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1 ! The Herald D. E. ST1TT, Editor. Entand a. conil-cUu Rutin- Sptmbr 8. at th post ortW t Momnoutl), Orwon. under tht Act of March 3. 187. ISSUKD KVKRY FRIDAY Subscription Rates One year Six months $1 50 cU Monmouth, Oregon. FRIDAY. JAN. 2G, 1912. WANTS THEM 1NDEMNFIED. Secretary Hitchcock has com mitted himself as being in favor of government ownership of the telegraph system, but against public ownership of the tele phone system, and he gives fair ly good reason for his opposition to telephone ownership by the government, in that it is more of a local benefit than national. He favors the establishment of a parcels post, but thinks that the express companies should be indemnified in case of its estab lishment for the loss they should sustain. We can see no particular reason why the people should be under obligation to indem nify the express companies if the parcels post is put in opera tion any more than a new ex press company starting up should be under the same obli gation to those already doing business. Express companies have grown wealthy in the carrying business, and the peo ple have made them so, and paid them for all the transportation that they did, and are under no other obligation as a money con sideration ended the matter. The public have a choice in the matter as to which company the individual may patronize and if it wish to set up the Parcels Post for its convence it (the pub lic) certainly has the right to do so without indemnifying rich corporations for what they have not earned ami in the majority of cases never would earn. Heavy articles would still be sent by express as would also most articles of much value and the increase of business would give the express companies suf ficient business, undoubtedly, to make them paying institutions, and if it does not do so, the law of "The greatest good . to the greatest number still holds good." When a railroad is built into a new country it knocks out the teamsters and small carriers be cause of the cheaper rate of transportation and the public or people are glad to get it but there is no thought of indemnity to those misplaced; they have to hustle for themselves: the pub lic paid for the service rendered and turns to the railroad as a means of improvement; the teamster can change his occu pation, and in the case of tha express companies, they are not entitled to indemnity for what they have not lost. Chicken thives are coming in for a good deal of street com ment these days and we are in clined to think from the tone of commentors that the business is hardly popular and that the purpetrators may come to grief if it is carried much further. There is talk of bird 'shot, salt and brimstone, shotguns, hen ' roosts and chicken thieves, so we conclude that henroosts are somewhere near the danger line, for if those who rob the roost keep clear of the law, they are likely to come to grief otherwise. The llKKAi.n is in receipt of an annonymous communication this week, which we will not publish, and we will say to our readers that it is no use for any one to waste their time and stamps sending commucations without signing their name to them, as such news has the stamp of cowardice and mischief and will not appear in the Her ald. The editor and proprietor stands behind what appears in its columns and must know the source of information especially when the news furnished is of n shady character. OUR POLICE DUTY IN CHINA We have sent troops to China, but not at all in the spirit of ag gression. The step has been in accorpance with "a treaty which arose from the emergency that caused us to go into the Flowery Kingdom during the Uoxer uprising. At that time it was necessary to force a way from the sea to Pekin for the purpose of saving the European and American" Legation that were in jeopardy in that city. By treaty agreement the obli gation rests upon Chinu to keep that line of communication open, and if there is doubt of Chinese ability to do that, the powers have the right and are charged with the duty of polic ing tl line. There is no immediate pros pect that our present mission in China will be other than peace ful. The field of existing troub le and turbulence is removed far south from Pekin; but Uncle Sam has chosen to forestall the necessity for any hostile action. In the present movement on the part or this Government there is neither the color of invasion nor intervention. It is merely the exercise of an assured right and the dischaage of a duty some thing that possibly may not be understood by every man who reads the papers. Telegram. OLD TIME GEOGRAPHY. 8ailora' Yarns and Flights of Fanoy Recorded aa Facts. In the old days, before the ex plorers had so thoroughly mapped, charted and otherwise made known to all the mysterious places of the earth, geography must have been a vastly more interesting, even fasci nating, study than It is today. So little was known positively about the distant world and so much de pended on the tples of seamen that it would seem each geographer chose his facts to suit himself. The result .was that there was a never ending variety about the old geog raphies. - 1 ' "The joint snake," declared the author of "Geography Made Easy" more than a hundred years ago, "is great curiosity. Its skin is as hard as parchment and as smooth as glass. It .is so stiff it can hardly bend itself into a hoop and so brit tle that when it is struck it breaks like a pipestem. You may with a whip break it into pieces not an inch long and produce not the least tincture of blood." "In California," the old geog raphy stated, "there fall in the morning great quantities of dew, which, settling on the rose leaves, becomes hard like manna, having all the sweetness of refined sugar without its whiteness." Another curious fact set forth by the old time geographer was that in the Friendly islands the great men were fond of a singular kind of lux ury, which was to have some one sit beside them all night and beat on different parts, of their body, until they went'to sleep, after which they would relax a little of their labor unless the subject appeared likely to wake, in which case the opera tors would redouble their exertions until tho subject was again fattt asleep. The diversions of tho Scots, ns given in tho ancient geography, were "dancing, goff and curling. Tho goff is a species of hall playing performed with a bat and ball, the extremity of the bat being loaded with lead, and tho party which strikes the ball with fewest strokes into a hole wins the game." To tho question. "What curiosi ties are there in Franco?" this re ply is made: 'A fountain near lre noblo emits a flanio which will burn paper, straw, etc., hut will not burn gunpowder. Within about eight leagues of tho :imo place is an in accessible mountain in the form of a pyramid reversed." In liko manner tho old geogra- 5 hers ranged from Australia to iew England, setting forth tho most marvelous matters. New York Press. Caught In the Act. "Yon have not been obeying my injunctions. mid yet you expect me to euro vour husband." "Butdoctor" "Tut, tut ! I told yon to do noth ing to aggravate him." "But I" - "Madam, vou wore playing th piano when i csme in. I hot!) saw -ou Hnd heard vou." Houston Post. a a Strawberry plants 30 cents a hundred, Monmouth greenhouse. Pell ohone 55. Professional Cards Laura Price, M. D. Oflice in U. F. linker's Resido'e Both Telephone. Dr. J. 0. Matthis Physician and Surgeon Office in Postoffice Building Calls answered promptly both day and night Both Phones. AUCTIONEER J. S. SMITH, Alrlie, Oregon. Farm Sales and Live Stock. Give me a trial. Satisfaction guaranteed A. B. 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