The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-10-26


the telling of the truth, therefore
reasoning in an inverse ratio, his
Satanic Majesty may well hold up
his head with the best of them.
should he read an article published
in the October number of the PA
ciic Monthly concerning "the viii
lage that died"
The writer of the weird tale is
evidently of an erratic turn of mind,
since, after ambling contentedly
along the paths of truth for time,
he suddenly flies the track AMI
dashes madly off OH a stretch of the
Imagination with a recklessness
worthy of q Munchausen.
One would fain be moved to tears
over the pathetic picture of the
est me school house crumbling to
ruihs" did not one know that this
disintegrating temple of knowledge
WIS in reality an old brewery built
but never operated. Sad indeed is
the fate of the deserted bar-room
In fancy we see the brilliantly
lighted room, the gay and reckless
throng, we hear the click of glasses,
the music, the songs and laughter,
and we are ready to weep over the
vanishing of all this hlarty, when
we notice the construction of the
building. and realize that we are
gazing upon the picture of an an
cient meat-market located on =
back street. The building formerly
occupied as a general store, remains
empty" having. indeed, never been
occupied save as a livery stable.
And so we might continue, ad in
finitum. Our writer has wandered
in the realms of fancy, he has har-
rowed up our feelings, sown them
to tears, rolled them down with a
weight of sorrow, and we sit mourn
inc by the grave of the "Village
That Died"-or we would IL we
were given to melancholic tenden-
cies, and did not know that truth
(and villages) crushed to earth will
rise again.
Come with me, my sorrowful
friend, and let US wander once
more through the street of the dear
departed, and not a few of the
many things your tear dimmed
eyes failed to observe; rather, let
us walk on the sidewalks, for
where in the state will we find a
village with so many miles of sub
stantial sidewalks. Do you see this
pleasant, comfortable church build
ing, where services are held, and
where each Sunday some sixty pu-
pills gather at the Sunday school,
and where forty enrolled Christian
Endeavorers and their friends meet
for evening service?
Just a little way up the street is
the school house, a large four-room
| building, surrounded by pleasant
playground. Three teachers are
employed here, ninety-eight pupils
are enrolled and the building con-
tains an up-to-date library of seven
hundred volumes.
Some of the bright business and
professional men of a near by city
received their early training here
during the mournful period when
the expiring village was strug-
Cling in it's mortal injury"
Down on the main street, so
much of which was recently wiped
buildings, and here also we find the
creamery whose products are known
far and wide. and whose butter took
the highest award at the A. Y. P.
fair last year.
Many comfortable homes are To-
Gated in this village, and in the
"soil that became unfit for anything
but pasturage' are orchards bending
with their weight of crimson and
gold grapevnes laden with their
purple fruit, and such vegetables as
are unsurpassed elsewhere in the
valley. Poor inhabitants of Yakima
City. "Obliged to exc out pre-
carious existence taking in each 9TH
ers' washing" Let our lugubrious
friend HE him to the village some
Monday morning and count the vari-
Gus vehicles containing bundles of
laundry which are be ng sent to the
blooming" city of North Yakima,
because, forsooth, the "decaying'
suburb, "the expiring village" which,
by the way, has more automobiles in
proportion to it's inhabitants than its
more prosperous neighbor contains
no family so poor as to be obliged
to take in washing.
"Semper avarus eget," "Requies-
cat in pace" and all the rest of it,
of the jeers of more prosperous
towns. and with tolerance of age
can smile at the literary antics of
facetious writer's.
H. NJ. FARRIS.
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