Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-08

ingly and literally to the land bonus
asked for the establishment of thor
oughly practicable manufacturing en-
terprise here, which would involve a
preliminary outlay of upwards of $780,
900 and give employment to from forty
to fifty persons. Mr. Burkhart's propo-
sition is woody, quite woody, tits true,
but there is nothing wild about it. We
have the raw material, cheap fuel and
soft water in abundance, and trans
portation facilities uneXcelled by those
of any point on the Pacific coast. We
have real estate galore-lands and lots
that require Just such enterprises as the
one proposed to make them valuable.
1t seems inconceivable to me that so
many of the large property owners will
persist in sitting around like a lot of
Micawbers, clutching their holdings
like misers and waiting for the efforts
of Others to turn something up for their
benefit. Across the street from where
| write is vacant lot. L don't mem
ton the fact with any idea that it will
astonish anyone, for it is by no means
an isolated case. There are lots to the
right of me, lots to the left of me, lots
in front of me, lots behind me-and
lots of them. But upon this par
ticular lot there is pool of
stagnant water, tenanted by large
family of frogs that are quiet enough
while the day lasts, but when night
cometh they begin their monotonous
croaking, which ceases only when the
first gray streaks of dawn dispel the
shadows around the pool. The frogs
seem to me like the owners of some of
our lands and lots. Whenever a
shadow falls across their way they begin
their tlresome croaking and keep it up
until, through others efforts, the clouds
are rolled away and the bright sun
shines again upon croakers and
workers alike. If imam cannot
live by bread alone" how can he by
faith, even if it is "the substance
of things hoped for, the evidence of
things not SEEM" Faith is all right, of
course, but it should be ever remem-
bereI that faith without works is
dead"
1t strikes me as being rather sugges-
tive that Immediately after the passage
OfLhe Kingdom resolution last Wednes-
day, virtually suspending public bust
ness and cutting offall Unnecessary eX-
penses, the council authorized the EN-
ployment of additional counsel to assist
In the defense of the city's interests in
the Schering suit.
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A Chicago man has willed S., 900 to :,
young woman who Tilted him and the
Boston Herald pronounces his act "a
grateful tribute to her good taste. y
The chances are that the bequest was
given as a token of undying gratitude
for very narrow escape.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has
not for thirty years allowed any mail
to be delivered at his country resid ence
on Sunday, and he scrupulously avoids
reading any letters on that day. We
have one or two clergymen here who
are similarly strict constructionists and
observers of the Sabbath. One of them
never has any notices of church ser
vices published on Sunday and an
other will not, if he knows 1t, use any
printed matter upon which any part o
the composition or press work is don,
after midnight Saturday. And We
there are few who know these gentle
men who would call either of then
lintolerant or narrow-minded.
Nv
General Booth, of the Salvation
Army, desires to enter parliament. H
ought to be heard from in campaign
with all those brass bands and leather
lunged shouters in the field for him.