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The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-01-11
THORP ITEMS.

Mr.. C. Il. Swauck returned from
Seattle where she has been visitin g
friends.
Frank Page went to CleElum, Mon
day. with load of apples.
Harry ST. John, of Ellensburg, was
in Thorp, Tuesday.
Alic Mack is seriously i'll with hem
orrhage of the lungs.
Miss Martha Bridge, of CleElum, is
friends and relatives in Therp.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-01-11
VOL MY.

The report refer, to the fact that
considerable sums lie idle in the hands
of the state treasurer which might be
made to earn revenue for the state.
The taxation of public service cor
porations, insurance companies, fruit
trees, moneys and credits and bank,
are subjects touched upon in the r..
port.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-01-11
Thermometer READINGS.

The thermometer has registered as
follows this week at a. m:
Monday IS degrees below zero Tues
day 16, Wednesday 20, Thursday .,
Friday 10 above.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-01-11
GOLDEN HALF-LONG
CARROT.

Best OF all the yellow varieties.
Very sweet. close in texture, gold
en- yellow, solid, very smooth, at
tains large size, has small core,
and adapted to all soils; under
good cultivation yields 25 to 30
tons per acre. Ready for table
at all times during growth.
Equally valuable for stock.
a market favorite. i-lb., Csc;
packet, loc.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-01-11
CRIMSON GLOBE BEET.

Close grain flesh. very sweet,
tender, blood red, delicately zoned
with white. Exceedingly smooth
surface. Finest in form, flavor
and color. Free from woody,
fbrous roots. Grows uni
form in size-about three inches
through. Natures early. Pkt., 1Oc.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-01-11

Dark, rich green, well-flled pods,
creamy and delicious; enormously
productive Propagated in WASH
ington, and the best early pea ever
offered to western growers.
Especially valuable for mar
ket gardeners. commanding
the highest prices through the sea-
son. Iarge packet. 1Oc.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-01-11

Chickens and turkeys wanted by the
Ellensburg Meat Company. 2tf
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-01-11

Going away. VIII sell handsome
drop-head cabinet singer sewing ma
chine. perfect condition, SO. Mrs
Richmond, Forest House,
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-01-11
viii Seek $4,000 For Badly
Needed Improvements Of the
EIlensburg State Normal In
stitution.
NORMAL REQUIRES A NEW DORHIToRf

No New Buildings Since Institution Started in
lS92-Nceds no New Land $4,000 CaIcu-
lated Necessary to Build an Additional
Wing to the School,
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-01-11
FOUND GREAT LACK
OF TAX UNIFORMITY TO EXIST

State Tax Commission has Re.
ported Big Increase in Values
Accommodations Regard
ins Method of Future Work.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-01-11
MONEY ON DEPOSIT IN BANKS HELD OUT

Although S6O,OOO,OOO We're on Depisit in
The State Banks Last Year, Less Than 50,
100000 We're Reported for Taxation, or
Less Than One Per Cent.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-01-11
ENGLISH FORCING
LETTUCE,

Large. crisp, tender; best vari-
ETY. for home culture, because cas-
lily grown outdoors or in frames;
rich color. ideal for garnishing.
Hotels gladly pay one-third more
for this lettuce. Stands more
neglect in watering, and does not
quickly run to seed. Most profitable
for market purposes because
quickly ready in fine large
punches OF beautiful light
green. which never spot. 4-lb, soc;
~, on. - ci.a+ 10c
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-01-11
SOW WESTERN SEEDS
LLT WESTERN SOIL
Here's a SPECIAL OFFER to make New Friends
for LILLY'S Northern Grown Seeds

Danish Ball Head. and infinitely
better adapted to Pacific coast con-
ditions True to type, every
head like its neighbor, SYM
metrical. white inside and
solid to the core. alb, S1.25; l.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-01-11
MT. RAINIER PEA.

green. WINCH never spOi
o., zoe; packet, loo.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-01-11
Obituary.

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-03
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Of Chicago have a right to take Fall out of Shakespeare, we have a right to put slight Kibosh on the rankest Team that ever did a Turn in the Nur- sery Vaudeville, viz, Mary and Lamb.
 There are plenty of good Acts that can be put into Bill for the Riddles, so why star a combination of Onions
 You take Jack and the Beanstalk, Riding Hood and Wolf, Crusoe and Friday, the Boy on the Burning Deck or even the Captains Daughter who took her father by the Icy Mitt and gave him a good talking to, and any one of them will guarantee the Little Folks run for their Money. They start something.
 If Mary had taken an enterprising Ram to school with her and the Ram had butted the Teacher in the Solar Plexus and then crashed through a Window and started down the Pike, upsetting Policemen, Fat Women and Crippled Old Gentlemen, finally collid- ing with can of Dynamite carried by an Irishman with Green Sluggers, thereby blowing up the whole Street and crippling large number of 1nno- cent Bystanders, the whole Episode would have contained enough Excite ment and Real American Humor to justify a full Page of Pictures in three colors.
 Or if it could be pointed out that Mary was the first person in this Coun- try to protect American Wool the story could be given a certain Political Sig nificance.
 But the yarn has nothing to com mend it. No Criminal Interest, no bearing on Wall Street Operations, no satire on Modern Society, no Dialect not even Moral fastened on the end like whip cracker.
 Yet we keep on using 1t. About the time the First Born is big enough to begin learning Bridge Whist or finding out how many Cubic Yards of Earth will be taken from the Culebra Cut in the Isthmian Canal the misguided Parents get him penned up in Corner and make him memorize the whole mess of Drivel about Mary's Little Lamb.
 They had it done to them when they were Young, and the only way they can catch even is by Stinging the New Generation.
 After they get it all dinged into him, Line at a time, so that he can hold onto a Chair and, after swallow ing his Palate two or three times, reel it off without Hitch, what have they put into his youthful System to be car ried about throughout a Long Life? He has learned that there was Girl named Mary who was supposed to be the owner of a Lamb. No doubt her Parents gave it to her-let her blow about her Proprietorship, and the Ribbons on it and sprinkle it with Florida water, and then when 1t came time to make a shipment of Sheep, Father sold that Lamb along with the others and Mary never got in on the Divide.
 Probably if she asked about 1t they
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-03

@ F all the punky Recitations f(OI ever drawn on a helpless O Bunch assembled in the Front Room the one about Mary and the Lamb bscertainly touches high water mark.
 It has come down to us from the Stone Age-has no more Plot than a successful Musical Comedy and the Meter is as reliable as if 1t had been installed by the Gas Company.
 The verses concerning Mary and her enamoured Pet are a mouldy fragment of has-been Literature. They are no good on Earth, but we have had them in the Cupboard so long that we nate to chuck them out.
 Mary is perhaps the best known character in Fiction or Biography. Many big. full grown Tax Payer wltn R heavy Beard, who never read Pres ident's Message in his Life, who thinks that Omar Khayyam Is the name or a perfumery, who doesn't know whether Thomas w. Lawson lives in Boston or Montana, who never heard of Carlyle until the Indians began to play foot hall. who has a dim and lurking sus- picion that Charles Dickens wrote sAlice of Old Vincennes" and who couldn't tell you which Washington was George and which is Booker, can hand out the whole Piece about Mary and the Lamb.
 Furthermore, he is carefully inocu- iating his Offspring with the germs of Mental Degradation.
 He is teaching the called Poem to little Oliver, with the Front Teeth and the Freckles, and some evening he Will have a Friend from the Wholesale House go up to dinner with him and he will sit by the door so that the Victim cannot break away, and then Oliver will stand over by the Centre Table and get off the whole Thing at the rate of two hundred words min ute. and his Parents will brag about Oliver and get him all swelled up, 1n- stead of beating him with Strap and then locking him in his Room.
 Mary and her Lamb seem to fit Tn with the domestic arrangements of every Household the same as Wash Rags and Fly Paper.
 They have been universally adopted and sheltered because the story of their Loyal Friendship can be assimi- lated by any 22-calibre Mortal with a Cerebellum the size of an English Wal nut and a Facial Angle of thirty De grees.
 The hopeless Paretic, after he has been tucked away in the Foolish House and measured for Straitjacket with Leather Trimmings, still remembers in detail the sweet and simple Story of the Dumb Brute whose Fleece was as white as a Railway Pooling Agreement and who waited outside the School House for Mary to show up
 It seems wrong to jump onto Classic but we have stood for the sen timental Live Stock just about long enough.
 If the Professors at ! the University
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-03
1 SOME OLD STORIES DONE OVER
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1 of Roller Skates, some Boxing Gloves set of Golf Clubs, a large Photograph of John Drew, five-pound box O Candy and a Baby Grand Piano, an( immediately you would interest every sweet faced Lassie over eight years of age who is on to her Job.
 It may be that when the Verses were written, about 200 years ago, the aver age Mary thought she was doing pretty we'll if she owned a Lamb. But nova days Mary has everything that Father can get for her on Credit, and any !, time that he fails to come up there is a Riot.
 Mary had little lambi" The SO phisticated Marie of the present Hur- rah Period will not look at Lamt after she has passed the age of three She wants six or eight Roosevelt Bears, each about the size of New 1 foundland Dog, and she keeps them propped up in her Room merely as Or 1 namentS.
 Even if Mary had a Lamb it couldn't follow her to School, because she rides on the Trolley.
 1 If the Children must memorize lot of Untruthful Verses regarding Mary and some kind of an Animal, why not rig up corking good Lie-one that will appeal to the Juvenile Imagina- tion?
 Why not say that Mary had trained Snake 32 feet long that she stole out of a Menagerie?
 The Snake is very devoted to her because, she feeds 1t Maltese Kitten every day.
 
 One day Mary is walking in her fla ther's magnificent Private Park that cost over $1,000,000, when she is at tackled by a handsome Brigand with along Mustache and a Black Cloak, who wishes to Kidnap her and hold her for a Ransom, after taking away from her the $16,000 worth of Precious Stones she is wearing on her Person at the time.
 Mary shrieks for Assistance, and the faithful Boa Constructor, asleep in the Conservatory, hearing her terrified Cries, pushes up Window and crawls out just as the Villain is dragging the Beautiful Girl toward a Closed Car riage.
 The brave Snake throws himself upon the Miscreant and squeezes him to death. while Mary returns calm ly to her own Apartment.
 This is pipey, of course, but if you must hand the children any Story, for goodness sake give them something good and shivery.
 Cut out the W. D. Howells kind of plain old fashioned Realism and give them the Romantic School
 Play up the Conspiracy Gag and feature the Deadly Encounter. That's what the Children want They don't care a Continental whether Mary had Lamb or not. They want to read about somebody being killed in the Moonlight.
 Mary was all right when she first started on her Travels with an in cipient Sheep Ranch trailing along be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-03

, dinary Moroccan will want American n furniture. The poorer classes sleep on the floor, and they are so hardy that a man will wrap himself in his gown and lie down anywhere for a snooze. There are men sleeping on the stones out in the streets here every night, and that by the hundreds. Many houses are guarded in this way.
 Spring beds are unknown to such peo- pie and they seldom have chairs When they sit they do not hang their legs down, but double them up under them or lean back against the wall with their long boards resting on their knees If they use a bench or divan it is to sit cross-legged upon it. The tables are rude and are often simply low round brass pans upon legs. Some such are beautiful ly carved. Candles are In demand. and the British are nows aending almost a quarter of a million Collars worth of them here every year.
 The American drummer who comes to Morocco must expect to carry on his business largely through the Jews. They are by far the best business men of the country. and they have the bulk of the wholesale and retail trade. There are Moorish bazars, it is true, in all of the cities, and there are Moorish commercial houses with large capital in Fez. but the Jews are everywhere, and they deal with all classes. They ar6 as business men the equals of any of their race and all though noted for sharp trading, as rule they stand well.
 The Jews came to this country along about the thirteenth century to do busl- ness with the Moors and they have been here ever since. They are despised and at times ill-treated by the other races and are still compelled to do certain menial things. When they first came they were required to wear black clothes and shoes and they had to go on foot as they passed through the cities. Today they wear black skull caps, black slippers and long black coats belted In at the waist In the Ber- Der districts the Jews have cur1s hanging down in front of their ears, but otherwise they dress like the Berbers
 JeWesses of Morocco.
 About the only women's faces one sees in this country are those of the Jewesses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-03

l The Moors and the Berbers hide theiy beauty behind the cotton sheets or xvonl. en blankets, which they drape about their heads when they go out. The youneer Jewesses are often good looking. They have fine dark eyes and ivory whifa skins with cheeks tinged with the hue of dark moss rose. The older women run to much flesh and seem coarse.
 The dress of the Jewish women is much like that worn by the sex in our coun- try save that the richer ones use gold embroidery for trimming. They wear silk handkerehiefs tied about the head, half coneealing the forehead and covering most of the hair. These Jews marry young. Girls are often betrothed at 6 or years. are sometimes married at 0, and have children at IA. The marriage tIs is not strong and divorces are common.
 In Jewish Quarters.
 In all the Moroccan cities, except Tan.. gier, the Jews are still confined to their own section, and in some they are shut of1 at night from the rest of the town. These quarters are known as mellahs, and they are among the most squalid parts of every city. Their streets arc narrow and dirty. The front doors are little more than holes in the walls. and most of the houses contain many small rooms in which the people are herded. The homes of the rich are much better
 The mellahs are governed by the Jews themselves. They elect a council and a Judiciary, and they have the right of ap- peal from the latter to the Moorish goy- ernor. The rabbis are about the most in- huential of the Jews. The people are re- ligious and attend their synagogues regu- larly. They do no business on Saturday, which Is the Jewish Sabbath, and on that day many of them will not even open a business letter l attended one of their r-xW7 7girrfar room surrounded by dwellings.
 The Jews now have their own schools in Morocco and a great deal of work has been done among them lately by the Unl- Versal Jewish alliance. This alliance . now carrying on schools at Tangier, Tetuan, Mogador. Marrakech and Fez, in which there are more than twenty-five hundred children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-03

about the Family going without Meat in order to buy Gasoline?
 If you would interest the flippy Grammer School Girls of today, who begin Debutting into Society while they still wear their Hair down the Back, tell them about Mary having a crackerjack of a Saddle Horse and going out in the Park and meeting a handsome College Boy and wanting to elope with him, until her Pa had to sit up at night with Shot Gun across his Knees.
 Why not let Mary have something that the ambitious Maiden of the New Century really wants?
 What could Mary, living in a Flat, do with a Lamb? In the first place the Janitor wouldn't let her have one.
 Revise the Narrative and have 1t start out by saying that Mary had a full set of Gray Squirrel Furs, pair
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-03

, logs are sawed into boards by hand, and threshing is done upon well-pounded floors with fails or by treading the grain out with horses, cattle or mules It would be impossible to carry threshlug machine through the country for the lack of roads, and in many localities it would be difficult to supply the fuel to run it. Saddles and harness, such as we have, are in no demand and the hardware used is of the cheapest homemade variety. There are some sewing machines in us9, but the fayorite ones are those run by hand. There is some sale for mirrors, alarming needles and sewing needles. These, as well as nails and wire are now sent in by the Germans. Much of the Moroccan earthenware Is homemade. Some china Is imported, and also many Of the drinking glasses Tn which tea Is served
 Most of the other Mohammedan nations drink coffee. These people drink tea, and are especially fond of it when flaw am told is to put good lot of sugar into the teapot and a spoonful or so of green tea- together with some mint leaves. Now pour on boiling water and let the stuff steep. If you make it right you will have a drink for the gods, and at the same time free from the intoxicat- ing properties of the mint julep of the Kentucky colonel. Such liquor is fur nished in tumblers at tea houses all over this country and the Moors drink 1t boil ing hot sitting cross-legged on the ground as they do so. The most of the tea used comes from England, London alone sending as many as twenty thous- and. chests in one year. In 1904 Morocco bought of England more than seven hun dred thousand dollars worth of tea, and it's sugar purchases then amounted to considerably over two million dollars in value These people are fond of sweets, and their consumption of sugar Is so great that 1t has almost ruined their teeth This any one can see whenever Moor opens his mouth.
 It will be 9. long time before the or
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conned her by telling her that the Money was in the Bank.
 One day the Lamb followed her up to the School. The presence of the lamb afforded Amusement to the other Children, so the Teacher chased it out; but it hung around until Recess and then hunted up Mary. Some of the children wanted to know why the lamb was so stuck on Mary, and the Teacher, who knew everything in the World that is worth knowing, made a Reply which Is supposed to be the Acme of Profound Wisdom and Sagac- ity. The Teacher, after giving some Thought to the Subject, expressed the Opinion that the Lamb thought very we'll of Mary because Mary was fond of the Lamb.
 That is the end of the story. It starts out as if something was going to happen, and then it blows up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-03

As a Narrative it is not only Inno- cuous, but it is misleading.
 Mary is supposed to be Typical American Girl If she wanted a Pet, do you suppose she would let any one palm off a $4 Lamb on her? Not on your happy childhood daysi
 She would demand a registered Bos- ton Terrier worth S150, and when she took that to School with her Teacher would get on top of the desk
 If the Youth of our Land must put in many previous Hours finding out about Mary, why not give them some thing hot off the Bat, covering the ac- tual Facts of the case?
 Why not say that Mary had a 1907 Motor Car, which she was learning to run herself, tell how Father had to mortgage the Store in order to buy the Machine and what the Neighbors said
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-03
Copyright, 1907. by Frank c. Carpenter.
 Taneier Morneeo.

Copyright. 1907. by Frank c. Carpenter,
 Tangier, Morocco. II NcLE SAM should keep his eye nCh on Morocco. This country is now M in a state of anarchy, and the Sultan is not able to control his people. He is ruling only small part of the population, and the empire may be said to have hundred rulers. each boss of his own principality. In most places there is neither law nor order, and in many both life and property are insecure. The conditions have come to such point that the great powers of Europe will soon have to step in. The first break was the Algeciras conferences but that has been practically a failure. The twenty-five hun dred policemen who guard the eight chief ports will be totally Insufficient, and sooner or later we must have an army here of 10000 and upward. It would take 5000 to guard Tangier alone. and several thousand for each of the ports along the Atlantic.
 Morocco's Big Possibilities.
 As soon as the powers determine to take hold of the country every nation will be sending it's trade representatives here. The Germans and French have already done so and the English have man at court in the person of kaid Mclean, who was brought In 10 feorsahiHe the Sultan's army, and who has grown fat off the job. He is supposed to be a secret agent of the British government and to keep the English posted as to trade and diplomatic affairs
 As to the Germans. they are gathering trade information in all sorts of ways. l met here a white-faced hlond-bearded man, dressed in full Moorish costume who was talking Arabic, and who found could reeite the Koran from beginning to end. He turned out to be a German in the employ of some of the Kaiser's com mercial organizations, and his business Is to gather data for the pushing of Ger man goods. He has travelled as a moor through all the coast towns, and has gone inland from Mogador to Morocco City and from there to Fez. He has full information about the patterns of the cottons and other goods most desired here, and the Germans will be soon mak-