TITE SUNDAY OKEGONIAX, rORTLAXD. AXFARY 7. 1912.
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TEETH
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Work
Is the
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tt Our
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Are
Low
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High-
Grade
Work
DR. B. t- WRIGHT.
Skill,-fair treatment and extremely moderate prices have
made our reputation.
We court your good opinion more than your money. We
desire an unlimited quantity of the former and a small amount
of the latter.
In all branches of dental work we will merit your good
opinion. All of our patients, and they are legion, will indorse
this statement.
1912 will be made a pleasanter year for you if you come to
this office with your tooth troubles. Examination Free.
. E. WRIGHT
AND ASSOCIATES
342 Y2 Washington Street, Corner Seventh
OFFICE HOURS: 8A.M. to 6 P.M. Sunday : 10 to 1
Phones: Main 2119, A 2119
Seventeen Years' Practice in Portland
DO
STRAHORN LAUDS
GREAT NORTHWEST
"Sphinx" of North Coast Road
Says This Is Country of
Big Opportunities.
SUCCESSES OF MEN TOLD
Hallway Bull. lor at Recent Ban
quet Pralws llarriman and mil
for Part Taken by Them In De
veloping This Country.
It wa a strange but pleasant expe
rience for those Portland citizens who
attended the "railroad dinner" at the
Commercial Club a few weeks ago to
, hear Kobert E. Strahorn. builder of the
North Coast Railroad, who. for five;
years, was termed "The Srtltnx of the
Northwest." "The Man of Mystery" and
other terms Indicative of an uncom
municative person. deliver a speech
that was full of orlglral humor, sound
philosophy. Interesting narration and
optimistic thought, lie proved then
that he is an orator as well as a rail
road builder.
Mr. Strahorn spoke on "Personality
in Business." which qualification ha
terms one of the chief attributes In
determining a career. Ills address
w as as follows:
atraaora la ratefal
"This very kind and eloquent Intro
duction arts a pretty lively pace for a
. young man from the country who has
been corked up for Bra Ions; years a
poor orphan. If you please who. when
ever he came out of the brush, was ex
pected to swear a blue streak In court
and to talk to the newspapers all the
time without telling anything It was
a case of being" afraid for someone
else s life If I said anything and being
afraid fur my on life If I didn'f say
something; but you know how grate
ful 1 feel and how all this good fellow
ship goes straiKht to the heart.
"Speaking of feeling reminds me of
the railroad president who, upon reach
Inc a station. a-ke.i a porter whether
there were any telegrams for him. The
porter, falling to recognize him. said
no. that there was only one telegram
and that was fur the president. Turn
ing to another porter, the president
J.kr.gly remarked that porter number
one evidently did not think he looked
the part. Not to be outdone In so
ciability, porter number two replied,
l'ats all right. Mr. President, you all
conn look It. but you knows you feels
It.'
-Of course. I am telling secret right
and left with great pleasure now. and
1 am going to siart In by telling you
of a dream I had last night. They do
say you may reasonably expect a repe
tition If you go around telling your
dreams, but having liberally patronized
every Item of the splendid bill of fare
of this wonderful railway eating house.
I have every reason to have another
awful dream tonight anyway, so I will
try to enlighten you on this thorough
bred nightmare that was planted on
my chest about St hours ago.
"The dream was to the eJtect that all
the things that all the newspapers had
ever published about the North Coast
road and myself had come true. Think
of that, my friends, and weep. Just
try for a moment to recall a few hun
dred of the thousands of extraordinary
stories which were sprung while fncle
F.ob and his North Coast Kail road mil.
try were for five year worked over
time by one of the liveliest bunch of
reporter ever turned loose on a peren
nial sensation. Here enters bydra
aead nightmare, weighing about a bil
lion tons. Tardon for using: ao many
ciphers, but I have Just been looking
at some of Colonel l.ytle's Tillamook
timber. As many newspapers would
have It. I was clandestinely and felon
iously designed to move a vast crop of
strange and alien railroad out. over
and upon the bailiwick of railroads al
ready bere and wa wicked enough to
do It. Klght here la where Caesar met
hi Hrutus. and the earth trembled, and
the heaven all but fell.
Builder la TerrlteeU
-"Please recollect I'm still dreaming.
The great Oregonlan annual waa laid
upon my breathing apparatus. OS
pages strong, and a large part of the
J tlrst page of the newa section waa oc
cupied by Headline running someimng
like this:
" The autocratic man of mystery and
his piratical schemes crushed at last.'
" 'For annexing: other people's ter
minals at Spokane, Yakima and Pasco,
Judge Morrow sentences him to talk to
reporter continuously for the balance
of his unnatural life.'
"'For condemning a right of way
across the tail of Mulr Glacier aald gla.
cier reverses its course and savagely
sweeps his North Pole Short Line Into
Hudson Bay.'
" 'For securing his Spokane franchise
and confiscating all the streets his map
would hold without giving that city
terminal rates, the State Railroad Com
mission requires him to make perpet
ually a free back haul to all Eastern
points.'
" "For appropriating every pass on
Colonel Barrett's Pan-American line, a
revolution raging from the Rio Grande
to Patagonia melta his Antarctic divi
sion Into bullets and drops his equip
ment Into the Amazon.'
"'For smashing Colonel Gray' Ore
gon Trunk Into the Deschutes the Colo
nel blows him off the earth with a
fresh Texas cyclone.'
" 'For pilfering his construction ma
terial so high on Colonel Ashton's Tide
Flat terminals that Mount Tacoma Is
no lonsrer visible from the City of Des
tiny. Colonel Perkins insists upon his
calling it Mount Rainier to the end of
time."
"'For putting his 60-mlle tunnel un
der the Cascade Range between Yaki
ma and Seattle, thereby Introducing a
water grade from Salt Lake to Puget
Sound, Portland temporarily divert
the Columbia River through his great
bore and drowns him like a rat. Inci
dentally Introducing some tide rlpa
which make Bound cities ait up and
take notice."
-Falling to land the Chicago &
Northwestern, the Rock Island, the
Western Pacific, the New Tork Central,
the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore A
Ohio, In the Pacific Northwest, and
making every port. Including Yamhill,
his main ocean terminal, after the
aforesaid drowning he Is run through
a mangle and hung up to dry.'
" 'Having failed to take Colonel
Josselyn. Jimmy Cranston and Guy Tal
bot Into his scheme which utilises the
Martian canals for power for the prin
cipal planets, they electrocute his Mount
McKlnley and Mount Shasta aerial
tramway, dropping him 10.000 feet into
Crater Lake.'
"L'naccustomed to Ice-cold bath at
such elevations, this last merciful
shock awakened me.
Qaality of Mrm Coast.
"But. seriously, to my subject per
sonality in business: I have sometimes
wondered what might have been the
destiny of that vaxt and magnificent
business machine, the Harriman rail
way sstem. If some other man than
the peerless genius for organization,
whose name it bears, bad not beeu
Intrusted with Its formation and direc
tion during the critical years of Ita
greatest development. Likewise, what
would have been the result if soma
other than that stalwart empire
builder of the north had undertaken
the rlgantic task Involved In the re
demption of the wilderness which,
within the early recollection of near
ly every man present stretched from
Puluth and the Twin Cltie to Port
land and I-uget Sound. How very nat
ural the reflection that without Just
the asplratlona and Imperial qualities
of these two great dominant personali
ties others might have long and vain
ly struggled with the material prob
lems the solution of which meant ao
much to more than half the territory
of the I'nlted Statea and ao deeply
concerned each one of us. Even with
an abounding optimism and unlimited
faith In the strength and virility of
,E Jh J!L jh $
More than three-quarters of our stock is marked with the special discount tickets described below. These discount tickets are in addition
to the reulaJ teHeVcInt (Mscount we always allow for cash. The regular price tickets remain on the goods also so you can see what
the san?is A ten dollar article with a white discount ticket will cost $8.10; if it has a red ticket is reduced to $7.88, a blue ticket
brtnSTt don to $7.50, or a green ticket makes it only $6.75. The biggest items that go to make up the "High Cost of W are ' High
Rent?" and "Advesine " When you buy here you eliminate at least half of the rent and advertising expense generally charged. For
Sincere besi Swff elt SaSeX in the coutry sold today at $15.00 has added to its cost $5.65 for adverting expense on every one.
v.. v em nn nil... 4-1..'. l-n T r r-
You can tret a oeuer one nere ior $i.w. uung. ua.yu..
Iq Discount
On Goods Marked
With WHITE Tickets
13 Discount
On Goods Marked
With RED Tickets
2kIo Discount
On Goods Marked
With BLUE Tickets
9b Discount
On Goods Marked
With GREEN Tickets
WONDERFUL RUG
VALUES
$ 8.00 Brussels Rugs at $6.6Q
$10.00 Brussels Rugs at $7.75
S11.00 Brussels Rugs at $8.5Q
Closing Out All
Heating Stoves
Ten to twenty-five per cent
reduction on every heater in
the store.
flC'fifi
WONDERFUL RUG
VALUES
$16 Brussels Rugs at $11.65
$25 Axminster Rugs $15.90
$48 Wilton Rugs at $31.00
All Rockers
Reduced
Such Prices on Iron and
BrassBedsYouNeverSaw
..$9.90
A very large heater like this
with cast top and bottom,
also eastiron lining, the very
latest style and reliable
make, worth $13.00, on sale
now only : $9.90
All Lace Curtains
Reduced
Very Special ThisVeek
$2.00 fa fl PJ
Odd. Curtains and single pairs
at cost.
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W&rfP ilft 5fl life
Bp! KBlil
VERY SPECIAL VALUES
$2.75 Oak Arm Rockers
now $2.25
$5.00 Oak Ann Rockers -
now $3.98
$7.00 Fumed Oak Rockers
now $5.25
$10.00 Eirdseye Rockers at
only $7.95
$3.00 Iron Beds, special
now. r.
$4.50 Iron Beds, special
now
$10.00 Iron Beds, special
now
$15.00 Iron Beds, special
now
$20.00 Brass Beds, spe
cial now
$ 1.95
$ 3.00
.$ 7.20
$10.00
$13.SO
PERSONS NOT HAVING THE READY CASH, BUT WHO CONTEM
PLATE EARLY SETTLEMENT FOR THEIR PURCHASES, CAN
MAKE SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS WITH OUR CREDIT MAN
WHEREBY THEY CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF SALE PRICES
SSWssfy:
All Couches Are
Also Reduced
S6.25
Will buy a neat velour couch
S11.75
Will buy a $16.50 Chase
Leather Conch with sprint?
edge.
A Good Place 1
ZZ A Good Place To Trade ff4
a
M
$10 Cook Stove $6.95
Here you can get a new stove
for the price of a second
hand one. No charge for de
livery or setting up.
Good Steel Range only 25
our race and Its especial adaptability
to the conquering of the wilderness.
I am hardly ready to admit that aome
other man or group of men would
have achieved the same "suits.
-We have always had our captains
of lndmtry. but without a note of dis
paragement of other we have had
among- them all only one Hill and one
Harriman. Rllng from the humblest,
equipped In the beginning with less
resource and probably struggling
from the tart with a many hard
ships as any man around these table
tonight, what an Inspiration and what
an Impressive Illustration of the po
tency of great undaunted staying
powers, concentration of effort and al
most Infinite cope of the thorough
bred human machine, is the sum total
f the accomplishment of these two
men.
ray and Farrell Honored.
-It la Indeed fitting that we tonight
celebrate the coming of the new field
marshals of these opposing Harriman
and Hill Interest In the person of
President Gray and Farrell and the
other men here honored. Like their
chieftains these men by the sheer
force of their sr-lemlld personalities
have fought their way from the low
est round in the railway ladder to the
very highest attainable in their re
spective spheres. It gives me the
greatest pleasure to Join In their wel
come. As you know. I am not here
merely a a railroad man. but a ona
of your enthusiastic boosters, neigh
bors and friends to whom the privilege
of doing something and being general
ly helpful and enjoying the compan
ionship and sympathy of such a grand
aggregation of fellow-worker as the
Portland Commercial Club, Is as food
and drink, and everything else. So, as
a plain cltlxen. 1 want to add my
words of cheer: also, my sincere con
gratulations to these men on their
rare good fortune In having these
great interests intrusted to their care
In a Held so glorious a this.
We all know that nowhere on earth
could they In their friendly rivalry In
the advancement of their respective
Interests find such a marvelous situa
tion for the exercise ofthose rare per'
aonai qualities which have exalted
them to their present positions' a here
in the Pacific Northwest, iiere is Dop
ing that they may be with us always,
have the best of everything, and never
have a requisition turned down.
"And, speaking of opportunity and
comparative merits of country nd
varied successes of men, I am an
earnest believer In the proposition that
there Is not enough bad luck In the
world altogether to ruin one real live
man, providing we do not by legisla
tion, regulation or otherwise etlfle op
portunity. I also believe that beauti
ful but fallacious poem of Senator
In gal is on 'Opportunity knocking but
once at every man's door," has prob
ably done more harm than all the
good tlit statesman accomplished In
the best year of his life. Who knows
so wen as we. whom the Creator In
his great goodness ha divinely fa
vored with the privilege of living In
this paradise on earth, this land of
majesty "and beauty and fairly burst
ing with bounty, that opportunity Is
omnipresent, Is knocking at every
door all the time and that only the
sluggard fails to hear What a bless
ing to be permitted to try one' self
out in such an absolutely unequalled
situation. Here, indeed, is where per
sonality In business counts, where no
man who is rightly constituted can
be held down. Let us not mar these
times nor fetter legitimate endeavor
In such a land by falling to back up
and conserve the men and their enter
prise and the superb, unselfish force
In men and communities which leads
them to do either the modest or extra
ordinary things. ,
To these ends let lis drive It home
all the time that others may confi
dently aspire to the success achieved
by the self-made men we are honoring
tonight, and In any event that there
la something better ahead for every
man. woman and child, and that the
measure of It" is, after all, only the de
gree of earnestness, persistence and
common eense applied."
Kdlefsen deliver anthracite, Cannel
coaL
Chmpne bottles cost 7 cenu apiece by
the loo.uoo order.
FAMOUS FARM IS SOLD
'OAK VIEW" OF 1000 ACRES
BKIXGS NEAR TO $40,000.
Spokane Man .Transfers Big Hold
ings In Klickitat County to Citi
zen of Hia Own Town.
L.TL.B, Wash., Jan. t. (Special.)
"Oak View" farm of 1000 acres, former
ly owned by Frank . Empy, mining
man and merchant of Spokane, have
passed into the hands of another Spo
kane man, supposed to be J. M. Rich
ards, according to Information which
lias reached here from Wahklacus. The
consideration is said to have been $40,
000. It Is one of tU.e best properties In
Klickitat County.
- "Oak View" was first brought into
prominence about seven years ago,
when Banker Jesse Hostetler, of The
Dalles, and George W. Ott. a farmer
of Glasco, Kan., purchased the "Sam"
Courtney holdings. Many Improve
ments were added and an up-to-date
house and bain were built. A modern
waterworks was Installed, in which no
expense was spared.
Two years ago the owners of "Oak
View" sold to Mr. Empey at a figure
that was never given to the public. It
has been said The Dalles banker was
well satisfied with the deal. Mr. Em
pey retains 1500 acres of land near
"Oak View."
FIVE GENERATIONS LIVING
Mrs. Lucinda Atwood Knowles Cele
brates 89th Birthday.
FLORENCE, Or., Jan. . (Special.)
Mrs. Lucinda Atwood Knowles, who
celebrated her 89th birthday December J
19, at the home of her daughter, has 85
living descendants, five children,. 29
grandchildren, 33 great-grandchilSren,
and one great-great-grandchild, mak
ing five generations of the family liv
ing. Although she has suffered four
strokes of paralysis, her eyesight re
mains very good, and she has not used
spectacles for more than 12 years.
She was born In New Hampshire in
182Z, and was married at the age of 18
to Ebenezer Cram Knowles, who died
10 years ago. In 1856 she moved to
Minnesota, and was a pioneer settler in
that state, coming to Oregon in 1885,
and settling In the Sluslaw Valley.
THE ALVEOLAR GUARANTY
When teeth bear the trademark "Al
veolar" they carry the same insurance
as a piece of jewelry marked "Tiff
any" or silver stamped "Sterling."
It is not our desire to aggrandize or
exaggerate our merits, but to- tell the
truth about ourselves and to impress
that truth so forcibly upon our read
ers that they will be eventually obliged
to accept it. Competition In every
branch of commercialism nowadays
has become so keen that opponents in
the field resort to all means of arts
and crafts to accomplish their ends.
But It has always been our belief that
there is still left in the world enough
honesty and righteousness to work out
the redemption of every man and cor-
C oration attempting .to do business on
usiness-like, honest principles. And
the courage of our convictions has
merited for us much praise and estab
lished for us an unlimited practice
among the representative people of
every city in which our offices are lo
cated. We have the commendation of
all who have employed our service
with, we might say, the exception of
the growlers, who cry for the moon,
and, because Santa Claus does not put
it Into their Christmas stocking, reap
the wrath of injured feelings by re
fusing to meet their honest obligations.
We have confined ourselves within
the rigid lines of the "straight and
narrow way." advertising our claims
truthfully and then doing all we- can
to make good the claims.
Our guaranty is to render satisfac
tion. We are not doing business pure
ly with the Idea of making money, re
gardless, but with the idea of making
it legitimately and with a clear title,
and though we claim not to be philan
thropists in the literal sense of the
word we boast that our endeavor Is
to render humanity 6. service and re
ceive a Just compensation for the serv
ice. Among our New Tear "Dont's,' let
there be one that reads: "Don't neg
lect my teeth." If your taetlj need at
tention, let that attention be given
NOW. Take the ounce of prevention
now rather than the pound of cure
later, and when you buy dentistry,
buy the best. It is the cheapest in
the end. Cheap work is expensive at
any price.
Alveolar Teeth, Where Bridgework I
Impossible.
If only your front teeth are left, say
three or four or more, we can replace
all those that have been lost on both
sides, clear back, with perfect Alveo
lar teeth, whilst bridgework would be
impossible, even if you had eight or
ten front teeth to tie to. If you have
only two back teeth on each side, say
molars, we can supply all the front
teeth that are missing with beautiful,
serviceable, life-like Aveolar teeth.
This could not possibly be done by
the bridge route. And where bridge
work Is possible, there is no compari
son between the two, A very large
percentage of our work is taking out
bridgework put in he supposedly high
class dentists and replacing It with the
beautiful and artistic Alveolar teeth.
And, unlike bridgework In another re
spect, it Is practically painless. No
boring or cutting into the gums; noth
ing to be dreaded. Now, then, prices
being equal, which would you choose?
We have samples (counterparts of
actual case's) in our office to show.
Come and see the work.
Curing Pyorrhea (loose teeth), a dis
ease given up by other dentists as in
curable, is another of our specialties.
We cure it absolutely. It's a boastful
statement to make, but we can do any
thing that is possible in dentistry, and
what we do is always of the very higti
est class. Our booklets. Alveolar Den
tistry, are free. Write for one if you
cannot call.
ALVEOLAR DENTAL CO,
DENTISTS.
Portland, Ablngton Bldg., 106 3a St.
Seattle, Halght Bids., 2d and Pine.
Terms to .Reliable People.