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Lot of 25 Goats
Fancy Mixtures, Black and Plain Colors
Values to $16.50, Each
$2.85
Lot of 75 Goats
Raincoats, Pony Skin, Fancy Mixtures
Values to $42.00, Each
1 omorrow morning kegms our great ANNUAL
garment in "Tne House of Tone . reduced, many
Tne variety of styles, tne wide range of-fabrics,
make tnis tne greatest possible sale of tne year for
garment assemblage. Facts and figures Here given
woman, wbo appreciates bargains, to be present.
CLEARANCE SALE. Every
to balf , otbers to far less tban kalf !
and tbe ample selection as to color,
unrestricted cboice from an exclusive
must furnisb an incentive to every
All offerings are of prevailing styles.
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THE SUNDAY OBEGOSIiJ, PORTLAND, . DECEMBER 27, 1905.
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Special
EVERY ARTICLE IS REDUCED
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Our highest grade Long Coats in tan coverts and broadcloth, both fitting
and semi-fiting, beautifully tailored every one a distinct bargain:
$24.00 Coats . . .$18.00 $30.00 Coats . . .?23.50
$28.00 Coats .....$21.00 $32.00 Coats ...$24.00
$34.00 Coats
$35.00 Coats
. 25.50
.$26.25
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COATS SUITS FURS WAISTS
Our Scarfs, Ruffs, all the newest neckpieces and muffs, made up in the very
latest styles, in a high grade of mink, Isabella fox, ermine, sable and gray
squirrel, Jap mink, opossum, etc. now on sale at one-fourth off i
$4.50 Purs $3.40 $12.50 Furs $9.38 $27.00 Purs. . . .$20.25
$9.00 Furs .$6.75 $18.00 Furs. . . . $13.50 $45.00 Furs. ... . $33.75
ilk etttcoate (Quarter tt
Lustrous Taffeta Silk Petticoats of highest quality, well made, perfect fit
ting, with full flounce and dust ruffle, in black, all the dainty colors and
fancy Dresden effects:
$5.63 $15.00 Petticoats -- $11.25
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$7.50 Petticoats
$10.00 Petticoats ,,.
$14.00 Petticoats
... $7.50 $18.00 Petticoats
..$10.50 $20.00 Petticoats
,.$13.50
,.$15.00
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Handsome broadcloths, worsteds and imported materials of all the most de
sired colors, artistically modeled, with many unusual style touches; button,
braid and satin trimming. These astoundingly low prices suggest the bar
gain opportunities there are still others:
.$17.50 $45.00 Suits .,. $22.50
,$19.00 $55.00 Suits ,....$27.50
$22.50 Suits ,...,.$11.25
$28.00 Suits , $14.00
$35.00 Suits
$38.00 Suits
"Wbt ou$t of Cone"
tPje partfjotometo Company
II Waist enz3famt) 0U
Perhaps in no other one line is our exclusive style idea more strikingly dem
onstrated than in our high-class novelty waists. Our elegant cream and col
ored nets, soft satins and silks, in all the evening shades, distinctively tail
ored, are now offered at one-fourth reduction:
$12.00 Waists.'. $ 9.00 $17.50 Waists-. .$13.00 $22.50 Waists, .$16.85
$15.00 Waists..-. $11.25 $20.00 Waists .,.$15.00 $25,00 Waists... $18.75
M Separate Hfetrte Quarter ff
Voiles, serges, worsteds, etc., in black, navy, brown, green and dark mix
tures, cut on the newest models; many trimmed, others plain tailored:
$10.00 Skirts .$ 7.50 $14.00 Skirts ...$10.50 $18.00 Skirts ..$13.50
$12.00 Skirts -.$ 9.00 $16.50 Skirts .,$12.35 $21.00 Skirts ,,.$15.75
392 Masfn'ttston
Sturdy Americans in Appalachians
Sympathetic View of Mountain Folk Little Known to the Outside World.
TUB -rut mountain relgton of th
South la alowly coming to recogni
tion a one of tho characteristic featurei
of America. Tho geologists found out
about It years ago. Tho historian knew
about Its edges the people who came
out of Its mysterious Gepths, with their
cave-made powder to help General Jack
son at tho battle of New Orleans, and
the "loyal Tennesseeans" who found ut
terance In the shrill voice of 'Tarson
Brownlow" m lJSL Tho spectators are
getting hold of It as a place for Invest
ment la coming lumber oamps and coa'
mines. And several story writers have
exploited It as a source of literary ma
terial.
Let ns make our Investigations In
more sympathotlo spirit. "The country
Is the people," and we will concern our
selves1 with these Isolated kinsmen and
fellow-countrymen of ours whose homes
are In this remote upland' realm. "U'hat
is thru- life and heart? -
"We must all be Judged somewhat by
our externals, and the outer aspects of
the mountaineer's lite are primitive and
poor. But as we become familiar with
his circumstances, we find them not de
void of comfort and even culture.
To one familiar with American history
or the traditions of any of our "old
families" It Is soon revealed that the
mountaineers are living In the pioneer,
colonial fashion. Their outward clrcum
stances differ from mir own in the ab
sence of the improved, the "new-fan-
gled" and the distinctly modern appll
nnces. As our grandfathers lived In
Weern New York when that was
frontier, so the mountaineers are living
now. Their travel is measured by the
endurance of oxen or horseflesh and
their thoughts are not disturbed by all
the rush of modern life.
Take the conditions of country life any
where, and intensify them many degrees
and you will have mountain life as It
passes on today In the pine-scented at
mosphere of the Blue Ridge and the
great Smoky Mountains. It must often
and often be stated that the mountain
eers are not the "poor whites." "Poor
white trash" Is the term applied to the
unfortunate people who lived In the
midst of slavery, owning neither land
nor slaves. The mountaineer is a colo
nial survival, with all the pride and self
Tespect which belongs to a landholder,
and his lack of worldly superfluities.
rather than otherwise, contributes to his
nohlo independence of spirit.
But all this must be found out by
sympathetic approaches, for our moun
tain friend la reserved, shy, not to say
suspicious, and often appears at i great
disadvantage in His nrst contact witn
"furrlncrs."
To begin, then, with the pioneer con
ditions we have remoteness from mar
kets and a corresponding shift in farm
activities, many of the old-fashioned
household manufactures soap, sorghum
molasses ("long wee tenia' ") and the
beautiful products of the fireside indus
tries snirvivlM'g: Ready money is scarce
and to be gotten mainly from forest
products, where there are streams to
float the logs, and from cattle a crop
that can walk to market
Such a community In the Appalachian
.Mountains, as on the old New York or
Ohio frontier, naturally rears large fam
ilies, and has a much Intensified family
life and family feeling. Parents and
children, brothers and sisters, are much
shut In to their own society, and the
feeling of the clan grow Many of the
artificial tiea and conventionalities of life
are quite powerless to assert themselves
in these Isolated valleys.
The fight with nature la still of a prim
itive order. A tree Is an enemy. "We
And great "deadenlngs" fields where
the trees have been girdled and left
standing In ghastly nakedness so that
the little bull tongue plow may scratch
the soil between them, and the sun
shine to mature the crop. Much skill Is
shown in plowing in such fashion as not
to leave the soil unduly exposed to the
washings of the heavy Southern torrents.
The fight with briars and bushes Is a
hard one, and you may see the whole
family afield father, mother, boys and
girls not to be pitied, but rather con
gratulated on a toll at once so sociable
and so healthful.
Out of this Intense family reeling grows
the feud. In a sparse population the gov
ernment falls to inspire either confidence
or dread, and when a man is killed by
some drunken bully the Impulse la strong
for the "next of kin" to take Justice into
his own hands.
Tho antiquarian finds endless Interest
In the British survivals which are readily
traced when one begins an Intelligent
search. Here Is the pattern in a "bed
klver" which you have seen, perhaps, In
English tapestry, and which must have
been transmitted from mother to daugh
ter for two or more centuries. Here is a
snatch of aong that you will not easily
find in a book, but which harks back to
circumstances of English town life quite
remote from the experience of the singer.
Professor Shaler, of Harvard, once found
a man In Wise County, Virginia, hunting
with an English cross-bow! Of course he
owned a rifle as well, but powder was
hard to get, and he had not lost the tra
dition of the art by which the famous
oroes-bow had been made among his Brit
ish forebears. AVe say British because
the Scotch and English strains are every
where mingled In the mountains. The
traveler stopping at a lonely cottage may
hear the mother quiet an unruly child by
saying: "Behave now, son, or Clavers
will get youl" It Is doubtful whether the
woman knows anything of the bogey she
thus conjuree up to "hand the wretch in
order," but she Is really referring to
Claverhouse, the Scotch rough rider who
harried the Covenanters In ancient days!
One of the most Important things to
learn about life In the mountains is that
Appalachian America contains all grades
of society. They are clad much alike,
and all are sufficiently primitive to the
gaze of an outsider, but the distinctions
are real and keenly felt. Every county
has its aristocracy its select families
that hold themselves quite apart from
the oommon when it comes to marriages
and higher social functions. Far below
the landowners are the renters. The
mountains have their share of Idleness,
and of crime, but the vices of the moun
tains are largely of the Homeric type,
which are really lees corrupting than the
sins of a more artificial condition. In
general, the sins of Ignorance and child
ishness leave larger grounds for hope
than the sins which are committed
against light and privilege. Washington,
D. C, Herald.
German Crown Prince has not been al
lowed long to enjoy the distinction he
gained some weeks ago as the inventor
of patent coupled cuff links.
Two Jewelers of Piorzneim now come
forward claiming that the Crown Prince's
invention lacks originality, as they have
long been manufacturing cuff links on a
similar system. It remains to De seen
whether they care to proceed against the
Crown Prince for Infringement of their
rights.
there was an Impromptu programme con
sisting of musical selections and short
addresses. Among the speakers was Ir.
J. Whitcomb Broucrher, who said in the
course of his talk that he believed no
man's record could be so black that his
forgiveness would be impossible after
repentance.
Royal Inventor Too jSlow,
BERLIN. Deo. 26. (Special.) The
Two Interesting Women in Next Cabinet Circle
SOCIETY NEWS
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WASHINGTON. Dec. 26. (Special.)
Two of the very Interesting women of
the next Cabinet circle are Mrs. P. C
Knox and her daughter-in-law that Is,
If one assumes the correotness of the
story that fit CL Knox, mm Senator
from Pennsylvania, win accept the ap
pointment as Secretary of State. Mrs.
Knox, Sr., has made her home In Wash
ington since 1901, when her husband
was appointed Attorney-General by
President UcKlnley. he has-a beau-
lful home on K street, between Fif
teenth and Sixteenth streets, a very
fashionable part of the northwest sec
tion of the city. Mrs. Knox and her
dangbter-in-law ere deservedly popu
lar In official iirclea.
Miss Bessie Miller is spending the
Christmas holidays with her mother, Mrs.
W. A. Miller In Walla Walla.
Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Weaver, of Moun
talnhome, Idaho, are spending the hoi!
days with relatives, Mr. and Mrs. George
Neame, of 2S9 Larrabee street.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Johnson have
arrived to spend the holidays with
friends. Mrs. Johnson will be remem
bered as Miss Catherine La Barre.
Mrs. Otto W. M ota chan, accompanied
by her sister. Miss Juanlta Matlock, of
St. Helen's Hall, is spending the holidays
with her sister, Mrs. J. M. Keeney, at
Pfendleton.
- Mr. and Mrs. H.- B. Stout left Gaturday
evening for Southern California, where
they expect to remain during the rest of
the Winter. While away they will visit
Catalina Island and Coronado Beach.
Miss Roxy Lucas, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. William H. Lucas, of 98 Hawthorne
avenue, is visiting her parents during the
Chri3tmas holidays. Miss Lucas is
student at the University of Washington.
Her father is president of the North
western Baseball League, and recently
moved to Portland from Spokane.
Notable among the family reunions in
Portland is the gathering at the home of
Allan R. Joy in Richmond, where til
family of Mrs. Julia La Barre Is spend
ing the holiday season. This meeting Is
a particularly happy one. as all members
of the family but one are present, aire.
Julia La Barre will receive on New
Year's day. assisted by Mrs. Henry Holt
Johnson, Mrs. C. W. La Barre, Miss La
Barre and- the Misses Joy at 11S3 Taggart
street.
Dinner Served to 400 Men.
At the Strayer North End Mission, on
Christmas day, 400 men were treated to
a Christmas dinner. - Tne arrair was in
eharge of George E. Strayer and assist
ants. While me meal was m process
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They all said their cures were
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them having been given up to die.
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they say, the greatest blessing of their
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