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A PART FOUR PAGES 37 TO 48 VOL. XXV. POBTIAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 7, 1906. NO. 1. "It Is Better Farther On ' Sermon Written for The Sunday Oregonian by Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis, of Brooklyn. WILLIAM GADSBY & SONS' SIXTEENTH ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE Second Week See Our Windows for Bargains EVERY ARTICLE REDUCED FROM TEN TO FIFTY PER CENT. NOTE THE FOLLOWING PRICES CARPETS SPECIAL, CASH SALE Hartford Axminsters, regular $1.85, sale price, yard $1.51 Alexander Smith's Axminsters, regular $1.70, sale price, yard S1.38 Saxony Axminsters, regular $1.60, sale price, per yard r $1.30 AVilton Velvets, regular $1.60, sale price, per yard : $1.30 Dunlap Vel verts, regular $1.25, sale price, per yard 94 Body Brussels, regular $1.75, sale .price, per yard $1.43 SarifortTs Brussels, regular $1.25, sale price, per yard 98 Smith's Palisade Tapestry, regular $1.10, sale price, yard 86 Higgins' Tapestry Brussels, regular $1.00, sale price, yard 73 Best Extra Super, all-wool, regular $1.00, sale price, yard" 78 Maharajah, Pro-Brussels, regular $1.00, sale price, yard 78 Ingrain, all-wool filled, regular 85c, sale price, yard . 70 Union Ingrains, regular 55c, sale price, yard. . .44 The above prices include making, laying and padded lining. An allowance of 10c per yard will 1)0 made if Carpet is only cut from roll. Rugs Are on Sale at Reduced Prices $50.00 Bagdad Rugs, 9x12, sale price $36.00 $48.061 Bigelow Wilton Rugs, 9x12, sale. . . .$36.00 $38.00 Burlington Axminsters, 9x12, sale.. $27.90 $38.00 Burlington Axminsters, 9x12, sale.. $27.90 $32.50 Body Brussels, 9x12, sale price $25.55 $30.00 "Wilton Velvets, 9x12, sale price $22.30 $27.50 Wilton Velvets, 9x12, sale price $22.30 $27.50 Roxbury Rugs, 9x12, sale price $22.30 $20.00 Brussels Rugs, 9x12, sale price $16.20 $18.00 Brussels Rug, 8-3x10-6, sale price.. .$14.00 $22.00 Pro-Brussels Rug, 12x15, sale price. $16.20 $20.00 Pro-Brussels Rug, 12x13-6, sale $14.60 $18.00 Pro-Brussels Rug, 12x12 feet $13.00 $16.00 Tro-Brussels Rug, 12x10-6, sale $11.40 $14.00 Pro-Brussels Rug, 9x12, sale price $9.75 $12.00 Ingrain Rug, 9x12, sale price $9.75 Sample Carpet Rugs 3 for $1 Brass and Iron Beds $70.00 Brass Beds, now $50.00 $60.00 Brass Beds, now. . . , $40.00 $45.00 Brass Beds, now i. .$35.50 $25.00 Brass Beds, now $16.50 $37.50 Iron Beds reduced to ' $22.50 $22.50 Iron Beds reduced to ; ... $16.50 $18.00 Iron Beds reduced to $13.50 $15.00 Iron Beds reduced to $10.00 $12.00 Iron Beds reduced to $9.00 $10.00 Iron Beds reduced to . $7.50 $ S.50 Iron Beds reduced to $6.00 $ 6.50 Iron Beds reduced to $4.50 $ 5.00 Iron Beds reduced to $3.50 $ 3.50 Iron Beds reduced to $2.85 EXTRA SPECIAL 25 Per Cent Discount on Leather Couches and Leather Chairs Bargains in All Departments Including Bedding, Crockery, Lamps, Odd Rockers and Chairs, Odd Parlor Pieces, Lace Curtains, Por tieres and Couch Covers, Heaters, Cookstoves and Ranges and Office Furniture, all at reduced prices. Small Parlor Rug's at Clearance Sale Prices $8.50 Rugs now $6.75 $7.00 Rugs now $5.50 $6.00 Rugs now $4.75 $5.00 Rugs now $3.75 $3.50 Rugs now $2.25 $2.50 Rugs now $1.25 Buffet Bargains $65.00 $50.00 $42.00 $36.00 $25.00 $18.00 $100.00 Buffets $ 75.00 Buffets $ 60.00 Buffets $ 45.00 Buffets $ 37.00 Buffets $ 27.50 Buffets reduced to. reduced to. reduced to. reduced to. reduced to. reduced to. Mission Furniture In Weathered Oak. For Dining-rooms, halls, libraries and dens at sale prices. We Are Sole Agents for the Celebrated Majestic Ranges Prices Reduced The Only Furniture Store That Owns Their Own BuUding---No Rents to Pay That's Why We Sell Cheaper Desks and Bookcases at Sale Prices $12.00 Ladies' Desk, birdseye maple, reduced to $8.00 $10.00 Ladies' Desk, birdseye maple, reduced to $7.50 $6.00 'Ladies' Desk, white maple, reduced to. $4.50 $15.00 Ladies' Desk, mahogany veneer, reduced to $11.50 $12.00 Ladies' Desk, imitation mahogany, reduced to $9.00 $30.00 Ladies' Desk, solid mahoganv, reduced to $22.50 $25.00 Ladies' Desk, golden oak, reduced to '....$20.00 $25.00 Combination Bookcase and Desk, imitation mahogany, reduced to $16.00 $30.00 Combination Bookcase, and Desk, mahogany veneered, now $22.50 $25.00 Combination Desk and Bookcase, in quarter sawed oak, now. $20.00 $22.50 Desk and Bookcase, oak, now $17.50 $15.00 Chautauqua Desk, oak, now $10.00 $12.00 Chautauqua Desk, maple, now $9.00 $15.00 Bookcase, glass doors, 3 feet wide, 5 feet 6 inches high, mahoganized maple, now $9.00 $4.50 open-front Bookcase, now $3.50 Hundreds of others equalty as good all through the establishment. Parlor Cabinets at Sale Prices $50.00 $45.00 $35.00 $25.00 $20.00 $15.00 $13.00 Mahogany Mahogany Mahogany Mahogany Mahogany hogany Parlor Parlor Parlor Parlor Parlor Finish Finish Cabinet, now. Cabinet, now. Cabinet, now. Cabinet, now. Cabinet, now. Cabinet, now. Cabinet, now. ..$40.00 ..$38.00 ..$27.50 -.$17.50 ..$16.50 ..$10.00 ....$9.00 Sideboard Bargains Sideboard, now. $80.00 Sideboard, now $75.00 Sideboard, now $59.00 Sidehoard, now $45.00 Sideboard, now $30.00 Sideboard, now $28.00 Sideboard, now $26.00 Sideboard, now $2200 Sideboard, now $20.00 Sideboard, now $15.00 $154.00 $U0.0O $ 84.00 65.00 40.00 37.00 35.00 30.00 $ 25.00 $ 20.00 China Closets $90.00 China Closet, now... $68.00 $86.50 China Closet, now $60.00 $82.00 China Closet, now $59.00 $60.00 China Closet, now $40.00 $45.00 China Closet, now : $36.00 $37.00 China Closet, now $28.50 $30.00 China- Closet, now. $25.00 $25.00 China Closed now 20 00 $20.00 China Closet, now. . . .$13.50 and $15.00 WILLIAM GADSBY & SONS (INCORPORATED) THE HOUSEFURNISHERS Corner. Washington and First Streets Text: "KorEettlns the thlnga -which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things, which axe before." CJOR all men, small as -well as great, 1 even for those -who have succeeded and conquered, apparently all honors. It 13 true that the beat Is yet to be. Heroic Paul, earth's most Intrepid, and earth's sublimist spirit, standing forth In old age with a thousand victories behind him, knew that he had. not yet attained. No matter -what your success, I appeal from the seed to the coming- sheaf, from the acorn, to the coming- oak, from the little spring- to the future river, from your Ig norance to -wisdom, from your fragmen tary tooL or law or custom to perfect virtue, from the broken, arc to the full circle, from the white cloud to the stars that are above the clouds. Our raco has short plans, and oft can not seen an. inch before ts face and re fuses to believe that the best Is yet to be. Once a man has some victory, some vir tue, a noble deed, a happy hour In his past, he becomes a child of memory and stands looking regretfully back. Indeed, nothing is stranger than that one epoch In life always looks regretfully back toward the one that immediately pre ceded it. Thus the old man envies the mature man, the mature man with his weight of duty envies the young man with life all before him, the young man envies the boy with his freedom from care, and each age Is eclipsed by the Joy of a preceding epoch. The Illusions that belong to the past He like a golden cloud over a "man's spirit. Looking- backward, nothing can bring back the splendor In the grass, the glory in the flower, for all has faded Into the light of common day. Standing upon the scene of former battle, the soldier re calls the error and mourns over an op portunity gone forever. Returning to the scenes of his childhood, the scholar sor rows over those far-away days of Idle ness, with opportunities that will never return. In middle life the business man recalls the wasted resources of his youth, the little capital that' he squandered, the treasure that, if it had been saved, would now become a vast fortune. Gone the great chances! Gone youth with Its ani mal spirits I Gone the memory years, plastic and swift to receive knowledgel Gone the old friends, to whom the kind words can never be spoken! Men who have made a failure of yesterday feel that It is impossible that the best is yet to be. Good men there are, overtaken by the loss of their beloved dead, who are sure that yesterday holds the best and that tomorrow holds only emptiness and heartbreak. Here is Edmund Burke, standing beside the mound that holds the son who was to hand forward his name and fame, going forward toward an in creasing loneliness. How could it be true that the best Is yet to be? And yet "Gcd's in his heaven, all's right with the world." If his purposes are the lifeblood of the universe, invincible optimism alone Is rational. For the scholar, for the statesman, for the hero, for the martyr, for the merchant, It is true that you have not yet done your best, and this Is the year, perchance, when you may at tain and say, "At last I have apprehended and overtaken a form of perfect virtue." For Youth It Is Better Farther On. Because life is in a series of ascending climaxes, and because it waxes ever richer and richer, for ever' man, whether young or old, it Is better further on, and the best is yet to be. Under some poetic glamor men have over-emphasized youth. This epoch, when the blood bmshes In the cheek and runs hot and strong in its courses, is the epoch dear unto mankind. The poet sings endless peans of praise unto youth. At the feet of the youth and maiden mankind flings many trib utes of praise. It Is youth that must be painted for the Interpretation of faith and hope and charity. It is youth that is sung by all the poets. Men do. Indeed, value the experience named middle age, but the reason is that it is the epoch of the soldier, the Inventor, the jurist; it Is the epoch when the strong hand holds the helm and waves the sword and opens the furrow and stretches out the scepter. But the beginning of life, named infancy, is despised, and the end of life, named old age, is abhorred. Because the beginning and the end are not worth while, savage peoples slay their infants and their old men with equal readiness. Thus it seems that youth and maturity make up an oasis that shades one way into a desert named In fancy, and shades the other way into a desert named old age. This explains the fact that if the Greeks despised old men, the Indians also despise and slay them. Egerton Young, the Arctic traveler, once said that on a September day, com ing to the edge of the forest, he found an old Indian chief who had roped a great brown bear. The young braves had gone off for the Autumn hunt. Before going they had told their old father that he was too old to be of any use, and they would kill him on their return, being too poor to carry him through the Winter. Left in the village with the tents and children, one day the old chief found a bear a bear that was itself so old that it had lost its claws and its teeth. When It struck, therefore, its strokes were as the strokes of a stuffed club, and its blows did not hurt. The old chief lariated the bear and dragged it in. and when his sons returned they found their old father had achieved something that had always been beyond their skill. But, -what was far better, they found Egerton Young; who was there to give them the begin ning of a school, -with an outlook upon the law of love and of reverence for one's parents and for the sanctity of human life. But this contempt for old age is all but universal. Men do not believe, as they look forward to the time of phy sical weakness, that the best is yet to be. Nevertheless, life Is a river that broadens and deepens toward the hour -when it leaps into the infinite ocean. Beautiful as are the apple blossoms, the red glow of the clustered fruit In Oc tober, in the old age of the year, has a richer color, and represents an abid ing: feod. Why should men be scourged forward like slaves unto old age? Why iJjdflL Jthey. shrink Jack frpj it, as tJiQUj;' It was a form cf degradation? The day goes toward the hour of sunset with ever waxing- splendor. The year soes toward Autumn with a beauty that ever enhances. Life is a. waxing- treas ure! Infancy is good; childhood is bet ter; childhood is good, youth with its amazing- joys is more valuable: youth Is valuable, but maturity with Its tool. Its law, it3 gold, its honors, is better: maturity is good, but old age. with its harvested wisdom and friendship and love. Is better than maturity. In April the orchard puts forth its buds, in No vember It shakes down the ripe fruit: then Winter cuts the tree down, but tho life tree cut down by death in old age, is transplanted that it may bloom and bear fruit on the "happy hills of Paradise. Your life, therefore, is in the future. God keeps the best wine of the feast until beyond old ago and death, for there beyond the stars in immortal youth, men drink of wisdom's cup. and taste the wine that wisdom mingles. For Those Who Suffer Injustice. For obscure ones who are unrecog nized, for all who have iJhown kind ness and reaped gratitude, for the mul titude who have achieved great things and done the work while another has carried off the honor, for the great host of uncrowned heroes, It Is better further on. All these have not yet done their best work. Honors are very un equal, If In this life only we have hope. It would seem as if the universe were keyed to injustice. For the most part, history is a volume of untruths. An au thor a generation ago wrote an essay on 'The Decay of Lying-.' That was before the era of the historical noel. The story of yesterday is a kind of Munchausen tale about Kings and bat tles, with this word on the back. "His tory." Witness, for example, the Bos ton tea party. A most charming- ex ample this of the lack of perspective In history. There were seven tea par ties in this country, tea parties which the British attended as invited guests, but to which they came reluctantly. The first one was held on the Delaware. One day the ship, laden with tea, dropped anchor In the river. The citi zens discussed the injustice of the tax and decided that their protest should be openand above board. No disguises for them, that the British might not know whom to arrest. No stealing- around under cover of dark ness. These Quakers and Moravians and Philadelphia, patriots marched at high noon, with the magistrates and leading citizens at their "head, down to tho river. They boarded the ship and held the arms of the British behind their backs. The people carried the boxes of tea to the wharf, kicked the heads in. made a pyramid, set fire to the tea, and made the British soldiers take their compliments to King- George, who did not dare rule over a free people. Then heroism became a contagion. Moving northward. It swept over New England. When five tea parties had al ready been held and the past was se cure, the citizens of Boston also de cided to hold one. Protected from dan ger by darkness, made secure by Indian blankets, they held a little midnight tea party, and at daybreak the British did not know whom to arrest. Now, it Hap pened that the English commander did not care to send word home about those Philadelphia patriots, whose noonday courtage put the British soldiers in so bad a plight. Invention or British General. Ashamed of his defeat, the British General, who knew that the English government liad a singular dread of the Indian, with his subtlety and hl3 midnight attack, wrote the full story of the Boston tea party home and ex plained the loss of the tea by the brav ery of the Indians. And so the tea party that was held sixth out of the seven Is the one that Is known In his tory being, as a matter of fact, the only one that was hardly worth know ing. All historians and scholars un derstand this. Our writers have published the full story, but the people have not time to go to the archives and read the histo rian's monograph. But what matters It? It is of no consequence to a man who does a brave deed that another gets the credit of It. The consciousness that one has done the deed is the great thing. That another man climb3 on the roof and trumpets forth the claim that he did the deed and gets his name tagged to the victory is a little thing. In the long run all wrongs are righted, all honors are equalized, all mistakes corrected. For all the children of failure and de feat, it is better further on. For all those who have succeeded and won great vic tories, the word of wisdom is, "You have not done your best yet." For all who have suffered from obscurity and Injus tice and Ingratitude, the best 13 yet to be. Sowing in tears, the time will surely come when, they will reap with joy. Some there are who rebel against this thought. They do not want anything better tomorrow than they had yesterday they want only those whom yesterday they lost. What unaccomplished aims, what broken plans, what mutilated ideals, what marred hopes! The buttery tears its way from the chrysalis and come3 forth with rag ged, torn wings. Our Ideals, too. In birth are mutilated. The artist's picture Is a daub In comparison with that ideal love liness that dwelt in his imagination. The sweetest song for the poet is only a jar ring discord in contrast with that melody that he heard In his dreams. We plan the circle and we compass only a broken arc. David dreams about his temple Ions afterwards Solomon builds it. This is the atory of the patriots, the martyrs, the heroes, the founders; they have labored other, men have entered into the fruit of their labors, carrying off the honors- and reaping the harvest. Oh, God's ways are not as our ways! For him tb.ere are no defeats. AH things work for good to those who love him. it is always better further on. Therefore to day open thy hand and sow thy seed. Love Godt trust jilra and rsokt.