The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-08-15

ABOUT JnlS I6nuo0Cy 10 DlOW tue
country. A good deal of this blowing
is done by real estate men, many of
whom are notorious for drawing on
their imaginations in picturing what
they have for sale. Every sensible
person must know that it does a real
injury to the country to set it forth in
false colors. When people find some
thing to be untrue, they are very apt
to conclude that all that is said about
the country is false. Nothing is ever
gained in the long run by lying. Hon
esty is the best policy" but man
should be honest without any regard
to whether it is best or not.
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Our country is a good one and we
raise fine fruit, but l have seen re-
ports about our~fruit that were abso-
lutely false. 1 read an article in an
eastern paper once that stated the
apple growers of Yakima Co., Wash
ington, were selling their apples in
Liverpool for $500 per box. 1t is pos
sible that few boxes of strictly fancy
apples may have been sold in that
market for that price. But where is
the man who ever raised a car load of
apples in the Yakima valley that sold
in Liverpool for that much? Echo
answers, Where? In fact, a man could
make big money if he could sell all his
apples fit to ship for one-half that
price in that market. One of Yakima
county's leading citizens once sold
the peaches from one Alexander tree
for $50 and made a sworn statement
to that effect l have no doubt but the
statement was true. But the real es-
tate man who would so use that state
ment as to make the impression that
such prices could ordinarily be realiZ-
ed at this time would be guilty of
egregious lying. 1t may happen that
a phenomenal crop or price may be
realized now and then, but the man
who tells of such things in way to
make people believe that they are
common is guilty of falsehood and
Misrepresentation. Some of the east
ern papers have in some way heard of
my fruit growing and have contained
statements wide of the mark. l can
say with the Irishman that mot half
the lies they have told on me are
true"
People can sometimes see almost
anything they want to see If you let
them tell the story and in the same
way they are blind to what they do
not wish to see. The reader will par
don me for telling a little story il
Illustrating this: There was once an
old man, who was a cripple, who
wanted to marry an elderly lady who
was almost blind, and the woman, like
Barkus, twas within" The children
on both sides opposed the match but
the old people were determined. So
finally the children proposed test.
The old man was to climb to the top
of a very large barn and If he could
do that and the old lady could see
him from the ground they might mar
ry. The old man by dint OF hard
labor and wonderful perseverance
reached the top of the barn. The old
lady was brought out and looked, then
wiped her glasses and looked again
finally called for another pair OF
glasses, wiped them long and well and
then looked and raised her hands, at
the same time exclaiming: ''Well, If
that amt strange I can see the old
man but can't see the barn!"
am just in receipt of letter from
F. Knights, of Loring, Alaska, ask
| ing where he can secure trees for
planting of the apple known as the
Spokane Beauty" I do not know for
certainty but the Washington Muir
sery company, of Toppenish, Wash
| ington, or G. l.. Whitney, of Walla
Walla, can most likely supply the
trees wanted. The apple is a big
homely thing and should not be rails
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