THE STJ2QAY OREGOXLUX, PORTLAND, JULY 30, 1905.
'Common People Faithful to Christ"
Written for The Sunday Oregonian by Rev. Newell
Dwight Hillis, Pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn
(Copyrighted, 1P08. by McClure, Phillips Co.)
Text: "And the common people heard
him gladly."
DURING his lifetime Christ's name
was music to his generation. The
common people heard him gladly,
and the common people know their
friends. The multitude Is not always
right, but, given time, the multitude Is
seldom ever wrong. Every generation has
Its hero, but the people who. crowded
about the carpenter's son knew with swift
Intuition that here was the leader for
whom the people long had looked. And
now that the centuries have come and
gone all will confess that in this friend
of publicans and sinners was held the
Intellectual life and the political liberties
of the last two thousand years. Indeed,
the history of social progress Is the his
tory of his spirit dwelling In Institutions,
as man's soul dwells within his body.
The secret of his Influence over the multi
tude Is this: He was born of the common
people, he walked In the common path
way, he bore the common burdens, he
learned from those common teachers
work, events, men, necessity that is the
mother of invention, responsibility that
sobers and chastens. Living the universal
life, he came to think In the universal
language and put the universal and cter
nal truths In terms of tho time. The
poet, the -philosopher, the teacher, who
loves a class lives with that reigning class
and with that class doth die. Horace was
a typical old Roman gentleman, and said:
"I hate the vulgar crowd, and hold them
at a distance." And even Thomas Car
lyle was seduced away from his confi
dence In the people to a trust in the aris
tocratic class alone seduced by dinner
parties and drawing-roomB and friend
ships with men who dwelt in Kings' pal
aces. His Fidelity to His Own.
But Jesus never forgot his kind. Born
in poverty, he remained poor. To the
last he held his confidence In the people,
wise and ignorant, in the people, rich and
poor. In the good and bad; In the integrity
of their intellect and tho roundness of
their heart, and the certainty of their
final response to the divine overtures.
The ascetic, tho scholar, the leisure
classes leave the dusty highway and
build bowers of rest on either side of the
thronged path along which the multitudes
do move; not so Jesus. If other teachers
read books, he read the heart, with pages
blotted with tears and blood. If others
nurtured their religious life amidst clois
tered retreats, he fed his soul in tho
market place, loved publicans and sin
ners and came eating and drlnklngy Once
they understood him, the enthusiasm of
the people for their hero was beyond all
words. The carpenter was and Is tho
most lovable and fascinating figure In all
history. In his memoirs Lord Itosebery
recalls Napoleon's last days. One morn
ing, climbing the steeps of St Helena,
the Emperor met a heavily laden porter
at a point where the path was not wide
enough for two. Hurrying forward, the
aide asked the laborer to give way for
Napoleon. "Not so," said the Emperor,
"it is for us to step aside. Respect tho
burden." In that hour the ruler remem
bered the poverty and toll of his child
hood In Corsica. And Christ, who taught
the fatherhood of God. never forgot sym
pathy and the brotherhood of man. When
public honors were poured out upon him
like a flood he turned the more sedu
"Ik Marvel," the Bachel or or 6
How Donald G. Mitchell Is Spending tlte Eventjde of His
Is It lonely In my garden of a Bummer"
evening? Haro the little pattering feet
gone their wayn to bed? Then I people
the gooseberry alley with Dr. Primrose and
his daughters, Sophia and Olivia; 'Squire
Burchell comes and sits upon the bench
with me under the arbor as I smoke my
pipe. How shall we measure our indebted
ness to such pleasant books that people our
solitude so many years after they are writ
ten! Oliver Goldsmith. I thank you! Bob
Crown. I thank you! From "Mr Farm at
BdRewood." by Ik. Marvel, published In
1883.
IK MARVEL was Just turned forty
when he wrote these lints ho Is
past eighty-three now.
After making allowances for a differ
ence of Incidental manner in their re
spective periods, a comparison of Oliver
Goldsmith and Donald Grant Mitchell
(who Is Ik Marvel) shows them to be kin
dred, writes "Pendennls" In tho New
Tork Times.
Goldsmith was a plain man who made
simplicity seem magnificent, and he had
tho saving graco of humor for use in
stress of weather. Mitchell Is also a plain
man, who has found magnificences in the
simplest Impressions that have stamped
his soul who, born a poet, has lived a
poet's life, with his love of solitude and
reverie and things without complexity.
He Is passing quietly, tenderly, even
cheerfully now, into the dream life that
has been his atmosphere always, and for
this reason one may venture to measure
his distinction in American literature, as
posterity will surely honor him without
reserve. Every one remembers the
"Reveries of a Bachelor," published in
1S50, and selling as well today as it ever
did, although the author profits little
from it now because of the "true" Justice
of tho American copyright law that gives
an author no more than 42 years' Ilea
on his literary property.
Technically It is written in prosa,
but actually It Is true poetry, whisk
ing us away from the ugliness of bom
bast and vanity usual in tho remin
iscences of unattached man; leading
us gently and surely into a reverie of
sentiment entirely sweet and self-depreciating,
a reverie in which bachel
orhood is a condition creeping inev
itably to Its chivalrlc destiny, where
che awaits him; sho tho enchantress of
our lives luring us toward an agree
able obedience that no words definitely
can tell of, that no man will ever
cease desiring to obey.
The "Heverles of a Bachelor" pre
ceded the author's marriage by scarce
ly two years.
This Is delightfully significant, a fact
that points no other way for man but
that which brings him to the parson
and the ring. If so exquisite a docu
ment as the "Reveries of a Bachelor
falls In Us avowed resistance, there
can be none that avails.
It is a book that conjures. Its tricks
are the coquetry of man, not the evil
In him, and they would not deceive the
most determined widows.
It is all true; one can read it now
and fall beneath the overwhelming
-philosophy of this delightful bachelor
who consented to share with his fel--lows
the Intimate reveries of his soli
tude, in a time when sweethearts were
shy and weddings were sacred cere
saonies. This bachelor talks to you te
4ay with aa almost forgotten grace
lously toward the lame, the blind, the
publican, the sinner, the heartbroken. In
deed, tils miracles are only the outer
revelations of his love for the needy.
They are benefactions, hints of -trts deep
(sympathy with individuals Ioto tokens,
not miracles, not signs, not wonders. For
Jesus never forgot the depths of sorrow
that he himself bad Bounded In the days
when he was despised and In poverty and
loneliness. He loved the common people
and gave himself in an abandon of af
fection to them; In return they gave
themselves to him. And so, as he marches
up the hills of time, the people throng
and crowd after the Christ who has
charmed the people as Apollo's lute could
never charm them.
Christ and the Poor.
Confessedly. Christ was the greatest of
social reformers. Plainly, also, the rea
son Is that he has loved the poor and cast
his lot In with them. Many reasons have
been urged for this. It is said that the
poor are in the majority, and that he
allied himself wlththe multitude, SO per
cent of whom are In Bhops, mines, forests,
fields. It Is said that the poor are the
neediest Do tho riqh hunger for wisdom?
They can buy books, teachers, travel but
not tho poor. Do the rich hunger for the
beautiful and the sublime, as seen In
mountains, in foreign cities, in galleries
and cathedrals? They can buy travel and
leisure. Not the poor. Does the. rich
man toss upon his fevered couch? He can
Journey to sbme soft Southern climate
or And his way to tho seashore, but the
poor must die in their garrets. It is said
that the poor furnish the leaders for the
people. From the shepherd's cote comes
David, the sweet singer. From the plow
comes Burns, baptizing the field mouse
and the daisy with the immortality of
song. From the poor comes the father of
poetry, blind, aged and a beggar. The
father of philosophy, Socrates, has but
one garment, and that worn threadbare.
Eplctelus, the great moralist. Is a slave.
And what shall wc more say of our In
debtedness to the working classes, save
that Martin Luther comes from the collier-,
and Newton from the home of the
seamstress, and James Watt from a bare
kitchen, and the great President from rall
spllttlng; while the poets, the merchants,
the statesmen and the Jurists have not
dwelt In that clime named riches, but
rather have been reared In the unfriendly
zones where poverty rules.
Loved Men as God's Children.
But while these are reasons, they are
not the reason. Christ loved men as men.
and not. as cither rich or poor. He liked
men because thev wr iiv-nvi tt-i
the likable man was named Lazarus.
ana poor, ne went to his house, be
cause he was likable. When the
likable man was rich like Simon, he
went to his house, not because he was
rich, -but because he was likable. He
ptled off all exterior
named the beggar's coarse cloak and the
ncn mans purple and fur. and laid his
finger uoon the naked rmi nf mnnVmn.i
The soul dwells sometimes under rags and
sometimes under fine linen. Just as pearl
sometimes dwells in a thin shell and
sometimes In a thick shell. Put if th.
shell of the pearl happens to be thin as
paper we vaiue me pearl, and if the shell
happens to be two Inches thirv ttin
value the pearl. The French King had
n mQBsana waistcoats, DUt no friend
valued the soul of that esthete the more
because YOU had to bora thrmwh
thousand layers of walstcoa't, and peel
him of clothes as you peel an onion.
Among the great Qualities of Christ we
mention his sanity as a social teacher
You shall know the truth, and the truth
snail mane you free. He taught the law'
of social sympathy and service. He said,
"Men are In darkness, and you can lighten
and chivalry; his most playful thought
Is as stately as the minuet, when tho
faintest touch of the tips of her fingers
was satisfaction enough for tho bash
ful adorer. Little wonder that the
"bachelor became a mark for the pret
ties, the most romantic, the most re
fined young ladies of his bachelor days:
the real wonder Is, how he survived
the publication of his reveries two
years before he married.
Of course after his surrender he could
not have any more reveries of a bachelor,
but they had served so good a cause that
there was no need to repeat them, for
they merged themselves Into another im
pressionable mood, that made a book
called "Dream-Life."
Everything that found a voice In him
came from poetic impulses; he Is, a dis
ciple of things In Nature as they are.
those same things tne average man would
utterly destroy if he but had the power.
Oliver Goldsmith was a plain man. poor
in pocket, rich In a genius for sympa
thetic vision.
Donald Grant Mitchell Is a plain man. of
modest fortune, rich in a genius for see
ing life in a simple, honest, Inspiring way;
rich In his ability to put down what he
has seen entirely as he has seen It. Much
that is lacking In modern literature can
be found In a walk through the woods on
a Summer day. If It is not too hot. All
that Is lacking in contemporary chivalry
can be found in the "Reveries of a
Bachelor," Just as an hour spent with
Doctor Primrose and his daughter Olivia
sweetens, refreshes and Invigorates tho
spirit.
Like Goldsmith, Ik Marvel (whom some
people confuse with Ik Walton, who was
very different), makes us feel the peace
of woodland reveries. The philosophy of
solitude, the charm that escapes us in
quiet things.
It Is very quiet at Edgewood. where he
has lived the greater part of his life
where most that ho has written has been
conceived and done.
"Is It lonely in my garden of a Sum
mer's evening? Have the little pattering
feet gone their way to bed?"
No. it is never lonely at Edgewood.
The "little pattering feet," those chil
dren that left him alone with his beloved
Goldsmith once in awhile, are always
around him now; three practical, house
keeping, care-taking women, who watch
his every movement lovingly as bo once
watched them In the "gooseberry alley"
behind the house.
Every ono In New Haven knows the
house; the smallest boy that goes to
school can point In the direction It la from
him, no matter how busy his game may
be at the moment.
"Taas. sir, up there on tho hill, that's
Edgewood; follow the road that goes up
when you get to Weetvtlle."
Why shouldn't the whole town know?
Didn't he graduate from Tale, and Isn't
he as famous a graduate as they ever
had? m
New Haven Is proud of Its aristocrats,
and everybody there knows Ik Marvel
and claims him. though he was bora In
NSrwlch.
The Edgewood of toeay Is not the Edge
wood of 40 years ago. It has, been moved
bodily across the road, and jit has adopted
such elegane'es as high ceilings and Is
surrounded by a tall box hedge.
"Garden associations Inevitably have
English coIorlBc." wrote Ik itaxvel ia
the laspresetoas t hk Sara. "In Jt
them. Men are oppressed, and you can
relieve their burdens. Men are wandering
from the path, and yon can lead them
back Into the highway of peace. Men
sit In the shadow of death, and you can
bring them life." God hath placed upon
you this unspeakable honor of letting you
share with him the world's sins, sorrows
and burdens, and In the sharing he will
give you his Joy and peace.
Enthusiasm for Early Church?
- After Christ's death, the common peo
ple transferred their enthusiasm to tho
early church and for sufficient reason.
In a thousand ways the early Christians
made the people debtors. They became
veritable angels of deliverance. They
saved the lives of babes, exposed by rea
son of physical defects. , They founded
homes for orphans. They stood between
the slave and his cruel master. They
made impossible the gladiatorial games.
They founded homes of mercy for the
blind, the deaf, the disabled. They stood
between tho baron and his serfs In later
years. The church became a refuge for
the weak, the Ignorant and the oppressed.
In an abandon of love tho people brought
their treasures as a thank offering.
To the cathedral were assembled all
"treasures named marbles. pictures.
Ivories, laces, tapestries, while the poor
brought gifts of copper, silver and gold.
For centuries tho church or tho cathe
dral was the very soul of each com
munity, and there the poor found a
refuge from all that, struck and all that
pursuedand all that sought to do evil.
Men flocked to the church for help, as
doves seek out the eaves of the temple,
and now once more has come an epoch
when the church Is to mrve. not a ctajrs,
but all the people, and when the poor
are with one accord to turn thereto.
Other generations may have needed the
church, but ours needs It by way of pre
eminence. In studying the problems-of
the laboring classes. Carlyle found his
only hope in the church. "It is." he said,
"the most beautiful and touching object
ono sees on earth. This speaking man
whom have we to compare with him?
of all public functionaries, boarded and
lodged on the industry of modern youth.
,s..tnere one worthJer of board ho has?
"A roan rirofesslng to save the soul of
men. Contrast him with a man profess
ing to do little but shoot the partridges
of men. Tho speaking function, this of
truth coming to us with a living voice,
nay, in a living shape, has a perennial
place. Could ho but discover almost in
contact with him what the real satan and
soul-devouring, world-devouring devil now
Is. Original sin and such like are bad
enough, but this distilled sin. dark Ig
norance, stupidity, dark Corn Law. Bas
tille and Company, what are they? Will
he discover our new real satan whom be
has to fight? Feel him at his own throat
and ours? That is a auestion for the
world. Let us not intermeddle with It
here." In these striking words Carlyle
recognizes tho new emergency that Is
upon society. Some one must be over
them, and since not an earthly Napoleon
or Frederick, then God, whose bosom Is
tho seat of law, whose purpose must be
tho will of the world. Society has called
In Its last reserves. When society had a
king, if the monarch went wrong the aris
tocracy was called In to correct tho
abuses. When the aristocracy ruled and
did evil, society fell back upon the re
serves, named the middle classes, repre
senting caution, sobriety and restraint.
When society was dissatisfied with the
rule of the middle classes, It called In the
poor with all the people. Reserves to fall
back upon now are tho common people.
The future's civilization Is In their chil
dren's hands. But the sovereign people
must not be soverelgnless. The leaders
must be led. and that leader must bo
led. For the secret of the successful
reign of the common people Is the secret
of the Messiah.
'The Reveries5'
Life on Ills Farm.
strange, when so many old gardens are
blooming through so many old books we
know?"
One reaches tho door through an arbor,
a door that is old-fashioned to the last
degree, a door that opens wide or opens
half wide, according to the welcome it
indorses. It is really two doors an upper
and a lower door.
It can be open and yet you cannot get
Into the house unless you vault the lower
half. It Is a door made on the old-fashioned
principle compromise that conveyed
outward courtesy but withheld inward
welcome.
The door compromised for us.
Its upper half opened, and a lass In a
callco gown and a severe simplicity of
manner that might have been as the
manner of Sophia or Olivia herself, stood
guard on the poet's threshold.
We had come from the big city by tho
sea, from the tallest building In a city of
tall buildings; we were mildly self-important,
as New Yorkers always are when
disentangled from the crowded streets
that crush their littleness.
Would the poet see us? '
She swung the lower half of tho door
open, smiled a frank yet reserved wel
come, and said with deprecating gesture,
in a voice as quiet as the hushed murmur
In the trees on the hill, "I don't know
how well ho will feel when he returns
from his drive. My father Is always
adverse to notoriety of any kind. He has
always said, whenever ho has seen other
authors in Interview form. 'Well, thank
goodness, I hope I can always dodge
them. "
They say that Goldsmith was rather
vain, but doubtless he. too. would have
shied the affliction of a literary Jnter
vlewf SU1I, Ik Marvel In his prime had
been, as he told me. "au courant" with
the men who make newspapers and their
ways.
Wo sat down on the shaded porch, so
quiet, eo sweet. In Its stillness and Its sky
room, so pregnant with tho atmosphero'of
reverie and dreams.
'Tour father does not wrlto now?" I
asked.
"No. he Is resting. This hot weather,
we have to keep him as quiet and free
from excitement as possible. He drives
every morntng, then he dines, and then
ho sleeps; sometimes he never leaves tho
couch after dinner till sundown, when
he comes out under the arbor, takes a
last look at the country he loves, and
goes to bed," she said.
"And he -abhors strangers?"
"He rarely sees anybody because It ex
cites him; frequently ho cannot see close
relatives and friends he is fond of."
"All of his world is Edrewoofi?"
"Ho adores the country, and he knows
every mood of its Mfe. He Is Interested
In the war news, too, for he Is no longer
In the action of contemporaneous events."
"He is In the dream-life," and Olivia
or Sophia, smiled acqtilesence.
An old-fashioned phaeton crept up the
hill, drawn by an old-fashioned stately
horse, and far back in Its comfortable
shadow sat an old gentleman, the poet of
Edgewood.
"I will ask hm If he will see you.""
ald OU via. or Sophia, and she passed
swiftly to the other side of the bouse
where he was,
Ia a few minutes the peace of the house
hold was disturbed, there were footstep
In and out of 'rooms and doors within;
another daughter appeared through a
window, leaked a ever critically aad
'retired. Then we were caaecioaa ef aa-
other lady, a woman determined, prac
tical, older than the other two, a woman
whe clearly disapproved ef this latrastea
upon the serene system of that house
hold. But Olivia or Sophia, she of the simple
calico gown and- the gentle-aaanner. was
to be relied upon, and she it was who
brought him to us.
He came briskly; we could hear tho
quick rapping of his cane as he came
across the wooden floor of the library,
through the open window, on to the
Porch; a man of average height, a Tittle
stooping, a little gnarled with age. wear
ing a brown velvet coat In cutaway style
trimmed with broad black braid a
dandy's coat, a Byronlc collar, brown
linen trousers and waistcoat. hls head
thrown back Inquiringly, a buoyant,
cheerful smile on his fine, sensitive, wisely
Ken tie face.
Eighty-three years old!
It was a handsome face, not la the dark,
powerful, brooding strength of the Dante
features, but In the gentler wisdom of a
pleasant optimism. In the qualities that
have endeared such men as James Russell
Lowell to the world.
His daughter showed him where to sit
and stood near him. watching his face
lovingly, wjth a smile of almost maternal
care and affection; doubtless, she watched
him as he bad watched her in those years
far back, when she was a child In the
"gooseberry lane."
"I should think you would be Interested
la the living authors, not In the dead
ones." he said, cheerfully enough, with a
glance at his daughter for support.
The camera, eager to seize Its victim,
glared at him within a short distance ot
his head. ,
Goodness!" ho said, rising with veri
table fear, "you're not going to take me
at such close range. If by chance a man
finds that he must faco a gun, he can at
least keep his distance from It." And ho
looked Imploringly at the llttlo group
about him for protection.
His daughters led him to a seat In tho
arbor, for his sight Is falling, and ho leans
on them for support.
"He's had an unusually long drive, and
ho Is unusually tired." said an older
daughter, who had been with him on the
drive.
As I saw the Interview recede, however,
I was not sorry, for no one had even seen
him for years, and no picture had been
taken of him for publication for a Tery
long while.
"Perhaps the gentlemen would take
something?" he asked, after the photo
graphic ordeal was over, and he stood up.
hat In hand, smiling, amiable, alert with
Instinctive grace of hospitality.
"And, now. you must let me have my
rest," he said.
He paused a moment and swept the ex
quisite landscape view "from the arbor, the
view that had passed into literature In a
thousand moods and forms, and moving
his stick toward meadows and woodland,
he said:
"The shadows are growing deeper now;
the country Is moat beautiful then," And
he turned quickly and went into the
house.
It was this adapting of Nature's moods
to philosophic revery. this sweet mixture
of artist's eye with the poet's delicacy of
expression, that has made Ik Marvel ono
of the best loved of American authors.
"Tho shadows are growing deeper now!"
And as they darken the day. and night
speeds after them, nothing can efface tho
memory they have left behind the glory
that comes only with posterity.
"How shall wo measure our Indebted
ness to such pleasant books that people
our solitude so many years after they are
written?" wrote Ik Marvel, and If he had
been writing in prophecy of his own lit
erary labors he could not have prophesied
for them more truly. PENDENNIS.
NO TEXAS GUN-TOTING
CHANGE IX MORAXi CONDITIONS
IX THAT STATE.
Fewer Murders Than Chicago Pro
hibition ot Playing of Domi
noes for Stakes.
W. Q. Curtis, in Chicago Record-Herald.
-Tho change in moral conditions in
Texas has been quite as marked as In
other respects. Texas 'has always been
looked upon as a community of desper
adoes in certain parts of the country,
and wc are all familiar with the pop
ular adage that such or such a thins
Is needed as much as a revolver in.
Texas. Whereas, there Is a - law In
Texas prohibiting people from carry
ing revolvers, and It Is enforced strict
ly In more than three-fourths of the
counties of the stale, according to the
disposition of tho police and the prose
cuting officers. In most of the coun
ties it will cost any man $48 in fines
and penalties to "tote a pistol.' in
others the fine Is 9100, with 30 days
imprisonment added for a second 'of
fense. Bowie knives, slung-shots.
brass knuckles and all ofber similar
weapons are also prohibited under
eually severe penalties. Tou will re
member reading about the -Texas cus
tom of having revolvers checked -at
tho theaters and how every man was
compelled to leave his gun with the at
tendants before he was allowed to en
ter a ballroom. That custom still pre
vails In certain places on the frontier,
where people think it Is necessary to
carry arms for self-defense. At the
same time, the law requires that they
shall be discarded when the owner
comes to town, and people who carry
them are not arrested or fined provided
they obey these regulations.
There 1s no more "shooting: up the'
town" In Texas. Hold-ups are un
known. People do not carry money
any more as they did formerly. There
is a bank In every town, and checks
are used Instead of currency.
Cattle roping contests and other
cruel sports are forbidden under heavy
penalties. , There are as many "blue
laws" In Texas as" In any other state In
the Union. If not more.
There Is a law prohibiting card play
ing, except In private houses, and even
then It must not be habitual or for a
stake. It Is unlawful for any house
holder to have a room for that pur
pose. This law Is strictly enforced In
90 per cent of the -counties In Texas.
Not long ago an entire theatrical
company was arested and tho members
fined $25 each for playing cards la
their private car on the railway tracks,
which the court held to be a public
place In the eyes of the law. In aa
other train four of the wealthiest cat
tlemen In the state were arrested for
violation of the anti-gambling law
while playing euchre In a car on their
way to a convention. The courts have
held again and again that It Is unlaw
ful to play cards on a railway train.
It Is forbidden to -play dominoes or
shake dice for drinks er other articles
of value. VTbere is a heavy fine for
playing pool ex billiards to see who
shall pay for the gasae. A, man way
invite a frlead to play pool or billiards,
but they must determine who shall pay
in seme other way tfcaa the usual way.
Under tho Joeal e-pilen. law 'nearly
three-fourths ef the coantiss In the
state have declared for prohibition.
This Includes nearly all of the rural
districts. Most of the cities have de
clared for high license, aad charge
from 375 to J12 for the privilege of
selling spirits. One-half ef the time
ef the cearts Is takea vp ia paalsfcia?
vleUters the- llaaor law. I the
cities like Fart Wecth aad Dallas, It is
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the market. Have been sold fer years. We chose to sell this make because we
consider it the best. We have them as low as $12.00.
$1 DOWN
$1 WEEK
GEVURTZ' SUMMER SPECIALS
We will sell you a Kitchen Treas
ure, worth $3.75, for 2.75
A $3.50 Cobbler-Seat Rocker
for $2.50
Turn Yum Springs, full sizes,
worth $3.50, for $2.50
A falling-leaf Kitchen Table
for $2.00
A wooden-seat Kitchen Chair
for 65
Y73-175
Impossible to get a drink of liquor on
Sunday. Gambling- has been suppressed
almost entirely throughout the state.
There Is, hovrever, a large "Jug trade."
as It Is called, carried on between the
license cities and the prohibition coun
ties. The courts have decided that a
man may buy all the liquor be -likes
at a place where licenses are granted
for consumption in places where pro
hibition is enforced. Several liquor
houses In Dallas, Fort "Worth, Houston
and other cities do a "jug trade" al
most exclusively, and have larpo num
bers of clerks engaged In putting up
flasks and bottles to ship by express
to customers In the country towns. One
dealer has 40 men who do nothing but
put up express packages of liquor, and
if you will look Into the express car
on any train you will sec wagonloads
of them. A great deal of money Is
brought Into the cities in that way, and
the country merchants are complaining
about It, but everybody admits that, not
withstanding the "Jug trade," the prohi
bition law Is well enforced and Is grow
ing in .favor. There Is less crime than
formerly: murders are rare nowadays;
shooting has gone out of style. If a citi
zen of any town In Texas' should be shot
these cays It would create more excite
ment than In roost of the cities of the
North; while a few years ago such affairs
were commonplace. I heard it asserted
recently that there were more murders In
the City of Chicago last year than In the
State of Texas.
These moral reforms are attributed
chiefly to a religious revolution which has
been going on hero for the past 'five or
six years. There have been revivals all
over the state, particularly among the
Methodists. Baptists and CampbelUtes.
every Summer for Ave years. They have
been conducted by professional evangel
ists; services have been held In tents, be
cause the churches were not big enough
to accommodate the audiences; the con
verts have been numbered by thousands,
and a-great mora upheaval has been the
result.
HOW MORMONS DECEIVE
Salt Ijake City Incident In Which
Clergyman Figures.
Housekeeper.
Just how far some- of the statements,
made with all solemnity and apparent sin
cerity by the Mormon bureau of informa
tion, may be depended upon as true, may
be illustrated by an incident enacted a
few months ago. An Eastern clergyman,
visiting In Utah, requested of a GentUe
friend living In the city, to be shown the
sights of the handsome square about the
Temple. Together with his friend he reg
istered at the information building, where
they were xaet hy a guide, as are all vis
itors. The guide was a fine-looking and
extraordinary intelligent young weman of
about 23 years of age, apparently, well
dressed and. of aristocratic carriage, who
showed the visitors the assembly hall
and the tabernacle, explaining readily
and comprehendingly various principles of
the "Mormon faith. "When asked of the
relation of polygamy to the church, the
young woman answered, without hesita
tion, that the church regarded the prin
ciple as truebut had suspended the prac
tice under the adraonltios of the mani
festo. The Eastern clergyman was much Im
pressed with the manner of the girl, aad
her clear understanding of her religion,
and asked that he might have her ad
dress, which she readily gave aim, in
order to send her some literature pertain
ing to his own religion, measles of which
had bees ssade daring their coaversatloc
Oh the way horse the clergyssas. ex
pressed great hopefulaess la the outeeme
of the "Utah situatioa. "Several mere
generations like that," said he. "will right
the problem- There's ae use la worryiag
about the 'Mora-oa me Race." when the
present generation lias the ssedesty aad
culture aad Intelligence of that yewtr
woman, sai yea. yourself, say that she
1 la ao way difereat from hwidrcae ef
other ot the yeaag wesaea ia Utah."
The twp frfeeda parted for a time, the
ciergyxBaa to hfa apartments, the, frisad'
SELL THEM!!
THE "ALASKA"
ECLIPSE RANGE
We -will install this splendid
Steel Range in your home for
that small payment down. You
have the full use of it while you
are paving for it on the small
installment plan of a dollar a
week. Nothing could better illustrate-
our faith in -you and
our confidence in the Eclipse
Kange. We guarantee every
range we sell.
We selected the Eclipso
Ranges after more than 20
years' experience in Portland,
with a special view to thein
adaptability to local fuel and
weather conditions. We had
the choice of many ranges, but
preferred the Ecilpse because it
is4he best range on the market.
A handsome cast bronze Photo
Frame, worth 50c for 25
A cane-seat Dining Chair
for $1.00
$1.75 cane-seat Chairs for.1.35
A $7.50 Enamel Bed, brass trim
mings, for .$5.50
A round-top Golden Oak Table,
worth $25, for $18.00
$1.00 down and 50 per week.
I. GEVURTZ & SONS
FIRST ST.
219-227 YAMHILL ST.
to a newspaper office, where he procured
several newspapers which he gave to his
friend later In the evening. The news
papers contained information of tho mar
riage, which had taken place a short
time previously, ot the young woman who
had been their guide in Temple block
to a prominent member of the Mormon
church who already had several wives.
Sea Water for Tuberculosis.
Exchange.
At the recent session of the Paris Acad
emy of Medicine a treatise, by Dr, Four
nol, recommending hypodermic Injections
of sea water against tuberculosis, attract
ed much attention. Dr. Fournol, together
with another physician, has prepared a
The Singer Sewing Machine Company
Extends to you a cordial invitation to
' visit its Pavilion
IN THE MANUFACTURES BUILDING - ' v -
at the
Lewis and ClarK Exposition
PORTLAND, OREGON
Tkis Paviton will contain machines for every Stitching process used 1
in the family and in manufactures, some of' which must be of intere& .
to you. Many of uSesemachmes wil be running and all wiB be
capable of operation
Samples of their work will Be given to those'interelted
also i
Free Souvenir Views of
Pacific Coast Scenery
There are Five Sets, each comprising Ten Views
IN AN ENVELOPE READY FOR MAILING
a
He Is called great because he cure all diseases without Tesortisg to the
JcaJ'e- Call and have a free exanalnatJoa. He will tell you the exact nature
of your trouble. He treats successfully every J arm ot iemale csmlaiat, all
private and Mood diseases, cancer, paralysis, tumors, rheumatism aad all
disorders of the stomach, liver aad kidseys. He- aas had great success is
carta? consumption, when the victim is, not too much run down by the dis
ease, aad will atop hemorrhages ia aa Incredibly shart time; He brews ate
ewH-iac, J15 from Chinese, roots, herbs, bads, harks aad vegetable teas,
aft oC which are entirely harmless, and whose medicinal properties are aa
kaown to American doctors. He asea h his practice over m dUTereat
Orieatal reaMese. Handred of teetHnonial from grateful paOeBta.
DRAVIfNG LEE
i!J
$1 DOWN
$1 WEEK
'Mi
$27.50
UP
A 67-piece set of Decorated Dishes,
worth $3.50, for $6.25
A $35.00 Sideboard for.. $25.00
$1.00 down and $1.00 per
week. This is an extra special
bargain. Call and see it.
A $35 Leather Couch for.... $25
$1.00 down and $1.00 per
week. This is another gilt-edge
Jbargain.
sea-water serum, which possesses the
property of increasing the blood pressure.
He treated 24 patients at a Paris hospital
with It. Some of these suffered from re
cent tuberculosis ot the lungs, others for
old tuberculosis of the bones. In all cases
a distinct Improvement was noticeable In
the local as well as In the general condi
tion. It Is stated In German papers that
the results appeared so Important to the
members of the academy that it was re
solved to notify tho Tuberculosis Commis
sion, so as to make further experiments.
Not only the nasal sounds, but many Amer
ican phrases are quite common la Suffolk.
England, among the farmers and the peas
antry, and a etranger passing an afternoon
in Woodbrldge market might fancy hlrtueU
In Massachusetts.
acrTt
DR. WING LEE
THE GREAT
CHINESE DOCTOR
LOCATED IN PORTLAND SINCE 1580