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The Herald D. E. STITT, Editor. Entered as sr.timl-cla.iii matter September K, 1!V, at the (wt ortiee at Monmouth. Orriron. under the A. t f March 3. 1S7S. ISSTKH KVKKY KKIHAY Subscription Rates One year Six months Three months - $1.60 85 cts 50 cts Monmouth, Oregon. FRIDAY. AUG. 14. 1914. The. First Benefit The tirst real results of the I'm ua mil Canal are being felt along the Paeitie Coast. The priee of wheat here for the lirst time has reached the Chicago price Heretofore the price paid in this market has been hve to ten cents lower than at the river markets, which includes Chicago and St. Louis. The ships are offering to curry grain from Pacific coast points via the Panama canal to Liver pool ami other foreign markets for -t'2 50 per ton less than here tofore. This is ti reduction of around eight cents a bushel in the freight rate ami this belongs to the producer. This means that the grain from not only the territory west of the Rockies will go out through the Pacific ports, but that trainloads of grain which formerly went to Galves ton and to Chicago will now come from the prairies of the Dakotas, Kansas and Montana down to the Pacific ports. This is of particular interest to Port land in view of the opening of the Snake river to navigation up as far as Lewiston, Idaho. and the projected railway from Montana down to Lewiston. Rural Spirit Secretary Bryan on Drink and War Speaking of the recent order of the Russian government for bidding vodka in the Russian Army, Secretary of State William J. Bryan has this to say in the July number of his paper, "Thj Commoner:" "If the soldier must give up alcohohbecause it interferes with his efficiency, why should not the civilian promote his efficien cy by giving it up? And if it is demonstrated that alcohol is an evil, and only an evil; if it is proven that it lessens the pro ductive value of the citizen, who will say that the nation should look upon this great evil with indifference merely because a few people want to grow rich out of a drink that is destructive? Why should we condemn opium, morphine and cocaine, if we are to worship at the shrine of whisky and beer?" In the Armed Camp No matter where the Ameri can traveler goes in continental Europe, he is forever seeing soldiers whether in Germany, which seems all military, or in Holland or Switzerland, which seem to maintain military for no apparent reason. There are marching men in the streets of the cities, detachments in the villages, fortresses on every border hill, wire entanglements and masked batteries among the sand dunes of the seashore. Europe is literally the armed camp she has been described. If you lived where every waking hour you can behold soldiery, where the rumble of lield artillery, humping over the pavement, causes you to stir ill your sleep and where the call of the trumpets comes to you at dawn, there would be nothing amazing to you in the idea of sudden war. In this country, war has come only at wide inter vals of time. It is never expect ed, very seldom counted upon as a possibility and prepared for scarcely at all. Hut in Europe folk' live always under the shadow of war clouds. It is the expected thing there. Compara tively few dream of unending peace and a great many pray for the contlict. "How can these nations," we say, "think of going to war?" They can think of going to war easily enough, because every hour they are thinking that war will come Toledo Wade. Nothing but aDream "I dreamed the other night," said a subscriber this week, as he handed in three dollars on subscription, "that I was a news paper. I saw myself taken tut of the postoffice and into the home of my owner, where each of the children had to look me over and turn me wrong side out. After I had been looked over and commented on by each member of the family, I was loaned to a neighbor woman, and her family used me the same way the other family had, only the neighbor man swore a little because I was not larger, and didn't have more in me. Finally a sort of mean looking customer slouched along, and wanted to know what in blankety blank any people could find to interest them in that blankety newspaper. ' I had been feeling pretty proud of the atten tion I was attracting, but when this fellow began to call me names, I felt a little ashamed. He finally got hold of me, and I was afraid he would tear me to pieces, but he read me more carefully than anyone had yet done, swearing and growling some as he went along, but I didn't care for that when I found how interested he was, and I was beginning to feel proud again, when I noticed the address of my owner on a little yellow slip up in one corner. I looked at the slip and saw that the sub scription on me had expired several months ago, and I felt so ashamed I wanted to hide. "Then I woke up. I told my wife that the first time I went to town, I would pay the editor all I owed him, and a year in ad vance, and here she is." Ex. The Prodigal's Return By EUNICE BLAKE John Perkins lived alone with bis daughter Mildred. He wag an old wan. aiid she took care of him. He was blind and partly deaf. His son Jack bad gone away to sea ten years before aud had never returned. Whether he did not care to return or whether he bad been lost at sea or killed in a fight or died in some foreign hospital was not known. His father believed he was living and would re turn to him. Before Mildred was a desolate pros pect. She was twenty-five years old. Her father would live probably just long enough to leave her alone In the world and too old to marry. As to her marrying while he lived, he would not hear of it. On this account he would not permit her. to have any man come to see her. But he would occasionally allow her to go out, and one night at a dance she met her fate. A young miller danced with her several times and nuked her If ho would he welcome hh h visitor nt her house. She wan obliged to tell It I tit that her father would not permit her to have younit men cull upon her. Plek ICIwooil, the miller, after the dance made tniiilrlcN about Mildred Perkins and learned the story of her life. Including her nlwont brother. II hnd fallen In love with her at first sight and resolved to win her. One day when Mildred hud gone to the village to do some marketing the old man heard a knock at the door. He answered the munitionx. and. though he did not see, young man stood before dim. 'Tat her. don't you know me?" The old man tottered with out stretched arms. "Oh. Jack!" he moaned. "I've been an ungrateful son, father, but have repented aud have come back to atone for my sin. Cau you forgive me?" "Forgive you! Indeed 1 do, dear boy, and you're going to stay with us. You're not going sway any more." "I'll reuuilu about here, father. 1 must make a living aad may not lie able to stay right here. Hut I'll be near you. How Is Millie? She must have grown up by this time." "Oh, Millie is a tine womau now. I'm glud on her account as well as my own that you've come home. I've been dreadfully afraid she would marry and leave me alone. I've known all along that It Is not right to deny her a home and husband and children. It's scIUhIi, downright scltlsh. Aial It tins been selllsh of you, to her as well as to me. to stay away and let her beurr the burden of your old fiither. Now that you have come home you ran Introduce some tine young man who'll marry her and be a good husband to her." "Father." siild the young man with a tremolo In his voice and twinkle In his eye, "I'll do It." When Mildred returned she was astonished to see her father aud Dick Ehvood. the young miller sho bad re cently met. sitting side by side on sofa folded In each other's arms. The old man henrd Mildred come In. "Millie," he cried. "Jack has come back to us!" Mildred's look was one of great variety. There were reproach very mild -amusement, pleasure, and on her cheeks blushes chasing one an other like an aurora, t: I wood sprang up and advanced to meet her. "And you nre Millie! How you have changed! When 1 went away you. were. If 1 remember aright, not quite fifteen. I knew then you would make a fine looking wouiuu. and you have not disappointed me." That the old man might Infer he was treating Millie us a sister the stranger smacked his lips. At this Mildred, who was between a shock at the decep tion practiced on her father, a dread of the outcome and uuiusement at It all, smiled. It was all very funny. There wus a good deal of -conversation be tween the three sbout bygone days, but It wns finally discontinued by El wood, who showed a deplorable Igno rance of family history. Telling Mr. Perkins that he must go for the pres ent to his lodgings, he took his depar ture, followed by Mildred "For heaven's sake." she exclaimed when they were alone, "father must find out that he has been deceived, and then the effect on him will be awful." "It Is not necessary that be should be deceived." replied the miller. "He will expect you to eome and live at home." "Oh, I'll fix that: only give me a little, time." Perkins did insist on his boy going back Into his own room. Dick con trived to put him off till he could In troduce a friend who was to marry Mildred. The gentleman's name was El wood, and his business was milling. "Why. Dick." said the old man. "his voice Is so near like yours that I couldn't tell 'em apart" Dick told his father that Elwood wns one of the finest fellows In the world. If he hadn't been he would not have Introduced him. The courtship was not a long one. though It need not have been hurried Dick told his father that he must g to sea again since he oiildn't live ashore, but that Elwood and Mildred would remain at home, and with this Perkins was ohllged to he satisfied After his departure Mildred wrote let ters from him from foreign ports to her father ns long as tho aid man lived Japan's Troublesome Volcano. Sakurajlma is one of the voiioei created, according to the old Jnpanesi ce lends r. In a single night. A specifli date 718 A. D.-has even been assign ed for the event, but It Is quite evl dent from its appearance that the com Is really a very ancient one. Sakura Jlmu's form is rugged and weathe' beaten. Time has furrowed its sides and the forces of denudation have per eeptlbly increased the steepness of thi upper part of the cone by the remove of all the lighter ejected materials This circumstance has given rise totn legend that the northern peak of th Island separated from the rest of th summit ridge by a slight depression Is Inaccessible. As a matter of fact, 1 presents no serious difficulty. Londo' Graphic. City Meat Market JOHN (JUIMKS. Pkopkiktok We aim to carry everything in Fresh and Smoked Meats, such ns Bologna, Minced Hams, Boiled Hams, and Hams and Bacon. Fish in Season. Monmouth Normal Book Store Ice Cream, Soft Drinks, Con fectionery, Cigars and Tobac co, Novelties, Paints, Oils, Brushes and Wall Paper. . P. H. Johnson. 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