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PART FOUR
PAGES. 37 TO 48
VOL. XXV.
PORTLAND, OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 6, 1906.
SO. 18.
The Glory and Splendor of the Human Body
SERMON WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN BY DR.
NEWELL D WIGHT HILLIS, PASTOR OF PLYMOUTH CHURCH .
PAYS
MOUSE
TO BE WHOLLY GENUINE
IF WE WERE TO OFFER YOU THE KIND OF FURNITURE SOLD IN THE USUAL STORE WE WOULD BE HEARTILY ASHAMED OF
OURSELVES. IF WE WERE TO OFFER YOU THE KIND OF INSTALLMENT CREDIT VOUCHSAFED BY THE AVERAGE STORE, WE
WOULD FEEL LIKE LEAVING THIS BUSINESS AND. EMBARKING IN SOMETHING ELSE. THE STRENGTH OF OUR GREAT SUC
CESS LIES IN THE FACT THAT WE ARE GENUINE. OUR MERCHANDISE IS GENUINE, OUR ADVERTISEMENTS ARE GENUINE, OUR
CREDIT PLAN IS GENUINE, GENEROUS, ORIGINAL AND FAR REACHING. THE POSSIBILITIES OF THIS GREAT CITY LEAVE AB
SOLUTELY NO EXCUSE FOR' ANYTHING BUT GENUINENESS, AND THE FACT THAT WE ARE OPENING HUNDREDS OF NEW AC
COUNTS EVERY WEEK IS THE BEST PROOF THAT THE PEOPLE BELIEVE US GENUINE. WE WANT THE OPPORTUNITY TO
PROVE IT. COME HERE AND LEARN OF OUR STERLING CREDIT SYSTEM; EXAMINE THE MERCHANDISE; COMPARE IT WITH
WHAT YOU MAY HAVE SEEN ELSEWHERE AND YOUR VERDICT WILL BE IN OUR FAVOR, OR ELSE THERE IS NOTHING IN BEING
GENUINE. . ', .
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if
A Very Handsome
Piece of
Furniture
for Your
Dining-Room
You'll like this, -we are sure of
that. It's a combination Sideboard
and China Closet, made of quarter
sawed oak, richly hand-carved and
set off with .14x20-inch - French
plate beveled mirror tend bent
glass door. It is high-class in
every detail of ' construction and
intended to retail at $45.00. Our
special price is ' '
S30.00
Terms: $5.00 Cash; $1.00 a week.
This, handsome Pedestal
Extension Table is of
fered at this extremely
low price that we may
demonstrate to the buy
ing public our ability to
undersell any furniture
institution in the city.
It is solid oak through
out, hand rubbed and
highly polished, has. 42
inch top and extends 6
feet. Special CI 7 Cfl
at our store PHJU
Terms. $2.50 cash;
91.00 weekly.
m m injnrji 1 1 t'?pfli'a.
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This Handsome Parlor Suit
$5.00 Cash, $1.00 a Week
This is a Parlor Suit that we can heartily recommend to our patrons. It is
a new and exquisite design, in rich mahogany finish, and is hand carved
in the highest style ot art. The covering is ot im
ported Verona velours, upholstered on oil-tempered
steel springs well worth $40.
Our price on above easy terms only
$28.75
BEDDING
. We have greatly enlarged our Bedding Department and offer the
finest selection of high-grade Bedding to be found in the city.
We Guarantee Satisfaction
And with our long experience and careful study of the -subject are
able to give you the MOST COMFORTABLE AND SANITARY
BEDDING- it is possible to purchase, at prices as reasonable as is
consistent with quality. We use only the purest and best materials
in the construction of all our Springs and Mattresses and employ
the most skilled labor. Every Spring and Mattress is made up- to
order, clean and fresh, and is carefully inspected and passed' on be
fore delivery. - ' V:'.." ' ' .
Morris Chair
This comfortable and elegant Morris
Chair is made from solid quarter
sawed oak, highly polished and
beautifully flaked, also mahogany
finish; the front legs have beauti
fully carved claw feet; steel spring
construction; cushions on seat and
back are upholstered in best qual
ity reversible velour, latest figures
and designs, at the low price of
$12.50
91.00 down; $1.00 weekly.
mm
K X. -1
1
v Porch
Rockers arid
Chairs
' We have the finest
line this season in the
city. This one, made
of hard maple, finished
light or forest green;
special .
$3.50
Carpet Bargains
3000 yards Brussels Carpet, regular $1.20, this week, yard....90
2000 yards Brusselette, regular 7fc, this week, yard .....40
1000 yards Chinese Matting 25c, this week at, yard 15
2000 yards Ingrain, 75c grade at, yard ...5of
1000 yards Granite Ingrain, fast colors, this week, yard. ...... .47
Refrigerator Special, $20
lleavy, substantial cabinet, charcoal packed and lined with galvanized
iron, removable metal shelves and other sanitary improvements, has most
perfect scientific cold air circulation. Cabinet is made in golden oak finish.
Made along new lines: a great economizer of ice. Is thoroughly guaranteed
in every particular $2.50 Cash, $1.00 weekly.
Go-Cart
This elegant and graceful Go-Cart is
the proper style for the coming
season made with full reed body,
upholstered in assorted-colors ; the
parasol is of mercerized satin, ruf
fled edge and adjustable automatic
brake, rubber tire wheels, enam
eled gear. The footboard and back
can be adjusted as desired. Push
rods are made of iron with neatly
turned handles 75
$2.50 cash; $1.00 weekly.
Folding Go-Carts, like
cut, $2.75
Everything to Furnish Cottage or Mansion in Stock. MAJESTIC Ranges
and Washing Machines, Refrigerators, Go-Carts, Etc.
WM. GADSBY 81 SONS
Cor. Washington and First Sts.
THE HOUSEFURNISHERS
The Store That Sells for Less
Text "For ye are the temple, of God."
IN HIS STUDY, of education, Thomas
Huxley speaks of the body as a kind
-of magic engine. grinding out
thoughts, Ideals and aspirations for in
dividual culture and social progress.
To feed the furnace carefully, to watch
the boiler and guard the safety-valve,
to do away with all friction, to bank
the fires early, perhaps 10 o'clock every
night, is to conserve the Integrity of
the engine, and secure its use and en-.
Joyment for 10 Summers and Winters.
High-pressure action is to be used
only at - rare Intervals, with plenty
'f time for subsequent recovery. God
built tae human engine for use, and
when properly cared, for, " there is
scarqely any limit to its endurance. But
one of the first things to be learned
by the human engineer is the art of
caring for his engine, and keeping it
in perfect condition and faultless re
pair. In his old age the Duke of Well
ington went back to Eton, where he
himself had played cricket as a boy.
Watching the players, the Iron Duke
turned to one of the masters to say:
"Two hours of exercise-are not enough..
It was through exercise on that cricket
field that I won the Battle of Water
loo." Boys and Their Health In the City.
- Above all others, our generation
needs to study the splendor and care
of the human body. We now have 20,
000,000 of people living in our cities.
Everything in the city's life conspires
against health arid physical strength.
All day long the boy breathes the
poisoned air of the store or factory.
He sleeps at night in the garret or
tenement house. So long as the hours
that young people and children ride on
the street-cars to their work. In Eng
land this has gone on so long that the
national physique has suffered irre
trievable injury. Nineteen young men
out of 20 in. the factories and shops
were refused by the examiners for the
Boer War because' of grievous physical
deterioration. Through bad air and
Improper exercise and confinement, the
lungs had suffered and the heart had
suffered, and the eyes had Buffered,
the legs were atrophied and the arms
overstrong. City life tends toward an ab
normal type. The time has come for our
people to realize that the American
physique may suffer grievously. The
Greeks understood these laws of the body.
What if every ward in New Tork and
Brooklyn had one solid block for the great
public gymnasium; the baseball, the foot
ball and the cricket, by night, under the
ligh,t of the electric lamps, so that work
ing boys could have their chance. What
if every boy arid girl in our city, after ten
hours in the shop or factory or store,
could get the poisoned air out- of the
lungs, aerate the blood, correct the ab
normal development of the body. What
a saving of life! What an enormous sav
ing also to the state, through the In
creased health and power of our work
men! All this would work toward econ
omy, and would mean better goods, larger
sales and greater wealth. And this end
will come. Every young boy whose life is
lost means the loss of a locomotive, cost
ing J12.000, bringing in 8 per cent. And
the loss, to the state by reason of the
lack of exercise Is one of the greatest
losses that confront the community.
The Body and Sleep.
Next to exercise in the care of the
body comes the Importance of sleep.
All the men who have done things
worth while have been good sleepers.
The first characteristic of work of the
first quality is the ease with which It
is thrown off. It Is no harder for a
really great man to do his immortal
thing than for a lesser man to do a
second-rate thing. It is Just as easy
for the great racehorse to trot a mile
In 2:08 as it is for a Shetland pony
to trot a mile in 8:02. But the ease
with which the great man has done
Ills work rests upon the integrity of
his nerve and brain, and that means
the soundness and abundance of his
sleep. A man who has a great ora
tion, a great legal argument to pro
nounce, or a great article to write,
always begins his preparation by first
sleeping for it and afterwards study
ing for it. Given a tired brain on
Friday morning and a sermon or ad
dress on Sunday, the poor ' way to
prepare is to spur the "brain on Friday
and Saturday; the ideal way is to
sleep, sleep, sleep,- with all the other
hours in the open air.. Then the brain
will do more work and better between
7 and. 13 o'clock on Sunday morning
than -lit two days and nights spent in
any other way. Jacob's best plans
and ambitions' came when he was ly
ing on the ground, sleeping or dream
ing under God's open heaven.. Just as
all of 'the visions of Samuel and Dan
iel, all the songs of David and all the
world-wide ; plans ot Paul came to
them In the nighttime upon their beds.
Every- time Jesus fronted a great crisis,
ho went at night into the Mount of Olives,
or into the desert, and through sleep and
solitude found himself and bis plans and
proved them. Napoleon lost the battle of
Waterloo through sleeplessness and
the fatigue that overwhelmed him at
the critical moment. We all know
now that President Harper's attempt
to live on four hours' sleep has cost
the educational world an immeasur
able loss. . Whenever depositing money
In the bank makes the man's acoount
poorer, then sleep will begin to lessen
man's intellectual output and his per
sonal success.
Temperance and the Body.
Not less Important are all counsels
in favor of moderation, self -cop troL
The peril of our day is excess in eat
ing, excess in drinking, excess In
working. One-half of the food we eat
Is sufficient to keep the bpdy in per
fect condition and do all our work.
The other half simply weakens the
body by the necessary nerve strength
Involved In digestion. As for the
drinking and the smoking well, how
marvelous is the constitution of man,
and what abuses it can survive: Worst
of all is the excess in working. Tlie
average . business man In the . pews
looks like a Kentucky horse gaunted
up in the flanks. The poor, over
strained racehorse pulls on the bit be
cause he is overexcited and In dan
ger of nervoBs collapse. Our medical
experts know that the first sign of
nervous breakdown 1b the inability to
stop working, and the necessity of
plunging straight on. So . soon as the
youth finds himself restless. Impatient,
Irritable, without repose or power to
keep still, he may know that the nerve
Is fevered.. Hunger is the danger sig
nal for the body, as Is thirst, but rest
lessness is an alarm bell. The safe
rule Is, do no more work in the day
time than you can recover from by
one night's sleep. It is the little things
that drain away the precious nerve
fluids,, the little worries, the little ex
cesses., the trifling sins against the
laws of digestion and exercise and
sleep. Today we eat too much food,
we drink too much, we smoke too
much, we read too many newspapers,
we have too little quiet, too little rest,
too little repose. The time has come
when a man cannot go out to spend
an evening with a friend without hav
ing to listen to two essays on reform
and four pieces on the piano. I great
ly envy Methuselah, with his 969
years, because it was his habitual rule
every now and than 'to take 30 years
for a Summer vacation, and loaf and
refresh his soul.
The Body and the Character.
More important still the Influence of
thought and emotion and character upon
the human body. What the mind thinks
the body becomes. Evil thoughts stamp
the brow with sensuality. Cruel
thoughts twist -the lines of the lips, ir
resolution . and fliibblnrsa of - will make
the mouth feeble .' and 'characterless.
Fevered . and passionate thoughts -and
drunkenness can make-the body a mere
lump of flesh, stamped, all over with
selfishness and sin. Go over to the
Bowery and look at these human wrecks,
with their purple faces and swollen and
distorted features; the shuttling walk, the
furtive and bloodshot eyes;, there are men
who have sinned against the body" be
cause of long lingering in the jungle, un
til they seem to shuffle forward in a way
that reminds us of the crawling of the
snake. There are men whose very voices
remind us of the far-of howling of the
hyena and the wolf, hidden in the distant
forest. God made the child's face beautiful,-
rhan mars what God made. But
the body is his temple. Wondroys, In
deed, the house! All passions are ene
mies. Like drunken soldiers and bur
glars they come in to loot the pantry and
the cellar. All selfishness and avarice
are like savage Huns, come into the
palace to tear down the curtains and tap
estries, that they may wallow in them.
But, he who sins against the body will
soon destroy it. It is sin that breaks
the golden bowl; sin can loosen the silver
cord; vice can darken the windows in
temperance can break the pitcher at the
fountain; passion can shake the foun
dations and bring the house down In
t-ulns. But he who destroys God's tem
ple, him will God Judge. For this is the
conclusion of the whole matter "Fear
God and . keep his commandments toward
body and mind, for God shall bring every
work into Judgment' with every secret
thing, whether it be good or whether it
be evil."
A Week
eeK m a Law
BY MAKCUS W. ROBBINS
Law Office
Monday, April 2.
LADY came In and wanted to get a
divorce from her husband, on the
grounds of desertion "after three
years f married ife. Took the case, but
after looking at her face, wondered how
the poor fellow had managed to stand it
for three .years.
Sam Smith wanted, me to invest a hun
dred dollars in a new door lock he had in
vented. Promised fabulous returns; but
had to disappoint him. .
Committee raising funds for the new
bandstand, . struck me for a subscription.
I subscribed.
Had a candidate for Congress, two Con
stables and a Coroner call. Each was glad
to meet me.
Got a letter from Portland about State
ment No. 1.
Tailor came in with his bill for my
suit. Stood him off for ten days.
The Woman's Relief Corps gave a
chicken pie supper. Took it in. . -
Tuesday. April 3.
Mrs. Jones consulted me as to how
she could prevent her daughter receiving
the attentions of Frank Holman. Told
her that a slipper properly applied was
the best remedy that I knew of.
Drew up a new will for Peter Hansen
who has Just had a row with hia son.
Had a suit in the Justice Court over half
a ton of srlfalfa. Got, beaten but made
five dollars out of it.
Committee of ladies from the Presby
terian Church were around raising funds
to send their -preacher eff on a vacation.
As I had heard him once or twice, I
cheerfully subscribed.
' A candidate for State Treasurer called
today. Seemed a nice man
Got a letter from Portland stating that
Bill Andrews was "a trust candidate and
for me to work against him.
The butcher struck me for my meat
bill. Stood him off for a. week.
The Episcopal Church gave a chicken
pie supper. I went.
Wednesday, April 4.
Peter Holland was in f rom Steamboat
Creek to bond his copper mine. This is
the fifth bond for that property that I
have drawn up. It pays my telephone
bills.
Drew up articles ot incorporation for
the Golden Buzzard Mining & Develop
ment Company. Capital stock W.000,000.
They gave me a mlllon shares for mak
ing out the papers ...
Subscribed to a fund to plant trees
around the courthouse square.
A candidate for County Judge called.
Told me that he would build good roads
and give the people an economical ad
ministration. Landlord . said I'd have to move if I
didn't pay up. Told him I expected a
large fee soon. - 1 .
The Salvation Army gave a chicken pie
supper. I was there.
Thursday, April 5.
An agent sold me a 40-volume set of
ancient and modern poets bound in flex
ible, leather; only have to pay a dollar' a
month. Paid my first month. ...
Drew up an agreement for cutting
wood between John Wilson and Charles
Baker. Baker borrowed $5 ot me to buy
a cross-cut saw.
Subscribed to a fund to paint the town
flagpole. :'
Hardware man sent in his bill for
plumbing. I filed it.
Went to a sunbonnet social given- to
raise money for the starving Japanese.
Friday, April 6.
Andrew Johnson came in and wanted to
know if he could get his father in the
poorhouse. ,
Frank Jordan wanted to find out what
they, 'could fine a man who had com
mitted assault and battery. If it wasn't
too steep, he intended to thrash another
citizen who had Insulted him.
Took a candidate for Secretary of State
around town' and Introduced him to all
the prominent citizens.
The man who sold me a Morris chair
threatens to sue. If I don't pay up.
Signed a subscription list to pay for
sprinkling the streets.
Saturday, .April 7.
Crank came In the office today and
wanted me to subscribe for the Appeal
to Reason. Said all lawyers were para
sites on the body politic and that labor
produced all wealth. Almost talked an
arm off me, so I subscribed to get rid of
him.
Right after he left a Seventh Day Ad
ventist wanted me to buy' some health
food.: Said I looked as though my liver
was out of order.
.. This was War Cry day also.
Some preachers were In. Wanted ad
vice on Local Option.
Agreed to get a saloon license for
Harry Sylvester.
Bought a Panama hat; told the mer
chant to charge it and that I would pay
for it in a day or two. -He looked
dubious.
Subscribed to a fund to buy a gold
headed can for Amos Slmklns, one of our
old settlers, who has lived in Oregon 80
years.
Drove out in the afternoon with a can
didate for Sheriff.
Sunday, April S.
Went fishing. Had the usual fisher
man's luck !
MARCUS W. ROBBINS,
Grant's Pass, Or.
EPITOME OF RELIGIOUS THOUGHT
'The day when the church could say.
There is the creed; believe it or be
damned!' has passed awaV, but a harder
task remains, and that task is to build
up on the foundation of modern culture
an enduring temple of worship. Unless
this can be done, religion is doomed."
Rev. J. C. Hodgins. First Unitarian
Church, Milwaukee, Wis.
"Again, power is inferred from the ca
pacity to resist attack. The oak tree
ollnging to the hillside and defying , the
storm blast, is a symbol of power. Port
Arthur, for months holding out against
the fierce attack of a skilled enemy, was
a symbol of power, so the Gospel has had
hurled against it the cultivated Intellec
tual power of the world through cen
turies of attack and yet remains unshak
en." Rev. William Howard Falkner, of
St Paul's Church (Episcopal), Louisville,
Ky.
The city of God Is a place so vast that
it bewilders all attempts at computation.
One great mathematician devoted a full
two years to the measurements that were
given John in the Revelation. His deduc
tion was that If the racewas to continue
on earth' 5000 years longer and to increase
at the normal pro rata, there would be
space for a five-room house, each room 15
feet square and 15 feet high, for every
member of the race and that this would
only take up one-third of the area of that
great city! Another third would remain "
for boulevards and beauty spots. Another
third would be for the palace and the
throne of the King of Kings. Rev. Wtl
Ham Coburn,. Evangelist, of New York
City. , .;
The way to have right voters is to .,
make good men. Majorities may vote ...
Christ up or vote him down. In its ."
preparation of citizens for the responsi- '
billties of citizenship the church Is a po
litical Institution and the minister is a
politician. We are raising up men' who '
will vote for Jesus Christ and the thing
be represents." The Rev. L. H. Keller,
of Pilgrim Congregational Church, Mil- :
waukee, Wis.
"A gentleman took his young son to
Washington recently, and showed him
through the Senate chamber. Soon a
stately, dignified old gentleman ap
proached, and the lad satd, 'Papa, - who
is that?"
. " 'That, said the father, . 'is Edward
Everett .Hale,- the chaplain of the Sen
ate.' ' 'And does he pray for the SenateT
queried the child. -
" 'No,' continued the father. "He looks
at the Senators, and then prays for his
country." The Rev. Dr. Newell Dwinht
Hillis. of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn,
N. X.