The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, November 21, 1909, SECTION FIVE, Image 60

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Newspaper Page TextTTIE " SUNDAY ORECOXIAX, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 21, 1909. 12 40 Superior Brass Beds $75 Values for Only $45 The cut illustrates one model o these fine brass beds on special sale this week; there are several other styles in the special sale' lot. They are the product of the Sim-,, mons Bed Factory, the foremost factory in America. The lacquer is electrified to the brass by their -patent electrical process and does not tarnish or , rub off with use. These sale beds have large 2-inch continuous posts with many orna mental 4-inch husks; head on many is feet in height; filling: tubes one inch in diameter. Beds are in perfect condition ; in the satin or polish finish. 60 Oak Diners On Special Sale One of the best values we have offered this year, to the person Mho desires substantial worth. , ' I v ) $5.50 Leather, Seat Diners $3.95 No. 1044. Solid quartered oak, full box seat, claw foot, corner braced and bolted, shaped like the cut, golden ..oak finish, fit to accompany the best table. Sixty chairs , in the lot. Cash or credit. 120 Oriental Rugs, 35c Each These rugs are 36x72 inches in size, made of the best linen warp Japanese mattting; floral and Oriental designs about 20 different patterns very beau tiful and very low in price. On sale Monday one day only,' and only one to a customer. No phone orders taken. Take these $1.00 rugs with ' Q C you at, each..... OOC Beauties in Mahogany $50 Vals. Special Sale Price In Dark and Tuna Mahog any and Birdseye Maple 1 1 i , , , t.7i''-"--'''"",'ar't1 No. 521 This smar.t price re duction ought to interest the thoughtful purchaser of high class furniture, and we can confidently assure our custom ers that these massive dress ers do belong to the first class. Note the ample proportions. Case of the purest dark tuna mahogany or birdseye maple, 21x46 ins. in size, fitted with dustproof drawers with new tyle wooden pulls ; case topped with genuine French bevel-plate mirror, 24x30 ins., . in a 3-inch frame ; shaped just like the cut. Your inspection is cordially invited. it aw $60 Value Quartered Oak Just Like Cut No. 640. A Thanksgiving Table special that should appeal to everybody.' It has 48-inch top fitted with the patent Doustyle lock that permits its extension to 8 feet; made of selected Eastern oak, beautifully quarter-sawed; in the golden wax finish or polished golden oak ; shaped just like the cut. Every piece of this magnificent dining-room piece is made of solid quarter-sawdd golden Oak. A most beautful specimen of the wood worker's art. We have sold many of this model for $60 and only by driving an especially good bargain with the manufacturers are we able to offer this special... .. Open Evenings Till Eight o'Clock GE WRI Z BROS. East Burnside and Union Avenue Genuine Leather Rockjer Special $70 Values $00 for Only . . 4-0 A high-class Turkish rocker that will interest those who want the best. Genuine leather rockers at the price of imitation. The rocker rests upon double springs with -a mahogany-finished base. Spring seat and spring back covered with best quality genuine leather ; looks just like the cut; worth fully $70 and so priced regularly rt Q O sale price only pOO Extra Carpet Values $1.60 Smith's Velvet 75c Smith's best woven wool velvet carpet, in tan, and tan and green ground with pink floral design; two pat ems ; to close out will quote a $1.60 value, cut ""T C off the roll, at, per yard.... ... ' 75c 23-Wool Ingrain Only 38c Two patterns in this lot of two-thirds wool Ingrain Carpet; suitable for any purpose; worth rcg- OQ ularlj 75c, cut off the roll at, per yard OOC ArmRockers Reduced ISO in the lot Regular $3.50 Vals. Special Reduced Price Each, Only .50 A handsome Pacific Oak Arm . Rocker at the price of a sewing rocker. You cannot afford to miss this opportunity. Over 180 of them, just like the cut. No. 25064. This is a large, full size Arm Rocker in the Pacific oak, quartered oak fin ish; four neat panels in back; strongly braced; saddle seat, neat spindles; worth $3.50; Ge vurtz Bros.' price. $1.50 i 111 i ";""lir ju.tuk. cut JE an' " - FRITZ KREISLER MAGICALLY INTERPRETS SOUL OF MUSIC Greatest Violinist of World, Now at Perfection of His Powers, Will Play at Bungalow, in Portland, December 2. , t i FRITZ KREISLER. heard at the Bungalow under the direc tion of Lois Steers-Wynn Coman. His programme will comprise many wholly new and fascinating numbers by old Italian composers, which are Just now the most talked-of compositions in the musical world. Kreisler claims to have discovered them and bought them from an old monastery in Europe. But the doubt has been expressed that this Is merely a hoax, and that Kreisler him self is the composer, a question which Portland musicians will certainly find It difficult to decide. SORROWS OF GREAT TENOR FRITZ KREI3LBR. who is now rec ognized as .the world's greatest violinist, it a man of many .moods, vet with a sort of divine control over those moods. His sensitive temperament enables him to interpret all schools; one moment he Is dreamy, giving forth melt ing melodies of entrancing beauty, the n-xt he Is alert, kindling to nry passion, or rising to heights of majesty and gran deur, where, only the purest and noblest souls can follow. He loses sight of hlm elf In curious fashion whenever the vio-0-u Is In his hands. then the composer alone makes his presence felt 'upon the audience. In this way the master minds of all time - seem to descend upon the earth and renew their youth, giving forth music that speaks of primal Im pulses, heroic deeds, warring gods, or a heavenly passion of tenderness. Portland music lovers will have an op portunity of testing the di-tum lately laid down by the critics that Kreisler Is now at htg best, both physically and spiritual ly. Whether the height of his powers has yet been reached, who can say? Thurs day night, December 2. Kreisler will be Signer Caruso Wishes He Were Happy, Earning $2 Per Day. Literary Digest. By his recent magnificent vocal per formance In Albert Hall, London, Signor Knrico Caruso has effectually quieted the persistent rumors that his wonderful voice was injured by the operation performed upon It some months ago. Yet he is un happy. Talking one day with a repre sentative of the New York Sun, he grew confidential and admitted that success and fame had their drawbacks, saying In part: "People, I suppose, think I am the nap piest man on earth, with all my successes and large earnings. To tell you the real honest truth. I was much happier when 1 was a nobody earning $2 a day.- Now I have no liberty at all. My smallest action Is criticised, every word commented upon. Even my private affairs are made public. When I had my operation I was' pestered night and day with reporters, and be cause I refused to disclose details which I considered absolutely personal, the press in general spoke so malignantly about It that serious business complications might have followed, had I not recovered as quickly as I did. Because I am a cele brated tenor, have I not the right to have the feelings of an ordinary man? What did I care at the time for the curiosity of the world when my whole career was at stake? . . . Do you know that before each public appearance I spend a sleepless night and long hours of Indescribable moral pain? I have never been able to get familiar with the public; every time is for me as a debut. At my lat concert at Manches ter, a few days ago, I fainted Immediate ly after my last song. In my dressing-room at the Metropoli tan. New York, when waiting for my call, I tremble like a child frightened by a ghost. Only when I am actually on the stage do I succeed In pulling myself to gether. The thousands of eager eyes and opera-glasses fixed on me have the same effect on me as a red rag on a bull. I feel the challenge of the audience and at tack the first notes In a fighting mood until the music holds me and I feel my part; yet all the time I am possessed with the fear that my voice may fail. The memory of Naudln, the tenor, who, after an experience at the San Carlo, Na ples, years ago, shot himself in his dressing-room, haunts me always, and every minute on the stage counts as a year of my life. ... No, people ought not to grudge me my success. Through my own -energy and pluck I have worked up from the lowest rung of the ladder, and It has not been an easy matter. Long ago,when, after years of hard work, I had succeeded In bringing my fees up to $1000, I had to pocket my pride and come down again- to $400 In order to have the privilege of sing ing at Covent Garden. ... I have never spoken so openly to any other paper, not.even in my own country, an I hope that after this the American press will understand me better than it ever did. I must add, however, that my wish Is that It should leave me more in peace so far as my private life Is concerned. SOME FAULTS OF SPEECH Common Inaccuracies That. Plain People Should Avoid. , ' PORTLAXD. Nov. 20. (To the Editor.) "On the beautiful Willamette, twelve miles nbove where it empties' Into the Columbia, is Portland, the City of Roses." The above extract Is from what an appre ciative visitor says of our city ;n an East ern journal. To empty means to make va cant, and not even a river can properly be called empty till there is no water in it. The Rfnerous correspondent meant to say the Willamette flows into the Columbia. "T told the Senate I had rathor not do it." said President Taft. In one of his addresses on his recent tour. What he meant was. I 'would' rather not do It.-' By cutting out the word "rather the President's inac curacy of speech may be readily seen. fjv the way, another president of a coi e;e addressing an audience in Portland re rent lv, appended "eh," asort of guttural srrunt. to the end of nearly every sentence. This Tecalls the note of an old friend to a young- evangelist who appended "eh" to al most everv word uttered. "My-eh dear-eh 3'oung-eh f riend-eh When-eh yon -eh speak er in -eh a-eh public-eh plac-h don't-eh say-eh en! ehl!" With reluctance the young preacher gave up his holy tne. "Now." said a pretty young teacher, who was worn out with the day's work, 't must go and lay down awhile." An old codger present who usd to be a pupil In a country school ,in Illinois. -wondered what the young lady was going to lay dow.n money, carpet or what ; for the transitive verb must have an object to complete its sense. Thn pretty young teacher meant to say. no doubt, "I must go and 'lie down awhile." A roving "church worker," conducting special meetings, was reading publicly a number t requests for prayer. Among others was the following: "A man going to sea. his wife asks the prayers of the church. Tn his hustling, stumbling raan the fellow read, "A man going to see his wife, asks the prayers of the church!" Tn either case, probably, the man needed to he prayed for. "t am afraid I rnn't come phoned a' popular Portland club man. when asked to be prom p 1 1 y presn t at d 1 n ner. W h at he meant was, "l fesr I cnnot come." "Afraid" expresses terror, fright; while a mild type of "fear." su'-h as the club man had. would mean onlv anxiety. "lo you think that Mr. Wilson will do It. attrr that you have seen him?" was the language of a lady manager who wished last week to be extra nice. Amateur writers, women and young ministers, arc lla-ble -to overwork that poor little "that." "Here." said one of Portland's ""painless" dentiets. "take this water and 'rench your mouth!" "You have already wrenched it for me,", was the quaint reply of (the im patient lady sulTerer. s "But. r took the woman apart and ques tioned hr myself," exclaimed one of Port land's ablest lawyers to a Jury. Singularly enough the jury showed .at once marked sympathy for the poor woman the attorney was trying to convict. ' RIP VAN WINKLE. Five Years, and No Prisoner In Jail. San Marino, the smallest indepen dent state In the world, has two joint presidents a nobleman and a peasant who are elected every six months. The state Is without taxes. For five years there has been no prisoner in the only Jail. Baltimore "News. CALIFORNIA HAS COURT SENSATION; FOR LOVE OF FICKLE MAN, GIRL SLAYS Case Attracting State-Wide Attention, Is Pathetic Ber nard Murphy "Down and Out" Abe Kuef Losing Sight. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Nov. 20. Cali fornia Is having another sensation these days, one which the big daily papers of San Francisco are exploiting to the fullest extent. It Is once more the story of de mentia Americana, as expounded in the Thaw case, only in this instance the de fendant is a woman, who accuses her lover of ."having betrayed her. The case is that of the State of California vs. Alma Bell, a plain country girl, living in Au burn, Cal., .who is charged with having murdered Joe Amies. The Bell girl does not deny the charge that she killed Armes. but claims that it was after he had declared his .Intention of deserting her and that she had no other recourse. The case has attracted state-wide at tention, by reason of the way the news papers have taken hold of the affair. Just at present, the fight Is one of securing a jury to try the case, but when the testi mony comes, there will be double in terest In the matter. Alma Bell, with her mother and four brothers, lived on a small ranch near Au burn. The family being in reduced circumstances, she was compelled to work for a living, and it was as a domestic in the Armes family that she met the man who 4s now dead. They became lovers, and, according to the story told by the girl, everything went along smoothly un til Armes became Infatuated with another pretty face and turned a "cold face to Alma. Then it was that she became desperate. She pleaded with him to still love her, and when he coldly refused and declared that he was tired of her. she produced a gun and shot him. In order to secure funds for a defense, the widowed mother had been obliged to mortgage the small ranch. Mrs. Bell, together with her four sons, are with the defendant In court, and this plcturesoun feature has not been lost sight of by the various word painters who have been' sent to Auburn to report the doings of the case, and as many of the sidelights as they are able to discover or invent. Bernard D. Murphy, once the head of the Democratic councils of the state of California, and a rich man of San Jose, with his acresspreading In every- direc tion from the. Oarden City, has been forced to accept a clerkship in San Fran cisco under Recorder Oodchaux. Time was when Barney Murphy was one of the first citizens of the state. But times have changed, and with the change has come a shortage in the millions that he former ly had. ..Several years ago there was a forecast of what was to happen when Murphy accepted a state commissioner ship, but now that he has taken.a jlOO-a-month Job in San Francisco, there is no question but that he haa come to the end of his tether. When he was the head of the oldest bank in San Jose, Murphy was in the hab it of going to luncheon at the La Molls House, two blocks away. Kegularly, at the luncheon hour, the poor of San Jose lined up on the sidewalk along these two blocks.. Just as regularly. Murphy. filled his pockets with silver before he left the bank. Out he stepped, his wide-brimmed hat hiding his kindly face. Walking slowly, with tnt head, he placed a piece of silver in each outstretched palm and went to his luncheon. And now Barney Murphy is no longer rich, but obliged to take the crumbs that fall from, the political table. "Gumshoe" Burns, sis William J. Burns has been derisively known to his enemies in San Francisco, has Jeft for the East. Just after the election, when it was cer tain that Fickert was elected,. Burns gave out a statement that he would not give the new District Attorney a chance to fire him. And he was more than true to his promise, for he left immediately and the force of private detectives that has been first aid to the prosecution, is no more. To those who have been following the situation very closely, it means that Ru dolph Spreckels has decided that it will be useless to continue the graft cases In the short time left before the first of the year, and that Francis J. Heney will not attempt to take them up. ' Just what Fickert will do. is a question that Is puzzling the outside world, al though, It Is a shrewd guess that In most Instances there will be nothing more heard from them. The cases against for mer Mayor Schmitz and Abe Rucf will be pressed, but the higher-ups will be no longer disturbed. - In connection with Fickert, It will doubtless be of interest to people In the North to know that Jimmy Lanagan. the former Stanford coach, has been prom ised a deputyshlp and that he will prob ably have charge of the work In one of the police courts. ' Since abandoning his work as a coach Lanagan has been prac ticing law in San Francisco, and is said to have "made good." Abe Ruef, the former political boss of San Francisco, quartered in the county jail at Ingleslde. is losing his sight and hearing, according to a report that has Just been made public this week. It is said that Ruef is to have an operation upon his cars, and that if it is successful he will have his eyes attended to by a specialist. The condition of the prisoner Is at tributed to the fact that lie has been In close confinement for many months, a situation to which he was wholly unac customed. Up to the time of his Impris onment, Ruef took much outdoor exer cise, walking to his offices at 8 o'clock In the morning and walking back and forth for his meals. He has been stripped in large part of the fortune that he spcurcd In devious ways, for his trials have required thp attendance of the shrewdest attorneys in the city, who have not hesitated to charge him large sums for their services. Altogether, his prospects are not the most brilliant in the world. .iwiipuiiiajl.w,. The proper shoes for men: shoes that look, fit, feel and wear right. Made of selected leather leather that is best by every test. Correct in style. Made by the finest shoe makers, in the best equipped factory in existence. cTHAYER HONORBILT shoes are "built on honor" built for combined style and service built for absolute satisfaction and lasting comfort. Biggest values yon can ever hope to get for the money. There is an Honorbilt style that will exactly suit you and fit you. 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