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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-02-25
UNCLE SAM BUYS
SOME FOREIGN WOOD

The United States says the depart
mcnt of agriculture, Is probably the
largest consumer OF Clrcassian wal
nut, one OF the worlds best known
and most expensive cabinet woods,
The high cost Of ClrcNssian walnut
is due to the scarcity n the beauti-
fully figured variety demanded for
furniture aud interior finish, for the
tree itself is more widely distributed
than almost any other Of commercial
importance. The demand for The best
wood. however hps always outrm the
supply lNon n the eighteenth cen
url when wars In Europe we're fire.
Quou, so much Clrclsslan walnut was
used for gunBtOcks that the supply
was seriously depleted Early in the
nineteenth century the wood Of H.
600 trees was used for this purpose
alone. Singlo trees, containing choice
burls or fine blrds-eye figures have
sold for more than $4,000
The tree Is native to the eastern
. slopes Of the Caucasus aud ranges
eastward to the foothills OF the Him
alaya mountains from which It OK
tends southwark to Northern India and
the mountains of upper Burma. It has
been widely planted in Europe and
the United States In this country un-
der the name Of English walnut The
wood grown here, however, has not the
qualities demanded by the cabinet and
furniture maker Much OF the Circas-
uinn walnut now used comes from the
Black Sea and from other parts Of
Asia.
According to a circular just Issued
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-02-25
SHOW WEDNESDAY
AND LECTURE THURSDAY

Little Jaunts Into Big Places" will
be the title of an illustrated lecture
delivered by DR.. C. d. Williamson in
the Y. M. G. A. gymnasium on Thurs
day evening, February q. The ad-
dress will be an educational travel
lecture, and is one of a series that
have been arranged for by the educa-
tional department of the association.
The Yosemite National park is one
of the worlds wonderful scenic places
that will be covered in the address of
Dr. Williamson. The Grand Canyon
of the Colorado, which the doctor
terms "The end of Silence" will be
another Of the subjects treated during
the evening.
Plans are being completed for the
Y. NJ. c. A. minstrel show which is
booked for the evening of Wednesday,
March u. Most of those who are to
have parts in the merry performance
have been selected, but the names of
only two have as yet been made pub
lie. They are Ray Chapler and Char
ley Knowlan, both of whom will be
end men. These lads are funny as
can be, even III natural life, and great
things are expected of them when
they get behind the cork
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-02-25

ber 26, to plead guilty. The following
Thursday 1t was agreed that they
should plead guilty together. After
that Judge Bordwell wanted Johns
sentence to be Is years, instead of 10,
and this caused another delay"
What was the agreement when
they finally pleaded?" asked Darrow.
THAT all the dynamite prosecutions
in the country should be dropped and
the pursuit of suspected men cease, u
Steffens replied. Nothing was said
about the Eastern dynamite cases. The
Franklin bribery case was not includ-
ed in the agreement"
Special Prosecutor Gray, in cross
examination, demanded to know who,
in a conversation at San Diego, first
suggested a settlement of the Nc
Namara cases. The witness replied:
"Mr. Darrow. was very much sur
prised."
"The next morning at breakfast
didn't Darrow tell you he did not be-
lieve that the cases could be settled,
but that you might go ahead with the
negotiations?" asked Gray.
Steffens answered in the affirma-
tive.
"YOu agreed that both men should
plead guilty but Darrow told you to
go ahead and make bluff that ]. j.
would not plead guilty"
"Yes," said Steffens, but | wouldn't
like to explain"
"Ive got all the explanation want" "
Gray retorted.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-02-25

Since the old-fashioned theory of cur
ing eczema through the blood has been
given up by scientists, many different
salves have been tried for skin diseases.
But 1t has been found that these salves
only clog the pores and cannot penetrate
where the eczema germs are lodged.
This-the quality of penetrating
probably explains the tremendous sue
cess of the well known liquid eczema
remedy, oil Of wintergreen, thymol gly-
cerine, etc, as compounded in Odd.
Prescription.
We have sold other remedies for skin
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-02-25
Why SalVeS Can't Cure Eczema

troubles but none that we can recon-
mend as highly as this for we know that
Odd. stops the itch at once. We can
give you a trial size bottle for rs cents
that will be enough to prove 1t.
or course all other druggists have
ODD. Prescription-go to them 1t you
can't come TO us-but don't accept some
big profit substitute.
But II you come to our store, We ara
so certain of what Odd. will do for you
that we offer you q full size bottle on
this guarantee:--If you do not find that
II takes away the itch AT ONCE, II
costs you not a cent
j. G. Perry, Druggist
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-02-25

Magnificent full page and double
page color plates and monotone en-
cravings were prepared at an Inn
mense cost and are Of character
unequaled in any similar work.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-02-25

When woman has learned not to
cry she has gone a long way along a
hard road.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-02-25

Few men are better than they seem
to be.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-02-25
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-20
Lauder Laughed at This.
rom pearsou's Weekly

From PeArson ; weekly.
A good many stories have been told OF
what the Scots call ''neaness" and other
people something else. in Harry Lauder
So it was surprising, the other day, to see
him photographed in the act of giving
sixpence to a baby.
The other evening he was laughing over
a story that had just been told him.
Here it is
A certain duke was going to town one
morning and the taxi driver took him a
long way round.
Why did you take the longest route?''
asked his grace. why didn't you drive
through Hyde Parko'
"'Cause Hyde Parks closed" said the
driver.
CLOSED? Why?'
"'Cause Harry Lauder dropped sixpence
there last night, and the parks closed till
he finds it,''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-20
NEW BRAND Of TUBERS
VAR|EGATEO IN COLOR
Purple, Crimson and Yellow
Specimens. All Sizes,
Brought From Peru.

Stories "f potatoes that are purple.
crimson and yellow sound rather NaTie-
gated compared to the sad-colored brown
tubers common in this country, but that
is the sort of a potato collection that has
just been brought back from Peru by L.
L.. Wight of the Department of Agricul-
ture.
Nobody yet knows what may come from
these potatoes. They are simply remark
able finds that may add largely to the
history OF the product because they seem
to he some OF the early, elemental types.
But they may be valuable for standing
cold. heat or drought. and they may form
valuable hybrids with some or the native
stock
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-20
A Special Occasion.
,atbolic Standard and Times

From the Catholic Standard and Times.
Mother-Come, now, Willie, IL you'll only
be good I'll give you a penny.
Willie-No'm; / won't be good for less n
8 cents.
Mother-Why, you were good yesterday
for q penny.
willie-I know. but yesterday was bar
gain day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-20


Meantime revolution has broken out
in Antilles. The minister of war has
declared himself provisional president
and starts in his reform administration
with the fixed idea of sinking the
Utah. for which he apparently enter
tains animosity verging on mono
mania. So he sends out six cruisers
which YOU are given to understand is
the fleet Of Antillos--and they start
10 shoot holes through the Utah. All
this fighting is shown. The hero-lieu-
tenant-now Lieut. Towers. instead of
the moving picture actor-steps into
his trusty hydroaeroplane and lightly
picks up group of the latest style
bombs. Then you seq him high in air
pitching, la Walter Johnson, TO the
hostile South American ships He has
about half the feet called out on
strikes before the exhaustion of his
ammunition causes the game to be
called. After this the Utah sinks what
is left of the South American fleet, the
the ero-lieutenant-now the moving
picture actor-wins the consul y
daughter, who is the heroine, and at
the very end you see Admiral Badger,
as recounted at the beginning. deeply
moved and blessing the movie per-
formers.
The effects gotten in the navy's new
publicity scheme are startling. 1t seems
Impossible that realism could go so far.
There IS the attack of the Utah on old
MORO Castle outside Havana harbor--
this being the entrance of the fictitious
South American capital The heavy bat
tleshlps guns swing slowly around on
their turrets and then comes flash that
ooscures everything. She has fired be-
fore your eyes q whole broadside at the
! fort The smoke clears away fo~ mo-
ment and in the distance you see the
guns OF MORO Castle flashing away de-
| family.
Then when the Antilles fleet makes its
attack you can see the ships circling
around the mighty Utah and l.ring at
her While she responds with her mon
| ster weapons. The scene shifts and you
] see the men on the South American ships
working the smaller guns at an ap-
paiing rate of speed. The average
| spectator wonders how on earth metal,
| devised by man, can Withstand such IN
cessant pounding as this.
Hardly less remarkable than his bat
tie scene Is the motion picture taken
from hydroaeroplane when the hero
lieutenant Is flying out to warn the Utah.
Far below and away you see a speck on
I the water, 1t grows larger and larger,
until the mighty steel masts and the
guns come into view. Just as the aero
plane is about to descend upon the deck
or the snip the scene shifts and you see
the landing from the Utah.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-20
And the Rear Admiral
Gave Them His Blessing

Torrance Monday expressed doubt at the
ability of a hydroaeroplane to drop
bombs with sufficient accuracy to blow up
ships. and others declared that the move
ments of the detachment of marines on
land were not indicative of good officer
ship on the part of the commander. but
in the main the performance is just what
war correspondents have seen.
DiverginG from tie actual moving pic
lures for Il moment, it might be well TO
mention how the pictures came TO be
taken. Congress last session appro-
priated money for the advertisement OF
work in charge have used various pub
lefty schemes with varying success.
Finally. they decided TO give tie public
glimpse Of the real workings OF the
fleet
A moving picture concern was inter
ested in the project Six gunboats and
the battleship Utah, in command or Rear
Admiral Badger. Were sent to Guanta-
namo, where the films were to be taken.
The hulk OF one of the Spanish ships
which have been lying off the coast OF
Cuba since 1898 was also donated, as
were the hydro-aeroplane and the services
Of Lieut.. John II. Towers, that intrepid
atronaut who recently fell 1000 feet at
and came up alive. Twenty thousand
dollars worth of black powder. enough to
make the ordinary fireworks display look
like a parlor match being struck on a
rainy night were furnished for the mimic
war which will be carried to all people
IN medium of the films.
Tne performance was begun IN and
aro..nd Guantanamo. The moving picture
concern furnished its actors. a young
man doubled with Lieut. Towers, doing
the light Romeo business with the her
oine while the officer hurled bombs from
his hydroaeroplane and generally attend
ed TO the aeronautical thrills of the
part.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-20
Resemble Bananas.

Some Of the new potatoes look like little
bananas with a case of scarlet fever.
They are shaped like very small banana
and have a skin thin that they are not
even peeled in cooking. Their foundation
color is yellow. but there are streaks Of
scarlet scattered over the root at rregu-
lar intervals.
Another variety of the little potato is
also red. or chiefly red. making il look
rather like raGish Both are said TO Be
good There is another that is about the
most lumpy, humpy LOOKING root imagin-
able. Ii is the color of an orthodox sweet
potato, bat when it is cut open the inside
is bun yellow.
Possibly the most reularkable-lookns
of the collection is an exact imitation OF
a Frankfurter sausage. IL has the color.
the shape and the surface texture. What
it tastes ike when cooked is a mystery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-20

| He evidently believed that under such
circumstances the Secretary of the Navy
| started his telegram Dear sir and then
| sent nice chatty letter of about 2,000
! words by wire. For the sake of accu-
! racy small telegraph blank had been
given Secretary Daniels. He wrote and
wrote and wrote, reached the bottom,
dared not turn over and kept on writing
| on the blotter of his desk. He wrote on
and on until the camera man finally
| stopped.
Thank goodness said the Secretary
81 was getting writer's cramp''
That isn't ALL, explained the camera
man: Il must ask you to pose for
another picture. This one may not be
all right"
The Secretary of the Navy sighed
II never realized" said he, how diff
ficult ii was to become a moving pic
Well. I'll have to astonish the command
ing officer of the Utah by sending this
telegram on the back of the blank
And turning over the sacred slip he
began to write industriously over the
printed instructions which the telegraph
companies always put on their slips.
This didn't show when the picture was
produced at the private theatrical ex-
hibition. The Secretary showed up as a
splendid moving picture actor His fine
lineaments betrayed anxiety and deep de-
termination when they were thrown on
the screen, and everybody said ne looked
as 4 Secretary of the Navy should look
when war is about to be declared
Briefly, the plot of the pictures,
known to the initiated as the scenario.
was as follows:
Trouble is threatening between this
country and the fictitious South Ameri-
can republic Of Antilles. The battle
ship Utah is sent to the capital of An
tilIos, whose president is still friendly
! to the United States and is resisting
the efforts of his minister of war and
other cabinet officers to break off
diplomatic relations. The heroine
learns of a plot to blow up the Utah.
! informs her hero-lieutenant. who meets
. the president of Antilles and charges
him with treachery. The president eX-
plains that it is the work of the min
lister of war.
Later the president is assassinated
by the minister of war, and the hero
lieutenant is accused Finally he
escapes and in his hydro-aeroplane
flies TO the Utah and warns her that
she is unpleasantly situated over the
conspirators bomb. The Utah backs
away just in the nick of time and
you the bomb explode hundred
yards away
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-20
FIXING THE BLAME.

Mr.. Knagg-'It may be true, as
you say, you were too young to
marry me-"
Mrs. Knagg-"Don't try to shift
the blame. You were too old for
me-" --
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-20

ing the week. the little boat viii be
| ready for service.
y : x
Sausage" the mascot is most popu-
lar now around the Naval Battalion
armory He is thought much of, and
has shown himself TO be so good a
sailor, that the officers have decided to
have made for him complete set OF
blue and white uniforms, SO whatever
| may be the uniform ON drill nights ana
other occasions Sausage will be prop
erly dressed. He will have the reSula-
ton cap. jacket and wide legged
trousers. His blankets. with L. ). : Ala
bama on each side, will be his full dress
uniform.
Any one who goes swimming off the
dock of the Naval Battalion will not be
| lonesome. Sausage never misses i
| chance to take a plunge with any of the
!. members of the battalion. And he doesn t
! takes running dive off the end of the
! dock like the other swimmers.
/ The following list, showing the relative
rank of officers of the Naval Battalion
| n G. ID. c., was made public yesterday
! Commander, Joseph A. Dempf, Naval
Lieutenants-1 Frederick H. Morhart.
surgeon; > John l. Johns. paymaster
! l4ieutenantS tJunlor Sradet-l, Joseph u.
Dalton.
Ensigns-l. Walter G. Guss; >. Walter
". Burns; s. Bust c. Getsinger: /. FRANK
w Sigourney; .. Frederick !. Nudge;
| q. William L. Hoefer; .. Paul V.
Thompson; s, Harold l.. Crawford.
:: * :: !:
+! The following appointments. promotions
and retirements by the President. to-
gether with casualties and changes in the
! Naval Battalion. y. G.. ID. c., were an
nounced yesterday:
Chief Yeoman Frank w. Sigourney. TO
be ensign May s. 1913. vice Conwell.
resigned: Chief Machinist's Mate Fred
erick J.. Nudge. to be ensign, May Q. 1913,
vice Brittson resigned: Chief Machinist $
Mate William r. Hoefer, to he ensign.
May 10. 1918. vice Smoot resigned; Chief
Machnist's Mate Paul V. Thompson, to
be ensign, May II. 1913, vice Donk. re
signed: Chief Machinist's Mate Harold l..
Crawford. to be ensign, June ), 1913, vice
Dalton. promoted.
Promotions Ensign Joseph b. Dalton,
TO be lieutenant 0unior gradep, to fill an
original vacancy.
Resignations-Iieut. Ross l.. Fryer and
Ensign Marion G.. Donk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-20

tE|!6GQ$@
CST one week more of the furlough
granted the members of the Naval
Battalion remains before the real
work of the year will be
| y again taken UP. Next sun
| dav the members of the battalion will
| gather at the armory preparatory to 60
| ing to the rifle range for their target
practice Monday and Tuesday, July IS
and %.
| It is probable that the band will give
| a concert just prior to the departure OF
| the local sailors for the range. 1t will
| be in the nature Of a serenade to the
| sailor boys. OF course, the bandmen
are going to the range and take a try
| at punching the bulls eye.
Commander Dempf is going to urge the
members to make a record for the bat
| TALON at the range this year. He wants
| them to be Just as efficient with the small
| arms as they were with the large guns
| on the battleship Alabama.
The battalion will camp at the range
Sunday and Monday nights, returning 10
| the armory Tuesday evening Immediate
| IL upon the conclusion of the firing.
* x
Commander Dempf is conducting an
investigation to determine who is re-
sponsible for the recent publication OF
an article charging that he was about TO
relieve his present executive officer. The
rumor that he was to take this step was
the basis for a so-called round ROBIN
circulated while the men were on their
recent cruise aboard the Alabama.
Many of the men. it is declared, signed
the paper, which asked that the eNecu-
tive officer be retained, without even
reading 1t. Commander Dempf, IN diS-
crlssing the matter, explained that many
OF those whose names were sIsned To
the paper :.fterward came to hlm ana
admitted that they affixed their sigma
lures without knowing just what It's con-
tents were. After explaining to the Or
ganization, following the presentation OF
the document which Commander
Dempf insisted was request and not
a petition, that he was without author
ity to relieve the senior deck officer as
executive officer, the commanding officer
was approached by many OF the men
who admitted that they had made a mis-
take.
Commander Dempf. at an officers
meeting recently made it plain that
the Naval Battalion was to be run SO
as to build up an efficient organization
which could be depended upon IN time
of war. If factional differences arise. he
pointed out, this could not be done, and
he insisted that the battalion be Kept
free of chickering's. When such dlfer-
ences arise, he declares. he intends TO
see that those responsible for them make
way for persons who will work for the
best interests of the naval service.
x x X X
The motor boat d. C. NJ. will be ready
for service before the end of next week.
The engine was placed in the vessel yes
terday, and with a few minor repairs in
the woodwork, which will be made dur
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-20
Sent to Experimental Garden.

All the new potatoes are being sent
to the experimental garden down on the
fats where they viii he raised in hot
beds under general conditions as nearly
like their native region as possible.
There is not much likelihood that they
Will carry any bugs under ground when
PLANTED. though they brought a fine and
deadly collection of insects with them
when they were passed through the
quarantine. room. All the bugs were kill
ed hut whether the new I-ants lave dis
eases that are worth quarantlninS
against cannot yet be determined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-20

The stories OF the rehearsals are teem-
ing with interest, and show that the
American naval officer with true adapt
ability, can develop into a "movie" actor
a. marvelously short notice. Secretary
of the Navy Josephus Daniels was one
of the actors. His part" came early in
the performance, when he signed a
thrilling telegram ordering the Utah to
proceed to the scene OF disorder. This
picture was taken In the office of the
Secretary OF the Navy. Secretary
Daniels. his usually pleasant face clouded
by a fixed glare, wrote and wrote and
wrote while the camera man turned the
crank.
The camera mans idea OF a cablegram
ordering q battleship to sail was vague.