached the south end of the nureet Dnoge on tno mgnt i mentioned. I dlmlv m&de out the finirn nf a man waiting, close to a telegraph pole. He was aDout a block away. I prompt ly turned off and crossed to the other side. You can Imacln mv nnnnv. ance when I struck the bridge to see the man crossing over Just altcad of me. shaping his course to exactly intercept me. He was a rough-looking chap. Well, in pursuance to my ideas, I didn't let him intercept me I stopped. He paused on the sidewalk just ahead of me and wait ed. The light shone pretty well there, so I ran a little bluff. "I unbuttoned my coat and ostenta tiously thrust my right hand into ray hip-pocket and slowly walked toward him. He didn't budge, but he kept one hand in his coat pocket. When within about 12 feet from him I stopped again. Then he spoke. " 'What time is it?' says he. " 'See here, partner,' says I, 'I'm on to you. You move on now, or I'll make it quitting time for you. " 'Why.' says he. with a laugh; 'don't be scared of me I won't hurt you Just wanted to know the time.' '"Very good,' says I. Then take your hand out of your pocket and I'll tell you the time.' "He laughed again, and complied. I took out my watcft with my left hand and gave him the hour. He thanked me. remarked that it was a pleasant evening-, and turned invitingly, as if expecting me to walk along with him. But I kept my hand in my pocket and didn't move. He laughed again, and walked on. I followed, and he turned down the next corner. Now, of course, he might have been all right, and then, again, as the old farmer, said, he mightn't Anyway. 1'vo bought a gun, for the next man may cnoose to cali my bluff." LUTE PEASE. An Object-Lesson of "The Simple Life" EX-GOVERNOR. CEER TAKES AX OREGOX PIONEER VS A TEXT FOR A IAV SERMON. ON January 26, about the middle of the recent Legislative session, while Senators and Representatives, and even disinterested, though patriotic lob byists, were striving for and against the Jayne bill. Cascade and Hot Lake Coun ties, a constitutional convention, side en trances to saloons and a score of other measures that set men against each other in accusations of dishonesty and other forms of bad faith, the Oregonlan printed an editorial under the caption of "In Retrospect." the first paragraph of which was as follows: Sixty-four years married: eight living chil dren. 38 grandchildren. 42 Broat-srandchll-dren. This li the Ufa record In outline at 6 and 84 yeara of age. ol William Boylea and his wife, of "Medical Springs, Or. There are perhaps few In these days who would care to emulate the career of this aged couple, since, it would involve too much self racrlflee and too great persistence In com monplace endeavor. Perhaps they them selves would not care to take up the duties of life where they assumed them 64 years ago. and discharge them as they came along In the unvarying monotony of toll Incident to the bringing up of a large family. For some days I had been an Interested spectator of the daily sessions of the Legislature, not especially different from its predecessors, witnessing neighbors from distant counties In all the exciting throes of discordant representations of conditions at home, that votes might be secured for or against different meas ures, bad feeling engendered and in many cases the special field of Ananias danger ously Invaded, the proper devotion to the requirements of Morpheus persistently neglected and "House bill 101" in decidedly too frequent requisition all presenting a scene wejl calculated to recall the query in Daniel Webster's celebrated reply to Hayne, "What Is all this worth?" The Simple Life. And the contrast with the feverish ex citement and uncertain results attending the efforts of men engaged In the strug gles of public life furnished by the. retro spective glance at the simple life of "Uncle Billy" Boyles, as I knew him 30 years ago while for live years my nearest neighbor, constitutes a really impressive ' sermon. It was in the early days of the settle ment of Grand Ronde Valley, in the later 60's, long before the days of rail road or telegraphic communication with Eastern Oregon, while every pound of freight for that country, and even, for Boise Valley, too, was moved by pack trains and mule teams, that "Uncle Billy," even then called "old man" Boy les. secured a farm on the hillside in the cove on the eastern side of the val ler and became one of Its best-known, though not "intensive." farmers. He Is a prototype of thousands of other men who, with their wives, in a quiet but persistent way, till the soil, provide for their -simple wants, enjoy to the full the life that appears to have been mapped out for them, making no great effort to change the environment they find stretched about them, perform their du ties faithfully, secure & maximum of con tentment and a minimum of wuity out of lli aad- .j-ijsim of shade with as good a record behind them for fidelity to duty as a Grant, a Glad stone or a Roosevelt. "Uncle Billy," His Barn and Cabin. As I recall those days when I was Just beginning life as the head of a family, I can see "Uncle Billy'' and his little log cabin under the hill but a few hun dred yards away. Just across the line fence. And his barn was smaller than his house, a partial explanation of which may be found in the fact that he him self is an unusually short man, being but little, if any, above five feet in height. This circumstance suggests an incident which occurred during his resi dence in the Cove. For some years the chimney to his house, on the outside, of course, had been of the primitive kind constructed of sticks and mud, but as he prospered in business he concluded to Teplace It with one of later model whose component parts should be of the pink, flat stones which could he picked up anywhere on the nearby ridges coming down from the adjacent mountain. "Uncle Billy" had a grown son. who walked with his head as close to the ground as did his father, and after they had worked industriously upon the new chimney for ' two days and had built a scaffold upon which the old gentleman was rearing his temple skyward, his nearest neighbor, whose altitude was something more than six feet, came along and, as "Uncle Billy" was always afterwards fond of telling, stood on the ground, looked down the chimney and casually inquired "if he thought that kind of an arch wouldn't in terfere with its draught?" Boy 8 With a Sense of Humor. In those days the little squirrels which are still common to Eastorn Oregon were much more numerous than now, and un less constantly repressed by means of poison, traps. or otherwise, were very de structive of grain. It was quite a usual thing to lead a small stream of water with a hoe from an irrigating ditch to a hole used as a den by the squirrels, and after the water had been poured into it for a few minutes the entire family, often consisting of a dozen, would emerge through the water, only to be killed with the hoe, as one by one they would fran tically seek an escape from their unex pected bath. For the purpose of protecting my grain from their depredations one summer I had several steel traps set along the edge of the field, which I usually exam ined at the noon hour in Bcarch of cap tured game, and the countless numbers of squirrels which had to be struggled against can be best understood when it is related that upon one occasion 1 found eight dead ones in one trap an ordinary trap not more than four, inches across! Nonplussed, I stood gazing at the al most unbelievable sight, when I observed that every squirrel gave evidence of hav ing recently been In the" water, and In stinctly, rather than reflectively. I looked around and saw two of the little Boyles boys sitting in a near-by feaee corner in all the ecstacies of having perpetrated a SStttJcal JoJj xt&t wpx inherited ja jte j New Spring Woolens ! ! Announcement ! All the latest de signs and colorings known to the weav ers' art in fine for eign and domestic fabrics for gentle men's garments to order. Invite your inspection. Satisfaction guaranteed in all cases. Garments to order In a day if required; Samples mailed. Garments expressed. Full dress and Tuxedo suits a specialty. 108 Third Street fullest measure from the paternal side of their ancestry. That has been full 30 years ago. and what has since come in the way of ex perience to those little boys I do not know, but I trust every hour has been as full of sunshine as was that one when thc-y enjoyed my perplexity upon finding eight drowned squirrels in one small steel trap. A Retrospect. In after years, now more than 20 years ago. Uncle Billy Boyles, with his excel lent wife, took up a claim near Medical Springs. 25 miles east of Baker City, in Union County, and though the neighbor hood is quite thickly settled, he has no neighbor on the east nearer than well, parbaps, on Snake River, in Idaho, 40 miles or more away. But he and his faithful wife, as related by The Oregon lan, have reached the ages of SS and St years, respectively, are in excellent health and have lived goodly lives, are waiting for the transition to that better" life, their unshaken belief in which I have often heard them both declare in the prayer meetings, which they never ne glected, and which used to be hold in the old Dixie schoolbousQ In the days of Auld Lang Syne. In the Intervening years, embracing more than a quarter of a century, I have never seen Uncle Billy Boyles or his wife, though I have known where they live their simple life, and have several times been in view of their farm, but their early kindnesses to me have never been forgotten. Since then I have held many Important and responsible positions, have "mixed" frequently with the great men taf the nation, enjoyed a reception at the White House and dined with the Presi dent, during which time I have visited In a public way every county in Oregon but one, and most of them frequently: but at no place would I more gladly visit or bo more hospitably received than If I should present myself at the threshold of Uncle Billy Boyles' humble home in the Blue Mountain foothills, within a few hundred yards of where I killed my first deer while standing in two feet of snow in Jan- uary, 1SS9. Uncle Billy Boyles is a typical pioneer Oregonlan, belonging to an indispensable class of home builders who fearlessly carry tho advance flag of civilization, as useful in their way and Bphere as the so called captains of industry and Napo leons of finance (if not more so), and should more frequently recelvo that news paper mention which is their due,as we read of the Rockefellers, the Vanderbilts and the fantastic pirouettes of Grand Dukes and Duchesses. T. T. GEER. Salem, February 23, 1S05. COLONISTS BOUND TOE OREGON Thousands Are Expected to Settle in the Willamette Valley. The first of the oncoming flood of colonists due to reach tne Cpast in a short time reached the Union Depot yesterday morning when the overland train came in from the East over the O. R. & N. and the Northern Pacific tracks. It was a small number that reached the city yesterday, though the train men tell tales of crowJed coaches and almost overtaxed accommodations on the other side of the mountains. Hun dreds of people took advantage of the opening day and started their jour ney westward at the first opportunity, but the greater part of these are now scattered throughout Eastern Wash ington and Oregon and Idaho, taking: advantage of the first stopover privi lege given by the tickets. Later, as the time passes, this first. load of people will begin to reach the western part of the state for the last end of their trip. It Is trusted that many of them will find permanent lodgment In the Wil lamette Valley, as the promotion bu reaus of tne Commercial CJub, the Chamber of Commerce, of the Board of Trade and of the other organizations are all overrun with requests from different- parts of the- country; acting for Information in regard to this part of the state. Great Interest is -being shown throughout the East, and it Is predict ed by railroad men familiar with the traffic situation in the East and.MIddle West that thousands of families will locate in Oregon during- the coming Spring arid Summer. EULOGIZE ICRS. STANFORD. Equal Suffrage Association Passes Resolutions In Memorlam. Many members of the Oregon Equal Suffrage Association, including ladles from several outlying points, were present at the meeting yesterday at the Lewis and Clark State Commission rooms. Several new members were ad mitted. A report was given of Miss Anthony's birthday celebration, at which a mahogany chair was given her. Miss Anthony notified the asso ciation that she would have the pleas ure of visiting the Lewis and Clark Ex position. A letter was read from Miss Gordan relative to the programme of the Na tional convention to be held hero in June. Miss Chase has visited several places and aroused great interest in the coming convention. The subject of the Sacajawea statue fund came up and it was voted that the association would do all it could to sell the souvenir spoons and the but tons. Miss Evans arranged with some of the members to present the story of Sacajawea at the public schools of the city and to announce' the fact that the Lewis and Clark Fair Corporation have agreed to allow every child under 15 years of age wearing a Sacajawea button to go In the grounds free on Sacajawea day. It was voted to hold the . meetings hereafter on the first and third Satur days of the month at 2:S0 P. M. sharp in the Lewis and Clark State Commission rooms as usual. The honorary president. Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway. gave an interesting ac count of her acquaintance with the late Senator Iceland Stanford and his wife. Jane Lathrop Stanford, wnose acquain tance she made In 1872. which con tinued until the tragic death of her friend and co-worker. On motion of Mrs. "Morris a committee was appointed to draft resolutions to be given Presi dent Jordan and the press. Tho fol lowing resolutions were adopted: "Resolved. That in the death of Jane Lathrop Stanford the women of the Pacific Coast and of the National Amer ican Equal Suffrage Association havo lost a life-long friend and sincere, co worker; whose death we mourn as irre parable. "Resolved. That grand and useful as was the work of herself and husband in founding the great university that bears their name and that of her be loved son. their lifelong' advocacy of equal rights before the law for the mothers of men is destined to be- even more far-reaching- and enduring in Its results. "DR. LIT ELLA G. JOHNSON. "MRS. E. M. SCHERER. "CLARA BEWICK COLBY." STEPHEN BEAN PASSES AWAY Resident of Oregon Sixty-Two Years Is Dead. After a residence of 62 years in the State of Oregon, during which he wit nessed many of the most Important events that have helped to build this great commonwealth to the splendid state of today. Stephen Bean died at his home near Bandon, Or.. February 23. at the age of 76 years. He was a native of Ohio and until about 14 years of age resided with his parents in the Middle and Western states. In 1S43 the family joined a large party of immigrants bound for Oregon and after the hardships' usually I a encountered by the pioneers of Ihose I d&y-ta-Tju;ad Day. RlverJ Stimulating Business Just to start Spring buying early we set out six articles which -we will sell only on the days specified. They can not be had otherwise except at regular prices. Take advantage of this and come in. You will find other bargains equally as desir able in every part of the house. SIX SPECIAL SALES MONDAY ONLY. DINING CHAIRS Of solid oak, with pantasote (imitation leather) seats, worth S1.75 for... $1.25 AT ACTUAL COST TUESDAY ONLY. BUFFETS Solid quartered oak with French mirror, value $25, for $18.00 .WEDNESDAY ONLY.. IRON BEDS Colonial Style in various colors, high posts, oval pat tern ends, $11.00 kinds for $7.85 THURSDAY ONLY. PARLOR TABLES Golden oak, quarter-sawed and polished, 3.75 and S4.00 kind, this day $2.55 FRIDAY ONLY. COMFORTERS Cotton-filled Comforters for double hed, light and warm, regular $1.50 kind $1.00 SATURDAY ONLY. PORT.ERS Mercerized plain Portiers, red or green, full size, new goods, worth. $6.00, spe cial $3.95 GetOurFftcBookFlnt You can't afford to bay a ranee until you know all about a Monarch. Aslc us for the book: STATE WHEN you intend tobuy.and we will send also a aet of Measuring Spoons, postpaid. absexss Malleable Iron Range Co, Beaver Dam, Wiiconsin. HINTSTO J RANGE m . Thc fire-box lasts longer nVMHS BUYERS U because Monarchs require rJ HOW iff least, fuel. Less fire needed j fl to heat.the top. The steel wF'T V$&dt body with malleable frames r 0 J CUT Hb riveted air-tight keeps the v-Jj I KITCHEN L fire under perfect control.- Cjd pjnferl llf mHmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiKiiiiiiw' f ti- two "mmm sov twenty years as Whan nitt IF YOU WANT TO SELL A MALLEA BLE RANGE WE WILL GIVE FOR IT $30 All sizes, different arrangements far dty or country homes, also for hotels and public institatieM See them and they will prove to you that they save fuel and repairs. H. E. Edwards, 185-191 First St. j country. After spending the "Winter there, the family managed to' cross the river and later reached the Willamette, down which they floated In canoes as far as Oregon City. Mr. Bean lived for 40 years In Doug- lafs County, but In 1901 he removed to Coos County, where he resided until the time of his death. He was a mem ber or the Baptist Church, in which he took an active Interest. He was married at Oakland. Douglas County, Oregon, to Martha Ann Allen. August 13, 1854. He was the father of 11 children, nine of whom are living. He left a widow, Mrs. Martha Bean, Lampa Creek, Or.: "W. S, Bean. Harris burg, Or.: J. L. Bean arid E. M. Bean. Lampa Creek, Or.; "W. A. Bean, Coqullle, Or.: A. S. Bean and Mrs. Mary nasard. Drain. Or.: Mrs. Clara Burns, The Dalles. Or.; Mrs. Anno TImon. Lampa Creek. Or.; Mrs. Myrtlo Kendall. Ta- coma, "Wash. For four months he was prostrated by Illness, but he bore his suffering with ChrlsUan resignation and pa tience. His devoted and -loving nurses were his wife. J. I. Bean. E. M. Bean and Mrs. Anno TImon, all of whom were with him during his late Illness and death. His Temalns were laid to rest In the Masonic Cemetery at Coauille, Or. ' TAKES HCTTJBES OF INDIANS Frank H. Nowell Has Secured Fine . Alaskan Photographs. Frank H. Nowell, one of the noted scenic photographers of the Northwest, Is in Portland for a few days. Mr. Nowell has devoted a great deal of his life in Alaska, where he has been almost con stantly engaged In taking photographs. His pictures of the Alaskan Indians and of the great mines and beautiful scenery of that territory have gone all over America, establishing for Mr. Nowell an enviable reputation as an artist. "I have been making trips to Alaska for 14 years," said Mr. Nowell. As a re sult, I have accumulated one of the most complete set of pictures of that interest ing country in existence. I have in my possession over 2000 negatives of Alaskan views. From these negatives I sell about 50,000 photographs each yesx. It cost me about 510.000 to secure the collection. A great many of my pictures have been taken from real life among the Indians. "When I first started In, I had consid erable difficulty in photographing the na tives. They would refuse to stand still even for a few seconds, and I was at a loss how to proceed. I commenced pay ing the Indians for allowing me to take their pictures, and after that had no dif ficulty.' Some of Mr. Nowell's pictures are truly wonderful. He has a picture of an In dian belle that attracts a great deal or attention because of her beauty. This girl Is really pretty, which 13 a rare ex ception among the Alaskan Indians. Mr. Nowell will be In Portland for several days before returning to Seattle, where he Is making his headquarters. Decides for the Defendant. In the suit of James Canane against Drs. HIckey and Hickey, dentists, to recover $59 wages, Judge Sears yes terday decided in favor of defendants. The question involved was if Canane's salary was S120 a month or JS0 a week. ALL THIS WEEK AT Co veil's jjjp This handsome Rocker in quartered oak, polish fin ished, heavily rodded; extra strong and well made; beauti' fully carved handsome Span ish leather cushion back, belt ed in; colors red, green and light brown. An extra value for $8.50. ' All this week at COVELUS CASH. OR CREDIT You can buy what you want and pay as you please. See ads. In dally Journal.