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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (April 9, 1909)
How They Feel About It. A letter to a '09 graduate; You ask what I thought of our Normals. Well I think the east ern man you quoted is not far wrong in his estimation of Oregon (Oregon is the fool is the family). I am ashamed of , her, in fact I declared when I learned the action of the legislature that I should disown Oregon, go elsewhere and never tell where I came from. I cannot understand why a body of intelligent men can act blindly for even the State University is begrudging us every cent it gets. I used to think Governor Cham berlain was to blame during his term of office, but I must have been wrong. Does it not seem strange that the legislators don't realize that they are hurting the common-wealth and making it a byword and laughing stock? I have been anxiously waiting to see what the Ashland delegation of business men will accomplish at the special session. I received a letter from the ways and means committee of the Normal inviting me to help finan cially. I am glad to help out such a worthy cause, but regret that such a thing is necessary. I have not sent my mite, but will do so shortly. How lovely of Miss Smith to re turn to the aid of our Alma Mater, Is not it noble of the faculty, es pecially President Ressler and Secretary Butler, to sacrifice their own time thus, but as you say, they will be rewarded for their loyality and that materially too for the world though largely com mercial and unsentimental, will not cannot ignore such a desir able quality. Shirley Dorsey was elected to fill a vacancy here a few weeks ago and is teaching at the other end of town. I don't often see her outside of teacher's meetings. She is getting along nicely as far as I know. She took the place of a very strong teacher who had splendid discipline so she will not find that hard at all. Her room is not full either, but she has three different grades. Feb. 1908 Graduate. Roycroft Philosophy By Fra Elbertua. Faith is relaxation. The wisdom we strive for and think we achieve just before we die, if at all, is sometimes a mat ter of physical breakdown. Imitation is the sincerest form of insult. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time. Art is the visible expression of man's joy in his work. The reward that life holds out for work is not rest or idlei.ess, but increased capacity for work. It is our right to damn anything or any man that helps us; and w' en the wind is East we occas ionally avail ourselves of the pri vilege. The possession of wealth should never mnke a man exempt from useful manual labor. People who are unable to under stand truth are quite sure to fumble the fact Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.' The diamond is concentrated carbon; the epigram is the dia mond of letters. We reason from our heads, but act from our hearts. The many have no belief, they simply believe they have belief. The past is a millstone that has hung around the neck of many a sturdy man. A tantrum is only a little whirl wind of misdirected energy. The average successful man is liberal only in advice. Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, thwarts himself ot every step. No one knows the vanity of riches save he who has been rich. Strong language is the resort of the weak. The inspirations of to-day are the shams of to-morrow. D. W. Cummin3 was over from Independence yesterday looking after bus'ness matters. Gardening is the order of the day now and the fine weather will bring it up in short order. Cleaning up has been the proper thing this week and it is said that orders will be issued for the moss to be removed from the roofs be fore dry weather, as a protection from fire. It would be a good thing to do. It is rumored that the laundry will open under new management in the near future. We ought to have a laundry here as there is none nearer thai Dallas and this place and Independence have a population of near 2500, which is more than that of Dallas. f A DELATE ON f :: PRIMITIVE MAN. t " Original. Trofessor EiUiiouJs was so wrapped In the study of primitive mini, his ori gin and tbe savage tnil.8 he transmit ted to lilt) descendants, that lie bad no eyes, ears or uny other perceptive or gans for anything Indeed, he was more familiar with the gibbon, oriing outuiig. chimpanzee and gorilla, man's neurest reliitlveH, than the mem bers of his owu family. Absorbed In dreams of these klasincn he would pass his owu children on the street without reccgiiizliiK them. Kate Edmonds alone of nil his chil dren sympathized with him in bis Studies and was consequently his fa vorite. Kate worshiped her father, and it Is -questionable If her enthusi asm for fossils was not assumed for the purpose of pleasing the dear old man. At any rate, when she was eleven years old her mother met her one morning on the street with a neck lace of bones annul 1 her neck and or dered he to go home and take off "the horrid" thing. As Kate grew older she joined her father In his studies and on one occa sion delighted him by discovering a similarity In the big toe bone of two animals which he had previously con sidered to belong to different species. From this time forth lie made her an assistant Instead of a pupil, and she worked with hli'i continuously. Hut, unfortunately for her father, Kate became a woman. Not that the professor noticed a change which oc curred In a brief season. He took no note of changes except those that only ages could effect. When Knte took his hand and told him that she was about to be married he was thunderstruck. "What have you done with your doll?" he moaned. Kate went with her husband to live in a distant city. For a brief season after her departure the professor's bones failed to Interest him. Then some one sent hi in a boue of an ani mal unlike anything he had ever seen, and straightway the old man forgot his daughter lu his efforts to construct the creature of which It had been a part. After that the only evidence that he remembered her at all was occa sional Inquiries why she was not In her seat at table, At the end of a year Kate wrote her mother that she was coming home for a visit, lint asked her uot to Inform her father, since she wished to sur prise him. Kate arrived at the com mencement season and at the hour when the president was holding a re ception, with Professor Edmonds In attendance. So Kate arrayed herself in reception costume, went over to the president and. taking position behind a portiere in a room adjoining the one where her father was, begau to talk prehistoric man lu his hearing. "Upon my word." said the professor, "there Is a lady In there who knows more about the tertiary period than any woman I have ever heard talk. But she Is making one eg.Tglous blun der. Introduce me to her." The professor was Introduced to his daughter, but whether he had forgot ten her entirely or was too deeply en grossed In his subject to recognize her or had on his reading Instead of bis distance glasses doesn't matter. He plunged right into the work of cor recting her error. "I beard you say. madam." be began, "that evidences of the existence of man's progenitors are not found in tbe tertiary period. During the eocine ays tern, a division of tbe tertiary, several orders of mammals were developed,' Including tbe ancestors of lemurs, monkeys, anthropoid or manlike apes." "But these are only the germs, ao to speak, not man himself." Kate replied. "There is no beginning, no stop In development. Tbe anthropoid apes are simply a continuation iu the develop ment of man." "And do you think, professor, that man of the present day will develop Into something higher?" "Undoubtedly that Is. if our planet is not in the meanwhile knocked into dust or burned by concussion at meet ing some one of those opaque bodies known to be plunging through space." "Or a comet," said Kate, with a twinkle In her eye. "Nonsense, madam. Comets are gas eous. The earth bus passed through their tails often." "To return to nian man in his par ent stage of development. What would you think of a father who would for get his own child?" "Such a failure of the faculty of memory would undoubtedly be Inher ited from his brutish ancestors. We have no evidence that lions, tigers, cats, dogs and other brutes remember their cubs after they are grown and have passed away from their parents." "Do you refer to mau In the present stage to yourself, for instance as brutal and to your child as a cub?" "By no means. I have passed the brute condition, but now and again traits, like rudiments of organs that have ages ago become useless and de generated, must necessarily crop out." , "But If the parent forgets the child why not the child foist the parent?" "In the brute state the only use the offspring has for tbe parent Is food; among us the ouly use the child has for the parent Is food, raiment and gewgaws. But while the memory of the parent becomes Impaired with age that of the chlld"- Thls- was too much for Kate, who had for some time been on the eve of betraylug herself She burst Into laughter, which was echoed by those who had been listening, and threw her arms about her father's neck. The astonishment of the professor was pathetic. 8. HrVTEti HALSET. Cruelty to a Wife. It was a happ' inspiration, and Mr. Flexby immediately acted on it, as his appetite was particularly keen. Ringing tu his wife on the telephone, he said : "I'd like to brinr a friend home to dinner this evening. Have some thing good." ,"Wliy, certainly, my dear!" re sponded Mrs. riexby. "John," she said later, "you told me you were going to bring a friend home to have dinner with us, and I've done my best to prepare a real ly nice meal. Now, where is he?" Mr. Flexby did not even blanch. "My dear," he responded, "I said I'd like to bring a friend. I couldn't find one to bring. If dinner's ready, lot's make a start. I'm hungry!" Chicago Journal Hair Ropes and Snake. The curious' black rope was made of hair. "If is going out to India," said the dealer. "We ship lots of hair ropes out there. They are placed on the floor about beds to keep the siyikes off. - "Snakes won't cross a hair rope. Inside a hair rope you are as safe from n snake as though inside a steel case. Cowboys know this, and lots of them, in rattler infected re gions, carry Iarats of hair that they lay in ellipse form on the ground and Bleep in when necessity makes them camp out on the plains." Buffalo Express. The Burning Diamond. The great French chemist La voisier proved by actual experiment that the diamond is combustible, lie imprisoned a diamond in a glllss vessel containing air and standing over mercury. By means of a burn ing glass it was then ignited, and the resulting vapor, being confined in the vessel, was subjected to close chemical scrutiny. This vapor was found to be nothing more nor less than carbonic acid gas, a gas that consists of carbon and oxygen and is produced whenever any form of carbon is burned. New York American. Seeing the Scenery. "Did your wife eujoy tbe Swiss seen ery?" "I don't thluk she saw a bit of It I She was kept so busy adjusting her camera." Cleveland rialn Dealer. Who Said Harness We are on our way to ' R M. WADE & CO. for our HARNESS. INDEPENDENCE - We Guarantee our Goods against FLAWS. Polk County Realty Company Transacts a general Real Estate business and attends to collecting rent for out of town owners. We have buyers If you have any land for sale list it with us. Monmouth - - - Oregon Hotel Hampton D. M. Hampton, Proprietor 15 'years in Monmouth Under Same Old Management Everything strictly firstclass Church Directory. Evangelical Church L. C. Hoover, Pastor Morning service at 11 :00 o'clock Evening service at 7:00 o'clock Sunday School at 10 00 a. m. Y. P. A. Meeting at 6.30 p. m. Prayer Meeting Wednesday evening. CHRISTIAN CHURCH. W. A. Wood, Pastor. Morning Service at 11. a. m. Evening Service at 7:00 p. m. Sunday School 9:45 a. m. Y. P. S. C. E. 6:30 p. m. Prayer Meeting Wednesday 7:30 p. m. Baptist Church. Sunday School 10 a. m. Preaching 2:30 - p. m. A Snap 1 60 acre farm, 50 under cultiva tion, 70 pasture, 40 timber, 7 in hops, all under good fence, 6 springs cn place, 7 room dwelling, 4 room tenant house, good hop house, two good barns, fine for fruit or dairy, three miles to railroad, one half mile to school. Price $30 per acre. Polk County Realty . Co., at Herald office, Mon mouth, Oregon. Nice cottage of five rooms and pantry with good woodshed. Well on porch. Prunes, apples, pears and small fruits together with one and eighty-seven one-hund-redths acres of good land in Mon mouth for $1000. For sale by Polk County Realty Co. OREGON Lamps and fixtures, electric irons, chafing dishes, broilers, heaters and electric motors of all kinds. Wirdng scientifically lone in all its branches. Elec tric lights installed. Estimates furnished on short notice. Phone Main 98. V. D. Butler. CITY MEAT MARKET H. C. Chamberlin, Prop. Dealer in All kinds of Fresh and Cured Meats.' Fish and Game in Season Lard a Specialty Cash Paid for Pcultry Oysters L. L Hewitt, M. D. Independence, Oregon Office in Cooper Building Office hours: 9 to 12 a. m, and 2 to 0 p. m. Both Phones. 4