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The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-08-30
OUTLOOK FOR STATE FAIR

With the maturing of the fall crops
comes the season of the state fair and
the outlook for the Washington State
fair promises that the exhibition will
he the best that has ever been given
in the history of the association.
News from every hand indicates that
there is a more earnest spirit of CO.
operation on the part of the several
counties and there is a desire appar-
entity to make the display at the fair
this year more comprehensive than
ever before. Many districts are plan
ming exhibits and the rivalry among
these in sending a winning display
will be one Of the marked features of
the fair.
1t has como To he recognized that
the state fair is one of the best means
of exploiting state, county ana dis
trict resources than has ever yet been
devised The diploma from state
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-08-30
ADVERTISED LETTERS

Booty, Ernest L.; Barnett, Chas.
L.; Barrett, Catherine; Bartenders'
League; Bell, Mr. j. A; Bell, Mrs.
Lena; Bennett. james; Blair, Geo. l.. !;
Bowling, Elmer; Boyden. p. L.;
Bridgesan, John; Brit, Mrs. Geo. :;
Browne, Mrs. Mayme; Burslrom, Jo-
han; Bye, Miss Nellie; Cary, Mr.. p.
M; Chambers. E. G.; City Dye
Works; Clark, Miss Addie; Clemens,
l.. Ethel; Castela, Harry Daffron,
Joe; Davis, N. c.; Davis, Miss Mary;
Davidson. Alice; Dearsley, c. F.;
Dennis, Thos.; Dewar Mrs. Ellen j.
Dodd. c. M; Dof, Mrs. E. N. Doty,
Miss Laura; Evens, May; Eyler, G.
Edgar (2); Faley, Mrs. j. j.. Fiad,
Julian; Flanagan, Jettie; Ford, Mr..
White; Frink. Minnie; Gilbert, Mar
garet; Gill, Mr.. v; Gibbons. John
L.; Gilmore. Miss Ruth; Goodspeed,
J. w; Grisson, Miss Vera Gragin,
Mr., Frank; Harmon, Miss Nora Han
sen, Mr.. Gea.; Haun, Robert; Hes-
niger, G.. H; Hollett, Harmon;
Holmquist, Arthur; Hartford, Robert
Hudson, Miss M. May; Huistin, Ethel;
Harris, Mrs. G.. "; Jones, Miss Bes-
sic; Johnson, Mrs. Frank; Kester, NJ.
B.; Keynon, c. r.; Kingeorge, David
Knittle, George; Koltcheff, Nickla
St; Langdalen, Manda; Lauzier, Clo-
Wis; Ledbetter, Mrs. Ethel; Lee, Miss
May; Lemay, Archie; Leinbach, Mrs
Lovena Lycan. DR.. Edward; May
nard, Mrs. M. f. go; Mcbride, Mr.
w. A; Mccartney, George; Mcclure
r. r.; Mcdonald, Miss Georgia. Nc
Laughlin Arthur; MacDowell. Chas.
McMallos, Mr.; Moore, Miss Amy CD
Martin. Willard G.; McNot, Mrs. Ida;
Maxwell. Thelma; Muller, Frank
Moore. Miss Emma; Moore, Mrs. S
NJ; Mullen, Mrs. VIM A; Nelson
Mr.. VIM. E.; Nelson. Hans; Olson
Glen L.; Oppenheim. Mr.. AL; Parker
John w. ON. D.; Pearson. c. c.;
Peckhan Edmund; Periso, Edward
Perry, w G.; Potter, Oliver; Riley
Miss Alysia; Rosidekas, Peter; Steele
Mr.. W. A: Stevens, Miss Myrtle (2)
Symond. Mrs. j. Watson; Shearer
Merle; Shivers, c.; Smith, Austin r.
Smith. Mrs. l.. A; Struben, Miss Beu-
Ilah: Sudler, Homer; Sullivan, DR..
Sutherland, Leslie; Swanzy, Jay; Thi-
rats Richard; Wash. Fruit Grower
Wood, D. +.
One cent due on each letter adver'
tised. w. L. LEMON, Postmaster
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-08-30
HOME BUYING

The fall Quitting season is at
hand and there is a temptation many
times on the part of the heads of the
households to be attracted to outside
points to meet the supplies of the
family but to such the question of
buying at home and building up the
community by supporting the home
industries should be urged as sound
in principle and practice. The money
spent at home stays in the vicinity
circulating in the local trade channels
increasing the per capita and meeting
local wants, while the money sent out
side is lost from local circulation and
dminishes the sum total by that
much. Giving the home merchant a
chance is the basis of a very sound
business philosophy.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-08-30
THE RANCH GIRLS WAY

The cowboy told how he asked polite
A ranch girl fair to see:
" ITO the B dance next Friday night,
Kin | have your companee!
Kind sir, she pertly did reply,
Il has my companee,
An his team kin easy pass yours by,
An so, Good night says She"
Then the puncher said: "Agin l try;
Kin ! have you companee
To the L X blowout next July"
An NIT" says she.
Resides she adds, you are too slow,
l has my companee
Fer that event. Do you have to go?'
Well Here's you hat!' says she.'
Again he spoke: But I hates TO quit,
Kin l have your companee
To the Christmas dance up at Two
Bit?'
An she says Wiz:
so far as you're concerned I'll say,
! has my conpanee
Engaged from now till the judgment
day
An so, Goou nlsHl, says SHe'
Now, tell me honest what you think,
The cowboy asked of me;
would you not say" he paused to
wink,
THAT l plumb frosted be-"
IT would" / sighed. He laughed
You miss"
Tove's brand don't ALWAYS show
She'll go with me, fer a Yes. sir kiss
Undid her woman's No"
Twice a-month Popular Magazine.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-08-30
The Farmers Wife

How can the housewives end of
farm life be made lighter" asked the
editor of the Kansas City Star, and
answers by the hundred came in from
farmers wives in nearly twenty states.
These letters. sane and sensible, do
much to encourage those who had
begun to fear that the women of this
country were becoming imbued with a
spirit of unrest, In the letters to the
Star there were no dream pictures,
there was no yearninS for the attain
ment of impossible ideals. The farm
ers' wives took a plain, practical,
common sense view of the conditions
around them and their possible inn
provement.
Commenting upon this, the Chris
'tian Science Monitor says;
1T does not appear that the letters,
which We're generally well written
expressed discomfort with farm life
Judging from the points brought out
the farmers wives are occupied with
problems that leave little time for in
diligence in abstraction or introspee-
ton that makes for dissatisfaction
and unharpiness. To put it in an
other and perhaps a better way the
letters seem to make it clear that
farmers wives are not unlike all
other good women. They have duties
TO perform, and they are performing
them to the best of their ability
gaining with the mass, however
steadily if slowly, a higher plane OF
thought but contributing, like theii
sisters in every other walk, little
toward the movements that make fol-
social turmoil and a great deal tow
ard those that make for the world s
tranquility. Whether on the farm
or in the crowded city, women con-
tinue to exert the quoting, steadyins
balancing influence in human affairs
without which they would SO topsy-
tnrNN.n
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-08-30
DRAINAGE ON RESERVATION
Major JAY Lynch Tells of Work by
Progress There by Government

Major Jay Lynch, who has been on
the reservation for the past two weeks
came to North Yakima Saturday ana
expressed himself as being greatly
pleased with the drainage in progress
there under the supervision OF En-
sineer Martin Major Lynch said;
"Without making reference in any
way 20 anything else one can say pos
itively that in the drainage work the
government is certainly DONG the
right thing in the right way and
will add that L think Mr.. Martin is
the right man. ! have looked at what
work he has in progress and what he
has accomplished and am fnee to say
that it is splendid, Yakima people
as a class, are not posted in the pro-
rress that is being made there but IL
is well worthy their inspection and
attention"
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-08-30
Tax Local Option

Does the single tax work in Van
couver?" asks a World reader.
Vancouver, E. c., as we understand
the system in vogue there, does not
use the single tax, 1t does exempt
improvements. 1t does not tax
buildings. 1t does not tax the cult
waited farm. 1t does tax unimproved
lands and vacant lots. 1t also taxes
incomes. levies a poll tax, makes the
merchant pay on his wares at their
invoice value and collects business
tax Certainly two, possible three
of these levies are indefensible and
some would hold that all are. But
Vancouver and British Columbia put
a premium on thrift and progress.
not on idleness and shiftlessness.
Chehalis county. for instance. lev
les a tax of s3.49 an acre on unim-
proved logged-off lands. 1t assesses
farm lands at about SIG and improve
ments on them at s17. If the farmer
of Chehalis county had his land in
British Columbia and held 1t unim-
proved he would pay on a valuation
say of about s24. The moment it
was improved, provided he improved
all of it, he would pay SO on the
property, not SAL. If he only inn
proved a part, his taxes would be re-
duced only on the part he improved,
for British Columbia taxes unim-
proved land at eight times her rate
on improved land" Vancouver
adopts much the same system with
vacant lots. And above all, there is
no general property tax in British
Columbia Nor is there a tax on in
dustry.
What the state of Washington
needs is not the single tax, but sys-
tenn of county or city or even village
option in taxation. Let the state keep
it's hands off. Let city of county or
village work out the problem to suit
itself.
The same reasoning that applies to
local option on the liquor question APP
plies to local option on the tax ques-
tion.-Aberde World.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-08-30
POINTERS TO wALLA wALI.A
North Yakima Man Tells How to
Grow Tomatoes with Carrots

North Yakima has been impartins
Information to Walla Walla on on,
matter of ranch procedure, that being
in the intricacies of tomato culture
as is shown by the following para
graph from the Union of Walla Wal.
la. 1t savsS
Cure for tomato blight has beer
found, according to Nurseryman
Brown Of North Yakima, who was a
visitor at the Commercial club here
yesterday. Tomatoes in this valley
have been hit hard by blight this
year; and no remedy for the disease
had as yet been found.
According to Mr.. Brown, however,
carrots planted between the tomato
rows will ward off the blight. and do
it well. He says that where he had
carrots he had no blight; but that
where he had no carrots he had
blight; and that the farther from the
carrots the tomatoes were, the worse
the blight became.
should this remedy prove effica-
cious it will be warmly welcome
here, where tomatoes have time and
again been threatened with blight;
and where the yield has often been re-
duced. A further instruction given
by the North Yakima man is not to
pull up affected plants. but to cut
them off at the roots"
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-08-30

Two stars will go on the flaS and
college as the result of the passage
of the statehood resolutions. There
was a time when it was claimed that
statehood was denied Arizona and
New Mexico because of their politi-
cal affiliations, but from the great in
crease of growth in the north and west
the mere mater of few more votes
in the electoral college is not to be
considered even if it ever was a factor
in determining their admission into
the Union.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-08-30
THE END OF THE SESSION AND
AFTER

1t is easy to figure out what con-
termath is another matter. The spe-
cific task that congress was summoned
to perform was carried out to the let
ter and on a thoroughly non-partisan
basis. The great achievement of the
session is the enactment of the Cana
dian reciprocity measure ratifying the
trade agreement negotiated by the
executive branches of the two govern
ments
In getting this President Taft wrest
ed victory from what seemed certain
defeat He obtained the big thing he
wanted from a house that was demo-
cratic and a senate in which his enc
mics within the republican party were
in control But he did not get this
without taking some other things
which are certain to be used to en-
compass his defeat.
The democrats and their insurgent
allies passed up to the presidential
veto a series of tariff revision bills
which represent the dem ocratic aItti-
tude on the tariff but which the pres
ident characterizes as premature and
lundigested tariff revision, and he is
now preparing to lead a fight for re-
election and the re-ha billtation Of the
republican party partly on his record
partly on his untitled recomm enda-
tons which go to make up the sun
total of the Taft policies.
Whatever may be claimed of credit
for the constructive work of the eX-
ira session, or argued or urged, from
this or that standpoint it will be found
in the last analysis that the president
has been an important factor and thai
the accomplished of the session is fal
, more likely to rebound to his mate
rial benefit than to the benefit of any
other man or to any party or faction
The Taft policies of administration
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-08-30
WANTED-A WIFE

wanted--a wife. Come, nov, who
will apply?
Hers shall be everything riches can
buy,
All that / have will lay at her feet
If these requirements she's able to
meet.
She must be witty and pretty and
wise,
Able to counsel and aid and advise;
Strong as Gibraltar in will she must
Except in the case where she differs
from me.
She must be able to sternly COM
mand;
her hand,
bow the knee
Except in the case where she's deal
ing with me.
Though her beauty may captivate
those she doth meet,
She must husband her charms in a
manner discreet,
For her powers and graces no other
must see
She may smile, if she will, but smile
only at me.
When the women shall vote, as they
may before long,
May her power be great and her IN
fluence strong,
But on this I'll insist-she must al
ways agree
With the platforms and principles
fostered by me.
Wanted--a wife. What! pon't no
one apply?
Is there no ready mate for q man
such as l.
When Pm offering wealth and Iffe
fraught with ease
In return for requirements simple a.
these?
wanted-a wife. What n this that
you say?
That I've been asleep twenty years to
a day?
That no such requirements longer are
known
And that woman at last has como
into her own2
A wife is no longer q chattel, YOU
say?
Though she honors and loves she,s
not forced to obey
Woes me! I'll withdraw nv reouest
for a wife
And so back to sleep for the rest of
my life.
Chicago News.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-08-30
WINNING THE BOY FOR THE.
FARM

Back to the farm, has been the
cry In recent years in an attempt to
stop the exodus from the farm to the
cities, and an attempt is being made
TO win the workers from the factory
and the shop to the farms and to
farm life. This pan is now beng
furthered in an attempt to begin at
the beginning and train up the boy in
the way he shall go. The boy on the
farm is to be won to his occupation
by showing him the possibilities of
the business.
To this end the government is lena
ing its assistance. The federal de-
partment of agricultural has decided
to enlist the boys in a competitive
effort. the result OF which hp. been
to gel the boys interested in the POS
sibilties of employing scientific meth
DDS to obtain results. 1t teaches the
value Of brains as applied 10 agcicul
ture and gives the boy a chance to
see that there is something in the
game except work and drudgerv.
As sign OF the new attitude to-
ward the boy and farming. the plan
of the New York state commission
is admirable This commission has
supervision Of the state fairs. One
hundred boys from all parts Of the
state who have shown interest in ina
proved agricultural conditions and
who would be sure to profit by the
treat, are to be sent to the state fair
at Syracuse in order that the knoWl-
edge there to be gamer may be diff
fused throughout the whole state.
Here seems to be a wiser use or the
agricultural fair than has herstoofre
been generally noted
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-08-30

A trapeze swings from the backyard
trees,
Where Johnny hangs by his bare,
brown knees.
And shows the Lids all the tricks that
went
with a rush aHd whirl meath the
circus tent.
He stands aloft On the swaying bar.
As the youngsters gather from near
and far,
And executes on his flying swing
The latest stunts Of the CIRCUS ring.
IT'S plain to see that this sturdy lad
Has the circus fever, and has it bad!
And now he moves with q sudden
bound
In swift syrations across the ground,
And turns cartwheela to the keen de-
light
OF those who're watching the novel
sight.
This way and that usay, and tn and
out,
Small Johnny easily twists about,
And even flies in the face Of Death,
While mother watches with bated
breath,
And silently there she stands and
prays
That soon he'll tire of the circus
craze.
On the tight rope next he will there
essay
A stunt he witnessed on circus day.
And back and forth on the slender
thread.
Small Johnny. goes with level head.
Skipping and hopping he moves along
To the great delight of the youthful
throng,
While mother stands on the ground
below,
And deep in her heart she would like
to know
How soon her offspring will weary ~
OF the circus stunts that he went to
i. A. Brininstocl.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-08-30

exhibit carries with it a prestige that
is worth many times the face value OF
the premium as matter of publicity
This has long been q recognized fact
in stock and manufacturing exhibits
and it may easily be demonstrated on
all industrial exhibits The publicity
campaign that any section, district OF
county is making can not be better
advanced than by a strong exhibit al
the state fair where resources can sc
easily and readily be exploited and
reach such a wide range of people for
the state fair attracts the prospective
homeseeker and the capitalist seek
ing investment in larger proportion
than any other class of exhibits.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-08-30
Taft Will Talk Tariff

BEVERLY. Mass. Aug. 2s.--While
President Taft will speak on many
subjects on his western trip it is GER
tain that tariff revision will be his
main topic. He began today to pre-
pare other speeches on the tariff,
backing up his Vetoes on the wool,
free list and cotton bills 1t is sal
his makeup on progressive rspubl-
cans will be confined to their own
territory.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-08-30
Wonders OF Washington
Written by E. v. Smaley in San Francisco Examiner
22 Years Ago.

washington embraces all sorts of
countriesS-lofty mountains crowned
with perpetual snow, and more i'm
pressive than the Alps; enormous
forests of pine, fir and cedar; rich,
rolling prairies, where more wheat
is grown to the acre than anywhere
in the U. s.: extensive plains too dry
for farming, but good for pasturage;
an ocean coast line of SOC miles and
a much longer coast line on naviga
BILE bays, on that beautiful inland sea
called Puget Sound; mines Of gold
and silver and big navigab BILE rivers.
The climate is as mild as the eastern
part of Virginia. and in the western
part Is cIasslv resembles that of the
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-08-30

Politics is a campaign OF education
Under the new regime there is certain
TO be more publicity and less pull
THE successful politician of the fu-
ture will be expected to take it up
lectively. Heretofore he has depend
ed chiefly on a political boss who
was a go-be-tween but now it is a
lis bringing the matter back to the
people whore it belongs. The direct
primary has eliminated the ward heel
ers and has brought the office holder
and office seeker in direct communi-
cation.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-08-30

The trip round the world in forty
days is not so much to the discredit
to earlier record trips as it is a credit
to the increased facilities for trans
portation And now that the aero
plane has demonstrated its depend
ability in crosscontinent flights the
Paris record just made is likely to be
beaten within the year 1t makes eX-
press speed possible in countries
where there are no railroads, and ii
may be used at sea to outdistance the
fastest ocean greyhound.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-08-30

are now clear cut and prominently
before the public mind. The presi-
and shown that his attitude is above
party or faction and his judgments
based upon principles rather than ex-
pediency. He has strengthened him
self unquestionably and can let the
future take care of itself with assur-
solved the problems that came to him
as patriot and statesman rather than
a time server.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-08-30
WHERE SPEAKER CLARK POINTS
WITH PRIDE

At the close of the recent session
Speaker Clark in a press interview
took some disqualification of review
ing the record the democrats made
during the session. He pointed with
pride to the fact that the democrats
had redeemed every promise but he
failed to say at what expense and I'M
der what pressure the democracy had
accomplished this feat. He failed to
say that under the spur of the presi-
dents veto the statehood bill was
passed and in the passage of the bill
the democratic house reversed itself.
1t voted in the first instance for the
recall of judges and in the final ac-
ton of the curtailment of that pro-
vision.
The campaign publicity bill which
the democratic house finally passed
was not the half-hearted measure
which they drafted but the real meas
ure for publicity and reform which
was thrust on them by the republic
can majority of the senate. The tar
iff bills which have been vetoed are
singular medleys of haste, ignorance
and folly. The president properly
characterizes them as makeshifts and
passed wholly for the purpose of play
ing politics. Had they been signed
by the president there would have
been such a dislocation of business
that the demands of the regular ses-
sion would have been strong for the
repeal of the measures.
Even as to matters of party reforms
the democrats of the house have been
forced to follow Bryan rather than to
follow their own conception of the
fitness of things In promising to
abandon the secret caucus Chairman
Underwood and his party of friends
surrendered to Mr.. Bryan and con-
cent structures of Underwood and his
democratic associates on the ways and
means committee.
All these are dcvelopm ents of the
season with which Speaker Clark can
hardly point with pride. The real
work of the session was planned by
influence not in harmony with the
democratic partv and their part in the
results was taken because the matters
were thrust upon them in such way
as to make such action inevitable on
their part The more the voters will
study the work of the extra session
the more they will be convinced that
the democratic party was neatly trap
ped into the carrying out of repub-
lican policies and that the real credit
belongs to the president and the ad-
ministration leaders in congress.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-08-30

The Herald appreciates the fact that
the city council has much on its hands
in the way of public improVeme nts,
but it would suggest that nothing
would perhaps aid in ending stran-
gers and our own citizens too for that
matter, more than the numbering of
the houses in the new districts recent
~ taken into the city. No movement
has been made to get the residents in
these districts to number their hous-
es and places of business and it ought
to be done. 1t is always to the credit
of any city when strangers find the
and the houses numbered.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-08-30

south OF Ireland. On Puget Sound
they have to- manufacture ice, al
though the latitude is as high as that
of Maine
Washington will make a supurn
state. She has coal. iron, lumber,
wheat. fruit, cattle, fish, oysters,
hops, barley, gold and silver.
The new state capital will proba bly,
be at North Yakima. because OF il.
central location on the Northern Pa
cine trunk line road. This town is
in the center Of q fruitful irrigated
valley and has 10000 inhabitants
Washington will support 1000 eog
people before her great area is at ALI
croWde~. In time she viii Re as ~i-e
Mats as Pennsylvania"