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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1909)
0 The Herald D. E. STITT, Editor. Entered u second-clara matter September 8. 1908, at the poet office at Monmouth. Oreicon. under the Act of March 8, 1879. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY Subscription Rates One year Six months $1 50 cts Monmouth, Oregon. FRIDAY, OCT. 1, 1909. WHAT SEEK YE? Time passes. The world moves onward, and men rush to and fro, hither and thither seeking continually, always hunting that which they do not find. In times long since past away, men whose longings could not be satiated with the material things with which they came in touch, sought after the River of Youth that they might bathe in its pelueid waters, take on a newness of life and extend their existence into the eternal in or der to appease this desire of their being. But notwithstanding their search and wanderings, the sheen of the mvstic river did not appear, and its living waters still How onward and murmur in the rock-bound fastness which hides it from view, and men vet run to and fro and are not satisfied. But why this longing? From whence springs that desire of our being which is always long ing, as it were, to burst the shackles which circumscribe our vision that we might have egress into elvsian fields to rest on the wave of perfect contentment? There is that implanted in man which continually cries out for food adapted to its require ments, and it depends largely upon the means we use to satis fy this demand, as to what our standing and worth will be in this life, and as to the recom mendation we shall have written to present when we stand at the threshold of eternity. Some start out to feed this de mand of their being on pleasure, but though they may enter in and enjoy, to the fullest, the fleeting things of this life, yet one after anoJier of the means sought to bring contentment fade, and the desire of the heart still remains. Some seek wealth as the means to satisfy this de sire, but after they have gathered and hoarded to excess, they only lind that they have sought in vain. Others seek the gay rounds of pleasure, others still enter the precincts of dissipa tion, and some try to drown na ture's longing in intoxicants, but after awhile dissipation begins to pale, its joys fade, old age creeps prematurely on, and those who have sought to feed this de sire upon husks, find their loin mg for contentment stronger, while they have weakened their vitality ami unfitted themselves to reach out into new fields for that with which to satisfy this want of their being. Again we ask, from whence springs this source of discon tent? We may seek in "vain if we look no farther than the car nal life either for its source or for its pacification. When we seek the source of this attribute of man we must go back and pry into the conditions that obtained in the creation when man was created in the likeness and im age of his creator, and hence partook of His attributes. Now man became estranged from that condition and was banished from the presence of his creator ami hence this longing desire. It is the soul's desire to regain that companionship man lost when expelled from the Garden of Eden. WHY NOT REORGANIZE? In view of the fact ' that the evenings are advancing in length and that the Commercial Club intended to resume operations when the rush of the summer season was over, would it not be a good time now to begin opera tions again. The immigrant rates from the East are expected to bring a large number of peo ple into Oregon and tbis section should and will get its propor tion providing the proper effort is made. We have natural con ditions here that will go far to advertise this section and capti vate the purchaser when he once gets upon the ground, but our lands are just like any other merchantable product, they can not advertise themselves. The prospective purchaser must be apprised of what you have to dispose of cr else he will go else where to find what he wants, and how often it happens when you have an article to dispose of, that it is taken as quickly as the fact is made known. .The wide awake buyer is on the watch for bargains along his line, and the prosperous vender is just as much awake when it comes to letting the public know what he has to dispose of. Let us get to work and secure our share of the emigration that is coining to Oregon. Then there are other proposi tions that should be looked after as well. We understand that there is no fireman's organiza tion here, hence if we should have a fire there could not be that unity of effort made to re sist the flames that would obtain where organization and practice had prepared the force to resist them. There is wisdom in the mul tiplicity of counsel, there is strength in unity, while energy will evolve from numerical force. COME SEE OUR Fine New Wall Paper of Handsome Designs For Our NEW LINE OF ART SQUARES Will" Arrive in about Ten Days BOGERT & SON Monmouth Oregon Phone 331 The controversy as to whom honor should belong for the dis covery of the ice-bound pole of the North is not the only one that is up for discussion, for now comes the widow of the late Pro fessor Michael G.Mulhall, whose fame as an Irish statician is world-wide, and lavs a claim that America was discovered bv the great grandson of King K.i arrial of Dublin, and that his ship was wrecked on the coast of Florida in the year 983. Fur ther claim it made that a race speaking the Irish tongue peo pled the Atlantic coast from Florida to Chesapeak bav centu ries before Columbus discovered this continent. Be that as it may, it is now rather a late day to attempt to detract the honor of discovery from Columbus and transfer it to another. Ari Mar son may have been wrecked on the Florida coast but he has left nothing to remind posterity of his having been there, and gen eral history is silent as to that Irish population of the Atlantic. Watch for Our Free Cash Offffer Columbus left his record, and the march of civilization Westward during the past five hundred years has builded a monument to his memory which no previ ous visitor to this hemisphere will be able to wrest from him. A- N. Poole Contractor and Builder. Blue prints made to scale from original drawings. General Carpenter Work Phone 187 A. B. WESTFALL Painter and Paper Hanger Monmouth Oregon J. W. HOWELL Contractor and Builder Carpenter shop and General Repair Work. Moulding and Finishing Material Cor. Knox and Jackson Sts. PERKINS PHARMACY Too Biasy Selling Candy and Soft Drinks to Write an Ad P. E. CHASE
