The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-01-11
A MIXTURE OF SUBJECTS.
Interesting Items Of Various Descrip-
/. lions From All Over.
SOMETHING TO PLEASE EVERYBODY
stories Told In side.Beads aud Lii.
tie squiblets- sold Matter Reiiev.
ed ny Occasional Paragraphs Of
Humor.

A Coon SUGGESTION. There are very
fev people who do not court, and greatly
prize, words OF commentator and appre-
citation from their fellows ia the race Of
life. The merchant is delighted when his
patrons praise his manner OF conducting
business, and the neat and attractive
character Of his store; the restaurateur
Is pleased when those who eat IN his estab-
lishment cease their continual fault find
ing and once In a while commend an
especially delicious steak or cup OF coffee
the laborer gloves in few kind and APP
preciative words from his employer; in
fact. 10 every profession and business,
expressions OF appreciation are highly
priced by all. and they ususally result in
redoubled efforts to please, aud again
merit praise from those who are their
patrons.
The same thing is true OF news paper,
only IN an intensified degree. A news "a
per reaches larger field OF critics gener-
eAy YUAN othti tbtnk uuuef bIt sui.
While usually criticism of business meth
DDS is confined to those who patronize the
same, 1t is different with a newspaper.
On the contrary the most energetic and
injurious fault-fnding in the newspaper
Geld is done by individuals who never
contribute penny to perpetuate the in
stitution against which their spleen is
directed. Newspapers are always glad to
have suggestions from every source, as 1t
is their particular business to please the
public. but oftentimes adverse criticism
Is absolutely unfounded and utterly I'M
just. Those who have never been en-
gagged in the making Of newspapers can
not understand what these purveyors Of
truth and gossip really have to contend
with, the. difficulties with which they
must daily grapple, and the thousand and
one causes Of trouble and annoyance they
have to overcome. People are not inten-
tionallv ungenerous and unappreciative,
but thoughtlessness makes them appear
80, to those who really merit kind word
Of commentator.
Let US begin with the new year and
observe more closely the good points, and
not weaken our eyesight trying to pick
flaws. Let us be more generous, more
appreciatiye and more commendatory OF
the acts OF our brothers ia every calling
and our own lives will be correspondingly
brighter thereby. II you like what
friend does, tell him so. Don't indulge
10 fulsome flattery, but on the other hand
commend good acts everywhere. SUN.
LEADING LIES OF HIsToRY.--There was
probably no such man as Romuus.
There never was such person as Pope
Joan, the so-caled female pontif.
Wellington at Waterloo did not say:
Sup guards, and at emf"
Alfred the Great did not visit the Dan
ish camp disguised as a minstrel.
The existence of the Colossus of Rhodes
is considered by some historians as ex-
treniely doubtful.
There is no historic authority for the
statement that little George Washington
cut down the cherry tree.
Cromwell and Hampden did not at
tempt to sail to America just before the
outbreak Of the English revolution.
Senaca was not half christian philos-
opher, but grasping money lender and
usurer who died worth over e3,00o,O0o
Caesar did not say: "Et tn, Brute"
Eye witnesses to the assassination de-
posed that she died fighting, but silent,
like wolf"
Richard III was not hunchback, but
soldier Of fine form, some pretentions to
good looks and great personal strength
and courage.
Pocahontas did not gave the life OF John
Smith. 1t has been ascertained that this
| worthy man was the most able-bodied
prevaricator OF his century.
General Cambronne did not say: 1.-THE
guard dies, but does not surrender" The
words were the invention OF Paris Jour
nalist, and attributed to him.
Philip III, of Spain. was not roasted to
death by roaring fire because court ETH
quette forbade any one TO come TO his as
sistance. He died natural death.
Mary Stuart, Of Scotland, was not a
beauty. She had cross eyes, and to save
the trouble OF having her hair dressed,
cut it off close to her head and wore wig.
Sappho, the poetess, was not wanton
beauty, nor did she throw herself from
the Leucadian cliff to be cured Of an un-
worthy love. The latest investigations
prove her to he respectable married
woman with large family.
Queen Elizabeth was not the angelic
creature represented in the histories and
poems OF her own times. Her hair was
red; her temper red-hot. She sometimes
drank too much, and at any prosocation
would carry on like trooper.
Truth AND LIFE.-More than half the
difficulties Of the world would be allayed
or removed by the exhibition Of good tenn
per.-Sir Arthur Helps.
II you can't trust man entirely, let
him skip; this trying to get an average
on honesty always has been failure
Josh Billings.
The one who will be found in trial ca
pable Of great acts Of love is ever the one
who is doing considerable small ones.-F.
w. Robertson.
Augustine said nothing so clearly dis
covers a spiritual man as bis treatment
OF on erring bro her, Wishing to restore
rather than upbraid him Have you kind