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\ I T h * N ew * «Und* for irreater and bettor Kalla City all the time m FÄLLS e iT Y N FALLS CITY. OREGON, SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 7, 1914 VOL. X GASOLINE’S EARLY USE. 'W A«w*l Fir*« A pp litd It •• • P » w ir In ISM. M *tlv* Council Proceedings Cornell met In regular session, The first attempt to apply gaso Inst Monday evening, with nil the line as a motive power was made officers present except Grier. Hop by a Frenchman, Pierre Joaeph Ra kins and Tooze. vel, » h o putented in the veer 1808 Action on the apportionment “ a steam generator heated by min eral oils, to be applied to steam and assessment o f cost in the locomotion on ordinary roads." Ra sidewalk improvement matter vel’s engine was fitted to a small was postponed until Feb. 16. carriage and developed three horse Petition for Montgomery street power. improvement w a s tabled until The Kranco-Oerman war put an end to Ravel’s experiments for a next council meeting, and the time, but years later he built a mo mayor was suggested as a com torcar in which petroleum was used mittee o f one to get more signa for the direct generation of motive tures to the petition. power. In 1870 I^ntz invented a Action on the petition for arc burner by which a nurture of gaso line and other naphthas, called mas- light at 7th and Mitchell street scut, was used as fuel on steamships. was postponed until the meeting About the same time gasoline was on Feb. 16. used as an illuminant in strpot Petition for a log house in Mill lamps, and later a new use wa. found for it in the manufacture of street at the south end o f Bound- ' ary street, for the Boy Scouts, varnish and oilcloth. (lasoline, amounting to 8 per cent I was read. Council agreed that of the distilled product of the crudo ground at the northeast corner of petroleum, continued to be a drug o f the city park could be used, but on the market until tho invention of the gasoline motor and its appli that the u b c o f a street for such cation to the automobile, boats, purposes would not be good pub aeroplanes and hundreds of indus lic policy. trial uses. Several inventors help Teal, for the water board, re ed to inaugurate the "age of gaso ported that the survey for the line," but the chief of them was Oeorge B. Selden of Rochester, N. proposed additional water supply Y _ the father of the automobile.— had been completed, and that rights o f way had been offered M ev* ths Carpet. Every now and then, instead of by John B. Teal at $200; by Otto allowing the stair carpet to remain Teal, for use of enough water to in exactly the same position as first operate a small ram; and by placed, the tread of the carnet Fred Dueltgen, f o r domestic should lie moved a couple of inche» water supply. Further proceed or so either up or down. This has the effect of keeping the pile of the ing in this matter was delegated carpet in a uniform condition, and, to the water board. besides retaining the fresh appear Irving Matthews sent the coun ance of the carpet, it helps it to last cil a letter bristling with gems of much longer tnan it would if left advice. The council were so exactly as laid. It coats nothing to highly pleased with this letter do this, but sa v e s much. that they decided to find another ■•w lldaring Frans*. location for the reading room, There are in France two Bor and ordered Mr. Matthews’ let deaux, the one in the Gironde and a tiny place in the Ix>iret. Thcro ters framed and hung in the are two Toulouse«, the old town council chamber. in the Haute-Garonne and Tou The health and police commit louse du Jura, a village with COO in tee was ordered to investigate habitant«, near Lons-lo-Saunicr. There is Toura in Tourainc. Bai certain places reported to be in le e’s Tours in the lndre-et-Ix>ire an unsanitary condition. and Toura, a village in Savoy, near Council ordered the “ school Albertville. There are seven St. house steps” (from Pine a n d Cyra, simple 8t. Cyre, that is, and Third to K street) repaired. twenty-four with something tacked The marshal made a report on on to them; seven St. Denises and forty-seven with some addition, the electric light matter. fourteen St. Germains and 114 with The council decided to purchase something tacked on. or take over by law, a strip of land 10 feet wide along present location o f footbridge, for use as a public passage way. Teal, Sampson and Meyer were appointed as a committee to con sult with the county court on the rock crusher matter. Current bills were approved. Council adjourned, t o meet again Feb. 16. A Curious Mamorial. Projecting from the wall of a house overhanging the Lake of Thun, in Switzerland, may be seen the bow of a small rowing boat with the name Petronella painted upon it. The wife of the owner of the houso was drowned from this boat while rowing on the lake, ller husband determined, as a memorial to his wife, to build the boat into his bouse. The room destined to contain it, however, proved too short for tho whole length of the boat, and the bow project» from the wall, just beneath the bulcony. The houso is close by one of the steam boat piers, and the unaccountable appearance of this strange memori al excites much curiosity among tho passengers on the steamers.— Strand Magazine. B*nfir* O riginally "B on * Fir*.” It is doubtful, however, whether any bonfires contain even a propor tion o f the matter whereof bon fires were primarily constituted, to wit, bones; for originally “ bonfire” was “ bone-fire," signifying “ a fire of bones," and the older method of spelling the word was common down to near the end of tho eight eenth century. The real, old fash ioned meaning of the “ bone-fire" (or “ banc-fire," as it was there call ed), survived longer in Scotland, and we learn that old bones were regularly stored up for the annual conflagration in the burgh of Ha wick till about the year 1800.— Liv erpool Courier. W *m «n O ystar Gath*r*rs. The work of oyster collecting and culture is most unsuitable for women, but in France, owing to its tedious nature, it does not appeal to men. Often from an early hour in the morning till late into the evening the women are standing up to their knees in water, with a strong sun heating down on them. The result is that never a year passes without some of them going mad and having to be hurried away to the asylums. The work is well paid, as, indeed, it ought to be, while in the ease of the few who own beds the profits nre large, and small fortunes are quickly amassed T r y a Sack of HIGH FLIGHT FLO U R and watch results All Goods and Prices Are Right — — --------------- ----------------- ■ — * KT Falls City 1 Lumber Co. ST<DRE j Mistaken Identity; By A D D IE F. M IT C H E L L . Mrs. Vaughn put down the let ter she hud been reading, with a troubled little sigh. Her daughter Madge looked up from the step. “ What's the matter, mother? You look as if you had bceu read ing your death warrant.” “ 1 have— the death warrant of our peace. Aunt Mary North writes to. ask if we won't keep her Tom while she und Mr. North go abroad.” “ Who’s her T om ?" asked Madge succinctly. “ Her stepson. I ’ ve not seen Aunt Mary since she married Mr. North, nnd I know next to nothing of the North family. But Mrs. Wil son knew Mr. North when they were living in Chicago (that was in the time of the first Mrs. North), and she said there were two girls and a boy. The boy was in kilts then, and that was five years ago, so he muft be about eight or nine years old. Aunt Mary says he has been ill with typhoid and that sr.e remembers with hope for his health that the air at Pinecroft is heal- tM . “ But we can’t have him, moth er. Think o f having an eight-year- old boy on our hands the whole summer! We can never get enough cooked for him to eat, and he’ll be drowned regularly once a week and break all his arms and legs on the other days. And I wanted a quiet, heavenly rest this summer before I have to go back to that awful of fice.” “ But, Madge, I can’ t refuse Aunt Mary. She was your father’s fa vorite nunt and always so good to him. No, Tommy will have to come, whether we want him or not.” “ Well, then, when ?” “ The letter says next Tuesday unless they hear from us that it is not convenient.” “ Tell Aunt Mary I have the smallpox or that I died suddenly at the news — anything. Please, m other!" “ 1 was wondering,” said her mother, “ whether an eight-year-old boy would be afraid to sleep in a room by himself. Shall we put a bed in the alcove off my room or fix up the south chamber?” Still grumbling, Madge helped her mother get ready the south chamber. As she worked she grew interested and even took from the walls o f her own room some in teresting prints which she thought would be suitable for a boy’s room. “ I can’t see, though, why Aunt Mary didn’t take the little wretch abroad with her— the sea air would do him good. Take out all the fancy things, mother, as you value them.” “ If you only understood big hoys ns well ns you seem to understand the small ones you would not he twenty-four and still single,” teased her mother. “ I do, mother,” said Madge vehe mently. “ I understand them alto gether too well, and that’s the very reason I am still single.” There was no immediate reply to this, and Mrs. Vaughn turned her attention to the room. “ Get all your old picture books and put them on that shelf, Madge, and I think I ’ll bring Jim ’s old hobbyhorse down from the attic, lie may despise it, but you never can tell.” Arrangements were finally com pleted. and Madge rather looked forward to the coming of the little boy, so that when Tuesday came she willingly drove to tho station for him, though she protested that St. Lawrence and his gridiron were as nothing to the torment she was undergoing. She took along a bag of cookies, “ just to stop up his mouth so he can’t ask questions,” she explained. The train was late, and Madge got a little cross ns she waited in the open trap with the hot sun beating down upon her. The pony was restless, and she dared not leave him to go inside of the sta tion. When the train finally steam ed in, however, she gave the reins to a porter and went to find her young charge. She watched the few who came out of the coaches nerv ously, with one eye on the dancing pony, but ns far as she could see no small boy was on tho train. "W ell,” she thought, “ I suppose T should be glad of it,” and was go ing back to tho trap, when it oc curred to her that he might some Buy all (roods o f home merchants and help to make Falls City (Treater No. 23 way linve got pnst her into the sta IDENTIFYING A CRIMINAL tion and might lie waiting for her there. She looked in. No one was Picking a Fac* Out o f th* C row d By tho 8eiontific Procaaa. there but a very tall young man, | who wa* leaning back rather limp- “ For the first time in its his ly against the seat, pale as from a tory the New York detective force recent illness. Madge gave him I found itself with a real, scientific more than a passing glance because criminal hunter as its i .ief when •he wondered who he might be. Detective Captain Joseph A. Faurot Young men at Pinecroft at this aas made acting inspector during season were a rarity. the graft revelations which came on “ Looks sick,” she muttered, "or the heels of the murder o f the gam a little daffy.” She was getting into bler Rosenthal,” saya a writer in the cart when a quiet “ I beg your the American Magazine. pardon” caused her to wheel around. "In days gone by the detective The strange young man, hat in arm of the city’ s police system de hand, was certainly speaking to her. pended on such men as W. P. Sheri She merely looked her surprise. dan, the ‘ man with the camera eye,* “ Are you not Miss Vaughn, and as he was called, to identify crooks. weren’ t you expecting m e?” lle r Sheridan had a wonderful eye and blue eyes widened into a positive a freak memory for faces, but there stare o f amazement. arc few men with such unusual “ I— I am Madge Vaughn, hut you qualifications, and the underworld — you must be mistaken,” she said. has a tremendous population that “ I am Dr. North— Tom North, seems to grow with each generation. my mother wrote.” He was blush “ Faurot, a handsome, soft spok ing a little at the queerness of her en man, is the American Bertiilon. reception. He has taught New York’s 700 and “ You— you are little Tommy? more detectives how to pick a face Why” — She began to laugh merri out of the crowd by modern, scien ly, and the young man laughed, tific methods. too, a hit stiffly, for he did not un “ The ‘ bull,’ as the New York de derstand the joke. “ You have the tective is known to the crooks, does advantage of me,” he said. not depend upon a photograph. I f Madge sobered at his tone and the crook he is after has ever been realized that she was not displaying in the hands of Faurot’s headquar any marked hospitality. She held ters men his Bertiilon record will out a repentant hand, which the show that he has one of three kinds young man took eagerly. “ We’re of human nose, ‘vexe, rcct or cave,’ sort o f cousins, 1 guess,” she said. as Bertiilon classified them. If he “ Anyway, if you are Tommy North has a concave nose, say, then his we’ ve D en looking for you, so get search is confined to faces showing in, und we’ ll start.” that particular form of feature. AU “ 1 can go away if it is not con the others are eliminated. venient,” protested the man. “ Then there are only four kinds “ Convenient! After I’ ve worked of human ears, the triangular, oval, for three days getting picture books square and round. Say his crook and kites and little blue overalls has an oval ear. This eliminates ready for you! No, sir; you will all those who have ears of the other have to use all those things.” sort and brings his field* down to “ You see,” she explained as she those who have concave noses and drove along, “ we got the impres oval ears. By this weeding out sion from some one that you were process the Bertiilon detective has about eight years old. Your mother put aside the thousands who have never mentioned your age or height, any of the combinations of ear and and so we got ready for a small boy, nose that might be made with these and— and here are some cookies I «even types of features save the one brought along so that you would combination of concave nose and not ask questions on the way home.” oval ear. She thrust a paper bag into his “ If one of Faurot’s scientifically hands. taught men lands a suspect he can They were both laughing like check up on him surely. The hu children as they drove in at the man face is divided into twenty- gate, and by the time explanations seven sections and in each section were made to Mrs. Vaughn the the Bertiilon chart will show its young man was thankful that the peculiarities. The process of elimi surprise had happened. He felt that nation will gradually exclude every it had been a good thing to take human being but this one man, us Madge by surprise, for when two ing the calculus of probabilities. eople have laughed together they “ Finally nature herself comes to ave rapidly progressed in their the aid of the detective with the acquaintance. finger prints, for she lias given to On the very first day Mrs. Vaughn each of us one certain individual had looked at the two with com stamp that never changes and that prehension in her eyes, and as the cannot be changed— the rings, ‘ is weeks grew into months she felt lands,’ whorls and parabolas to he reasonably sure that Madge would found on the inner cuticle of the never go back to the office. digits.” '— A Bit o f Blu* Sky. The day before he was scheduled Professor John Tyndall, who, to go hack to the city, a new man by reason of Pinecroft air and with many great gifts, possessed agreeable companionship, they took a singular skill in devising and con the big red and blue kite to the top ducting beautiful experimental il of a nearby hill to ily it. It soared lustrations, actually produced in clear above the trees as the man 18G9 a bit o f blue sky in the lecture slowly unwound the long yellow room. In a glass tube three feet string. The girl watched it rather in length and three inches in diam sadly, for as yet there had been no eter he exhausted the air until it word of love between them, and she was less than one-tenth the density realized that she had grown to care o f the atmosphere we breathe and so much that it was hard not to let represented the rarer air high over him sec it. The tears had come head. Into this exhausted air he into her eyes, and now they splash introduced nitrate of butyle vapor, ed over. The young man looked up which is extremely volatile. Then just in time to catch sight of them, a strong beam o f light in a room and, letting the string go, he turned otherwise dark was passed through the mixture, and in the glass tube and caught her in his arms. “ Dear,” he whispered, “ what is there glowed a beautiful blue cloud, it?” She did not speak, but she rivaling in color the finest Italian did not try to get away either, and sky. Here was blue sky brought down to earth. after a moment he said: “ Is it because I am going away— A Patiant Judge. is it, Madge?” She shook her head. A western judge, sitting in cham “ Why, then,” he urged, “ tell ine.” Suddenly she began to laugh— a bers, seeing from the piles of pa soft little laugh that made the man pers in the lawyers’ hands that the first case was likely to be hotly con hold her closer. “ I was only wondering,” she said, tested, asked, “ What is the amount “ whether or not there was a girl” — in question?” “ Two dollars.” said “ You bet there is,” he interrupt the plaintiff’s counsel. “ I’ll pay it,” ed, “ and I’ve got her right where I said the judge, handing over the want her.” Which sentence, slangy money. “ Call the next case.” He had not the patience of Sir ns it was, seemed to be wholly satis William Grant, who, after listening factory to Madge. fo r two days to the argument« of Applas M ade S tud ying Easier. counsel as to the construction of a Apples make a better “ feed” certain act, quietly observed when while you are studying than a box they had done. “ That act has been repealed.” — Argonaut. of chocolates. A bright girl who took her four P ictu rasqiA Maxio*. year high school course in * three The Mexicans have a turn fo rth « years, graduating with honors, was picturesque which displays itaelf in asked how she did it. “ Just ate apples,” was her an the street names of the capital. swer. “ Seemed to me I could get There arc Sad Indian street, Street almost any lesson if I had an ap of the Wood Owls, Lost Child street, and a cautionary Pasa if ple to eat while I was at it.” It wasn’t merely “ something to You Can street. Shop names, too, munch on.” Apples have just the in Mexico are out o f the common. medicinal properties that nre need A drug stores calls itself Gate of ed for the “ prevention.” No need, Heaven, and a drinking saloon de then, for a “ cure.” — Kansas In scribes itself frankly as the Bait o f the Devil! dustrialist. E