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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-01-17

SalVer, Ebony and Ivory toilet ware,
also complete line of novelty goods.
Gardner & Keene. The store with tho
street clock.
This climate hasn't changed so awful
ly much since last January as the low
record for the 18th of January, 1916,
was 2l degrees above zero and it was ex-
aetly the same early this morning. 1t
has been too cold to rain for the past
10 days and hence the river is falling
with a gauge today of 33 feet above
low water water. The range of tenn
perature for yesterday was from 46 to
a.
Optical service measures its standard
of achievement by the degree of ser
vice it can render its patrons-the sale
of a pair of glasses is not the end of
transaction, but the commencement of
relations which, so far as / am con-
cerned; are perpetual. DR.. M. p Men
delsohn, offices 200, 2l0, 2ll, U. S.
Bank bldg. Phone ITO.
After haying had more than "a years
practical and highly successful ex-
perienee in fitting glasses, and after
having fitted thousands of grateful pa
tients in Marion and Polk counties, l
feel that | am entirely competent to
give you the service to which your
eyes are entitled. ] never advertise
bargains in glasses. Nor do | claim to
give something for nothing, but | do
guarantee You satisfaction.-Dr. NJ. P
Mendelsohn, 209, 210, 2ll L. S. Nation
al Bank bldg, Salem, Oregon.
q
1t isn't every organization that can
boast of gold medal honestly earned.
There are plenty of bronze and silver
medals, but the gold ones are scarce
The International Jury of Awards of
the Panama Pacific International expo
sition of San Francisco, has notified
the Commercial club of Salem that it has
been awarded gold medal, accom-
panied by large diploma, for its gen
eral exhibit at the exposition and es.
peeially for the display OF wool The
medal viii be placed on display and the
diploma win probably be framed.
The Polk Yamhill- Marion County
Medical association at the meeting held
last evening elected DR., h. l., Klein
sorge, of Silverton, president for the
coming year, succeeding Dr. J. c. Evans.
Other officers elected were; DR.. Lee
Wood, of Amity, as first president; !;
DR.. j. o. Mathis, of Monmouth, second
viee.president; DIR, j. r. Pemberton, of
Salem, third viee-president; Dr. Prince
Byrd, of Salem, secretary. The meeting
wns attandad bv SpVernl lhuiSla tnrs O.b n
were interested in the paper read by
DIR. r. E. Lee Steiner on the steriliza-
tion of the unfit and that of Dr. J.. f,
Griffith on the prevalence, prevention
and seriousness of social diseases.
=
An urgent request is being made to
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-01-17

A free pair Of trousers with each
suit ordered this week from d. H.
Mosher, Tailor, 474 Court.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-01-17

Lands laying south and west of the
state Fair grounds have been damaged
more or less this winter by an overflow
Of water due to the fact that either in
the fair grounds or in land adjoining,
a ditch has been dug which prevents the
water from taking the course it has for
several years. This ditch originally ran
through the fair grounds and the prop
Continued on page fivs.)
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-01-17

Argentala Silver Cream for cleaning
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-01-17

The summer climate of Ell Centre,
California, with its standing record of
l20 above on the shady side of tall
cactus doesn't exactly suit B. W. John
son, who has been making his home in
that land of eternal sunshine and etern'
al heat. Hence he has written the
Commercial club inquiring the price of
land in the Willamette valley Also,
Fred ]. Johnson-no relation Of the
above B. W.-has heard Of the Oregon
climate and has written that he would
like to buy 40 acres of land for dairy
purposes. ..(The last Mr. johnson men
toned is from San Jose, California.)
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again af1oat, Padding frantically to-
ward the place of safety she had so
unyyiSplv left
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crept down to the beach and launched
her canoe. 1t was a matter of several
miles, but she made nothing of the
cruise to the beach beneath the cliffs
crowned by her summer home.
Effecting a landing there as secret
as her launching had been, she dragged
the n up on the sands, Rugged the
cloak more tightly round her, and with
a delicious shiver of daring sought the
private flight of steps hat ~zigzagged
up to the grounds of the Charming cot
tage.
At the top Patria sought the friendly
shelter of the nearest shadows, then
made a furtive way towards the house.
There were on the ground a dozen
coigns of vantage known to Patria
whence spying would he practicable
and safe.
In the nearest of these, close by the
wide veranda, she resigned herself to
wait with far less composure than her
motionless pose might have been taken
to indicate.
Even so, her patience was not Sc
yerely taxed. Within a very few min
utes the light in n of the French
windows of the drawing-room was
twice eclipsed, as two people came
out and began slowly to pace the ver-
anda, side by side-Elaine and the un-
s%peakable Juan de Lima!
Moonlight flooded the face and fig
ure of the changeling with unearthly
brilliance. Patria could have cried out
in amaze, so extraordinary seemed the
vision she gaZed upon.
De Lima wooed her after the manner
of his kind, ardently, crudely, with
patent intention. Inching closer, he es-
sayed to kiss her.
But Elaine would not suffer him.
"That's as far as you'll go !" she told
him, in the choice of words that came
most naturally to her. I'm going to
marry you-yes! Marrying you is part
of my contract with Huroki-I wish
to God it wasn't. I'll go through with
it because l agreed to, but-lay off me
whenever we're alone. Marriage is
one thing-kisses are something else
again!"
She swung b%rusquely back through
the window. With an imprecation in
his native tongue the Mexican fol
lowed.
Patria stepped back and sought a
way round to a point whence she
might see through the windows. Taking
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SIXTH EPISODE
"AIias Nemesis"
Rendezvous at Noon.

Superbly mounted though he was.
the horseman rode with slack rein and
specious air of aimlessness. Suffered
to select its OWL pace, his cob ambled
indolently through the of New
port-toWn and out into the baskine
countryside, choosing a way along the
eastern shore, often within sight of
the Sakonnet river.
For the beauties of nature in general
Capt. Donald Parr cared no snap of his
fingers; his thoughts, like his heart,
were exclusively conferred upon one
single beauty. His purposeless ges-
ture, his semblance of Indifference tc
the flight of time, were alike mislead-
ing; he had a most particular goal in
mind, and secretly was in the mad,
dest haste to arrive at it. Lastly, his
interest in the charming views was
positively nil but his interest in max
ing certain that none followed him was
acute.
Had any one of his languid reviews
of the road he was travelling discov-
cred a single sign of anything remote
ly resembling a follower, Donald's ride
would have ended back In the summer
city by the sea without a pause. As
1t was, though well persuaded that
none spied upon him, he came to his
destination by a most circuitous way,
doubling back on his path for the mat
ter of two miles before, while passing
a lonely patch of woodland between
road and river, he elected to disappear.
A witch at the rein with a touch of
the spur Swung his horse sharply
aside into an almost imperceptibly
marked path.
Winding ~tortuously through the for
est, the path presently debouched into
a little glade from which, through a
thinning growth of trees, the simmer
OF sunlit waters was visible.
Here Captain Parr pulled up, dis
mounted, tethered his horse to a sap
ling, and went on afoot, striding rap
idly toward the river, with a marked
manner of eager anxiety.
A turn in the path, rounding a thick
ct, brought him abruptly face to
face with the object at once Of
his happiness and all his cares.
He stopped short.
"Patria !' he cried In a voice vibrant
with the wonder that her loneliness
never failed to arouse.
AS she offered both hands to his
ardent clasp, her smile seemed a trife
wistful.
"Don!" she said. "At last! l knew
you wouldn't be late-but even when
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courage from the silence, she ventureo
to raise the window and step within.
But she had not gone two feet when,
without any warning, she was seized,
EMBODIED in the arms of a hulking crea-
ture who had been spying upon her
from behind a tree.
A villainous reek Of alcoholic breath
half strangled the girl as her captor
bent his face toward hers.
SCOT youi" he muttered thickly.
"Got you, M lady, with the goods on !
You will throw me down, will you !!
You will leave me go to the devil
while you blow around with swells,
pretending you're what you amt, never
was, never will bel Oh, I'm onto your
little game, Elaine, my beauty! And
I'm in on it, or I'll squeal so loud you
can hear me in the Office of tn. prose-
cutin' attorney! Stop s%trugglin' and
listen to reason, do you hear?'
In the bloated and .congested fea-
lures of the drunkard Patria recog-
nized the man Edouard, the manager
of Elaine, who once before had mis-
taken her for his dancing woman-and
had suffered grievously at PARIS hands
in consequence of that mistake.
"Let me go!' she painted in loathing.
"Let me go, I say!"
"Fat chance" he jeered. "But lis
ten, dearie-you don't have to be
afraid of me. All l want is a square
deal, and 1 won't hurt you. You only
got to quit trainin' with that guy,
Parr; I'm goin' to get him-get him
good"
He had unhappily struck the wrong
note. The hint of peril to the man
she adored maddened Patria. She
fought like a woman possessed, beat
ing Edouard's face with her small fists
till, in endeavoring to catch and stay
her hands, he relaxed his embrace, and
she leaped back to freedom, Their took
to her heels and ran as she had never
run before.
Accident more than design directed
her fight toward tie cliff.
Three minutes more and Patria was
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sailed her. Edouard was lifting into
sight a pistol, but his anger and the
condition of a rvo system wrecked
by prolonged debauches rendered fu-
tile all his efforts to level the weapon
and take steady aim.
1t was her Donald whom this crea-
ture sought to kill.
Gently di~sengaging, she looked up
steadily into her lovers eyes.
"Don, DEAR" she said in a small
voice, "do something to please me-"
"As if you needed to ask-w
''Then, please-please, Donald, my
Donald II want to be alone for a few
minutes to think over something l have
to say to you. If you'll humor me and
go on to the cottage, I'll follow you
very soon. viii you, dear?"
Parr stared. II don't understand"
"You will, as soon as l a tell you.
But now please do as l ask"
"As you wish, my dear girl"
Profoundly perplexed, yet never for
an instant suspecting the cause of this
singular request, Donald strobe off
briskly toward the shore.
Alone with the fear of death, Patria
steeled herself against the worst.
The man Edouard broke through the
covert in murderous haste. Patria
threw herself in his way without a
thought of hesitation. With an oath
he struck down her imploring hands.
But she would not be denied her arms
clipped him; she exerted all her
strength to hold him.
Let 60, you jade" he rasped
hoarsely. LET me gol I promised to
get him, and 1 will, so help me-l'
mo, Edouard, please-noi Listen
to me. You are mistaken"
"You lie! Get out of my way before
you get hurtl"
"Edouard, please-please listenl ]
will do anything you wish-I will GO
back to New York-anywhere you
say"
The man hesitated, looking down
strangely at her.
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again afloat, padding frantically to-
ward the place of safety she had so
unwisely left.
TWO AND AN EXTRA.
Oddly enough, considering the INK
iety on Donald PARIS behalf inspired
by the threats of Edouard. Patria slept
a deep and drenmless sleep, and wax
ened so late that, by the time she had
taken her morning swim and dressed
and breakfasted, it vas hard upon
noon
AS the hour of their daily rendezvous
approached. she found it difficult to
contain her Impotence, SO impatient
was she TO be reassured as to the
safety of hei betrothed. Had Donald
been five minutes late he would have
found her haif-hysterical with dread.
He was, however, a trife earlier than
usual.
None the less, she was beforehand
with him in the glade. And the relief
with which she saw him riding, sound
and whole, to meet her, translated
itself into so violent a seizure of
trembling that he could not have failed
to remark it.
He did not even wait to tether his
horse, but ran to her the instant his
feet touched the earth, Selling her
hands and drawing her to him.
"Patria what has happened?"
"No-nothing"
"But you were never like this !!
You're %quivering like a frightened
child! Something must be the mat
ter !"
"Only-only 1 have fretted so for
fear of some accident to you, dear. I
am so glad to see you safe!"
His arms closed round her; for a lit
tie her face was hidden in his bosom.
Like a naughty child, she had feared
to own the truth about her overnight
adventure. But now the need of con-
fession was strong upon her.
From the haven of her lovers arms
she stared thoughtfully off into the for
est.
Something moved among the trees.
The head and shoulders of a man rose
slowly from cover of a breaSt-high
growth of u~nderbruSh. Patria looked
straight into the eyes of Edouard,
bloodshot in a mask of features that
worked with rage.
She drew a long breath. By no other
sign did she betray the terror that as
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THE CAST.
SYNOPSIS.

Patria, last of 1.-THE Fighting Chan.
nings," while en- route to Newport, her
summer home, is thrown to drown from a
Sound steamer by agents of Baron HUI
roki, chief of the japanese secret service,
who, conspiring to embroil the United
States and Mexico, desires control of the
extensive Charming munition plants, own
ed by Patria. Her physical counterpart,
Elaine, a notorious dancer, in Hurokis
pay, substitutes for the supposedly dead
woman. But Patria's life is saved by
Captain Donald Parr. late of the United
States secret service and secretly Patria'
6ance.
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prefaeed by scurrying footsteps inl
the hallway, the door was opened'p
Elaine flung herself excitedly into the
room. Patria arose, put her back TO
the door, turned the key. elaine
swung sharply to confront her.
"Who the deuce are your" she de-
manded.
Silently Patria removed her mask.
With a low cry that was hall &
groan. the dancing woman reeled back
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you're most punctual, it always seems
30 long a time of waiting"
81 meant to be earlier today" he
said. falling in by her side as she
turned back toward the shore, "but
was unexpectedly detained"
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EscAPADE BY MOONLIGHT.

What little wind there was went
down with the sun
Around about the little bungalow on
the Sakonnet shore the hush was abso-
lutte.
Only Patria was restless and flat
ease. Impatience and dissatisfaction
with the lot imposed upon her by Don
aid PARIS arguments, prayers, will and
wishes, ragged in her bosom.
Alone upon the little veranda, she
fought temptation as long as she could,
till suspense in inaction CALLED her In
tolerably, then rose and stole into the
house as noiselessly as any cat, to re-
appear after a lapse of time incredibly
! brief clothed in dark bathing suit and
sandals, a light silken beach wrap o V
erlng her shoulders.
Like some shadow Of the night she
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in return he undertook to give me
the man-fsh.
81 explained my ambitions for a
world-power. and he came to share
them.
IT had a sister, beautiful as the
dawn and richer than 1. oxus mar
ried her, and we decided that their
FIRST son should become the man-fish.
even though he might die during the
grating process"
Fulbert stopped short He dropped
his head in his hands, and a great
sigh escaped him at the terrible
memories brought up by his words.
Oxus lay back upon the divan, his
eyes closed as II trying to concen-
trRte his thoughts.
As for Severac. he had not expect
ed such a beginning, and his attitude
betrayed his utter stupefaction-
What more was he to hear, after
these first extraordinary revelations?
And what manner OF men were
these, one OF whom sketched so light
q satanic ambition based upon the
truly omnipotent knowledge OF the
other?
Raising his head, and fixing his In
scrutable dark eyes upon the unde-
cided opes of Severac, Fulbert went
on.
while he was waiting for the
child Oxus made experiments.
He killed eight apes during the
time, but the ninth lived under the
water. II was the ape-hsh, proto-
type OF the mannsh, to be created
later.
The child was born In time, but
II was a girl. The mother died soon
after. and because only a male would
do. the little girl was spared to grow
up surrounded by all the love OF
Oxus and 1 are capable.
You are acquainted with her, n.
Severac. As she was saved from the
waters. we named her Moisette!"
At the sound of this name. Severac
trembled and flushed crimson. For
tunately Fulbert did not notice SIEVE
RAGS agitation. or he would have had
good reason TO wonder at It.
Severac knew Moisette most GER
tainly.
She was the charming young girl
who was the fairy OF the Lost Isle.
He had seen her just nine times
since he came to the island, and from
each OF these meetings the engineer
cherished the memory OF a sweet
pain, strangely like the first mani
festations OF love.
However. SeVerac sonn came TO his
senses. He was about to make some
light response, but Fulbert did not
give him time.
The Experiment.
I'VE needed a boy" Fulbert went
on. AT that time | was engaged in
q propaganda OF tho LAmaist religion
in southern France.
Among the converts were rich
and prominant family whose dauRh-I
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ter came to me in great despair-heI
lover. a young student in a neighbor
ing town, whose name I never knew
disappeared Immediately.
II promised to protect her II she
would give me the child. She con
sented- I persuaded her parents to
allow her to go into a prolonged re
treat in the then recently established
Lamaist nunnery.
''She bore a son, and returned to
her family, undisgraced. Afterward
she lost her reason and disappeared,
l took the child to oxus."
Severac shivered- He Ehot 4 look
OF admiring fear at Oxus, but the
savant, his eyes still closed. had the
impassibility. the pallor. the stiffness
OF marble. Fulberrs voice was raised
once more:
by certain processes which he had
invented, Oxus placed the child in q
state OF catalepsy, made an incisIon,
fitted into It the lungs and other
respiratory organs of a young living
shark. And for two long years he
followed the progress OF this grated
man-animal step by step"
AT the age OF two years and one
month. the childish, the 'Hictaner,'
could live in air or water, provided
that he did not spend more than
forty-eight consecutive hours out OF
the liquid element.
Therefore, he was much more
aquatic than terrestrial. He was
what l so terribly needed NJ.
Severac. do you need any further ex-
planations?"
mo. SIR" stammered Severac.
stunned by the complacency with
which Fulbert recounted these ex-
traordinary things to him.
"Of course" said Fulbert, your in
telligence is keen enough to grasp It.
l will proceed.
when Hictaner was six years old
began the work OF forming his
mind. just as Oxus had formed his
body.
II taught him that two species OF
intelligent animals Inhabited the
earth-that which lived on ships and
on land, and that which lived only
in the water.
II taught him that men AGA fishes
had so preyed upon our species that
there were but three left. one young
and perfect. HectaneT. and two
others. old and tired, but powerful
because OF their intelligence-Oxus
and myself"
"But-real fishes" asked Severac.
beginning to take for granted the
things whose consequence he had
been observing for the past eight
months.
Il taught him." Fulbert went on.
that the creatures OF the sea were
his little brothers just as quadrupeds
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HICTANER- 1.-The Man Fish, The Marvellous
Story of H0W He Succeeded in Sinking NaUy
BIZ Jean De La Hire
What Has Gone Before

The story opens with the arrival Of Full
bert, q Buddhist monk OF the TibstAn
Lama. At an isolated house on the Island
Of Cabrera. He Ereets Oxua. master OF
the house. with whom he IL plotting for
the making Of q mAn-nsh. . creature that
may slip into the sea, and below sweep
the oceans Of every ship that noats.
OIus had expected his own wife, Bertha
TO give birth TO q male child. but . little
girl was born instead. Fulbert, In q mon
astery IN Spain. takes from Martha de
Bliguires her male infant born out Of
wedlock. The mother goes mad when ths
child Is torn from her breast.
to the French torpedo boat Cyclone, in
Villefrznche Harbor. The commander,
Lieut.. Louis de Ciserat, is talking to q
friend. Il 4 February /. Clserat calls at
tention TO n Newspaper article which tells
palace OF the Kaiser. The Kaiser 10 com
manded to dissolvs the ReiehstAg by the
Unknown. Similar proclAmAtions are
receiVed BY The rulers Of France. Bel
Russia, and Holland.
CiSerAt and the other officers Of the
French squadron are summoned on board
Admiral Germinet's flagship. The ad-
blown up q German and q British battle
ship. and has also destroyed Fort Chav-
aganAc. CherbourE.
Other forts and ships also are destroyed.
=, NiOeI1 Auo OAu1 AEe lne1i b1AnS ~ N
the story, being located on an island on
the Arabian coast.
Hictaner," or the nan-nsh. comes into
the chamber and talks to Oxus and Fur
bert by means Of signals. The two monks
wear wonderful diving helmets and gar
ments made OF silver scales II Appears
that HictAner by means Of his marvellous
Rmphibious powers, and the help OF 4
torpedo. or bomb carrier. II enabled to
travel under water at incredible speed
Severac, an engineer and also q member
OF the LamaiEt order, IL the inventor Of
the torpedo, but knows nothing Of He
taner. The two monks decide to impart
their secret TO Seyerac
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Youth and Old Age

elascity and resiIieney are Depart
Ing.
You make up your mind that you
must be careful in your mode of
living.
Youth is ever changing. Age is
satisfied to rest
Mental conservation develops. II
is easier to keep in q nut than to
struggle out OF IT
Your eyes are astigmatic-your
views OF life are not altered TO meet
new conditions.
The delightful days OF the past
are going or gone. The world 10
not as It used to be. Boys and girls
are not as fine. reverent, loyal. reIig-
ious as they formerly were Men
tai life dwells in the past.
Youth looks forward. Age looks
backward.
Why grow old7 Why become .
physical conservative
Why suffer from impaired vitality
before -1Ife's greatest adventure"
greets you!
Retain your Activity-save your
body-bs a conserver Of vitality at
all ages.
Do not dissipats strength nor
needlessly waste energy.
When you begin TO feel that all
must be as II ever has been you
are on the down grade.
II you must be q conservative, be
30 because OF direct choice after
due consideration. Don't be con-
sentative because your lack OF vi
tality prevents you from being
Aught else.
Keep down your blood pressure;
be reasonable in your eating; fore
swear alcohol: keep up moderate
exercise; take ample sleep; md 10y
in very-day life.
You can conserve your Vitality
your power-your visions.
Be 4 conserVer OF youth, but not
q conservative from age.
His golden locks hath TO silver
turned;
o time too SWIFT o swiftness
never ceasing!
His youth 'gsinst time and age
hath ever spurned.
But spurned in vain; youth
HAneth BY increasing"