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TTIE SUNDAY OREGONTA, PORTLAyP, APRIL ?, 1912.
WEATHER MAN DECLARES SHOWERS
MAY SOIL PRETTY EASTER BONNETS
Portland Women, However. Keep Milliner, on Gallop All Day and Prepare for Annual Promenade
zrmUuu rinds Suitable Headgear in Fifteen-Cent Store.
-One Shopper
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-mILL It rainr
The reply of the weather
forecaster when this question
wu put to hlra over the phone yester
day afternoon, while coolly profession
al and impersonal, seemed to have In It
a touch almost of malice, considering
that this day. Easter, of all other days
in the year, ought to be fair.
Tortland and vicinity." said the
weather man quite unemotionally, as
though the happiness of legion of own
ers of brand new Easter millinery
were not at all dependent upon his re
ply, "fair and warmer tonight; Sun
day showers.
Then he hung up the phone.
Preparations for Easter went on yes
terday, ' however, quite as merrily and
as busily as though the office of the
weather man had not chalked up Its
prophecy of "showers." Possibly the
mont of those who were getting ready
for the ceremonials of the day were too
busy to ring up his office and Inquire
about the prospective weather; possi
bly they reason that the weather man
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of
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Mover S 1 5 S
nits
Men who want good appear
ance and long service
combined at a moderate cost
find their ideal in a Moyer
$15 suit; there is
noneso good at the price
Look up at the corner it means something
First and
Morrison
MO
First and
Yamhill
FIVE STORES
Third and Oak
Second and
Morrison
87 and 89
Third
1 RIKKT OP FLOWKIM PREPARED BY A MORRKOVSTREET FLO
LEAVISO HER SIXTH-STREET STORE, HER ARMS FILLED WITH EA
OP WASUIMJTOM-STREET FLORIST.
has been mistaken on other occasions
and consequently may be mistaken In
this case.
At any rate the streets were filled
throughout the afternoon and evening
with bustling; Easter shoppers, who
took no thought of what the weather
might hare In store for them: while
the unfortunate wlrht who had called
up the forecaster consoled himself with
the thought that an amount of mist
that mlfrht win from the Oorernment
bureau the dlrnlned title of a shower
very frequently is so li;ht that not
even the most delicate of Easter mil
linery creations mlirht "fear to brave It.
Florists' shops were the prime fa
vorites amonir the shoppers yesterday,
and extra forces of salesmen darted
here and there, smiling, answering
questions, wrapping up wonderful bou
luets of blossom or pots of Easter
flowers, while throiishout the after
noon the Spring crop of delicate white
lilies went forth from their doors, to
carry the spirit of Easter Into church
and mission nnd hundreds of homes.
"No crowding" was the cue on sub
urban cars in the late forenoon, where
at different points along the seat
would be some kind-hearted father,
brother or other relative, tenderly hov
ering a pot of Easter lilies and struggl
inc to protect them from the pressing
:rowd until he should be safely home.
M Hosirf Makers Busy.
As for the Easter hat. which haa
been adored and Joked about for ages,
it alone formed one great Impulse for
a wave of suppressed feminine excite
ment that surged through the city all
day. Millinery establishments present
ed scenes of frantic activity In the ef
forts to put the final touches on the
hundred and one wonderful creations
which are to make the streets and pews
In Portland today bloom like the
gardens of paradise. Messenger boys,
telephone girls and all the subordin
ates of Dame Fashion In her various
strongholds. ran and talked and
trimmed In wholehearted homage to
milady's hat. '
The eternal feminine, so far as It
concerns the Easter hat. was not. how
ever, confined to the exclusive millin
ery establishments.
In a 15-cent store a weary-looking
woman, one whose face and hands
spoke of long years of toil and scant
acquaintance with the fluff and filmy
making up that atmosphere which we
classify under the general bromldi
om "the eternal feminine." fumbled
through a pile of wire frames and
straw receptacles, sometimes . desig
nated as hats. The search was long and
discriminating, but at last she came
upon a "shape" that appeared to please
her. Then she passed to another coun
ter, where piles and piles of stiff 1ml-
R1ST. NO. 3 MISS CELIA MURPHY
STER LILIES. !VO. 3 DISPLAY
tation flowers and spools on spools of
ribbons were displayed.
Another diligent search was finally
rewarded with the discovery of the par
ticular style of Imitation posies and the
particular color of broad ribbon that
she appeared to have been searching
for. Then she fumbled in a worn pocket-book
and the girl behind the counter
checked up well, never mind the
. i h vMFv.innhliir woman
muuui mm J
departed, bearing In her arms the skele
ton Of an taster Donnei wuiuu is
ably destined to bloom forth some
where In the streets of the city today,
alongside other and more stately mil
linery edifices that were hurried to
their owners late last evening by spe
cial messengers.
The candy departments in i
stores were the centers of unrelenting
activity all day. Everyone was there,
from the eiaeriy jrnuuiniuci
i , nhnifd Raster sweets
Besrcucu v dw.mw
to bestow upon his youngest descend
ent. to the eager-faced youngster who
came unescorted and after long debate
over the relative merits of various can
dled eggs and raDDUS, excnnnBou nm.o..
pennies for pieces of confectionery
that looked as though they would give
the average human being at least four
or five different types of poisoning.
Post Card Also In Demand.
And the picture post card racks and
shelves were harried here and there the
livelong. day, to furnish sundry thou
sands of Easter greetings, which it
will be the postman's duty to hawk
about the United States today.
Window decorations appropriate to
the season attracted Interested knots
of spectators on different corners
throughout the retail district of the
city Pink chickens, real and "made
up." live rabblta and Imitation rabbits,
fabulously supposed to lay wonderful
c-.t... .o-o-a that would waken the en
vy of a bird of paradise In short, every
type of the time-honored Easter nature
fake formed the motif of the decora
tion, and the show windows bloomed
almost as brightly and nclfully as
If It had been the midst of the Christ
mas season Instead of the eve of the
commemoration of Easter day.
And watching the hurly burly of
eager preparation on all sides, he who
had been so rash as to call up the
weather man In the afternon, com
pletely forgot that that person had
answered coolly over the phone, Sun
day, showers."
Perhaps the weather man was mis
taken anyhow.
EASTER LEGEND AS THE PRODUCT
OF PSYCOLOGICAL PHENOMENA
BY 1L W. SCOTT, THH ORKGO.M AXAPRIL " 10O1.
TiDAY. In all the churches of
Christendom, the resurrection of
Jesus will be the keynote of dis
course. In the Christian conscious
ness immortality Is typified by the be
lief that Jesus rose from the dead. It
la usually assumed that he rose In his
natural and material body; yet this
Is not. and never has been, a very defi
nite and wholly unquestioned belief.
In the gospel accounts. Jesus, after
the resurrection, appears now as a dis
embodied spirit and now as a person
In the body: at one time he comes Into
the houwe. though the doors are shut,
and Is thought a spirit, but presently
can be seen and touched, and takes
food with his friends. That Is. his
appearance Is first a subjective vision,
and then becomes an objective one. as
the demand for the objective arises
In the minds of those who had known
him. In Matthew and Mark the nar
ratives give no certain clew to the
term of his continuance . among his
dlctples after he had risen. In Luke
the time Is but one day, in John It Is
extended for the first time to eight
days, and In the Acts It Is prolonged
to 40. The gospel narrative are
shadowy. Indistinct, yet not difficult of
analysis, since their tendency and pur
poses are perfectly clear. They are a
psychological . rather than historical
study; and even more so Is Paul's ac
count of the appearance of Jesus to
htm.
These are phenomena of religious
consciousness, not of external nature.
Quite commonly In the churches, while
the hope of Immortality Is exalted, the
J Idea of a resurrection of the body, ac
cepted almost generally during the
stfu.-la Ignored, or even positively re-
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' In a great many Christian people do not
believe tnis article oi . '
believe It In their own way, and hold
that there Is no external reality In It.
The psvchologlcal reality of the risen
Is discredited, and they refuse to be
lieve that Jesus rose from the dead and
had the same body that belonged to
him before the crucifixion. Strongly
as they believe In the renewal of their
exlstenoo after death, they refuse to
accept the resurrection of the body In
Its psychological sense; and, if the
honest and free opinion of Intelligent
Christian people could be obtained It
may be doubted whether many of them
would say that they believed In the
physical resurrection, at least without
making many Important qualifications.
But It came to be believed very soon
after the death of Jesus that he had
risen In his naturl body, though the
accounts of his ijpearance after the
resurrection, wher. examined critically
do not present a natural and historical
picture, but are shadowy, confused, con
tradictory and indefinite. The risen
Jesus comes through closed doors but
still he Is not a spirit; he may be
touched, but still he has not a natural
body. This Is not In the realm of
nature and of attested experience. It
Is the subjective, not objective; It be
longs to the consciousness of the wit
nesses; It is a reflection of their own
minds, and has no objective reality.
When the disciples had lost physical
touch with their master, the imagina
tion built these bridges between him
and themselves, without check from
sclentlflo experience or critical under
standing. "He appeared first to Mary Magdalen,
from whom he had driven seven
devils." This Is the gospel record. In
a woman of such a constitution of
mind and body. It was no great step
from Inward excitement to ocular
vision. Th emotional desire in such
a mind creates Its object. The an
nouncement, once made was electric
and contagious. and the historical
hypothesis for all that follows Is not
so much the real element in the resur
rection as the faith In It. All that
follows could now easily be divined,
under clearer knowledge of psycho
logical laws. The gospel accounts. In
their present form, were, the work of
the next two generations of Christians,
and the critical reader finds in every
line certain Indicia of the motives that
led to the attempts to establish proofs,
and of the processes employed.
The earliest writer who gives us
any accurate Information as to how the
belief In the resurrection arose Is the
Apostle Paul, who, though not an eye
witness of . the original phenomena
which were the ground of the belief,
relates, as he says, what he heard tfrom
others. He relates how he had "re
ceived"' that Jesus had died and had
been buried, and risen and was seen of
many; "and, last of all, he wan seen
of me also, as one born out of due
time." With regard to the appearance
of Jesus, which he witnessed. Paul uses
the same, expression as with regard to
the others; he places It in the same
category with them, yet the appear
ance to Paul was several, years later
UM e appearance to others.' Oa this
...i th.rh,r. we find that Paul
knew or supposed that the appearances
which the elder disciples had seen soon
after the resurrection of Jesus had
been such as were vouchsafed at a
much later time to himself. What
this apparition was we learn from his
own description of what befell him on
the road to Damascus.'.
The apostle tells us that ecstatic
states of mind wern not uncommon
with him. "If it were expedient for
him to glory," he could tell of a su
perabundance of visions and revela
tions with which he had been favored.
He had In remarkable degree the
"gltft of tongues," the ecstatic be
haviour we have all seen at revival
meetings, but which once was much
more common than now. The con
version of Paul, a most Important in
cident In the history of the origin of
ecclesiastical ' Christianity, together
with the appearance to him of the risen
Lord, Can well be acoounted for by con
sidering the nature of the man, his
nervous constitution, the repeated In
stances of religious exaltation that ap
pear In his history, and by putting
all this in comparison with similar
phenomena of constant occurrence.
How many persons at campmeetlngs
within our own time have fallen to the
earth as Paul fell; and have seen Jesus
as plainly as Paul saw him, and have
heard his voice as distinctly as Paul
heard It 7 In Paul's case there was a
reaction from the Injustice and violence
with which he had pursued the follow
ers of Jesus and denounced their
master. His conscience was awakened,
the idea haunted him. and, considering
the character of his mind, there can be
no surprise that the revelation came
to him. .
From this point of view, we are In a
position to perceive fully the mental
conditions and circumstances from
which the vision of Paul Is psychologi
cally explained. An excitable tempera
ment, a soul that has been torn by
the most terrible doubts, a most vivid
phantasy, occupied with awful scenes
of persecution on the one hand and on
the other by the Ideal Image of the
celestial Christ; In addition, the near
ness of Damascus, with the urgency of
a decision, the lonely "stillness and the
scorching and blinding heat of the
,jesert in fact, everything combined
to produce one of those ecstatic states
in which the soul believes that it sees
those images and conceptions that pro
foundly agitate it, as If they were
phenomena proceeding from the out
ward world. Paul had seen the risen
Lord; he, too, had become a witness
of the resurrection; but let it be ob
served that he regarded the appear
ance of Jesus to him as of the same
kind . which the other apostles had
witnessed years before.
There Is an Immense land of mys
tery In the relations between the body
and the spirit. Man has the conscious
ness of Immortality, and evermore is
trying to verify It. The main instru
ment of the Christian world In this en
deavor is the legend of the resurrec
tion, which will always be a part of
the Christian creed; but mankind, more
and more, will use its intelligence In
Interpreting Its character. The increas
ing clearness of the Interpretations of
science. Including the science of mind,
throws strong lights on the origin and
history of beliefs. It Is found- that,
when there Is any general body of sen
timent pervading men living together,
especially if that sentiment be relig
ious, or takes a religious turn, all in
cidents tending to Illustrate, exalt and
confirm it are eagerly welcomed, rapid
ly circulated and (as a general rule)
easily accredited. If real Incidents are
not at hand, Impressive fictions will be
provided to supply the demand. The
same Is true, but to less extent, in
political action. The perfect harmony
of such fictions with the prevalent feel
ing stands In the place of certifying
testimony, and causes men to hear
them not merely with credence, but
even with delight. To call them In
question and require proof is a task
that cannot be undertaken without in
curring obloquy. Of such tendencies
i. hnmati mind ' abundant evidence
is furnished by the innumerable relig
ious legenas wnicn aiv
rency In all ages and all parts of the
WnrM ft t a. nhenomenon common to
almost all stages of society; it Is the
natural effusion of the spirit of the
imaginative and believing man, but Its
maximum of Influence belongs to an
early state of the human mind: for
the diffusion of positive science and
the formation of a critical standard of
belief tend to discredit Its dJgnity and
to repress Its easy and abundant flow.
The type of the saintly character Is
the history of Jesus as described In the
gospels, and that of the prophets In the
Old Testament; and the lives of holy
men who acquired a religious reputa
tion In the succeeding centuries were
Invested with attributes and Illustrated
with ample details, tending to assim
ilate them to the revered models. The
numerous miracles, the cure of diseases,
the expulsion of demons, the tempta
tions and sufferings, the teachings and
commands, with which the biography
of the saints abounds, grew chiefly out
of this pious feeling common to the
writer and his readers. The narrative
is thus generated because it is wanted,
because it suits the state of mind then
prevalent; It is accepted as heard, with
out suspicion or reserve: the incidents
related, as well as the connecting links
between them, are gratifying to the
sympathies of the people, as well as to
their curiosity, and they are accepted
and believed, though the historical ba
sis be ever so slight, or even non-existent.
All this is especially the case
where the religious emotions are called
Into play; for, as a rule, the critical
faculty is then wholly absent.
SEVER IS NEW CAPTAIN
Company K, Third Oregon nfantry,'
Elects U. O. Scott's Successor.
The members of Company K. Third
Oregon Infantry, held an election re
cently to fill the vacancy for the posi
tion of Captain caused by the promo
tion of Captain R. O. Scott to the rank
of Major. Lieutenant Frank S. Sever
was elected Captain. He named First
KeT-ronnt Harry O. Hulse as Second
Lieutenant to fill the vacancy caused
by the other promotions.
During the last ten years the com
pany has carried off many honors, both
on the rifle range and In drill and gen
eral efficiency. For a number of
years the company stood first among
the state troops, and' since the prac
tice of rating companies on a percent
age basis at the annual Inspections has
been discontinued, has received very
favorable reports from Inspecting offi
cers of the regular Army. At the an
nual encampment at Columbia Beach
last August the company took to camp
the largest number of men ever taken
by an infantry company in this state.
The company also has furnished from
two to four men for each rifle team
which has represented Oregon in the
National rifle competition at Camp
Perry, Ohio and at Seagirt, New Jersey.
Lieutenant Sever, who succeeds to
the command of the company, has
served nine ' years In the National
Guard, all of it In Company K, and
has passed through all the grades in
the company.
G. S. RANDALL PASSES ON
Prominent Clackamas County Resi
dent Dies at Central Point.
OREGON CITT, Or., April 6. (Spe
claL) Gilbert Samuel Randall, oldest
son of George and Mary A. Randall,
died of pneumonia at his home at Cen
tral Point, about four mile? from here.
Friday afternoon. He was taken 111
Monday evening, after working in the
field during the day. He was born at
Rockville, Conn., November 7, 1867, and
came with his parents to Oregon by
way of the Isthmus of Panama. He
married Miss Ella Gutperlett, of Cen
tral Point, January 1, 1900.
Mr. Randall was a prominent mem- I
ber of Warner Grange at New Era, and
tnV cniit nride In his farm, one of
the best in Clackamas County. He is
survived by his wife and three chil
dren, by his parents, three sisters, Mrs,
Eda Brown, of Seattle, Wash.; Mrs.
Lottie Crawford, of Portland; Mrs. Wil
liam Pollard, wife of Dr. Pollard, of
Springfield. Or., and two brothers,
George Garfield Randall and Wllburn
Grant Randall, of Central Point
Funeral services will be conducted
at the Central Point Methodist Episco
pal Church this afternoon, at 2 o'clock,
the Rev. Wilson, pastor, officiating.
The remains will be brought to Moun
tain View Cemetery, Oregon City, and
Interred In the family lot. Pall bear
ers are Fred Chinn, August Staehly,
Jacob Rettlnger, Harry Eastman, Mr.
Gregory and J. R. Cawthorn.
HAVE YOU $500?
Or Can You Spare $150 Now and
$20 a Month?
Must be sold tomorrow. Splendid
pianola piano, with lots of music, bed
room set, dresser, many fine rugs, dining-room
set, chairs, music cabinet,
writing desk, talking table, sewing ma
chine, electric light, all for 1550; $150
cash and $20 a month, or $500 spot
cash. This is biggest snap we've ever
known anything about. Can be seen
tomorrow only In East Side home. Ap
ply for information,- Ellers Music
House, general offices. Eilers Building,
Alder street at Seventh.
By the addition of pulvertied mica con
crete ! made to imitate granite.
TO ENJOY
PROPER VISION
THE EYES MUST
BE NORMAL
That is, they must be
able to take up and
focus all the rays enter
ing the eye at a cer
tain point so that you
will be able to "see"
the objects you may
be looking at, without
squinting.
If your eyes do not
focus the rays of light
properly you have
some form of eye strain
that can only be cor
rected by wearing
proper glasses.
Optical Place of
THOMPSON
Second Floor Corbett Building
. 5th and Morrison.
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