PART FOUR
PAGES 37 TO 48
VOL,. XXV
PORTLAND. OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, 31 AY 13, 190C.
NO. 19.
QADSBYS' SELL IT FOR LESS
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FOR THE OUTFIT"
Said the bride to the groom. Gadsbys' is now the popular meeting place for young couples. As soon as the honeymoon is ended and the young :
folks settle down to the realities of life, then the young wife says to her husband:, "MEET ME AT GADSBYS' FOR THE OUTFIT." It is
the right place to go at any time, but especially so 'during our GIGANTIC SPRING SALE. An outfit from Gadsbys' during the Spring Season
costs you just ONE-THIRD LESS than from any other concern for the same class of goods. This surely is a large saving for young people
starting in life. "TO HAVE AND TO HOLD" is the motto of young married people. During this SALE they can HAVE Furniture and
Carpets and HOLD their savings; they can HAVE credit and HOLD their self-respect. They can HAVE furniture and carpets to the value
of one hundred cents on the dollar and HOLD a large per cent of their earnings in their pockets.. If you intend going housekeeping don't
figure and don't worry, but let "GADSBYS FEATHER YOUR NEST" and PROTECT YOU with THEIR GENEROUS AND JUST CREDIT.
A Straight Carload of
Morris Chairs
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This comfortable and elegant Mor
ris (.'hair is made from solid
quarter-sawed oak, highly pol
ished and beautifully flaked, also
mahogany finish; the front legs
have beautifully- carved claw
feet ; steel spring eonst motion ;
cushions on seat and back are
upholstered in best . quality re
versible velour, latest fifrurrs and
designs, at the low price of
$12.50
Others as low as S"59."30.
Special Sale Refrigerators
20 Per Cent Discount Carload Arrived Saturday
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Heavy, substantial cabinet, charcoal packed and lined with gal
vanized iron, removable metal shelves and other sanitary improve
ments; has most perfect scientific cold air circulation. Cabinet is made
in golden oak finish. White Enamel inside. Made along new lines;
a great economizer of ice. Is thoroughly guaranteed in every particular.
Steel Ranges
The Leader Range is guaranteed
for ten years and is as good and
better than most Ranges sold for
$.15.00 Gadsbvs' Price is
only 927.50
Same with reservoir $32.50
Gadsbys' Sleeping
Folding Go-Cart $9.50
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CARPETS
Mothers should give their spe
cial . attention to the baby at this .
season of the year. This Go-Cart
has a fine reed body, with best
chilled steel wheels and rubber tires
and finely finished handle. Both
back and front are adjustable. A
beautiful parasol completes the
outfit, Gadsbys have the largest
stock and all are being sold at
lowest prices.
Folding Go-Carts from $2.75 up.
BIG BARGAINS IN OUR CARPET
DEPARTMENT
AMBER VELVETS;" REGULAR $1.35, THIS WEEK S1.15
FIRTH TAPESTRY BRUSSELS, $1.10; THIS WEEK ..95
BRUSSEIS RUGS, 8:3x10:6; REGULAR $20.00; CLOSE
OUT AT $16.50
ALL CARPETS, RUGS AND OTHER FLOOR COVERINGS MADE,
LAID AND LINED FREE.
Porch Rockers and Chairs
We have the finest line this season in the city. This one, made of hard
maple, finished light or forest green; special .553.50
GADSBYS' SELL IT FOR LESS
SPECIAL!
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Bridge Whist, or Five Hundred
Folding " Card Table, light and
substantial size 24x30. The regu
lar price of these Folding Card
Tables is $2.50; this week, while
they last, for.... .'.$1.00
Gadsbys' Hallrack
$14.50
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Made of highly
polished quarter
sawed oak, piano
polish, nicely
carved, solid
metal trimmed .
throughout,
large- French
plate mirror
and spacious
boy-under seat."
A Hat Rack
that will add
grace to any
reception hall
and is without
a doubt a most
desirable article.
Gadsbys'
China Closet $18.00
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If you want an excellent China
Closet of medium size you should
have this one. It is highly pol
ished golden oak, with curved
glass ends and is a splendidly
made piece of furniture; regular
price $26.00 Gadsbya' Price
only 18.00
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Napoleon Beds, in quarter-sawed
oak,' beautiful -creations, $35.00
to $45.00
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 Streets
THE; HOUSEFURNISHERS
The Store That Sells for Less
Christ the Reconciler of Opposing
Te mpe ra merits
SERMON WRrTTEN FOR THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN BY DR. NEWILI,
DWIGHT HIIiLIS, PASTOR OF PLTMOl'TH CHURCH, BROOKLYN.
Text: 'l am not com. to destroy, but to
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IN CONTRAST with other leaders.
Jesus Is at once the Ideal radical and
the Ideal conservative. He perfectly
unites these contradictory qualities, both
in his thought and In his life. His career
seems the stranger for the reason that
radicalism and conservatism are present
paradoxes of thought. They are opposite
poles, and are separated as the east from
the west. The emblem of the radical is
the ax laid to the root of the tree. The
motto of the conservative is. "Hold fast
to that wiilch is good." The radical is a
pathfinder, going on before to blaze the
way, like Abraham, who went into a land
he knew not of. The conservative pre
fers safety, and, like those Abraham left,
remains behind, choosing to dwell in
ceiled houses and to wear a silken vest.
Vision power, therefore, is the charac
teristic of the progressive; memory and
reverence belong to the conservative.
The radical is a forward-looking man,
living by hope; the conservative looks
backward, and, like the Mississippi River
pilot, steers from behind. Both tempera
ments are necessary to progress; the
radical, because he forget9 yesterday's
battles and victory in the zeal for a new
reform; the conservative, because he
faithfully guards treasures and institu
tions accumulated by the fathers.
Each Alone Represents Half a Man.
But when either tendency becomes para
mount, the manhood becomes partiar and
the leadership perilous. Every full-orbed
man is rational in front and conservative
behind. After his master, Paul was the
ideal reformer; with his left hand he re.
membered the things that were behind
and held fast to them, that his life might
have continuity; with his right hand he
reached forward to the things that were
before, that he might have progress
Cut Paul In the middle and the front
half would have made a garrison in re
form and the rear half would have made
a conservative theologian, defending a
creed. In running a wagon .and pulling
a load, going up hill the horses are ail
radical, asking only for traces; going
down hill they are all conservative, ask
ing only for brakes. But the absence of
either element In the harness means a
catastrophe. History, therefore, exhibits
many partial and fragmentary men. In
religion, here is that conservative young
rabbi, named Saul, who will defend the
old Judaism even if he must slay
Stephen. In politics, here is Charles I,
standing for the divine right , ot kings,
even -though he is a barrier against all'
progress. In ecclesiasticism, - we behold
our theologians refusing to alter a creed
one jot or tittle. But examples of false
radicalism- are just as numerous. In
politics, here is Robespierre, who led his
pilgrim band out of the wilderness, not
by Qod's pillar of cloud and fire, but by
the light of blazing towns and cities.
Here, too, is Thoreau, who would not
pay taxes because he did not believe in
slavery, who would not vote when he had
no other Instrument for righting a foul
wrong. It seems, therefore, that when a
man becomes all radical or all conserva
tive he Is a danger to his generation and
to his country. The soul Is a living or
ganism. . Ufe is a solid column of days
and years, and so, too. are institutions.
The continuity of life, therefore, must be
preserved. . Tho soul Is 'a tree; you may
cut away the rotten branch with one
hand, but you must free the roots with
the other. Political institutions, religious
Institutions, Industrial institutions, are
like vines. Tou may prune them and you
may graft them, but you touch the life at
your peril, for with their death comes
your starvation. With one hand, then,
labor for the vice's growth at the top,
while with the other hand conserve the
root at the bottom. In these days, there
fore, when men are discussing creeds. In
dustrial institutions, political institutions,
we can hardly find a more practical
theme than this one Jesus Christ, the
ideal radical and the ideal conservative,
as an example for all who seek to de
stroy old wrongs and bring in a new and
better way.
Perhaps we shall find no finer illustra
tion of Christ's power to destroy the
evil and save the good in an institution
than his work for Judaism. The old sys- ,
tem of the temple and the synagogue
was decadent, outgrown and partial.
There stood the temple with Its altars,
the pen crowded with sheep and goats,
the butcher with his knife, and the priest
with his robe. The time was. In the
days of Moses, and even of David, when
these outer symbols were full of instruc
tion to the Hebrews. But what Is good
for a race in Its childhood Is bad for
that race In Us maturity. Moses was the
Pestalozzi of his age. He was the first
to organize a system of symbols that ap
pealed to the mind through the eye.
Great was Froebel! Wonderful also the
genius of Pestalozzi! But greater than
both multiplied a score of times, the
genius ot Moses. Twenty-five years ago
It was quite the thing to talk about the
mistakes of Moses. But since that time
clay libraries and tablets have been de
ciphered, a thousand old rolls translated,
manuscripts have been compared, the
storied East has yielded" up its richest
treasures of wisdom. The result is that
Moses name and fame are fixed forever.
He found the Children of Israel at a sem
inal point, next to nothing. They were
a mere mob, a herd of cattle, and a horde
of slaves. They could not read or write,
they had no idea of God, of law, of sin,
of conscience, of politics.- or liberty. Sup
pose you were suddenly set front to 'front
with a cannibal or a savage. Suppose
you wanted to tell him what sin was.
How would you begin? By the time you
have worked over that question for a
few weeks you will begin to appreciate
the genius of Moses. Moses . wanted to
make these slaves understand that sin
separated men from God, In a moral uni
verse. How did he do this? He built a
series of walls first an outer wall, that
held all the people aloof, because they
had broken God's law. When the people
had Binned, he made them bring some
thing that was precious to them, perhaps
It was a dove or a lamb, and then when
they had; offered it, had bowed them
selves 'to the ground tnd confessed their
sin and repented of It, he brougrht them
Into the outer court. Beyond was an
inner court; further still, a holy place;
beyond the next wall,' a most holy place.
And then, at a sacred center, was the ark
of the covenant. Into this holy place
only the high priest might enter, and
that only once a year. And .not only
does sin separate, but Moses wanted to
show the people that sin costs God much
treasure. Did one man In his anger slay
another, leaving children orphans? Well,
God had to become the sin-bearer for the
murderer. In his providence, the un
seen God. raises up friends for the little
ones, becoming a father to the fatherless
and a husband to the widow. To. make
these newly-emancipated slaves under
stand that sin costs God and man much
treasure, Moses made the transgressor
bring his most precious liquor, oil - or
wine, his most precious grain, that also
upon which he lived, the lamb or the
goat, and soon, through these symbols,
they climbed in thought Bp toward God.
Did Moses' kindergarten system of sym
bols hold power to transform slaves and
savages? Let history answer. How wise
this judge named Samuel! How marvel
ous this sweet singer, David! What emi
nence belongs to Solomon, the scholar!
How noble this company of prophets and
martyrs and Kings! But no man must
remain a child forever. The Hebrews
ought to have outgrown Moses' system
In a hundred years. A scaffolding is use
ful in Its place, but when the house is
done, the scaffolding ought to be taken
away. When Michael Angelo was deco
rating the SIstlne Chapel, the scaffolding
filled the entire room. When the artist
had completed those marvelous seraphs
and the Judgment scene, he intended to
have the scaffolding., come down. What
if the scaffolding of Michael Angelo had
been kept In the Slstine Chapel for the
last BOO years? It would have been no
more foolish than for these old Hebrews,
who kept their slaying of lambs and kids
long after their symbolic use had been
fulfilled.
Consider the peril of false converva
tlsm. Its characteristic Is reverence for
old laws, old customs and old creeds.
This spirit prefers old creeds to new ones,
old customs and forms to modern ones,
old medicines, old tools, old houses for
all these the false conservative has great
reverence. In its extreme form conserva
tism prefers an ox cart that is old to a
Pullman palace car that Is new. Many
of our' theological faculties are still Jolt
ing along n the old two-wheeled cart.
They prefer it, not because it is good,
but because It Is old. Their reverence
for an old creed U like a man's reverence
for an old house ot his father's. To be
sure, rain la coming through the roof and
filling the house with dampness and de
cay, and the wall Is beginning to crack.
Nevertheless, It is too sacred to touch.
No carpenter must profane this roof by
nalling on a new shingle. No artist must
restore this celling that has been dimmed
by dampness and rain. No unholy hands
must repair this hole in the floor. It is
not given to men to conserve the truth;
what the truth asks for is not defense,
but discussion. The conservative Is in
error in June because God U splitting
the bark without, because the tree is
growing within. But the true conservative
.Is one who Is willing to destroy what is
outgrown.
There Is also a radicalism that is false,
impractical and untrue. Every genera
tion holds a few progressives, who love
destruction for its own sake. They are
always going around with an ax, looking
for something that they can chop down.
They are leaders, if leaders tbey can be
called at all, who are so far In advance
that they themselves become lost. If
they ever blaze any path In the wilder
ness, It is so long before the people come
up with them that the blazed trail is
overgrown with weeds, and is as if It
were not. In politics we see It In a man
like Tolstoi, with his strange attempt to
be a peasant, yet keeping his palace,
mingling the old patrician thought with
the peasant life, entertaining his guests
with cold bird and champagne, while he
drinks water and eats rye bread. Today
he stands aloof until his influence is part
ly lost, when he should be the great lead
er. In religion we see a man like Colonel
Ingersoll, one of the half score of the
inspirational orators the country has
ever seen. Wrhen he saw that the apple
tree planted by Moses was a wild thorn
apple, and that there were many cater
pillars' nests" In the boughs, this patriot
took an ax and, because he loved his fel
lows, he said: "Let us chop this wild
thorn apple down, and sow the ground
with salt." By that method you, can
never have an orchard.' To get the juicy
fruit we must take the wild tree that we
have. Slowly the husbandman, enriches
the soil. Slowly he prunes the boughs,
carefully be puts in the grafts. Little by
little the sour becomes the sweet. We
need the sharp knife with which to prune
away the false growths, but we need also
the conserving hand that grows the spiced
fruit.' Oh, what losses the world has
suffered through the mistakes of Its false
conservatives! Not less grievous, we
must confess, are the losses occasioned
through its mistaken radicals. In con
trast with both forms, of fragments ry
Ufe and thought, how sublime the figure
of Jesus Christ standing forth, at once
the Ideal progressive, the ideal conserva
tive, in all his labors in the earth.
NBWEI.A, DWIGHT HILLI3.
A Prayer in Defeat.
Arthur Stringer In the Smart Set.
Still hurl me back. God. if thou must!
Thy wrath, see. I shall bear
I have been taught to know the d-uat
Of battle, and despair.
Bend not to me this hour, O God,
Where I defeated stand;
I have been schooled to bear thy rod.
And still wait, not unmanned!
But should some, white hour of suceess
Sweep me where, vine-like, lead
The widening roads, the clamoring press
Then I thy lash shall need!
Then, in that houor of triumph keen.
For then I ask thine aid;
God of the weak, on whom I lean.
Keep me then unafraid! -
Hostile.
Mcggendorfer Blatter.
Poet (to editor) The poem I wis
to submit to you was the product of a
sleepless night.
' Editor Yes, night is no man's friend.
GIVING NEWS OF SAN FRANCISCO DISASTER TO LIGHTSHIP OFF CAPE MENDOCINO
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PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN OJf BOARD THE STEAMER F. A. KILBCRN.
The news of the San Francisco disaster was given to the lightship off Cape 'Mendocino In
tain Merriam of the steamer F. A. Kuburn.
by Cap-
Captain Merriam rsn close to the lightship and threw a stick to which was
fastened a copy of a newspaper containing the first . account of 'the disaster Into a snfall boat sent out from the light--ship.
The llghtihip Is stationed far from shore and only occasionally those on board have the advantage of cummunic ac
tion with the outside world. .
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