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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1910)
The Herald D. E. STITT, Editor. Entered u aecond-claas matUr September 8, at th poat ofika at Monmouth, Oregon, under the Act of March S, ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY Subscription Rates One year Six months $1 50cte Monmouth, Oregon. FRIDAY, SEPT. 2, 1910.. When two prominent heavy weight men come together in direct opposition one usually goes down and is counted out. It appears that Ex-president Roosevelt and Vice President Sherman have collided in the political arena of the G. O. P and as to which goes down and out it will appear later, but we surmise that Sherman will not likely be a presidential candidate after Haft steps down and out, nor at any other time. The Woodburn Independent says that Colo. Hofer is making a strong race for the nomination for governor and ' that Dimick, not Bowerman, is his strongest competitor. Many of the forest fires are xaid to have been of incendiary origin and strenuous inquiry is to be made to ferret out the guilty persons. Fancied griev ances and wanton destructive ness are assigned as causes, while carelessness will come in for its full share,o doubt. About the time the first Peace Congress assembled war broke out and activity in that line has been in evidence about all the time since that date. Now we are having another reverse in the conservation of our timber resources. The government set apart its reservations, appointed foresters and now we have had the most destructive fires per haps which the Pacific North west have witnessed. A party in from, the country, this week, did some verv un favorable commenting in regard to our sidewalks and weed-grown lots. Well I do not think we can take umbrage ut what the party said as the truth was clipped very closely and it is in bad taste to get angry when the truth strikes us for there is no (lodging when the blow coines and the effect is always equal to the offense. We can, however, fortify against truth, in this in stance, by removing the offens ive conditions so that visitors will speak complimentary in stead of otherwise. Mark Twain went gunning once upon a time, with his trenchant pen to discover the meanest man, and finally lit down on a contractor in the Hawaiian Islands, if memorv serves us rightly, whom he rep resented as so close in his deab ings with his employes, that he charged one of his men for time lost while in the air, the man haying been carried up by a premature blast, but landed safe ly and immediately went to work again. That was certainly a mean man but " then there is another one which Mark prob ably never came in touch with: This was a California!! who was doing carpenter work for his brother; the brother sickened and died before the work was finished and the carpenter charged for the day he lost while uttendinir . Ins brotl l- cr's funeral. That man , was well to the front but there is a class which printers have to deal with whom we doubt if Twain's ability could properlv classify, and that is the man who tikes his home paper a year and w hen a bill is presented has the postmaster send the publisher a notice "Refused." A Chicago banker is prophsy- ing a wave of prosjerity. If the thing coines to pass which the prophet prophesied then he is a true prophet, otherwise a false one. He declares the money stringency at an end. Perhaps it is with him and with business men generally, but there is a large part of the human family who are from Texas or Missouri and they will have to be steered or shown. The business prop osition is a large one and the financial part is not under any single controling power, but there are many forces operating and for any person to determine just what will or will not take place is a large undertaking with the possibility of failure. How Men Drink Farms My homeless friend, with a chromatic nose, while you are stirring up the sugar in that 10 cent glass of gin, let me give you a fact to wash it down with. You say you have longed for the free, independent life of a farmer, but have never been able to get enough money together to buy a farm. But this is just where you are mistaken. For several years you have been drinking a good im proved farm at the rate of 100 feet a gulp. If you doubt the statement, figure it out yourself. An acre of land contains 43,560 square feet. Estimating for con venience sake, the land at $43.56 per acre, you will see that brings the land to just one mill per square foot; one cent for ten square feet. Now pour the fiery dose, and imagine you are swal lowing a strawberry patch. Call in five of your friends and have them help gulp down that 500 foot garden. Get on a prolonged spree some day, and see how long a time it requires to swallow a pasture large enough to feed a cow. Put down that glass of gin, there's dirt in it 100 square feet of good rich dirt, worth $43.56 per acre. Lakeview Herald. Tonad It Down. William Furst. the composer and orchestra leader, is in the habit of having his own way. He is, how ever, no match for Charles Froh- man. Several years ago he was working with Mr. Frohman over a new production at the Empire the ater in New York. "That's too loud, Billy," Mr. Frohman remarked at a certain stage rehearsal. "I can't help it, governor," re plied Furst; "it's forte." "Well,.' observed Mr. Frohman imperturbably, "make it thirty five." Argonaut. ' , Talent and Vocation. Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties si lently inviting him thither to end less exertion. He is like a ship in a river, ne runs against obstruc tions on every side but one. On that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over God's depths into an infinite sea. This talent and this call depend on his organization or the mode in which the general soul incarnates itself in him. Emerson. Read our add w: hi VTV7' II lif i K Lindsay & Co. Noted for Bargains Big Things Doing A Noit Like an Automobile. The butler und the gardener were interested in the doings of the household, as butlers and gardeners should be. London Opinion reports the following conversation between them: Said the butler, "Have you heard the gov'nor's bought a new Velas quez?" "Has he that?" inquired the gar dener. " Wot's he going to do with his old car, then? Sell it?" The Child Actraaa. The child actress is; born, not drilled. From the time she sits up and babbles baby phrases she lives in a mimic world. From tKe time she learns to walk she dances, pirouettes and minces her way along. Her "make believe" world is full of thrilling happenings, and so when her talent finds an outlet on the stage acting is no effort, and 6lie learns "lines" as the average baby girl absorbs and memorizes Mother Goose jingles. - Francis Wilson in Collier's. 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 6.3,0 p. m. Prayef 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 CHURCH5 W. W. Davis, Pastor. Preaching Service, 11. -00 a. m. ii 7:30 p. m. Sunday School, v 10:00 a.m. W. C.T. U. Local Union meets every sec ond and fourth Friday in the E vangelical church at 2:80 p. m. Polk County Bank Established 1889 Monmouth. Oregon Paid Capital, ' - . - $30,000.00 Surplus & Undivided Profits, $11,000.00 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. Interest paid on time deposits. x HOTEL MONMOUTH D. M. Hampton, Prop. This hotel has lately been refurnished throughout It is our aim to please the public by giving them the best accommodations at the most reasonable rates. Give us a call. Everything Stictly Firstclass. - 1 Monmouth Bakery t C. C. MULKEY, Proprietor The Best Bread. Fancy Pastry of all Kinds t Give us a trial. We can surely please you Monmouth, Oregon