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SECTION FOUR
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DRAMATIC
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VOL. XXVII.
PORTLAND, OREGON, .SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 'S3, 1908.
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10 to 50 Per Cent Ndte the Following Prices We Guarantee to UNDERSELL Any House in Oregon.
$25.00
Pedestal Table
$12.50
Cottage Bedroom Suit $29.50
GADSBYS' EXTENSION TABLE
SPECIAL
Tbis handsome pedestal Extension
Table is offered at this extremely
low price thai, we may demonstrate
to the buying public our ability to
undersell any furniture institution
in the eity.
$12.50
Furnished complete as illustrated. Enameled iron bed. in apple green, white or' blue. 113. 00: spring mattress,
$2.25; top mattress, $2.50: pair pillows, $1.50: dresser or chiffonier, finished in a rich golden oak color with Ben
nine heavy French beveled mirror, oval shaped, $12.00; washstand to match, $4.25: rociUng chair or two plain
nans, neasiae rug- oi Brussels, iof j toilet set, consisting- ol wasnoasin. pucner, soap aisn, . f9Q Cfl
shaving- muf
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and combinet or chamber vessel, all of white granite, $1.50. Total.,
rintMS ss.oo dows axd i.oo per week,
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Dunlap's Tapestry Brus
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Granite Ingrain Carpets 50
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Royal Brussels Rugs,
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Imperial Pro-Brussels,
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Smaller Rugs in proportion.
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NEW PHASES OE
JEWEL SCANDAL
Priceless Crown Gems Were
but Poorly Guarded in
Dublin Castle.
SAFE NOT IN STRONG ROOM
Cattle Driving Will Be Itcncwed on
Larger Scaje in Ireland Unless
Anti-Graziers Obtain Fa
vorable Legislation.
DUBLIN, Feb. 22.-1 Special.) The mys
tery of the Dublin Castle jewels remains
unsolved and as unpleasant as ever for
all concerned. But the sidelights on
Dublin Castle administration, the safe
standing outside the - strongroom which
had been built to receive it, because the
door was not big enough to let it pass,
and the strongroom itself, built by the
Office of Works, and provided with du
plicate keys for the convenience even of
a messenger, are illuminating to a de
gree. It has almost faded from the public
memory that the regalia of Scotland, like
the Dublin Castle crown jewels, mysteri
ously disappeared and were discovered
after the lapse of a century, in 1S18. by
the persistent agitation of the question
by Sir Walter Scott, who at last obtained
a commission of search, when the Scottish
crown, which it was thought unsafe to
take to England after the Scotch union,
was discovered in a huge chest, locked,
bolted and buried in the crown room of
Edinburg Castle. By some means the
keys were lost anil every one forgot
everything about the chest.
Discovery of Scotch Jewels.
It was generally assumed that the chest
was empty and that the treasure had
been secretly smuggled to London. When
at last permission was given, through
Sir Walter Scott's persistent and suc
cessful importunity, for the chest to be
opened, all the jewels were found, cov
ered with the accumulated dust of more
than three generations. Sir Walter Scott
regarded this achievement as one of his
greatest successes.
Although cattle-driving has been prac
tically stopped for the present, it Is
stated that an arrangement has been
reached among the anti-grazers in the
west of Ireland to prosecute a vifjrous
campaign on new and far more daring
lines if legislation favorable to their in
terests is not introduced early this ses
sion. It is openly stated In certain parts
of the west that not only will cattle
driving be renewed on a very extensive
scale, but bands of young men win be
organized to plow. up the grazing lands.
Jn County Longford the attitude of those
who desire the distribution of the graz
ing lands is more defiant than ever, and
any recent lull in Illegal actions is due
entirely to the hope of early legislation
to mitigate their grievance. It is prob
ably th lull before the storm. In other
parts of the west people openly declare
that If they are disappointed the caVn
paign will be renewed on a scale never
equaled.
Drives to Be Continued.
Davjd Shcchy,' M. P.. speaking at a
Nationalist meeting at Rathmore. County
Meath, said that many; were assuming
that cattle-driving had been a breeze
that had passed over like last night's
rain and that tht-y were going to have
more sunshine for landlordism and gra
zicrism and that it would be all easy
now for the' future. It was nothing of
the kind. One way' to have an end to
cattle-driving was by a compulsory
clause in the next land "act empowering
the Kstates Commissioners to buy by
compulsion all. untenanted land.
Mr. Shechy believed that Mr. Birrell.
the Chief Secretary, Intended to have
such a clause. He did not believe that
there was one member of the Irish, party,
neither did he believe that there was
one member of the ministry, either Mr.
Birrell or . anybody else, who had the
slightest belief that such a clause wouTd
pass the House of Lords; and if it did
not. what became of the possibility of
legislation on the question? The one way
in which legislation could be forced was
by cattle-driving, and he would say to
them that if they could not have compul
sion by any other way. if they could not
get compulsion by legislation, let them
put on the screw themselves and keep up
cattle-driving.
Speaking at a United Irish I-eague
meeting. Barry O'Brien referred to the
"hypocrisy of the British" in the cattle
driving matter. He said the English
were ta- pious people, easily shocked by
any crime that occurred in Ireland. He
did not care to indict any people, though
England reeked with crime, so long as
he was not attacked: but when he was
attacked, he must retaliate. There was
the incident of Denshawi In Egypt. The
English officer was fond of shooting when
he was not engaged in tarring and feath
ering one of his brother officers. Some
of these officers went out in Egypt to
shoot pigeons, which were the property
of other people. The people tried to pro
tect their property. "There was no pro
tection of life and property act in force
there: An officer fired at the crowd. A
woman was shot, there was a struggle,
one of the officers 'ran for help and. was
killed, not by the people, but by the heat.
The government of this country hanged
four of the villagers and two were sent
to the penal setirements)ne of them the
husband of the woman who was wounded.
Other villagers were lashed.
Action of the English.
Yet, in a day or two. the minister who
was responsible for that would rise in
the House of Commons and sanctimo
niously deplore what the peasants in the
West of Ireland were doing. And why
were they doing it? They were doing it
because they knew it was only by the aid
of violence that justice could be wrung
from the ' government of Ireland. That
was the crime of a government which
lectured Russia or Turkey and would
denounce cattle-driving in Ireland. Let
them notrforget about the dum-dum bul
let during the time of the war' against
the Afridis. It appeared that these dum
dum bullets had been first used against
the tribes by God-fearing, humane Brit
ish; and. to crown all, when the matter
of their use was being discussed, the ar
gument was actually used that the Af
ridis could not object, because they were
not parties to the Geneva Convention. If
a Connaught peasant fired such a bullet
at a bullock, what an uproar there would
be.
Whether cattle-driving was good or
bad. those criminals are not entitled to
sit in judgment upon it. What was cat-
( tie-driving? It was an act of war a part
of the agrarian war in Ireland. Engiand
had planted a rookery in Ireland out of
which these "carrion crows" with ca
daverous beaks and insatiable maws flew
over the land preying on- the peoplf.
Professor Goldwin Smith had said that
j such offei)si.-8 should not be confounded
' with ordinary crime, and he pointed out
! that in part of the country where agra
rian offenses were most frequent, ordi
nary crime was rarest, and a high stale
of morality existed.
One reason for cattle-driving was that
the land act had ceased practically to
be operative. It .was needful that it
should go on. The landlords must be got
rid of. They talked of lawlessness in
Ireland. Why, the one lawless thing in
Ireland was the government of England.
It- had no moral sanction.
Mr. Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ire
land, speaking at Bristol on his Irish
policy, said: "If it were not for the
land, Ireland would be the most crime
less country In the world. The Lords
had mutilated bills and thereby imposed
on the Chief Secretary a great difficulty,
while there was in consequence discon
tent and dissatisfaction. and sympa
thizers declined-" to return a verdict
against people who were charged. Then
the House of Lords says to me. 'Coward!
Scoundrel! Why don't you enforce the
law?' I say in reply, 'Why don't you
pass the measures?' "
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POWER
DIM GREAT SPENDTHRIFT
AUTHOR HAD XO IDEA OP SAV
ING MOSEY,
Novelist Who Recently Died in Pov
erty Spent Small Fortune on
Her Pet Dogs. v
LONDON. Feb. 22. (Special.) A few
years ago no one would have thought it
possible that (Juida would end her days,
old, destitute and half - forgotten, in an
Italian., village. That she did so was
nobody's fault but her own. In the '70s
her novels had an Immense sale, and she
was a popular personage in a small but
by no means obscure section of London
society.
Ouida did not make as much money by
her books as many less popular writers
have done, but had she made twice as
much the end would have been the same.
Whether she was In funds or whether she
was within measurable distance of star
vation, she was constitutionally incapa
ble of keeping money by her.
When she had a great deal of it she
lived as if she lied been a Monte Cristo.
When she was reduced to her last ?2f
she would give 'a dinner to beggars. She
spent enough on dogs to keep several
families, and was so solicitous for the
starving mongrels of the streets as for
her own choice pets. In spite of .her ex
travagances and her comical blunders.
6he had a fertile imagination and the
knack of. telling h'cr slory effectively.
Specialist Able to Transmit
Energy for Starting Ma
chinery at Distance.
OPENS NEW POSSIBILITIES
Apparatus Started by Tcleiiicchan
ism, However, Must Have Mo-
tor of Its Own to Con
tinue in Motion. ,
PARIS, Feb. 22. (Special.) Tclcmn
chanism, a new word for tha wireless
transmission of electric power, had barely
been invfnted when an ingenious South
ern -Frenchman made use of it to extract
from a banker and other capitalists at
Marseilles a huge sum of money by pre
tending to have constructed a practical
apparatus for moving machines, cars,
ships, etc.. at a distance by wireless
electric power. The ;ame, while it has
made its victims feel very ridiculous, has.
nevertheless, brought out a statement
from M. Branly. a noted specialist, to the
effect tiiat telemechanism -of a very
curious kind indeed has been proved to
be possible.
Machinery, for example, can be started
at a distance by means of a certain
device, though it cannot be kept going
by the same power that started it. M.
Branly saj's that action can be com
manded but not kept up. Tims, for in-
j stance, by means of telemechanism, or
wireiess electric transmission, lie could
light a lamp at a distance and set going
an electric motor. The lamp or the motor,
however, must be supplied with a cur
rent of its own to continue working.
M. Branly simply opens or closes the
circuit by wireless transmission. Tele-:
mechanism turns on the commutator,
which sets the current going in a certain
direction, or stops it. As it is, it must
be confessed that this discovery is of
exceptional importance.
M. Branly is not yet prepared to say
in how many ways It can he applied, but
one can see at once the utility it might
have tn turning on railway signals, light
ing or putting out at the touch of a
button the electric lamps in a whole city,
and various other useful purposes to
which it might be put. Indeed, guns
might be fired or torpedoes exploded at
a distance as easily as lumps are lighted.
ARSENIC IN FRENCH WINE
Bevcrnge Said to Contain Poison
Used ns Spray.
PARIS. Feb. 22. (Special.) Most of the
members of the Paris Academy of Medi
cine were stirred out of their quiet humor
by a. discussion of wine and arsenic,
brought forward at their last meeting by
Dr. Cazeneuve. The distinguished pro
fessor of the faculty of Lyons called at
tention to the fact that within recent
years wine-growers in France had got
into the habit of using arsenlate of lead
as a radical means of destroying insects
and mildew on the vines. The arsenic
contained in the mixture destroys the in
sects, it is true. but. according to the
doctor's statements, traces of -both arsenic
and lead are found in the wine derived
from such vineyards.
The percentage is not great something
like one-thousandth of a milligramme per
liter yet ho iiryued that this was suffi
cient in the long-run to poison anyone's
stomach. This at uncc aroused an ani
mated discussion. Some questioned the
fact that so small a portion of arsenic or
lead could have an effect on the constitu
tion, -find others took sides with Professor
Cazeneuve. In conclusion, the academy
decided to hold a special meeting to dis
cuss the matter.
The idea that French wines might be
declared poisonous substances seems to
have come like a thunderbolt on the
learned assembly. It is reassuring to
add, however, that only the very cheap
wines seem to be exposed to the danger
such wines as are commonly drunk by
the French workmen themselves, who are
no better for them, as Dr. Cazeneuve has
citd statistics showing that a large per
centage of laborers in the south of France
have .been suffering from lead and arsenic
poisoning.
ROBBERS GAG TRAIN CREW
Then Loot Mallear on Hungarian
Railway.
VIENNA. Feb. 22. (Special.) A daring
robbery in a train occurred on the Hun
garian State Railway. According to a
telegram from Orsova, the train was at
tacked at the Karansebe station, when
the guards were seating the passengers,
of whom there were 400. The robbers
gagged and bound the conductor and soific
of the. railway attendants, entered the
mail van and abstracted eight mail bags
besides all that they could lay hands on.
The affair was over in three minutes.
When the gagged conductor and the oth
ers were found the theives were far away.
Active pursuit by the gendarmes had
hitherto been wit he t result.
FORMS TEAM OF PARSONS
English Clergymen Are Out for
Football Honors.
LONDON. Feb. 22 (Special.) The phrase
"muscular Christianity" is not as fashion
able as it- was in the days when Tom
Brown was at Oxford, but the spirit
which it expressed is evidently not ex
tinct. The Morning Leader reports that
a Lancashire curate has organized a foot
ball team of parsons, who are now dis
playing their prowess on Saturday after
noons. The curate himself whose place, it
seems, is at center is described as a
"nippy and efficient' pivot." It is hoped
that the movement which has begun
among the curates will extend to thii
higher clergy, and perhaps in time churclr
and cbapel may fight out their differences
on some classic football ground.
"FAUST" FOR BERNHARDT
Rival Authors Complete Same Play
for ' Great Actress.
PARIS. Feb. 15. Sarah Bcrnhnr.lt is
now in the peculiar position of having
two "Fausts" on her hands. Resort to
the law courts probably will be neces
sary to get the matter straightened
out.
About ten years ago M. Rostand
started to write a drama based on
Goethe's masterpiece, and Bernhardt
promised to produce it as soon as it was
finished. The work hung fire so long,
however, that even Rostand's friends
surrendered all hope of ever seeing it
finished.
In the meantime another "Faust" was
written by Henry Bataillc. Mme. Bern
hardt, who had pined for a quarter of
a century to appear in the role of Dr.
K.aust; immediately secured the rights
in the now piece and began prepara
tions for its production.
She even had the author modify the
principal role o as 1o glvo U still
greater prominence. Magnificent scen
ery and costumes were ordered, a-nd it
was Intended to give the first perform
ance early in the Spring.
In the midst of the preparations, M.
Rostand suddenly announced that his
own "Faust" finally was completed, and
suggested to Bernhardt that she keep
her promise given ten years before.
Bernhardt, it is said, was so delight
ed at having a chance to produce a
new Rostand play that she abruptlv
informed M. Bataillle his "Faust" would
have to wait.
Bataillle says he will not wait. At
present neither side is yielding.
LABOR MEN IN PARLIAMENT
Need New Tarty to Accomplish Ef
fective Work.
LONDON. Feb. 22. (Special.) The de
termination of trade unionists to estab
lish a labor party in parliament, inde
pendent of both the old-established
parties, was one with which nobody could
seriously quarrel. Not only is it per
fectly legitimate for working men to desire-to
be represented in parliament by
working men. but their special interests
cannot be adequately represented by any
body else. As long, however, as par
liamentary candidates have to bear the.
heavy cost of elections, and members
when returned to parliament are not paid
for their services, it is obvious that work
ingmen. if they are to be represented by
men of their own class, must firvd the
money to pay for returning them and
maintaining them while they are engaged
at Westminster.
If the funds for this purpose are to be
contributed by trade unions, it necessarily
follows that the candidates cannot stand
avowedly as Liberals or Conservatives,
since the trade unions are not political "
organizations, audi may be expected to
contain many men of both political
parties, each of which would object to
the union funds being used in support of
a parliamentary candidate on the other
side. From the nature of the case, there
fore, special labor representation in par
liament necessarily involves the creation
of an "independent" labor party.
Tourist Crop Keeps Up.
LONDON, " Feb. 22. (Special.) News
from Queenstown goes to show that an
unprecedented . rush of ' visitors from
America is. expected this year and that,
in fact, thj movement is already in
progress. The Baltic and the Mauretania
have come over full of passengers and a
booking authority, adverting to the enor
mous forward booking in America, says
it looks' as "if all New York would cross
the Atlantic this year." This statement
dors not accord with the reports ot thn
widespread disastrous effects of tlia
financial crisis in America; '