Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-02-26
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY BY THE
GAZETTE PUBLISHING COMPANY
o. A. DEARING, EDITOR AND BUSINESS MANAGER
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

The Russian Court are in prayer and fasting
during the present. week, after which the Car will
go to Tsarsloc-Se1o The observance will be un
usually severe and continuous PRAYERS for the vic
tory OF Russia are being offered. Still there are
1rreverant cusses here who are still offering odds
on heather Japan
The unrelability of evidence has often been
noted. Yet people read history, aud vainly think
they are reviewing facts as they occurred. An
experiment was recently made in Germany: For
the purpose of Illustrating the difficulties of evi
dence, Prof. LIT of Berlin arranged with two
OF his pupils to pretend quarrel consisting of hot
words, walking stick, and pistol loaded with
blank cartridges. The quarrel came off in the
"hghly educaed," who were not in the secret.
presence of about twenty other young men, all
No two of the twenty agreed exactly as to the
cause of the quarrel Eight different answers were
given to the question: Who began the quarrel?
One of our pretty little Corvallis sch ool girls
brought IN bunch of sweet-smelling violets, pick
ed from her own garden only yesterday, and with
it an extract from letter just received from rel
ative IN New York state. The letter said: ''How
we envy you in your beautiful Willamette Valley.
Our entire county is covered with snow from four
to ten feet deep. We have not seen the ground
since the first of November. The thermometer is
now IL degrees below zero.' Then the little girl
said: 'Papa is scolding because he has to NOV
the grass lawn" Something of differ
ence between places the same parallel. There
is still room for some more population in Oregon.
An illustration Of the advantage of wireless
telegraphy recently given on two vessels about
100 miles apart. A young man found himself
aboard ship homeward bound, his passage paid,
but without money for incidental expenses and for
landing. He knew that his mother was on an
eastbound ship. The probable date and hour of
the meeting of the two vessels were calculated.
The purser of the eastbound ship instructed to
lay the case before his mother 1t took but a few
minutes for her to place the money in the hands of
her purser, who instructed the purser of the west
bound liner 10 pay it 20 his passenger. Will some
one put ''wireless'' in this city. We would like
to borrow a million or two from Carnegie.
Nearly all the fighting so far, in Corea, has
been by the navy. The Japs and Russians have
not yet met on laud in an engagement that has
given each army chance to show its mettle.
When they do the little brown men will give the
world surprise. Much has been said about the
superior strength and size of the Cars soldiers.
But we must take into account the well-known
fact that they badly paid, badly. housed badly
ted men, of a low grade of intelligence. They are
not personally interested, one way or another, in
the outcome of any war in which they may be Or
dered to engage They have learned but one les
son, to obey. On the other hand the little brown
men have all been taken care Of They are we'll
paid, we'll housed and full of intelligence. Every
japanese soldier is trained like an athlete and
every man is kept in the best of conditions. From
the highest officer to the lowest private every man
is an enthusiast and all have studied and become
familiar with the topography of the country in
which they are now to fight. We think the first
great battle will be surprise to the world.
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Candidates for the coming nominations should
be getting in line and getting their sbooms" out.
Don't keep it to yourself that you willing to be
mentioned for good position. See that some
body mentions you. One very important matter
to look up is to see how you stand on the books
with the paper. You can't expect the paper to
enthuse very heartily for you if you back sew.
eral years on your subscription, and never adver-
tise. The county wants live men for this years
nominations. We intend to beat, and we must dc
it with men that are we'll known, and not with
dead men who never let the people know that they
are still on earth. The u1an who has tin sign
stuck up on barn at the north end OF the county
cau'e expect voters at the south end to be very
we'll acquainted with him. We had occasion to
use the name of prominent citizen few days
ago. We asked three different people on the street
how to spell it. They all differed. We finally
met the himself, and found that neither one
Of the three right. So much for popularity.
Don't depend on the man you used to know to
remember vou. He IS sirnnlv wondering If you
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