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THE SUT)AT OEEGONIAX, POBTLAND,- SEPTE3IBER 27, 1914.
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QUEBEC POSSSESED
BY MILITARY SPIRIT
Great Camp Kept Absolutely
Free From Disease by
Army Methods.'
MANY BOYS FILL RANKS
Girls Do Not Want Sweethearts to Go
to War, but Their Admiration
for Men In Uniform Is Help-
Ins to Fill Hants.
BI ROBERT K. M'CORMICK.
(Correspondent of the Chicago Tribune. Pub
lished by arr&ng-emenj with the Tribune.)
MONTREAL Quebec, Sept. 20. (Spe
cial.) Quebec baa been captured by
the European war. Its eighty-odd
thousand Inhabitants have been either
ministering to the needs of the 30.000
troops In Valcartler camp and an ap
parently equal number of relatives and
admirers who have followed them to
Quebec, or else are unostentatiously
following their private affairs. In
public on sees only soldiers and "war
fans."
Amused Americans often say Cana
dians are more English than the Eng
lish. They might say so now. Hair
splitting lawyers and staid young bank
managers (Canadian bank managers
are all young) tell of the "duty to
support the empire," the "menace of
Imperial militarism," the "violation of
neutrality" with all the force on
would expect from an English diplomat
r shipowner.
Volunteer Are Well Trained.
It seems strange, but the Canadians
are going into the Servian-Austrian
quarrel with as much enthusiasm as
If it were their own, and they are
going into it effectively.
Colonel Samuel Hughes, the minister
of militia, as the head of the Canadian
military Is called, appeared to make a
serious blunder in passing over the
regular ' forces and calling for volun
teers to make up Canada's contingent,
but he has gone far to rectify the
mistake.
If his men do not give the appearance
of regulars, no one would take them
for recruits. Their camp has been
warmly commended by General Crozier,
of the United States regular Army. It
Is perfectly drained, has a running
water system from a nearby river, and
even electric light, tapped from a
passing transmission line. V
The camp Is kept scrupulously
clean. There is a total absence of the
disease epidemic in the American
camps in 1898, and among the English
volunteers in the . Boer war.
Country Right for Maneuvers.
The varied nature of the surrounding
country furnishes a fine opportunity
for maneuvers, and the most complete
rifle range ever constructed is used to
teach the men to shoot.
Remarkable as is the camp and the
organization ability displayed by the
commandant. It is overshadowed hy the
personnel of the men that they are
all voluntarily enlisted accounts much
for their earnestness in learning not
only how to shoot and drill, but how
to make camp and keep clean and well.
That they have had to pass a phys
ical examination accounts for their
uniformly splendid physique; that they
are exalted by a realization of the or
deal ahead which raises them above
their natural selves is Bhown by the
fact they have acquired a degree of
discipline and subordination unusual in
Americans yes, in Canadian Ameri
cans, too. '
Yet they are- only human and are not
free from the foibles Inherent in men
newly invested with aniforms and fur
nished with loaded rifles on formal
picket duty. There have been a few
uncalled-for shootings. Unoffending
citizens have been threatened with
charged bayonets. But the surprise is
iiow little of it there has been.
Soldiers on leave in uniforms have
been soldlera on. leave in uniform
They have rebounded from the strict
discipline of the camp with the usual
liquid assistance. The police of Que
bec early admitted their inability to
handle them, and now soldiers are de
tailed to police soldiers. Hence, Bill,
on duty at night, will arrest Jim with
All the zeal that la-st week Jim ar
rested Bill.
But to get due perspective. Quebec
has never been more disorderly than
an average college town the night of
a big football game.
There is a great deal of social life
in the hotels. Mixed luncheon . and
dinners are mucn in oraer. xne par
lors are crowded. There is dancing
every night. Soldiers are predominant,
chief among them the officers from
Montreal and Toronto. The "Western
contingents, wfth their sombrero hats,
are more in evidence in the billlard-
room" as are the Highlanders.
German "Wines Not Sex-red.
The Highlanders are Canadian art!
sans and clerks, and Highlanders in
name only. They are quite conscious
of their. Illy white knees. One -can
generally find them with a spatted
foot reposing on a brass rail. ,.
No German wines are served in
Quebec whether to boycott the enemy
or to avoid offense to a patriot who
has been patronizing the home product
mine host salth not.
One is struck by the number of young
orncers, boys . almost, whose mothers
have taken them to this training: camt
of death. Just as freshmen .are often
taken by their mothers to the college
Training camps lor life.
The boys act more as boys irolng to
college, embarrassed by maternal at
tention in public, undoubtedly teased
ty their more fortunate- unmothered
companions.
They will cry at the parting, they
will yearn for the dear face many
times before they see Quebec again, or
find Belgian graves; but now they are
impatient to assert their new-found
manhood. Their only fear is that they
will not behave well in action-: the only
danger from which they are immune.
But the mothers, how different from
the proud women having sons to get
thatv higher education which the father
possibly lacked, to receive the benefits
of a. number of feminine deprivations
forgotten now, but once so hardly fore
gone. Ulrls Aid Recroltlns Sergeants.
Sad eyed, gray haired, perhaps in
the last week they lean heavily on the
son who was a baby such a short time
apro and whom they fondly expected to
scold and caress- while their lives
should last.
Why should he be killed in a quar
rel between the savage, the Servian,
and the greedy Hapsburg?
Truly, you say, give us woman suf
frage and war will end.
But more than the cabled message of
the British ministers, more than the
appeals of the press, or the flamboyant
posters, more -than the spirit of adven
ture inherent in youth, girls are filling
the ranks with fighting men.
The hotel is full of girls, the town is
full of them. Every soldier has a glrL
but there is no girl for th man in
mufti. The girls certainly do not want
the men to go to this war. But their
attraction to the man in uniform is fill
ing recruiting offices, so the ser- '
geants say.
Not so many wives appear to have ac
companied their husbands, as mothers
have followed sons. Perhaps they have
stayed at home with their children, per
haps the older men of responsible rank
feel that they should not be diverted
from their work or reminded of the
sacrifice they are making to the coun
try.
Touncrstera Appeal to Sympathy.
" One does not feel such horror at
these . mature men walking into the
jaws of death as on does at the holo
caust of youngsters. Th firm, mus
tached faces under the graying hair
make no appeal to sympathy. These
men have gone well pn their way to
the inevitable end; then there are old
men, professional soldiers, on the verge
of retirement. One hopes with them
that their strength may last to carry
them to a bullet or shrapnel ball. to
crown their career.
Quebec has perhaps something of the
atmosphere . of the Duchess of . Rich
mond's ball before Waterloo. Reason
tells us of the horrors to come, but the
Imagination casts it off. How can
these - peaceful, polite men be killed
and killing in a short two weeks?
Yet the transports are in the harbor
and life is prolonged only until the
equipment - of killing is complete and
the training finished. Th Canadian
contingent will be only a very small
fraction in the army it goes to join,
but I am sure that, man for man. regi
ment, for regiment, and brigade for
brigade, it will be equal or superior
to any troops engaged.
It combines with that discipline and
training which has distinguished the
European soldier the Independent ini
tiative and Individual self-regard that
Is created only in America.
FRENCH VINTAGE BEGINS
WOMEN. CHILDREN AND OLD MEN
ENGAGED IN WORK.
Crop Not Abundant, but Wine Will
Be Good Marketing; Product
Presents Difficult Problem.
BORDEAUX, Sept. 26. In many of
the famous vineyards around Bordeaux
vintage has begun. Women, children
and old men are taking the places of
the men fighting at the front. They
are aided by refugees from Belgium
and Northern France.
The crop is not abundant, many Im
mature grapes having dropped from
the stalk, owing to premature blossom
ing, but if th promise of the fruit is
fulfilled, the wine will be good.
The disposal of the wine is likely to
be a problem, as about 20,000,000 bot
tles -went to Germany each year, and,
in addition, the spending power of the
world will be diminished for some time
to come, owing to the immense cost of
the war.
With a view to compensating this
falling off. the Bordeaux growers in
tend to make a -strong effort" to "cap
ture the big trade in sparkling hock
and moselle heretofore done in the
United States by -Germany. Inciden
tally they hope to deprive champagne
of some of its vogue.
As an Indication of the warlike con
ditions under which the wine was pro
duced, the shippers will use as a label
a lac simile of the banknote issued by
tne .Bordeaux (Jhamber of Commerce to
relieve the current stringency.
SCHOOL PAPER'S $240 GONE
Seattle Thieves Climb Mre Escape of
Broadway Hign to Rob Office.
SEATTLE, Wash.. Sent. 26 fSn-
cial.) Thieves, apparently certain of
their objective, climbed the fire escane
at the rear of the Broadway High
School entered the office of "Whims,"
the high school publication, and made
oft with two bags of money contain
ing J240 which were in a metal cash-
dox placed there yesterday afternoon.
ine robDery was reported to the
police shortly before noon today by
Charles Kirkpatrlck, assistant prin
cipal of the school. Investigation de
veloped that entrance had been effected
through a rear door opening on the
fire escape.
Conditions in the office of "Whims"
indicated that the intruders went
almost directly to th spot where the
money was kept and removed it with
out any thorough search of the office.
The money was not placed in the cash-
box until late yesterday and but few
persons were aware of Its whereabouts.
iiio .sum represemnea ine total of a
subscription campaign waged for the
publication. , '
. No News Good Sews in Vienna.
VENICE, via Paris. Sept. 26 In the
absence of any definite war news from
Galicia or Servla,. the Vienna news
papers continue to assert that the mil
itary situation in. both theaters of war
Is -favorable to Austria.
For Grip, Influenza,
Coughs, Sore Throat
"New cures come and go but Hum
phreys' Homeopathic Specifics live
for ever I have used them for 25
years with best results" a Los Angeles
correspondent writes. i
To break up a Cold in record time,
take "Seventy-seven" at the first
sneeze or 6hiver. " . v
If you wait till your bones begin
to ache, till the Cold becomes settled
and hangs on, it may take longer.
Two sizes, 25c and $1.00, at all
druggists or mailed." .
Humphreys' llomeo. Medicine Co.. 1
William srret. New Tork. Advertisement.
Had Tuberculosis,
Now Insured
"When you know a man has been afflicted
with Consumption, and later obtained in
surance. It means that -fie has recovered his
neaitii, as in tnts case:
L37 Dean St.. Brooklyn. N. T.
"Gentlemen: I was troubled with night
sweats, a severe cough and was very weak;
having, la fact, absolutely no ambition
whatever. consulted a physician, who
told me my lungs were affected. Not satis
fied, X weut to another doctor, who said that
I was in tho first stages of Consumption.
At this point I started to take Eckrnan's
Alterative. The nitcht sweats stoDoed al
most immediately, my cough became looser
and gradually disappeared. My weight Is
now 14 pounas ana my physician has pro
nounced me perfectly sound which, to
gether with the fact that I have just been
accepted by two different insurance com
panies for Insurance, makes me sure of my
entire recovery. t Aooreviateai
. (Affidavit) . W. E. GEE.
Eckrnan's Alterative Is most effacious In
bronchial catarrh and severe throat and
luntr affections and upbuilding tho system.
Contains no harmful or nabit-f ormlng
druKs.- Accept no substitutes. Small sixe.
$1; regular siae, $2. Sold lyr The Owl Xrug
Co. and leading druggists. Write Eckraan
Laboratory, Philadelphia, Fa., for booklet of
recoveries. Adv.
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Two TJnderpriced
IiOtS of
Character Dolls
35c Grade at 25
Another special sale of
Character Dolls full 10
inches in length. They
are made with jointed
arms and legs and are
the kind' regularly sold
at 35 cents each. Priced
for this sale
at only . .'. .
25 c
All the latest and best styles are here in Ladies' Home Journal Patterns at 10c
and 15c each All -mail orders promptly and carefully filled same day as re
ceived Charges jPrepaid on $5 Purchases Within 150 Mile Radius of Portland
Our Store
Opens
Daily at
8:30 A. M.
Saturday
At.9 A. M.
The Most in Value, The Best in Quality
Our Store
Closes
Daily at
5:30 P. M.
Saturday
At 6 P. M.
Two TJnderpriced
Lots of
Character Dolls
75c Grade at 50
Special sale of 200 fine
Character Dolls full 18
inches in length. They
come with jointed arms
and legs and dressed in
rompers. The kind reg
ularly sold at 75 cents,
priced for this
sale at
n-a TVT1 TTT Tl T1 T f fa '
To Demonstrate tne Completeness 01 Our Stocks
It is not unusual nor is it an extraordinary thing for this Underselling Store to'announce right at the height of the season these surpris
ing and gratifying large savings on the things most needed for immediate use.. Because it is our business policy to always undersell.
Read the plain, unvarnished truths we print about the things for the home or person concerned in the sale which starts tomorrow morn
ing at 8:30 sharp. We cannot promise to repeat the values, so don't delay your coming. . .
sharp.
A Special Showing and Introductory Sale of the
PA1K
A Stocking Made Expressly for the Boy Scouts of
America and Designed to Stand Hard Service.
By "service," we mean Stockings in which the quality,
fit and construction unite in a manner to give a parent
satisfaction in the wear. The Boy Scout Stockings
are made of the finest cotton and unusually elastic.
They come with extra heavy leg and double heel and toe.
They come in all sizes 'and are guaranteed fast black.
Again we lay emphasis on their unsurpassed wearing
quality and recommend them for your consideration,
knowing them to be the very best Boys' O C
Stockings to be had at, a pair '. . .
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ANY NEED FOB
Winter 3Bed ding?
If so, dem't neglect to inspect our new stocks. Here
you'll find thoroughly reliable qualities at lower prices
than the same grades are sold for elsewhere. Buying
direct from the mills, in great quantities, on a cash
basis, places us in a position to save our patrons money
on these household necessities. See the
' Blankets in Both Cotton and Wool
50 Pair Baby Blankets of good size, shown in white
with pretty colored' borders.' - .
60 Pair Baby Blankets of good size, shown with
flowered, animal and figured patterns.
90 Pair Cotton Blankets in three-quarter size,
shown in white, gray and tan colors. v v
$1.35 Pair- Cotton Blankets in full size and good
weight, shown in white, tan and gray.
$2.00 Pair Cotton Blankets that are extra large and
heavy, shown in tan and gray. N .
$3.00 .Pair 'Wool-Finished Blankets that are extra
large and heavy. They come in white, tan, gray and
in pretty plaid styles. They are finished with silk
bound edge. ' . '
$5.00 Pair For Extra Fine Wool Blankets full size
for double beds. They come in white, gray and in plaid
styles. -They are warm, durable Blankets that will
wear for years to come.
A Clearance of Surplus Stocks
enssbtioiial
SilJk Sale
Thousands of yards "of the most beautiful fabrics in a color and pattern range
that will at once arouse enthusiasm and forcibly impress you with the won
derful values offered. You have choice from the best $1.50 aqa
to $2.50 Silks, this sale the yard. . VOW
We're creating greater activity in onr
Silk Section at the great expense of
prices because we've got to let go of all
surplus and overstocks whether we want
to or no. And so, despite our despair at
the sacrifice, we feel good to think were
linking friendship's ties more closely to
the store. You have choice from hun
dreds and hundreds of yards of .lustrous,
rich and beautiful colorings, patterns and
weaves.
For convenience and to make selections
easy, we have arranged, entire collection
in one creat lot. You mav choose from:
'Solid colored 40-inch Silk and Wool Cqngo Crepes
in $2.00 quality. Many patterns in 40-inch Neat
Figured Tango Crepes in $2.00 quality. Rich col
orings in 40-inch Printed Chiffon Taffetas in $2.00
quality. Brocaded 40-inch Crinkled Crepe de
Chines in $2.50 quality. Lustrous 40-inch Black
Crepe Messalines in $2.00 quality. Dainty pat
terns in 40-inch Crepe Levant. A sheer light
weight Crepe in solid ground with flowered over
designs. A $2.00 Silk, Swiss finished, yard-wide,
Solid Colored Messalines in all shades. Extra qual
ity, yard wide, Black Swiss Taffetas in $h50 qual-
1L T" A J? 1 1 - -I Til -i I , ,
ny. xeaumui yaru-wiae xsiacK csarins oi velvet
finish. Perfect black, yard-wide, Real Paillette
de Soie of best quality. A great lot of high-grade
Fancy Dress and Waisting Silks. All colors. Pop
ular new yard-wide Ulack and White Striped Mes
salines. Rich colorings in Bulgarian, Turkish and
Egyptian designs. The most desirable Trimming
Silks in a wonderful assortment.
Regular $1.50 to $2.5 O Qualities
This is the greatest and best sale of Strictly High
Grade Silks of our business career. It will pass
down in history as the most sensational distribu
tion of savings we, have ever made in such beauti
ful goods. '
Come early -and secure first choice from reg. q Q
$1.50, $1.75,2, $2.25, $2.50 qualities, at iOC
Note Everything has been arranged for your convenience. Extra salespeo
ple, bundlers and cashiers in attendance, to serve you promptly. But we re
serve the right not to sell to dealers, cut samples or fill phone orders. We
suggest an early morning visit in order to avoid the afternoon crowds which
are sure to fill our Silk Section tomorrow.
See the Nv
Partial ffljsl)
Display JnS
in Our Vi?
Morrison Uv
Street
Window vv
$1.50 Jp
to
$2.50
- An Attractive Display of Prettiness in ,
Misses' and
Women's Dresses
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Both silk and wool garments fash
ioned in the season's most charming
styles including smart, chic models
for street and evening wear. That
they are attractively low priced is
evidenced by figures quoted above.
That this store never fails to meet
keen expectations with new and ex
pressive style thoughts is aptly
shown by the chic models revealed
in this showins: of Women's and
sses' Dresses. Included are various pop
r styles for street and evening wear, such
as beautiful Basque models made of blaek
satin and with pleated flounce and finished
with white silk collar and cuffs. Also
other equally as attractive styles in Wool
Serges, Granites, Poplins, Messalines, etc.
All sizes in black, navy, Copenhagen, 'green,- nigger brown and other fashion
able colors. Come tomorrow and take advantage of the 90 OH
splendid values we are offering from $5.50 up to '. . .
A Special Purchase and Sale of Black Mercerized Sateen Petticoats, $1.15
Garments Regularly Sold at $1.50
The little things in the making, the details, were not skimped or overlooked
in these Petticoats, cut on clinging, close-fitting lines and trim and snug at
the hips. They are made of the f inest'black mercerized sateen .and in good
styles. -Garments that should sell regularly at $1.50, 1 C
are priced for: this sale at only p X X O
$1
A Complete New Stock of
Women's EL id Gloves
The Best and Most Popular Makes at Our Regular
Low Selling Prices
To the prudent woman we suggest an immediate selec
tion, for when our present stocks have been sold future
purchases will mean advanced prices. At the present
time you have choice from all sizes and colors at our
regular low selling prices.
The La France Glove Made of high-grade lambskin
and shown in all the wanted colors; black and
white. All sizes priced at, the pair
The Eudora Glove High-grade Glove, made of fine
French kid and shown in all the wanted shades, includ
ing black and white. All sizes, priced . d - Ca
for this sale at, the pair p X aOLI
Fowne's Dagmar Gloves A high-grade pique -seam
Glove, shown in the two-clasp style and all d c f
the wanted colors. All sizes, priced, pair. . P X JJ
Reynier Suede Gloves Made with either pique or
overseam, shown in all sizes and all the d C f
popular shades, priced at, the pair . . ". P
Women's Cape Gloves High-grade Gloves, shown in
one and two-clasp styles and in all sizes. Good, service
able Gloves at the following prices: $1.00, $1.25,
$1.50 and $2.00.
French Kid Gloves A Glove of extra fine quality,
made with overseam and embroidered stitched, back.
Vallier's Celebrated Gloves, priced for this tf?0 ff
sale at, the pair p.JJ
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