PAGE FIVE TO THE PEOPLE OF OUR BEAUTIFUL SALEM AND OF OUR PROSPEROUS SURROUNDING COUNTRY A MERRY MERRY XMAS MAY PEACE AND GOOD WILL REIGN IN EVERY HEART AND JOY BE SUPREME ON THIS XMAS DAY. Alfred H. Smith, New President Of the New York Central Lines. -? 1 (f if . 'v 4 J ' C ., - 7 - . FROM railroad messenger hoy to railroad president tells the story o( Alfred II. Smith, the new bend of the New York Central system. An president of this ImportRnt network of linen he occupies one of the highest positions In the world of American railways. He stinted bis business cnreer which, by the way. Is an Inspiration to all young men with pluck and-deteruilnutlon as a messenger boy for the Luke Shore and Mlchlgun Southern railroad In 1870. He was made a clerk, but quit and Joined a con struction gang because he wanted to lenrn the actual work of rond building By close application and concentration his worth whs recognized In due time, and In 18SK) be was made superintendent of the Kalnmuzoo division of that line. Two years later he became general superintendent In 1!KI3 be was made superintendent -of the New York Central. He became general manager nd vice president In 1000. In 1012 he was made vice president of the lines west of Buffalo. A short time afterward he became senior vice president hikJ bow takes the presidency of Hie rond through the retirement of W'llllum 0 Brown on Jan. 1. Mr. Smith t fifty years old. ELY'S CREAM BALM OPENS Instantly Clears Air Passages; You Breathe Freely, Nasty Discharge Stops, Head Colds and Dull Headache Vanish. Get n small bottle anywny, just to try it Apply a littlo in the nostrils and instantly your clogged nose and stop pedup air pusNigco of the head will open; you will breathe freely; dullness and headache disappear. Hy morning! the catarrh, roldinhcad or catarrhal sore throat will bo gone, g End inch misery now! Get the small bottle of "Ely's Cream Palm" at any drug store. This sweet, fragrant halm dissolves by the heat of the nostrils; A Journal Want Ad Will Sell It for You 4 tMt CLOGGED penetrates and heals the inflamed, swol len mcmbmne which lines the noirn, head and throat; clears the air passng c; stops nasty discharges and a foeling of cleansing, soothing relief comes im mediately. Don't lay awake tonight struggling for breath, with head ttuffod: nostras closed, hawking and blowing. Catarrh or a cold, with its running none, foul mucous dropping into the throat, and raw dryness is distressing but truly needless. Tut your faith just once in "Ely's Cream Halm" ami yonr cold or catarrh will surely disappear. 1 A TROLLEY IN THE DESERT. Sand Fights the Wires From Cairo to th Pyramids. Extending from Cairo to the pyra mids of Gizeli U uu electric trolley line which is used chiefly by tourists. T,he trunks of huge palm trees serve as trolley poles to support the over head conductor, and the contrast be tween the. modem hurrying motorcars lud the peaceful centuries old tombs 5f the pbnraohs holds the Interest of aoany a contemplative traveler. At one side of the trolley conductor jn bell shaped Insulators are run the feeders. Which, like the trolley wire, are of bright, hard drawn copper. After these wires bad been Installed it was soon found that they Invariably Sroke and fell within six or seven months, the cross section being much reduced at the point of fracture. Investigation showed that the desert winds which sweep across the right of way whip sand pnrtlcles against the wires, causing a filing action wblcb cuts awny the copper much like an artificial sand blast. The glass globes of arc lamps' Installed along the road have exhibited the same destructive action. A similar effect Is observed with the Incandescent units used to light the way to the sphinx These strings of InmpR. besides huving to be moved at frequent Intervals to accommodate the varying level of the shifting sands, are rapidly enten uwny by the etching ac tion of the desert winds. Thus far no remedy has been discovered for this destruction except frequent renewals. -Electrical World. NOISELESS NOISE. Ring a Bell In a Vacuum and You Can not Hear the Sound. The value of air us a noise and sound medium cun readily be ascer tained by suspending a bell from a silk strand through the neck of a lurge bottle from which the ulr has been pumped. By pulling on the silk the tongue enn be seen to strike the sides of the tell, but no sound Is heard. A bell suspended by n metal rod and rung would . lie audible, the sound wnves being cnrrled to the outside of the bottle by the metal rod. An ex periment of tills ktud. using an Iron vessel ns a substitute for the glass bot tle, would be found not nearly so sat isfactory, though the bell be suspend ed from silk ns in the former Instance, owing ulr.iost entirely to the fact that Iron Is more porous than glass, conse quently containing some ulr, which would convey un ulmost Imperceptible sound to the outside? There Is said to exist In Scotland a stone so opaque ns to render Inaudible even the tiring of a cannon, if one crouches on the opposite side. All liquids and gases are excellent sound conductors: especially Is water on the surface, and certain kinds of wood. If It was possible for two men to live u sullicleut length of time In a glass box hermetically sealed nnd con taining no air they would be unable to converse, though using the great est powers at their command. Chica go Record-Herald. Nature and the Barnacls. . 'In the barnacle we have a unique and wonderful case of u creature that can afford as age comes on to dispense with the eyesight that was so useful In youth. l''or the young uud old barnacle are as different one from the other ns tisltes from sen weed. In the heyday of life the barnacle swims about the sea. seeking Its food with the aid of Its eyes nnd generally leading a roaming existence. Later lu life, how ever. It grows tired of tills aimless wandering ami settles down to worry ships' captains by attaching Itself to the keels of their craft and defying the much advertised powers of various pre ventive palms. Ome. then, the barna cle has heroine a fixture, whether on ships or sharks. Its eyesight Is of no more use It cannot seek Its food, anil It I'linliiit shun Its foes, for It never more will move. Therefore Its eyes become superfluous and. according to tin turn's Invariable rule In such ruses, disappear. Gimple English. "Yes." said the earnest professor, "what we want lu literature Is direct and simple Kngllsh." The listeners gravely nodded. "Direct nnd simple." they echoed. "Those conglomerated effusions of vnpld Intellects." the professor went on, "which pose lu lamentable atti tudes as tile emotional uud Intellectual Ingredients of tii'tlnual realism fall fur short of the obvious requirements of contemporary demands and violate the traditional inouols of the tran scendent minds of the Kllv.nlietlmn era of glorious memory, I'luln and simple English Is the demand of the hour." VliereiiMHi everybody applauded uud went home -Cleveland I'lnln Dealer. No Retail For Him. A smiill boy saw some young puppies ut the dog-dealer's. "Oh. .Mr. Ilruwn." he usked the tnnn. "how much do you want for those puppies y" "They're C;i apiece. Muster Beverly." "On, but I don't want a piece. I wunt a whole dog."-F.xchange. A PueUat Symphony, "My piano Is very much like my trousers pockets When my wife goes Into them she often nods nothing but keys, and then there Is musk-." New York Globe. Ways and Maans. Ethel .lack Roxli'lgh Is good looking enough, hut I don't niie for bli ways. Marie - Never mind about his ways, my dear. Think of his menus. Boston Record. Lots of people who have good sense in other ways never seem to know when a player piuno has been worked to death. Isn 't it strange how seldom you find unselfishness in any one elect Sharp Ratorta. A man who was offering gratuitous Information ut a country fair was dis paraging the show of cattle. "Call these here prlr.e. cattle?" he scornfully said. "Why. they ain't noth tn' to what our folks raised. You may not think It. but my- father raised the biggest calf of uny man round our parts." "I can very well believe It," observ ed a bystander, surveying blm from head to foot It Is not every one who enjoys a Joke at his own expense. The Judge who pointed with bis cane and exclaimed. "There Is a great rogue at the end of my cane." was Intensely enraged when the man looked burd at blm and asked coolly: "At which end. your honor?" A friend of Currun's was bragging of bis attachment to the Jury system and said: "With trial by Jury I have lived, and by the blessing of God with trial by Jury I will die." ' "Oh," said Curran In much amaze ment, "then you've made np your mind to be hanged. Dlckr-London Tit-Bits. Carved by Naturo. ' A curious effect of the wear and tear to which the earth's crust Is con tinually being subjected is shown In the Devil's slide In Utah and other peculiar formations all over the west There exist on the South river, In the Wasatch mountains (a part of the Rockies), singularly capped pinnacles or slender pillars rising from 40 to 400 feet high and most of them crowned or capped by huge stones. These pll Inrs are not the work of man, but are memorial monuments of huge hills from which they are cut out by the nctlou of the air and water nnd the lone remains of many square miles of solid rocks which have been washed away to-n depth of some 400 feet The greater hardness of the surface has caused It to resist corrosion more than the underlying rock, thus leaving huge caps of stone perched high In the air on points of their columns. Here and there can be found a double col umn capped by n single stone, thus forming u natural bridge both unique and picturesque. Health. Chloride of Sodium. In connection with the name salt a curious fact Is to be noted. Salt was formerly regarded as a compound re sulting from the union of hydrochloric lor. ns It used to be called, muriatic) acid and soda, and hence the 'generic term of tialt was applied to all sub stances produced by the combination of a base with an acid Sir Humphry Davy, however, showed that during their action on each other both the acid and the alkali underwent decom position nnd tlmt. while water Is form ed by the union of the oxygen of the nlknll and the hydrogen of the ncld. the sodium of the former co'iiililnes with the chlorine of the hitter to form chloride of sodium, and this term Is the scientific designation of salt, which, paradoxical as It may seem. Is not a salt. At one time nearly the whole of the salt used as food and for Industrial purposes was obtained' from the sea. and In ninny countries where the cli mate Is dry and warm nnd which hnve a convenient -seaboard a great quantity of salt Is still obtained. The Political Cabinet. (Jporge I. Is said to hnve been re sponsible for the word "cabinet" as It lins long applied to politics In the United States. When he wus king he could not take part In the delibera tions of his own privy council because lie knew no English. British states men did not speak German. So the ministers who served this first of the Hanoverian sovereigns of Great llrltaln used to meet in the king's private room or cabinet derived from the Trench cublne or little room while he was absent Afterward they Informed him or the , result of their dis cussions. It followed nuturally that the part of the privy council which was supposed to be In particular favor with the king and especially close to 111 in came to be spoken of us his cabi net council. Handmade Ragtime. "Of course." said the salesman, "any thing handmade Is sure to be superior to what Is made by machinery." "Not ulwuys." answered the musical person. "If you start up n music box It generally plays something In the way of u standard composition. But when uuyhody sits down at the piano and turns out something by band the chances are that It will be ragtime." Wushlngton Star. Slight Omission. "I thought you said he was a man of means'" "Excuse me. 1 left off the adjec tive." "What adjective?" " 'Limited. ' "-Birmingham Age-Herald. A Great Art In Llttlt. "Is there really any art lu couvers Iuk?" "Of course: ulwuys say small things lu a big way and big things In a small way." Minneapolis Journal. Closad Door. flans vnn Ilnelow, the pianist, at one time posted on his door a notice that was quite In the tendon vein; "Before Voon. Not Receiving: Afternoon, Out" Plenty of Room at tht Top. Rnlcker -There's plenty of room at the top Bocker-Yes, but your wife lets you have only the bottom bureau drawer. New York 8un. A little In one's own pocket Is better than much In another inuu's purse, Cervantes It is'nn awfully dull Monday that ilncn 't find ft new Infallible cure for cancer and tuhorruloiiis, A married woman li a party who tpi-nds all her money before she gets it and then doesn't gut it. Blunders of Authors, The late Guy Boothby, in his novel "Bride of the Sea," makes a curious blunder. The period of the story is the year 170. and the scene Is laid In Devonshire. The novelist makes one of bis characters grow quite lyrical about the splendid race of men which the famous western country has pro duced. He speaks very fittingly of Drake and Hawkins and Raleigh and all the other Devonshire worthies, but be comes a dreadful cropper when he makes bis hero talk of Sir John Frank lin, who did not appear on the globe until more than a century had elapsed, and even then It was lu the fens of Lincolnshire. Rider Haggard bus a good deal of trouble with the moon. In one case be causes that satellite to be full at a time when It could not possibly have been more than a crescent and In "King Solomon's Mines" he Intro duces an eclipse of the same luminary, very convenient for his plot and for the impression of awe which bis he roes wish to produce upon the natives, but quite unknown to any astronomi cal textbook. Stray Stories. 8tol Pons, The great objection to the steel pen when It first came into general use was Its stiffness. There was not that "give" and spring in the metal pen which characterized the old fashioned goose quill pen. This was remedied, however, by the side splits which we see In pens today, nnd for many years the method of slit ting the pens by means of a press was kept secret by those fnmous penmak ers, Glllott and Mnson. Briefly, the method of manufacture of a steel pen today may be described as follows: The blanks are pierced nnd the slits cut after which the pen requires to be softened by annealing. Then they nre raised nnd hardened, scoured with ncld, colored, vnrnUhed and dried, girls afterwnrd looking over the pens, throwing aside the faulty ones and tucking the good ones Into boxes ready for sale. Tiny German 8tataa. While it Is well known that some of the German states are of. lllliputlnn size, few persons nre aware that it is quite possible to visit seven of them, including two kingdoms, two duchies and three principalities. In an easy walk of four nnd a bulf hours. A good walker, starting from Stein bnch, In Ilnvarla, will arrive in half an hour nt Llchtentnnne. which Is situ ated In Snxe-Mclnlngen. Thence the rond proceeds In one and one-half hours to Rauschengesecs (Reuss, Elder Branch), after which In a few minutes Glelmn. In Sehwarzburg-Rudolstndt Is reached. Half an hour's walk brings the pedes trian to Altengesees (Reuss, Younger Brunch). An hour further on lies Drngnltis, on Prussian soli, nnd the Inst stage Is another hour's stroll, finishing up at Sanlthnl. Saxe-Altenburg. Hor per's Weekly. Good Train Servioa. Talk of trains and one is reminded of the perfect Hue. Rend of this service and nppluud: "The trains come In to the minute and go out to the minute. The olllcliils are Intelligent and polite. The eurrlages are good. Every station has Its waiting room, Where you may sit and read and drink a cup of coffee that Is not only hot and fresh, but Is recognizably the product of the berry. It Is Impossible to travel In the wrong train. It Is very dilllcult not to get out at the right station. The fares nre very reasonable. The time tables are models of clarity." No. the reference is to no railway In the south of Eng land. It Is Mr. E. V. Lucas' summary of the good points of the train service of the happy Hollander! London Spec tator. Parisian Street Barbara. The l-'reucli capital, like that of Chi na, has Its street barbers. In I'srls the perambulating tonsorlullsts carry a little box containing the usual out fit of their culling. Their chief patrons are lu boring men. Tho street barber of Paris usually places his customer upon the banks' of the Seine or in some spot aside from the crowd, cov ers his knees with a newspaper and proceeds to work. , For, only 1 sou he will shave a man. cut bis hair and generally Impart to him a more or less smart appearance. These barbers are said to make quite a respectable sum even at the small fee they charge. Complimentary, "The Idea of dozing while I was sing Inir!" "You were singing a lullaby, weren't you r "Yes." "Then I couldn't pay yonr art any blghur compliment" Washington Her ald. Unnacasisry, "This lady Is worth l(K).000. Would you like to see her photograph?" "Worth I40UJMU uud compelled to ad vertise for n husband? No, you needn't show me her phis 1 can Imagine what It must be."-Loulsvllle Courier-Jour nul. Naturally Dark. History Professiir-Why are the mid die ages known us the dark ages? Wise Freshman. -Because there were so many knights.-Wisconsin Kphlux. Baa 'da War Barred. The ancient Romans considered It effeminate to wear beards. All their busts representing the famous men of olden times are without beards. A cynk1 knows the price of every thing nnd the value of nothing. When a woman mimics a man slio ran 't love, it uiomlly remilts lu a man loving a woman he. rnn't marry, A man never resliites how iniinv tarky lool.lng reUtivcs a girl can have until after, be marries. HHHHMM IHiiiiiiiiiiiii;iii,,)HHmrm III TO THE PEOPLE OF SALEM and VICINITY WISHING A MERRY XMAS IMPERIAL FURNITURE COMPANY 177 LIBER TY ST., SALEM, OREGON SALEM'S LARGEST FURNITURE STORE txt xtt it1 - The Girl Who BY AM EL BRYAN McCALL. It may safely be said, I believe, that there is hardly a woman of twenty-five who has not either loved and married, or admitted to herself' in earnest mo ments that love and marriage are de sirable, Yet thought it may be said that every normal girl either marries or de sires at one time or another this bo called richer life, jot thcrfe are, as everyone knows, many who for one reason or another have not married and in all liklihood will not, We look on marriage and motherhood as the "des tiny of woman" yet to many this dostiny shnll not fall. We plan to live our lives in this or that manner. We know that others have male blunders or mistakes but we mean to avoid them ourselves. Per haps wo even fit onrsolvoa as best we can for motherhood, meaning some day to have a home and children of our own. Others hnve bocn the sport of chance, but our own hopes are bouy ant things. Yet, for all our planning, opportunities slip past us without our knowing it, duty detains us, fate or circumstance stops in, or sonio unhappy chance bars tho way to our happiness; and our lives do not fall out as wo planned, but quite, quito often differ ently. The Girl Who Adapts Herself. But this tenth girl! Fortunately tiler a is a tenth! Sho is like, yet un like, tho rest. Sho loves children, too. She admits, too, that marriage is the richer life and would havo chosen it for horself. Yet we do not think her lifo Inconipleto. Thore goes with hor a senso of warmth and riches, yet, riches, and tho feeling of a lifo well lived and bout if ul. She would make a wonderful mothor, it scorns, this girl; yet wo attach no pity to that thought and thore is nothing wistful about her, Sho unions to bo one of the mothers of tho world, with a kind of deep unci fundamental motherhood of tho heart; and of this motherhood of tho heart I wnt to speak later, Anil how it is that this girl differs so from tho moro average type? Sho, too, had dreuins, no doubt, that had to bo relinquished. How wns this grnc iousness won? How hits sho con trived to make of her lifo a thing more helpful, more complete than Unit of ninny a married womunt The tomptntion eto bo selfish is, I beliovo, stronger for tho unmarried girl than for the one who is married. Many of you will not agree with mc in this. You wil point out to mc many unmarried girls who are dovout ing themselves to someone, else, to an aged inirent, a sister, a brother, or a brother's or sister's children. Yet havo you never noticed that where the unmarried girl devotes herself nar rowly to somii one service, her ow"n life is apt to become in time a nar row thing? iiinl true unselfishness never yet made any life narrow, I nm sure; xo I tnlio It such duty Is not wholly unselfish or it would not bring about nnrrowiieva hh It, too often des. Very generally, though very gener ally ton, she does not recognize tho fact, that unmarried girl i apt to take up her unselfishness nnd her duties with a kind of personal intensity. This is her work, her duty, her ser vice or, if it Is a trivial mutter, this is her fad, She wants to nuilie her life felt; she wants to havo her gifts used. Her Mrsnnality is everywhere evident. Hlic becomes more and more a strong character, her liivldiinlity ic moro and more evident, her per sonal ways of doing things, her "pe culiarities" we call them, are mure ami more marked as time goes on. Her life does not merge In with other lives, as odes the lifo of her married sister. She is pimsesmd by a senso of duty which often, when you lisik nt it closely, seems to be a kind of masked egotism. Yot this very thing that appears to bo and is Indeed selfishness is, like many another selfishness, runted In some longing which, if rightly used, could be made a power to bless. This "egotism," this desire to express one's self in one's own manner, Is reully at. heart, entiling else but a kind of fundamental womanhood tho desire YOU ALL ...... ...... aaaaa. , Does Not Marry to serve. Whether we admit it or not, this desire is strong in every true woman. For HiB own wise ends God put in the hearts of every one of us put in tho human heart itself the denirq to be of uso, the longing to serve A Fundamental Longing. This longing is at the bottom of all our plans and devices; life up our noblest virtues and you will find it there; search through our follies and our faults and undernepith. them all fulfilled or dofeatod, you will find it, this longing to serve. The normal girl looks forward to marriage, plans for it, hopes for it, and this is as it should be. But no one of us knows what fata awaits us. Perhaps we shall not mary after all. But whether we marry or not, the richest life for a woman is still that of service, and to preisue ourselves for marriage is , after all to prepare ourselves for bettor, fullor service. There is a mothorhood of the heart than can enrich ourselves and the lives of others more almost than the other motherhood which we believe to be so enriching. And thore are the spiritual children, that should be ours, tho love, the good deeds, tho constant, constant sorvice littlo spiritual childron they seem to mo without mothers, and they are call ing to' us and calling to us. But we must put down the voices of our regrets betoro wa can hear their calling. And doing that, by and by we hear them and heed them, and after that life novor seems empty any more, but 'as rich for the unmarried wonuin is for the married woman; a beautiful thing full of service and re wards. IF YOU ARE A DRINKING MAN Yon had better stop at once or you will lose your job. Evory line of busi ness is closing its doers to "Drinking" men. It, may bo your turn next. By tho aid of ORRINE thousands of men havo been restored to livos of sobriety and industry. Wo are so sure that ORRR1NK will benefit you that we sny to you that if after a trial you fail to get any benefit from its uso, your money will be refunded. When you stop "Drinking," think of tho money you'll save; besides, sober men aro worth more to their employers and get higher wages. Costs only $1.00 a box. We have an Interesting booklet about OHU1NE that we are giving away free on re quest. Call at our storo and talk it over. Perry's Drug Stores, All Pattent Medicines or medicines advertised in this paper are for tale at DR. STONE S Drug Store The only cash Urug store in Oregon, owes no oue, and no one owes its car rloa large stork; its shelves, counters and show eases are loaded with drugs, medicinei, notions, toilet articles, wines and liquors of all kinds for me dicinal purposes. Dr. Stone is a regit. Isr graduate in medlciue and has had many years of experience in the prac tice. Consultations are free. Prescrip tions are free, and only regular price for medicine. Dr. Stone ran be found at bis drug store, Salem, Ore., from T In the morning until P at. night. F'ee dsl'very to all parts of the elty. Mall orders for any drug, medicine, patont medicine or notion will be for warded by parcel post on receipt of pries In postage stamps and from 1 to 10 eeuta Ic staaif ' to cover postage.