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f DRAMATIC and SPORTING SECTION FOUR Pages 1 to lO PORTLAND, OREGON, ST7NDA7 MORNING, JANUARY 26, 1908. VOL. XXVII. NO. 4. aclslbys? Qearamice Sale Furniture of every description at less than factory prices. See our win dows for bargains. We guarantee to UNDERSELL any house in Portland of $50 PARLOR SUITS $27 Parlor Suit, Ave pikers, beautfully finished lnv rich, dark mahogany, upholstered In verona; regrolar price S50: sain price 827. OO Mall Orders (or i)e above must Include $2.03 packing; charges. $35.00 Steel Range for $29.00 LEADER Range All (?uarante?d for 10 years. Leader Bane, with hlgrh clonet and duplex ffrate, spring-balanced oven doors. 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Gadsbys' price. .. .-.SIO.OO One of the Largest Displays of CARPETS RUGS on the Coast Special Prices CARPETS . - Bromley's Velvets, with borders .551.25 Burlington Brussels, with borders . ......... .SI. 10 Tapestry Brussels, . with borders ...$1.20 Dunlap 's Tapestry Brussels ............ 90 Reversible Pro-Brussels . . - . . . . . . . . $1.00 Brusselette Carpet, -yard wide ........ . ... . .......... 55 Granite " Ingrain Carpets . .... s .... . . .-.-. . - 50 RUG SPECIALS $35.00 Royal Axminster Parlor Rugs, 9x12 feet; now. .$25.00 $35.00 Wilton Velvet Rugs, 9x12 ...S25.00 $25.00 Brussels Seamless Rugs, 9x12 S 520.00 $20.00 Brussels Rugs, 9x12 i 515.00 $15.00 Pro-Brussels Rugs, 9x12 $12.00 Smaller or Larger Rugs Proportionately Reduced. Ingrain Sample Rugs, all wool, 1 yard square ............ 35 Brussels Sample Rugs, fringed , 1....S1.00 Solid Mahogany Chamber Suits, Colonial Design, $150.00 up. Early English Dining-Room Suits, 8 pieces, $125. Weathered Oak Library Suits, 5 pieces, $100. Empire or Napoleon Beds, Mahogany, Birdseye and Golden Quarter-Sawed Oak. Gadsbys' price, $25.00. Brass Bedsteads, 100 patterns, from $22.50 up. Hall Furniture in Early English, Weathered and Golden Oak. $35 Suit for $17.50 Fine ' fnll-sized Bedroom Salt, usually sold at $36.0J; our price Jost one half. 817..S0 Maple or ash, golden finish. Mo soft wood here. How's This Buffet for $15.00? a $2o.0o Table reduced to S15.00 ISO. 00 Table reduced to S22.50 $35.00 Table reduced to S25.00 (40.00 Table reduced to 830.00 145.00 Table reduced to 835.00 Joi-00 Table reduced to 40.00 This beautiful Buffet, worth $.10. half price $15. OO SIDEBOARDS REDUCED $22.09 Sideboard red. te. $25.00 Sideboard red. to. $30.00 Sideboard red. $35.00 Sideboard red. $40.00 Sideboard red. J4 5.no Sideboard red. $50.00 Sideboard red. $60.00 Sideboard red. to to. to. to. to. to. . 15.00 ..! I1T.50 .1120.00 ..! 122. 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THAT'S WHY WE SELL TOR LESS" -1 , INDIA BOYCOTTS BRITISH GOODS All Who Handle English Wares Are Ignored Throughout the Province. WRITER DEPICTS CONDITION wearing; hats was a grave discourtesy in the presence of the King's represen tatives, .or even in the presence of other uncovered members, and that members should, anyway, be more careful of their attire, and with - a withering; glance, be pointed to Hall Caine as a flagrant offender. Just before his departure for parts unknown, where he expects to write another book, the author was Inter viewed on the subject. He said: "When I joined the House of Keys, it was with the understanding: that I would have to be absent a great deal of the time, and I supposed, thatfmy fellow-islanders would allow me to take a tourist's license in the matter of dress on my hurried visit there. I am a busy man, and do not have time to change clothes frequently. Besides, I did not know before that we were so careful about dress on the Isle of Man." Seeing that Hall Calne is the chief product for which the island Is noted, it is not improbable that he will be allowed to dress as It pleases him. Swadeshi Movement Has Gained Strong Foothold and "India for .'. Indians" 'Is the Cry on Every Side. LONDON, Jan. 25. (Special.) Writ ing from Eastern Bengal, the strong hold of the Swadeshi movement and the home of -the boycott . against British goods, which has been its necessary In strument, a special correspondent de scribes "exclusive dealing)" as he finds It, with a vividness which must be painful to some of his readers. The boycott chiefly affects Manchester cot tons and Liverpool salt. The origin of the boycott the writer does not discuss, except to say it was directly due to the partition of Bengal, and that the movement was designed to draw the at tention of the English people to a feel ing which the government of India under Lord Curzon ignored. We have the writer's word for It that in every detail the boycott was thor ough. Merchants and shopkeepers and buyers alike were, called upon to have no dealings with British goods. The young men of the towns and villages formed themselves Into associations to preach the boycott. Shops that con tinued the sale were surrounded by groups that implored customers, for the sake of their country, to go away. Boys threw themselves prostrate in suppli cation, as is the regular Indian way. This was the only form of persuasion used. But in some cases the British goods were destroyed, though usually they were first paid for. The extension of the boycott from the goods to the vendors of them, marks the completion of the movement. There is now no need to preach boy cott or Swadeshi; everyone knows the principle, even in the furthermost vil lage of India. The political boycott on British goods is becoming merged In the much larger economic movement of home rule, for the revival of all pure,Ly Indian industries, and the meth ods no, longer consist of appeals to shopkeepers and customers, but of a social boycott on the merchants who still Insist on dealing in any foreign goods, rather' than those of India. The writer of the article recently met a number of merchants, who had large dealings In Manchester cottons, and In consequence were generally shunned. "Barbers would not shave them, milkmen would not sell them milk, friends would not come to their daughters' marriages. It was distress ing and Inconvenient. Would I please set everything right as it was before? They were martyrs to the cause of British commerce." The correspondent doubts if the Swadeshi movement can now be ended by any political reform, since It has certain obvious economic advantages. The watchword, "India for the Indi ans," is Indeed becoming a very power ful force in the Eastern Empire. A high authority on Indian affairs said the other day that within five years will be the gravest possible situation in India.,' Spain Cementing English Tics. LONDON'. Jan. 25. (Special.) Inquiries among" Spanish Consular and commercial circles in London make it clear that the proposal of the Spanish Minister of Com merce to hold an exhibition of Spanish arts and industries in London in 1908 is warmly welcomed by the Spanish colony in the Metropolis as additional evidence of the desire of King Alfonso to cement yet more closely the entente that unites the two countries. It isypointed out that spam nas close commercial relationship with Great Britain. QUEEN OF SHEWS MIS ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISPUTING AS TO THEIR LOCATION. UNITE TO HONOR MILTON America Will Join England in Ter centenary Celebration. LONDON, Jab. 18. (Special to New Tork times.) proposals of a definite na ture for cemmemorating the tercentenary of Milton will he laid before the British Academy officials at the forthcoming meeting, with especial reference to Amer ican participation in the celebration. As Milton was born in Broad street. Cheap- side, on December 19, 1608, the tercenten ary will take plaoe a little less than a vear hence, and such early discussion of the plans seems to 'indicate that the event'will be celebrated on a grand scale. One suggestion for the celebration Is the production of "Comus," written when 'the poet was only 26. -Another suggestion is that a Milton oration 'be endowed. something after the manner of Harvey's oration at the College of Physicians, commemorating Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood. St. Paul's School, where Milton received his early education and Christ College, Cam bridge, where he afterward went, will, of course, be invited to take a prominent part in the commemoration ceremonies. The suggestions for American participa tion have not yet taken definite form. but the supporters of the movement here believe they can count on not only active but enthusiastic support from the Amer ican followers of the blind poet. By an interesting coincidence another name famous in English history, but In another sphere. Is - also the subject of discussion for a great celebration. The question of observing the 60th annivers ary of the announcement of the Darwin ian theory has already been raised by the council of the Linnean Society. It Is especially appropriate that this society should" have the initiation of any steps thought desirable, as to it Darwin first communicated his historic thesis. CAINE TAKEN TO TASK House of Keys Is Shocked by Novel ist's Attire. LONDON, Jan. 18. (Special to the New York Times.) A formal protest has been made by the House of Keys, of the Isle of Man, against the practice of ilall Calne, the novelist, appearing be fore that body attired in knickerbock ers and other accessories of. the tourist. An allusion was made to him In the course of a debate on the question whether baldbeaded members, subject to colds tnrough draughts, should be allowed to sit with their hats on, and the acting Speaker, although baldhead ed himself, spoke against the motion, which was finally defeated by a vote of 11 to . IB Ills speech th chairman said that POPE'S CHARGES CULLED RECKLESS English Ex-Jesuit Answers En cyclical Against Mod- . ernism. LETTER TO THE PRESS: One Maintains They ' Are on the Zambesi River, Another Holds They Are in Abyssinia. LONDON. Jan. 18. A bitter archaeo logical controversy is raging in Germany over fhe exact location of the famous gold mines of the Queen of Sheba. Dr. Carl Peters, the well-known explorer and former governor of German East Africa, has been ' lecturing throughout Germany to the effect that the Biblical Ophir "gold region in Africa, according to his discoveries, lies in the Zambesi river. Baron von Falkenegg, also an explorer of note, says that the theory of Dr. Peters has been set up "in the in terests of England." Baron Falkenegg writes: "From the Bible it is incontrovertibly clear that the Queen of Sheba, 1. e.. Habesch, took the land route over Arabia. From the Har rar region, in the neighborhood of Djibuti, she sailed to Yemen to some southern Arabian point, and there or ganized the great caravan. In all prob ability, as ruler of Habesch, she was also ruler . of southern Arabia." Baron Falkenegg then discusses the 'colonial policy" which King Solomon, in common with King Hiram of Phoenicia, carried out. 'With his friend Hiram, the Phoeni cian sea king, King Solomon established colonies in Africa. The Phoenicians fur nished the ships and the experienced sailors, and the Jewish King supplied the money and the soldiers. 'From what is today Tripoli, along all the coasts of Africa, the Phoenicians had their colonies, in northwest and south east Africa, all the way to Habesch. The remains of Phoenician structures of all sorts abound throughout Africa. 'On that basis Dr. Peters rests his arguments that the region of the 'Sim babje' is the old legendary Ophir. The gold ships came from" the land 'Ofir' that Is, 'Africa.' The richest deposits, however, were revealed in the Habesch district, or what is today Abyssinia." One result of the campaign will be cer tain benefit to the Soudan, where it is well known there exist great mineral wealth and untold agricultural possi bilities, the pioneer in exploring which was probably the Austrian, Joseph Rus segger, who, seventy years ago compiled and illustrated fifteen gigantic volumes on the subject. Even now German capitalists and col onizers are turning . their attention in that direction; it was a German citizen long resident in London. Charles Tuch mann, who built the hotel at Khartoum and commenced to interest British in vestors. The efforts of the Hamburg-American company in Nile navigation are also ap pealing to German pride; and it is known the prospector and the land developer are beginning, on behalf of German in terests, to appear in increasing numbers in the Soudan. HOPE IN PRIMARY SYSTEM Book of Great Importance Written by American in Germany. 1 BERLIN, Jan. 18, (by telegraph to Cilfden, Ireland, thence by wireless.) With a frontispiece jportrait of Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin and with a dedi cation "to that eminent statesman and leader of Constitutional reform and faith ful champion of the principles of a true republic," a book is published in Leipsic entitled "The Elective Office and Primary Elections In the United States." The author of the book is Ernst C. Meyer. United States Consular Agent at Sonneberg, Saxe-Meiningen, who cently won the degree of Ph. D., at the Univer sity .of Leipsic. Mr. Meyer's thesis at the university attracted the attention of Professor Karl Lamprecht one of Germany's most sound and resourceful historians who invited the young Ameri can official to elaborate his' subject, and make it into a volume In the special li brary on the world's political systems, which the professor is engaged in editing. Mr. Meyer points out how the primary election system in vogue in the United States is destined eventually to lead to the restoration of a true republic by en abling the people to not only elect their officials, as their "bosses'" have permitted them to do heretofore, but actually to nominate them. He asserts that this mubt naturally lead to the popularization of the Senate and a greater popular voice In the selection of Presidents. The book wfll be issued simultaneously In Germany, England and the United States. ' . Dog Shoots His Master. PARIS, Jan. 2o. (Special.) M. Le tang, who was shooting at Lasallo, near Dreux, recently, had Just killed a rabbit with his first barrel and gone forward with his dog to pick -it up, when, as he bent down, the dog, which bounded at the same moment on the rabbit, struck the trigger, discharging the gun and killing hie master instantly. Father G. Tyrrell, Excommunicated by Pope, Says Modernism Is the . .Method of the Spirit, Kather Than System. ROME, Jan. 8. The Rev. ' George Tyr rell, the. English ex-Jesuit, who has been forbidden by the Pope to exercise the functions of his office as a priest of tho Roman Catholic Church on ac count of his "modernism," has at length replied to the recent Papal en cyclical which condemned him and oth er Catholic advocates of a modern in terpretation of the Bible, the ancient dogmas of the church, and the com mentaries, real or apocryphal, of the Fathers. The ex-Jesuit's reply is In the form of a letter sent to. the press of England and Italy. Its most strik ing passages are as follows: "Histories of the Blessed Virgin and St. Joseph have been written, unham pered by any historical evidence, so as to yield and support certain dogmatic conclusions; and church history or ha-, giography written on the same lines ' has entailed wholesale manipulation and suppression of inconvenient evi dence. "The encyclical makes a valiant at tempt to prove modernists guilty of a like aprlorism as though two blacks would make a white. It accuses them of starting with a belief in the evolu tion of religion, of the Scriptures, of the church, with her dogmas and in stitutions; and then of arranging evi dence to accord with this hypothesis. Only a profound ignorance of the huge masses of irresistible evidence which have forced the evolution hypothesis not merely on the modernist, but on the modern mind, could explain the. desperate recklessness of such a charge. Modernism From Newman. "To some extent, however, it is the daring of desperation. The solidarity of Newmanlsm with modernism cannot be denied. Newman might have shud dered at his progeny, but it is none the less his. He is the founder of a method which has led to results which he could not have foreseen or desired. The growth of his system has made its divergence from scholasticism clearer every day. No cause could live on its rabble alone, and the cause of obscurantism must have, and does, numbers of sincerely convinced and en thusiastic defenders to whom it owes its vitality, and who lend respectabil ity to its camp followers. "To understand and believe in the possibility of such sincerity it is first necessary to realize that seminary system of education to which the great masses of the Catholic clergy owe their mentality and which flourishes most vig orously at Rome, the official center of the Church. It Is a simple fact that in these days, when the whole battle rages around the Bible and ecclesiastical history, men still can, and most often do, obtain the doctorate in theology in complete and grotesque ignorance of those two subjects. Modernism is a method and a spirit rath er than a system, a mode of Inquiry, not a body of results. Here is its weakness against the compact unanimity of Its ad versaries. Modernism in a Deadlock. ''Modernists agree as to their point of departure, as to the general method and way; but their goal is below the horizon, their rate of advance unequal, their courses by no means parallel. Hence not one of them will subscribe to all the posi tions of his fellow-modernists; still less will he accept the compact system fath ered on him by the- encyclical. Not one of them would die for the modernist In terpretation of Catholicism which It con demns. What, then, are the prospects of modernism? Plainly, things are at a dead lock. There Is everywhere and at all times a blending of separate types of reli gious faith, until a notable crisis brings men suddenly face to face witn the neces sity of a choice.' "Once more, it must not be forgotten (to put it crudely) that those who pay for the piper will call for the tune. Mod ern conditions make the ecclesiastical body more and more dependent on the purse of 'the harmless but necessary' lay man, so unmercifully pulverized by the encyclical. It is equally plain that, what ever little temporary success methods of police may have In protecting the semi narian from the knowledge of awkward facts, they will have none at all with the layfolk of modernized countries. That the. mediaeval interpretation of Catholicism is doomed! Is far more evident than that the various efforts of modernism to find a reinterpretation will be successful." LUNATIC TELLS OF ESCAPE Writes Story of His Kclcase From a British Asylum. LONDON, Jan. 18. (Special to New York Times.) The smartest lunatic who ever escaped from an English asy lum seems to be a well-known Hadley man. Wearing a silk hat and frock coat, he yesterday walked Into a news paper office in Hadley, and, after writ ing a thrilling story of how to elude the vigilant attendants at the Stafford shire County Asylum, asked the editor to publish it. According to his story, he waited for a foggy night, and, when it came, after loosening the screws in his cell win dow, he destended to the ground bj means of a rope ladder prepared in ad vance. Ho then made a visit to Stock port and called upon the poor law of ficials for the- purpose of looking "over the lunacy law. After learning that a lunatlii could not be apprehended after 14 days of liberty unless a fresh order should bo made out against him. he gave himself up to unrestrained celebration of the new year. He complained in his story that the asylum system was too prison -like that it discouraged and depressed him. .. ., ,