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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-02-01
LOWEST PLACES ON EARTH
NOT COUNTING BIG CITIES

Washington, Jan, 31.-Five of the
six big continents of the world, have
extensive areas of land that are below
sea level. The lowest point in the
United States, or the continent of
North America, is in Death Valley
California, 276 feet below sea level.
This is but a slight depression, how
ever, compared with the basin Of the
Dead Sea in Palestine, Asia, where
the lowest dry land point is 1890 feet
below sea level. This is the lowest
point of dry land in the world.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-02-01
Flgures on points below sea level

Figures on points below sea level
have just been published by the Geo
logical Survey. South America Is
practically the only continent that is
without depression that is far below
the level of the sea.
The lowest point in Africa is in the
Sahara desert 15O feet below sea lev
ell, Contrary to popular belief the en-
tire desert is not below the level Of
the sea, 1t is asserted Europe has
depression Of so feet on the shore Of
the Caspian sea, and in Australia the
lowest point is at Lake Torens, about
2j feet below sea level.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-02-01
IN SOCIETY
Continued from Page S)

cites friendship for Gluck, and Mrs
William Fleming entertained with
Confession of Faith which was
written as a preface to the opera "Al-
ceste."
Mrs. Walter Dimick Of Oregon City
and Miss Beatty president of the
Woman's Club, and Mrs. S. c. Dyer,
we're guests for the afternoon.
The music class will meet at Mrs.
John McNary's, 1856 Summer street,
next Thursday afternoon at the usual
hour Meyerbeer will be the study
work and the opera Les Huguenots,
All women interested in the subject
are invited to attend the regular meet
ing on February eighth, in the club
room at the public library. Mrs. Hen
rietta w, Calvin, dean of domestic sci
ence, oregon Agricultural college, will
give an address of intense interest,
upon her department in the school.
This will be an open meeting and Miss
Matte Beatty, president of the Wo-
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-02-01
mans Club, extends a most cordial
invitation to every one. Two-thirty
o'clock is the opening hour.
Social Clubs.

The Junior Five Hundred Club was
entertained delightfully."- last Wednes-
day evening by Mr.. and Mrs. H. c..
Marvin Of North Church street. The
game was played at five tables. Mrs.
Chester Cox and Mr. George Wood
won high scores.
Guests playing besides the club
were: Mr.. and Mrs. Roberts of Polk
county Mr.. and Mrs. Bonnell, Mr. and
Mrs. George A. Wood, Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter billiard, Miss Margaret Gill
and Miss Erma Harding.
Mrs. Seymour Skiff was hostess for
the sewing club yesterday afternoon
at 1855 Fir street Miss Pearl Haw-
thorn, Mrs. Sherman Miles house
guest from Eugene, and Miss Cora
Talkington were asked as additional
guests, Mrs. William skiff assisted
the hostess.
Mrs. Nancy A. Jones of Sixteenth
and Lee street, asked the Silver Thin
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-02-01

Mr.. and Mrs. D. j. Fry entertained
for the Cherry City Social club last
Tuesday evening at "Brightview." Five
hundred was played at six tables. Be-
sides the members were Mr.. and Mrs.
Homer Smith and Mr.. and Mrs. A. l..
Eoff. High score prizes were cap
tured by Mrs. Eoff and Mr.. Smith
+
Mrs. William Staiger was honor
guest Thursday when Mrs. Ida Bah
cock entertained for the Priscilla sew
ing club.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-02-01
MUSICAL NOTES
Continued from page 81

land Wednesday, February third, at
Masonic Temple. Mr.. Edgar E. Cour-
sen will accompany. A program Of
difficult music has been arranged.
Miss Alton is the charming young
violinist who played so eXquisitely at
the musicale given last week by Mrs.
Brown, Mrs. Eldridge and Mrs. Cliff
ford Brown.
The second of series of musical
services at Central Congregational
church, was well attended last Sun
day evening. Vocal solos were given
by Miss Reid and Mr. Rice, and Mrs.
Waggle played Gottschalks Last
Hope" A chorus of young girls gave
pleasure with their sweet voices. The
next song service will be given on the
evening of February sixteenth, when
the study will be gospel song"
Miss Ada Miller and Miss Inez Den
ison, pupils Of Miss Minnetta Magers,
never sang better than when they ap-
peared last Monday night on the 'Elks'
program.
nhH
Miss Lucille McCully violinst, and
Miss Ava Mcmahon, contrato, Of Will
lamette College Of Music, gave splen.
did work on the program for the or
atorialc contest last Tuesday
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-02-01

BILE club of Silver Bell Circle number
forty-three, to meet at her home We'd
nesday afternoon Of this week While
busy fingers piled the needles there
were discussions over legislature work
and bits of instrumental work. Mrs,
C. c. White and Mrs Sarah Mcdowell
assisted the hostess and delicious
luncheon was served by Miss Mildred
Doud, Miss Ida l.. Hayes and Miss
Rubie Perkins.
Enjoying the afternoon We're Mrs,
Edward Fandrick, Mrs. C. c. Case,
Mrs, Mollie Jones, Mrs, Sarah Mellow
ell, Mrs. C. c. White, Mrs. N. Matlock,
Mrs. C. o. Matlock, Mrs. Lillian Hurd,
Mrs. Rena Hopt, Mrs. Sylvia Richter,
Mrs. Hattie F. Cameron, Mrs. Ruth
Turner, Mrs. Mildred Doud, Miss Ru-
bic Perkins, Miss Mildred Case and
Delma Matlock.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-02-01

Mrs. Frank BowersoX gave the Yew
Park Embroidery club a charming af-
ternoon yesterday. The beautiful day
brought out large number of mem
bers AS guests besides, the hostess
asked Mrs. j. w. West, Mr.. W. l. Sta
ley and Mrs. George Watson, Miss Ber-
nice Sauter assisted.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-10

.vor1a1ttng,- sIeepiness and other EFFECTS
TT the patient is wearing glasses, he
may think my glasses need cnang-
ing, But on consultation with his
oculiet it may be found that the glass
IS are all right, and that the cine
matoeraph is to blame. But If the
~rnoyfes'' are not to blame, probably
fitted glasses will enable the patient
to attend moving picture shows with
ont discomfort. Without proper glass
ga. however the cinenatograph VIII
more certainly cause nervous Symp-
toms in the patient than when good
glasses are worn, there is no doupt
that moving picture shows put ter
rifle strain on even the least defec-
tive ewes while the strain is increas-
ed bv poor glasses or lack OF glasses
when they are needed. DR.. Gould
saws that the principal faults of NOV
ing picture shows is that the ftxat1on
point chosen by the eye chat Is the
point on which the eye rests) is un-
Stable and Jerky and the eye is tired
and strained in following this point
tires the eye and the brain, and the
illumination is generally poor To
correct these faults he suggests that
the time of exposure of each image
be shortened and that better 1llum1na-
ton be required. The enormous
growth of moving picture shows in
the last ten years and the adoption OF
the cinematograph for teaching and
for various commercial uses, as We'll
as it's probable growth in the future.
makes it important that the effect of
moving pictures on the eyes should be
carefully observed.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-10
WEST HAS MANY
CANDIDATES FOR
WILSON CABINET

Washington, Jan. Ex-senator Perky,
of Idaho, will go to Trenton within a
few days to present President-e1ect
Wilson the claims of James H. Haw-
ley, a recent governor Of Idaho, for
the position of secretary Of the inter-
ior in the new cabinet.
Every other far western state has
candidate for the interior portfo-
Ito. The Oklahoma delegation has,
through Senator Owen, urged the Sc
lection of Col. Rogers, of Oklahoma
City.
The Montana legislature has endors-
ed Gov. Norris for the job; Wyoming
suggests Gov. Osborne; Oregon, Judge
VIII R. King and J. H TeaIe; Cali
fornia, James M. Phelan; Ariz., Gov.
George NJ. Hunt and Nevada, Clay
Tal1man.
mississippi would deserve a bronze
medal were she to refrain from eug-
costing a candidate for cabinet hon
ors,'' humorously commented Senator
Williams, today, .'but we are suggest
ing one for Secretary of agriculture
in the person of Representative Camp
BELL
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-10
POINTS OF INTEREST.
Many Bargains


are to be found at Radford B. Smiths
tomorrow These Saturday sales were
resumed last week and wise people
take advantage of them. Read the
list in another column and go there
early.
Prescriptions Carefully Compounded.
When you are sick you go to the
best doctor, the doctor who has your
confidence. He gives you a prescrip-
ton and you take it to the druggist
to be filled Do you use the same
care in selecting your druggist as you
do in your physician? Did it. ever
occur to you that there are good drugs
which have lost their curative powers
through lying too long on the shelv-
es 1t is important that the doctors
diagnosis is correct but it is equally
important that after he has defined
the disease that his knowledge and
skill be reinforced by the use of pure
drugs that will show their strength
and effectiveness by getting at the
seat of the trouble Ask any doctor
if this is not true It has been the
contention OF the Riker Drug stores
since their inception that the public is
entitled to as skiI1ful treatment in the
compromising of the prescriptions as
of the physical ailments by the ply
stefan and all the energy of this vast
organization has been centered on
giving absolutely the best drugs, and
procuring only prescription clerks who
have had broad experience, and I'M
derstand every detail of their bust
ness Another item to consider is the
reasonable charges for commanding
prescriptions.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-10

You old people Syrup of Figs IS
particularly for you. You who don't
exercise as much as you need to; who
like the easy chair. You, whose steps
are slow and whose muscles are less
elastic You must realize that your
liver and ten yards OF bowels have
also become less active.
Don't regard Syrup of Figs as
Dhysic 1t stimulates the liver and
bowels just as exercise would do if you
took enough of it. It is not harsh
like salts eathartics. The help
which Syrup of Figs gives to a torpid
liver and weak, sluggish bowels is
harmless, natural and gentle.
When eyes grow dim, you help
them. Do the same with your liver
and bowels when age makes them less
active. There is nothing m ore inlpOr-
tant. Costive, clOgged-up bowels mean
that decaying, fern enting food is
clogged there and the pores or ducts
in these thirty feet of bowels suck this
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-10
STILL FIGHTING FOR
PARCEL POST LAW
JAMES L. COwLEs OPPOSES ZONE
SYSTEM.
Alleges Waste of $3.50 900 Which Flat
Rate Service Would Eliminate.

James L. Cowles, whose advocacy of
the parcel post dates back to the time
When he was a young man, is not able
TO lay down his cudgeI and rest in
peace, for the parcel post law which
the country now has is not to his Iik-
ing and he is out to make change in
the Bourne bill. 1t is the zone system
with its intricate methods of figuring
IN order to determine rates from one
zone to another that calls forth Mr..
CoWIeS' opposition, and instead he adj
vocates = fiat rate service that he says
will obviate all difficulties and be a
vast improvement over the scheme put
into effect the first of this month.
In opposing the Bourne law Mr..
CoWleS says:
t'TI1is Bourne law divides our nation
wide common market first into $500
basic OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES in minutes of
latitude and longitude of so
minutes, each side. Of course they
VIII not be squares at all since the
minutes of longitude diminish from the
southern extremity toward the north
ern extremity Of the country. In ad-
dition to the seven concentric Squares
zones which are to be ranged round
these curious primal zones, we are to
have scores of thousands of local de-
livery zones, giving US a parcels ser
vice up to eleven pounds in weight
with the most wonderful tumble of
varying postage rates ever conceived.
There mere crossing of the twenty
zone raises the postage 2 cents a
weight Crossing the local limit to
fifty miles. brings the postage on an
eleven pound package up from the
local delivery rate Of 15 cents to 30
cents, tax of 1873 IL per cent. for
crossing the twenty-four mile line.
TN other instances the tax for
crossing from one zone to another is
so per cent, 16 per cent, rs per cent,
etc.
But the awful wastes that will be
incurred because of this I1nhappiIy
conceived measure are another serious
objection. The revival of this old
zone system will cause at the outset a
waste Of $4,000 appropriated for the
directories, maps, charts and distinc-
tive stamps, which will be required by
the post office department for the new
systems inStal1rnent. The map at the
national capitol illustrating the Bourne
scheme was twelve feet long and five
feet wide. To this needless waste will
be added the wages of the thousands
of extra clerks that will be required
Under a flat rate service all of these
wastes of time money and labor would
be avoided. There is one ray Of hope
in the fact that this Bourne measure
evidently was not satisfactory to Con
gress, though perhaps the best that
could be secured against the opposi-
ton Of the railways and express COM
panieS. A low flat rate is the only
equitable one. the only solution of our
whole public transportation prob
len.''
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-10
POISONER'S VICTIM
SUFFERS 40 YEARS
kins, Whose Two Sisters Were
Killed BY Jealous Suitor.

Tarrytown, N Y, Jan. 1o-Abrahan
B. Tompkins after suffering for forty
nine years from the effects of arsenic
poisoning, is dead at his home, in De
pot Square. The poison had para1yz-
ed his left side and he was a cripple
all these years.
In February. 1864, Tompkins' sister
Theresa received a. letter from a jeaI-
Gus admirer warning her not to keep
company with a certain young man.
She did not heed the warning and ar
senic was placed in the we'll She
was the first to be taken i'll, and died
within a week. Another sister was
bedridden for twenty-five years before
she died
Mr.. Tonpkins, although partly par
aIyzed, kept a news store, and was
one of the oldest newsdeaIers in town.
The person who placed the poison in
the We'll was never detected.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-10
O'Neills Rubber Store
ELDERLY FOLKS! CALOMEL, SALTS
AND CATHARTICS AREN'T FOR YOU
Harmless Gentle yrup of Figs" Is Best to Cleanse
Your Stomach Liver and 80 Feet of Bowels of Sour
Bile Decaying Food, Gases and Clogged- Up Waste

decaying waste and poisons into the
blood. You will never get feeling
right until this is corrected-but do
it gently. Don't have q bowel wash
day; don't use a bowel irritant For
your sake, please use only gentle, eff
fective Syrup of Figs. Then you are
Figs is Composed of only luscious hgs
SIENNA and aromatics which can not
injure.
A teaspoonfuI tonight will gently,
but thoroughly. move on and out CT
your system by morning all the sour
bile, poisonous fermenting food and
cIogged-up waste mater without grippe,
nausea or weakness.
But get the genuine. Ask your
druggist for the full name, Syrup of
Figs and Elixir of SIENNA" Refuse
with contempt, any other Fig Syrup
unless it bears the name-prepared by
the California Fig Syrup Company
Read the labeI.-Adv.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-10
EYE-sTRAIN CAUSED
BY MOVIES

Constant attendance at moving pic
ture shows may cause eye troubles
similar to those of eye-strain This
statement is made by DR.. George M.
Gould in a recent issue of The Journal
of the American Medical Association.
DR.. Gould says that he has recently
made a practice Of asking his patients:
What were you doing the evening
or afternoon previous To your head
ache or giddiness or upset stomach ?''
Nothing at ALL is the usual reply,
chat is, nothing out of the ordinary.
I was at the movies for a couple
of hours and went to bed as soon as
got home, as I was feeling badly"
DR.. Gould warns physicians, oculists
and nerve specialists to be on the
watchout for such symptoms and
when found that attendance at NOV
ing picture shows be considered as a
cause. The symptoms, he says, do not
differ greatly from those caused by
strain or abuse of the eyes of any
kind. The most common are those of
sick headache, such as intense weari-
ness of the eyes and brain, a dazed
good for nothing feeling, lack of
energy and appetite. upset stomach
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-10
ROMANTIC MARRIAGE
OF WEST POINT CADET
CUTS BRILLIANT CAREER

and cadets of the military academy
were unanimous, today, in expressing
the opinion that through the romantic
marriage of Elmer E. Adler, a second
year man, with Miss Florence r. Da-
Wis, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs Henry
J. Davis, of Buffalo, at Tarrytown
yesterday, the service has lost one of
it's most promising officers to be- Ad-
ler, who halls from Billings. Mont
held the rank of sergeant in the corps
and was slated for high honors He
was one of the most popular men in
his class The rules of the academy
make the marriage of a cadet equiva-
lent to resignation and it is under
stood here that Adler has no inten-
ton of attempting to return to his
studies but will go to Buffalo after
his wedding trip and take up a bus
mess career.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-10
T. R. SCORES TAFT
OVER CONVENTION
~CHIcAGO TRIUMPH WAS THAT
OET FRAUD AND THEFT, DE-
CLARES COLONEL.
RAPS PARTY-COMBINE IDEA
Satisfied No AmaIgamation of Pro-
gressives With Republicans Is
Possible.

New York, Jan. 10-Theodore Roose-
Welt has replied to the proposal ad-
vanced by Frank A. Munsey, to bring
the progressive and the Republican
parties together He says:
II am simply speaking as one of
the men in the ranks of the progress
eive party. Personally, I strongly
feel that we should no more enter in
TO a com bination with the Republican
machine than with the Democratic
machine. I firmly believe that all
good progressives who may happen
yet to adhere to either the Republican
party or the Democratic party will in
the end see that the chance for hon
est government and for the practical
achievement of social and industrial
and only in the progressive party.
I'VE welcome all honest men who
believe in CIR principles. If they
come in with US they shall have ex-
have Of the paFtss an7anag cement. 1
hold that we are under the same obi
Lindsay and Don Dickinson, as to any
Republicans.
ITO my mind the whole attitude Of
those at present responsible for the
leadership and management of the Re
publican party shows that it would
be a folly to try to combine with
them
Mr. Roosevelt referred to a recent
speech by President Taft in which he
said 1.-The result of the Chicago con-
vention was a triumph for the per-
manence of Republican institutions.
MI Roosevelt then reviewed the cleo
tions in Arizona, Michigan, Indiana.
Washington, California, and some
other states where the progressives
received heavy votes and added: 1.-THE
triumph for the permanence of Re
publican institutions of which Mr.
Taft speaks was the triumph of
fraud and theft and it was rebuked
by the figures I have given above in
the various districts in which it was
perpetrated
Until the managers of the Repub-
Ecan party learn that theft and fraud
a~A Ez1ndjnE the Deo1e4 and impos-
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-10
JAPANESE PREMIER
WON'T INCREASE ARMY

Toxic, Jan. 1O-It was conceded, to-
day, that Premier Prince Katsura had
insured the permanenoy of the newly
formed cabinet by abandoning for the
time at least, the project to increase
the Japanese army. It was that
rock that the Saonji cabinet went to
pieces 1t was because of the army
question that Count Terrauchi declined
the premiership.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-10
Eat and Get Thin

This Is turning an old phrase face
about, but modern methods of reducing
rat have made this revision possible.
If you are overfat and also averse to
physical exertion and likewise fond OF
the table and still want to reduce your
to your druggist Cor write the Marmola
Co: Farmer Building, Detroit. Mich-)
For this modest amount of money the
druggist will put you in the way of sat
isfy1ng your ambition for a nice, trim,
slim figure. He will hand you a large
case of Marrno1a Prescription Tablets
compounded in accordance with the ia
nous Marmo1a Prescription, one of
which you must take after each meal
and at bedtime until you begin to lose
your fat at the rate of ~ to Is ounces
a day. That is all. Just go on eating
what you like. leave exercising to the
athletes, but take your little tablet faith
fully and without doubt that f1abby
leaving behind it your natural self
neatly clothed in firm flesh and trim
muscles.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-10

ing the will of the bosses, when they
declare by a two to one majority at
the primaries in the reverse way, is
not the method in which to achieve
the triumph of the permanence of re-
ub1ican institutions, it is idle to dis
cuss together with them"
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-10

Cambridge-The Harvard Union has
introduced old John Harvard to his
first official cabaret show,
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-07-29
WANTS INFORMATION
ABOUT MISSING SON

Jackson, Miss, July 29.-S. F. Lively.
of Jacksonville, Ala, has a missing
son, and he believes he is in Mississip.
pi.
In a letter received here yesterday
Mr.. Lively, who is proprietor of a
marble works, says that his son ran
away from home on May 25, last and
that was the last he has seen or heard
OF him, except for a postal card mailed
from Jackson four days later.
The father says his son is II years
of age, and has black hair and black
eyes. His name is Mark Ray Lively,
but his middle name he seldom, if ever.
used
Mr.. Lively is fearful that some acci.
dent might have befallen his son, and
writes a pitiful appeal to those who
might have seen him to write him.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-07-29
Nothing Very Alarming
In PeNagra Situation

Jackson, Miss, July 29.-'T do moi
md that pellagra is any more preya
lent in Mississippi than in other south.
ern states, though it seems to be in.
creasing of late," said DR.. Charles
Lavinder of the United States public
health service yesterday afternoon.
DIR. Lavinder has just returned from
trip to counties in the delta, where
he made a somewhat hurried investi-
cation, with the view OF ascertainine
II conditions warranted the sending
OF special government expert to that
section to study the disease. He said
that such an expert probably would
come to Mississippi at an early date.
DR.. Lavinder said that the general
impression that the government doc
tors claimed that spoiled meal was re-
sponsible for pellagra was erroneous.
He said:
The government has never said
that bad corn or spoiled meal caused
peilagra, but it has said that in view
of the fact that so many claimed this
% be the source of the disease we
should mot overlook it as possible
cause Bad corn or spoiled meal ii