SECTION FIVE Pages 1 to 12 Woman's Section Special Features VOL. xxxvi. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MOBXIXG, JANUARY 14, 1917. NO. "am-TaM !Llll!J..JJir An Anniversary Sale That Offers Furniture Pieces at Ridiculous Underpricings Over 5QO Items Must Go Regardless of Cost $45 and $50 Seamless Axminster and Wilton 9x12 Rugs $39.50 Remarkable clearance of some thirty 9x12 room-size rugs In both the "Wil ton and seamless Axminster grades at a special price and on very easy terms of credit. These rugs are of long-wearing quality and ara.shown in a great variety of colors and designs. Excellent rugs that are suitable for most any room In the home. This Fiftieth Anniversary Clearance price has greatly lessened the cost to you. $5.00 Cash, $1.00 Week SOc Printed Linoleum, on Your Floor, 60c 1 ..0 Fine Inlaid Lin oleum, on Tour Floor, $1.17 91.00 Extra Heavy lin oleum, on Your Floor, 75c Never a Better Time Than Now to Buy, Drapery-Materials 25c Fancy Bordered Scrim, three pat terns to select from; white, ivory and Arabian color, full 36 Inches wide, yard 50c and 60c Shadow Laces, Ivory or Arabian color, 45 In. In width, special, yd. Double-Width Madras, rose, green, brown and combinations of colorings, yd. 25c Light-Ground Cretonne, yard wide, selection of 25 patterns, special, yard..,. 19c 39c 98c 19c Big Clearance of Bookcases 122.75 Fumed Single Door B o o k c a se, craft e 1 15 CC style, at O lO.UU $81.75 Golden Oak Book case. 42 - inch lattice (OQ IK front, at J $32.50 Fumed Oak Dou ble - Door Bookcase, O17 QC width 52 Inches, at. O 1 I SO 145.00 Three - S e c 1 1 on Bookcase In quartered (tOO QC oak at. uJpuO $26.75 Combination B o o k c a se In quarter- J1Q ng sawed oak at O A&.0 $150.00 Mahogany Four- Eection Bookcase, 170 tZf width 72 Inches, at 9 JiOU $13.75 Double-Door 01 A on Golden Oak Bookcase atwlUiOU Lowered Prices on Good Buffets $25.00 Buffet In select ed quartered oak, mir ror top, at $56.60 Colonial Buffet, full quarter ed stock, two long drawers. $32.50 Fumed Buffet in craft design, big value... $67.60 Quartered Buffet, fitted with n u m e r o us trays, width 54 Inches.. $38.50 Jacobean Buffet, twist legs and standards $88.00 Colonial Buffet in selected quartered oak, massive, at $72.60 60-inch Buffet, heavy plank top........ $12.95 $42.50 $19.80 $49.85 $21.45 $47.65 $48.50 Closing Out Sample Chairs and Rockers $11.50 Fumed Rocker, seat and back In chase e. " d 1 C leather, at. J D13 $33.00 Wing Rocker. covered In genulne-tf 1 "T C leather, at. I .03 $36.60 Mahogany Fire side Rocker, uphol- CI Q Cfl stered in tapestry, at. . . X JJ $48.50 Mahogany Wing Back Rocker in tapes- JOO Qf try, extra value ., WMbtOU $42.50 Arm Chair, cov ered in genuine leather, COO OC mahogany frame, at.... VfafatOU $58.00 Karpen Tapestry Upholstered Rocker, COO Qfl loose cushion seat, at.. wOOiOU $51.00 Karpen Loose-Cushion-Seat Rocker CO Q 7tZ in mulberry velour, at.. wOOtlO Big Bargains Are These Davenports $45.00 Mahogany Settee. wing pattern, uphol- C 1 Q QC stered in tapestry, at... i XO.OO $52.00 D u o f o Id Daven- (on QC port In chase leather... wm7i03 $47.75 Q u a r t e red Oak Bed Davenport, covered CO Q CH in chase leather, at JOO.OU $85.00 Mahogany Settee In genuine leather COQ TC H spring seat and back.. . POI7. 4 J B $72.50 K a rp e n Leather Upholstered Davenport, CQ Cf quartered frame PxS7.0 $117.60 Large - Size Denim Upholstered Davenport, extra special $79.85 $106.50 Colonial Dining Suite, OTO 7C Eight Pieces Very Special J A ' J D This Fiftieth Anniversary Sale of Matched Dinlng-Room Suites, creates wonderful values, this Eight-Piece Quartered Oak Suite, for instance, consisting of 44-inch buffet, flush-rim colonial-base dining table and six genuine leather-seat dining chairs with scroll legs. The suite adver tised is not exactly as pictured, but the illustration In a general way gives a splendid idea of the suite. $8.00 Cash, $1.50 Week This Splendid Colonial Five Piece Suite Cut to $83.75 A Matched Suite of this character' Is exceptional value at the very low price named. All pieces match perfectly, all are made of selected quartered oak stock and finished dull golden. There are five pieces in all, and there Is splendid quality in every one. TUe price and low credit terms made possible by this Fiftieth Anniversary Sale present an op portunity to every home maker. $8.00 Cash, $1.50 Week IT mm A Sale of Guaranteed Sewing Machines $42.50 Standard Cleveland Sewing Machi ne, fully guaranteed, at $46.00 Sewing Mac hlne, Paragon pattern, swift running and guaranteed, at $57.60 Standard Cabinet Machine, highest grade of its kind, cut to $66.00 Standard Rotary Machine, high quality In every particular, cut to.... $87.00 Standard Rotary Machine in mahogany ease, out to. ............... $33.20 $35.95 $41.35 $46.15 $47.85 Matched Dining -Room Suites Underpriced $177.50 Fumed Din- $255.00 Nine- Piece ing-Room Suite, with Jacobean Lifetime buffet and china Suite, tapestry up closet fitted with C.1 flO Cfl bolstered chairs, C. 1 1 ft Kfl cane insert, 3 pieces.. 5 1 W7.Jly now at. iDlOUaJU $369 Jacobean Din- $455 Jacobean Dinlng-Room Suite, con- Ing - Room Suite, sisting of nine pieces C "f OA Gf with 72-inch buffet, COOT QC with 66-Inch buffet... W XOttOU ten pieces In all P4 I .03 $294 Nine-Piece Ma- $582 Massive Colo- hogany Suite in nlal Circassian Wal- Jacobean style; splen-C 1 A O TC nut Suite, nine pieces, COQQ OC did 60-inch buffet. .. I I O extra special OiO.O Liberal Credit Terms on Clearance Sale Goods All Tou are very welcome to credit during this Fiftieth Annrversary Clearance Sale. Remarkable reductions are in force, and these, com bined with our Dignified Credit Service, present a most unusual opportunity to home furnishers. Bear in mind that we are offering you merchandise of high character at prices much less than regular and on credit terms the lowest extended by any store. A Number of Genu ine Mahogany Dining -Tables HALF PRICE $54.50 Adam Design Dining Table, Im perial quality, 48 inch top $62.50 Sheraton Pat tern Dining Table, Imperial quality, eight-foot extension $74.60 Octagon - Base Dining Table, Life time quality, now .... $55.00 Colonial Table, with vround pedestal and platform base... $80.60 Dining Table, Imp erlal quality, square pedestal plat form base $56.75 48-inch Dining Table, Imperl a 1 quality, cut to. $27.25 $31.25 $37.25 $27.50 $40.25 $28.40 CAPTURE OF POST COMMANDER WHO LONG IS IDEAL OF WOMEN AMAZES ALL WHO FAIL Clever Mothers and Designing Daughters Are Anxious to Learn Secret of Coup and Successful Girl Tells of Her Misfortunes at Party and Their Outcome. BY MARY INEZ MARTIN. THE announcement of the engage ment of the Colonel to little Kitty Flinders was the heaviest bomb that had ever struck the camp and every one at me post looked at the pair with pity for the Colonel and ad miration for Kitty. The Colonel had been stalked time out of mind by ambitious daughters and managing mammas, yet had es caped. And now Kitty of all people in the world had landed him single handed, and the question In every mind was. how did she do It? Colonel Car ter was conceded to be the most popu lar man In the Army and the best catch. He bad a reputation among the . women of being a good listener and, owing to a chance remark one time that Mrs. Somebody vu a delightful talker, Jhe inference was that the way to his heart was through his auricular endurance. Consequently one could always tell whether he was at a party by following up the center of the din, for he was sure to be the center of a bevy of lovely women making them selves hoarse In their efforts to enter tain him. And how Kitty, without wit enough to talk even grammatically, and only passably pretty, had brought this old veteran to her feet was a mystery. Colonel Madly In Love. The Colonel's ravlnga were even more mystifying, for after going off Into a rhapsody over what he was pleased to call her "striking personality," he topped off with "and above all else Mis Flinders Is so delightfully entertaln-Ing.- A Kitty was a woman, all she need d, to ret har to tall ma all atxurt It herself was to give her a chance, I argued, so on the first oppor tunity I decoyed her out to the golf links for a round. "So you are going to marry my old friend, the Colonel." I began audaciously. "How did it hap pen?" I asked boldly, wondering If she would resent my Impudence. "Well, you see, it was this way," she answered, falling unsuspectingly into my trap. "I met him the night of that regimental hop. Oh, that nightmare hopl I was visiting the Clarke's and ba left the packing of my trunk to Bridget. That was the beginning of my bad luck. I had the darllngest thing in the way of a gown you ever saw white and silver and cunning lit tle sliver slippers to match It, ""Well, would you believe it, that old fool left cat one of my ellppers, and Grace Clarke hadn't a thing I could Ct Into, mo aba aald. - "Oh, coma alon; and wear one sliver slipper and one shoe: don't be silly.' "Just then we caught, the strains of "Wlcky, Wlcky.' and I Just couldn't help It. I went that way. "There was only one thing to do, stay upstairs all by myself or go that way. My skirt was long and fluffy, so I thought I might manage to keep my best foot foremost. But to make mat ters worse Grace laughed at me as we were starting and said with her su perior air. "Why didn't you powder your hair a little when you curled it? It Is all straight now and you look so funny.' This made me mad. but I saw I needed something like that in that beastly climate, so I went over to her dressing table and emptied about half her box of La Blach on my hair to pre serve what little curl was .left. Glrla Lanirk it Result. "Grace and every other girl at the post was crazy about the Colonel and It was perfectly scandalous to see the way they were making themselves up when we got over to the clubhouse. 1 wouldn't think of doing such things that Is, not often but seeing what they were doing. I thought I might as well take a hand. too. So I took a pencil and made a beautiful arch of my eye brows and a lovely shadow underneath. .(Oanclud.4 a Pa. U, Column 4Jl OREGON HAS RESIDENT WHO SAW LINCOLN NOMINATED BY REPUBLICANS IN CHICAGO E. L. Smith, of Hood River, Recalls Stirring Scenes in Wigwam and Recounts Active Part Played by Horace Greeley, Who Voted Proxy of Delegate From Oregon Visit to Lincoln Home Is Described. wts yr; ' r " sVjk-,3' ' - ir J K 7 -nMwr-w -wpw m i , . ZT ml ; ' .: , - stfom& i-..--' 'f- -'" "-A. S Trn Sz tvtaj- 1 - - i r,c?v 1 - vl of96, Wics? 4&rScam HOOD RIVER, Or, Jan. IS. (Spe cial.) An hitherto unheralded honor Is accorded Oregon by E. L. Smith, Hood River's Grand Old Man and probably the only surviving resi dent of the Pacific Coast who attended the National Republican Convention held In Chicago during May, 1860, when Abraham Lincoln was chosen the par ty's Presidential standard-bearer, sub sequently the Union's honored and re vered helmsman through the great cri sis of the Civil War. "Oregon," says Mr. Smith today, "does not make so Important as she should the part she played Indirectly In the nomination of the great Lincoln. Perhaps it was through soma whim of fate that Leander Holmes, one of Ore gon's three delegates to the National Republican Convention, not possessing the funds necessary for the long jour ney by the Isthmus of Panama and thence by way of New Tork City to Chicago, sent hla proxy to Horace Greeley. "Abraham Lincoln, more than to any other one man. owed his choice as Re publican Presidential nominee to Hor ace Greeley. Mr. Greeley's Influential newspaper,. the New York Tribune, was at that time the political Bible for the Republican party In the Middle West. Some five years before the Chicago convention, for some reason that no one seems ever to have ascertained, Greeley and William H. Seward became bitter enemies. Just prior to the Chi cago convention Seward was backed by strong support and his nomination seemed probable. But armed with Lean der Holmes' proxy, Greeley went to the convention, and he was determined, whatever the cost, to defeat his old enemy. "Prior to the time of the nomination I saw the great editor marching up and down, among the different delega tions and it was apparent that he was appealing to members to vote against Seward. I overheard Greeley address ing one delegation. He said: 'If you nominate William H. Seward he cannot carry the State of New York. Without New York your cause is lost." Proxy Biar Aid to Greeley. "Possessed as he was of the Oregon delegate's proxy. Greeley was able to participate actively In his campaign against Seward and by his earnest per sonal appeals to turn the strong tide away from the choice of the-Kmplre State's delegation. The popularity of Lincoln manifested itself at the psy chological moment and thus through the dislike of Horace Greeley for Will iam H. Seward we were given the no blest man the Nation has ever had for President." Mr. Smith celebrated his 79th birth day on September IT Just passed. He waa perhaps an Impressionable younjf man at the time of the great Chicago convention, but those Influences of over canturjr ago . baa lasted . him through a lifetime and today Abraham Lincoln is just as truly the Ideal of K. L. Smith as on that momeneous Mayday when he heard the shouts of thousands cheering the newly-found leader who sprang from the masses to preserve the Union. So great an admirer was Mr. Smith of Lincoln that his wedding at Galesburg, 111., to Miss Georglana Slo cum was postponed from the morning of March 4, 1861, to the afternoon of that day. "I was out of sympathy with the Bu chanan Administration." says Mr. Smith, "and then, too, I wanted to be able to say that we were married after Abraham Lincoln had begun to serve as the chief executtve of the people of the United States." Immediately following the wedding ceremony Mr. Smith and his bride set boldly out on a honeymoon trip that was to terminate In El Dorado County, California, where the bridegroom had been persuaded to try his fortune by an uncle, Charles Barker. Since those days of his young manhood Mr. Smith has held many positions of trust and honor and has become known through out the three states of the Pacific Coast. He served as a member of the General Assembly of California during the years 1864-65. In 1867 he was ap pointed Territorial Secretary of Wash ington Territory. For the greater part of this time ho was Acting Territorial Governor. At the expiration of his official duties Mr. Smith, associated with George A. Barned. a member of the first City Council of Portland, and William H. Avery, established Olym pla's first banking Institution. 'ated at Hood River In 187. Mr. Smith came to Hood River with hla family In 1876. The family re sided In a home erected from lumber shipped by boat from Portland, in the Frankton district, about two miles west of the present site of Hood River. Ex cept for a time when he was Register of the United States Land Office at The Dalles, Mr. Smith has made his home here. In 1889 he was Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Oregon Legislature. He developed one of the first commercial orchards here and because of his Interest in the pre dominant fruit industry he has become known in other fruit communities as 'Hood River" Smith. For many years he was president of the Oregon Horti cultural Society. - Of all the incidents of former days Mr. Smith prefers to talk of his per sonal contact with Abraham Lincoln. No topic of conversation is more ap pealing to him than that dealing with the Chicago Republican Convention, from which today only a single dele gate survives Colonel Sawyer of Hyde's Park. Vt. "I can close my eyes now." says Mr Smith, "and see the surging masses at the Wigwam, built especially by the enterprising Chicagoans for the great and w,th a eatlnr capacity for 16.000. Just as plainly as on the day of the nomination, and never shall I for get that strange, prolonged shout of human voices. "At the time of the convention I was a student of Lombard University at Galesburg, 111. Some four or five of us students, all admirers of Lincoln, se cured a leave of absence that we might attend the convention. Although the city was overcrowded we were fortu nate In getting accommodations at the Randolph Hotel only a short distance away from the auditorium. On the day of our arrival we hurried to the doors of the building long before the hour for the convention to open, in order that we might be sure of seats. A great multitude was already there waiting. Promptly at the proper hour the doors were thrown open. N"ever In my life have I so nearly had the life crushed out of me as In that Jam at the build ing's entrance. Being among those nearest the doors, when they . were opened. I was fortunate in getting a seat near the front of the great hall, where I could hear and see everything that was taking place. In a very few moments, except for a wide aisle left down-the center of the auditorium, tor the passage of the delegations, every peat had been taken. In the rear of the building a hure stage, for the ac commodation of all the delegates and secretaries had been erected. Convention Scenes Pictured. ''Soon the delegations began to ar rive, each amidst cheers of its respec tive supporters. When the California delegation marched down the central aisle, they bore a great banner on which had been Tainted a portrait of Senator David C. Broderick. a Democrat who was, however, bitterly opposed to the northern extension of slavery. Sen ator Broderick had been severe in his criticisms of the administration of President Buchanan. Judge Terry, a strong pro-slavery- man. provoked a quarrel with Senator Broderick and then challenged his- political opponent to a duel. In those days it was considered an act of cowardice to refuse to accept a challenge, and although Senator Broderick did not know the least thing about handling a pistol, he accepted and was killed. Judge Terry, on the other hand was a skilled marksman. "When the duel was fought Senator Broderick shot wild. Judpe Terry took careful aim and inflicted a mortal wound. As he fell to the earth. Senator Broderick cried to his second. 'They have killed me because I was opposed to the extension of slavery and a cor rupt administration.' These words formed the legend that appeared be neath the portrait of the California man. and when the last utterances of the martyred Broderick were read every person In the big hall leaped to his feet and gave vent to a shout of anger such as I had never before heard. "On the third and last day, the ques tion of the nomination arose. The first ballot showed scattering votes, differ ent delegations expressing their sup port of favorite sons. On the second ballot, the vote drew closer, and it waa apparent that Seward and Lincoln were leading. After the secretaries had can vassed the ballot It was announced that It would be legal for any delega tions to transfer their votes, if they so desired, before the final result was proclaimed. You can imagine my pleasure when my-native-state of Ver mont switched Its entire ten votes from the Seward to the Lincoln column. Delegations from other states followed. Hundreds of men were keeping tally, and the entire concourse knew almost' as well as the secretaries. Just how matters stood. It was soon apparent that the contest between Lincoln and Seward was going to be very close Ohio Sways Result. . "As I remember. Lincoln needed three and a half votes to be assured of a majority of the delegates. It was at this Juncture that the chairman of the Ohio delegation arose and said: 'Ohio transfers six votes from the Seward to the Lincoln column. A great shout, such as to shake the very walls of the Wig wam, went up. Around on the streets outside the building were assembled between 30,000 and 40.000 people. Men with megaphones were stationed on the roof to announce the result, and the masses without took up the prolonged hurrahing. When the tumult within and without the Wigwam was subsiding to a certain extent, cannon, placed there for the purpose, were fired from the roof of the Tremont Hotel. "Chicago went wild. It seemed that every citizen of the state was there to shout for "Old Abe.' No sooner had the result been announced than a crowd of men appeared bearing black walnut rails from Sangamon County, rails made by the future President himself. Shouldering these, the Sangamon County men headed a monster parade. The City of Chicago was crowded to the limit. Trainloads of Seward sup porters had come from New York. Pre vious to the nomination a parade of these. men, several abreast and three miles long, had marched through the streets of Chicago. "I have never seen auch a campaign an was waged In the State of Illinois Just before the general election at which Lincoln waa named President of the United State. Men even forsook 0aalui& o Pa. S. Columa a-) .