Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-01-26


asked the origin of the phrase che
isn't in it," 1t was first used by
an editor who died, and went to
heaven. He looked around fo1
the man who took his paper fo1
seven years and then left it at
the postoffce marked "refused, "
but che vast in it''.
Oregon will good market for
her meats and bread-stuffs as soon
as the war between Japan and
Russia opens. The latter nation
has already placed an order for
1000, 900 lbs of extra mess beef
at Omaha, and the time for ship
ment is about up. Oregon has
the food to sell. Gentlemen of
the Orient, send in your orders.
The poultry show at Albany
last week was we'll patronized and
will be the same as heretofore,
factor IN helping to build up the
poultry industry of this part of
thestate. Two things are needed,
1st more poultry; and betterpoul-
try. The man who becomes in
terested in better poultry will raise
more oft. The man who raises
more poultry will want better poul-
try. Let the poultry shows con-
tinue until every farmer raises
nothing but thoroughbreds.-
Lebanon Criterion.
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How many Americans are there
who can tell where the flag of
the United States was first raised?
A few weeks ago the spot where
Washington unfurled the first
American flag was marked by
the dedication of small park
and an observatory on Prospect
Hill, in Somerville, Massachu-
sets. This eminence occupied
the same relation to Boston on
the northwest that Bunker Hill
occupied on the north, and next
to that more famous spot, was
the stronghold of Washington's
troops. We give this to the
boys and girls of the Corvallis
schoolsssas an extra lesson in his
tory.
Rnssia is nothing bat a blamed
cd hog. She already owns and
governs one-sixth of all the land
of the world, yet she is not salts
fed. All she wants now is the
land that joins hers. Manchuria
has 400, 900 square miles, and
she wants to colonize it. Japan has
less than 1906 square miles not
more than half of which is in
habitable. Yet on this little
patch she has nearly one-third
the population of all Russia.
Japan must have more room, and
wishes to colonize Corea-that is,
to pursue exactly the same policy
in that country that Russia
wishes TO do in Manchuria.
Here is where the hog kicks. It
is a turkey and buzzard case, but
Russia says nothing but turkey.
We hope Japan will get Corea.
The Grand Army of the Re-
public are all in favor of the new
Service Pension Bill, granting a
pension of $Ia per month, to all
soldiers who served 90 days or
over, simply because of their ser
vice. 1t is tairer than the pres
ent practice of passing special
bills for the relief of individual
soldiers whose claims have been
: rejected by the Pension Bureau.
The advocates say: ''Let us give
all these worthy veterans a ser
vice pension instead of passing
batch OF special pension bills
every session for relief of indi-
vidual soldiers, who know enough
to ask relief and whose congress
man is influential enough to OBJ
tain for them relief" At the
present time it looks very much
as if the bill would 60 through.
The bill also provides for pen
sion for widows, who were mar
ried prior to June 27, 1890, and
to minor children. We hope to
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