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.
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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
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Come in and be Shown
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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
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isfaction guaranteed.
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