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Parent-Teachers' Meeting
The Monmouth Parent-Teachers'
Association will hold its first
meeting of the school year next
Tuesday evening. October 19, at
8 o'clock, in the high school audi
torium. Those who are interest
ed in educational matters, and
particularly such as relates to our
own children and community, are
earnestly urged to be present. A
good program has been prepared,
one which we know will give
pleasure. Come out and talk
over the needs of our school and
ho v best to meet them.
Mrs. Thomas Gentle, Chairman.
Miss Arbuthnot, Secretary.
Sunday School Rally
The Evangelical Sunday School
has chosen next Sunday as
"Rally Day." The members
will strive to interest others to
come and a special program has
been prepared. The 11. o'clock
hour has been given over to these
exercises.
For Sale
Will sell, cheap for cash, a good
slwilimn knwa) V M rr nr i . n . A Units '
Also grain and hay.
Mrs. Nfttie S. Doche.
FOR SALE
A 9-room house with lot, at a!
bargain. Enquire of Dr. J. 0. j
Matthis, Monmouth, Ore. 49tf
W. F. SCOTT
Contractor and Builder
Alt kinds of Carpentering and Re
pair work neatly done.
Let me figure with you on that new
building youare going to heve built.
Himes Engineering Co.
Surveying and Platting
Estimates furnished on Drainage
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He Didn't Blow
His Own Horn
Br LOUISE B CUMMINGS.
Oue beauty of New Kiii,l,iuJ 1 tbe
lukea act to aiuum; bw billx. Ou
still morning iIicm- 111 1 1 are reflected
ou the lake. ts'tvUfj as perfect an
linage ai tlie original. I uaa fitting
oue auiuuier muruiiitf uu the porch of
cottage Kituuted ou a poiut of laud
overlooking one of these lukea admir
ing the it-titt-tlmi lu company with an
old iiihu vvho bad beeu boru and al
ways lived iu the place. The trees bad
been c-ut away before tbe Hteps, leav
lug open a path leading down to tbe
water and a vista revealing a narrow
patch ou tbe opponite allure, lu tbe ceu
tcr of which" waN a'tunall bouse. My
venerable companion gave me a story
about thin place, tbe tiuie being some
forty years before.
"C'yrua Copland lived In that house."
be Hitld. "when I wan a youngster. lie
bad a wife and a daughter. Molly, tbe
daughter, was an liim a girl as ever I
saw. I UHed to see ber driving ber
father's tows toand from paxture. and
abe walked as xt might as a soldier
boy. She wore her dresacs uot much be
low the knee, but wheu I stood beside
ber 1 noticed that ahe was pretty nigh
as tall as J was. aud I was a grown
man.
"There's never been much to earn
around here. Nature deigned It for
summer recreation, aud uow we're get
ting city people aud bungalows. Cope
laud died, leaving nothing to bis wife
and daughter, aud his wife soon fol
lowed blm.
"If you'll move a little this way
you'll see unother bouse that yellow
oue with a red roof. A uiau lived
alone in that house be had uo wife
who took considerable Interest In the
Copelund family. He'd seen Molly
grow up from child to woman, aud
even when she was uo more tbau four
teen years eld she bad kept this man
Jim was bis uume from ' thinking
about any womau, although be was
pust thirty at the time. After Cope
land died .Mm spent his time inventing
ways to make the widow and the girl
think what he provided for them was
their own, and they were not Indebted
to him for 1L This was uo credit to
blm, seeing that he bud uu oue of bis
own to do for, and tbe ouly comfort
be bad was dolug it for them, tie
might have married one of them, but
be dldu't want tbe widow. She was
too old, and Molly was too young fr
blm.
"Wheu the widow died Molly was
twenty ycurs old and Jim was forty
two, tie saw that some one would
have to take care of her since she
badu't anything to live ou aud uo one
to tie to. And the worst of It was that
Jim had told so many lies that she
thought she was well ti.sed. After ber
mother s funeral Jltu weut to see Mol
ly to have a talk. You see, It would
be hard for him to conceal much long
er that be was putting up all the mon
ey for ber and the condition couldn't
continue indellnitely. There was ouly
oue way out of It, lesplte the differ
ence In their Kes, he must marry ber.
But how to break the matter to her
was u problem.
"Molly unintentionally bel)ed him
out.
"There's something, Curie .llin'
she'd beeu used to calling him Uucle
Jim from a child 'that I've always
wished to know. What was the trou
ble that preyed ou father's mind. and.
I am couvlnced. tluully killed blm?"
"Jim hadn't the heart to tell her aud
tried to crawfish, but she hung on and
at last he told her. Copland bud bad
trouble with one Gwynne about a
mortgage Owynue bad ou his place.
Oue day Gwynne was found dead. It
was known that there bud beeu trou
ble between bliu and Copland, aud
CoH'land was accused of the murder.
Some uelghltore tried to lynch Coie
lund, and Jim drove them off.
"Nothing more was done about the
matter, but Copeland lived the rest of
his life uuder a cloud, for the real
murderer never turned up.
"Jim told Molly the story, drawing
it as mild as he could as to the part
he had taken In the matter, for be
dldu't waut to blow bis own horn, but
It wasu't likely that Molly could have
lived Jill these years without ber father
and mother letting her kuow that they
felt thankful to Jim for something.
Wheu be came to the wrt where he
bad stood agnlust the men that want
ed to lynch her father be tried to make
It apiear of not much Importance.
"Molly Just threw her arms arouud
bis neck aud. crying hard, suid: 'Uncle
Jim, I know from what father and
mother have said that what you did
was of the greatest importauce, but
they never told me that It was. I can
see now that you acted the part of a'
"Jim didn't hear any more for her
sobs. Of course be sympathised with
her and let ber cry with her head on
his shoulder. After that it came easy
for him to explain to her that he had
been putting up for her and her moth
er, and It wouldn't be best for him to
kfifij) ojijlilnclL uujeis tlifi USI nine-
rli-iT Moiij saw u TU iilit ,and
concluded she'd tietter take the old
chap."
"Who was JiruT' I asked.
"Jim? I'm Jim."
"1 see That account for tbe rnodct
part you bnve given vnnrself In the
tory "
I lenmed from Jim's wife that bl
defetce of her father was a remark
ably heroic act. Moreover, she told me
tht from the time she wn old enough
to know what love was she hnd ei
rweted and dealred that she would b
h1 wife.
Human Blocks and Pulleys.
The block and pulley, or "tackle,"
was a great mechanical discovery,
but nature made ever man carry
several of these about with him at
the very beginning of creation. The
most important of these tackles is
fouud in the eye. If you turn
your eye to the tip of your nose you
use this block and pulley, which are
just us perfect us any erected on a
ship to hoist sail. The muscle
which moves the eyeball works
through the block easily aud
smoothly and without friction, for
nature has supplied to all of her
machinery automatic or mechani
cal lubricating inventions. These
never fail to work unless we are ill.
The Business Gyroscope.
"Goiug to work tomorrow ? Sure
ly you aren't strong enough yet, aft
er your long illness."
"My fnend," replied the con
valescent, "did you ever hear of the
gyroscope? It's a thing thut will
keep' a street car going upright,
right side up, on a single rail. Well,
,the gyroscope of business works the
same way in a man's life. I could
name you a dozen fellows who would
keel over and give up in a minute
if they didn't have the gyroscope of
business to keep them on their feet.
I shall go to business tomorrow and
hitch on the gyroscope again, and
never know I've been an invalid."
Newark News.
I
He Walked Across a Field.
Early Methodist preachers had
reason to deplore the power of the
all mighty landlord. Charles Wes
ley himself suffered, for he was
summoned and fined 10 ($30) and
heavy costs not for firing ricks or
uprooting hedges, but for walking
across a field to address an audi
ence. Here is the record: "Goter
versus Wesley; damages, 10; costs
taxed. 9 l(is. 8d, Julv 29, 1739.
Keccive'd of Mr. Wesley ,19 IGs. 8d.
for damages and costs in their
cause. William Gasbn, attorney for
the plaintiff." London Mail.
j A Quick Dodge.
' Walking along Wall street the
other day, he was accosted by a
shabbily dressed man evidently
armed with a hurd luck story. .
"I beg pardon, sir," began the
stranger, "but could you help a poor
man along? Now, I'm not looking
for money, sir, hut" ,
i "Well." came the almost breath
less answer, "if you're not. 1 am.
, Good day."
! And in a moment the young man
was halfway down the street. New
York Tost.
His Selection,
"Do animals possess the senti
ment of affection?" asked the
teacher of small Margaret.
I "Yes, ma'am, almost always."
' "Correct." said the teacher. Turn
ing to young Harold. "And now
tell me what animal has the great
est natural fondness for man?"
1 With lint a slight pause the little
! fellow answered, 'Woman." Every
body's. A Useful Mother-in-law,
"After all, a mother-in-law is a
pretty good thing to have some
times." "What wonderful experience have
you been having lately?"
"My wife wa afraid to discharge
our cook, and she wouldn't go for
me, so we sent for Birdie's mother
and turned her loose in the kitchen.
They smashed some of the furni
ture, but the cook's gone." Ex
change. A Nonbeliever.
Mrs. Fidget (as she lays down her
novel) These ghost 1 stories are
silly. Just as if any one could be
lieve them!
Mr. Fidget Yes, that's so. But
j you had better go to bed now, dear.
Its after 11 o'clock, and I'll have
to be up for a couple of hours vet.
Mrs. Fidget What! flo to bed
right affer reading that book? Not
much ! Exchange.
I True Economy . . .
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MASSIVE BEAUTIES.,
Ibibio Women Stuff Themselves With
Food to Become Fat.
The strangest institution of the
Ibibio women of southern -Nigeria
is kuowu as the fatting house. The
first great event in the life of an
Ibibio girl is her entrance into the
fatting iouse, where she is kept in
seclusion for a few months, allow
ed to eat as much us she likes and is
pampered on every side. Freeborn
girls of good family go twice, and
sometimes three times, into the fit
ting house before marriage. The
second period varies, according to
the wealth of the family, from a
few weeks to two years, and girls
of good position who are regarded
as likely to repay the expenditure
by the mun's dowry mouey are
sometimes sent a third time into
the fatting house.
I The result is that they ultimate-
ly emerge, to the admiration of
their adoring relatives and to the
townsfolk at large, perfect moun
tains of flesh.
"A day is set apart," says Mrs.
Talbot in "Woman's Mysteries of a
Primitive People." "for the first ap
pearance of the girls of each town
i who are reudy to emerge from the
fatting house. On several occa
sions we have been present when
these swollen specimens of feminin
ity strutted through the market
place, enjoying their brief hour of
importance, while the men. who at
every other period of a woman s
existence are looked upon as of su
perior race, draw back admiringly
to give them passage.
"The wooers, who stand during
this parade appraising the merits
and value of the various debutantes,
afterward hurry to the parents with
offers of dowry. A marriage is
speedily arranged for each, and the
young bride quickly finds her place
amid the new surroundings, no
longer petted, spoiled and pamper
ed, the center of attention for whom
her family stint and deny them
selves, but only too often the slight
ed, hard worked drudge of her new
lord."
E Pluribus Unum.
The translation of "K Pluribus
unum" is, "One from many," refer
ring to its use on the seal of the
United States to the fact that one
country was evolved from or com-
posed of many states. It was first
j proposed by Benjamin franklin,
John Adams and Thomas Jeffer
son, who had been appointed a com-
i mittee ol three to prepare a device
for a seal. This device was not
j accepted, however, and it was not
i until June 20, 1782, that the motto
' was adopted as part of the second
! and successful design submitted by
j Charles Thompson, secretary of
i congress. In K9(i congress decreed
j that the words should appear on
certain speciued coins.
Woodcraft.
"No one who studies man's h-
: ginnings in the light of modern re
search can doubt that woodcraft
was the earliest of our sciences,"
j writes Ernest Thompson-Seton. "It
I was woodcraft, indeed, that con
! structed man out of the crude and
brutish stuff that was then tbe hpt
live product of the earth. We can
see a little of the process today in
our children, just as we see the
baby panther wear first the spotted
coat of his long past forbears be
fore he dons the brown of his older
kin." And weightier yet, it seems to
me that woodcraft, in its broad en
tirety, more than any other activity
is calculated to save our species
from decav."
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F. M. Fisher, Pastor
Sunday School, - -10:00 a. m.
Preaching Service, - 11:00 a. m.
Y. P. A. Meeting, - 7:00 p. m.
Preaching Service, - 8:00 p. m.
Prayer Meeting Wednesday, 7:30 p. m.
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George C. Ritchey, Pastor.
Sunday School, - - 10:00 a. m.
Preaching Service, 11:00 a. m.
Y. P. S. C. E. Meeting, 7:00 p. m.
Preaching Service, - 8:00 p. m.
Prayer Meeting Wednescay, 7:30 p. m.
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G. A. Pollard, Pastor
Sunday School, - - 10:00 a.m.
Preaching Service, - 11:00 a. m.
C. U. E. Meeting, - 7:00 p. m.
Preaching Service, - 8:00 p. m.
Prayer Meeting Wednesday, 8:00 p. m.
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