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TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX,. PORTLAND. MARCH 8, 190S. EXTRA! Since this ad was of the stock has been will probably be our written nearly all subscribed. This last advertisement i i i ii i i i i i i i- i i I irn A5 .1.. HAS EVERLASTINGLY DE MON HE ETERNAL DURABILITY OF CONCRETE. "Withstanding the storms of ages, the constant dissolution and transformation of Nature; standing sentinel to the ear liest kingdoms of history and still the guardians of ancient secrets, the Pyramids of Egypt are the most convincing argu ments of the indestructible properties of concrete construc tion. Huge mountains have been toppled; islands have been thrown up by the sea; the face of the globe has been altered; cities have been founded, have grown, have thrived and fallen. The Concrete structures of ancient. Egypt, Greece and Home are still in the land of the living. Save the earth itself, there is no material so durable as Concrete. EFFICIENCY OF CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION. The modern demands for solidity, fireproof qualities, inde structibility, permanency, economy .and convenience-in the rearing of tremendous skyscrapers has sent the constructiou men hurrying and scurrying to the uttermost parts of the earth for something to fit the demand. Concrete was redis covered, the art of making it relearned, the skill of adapt ing it re-employed. Today you have to admit that its equal was never known. The biggest and best buildings of the cen tury are being made of Concrete. This has developed an enormous demand. Not a Concrete manufacturing company in the world lacks for work. It is almost impossible to meet the needs. COUPON Gentlemen : Your Concrete proposition is intensely interesting. I would like to rend your booklet, CONCRETE FACTS. SEND ONE TODAY. Will you also inform me how soon I could expect to receive dividends and how much t hey 'w ould be on an investment of $ ? Name Address MONO m ma: PRESSED STONE CO. STRATED T RELIABILITY OF THE INVESTMENT. What makes an investment good? A demand that makes the product manufactured a staple on the market. Invest in the .stock of the company that is working overtime to complete its orders, realizing a magnificent profit on each one and your profit is assured. That is exactly what we offer you." This sale of stock is to provide funds for enlarging our plant at Sellwood. It. is for sale at par value, TEN DOLLARS A SHARE. The plant is now earning 15 per cent and can be made to earn more than double that amount. You can share in the prosperity of this company by purchasing stock in any amount from $50 to as much as you think you can afford. Fill out the attached coupon. , .. WRITE, CALL, PHONE OR WIRE 218-22Q ABINGTQN BLDG., PORTLAND, OREGON OLD RELIC IS RAZED Franklin's Unique Paris Home Is Demolished. TYPICAL OF NEW ENGLAND Building; in Which Distinguished American Lived Presented Great Contrast With Its Surround ings Near the Elysee. PARIS, March 7. (Special.) Among i number of old-fashioned houses at the corner of two narrow streets, the Kua de Matignon and the Rue de Pen thlevre, there stood for more than a rentury, not far from the Elysee, an nld farmhouse, which evidently be longed to another period and a foreign country. The house 1 now demolished nnd was. the story rclatos, at one time the residence of S njumln Kranklin, the first American Minister in France. Hefore its demolition, it presented a traime contrast to the buildings around. It was simply an average xlicrt New England farmhouse, in a tumble-down condition, with Email windows and thin brick walls on the around floor, and the upper story was simply a low garret, with three point ed windows looklnii out from shabby wooden frames. The brick walla did not ro beyond the jjcround floor, and the Barret-like superstructure was of common white pine wood, which was rotten and falling to pieces with age. The whole was covered by a dilapi dated tileil roof. tfo characteristic. In fact, of old Co lonial and pioneer days did It look thai one was led' to bellevu that l'ranklln not only lived In it. but prob ably had it hullt, and furnished the de sign himself. Indeed. It is not likely that any 1'arislan architect in those days had seen a house like that, or could have imagined Its design. Little wooden stairs led up to the garret on the outside of the house, and to make the plcuire complete, the yard was closed in by a real old-fashioned New Knglund board fence, with a gate hanging lopsided on one oltl, rusty hinge, the other hine having been broken long ago. , That such a queer old cottage should he still standing within a few steps of the President's palace was In itself a curiosity, and allows that in these days the. spot was practically out in the country, whero l-'ranklln. who had simple, rustic tastes, liked to reside. If It had been In any way artistic, it would probably have been purchased by some patriotic American, but. as U w as, there was no desire to preserve it There was a little cabaret In the ground floor, at the corner: but for tne past three years tho upper story or garret, consisting of three rooms, had been offered for a ridiculous sum $30 a year and yet even at that price none would have It. Koliof for the Viu-iu ployed. VICTORIA. B. C. March 7. Such desti tution prevails at the coal city of Nana inio that the provincial government has inaugurated emergency relief works, giv ing employment to some .Vw men clearing public land near tile city. The action of the government has been taken at the uraina of the (Socialist members, against the wish of the Nanaimo city council, to relieve those who have been idle since the recent depression in the coal trade, in consequence of which many miners have been discharged by the Western Fuel Company. Work is to be provided only for bona fide residents. MAKES WOUNDS TO ORDER Paris Man Discovers Method to Fool Insurance Companies. PARIS, March 7.-(SneclaI.) In a suit for damages brought before one of the criminal courts of Paris a curious reve lation has been made of a recipe for producing artificial wounds. The In ventor of this recipe is a young man, who, it appears, has been making money by It either by Osing it himself or by prescribing it to bis friends, who, after pretending to have been victims of acci dents, obtained large sums for damages from Insurance companies. The trick was done by rubbing any part of the body with sandpaper and then covering it over with salt and black soap, which caused the part to swell and redden so as to deceive the doctors if they should happen to make only a superficial examination. The se cret of the artificial wound, however. Is out, and its too ingenious young in ventor Is In jail. ACQUI T FAIR REBEL Bomb-Thrower Calmly Admits Her Guilt. TRIED TO KILL TYRANT Polish Girl Who Attempted .to As sassinate Governor of Warsaw, Tells Story of Plot and Her Motives. VIENNA. Feb. 29. Toung and beautiful Wanda Dobrodzicka, the bride of the painter, was acquitted today of an at tempt to assassinate the Governor of Warsaw, though she said calmly in court that she threw a bomb at his carriage and expected to be either blown to pieces e F MISS BLAXCHR STODDtRD, WHO OPE HKR ENGAGEMENT .S I.KADIKG WOMtV WITH THE BAKER STOCK COMPAXf TO DAY IX "THE THREE OK IS." herself or arrested and hanged. ' Women who tilled' the ocurtroom threw quantities of flowers at her when the verdict of ac quittal was reached. The result of the trial was a great sur prise in view of the circumstances and the frank acknowledgment of guilt which the fair revolutionist made. The crowds in . court cheered Judge, Jury, and the ac quitted woman, who stood with bar hus band and father receiving congratula tions in the midst of a pile of nosegays. Wanda's father was a rebel of 163, who spent Ave years of his life in exile in Si beria. He taught the daughter his politi cal principles after she had finished a careful education at the age of 17. Joined Polish Society. As a daughter of Poland she felt it her duty to aid in freeing her people from the yoke of Russian absolutism and Joined the revolutionary organization. Several I futile attempts had been made against j tne itie ot tne liovernor or Warsaw, wno had used all his efforts against the or ganization. Wanda and a friend whose name she has not revealed accepted an assignment to destroy him. The plot was carefully laid. To induce the Governor to drive through the streets, a practice he particularly de tested and avoided, a member of the or ganization disguised himself in the uni form of a Russian officer, - went to the Austrian Vice Consul's house, and delib erately insulted that diplomat. As was expected, the Governor was forced to visit the insulted representative of a foreign country and offer his apologies. Throws Bomb From Balcony. It was known that his carriage must pass through a certain street on his way from the paiace to the cotisulate. Rooms were taken in a house with a balcony overhanging the street. There members of the organization took four packages containing bombs. Only one bomb was to be used, the others were to be left in the rooms to deceive the police as to the quality and composition of the ex plosives used-. On the afternoon of August 17, 1905, Wanda, then 20 years old, stood on the balcony, a bomb concealed in the folds of her skirt and her woman friend in an adjoining window. The carriage passed on the way to the consulate under Wanda's eyes. When it returned she threw her missile, aiming at the horses. No explosion followed. Seizing a second bomb, Wand hurled it full at the carriage. Smoke and fire appeared when the missile struck, but there was no loud report, and the car riage proceeded on its way. Threw Only Harmless Missiles. A mistake had been made and the pack ages of bombs had beeu transposed. The deadly bombs had been left and the harm, less ones, manufactured to deceive the police, in whose hands it wan Intended they should fall, had been used. Wanda donned a wig. changed her hat and left the house with her friend. She was stopped by the police, but released immediately as not resembling the woman on the balcony. She remained two days In Warsaw and then went to Cracow, but she bad left her passport in the rooms. When the revolutionary organization started a campaign of robbery of public moneys Wanda wrote to say that she did not approve and demanded that her name be stricken from the rolls. She went to Italy and: to Switzerland with her sister, but later returned to Cracow, feeling as sured she would be delivered up to tthe Russian authorities, as her crime was a political one. In June, 1907, she married a painter named Dobdrodzlcka. ad thus became an Austrian subject. The passport she left in Warsaw revealed her Identity, and In October, 1907. she was arrested. Her crime, committed- In Russia, under the law, had to be Judged in her own country. She was tried in Wadowica, In Austrian Poland. She admitted all the allegations set forth in the Indictment, but would not plead guilty, saying it was no crime in her eyes to remove a bad man. On the -witness stand she described the terrorism with which the Governor ruled the pro vince, making the tyrants who were his predecessors seem like angels. MAY BUYM0RE ROADS England Will Make Inquiry Into Nationalization of Railways. LONDON, March 7. (Special.) It seems to be generally understood that efforts will bo made to induce the gov ernment to carry out its offer to ar range an Inquiry into the question of nationalization of the railways. All political parties are in' favor of an in quiry, without pledging themselves to results. The Unionists would not ob ject. The Liberals would, as a whole, favor It. The Labor group, said Mr. Henderson, the chairman, is strongly in favor ot nationalization, but is not greatly enamored of the delays caused by government Inquiries. The Irish are quite as well disposed. Among Con servatives, the chief note of apprehen sion is that organized labor might in terfere with the freedom of elections. There was some fear that the example of the postofflce might be repeated. The alternative policy to the nation alization of railways seems to bo larg er amalgamations of existing concerns under closer government supervision. Ail agree that investigation roust be awaited before anything can be done, and no one expects that an inquiry could yield any result under a year, al though the democratic element is clam oring loudly for nationalization. AH Iandowners Against It, Corvallls Times. Owners of land, or of town lots, have occasion to be interested in the defeat of a new tax bill that Is to be voted on In June. It should not pass. It is not likely to pass. It proposes to lay the burden of all taxes upon lands. Including, of course, -town lots. All improvements, such aa buildings, fac tories, mills and other creations of man's hand, are to be exempt, under the plan. .It is a theory, which pro ceeds on the basis that non-taxation of improvements would .encourage en terprise, and that as . land is mado more valuable by the presence and activity of all the people. Its incre ment, of Increased value should not In ure to one person. In practice it can- ' not be Just to all. Even with other property ut.der taxation, the land btars the principal burden. It cannot bo hidden. Its owner has to stand up and take bis medicine. This is so not- ' ably true that landowners will' take no chances on the proposed bill, and will vote against It to a man, as they ought to. The other units in society save, corporate interests and doctrin aires, will do the same. - Metzger. -lewder, optician. 843 Wash. Read Sharkey's add today. ' STUDE Heavy Truck arid Log Wagons Improved Steel Skein Mountain Wagons Contractors' Dump Wagons Open Express Wagons Heavy Drays and Transfer Wagons Grocery and Laundry Wagons Milk and Bakery Wagons Runabouts and Bike Wagons Bailey Whalebone Wagons Piano Box Buggies Surreys and Cabriolets Broughams and Landaus " STUQEBAKER immense stock. 99 Stands for all that is good in the Buggy and Wagon lines. We can suooiy all of your needs from our We ask you to call and examine same, as we know we can please you. 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