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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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