The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-12-14

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The REAL CAusE.--By the use of bank
checks. money ran be dispensed with to
an enormous extent. All wholesale deal.
ers understand this, and carry on their
business almost exclusively by means Of
checks. 1t is universally admitted that
much more than 80 per cent Of all whole
sale Transactions are conducted in this
manner. The bulk OF transactions in the
rural districts, especially in the south and
southwest, are carried on with even less
use OF money than is usual in the great
cities OF the north and east In strictly
agricultural districts and mining regions,
which together cover nine tenths OF the
area of the United States, it seems to be
universally conceded that very few trans
actions OF any kind. whether wholesale or
retail, are settled by IMMEDIATE cash pay
ments. Everybody keeps an account at
the country store; aud everything is done
upon credit. Do not these facts at once
account for the farmers complaints and
indicate the true remedy? Is not the
only real relief to be found In the extern
sion, to every town and village in the
land, OF safe and sound banking agencies,
with which farmers can do business on
precisely the same terms as New York
merchants? Every farmer should learn
to use bank checks, instead of back
notes, precisely as merchant manufac-
turers use them. In short, the farmers
and small dealers OF every village should
have all the facilities and all the security
now given to the richest merchants in
the largest cities.-Thos. G. Sherman in
December Forum.
FENsEwIcK NorEs.--Jos. Baxter Is in
the city this week looking up little bus
mess and enjoying our fine weather.
l. w. Dudley is preparing to 90 east in
couple OF weeks and will endeavor to
place few OF the districts bonds while
absent.
There is a town over in Idaho called
Hogtown, owing to the numerousness OF
porkers upon the streets. II we are not
careful Kennewick will be dubbed Dog
town.
L. Owens is preparing to go to work on
the lateral canal 1. will take about
three months to complete this job and
will furnish employment for all our peo-
pie. Mr.. Owens periodically asserts that
actual residents al the valley will be
given work first and non-residents can
take their chances.
DR.. A. Ely has returned from his east
ern trip and is enthusiastic over the pros
poets OF an unparalleled immigration into
our valley next spring. He has done
some good work in behalf of this valley
and we trust that his efforts will bear
fruit at once. Enough cannot be said in
praise of this valley and its wonderful
productiveness and when those people
whom DIR. Ely has talked with in the
east arrive they can very easily have
every word substantiated. -Columb ian.
S..
A HARD NAME.-A good story is told
on Washington woman who now makes
her home in Colorado. With evidently
no thought as to the curious sound of the
combination il spoken quickly, she called
her oldest child Helea Virginia. Not
long ago upon visit to this city she
proudly brought her young daughter in to
see an old friend. "What have you cali
ed your Gaughter?" queried the visitor.
Helen Virginia." was the complacent re-
ply: "Ah, and what do you call her in
Colorado?" was the unexpected but very
natural response.-Kate Fields Wash
ington.
When people talk about there being
better state than Washington, every beet
gets red in the face, every cabbage shakes
its head, every oat field is shocked, every
potato slyly yinks its eve. rye strokes lis