The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, October 14, 1906, PART FOUR, Image 41

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Newspaper Page TextPART FOUR PAGES 41 TO 52 VOL. XXV. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY 3IORNING, OCTOBER 14, 1906. yo. 40. I Mr if! ARE We would like to have you come and see what a wonderful stock of Furniture, Carpets, Curtains, Stoves and Home Furnishings we have to show you. It is to your own interest it is a duty you owe to yourself to find out where the best styles, most dependable qualities and lowest prices are to be found. We are confident that after you have seen what we have to offer, and have compared pur prices with those asked elsewhere, the rest will be easy and we will be assured of your patronage. There is no question but that our terms of payment will please you for any reasonnable arrangement that suits you will be satisfactory to us. This Week's Splendid Offerings Are of Unusual Interest Note Them Carefully EXTRA SPECIAL Beautiful Heating Stove 3S Better prepare now for cold weather. Don't wait until there is snow on the ground, but buy your Heater now. As an indication of the wonderful values we offer in' our immense stove department we place on sale this week a Heating Stove, just like cut. Pretty nickel trimmings, screw dampers to regu late fire and all this season's im provements. FOR WOOD OR COAL JTo. Diam. 312 12 in 314 14 in 316 16 in Heieht. Price. 37H in $8" 40 in $10 42 in ....$12 The largest, and best assortment ot Library Tables in Oregon. This one $12.50 A gift for grandson or granddaugh ter arf one that will appeal to the parents as well as please the baby, in white, green, blue, pink enamels, also in brass; from $30 as low as Jj5S.50 SPECIALS ON CARPETS Bromley's Velvets, with borders $1.25 Burlington Brussels, with borders $1.10 Tapestry Brussels, with borders $1.05 Dunlap's Tapestry Brussels. .90 Reversible Pro Brussels 05 Brusselette Carpet, 3-4 yard wide 55 Granite Ingrain Carpets . ...45J RUG SPECIALS Royal Brussels Rugs, 9x12... S20 Imperial Pro Brussels, 9x12.. $12 Ingrain Rugs, 9x12 ....... .$7.20 Smaller Rugs in proportion. 4$ Everything to Furnish Cottage or Mansion in Stock Majestic Ranges, Washing Machines, Refrigerators, Go-Carts WILLIAM GADSBY. & SONS WASHINGTON STREET, CORNER FIRST-THE STORE THAT SELLS FOR LESS YOU GOING GADSBYS' SPECIAL 5-PIECE PARLOR SUITS $27.50 fKfJ ' SNIP!? ' M flucj Gadsbys' Extension Table Special The Leader Range The Leader Range is guaranteed for ten years and is as good and better than most ranges sold for $35.00 Gadsbys' price is only. ...$27.50 Same with reservoir ....$32.50 A Very Handsome Piece of Furniture for Your Dining-Room YouH 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 and bent glass door. It is high-class in every detail of construction and intended to retail at $45.00. Our special price is $27.50 Term: $5.00 Cash; $1.00 Week fj LADIES' Si II DRESSING If H- TABLES U H Something a lady S 1A always wants. She S can sit down to 1 dress her hair. I I $12.00 UP. I I We have a beau- 1 tiful line in all flOU EKEEP .This handsome pedestal Ex tension Table is offered at this extremely low price that we may demonstrate to the buying public our abil ity to undersell any furni ture institution in -the city. It is' solid oak throughout, hand-rubbed and highly pol ished; has 42-inch top and extends six feet. Special at our store $17.50 Couches This splendid Couch, with smooth or tufted top, A-l velour ; spe cial . $12.50 Special Iron Bed Offer Exactly like illustration. Made of . the very best steel tubing and angles. The design is very neat and up-to-date. Can be furnished in assorted siies and colors. Spe cial at Gadsbys' ...$6.75 Housebuilders We are prepared to estimate on all sizes of Opaque . and Holland Shades, mounted . on Hartshorn rollers. We have a most com plete Shade Department. Do not place orders before first figuring with us. We save you money. Folding Go-Carts Folding Go-Carts, like cut. .$2.75 Plpf IG? It is almost needless to say that this Parlor Suit is worth much more than the price quoted. This is a trade-bringer, and- we 'want you to be come one of c$tr customers. That's the reason for this remarkable offering. ' Each of the pieces is of the very newest design. The upholstering is in a genuine two-toned velour of rich pattern. The framework is of mahogany finish. At this price there is no excuse for any home not having an attractive -Parlor Suit. TVe have the largest assortment of Parlor Suits in town. Our gener ous credit 'will help you bring it to your home. Princess Dresser Pacific oak, ash or maple; 33 inches wide, 6 feet high; French beveled mirror. Gadsbys' special cash price $14.75 Combination Bookcase and Writing Desk Made oi solid oak, quarter-sawed and highly polished; has bent glass door, adjustable shelves, French bevel plate mirror, large, commo dious desk and the entire case Is handsomely carved: special price at $18.75 f X M Napoleon Beds, in mahogany and quarter-sawed oak; beautiful cre ations $24.50 to $65 Buffet Solid oak, polished, with French mirror back. Special cash price $22.50 1$ m-m Ilfilll jirrr ' 1 WHEN A NATION FALLS SHORT The International' Sunday-School Lesson for October 14: "The Ten Virgins," Matthew 25: 1-13. BT WILLIAM T. ELLIS. pHB latest big book on Japan Is called "A Study In National Effi ciency," and the Introduction is a ringing exhortation by a foremost British statesman to his own nation to learn the ho-ur's lesson of watchfulness and readiness. The prophets upon all walls are today crying the one refrain. It is the truth for the times. The re cent appalling disclosures in connection with the meat-packing scandal, in con nection with the investigation of cer tain celebrated railroad companies and other corporations, and in connection with the life insurance companies, are charged with the same message of need for vigilance which JesuB ex pressed by the parable of the wise and foolish virgins. 2000 years ago. In the light of the life of today it would be folly to treat this great story from the standpoint of Eastern wed ding processions, the particular shape of the lamps used, and the customs which illuminate the details of the great parable. Even as a parable it Is not to be pressed too far In all minor particulars. The message which it car ries for a timo like ours, too greatly concerned In the present moment to care about the possible future is one of supreme Importance; and one which must be learned by nations as well as by individuals. The Day's Big Business. The largest work to which any per son lays his hand is that of prepara tion. Japan's great days, to continue an illustration already employed, were not those when the soldiers came marching home from Manchuria in triumph, but the long, hard, tireless stretch of years preceding the war, when, unheralded to the world, the nation courageously held itself to the task uf getting ready for a clearly foreseen eventuality. This is a great er proof of the stuff of which Japan Is made than any victory of fleet or army. Most persons face life unprepared. The reason why more of us are not strong and serene masters of our lot Is simply that we have neglected the business of getting ready to live. Into this most serious of all enterprises men and women by the myriad merely drift. The number wno are seriously concerned over the business of living and who bother their heads at all about the great questions of how and why and whither, is comparatively small. Youth Is often wiser than maturity in this respect. It is more concerned that Its lamps be filled with the oil of knowledge and preparation. The happy-go-lucky temperament of the new world, which is cheerfully heed less of the morrow, has its virtues; but a little more of the spirit of vigi lance would save the nation many a disgrace. Prudent forethought would forestall bitter regrets. Quite illustrative Is an incident that happened to a party of Americans in Japan recently. They had ascended a high volcano, intending to come down alter mgntiau. They had given no thought to lanterns; when darkness drew on they found fault with their servants for not havinsr provided lights. Then, with Western alertness and energy, they hastened down the mountain, past the most dangerous points, ere nignt leu. Arter hours of difficult travel and many falls, thev gained safety, congratulating them selves upon their escape. Had they properly equipped themselves at the outset there would have been no dif ficulty and no occasion for reloieine over their "American lurk." Prna Tui tion prevents pain. The Perplexing Factor. Society is, and always has been, con cerned over the problem of the unfit. It is they who make necessary most of the machinery of law. For them the army of sociologists and relief work ers ton day and night. Like the fool ish virgins, who prepared no oil for their lanterns, they are a trouble to the wise and strong as well as to themselves. Everybody knows the foolish vir gins. They are ready for nothing ex cept excuse-making. They are life's dependents, who are made deoendents only by their own lack of purpose and piearauon. iowara tne afflicted and naturally inefficient we extend naiurht but pity and a helping hand; they are the victims of an inscrutable provi dence and minister to human tender- nearxeaness. They are needed to call forth the gentle and lovine- eIH nf humanity. But tho indolent, the care less, the "fechless." as the Scotch call them, are deserving of the punishment that, they bring upon themselves. Thev need no coddling and maudlin pity, if ever they are to bo really helped, but the stern pointings of duty armed with the rod of recompense. Selfishness or Servlceablenesa. Thprfl at. tin.A .ia .... . u . .1 , - --i j umi. me wise j virgins should have given of their oil tol mo luuu&ii wuicn wouia nave made ten foolish virgins Instead of five. They have, who can hold. It is a natural law that man can properly use only that which he haji himself nmuirori T.iu. . . " . .1 uieaiptiL- ed fortunes to be seen on every hand, the oil of the prudent would doubtless have been wasted by the foolish who would navo trustea to luck and to the fore thought of others fnr a Mn plenishing. mere is small kindnes in keeping a person from learning the lesson9 of his own wronednlns a 1- H mtctw. t.' chi'.d who touches the fire needs the burn. uniy in tne scnooi of experience can wis dom be acquired. Nothing may be en Joyed without paying Its price. As the homely old proverb has it, "You cannot have both the nftnnv and thm .oV foolish virgins had enjoyed immunity from care ana responsiouuy : DUt they could not enjoy the wedding feast as well. m a mgn ana wortny sense, it Is true that one must look out for himself. God ho!d3 him resnonsf hla firt nf oil h cultivation of his own powers. His pri mary aeDt to tne world Ls a life. No mistaken idea of fielf.pfCa.Ament stand in the way of rounding out a use ful character. A simple-minded youth, apparently well-bred and prosperous, one flUV AsVftH nArmtecfrtn l ttanH in a T3UI1 delphia railroad station and open the door iui- me wtFmen passengers. it was a mere quixotic notion of politeness on his part. He would have been better playing the part of a man and a gentleman had he been busy about some necessary task befitting hia qualifications. Self-culture, for the sake of others, ls a proper am- Dition. ne wouia do a roonsn student who would , give his books to every idle, careless beggar who might ask for them! without being at all able to use them aright. The lane of life is full of abrupt turns. Nothing In It may be so surely expecieu bo m unexpected, ne WHO assumes that his present lot will en- Qure f mo cud id enuer on in an eddy aside from the stream of life or else he is a blind mariner. Change is Inevitable. As the parable has it. the hour of the great comings upon which destiny hangs is utterly unpre dictable. This is the point of the parable. Jesus here, as repeatedlp-, enjoined upon his followers the necessity for an attitude of expectations, watchful ness, readiness He himself would come again. When, no man. no, not even the angels in heaven, could fore tell. A countless host of devout and expectant Christians have been mis 'ed Into trying to read the signs of his coming. Whole sects, based upon the assumption that the Lord would return at a certain time, have risen and passed away. Others have sprung up In their places, and flourish today. But their belief is vain. The day and the hour of this supreme event In history are past man's finding out. The principle underlying the warn ing is this: He who is ready for Christ is ready for anything. Life can not surprise him who is watching for his Lord, he ls prepared for every lesser eventuality. His watching is also wo.-klng: and whatever befalls, he will be found at the post of duty. Even on a merely rational basis we thus see that the great expectation Is a mighty means of character-building. This is the secret for the poise and serenity of ripe Christians. Mere circumstances cannot harm them; they have their hearts fixed on a great hope and a great certainty. So they are ready for two worlds and nobody ls truly ready to live in this world who ls not also ready, to pass to the next. News and- Notes. The world's conference of the W. C. T. U., including representatives from more than 30 countries, will meet In Boston October 17-25. Reports from Spain tell of a threatened rupture between that country and the Papacy and of the withdrawal of the papal nuncio from Madrid. The new "Black Pope." who as the Courage in Life's Goal Terse Comments Upon the TTnlfornj Prayer-Meeting Topic. mjm BRIGHT writer has said that "We fill our houses with poor pictures, our libraries with worthless books, our heads with second-rate thoughts, our lives with unworthy friendships, our days with unsatisfactory work, and our nights with unsatisfactory pleasures, all be cause we don't know a good thing when we see it." He is right. Poor choices make half the tragedies of time and eternity. Every one of us are every day passing by the best and accepting the second best or the worst. We somehow seem, unable to realize the supreme im portance of choosing enduring and es sential things. Yet our choices make or mar our lives.- AH of Ms are building and we are al ways building. Some of us are building wisely and some foolishly. Not a few of our buildings are like the houses the little children fashion in the sand at the seashore. They are destined to live but for an hour; the first incoming wave washes them away. Such building may do for a child's play time, but it is a terrible mistake when we are putting to gether our life structure. Builders for eternity need to choose each stone and timber with minutest care and to set It In place with most careful diligence. We commonly speak of pleasure-seeking persons as leading a butterfly life. Our thought is primarily- of the carelessness and uselessness of the life. We see its lack of serious purpose and its devotion to trifling pursuits, and therefore we liken It to the frail, fair-weather insect which flits lightly from flower to flower. There is even more In the figure of speech than this, however for the most charac teristic feature of a butterfly's life ls Its brevity. The person who gives himself over to pleasure and selfishness ls living the smallest and shortest life. It ls only for a day.- A short space of sunlight and flowers and that ls all. The butterfly style of life never endures; it ls one of the perishing things. When we choose it we choose to live neither long nor well. It takes courage and resolution to live for first things. Only rare souls succeed in doing so. For It ls easy to slip down to the level of a second-rate life. There is great significance in the fact that the larger part of the world ls pursuing sec ondary things. To dress well, to live well, to win men's praises, to Impress one's neighbors, to gratify one's pride, to pile up money, to show one's self superior to the next man such as these are the am bitions of most of us. True, we may not care to see them catalogued thus, for they do not impress us as being very noble, yet the plain truth is that for ends like these we are giving the best of our days' and the reddest of our heart's blood. All the objects that, have been enumer ated may be condensed as life's first things, because they do not endure: they are of time, perishing, and not of eternity everlasting. Because man ls eternal all his goals should be eternal also. Lives -are like buildings. They cannot endure without good foundations the silent unseen powers of the spiritual na ture on whose depths depend all achieve ment If we would build high and per manently we must prepare deep and broad foundations The great indictment that Christ brought against the things for which men were giving their lives was that they were not worth while. They were not in themselves bad. but they were of minor Importance: they did not last. His summons to men was a summons to rise to a loftier conception of life. He bade them lift up their alms and quit the mere existence which took no count of highest things. - Jesus im planted in men's breasts a divine and termU ambition. "Seek first the king dom." cried he. these lesser and Inci dental things will then fall into their proper place and be added unto you. They of themselves, as life alms, are not worth a thought. How we live determines where w shall live. . A Prayer From thee, most high God. we have life, mysterious and won derful. Thou hast breathed upon our clay and we have been thereby endued with eternal possibilities. Immortal ity and unmeasured power are ours. Yet, we confess with humiliation, we have often spent these lives on vanish ing things. We have given our best to the pursuit of vain and ignoble ends. We have lived for the fleeting day. despite thine admonition to live for the eternity which passes not. We need thy help, O God, to set our lives general of the order of Jesuits, was re cently elected in Some by delegates gath ered from the provinces throughout tho world, ls a German. A Christian Endeavor Society in Chi cago supports five native teachers in China at $50 a year, two native teachers on the Congo at the same cost, as well as four students, for whose training they contribute $60. The navy department of the Y. M. C. A. is to receive the gift ot building at tho navy-yard. Norfolk. Va., from John D. Rockefeller, similar to that erected by Miss Helen Gould at the Brooklyn yard, at a cost of $300,000. An antl-oplum league has been formed In Hongkong, China, to fight against tho use of the drug. This movement is strengthening throughout China, and its supporters are hoping for an Imperial edict forbidding government employes to use opium. Delavan L. Pierson. the well-informed editor of the Missionary Review of the World, who has been making a careful investigation of missionary opportunitle in the East, states that a new Egypt 1b rapidly being developed In which the mis--sionaries are to be the Intellectual and spiritual leaders. Ira D. Sankey. Whose gospel hymns are sung all over the world, has now become blind and a helpless invalid. Yet in splta of such adverse conditions, he is still active in Christian work, dictating from memory the text of his book containing his history of the gospel hymn, which had unfortunately been destroyed by fire. The Jacob A. Riis Settlement House, In New York City, is to have a new gym nasium built at an expense of 19000 by per sonal friends of President Roosevelt, as a memorial of the servloe rendered New York by these two men. The building will be equipped and endowed 'by the pupils of several private schools. It will bear the President's name and will stand, to quote Mr. RILs. for "strong Ideals of manhood and the square deal." In the assembly hall of the main building a tablet ls to be placed bearing this inscription: "This house was freed from debt and set apart for the use of all God's children In lov ing memory of Elizabeth RUs. 1206." right. Bestow upon us, we pray, wis dom to discern values. Enable us to distinguish between things essential and nonessential, and to know what ls worth while. Help us to put first things first. Be thou the goal of our endeavors, to make them true and worthy. Amen. If we concede that the soul ls Im mortal, then the question of Its final destination becomes of supreme im portance. If we are to live again and forever, nothing else In the universe is of such moment as making sure that our eternal life ls to be a blessed one. To put off consideration of this pre eminent question ls sheer folly, for It ls infinitely graver and mora pressing than the question of what we shall eat and wear, or of what we shall do in this Infinitesimal fragment of eternity called time. Seven 'Sentence Sermons Nothing is intolerable that ls neces sary. Jeremy Taylor. In all thy ways acknowledge Htm, and He shall direct thy paths. Prov erbs. I count life Just a stuff To try the soul's strength on Browning. Let a man keep the law any la.xv s and his way will be strewn with satis faction. Emerson. The wealth of a man th number of things he loves and blesses and which he ls loved and blessed by. . Carlyle. It ls easy to make allowance for our own faults, but dangerous; hard to make allowance for others' faults, bill wise. Maltble D. Babcock. We know Him not. Him shall we never know. Till we behold Him In the least ot these Who suffer or who sin. Luoy Laroom, PROVERBS ABOUT WOMEM Calumnies Concerning Them Which Men of All Nations Utter. Philadelphia Bulletin The Germans say: "Listen to a wom an's first opinion, but not her second." This proverb embodies the world-old theory that a woman's Intuition ls bet ter than her reason. The French say: "A wife ls a per petual torment." and "A man of strav ls worth a woman of gold." The ab surd French cynicism, the French dis trust of womankind. Is as well por trayed in those two proverbs as in ons of Guy de Maupassant's stories. The Spanish love their women, but in a light and jesting way. Thus their proverbs make sport of her." For in stance: "Women, wind and fortune ara changeable." "If you have anything to proclaim in the open market you need only whisper it to a woman." "Be on your guard against a bad woman and never trust a good one." "There is only one bad wife, but every husband thinks he has got her." Bitter and contemptuous is the Ital ian idea of woman. They say in Italy as they suck desperately on their mis erably made government cigars: "Ha who loses his wife and a brass farthing has only lost the latter." The Chinese objection to woman is that she talks too much. "A woman's tongue is her sword and she never per mits it to rest." The American proverbs are kinder: "Women can keep a secret, but It takes a lot of them to do it," and "Women paint to hide their blushes." France Regaining Her Prestige. Atlantic Monthly. During the last year the French people have kept to a dead level of unbroken prosperity, without any notably great man or work or deed in science, letters and art, commerce and industry and- so ciety to distinguish this from recent years. In international finance alone a State Of thinsn has bean mariA ftiiMaur which has gone far to lift France to her oia leauing piace among the nations of the world.