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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (July 7, 1911)
The Herald D. E. STITT, Editor. Entered a aecond-cUaa matter September 8, at the poet office at Monmouth, Oregon, under the Act of March 3. 1879. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY Subscription Rates One year Six months - $1 50 cts Monmouth, Oregon. FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1911. THE CALAMITY HOWLER One of tlie terms ino.-t used, and probably overworked in it? application, is the oft used ap pellation, "Calamity Howler." It is applied to persons in pub lic and private life; the country rustic nor the city dweller es capes, and the politician and the preacher may not keep clear of its liability to attach to them its doleful sounding title. But what is a Calamity Howl er? Someone answers: It is a person void of optimism; one who can discern no roseate colors looming up in the future; who sees no silver lining behind the clouds which obscure his vision, and who constantly preaches destruction or wails out concerning the vision of evil which fancy brings to his view. What else? O! well, it is a fit cognomeu for the dry good's box orator who is ever alert to catch the ear of like discontents that he may sow his somber seed in soil that will yield a bounteous harvest, says another. Well, yes, a third answer: It is the fellow that is always hold ing up public grievances, and telling that the country is on the highway to the eternal bow wows if there is not something done to avert the disaster. All these definitions and many others are given where with to point out members of this peculiar class of the human family, and yet, none of them may be right and the person to whom they aro often applied may be wiser than those who are moved withcontempt against him or her. Go back in the history of the world and you will find person ages who stand oiit eminently before their fellowmen, and there is liardlv a doubt but that they were classed, in their day, by those whom they rebuked, as "calamity howlers." Take Noah, who preached for one hundred and twenty years, foretelling the destruction that would overtake the inhabitants of that age if they did not re pent, and perhaps you have the greatest example of calamity discoursers. Then Moses as pitted against the iniquitous Kgyptains must have been a tine sample of tins class, while Jonah in the eyes of some of the Nine vites would certainly acquire the title, and even Messiah in the eyes of his foes was, and still is, according to heir judgment entitled to such cognomen. Hut, notwithstanding all our doubts and misgivings, there is a creator who has the right of supervision over what he has constructed and unless his laws and commandments are obeyed there must como a time of reckoning. That nation that is most righteous prospers most, and in the ages past and gone when a nation became corrupt so that there was little or no good in it, it passed away. The same is still true and the reason is apparent, for where the bond of true friendship and civic j righteousness does not exist there can be no cementing in fluence to longer bind together those who once wrought together in peace and dissolution must follow. We are told that the world is growing better; that there never was a time when there was so many christian people and na tions upon the earth, but if we take a look upon the other hand we will also find that there was! perhaps never a time when! men in high daces had so little j regard for law as at present, un less it was during the time of Noah. We read that the Caananites attained to a fulness if iniquity and also that the time of the Gentiles is to be fulfilled. And, what then? Let some one else answer. .Well, what will be the end? Just turn that query over to those who have made a fore cast of the future. The Caan anites attained to a fullness and the fullness of the Gentiles is also to come in. Dr. Maguire as a Hunter. Over the same countrv trav- v ersed by Theodore Roosevelt, Dr. Maguire hunted for big game, when it was so plentiful that a short journey would reveal herds in abundance and the little orai- ries frequently looked like a western cattle ranch, so thickly were they crowded with the game, now so rapidly disappear ing. The very abundance added to the danger of securing it and Dr. Maguire bears the scars of several serious conflicts, one of them, the result of a battle roval with a hirmoDotflmtis nparlv prat him his life and left wounds from which he will never entirely re cover. His hunting expeditions were made, not for spost, but as the necessities of his larder de manded. He learned the stalk of big game, and wood craft from the natives and his stories of the 'big hunt would make a thrilling book. Dr. Mingus will lecture Saturday afternoon, July 15, at 3 o clock, at the Albany Chau tauqua Assembly, on the subiect. "With an Irishman Throuuh the Jungles of Africa," and on Sun day afternoon, July 16, at 3 o'clock, on "Six Years on the Dark Continent." Abstracts promptly furnished at reasonable rates, by L. D. Brown, Dallas, Oregon. tf There Is Always Something New at our Store At Present We have a New Line of Children's and Infants' Shoes Life Is Too Short For us to write up all of our Bargains. We Would Rather Show Them To You Come in and be Shown Strickler & Murdock. (INCORPORATED) Noted for Bargains Monmouth, Oregon How Artificial Fur Ar Made. The raw pleiea of pelt are' frozen nd the skin carefully shaved off thawed and sent to the tanneries to be made Into leather. The frozen fur which remains Is allowed to thaw slightly at the bottom, so that a small part of the hair Is freed from lea This thawed portion Is then covered with a solution of rubber, which la allowed to set The result Is that larpe seamless pieces of fur are obtained much cheaper than those which come with the natural skin. These same arUfl clal furs are said to be more lasting than the real, because they are Im mune from the attacks of moths. Paris Nature. His Bad Break. "Why on earth do you come to me to borrow inouey. Billupsr said Hark away peevishly. "Why don't you go to JorrocksT He's the prosperous looking member of our set "That's Just It. Harkaway." said Blllups. "Jorrocks looks so very pros perous that I am quite sure he spends every penny be mnkea, but you. old man-why. you dress like a man who saves his money." P. S.-n didn't get lt-narper's Weekly. I 7 B. F. SWOPE, Attorney at Law and Notary Public. Home Phone: Oflice, No. 1320, Residence, No. 3712. Office in Cooper building, Independence. - Oregon P. E. CHASE Notary Public Will do all kinds of notarial work Monmouth, Oregon WE HAVE DECIDED TO ALLOW 1000 VOTES on Piano Contest For Every $ Dollar's Worth t of goods, now on display in our window, when sold, consisting of Hair Brushes Clothes Brushes Safety Razors Strops Tooth Brushes Toilet Sets . Manicure Sets Goods will be changed s necessary Votes will be given only yon goods in Window Display We have it or we'll get it. nsk us. 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 1 resident; IRA C. POWELL, Cashier: J. B. STUMP, F. S. POWELL, I. M. SIMPSON. Interest paid on time deposits. City Meat Market tomlf nJ? Mutton- Once a cus uSS5!?ways a cusorner. Sat isfaction guaranteed. HIGHEST CASH PRICE Paid for All Kinds of HIDES SULUAVN & MOR1SON, Props. 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