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THE SUNDAY OEEGOXIAX, PORTLAND, MAT 31, 1914.
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Tile Price of Love, by Arnold Bennett. $1.33.
Illustrated. Harper & Brothers, New
York City. 1
That married love suffers long: and
Is kind is surely the purpose of this
new, masterful novel of that modern
Bngland, in that particular Five
Towns district which Arnold Bennett
is never weary of describing. The novel
has a grim humor that claims atten
tion, when it enfolds the cold-ami-hot
characters of its men and women. Not
one of them is perfect and the convic
tion arrows that they are the more like
able because they are by no ' means
faultless. People, In a novel, pictured
as beinir saints, are generally tire
some. The people in "The Price of
Love" are mostly sinners, two of them
being thieves, who are not sent to jail
for their misdeeds. Such people can
be depended upon to be interesting.
The rich lady of the book is Mrs
Lizzie Maiden. The other three prin
cipal people, Miss Rachel Louisa Fleck
ring, companion to Mrs. Maiden, and
Julian Maiden and Louis Fores, Mrs.
Maiden's grandnephews, who are all
more or less dependent on her bounty.
Really a large part of the plot of the
story is woven around the $7075 which
was stolen from Mrs. Maiden by Julian
and Louis. Both men are painted as
weaklings, while Rachel is a bit of a
shrew.
The action of the story starts with
Thomas Batchgrew, financial agent,
calling at Mrs. Maiden's house and
giving her $4825, as the proceeds of a
mortgage that had been redeemed. The
time was past banking hours and as
burglars were reported to be in the
vicinity, Mrs. Maiden, who was 72 years
old and a widow, became uneasy at the
risk of losing so much money. Bhe
consoled herself with the thought,
however, that her relatives, Julian and
Louis, were to pass the night as her
guests. Louis is already a young man
with a bad past. Born as a snob. Ire
affects the air of an aristocrat because
his father had been the stepbrother
of a lieutenant-general in the British
army. Louis was condemned to be a
bank clerk, but was discharged for
theft. When the novel opens he- iB
clerk of the petty cash department of
James Harrocleave's earthenware man
ufactory, and is already short in his
accounts.
Mrs. Maiden Is notoriously careless
In taking care of her ready money.
She has a habit of placing bank bills
in books, behind pictures, etc When
Louts and Julian come to her house
both young men, unknown to each
other, find her loose money, which they
pocket. Great is the outcry when the
loss of the money is discovered. Who
iB the thief? Burglars are suspected.
Thomas Batchgrew warns pretty Re
becca to have nothing to do with
Louis Fores, as the latter is "a bad lot."
Rebecca feels foolish when Louis comes
near her and wishes in her secret heart
that Louis would kiss her, which he
does. She and Louis are engaged to
be married. Mrs. Maiden dies, princi
pally of worry over- the loss of nearly
80U0.
As Mrs. Louis Fores, Rebecca finds
her husband to be as weak, indolent
and contemptible as she thought him
romantic. He is injured in a bicycle ac
cident and, believing himself to be
dying, he confesses to his wife that
it was he who stole $4825 from Mrs.
Maiden. Husband and wife drift apart
and would separate, but fear what
people would say. Just then Julian
turns up from South Africa, and says
that he is distressed in body and mind,
as he had taken $2250 of Mrs. Maiden's
money that she had carelessly left ly
ing around the house. Louis never men
tions his theft.
Here is where young Mrs. Fores has
abundant opportunity to test her love
for her husband. Shall she pay the
price demanded by such a. love?
Anrlrnt Home and Modern America, by Ous
llclrr.o Fcrrero. fJ.bO. 3. f. Pulnm'
Sons, New York City.
Dr. Ferrero, Italian, is a shrewd phil
osopher. His previous literary mes
sages, in which he compared old. Home
and our country, caused Americans to
pay attention and become uneasy. If
Dr. Ferroro had praised us and our in
stitutions, we should have purred with
pleasure, and promptly forgot him and
his books. But he was our fierce critic
and his observations were of the brim
stone order. So, we took notice.
In the present volume of 352 pages
Dr. Ferroro contiues his career as a
friendly critic of American conditions,
as, contrasted with pictures of better
social conditions in his Europe. He
scolds us pretty much as James J. Hill
and Theodore Roosevelt have done. We
err in making our age one in which
money-getting Is exalted above all
others; we are too much in a hurry;
there are too many cities and towns in
America, and we as a people prefer to
drift to big cities and live there like
bees in one big hive, instead of belong
ing to the farming population. The re
sult is that city life becomes congested
and the struggle for life and a living
become so keen that the strength of
the race is sapped, while the future of
the race is blurred. Race suicide.
sterility, etc The argument is not new.
Dr. Ferrero can at least be lauded
on the strength of his courage In
speaking out and the accuracy of many
of his observations on his recent visit
to Kastern cities of this country. Much
of the book has already appeared in
Hearst's Magazine, where Dr. Ferero's
critical, grouchy tone doubtless suited
the other literary wares of that
grouchy magazine. Part one contains
the essay: "What Is Progress?" Part
two has as its text: "Ancient History
and the Modern World." and includes
these essays: "Ancient Social Systems
and Contemporary America"; "Quan
tity and Quality"; "Woman and Home";
"The Lesson of the Fall of the Roman
Empire": "I'ps and Downs." Part three
has as Its text "Uurope and America,"
with these essays: "The American
Definition of Progress"; "Facts and
Motives in the Modern World": "More
and Better"; "The Lost Paradise of
Beauty"; "Beyond Every Limit": "The
Riddle of America." Part four has
"Politics and Justice in Ancient Rome"
and contains papers on "The Trial of
Verres": "The Trial of Clodius" and
"The Trial of Piso." Part five has one
essay. "The Limit of Sport."
When our author turns to old Rome
and Its laws he is at his best. Here he
is both learned and witty. To read
such crisp comment is educational and
here . the candid reviewer is glad to
admit that Dr. Ferrero's essays are the
most brilliant historical studies of re
cent years. But to meet with Dr.
Ferrero as a candid American critic
that is an entertaining experience:
If an ancient Roman came back to the
world and saw an American stadium packed
with people from top to tottom, he would
be not a little puzzled to explain what
could have induced mo many thousand of
persona to have flocked together from afai,
merelv to watch a football match to col
lect in Buch crowds, endure such a ions
-iournev and such discomfort, lust to get a
distant view of some youths kicking; their
less in the air! It would seem to them an
Insipid and tiresome spectacle. Their tastes
lan to a aory struggle, reminiscent of war;
to fights between men and animals, blood
In bucketful.
Christianity initiated that education of
men's feelings which haa made us gradually
turn away our eyes to horror from these
atrocious diversions. tjut now stow ana
difficult this education has been! It can
aafoly be said not to havo reached Its cli
max until after the Kevolution. Only the
19ih century, intent on mitigating and
humanizing the penal law in every dlrec
tion. has finally succeeded In abolishing
the last of these cruel spectacles, capital
sunlahment.
But If we are more courageous and mors
humane, we are. on the other hand, la no
FBI O FALL in love with a good book is one of the greatest
f events that can befall as. It is to have a new influence
pouring itself into our life, a new teacher to inspire and
refine us, a new friend to be by our side always, who, when life
grows narrow and weary, will take us into his wider and calmer
and higher world." Henry Drummond.
way more sober cr more temperate. As
far as these virtues are concerned, the a" -clent
world cuts a much better figure In
history than does the modern. We have
deteriorated. The modern world eats and
drinks to excess. It indulges to excess in
alcoholic drinks and stimulants. The only
Intoxicating drinks known to the ancients
were wine and beer and wine they always
drank mixed with water. They did not
know alcohol nor, consequently, ltquers, now
so numerous and so highly appreciated;
they did not know, tea, coffee or tobacco.
We can assert positively that drunkenness
was the rarest of vices in the ancient
world, while frugality was the commonest
of virtues. We need not take too seriously
those orgies of the wealthy to which ancient
writers, especially Latin writers, so often
allude, or the banquets at whlca dishes of
parrots tongues were served, or pearls
dissolved In liquor were drunk. These stories
bear a strong family likeness to the legends
current in Europe about "the corrupt state
of American society," and are due to the
same tendency. They are the exaggerated
and violent reaction of an ancient Puritan
ism against the natural advances of luxury
and against that kind of moral slackening
which always accompanies the Increase of
wealth. Just as the dispassionate and un
prejudiced European, when be examines at
close quarters the so-called "corrupt state
of American society," readily recognizes
that the "high-sounding expression only in
dicates certain defects and weaknesses
which certainly are reprehensible, but which
are common to the whole of modern civili
zation and not peculiar to America so the
famous Roman orgies and the banquets
which have made so much stir, would seem
to us. If a mircale allowed us to attend
them, very modest and unassuming affairs
compared to our ostentatious displays.
Judicial Interpretation of Political Theory,
by Dr. William Bennett Bizzell. JLS0.
CI. P. Putnam's Sons, New Tork City.
Our author is president of the Col
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and most of the matter contained in
this book of 273 pages consists of a
series of lectures delivered at the Illi
nois College of Law In 1910. The book
is a learned and authoritative one, in
the relation of the courts to the Amer
ican party system. An easily under
stood survey is furnished of the issues
that have divided political parties, of
the shaping of theory into legislation,
and of the Judgments of the courts as
to the constitutionality of the measures
adopted. Keen students, and other per
sons wno wisn to be among the well
informed class will profit accordingly.
j. rce cnapter neaaa are: Judicial
Power Over Legislative Enactments:
Theory of Constitutional Construction;
Nature of the Federal Union; Imperial
ism versus expansion; The Theory of
Internal Improvements; The Theories
of the United States Bank. Legal Ten
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Tax, Direct Legislation and Recall of
Judicial Decisions.
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... rauw oy t.oa Anderson Lawton.
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ne author presents arguments sun.
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FIRST CALIFORNIA GOLD
CLAIMED FOR BENNETT
Former Salem Mission Millwright Sent Nuggets "We Picked Up' at
Sutter's Mill, at Point of Discovery, to Wife. -
BY A. B. ROBERTS.
THERB are many stories told of
the discovery of gold in Califor
nia, and every . writer tells a dif
ferent story.
Now, I propose to tell just what I
know, or what I have had a chance to
learn first hand. What I mean by
"first hand is the Bennett side of the
story. I have the records, the letters
of Captain Charles Bennett to his wife
at the Salem mission, telling her of the
discovery; I have the nugget, as he
called it, the "piece we picked up," and
I have a Jewel made from a nugget
which he told his wife was of their
first "cleanup" after they commenced
"digging gold."
These nuggets I obtained from Mrs.
Bennett less than nine years from the
time that Bennett took them from the
ground at Sutter's mill.
Now, as I profess to have these
things, I will tell my readers how they
came to be in my possession. I will
preface the story by saying that I was
very intimate with Captain Bennett
many years before his tragic death at
the battle of Walla Walla, and I was
with him when he led that fatal charge.
One of my mess mates, E. B. Kelso,
was killed at the time, as he attempted
to raise Bennett's body to carry it out
of reach of the Indians, crying, "Don't
let them scalp Captain Bennett." Af
ter that four days' battle was over, I
was in charge of the escort that brought
the bodies of Captain Bennett, Lieu
tenant Burres and Private Crow and
some 25 or 30 wounded to The Dalles.
We later brought the bodies to their
friends at Salem and Albany. The bal
ance of the killed were burned and are
in unmarked graves on the battlefield.
After this work I received my discharge
and returned to my business in Port
land.
HMiant Contract Given Him.
The following' year I secured a con
tract from Mrs. Bennett to erect a mon
ument over the grave of her husband.
but she insisted that I should bring the
blocks for the monument to Salem,
where she would furnish me a' suitable
place to do the work under her own
eyes, and also give me, free of charge.
my board at her hotel, of which Mr.
Hunt was the landlord.
The foregoing is told to let my readers
know how it was that I came to gain
"first-hand" facts, . which I propose to
recite in support of the truth of Ben
nett's claim as the first discoverer of
gold In California.
From the foregoing you will see that
I was that man that did the work.
every bit of it, on the Bennett monu
ment, shown in The Oregonian a short
time ago. As the work progressed Mrs.
Bennett was much in evidence, as, she
said, she wanted to see the work done.
and she did. She was a very sociab
lauj, snu luiu me muvu auoui .neir
work at the Salem mission. She said
that Captain Bennett was the mill
wright of the mission. Captain Sutter,
a trader In California, wanted to build
a sawmill, and wrote to the Salem mis
sion to know if a man could be sent to
build it. Mr. Bennett went, but left
als wife at the mission.
Wife Sets tp Claim.
was prepared, therefore, for the
surprise that came later when the mon
ument was ready for the Inscription
and she gave me the following for one
side.
: CAPTAIN CHARLES BENNETT, :
: The Discoverer of Gold In :
: California. :
I ventured to call her attention to
the fact that someone else claimed the
discovery of gold in California. She
was very positive in her reply. "Mr.
Bennett was, I can show you," she de
clared, and, turning to her bureau
drawer, she produced a letter written
from Sutter Mill, in which the follow
ing statement is made:
"The next morning, after the water
was turned into the mlllrace, as we
were walking down, we found gold,
send you the piece we picked up."
Then she handed me the nugget, still
wrapped in a piece of brown paper. Just
as she had received it.
"This is the piece he picked up as
WHITMAN'S WORK PUTS
HIM NEAR NOMINATION
Second Successful Prosecution of Police-Lieutenant Becker Insures Win
ning Republican Chance for Governorship at Primaries This FalL
BY IXOTD F. LOXERGAN.
EW TORK, May 30. (Special.)
Friends of District Attorney
Whitman are thoroughly con
vinced that his second successful pros
ecution of Police Lieutenant Charles
Becker absolutely insures his winning
tha Republican nomination for Gover
nor at the primaries this Fall-
In the public estimation Mr. Whit
man has shown what an alert and de
voted public servant can accomplish In
the. face of discouraging circumstances.
His record since ho took office has
been excellent and his clearing up of
the Rosenthal mystery has only added
to his fame.
The Becker case is interesting in
showlna: how long it takes our courts
to settle any particular case. Rosen
thal was killed July 16, ixz. uecKer
was indicted on July 29, which is quick
work, and put on trial October 7, 1912,
which is also rapid when one considers
that the courts ejl take a recess during
the Summer months. The police lieu
tenant was convicted on October 24,
but it took 1 months before the argu
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was two months later, or February 24.
U14, before the Court of Appeals made
known Its decision. Therefore it took
1 months to the day for the prisoner
to learn after his first trial how the
Court of Appeala regarded the conduct
of the case. If the new local proceed
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reason to. doubt, it will be September.
1915. before the Court of Appeals again
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certain to escape the chair until New
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they went down the mlllrace : that
morning-,'" she said..
"She tnen produced another letter
and package, .containing about one
pound of gold nuggets. In this letter,
Mr. Bennett said they had commenced
"mining gold," and explained how it
was done. He said they "built long
ooxes. with rockers under them, and
ripples across to catch the gold, and,
wit water running in, they shoveled
In the gravel."
This is what we used to call a
"Long Tom." He told his wife that
this package was a sample of nuggets
of their first "cleanup." These nug
gets were in size from about one-half
ounce to five or six ounces.
Kntrtret Taken In Pay.
In settling with Mrs. Bennett for the
monument, I took one of these nug
gets, for which I allowed her $40.
From this nugget was made the Jewel
spoken of, a Masonic keystone. She
gave me the "piece we picked up,"
with my promise to have a ring made
of it and never to part with it.
These jewels I have In my pocket as
I am writing. They have been exhib
ited at Chicago Bufralo, St. Louis and
Portland, with Mr. Himes, the cus
todian of the Historical Society, and
It seems a little strange that the many
writers of the discovery or gold in
California Should fall to mention Mr.
Bennett, and the evidence which I rjro-
duce. Maybe they don't believe me.
but I can show them. I have the facts.
I have copies of letters, I have the
samples of gold from the first "clean
up," and I have the "piece we Dlcked
up."
This package of nuggets came to
Mrs. Bennett some two months after
the first letter mentioned. There was
no mail then on the Coast, but soon
the story was out. Then began the
first rush to the "gold mines," and
Oregon people were the first to "rush.
Oregon people were of the rushing
Kind lor anything new. They "rushed
from comfortable homes in the East to
this far-off great Northwest, and they
rushed for everything good that ever
came to light. The history of the de
ve'.opment of this great country is a
continuation of "rushes," and It Is
hard to find a new country or a- new
discovery of a mining district where
you will not find Oregonians among
tne nrst to appear.
I believe I have given ample proof
aiso mat it was an oregonian who dla
vered gold in California in a man
,ier to bring it to the attention of th
world.
I propose to tell later more of My
personal knowledge of several of the
most Important gold and silver discov
eries of the great Northwest, with the
names -of the -worthy pioneers who
braved untold dangers to develop the
wonderful resources of this great
country. i
$1,500,000 WILL IS FOUGHT
Small Beneficiaries of Sirs. Henry T
. Cutter Cry Conspiracy."
NEW TORK, May 25. The will of
Mrs. A. Gertrude Cutter, the widow of
poratlon which originally controlled the
Kegeman drugstores, was offered for
probate in accordance with orders is
sued by Surrogate Cohalan. It had
been alleged by James H. Montbomery,
author or " Ready Money," and Mrs. Cut
ter's grandson, that Mrs. Cutter's will
was void, and that Frank W. Tlchenor,
George Ramsey and W. McMaster Mills
had conspired to get possession of the
entire .1.500.000 Cutter estate. Henry
T. Cutter died on January 21 and his
wife on April 3.
Mrs. Cutter's will provides for the
following bequests to the three men
charged by Mr. Montgomery with con
spiracy: 1200,000 to George Ramsey,
$100,000 to W. McMaster Mills and $50,
000 to Frank M. Tichenor. Mrs. Cutter
left $5000 to Mr. Montgomery.
Mrs. Cutter's will cannot become op
erative until the matter of Mr. Cutter's
will, now being contested by Mr. Mont
gomery, is settled. Mr. Cutter's estate
is being administered by Joseph A. Mc-
Closkey and Frank M. Tichenor.
and 30 now may be found tossing balls
about the streets to the eminent dan
ger of passersby.
Inquiry among policemen elicits the
response that it is no use to arrest
these persons, because the magistrates
will not hold them. They are shel
tered under the painfully stretched
wing of Mayor Gaynor's declaration
that children ought to be allowed to
play in the streets, even on skates.
It is an interesting condition. These
young men are apparently convinced
that in hurling hard balls through the
puoiic streets they are entirely within
their rights. Someone has to be struck
and injured, the striker identified, ar
rested and convicted before the law as
serts itself. The person who is hit by
the ball has to be a sort of sacrificial
lamb. Those who are compelled to
abandon the use of certain blocks In
order to keep out of danger have no
rights at all.
New Tork City owes so much money
tnat a new project, involving the ex
pendlture - of $4,000,000, has failed to
arouse any interest. This scheme is
that of the Bronx Parkway Commis
sion, which proposes to acquire for the
city a strip of land 600 feet wide on
both sides of the Bronx River from
Bronx Park to the Kensico reservoir, a
distance of 15 miles.
The plan Is to purify the Bronx
River, which winds picturesquely, stop
all sewage and pollution and make it
supply . good - water for Bronx Park
lakes. The strip will be pierced by a
highway of perfect construction and In
time will become a continuous grove,
as there will be landscape gardening
wherever it will not interfere with na
ture. When the parkway is completed,
inside of four or five years, the lakes,
dams and reservoirs of the city's water
system, now Inaccessible, will be
opened for travelers by automobiles or
other vehicles, and for picnic parties.
The Commission which has the matter
in charge has been at work since 190S
and is enthusiastic over the project.
How the taxpayers feel is as yet undecided.
FORMER -PASTOR OF THIS
CITY IS AUTHOR OF BOOK
"A Man's Reach or Some Character Ideals" Is Title of New Work by Rev.
Charles Edward Locke, Once Minister at Taylor-Street Church.
DR. CHARLES
BT REV. Will 1,1AM WALLACE TOTJNQSOV
Factor Rose City Park Methodist Episcopal
Lauren.
(6
A
MAN'S Reach, or Some Charac
ter Ideals," is the title of a new
book Just issued from tFto press
of the Methodist Book Concern; by Dr.
Charles Edward Locke, pastor of the
First Methodist Episcopal Church, Los
Angeles.
The influence of the remarkable pas
torate of Dr. Locke In Taylor-Street
Church, Portland, still abides and this
book will therefore come as a welcome
guest to many homes.
Artists tell us that after long labor
at the easel they must leave it for a
while and wash out their eyes with
pure colors lest their perception of per
fect colors becomes confused. Wq, too,
must hark back to the original -, tints
as fixed by the great Master lest the
perceptive for us becomes blurred. We
must betake ourselves anew to - the
first principles of our art. lest we miss
the supreme objective. We must look
again into our marching orders and
have reiterated the great commission.
Thus will we be able to distinguish, as
Lowell says, "between the blaze of a
tar-barrel and the final conflagration
of all things."
This, Dr. Locke does for us in his
new book, "A Man's Reach, or Some
Character Ideals," character being de
Services in City Churches
(COXT1.MED
will sins; in the evening;; Sunday school,
lO; Luther League. 7.
Bethany. Danish. Union avenue North and
Morris street Rev. M. C. Jensen-ngholm.
pastor. Services, 11 and 8; Sunday school
and Bible class. 10; young people's meting.
Tuesday at 8: Ladies' Aid will meet at Mrs.
Terkelsen's. 733 Corbett street, Wednesday
at 2.
St. Paul's. Oerman, East Twelfth and
Clinton streets Rev. A. Krause, pastor.
Sunday school. German and English. 9:30;
confession. 10; Pentecostal servlcs and holy
communion, 10:-iO; evening service, S;
Wednesday, sacrCd concert, at 8; Thursday,
young people's social gathering, at 8.
Portland Norwegian, 45 Fourteenth street
North Rev. Ditman Larsen. pastor. Serv
ices. 11 and 7:45; Sunday school, 10; Bible
class. 6:30.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL.
First, Third and Taylor 9:30. classes:
10:30, morning sermon, "The Appeal of
the Mountain Sermon": 12:15, Sunday
shcool; 6:43, Epworth League: 7:45, even
ing sermon, "The Holy Qrall."
Centenary. East Ninth and Pine Rev. t).
M. Trimble, minister. 11, "Spirituality";
7:4S. sermon. W. M. Fry. D. D.: Sunday
school, 9:43; Epworth League. 6:45.
Woodlawn, East Tenth and Highland
Rev. Louis Thomas, pastor. Sunday school,
10 A. M-; Epworth League, 7:15; preaching,
11 and 8: themes. "A Parable of CrUes in
the Kingdom." and "Life Problems."
Trinity. East Tenth and Sherman streets
A B. Calder, pastor, Sunday school, 10;
Epworth League. 7. At 11 Mrs. A. N. Fisher,
of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society,
will speak; 8. "Courage a Necessity."
Central, Vancouver avenue and Fargo
stre9t Rev. C. C. Rarick. pastor. Sunday
school, 9:43; morning sermon. "Our Me
morial Day," 11; class meeting. 12:13; Ep
worth League, 7; evening sermon, "The
Origin of Evil," 8; mid-week services, Tues.
day and Thursday at 8. .... '
Patton, Michigan and Alberta Rev.
George F. Hopkins, pastor. Sunday school.
10 A. M. : Epworth League, 6:45 P. M.;
sermon, 11 A. M.. "Mighty Lse of Small
Forces." and 7:45 P. M., "Is It Well With
ThRosfe City Park. Rose City Park Club
house. Sandy boulevard and East Fifty-seventh
street North Rev. William Wallace
Younason, minister. 0:45. Sunday school;
11 "The Lance of Longinus"; 7:43, "The
Sacrament of Blood." a memorial day ad
dress to the George Wright Post No. 1, G.
A. R. The Veterans' Quartet will sing.
Sunnyslde East Thirty-fifth and yamhill
streets Rev. William Henry Fry, pastor.
9-50 A. M., Sunday school: 11 A. M-, theme:
"The Moral End of Business"; 6:30 P. M..
Epworth League: 7:45 P. M-, sermon by Dr.
D. H. Trimble.
First Norwegian-Danish, Hoyt and Eigh
teenth streets Rev. Ellas GJerding. pastor.
Morning services. 1L subject, "The Power of
Pentecost"; evening service, 8. subject. A
Volunteer Army"; Tuesday night. Professor
H. Hendrlckson will speak for T. P. B. ;
Thursday night, prayer meeting.
Mount Tabor Rev. C. L. Hamilton, pas
tor Sunday school, 9:45; Epworth league.
7- preaching, 11; regular monthly musical,
8 P. M
PRESBYTERIAN.
Calvary, Eleventh and Clay streets Rev.
D L. Klehle, LL. D., will preach, 10:30.
"Prayer"; 7:43, "Wrong Use of the Bible";
Sunday school, 12 noon.
Spokane-Avenue, East Sixteenth and Spo
kane streets Rev. J. E. Youel. pastor. Sun
day school. 9:45: services-. 11 and 8; ser
mons. "The Use of the Sabbath" ana slere
opticon programme,. "The New Era in the
Far East." .
Piedmont. Cleveland avenne and Jarrett
straet Rev. J. E. Snyder, pastor. 11. "Bor.
rowed Troubles": 8. "Ghosts of Memory";
9:45, Sunday school; 7, Christian Endeavor.
REFORMED.
First German Rev. G. Hafner, pastor.
Services. 10:45 and 8; Sunday school, 9:30;
TC. P. S., 7 P- M.
TOTVERSALIST.
Church of the Good Tidings. Broadway
and East Twenty-fourth street Rev. James
IMmond Corby, r.; D., pastor. Divine wor
ship, with sermon by the pastor. 10:30;
theme, "The Courage to Change Sour Mind
EDWARD LOCKE.
fined as "the One art of giving up."
The volume has to do with "Ideals and
What They Cost," since a man's life
will not be any higher or deeper or
nobler than the standards he has lifted
and the principles he has idealized.
Dr. Locke always wields a trenchant
pen. He is ever vociferous in his de
nunciation of rampant evils, because
of the high Ideals dominant In his pri
vate and public life. His ministry has
the momentum of a man in pursuit of
his fondest dreams. He is a rhetorician
of charming grace and strength. He
has the fine grace of tact, because be
has learned the fine art of living.
The chapters, though independent,
are unified by a common purpose. They
are characteristically masculine in
treatment, with the breeze of the mod
ern world sweeping through them. The
quotations, scientific and literary, are
real gems.
It la an honor and a privilege, rare
and appreciated, to be afforded the op
portunity of bringing this book to the
attention of Dr. Locke's many friends
in Portland. In the intimacy of his
own home in Portland, Or, as my pas
tor in "Old Brimstone Corner" in
Pittsburg, and as a valued friend,
through a quarter of a century, I may
be permitted to say fhat the author
himself graciously exemplifies in hi a
own life and ministry the message o
his book.
FROM PAGE 10.)
and Tour Religion"; sunshine hour Sunday
school of religion, 12 noon; no evening
preaching service. Visitors find welcome
and help.
U'1TARIAX.
Church of Our Father, Broadway and
Yamhill street Rev. William G. Eliot, pas
tor. Morning service, 11; sermon will be by
Professor Arthur Evans Wood, of Reed Col
lege; subject, 'The Culture of Service": com
munion service directly after the morning
hour; evening service omitted: Fraternity.
6:30.
UNITED BRETHREN. . -
First Rev. J. D. Nlsewonder, pastor.
Bible school. 10; preaching, 11 and 8; sub
Jfcts, "Who Is on the Lord's Bide?" and
"The Manipulation of Man." Preaching
each night during the week by Bishop Wil
liam W. Bell, of Los Angeles. Professor P.
P. Blllhorn, of Chicago, author and pub
lisher, will have charge of singing.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Church of Progressive Thought, 618 Eiler
building Sunday at 8 P. M-, lecture; Wed-
nesaay at s p. m.. council. tev. Aitnea v.
Wlesendanger, pastor.
Christian and Misslonarv Alliance. East
Ninth and Clay streets Rev. J. E. Fee, pas
tor, sunaay scnool, 10 A. M.: preaching. 11
A M. and 7:30 P. M.
Corps No. 4. 207 Salmon street Reopen
ing of hall after being thoroughly renovated.
11 A. M., holiness meeting; 3:15 P. M..
praise service; 8 P. M., great swearing-in
meeting, when a number of recruits will be
enrolled as soldiers. Ail are cordially in
vited. Christian Toga Philosophy and Meta
physics, 311 Central building. Tenth at Alder
10:30 A. M.. circle of silent demand: 11
A. M.. Bible study; 12, young people's class;
8 P. M.. lecture on "Light on Health," by
F. O. Garrison.
Theosophical Society, 726 Morgan build
ing 8 P. M., subject, "The Scripture in the
Light of Theosophy."
. Divine Truth Chapel, Selllng-Rlrsch build
ing. West Park and Washington streets
Rev. T. M. Mlnard, pastor. Services, 11 A.
M.; midweek meeting. Tuesday at 2 P. M,
$100,000 TRIAL IS OPENED
Breach-of-Promise Action Starts
Against Senator's Son-in-l.aw.
BOSTON, Mass, Mav 26. Trial of a
$100,000 suit for & breach of promise to
marry, which Mrs. Carolyn S. Bartlett
brought against Arthur G. Lund, Ser
geant of the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery Company and son-in-law of
United States Senator Bankhead, of
Alabama, began here. .
In May. 1912, Mr. Lund married Mrs.
Louise Bankhead Perry, the writer,
widow of Representative William H.
Perry, of North Carolina, in Washing
ton, at the Arlington Hotel, in the
Bankhead apartment. Eight weeks
later Mrs. Bartlett filed the breach-of-promise
suit against him.
Any Book
reviewed on tWs page can
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store. ThcJ.K. GILL CO.
Third and Alder.
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