The Herald
D. E. STITT, Editor.
THAT BRUTAL
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HUSBAND
Entmed u second-cbu matter September 8, 1908, i
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FRIDAY, JAN. 28, 1910.
THINGS NOT TO FORGET
Don't forgot to speak a good
word for your town or for your
neighborhood when opportunity
gives you a chance.
If a word will encoruage your
boy or girl, or some other per
fon's boy or girl, or anyone else
don't forget to utter that word.
If you hear some one enunier
ating the faults of a neighbor,
see if you connot call out the
good qualities of the person spo
ken of, and don't forget that the
same person will discuss your
weaknesses the first opportunity
that offers.
When your consent is neces
sary to legalize some questiona
ble business, to continue the sa
loon for instance, don't forget
that morally you are responsible
for your action, and that some
time, some where you must give
strict account for your steward
ship, or in other words, for that
which you have sanctioned.
f -II 1 ' i 1
oooji vm'gon win ne in ine
midst of another political cam
paign and the prohibition quest
ion will be a prominent feature
to be discussed and passed upon
by the public; the oft repeated
assertion that "there. is more in
toxicating liquors sold under
I L : . ' .1
nroiuniuve measures man is
(old where there is no prohibi
tion, will most likely greet
you but don't forget that such
is not true, for if it were, brew
ers, distillers and wholesale deal
ers would not spend their mon
ey to defeat prohibition. Name
them as you please, but don't
mistake them for fools.
When the "blind pig" is held
up for your inspection, don't
forget that you are not respons
ible for any evil arizing there
from unless you are engaged in
either running or hiding an an
imal of that description.
Disagreeable Things
There are some people you can
not be with for half an hour but
you feel cheerful and comforted.
There are other people you can
not be with ten minutes before
you feel miserable. They do not
mean to disturb you. but they
annoy you to the bone. They
gather up all the yams which the
gossips spin, and peddle it out.
They gather up all the adverse
criticism about your person, about
your business, about your home,
about your church, and they
make your ear the funnel into
which they pour it. They laugh
heartily when they tell you, as
though it was a good joke, and
you laugh, too outside. If you
are pale in appearance they will
say, "How bad you lxik a-a h!
not long for this world." You
greet them with a hilarious "good
morning," and they come buzz
ing at you with some depressing
information. It is astonishing
how many people in this world
perfer to say disagreeable tilings
and prefer to write disagreeable
things. -Corvallis Republican.
. By. HOWARD OTIS.
(Copyright. ISO, by American Press Asso
ciation.
Bbe and ber husband lived In the
next Sat above wine, und I pitied ber.
How she could eudure to live with a
man who kept such Irregular hours I
could not Imagine. I should ratber
say regular hours, for he seldom came
In till morning. It would be 3 o'clock
and sometimes 4 o'clock when be
passed my floor. I would bear a door
open above, and at times when my
own door stood ajar I could bear a
kiss of welcome. After that there
would be moving about above, and
sometimes a ripple of femiulne laugh
ter, never a scolding word, escaped
from tbelr apartments.
Often In summer, when doors and
windows were left open to admit air,
1 could bear the rattle of dishes, the
drawing of a cork, the cliuk of glasses
and kuew the couple were having a
supper, together. I remember one
night when I could smell the odor of
some savory dish. I got up, dresHed
myself, went out to a restauraut and
got a dozen oysters, with a bottle of
ale. But it was ouly my stomach that
was appeased, not my heart, and 1
yearned for such an angel as lived in
the flat above me aud thought what a
different bustmud I would uinke her.
Surely she must have hud something
of the bohemliin lu ber nature, and
above all. 1 wuutcd for a wife a wo
man of that kind. I pitied those men
whose wives must always remain at
home and make their husbands misera
ble unless they are always at borne
too. What a Jewel a woman must be
who could receive her husband at all
hours of the morning after be bad
spent nearly the whole night carous
ing or playing poker at his club, give
biiu a loving kiss und cook a supper
for him! And when this Is kept up
night after ulht what must the en
during amiability of thut woman be?
One day 1 left my room Just In time
to meet her on the landing. 1 lifted
my hut aud moved aside for her to
pass, taking at the same time a good
long look at her fare. It was as fresh
as If she were not awakened every
morulng by ber brutal husband. It
was not sueb a face as 1 hud expected
to see. I bud fancied It would con
tuin a devil-may-care expresslou com
mot) with liolieniian women, ller fea
tures, on the coutrnry. were Intellectu
al, with a trace of seriousness in them.
lhen it occurred to me that with
such a htiNband bow could she help
being serious. It was a wouiler that
she did not show truces of suffering.
She was going upstulrs; 1 was going
down. Thut was the first und ouly
glimpse I got of her.
One morning I did not hear the hus
band come in at the usual bour, and
the next day a doctor's biiguy drove
up to the front door. The doctor went
up to their tint. lie came every day
for awhile; tlieu a hearse stopped at
the door, and I knew thut the poor
woman would not have longer to suffer
the Irregularities of a brutal husband.
She never returned to the flat.
Some eighteen months afterward,
while at an evening party. I saw her
standing chatting with the hostess.
1 recognized her at once. How could
1 help recognising her since I had car
ried that one brief glimpse I bud got
or ner in tny Heart ever since? in a
moment 1 wus sidling up to the hostess
and received the coveted Introduction.
1 refrained from telling the widow
thut I bad lived beneath ber aud was
aware of bow she bad been obliged to
sit up night after night waitlug for
that husband. I didn't wish to awak
en painful memories. I Infinitely pre
ferred that she should think she was
meeting me for the first time.
The hostess urruuged for a more
than casuitl acquaintance between me
aud the widow. I saw much of her.
There was nothing of the bohemliin
about her. Indeed, she seemed to have
domestic tastes. Nevertheless I want
ed her. and I did my best to win ber.
All this while I kept tu the back
ground my knowledge of ber past aud
my surmises concerning her. In time
she consented to become my wife.
I hud put off so long telling her that
I hud known of her former domestic
life that I resolved to defer doing so
till Immediately after our marriage. In
deed, 1 wished to make au exerlment.
Would she endure as much from me
as from ber first husband? I proposed
to put ber to the test. On our return
from the honeymoon I told her that 1
desired to visit a former bachelor
chum. She assented. At 3 In the
morning I opened my front door and
went upstairs. I expected to see my
wife's bedroom door open and feel her
arms about my neck. What was my
disappointment to find that the door
remained closed: I opened It and en
tered. My wife was sound asleep.
I should have considered myself for
tunate not to receive a dressing. Rut
I did uot. I was angry. 1 made so
much noise purposely that finally I
woke her up.
"Pretty late hour this." she said,
"for the day after the full of the
honeymoou. Could not you make less
noise and permit me to sleep?"
This wns too much. 1 told ber bow
I had often in the past beard ber hus
band go home at thut lute hour and
how she had received him. I. who had
taken what was left of a chilled heart,
Insteud of getting a kiss or n hot sup
per received only complaint. She lis
tened to me In some surprise and when
I bad finished sold:
"You gander.' My first husbaud was
the editor of a morning newspaper."
Tha Herring.
A peculiar feature In the herring
trade Is that an exceptionally large
catch during one season has no effect
whatever upon the next year's supply,
also, large as Is man's consumption of
herrings, naturalists any the number
killed by fishermen Is quite Insignifi
cant as compared with the quantity
destroyed every year by shorks. por
poises, cod. dogfish, ling and other flsh,
each of which must have Its dally
meal of from one to two score her
rings, to say nothing of the sea birds,
which practically live oo surface feed
ing fishes. Herrings are not at all a
modern article of diet A vast com
merce In them was carried on lu north
ern Euroe all through the dark and
middle ages. The herring's chief food
consists of minute organisms, which It
strains from the water by Its gills, but
It also eats worms and at certain seo-
sons its own young, sprats aud sand
eels. Pearson's Weekly.
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.
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.
P. S. C. E. 6:30 p. m.
Prayer Meeting Wodnesday 7:30 p. m.
W. C. T. U.
Local Union meets every sec
ond and fourth Friday in the E-
vangelical church at 2:30 p. m.
M
oving
Things
You Bet We Are
We bought 'em
We got 'em
We Sell 'Em
Special Sale
This Week
2600 Yards of Rey Crepe
worth to 18cts per yard
this week at Lindsay's 12 1-2C
1900 Yards of Roxboro
Flannel worth to 22cts
this week, think of it,
13 l-4cts per yard 13 1-4C
Get next to
Lindsay & Co.
Noted for Bargains
Monmouth, - Oregon
Polk County Bank
Established 1889'
Monmouth, - - Oregon
Paid Capital $30,000.00
Surplus and Undivided Profits, $9,000
Transacts a General Banking Busi
ness Under State Supervision
Officers and Directors
J. H. HAWLEY, President; J. B. V. BUTLER, Vice
President; IRA C. POWELL, Cashier: J. B
STUMP, F. S. POWELL, I. M. SIMPSON
Hotel Hampton
D. M. Hampton, Proprietor
15 years in Monmouth
Under Same Old Management
Everything strictly firstclass
MONMOUTH BAKERY
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Cigars and Tobacco.
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