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About The daily gazette-times. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1909-1921 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1909)
1l'MlLLAN'S NOTED DISCOVERY Peary Party Member Found Tropio Fern on Rock Near North Pole. ' Professor Donald McMillan, a mem ber of the Peary north pole expedition, has made some important discoveries tending to prove that the frigid zone was ouce hotter than the equator Is at present. He found large numbers of vegetable and, marine fossils. In a huge rock split open by frost the per fect imprint of a great tropical fern ras visible. The petrified stump of a tree eighteen inches in diameter was found, while there were other evfc. clences of whole forests in a state of petrifaction. '. Some fine coal . seams vrere also located. Near Black cape. a notebook containing tne names ox 237 Eskimos of the Etah tribe and a notebook '.on animal life above the eighty-second parallel. Mr. Borup has lost twenty-five books and material relating to photography. NEW ROOSEVELT HISTORY. ; I". . 1 1 TKOFESSOB DONALD M'MILLAN. latitude 81 degrees 25 minutes, fossil remains of tropical animals 'were found. A new species of seal was discovered ty Professor McMillan, and the eggs, nest and a photograph of the knot, a rar'e arctic bird, never before collected, were secured. The knot Is a bird that does not come down from the ice regions. " It has been rarely captured by arctic ex plorers. There is a mounted 'specimen la a museum in St Petersburg; the -aonJy one In Europe. IPpofesgor McMillan's loss In the re- -"-cent raid on the steamer Roosevelt ;maite fcy souvenir hunters is. more iJian. 100 books of all kinds, a camera. Ex-President Said ta Plan to Tell All ...... . About Texas.. Theodore Roosevelt will write a his tory of Texas while in Texas next year, according to an announcement made by Colonel Cecil A. Lyon of Sherman, Republican leader In'Texas and a personal friend of the former president. .. ' ; Lyon declares that this information is authentic and that Mr.. Roosevelt has planned to write the history of the Lone Star State for a long time and has collected a trunkful of data. Mr. Lyon says Mr. Roosevelt decided to write this history because of his great admiration for famous old Texas characters like Crockett, Houston and Austin. Mr. Roosevelt will come to Texas next spring. He will go to Demasite, Lyon's ranch., where he will prepare his manuscripts for publication. FIRST SCHOOL OF FLYING. Boston Man Starts It With Two Ex perts as Teachers. What is believed to be the first school of- air, flying In the United States has been started by Frank Palmer Spear of the Boston Y. M. c. a. ' - ' Spear has pat in; charge of the course H. Helm Clayton, whose work at the Blue Hill observatory has stamped him as a leading authority on air' and air currents,' and Albert A. Merrill of Brookline, whose work along the lines laid down by the pio neer aviator Chanute helped give Im petus to the work of the Wright brothers.' Clams In Maine Waters. An attempt is to be made to intro duce the famous Massachusetts and Rhode Island clams to Maine waters, and two men from Massachusetts and others ,who are to be sent to Lewiston, Me., by Commissioner of Sea and Shore Fisheries James Donohue will soon be gin the work. These clams are very large and have very white shells and command a much higher price in the market' than the' Maine product.1 At the last legislature people interested in (tie subject succeeded in getting an ap propriation from the state, if will probably be two seasons before the re sults of the work can be known. The Gazette-Times 50c per month. NEW GUINEA COURTSHIP. All the Proposals of Marriage Art : Made by Women, - ' - Away off in the strange island of New Guinea it is leap year all the time in one important sense, for out there all the " proposals' of imarriage are made by the women. It is consid ered beneath the dignity of the male Inhabitants of New uUm to. even notice a woman, and consequently the women perforce must notice the men and must start any idea of weddings, etc. .7- ; .-. So when' the Island belle of New Guinea becomes in love she promptly sends a piece of string to the sister of the lucky man. If he has no .sister she sends it to his mother or to some female relative this because the man and his male relatives are assumed to be. above taking any steps toward acquiring a wife. . Then the sister says to the man in volved: "Brother, I have news. So-and-so is in love with you." -' If In clined to matrimony the. man makes aft engagement to. meet the enamored lady. When they meet it is alone, and they either decide to wed or drop the entire proposition at once. There is no courting, for the man is not' al lowed, theoretically at least, to waste any time on a woman not even enough , time to make love to the lady or to allow her to make loye to him. The betrothal is announced, and the engaged man in New Guinea is brand ed on the back with charcoal, but the woman's mark of engagement to wed is. actually cut Into her skin and is never allowed' to completely vanish. If. either one decides to break the en gagement nothing: can be done by the offended party. If the girl decides, that, after all,, she sent the little piece of string by mis-; take the man is apt, however, to catch her some time alone and beat her. If the man jilts the woman heir relatives often hunt him; up and' administer, a sound drubbing. Blood, however, is seldom shed, as the breaking of these women made, engagements is not deem ed a very serious matter. , Though the women propose the wed dings in New Guinea, the condition of the wife, is miserable and. unjust in the extreme. The- girl is merely the property and slave- of the husbandT He can beat her- unrebttked and even kill her with impunity f she incurs his enmity. Atlantai- Cimstlrutlon. How Hf Looked. Green I saw your friend White this morning. Brown SoT t-I rheffrd. he was sick. How did he look? Green He was looking the other way when I saw him. He owes me $10 Cbicaeo News. Th Wilderness. This theater ot bloody conflicts Is a vast sea, so to speak; of a dense forest a second growth more than a century old. : It is made np chiefly of scrubby, low limbed, stubborn oaks and disor dered,' haggard pines, for the soli is cold and thin, with here ' and there scattering clumps of alien cedars. Some of the oaks are large enough to cut two railroad ties, and every, once and awhile you epme across an acre or two of pines ten to twelve inches in diameter, tali and tapering, true to the soaring propensities of their kind. But generally, and above all where the bat tle was fought the trees are noticeably stunted and so close together and thick lower limbs so Intermingled with a thick underbrush that it is very dif ficult : Indeed to make, one's way through them. Atlantic Monthly. Meredith's Advice to Stead. W. T. Stad tells a characteristic story of George Meredith, which is all the more appreciable a it is told against himself. "He was a true friendv"". says Mr. Stead, "not less faithful fo criticism than he was cordial In his appreciation. Of the former I remember well the neat way in which he put me out of conceit with my first attempt to write a story. I sent him my little effort with) fear and trembling.- My trepida tion! was not -without warrant 1 have read! "From the Old World! to the New," he wrote. 'Some of tbe char--actors are Interesting and well drawn. One- of them especially reminds me of Cecil! Rhodes. But if any one of : your friends tells' you that he likes-the story as a story on't believe hinu! " Swiss Flags. The- Swiss flag is red, and! it beers a Greek cross in its center. The Switzers declared their independence In 1307, and at the battle of Morgartem 1315, where the Austrlans werej' defeated, they carried a plain red flag- without any device. During the seventeenth century a white cross was0 added, thoughi It is said that the cross ap peared on some Swiss flags as-early as 1339. The different cantons of Swit zerland have different coats- of arms and different flags. , CDDPEB 8 flMippjni I ; We do the Best Plumbing and - Carry a full Une of Plumbers' Supplies -:'.'..'.'. Dealers In sr " Hardware, Implements Buggies, Wagons, Cream Sepa rators, Graniteware, Tinware and Builders' Hardware. , Congo Roofing and Quick Meal Ranges Second Street, Corvallis, Oregon Benton County Lumber Co. Manufacturers oi all kinds of Fir Lumber, Mouldings, Cedar Posts, Sawed and Split. Cedar Shakes Dealers in Doors, Windows, Llme, BncK, Cement, Shingles, etc Verdi's Secrecy. 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