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VOL. XXV.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY 3IORXING, OCTOBER 21, 1906.
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Stands for Quality and Price
In both of the essential features of HIGH QUALITY and FAIR PRICE the Gadsby store is best equipped to
supply your wants. The furniture you buy here is the kind you will be proud of the designs are new, elegant and
in many cases exclusive with us the workmanship is high-class, thorough and dependable, and each piece
possesses that enduring quality that makes it a lasting source of satisfaction to you and a credit to this store.
That is the kind of furniture we offer ypu in almost unlimited assortment at fair and reasonable prices for
cash or on any terms of payment that may be most convenient and satisfactory to you.
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Not Cheapest
Bat Least
Expensive
Requires fewer
repairs, uses less
fuel. bakes per
fectly and gives
abundant hot
water.
The oven is ab
solutely air-tight;
. neat can oe applied
1 as needed.
Water front is
separate from oven,
so water cannot
affect temperature.
Patent anti
clinker grate is
suitable for either
wood or coal.
Firebox is heav
ier than that of
any other range
on the market.
The Majestic has
the only oven bot
tom which can be
guaranteed against
warping.
All exposed parts
are of malleable
iron guaranteed
not to break under
any circumstances.
We take your
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you all It Is worth
as part payment
for a new one.
The Daisy Airtight Heater
For Wood.
This Is the most satisfactory
sheet-top wood air-tight heating
stove we have ever handled, a par
ticular feature being the small
lighting-door, bv means of which
the fire can be lighted without soil
ing the hands or clothing. The
Daisy has screw damper, hinged
cover, cast pipe collar and nickeled
urn. It has sheet top. Russia iron
body, and is lined with heavy sheet
iron. Sizes and prices are as fol
lows: No. ISO Lined, price S6.SO
No. 12D Lined, price T "
No. 12a Lined, price 8.50
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but buy your heater now. As
an indication of the wonder
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Pretty nickel trimmings,
screw dampers to regulate
fire and all this season's im
provements. FOR WOOD OR COAL.
No. Diam. Height. Price.
812 12 in. 37fln 8 8
314 14 In. 40 in lO
316 16 in. 42 in 12
Princess Dresser
Pacific oak. ash or maple; 33 inches
wide 6 feet high; French beveled
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CARPET SPECIALS
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 . . , .95e
Brusselette Carpet, 3-4 yard wide. .55
Granite Ingrain Carpets 45
Rug Specials
Royal Brussels Rugs, 9x12 $20
Imperial Pro Brussels, 9x12. $12
Ingrain Rugs, 9x12 .$7.20
Smaller Rugs in proportion.
Three-Piece Parlor Suit
Ji of these splendid Morns Chairs
in solid oak. with removable
cushions; usually sold at $12.50:
will be sold at. each S9.50
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Made of solid oak. quarter-sawed
and highly polished, has bent
glass door, adjustable shelves.
French bevel plate mirror, large,
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case is handsomely carved; spe
cial price at 818. i5
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ular $30.00. cut to 822. 50
Gadsbys
Extension Table
special
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 throughout, has
42-inch top and extends
6 feet. Special at our
store -S17.50
Full Size Iron Bed
This is one of the handsomest
designs In an enameled
metal beds we have shown
this season. It has massive
posts. embellished with
massive design chills in a
variety of popular combina
tions; an exceptional value
offering, worth $10.00; spe
cial price 87.50
Others a low as.
S3.50
The Leader Range
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The Leader Kange is guaranteed for
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than most ranges sold for $35.00
Gadsby'B price is only 827.50
Roll-Top Desks
Solid oak Roll-Top Desk, golden fin
ished; is 30 inches deep, 48 inches
long. 46 inches high, and has two
pedestals filled with drawers and dis
appearing arm rests; drawers in pe
destals are 12 Inches wide and 22
inches long, the bottom ones being
11 inches deep, with partitions for
books. Roll is supplied with double
row of pigeon-holes, as well as
drawers, pen-racks, etc. Price. 82 T
Same as above, golden finished and
having bed 54 inches long. S30.00
Bedroom Suit $25
j
Bedroom Suit, all hardwood, finished in
mahogany, white maple or golden
ash, three pieces; special 825.00
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FAILURE OF , THE FAINT HEART
The International Sunday School Lesson for October
21 "The Parable of the Talents." Matt. 25: 14-30
BT WILLIAM T. ELLIS.
DEAL of talent is lost to the
world for want of a little cour
age." says the wise proverb
which at once sets forth the point of the
familiar parable taught by Jesus, and
shows how the story has given to com
mon speech one of its significant words-
talent." This ancient picture of how
failure, defeat ana disaster came upon a
faint-hearted man is especially worth
pondering In these strenuous times, which
more than ever call for boldness, initia
tive and yet more boldness.
The fearful man carries in his own
heart the seeds of failure, and cowardice
is the soil in which many sins thrive. The
one-talent man lacked courage first;
therefore he came short in respect to
fidelity, faith and fruitfulness.
The Salt of Life.
A few days ago I talked with a trav
eler from America who is taking his fam
ily around the world. He started with a
prejudice against missionaries. Naturallv.
he cultivated the European society in the
port cities "But." he said, in explana
tion of his subsequent association with
missionaries, "I found that really the
best society in the East, the finest cul
ture, the truest refinement, the heartiest
hospitality and the most enjoyable good
fellowship, are to be found in the mis
sionary community." The same conclu
sion was reached by 'the author of that
keen book, "The Lady of the Decoration."
Neither of the foregoing expressed a
reason for 'their conclusions. Yet it lies
on the surface. Life neds a noble pur
pose to bring it to its best. The serious
determination to do something for one's
fellows, and to accept the Scriptural in
terpretation of life as a stewardship, be
gets the minor virtues as well as the
greater. The frivolous, idle and selfish
existence defeats its own aim. The only
wise and the only happy are they who
accept as talents intrusted to them for
use the abilities which they possess.
Lack of this moral motive is what has
smitten the East with centuries of par
alysis. Life does mean something; re
sponsibility for it cannot be escaped. The
deeply inwrought sense of accountability
to one's highest nature, to society and to
a Supreme Being is what has made the
Anglo-Saxon a world conqueror.
Cecil Rhodes died with the cry. "So i
much to do! So little done!'" He was a
five-talent man. So was Henry Martyn.
who cried, upon reaching his mission
field, "Now let me burn out for God!"
The Jesuits who have dared the perils
of the wilderness, and the indescribable
loneliness which only a man in an alien
land can know, were consumed by this
same passion and sustained by the same
conviction of their accountability to God.
who rewards the faithful and punishes
the faithless.
( While WaitingWhat?
This parable of the three servants, to
each of whom was committed during his
master's absence a responsibility equal to
his capacity, is one of several lamps set
alongside of Christ's tremendous teach
ing of a day of judgment. The absent
Lord will return again, to judge, to re
ward, and to punish. That return may
be deferred how often and with what an
guish have weary lips cried. "How long!
O Lord, how lonar,'" but it Is inevitable.
The way to wait and to watch is to
work. Expectation excites energy. In
tervals are for industry, and not for idle
ness. The grace of keeping busy should
be numbered among the Christian virtues.
Employment Is a means of development;
"we learn by doing." and we grow by
doing. The master In the 'parable pro
vided tasks for his servants: that is part
of the work of every good master. The
employe who has "a soft snap. with
long periods of idleness, is not to be en
vied, but to be pitied. Stagnant lives like
stagnant pools, breed all manner ot ills
and pests. There is warrant and sense in
Scripture for the slang motto which
hangs in many offices "Get busy." Life
is saved by spending it. The five-talent
servant and the two-talent servant were
happier as well as wiser for their faith
fulness; they served themselves as well
as their master.
The Busy Church.
It is rather fashionable and easy to find
fault with the Church. Some so indulge
themselves who could be more worthily
employed. The Church is not perfect; yet
she is not an idle servant, wrapping her
talent in a napkin. While she waits for
the return of her beloved Lord she is giv
ing herself diligently to good works.
The manifest activities of the Christian
Church should be considered by all who
are tempted to rail at her. Her ministry
among the poor is beyond the statisti
cian's power to estimate. Her literary
output Is one of the mightiest character-
moulding agencies of our df.y. Her
world-embracing missionary work is
making over individuals, communities and
nations. Her increasing part in civic lite
is a noteworthy aspect of the times. Her
Y. M. C. A.'s. C. E. s and W. C. T. U.'s,
and the whole alphabet of subsidiary or
ganizations, are keeping a shaping hand
upon youth. As for her mothers' meet
ings, sewing classes, literary clubs, gyra
nasiums. Bible study classes, mission
study classes, etc., who can tell the tale?
Unquestionably, the Church is an Increas
ing minister to human life. No one who
studies the situation fairly can accuse her
of being a one-talent steward. When her
Lord returns, he will find her at least
busy.
The Ximble Penny.
All men are not equal: nor do all men
mean the same to society or to God
There are diversities of gifts; this truth
has broken up. every communistic enter- '
prise that was ever started, and it for
ever stands a barrier to the success of ex
treme socialism. No one can deny that
there are five-talent men, two-talent men
and one-talent men. Equal fidelity on the
part of all these would by no means
accomplish equal results. The little man
may be lifted into a big place, but, as the
monkey at the top of the highest tree in
the forest, is only a monkey still, so the
little man is a little man, wherever he is
placedJ And the big man may be crowd- I
ed into a small lot, but a big man he re
mains. A superficial view may incline the
reader of the parable to say that the
one-talent man did not get a "square
deal." But he did. and more; he got
all he could carry. As ships differing in
capacity may all be filled, so these va
rious men were all given as much as
they could bear. They were to be
judged for faithfulnes. God never ex
pects a five-talent Increase from a one
talent man. Ey no manner of means
could the one-talent man have returned
to his lord ten talents.
Since the world is made up largely of
one-talent people, it is worth remark
ing that the nimble penny contributes
more to mankind's weal than the slug
gard dollar. A man may be rich in
me stored gold of wisdom and knowl
edge and yet do less to profit his fel
lows than- the other who keeps his
small handful of silver coins in circula
tion. God and the world honor tho
man with a little who makes the most
of it. Society is debtor less to the
brainy and equipped few who give
themselves to Indolence or selfishness,
than to the mediocre men who are
possessed by a spirit of faithful serv
ice; and who recognizes their account
ability for what they are able to do.
A Day of Reckoning:
Kipling is said to have interjected in
a conversation upon atheism the terse
and colloquial declaration, pounding a
table with his list as he spoke, "I tell
you, there must be somebody some
where who gives us all our licks." lha
same sentiment has been a monitor to
the Anglo-Saxon race throughout its
history. The climax of this parable is
the return of the lord to hold his serv
ants to account.
In the loose thinking upon theological
themes which characterizes the times.
It is common to assume that the truth
of a great judgment day, with re
wards and punishments, is antiquat
ed, and has gone to the garret dis
carded. There Is not room here to go
Into a discussion of the subject, but
even the man of the street, who rea
sons from the seen to the unseen, from
the temporal to the eternal, knows full
well that about the hardest thing in
businss life is to secure workers who
will be faithful when the boss- back
is turned, and who work from any
other consideration than that of the pay
envelope or the fear of being dis
charged. If men were to construct a
moral universe that would run for a
week they would have to put a judg
ment day into it.
The faithless one-talent, servant was
punished not that he had not already
punished himself by the atrophying of
his powers. But taking him on his own
reckoning, and Judging him out of his
own mouth, he was awarded the pun
ishment which his defiant and insolent
attitude could not avert. And the
keenest sting of this bitter fate was
that he knew it to be just. They who
will not accept the opportunity which
God offers them cannot escape the ob
ligatlon wfrloh lays upon them.
The True Test of the Faithful
Terse Comment Upon the Uniform P.rayer-Meeting Topic.
B BUSINESS firm was in trouble, and
most of Its employes left it. A few.
however, stood by the ship. At consider
able cost to themselves, they remained
loyal to their employers, and thus the
firm was able to weather its difficulties.
Today, in its new prosperity, that firm
gives places of honor to the few faithful
workers who were true to it in distress.
It feels that its. obligations to them are
too great to be repaid. They remained
loyal to it when others deserted It. Now
the faithful few are being awarded. Yet
why go to the business world for an illus
tration of the truth which is its own best
illustration? Our debt to Christ is great
er than we can repay because in the day
of our distress he stood by us though all
others fell away. The fidelity of Jesus
to us. at incalculable cost, has made us
forever his debtors. Is it not reasonable
that, if he asked anything at our hands.
we should freely and gladly grant it?
It goes a great way toward making a
man faithful to let him understand that
you think him so Seneca,
Faithfulness can feed on suffering.
And knows no disappointment.
George Eliot.
Worth is highest honor. Indeed, there
is no real honor except worth. All the
praise that comes to the undeserving Is
shame rather than honor. For surely the
standards of honor are higher than men's
hands; if applause determines merit, then
this truly ie and always has been a sadly
mixed world. The real standards of, honor
are within us, or above us. in God's true
heaven, where is kept an infallible record
of the worthy. If we would seek honor
nd it Is not the end most worth seeking
in life let us look for it from our own
consciences and from the approval of God.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more
venerable, than fidelity Cicero.
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first
principles. Confucius.
, Faithfulness is better than favor ; pur
ity is better than popularity; merit is bet
ter than money; and uprightness is bet
ter than height. -.
Faithfulness is the door to fellowship.
They who do God's word know his will
and walk In his way.
.
Sometimes we cannot mend our lot. Our
surroundings may be hard to bear; loneli
ness and oppression may be our dally por
tion. These conditions we cannot change.
Nevertheless we' can be beautiful and
faithful in them. Even In the hardest lot
we can live a lovely life. Disagreeable
circumstances need not make us disagree
able. As we serve men we get opportunities to
serve God also.
Faithfulness is a proof of faith.
m
The average person needs an infusion of
strength. He is inclined to weakness.
His temptation is to be part of a conglom
erate crowd, when he should be an Inde
pendent individual personality. Instead
of standing out. In sun-crowned manli
ness, agaist ignoble tendencies, he be
comes a craven follower of them. It is
easier for him to be good-natured and
compliant than to be right and peculiar.
m m m
Even though we prove faithless "He
abideth faithful."
News and Notes From Everywhere
There are but 5 per cent of the inhabi
tants of Cuba who habitually attend any
church.
The custom of opening the courts with
brief religious ceremony has recently
been resumed by France, after a period
of omission.
According to figures in the Talmud the
two tables of stone on which the Com
mandments were written are computed to
have weighed about 2S tons.
The colossal bronze statue of the seated
Buddha at Naro, Japan, is the largest one
that has ever been cast. It is 53 feet in
height and is supposed to have been cast
in the ninth century.
Rev. Dr. George Matheson. the well-
known Scotch minister, who recently died
at Edinburgh, became blind at the age
of 20 years, when he was tne leading
tudent at the Lniversuy of Glasgow.
A lecture is such a comparatively new
thing in China that with its advent it
was necessary to lormuiate a comDina
tion of the Chinese characters to express
the thought of a public lecture.
An enctowment of J.o.OGO has been re
ceived by the Slavic department of Ober
lin Seminary for the purpose of training
missionaries to wors among iior.emians.
Slovaks and Poles in this country.
The American Bicle Society has received
permission from President Roosevelt to
translate into tior.emia.3. i-onsn. naiiaa
and several other languages his address
on the Bible, delivered before the Lor.s
Inland Ei'ole Society m lSul. It has al
ready been printed in Japanese. Tagalos.
Spanish and Arabic.
The International Roman Catholic- So
ciety for the propagation of the Faith,
with headquarters in this country, in the
years from 1S22 to 1305, collected and dis
tributed more than $70,000,000 for mis
sions. During the same period the so-
j ciety gave to the work of the Roman
I Church In the United States nearly $6,-
ouu.uoo.
A long statement issued by Dowie de-
fends his methods and denies the charges
point a successor at Zion City. He closes
his defense with an appeal to the faithful
to send him their tithes to aid him in his
defense against his enemies, and in his
effort to recover his old place as leader
of Zion.
Seven Sentence Sermons
I Know thyself and then forget thyself.
; Anon.
...
I dimly gues9 from blessings known
Of greater out of sight. Whittier.
i ...
The less a man thinks or knows about
i his virtues the better we like him.
( Emerson.
Life is an arrow therefore we must
know
What mark to aim at. how to use the
bow
Tl-.en craw it to a head ar.d let it go.
Van Dyke.
.
If there be one thing upon earth that
mankind love and admire better than an
other, it is a brave man It is a man
who dares look the devil in the face and
tell him he is a devil. Garfield.
We attract hearts by the qualities we
display; we retain them by the qualities
we possess. Anon.
We are not here to play, to dream, to
drift.
We have hard work to 6V and loads to
lift.
Shun not the struggle face it; 'tis Ood's
gift. Maltble D. Babcock.
CHOIR OF MILLIONAIRES
Vienna's Remarkable Organization
' of Rich Male Singers.
Kansas City Star.'
London music lovers have been Hi ' vv
Ing recently to what may be describe,
the most remarkable vocal organlia
in the world, the Wiener Mannerge
Verein, or Vienna Male Choir, wi
numbers a prince and a count among
members, but which is composed pri
pally of millionaires. Brief allusions
this extraordinary choir, which recei .
sang before King Edward, already h
been telegraphed to the United Stai
but of the romance of Its organizatl
Its remarkable record and the curl
character of its entertainments practi
cally nothing has yet been said.
It is no exaggeration, however, to de
scribe the Vienna organization as a choir
of millionaires, for among its 300 mem
bers it probably numbers more men of
wealth than any other private company
in the world. Herr Krupp. one of its
leaders, is a member of the famous gun
making firm and is worth $40,000,000 at
the lowest Estimate, while there are at
least 50 other members of the choir who
claim from $1,000,000 to $10,000,000 each in
his own right. As a matter of fact, prac
tically every member is worth not less
than $500,000. the majority being nearer
$1,000,000 than under it.
Here, for example. Is a list of some of
the most prominent members of the
choir, together with the amounts of their
fortunes:
Herr Krupp, gunmaker $ 40,000,00i
Herr Schneiderholm, straw hat
maker 6,500,000
Herr Duschnitz, ropemaker . 6,i),000
Count Metzdorff 5.760.000
M. C. ' Kalafatl, race-horse
owner 16,000.000
Herr Herrenfeld, paper manu
facturer 6,5O000
Herr von Leonhardt. baker 5.000.0k)
Prince Schvenberg, feudal land
lord o.OOO.OOO
Herr Ehrlich 4,500 000
Herr Antropp, financier S.5O0.0CO
Herr tngelhardt. Inventor 8,o00,0r
Herr Moser, portrait painter 10.5O0.oOi)
One dozen singers: total. $120,000,000;
average wealth per man. Slfi.OOO.OOO. As
will be seen, however, the foregoing list
comprises only members of the Vienna
choir who are men worth more than
$4,000,000.
The opulent singers are known all over
Europe as the "Musical Millionaires."
Everywhere they go and they travel ex- '
tensively throughout the Continent they
are welcomed in truly re?al style. They
have the entree at most of the European
courts, and their audiences frequently
include Kings and EmDerors. When in
England recently King Edward was a
delighted listener to their music, and
yueen Alexandra herself called for sev
eral encores. Her Majfsty. who is a
musician of no mean parts, took a livelv
interest in the company, so much so
that she caused personal messages of
respect to te sent to several whose
voices impressed her most favorably.
At their la'st performance before leaving
England they were listened to by thts
Duchess' of Mar.nester. Mrs. Leopold
Rothschild. Prlr.ee Francis of Teck and
hosts of society folks. They covered
themselves with glory and musical crit
ics raved over them.
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