wxmmxmn. SECTION FOUR Pages 1 to lO DRAMATIC and SPORTING VOL. XXVII. 1'OHTLAND, OREGOX, SUXDAT 3I0UNINO, AI'IM!, 19, 100S. 0. 10. HERE ARE OFFERINGS THAT PROVE GADSBY SELLS FOR LESS Then? isn't an item mentioned in this announcement that isn't priced ONE-TIIII?! UNDER VALUE many articles are o1fered-at A FULL HALF under regular price. You can gain an excellent idea of the amount Gndsbys can save you on your complete 'home outfit by comparing the splendid values here shown with the best offerings of anv other store in Oregon. Whether on single articles or on COMPLETE HOME OUTFITS, we undersell them all undersell them BY A BIG MARGIN, too. DONT SPEND A CENT for anything in the line of homefurnishings until you've visited Gadsbys'. GREAT RUG AND CARPET SPECIALS $3.).00 Roval Axminster Parlor Hugs, 0x12 feet, now $25. OO $:r.)0 AVilton Velvet Rugs, 0x12 . . . .$25.00 2o.(M) Brussels Seamless Rugs, 0x12 ... .$20.00 $20.00 Brussels Ruirs, Ox 12 '. .$15.00 $1. ".()() Pro-Brussels Rugs 0x12 $12.00 Smaller or Larger Rugs proportionately reduced. Ingrain Sample Rugs, all wool, .1 yd. square. .35 Brussels Sample Rues, fringed $1.00 .iLW'li y III il s jf M4 Wrsip vim Big Carpet Bargains in Our Carpet Department. Bromley's Velvets, with borders $1.25 Burlington Brussels, with iMU'ders . . . .$1.10 Tapestry Brussels, with borders $1.00 Dunlap's Ta pestry. Brus sels ... . . ..90 Reversible Pro-Brussels, per yard $1.00 Brusselette Carpets, 'V yard wide ....... .55 Granite Ingrain Carpets, per yard . 50o $50.00 PARLOR SUIT $27.00 j Piirlor Suit, fivo piocos. bountifully finished rich, dark mahogany, upholstered in verona resnrliir price $f0.00; sale price $27.00 Mull Orders for hr Above lunt Include U2.no Packing Charge. $19 Princes Dresser $11.50 .-.4 til rs k i 3E3 lYincess Dresser, wilh oval or shaped French bevel mirror; finished golden; regular .fl'UM) value; sp'l this week..$l 1.50 Special Chair Sale This IVamifiil Oliair. well made of hnrdwood and 1 iiiislied srolden oak; "trust price. l. ."(: Cnds bys" j.rice .' $1.00 Folding Reclining Go- Cart, With Hood, $12 This is a val u e that speaks for it self to those w ho have priced G o -C a r t s else where. Made of strong steel tubing to s e e u r e iloM pjrength and ; lightness, with heavy rubber tires and an excellent quality imi tation leather seat nvirl Tiond This is pns- ilv the handiest, safest, strongest and lightest 'go-cart to be found anywhere. To be had in four colors blue, brown, red or black. Notice how compactly, it folds. Others as low as $1.75 Brass Beds if "We have the largest assortment of Brass Beds in the city. Prices from . .$30.00 to $100.00 Iron Beds from .. $3.00 to $30.00 Always Pleased to Show Them.' $io FOR THIS ELEGANT DINING TABLE You wHI be nsknrl a third nrnrp nt other stores. It is mud of selected wood, golden or weathered finish. Th six-foot ste is marked nt fflO.OO. Design is just like the picture. $35 RANGE FOR $29 1.EAI3RR RANGE All are guaranteed for 10 yenrs. Lender Ranpe, with 1-Jpii closet and duplex jxrate, spring-balanced oven doors. Tills Is a heavy, substantial and durable range, made of the best quality cold -rolled stcd ; adapted for coal or wood ; oven thorough ly braced and bolted ; asbestos -lined throughout; nickel-trimmed; section plate tp. Gadsbys' price $29. OO $30 BUFFET FOR $15 LL -it This beautiful Buffet, worth fc-iO.OO. half price .'. $15.00 WE . . OWN THE BUILDING NO RENT TO PAY THAT'S WHY WE SELL FOR LESS CRUSADE AGAfHS T HOTBEDS OF IE Glasgow Presbytery Calls At' tention to Cheap Lodging Houses of City. REQUEST POLICE TO ACT Clinrchinen Assert That J I 00 Hook er fes Are Filled With Young AVotiien mid (iii ls and Tlirlr Bitsf; . Consorts. OLASUOW. April 1 (Special.) Shocking Immmulity fostered by the cbeap lodging houses of Glasgow has been brought tu the attention of the public ny a discussion that occurred at the ses siun of the Presbytery of Glasgow last week. The churchmen took the matter up boldly and discussed it in the plainest or language, calling particular attention to the fact that many of the 100 "farined-out" houses ,f the city, filled with girls and young women who nre preyed u pon by h nm;i n v ul t u res of the opposite sex. are owned and rented out by citizens who pose as respectable. The Presbytery recommended strin gent police rcuuintfon . of this class of lngdfr.g - houses, and -further sug K"sien uifu me church take up the matter of building and equip ping respectable rooming-houses for the poorer classes. It was also recommended that the authorities make war to the bit ter end on the worthies vagabonds who now live on the earnings of the young women they have forced into lives of shame nnd that the police safeguard In nocent girls from the wiles of such men and their female accomplices in the work of debauchery. King's linplain Talks. Or. lonald Maclend, the King's chap lain, addressing the Presbytery, said that the debauching of ymmi? womanhood In Glasgow was awful. There were 1 100 furmed-out houses In Glasgow, which he classified as hotbeds of crime. No fewer than 960.1 people were connected with these lodging-houses. The lodging houses were licensed and registered an nually. Many of the smaller houses were Blmply disgraceful. He directed atten tion to the fnet that some of the men who went to .these lodging-houses made from J7. BO to $ir a week. There were those, too, who had deserted their wives and homes. Now, these were scoundrels who ought to be prosecuted by the authorities. They should he compelled to disch-irge ti-lr ctvic and other duties, and if they would not. then they ought to be put into a labor colony, and made to contribute to the support of thefr wives and families. Then there were the "Ins-' and ' outs." It was. absurd that ratepayers should keep up poorhouses for men who went out of them and contracted disease, and after their debaucheries retired ap tin to the poorhouse until they were fit for .an other outbreak. It was said there was a great deal that was too "mealy-mouthed" In this country. This Idea of personal liberty could be carried to too great an extent. Habeas corpus might become a source of promoting crime instead of the welfare of the community. Parliament should deal wit h these men in such a way that they could not continue those practices which were bad for the com munity. Bad IMures for Hnys. Nothing could be worse than having boys In these lodging-houses, he eont in ued. Roys ought to be excluded. Kx eltfded was rather a severe word. They must do something to give accommoda tion to these boys, and at present they had ample accommodation in the social homes which they had set up for boys. These boys could be received there and brought under elevating influences. Then came the question of women's lodging houses. These were in a shocking condi tioncenters of corruption, the means of ruining many young women. - This raised another question. Take the farmed -out houses, where children and young girls were brought into contact with people who wene using them for. im moral purposes. The results were fright ful. He had a statement that in one farmed -out tenement of 1 houses a member of that court found 25 young girls who' admitted that they were earn ing their living on the streets. He was also informed that within PK yards of Glasgow Cross it was estimated tjiat there were 200 fallen girls under 17 years of age. Furthermore, according to the report of the Magdalen Institution half of the inmates who were admitted were ruined between the ages of 14 and 16. These girls were not to blame. Society was to blame. The fact was that these women's lodging-houses, these farmed out houses, were terrible cesspools, mto which young people had sunk and gone forth polluted to the streets. Take the Church of Scotland Home in Watson street. The superintendent had stated that In two years they had passed through their home 73 girls of J7 years of SrTe and under and ft of 1 years and up ward. Were these' not appalling facts? It was for the citizens of Glasgow to say what was to be. done. It had been .stated, he said, that poor young servants from the country who came to the city to look for places, and who happened to miss their trains, were brought into these lodging-houses and there corrupted by women who taught them lives of shame. What appalling sacrifice of young woman hood! Hotbeds of A lee, These houses were a source of con tamination, in which the worst types of character were present for the encourage ment of vice. What were the recommen dations they asked the municipal authori ties to adopt? The first referred to farmed-out houses. They recommended that the definition of a farmed-out house should be extended so as to include houses of any size similarly used. That was plain common sense. But they must re member that at the back of tWse farmed out houses there was a large property interest that would try to prevent It. it would not be easily done, but it would be done if they roused the people. They also recommended that farmed-out houses should be licensed. There was nothing made him more anry than to see brutal outrages committed, and to note that the men who committed them were only fined. Why. they ought to be seounred on their backs. People who made immoral tise of farmed-out houses should aLso be pro ceeded against as well as the owner. Then, there was that matter for the corporation the erection of houses which would. ULkfe tiie place of theee, low boueee houses where people would find cheap accommodation of a good kind. In re gard to lodging-houses, he approved of the recommendation In regnrd to the appointment of a chaplain or chaplains and a parish lister to visit them. II mors Tliem for It. David Watson, of St. Clement's, said that since the last meeting of the pres bytery their fha gist rates had taken to slumming at midnight and he honored them for It with this result, that their indictment of fa rmed-out houses had been proved up to the hilt. Not a single statement In the report they had drawn up had been challenged; everything had been corroborated. The unanimous ver dict of the visitors after they met and compared notes was that there had been no exaisoerntion. The condition of things v.as appalling. What was to be done? He ventured to submit their recommen dations Indicated what ought to be done. There was no other way of dealing with farmed-out houses unless they sup pressed them, which was Impractlcnbk- J. C. Maclellan. of St. Mark's, called attention to another aspect ftf the que tion. namely, that the well-to-do yojin men of the West Knd looked on the girls of the artisan class as their legitimate prey. They knew that those girls, when they fell down, were damned and could not rise, but they knew what the fathers of those base-born children were re ceived In the drawing-rooms of the West Knd. That condition of things should be made Impossible. The law which compelled a young girl to register her base-born babe should also compel the father to accompany her. These men should be judged by the same standard and 'made to stand with the same brand of dishonor and disgrace as the poor glri had at present to do alone. A motion was adopted that the pres bytery approve of the report and send copies to the Iord Provost, the members of the Town Council and heads of de partments and the Local Government iSoard. PLAYS AiHOSTLY PMI IWIUSIAV ALLOWS KKLATIVKS TO JIKLIKYK JIIM DKAIL Fulls fo I ndeeelve Them When They Bury Stranger's Body for Jlis, Still In Biding. PATHS. April IS. (Special.) Queerest of queer adventures is that which Is mys tifying the police of the Fifteenth Ar rondissement, and has set many tongues wagging about a man who was supposed to be dead for nine months and whom one of his relatives has just seen walk ing about In the streets of the city. The man, called Portler, has a wife and chil dren, and wa.s missed at the beginning of last year. In the month of August a man was found dead near the road In one of the suburbs, and his description published In the newspapers tallied so closely with that of the missing man that his wife, brothers, sisters and chil dren went to the morgue, where the body had been laid out, and all declared that It was that of the missing man Por tler. The police took a record of their state ment and. considering the body thor oughly identified. handeJ tt over to the family for 'burial. The corpse was in terred with the usual ceremony, a broth er of Portler, who is cure at Kvreux. say ing a mass for the repose of his soul. On AH Souls' Day last November, the family went to the cemetery to lay flow ers on the grave, which was also visited from time to time by his children. The other day, however, his sister, who Is employed In an atelier In the Rue de RivoM. on coming out into the street as she was leaving from her day's work was astonished to see her brother, quite hale and hearty, waiting for her at the door. She was terrified, and when ho was about to speak to her she nearly fainted. When she had sufficiently re covered to ask him what he was doing there, and why he was not in his grave, it was his turn to be astonished. He said that he had not .been buried, as far as he knew. On the contrary, he had been employed at the Nanterre Asy lum, whither he was returning. His wife hurried to the asylum he had mentioned, and was told that in fact a man called Portler had been employed there, but that he had left on the 9th of this month. Since then he has not been seen. The question now is: Who is the man that was buried last August, and also what has become a second time of Por tier. who Is decldedljt turning out to be a mere phantom? GRAMMER OF THE YIDDISH Jewish Jargon Will Be Raised' to lenity f Language. LONDON. April 18. Yiddish, the jar gon spoken by thousands of Jews' all the world over, has one disadvantage. It has no grammar. Rut a conference planned for the Summer has In view the remedy ing of this defect and the placing of the Yiddish language on a more elevated plane. The conference will be of an interna tional character, and will devote much of Its labors to. the working out of definite grammatical rules and to the improve ment of the orthography of the Yiddish language. Other questions to be considered will be the advisability of producing a Yiddish dictionary, the position of the Yiddish stage and literature, and the recognition of Yiddish as a Kuropean language. AMERICANS ENJOY E FETE MI-CAREM Participate in Mid-Lent Carni val at Paris With Joy ful Abandon. THROW CONFETTI GALOflE Give Ynnkre .--ont Ut f'rstlvltlfm la Honrt of tiny Frriirli t'npltnl. atlY lrfxik On With GrpHt Voinler. FAST OF SEVEN WEEKS Lamb Lives Without Food or Drink 49 Days. LOXDnN, April IK. After having bpon locked in a barn for seven weeks with out food or drink, a Scotch wether lamb was found alive. The lamb wa.s little more than a skele ton and unable to stand. It is now being fed with giuel, and its owner is hopeful of its recovery. The lamb must have jumped into the bin and remained undiscovered when the burn was locked. Bishops l"se Motor Cars. LONDON. April 18.-Motor cars have became quite necessities for Bishops who wish -to economize time when making their episcopal visitations. . Several prelates now motor from place to place in their dioceses when perform ing their duties, among them being the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London. In some instances, as. for example.' in the dioceses of Southwell and St. David's, the cars . have been presented to the Bishops. It is now proposed to present one to the Bishop of Newcastle. PARIS, April 11. "In It I'Htan Jupiter picking his geese on Olympus, or are th holy angels moulting?" speculated Fran cols Villon, as he .regarded the Furls snowstorm with Irreverent fancy In the finest of all stories. "A Lodging for the. Night." A pretty fancy, M. Villon, but the celes. tlal plumage has been marvclously dyed since your grim, gray flay, nnd Jupiter's geese have turned birds of paradise for the feather plucking of "MI-CHrerne." Parisians are pleased to lament the de terioration of the famous holiday, like tli oldest Inhabitant of an Iowa village, tell ing marvellous, sad tales of the great snows of 40 years ago, or a line, prim old lady deploring the decline of mariners among boys and girls. No doubt "Ml-Carcme" was grander, like everything else In Its prime, but to an American, of a race that Is half starved of holidays and beauty and pleas ure, the scenes on the boulevards wero soul-satisfying to a degree that should ease the compunctions of the Parisian win fears that he is perhaps not as pretty and as gay as he once was. JIhiI 'J line of Ills Lire. .Certainly Jupiter on Olympus never had a liner time plucking his plain old geese, than the portly and prosperous American who stood in front of Olympia with a huge, o-franc sack of confetti on his shoulder, and pill a crimson halo around every pretty face that went giggling by. It was Instructive' to observe the way the vendors of confetti "spotted" that smiling gentleman. There was no limit to the confetti and no bottom to the man s pocket. What more was required? They brought him the confetti In cartridges, In paper hngs, In hempen sacks. In bas kets. And h smiled on and "dug tip," and bore the determined nlr of a Wall street broker placed on the tiring line in a forlorn attempt to corner copper. As the sun went down flf there had been a sun to go down) this American was stIH buying, and the confetti lay a foot deep all around him and the Par isian hastening for home perhaps re garded him with pity. No matter: It was far, far cheaier than to stand knee deep In confetti ttian knee deep in ticker tape. And what does a man come -to Paris for If not to enter fully into the spirit of things and buy? Americans Spend the Money. The center of the iridescent disturb ances was, as usual. In front of the Cafe de la Paix. The money was francs, but me Bwrm was American that Is, chiefly. There was a Spanish group around one of the sidewalk tables, anil some turbaned heads protruded from an upper window, and some of the waiters spoke French, but for the rest it was Huston, Schenec tady, Montpelier and Idaho Springs. The Spring Influx has set In. and most of tne Americans In the confetti cyclone center had arrived since the Mardl Oras. To these the confetti business was as foreign as the Venus of Milo, though per haps more decent. One very earnest young woman, who looked like a schnolma'am from Guernsey County, Ohio, read all about it In a guide book, calmly wiping the paces clean after each fresh shower of yellow or mauve or crimson confetti. The heart of the carnival at this place of unrestraint was an American girl In black who wore a fur cap that Just matched the color of her hair and who for laughter was unable to keep her Hps closed. Crowds the Whole Show. Afterwards, two hours later than it was expected, came the parade. Floats are much the same the world over, and those in this procession, with an exception here and there, were far less interesting to the American than the crowds and the confetti. He remarked a certain pleasing harmony In color and the rich and admirahle em ployment of flowers; he liked the sextets of hunting horns, though stoutly remem bering Sousa. and he howled with laughter at the plethoric figure of a self-satisfied woman in plum-colored tights on the Bal Tabarln float. A Parisian acquaintance carefully ex plained to the American, as they stood on chairs and watched the parade, that It was distinctly a "popular" affair, it was the holiday expression of the masses. Those hale and hearty queens were queens of the markets of the hig market and all the little markets. Then there were landaus with important-looking per sons of florid aspect who were descrilied as the "big bugs" of the niarkets, com mitteemen, and so on. Then came floats representing many of the principal pro vinces of France Gascony, Flanders, Provence, Lorraine and the rest, with semDlanees of wine presses and fa-tq-ies and wheat fields and other symbols of the prosperity of France. These were de scribed as a new thing in the "Ml-Careme" parade, placed there by provincials who are residents in Paris but loyal to their provinces and proud. Apart from this innovation, the parade was much the same as in other years. There wese certain changes In the route because of many streets having been made impassable by excavations, and these same obstructions caused delays in the march and congestion at various points. Recognized by Falliere. But the parade found its way to the Elysee, where President Falliere's secre tary bestowed a gold bracelet upon the queen of queens; ti-.Te were stops at various newspaper offices, and there was the banquet given by the municipality at the City Hall. The crowds on the boulevards were greater than those of - the Marti! Gras. and there was a higher spirit of revelry. Maskers In costume were seen here and there, but were indistinct in the vast throngs, whose expression of the carnival note was in confetti. There are two gcor. iushs and a bunch of giggles In a 10-cem jackage of cuipie4 tip orange paper.