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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 $11.50
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lYincess Dresser, wilh oval or
shaped French bevel mirror;
finished golden; regular .fl'UM)
value; sp'l this week..$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
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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.