The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-11-16
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Interesting Information Relating to
CuFTsut RIsnts.
POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS AND GENERAL.
Condensed News From she Hurry.
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niscelIanesus Matter.

WHAr IRsIGArron Is Dorxe.
men say the country through Yakima
and sunnyside is going through some
wonderful changes. In fact, an infant
boom, but q good one for these hard
times, has fairly started. Big irrieatine
canals traverse the country in every al.
rcction. and the one time barren wastes
are being reclaimed and planted to grain
and fruits. The arid districts OF this
state. heretofore considered worthless and
1T only for the abode of lizards and
horned toads, by system of irrigation
will blossom into one Of the most prosper
GUS and wealthy districts in the entire
northwest. In Yakima and Franklin
counties, hops, tobacco, peanuts, the del.
icste fruits and the harder varieties, veg
etables Of every kind and grain thrive
wonderfully. The Horse Heaven coun-
try, q high plateau back Of Kennewick, is
quite grain country, though it is too
high for successful fruit culture. The
towns OF Kennewick, Prosser and Zillah
are lively little burgs, and the metropolis
Of that cougtry, North Yakima, is any.
thing but d}ad. 1t is one Of the prettlest
towns In the state, beautiful shade trees
line the streets, watered by gurgling
streamlets North Yakima is no. an old
town, bt/it is one Of the "wide- awakes.,
Irrigation has accomplished marvellous
results in Southern California, and It will
do the same in the arid districts of Wash
jhgton. -Rosalia Rustler.
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The farmers WFE.-The most pa
thetic sight on earth, not excepting sick
baby, is the knotted, bent back OF the
woman who has spent the best years of
her life as the so-called mistress Of the
farm. There is but one thing that
matches it, and that is her face, large
eyed, withered, rigid, dead she has borne
her children, suffered her woman's hope
and baptism of pain, and has done the
work every day that would have broken
down three men. When the farm hand
came in from the field be ruminated on
the doorstep or with his feet on the
hearth. She had the dishes to wash, the
children to put to bed, and then sat down
with the family-mending basket. In the
early days che had her ambitions for her
self and her children and her husband.
But now hard work and that mortgage on
the farm have eaten out her heart, and
now 1t is with sort Of hopeless, bovine
patience she looks ON children grown up
4 to just what she did not wish, while her
immortal hope has dwindled to one great
yearning for rest.--Harriet B. Kills, in
Union Signal.
CuaIous CuLIsas.--A law Of Mexico
iorbids the president from leaving the
country.
The average durations Of the reigns OF
English soyereigns has been 2S1s years.
In l771 a Glasgow paper announced
the marriage Of David Lincoln to Gather
inc Grow, his fifth wife, and continued:
.He is II. His first wife was Dutch
woman, whose name he has forgot. The
: rest were Scotch"
Here is recipe for wash for promot-
Z ing the growth Of hair, of the mother OF
King Chata, who reigned somewhere
about 6O00 years ago: "Pad of dogs
foot, / fruit Of date palm, l /; ass's hoof,
/. Boil together in oil in sausepan. Rub
thoroughly in"
'sWidder Jenkins said an Oregon
farmer, as be hustled into her house one
morning, 81 am man 81 business. am
+ worth 0000, and want you for my
wife. I give you three minutes in which
to answer"
81 don't want ten. seconds old man"
she replied, as she shook out the dish
cloth. "I'm woman Of business, worth
$4,000. and / wouldn't marry you il you
we're the last man on earth"
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GRAMS OF WISDOM. Every dry is lit
tie ife.--Bishop Hall.
Few love to hear the sins they love to
act.-Shakespeare.
Doing nothing for others liz the undoing
! Of ones self.--H. Mann.
Pride requires very ostly food-its
keepers happiness.-Coltn.
Politeness is the result Of good sense
and good nature. Goldsmith.
Delay has always been injurious to
those who are prepared.-Llcan.
All cruelty springs from Eard hearted
ness and weak character. Sc aeca.
No ashes are lighter than hose Of in
cense and few things burn out sooner.--
Lander.
It is the barren kind Of criticism that
tells you what thing is not.-R. w.
Griswold.
Silence is the safest course for any man
to adopt who distrusts himself. Roche
foucauld.
A clean mouth and an honest hand will
take man through any land.-German
Proverb.
In character, in manners, in style, in
81 things, the supreme excellence is SIM
plicity.-Longfellow.
He who forgets his own friends meanly
( to follow after those Of. higher degree is
q snob.-Thackeray.
The devil knew not what he did when
he made man polite; he crossed himself
by it. shakespeare.
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The WEDDING DAY.-Secret marriages
are in every country in Europe consid.
| cred to be illegal.
The Greek church employs two rings in
the marriage ceremony-one of gold, the
other of silver.
A hundred years ago, when the bride