The Herald W. T. FOGLE, Editor. Entered as amndlM Mtter September I. 1W. t the peat onVe at Moomouls. Oresm. under the Act at Murk t, im IS8UKD KVKRY FRIDAY, BY The Acorn Press, Publishers Monmouth, Oregon. Subscription Rates One year Six months 1 50 cU FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1908 Monmouth should have a Board of Trade or some kind of commercial organization that would look after the develop ment of the city and country immediately surrounding it. Other towns in the valley with no better advantages than we have are rapidly growing in pop ulation and wealth as the result of well organized commercial bodies. We have many advan tages over a number of them, chiefly that of cheap land and cheap rent. We venture the assertion that no where in this country is there cheaper rent and in very few places is it so cheap. Our school advantages are second to none and the hor ticultural possibilities are the best. We should reach out after some of the great immigration that is coming westward and divert it to our part of the state. Many orchard tracts are being exploited by Portland operators and sold at from 1250 to 1400 per acre where transportation facilities are nowhere near as good as ours and where there is no advantage in soil or climate Here land can be had adjoining town, where we have rail and river transportation, for 1100 per acre and out a few miles it can be had as low as 120. All this is good farming or dairying land and with our creamery, fruit evaporator and cannery ready for any and all the pro ducts of the soil it would seein that we have an ideal place for the thrifty eastern farmer to lo cate. Let's get together and do something in the way of organ ization. The Southern Pacific has never given Monmouth justice in the matter of freight ship ments. Whether the local les sees are to blame in this matter we are unable to say, but be tha.t as it may the fact remains that we are unjustly discriminated against in more ways than one. In the first place there is no warehouse here for storing freight and if a man wants to send freight away he will have to haul it here in a wagon and then run the risk of being able to get it into a car. The cars that come here loaded with wood are sidetracked along side the grain warehouse where the only way to get at them is across all the tracks and switches in the yard and where the mud is hub deep in the winter. In order to unload cars, many times the draymen must place themselves in such a position that if an ac cident should occur, they could get nothing out of the railroad, for they are violating orders. Yet the railroad forces them to get into these places in order to get the freight away. It seems to be a case of "you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't" However the rail road company cannot compel anyone to pay demurrage here on account of not getting cars unloaded on time. The otlicials cannot plead ignorance for they have Wen here twice this fall. Keep this fact in view. We do not claim to 1 the biggest and best paper in the county, but we claim, and can prove our claim, that the Herald comes nearer Wing a model country newspaper than the large ma jority of papers published on the coast. In the first place we do not use a "patent inside:" in the second place there are no nauseating patent medicine ads in the paper. The Wst news paper critics in the world long ago condemned the ads on the front page and no modern paper allows them to appear there. Some people claim that self praise is half scandal, but this does not apply to a meritorious article you have for sale. We believe the Herald is meritorious and have it for sale in weekly installments at one dollar for 2 of them. Try it once and you will always keep it in the house. Read the ads in the Herald. They are paid for with reason able supposition that they will be read. After you have read them tell the merchant that you read their ad in the Herald. It will help us ami will do you no harm. ' Twain' Emancipation. An honorary degree waa once con ferred on Murk Twain by a humble In stitution In a Missouri town that bad known him when he waa playing Tom Sawyer there In real life. It happened that the degree confer ring cermonles took place one lazy day In June when newspaper generally were suffering from total collapse ot erery thing In the way of new. One New York new editor raked the land with a figurative fine tooth comb and got a dry haul for hla pains? Then, recalling that Mark Twain waa getting his honorary degree' that very day. It occurred to blm that a message direct from the famous author might relieve the situation In the news. Aft er moch scratching of the editorial Idea factory ' he' evolved this query which was transmitted to Mark Twain by wire: How docs It feel to be ft doctor of laws? Please wire answer at our expense. -. After a wait of several hour thli characteristic response came hot ovei the wire from Missouri: It feels like emancipation from Ignorance and vice. MARK TWAIN. Riding a Camel In the Desert Dr. Nacbtlgal. the celebrated African explorer, was the guest of a rich Ham burg merchant. The merchant's son. a young man of a somewhat sentimental temperament, said among other things that his dearest wish was to ride across the desert on the back of a camel. He thought such a ride must be very poet ical Indeed. ' "My dear young friend." replied the explorer, "I can tell you how yon can get a partial idea of what riding a camel on the deserts of Africa Is like. Take an office stool, screw It up a high a possible and put it In a wagon without any springs. Then seat your self on the stool and have It driven over rocky and nneven ground during the hottest weather of July or August and after you have not bad anything to eat or drink for twenty-four hours, and then you will get a faint Idea of how delightfully poetic it is to ride on a camel In the wilds of Africa." H Gsv Her a Present, When I was a young man Lady Jer sey was one of the leaders of fashion, and her house was the resort of poli ticians and other, with her lived her daughter, Lady Clementine Viillers, a handsome and clever girl. The custom had been established that all friends should give the latter a present on her birthday, and these presents were set out in an antechamber. Among these friends was Lord Brougham, then an old man. He called on a birthday, but bad forgotten what the occasion was, and bat brought no present Seeing a mass of presents laid out, he seized one of them and took It In as his present, rightly counting that the young lady would not remember that It was on that already bad been given to her And very proud be waa of bis pres ence of mind. But, then, he was an ex-lord chancellor. London Truth. EXTRA The White Saturday's Big Bargains 15 per cent off on all t 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. li miles from station and school house. Good email house and two barns, and other out build ings and a good young orchard. Good stock and dairy ranch at a bargain. 80 acres, 00 under cultivation; good house, barn and other out buildings; 2J miles from rail road station. 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