Found Empty Coffin
•n Tomb” of Monarch
I Spirit Superior to
NEW STOCK
ARRIVING
One of the most amazing of royal
mysteries w
the cele-
Wation of the
rar Alexander 1 of Russla.
er Alexanders "d- nth” on
1825. it was rumored that
e < :th In the Imperial burial place,
d that the czar was spending the
enlng of his days In prayer and
>utempl«tlon.
Popular belief, indeed. Identified a
hermit calling hints
l odor Kus
mi tch. "Ith the late monarch K ib
whose past life
a cum-
appeared about t his
In the depths of the Siberian
He was frequent
rar Nichol«« I who
•d him
h the ruoat profound respect.
Kusm
reully Alexander
ret with him to
ave. Bui
V turn was given
.‘dilation
ie subject some
i ars ago. when the tombs of the
( zars were opened by order of the
Soviet .i: . -lues. The original seals
on
flu of Alexander I «ere
but when it was opened
n<'t!i!ng in it but a few
lunitis
Two Conflicts Known
as “Battle of Spurs
Dur pure have a of Rugs <>• 11 if ept ir g e dt liv< t » hate I < gun
some new patterns in Axministers and
Our |>iices will he lower that) bave been quoted
in 'I c Minn ville in ten wars. Sx ! 2
Axminister Rugs
We are shewing
Brussels.
rom $41.00 to $50.00
9x12 Tapestrv Brussels for
ùnti can buv the heaviest Axminiater Rug in 9x12 site
the am ket today
for
cn
$50.00
UPHOLSTERED R0CK7RS
The Battle of Spurs is a name given
Oak Rockers with auto seat in
to two engagements widely separated
genuine leather, as low as...............
' ‘
time. The first battle was
ibught at Courtral. in Flanders in
Mahogany finished rockers with auto seats in velour
1 02 between the m bles ami the
burgher*
The knights and gentle-
a ow
tuen of France were entirely over
a#
thrown by the citizens of a Flemish
(or Belgian) manufacturing town. I
The French nobility rode forward Ii
with lu
-dies and fell headlong |
DINIMG ROOM SUITE
Into an normous ditch which lay be-
A
new
Dining
Suite in two tones of brown walnut consist
tween them and their enemy. The
whole army of these nobles and gentrv
it g of 4S-inch buffet. 54x45 table, five chairs and arm chair in
v. as annihilated, and when the spoils
blue
leather
were fathered, there were found 4.-
OM) gulden spurs to mark the extent
for.................
of the knightly slaughter, and give a
name to the engagement.
The second engagement to which
^ou will find us on the balcony floors of our former quart*
■ d been given the name, the Battle
ere
We are sharing floor space with the C J Breier Co.
« f Spurs, was the affair nt Gulnegate,
The
1 ar Calais. France, in J513. in which
•reduction in our overhead expenses you will see reflected in
the
: ie English troops under Henry VIII
reduced prices in our entire line of bouse furnishings and
'
‘ated the French forces. The al-
floor
covering-i .
i n to spurs is said to be to the
the beaten troops
■ ding off the t; >!•! of battle. They
de good use oí their spurs.
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Newspaper Printing
Rotary presses, which are used by
most large newspapers today, print
from curved plates fixed on cylinders,
which are constantly revolving and
constantly printing. They are not fed
vlth single sheets, but with a long
•»eb of paper, the press Itself cutting
£ the desired length of sheet from
Lie reel, either before or after the
I riming Is completed. Practically all
these presses «have folding attach- i
ments which deliver the paper folded
and ready for delivery. The simplest
form has four cylinders, two for the I
Mano plates and two to give the im I
pression, but
newspapers have
grown in size it has been necessary to
ndd one, two or three rows of cylin-
•b rs above tl.e first set.
DOW FURNITURE
GON1PANY
McMinnville,
Oregon
Ohio’s First Sawmill
Located at Marietta
The Inte Senator Page of Vermont
Ohio's first sawmill was built at
une» said nt a banquet In Montpelier Marietta in 178U Tha crank, weighing
during his governorship ;
180 pounds, waa made tn New llaien,
"Fur pluck give me your Vermont I onn., anfi taken by "pack horse" over
farmer every lime. Old Jerome Me the mountaltis to Mlmrals' Ferry on the
Wade, though seventy three, was hale Foughlogheny river, and thence
by
anti hearty ami oue day alien ht» water, «aya the Antiquarian
two sous got to bragging about their
1 he mill near Colebrook was of
strength Jerome aware he could load treat Importance to tho settler« It
ha) us fast a« they eould pitch It
«ra» on a amali at roam, and had an
"S<> down to th,, field» they went, zverahot wheel Logs were converted
and Jerome got tn a tmy wagou with nto boards, and the long talked of
hl» fork, and the Iwo buys began to ‘frame" house could be built.
pitch the hay up to him fust uml fu
The mall was eetu and brought by
rlous.
'runners.11 "Through" mall was car
Jerome Worked like a demon, and ried In a small bag with a key. deal«
all the time he kept culling down In aated by a woodau tag attached to
a jeering way. More Hay ! More hay !' it. and Ilie "way" mall was tied lu a
"Rut after a time, of course, hla landkerchief. The post boy "run11 the'
years began to tell on him. HI» loud nail ut first ou foot— then on horse
lug got very untidy. The suu felt hot tack.
ter and hotter on his back. Still, n«
When their fields ware cleared, flux
he staggered about, he kept yelling VU town that these pioneers might
'More hay ! .More huy !’ Then, ull of »ea»e. on their handmade looms.
a suddqu. he tripod and fell out of । laen and doth material» with which
the wagvu.
J ¡0 clothe thetn»elves.
"As he picked himself up, very spry,
We •under at, and revere, the per
from off the ground, one of the boys llsteut dlllg«t>c« of these forefatlier»
gave a laugh and said:
»f ours; for they seem to have had 110
" 'W hat do you want down here. lime nor Inclination to be Indolent
papF
•r Inactive.
11‘What do I want?1 Jeered Jerome.
'Why. more hay, more hay.111
Samoans Still Fear
I
Old Spirits of Evil
W. I* Railway Go
time table
ERrctive Kept. 7.
Train« will arrive as I diow •,
To Portland
No. 355
5 U A. M
No. 3M
H 37 A M
No. XiH
Il ila "
No. 3M
2:40 P. M
No. 300
Il 33 "
From Portland
No. .'IM
No. :u>7
No. 359
No. AM
No. .156
9 33
11:10
2:40
•1 <M)
7 13
,
A. M
"
P. M
•'
”
’•cial, Sunday only 8:05
p
tn
insurance
Fire,
I lieft,
Embeixlenwnt,
»nd
I ife. W e care for your «very neid.
J. L Shermaa 4 Son
I >uvh>n.
< hi gon
Obligation and Right
Constitute Legal Tie
An obligation in law Is defined us
*• legal tie that binds us to another,
The Samoan s love for ceremony, tlther to give him something, or to
especially dignified ceremony, and fur Io or abstain from doing some act."
£abice Syltrcuttinß
singing, han hel|>ed much In making For instance, au agreement or con-
him a church meml>er and reifular Iract of sale creates a legal tie be
Agency for Newberg Laundry
service attendant But even with hla .'ween the two parties, the seller be-
acceptance of Christianity tie still. In “S obliged to deliver the thing sold
many cases, keeps a weather eye open Ind warrant it. and the buyer being
Day hm
for the ancient nltu (devil) that hnd obliged to pay the price. In ordinary
Oregon
the fear and reflect of hla ancestor« •ae obligation has a different meaning
The altu may be a back number, but from right. A person Is obliged to do
you never can tell says the Hear >hat which he can be compelled by
born Independent.
aw to do, but a right commonly means
. There was the young fellow, for In lomethlng that one can compel others
stance, who showed his Irreverence a lo do. For Instance. It would not be To Serve Hu numity Better
couple of years ago by walking acroaa correct to say that a landowner has
Day and Night Phone Blue 90
an old chief's grave. His family und • right to build half the line fence.
every one else warned him about the He Is obliged -under legal obligation
altu, did they not? still he walked on —to build half of such fence, and he McMinnville,
Oregon
the grave, A few days later he hud a has tho right to compel the adjoining
bad cold. Shortly after lie waa dead. owner to fulfill his obligation «nd
Quick tuberculosis.
Dr. 0. C. Goodrich
build the other half. Generally speak
How much better It Is for a Chris Ing. obligation and right nre the op-
tian or aqy one to respect ancient puslta ends of the legal tie. the obllga
things and thus not arouse the wrath , tlon of one party being the right of
of the altu on guard! So the Samoan the other. The noun, obligation, and 7 Office Phone Red 49
gives the aitu a wide berth, hoping his the verb, obligate, are from the Latin
Day ton
slumbers among the holy places he verb, obllgo, I bind.
Ongon.
guards will be undisturbed so long
that they will become permanent.
BARBER SHOP
Ladd’s Funeral Heme
H W. Burnard, M. D.
Royal Stubbornness
George ut
III disliked Franklin1« po
veorge
lltlcal opinions and was anxious to dis
credit his scientific discoveries as well,
says John o' London's Weekly He
therefore, ordered the lightning con
ductors on Kew palace to have blunt
instead of pointed end.«. When he
asked Sir John Pringle, then president
of the Royal society, what he thought
of the change. Sir John Pringle told
him plainly that “the laws of nature
are not changeable at the royal pleas
ure.” This annoyed bls majesty so
much that he suggested Sir John hnd
better resign his presidency of the
royal society. He did so, and the
breach between them
s never
healed. Sides were taken over the
quarrel, the court naturally supporting
the king, while the wits sympathized
with Sir John.
The parliamentary clvrk of the house
of representatives says that as a mat
Phy Melon
ter of fnct there is no minority passage
of a bill In either branch of congress, Phone Red 78.
Dayton, Oreton
but the phrase In all probability re
fere to the. fnct that legislation may
be passed by a majority vote of the
members present, If a quorum Is pres
ent. Very often a meaAire will be
pased by s tnojorlty of the member. I Ge eral Shoe ... 1 It
present, which number I. not a major
,
l»y of the members elected. For ex I
Repairing
ample, a majority of the membership ls*>op next door to Atcade theatre
of the house Is 218, but In the event I
only 300 members are present during | 1 *-y,on
Oregon
the vote on the passage of the bill the
vote could be 151 to 149 and the bill
Q. B. Abdill
would be passed by a majority Thia I HavJ
aving installed » Landis Stitch
does not mean that a minority passes
the bill, because It la presumed that and Finisher, we are prepared to
those that nre absent acquiesce In the do a!I shoe repairing with neat-
action taken by a majority of those near.
present.
Day ton.
I Iregon,
E. L. Gorsline
Contentment Needed
A little less grumbling about what ■ Posthumous Fame All
we haven't got, and a little more ap
Accorded to Shelley
preciation of what we have got will
It seems strange that unpublished
make a wonderful difference in our
disposition, for we are, after all, about poems and letters of Shelley could be
found at this late date In the Har
is well off as the average.—Grit.
vard library, not as leaves Inserted In
another man's production, but as part
How Nice
Evidence Shows Dates
of a notebook of the poet's own mak-
"Have you any nice young grocers?"
Were Man’s First Food Ing, says the Philadelphia Public
Inquired a flustered young bride, who
Before the time of .man, the date 1 Ledger. One would suppose that a
had intended to ask for chickens.
"Why—why, yes," was the aston palm flourished on earth, and Its fruit book held In such scholarly custody
Uses for Gyroscope
ished reply at the other end of the was the first food of man. Many for 23 years would have been ex
Famous Work of Art
references In early Arabian and Chrl»- amined with care long ago to discover I
wire.
When first Invented, the gyroscope,
famous
painting of Eleanor, duch-
I
any
precious
traces
of
"Artel,
”
espe
1
tian records speak of the date p dm as
then called rotascope. was used as a ess of Gloucester, by Edwin Abbey,
“Well, send me two dressed.”
“the tree of life.”
|
dally
when
the
volume
was
known
to
I
scientific
toy
to
illustrate
the
dy
"Dressed?" said the grocer, more
Illustrates an episode In scene 4, net 2,
Over 80 per cent of all dates are have been In the possession of the 111- ! namlcs of rotating bodies, the compo '
astonished than ever.
part 2. of King Henry VI. The king
,
grown
In
Mesopotamia.
starred
genius
whose
smallest
manu-
'
sltlon of rotations, etc. A delicately ' had Just married Margaret of F rance
"Well, no," was the reply, after a
1 he Lnited States Departm it of script, like any holograph of Burns mounted form of the above apparatus, | The duke
moment’s reflection,
I believe you
of Gloucester wu the king's
BEST BEDS ON EARTH
mnv «end them undre; led. My hus- Agriculture has been experim atlng or Keats, Is a capital prize today. In invented by M. Foucault, Is used to' protector, and Eleanor dreamed
his
whole
lifetime
Shelley
received
.
I
with
dates,
but
It
is
evident
a
new
render visible the rotation of the ' dream In ♦vhlch "Henry and Heine
ng home early and he can
Mrs C. E. Mauts,
about $400 from the publishers of his earth on account of the tendency of1
Prop.
ii(<"ks and the cook and species must be developed before <1 ites
Margaret kneeled to me and on my I
poems. Without income from other I the rotating wheel to preserve a con . head did sit
can
be
produced
abundantly
In
I \
this
the diadem." She was I
« them.”—The Progressive country.
sources, he could not have rounded I stant plane of rotation, independently |
ambitious both for herself and her
Date trees begin to bear at the ge even the short term of years that fate of the earth's motion. This same , husband, and ambition carried her too
allotted him. His career provides one I principle Is made use of In an Instru
of six or eight years. Trees tw
far. offending the queen, she played
2 ut Few Will Admit It
years old will bear from 100 to 200 of many instances In which a poet who ment Invented by Hr. H. Anschutz Into the hands of her husband's ene- Guarantee Fund Life Assn.
1 ?apa V
an ardent golfer and his pounds. Only the female tree bears failed of widespread public recognl- [ Kampfe, designed to replace the ■ mar
mar- । mien and was charged with disloyalty,
I Be ycur company
every spare mom mt was spent on the fruit and It is necessary to ferti' ze tlon in his day has won a posthumous Iner t compass or to serve ns a
check tried and convicted. Because of her
links. One S turday evening he ar- the blossoms with the pollen of the glory which has made his manuscripts upon Its accuracy. Other uses of th" I
the object of eager competition among gyroscope are ns a steering appnratu«, noble blrlh, Eleanor was not put to I hull Legal Reserve
later thun usual and his male tree.
death, but was obliged to do three
bibliophiles.
bis son. Junior, was not
and us a balancing device In certain ( day's open penance and banished to Providing Extruded and
Last year there were 63,606'03
ns other evenings. Junior pounds of dates imported to the Uni ed
flying machines, and In a proposed the Isle of Man. Abbey's painting de- । Paid up privileges.
hoicd the downcast, hang-dog look that States on which a duty of $2,735,012
type of monorailway.
pfrtu the street Rrone.
Rate f 10.92 Ordinary I,if«
Good
Stories
Spread
p- pa wore and his Inquisitive nature was paid.
Oilier
ages iti proportion
With Amazing Speed ,
An Arab eats six pounds of dates a
Making Sure
Age
of
Travel
pa. how long does It take to play day. The Import figures for the United
Something
unique in
Who originates the witty sayings t
A certain financier Is a great he-
a
If the total mileage of motor cars a 20 yen r policy. .
States show that only about six ounces and naughty stories which appear
n. «aid papa in solemn tones, of dates per person are consumed an every day or so and run over the coun llever In punctuality, and on a re •ent In the United States In 1925 were
Jit his score card of three nually in the United ¡States.—Progres try as wildfire never run? Who car occasion, when an early conference placed end on end it would equal
C. S LEWIS, A gent .
was In prospect, which he had to eome nearly five hundred round trips to the
fl;
it varies, but some fellows sive Grocer.
ries them on what wings?
to town to attend, he so Impressed a sun. And the average total dally mile
<■' - pia) a ¿ame in a lifetime.”
I hear one of these good things In a page boy with the Importance of call
club or at a lunch table downtown In ing him early that the lad decided des age would be sufficient to make more
Louisiana Only State
than five hundred round trips to the
New York and hurry uptown to try perate measures were needed.
His Son Was Smart
moon, according to estimates.
them
on
my
colleagues
at
Columbia,
Which
Grows
Periqre
sam ine ousy nariier, never
Hence, at an unearthly hour there
I his Is the age of transportation
loo busy to talk, "my son is smart. I
In the parish of St. James, a short ( says Carl Van Doren In the Century came a prodigious hammering on the
More traveling |N done than ever be
Magazine.
Half
the
time,
however,
the
lull you. Ho won't work steady but way from New Orleans, Is a historic
Dayton, Oregon
financier’s bedroom door ami a voice fore in the world's history. The total
learns quick. I sent Idin to high and picturesque Industry, Infinite-1- thing has got there before me. I leave called loudly:
miles traveled In the last year In the
• >! and he learned so fast that mal In comparison with many of tl s town for Chicago, say, and I am still
"Parcel for you, sir 1"
United States Is said to be equal to Expert Ladies Hair Cutting
'■nd of the first year the su- other bountiful agricultural crops of like as not too late to surprise any
Wondering what the parcel could he, the total miles traveled by residents
body with my goods.
piró
the financier took It In and, seated on
dent told him be need not the state, but which Is peculiarly
Earl Q, Kidd, Prop.
There Is a belief firmly held by many the edge of Ills bed, unwrapped It. 1 of this country from the time of its
aft'
any more. Then I got him Into Louisianian, says a press dispatch
,
.
. , ,
- -
■: discovery by Columbus until the War
people
that
the
telegraph
operators
1
the . ■y. IJ< enlisted for three years from Baton Rouge, This is the pe-
Imagine his Indignation upon rending of 1812.
tut
ned o fust he didn't have rlque tobacco industry, alone in th« spend their free hours during the night the neatly printed placard It con
Tl Ihinook—Coats Lumber Co. reopens
spreading the news. If this la true, tained: "Nearly time to get up."
but two years. It says right world.
th« services of those useful men ought
Bullets of Light
after being electrified and remodeled.
" arge papers. ‘For good of
First grown many years ago by an to be recognized, If «ot rewarded.
Reaching high above buildings near
"—Forbes Magazine.
Acadian whose name the tobacco now What a charming Idea It Is that wit
Garibaldi—Contract kt for graveling
Famous Art Galleries
Ixmdon Is an ntr traffic control tower
bears. Its cultivation has been kept goes whispering over the wires while
The Pltti and Fflizl galleries nre In from which a wireless operator can Netarts rond, for $17,7:15.
up continuously ever since by direct the wits rest from their labors! it Florence. The Pltti Is the second larg I
Why Not a "Houser?”
lineal descendants of the original M. makes the country resemble a sleeping est palace In the world. Both are now communicate with airplane express
Salem— Pacifle Fruit Cunning A
"Congre-' in
Is rather a long
perlque.
Cultivation Is confined to a person In whom the unconscious sends used as art galleries. The Palazzo "trains" flying between England and
' rd.
Ab
Backing
Co, reorganlMb, and will add
United States son-
the continent and guide them to the
ntor I« In a < n-e a congressman. He very small area on the banks of the the strangest messages «long his Pltti was begun by Brunelleschi and
$25,
000
capital,
«Irdome,
which
he
can
see
from
his
completed by Ammnnato. It houses a lofty perch In spite of fogs and mists
1» ii member of congress. "Represen Mississippi, where a favorable combi dreaming nerves.
I^dge of rock in Columbia River at
wonderful library as well as a mngnlfl-l At tilghf and on dark days signals nre
tative” Is also a long word, and It is nation of soil and climate Is particu
tho same word which we apply to larly adapted to its growth. This to
Wauna will be moved,to make 35 foot
cent art co"~t Ion. The Galierin Degli someHme« given'whh a a pi^oi
rh.i
pistol that
members of many of the state leglg- bacco, which finds Its chief use as n
LT '
n:sr7.
hr."""nt "«•” ”omb. viable .t cha inel.
seasoner
for
mixtures,
is
exceedingly
art
collections
of
the
world.
latures. If a member of the senate Is
It was considerable distances. standing on I
founded In the Fifteenth century. The one of the balconies of the tower the I Haiem— Frank Bligh will erect $250,.
n senator, why should not a member strong, with a distinct flavor and
aroma.
Not
many
more
than
500
acres
River Arno separates the two palaces, controller tires the lights for the as | 000 store, office and theater building.
r,f the house be a "houser?” "Houser
are given over to its growth.
Blunk is for the bill."
which are connected by a covered gal- «arance or warning of the pilots. -
I mi ! AI'ZIF
U « Ponti
f)^»»l V»
_ -I •
Astoria—Greatest lumber trade in
levy
over * the
Vecchio.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
history of port, predicted tor 1920.
Dayton Rooming
House
Let The
Neetkut Barber Shop