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the oi:ncox stattsmami srxi.v. kkimumiiy m, 1010 aa -a fcM mmM i mi - 1 ' t ? ! MYSTERY Uy W. T. RIGDOX Salem. Oregon, Feb.TO, 1919. ( upon my mind that it hs been im-1 Jf, J!!V possible Tor pe to forget them, or even crowd them to the unused do- llf and the outward push of the great river. The sands would pile up at the neutralized point and obstruct navigation in -spite of all that could be done to prevent.it." Conjures wrestled with the pro blem; legislators wrangled over the I matter and all Oronn husiorl herself In the spring of 1913 I made a trip with every suggestion imaginable. . in the Southland. Many incidents of I nd hoped without prospect, until the .trip ma.le such an impression j Ptln Kades solved the mystery for me wnoie worm, wnere similar con- exist.' No doubt thousand." now en joyinr the fruits of tha tl.itlnntc r . I ... " iui rtru uuiut !' a- ; "L '"17' Z "ich tytery ever existed, or ever where the dreaded Columbia river har once existed, striking terror to the very soul of even the hardened mariner; I thought of the vmighty hange which has been wrought by the genKus of man. which shines out as clear a day in that long line of Jetty on either aide, of that now per fectly safe entrance to one of the finest rivers on the globe. A satisfactory and efficient plan for improving . that hazardou-s en trance was once hid in mystery. The heard of Captain Eades. As we rounded the enter point of the jetty, the old ocean spread out before ns in its awful Immensity, as far as the strained eye could reach, until a gen tle horizon came, to its relief and forfcpde a more extended vision Thus the mind was left free to con template the great mystery of this huge body of dissolved .hydrogen with all its unfathomed mysteries Always moving, never for one mo ment resting, yet never wearying or tiring., Always here (maybe, came our constant companion since our good- ship passed the outposts of the Columbia jetty. After looking around a little while through the business streets of the interesting city, I asked for the show places. I was directed to the Cliff Gardens. After a three-mile ride on the street car I stepped off at the entrance gate of the most beautiful ffectly stationery Jn a horizontal po- spot I had ever visited. For a time 1 1 smon wnne it rucks tne noney iron. i . with such a heavy coat of feather t ff that he looks like a Siberian soldier at Christmas time. Why did the creator build birds on such widely different pians!," said I. "Oh. I don't know ald he. "But just look at that humming bird stand per S ho Win paced through the beautiful walks and tried to absorb the spirit of the place. Tbe high stone fence on the south la a marvel of patient and painstaking construction which con trasts pleasantly with the precipitous bluffs on the north, east, and west .of an enclosure of but a few acres. Still within these few acres can be found almost every choice and rare flower, plant, shrub and tree ob tainable. Also a few fare animals from the proud and haughty elk with his annualiantlers, to the interesting pig. Also rare ! diminutive v Guinea a hanging flower. And then look at- that big. awkward ostrich flap his wings without being able to lift him self from the ground." "Well." said I. "he can't fly any more than a horse can fly. Why should he have wings at all?" "O. 1 don't know." said he. "Well, what do yon know anyway, my frlen.1? You toid nre that you walked in the broad daylight of knowledge; you took no stock in my- tery, and now i nna mat me worm Is just as mysterious to you as' it i! to me. "Two tiny seeds may so closely genius who would solve the mystery and thereby bring the Oreon country within reach of the world's . trade, 'commercial marts. The pessimist wa saying the thing could not be done it "was impossible to hold a dees channel against these two contending forcesc the inward, rush of the sea The Joy Recipe! Take Cascarets Regulate liver and bowels, and sweeten the stomach spend 10 cents and see Knjoy life!5 Straighten up. Your system is filled with an accumula tion of bile and boweE poison which keeps you -bilious, headachy, dizzy, tongue coated, breath bad and stom ach sour. Wby don't you get a 10 cent box of Cascarets at the drug store and fetl fine: Take Cascarets tonight and enjoy the nicest, gentlest liver and bowel cleansing you ever experienced. Give Cafcareta to chil dren also, they taste : like candy. Never gripe but never fail. Sick, bilious children love ' to take this laxative. - tinually running, but never leaving Contaminated by .every land, muddied by every storm: feeding , upon de caying vegetation: feasting upon carrion of every description, yet pos sessing a laboratory of inexhaustible resources for purifying the physical world. . Millions of thoughts like these ran through my brain as my vision was alternated between the great expanse on my right and the waving trees and pleasant hills on my left. The different composition of the var ious and nunterable sti ta which showed along cliffs' - at every con ceivable jingle in different places carried my mind back to the ; study of geology and Haley's speculations on the earth's construction, also the more recent writings Of our own Ormsby McKnight Mitchell and his rather successful attempt to harmon ize the mysteries of the earth's con struction with the Mosaic story of the sixlays of creation. Still I could only say mystery, mystery, all Is mystery. As our good, ship rounded that mighty bulwark of nature, the won derful Point Loma and brought with in our view the beautiful city of San Diego, a Tine development of the first habitation of the white man on the soil of California, we began to school ourselves to leave on deck the swaggering step which had been Four Free Scholarships TO ADVKKTISK n , -piXIE. BREAD To each.ofthe four young men or young woxnetT who gave the largest number of DIXIE BREAD WRAPPERS OR DIXIE DREAD ' LABELS we will give a : .. ' .. -. ,," . , . .. :-t.-. v,:;,,v.'.-;- ;:::Z?-:-' -' " MIX MONTHS'. KCIIOfjAltSllll IX T1IK Capital Business College Thisjs a voting contest; each Dixie Bread Wrapper or Dixie Bread Label counts for ten votes. All you need to do is to bring or mail the wrappers or labels to the Salem Baking Co., successors to the Modern Bakery, 439 Court St., Salem. , Place the name of the person for whom you wish to vote in an envelope with the wrappers or labels. The envelope will be dropped through a slot in a locked, box. The key to this box will be In charge of a com mittee selected by the officers of the Salem Commercial Club.. This . committee will have charge of counting the votes, and will make the awards after the contest 1st over.' The contest will close June 30, 1919, at 8 p. nr. All votes must be in the box at precisely that hour by Western Union time. NOTICE None of the employes (or members of their fam ilies) of the Salem Baking Co.. nor any of the faculty or stu- " dents now enrolled at the Capital Business College are eligi ble to enter this contest. 1 Begin now to save Dixie Bread Wrappers and Labels. The Voting Contest is on. Either enter yourself, or if your school days are over help some young friend to enter. birds which range in sizes from the rich plumaged and awkward mov ing ostrich to the. little brown wren and the gyroscoping humming bird. - The contrast from the proud and powerful ship sailing, the almost lim itless pace, along a thousand miles or more of bluffs and 'hills and moun tains for two days and nights to a miniature world encompassed within a few acres, was most tilling on my nerves. . i I had been looking uponi the big things; thinking of states and conti nents and oceans and worlds: all of which had been an audience for me while I was contemplating upon tm mysteries of nature. "But now," I said, "what is the use of stralnin? one's imagination almost to the breaking point by scaling mountlin peaks, or delving into the innermost depths of the earth or wandering oratory may discover these color and resemble each rther that you are un able to discover a difference, yet when planted in the same soil, cul tivated the same, treated the same in every respect, will produc plants with no resemblance; one producing a white riower. the other a brilliant red flower, one growing on a soft glossy stem, the other on a rough thorny stalk. And so this mystery unfathomable, runs throughout all creation. Growth itseir. is a mys tery of mysteries. Again, why should all young plant life in-the open sun light, take on a green color? There is nothing in the sunlight, nothinr g in the soil, nothing a the atmos phere that woul3 indicate that power was lurking in a tiny seed to draw from these elementsthe various colors of the rainbow. And although the chemist with a sufficient lab- HANDICAPPKD To have hindrances and obstacles placed in one's way. 'Tis a serious matter for one to be handicapped in the busi ness of life, yet this is Just what happens to young people who start without a proper training for business. THE CAPITAL BUSINESS COLLEGE Is a school that affords a training to remove handicaps, natural or otherwise, so that one may start a business life with the right chance of making good. One should be prepared to do. a few things well. That is the mission of this school to teach a few things well. Our graduates succeed. Call, let ; us talk about a course of study. Students may enter at any . time. ' Addifss nil inquiries to Salem Baking Co. Successors to The Modern Bakery 4:t! Court Street Salem, Oregon r. RIG DO N'S FUNERAL PARLORS , . , The Home of Square Dealing. Beautifully Appointed Private driveway. Superior service. Lowest in cost. through millions r miles of barren space to find the mysteries of crea tion, when myriads of them lie,' at our very feet." j I. While my mind was revelling in contemplation, uiy muscles refused longer to sustain me on my feet with out a period of rest. So I sat down in one of the many convenient and; comfortable benches provided for sightseers. v At this juncture a man with an air of "if you wash to learn anything ask me; I know it all' approached me and took a seat beside me. . "Yon are a stranger here, are you not?" "Yes sir, said I. I am either stranger to the place or the place is a stranger to me. I am trjing to solve some of the mysteries of nat ure." I said. "I have traveled thou sands of miles to view the mysteries of nature, and now I find them aU right here in this little enclosure. Well., maybe, not all. but surely enough to hold the interest and at tention of mankind for ages to come."' said I. "Oh. pshaw." said he, "you are away off; i there are no myster ies here nothing mystical, nothinr yon understand it all, all this laby rinth of creation?" said I. "Certain ly," salt , he. "There's nothing to ft- John Spreckles put this all up. It's a gift from Mr. Spreckles to the city of Sail Diego. . All these rare flowers and plants and trees and birds and animals were obtained at his ex pense and are maintained at his pleasure. He. keens a bunch of men here the year round in order that the. place may be in prime condition three hundred and sixty-five days in the year. There are no myster ies in this worli worth thinking; about. I prove all things, hold fas to that vich is good and let the rest go to the wind." "Yes." said t, "the wind bloweth where It listeth and ve hear the sound thereof, bu j ye know not from whence It cometb 1 1 nor whither it goeth. A mystery Unto me all things are mysterioys until solved in knowledge," said I "Well" said he. rwhat I know, 1 konw. what I feel. I feel, what I see I see, what 1 bear. I hear. So I ac cept nothing till I prove it. 1 walk in the broad daylight of knowledge and trust only in the rive eh:Mi of my nature, and I live and enjoy my self with the things that come with in the reach of my faculties. No mys teries for me, if yon please." . "Well.".! said. "I am rested rw; would you like to take a little walk around and explain to me some'of these rare plants?" "Quite willing ly," aid he. "Come this way. Now this is a century plant wTiich blooms but once In a hundred years." "Have you seen it bloom?" said I. "Oh. no." said he. "Why said I, "does it not bloom annually?" "Oh. I don't know," said he. "Well, here's the cactus bed. with fifty varieties; all different in form and appearance. Some look like k bail of woof yarn flattened at the vertical poles, then tuck full of sharp coarse needles. Look at this one. It has a long wide thorny leaf, tough as leather. Thi one here Is still an odd one. It has no leaves at all. Just like a long fluted column like a Corinthian porch support and looks at a distance like a fancy fence post. See this one with its long. slim, leafless stalk. crooked and twisted like a writhing I snake." "Well, said I, whr does j cactus grow in ?o many forms?" "Oh. j T don't know." said he, "but the j whole family is partial to high bar ren gronnJ. Step over here jjnd see the Japanese garden in nrwriature. See that little pine tree only 12 inch es high. Perfectly healthy and.vig-' orous -and seven years old. And that little cedar tree less than two feet high and fully as old as that one on the bluffhalf a hundred high." "Why," aid 1. ."almost everv forest tree I represented here in this dwarf kindergarten. ..and for what purpose were they made?" "Oh, I don't know," said he. "Come, look at this bed of beau tiful flowers. Every color of the rainbow can he -found, in this bed. with a million blend to give .var iety. Did you evv ce anything to compare with this?" "No, surely not." I said, "I do not understand it." "O, shuchs. it is -very simple All thetse colors came from a mixture of tiny seeds planted to gether. It would take me too long to explain these flowers." "Come and look at Ihe birds. Sep that curiosity with his long black plumage and naked head and neck. He has all the appearance of a bns rar I. while he is hardlv larce.enoueh I to devour a bi; d?ad grasshopper. produce them 'as well as the tiny seed, yet it Is beyond the power of man to discover which see"3 will pro duce the violet blue or the red, pink or white tarnation. No chemist in the world can discover which, seed will produce the pleasant or the un pleasant odor. Ah These things are wrapped In tfwml mystery which will, with mil lions of others "remain unsolved to the end of time. Life is aery great mystery, tfod is the sum of all mys teries and must ever be so. while we inhabit this globe. All His are mys terious. We adore mystery aud noth ing but mystery. We live in mystery j We commune in mystery.' We teach ! and walk and talk n mystery. Some mysteries we solve. Then they cease to 1 I mysteries and lose our adoration. A world without mys teries would be a dry and express ionless as a sandhill; as uninterest ing as a plate of diamonds before hungry pig." By this time my newly , round friend was looking at me with amaze ment. So 1 n!d to him. "Please, sir hereafter do not be so sure you know everything. Seek for knowledge Get all the lU?ht you can. God Is the great embodiment of wisdom and holds the key to all mysterie Through Him and Him alone, can they be solved. Study Him. Learn of Him. Harmonise with Him Trust In 'Htm. Walk by faith and not by i'lght. alone. Faith, hope. trust, confidence are the . mysteries with Which to bridge us over the chastn that separates this world from endless eternity." "Oh! Pshaw." raid he. "you, talk like a craiy man. I really believe you're batty.' Good night." 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Prices from $32.50 to $1500 -V Another big shipment received yesterday. 4f i HAMILTON 340 Court Street Say a glass of hot water with photphata before braakfaa ktipt lllneta away This cxcalltnt, common-aanaa health measure balng adopttd by million. rh.VBiclan? the wide world ovt reeonimend the Inside bath, claiming this is of -aKtiy more importance than outride 'cleanliness, because the skin pore do not absorb the impur ities into the blood, causing il health, while the pores In ten yard of bowel? do ' - Men and women, are urged to drink earh morning, before break UsM a glass of hot water with a tearpoon ful of limestone phosphate in it. a a harmless means or helping to wash from the stomach, liver, kidneys and lowels. the previous day' indigesti ble material, poiwms. sour bile and toxins; thus cleansing, sweeteninir and purifying the entire alimentary canal before putting more rood into the stomach. Those who wake up with bad breath, coated tongue, nasty taste or have a dull, aching head, sallow complexion, acid stomach; ' others who are subject to bilious attacks or constipation, should obtain a quar ter pound of limestone phosphate at the drnc store. This will cost but very little but Is sufficient to dem onstrate the value of inside bathing Knrds and other hostile ttibesmen, with Turkish troops preparing a big offensive in which tbe Tartar and Georgian were making readv to par ticipate, with all comminicatioDa cut and no help expected, Armenia's plight seemed hopeless. Hut with nnhbaken confidence In the power of the allies to triumph in the end. representatives of the population gathered at the ancient city tf G.ir Ine. better knotfn as Erxerum. and solemnly proclaimed the independ ence of -Armenia. comprisir- Orcat he pr'jceded to read the Act of lo-'in the German newspaper etplain- Arn.enia. IJttU. Armrnia and Titicia. i Pr,ne fnd formally put the country under the protection of England, the I'nit ed States. France and Italy. " Shortly before "con a prriees?on formed and marched to military beadq-iarters whett it was Teceived by General then Colonel Torenm. chief of the Krzernm garrison. The procession was composed of citizens, provincial delegates members of'the Armenian Council of Defense, cler gymen, educato!, representative of various Armenian committees, dele gates from the Mussulman popula tion: a Hnssian aimy commander, Lieutenant General Odechelidte. his staff, and the staff and line oficers of the. Armenian forces. The trl-colorMl Armenian flag. made and presented by orphans of the town of Vaspouragan. wa hoist ed, and while the crowd was cheer in z. a salute of tl guns vt fired tmrx the 'citadel. ' ; Colonel Torrum. seated on a horse In ' the middle of a square formed by the Armenian soldiers, rav th command. 'Tresent Arms. Then. sal'tting the flarj with his dependence. The proclamation sketched the early history of Armenia, recounting the country's struggles and suffer ings at the hands of the Turks and declared : "Armenia ha been wait ing during 550 years, suffering and liathed in blood, for the honr of its final deliverance. Todny that hour has at last struck." , General Torcom plans to visit each or the principal allied nations and to go to the United-States in the - vwi s vni'vuuvui iltr i Mid: . I "It Is. I hope, only a question of weeks, perhaps of days, before the independence of our country is rec ognized Jr the allied power." ing that no German mail was being received tor the I'nlted States. Amer icans of the army of crcipatioo ar not allowed to ne the German i.ialh for communication with ensmy au!w jecta residing either within or with out the occapiel rone. coiTespondent he v J. I H xJLw . Thousands of Germans . Disappointed by Mails COHLKXZ. Jan., 1 !. Thousands or residents or Coblenz have rela tives or friends In the inil-d State and during the fitM few weeks of American occupation there wa a line of Germans every day at the array postoffiee with letters for those across the Atlantic. The Germans bad gained the false ImpivrsTon that they could communicate with people In the United State by. use of the army's mail service. The residents of Cnbtenc and other lowns in this vicinity continued. tr Etream Into Tne United 'iJtatea branch poatorrke each day In snch numbers that eventually, at the rmnr rr ih. sabre, authorities, i,vti(rr. wfre pul.llhvl .-.-. v. i F4 t - r Hotel SEWARD . J . Alder-at lnH Rtre ' th moat homallk betel ta Tart land. All Oregon Rlirie UaJas lop at the KKWARD. Rta f 1 aJMt up. With private , hath tl-IM im! tipx. . W. M. twarl. MaaMkgw. I