TTIE " SUNDAY ORECOXIAX, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 21, 1909.
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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. , '
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$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
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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.
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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.
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