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19 TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 2, 1917. FUND TO CHEER UP SOLDIERS STARTED Cigarettes for Men on Battle Line to Be Provided Through The Oregonian. EVERYONE CAN DO HIS BIT Special Arrangements Are Made to bend Package for Quarter That Ordinarily Costs 45 Cents and Donor Will Be Thanked. Here is a. chance for everybody to do m. little something- to brighten up life for our soldiers in France. Do you know what the soldier on the fighting line appreciates most of all? Why, a smoke, of ' course. After the nerve strain of hours and days of life in the trenches under artillery Are, if he can light up a cigarette or suck his old pipe for a few moments, he can see the silver lining even to the smoke clouds. . "'Gee, if I only had a smoke!" That is the real slogan of the trenches. And eo it is the duty of every loyal Amer ican at home to do his little bit to see that some soldier "over there" has his (Binoke just when he craves it most. The Oregonian has completed ar rangments with the American Tobacco Company whereby, for 25 cents, a big package of "smokes" will be sent over the water to an American soldier In France. Quarters "Will Buy Smokea. Send in your quarter or quarters to The Oregonian, with your name, and we will do the rest. The quarter and your name will be sent back to the American Tobacco Company. It will send the tobacco, which Includes plenty of "the mak ings" for cigarettes, the soldier's fa vorite smoke, to France, where it will reach some soldier who will know ex actly what to do with it. Of course, you wonder what brands are included in the package. Well, here is the list 45 cents' worth of tobacco for only a quarter: Two packages of Lucky Strike cigarettes. Three packages of Hull Durham. One tin of Tuxedo. Three books Bull Durham cigarette papers. Four books Tuxedo cigarette papers. The Lucky Strike cigarettes retail at 10 cents, or 20 cents for two packages; Bull Durham sells for 5 cents a pack age, or 15 cents for three packages; Tuxedo is 10 cents a tin. The total re tail value of the tobacco and cigarettes is 45 cents, all for one little quarter, and the cigarette papers are thrown in. Government Indorses Plan. If you sent the tobacco yourself, 45 cents is what you would have to pay for it, and there would be the postage charges to boot. So for one quarter of a dollar. 25 cents. 2 bits, sent to The Oregonian, your tobacco money will go just twice as far as if you made up the kit and sent it yourself. The plan has the warm indorsement of the United States Government. The Army authorities know from experience how far a good smoke at the right time will go to maintain discipline and keep the troops contented. The German people are conserving all their tobocco stocks for the army. Sure ly we will do as much as the Germans to make the soldiers happy. The British, the French, the Italians and the other allies all have found that tobacco is just as much a necessity in military operations as guns and ammu nition. Tobacco Maintains Morale. Just imagine yourself in the trenches, trying to be comfortable while the shells are dropping about you. And perhaps standing knee deep in water. Or maybe waiting for the order to "go over the top." Perhaps you don't smoke at home, but you can readily imagine what a comfort a good warm smoke would be under those circumstances. One tiny cigarette will do as much to maintain morale at times as an army corps in reserve, backed up by a couple of hun dred big guns. And morale is what counts. The sol dier, who sacrfices so many comforts to fight that you may be free, craves his smoke. It banishes that blue feel ing and keeps firm his resolve. He must have smokes, and plenty of them. All Called on to Help Do your part now to see that some soldier is cheered up by a package of tobacco. Send in your 25 cents to The Oregonian. Bring it in, if you prefer, or mail it. Pay by check, bank note or coin. If you send a quarter in silver, wrap the coin in a piece of paper so it will not wear through the envelope and address it to The Orecronlan. Soldiers' Tobacco 'Fund, Portland, Oregon. Inclosed in every package that is sent to the front will.be a postal card. Print ed on the package is a request that the soldier recipient mail back the card to the donor, with a line or two acknowl eding its receipt. You will be prouder of that post card from a soldier in the front trenches whom you have made happy with some smokes than if you had a whole trunk ful of bits of shell and other battlefield relics. That signed post card will be the best kind of a war souvenir. JPlenty of Smokes Necessary. ' Send in the quarter now, while you remember it. Later on you can send another quarter for another package of smokes. For the soldiers must have their smokes, and they must have plenty of them. Incidentally, nobody is limited to one quarter. If you send 50 cents, two packages will be sent. For $1 four packages, and so forth. So many subscriptions are certain to be received that The Oregonian will not be able to acknowledge them. Do nors will receive their acknowledg ments from the soldier recipients, who will mail back the post cards in the packages to them. Kill out the following blank, enclos ing with it the amount of money you desire to contribute, to The Oregonian tobacco fund, at 25 cents a package: The Oregronian, Fortland, Oregonian: SOLDIERS TOBACCO FUND. Herewith I enclose S- for packages of tobacco at 25 cents per package, to be sent to American soldiers in France. (Name.) ... (Address) r Statutory Offense Charged. John Gentry, aged 2i, of Lents, was arrested yesterday by the Constable's office on a statutory charge. A young girl of the Mount Scott district is the complaining witness. PARK WORKMEN START HEAVY PARKS. a in iiiiummhshiii null wiai.imifir'i -i mirr "" in ii in i i mi iii fwiijiir-TT ' 'Hiiiii i iiiiinwirirnwmniinrr 'ii i mwi, ii.iiir ini7;iiMiii'iH'inw PARK WORK3IES BrRXIXC ftX'T CATERPILLAR NESTS IX PARK TREES WITH IMPROVISED TORCHES. TREE PESTS FOUGHT War Opened on Caterpillars in South Park Blocks. WORMS WELL INTRENCHED Park Bureau Makes Plea for Citi zens to Join In Campaign, in Or der to Save Hundreds . of Shade - Trees, In Sanger. War is on between the City Park Bureau and the caterpillar family. . The . first big drive opened in the South Park blocks' sector yesterday. with the paric people on the offensive and the caterpillars strongly en trenched in skillfully built tree nests. The caterpillars sustained heavy cas ualties. The Park Bureau hopes to enlist the entire city in the fight, which- is essen tial at this time to save hundreds of shade trees, which the worms are slow ly killing. Several crews, engaged by the city, will keep up the fight in the parks. Extermination Is Simple. The process is :very simple. It- is necessary only to wrap rags around the end of a pole, saturate the rags with oil and set fire to it. The burning torch is then applied to the caterpillar nest. It destroys the web nests and singes the worms or causes them to fall to the ground, where they may easily be killed with brush switches. The park workmen are using ordi nary bamboo fishpoles. A wire hook Is extended out at the small end of the pole and the rag is wrapped around this so as to prevent burning the end of the pole. For nests high in the trees two or more poles may be tied together, or the fighter may climb into the tree. In many parts of the city the cater PLAINS CROSSED IN 1S0 BY LATE PORTLAND .'WOMAN. - '5,5WW t'w" r ' ' ' 31 rs. fnarity 51. Simmons. Charity M. Simmons, who died August 16 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. P. Lyman, 6921 Fifty-ninth avenue South east, was born at Centerville, O., January 29, 1841. In 1860, 'with her parents, she crossed the plains' to Oregon and settled in Benton County. She was married to Robert George Simmons at Corvallis in 1864. Her husband died January 30, 1913. The surviving children are: Alice E. King, of Portland; Nellie R. Lyman. Portland; Ned K. Sim mons, of Wren, Or., and Robert George Simmons, of Seaside, Or. The funeral was held at Dun ning's chapel. East Sixth and Al der streets. Saturday, August 18, Rev. W. H. Amos, of Millard Avenue Presbyterian Church, of ficiating. Interment was at Mult nomah Cemetery. ST Vx4 DRIVE ON CATERPILLAR PEST IN pillar pest has grown exceedingly se rious. Trees are covered with the web nests, which house dozens of the worms. These feed on the leaves of the trees, and in time, unless the pest is checked, the trees will be killed. l,lttle Co-operation Shown. Efforts have been made to get own ers of trees throughout the city to en list in the fight, but not a great deal of co-operation has been given as yet, according to Chief of Police Johnson. He expects, however, that when people realize the seriousness of the pest they will view the proposition differently. The nests may be seen from the ground. They appear as a thickly woven spider web, usually at the end of branches. The leaves about the nest either are eaten off or are dead, giv ing the nest a dry appearance. GODWIN BLOCKS I. W.W. FORMER GAMBLER USING TALENTS . FOR SOCIETY'S GOOD. ' Remarkable Success of "Three-Fln-gered Jack" In Kansas to Be Tried Out. In Oregon. ... "Three-Fingered Jack" Godwin is back. This time the famous evangelist, who, like Billy .Sunday, acknowledges Ore-, gon as his home state, has come to Portland on a call to exercise his pecu liar powers with the I. W. W. For the past year "Three-Fingered Jack" has followed the unique calling of divert ing the I. W. W. from sabotage, arson and rioting. As he says simply, "I am blocking their game -of blocking the game." .... He arrived Friday from Topeka. Kan, in which state the I. W. W. is complete ly disrupted, due solely to the influ ence of "Three-Fingered Jack," ex gambler and jailbird. With his wonder ful personality he got in with the men and won them from their leaders, set ting the organization's well-laid plans of violence at nil. He not only beat the leaders and agitators at their own game, but, most remarkable of all. the men, by voluntary subscription among themselves, financed his entire cam paign. He worked independently at Kansas City, Topeka. Bonner Springs and throughout all the large towns of the state until he had the leaders of the state organization powerless to command the men. "Three-Fingered Jack" plans to carry on his campaign here in the Northwest for the next few months. Chief of Police Johnson is heartily in favor of the man and his work, and he and the evangelist have an appointment with Mayor Baker for. Tuesday morning to lay plans for the campaign in Portland. The result of the campaign is awaited with much interest by city officials and others who know Godwin. The last time he was In Portland, his home city. was in March, 1916. when he conducted a four weeks' revival at the Centenary Methodist Church. BOYS STEAL AUTO ROBE Intentions AVere to Establish Camp on Swan Island. John Olson and Leo Moyer. boys liv ing in Albina, were found guilty yes terday morning of stealing an automo bile robe from the machine of Benjamin Fisher. 546 Thompson street. Olson pleaded not guilty and Moyer guilty. The boys saw the robe In Fisher's machine, parked in front of his house. Olson went on ahead and Moyer took the robe, which the lads intended to use in a camp they were going to erect on Swan Island. Judge RoKsman administered a lec ture, fined Moyer $10, and Olson's case was continued for sentence. Hood River Krult Deal Opens. HOOD RIVERA Or.. Sept. 1. (Spe cial.) With a carload of Bartlett pears routed out by the Apple Growers' As sociation, the 1917 Hood Rver fruit deal has opened. The association is the only local sales agency handling Bartletts this season in packed boxes, other dealers selling their fruit to can ners. While the Bartlett market opened last week with offers of $25 a ton by canners. the ruling quotation at pres ent is $35, and it is expected to go to $40 for fruit 2 inches In 'diameter and larger. The best price paid last season was $22.50. A few Gravenstein apples will be picked next week, but it is not expected that carload lots of the early variety will be shipped before September 10. . . DISLOYAL PAPER HIT Oregon Posten Cited as Serv ant of Kaiserism. RABID ATTITUDE SCORED Cdltor of Scandinavian Publication Said to Be Violent In Attacking President and Bitter To ward Great Britain. PORTLAND, Or.. Aug. 31. (To the Editor.) it is reported that the State Commission of Defense of Nebraska strongly has condemned the German language press in this country for al leged promulgation of anti-American propaganda, and has called on Con gress to enact laws that will curb such seditious utterances if the present laws are not sufficient to deal wtih the matter. This is a step in the right direction, and should be followed by every state In the Union. There are other papers, however, that also need looking after. For instance. In our own community we find in a Scandinavian paper, the Oregon Posten, a staunch and sedulous servant to Kaiserism. A blind and rabid partisan of that degenerate brood ever since the beginning- of the European war, -at our entry into it the editor lost no time sticking the editorial stiletto into President Wilson's back, and from what I can learn there has been hardly an Issue of his paper since then but that an extra twist or two has been given that cruel steel. Editor's Coarse Described. The Anglophobia of this pseudo cit izen is something fierce. Let a steamer be detained for a day or two by Eng land, in order to search for contra band of war and that editor flies into a frenzy of rage over such an "out rageous act," but he can view with equanimity and without a word of condemnation a struggling mass of humanity, including innocent babies. sent to watery graves by his pirate friends a fine example of how the nobler feelings of humanity may be smothered by intense partisanship. If all the subscribers to that paper are not pro-Germans It- is no fault of its editor. And how well he understands and analyzes motives and matters in gen eral! Take the cause of our war with Germany, for instance. Viewed through the murky mediumship of his mephitic mind he discovered at a glance that it was caused by Wall street, a coterie of ' munition-makers and a subsidized press. The subsidizin - process must have lacked something in its compre hensiveness, or else it fell short of the German standard. One is almost justified in this sus picion in view of what the editor him self tells us in a. recent editorial. In that he informs his readers bow a cer tain gentleman, representing some 'big men," had visited him recently. trying to learn somethi: g about the patriotism of himself, as well as his readers, etc.; how these "big men" would like to have suitable reading matter or announcements made in the Mo ther Why Don't You Take Nuxa ted Iron And Be Strong; and Well and Have Nice Rosy Cheeks Instead of Being Nervous and Irritable All the . Time and Looking So Haggard and Old ? The Doctor Gave Some to Susie Smith's Mother . . , and She Was Worse Off Than You Are and Now She Looks Just Fine. NUXATED IRON WILL INCREASE THE STRENGTH AND ENDURANCE OF WEAK. . NERVOUS, CAREWORN, HAGGARD-LOOKING WOMEN 100 PER CENT IN TWO WEEKS' TIME IN MANY INSTANCES. THE CHILD'S APPEAL "There can be no Beautiful. Healthy Rosy Cheeke'd women without Iron." F. KING, M. D. "There can be no healthy, beautiful. rosy-cheeked women without Iron." says nr. Ferdinand King, a new ior rnjoi cian and Medical Author. "In my recent talks to physicians on the grave and serious consequences of iron deficiency in the blood of American women. I have strongly emphasized the fact that doctors should prescribe more organic iron nuxated iron for their nervatus. run-down, weak, haggard - looking women patients. Pallor means anaemia. The skin of the anaemic woman is pale, the flesh flabby. The muscles lack tone, the brain fags and the memory fails, and often they become weak, nervous, irritable, despondent and mel ancholy, wnentneiron goes from the blood of women the roses go from their cheeks." "In the most common foods of America the starches, sugars, table syrups, candles, pol ished rice, white bread, soda crackers, biscuits, macaroni, spaghetti, tapioca, -sago, farina, d e g e r m iniited corn- meal, no longer is iron to be found. Refining processes have removed the iron of Mother Earth from these impoverished foods. ' and by silly methods of home cookery, by throwing down the waste pipe the water in which our vegetables are cooked are responsible for another grave iron loss. "Therefore, if you wish to pre serve your youthful vim and vigor to a ripe old age, you must sup Dr. and they ply tne iron aeiiciency in your food by using some form of or ganic iron. Just as you would use salt when your food has not enough salt." "As I have said a hundred times over, organic iron is the greatest of all strength builders. If peo ple would only take Nuxated Iron mm the the ?X2d? ft- iiss' ('k'- t wnen tney ieei weaK or rundown, instead of dosing themselves with habit forming drugs, stimulants -and alcoholic beverages I am convinced that In this way they could wardoff disease, preventing it be coming organic in thousands of cases and thereby the lives of thousands might be saved who now die every year from pneu monia, grippe, kidney, liver, heart trouble and other dangerous maladies. The real and true causa which, started their disease IMJMW (I A Enjoy your rest at the Portland . WJi WHERE could there be a more ideal spot to spend Sunday and Labor day than the Portland Hotel? After a long motor in the country after a strenuous game of golf at the Country Club a few hours spent at the Portland will more than re fresh you. Our Grand Dining-Room offers a most enjoyable place to dine Sun day or Labor day. The original set ting and excellence of service have been commented on by people all over the world. Meet your friends at the Portland tomorrow. ' Special Sunday and Labor Day Dinner $1.00 With Music The Portland a generation of hotel leadership. foreign press, which would tend to fos ter patriotism among that class of readers, etc. "Liberal" Offer Made. He had quoted them a very favora ble rate, but so far they had failed to take advantage of that liberal offer. For a consideration, and a very rea sonable one. he would speak guard edly, let us hope in a favorable tenor about our life and death struggle with his beloved Germany. For that coun try, if he repudiates any subsidy scheme, he speaks without remunera tion whatever. There is your true patriot! Aft stoutest Lorlc, feeding; on a dearth Of mental poise, will soon grow lean of girth, So petty minds In narrowing circles run ' Will meet themselves twixt morn and set tins sun. It is not in the nature of some men ever to learn that their mental assets would be less liable to depreciation were they able to maintain a discreet silence where their narrow prejudices are clamoring for an expression. The bray of donkey In and out of season Might drown but not destroy the voice of reason. C. STARKE. Dozen Bids at Least Required. ROSEBURG, Or., Sept. 1. (Special.) C. C. Kelly. Assistant State Engineer, was nothing more nor less than a weak ened condition brought on by lack of Iron in the blood. On account of the peculiar nature of woman, and the great drain placed upon her system at certain periods, she requires iron much more than man to help make up for the loss. Iron is absolutely necessary to en able your blood to change food into living tissue. Without it. no matter how much or what you eat, your food merely passes through you without do ing you any good. You don't get the strength out of it and. as a conse quence, you become weak, pale and sickly looking. Just like a plant trying to grow In a soil deficient in iron. If you are not strong or well you owe it to yourself to make the following test: See how long you can work or how far you can walk without becoming tired. Next take two five-grain tablets of or dinary nuxated iron three times per day after meals for two weeks. Then test your strength again and see how much you have gained. I have seen dozens of nervous, run-down people who were ailing all the while double their strength and endurance and entirely rid themselves of all symptoms of dys pepsia, liver and other troubles. In from ten to rourteen days' time simply by taking iron in the proper form. And this, after they had in some cases been doctoring for months without obtaining any benefit. But don't take the old forms of reduced iron, iron acetate, or tincture of iron simply to save a few cents. The iron demanded by Mother Nature for the red coloring matter in the blood of her children is. alas! not mai Kina or iron. l ou must take iron a"nd af.sr,'m,iahtaetdCton JSr otherwise it may prove worse than use- less. I have used Nuxated Iron widely in my own practice in most severe ait- gravated conditions with unfailing re- suits. I have induced lanv other h 0 arive It u rial all nr FerdiTtand King, New' York Physician Medical Author tell., physicians that should prescribe' 'more organic iron 7 ' Nuxated Iron for their patients Scy anae- irun aejiciency is tne greatest curse to health, strength,. vitality' and beauty of modern American Toman. Sounds warn ing against use -of metallic. Tim iv men may injure Wei teeth, corrode the stomach and do far more harm than goodj. advises , use of only i nsxocra xron. Mi holiday 3-M 3 with offices In Roseburg, has an nounced that not less than 12 bids would be received by the State High way Commission on nexj Wednesday for the improvement of the first three units of the Pacific Highway in Doug las County. Members of the Commis sion will come to Roseburg to open the bids and award- the contracts. WAR LECTURE IS AWAITED Correspondent From Front Will Il lustrate Wltli Moving Poctures. Much Interest is being shown in the coming engagement of Frederick Vll liers, war correspondent and artist of the London Illustrated News, who comes to the Heilig Theater Wednes day night. September 12, with his lec ture, "What I Saw With Joffre and French." In addition to a lecture of much interest, motion pictures of trench life will be shown. Mr. Villiers has won an enviable reputation by his work on the western front. He was named official artist by both the British and French war staffs and what he learned in the process of making pictures of the war makes an extremely absorbing story. Proceeds will be devoted to - the British Red Cross. . . Can Tell the WOmeil "With nlrxitir z . , . , , K.v.jr w uuamineirDiooa beautiful healthy rosy cheeked tvomen full of Life. Vim and Vitality nm-ta in , . . WSr. " & Many an athlete and prize fighter has 7Lon day simply because he knew lne 8ect of great strength and en- Jjurance and filled his blood with iron before h 1wen.t ,nto he affray: whll '"any anotner nas gone down in inglori- r" "l:"-'-' Bimpiy ior tne lack of iron.- Dr. Dr. Schuyler C. Jaques. Visiting Sur 'i St" K,izabeth'8 Hospital. New geo r n.,-J I - v ; A e. , . ? 'horn have ,orlt -'t. said: I have never before lven ma g'ven out any medical information or lost s u r- advice for publication as 1 ordinarily rising re- do believe in it. But so many American women suffer from Iron de ficiency with its attendant ills pnyslcal weakness, nervous Irri tability, melancholy Indigestion, flabby, sagging muscles, etc, etc.. and In conseq uence of their weak ened, run-down condition they are so liable to contract serious and even fatal diseases that 1 deem it my duty to advise such to take Nuxated Iron. I have taken It my self and given It to my patients with most surprising and satisfac tory results. And those who wish quickly to increase their strength, power and endurance will find it a most remarkable and wonderfully effective remedy." NOTE Nuxated Tron. whirh In pre scribed and recommended above by phy lclana In such a ureat variety or cases, la not s patent medicine or secret rem edy, but one well known to flruRjnsts and whose Iron constituents are widely prescribed by eminent physicians both In Kurope and America. Unlike the older organic Iron products it is easily assimi lated, does not injure the teeth, make them black, nor upset the stomach; on the contrary. It Is a most potent remedy in nearly all forms of indigestion as well as for nervous, run-down conditions. The manufac- urers have such (Treat confidence In nuxated Iron. . hat they ofter to forfeit H0.00 to any charitable nstltutlon If they cannot take any man or woman inder tiO who lacks iron, and Increase their strength loo per cent or over In four weeks' time, provided they have no serious organic trouble. They also offer to refund your money if It does not. at least double your strength and endurance in ten days' time. It is dispensed In this city by The Owl Drug Co. and all good druggists. Adv. THE BEGINNING OF THE END Ushering: in of the Last Dis pensation. THE MODERN PROPHET'S PER SONAL TESTIMONY. By DR. JAMES E. TALMAGE, Of tke Council of the Twelve, Charch rrt Jesus Christ of Latter-Uay Saints. Salt Lake City, I tab. The inauguration of the last or cur rent dispensation of the gospel of Jesus Christ, which is verily the dispensation of the fulness of times, was in this wise: In the year 1820 there lived at Man chester, N. Y., Joseph Smith, Jr., then in his 15th year, the third son in a respected and pious family. At the , time of which we speak great excite ment with much sectarian rivalry was manifest in religious matters, and the boy, Joseph, was seriously concerned as to which of the contending sects was the true Church of Christ: for it was plain that all could not be right. Let us read the account written by him self: "During this time of great excite ment my mind was called up to serious reflection and great uneasiness; but, though my feelings were deep and oft en poignant, still I kept myself aloof from all these parties, though I at tended their several meetings as often as occasion would permit. In process of time my mind became somewhat partial to the Methodist sect, and I felt some desire to be united with them: but so great were the confusion and strife among the different denomina tions that It was impossible for a per son young as I was and so unacquaint ed with men and things to come to any certain conclusion who was right and wno was wrong. "My mind at times was greatly ex cited, the cry and tumult were so great and incessant. The Presbyterians were most decided against the Baptists and Methodists and used all the powers of either reason or sophistry to prove their errors, or at least to make the people think they were in error. On the other hand, the Baptists and Metho dists In their turn were equally zealous in endeavoring to establish their own tenets and disprove all others. "In the midst of this war of words and tumult of opinions. I often said to myself. What is to be done? Who of all these parties are right, or are they all wrong together? If any one of them be right, which is it and how shall I ktiow it? "While I was laboring under the ex treme difficulties caused by the con tests of these parties of religionists I was one day reading the Epistle of James, first chapter and fifth verse, which reads: If any of you lack wis dom, let him auk of od, that giveth to oil men liberally and upnraldeth not, and It shall be given him.' "Never did any passage of scripture come with more power to the heart of man than this did at this time to mine. It seemed to enter with great force into every feeling of my heart. 1 reflected on it again and again, knowing that if any person needed wisdom from God, 1 did: for how to act I did not know, and unless I could get more wisdom than I then had, I would never know; for the teachers of religion of the dif ferent sects understood the same pas sages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible. "At length I came to the conclu sion that I must either remain in dark ness and confusion or else I must do as James directs: that is, ask of God. I at length came to the determination to "ask of God." concluding that if. he gave wisdom to them that lacked wis dom and would give liberally and not upbraid, I might venture. "So. in accordance with this, my de termination to ask of God. I retired to the woods to make the attempt. It was on the morning of a beautiful, clear day early in the Spring of 1S20. It was the first time in my life that I had made such an attempt, for amidst all my anxieties I had never as yet mada the attempt to pray vocally. "After I had retired to the place) where I had previously designed to go. having looked around me and finding myself alone. I kneeled down and be gan to offer up the desires of my heart to God. I had scarcely done so when immediately I was seized upon by some power which entirely overcame me, and had such an astonishing influence over me as to bind my tongue so that I could not speak. Thick darkness gath ered around me and It seemed to me for a time as if I were doomed to sud den destruction. "But. exerting all my powers to call upon God to deliver me out of the power of this enemy which had seized upon me. and at the very moment when I was ready to sink into despair and abandon myself to destruction not to an imaginary ruin, but to the power of some actual being from the unseen world, who had such marvelous power as I had never before felt in any being just at this moment of great alarm, I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun. which descended gradually un til it fell upon me. "It no sooner appeared than I found myself delivered from the enemy which held me bound. When the light rested upon me I saw two personages, whose brightness and glory defy all descrip tion, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me. calling me by name, and said, pointing to the other. This Is my beloved Son l hear hlmT "My object in going to inquire of tn Lord was to know which of all th sects was right, that I might know which to join. No sooner, therefore, did, I get possession of myself, so as to be able to speak, than I asked the per sonage who stood above me in the light, which of all the sects was right, ant which I should join. "I was answered that T must join, none of them, for they were all wrong; and the personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight: that those professors were all corrupt: that "thejf draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; they teach for doctrines the commandments of men having a form of Godliness, but they deny the power thereof" " (see Pearl of Great Price, Writings of Jo seph Smith 11:8-19). Thus ended the long night of spirit ual darkness in which man had groped for centuries. Thus was begun the dis pensation of which the ancient prophets had spoken. In preparation for the com ing of the Christ to reign on earth as Lord and King. This glorious and unprecedented, manfestation of the Father and the. Son to a mortal was followed in later years by visitations of angelic person ages through whom the holy priesthood was again restored to earth and under whose direction the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was estab lished in April. 1830. Joseph Smith wna a prophet of the living (iod. His tes timony is before the world. The sav ing ordinances of the gospel are again, administered under divine authority and the means of salvation are offered freely to all mankind. For literature of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, apply to any of the missions, among which are: Northwestern States Mission. 810 East Madison street. Portland. Or.-, and Bu reau of Information, Salt Lake City. Utah. Adv. Phone Your Want Ads to ' THE OREGONIAN