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Monmouth, Oregon.
FRIDAY, AUG. 18, 1916.
Monmouth
MpAitatinm
have some bipger team .step in
and nab him.
After all, the best part of a
pleasure exertion to the coast
or anywhere else is the getting
home again.
Mr. Rockefeller is bucking the
Institute for Government Re
search in its study of the United
States government. Why not?
The United States government
hns investigated Mr. Rockefeller
often enough.
The citizens of Dallas appear
to be taking to outdoor affairs.
They had a grand ball on the
paved streets of the city one
night recently and two or three
preaching services have been
staged out in the open air. And
both parties to the achievement
find it equally diverting.
Youth will be served, the old
saw has it, and various kinds of
wild oats. are commonly sown in
the springtime of life. But never
the-less a little wholesome au
thority is needed at all times
and sorry the boy whose natural
tendencies are not curbed until
he has gone too far.
The harvest proceeds, the
month of August slips by and it
will soon be time to turn over a
fresh sheet in the register for
the beginning of another school
year. Vacation experiences will
now be served like the boarding
house turkey, the career of which
is not ended until several days
after it was originally carved.
The humble blackberry now
claims attention and some of the
Polk county bushes are wonders
at producing quantity us well as
quality. None, however, do bet
ter than some in the possession
of Uncle Joe Craven who recent
ly brought in some for the Her
ald force to sample that were of
the sweepstake variety.
There is enough of the prim
itive savage in the most of us to
enjoy a season in the woods or
by the sea shore where the
quarters are cramped, the meals
irregular and natural discom
forts at a premium. It is good
to experience this once in a
while that we may appreciate
better the merits of civilization.
In the dog days of dullness in
baseball circles the buying and
selling of star players commands
attention from the fans. Many
of the coast teams make tidy
sums this way although it is irri
tating when a good player is dis
covered and he is just where his
work will be felt as a winner to
One of the things that is re
served for the next congress is
the levying of a tariff on dye
stuffs that the experimentors
may be protected until they
have discovered how to turn
common tar into the products of
which the country is now sorely
in need. The European war is
an eye opener, especially as to
the importance of being able to
supply our own needs.
They do say that just before
Hughes began his magnificent
address in Portland Wednesday
night he anxiously beckoned the
master-of-ceremonies to his side.
"Are the fire laws being ob
served?" he asked Being as
sured that although the crush
was a great one, all of the pre
cautions hrtd been taken, he
again inquired; "Are the news
paper boys properly looked itf
ter?" "They are". Once more
a look of concern overspread the
candidates face: ."How about
Dave Hampton, committeeman
from Monmouth, is he in the
audience?" "Is Hampton of
Monmouth here?" shouted the
master-of-ceremonies and by
way of reply the Monmouth man
arose from his position down in
front. After which the program
started.
If newspaper reports are true
the combination of Russian
soldiers and Japanese arms and
munitions is proving a bad one
for the central powers of Austria
and Germany. Which goes to
prove the folly of the present
struggle for those engaged in it.
If in the quest of that place in
the sun the Germans had been
willing to advance their aims by
peaceful means instead of by
force they would have had a
better chance of success. They
are especially bitter against the
British and this wholly without
reason. The Germans and the
British are kinsmen with like
characteristics and under a rea
sonable program would have
been allies instead of enemies.
Now that they have been given
a chance to prove their prowess
as a fighting machine it may be
dihicult to stop the Russian-
Japanese combination.
Brother Clark of the' Inde
pendence Enterprise recently
returned from Newport and an
nounces himself as very much
pleased with the exhibition of
the graceful contour of the
plum ply proportioned pedal ex
tremities of the female bathers
which as referring to a spade as
a spade, he "called the ladies'
legs. In the last Enterprise
Brother Clark rejoices that the
women have legs and insists
that even pipestem legs are bet
ter than none at all. He does
not know how they could get
along without them. He regrets
that the rarity of the sight of
them does not give him an op
portunity to admire them more
frequently. The Herald editor
during the past week was also
an interested spectator on the
Newport beach but confesses
that he found more food for
speculation in the legs of the
men bathers than in the legs of
the women. " Some of these lat
ter appear to be developing a
growth of fur that extends from
their aukles up. Some of these
gentlemen, clothed in little else
but smiles, appear so perpetually
given to standing around in the
chilly north winds that nature
is developing a natural covering
for them. Here is a subject for
the ethnologist.
A visit to our northwest beach
es might lead to the discovery
that a new race of men is be
ing developed. There is utility
in the thought also. The men
might be sheared annually or
semi-annually as are the mohair
goats, or they might be slaugh
tered for their furs as are the
muskrats. The slmighter idea
has certain attractions and if the
fur is properly treated it might
serve a hundred uses. We sug
gest that the matter be followed
up as the means for the develop
ment of an entirely new in
dustry. The hum of the thresher
arises on the air as the outfits
make for the grain fields of Polk
county. To any one used to the
system where the help changed
around at threshing time there
is something tame and unpalata
ble about the cook wagon
scheme. Every new invention
also takes some of the kinks out
of threshing time. The big
maws of the machine no longer
require bundle cutters and there
is no longer a chance to do a
scientific job of carving on the
hand of the man who fed the
mavhine. The machine was al
ways fed by one of the gang of
three who traveled around with
the outfit. The old threshing
outfit was, of course, operated
by horse power, with sweeps,
and was hauled around the
country by three teams of
horses. One team hauled the
separator, another the carrier
and miscellaneous equipment,
the power took the third team.
An important duty of the driver
of the power was to smear the
black grease from the big cogs
on such small boys as got within
reach. With a whip'at the end
of a long pole he presided over
the power department. The
other two took turns nt oiling
and at feeding the machine.
The man who fed generally had
his hand well scarred, the result
of jabs from the boy with the
knife. The latter did his best
but with his eyes filled with dust
and his nose and mouth and
ears stopped up with chuff and
barley beards, it was not alwavs
easy to bring down the knife
where the band was located. The
least desirable job was behind
the straw carrier. When the
wind was the right way the task
of cleaning away from the carri-
er held about as much misery
as any that was ever devised.
It was the custom to trade help
and teams around the neighbor
hood, and there was one redeem
ing feature for the boy whose
lot it was to make the circuit.
He was given some grand feeds.
The Plymouth Rock rooster, the
lord of the barnyard, was com
monly sacrificed at threshing
time and on the side dishes
there was everything good the
housewife could command. The
cookwagou is a handling for
me nousewne but it makes of
threshing a mere incident in
stead of an annual event
That V 161111 A DTPSS Anrant lo tt
gallant fellow. He never per
mits the Austrians to retire ex
cept when pressed by enormous
ly superior forces of Russians.
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