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THE DAILY GAZETTE- TIMES Published every evening except day. Office: 232 Second street, vmllis, Oregon. ' PHONE, 4184 Sun-Cor- Entered as second-class matter July 2, 190 at the peetoffice at Corvallis, Oregon, under act of Much S, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES DAILY Delivered by carrier, per week $ .15 Delivered by carrier, per month .50 By mail, one year, in advance....... 5.00 By mail, six months, in advance.... 2.50 By mail, one month, in advance...- .50 N. R. MOORE . . CHAS. L SPRINGER. . . . Editor Business Mgr. NATURE AND SCIENCE This craze for monkeying with nature and teaching her new tricks as the circus man educates the red eyed terrier seems to be growing right along says an ex change; ; ii) ,.') ;;;T' A sciencist man has succeeded in producing a potato vine with flypaper leaves. ; The potato bug Bticks fast at the first step and after he has eaten a hole around . himself he falls through it and starves to death. Another man has grafted a plate glass window and a melon vine in such a manner as to pro duce a watermelon with trans parent sides. No more plugging or ; thumping. You can tell whether it is ripe a block away. An Iowa man grows peas with a time fuse. When the pea pods are full the shells explode and throw the peas into the air. He timed his to ripen on the fourth of July and had a twenty-four-hour celebration without a cent of expense. A Kansas man has produced an earless corn, but it will never be grown. A committee from the health-food factories has him cornered in Arizona and one Of these days he is going to acci dentally step off into a canyon : pices of his friends. ? nn v. a. Kj. i: man is ixyiug to ' graft the thorn of the rosebush Upon a dandelion stem. . This Will pqiiqa Vex iVIonf- rt ho.inma entangled in the sod and as it grows it will .gradually pull it self out by the roots. A man at the Amity Con densed Milk factory conceived the idea of raising eastern milk weed in a mulch of tin plate and Drinter s ink. This nroved a little expensive but the manage ment has nothing to do but to gather the cans ' of condensed toilk each morning. By throw ing a handfull of type at the roots of each milk weed it has been found that the cans make their appearance with labels properly printed. A Blodgett scientist of Ger man extraction discovered Wonderful thing accidently. He happened to plant a hop vine over the grave of a dog he had buried. The vine produced wemerwursts and beer, and ; he men sprmKiea asaioetiaa in a bucket of milk and poured it about the roots. He now has an excellent . substitute for lim burger and picks Dutch lunches from the; vines at his leisure.' None of these equals a local man'snew f angled pie plant. He' grafted peach and cherry branch es to an apple tree, then bored a Jiole in the tree trunk and poured . into it a sack of floor. Early this spring he picked cherry pie at his leisure, is fol lowing that up now with peach and green apple, and in a short time will help himself to dried apple pie, all from the same tree, Nature assisted by man, is do ing some marvelous things now adays. Watch her.closely. THE HUNTER. An exchange observes that primarily, all wild game in the country belongs to the. state; but that does not give the hunt' ers the right to assume - .that they may follow it all over a man's farm if that man objects. The pride of the hunter need not suffer in the least by his asking permission of the farmer who has his own interests to protect during the open season, or, for that matter, any part of the year, especially when so many young boys are permitted, to discharge small rifles along the country highways, sending the leaden balls into field and wood lot where the livestock are roam ing about and may become tar gets. Farmers are not selfish creatures, and as a general thing they are willing to share the good things of their lives. Any person desiring to hunt" can al ways gain permission of the average farmer to go upon his land, if the farmer is approached in a kindly manner and insured that care will be used in the discharge of the gun, so that its leaden missive will not be the means of causing the ' death : of some choice poultry or cattle in stead of the coveted pheasant or grouse or rabbit , , TO .1 V- I UNITED EVANGELICAL Evangelical Church, corner of Ninth and Harrison streets. The subject for. next Sunday at 11 a. m. is: "The Dis advantage of No Membership; or In a Large Church." At 7:30 p. m. the third sermon on "The Creation of the World." " Sunday School at 10 a.m., K. L. C. E. - at 6:30 p. m. Bible study and prayer service at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday. M. E. CHURCH SOUTH Subject at 11 a. m. "A Rare View of the True Church." Subject for even ing at 7:30, "The Church as Compared With Some Earthly Institutions." Ep worth League at 6:30 p.' m. Sunday school at 10 a.; m. You are cordially invited to all these services. W. A. Orr, P. C. ' f CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. ' Services Sunday 11:15 a. m., room 11, First National Bank Building. All Scientists and friends are cordially in vited to attend the servicer :' V PRESBYTERIAN. V Rally Day Sunday at the Presbyter ian church. The pastor, J. R. N. Bell, will speak on "Organization; How Did the Bible Get Here; A Few Words to Skeptics." In the evening he will speak on "Standing Alone." A rally at the Sunday school at 10 a. m. Every member of the church and all friends of the church are earnestly requested be present at the morning and even ing services. The subject of the En deavor at 6:30 p. m. is the "Doubting Castle' from Bunyan's great Allegory, led by the pastor. The new song books will be used in the evening and the music will be accompanied by a, fine or- cnesira. arrangers invited and every one welcomed. FIRST CONGREGATIONAL The themes on which Evan P. Hughes, the minister, will speak in the First Congregational church tomorrow, October 17th, are as follows: 11 a. jn., "A Word About Business;" 7,30 p. m., Does Christianity, As Is Sometimes Asserted, Tend to Narrow Men Intel lectually?" School for Bible study convenes at 10 &. m. and the devotion al hour of the Christian Endeavor 6:30 p. m. Ever a cordial welcome awaits everyone to the services of this church. Y. M. C, A. SHEPARD HALL. There will be a joint missionary meet ing of the Y. W: and Y. M. C. A. at Shepard Hall, 2:30 Sunday afternoon. All are cordially invited. .- TRESPASS NOTICE Notice is hereby given that no trespassing, either for hunting or otherwise, will be - permitted upon our premises All parties violating this notice will be pro secuted according to law. r Signed Rowland Bros. , ' ' 10-ll-6t EXCURSION TO ALBERTA NoTlCE-rThe Ide-McCarthy Land Co, WHERE W 0M0RR0W of Portland will run an excursion to Alberta, Canada, Oct 23. For particu lars and rates inquire of J. Jackson, 317 Second St., Corvallis, Ore. Phone 3173 Ind. - - 10-ll-10t FOR SALE-Cabbage, ... 1 1-2 cents per pound, and corn $1.00 per bushel in field, by A. R. Norwood, near Bruce. - ' ' 10-l-4tw ' " " . x SHE WOULD NOT MARRY Victor P. Moses : ' - She did not want to marry me. so I decided to go home. W. Hays. This is the sad ending of the little story the Gazette-Times published several days ago. Mr. Hays is a Calif ornian who came to Corvallis last week to meet the lady of his choice. Whether or not he had a clear under standing with the object of his affections, he went to th court house after a marriage license, and. was able to secure it only after considerable trouble. He was not known to anyone and he did not know where his bride-to-be was located. By an accident he and Deputy Clerk Bob John son ran into Capt G. A. Robin son, who knew . Hays, and thus he got his license and found the family with which his "best girl" was staying. . ,; What happened when Hays met the lady of his choice is not known, but it became ' evident that he was not her choice, for yesterday the license was re turned to Clerk Moses with the above note attached. ine t-ierk can not return.' any fee, so the license, is still paid for and is now offered at a mark ed reduction. Any of the old bachelors in the city can get a genuine bargain at this time. "THE IN FROM On Monday night, October .18, Lee Willard and , Company 'will present at the opera house, Lthe latest comedy success, "The Man - - from Missouri."- Mr. Willard has appeared in Corval lis several times, and when last seen here he played Sol, Smith Russell's famous drama "A Poor Relation." He is a young actor of sterling quality, and has the happy faculty of presenting both the serious and ludicrous sides of life to his auditors in a very satisfactory manner. "The Man from Missouri" is ' clean, moral, full of heart interest, thrilling scenes and joyous humor, t : TRESPASSERS. ; As two of my registered sheep were shot and killed by hunters last year, and recently two of my best ewes were torn up by hunting dogs, I have therefore given strict orders to my men employed to gather evidence' to prosecute all tres passers with' gun or dog found on my premises,' and particularly to shoot and kill all dogs found on the farms. So that no one may be taken by surprise, I publish this notice. ; v! "ckS "; Fifty dollars reward, is hereby qfc fered for the arrest and conviction un der section 36 on page 419 of the ses sion laws of 1909,' of any person found trespassing by hunting with gun i or dogs on my farms. . . ' Twenty dollars reward is also of fered for the arrest and conviction of any person for" tearing down, cutting, destroying or defacing this notice, post ed on my farms Sept. 30, 1909. -. 9-30-D&W-tf M. S. Woodcock. For Sale An Oliver typewriter. Newy used less than two months. Perfect condition. Cheap for cash. ,. FOR RENT-Corner Third and Jeffer son Sts, suite of rooms, convenient to buiness section.... . - I0-5-tf FOR5ALE Six Jersey heifers from one to two years . old; almost subject to register. Call on or address E. A. Carter, Welte Or. ; . ' .- 15w-4t FOR RENT -. "- , r-. . TAKING OF THE NATIONAL Two and a Quarter Billion Ques tionsto Be Asked. EXPERTS WILL FRAME THEM. Each Query Costs Tens of Thousands of Dollars Answer! to Be Compiled by Electricity at the Rate of 3,500 or 4,000 an Hour. " '-' 1 " ' The national census of the United States partakes of the nature of both an Inventory of material possessions and a social. Industrial, educational and moral stock taking. The consti tution requires a census every fen years as the basis for the reapportion ment of representatives in congress. Fewer even. than six questions, the number asked in" the first census f 1790, would now meet the basic need from which the census sprang. But progress in general and national ex pansion in particular have deitnded more Information. - . It may be asked. "What questions shall be included in the schedules of the, census bureau where each costs tens of thousands of dollars?" Upon this point there. Is a difference of opin ion, and since bureaus, like individ uals, are - fallible the . census reports. X. DANA DDBAKD. have been criticised, often severely, by men well qualified to judge. Profit ing by the past, the officials of the thirteenth decennial census have said to a body of experts, "Put your heads together and help us to compose sched ules covering population, agriculture, manufactures and mines and - mining which shall best fill ths demands of business, science, progress and human welfare." ! - So the classes of men which have supplied competent critics in the past have now furnished builders who are about ' to complete their labors in Washington. They came as salaried, expert special agents to give the coun try the benefit of study and experi ence to make the census of 1910, it is hoped, the most valuable ever taken anywhere in the world. There are among these men professors, occupy ing many different chairs, and indus trial, farm, stock,' mining and other experts. The schedule of manufac tures has been presented for criticism to commercial bodies, and the tenta tive agricultural schedule has been ex amined by experts of the department of agriculture, by state commissioners of agriculture and others. Many Enumerators to Be Employed. Census Director E. Dana Durand is. the administrative head of the bureau, which ,'is under . the jurisdiction of Charles Nagel, secretary of the depart ment of commerce and labor. As sistant Director W. - F. Willoughby, with Dr. J. A. Hill, -will have immedi ate charge of the technical work of the bureau. . The: population returns as Of the date April 15. 1910. will be obtained by 65,000 enumerators under the oversight of 330 supervisors. The agricultural schedule also will -be car ried by 45,000 of the enumerators and will cover the farm operations of 1909 and the farm equipment on April 15, 1910. " . : . '' ; . The great Importance of his sched ule will be realized from the fact that about three .times as - much capital . Is invested in agriculture as in manufac tures. Six million farms will be visit ed, and 'it is expected that it will de velop that fully "15,000,000 "people are engaged in ' agricultural . pursuits. About 2.000 special agents will begin the collection of statistics of manufac tures for - the year 1909 on Jan. 1. Three hundred of $he regular enumer ators will carry' schedules of manu factures in certain districts. .. New Compiling Device." About 3,000 clerks in addition to the permanent force of the census .bureau will be employed ; in Washington' to compile the statistics from the sched ules. Uncle Sam's up to dateness in a mechanical way in the present case is attested by the new equipment which is to be installed to facilitate the labor of compilation. Tl:e use of machinery has made it possible to enlarge the scope of investigation included in the schedule, because it is now possible to deal with a mass of data which could not-, have been handled . by the old method of making tallies. In 1900 the arheduletof population alone contained - ' - ' i f (. . r twenty-five questions. Take the popu lation of 1910 at 90.000.000, with the same, number of questions, and this will mean no less than 2,250.000.000 of items t be counted, to say nothing of combinations. .The present system of tabulating re turns was first used in the census of 1890.. The vital factor is a simple thing, a card1' about 3 by 6 inches, fr-ith holes punched in It. A position or combination of positions is assigned to "white," "colored," etc., so that every possible answer is provided for. The' schedules are all transferred to cards with the help of a .punching 'ma chine. This has a keyboard much like a typewriter. The cards are fed under the punches from a pack and ejected automatically. These machines, of which 300 have been ordered, can be operated at the rate of from 400 to 500 cards an hour with an average of thir, teen or fourteen strokes, to the card. How Tabulating Machines Work. , There will be a hundred tabulating machines. They . somewhat resemble an upright piano in appearance. In place of the keyboard there is a feed plate and an arm carrying a pin box near one end.- As a card may have b tween 200 and 300 positions and as tabulating machine . has only sixty counters, it is necessary to run a ard through several times In ordejf to get all the information. . s . . After deciding what data are wanted the little cups in the feed plate affect-, ed are filled with Aercury. and elec tric connections are made with the counters. Then . when -card is fed the pin box, descends and wherever holes have been punched for the an swers required the pins dip into the mercury ": and an electric ; current causes the counters to register. The card, itself is sufficiently rigid to pre vent all the otherpins from dipping into the mercury. It will be seen, then, that the principle governing the operation of the tabulating machine Is simple. This mechanism can 'be fed by hand at the rate of 3,500 or 4,000 an how. In tabulating the population sched ule alone 90,000,000 cards will be pass ed six times through the machines. When an enumeration district Is com pleted . or when desired the totals shown by all the counters are printed on paper tapes at a single operation, and these are drawn out and the num bers transcribed. The agricultural schedule will have a machine adapted to its special needs, which will regis ter and add the value of farms, stock, crops, etc. Many typewriters, adding machines, combined writers and adders and ma chines for computing percentages and performing other, arithmetical opera tions will be used. Heretofore much leased tabulating machinery has been used at large expense. For this cen sus very little will be required, and it Is estimated that this change of policy will save many hundreds of thousands of dollars. . ... ST., LOUIS CENTENNIAL Features of Mound City's Municipal Incorporation Celebration. ; With the concerted ringing of the bells of 444 churches at sunrise St Louis recently began the celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the granting of its charter as a village. The little town of 1,200 people in 1809 has grown into the fourth city of the country, with a population of 750,000. in the aggregate value of its manu factures it is the fifth city. As the largest town west of the Mississippi. In a region which has more than half of the country's territory, which is the center of the country's food production and which furnishes 60 per cent of the country's exports, St. Louis counts confidently on an advance which will bring it higher than the fourth place on the roll of the cities. . The events of the celebration include a lecture on the north pole by. Dr. Frederick A. Cook, the flying of Glenn H. Curtiss, the aviator; the exhibition of the Henry Farman aeroplane and the M. A. Anthony wireless dirigible balloon, distance races for spherical balloons, a reception to mayors of 1.000 cities, a water pageant commemorat ing the founding of St. Louis, with four United States war vessels par ticipating; a race for dirigible balloons and aeroplane exhibition . flights. One of thattractive features of the educational, historical and military pa rade will be a brigade of more than a hundred horsemen from the national stockyards, East St Louis, under the command of Captain James H. Camp bell. ; The troop will be mounted on alter nate black and white horses in col umns of eight foiuv white and four black horses in each column. ; J New Tribe of Eskimos. ''" : Although W. . Bower; who recently returned to San' Francisco from a two years' trip to the frozen north in the whaler Jeannette, lays no claim to the .discovery of the north pole, be does claim to have discovered a new tribe ofEskimos on a point at Prince Albert Land where, he says, no white man had ever before reached. These Es kimos, who call themselves Nunacotlcs, 'said they had never before seen a white man. ... Bower says they were very tall and looked much like the North" American Indian. They all wore rich furs. -. They had never seen a gun. and were startled when one was fired' off for' their edification. Men and women of the tribe carried bows and arrows and peculiar knives of their own manufacture. The women were all heavily tattooed. Big Pearl From an Oyster. Henry Van Name, an oyster dealer In Plainfield, N. J, while opening oys ters the other afternoon found a pearl worth between $400 and $500. It Is as large as a hazelnut, BANNARD'S POOR START. Republican Candidate For Mayor of" New Yerk Now a Wealthy Banker. In their campaign against Otto T. Bannard, Republican candidate for mayor of New York, the Democrats are laying stress upon his connection with wealthy corporations. Mr. Ban nard is the head of a big trust com pany and has money enough to retire and live like a prince during the "re mainder of his life if he were inclined to do so. . . Whatever he has accumulated in the way of wealth or achieved In the way of reputation has come purely fron his own efforts No- one ever sgav him a start or helpedhlm' .along after he started himself. - He was born in Brooklyn m 1855, but was taken as a child of three to. Quin cy, III., where .his father had purchased a small flour mill. Ten years later the . mill burned an his father wass OTTO T, BANSABD, t left practically penniless. The family with difficulty managed to get to Mc Gregor, la., where young Bannard. then thirteen years old, hired- out as a delivery boy for a country grocer. By doing odd jobs after hours and saving his pennies he got together enough, money to take him to Beloit, Wis.,, where he entered preparatory school He finished there, paying his owns way, and then went to Tale, where,. with some assistance from relatives,, he was graduated in the class of 1876 He knew William H. Taft well while in college, and the two men have since been Intimate friends. After leaving college Mr. Bannard studied law. Several of Mr. Bannard's associates In business are Standard Oil men. Two of the trustees of his trust com pany are Standard Oil directors- Currck W Tor1Hna nf Inanrnnno fflfno- is another trustee of this company, a, is Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the executive committee of the great steel trust. Mr. Bannard has also been as- socuueu wuu .mines duiiuiou, uitr Standard Oil banker, In several ven- tnro. ' TWENTY-ONE GUNS FOR BABY" International Fleet In Hudson Joins Inn Saluting New German Prince. The boom of guns from the great international fleet lying in the Hudson awoke New York a few days ago to full realization of the fact that another- son .had been born to the tierman V ' 1 : fTt.n t.nt.-n- is the third son of the couple. The news of the baby's birth was communicated officially to the German vessels five days after his advent. Im mediately the happy event was told to the American. British, French, Italians and Dutch vessels, and from each onfr a salute of at least twenty-one gun was fired in honor of the prince. Some of them fired a greater number or shots. All in all 399 guns were fired. Big Cotton Mill. There is a cotton mill in New Eng land which will soon have a yarn ca pacity of 800.000 pounds per week, or 40.ouo.uoo pounds per year, ror wnica 120,000 bales of cotton will be required. - Tha Pola Evil. Note by the Author. For the benefit or newspaper and other humorists and vaude ville artists who are trying to disinfect the prevailing discussion by punishing It the following is submitted.! Whew! Scat! . Where is that north pole cat? It cuts no ice with Peary. It cuts no ice with Cook. They'll put their north polemics Inside a nice bound book. A izmo dooky wen, naraiy. . Twill be an Eski-mo, Chuckful of north politeness. . As all of us must snow. It's scold enough already, .'," But wait until the scrap is DOOKea. anu men we u tsunei- . ' A genuine scold snap. " ! They talk now quite igloosely And do not think it rude To talk with the extremest j . Degree or latitude, . ? Appearyances are deceiving. But Robert seems to show , A careful lead to get there , The doctor didn't go. " ,; ; If one is right the other Appearyantly is wrong t : And that one should fare bette- Who had a cook along. A mnpiiziTiA article Mignt mane me oareness Di-ignt Without too much indulgence . ! In polarizing light. ' An ice pick, not a muck rake. Might dig the truth up. Gee, If Peary's it, for Cook a r , - Nice pickle there will be! If they must have a witness , Or two to settle if ; We hope no Ksklmotives Will warp the truth a bit. ' - But Cook is back, however. And mildly takes the hook, ' While thus far Peary only Is getting back at Cook. AFTERWARD. " But. say, ; ..(,-,. . n i. . Today On the pole see the banner ' ' That floats in the breeze - O'er the trail of the brave A tiH Yia land tt thA fnwwft W. J. Lampton in New York Press-.