SUNDAY OKEGONIA .PORTLAND, AUGTJST 6, 1905.
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DRESSERS
CHIFFONIERS
BETWEEN SEASONS SALE
89
THINGS FOR THE KITCHEN
CI Jt r A Dainty Dressers In golden oak. C OC fl
4M T" JU blrdseye maplo and mahogany JJJvU
HOUSEHOLD CHINA
We have pretty and useful patterns in china and
glassware for the dining-room, kitchen and bed
rooms. All these goods have been carefully bought,
and in consequence are marked at prices that mean
a saving to the housekeeper. Let us fill your china
needs.
EXAMPLES OF LOW PRICING
IRON BEDS ,
No. 932 White and gold Iron Bed, ydth brass top
rails at head and foot. Exactly like cut above.
Heavy chills and solid joints. Eeg. $16, $12.50
Ho. 874 Lavender, pink and gold Iron Bed, with
heavy tubing and high headpiece. A handsome
bed at double the price. Eegular, 16. 00. $11.50
He. 9042 Ivory and gold iron and brass Bed. Ca
thedral design, ydfh. high corner posts at head
and foot.. Decorated in gold. Regular,
30.00 $21.50
No. 885 Blue and gold Iron Bed; scroll pattern,
suit-able for nursery. Solid and substantial Reg
ular $17.50 $12.50
No. 570 Blue and White Iron Bed, of light, grace
ful pattern. White chills, decorated in gold. Reg
ular, 11.00 $7.75
No. 95 Cream and gold Iron Bed. High headpiece
and heavy corner posts, with lion head tops.
Rosette chills with gold decorations. Regular,
9.00 $6.50
No. 18 White and gold Iron Bed, with hoop design
in head and foot. Has heavy chills, with goli
decoration. Regular, 8.00 $5.70
DINING TABLES
No. 2874 Weathered oak Dining Table, like cut
above. Round top and square taper legs.
Top 44 inches, with six-foot extension. Reg
ular, 27.50 $21.00
No. 287 Weathered oak Dining Tablo, same as cut,
with squire top and square taper legs; 44-inch top,
with six-foot extension. Regular 26.00, $19.50
No. 150 Weathered oak Pedestal Table, with 42-N
inch top and 6-foot extension. Heavy pedestal,
with scroll feet. Regular, 23.00 $17.50
No. 0315 Square top weathered oak Dining Table,
with round pedestal and lion's head feet. Forty-five-inch
top, with eight-foot extension. Regu
lar, 37.50 $29.75
No. 182Vz Round top, quartered oak Dining Table,
with round pedestal and Grecian base. All quarter-sawed
and hand-polished; 48-inch top and
8-foot extension. Regular, 35.00 $28.50
No. 376l2 Round-top Dining Table, with French
legs and claw feet. Beautifully polished top. All
quarter-sawed. Forty-eight-inch top, with 8ifoot
extension. Regular, 37.50 $31.00
No. 207 Quarter-sawed Dining Table, with square
top and turned legs. Hand-polished throughout
Forty-iive-inch top, with 6-foot extension. Regu
lar, 19.50 $15.00
BUFFETS
nd
CARPETS
. Good carpets well laid always give satisfaction.
Carpet quality and neat workmanship go with every
floor covering we lay "without a wrinkle" is our
motto we live up to it, too. Our carpet department
is on the second floor remember, we're always glabl
to pull things down or out to show them to you.
You're just as welcome to look as to buy.
FURNITURE
AND HOUSE
FURNISHINGS August days are usu
ally quiet days in home
furnishing circles. But
we don't want quiet
days at any time of the
year.
So, then, we've ar
ranged so there'll be no
quiet August in THIS
store. Listen:
In brder that our vol
ume of business for Aug
ust be as great as the
average for other
months, we willl during
August make make most
unusual price induce
ments. We won't cut out
our profit entirely, but
will share it with you;
and you can rest assured
that prices will be just as
low as conservative mer
chandising will permit.
Of course, lines will be
broken in short order in
a trade movement like
this, so we suggest that
you call early while
choosing is good.
We can only detail a
few bargains. Hundreds
of others equally attractive.
CONCERNING
CREDIT
Always remember that your
credit -is good with us. We're
glad to trust you and our terms
are made to suit your conven
ience. It is easy to furnish your
home when you buy from us
we carry most of the burden.
We have everything for the kitchen, from spoons
to bread-mixers. All sorts of pota and pans in metal
and tinted granitewarcs. All the little contrivances
that make cooking a pastime instead of a drudge.
We'll supply your laundry needs. Watch- our kitch
en special sales.
f 1 J rft New patterns for men and Or A A
BARGAINS SELECTED AT RANDOM
PARLOR SETS
jfo. 74 Pretty three-piece Parlor Set, with fine ma
hogany finish. Spring seats, upholstered in fine
Verona velour. Regular, 25.00 18.50
No. 1481 Two-piece Parlor Set of polished mahog
any, upholstered in imported panne velvet. Hand
rubbed and polished. Regular price, $45. 36.50
Ho. 79 Three-piece Parlor Set, in French design,
with spring seats, covered with pretty Verona
velour. Regular price, $27.60. 21.50
No. 7437 French design three-piece Parlor Set of
hand-polished mahogany. Spring seats, covered
with fine two-tone green- velours. A beauty for the
price. Regular $62.50 $49.00
iq-0. 746 Medium-priced three-piece set of semi
Oolonial design, upholstered in two-tone French
velours. Regular price $35.00 ?26.o(
No. 1641 Two-piece set, with graceful curved-slat
backs and curved arms. Spring seats, covered
in two-toned green. Regular, $55. 00... 43.50
COUCHES
No. 6244 Handsome steel construction Couch, with
tufted top and head built on oak frame. Covered
in two-tone green velour. Regular, $37.50 2S.50
No. 6239 -Roll-edge head Couch, with oak frame and
steel construction. Smooth top, covered in pretty
two-toned green velvet Regular, $32.. 24.50
No. 6338 Oak frame Couch, with straight edge,
tufted top and head, with steel construction. Cov
ered in two-toned embossed velour.. Regular,
$27.50 $21.50
No. 722 Velour Couch, with polished ash frame,
smooth top and rolled and buttoned edge. Cov
ered in pretty floral pattern velours. Regular,
'$20.00 15.50
No. 45 Oak frame Couch, with hard edge; substan
tial construction and nonbreakable springs. Up
holstered in fine fancy velours. Regular,
$14.60 10.50
No. 47 Velour Couch, with tufted head and top;
deep fringe all around base. A great value for the
money. Regular $10.50 8.75
DRAPERIES
, New draperies never come amiss. There's always
a place where you can hang fresh curtains or bright
new portieres. Nothing helps more to ' 'freshen up"
the home. We'd like you to see the dainty lace cur
tains we're showing; the prices will please you immensely.
FIRST
AND
TAYLOR
STREETS
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Slb.UU -o.keathCTri 550.00
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FIRST
AND
TAYLOR
STREETS
MORRIS CHAIRS
$9.50 Sfi WM,hered 0k "d S40.00
THE PACIFIC COAST TYPE
Dr. John Madden, An Eastern Physician, -Writes in High
Praise of Portland Men and Women. tfc
ENVIRONMENTS develop distinctive,
types. Heredity counts for much,
but a constantly acting: environ
ment modifies Inherited physical and
mental characteristics, that of a fa
vorable kind enlarging- and perfecting
the type, while a vicious environment
may extinguish the best traits of a
good inheritance and produce a me
diocre or degenerate society. Heredity
is no inflexible thing. "Like father,
like son," is true only when the young
er generation Is subjected to the same
external influences as the elder. Do
mestic animals and plants are Im
proved by improving the environment
In which they live, and by weeding out
the unpromising, degenerate speci
mens. No student of men can visit the Pa
cific Coast States without being con
vinced that they have developed a dis
tinctive civilization and a distinctive
type of humanity. Compared with the
average urban dweller of the Old
"World, the Pacific Coast mantis im
mensely superior; this superiority is
still evident when comparison is made
between him and the average man in
the populous centers of the eastern
part of our own country, but it is not
so pronounced. Of the Old "World peo
ples, England's civilization is the most
nearly like our own, but the hard con
ditions environing' the urban dweller
of England are reflected in the type
of man they aro enveloping. The cry
of degeneracy there is no false alarm.
England searched in her large cities in
vain for recruits to send to Africa to
fight the Boers. In Manchester, out of
11,000 who sought service in the army
through the recruiting offices, 10,000
were rejected as physically unfit. They
were narrow chested, without sufficient
lung capacity and had bad hearts, hu
man plants degenerated from the vig
orous Anglo-Saxon stock bv lack of
food, lack of sunlight and air, and the
common vices of the great mass of
dwellers in English cities, for Man
chester's degeneracy was no more
marked than was that of London.
Leeds, Bristol and Liverpool. Eng
land's social reformers are now busj
establishing schools of physical cul
ture to avoid the humiliation of hav
ing a future war fought by her colo
nial subjects, a wholly futile remedy
unless some means are combined to im
prove the environments of those whom
they seek to rescue.
American cities have their degener
ate classes, but oiot all of America's
physical degeneracy is a native prod
uct. A good deal of It comes to us In
the form of assisted Immigration. In
fact, anyone who has given this mat
ter sufficient attention can sometimes
witness a cure, a regeneration of de
generate stock. Parents of foreign
birth, stunted in growth and of low
intellectuality, come to favorable
places in America and produce children
of good stature, physique and high in
telligence. !
If wo keep these things in mind. It. Is
not difficult to account for the splendid
men and women we see In the Pacific
Coast states and elsewhere" in the "West.
So great was the physical superiority of
the Western soldiers who went to the
Philippines over the white men they were
accustomed to see that the natives won
deringly Inquired if all the Americans
were giants. The superior stature and
weight of the Western man. however. Is
no unsolvable puzzle. It is merely the
result of favorable environment and an
unconscious selective process. Here In
the West there must be something In the
atmosphere, in the cllmato and sol!, or
In all put together, that stimulates the
vegetative functions. Here the hazel-bush
of the Eastern copse becomes a respect
able tree, the Eastern -alder, a shrub an
Inch or two In dkuneter. Is here a big
tree, from which lumber Is made, and
the redwoods, spruces, firs and cedars are
of a size that amazes and delights the
Eastern forest-lover. This line of reason
ing Is really less fanciful than it seems,
but this is no place to enter into a dis
cussion of the Identity. In many particu
lar, of plant and animal life, no place
to enter Into an elaborate discussion of
the scientific fact that plant and animal
growth are often dependent upon common
stimuli.
The Western man's fine physique, how
ever. Is dependent upon an environment
containing more tangible forces than an
Indefinite something In the way of an
unproven stimulus. Nature is kind to
him. The country gives him an abund
ance of room to grow; a kindly, generous
soli, and a climate free from the de
pressing extremes of temperature.
There Is no doubt, too, that an uncon
scious selective process has been at work
to give the Western man the advantages
of a good heredity. It was by no means
the least fittest to survive that crossed
three thousand miles of a land of prairie,
desert and mountain, with its population
of hostile Indian tribes. Scarcely less
courage was required of those who Jour
neyed hither over twice or thrice a thous
and leagues of water in ships the like
of which often met with disaster. IndeedTt
Oregon is at this moment celebrating the
splendid hardihood of two such early
pioneers. She could, no doubt, fittingly
celebrate twice two thousand sturdy, de
termined pathfinders of the Lewis and
Clark kind, whose descendants are many
of the splendid men and women now
within her borders.
Even when the Journey to the West
was made comparatively easy, and In fact
at the present time, the least desirable
do not come here. Excepting to a few
In the Northwest, not many Immigrants
who come to the Atlantic seaboard cross
the Mississippi, and those who go to pre
determined localities In 'the Northwest
rarely migrate farther. Moreover, the
average man's Inclination to go far from
his home Is not urgent. Ho clings to the
place of his nativity tenaciously, pre
ferring to bear the Ills he has rather
than fly to others that may bo still more
grievous. The timid and weak man does
not migrate, the man of low mentality
has not the initiative to break away from
the place in which he has vegetated. Of
course, adventurers flock to places where
there seem to be great rewards for little
enort, but these aro a negligible factor,
so far as the making of a stable popula
tion is concerned. It takes money, too.
to travel far, and the very fact that a
man has sufficient to enable him to make
a journey of three thousand miles and
establish a new home Is not Incompe
tent evidence that he has In him the
elements of survival.
The cities of the West longest subjected
to the influence of their favorable environ
ing conditions ought to show the Western
civilization in its best form, its greatest
degree of perfection. Portland Is favored
In this respect. Those who come from
the East are at once Impressed by the
fine physique of her men and women; )
and a closer acquaintance makes them
speak of the high level of Intelligence of
the whole community. Portland's -women
arc probably not of a type that would
inspire the .chisel of a Phidias. They aro
larger, more muscular and massive than
the type given us In the marbles of the
old Greek master, but they are beautiful,
nevertheless There Is no coarseness In
their mosslvencas, no offensive masculinity
of face or form, no largecoarso hands
and feet, but of a size and strength to be
in harmony with their generous stature
and bulk.
"Put the red hand round to what you
think is my weight and I'll get my
nickel back If your guess Is right,"
said a Portland young woman to an
acquaintance.
He looked at her critically for a mo
ment, then put the red hand round to
182 pounds. She made a little pro
test, as a woman who is sensitive upon
the subject of her size might, do, but
her nickel was promptly returned to
her when she dropped it Into the slot.
Her 5 feet 10 or 11 Inches Is tho
stature of a well-formed, womanly fig
ure. Every Portland woman does not. to
be sure, weigh 182 pounds, but her
average weight must be several pounds
greater than that of her less well-developed
sister of the East.
Portland's women have beautiful
complexions, probably the finest In the
world. To the stranger who asks
questions, they say it is the climate,
but a complexion Is not wholly the re
sult of a force acting from without
(that is, a persistent complexion is
not), nor, indeed, chiefly. There can
be no fine complexion without vigorous
health, and It la not unlikely that tho
Portland woman is as much indebted
to her pioneer ancestor as to the cli
mate for her beautiful skin, as for
her physique. The water Is probably a
greater factor In the production of tho
Portland woman's complexion than the
climate, for Portland bathes In a water
quits absolutely free fcrom all such
substances as are found elsewhere in
the best of potable waters. !
Mens wna in corpore sano Is pe
culiarly exemplified In this magnificent
people, for the Intellectual level Is as
high as the physical. A visiting bishop
in his .sermon of Sunday said that Port
land offered facilities for education
second to none In any community of
Its size in the country, and those of
us from the East who have come in
contact with even the average citizen
know that this was not merely a sop
thrown to the possible vanity of a
Portland audience, but a truth which
Portland has recognized in a practical
way.
But there is something In the West,
and especially in Portland, that no
mere description of Its people can con
vey. Cities have their personalities
even as individuals have. Boston bends
its stiff neck to a doubtful ancestry;
New York worships fifty millions, roy
alty and the latest human freak; Chi
cago has no Ideals that do not bear
the dollar mark, and human rights are
as remote from her code of ethics as
the farthest star is from the earth;
Cincinnati and Milwaukee retire from
business on an Income of two dollars
a day to enter a heaven of pinocle and
two glasses for five cents. Boston asks
"who was his father?" New York, "what
sort or stunt can he do?" Chicago,
"how much Is he worth?" Cincinnati
and Milwaukee "sprechen sfe
Deutsch?" and on affirmative answer
is attended by an invitation to take a
glass of beer at your own expense."
What aro Portland's distinctive
Ideals? A lady from California said
that Portland had all the culture of the
Pacific Coast states. Perhaps the
statement ought to be revised into say
ing that she has greater culture than
any other -community In the Pacific
Coast states. Undoubtedly she has.
and Just as certainly ,sho has as much
us. or more, genuine culture than any
other city of her size in the whole
country. If she has an overweening
ambition It is to be well thought of.
A most charming hostess, she enter
tains her guests lavishly and cordial
ly, her geniality, is radiated from the
smiling optimistic faces of every one of
her sons and daughters; those not born
to her but are hers by adoption, are
devoted in their loyalty and oa for
her, a most excellent testimonial of a
stepmother's worth; she Is neat in her
dress, clean and beautiful; she has a
woman's desire to be loved, and is
just a bit Jealous of the adventuress
up on the Soundj whoa character she
considers very unlike that of Caesar's
wife.
Ccrtwlnly a more virile, a handsomer. ;
more intellectual and happier humanl- j
ty than this of Portland, and a more
delightful city, are not within the
bounds of any other 3tate or any other
;ountry of the earth.
DR. JOHN MADDEN.
OIL IN POWELL VALLEY-
Seepage on C. D. Candler's Farm
Causes Great Excitement.
Oil excitement has again broken out In
Powell Valley, and a quantity of oily sub
stance has been received In Portland from
the farm of C. D. Chandler, who lives
south of Gresham, of which a test is being
made. It has the appearance of crude
petroleum. What seemed to be oil was
noticed floating on the surface of water
flowing from a small spring which emp
ties Into Deep Creek, which would burn
when a lighted match was applied to it.
It may be said that there are surface
indications of oil in several places In
Eastern Multnomah County, and seven
years ago half the farms were bonded for
15 years by syndicates, but no real lnves-
i m. i its
i
tigations were ever made. On the farm
of James Menzles, on the Base Lino road,
and on the farm of Dr. Miller, of Port
land, near Troutdalo, there are constant
flows of oil from the hillsides that will
readily burn wnen touched with a lighted
match.
A Pennsylvania oil expert. George M:
Coy, made-'cxamlnatlon of the indications
and pronounced them reliable, but h
said that he found shale. In which oil Is
found, along tho Sandy River, extending
southward for 100 miles. He thinks that
there Is no doubt but oil may be found in
Powell Valley at a depth of 1500 to 3X30
feet. .1 . J
Second Crowd or Hoys on Ontinjj.
The second lot of boys. 2S in number, ta
be given an outing at Seavlew through
the aid of the Juvenile Court officers, left
for their destination yesterday on tho
steamer T. J. Potter, in charge of Proba
tion Officer Marion R. Johnson. They
were a happy crowd, and cheered as they
marched through the streets on their way
to the steamer landing. The boys will
remain in camp for ten days, and will
visit scenes of Interest on Long Beach,
including the lighthouse. Fort Canby ami
the United States Llfesaving Station, near
Ocean Park. Another party will follow
at the end of the ten days.
Twenty Years of Success
In the treatment of chronic diseases, such as liver,
kidney and stomach disorders, constipation, diarrhoea,
dropsical swellings, Brlght's disease, etc.
Kidney and Urinary
Complaints, painful, difficult, too frequent, milky or
bloody urine, unnatural discharges speedily cured.
Diseases of the Rectum
Such as piles, fistula, fissure, ulceration, mucous and
bloody discharges, cured without the knife, pain or
confinement.
Diseases of Men
, niood DOison. gleet, stricture, unnatural losses, to-
uotencv 7ztZEnndiired- No failure. Cure guaranteed.
J""ccy tuiuUijEUiy wltn msht emissions, dreams, exhausting drains, basa-
fulnebs, aversion to society, w,hlcu deprive you or your manhood. U.F1T iou
FwD&AG M',rom excesses and strains have lost their MAXLY
VOWEll- mcS DISEASES, Syphilis, Gonorrhoea, painful, bloody urine.
Glee? Stricture Enlarged Prostate, Sexual Debility, Varicocele, Hydrocele. Kld
WuaAUvt&lcvi without MEltCUUV OH OTHEK POISONING
DRUGS. Catarrh and rheumatism CXJllED.
Dr Walker's methods are regular and scientific. Ha "uses no patent nos
t trums or ready-made preparations, but cures the disease by thorough medical
' treatment. His New Pamphlet on Private Diseases sent free to all men who de
scribe their trouble. PATIENTS cured at home. Terms reasonable. All letter
' answered In plain envelope. Consultation freo and sacredly confidential. Call
. on or address
I DR. WALKER, 181 First Street Corner Yamhill, . Portland, Or