Section Four
Pages 35 to 44
VOL,. XXVI.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUKDAY MORNING, APRIL 28, 1907.
NO- 17
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Home
Is just about the most important thing in life. It is of more importance than buying or owning a house, for circumstances might necessitate your liv
ing elsewhere, and wherever you go you will need furniture. It is of greater importance than the locality you live in, for you live inside your home
not outside and you are constantly surrounded by its furnishings. We are ready to help you make a home after your own ideals and extend to you
the most liberal credit accommodations that will allow you to pay a little at a time in amounts your circumstances will permit. This privilege is
extended to you free, without any extra charge. No store offers so much and require so little. "We guarantee these prices as low a? any in the city
for new goods, notwithstanding all you may read about reductions- and discounts and cut prices. This house is here to sell goods, and will meet all
discounts and reduction sale prices that competitors may offer. We are leaders in low prices, and will never be undersold if we know it.
Brass Beds
Solid Oak Sideboard
French beveled mirror; beauti
fully carved top: drawer lined
for silverware; regular price $30;
Gadsbys' price 925. OO
Wo Have the Largest Auortment of
Brass Beds in the City
Prices from $30 to $100
Iron Beds from $3 to $30.
Always pleased to show them.
Gadsbys' Morris Chair
Made throughout of " solid oak,
beautifully quarter-sawed and
highly polished; has full spring
seat, and the back can be ad
justed to five different posi
tions; the cushions are reversi
ble and come in selected pat
terns of velour. Price.. 812. ft
Others as low as $9.50
Combination Bookcase and Desk
Combination Bookcase and
Desk; solid oak; sp'l. .822.50
Others as Low as $15.50
ii.i . i in i i in
Korloefol
Extension Tables
Book
cases
This beautiful Bookcase; solid oak;
Mass doors and adjustable shelves;
Gadsbys' price
$20.00
Rug Specials
Royal Brussels Rugs, 8x12 ... .regular price $25.00; now $20.00
Imperial Pro-Brussels. 9x12 regular price $16.50; now $12.00
Ingrain Rugs, 8x12 regular price $10.00; now $7.20
Smaller Rugs In proportion.
CARPETS Big Bargains in Our Carpet Dept.
Bromley's Velvets, with borders '. 8125
Burlington Brussels, with borders - Sl.lO
Tapestry Brussels, with borders. ........................ .x 20
Dunlap's Tapestry Brussels 90
Reversible Pro-Brussels 1 OO
Brusselette Carpets. 3'.-yard wide 55
Granite Ingrain Carpets 50
Refrigerator Special
20 Per Cent Discount
Carload Arrived Saturday
Heavy, substantial cabinet, char
coal packed and lined with galvan
ised Iron, removable metal shelves
and other sanitary Improvements;
has most perfect scientific cold air
circulation. Cabinet Is made In
golden oak finish; white enamel In
side; made along new lines; a great
economizer of Ice; is thoroughly
guaranteed In every particular.
Ranging In Price From
$9 to $50
Top 48 Inches In diameter, extends to 6
feet; made entirely of hardwood, finished In
golden oak, weathered or early English; reg
ular price of this table Is $25.00. Gadsbys
price
$18.50
National
Sewing Machines
If You Try One You'll Buy One
r THIS WEEK, SPECIAL, OUR SPE
CIAL NATIONAL SEWINO MA
CHINE. A better machine cannot
be built. Highest grade eccentric
driven high arm. It embodies all
of the improvements applied to
sewing machines in the last quar
ter of a century. It is fully equal
to ANY machine on the market,
no matter what the price. Equipped
with solid steel attachments, com
plete in every way. Perfected type
of ball-bearing stand, entirely free
from noise. Automatic lifting de
vice, automatic belt replacer; colo
nial quarter-sawed oak case. Gads
bys' price $25.00
S3 Don and SS Per Month.
Other National Machines of differ
ent stands, 21, " 30, $37.50, 40
and $43.
Porch Rockers and Chairs
We have the finest line this season in
the city. This one. made of hard ma
ple, finished light or forest green -special
S3.50
Gadsbys' Folding Go-Cart
This pretty Go-Cart is made of the best willow reed,
woven in artistic design. The back reclines, and the
cart may be folded. Has excellent steel gear and springs
and heavy rubber tires. Gadsbys' price
$9.00
Others as Low as $2.75
Intend Buying a China Closet?
Has bent glass ends, adjustable shelves; built of
selected golden oak; positively the greatest bargain
ever offered. Gadsbys' price ...-825.00
We will sell
you any
piece of
Furniture in
our store on
easy weekly
or monthly
payments.
HEW! IRISH PERIL
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Sinn Fein Movement Aims at
Absolute Independence
of Ireland,
SPREADS - AMONG YOUNG
Armed Force May Be Necessary to
Suppress Society, Which Draws
Recruits From Catholics
and Protestants Alike.
LONDON, April 27. (Special.) An
anti-English uprising of the most seri
ous nature is about to break out in Ire
land, and It is feared that it will be
necessary to suppress it by military, al
though the official papers are either
entirely silent or try. to make light of
what is really a most serious danger to
Great Britain.
The Sinn Fein movement is growing at
an alarming rate and hundreds of young
Irishmen are flocking to Its 'standards
every day. In the words of Henrick Ib
sen's "Master Builder." the leaders of the
movement declare with a glitter of exulta.
tlon in their eyes: "The younger genera
tion is knocking at the door."
Nor are these leaders trying- to conceal
their designs against the English, for one
of them said the other day in an Inter
view with- a representative of one of Lon
don's most enterprising papers. The
Dally Express:
"We do not want home rule. We do
not want any rule at all that comes from
England. We want to throw off all for
eign governance and be an Independent
Irish nation.
"The .Sinn Fein movement Is growing
all over Ireland. Our national council
Is organizing everywhere. Our paper,
the Sinn Fein, is even encouraging the
similar national- movement in Egypt. We
are giving all the support we can to the
attempt out there to throw off British
rule.
-We are getting the better classes of
Irish people Into the Sinn Fein movement
now. Both Roman Catholic and Protes
tant Irishmen are coming in. We have
stanch adherents at the Universities of
Oxford and Cambridge. MoBt of the
Irish students over there are Sinn Feiners
now. '
NEW GOVERNOR A SOCIALIST
Man of Modern Ideas Succeeds Swet
. tenham in Jamaica.
LONDON, April 27. (Speclal.)-Slr Alex
ander Swettenham. the type of hldebeund
conservative official, is to be succeeded as
Governor of Jamaica by a Socialist. Syd
ney Olivier, who has been appointed Gov
ernor of the stricken Island by the Radi
cal government, is an avowed Socialist
and is certainly the first colonial gover
nor ever , appointed who holds those
Views.
Mr. Olivier said after his appointment:
I am a Socialist of many years' stand
ing and shall continue my membership
of the Fabian Society. My official du
ties will be those of Governor of Jama
ica; my private beliefs will remain as
they have been during my 25 years- work
at the colonial office.
"But then, is not the welfare of the
people they live among the common ob
ject of Fabians and Socialists and Gov
ernors of Jamaica? I know the Jamai
cans and am very fond of them and
the r island, and every thing I can do for
their benefit will be done, whether as
Governor or Socialist."
STARLING WHISTLES SONGS
Peculiar Gift Causes Francis Joseph
to Break a Rule.
BERLIN, April 27.-SpeciaI.-A pretty
story about the Emperor Francis Joseph
of Austria is being told here. The rule
against presents being sent to the Em
peror was waived in favor of a starling
which could whistle popular tunes
The etarling arrived at the Hofburg
palace in a cage which - was carefully
wrapped up. The officials were about to
refuse the parcel when musical sounds
were heard from within it. The Court
chamberlain had the parcel undone,
whereupon the bird burst into a song
accurately whistling a medley of popular
airs. In the parcel was a i letter ad
dressed to the Emperor, begging him to
accept the accomplished bird, in spite of
the rules, for the sender had spent nearly
a year in teaching the bird in order to
please him.
After listening to the starling's reper
tory, his Majesty decided to keep the
bird and afterwards send it to his grand
children at Lainz. The giver, be com
manded should receive a suitable present
in return.
HAS FOUND ANOTHER HUSBAND
Amorous Ex-Princess Will Marry
Italian Millionaire.
BRUSSELS, April 27. (Special.) The
tongue of gossip is again busy with the
affairs of Countess Montignoso, formerly
Crown Princess of Saxony. She has long
been separated from Andre Glron, the
Belgian tutor with whom she eloped, and
now it is rumored she is about to marry
a multi-millionaire. whose millions are un
accompanied by title or noble birth. The
Princess is going to apply to the Pope
for permission to contract a second mar
riage. If this marriage takes place, little Prin
cess Monica will be given into the care of
her mother's ex-husband, the King of
Saxony. The King has promised to in
crease the Countess" allowance if she
surrendered the child to him. In any
case, little Monica is not to be doomed to
a nunnery.
ROYAL TREASURE UNEARTHED
Burled in Park Before Flight of
Louie) and Marie Antoinette.
PARIS, April 27. (Spec! al ) T he treas
ure ohest of Louis XVI and Marie Antoin
ette, buried hi the gardens of Versailles
when the unhappy royal couple left it for
the last time, is about to be unearthed.
The discovery of the treasure more than
NO years after its burial was due to, an
accidental find of a document which gave
the circumstances and the exact . spot
where the . royal valuable were hid
den. The information, which was found
among a bundle of papers picked up by an
historian who is an authority on Ver
sailles, stated .that the royal family before
departing for Paris at the threats of the
crowd of women revolutionists, burled in
Versailles park a trunk containing val
uable papers, a quantity of Jewejs and a
large sum in gold.
Excavations were commenced in the
middle of the night at the spot indicated
and in the presence of several learned his
torians. Sure enough, when the diggers
had got down a few feet, their spades
struck a metallic surface, supposed to be
the historic trunk. But at this stage the
operations were suspended until the mem
bers of the government and officials con
cerned could assemble to watch the dig
ging. The royal treasure will be finally un
earthed lnthe presence of the Minister of
Publio Instruction. the Minister of
Finance, the Under Secretary of Fine Arts
and the keeper of Versailles palace.
VISITS SACRED DALAI LAMA
German Explorer Describes Myste
, rious Ruler or Tibet.
BERLIN, April 27.-Speclal) The Dalai
Lama, the sacred personage who Is all
powerful in Tibet, and who has been hith
erto Inaccessible to "foreign devils," has
granted his very first audience to a Eu
ropean. The favored stranger was Dr.
Tafel, a German explorer, whom he re
ceived at the monastery of Gumbun.
Dr. Tafel was admitted to a half-darkened
room, where the holy man sat on an
elevated dais. The Lama is described by
Dr. Takel as "a little bit of a man with
thoroughly Tibetan features, a small, thin
nose, dark eyes, black, rather thick droop
ing mustache and a pock-marked skin."
He was clothed In the usual sleeveless
garment of the Lamas and wore a beauti
fully embroidered vest.
When Dr. Tafel had made his address
to the incarnation of Buddha, the latter
vouchsafed no reply, but dismissed him
with a benediction, administered by plac
ing his hand on the explorer's head.
Ladles' Maids at Monte Carlo.
MONTE CARLO, April 27.-(Special.)-Ladles
maids who accompany their mis
tresses here have caught the gambling
fever. They are often taken by their
mistresses to the Casino to act as chap
erons and purse-bearers, and are soon
tempted to become punters themselves
beginning with five-franc pieces ,
In the afternoon, when the society gam
blers take their afternoon drives the
tables are crowded with ladies' maids.
They play recklessly and are seldom
lucky. One French woman, however, em
ployed by an English Countess, has won
000 this season. Another maid has lost
600, which she has been saving for years
Most of the maids who gamble leave
their savings behind them when they go
home, and are frequently deep in debt
to their fellow-servants.
Object to American Education.
BERLIN, April 27.-(SpecIal.)-Prince
August Wilhelm's projected visit to the
United States Is commented on by the
Berlin papers in varying ways, some fa
voring and others condemning the policy
of sending a Prince of the lmperiul fam
ily to get an. American education.
Among the unfavorable opinions is that
of the Deutsche Tageszeitung, which de
clares that the Idea is ludicrous, because
the Prince could only be influenced for
evil by coming in contact with rich par
venus in "the land of machines and dol
lars." In welcoming the idea, the Berliner
Tageblatt says that meeting with wealthy
parvenus will be no new experience for
the Prince, for plenty of them are to be
found in Germany.
SEES DANGER IN MAD RUSH
College President Deprecates Amer
ican Disregard for Ideas.
CHICAGO, April ZJ. Shallowness, pas
sion for material comfort and "a lacka
daisical, easy-going disregard of law," ac
cording to Henry Churchill King, presi
dent of Oberlin College are the besetting
sins of the American people.
President King's diagnosis of the Na
tion's case was made last night in an
address before the Oberlin Alumni Asso
ciation at its annual dinner here.
"We are in real danger from the Amer
ican rush," he said. "We pride ourselves
on living fast, and we do. But the na
tion that lives too fast to think is lost
"It Is curious that In this age of sci
ence in which the reign of the law is su
preme there should be so utter a disre
gard for law in moral and spiritual af
fairs. In 'our reaction from Puritanism
we seem to have fallen into a lackadaisi
cal, easy-going point of view, as if, some
how or other, we expected to escape the
law whenever we so desire. I tell you,
we are in danger of waking with ringing
in our ears the awful mockery of these
words. Thou fool.'
"I have no doubt that the American
people are wrongly interpreted when they
are classed as mere money-grabbers, and
yet the danger of our immense Increase in
wealth, the danger of the stupefying,
deadening effect of our passion for ma
terial comfort, no man can deny. Our
personal and our National Ideals we had
them once are in danger."
RIOTS EXPECTED IN INDIA
Ball Cartridges Given Volunteers
and High Officials Enlist.
LAHORE, British India. April 27.
Rifles and 20 rounds of ball cartridges
have been served out to the local volun
teers in consequence of signs of. marked
unrest among the Hindoo student element.
The publication of Inflammatory articles
in the native newspapers, inciting race
hatred againBt the Europeans and de
manding native control of the government
of India by means of an elected Parlia
ment, has been followed recently by riots
at Lahore and elsewhere in the Punjab
and by attacks on Europeans. Profes
sional and political agitators are now
fomenting strikes on the railroads, and
the government has concluded that it is
time to suppress the rioting by forceful
means, if necessary.
The authorities are satisfied that a de
termined front will speedily end the out
ward signs of disaffection, especially as
they have the unanimous support of the
great Mohammedan population, who, at
numerous mass meetings, have emphatic
ally condemned the anti-European move
ment. Recent events have given a re
markable impulse to enlistment in the vol
unteers. The recruits Include five Juriros
of . the Supreme Court, the Directors of
Publio Instruction, university professors,
high government officials and leading
bankers and merchants, all of whom have
entered the ranks of the privates.
To Burn Butte Slot Machines.
BUTTE, Mont.. April 27. In pursuance
Of an order issued by Judge Bourquln
today, Sheriff Menderson will burn in
public, at a date to be fixed, 21 slot
machines, valued at $3000, and seized in
recent raids of gambling houses and saloons.
SORTING
MAIL
OF
WHILE IN MOTION
Labor and Skill Required of
Men in Railway Mail
Service,
FIRST INJURED IN WRECKS
Wonders of Speed and Phenomenal
Memory Mark Mail Trains Im
mense Increase of Business.
Father of the . Service.
BT FREDERIC J. HA SKIN.
WASHINGTON. April 22. (Special Cor
respondence.) One of the most highly
perfected institutions in this country is
the Government railway mall service.
When the letters and papers come in the
morning, few people stop to think of the
busy workers who spend hours and hours
of weary toil In the traveling postal car
as it thunders onward through the night,
bringing the communications of commerce
and society hours and hours ahead of
schedules known anywhere else in the
world. Uncle Sam has about 14.000 rail
way postal clerks, who ride in especially
constructed cars and work the mall as it
rushes across the various states of the
Union to its destinations.
The Burlington runs a train from Chi
cago to Omaha, a distance of BOO miles,
that makes the trip night after night in
about 600 minutes. To make all neces
sary stops and slow-downs and still main
tain a speed of a mile a minute for such
a distance is a remarkable performance.
This train consists of-four cars carrying
nothing but 60 tons of mall, which Is
handled every trip. Fifteen clerks ride In,
the cars to sort the letters and papers
while the sensational dash Is being made.
In addition to the Burlington's famous
train, there are some 30 other special mall
trains which leave Chicago every 24 hours.
This statement will give an idea of the
National service as It extends from every
city in the Union.
All Make Way for Fast Mall.
The fast mail is the pet of the railway
service. It is "make way for the lady"
when the flyer comes. Some night, if you
happen to be at the station when the fast
mail departs, you will find a dozen
brawny fellows working like beavers
loading the car with bulging sacks; a con
ductor pacing back and forth with watch
in hand; an engineer rubbing and oiling a
big steel racing machine, like a jockey
petting and coddling a . frisky thorough
bred. This engine will be a marvel. It
will carry 10 tons of -coal and 6000 gallons
of i water. An average-sized man can
stand erect in Its fire-box. It is gaunt
and angular and powerful. It will fret
and fume like a living thing impatient
for the start. When a lantern swings the
Blgnal, the driver will give his steed the
rein and it will disappear In the darkness
with a roar.
.Have Monumental Memories.
The work of the railway postal clerk la
most exacting. By the time he has
reached the 120O-a-year grade he has
memorized about 15,000 postofflcea. He
knows the states they are in, the counties
and the railroads and Junction points
through which they are reached. He
must at all times keep up with every
change of schedule affecting every one
of these 16,000 offices. In the side of each
car there is arranged a case containing
140 pigeonholes, and Into these the letter
man flips the missives so swiftly and dex
terously that you can hardly believe ha
is reading the addresses on them. He
shuffles pile after pile with the grace and
skill that a professional dealer of cards
shows in handling a new pack, and all
the while the train Is rushing onward
with llgthning speed.
The men In the cars become so familiar
with the road over which they pass that
they can tell you exactly where they are
at any point of the run without looking
up from their work. They are able ta
do this by their familiarity with all
curves, grades and crossings on the line.
It is necessary for them to judge closely
the speed of the train, -in order to have
the mall ready for all junction points. II
one of them sees that he has more work
than he can handle before he gets to a
given place, he calls for help and there is
a general rally and hustle to get thai
particular sack "tied out." ,
Can Read Any Writing.
One of the things that every mail clerk
prides himself upon Is his ability to de
cipher writing that would be illegible to
any one else. When one man gets an
address he cannot make out, he passes
H on to the next man and, if no one on
the train can figure it out, it goes into
the "nixies," which means llleglbles that
must go to the dead letter offloe. Last
year the records showed that each -clerk
handled 12,000 pieces of mall accurately to
every error he made, and it is said that
hardly one letter in 100,000 falls to find
its way to the proper destination.
Here Is an incident which shows what
a thorough knowledge of his business the
railway postal clerk must have: A letter
was mailed at Harrisburg, Va., one after
noon at 3 o'clock, addressed to Rocking
ham, four miles away. To reach its des
tination at the earliest -possible moment
this letter was dispatched over the South
ern to Washington, a distance of 143
miles. The clerk on this train tied it out
for the Washington and Hlnton route,
which carried It to Staunton, a distance
of 156 miles. The clerk on this train sent
it over the Harrisonburg and Lexington
route, which carried it to Its destination.
20 miles away. Thus the letter traveled
319 miles to go four miles, but it got there
two hours earlier than it would had it
waited for the direct train.
Growth of Railway Mail.
From the day the first traveling post
office was established the success of the
experiment was assured. It was but a
few years until there were railway postal
cars on every realroad. One does not
realize how the business of the country
has grown until he looks at the figures.
In VfI7 there were 864,700,000 pieces of mall
handled by the railway mail service. In
1SSS the number of pieces handled had in
creased to 6,528.722,000. In other words,
the service bad increased 750 per cent in
11 years. In 1897 there were ll.BTl.540.6S0
pieces handled, or close to double the
amount handled nine years before. In
1906 there were handled, exclusive of reg
istered matter, almost 20.000.000.000 pieces.
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