The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, January 14, 1917, SECTION FIVE, Image 55

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    SECTION FIVE
Pages 1 to 12
Woman's Section
Special Features
VOL. xxxvi.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MOBXIXG, JANUARY 14, 1917.
NO.
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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.
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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-) .