The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-11-03
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We show impotence at the mistake
of sthers but expect instant forgive
ness for our own.
Even calamities sometimes WORK gu
mighty improvements. The fire WHICH
.went the woods northwest OF Lyhoel
the settlers property and wood prod
ucts seemed an awful happening. II
was awful. 1t was fearsome. the los
ses figured up to thousand OF dollars
But from that calamity the good Is
already apparent. The few suffered'
Int the community at large were ben'
Gifted. That country known as Nortl
wood and the district between there
and LINDEN will be under cultivation
ten wears sooner than it would have
been but for he fire.
Already donkey engines, teams ana
men are gathering charred logs and
stumps and refuse into piles, clearing
the stump patches for meadaws or
fields. Even next summer the acre
age actually producing will be more
than doubled. AS result OF the IRE
the increase in the next five years
will amount to more than the total
loss many times ove
There was thick tangle of logs
and stumps Northwest of Lynden. One
drove about with no view other than
the immediate clearings. Now there
are many broad acres of as fertile
land as one could wish and beyond
them views of surprising beauty. Tn
land is not cleared by the fire but
the cost of clearing now is as one to
three before the fire.
Intoxicating liquors are not the only
thing to which intemperance applies.
One of the most Incorporate men
we know Is member off the Lynden
Law and Order League.
Is it true that the average American
livss-that is, has home, furniture,
clothing, and even food-better, or at
least more costly, than his income
will warrant? Have We false pride
by which in our outward existence we
must emulate the rich? Do we reck-
on our own and our neighbours sub
stance and worth by the money spent
rather than the work done?
Oh, it's true of course, that weare
all born free and equal-that one has
the same claims on the comforts OF
life as another, providing he doesnt
shirk life's duties-but does the one
above really have more comforts than
the fellow below ?Does the upholster
chair for which We must go in debt
rest usmore than the old splint bot
toned one that was paid for years a
go?Have We more comforst in the
new 10-room house with its suits OF
furniture and nmerous guests than We
enjoyed in that first 4-room cottage.
in which, when company came we Use
a box for a chair and spread bed
on the floor?
Happiness. take it, is the art of
being contended with tho simple conf
orts of life. 81.
If you spend most of your time
growing at other people you can't ex
pect other peple to spend theirs say'r
sweet things to you. you. DO un
to others, etc. wasn't written exclus
lively as a command to your neighbo
i?
Every five acres in the Nooksaci
valley will support family of ten.
:.m not sure that ono acre would
hot beenough. Our climate here Is tn
best temperature on earth. 1t is neve
very hot and never very cold. W.
never have severe wind storms, or
ney er have dangerous thunderstorms;
cylone and cath quakes are unknown
We have good churches and no sal
oons. Our schools equal the best il
the land, oru people are pleasant tt
live among. We hhave good markets
for all our surplus products and on
own wants are simple and easily sup
piled. | wonder what system of rea
soning one could use to convince hin
self that there is better. Grandue o
scenery? There is no grander scene
ry than our evergreen valleys and hill
framed with the snow capped peaks
and blue arm of the ocean. Culteref
society? Some Of our farmers are
college graduates. / know farmers
who have been editors, lawyers, bank
ers, ministers. teachers. merchants o.
factory managers. Refinements, now
a-days. are found in the farm home
as often as in the city. Health
the Puget Sound district than else
where in the country, and Lynden II
Thsre are fewer deaths per capita II