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î % VO L. X III FALLS A CZAR OF RUSSIA Eccentric Alexander II., Who Gave Freedom to the Serfs. AND T H E N CRU SHED P O LA N D . Out of tha Roform Ho Sfarfod by thi Liberation of tha Maaaaa Grow tha Nihilist Movement, Which B rou gh t About Hia Own Death by a Bomb. koff adì iae<) Mio granilo.: nf a consti tiillou lo Russili, and Alexander una od Un* polii! nf IsMiihig n u' a-io lo that effei-t lisd tndeed sii ned It w lieti In* « a i alaln. March 13. |N.H|, by a nihlllat bomb. Vanii y. Vanlty Uni on thè olUcInl II I nf vlr tue«, yet uo I cks a man has ii goni] »pln Imi nf lilmu-lf he « III nevi- ainount t i 'itiicb -Clllcago News. Regali! all new- wny« In thè II; hi of fresh experlence fnr yt»e* If you oc» auy hoiiejr, galla r II. c h 'x M le Flmiile. IT WAS A NOISY CARGO. NEW S STORE TALK No. 50. KALLS CITY OREGON,'SATURDAY. AUGUST 11. 1917 I young each. Well fed, tbn young reach that one of the most reliable ways to i marketable size when three to four a'lnlu pillili* Uy Is to say something at the wrong time In the wrong place."— { months old and average from flva to i tlx pounds live weight Washington Htar A Gaudy Voltura. In the South American forests |A found the most heuuiifully colored of all vultures, and II Is the true king over the black vultures and turkey T he G reen Frog buzzards. Its plumage Is of a delicate cream, with black ipillls, and the head Is brilliantly colored with red and Once upon • time a little rtrl had a orange. birthday party, and one of the presents I that ono small friend brought her was Tha Signa. a nice green paper frog. "Mlm Gladys got no fewer Ilian six The little girl had so many dolls that gold headed umbrellas for birthday *Jie took a fancy to the frog. She tied presents." "She must lie something of a reign j a string to one of his long legs, and *v erywhere * the little girl went her ing ladle" Baltimore American. green paper frog was sure to go. Now, one of the tasks that the little F a t h e r K new . girl did every day was to feed her kitty Tonini:, Pup, what Is a glutton? a saucer of milk. Just outside the Tommy’s Pop - A glutton, ray son, la a kitchen door stood a small brown dish grow' man who can eat almost aa In this disli every morning the little much as a small hoy.—Philadelphia girl used to pour a cupful of milk for Kecyrd. j the kitty's bieakfaat. “ Would you like to help me feed the The wise prove, the foolish confess kitten, dear?" the little girl asked her by their conduct, that a life of employ pet frog. And froggy Jumped three ment Is llie only life worth leading.— Inches and then squatted down on bis Raley. green paper legs. Plump, plump, he went across the grass tlii be came to the brown dish of Russian D em ocracy’s milk. Then light Into It be Jumped, F irst Envoy to A m erica because he bad not seen any water tn so many days that milk looked too In viting to him Wben tbe little girl saw her pet sit When the Russian special war mis sion to the United Stales ume to ting In tbe milk ef course the waa glad this country It was beaded by Profes xba had him at Ibe end of a string. sor Boris >. Bakhmetleff, who Is to re So she quickly pulled him out of the main as ambassador, the llrst to repre milk and hung him up to dry on the sent the uew Uuiuo, lucy at \\ ashing | ciotheallne. It la ■ curium. fart, an.va tin* Kanaaa fit}- Htnr, that one of Ilia paatM t ra- But It Completely Cured tha Bkippsr of His Feer of U Boats. foriju |l|y»ever rami* to llussla the A skipper who took a cargo of loco Ufa ruling of tin* serfs In INttl «aim* through Alexander II , u uian educated motives across the Atlantic when the V boat warfare waa at Its worst gave under lho I'rtMalan military system this ringing story of the trip Born In IhlH, the eon of a sternly an "W e toft Philadelphia with sixty lo torratlr father, growing up In an at- , comotives, all Incased In huge wooden uiospher** In which It waa Inoktd upon boxes, lulact and ready to lie taken off aa treason to rrltlrlar tin* corner police the ship and placed Immediately on the man «line hr ttav a i epre u til nth e of tracka to start dragging ammunition the governnirnt, Alexander persisted trains to the front. In cherishing all Intrreat In all aorta of ! "The Jielauare waa as «untoth as a hunihle |H*ople. IHind as we made our way down to lie ratlin to the throne In IHo5, when the bay. but ibe first wavelets that It ii tola waa floundering xvulst deep In struck us at the capes started some the Crimean war. Hus«la waa defeated thing that made me want to lake n and demoralized, and It waa an unuau 1 header off the bridge. Every one nf ally auspicious time for men with re 1 the sixty locomotive hells lu the hold form Ideaa to get a healing I’eare liegan to ring! And they all kept ring wna made at the end of a year and new lane paaond encouraging Industry lug all day and all night all the way and commerce. 1‘laua were laid for an across Ibe Atlantic. "A t drat I 'bought of going back to etteiialve railway ayatem |iartly to de d i s k to have the bells taken off Hut vclop the natural resources of the ronntry and partly to lurreaav ila mill that would have amounted virtually tg unloading the whole cargo be* ansa of fare edlrlanry. the manner In which the locomotives Then In 1H5H Alexander received a were stowed. It would have meant a petition from certain great landownrra week's delay, and I was supposed to In l.llbuanla praying for a more satis get to sea as i|Ulekly as |nisslble 8 « factory adjiiatmeiit of relatlona lie 1 we put out that night with Ihoae sixty tween tbemaelrra and their aerfa. The j mad bells going hammer and tongs exar replied with lavish p ra is e , of tbeh continuously. public aptrtt ami assumed that what "I thought we would all lose our they wanted to d<> w u to Improve the senses Bleep was out of the question condition of the aerfa, which lu point i It was like ringing ‘eight t>ells' eight) of fact waa not true at all. Their |>etl ' limes a minute lu sixty different keys Mon had given him an opening. Without consulting his ministers the | You’ve seen Sir Henry Irving hi the exar caused coplea of Ida Inst met Ions play 'The Bells?' Well, It was like (hat, only this was no play, but real to the governor general of Lithuania to life It seemed, as one member of the lie forwarded to the governors of all the crew who Is by far too Imaginative other Husatnn provinces, "suggesting" that the landowners of lliolr provinces said, as If the ghosts of all the inur dered ships were clanging up nt ua out might also care to consider rmandpa tlon of the serfs. Local committees of the depths o f the ocean, warning us of the U tv tats that had littered the sea went to work on the subject. Then* were In Itusata nt this time floors with tbelr bones. "W e fell In with some nasty weath some 28,000,000 serfs, slnves of the soil. They could not l>e »old away er as we neared the other side. The vessel rocked and tossed, and every from the land on which they were time she plunged a whole cataract of bom, hut In all ether respects their bondage waa virtually Complete. The bells went tearing down toward perdi c/.ar set the ball rolling by freeing the tion. 'W e’re In the U boat zone,' re marked the man at the wheel to me 3,000,000 aerfa on the Imperial estates oue night. 'Good!' I cried ‘ I hope a The altolltlon of serfdom was Inerlta hie, hut the landowners tried to stare torpedo hits ua soon. Then perhaps I'll get some sleep.’ It off as far as possible. They submit "The destroyers that met us didn't led a plan for making the aerfa agri know what to make of us. They cultural laborers, entirely dependent upon them economically. The czar re thought we had all gone crazy drunlc fused to accept It. If the serfs were and were trying to tell the U boats really to lie free be decided they must exactly where we were. But 1 told Photo by Am erican IT ess Association lie able to own land. A state loan, them I was cured of the fear of U IlOltlS At I X.XMiKll BAKUttETIEZ'F. boats forever."—Rhllsdclphla Ledger payable annually at 0 per rent for for V ty-nine years, enabled the fornie^serfs ton. Although under forty rears of What la a Sapling? to buy a certain share of farm fcmd of age. Ambassador Bakhmetleff bus had The soldier who thought a "sapling" a vurled career. After graduating as a Itusata and become peasant proprie tors. The land wns held by I he village was a young pig was evidently a Som hydroelectric*! engineer he tiecame an communities and by them apportioned ersetshire ntau. for a correspondent 1 Instructor and later professor In the to their members. The ukase freeing writes "Highly amused, I read aloud l’ etrograd Polytechnic Institute. the aerfa w as published March 3, I8ttl. your ’sapling' story to friends When About thirteen yeurs ago he came to Hope flnmcd Tery high In Russia at I had flnlshcd s Somersetshire woman ! this country and took up practical who was present asked, ’ Well, what do work In hydroelectric Installations. He that time, and men of the more vision you call a sapling?’ ‘A young tree.' I relumed to Russia an American en ary sort looked forward to an imrae dlate Utopia. They were disappointed, replied ‘ Is It?’ shtTreplIed. ’Now, I've thusiast. Under the old regime Pro of course, and they found that freeing always heard a young pig ealletl a sap fessor Bakhmetleff wns chief represent- the serfs did not cure all the Ilia to ling in Somersetshire ’ Further Inquiry ■ utive tn America of tbe Russian cen which Russian flesh was heir. Out of revealed that others say the same." tral war Industries committee. Offl their disappointment and their Impa From which we gather that the soldier daily he Is sttll head of that commit tience that Alexander did not make came from Somerset, while evidently tee. He left this country six months Russia Into a Poclallst community his officer did not.—Ismdon Chronicle. ago for a temporary absence. After there developed the nihilist movement, the revolution last March he was whose passion for revolution Involved nppolnted assistant vnlnlster of com Fooled Both Ways. a passion for assassination. A sportsmun came to grief at the merce nnd trade. The new ambassador M un rii The czar In the meantime was en first fence, riucktly remounting, he speaks English fluently. ■oiirye. It met the same fato at the second at deavorlng to steer a middle con Is one of the curious contradl llcl/ons of tempt Asked the cause of his dis car- asters, ho said: "U vos like z.ls Yen Produce R abbits to his character that this man, who car rlcd through the freeing of the serfs ve koms to xe first fence I did zlnk my Increase M eat Supply almost single handed, should have look borse vild Jomp, hot he did not Jomp. ed with entire coldness and disfavor so I vent over his head Yen ve koms upon Poland's aspiration! for freedom -to ze second fence I did zlnk he vud Habilita, which have proved a valua "Embrace the union with Russia.'’ not Jomp, and he did Jomp, so I vent ble source of food In Europe during the he told the Polish delegates, "and over his tall.”—Milwaukee Fiee Press present war, may well be raised more abandon nil thoughts of Independence, j extensively In America by way of re now and forever Impossible." Political Assassinations. ducing the drain on the ordinary meat And In 1863 when revolt broke out In The llrst three months of 1913 were supply, according to biologists of the Roland It was relentlessly repressed notable for their political assasslnii United States department of agricul under Alexander II., and thereafter tlon». There were five—the Turkish every step was taken to crush the na war minister, Nazim Pasha. Jan. 23; ture. The business of growing rabbits, the specialists point out, can be car tional spirit of Roland, destroy Its Ian- the premier of Salvador, Manuel E ried on by youths and adults not en gtiage niul traditions and make of It an Araujo. Feb. 4; the president and vice gaged Iti military or other national Integral part of Russia. The doctrine president of Mexico, Francisco I. Ms service or In regular Industrial employ of Ranslnvlsm took a strong hold on dero and Jose Pino Suarez. Feb. 23, ment. The animals may he raised In his Imagination, and he went to war and King George of Greece. March 18. hack yards of cities and towns as well with Turkey In 1877, feeling himself ac on farms. the chlvalrlc liberator of the Chris The Belgian hare breeds rapidly, ma Round tha Circle. tian peoples of the Balkan country. Friend—Why do you maintain such a tures quickly and produces a palatable Rut his hopes of a confederation of and highly nutritious meat. The cost Slav slates under Russian rule In the large office force? of production Is less than that of any Financier—To prevent outsiders from Balkan peninsula were dashed by the other meat, not excepting poultry. bothering me. congress of Berlin next year. The Belgian and Flemish giant rab "But I thought that was what your The last years of Alexander's life bits are recommended for meat pro wore dreary ones. More and more he executive secretary was for." "Oh, no. He la here to prevent the duction, as the ordinary tame rabbit Is yielded to depression aa he saw his smaller and develops more slowly. high hopes for nnssla fall to mate office force from bothering me."—Life Rabbits are easily kept. They est rialize. Numerous attempts were made hay, grass, lawn cuttings and green Tima and Plaea. upon his life, and after the explosion “There Is a time and a place for ev vegetation of many kinds. Females In the Winter palace In 1880 the exar should be allowed to breed wben eight gave practically dictatorial power for erything" “ Yes." answered Senator Sorghum or ten months old and during the year six months to General Ignis Mellkoff. a distinguished liberal officer. Mgjl- sadly. ’’ And It’s rather unfortunate should raise /nty Jitters of shout six Mother’s Doll Story Tha Whippoorwill. The whippoorwill does not build a n«*»t for Its eggs, but lnys them on the ground, usually on fallen leaves. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS Some o f the sidewalks o f Falls City are in a deplorable condition and unless they are repaired by the owners of the property the city will be obliged to repair them, which requires considerable extra 1 expense to proceed according to law. I f anyone is injured on ac count o f defective sidewalks, the city is liable for such damages and the taxpayers o f Falls City must pay them. Please repair your sidewalks. Street Committee. The Oregon Agricultural College Whsrs •rfttnries •tructinn following trained spc<*i»li8ts with modern lub and Adequate equipment (ir e in leading to collegiate degrees in the Reboots: You wonder when Advances will ever stop We likewise wonder. We consistently believe it is to your Interest to buy what you reas- anably expect to use for sometime ahead. In certain lines the jobbers are now limiting the amount a mer chant can buy. It won’ t be long a matter of p ric e -lt will b e - CAN W E G ET T H E GOODS We are reasonably well supplied st present, and are bought up fur (all requirements in part. Again we suggest early buying ibis yeur. SELIG’S, Cash Price Store, “ Meeting and Beating Competition” . The way to have a Bank Account is to start one. 1 There must be a Beginning sometime. De lays are only a waste of time. One Dollar will start. ^Every additional dollar will help. This bank invites you. We pay interest on time deposits. A O R I C U L T U R E . with 1» department«; . COMMERCE, with 4 departments; ENGINEERINO. with 6 department«. In- eluding Civil. Electrical. Highway, Industrial Art« Irrigation and Mechanical Engineering; FORESTRY, including Logging Engineer tag HOME ECONOMICS, with 4 major depart rnentu. including training in the Practice House; M INING, with three departments, inelud t»C Chemical Engineering, PHARMACY THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC, offers instrne lion in the principal departments of vocal and instrumental mutie. THE M IL IT A R Y DEPARTMENT, enrolled 1095 cadets in 1916 17. end won recommen dation for O A. C. from the Western Depart men! of tha U. S. War Department aa one of the fifteen ’ distinguished institutions" of higher learning. All cadets will be furnished complete uniforms by tha V 8 Government and the junior and senior cadets, enrolled in the R. O. T. C., will be given commutation for subnistence, as well as ull transportation and subsistence st the six weeks* Rummer camp. REGISTRATION BEGINS OCTOBER 9, 1917. Information on request Address, Registrar. Oregon Agricultural Collage. Corvallis. Oregon. Deafness C3nno* Be Cured b v local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion o f the ear. T h ere Is only one w ay to cure deafness, and that Is by constitutional remedies. Deafness Is caused by an Inflamed condi tion o f the mucous lining o f the Eusta chian Tube. W hen this tube Is Inflim cd you have a rum bling sound or Imperfect hearing, and when It Is en tirely closed. Deafness Is the result, and unless the In flammation oan be taken out and this tube restored to Its normal condition, hearing w ill be destroyed forever: nine is se s out o f ten are caused bv Catarrh, which 1« nothing but an Inflamed condi tion o f the mucous surfaces. \Te THU s it s One needr*<l P o ll»? , for »n r esse of r '.fnrss (censed by eererrbi that cannot he cured bf Dr-if Doll IS Catarrh C ore Bro-l fnr clrenlsr* free. r J. c n « I K T , A CO, Toledo. Ohio Sold hr Drugsuts. Tbe Take lu ll's Smalls fills for coastlpauon. As Usual. - Willis How did ihr automobile acci dont oc'fti'? GUI s- In the usual man tier; the r*ad turned one way and the car the ether. -Town Topics. Only th<* man who Is In the wrong must win at once Those who are right can afford to wait. BANK O F FALLS CITY. Family Seashore Resort People seeking rest and quiet recreation will find them at N e w p o r t Beaches Good hotels, cottages and tents provide pleasant abiding places for summer guests. Surf bathing, boating, fishing, and hunting. W e e k End Fares Are on sale Saturdays and Sundays, limited for return on the following Monday. Season Tickets on sale daily. Ask your local agent for tickets and descriptive boolet John M. Scott, General Passenger Agent Portland » Southern Pacific Lines