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DAILY CAPITAL JOTJRNAL, SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1913. PAGE FIVE The Entire Stock is on Sale The Reductions are from 10 to 50 per. cent NOTHING RESERVED. STORE OPENJEVENINGS Women's Coats 50 per cent Less AlltheLateMod els and Fabrics BELIEVE WOMAN SLEW THEN SELF UNITED PRISS U1ID Win. Denver, Colo., Dec. 24. Two corpses a man with a bullet hole in the left temple; a -woman 'a with a similar wound in the right were found in the Rialto hotel here yesterday afternoon. In the woman's hand a revolver was clutched. On the table beside the dead couple lay this note: "If I couldn't have him in life T will have him in death. They did no good keoping us apart. -I have no friends or relatives." On the floor was another note. "This girl," it read, "was going to marry Frank Gregory Christmas day. Miss Lulu Edler." Tho police berioved tlio woman killed the man and committed suicide. Tho man was identified as Gregory. Married Before. The woman, the police said, hnd been 1 WW Morris' Prices Fruit granulated sugar, Back $5.30 Good seasoning bacon 14c Best sugar cured hams lb 19c Best sugar cured pick nick, 13 Vc Best sugar cured backs, lb .20c Best streaked heavy bacon, lb 20c Dalles Patent (best flour) $1.30 Perfection $1.10 3 cans Aster milk . 25e 4 pkg Arm & Hammer soda ......25c 1 gal. extra choice peaches 35c 1 gal. extra choice applet .........30c 1 gal. extra choice pears ...35c 2 pkgs fresh raisins 15c 1 pkg fresh currants ...... 10c 3 cans fine tomatoes ...25o 3 cans fine corn 25c 1 ran extra fine pineapple 15c J5 can Clearbrook peaches 50c 2 cans Clearbrook apricots 25c 2 cans Karly June pears 25c V eana Libby's sauerkraut 25c . -ans propBrcd hominy 25c 15 . ns Atlantic clams (very best) 50c 3 cans large, fat oysters 25c 3 cans pink salmon 25c 2 cans Columbia river red salmon....25c 1 ran nice asparagni 15c No. 5 keg pickles 00c 3 IT'S dried peaches 25c 8 lbs. choice dried prunes 25c gallon choice syrup .....25c 1 gallon choice syrup 50c No. 10 pure lard '. $1.40 No. 5 pnro lBrd "5c No. 5 Snow Cap compound 05c Golden Bod wheat 25c Cal. onts 30c Cal. wheat 30c 5-Th box maccaronl - . 30e 3 pkgs Post Tootles 25c 4 pkgs Krinkled Corn Flakes 25c (I bars Rnral White soap 25c 6 bars Morris Best 25c 10 bars Elk 8avon soap 25c Best Tillamook Cream cheese, lb -..20c 100-Tb sack molasses alf. meal ....$1.30 100-lb sack plain alf. meal $1.15 Pack bran "''t Pack shorts H-15 Bet rolled oats, sack 85c Bring this sd with yon. B. N. MORRIS, Comer Morris Avenue and Fairground Road. Plena Main 1497. The married before. They found postcards in the room addressed to "Mrs. Lulu Tackett, Sheridan Oregon." Mrs. Pearl Schwab, Gregory's BiBter, who lives here said this afternoon that she had been planning to go to Cali fornia soon. Saturday night Gregory came home and said he was going with her. Asked why, he replied: "I want to get away from Lulu. She insists that I marry her but I can 't do it. I don't think she's the kind of girl for a wife or the kind of a girl for you and mother to know or receive. She threatens to kill me if I don't marry her, bo I'm going away." In fixing the valuation of the Coos Bay Water company's property yester day, the state railroad commissioner, for tho first time in the history of the state, excepting in tho case of railroads, has taken this method of arriving at what should bo the service rate of a public utility. Tho commission decided that the. valuo of tho water plant when the In vestigation was made, June J1, was $110,000, and it will prcpnre a scale of rates to give a fair return upon, that amount. It 'was announced by tho commission that tho other rato rases being con sidered would be decided by the same method, and it is possible thnt the action yesterday will be a precedent for the determination of charges of utilities in the future. Complaints that the service of the Coos Bay Water company wbs inade quate were filed with the commission by tho cities of Marsh fidd ad North Pond. The company filed a petition tlint It bo allowed to Incrcnne its rnt", and all of tho proceedings were consol idated. The commission finds that the supply and pressure of water furnixhod in Marshficld are inadequate, that the sup ply furnished North Bend for fire and domestic purposes is inadequate, that the total storage capacity is about one half the nnrmul daily consumption and the water is subject to possible con tamination. Tho reservoirs are ordered enclosed. The comniisison finds that the water is safe, and that the discolor ations are not deltcrions to the public health, but aro due to the fact that the water of Pony creek Is surface wnter. stained by vegetation. Additional ( reservoirs, pipes and mains are ordered by the commission. ROUGH PLAY URGED HEAD OFF FIGHTING "Do you want to reduce to a mini mum fighting, teasing, bullying among your school boys?" asked M. V. O'Shei, profesosr of education st the University of Wisconsin in his address yesterday at the session of the western division of the Oregon State Teachers' association. "Then let them play base Christmas Cheer pervades the store bright, pretty 'and extremely numer ous are the Christmas pres ents on display here presents that the recipient will surely appreciate, and ball, football rough games, if you please. The competitive element must be brought into use to combat the prim itive instinct. What you cannot sup press, you must direct. Give the chil dren a substitue for fighting, and you will find that they will make out all right." The Wisconsin professor declared that the child was the product of all that had gone bofore in thought and activity, and that he can be improved only by substitution of what should be for what has been. In the past, ho declared, the child and the, adult were l.ot essentially different in their na tures or their needs, the' adult being only stronger physically and hitcUec tvally. A committee was appointed to inves tigate a course of genorol science and report next year. This committee con sists of P. L. Gilmore, Monmouth; Earl Kilpatrick, Salem; II. C. Seymour, Dai la; F. L. Griffin, Oregon Agricultural College, and L. D. Roberts, Portland. PLANS TO SIMPLIFY WATER CONTROL DISCUSSED fCNITKD PBIGB LIABVn Wltllt.1 Washington, Dec. 4. Plans for in augurating a system whereby all ques tions pertuining to water control and distribution under the federal govern ment may be disposed of without du plication of effort, were discussed at a departmental conference today between Secretaries Garrison, Lane, Houston and Hedfield. It wns announced that great er co operation and coordination be tween the four departments would sim plify a work now widely distributed and to this end further conferences will be held. It was pointed out thnt tho great watersheds of the national forests arc now controlled by tho agricultural de partment, while, in many instnneos, especially whero floods aro involved, tho war department has sole jurisdic tion. The water supply and floods it was observed, bear a close relation to conservation which tho interior depart, mcnt is bending its efforts to solve. LANDES SUCCEEDS KANE. rrKiTEn Flml lAASKD wins 1 Rcnttle, Wash, Dec. 24. Professor Henry I.andes, dean of the school of Sciences of the University of Washing ton, was yesterday unanimously elected by the board of regents as temporary president to succeed Dr. Thomas E. Kane, who was removed two weeks ago when he refused to resign. Landcs is to take office Jnnuarv 1. Sacrifice Sale As I am going east, I will Bell my close in suburban home, cheap. Beau tiful oacre tract, well-improved, all kinds of bearing fruit. House, barn. well, stock and all implements. Price $2600, terms. Call on my agents, Boch- tel ft Bynon. Largo list of Houses for rent. House told on easy payment!. Write Fire, Life, Accident Insurance, and Surety Bonds. Money to loan. We buy, sell or exchange' properties. EECHTEL BYNON, 347 But. FAMOUS SLOVENS They Had a Fine Contempt For Personal Appearance. . GENIUS IN UNCOUTH ATTIRE. Turner, th Artist, Orsed Like an Old Tim Cab Driver Dr. Johnson Wa Grotesque, and "Old Fitz" Out raged All th Sartorial Conventions. It la surprising how outrageously careless of tbeir personal appearance many famous men have been. Genius may or may not be allied to madness, but It has certainly very often beeu linked with an utter disregard for clothes and cleanly habits. It is said of Turner, the great land scape painter, that bis bands were "the smallest and dirtiest bands on record." Perhaps tbnt Is an exaggeration, but be was certainly very slovenly la bis dress He wore a black swallowtail dress coat, Tery much In need of- a clothesbrush vigorously used, and In the, warmest as well as In the coldest weather be wore round bis throat a sort of wrap or mu tiler, which he would unloose, letting the ends dangle down In front and dip Into the colors of his palette. He always worked either with bis old bat on bis bead or with this same large muffler over bis bend. His appearance wns more like that of an old time coachman than of a famous lioynl Academician, for be was short and stout with a red and blotchy face. Dr. Johnson's slovenliness has al most passed into a proverb. There are muny contemporary nccounts of his turning out of his house In Bolt court with his wig back to front and bis stockings down. When Boswell visited blm nt 1 Inner Temple lime he records: "Ills brown suit of clothes looked very rusty; he hnd on n little, old shriveled, unpowdered wig. which wns too small for his hcvul; bis shirt neck and the knees of bis breeches were loose, bis black worsted stockings 111 drnwn up, and by way of slippers be bad on a puir of unbuckled shoes." When it la added thnt this great man was con stantly twitching, grunting, shaking bis head, pulling his cheeks and blink ing bis eyes, It must be admitted that bis appearance was not only uncouth but grotesque. Thomas C'urlyle, coming of a peasant race, never conformed to'soclety garb. He was always the Inspired peasant He would sometimes go out In bis old dressing gown, over which be but toned a big coat, gray with age. When he wns left alone In the house be de lighted in swilling bis flagstones with palls of water, and many a distin guished friend found him thus en gaged with a kind of smock on and bis bushy hair all tousled. He went about all the summer among the high est urlstocracy In a frieze Jacket which wns part of an old dressing gown. All the cabmen and bus . drivers Chelsea wny knew blm. . Onq. said, "He may wear a queer 'at but whut would ycr give for the 'eadpiece inside of It?" It would not be seemly to describe Tennyson as slovenly in any real eenHe. He wns a singularly noble looking man, but be did not care a Jot what be wore. Ills old slouch bat bad seen unnumbered years and Mapped about at all angles., and the Inverness enpe which be Invariably wore was about us old us bis lint People who met him without knowing bis Immense distinction would have regurded blm as n rntbur quaint character, nud a tailor's cutter would not have assessed 111 in at half a dollar, nil told. This Is a description of the dully ap pearance of Edward Fitzgerald, the Immortal translator of "The Uubalyut of Omar Khayyam: "Struggling gray balr and slovenly tu dress, wearing an undent, buttered, bluck bunded, shiny edged tall but. round which be would In wintry weather tie a handkerchief to keep It In place; bis clothes of linger lil clntti, ns though he were a seafarer: bis trousers short and his slides low, exhibiting n length of white or gray stockings. With un unstnrch d shirt front, high, crumpled, stnndup collar, a big hluck silk tie In a careless how; to cold weather trailing a green mill black and gray plaid sliuwl, In hot weather even wnlklng barefoot with his boots slung to a stick. " Surely ''Old KIiji." as Tennyson called blm. took the cuke for slovenliness of all the linniiirtnlsl-l'earson's Weekly. A Useful Army. Completion the Improvements In a conquered town, uy Popular Mechlin u s. is an unusual occupation fur on In vading tinny, but Oils Is what happen ed In L'skiib. Macedonia When the Hull; ii n war tirnke out the electric street llulitlim system wiih almost com ilele. Tbt' town was then taken by the Servian army, and the engineering staff ciiinpli'led the system and put It In working order. Dor' Musical Rebue. Gustuve Dure, the famous painter and engraver, once bought a villa on the outskirts of Paris nnd wrote over the entrance this musical rebus. Do. ml. mI. In. do. re. This, properly Inter preted. Is 'Immlille n Pore." or In plain English "Home of Dore.' ' An Invitation. "Wlint are yuu thinking of, Miss Wombat V "Of your name. Mr. noggins" "My nanier "Ye, as Shakespeare says. Is there anything In a name?"-Scuttle Post-In telllgencer. I hare often wondered how every man lore himself inure than all the rext of men. Antonio. The country 'i, well as tho doc thankful for a currency law for a Christmas present. Many deserving poor are too proud to malt any appeal. .They need to be hquted up. LUCK AND LOVE. Firrt H. Won th Fathr, and Than H Captured th Heir. A dozen years ago, fresh from the school of Versailles, came a young un der lieutenant of artillery. In his new uniform, returning from Normandy, where he had been to see bis brother. On the train the young officer found himself Beated beside an old man, who, Uke himself, was going to Paris. They entered into conversation. An mlable intimacy was established be tween the two travelers. At the west station the old gentleman, taking leave of the young officer, aald, "I need a son-in-law like you." Three months Inter the officer re turned to Normandy. He narrated the Incident of the Journey to his brother and questioned him about the strange companion. I know this old fellow," responded the brother. "Do you know that he offered you a very pretty partner? His daughter possesses an Income of 100, 000 francs." "Where Is BheT I'll go after her." said the officer. The brother made a sorrowful ges ture. "Alas! you are a little late." "Eh, what! Is the young girl to be married?" No; her father was burled eight days ago." The lieutenant was silent for a mo ment' "But I knew her father. A visit of condolence Is imposed upon me." Dressed in his best uniform, he call ed upon the lady. He spoke In the most tender terms of the old gentle man. Without doubt the prestige of the uniform was not without effect on the young provincial, nnd the story ns In the pleasant dramas, ended with a marriage. The lieutenant Is now a prominent member of the chnmber of deputies. CrI do Tarls. TALES OF TWO DANCES. London Society at First Rebelled Against Waltz and Polka. ' When the waltz first appeared In London It raised a social rumpus. The dunce came from Poland to London by wny of Portsmouth, where Its ad vantages were at once apparent to the women, though the men did not much like seeing other men clasping their wives. It wus first danced at Almack's in London by Lady Jersey and two or three of ber friends, and society was riven from top to bottom into the wultzcrs and nntl-waltzcrs. In spite of Lady Jersey's powerful Influ ence, there seemed llttlo chance of the acceptance, of the wultz. In 1810 the allied sovereigns came to London and visited Almack's. There they Joined In the wultz and removed It from the realm of discussion. The waltz needed but three sovereigns to make It re spectable. Tbe polka excited almost as much controversy as the waltz on Its first In troduction Into England. Lady Dor othy Nevlll recalls a scene at a ball In the late thirties when a deputation of Indies begged the hostess, Mrs. Spencer Stanhope, to allow the polka to be danced by Blx ladies who understood it. Permission being accorded, the six stepped out with their partners, all of tbcm, curiously enough, dressed In black, which caused people to say It wus u chimney sweep's dance. Ex traordinary excitement was created by tbe Innovation, I.ady Jersey, the Duch ess of Bedford and a number of other women clambering up on the chairs and benches to gain a better view. History of th Bivt. The curliest tool Unit has been traced In Egyptian history Is the saw. It wns found lirst In the form of a notched bronze knife in tho third dynasty, or about B,(KK) years before the Christian era, and was followed In tho fourth nnd fifth dynasties liy larger toothed saws, which were used by carpenters, but there are no dated specimens until the seventh century liefoni the Chris tian era. when the Assyrians used iron saws. Tbe first knives on record were made out of Hint nnd were, In fact, snws with minute teeth. They prob ably were used for cutting up animals, as the teeth would break away even on soft wood. Hasps, which are but a form of saw, were first made of sheets of bronze punched nnd colled round, but tbe Assyrians In tho sev enth century used the straight rasp made of Iron similar to the modern type. Figgeratlv. "A schoolboy of eleven," said Pro fessor Thomas. II. Lounsliury, Yale's authority on English, "once gave nn apt Illustration of figurative usage, He gave It In a composition, writing: " 'A llggeratlve guying Is, "to keep the wolf from the door." It does not mean In keep il real live wolf from the door. A good Instance Is when the landlord cniiies for the rent, He knocks at the door and you keep awful quiet, lu the hope that be will think there Is nobody In ami go away.' "Washing ton Star. Th Paragon. "Have you any employee who doesn't talk baseball, horse racing und prizefighting nil the time, to the ex clusion of business?" "Yes" "Where did you get blm?"' "It isn't n him; It's a her."-Pltts-burgh Post. Was It? - gnve Walter a beautiful necktie if my own niaku for a birthday pros 'lit," suld Mabel. "Was he pleased?" "Ob, yes; he said Its benuty shall be 'or no other eyes than his own. Wasn't hat lovely of hlm?"-I.lppliicntt's. Friendship Is love without hi wings. -Byron. It is surprising that nmielai.lv at ( hihiinliua hasn't given General Villa his. 1 "I A (liuiiiuati preacher will give a free lunch every week day evening lu his church. HE DIDN'T LIKE DRIPPING. And No Wonder, After He Had Rad About It Strength. What is dripping? Everybody knows that dripping Is supposed to be tbe juices, the savory essences, that full from roasting meats. That Is the supposition. But what really is dripping the dripping that the poor of England buy by the pound and smear upon their bread In lieu of butter? Tbe question perhaps will never be answered, but a partial solution Is given to It by the fact that a London poorbouse recently bought at $7 a ton thirty-two tons of dripping from a soap works. Alfred Noyes used to tell a dripping story. "A little boy," he would begin, "com plained bitterly about the bread aud dripping that formed bis dally break fast. " 'It'll kill me,' he whined at last 'I know It'll kill me.' " 'Kill you? What do you mean?" " 'Why, I've been feeling pretty bad lately, and now I know it's all this dripping what's the cause of the trou ble. I read It lu a book.' " 'Some pure food rubbish, I dare say! And what, precisely, did you read In this vile book, silly?' " 'I read,' whined the urchin, 'that constant dripping wears away a stone,' "Exchange. HUMOR OF A CANNIBAL H Enjoyed It Himself, but It Didn't Tickle th Viotim. A number of natives came to greet us when we landed at Buu, a FIJI is land, among them a few whom the consul seemed to know. They volun teered to act ns escorts for us and by various expressions tried to convey the Idea that they were glad to see us. A school forms one side of the square. Across from this stands the council chnmber, built on the trench whero the bodies were roasted for their former feasts. The old headstone ngulnst which Cacobnu used to dash tbe brains of his victims still stands, nnd the anchor and rudder of a French ship wrecked near Buu lie beside It. Beneath a picture of Queen Victoria t saw an old sword swinging. I exam ined It nnd found It was a French weapon, no doubt tho arm of tho unfor tuuute French vessel's commander. During tho time this wns going on Jim, Ratu Kaduvu's servant who la a particularly good type of a large, mus cular race, nppronched me, ran his hand around my wulst nnd slowly down my thigh and smacked his Hps with a wicked smile. I laughed at this display of aboriginal humor, but not very heartily, for the Bword of tho French captain still swung before my eyes. Christian Herald MRS. YOUNG RE-ELECTED HEAD OF CHICAGO SCHOOLS united i'bess uasicd wirb. Chicago, Dec. 24. Mrs. Ella Flagg "onng was re-elected superintendent ot the Chicago public schools after a Btormy session of the board yestorday afternoon. Thirteen of tho ballots oast were for Mrs. Young; seven wore blank. CLEMENTS CONFIRMED. (UNiTSn rnims i.EASr.n wius Washington, Dec, 24. Tho sennto yes terday afternoon confirmed President Wilson's reappointment of Judson Clements of Georgia as an interstate commerce, commissioner. Your Eye will tell you that the ideal light for sew ing or reading is the soft mellow light of n rrnnrl nil lunn TKp 1?ov-i ic rm- phatically a good oil constructed to provide the maximum of correct light, and proved good, by years of satisfactory service in every civilized country of the world. 1 V Lamps No glare; no flicker. care for. Inexpensive mical, but the best light, at any price. Atk Your Dealer For Th Rayo Standard Oil Company (Calif .ml) Portland IS DECISIOJ Son of Head of Willamette University Selected for Rhodes Scholarship at Session BRIGHT YOUNG MAN AND' PROMINENT IN SPORTS University Students Are - Greatly Pleased Over Latest Honor Con ferred on Institution. There is great rejoicing among the friends of Willamette University be cause of the fact that Paul T. Homan, son of President Homan, was unani mously chosen yesterday afternoon by the Rhodes scholarship selection com mittee as the next Oregon Rhodes schol ar to Oxford University, England. Mr. Homan has shown that he Is a talonted man with brains. He like wise Is one of the greatest athletes in the Northwest, a leader among his fel lows, and a man of cloan, wholesome, upright life. His scholastic average Is high. The othor elements entering Into the choosing of a Rhodes scholar are ath letic ability, general manliness, cour age, dovotion to duty and power of leadership. Presidont Homan 's son was quarter back in the football game this fall, where his generalship brought about for the first time the defeat of the University of Oregon by the Willamette team. Mr. Homan is one of the most popular men in the university. The committee of selection waa Pres ident Campbell, University of Oregon; President Crook, Albany College; Pres idont Bushnell, Pacific University President Riley, McMinnville College, and President Homan. The other competing men were Luton Ackerson and Raphael Geishler, of the University of Oregon, and Seth Axlev. of Willamette University. Homan is the second man to so from Willamotta University to Oxford, as r.dwin Win am was sent from this in stitution in 1007. The latter is now teaching In Fekin University, China. Mr. Homan has not fully decided what he will follow after he finishes at Ox ford. .,.. HIGH TIDE WRECKS STAGlt (DNiTiD rnasa umid wiai.1 Nowport, Or. pec. 3.-The second unusual high tide this wintor brought the second accident to Howard Peter son, driver of the Waldport-Nowport stngo lino, when It overturned tho stage yestorday, losing some of the express and two Barks of mail. The mail socks wore roeovcrod today. 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