The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-03-04

business or farming; | am living ex-
ample of the truth of this-I have done
both. As a rule it would be hard to find
anything funny in farming; there never
is anything funny in hard work unless it
be getting out of it; a blacksmith's APP
prentice boy, after he had worked few
days at the trade was asked which part
OF the work he liked best. "Oh," he
said, "the dinner hour and quitting
time" \ great deal of farming is done
and many crops are raised on paper
every time We get out one of our adver
Using circulars setting forth in glowing
terms the advantages of our country and
forgetting all about its drawbacks, We
farm on paper; it is strange that where
there are so many opportunities to sc'
quire wealth, that so many of us are on
our uppers and jumping sideways; for.
tune raps at every mans door once, but
If he happens 10 rap about the begin
ming of any month, we think its the bill
collector, and we don't open the door. |
farmed on paper few years ago, and
not wishing TO he a mere mtator but an
originator, raised crop that had not
been tried before, crop OF beans. 1t
would have been all right if | had con-
tined my operations to the paper. but
didn't; | was determined to realize on
my plans, and did realize--my mistake.
| was going to make hill of beans
grow in the sands Of the burning desert
where there had bean" none before.
sowed the seed on 20 acres, aud then
stopped and irrigated-the beans-and
cultivated and finally harvested them.
There weren't many; the crop which
had raised before the chickens were
Matched was 600 bushels after they were
hatched, it had dwindled down to 80.
One half OF these went to man and his
family who had picked them on shares,
and one'half OF the remainder to man
who had agreed to thresh them on shares.
These men were unkind enough after
wards to say that il they could get few
more such contracts they wouldn't have
to work any more; that is to say, not in
this world, starvation would loist them
into the next. Unfortunately too, the
seed which had sown was of an infer
Tor kind, and the beans, ii bushels
which remained as my share, had sick
ly dyspeptic look and wouldn't sell the
merchants who ont of pity consented tC
buy sample lot Of me, after much i'm
portunity and solicitation, after selling I
portion to a purchaser lost that custom
er's trade forever afterward
Tne cost OF raising that crop was some
thing awful. To this day when | look a
the bean account in my ledger, n cole
| shudder passes over my diamond frame
1897 model, but thanks to the greatest o
all modern Inventions ball bearings, the
wheels still 90 round smoothly and with
ont Jar, except an occasional family
jar, and this being married men,
meeting, have no hesitancy in comics 3
ing that.
But the bee has dncked its probosci
into another flower. This flower grew il
the Ahtanum valley, where the stately
hop vine-l came near saying minuet-
vies with the humble salt grass for tn,
ascendencY.
was driving up the valley one day
with nothing but my thoughts for com
pany, and they are poor company, whet
| an Indian without leave and withou
ceremony, jumped into the bed Of my
wagon and rode with me. | Judge hi,
age to have been about %. There is 4
certain age at which men seem to grow M
Older, especially those of strange race
| have never seen an old Chinaman, al
/ though some Of them have only Wor
Lung, but this may be accounted for By
the fact that they come from the celestis
kingdom. wanted to he sociable with
! tins Indian | asked HIM few questions
/ in English, but received no reply; | then
/ tried Chinook, in which language | am
very proficient, said: "Okok halo siys
cultan illihe copa." StIll no reply;
I tried it again: Muck u muck klatawe
spose cuntux wenum hayu hum" The
same result. BY this time my vocabu
/ larry was exhausted and in sheer despera
! ton said to him: SAY, do you know
/ The difference between a doddering idiot
Who doesn't know enough to say any
I thing, and one who doesn't know enough
TO keep still ?" But all to no avail, even
that didn't arouse him. shortly after
| however | arrived at q cross roads, and
stopping, | said to him, Il 20 this way
you 90 that YOU must get out" Appar-
entity he understood my meaning, for
assuming kueeIing posture in the wagon
bed and placing his ruby lips close to my
sheil-like ear, he said IN a. good English
rs she is ever spoke: "Say, havn't you
got bottle with you?" | laugh,ngly
answered no. | asked my friend Iiigg
to 90 along with me, but he had case
in court defending white man for sell
ing liquor to Indians and could not come.
o the magic power Of whiskey. it will
shake even the stolidity Of an Indian.
Ingersoll once said Of il: at drives the
skeleton from the feast, and paints land
scapes on the brains OF man. 1t is the
mingled souls of wheat and corn. In it
you will find the sunshine and shadow
tI,t ,t.aa aa.I ,tbar nyar tho biIlouv