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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1925
Capital JLJournal
flalem. Oreeon
An Independent Newspaper Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday
at 136 a. commercial Street. Telephone 81; Nowa. si
ADOPTION OF
CINDERELLA
TO BE PROBED
(Continues from Fare One)
GEOHGB PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher
Entered as second class mull mutter at Salem, Oregon
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
By carrier 10 cents a week. 45 cent a month. S5 a year In advance.
Isy mull, in Murlon and Polk counties, one month 50 cents, S
months 11.25, 6 months 12.25, 1 year (4.00, Elsewhere 50 cents
month, IS a year In advnnco.
Whii m:asi;d wutio associated 1'itnss skuvick
The Associutcd lJrcHs Is exclusively entitled to the use for puh!ica
tion of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise, credited in
this paper and also local news published horein.
"Without or with offense to friends or foes
I sketch your world exactly as it goes." -byron.
Same Old Story
About every three years, sometimes oftener, someone
Marls a grape-vine rumor that a corpse sometimes human,
sometimes animal, has been found in the city reservoir. As
of other rumors, its origin lies in shadowland, but it spreads
like wild-fire and soon many people are afraid to drink city
water.
Such rumors are not confined to Salem. They are period
ically recurrent in every city. They usually follow a sudden
development of algae in the water, in a hot spell, caused by a
strain on the Alteration system, which gives a bad taste to
the water, though it is not at all injurious. Probably some
person makes the remark that the water tastes as if some
thing dead is in it, and this grows with repetition until a
whole cemetery is mysthically located.
Bend drinks water containing algae all summer. Mcdford's
water is some times green from it. Most other communities,
especially those using stored water are bothered with it at
intervals. But the taste and coloration, while disagreeable,
are not injurious.
The proof of the puddin' is the ealin', and the proof of
water purity is the result of drinking it. There is no typhoid
or other illness in the city caused by drinking city water,
1 he sporadic cases of typhoid are usually due to well water
balem s water is as pure as any in the country.
there must be a statute that a
parent cannot sell a child. It
there la not such a law, we will
make one."
The adoption did not paea thru
ntir orilce, the commissioner
plained, since Mary L,oulso was
not a "dependent child."
"We do not allow the adoption
of children by ioater parents of
a different faith," he added, "and
we never allow divorced pereons
to adopt children who are under
our surveillance."
Informed of Commissioner Col
or's action, Hrownlhg said he had
Klvcn J!)00 each to Mary's father
and mother ut the girl's reouest.
Tho money In both instances he
said, was sent at once to Denver
for use In defraylnsr the expenses
of Mary's elder ssltcr Allhlred,
who has been undergoing medical
treatment there.
I have a clear conscience," said
Hrownhig, "I too have received
thousands of letters but they all
wero of a complimentary charact-
wuere mediates, m.'lliuera and! WIERD TALE
n
The millionaire said "only 12500"
had been spent In the first dny of
.shopping for his new daughter,
which he referred to as "a prelim
inary expedition."
Mury Spaa Browning's dreams
are beginning to ccme true. What
ever doubts and self ninchines
she may have indulged In when
the millionaire realtor, Edward
Browning, pictured for her a life
of case as his third adopted
daughter, the little Bohemian
girl, was convinced today.
Buvs luxuries
For her suite in a Long Island
hotel, not many miles from the
home of her immigrant parents,
was crammed with the results of
her first raid yesterday on the
luxury shops on Fifth avenue Starr,
the land
"Daddy" Browning wa
good as hie word, and Mary had
carte blanc taking her pick from
one glittering array after anoth
er. The shopping tour was halt
ed only for luncheon at a Broad
way hotel roof. It was enough to
n ake any girl's h.ad swim, :ut
Mary, although reared in moder
ate circumstances carried off her
part with the dignity befitting
a modern Cinderella.
The net result was fifty smart
frocks, most of them lavishly
trimmed in lace, for which Mary
admits a fondness, twenty pairs
of delicate silk hosiery, ten pairs
of slippers, and pearls and other
trimmings that a princess might
envy.
Only Betjinnine
An J yester'ay was but the
beginning. Today Mr. Browning
planned to let his new daughtei
select a motor car, while he
sought to insure her for $100,-
000 and make arrangements for
parking an airplane on the out-
It irts of New lork.
Mary will meet Dorothy Sun
shine, the foster child for "whom
she was chosen as companion at
Crystal Lake, Vt., when her ward
robe and other purchases have
been completed.
There were some shadows on
Mary's happiness.
Reports which she ascribed to
gossiping neighbors had It that
she was 21 years old and not 18
as she and Mr. Browning claim;
that she had been engaged to a
dentist and that Ler parents are
not poor but own - art of a $60,-
fou apartment house and an au
tomobile. Her sister, Mildred, 23,
fs in a Denver sanitarium suffer
ing fron tuberculosis. Mary ad
mitted being in the movies as an
extra two days and that she
had registered at booking o"rces
ot a motion picture firm as Mary
OF RESERVOIR
GROWS DAILY
(Continued from page ?ne)
forthcoming. "No, I didn't talk
to the man myself, but there's a
young lady staying here who did
uhe knows all about It." The
young lady was eooa forthcoming.
Oriein Unknown.
"Well all 1 know," she said, "is
just what Peggy, told me. She
was talking with this fellow 1
think he came up from Portland
to see her. 'I understand he told
her that he helped lake the dead
body out. "I've been wanting to
see him myself to find out wheth
er he was joking or not."
And so It goes, ft was stated
this morning at the office of
Lloyd T. Itigdon, county coroner,
that "over a hundred people have
called us on the phone," asking
details of the affair. There has
been absolutely uo report handed
in to the coroner concerning any
mysteriously found dead body ut
the reservoir or at any other place.
Dr. William B. Mott, city health
officer, has investigated the rumor
he also has been deluged with
inquiries and found it to be ab
solutely ungrounded. Officials of
the water company say the same
thing.
Rumor Constantly Grows.
Meanwhile, through such agen
cies as the elevator man, the res
taurant waitress, the barber shop,
the back fence gossiper, the pool
hall lounger and other inexhaust
ible sources of supply, the rumor
is constantly growing in momen
tum. What today was a dead
Chinaman and three dead babies
may become heaven knows what
by the end of the week.
Little or no thought Is given to
the fact that a high picket fence
surrounds the resrvolr; that more
could hardly be a more difficult
place In the city to place
body or any other largo object. In
some quarters the Idea Is appar
ently held that some despairing
individual ucaleU the wall and
committed suicide by drowlng
himself In tho water. Just why
he should pick out that particu
lar site for his act la not explain
ed. I'erhaps within a few days
the report will be that he was
someone who was roughly treated
by tiulem city officiate and chose
that way or avenging himself on
the city rather than having a set
of cards printed advising tourists
to take the West Side highway.
Pumned from River.
As a matter of fact, water
which had the unsavory taste
which gave rise to tho rumors, in
many cases never patted through
the reservoir at all. Water is
pumped directly into the mains,
iinly the surplus going into the
large emergency reservoir on the
hill in the southern part of the
city, near Lincoln and Rock
streets.
On Monday. July 20, the first
definite resort of the year was
turned In regarding the taste luthe taste all morning, showing
tho drinking water. By the morn
Ing ot Tuesdny, July 21, reports
were coming from most sections of
the city. In tho morning, now
over, drinking water would be
coming directly from the river, the
surplus belay pumped Into the
reservoir. At that time running
water within two blocks ot the
water plant Is known to have had
FRECKLES
Don't Hide Tlicni With n Veil; Re
move Them With utiuiic
Double Strength
This preparation for the remov
al of freckles is so successful in
removing freckles una giving a
clear, beautiful complexion that u
is sold by all drug and department
stores with a guarantee to refund
the money if it fails.
Don't hide your freckles under
a veil or waste time on lemon
juice or cucumbers; get an ounce
of Othine and remove them, Even
the first few applications should
show a wonderful improvement,
some of the lighter freckles van
ishing entirely.
Be sure to ask for the double
strength Othine: it la this that is
dead sold on money back guarantee.
SELF POISONING
Neglect of the liver results In
self poisoning! Not so quickly, per
haps, but just as surely as if you
drank poison out of a bottle It'
your liver is not doing its work of
helping digestion, eliminating
waste from the bowels and purify
ing the blood, you will always be
troubled with sick headaches, nau
sea, biliousness, bad breath, gas,
sour stomach, or constipation.
Cleanse and tone your liver! Put
your system in condition bo yoj
feel your very best again! Try just
a spoonful of Dr. II. S. Thachcr
excellent Liver and Blood Syrup
after the next few meals and no
tice the quick Improvement in the
way you eat, sleep, look and feel
tho return of strength, vigor and
energy. You will be completely
satisfied; otherwise there will be
no cost. Adv.
j This Coupon Is Good
r IV-LVL fOP Sample Bottle
Dr. Tliucliur's lilver & Blood Syrup
if presented before the supply for
free distribution is already given
away. Read the full details above.
then act at once, as this offer is
limited. Get a trial size now by pre
scnthig this coupon to J. C. Per-
Drug store, Salem. Conrad
Stafrin, Dallas. Geo. W. Steelham-
mer, Silvcrton.
positively that the taste was In
the water when it waa pumped in
to the mains from the river. As
a matter o fact It waa in the aft
ernoon, when the supply from tho
reservoir began to be used, that
the taete began to disappear.
One Thin Woman
Gained 10 Pounds
In 20 Days
Skinny Men Can
Do the Same
All weak men and women
All nervous men and women
All skinny men and women
Can grow stronger, healthier
and more vigorous and take on
solid needed fleah in 30 days just
y taking McCoy's Cod Liver OH
Compound Table-Is four times a
jay ag easy to take as candy.
And what a hit these flesh pro
ducing tablets have made. Ono
druggist tripled his sales in ono
week.
Rverybodv knows that nasty
tasting evil .smelling Cod Liver Oil
is a wonderful vitalizer, flesh iro
ducer and health creator.
Hut who wants to swallow the
horrible stuff, when theso won
derful tablets McCoy's Cod Liver
Oil Compound Tablets, ar-3 just as
good and so easy to take.
A box of JuO tablets for faO cents
and if any skinny man or woman
doesn t gain at least 5 pounds in
30 days money back. Ask J. C.
Perry, Central Pharmacy, V. J.
Fry or any good druggists any
where in America.
Ite sure and get McCoy'p, tho
original and genuine, and don t
forget there is nothing on earth
good to make backward, list
less, underweight children grow
strong and robust. Adv.
Pay the Price
As the Southern Pacific is making virtue of necessity and
capitalizing us required extensions by demanding local sun
port as the price of doing the inevitable, it is respectfully
suggested that the sponsors of the resolution before the
Salem Chamber of Commerce committing the city to South
ern Pacific partisanship in the central Oregon comnetition
with the Oregon Trunk, exact a similar price for Salem's
support.
it the bouthern Pacific can build divisional railroad shops
ana terminals at li-ugene, as the price of Eugene's support-
and can repeat the performance at Klamath Falls, as the
price of Klamath I' alls' support, why not more divisiona
shops and terminals at Salem, ns the price of Salem's support?
Isn t balem also a great railroad center, like Eugene and
Aiamath falls.' Uoesnt the main line run north and the
main line run south? Doesn't a branch-line run east and a
branch line run west? And moreover, isn't Salem both on
the Coos Hay line, the Natron Cut-off line and the Siskiyou
line, with every tram either way going through it? We'll say
BIIK In,
The issue is plain if (he Southern I'm-ifin wii s-,l
to line-up for it, it should pay (he price it is paying Eugene
and Klamath Falls, and erect shops, terminals and $ 100,000
itiuiiin payrons. n nore tlo they get the idea (hat we are
cheap that hot-air buys us?
One Wife on Approval
Ry Violet Dare Q
onfiii;nii;.s
What would Jim Lohuitl do
When he got home? What would
ho wiy when he heard that his wife
had boon miowbound In a deserted
milliliter cottage for three day with
Noel (iurdrier?
Cynthia had no more Idea what
tho answer to thiwc quufttlonn
would be than had tho women wit
ROAsiped n I) tint her. She talked
tlinm over with Noel tho next dny
"Jim will believe mo when I tel
Mm Die truih about our being lust
in the wood. I'm sure of that,'
Cynthln wild. "lie's mire to. I
can't nlway count on hint, but I'm
positive that I can in this case."
"Well, yes, I agree with you
that fur," ntuuvered Noel. "Hut 1
can't toll Imv he'll take tiling,
lie may bo darned dlsagreea hie.
yuu know. I knew Jim us a kid.
and In no broader-minded than
hln mother. He's likely to feel that
he baa to forgive you. a if you'd
done something wrung, and make
It nit her uiiromfortaMe for you
forever after. Tel! mo, Cynthia
how did ym happen to marry him.
nnyway? Uo doesn't peein to un
to be nt all the kind of chap you'd
pti-k fur a hu.shand." ,
"Oh. I was fit luiiety, and he un;
no good to mo. Ym fen, r,i just I
gone from one -t of mint ami
uncles nnd cmislns to nimther nllj
my life nfler my parent died. I'd i
never had n home of my own. lj
was a I way vbdhug in mum-bedy
else's, except when I w:m nuay at
Biliool. And then Jim camo along,
Utid lie Keemed o kind and sU-.nl
Diid dependable, and I did rate a
lot for him Tin nui the first un
man who's ml.Htakwi that feeling
Tor love, you know!
"So we were married and
here ami I found hi whole family
running mo. and even though ,11m
Wa kind, he idded with them
against mo, I do think th
young married couple fdinuld have
tho flrt two years alone. o I ha
they ran really get to know eael
other! Jim and I seemed to be
nui iiaviiiff mm ana nta f;,,niy
on yuu rorovor. You'd
ih-k It out, I know. Hut I won't
novo mat.
He wan qitlte callable of carry
"iR out nui threat who knew. Tho
opinion of other people meant nolh
In to him. They could live abroad
or course, till Jim divorced her,
ana then they could bo married.
was not a plrturo hc liked and
yet how could he remain with Ji;
tinner me constant disapproval of
um ramify r That would bo (
woiw. oh. how had she contrived
to make mich a mcwi of her life!
mio thought of the v.-irloii wo
men nf her i:eqtiatntanrr; any one
of (hem would have handled the
filiation so easily. Lonella would
never have got Into It In the first
place; she would always have been
happy In the life that Jim and hi
ithor decreed.
And Ceiilo would never have
hesitate,! fr an instant If she knew
that Noel loved her. Klio wnuM
ily have thrown her bonnet over
Ilio windmill and followed hint to
the e nd.s nf tho eai th.
I tut then. Noel wouldn't h ive
fallen In love witl, n woman who
le of taking tiling that
uav !
II i
ill he h.
t:ht
:il
way misunderstanding each othei
I wa always dolnjr somothiiii; I
thought wn all right, that lie
thought wa simply dreadful! And
hi mother was alway.i stepping in
between u. Now "
"Now ycu'ro going to get n
divorce from Jim and ninny me,"
Noel cut in, quickly. "Anil I'm ko-
ItifC to (nko rnio of you (or the rent
of your life. I'm going to make you
happy."
"Hut what If Jim doonn't want
divorce? V can't do anything
then."
"Then I'm frolnff to kidnap you,"
he a nwered, quietly. "I know thai
you'd never tun away from htm,
but I'm not going- to Irt you ruin
your life by ticking' with him.
ny Idea of
e?" No.-l w
ments' silen
he home within
yn 1 1 bia aiiHweri
n't heard ovi.-Hv
l to a. In
1 wero rare, and
y little.
wet tie this thing
f that." Noel re
plied. "I d suggest that you make
ai r.uiKenienls tu bring suit at once,
as oon as you've l e.iehed nn agree
Jim, and then you
way for a h htle. and I
you later and we'd be
tter a f
Me n
t WO U ee
Mouly. '
Kwn t II
that .tiin
lh.it they
Then
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Cwithla Mid nothing. It nee mod
such a hard-hearted way of going
about thh'R. And ahc waa In be
dumped back and forth like a bag
of meal, with nil thia divorcing
.nui reunifying going on over her
head, eo to apeak
Perhaps If Khe nnd Jim hid
known each other better before
they wore married perhaiw If
fhe d met Noel before he married
Jim her mind whirled between
thQ two t-OHHibllitlra. She began
to feel that anything would be pre
ferable to the niatr of affair that
now prevailed.
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