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They Should be Red.

The strangest employment to which
the motor car can be put would ap-
pear to be its use to determine tba
courage OF young bulls intended foS
battles In the bull fight areans OF Mer-
lean cities. The auto as trying out"
device was hit upon by Pedro Fernan-
dez Somellera, who owns hacienda
near Guadalajara, Mexico. The novel
experiment was made a few days ago
with 22-horsepower car. The exper-
iment proved an exciting success. Sew
ersl Of the young bulls charged the
machine at mad speed. and II was an
ly by clever driving that the car and
the occupants were kept clear of the
horns Of the surprised and apparently
indignant animals.-Kansas City Post.
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HARRINGTON COTTAGE
A LONG CARRY.

The longest, loneliest and most haz-
ardous postal delivery in the world lies
within the bounds of the British EN-
pire In the Far North of Canada. Dur
Ing the winter months-that Is to say,
between October and May-the postal
authorities will not take bulky packets
even IL paid for at letter rates, to places
In the Yukon district beyond the rail-
way which terminates at White Horse;
but postcards, letters and single copies
no one packet to weigh over an ounce
of newspapers are regularly carried
over all the frost-bound expanse that
extends from the town Of Edmonton, on
the Saskatchewan river, TO Fort Nc
Pherson, on the Mackenzie. The man
In charge Of the mail has TO travel
1854 dreary miles in each direction He
is picked man, named Cornwall, who
has had a long experience as fur
trader and intrepid adventurer In sub
Arctic regions.
The first 100 miles is covered by
horses, the rest of the long way by
dog train. From Edmonton TO Atha-
basca Landing, on the Athabasca river,
consists simply of 100 miles OF wagon
road, which Cornwall covers In three
or four days II the roads are good.
At Athabasca Landing. with provis-
Ions, dog food and the precious sacks
OF mall the one man and the little team
OF "huskies" begin the long Journey
north. The first stop Is at Fort McMur-
ray, which is somewhat more than halt
way down between Athabasca Landing
and Fort Chippewan, on Lake Atha-
basco. The rapids at Fort McMurray
are no hindrance to the midwinter
mail carrier, for his route 10 over
Landscape Of unbroken white.
Giving the people within the trad
Ing post Of Chippewayan their share Of
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RAISING ALLIGAToRS.
Two Queer Farms, One in Hot Springs.
the Other at st. Augustine.


1t is claimed that the alligator farm
In Hot Springs, Ark, is larger than
that in st. Augustine, Fla, and that
these two are the only farms Of the
kind. The farm in Hot Springs is on
small mountain stream that feeds a
series Of little lakes or ponds. These
are made use of TO form the breeding
grounds" stock yards" and winter
quarters for this stock industry.
There are at all times on this farm
between five hundred and eight hun
dred alligators, ranging in size from
little baby gators, less than six inches
long, up TO Big Joe, nearly Is feet
long The little fellows have all been
hatched on the farm, but the big ones
were caught in the swamps and bay
Gus Of the South.
The alligator is a cannibal, and for
that reason II is necessary to separate
the ponds by means Of heavy wire
netting and to place reptiles Of very
nearly the same size In each enclo-
sure. Big Joe, the monarch of the
establishment, weighing nearly six
hundred pounds. is kept by himself.
Otherwise, II is alleged, he would soon
be the only alligator there.
The eggs are placed In incubators
quite similar to those for Matching
chickens. After being hatched the lit
tie ones are placed in a separate in
closure TO prevent their elder broth
ers and sisters from eating them.
They grow very slowly, so that an al
ugator two feet long IL about two
years Of age. and one twelve feet long
may be fifteen years or more. Some
reach length Of sixteen or eighteen
feet.
III allowed to follow their hibernat-
Ing habits I'm captivity. the aIligators
would bury themselves I'm the mud and
lie dormant for nearly half OF the year
and business would have to be sus-
pended during that time on the alli-
gator farm. Some way had to be de-
vised for avoiding, In part. at least,
this alternating instinct. The winter
quarters are In long, low building
divided into many compartments
Each compartment contains a pool of
water through which run steam pipes.
10 that the water can be kept at
constant temperature. One small
pond will contain two hundred or
three hundred alligators.
Hundreds Of baby alligators are sold
every year TO patrons OF the health
resort at Hot Springs for pets, for
nome aqusriums, and for curious mo-
mentos TO be sent TO distant friends.
For these purposes little creatures
not more than six inches long are pre-
ferred. Reptiles of larger size from
two feet In length up to the largest
that can be obtained, are sold for
use as advertising novelties. and for
exhibition In amusement parks, muse
ums, shows and menageries. Large
numbers Of all sizes are killed.
stuned and mounted in striking or
fantastic attitudes and used for orna-
mental and decorative purposes. The
skins are tanned and manufactured
INTO suit cases, satchels, handbaes.
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his Majesty's mail, and leaving Lake
Athabasca behind, the postman pushes
on due north, following the Slave River
to Fort Smith, where in summer almost
sixteen miles Of boiling waterfalls
make navigation a burden. But all is
silent here now, the one sound In the
still air being the call Of the driver
hurrying his dogs over northward, for
Fort Resolution must be gained, the
Great Slave Lake crossed and those
eagerly looked for letters delivered
to the successive clusters Of shut-in
people waiting for them within fort
walls all down the course Of the mighty
Mackenzie.
Between Edmonton and the Arctic
there are only eleven postofices, but
the mail carrier has to take as many
side trips OF the main line as may bo
necessary to accommodate those set
tiers who may have letters posted to
them. This means practically a rural
free delivery along the entire Mac
kenzie basin, boon, which is greatly
appreciated by the lonely settlers.
Along his trying journey Cornwall
faces for days at a time the billiards
and Ice winds from the cold north. For
the greater part OF the distance he
has TO depend for subsistence on game
of his own shooting. The dogs feed
on tallow and fish. the weight of which
Is carefully calculated at the initial
point of departure.-Tit-Bits.
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COMMONWEALTH HOTEL
Opp. House. seston. Mass.

FlREPROoF
OFFERs With hot and
tSod ~ ~ p ' ' s' ~ " 0 '' anu ''n ''''' -
STORER F. CRAFTS, Msnaxes
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belts. pocketbooks. and, in fact, al
most anything that can be made Of
leather. The durability, beauty and
costliness OF the tanned hides cause
them to be esteemed among the most
desirable Of leather materials. Even
the teeth are not wasted, being manu-
factured into small ornaments and ar
ticles OF 5ewelry and sold as curl
osities.-From Mature and Science
in st. Nicholas.
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steepest Of Railroads.

The virglbahn Gable railway up the
side of mountain in the Southern
Tyrol, Austria, now holds the record
Of being the steepest railway in the
world. with a grade OF fully 20 per
cent at its upper end and an average
grade Of 66 percent. In the run OF
945 feet the grade rises $40 feet. The
road construction Is comparatively
light, as the cars are small and the
braking stress on the tracks much less
than usual on the same type OF rail.
way. The experiments in automa-
tic vacuum braking made on the 20
percent grade showed that cars freed
from the cable could be stopped with.
out shock within a distance OF but
four feet. The cars seat 30 passen.
gers. The road and equipment cos,
100000. or about $1,000 per running
foot-Philadelphia Record.
Casco Bay breeze., 1908-06-25

On his way to the police court a
prisoner who was charged with feI
ony became confidential to the oficer
escorting him, and remarked, There
10 one thing am sorry for" what
Is that7" asked his csptor, expecting
70 hear q confession. Il had my hair
cut last night" said the prisoner In q
detected tone. Il might have saved
that quarter. but that's just my luck"
--Bellman.
Casco Bay breeze., 1908-06-25

Few persons would guess that the
smallest things visible to the eye are
the stars. Yet DR.. Edward Divers was
no doubt correct in declaring such to
be the case In his address before the
chemical section Of the British asso-
citation at Belfast. Great a. many of
the stars are In actual magnitude.
their distance II 90 immense that
their angular diameter becomes I'm
sensible. and they approach the condi.
ton Of eeonetrical points. The minute
disks that they appear to have are
spurious, IN effect Of irradiaxiea.
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The Chebeague Bowling
Alleys and Casino

Four regula-
tion alleys in
one of the fin
est buildings
for the pur-
pose on the
Name coast.
Alleys can be
engaged for
private par
ties. Finely
lighted and
perfectly ad-
justed. Cigals
and Confec-
tionery. Light
Drinks. Ice
Cream. Pool
Casco Bay breeze., 1908-06-25

The FIRST governor Of Pennsylvania
under the constitution Of 1890 was
Thomas Mifiin. NEz0
Casco Bay breeze., 1908-06-25

Send dealers name and top from pesuA
barton Of f'-@O-Muie-Team'' Bernx with &c.
stamps and we will mail Illustrated book.
Aet. giving many uses for ..Borax In the
Home, Farm and Dairy" also this lace dc.
Sign, 15 By 16 Inches, on cloth ready Cor
working. FREE. Address,
PACIFIC COAST BORAx CO., New York.
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one hundred ana afty hremsn are
enpsoysd On soms of ths reas Ansr-
Ian nners.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-10-27

Mr.. Bryan might make a hit in the
Rocky Mountain States by proposing a
federal guaranty of mining stock de-
poslts-Omaha Bee.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-10-27
THE YOUNG REPUBLICAN.
ernnent

In business sense the young voters
who have come forward since 1904 have
more at stake than any other class in
rendering a right decision. Their &C.
tive lives are ahead. They have more
years to live, and are now laying the
foundations of their business careers.
National policies and conditions are of
the highest consequence to them. Per
haps they are farmers. If SO, let them
ask the older generation how farmers
Jared under the last Democratic a1Dliu-
istration. Let them take the market
reports Of to-day and compare them
with the prices that prevailed when MIR:
Bryan made his crusade for free silver
and hurled defiance at President Cleve-
land because he stood by the gold
standard. At the same time Bryan de-
nounced the Republican party for it's
protectionist as well as sound money
position. Perhaps the first voter is to
engage in manufacturing or mining, As
wage-earner or otherwise. Does he
want his American rate Of wages and
the industry he chooses reasonably pro-
tected against foreign competition? II
he does Mr.. Bryan's leadership will
take him in the opposite direction.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-10-27
The Tide of Prosperity.

The tide of prosperity may ebb and
flow, but the great waves Of Industrial
wealth will continue to grow in vol
ume with ever-increasing comfort and
happiness to our contented people, who
will soon number 10O,OOO,OOO. And be-
cause of our intelligent and skillful
labor, made so because Of good wages
and good living, we shall make better
fabrics and build stronger structures
that In spite of their higher cost in the
beginning will be cheaper in the end
and will be wanted by the people in
every corner of the earth. So that we
shall capture the markets of the world
in greater volume without ever sacri-
ficing our home market, the foundation
of our national wealth and progress
Hon. James S. Sherman.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-10-27
Obligations of Civil War.

Money Indebtedness is not the only
obligation we incurred and assumed
in the great civil war. There was a
still greater debt, an everlasting obli-
cation that could never be paid in full.
But in the years that have followed,
the Republican party has inaugurated
and developed pension laws under
which over three and ore-half billion
dollars have been paid to disabled
veterans or to the survivors of those
who gave their lives for their country
and their flag. This pension system, a
product of the policy of the Republican
party, has no precedent in history and
no equal in justice and generosity
among the nations of the earth.-Hon.
James 8. Sherman.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-10-27
HOW TAFT WAS SOUGHT BY
M'KINLEY,
The Manner in Which the Repubu-
can Candidate Was Called to q
Larger Sphere of Action.

I. The Manner in Which the Republi-
! can Candidate Was Called to q
| Larger Sphere of Action.
| One afternoon early in 1900, when
Judge William H Taft was debating
a decision Of the United States Court
/ in the Federal Building in Cincinnati,
telegram was placed in his hands.
He tore off the envelope and was sur
prlsed to ind telegram from Presi-
dent William Mckinley, reading:
Il shall take it as a great favor if you
will call on me some time next week.
of the summons and guessed wrong
He went to Washington and was shown
into room at the White House, where
he met the President and Secretary
Long of the Navy. Later, Elihu Root,
the Secretary Of War, came in. Then,
to use Mr.. Taft's own words:
'Mr. Mckinley said that he wanted to
send me to the Philippines to help in the
work of establishing civil government as
the army moved on. I thought of nv
place on the bench and hesitated. Be
sides, l believed and said we could get
along without the Philippines.
But we have them and must take
care of them the President replied.
You are at the turning of the ways
in your life,' Mr.. Root then observed
The bench is the easy road. You can
stay there and be comfortable. On the
contrary, the Philippines will demand per-
sonal sacrifices and risks and much hard
work, but you will have an opportunity
of doing your country very great ser
vice. l went home, and argued the mat
ter for two weeks"
The telegram to Cincinnati opened
the door of American history to Will
liam II. Taft and made him the Repub-
lican candidate for President of the
United States.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-10-27
REPUBLICAN RALLY.

The citizens of Corvallis and
Benton county will be addressed
at the court house on Wednesday
evening, October %. by Hon. c..
II. Fulton, u. S. Senator. This
gentleman is a speaker of nation
al reputation. All voters Of
" hatever political faith, college
students and ladies are invited to
hear Senator Fulton speak.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-10-27
TAFT COMES FROM GOOD STOCK
Family Ranked Among the Plain
People for Many Years.

The Tatts- those who at present are
the Tatts-hail ancestrally from UX-
bridge, Mass. They say that Tafts are
so thick in Uxbridge that even a wom-
all can't throw stone without hitting
! one.
Some years ago-in 1874, to be exact
there was Il Taft reunion in UX-
bridge, to which descendants of the
original Robert Taft came fiocking
from all parts of the country. One OF
the conspicuous features of the affair
was historical address by Alphonso
Taft, father of the present Republican
candidate. He traced the history Of
various branches of the family, and
when he came to the one to which he
and his children belonged he said:
Our family have not embarked much
upon national politics, except that they
have shared in the battles of the coun-
try when national independence was
to be won, and also when the Union
was at stake. But brilliant political
careers have not been characteristic Of
the Tafts in the past. 1t is not safe to
say what may be in store for them.
There is a tide in the affairs of men
and also of families"
This is taken from the account of
the reunion published at the time. AL
phonso Taft would perhaps have been
somewhat dazzied if he could have fore
seen how quickly and brilliantly the
family would proceed to embark upon
national politics." He himself started
the turn of the tide which he predict
ed. 1t seems to be reaching it's flood
in the career of the son who that year
was entering Yale.
As Alphonso Taft described his i'm
mediate ancestors one sees where his
son got certain characteristics Peter
Taft 1715) was "a large, good-look-
ing man of magnanimous disposition"
He had four sons.
Aaron, the candidates ancestor, was
also SO magnanimous that ne lost
money by indorsing friends notes;
he was man "of great intelligence
and integrity And then, going some
what further back, there was Captain
Taft, who took Blarney Cas-
tie in the sixteenth century "by blar-
ney quite as much as by military
prowess." Good stock was Captain
from which to make a twen-
tieth century Secretary of War VII.
lam.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-10-27

Colonel Bryan laments the ''discrimi-
nation that has been going on against
the farmer" in electing SO few tillers
of the soil to Congress and the Senate.
What troubles him chiefly, however. is
the discrimination which the whole
American nation exercises against a
certain farmer of Lincoln, Neb., in de-
clinfng to elect him to the White
House-New York Tribune
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-10-27
From the Baltimore American.

exceptions to cover such cases, and We
have learned that it is equally ''bindin,
as to what it omits''
Ii we could imagine such crude
prohibition to be enacted into law, anJ
to be regarded as valid, what would be
! the effect? Mr.. Bryan, with his usual
| readiness, suggests that the concern
may sell as much of its plants as are
not needed to produce the amount al.
| lowed by law. He, speaks as though
every manufacturing concern had as
many fully equipped units of produc-
/ t1on as would correspond to any given
percentage of trade which it might be
required to lop off. Plants are not so
easily dfsmembered. Reduction in out
put means reduction in work, reduction
In the number of men employed and
curtailment of the efficiency of a going
concern. Let us suppose a concern
which controls so per cent of a given
product-that is to say, makes and
sells $S,OOO,0OO in value out of a total
trade in the product amounting to S1O,-
100000. Is it to be compelled to reduce
its output to 100000 because only
$2000,0OO in value are made by others
Then, if it could sell a part of it's plant
on Mr.. Bryan's theory what should it
sell? Should it sell off enough to re-
duce its capacity to $5,OOO,OOO and
allow three-ffths of it's plant to remain
idle until others developed capacity
for handling the other $4,000, 600?
Should it assume that the total trade
will increase and is not always to re-
main at $10,OOO,0OO, and hence retain
a larger portion Of its plant in idle
ness? Or suppose a concern controls
100 per cent of the trade in some arti-
Gle, what plants shall it retain? It
can produce nothing until others pro-
duce; but it may produce an amount
equal to the production Of others, and
it hopes-th trade will grow. What
vision of business uncertainty and con-
fusion, of idle and impaired plants, of
the ruin of workingmen whose lives
have clustered around particular indus
tries and who depend upon their con-
tinued efficiency, is presented by this
remedy for the destruction of
trustsi
Apart from this, if the dissolution
were effected in the manner desired
and portions of plants could be sold
and were sold as suggested, to whom
would the sale be made? Would it be
necessarily to foes or to those ambi- |
dous to be competitors and anxious to |
take advantage of its plight?
This proposal in it's utter disregard !
If the facts of business, In it's substi-
,ution Of the phantasies Of the imagin-
alton for the realities of life, stamps
he Democratic platform with the fatal
'tamp Of 1896. The commerce and in
lustry of this country, the interests of
Is wage earners and Of its interdepend-
mt masses, who must rely upon the
liability of business, cannot afford to
i've license to such vagaries
In the solemnity with which this
roposal has been declared, and the in
istence with which it is advocated. we
md an appropriate test of the capacity.
+ our opponents to deal wisely with !
he problems Of the day. /
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-10-27
COL. MILLER'S SPEECH.

Col. Robt. A. Miller expoundec
democratic doctrine at the court.
house on Thursday night anc
done himself great credit in the
pleasing manner of his address.
He admitted he had often been
greatly humiliated by his repub-
lican friends poking fun at him
over the bank failures and gen.
eral disarrangement of business
interests curing the last demo-
cratic administration and turned
a very nice point by saying that
when the republican panic came
last fall I'VE simply declared a
legal holiday"
He did not deem it necessary,
Tor his purpose, to call the atten-
ton of his hearers to the entire
four years Of misery under that
democratic administration, in
which not only banks failed, but
every business interest of the
country was completely para
lyzed, for he fully realized that
the heart-strings of many men. in
the audience were still bleeding
from wounds received.
He did not deem it wise to tell
of the marvellous prosperity that
has followed that democratic ad-
ministration ever since the people
buried them under an avalanche
of votes nor. did he point to the
wisdom, on the part of the repub-
President and congress, when
confronted with the most pecu-
liar condition that ever existed |
ins governmental affairs, in de-
claring a legal holiday that the
business men of the country might
take a calm and dispassionate
view of the situation nor did he
tell you that by this prompt at
tion by the party in power every
condition had been met and con-
fidence fully restored.
He also failed to tell his audi
ence that never, in the history of
the country have our people been
more prosperous and happy; nor
did he add the further fact that
the people will make a sad mis-
take if they should vote change
by electing Bryan,
While eulogizing Bryan as a
citizen and orator ne did not take +
pains to enlarge on his acrobatic
feats on every public question in
each succeeding campaign : nor
how he could straddle the fence
four years hence.
1t was indeed funny to think !,
Judge Lowell would object to
Bryan's presidential aspirations
IN account of oratorical powers, 5
when in fact, the Judge conceded i
his point as his principal qualifi-
cation as a presidential condi- !,
date.