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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1908)
The Herald W. T. FOGLE, Editor. Enteral a. Mcond-clan matter September 8, 1908, t the poet office at Monmouth, Oregon, under the Act of March S. 187S. I88UKD EVERY FRIDAY, BY The Acorn Press, Publishers Monmouth, Oregon. Subscription Rates One year - - $1 Six months ... 50 eta FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1908 It would seem that there is but one party in this country that can have a man elected President without causing it to go to rack and ruin. Every 0time we have a presidential elec tion there is a tightness in the money market and a howl goes up that if the republican nomi nee is not elected there will be panics, hard times and the Lord only knows what else. From the standpoint of an indepen dent American citizen, we firmly believe, if this is actually the condition of affairs in the United States, that the sooner we dis card a form of representative government and adopt a mon archical one, the better for the people. This would do away with the ever recurring strin gency and the fear and trembling we have to endure every four years. As sane human beings we must admit that we are either colossal asses orHhere is a minus quantity in our mental make up. The republican leaders as sume that a majority of the people are foolish enough to be lieve their sophistries and that 1 they will get a majority of the votes cast at the Nutional elec tion to put their candidate in the presidential chair. Well it is quite likely, but did it ever occur to you that the only reason why so many spellbind ers, as they are called, are re publicans is because the repub lican party is the popular party and has more opportunities for grafting than any other? We were born a republican and have voted the republican ticket more often than not and this year voted one of the few straight republican tickets in Polk county, but we do not care to be' rated among those who can see nogood in a man unless he be a repub lican. Considering that a ma jonty of all the wealthy men of this nation are members of the republican party it looks as if there were more crime and cor rupt practice in that party than all others combined, for no honest man can accumulate such vast fortunes as some of the leading partisans of that party are rated at. However that is not the fault of the founders of the party nor yet of the rank and file, any more than it is the fault of Christ that many persons posing as christians are great criminals. town is certainly old enough andrkrge.- enough to be out of the infancy class and therefore should not be dependent for any thing that it can have as easy as a woodsaw. Let's cut loose from others and be a leader in matters municipal hereafter. . . as a business community we should do everything possible to bring business here and one of these things would be a good stock yard, but on top of this suggestion comes the matter of an unjust discrimination by the railroad in the matter of freight rates. It costs $3.00 per car more to ship stock from here than from Independence. If this matter cannot be satisfac torily adjusted, then we should ship by boat and see that the Southern Pacific has no interest in the boat. Help us to make the Herald the best little paper in the state by giving us all the local news you can think of. Tell your neighbors about the paper. You don't have to read a lot of patent medicine puffs that are disgust ing, in order to get the local news, nor is every other local a paid ad. THE PHOTOGRAPHER. H. Monmouth ought to have a woodsaw. With over 2000 cords of wood to saw annually we have to depend on saws from Independence to do the work., Aside from the aggravation of having to wait from two weeks to two months after it should have been done, it means a good many dollars of hard cash going out of the town every year. This Ona of the Clevereet Dlnlomata In the World. In the kingdom of vanity fair ana vanity that is not fair, but would be, there is the interpreter, the man who makes free tranela tions of foibles, conceits, ennrines. He deals with human nature in the raw and is an individual without illusions. He humblv calls his profession that of photographer. His associates know that he is more than a simple maker of pictures. They will tell you he is an artist, a psychologist, a diplomat, a strategist, a person oi magnetism and affability in deed, a combination of those vir tues which make him "all things to all men." "I want a picture like that," 6ays a stout dame, holding up the like ness of a symmetrical member of her sex, who stands erect with a bunch of roses in her hand. Now the photographer realizes that he is face to face with a stiff proposition, one of many in the day s work. He takes a dozen proofs ana senas them for approval. One is returned with an ink mark drawn perpendicularly along the waist line. If the instructions are not written out. as thev sometimes nro. the presence of the line moana tk that much off mnkft m thinner at the waist. Allowing for the fact inai me one eye of the camera makes a broader, flatter surface than is seen by the two human eyes, the photographer proceeds to scrape or "doctor" the negative. And what is "the result? The wom an gets a picture that suits her fan cy, hut really does not make her so thin as she imagines. One day not long ago a woman sat before a Fifth avenue photogra pher after spending two hours at a hairdresser's. She came back in a hurry with the proofs and said in dignantly: "Why, these are awful 1 My hair has never looked like that in any picture!" "Did you ever have it done that way before?" was the polite in quiry. The woman Was somewhat em. barrassed. "No," she admitted, 1 never did." Then the DhotocTanher rebuked her trentlv. "There a a moral in tVi?a aai'A he. "Never co to th hainli-aaa before the photographer. It only maKes a person look tired, and the hairdresser's art doesn't help the photographer." Another woman could not under stand why her chin stuck out so far. but she eluridAtvl h - - w.o aujov4j herself when 6he eiplained that the morning of her sitting was the first OQ Which aha hm wnrn n v.-.,. 1 . a uiuauai- IV hlch collar Thar . n chanced her Rnnearanna tlT T - --- -I vv. i' . J. liavward in Bohemian Magazine, BOGERT & SON'S Mew Furaaitaffe Store This Week it is DRESSERS Regular price II l II I ff II II II II II II II II $10.00 12.00 13.00 14.00 16.00 18.00 19.00 21.00 Sale price ii ii ii ii ii ii ii ii ii ii ii ii ii ii $8.50 10.20 11.05 11.90 13.60 15.30 16.15 17.85 Portieres and Couch Covers in an almost endless variety. All late importations and popular designs. We still handle Masury's Paints; the best all-round paint on the market. Every can contains the formula and is Guaranteed. V. O. Boots FIRE LIFE AND CASUALTY INSURANCE LOSSES PROMPTLY PAID A. N. Poole Contractor and Builder. General Carpenter Work Phone 187 Real Estate For Sale. 330 acres on C. E. R. R. H miles from station and school house. Good small house and two barns, and other out build ings and a good young orchard. Good stock and dairy ranch at a bargain. 80 acres, 60 under cultivation; good house, barn and other out buildings; 2$ miles from rail road station. Will sell for cash, or half cash, balance one years time. 5 springs and running water on place. 2 big lots lying on Main street in Monmouth, will sell cheap. 2i lots with a good 5 room, basement cottage,- with a good pantry and closet. Apples, pears, cherries, plums and other small fruit. A bargain. Inquire of A. N. Halleck, Monmouth, Oregon. Students Contest Ballot Five Votes For. Perkins Pharmacy Under Management of Graduate Pharmacist Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. Prices Right. Come in and investigate our Up-to-date line of Brushes, Stationery, and Toilet Articles. Full Line of Paints, Oil and Glass. We carry the sole aencv for th wpII kAwn cii,.nn. v o vn ii vJiivl tt in Williams Paints. "' Pure Drugs, Reasonable Prices Hotel Hampton D. Af. Hampton, Proprietor 15 years in Monmouth Under Same Old Management Everything strictly firstclass Go to P. E. Chase, for Pure Home Made Candies Sold under positive guarantee Why eat sweat shop, factory made stuff, when you can get a clean, healthful article made at home? Monmouth Livery and Feed Barn Graham & Son, Proprietors. General Transfer and Delivery Business. Horses Boarded by the Day, Week or Month.
