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The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-09-20
REDUCE FRE|GHTS
ON 0-W. R. & n.
Commodities from Spokane to Wash
inktOn Points Affected
by Tariffs

Effective October 10, the Oregon
Washington Railway & Navigation
company will place il operation
new tariff of freight rates, which
will materially reduce the cost of
handling many important commod-
tiles.
The new tariff will be a CONSOLE
datien Of three schedules now in
effect covering separately the main
line, Camas Prairie and North YAK
ina branches of the company. Con-
siderable reduction is noted on
through class rates from Spokane
to Oregon points as far east as Hunt
ington. The rate on brick from
Spokane to Washington and Oregon
points is materially reduced, as is
the rate on poultry feed. Lumber
and building materials also show a
substantial reduction and the tariff
on grain and mill feed is made less
from outlying points to Spokane.
A new feature will be that all
rates will apply on both interstate
and intrastate traffic, which is not
the case at present.
Lower rates from Walla Walla to
various points in Washington and
Oregon are both shown.-Spokes-
man Review.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-09-20
YAKIMA VIEW OF
THE FRUIT BUSINESS

Cherries sent out OF here early in
the season brought small returns to
the growers. A couple of thousand
cars of peaches are being worked off
now at prices which will leave the
producers but little profit. On &C
count of these facts we hear good
many people complaining that the
fruit industry is going to fail, and
that we made a great mistake when
we went into the business here.
This is nonsense. We can't Judge
any business by the profits of
single season and without taking
other circumstances into considera-
ton. We can't Judge the fruit bus
mess by the returns from cherries
and peaches in a year when we had
enormous yields and had made no
arrangements for labor and practi-
cally none about marketing.
We have demonstrated this year
that Yakima can produce as fine
fruit Of this kind as any district in
the world. We know that there are
millions of people who wanted the
fruit this year and couldn't get it,
and that they are going to want it
every year and will be willing to
pay good prices to get it.
Therefore, the thing to do is to go
ahead with our business, and try
to profit by this years mistakes in
avoiding them hereafter. There
must be way to get this fruit out
of our orchards and get it to the
people who want to use it and are
willing to pay for it. The thing to
do is to find the way.
It would not be fair to conclude
that fruit growing is not good bus.
mess here because this soft stuff,
which has to be handled quick.
ly, hasn't brought satisfactory re-
turns, even though we had made
the proper arrangements for hand
ling and marketing. The cherry
crop doesn't amount to anything
comparatively speaking, and tn
greater part of the peach crop come
from filters, which were not planted
that they would be permanent, o
that they would return great profits
Pears have brought fairly good pro
fits to the growers, and there i
every reason to think that apples
the growing of which really consti
tutes the fruit industry here, viii
sell at good prices. Some, who ar
compelled to dispose of their frui
as soon as it is picked, may no
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-09-20
THE Eee-LAYINe CONTEST

Below are given the standings of
the contesting pens in the 6O-day
egg-laying contest being conducted
by the Washington State Fair. Bull
letin gives totals up to Sept. IA.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-09-20

EN- VARIETY TOTAL
l White Wyandottes 2O3
6 White Wyandottes 200
American Dominiques 176
IS S. G. Black Leghorns 1859
5 Barred Plymouth Rocks 1877
g S. C. White Leghorns 1856
1 S. G. Black Minorcas 1856
70 White Plymouth Rocks 154
Y Barred Plymouth Rocks 152
% S. G. Anconas 142
S. c. White Orpingtons 141
q Silver Spangled Hamburgs 1873
q Silver Penciled Wyandottes137
"A Buff Orpingtons 1876
10 Black Langshans 1873
l3 White Orpingtons 1872
Black Leghorns 1913
, White Orpingtons 1877
Is S. c. Rhode Island Reds 1926
% S. c. Brown Leghorns 1875
| Buff Plymouth Rocks 124
l6 White Plymouth Rocks 116
.. v. WHITE LeghOrns LA
10 w. F. Black Spanish ia
3 Buff Orpingtons 1O2
Black Minorcas 1O1
30 S. G.. White Leghorns SO
II Silician Buttercups 80
10 Black Minorcas 81
"a Notified Anconas 81
81 S. c. Buff Leghorns 81
% Black Orpingtons a
7 S. G. White Leghorns 81
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-05-02

led with their children, TESTED with
friends, and gave themselves up with
delight to the enjoyment Of music
and all the restorative influences Of
nature, they thus keep their souls
sweet and their powers fresh, so as
to renew at the proper time and fin
ish the work that had been given
them to do. And this is the true Of
fee Of amusements. They are not,
in any sense, the business of life, but
refreshments, restoratives, in tel :
ludes, thrown in at intervals to save
us from being utterly broken down
by unceasing and perpetual toll.
While we labor or study, while we
do our part, we have right and
privilege; nay it is our duty, to
give ourselves up, from time to
time, to amusements.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-05-02

mighty Atlantic as it rolls on its
journey Of destruction to the strong
and well as to the weak.
No one is able to imagine the
heartaches and sorrow of the rela-
tives and friends of the hundreds OF
victims of this great disaster that
exists in many home throughout
this great land. isn't this enough
to cause one to mediate over the
future? To twelve hundred souls
the dawn of April 18th was a new
awakening. God grant the dawn Of
that April morning was a peaceful
one for them and may their
souls, although their physical bodies
lie in the cold grey waters of the
Atlantic, rest in that peace which
passeth all understandings"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-05-02

notice 1t should, but rest assured
that you have made a decided hit
with all who love the beautiful.
The true artist works for the JOY of
working but at times word of
praise should be given, SO l take
this method to thank you for the
heart throb you gave us,
Now and again / dabble in verse.
but | have never written anything
that warrants me saying i wrote a
poem | too, had feeling in my
heart to write of The Titanic;" l
had the idea and the words, but am
glad that you followed out same and
voiced the inspiration in words that
seem to me to be so infinitely more
beautiful than anything / could say.
The poem will be cherished by
me always and will ever be pleas
ant reminder of its author, who is a
dreamer like A. N. APACHE.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-05-02

down in Oklahoma. The pastor, a
dignifed, white haired old negro,
stepped into the church one Sunday
morning with a Bible under his
arm, and to his great surprise found
an intruder therein in the shape of
a good fat jack rabbit. The pastor
carefully closed and locked the door,
when commenced regular circular
hunt, where the oft-talked-of diff
Guilty of putting salt on birds tail
might have been accomplished with
lite difficulty. To catch his Jack
ship, however, even within such a
small arena, was more than the pas
tor could accomplish and so at last,
he stopped and taking aim with the
Bible, poor Bunnie fell a victim to
the sacred shot.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-05-02

AN American who recently came
out of Mexico with no more serious
mishap than rife ball in his should
er, tells of many amusing incidents
of Mexicans and their customs as he
saw them. In speaking of the Mex
lean mule, he states that whenever
he had occasion to use one he had to
go to great expense to hire an inter-
prefer between himself and the stub
born beast. 1t is useless to swear
at them in Anglo Saxon" says he,
for not a foot will they bulge; al
though no sooner do they hear the
'mulas vamos, sst! sstn of the Next
can donkey driver, than they dart
off at a gallop."
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-05-02
Things in General
By Gayhoppin.

Two men in Kansas have started
skunk ranch. must be great to
own the adjoining farm. W-h-e-w.
"A recent paper states: Society
women make good mothers and the
children of society women today
receive more attention from it's men,
bers than they did ten years ago"
The kids of ten years ago must
have been out Of luck entirely.
Because his horse was not pulling
enough to suit him a Minneapolis
teamster tied the horses tail to the
singletree of the wagon and then
dashed the horse numerically, caus-
ing it to pull all the hair out of it's
tail. 1t is hard to think of any pun
ishment severe enough for that man.
About forty lashes on the bare back
would not be too bad though.
II Flynn fails to knock johnson
out, Princeton Mimi, has a hope"
but it is a Bantam rooster. Mr.. Ban
tam recently attacked a citizen of
that place, drew first blood and in
fiicted a few scratches before he
was knocked out with hickory club.
The, citizen went in the house to
wash off the marks of battle, but
looking back saw the rooster get up
on his pins and then let out crow
of victory. If man with ball bat
had no show, where would the
pugs" be with their punch?
Some of the towns over the coun-
try certainly want saloons bad. In
town in Benton county they are
trying to have the school house
moved so it will not be within 1900
feet Of saloon. In other words
saloon wants a license to dish out
poverty, ETC., but the school house,
where they dish out education, is
within the prohibited distance.
Why not discontinue the school,
take out the seats, etc., and install
the saloon in it's place(?) Of course
the educational values would not be
as great, but they would have the
saloon.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-05-02

IT can be said with truth that a
greater part of the people are wax
ing up to a sense of the necessity of
amusements. Unceasing toll, wheth-
err of mind or body, it is now admit
ted, tends to detcriorate the faculties
of both. The laborer needs amuse-
ment as well as the scholar and pro-
fessional man. Middle and old age
as we'll as children, demands it's play.
If this craving of nature is checked !,
1t results in mental dullness, physi-
cal weakness, nervousness, morbidity
and regular train of evils ending in
the complete unfitness.of the victims
for the duties of life. 1t is told of
many great men that when they
threw their cares aside and gambol-
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-05-02
An Appreciation of }. A. O.

Allow me, thru the column of The
Mirror, to thank you for your beau
tifuI poem, In Requiem" 1t has
been many a day since / have read
finer one and | assure you that if
the poem gives half the pleasure to
others as it has given to me your
grand thought will be we'll worth
while. Did you see vision in one
OF your dream hours? Surrey some
magic fell upon you, for in your
poem you have shown us the value
of expression and uttered the poetic
that is in you.
We do not live a thought by think
ing tit only becomes part of
life when we feel it. The great
word Art means nothing to us; it is
only when we live the thoughts it
teaches that we grasp it's significance
and its worth. You have trans
muted a beautiful thought into Art
by emotion and human interest SO
that we too feel as tho we lived the
thought with you.
tits possible, (altho not probable)
that the poem will not receive the
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-05-02

A GREAT many years have passed
since Burke lamented that the age
of chivalry was past. His plant
was uttered at the time when revo-
luton and anarchy were in full
career and the axe was being laid to
the root of that which was rotten as
well as to that which was worthy of
honor and respect. Yet the brilliant
orator was altogether wrong in his
conclusions, and although the old in
situations and forms of chivalry have
given way to other and more avail
able organizations, the SPIRIT of
chivalry still exists. No mailed
knight of old was ever more worthy
of golden reward than the captain
who refuses to leave his sinking ship
till every man, woman and child in
his charge are cared for. No deeds
of feudal times equal that of the no.
BILE men who stood on the deck of
sinking Titanic and loaded the wo-
men and children, to the last life
boat, and then bravely faced their
doom-as men should. This spirit
of chivalry is far more widely scat
tered than those who look only on
the dark side of life are willing to
admit. If the good deeds of men
were as carefully chronicled as the
bad, it would be seen how much of
heroism this much abused Goth cen
fury contains. We are prone to for
get, in looking back to by-gone
times, even to the days of chivalry,
that they had their many blemishes
and evils-we see only the brightest
of the past. The present, after all.
has slighter leaven of evil than
the past centuries that have rolled
away.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-05-02
BY THE RIGHT OF WAY
Chuzzlewit

Words cannot express the horror
that fills ones being after reading
the late reports of the disaster of the
largest steamships ever built which
recently went down many hundreds
of feet in the mighty ocean, carry
ing with it hundreds of human lives.
1t only goes to show that the handi-
work of man is far from perfect and
never will be absolutely safe to COM
pete with the handiwork of the
Great Ruler of of the Universe.
Hundreds of souls who only few
short hours before were surrounded
with every luxury eight millions of
dollars could produce; only a few
short hours before hundreds of cleo
trio lights from this great ship shed
their radiance out over the mighty
Atlantic; orchestras played the pop
ular melodies from various operas,
and only few short hours before
hundreds of human souls little knew
of the fate that awaited them. Men
with millions of dollars down to the
poor steerage immigrant with only
enough money in his pocket to pass
the immigration inspector are now
on the same level before the Great
Inspector and Creator of the world.
Now lowering over this same spot
where the Titanic sunk to a depth
of over two miles there is dense
fog. A silence reigns over the silent
grave: The tomb of many loved
one. No bright lights here pene-
trates the dismal fog. The only
symphony heard is the roar of the
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-05-02

IT was certainly a vile deed that
Clarence V. Richeson committed,
and he richly deserves a terrible
punishment, but will 1t better mat
tiers any to kill him? will his death
right the wrong? will it not be max
ing two wrongs where only one ex-
listed? A life sentence behind pris-
on bars is a far greater punishment
than death.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-05-02

A GREAT deal is being printed,
these days, regarding. Dickens, his
life, and his works, and from among
host of articles, dwelling upon his
personal appearance, the following,
from a London paper has been Sc
lected as being probably the truest
description of all. 1t is reprinted
from files dating back to W b e
Dickens was in the prime of life and
is part of a critics report on his APP
pearance while reading in public
one of his Christmas stories. The
clustered locks were gracefully ad-
justed; dignifed was the mould of the
Spenserian beard, The white hand
kerchief was tenderly plated; re-
splendent and luxurious were the
lace inlaid shirt-front and the ample
white waistcoat, while-a refreshing
object to acknowledgements the
scarlet flower, with it's background
of green leaves, decorating the dress
coats left button-hole. These are
trifes to dilate upon, but the public
eye dwelt upon them fondly and
approvingly."
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-05-02

A MAN who has no good quality
but courage, or nerVe,' is IN very
bad way towards making an agreea-
BILE figure in the world: because that
which he has superior to other peo-
pie cannot be excited without rails
ing himself an enemy.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-05-02

TO the old question, what has
PROSPERITY ever done for us?" We
may safely say that posterity, or at
least the idea of it, has done and is
doing two most important things; it
makes the best of us more good, and
the worst of us less bad.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-05-02
Odds and Ends
w. G.. Van D.
Interest.
Interest.

interest may be roughly defined
as money or it's equivalent paid for the
use of money. Whether interest be
paid in the shape of a bonus or in
the shape Of certain rate O.
per centage. for a defnate time.
makes very little difference.
Now if this practice was entirely
abolished what would, in all proba-
bility, happen? In the first place
banks would become repositories
and would make small charge for
taking care of deposit. The gcv-
eminent would issue in lieu of it's
bonds, an equivalent in currency,
redeemable for it's face value only.
This currency which would of course
at the outset be largely in excess of
the needs of the community, could
be retired gradually, until a fixed
amount, based on the population was
in circulation. This amount could
be increased or lowered from time
to time as circumstances demanded
the change. All bonds in corporations
such as railroads or industrials would
be exchanged for stock, and thus
every individual who had money in
vested in any enterprise would have
to take direct chances of profit OF
loss. AS everybody possessing mon
ey would naturally be anxious to
make their money earn something
they would be compelled to employ
it in some enterprise OF the other, or
else see it gradually dwindle away.
1t would be impossible to sit back
and by loaning money to the gov
eminent or individuals. create per-
petual income by. becoming parasite
upon the energy or enterprises of
others. Large masses of capital
could still be employed to carry ON
large undertakings but the capital
used would have to be the actual
property of the individuals engaged
in the undertaking not the borrowed
capital Of others.
1t would be impossible under this.
system for any one man, or any
group of men, to use the capital OF
others as at present, because money
would not be obtainable from the
banks but only from individuals who.
would thus become direct partners
in the enterprise and who would of
course demand proportionate di-
rection of affairs. The plutocracy
would Immediately disappear and as
labor would be in enormous demand
in order to create new wealth, the
economic condition of the working
classes would be immensely benefit
ed. The owner of money being
forced to use his capital direct,
would be brought into close and in
innate relations with his employees;
the gulf between capital and labor
would be Immediately bridged and
both capital and labor would take
their rightful place as instruments
for the creation Of new wealth.
If money couldn't be borrowed,
trusts would become impossible as
the great number of men continually
seeking for investments would make
competition too keen for any one
combination of men to monopollze
an industry.
OF course a change of this char
acter would create good deal OF
confusion at first (not so much how
ever as would seem at first glance),
and it would. in fact. revolutionize
our entire civilization, but it would
eliminate great many Of our pres
emit evils and would most certainly
eliminate the greater proportion OF
the drones who weigh SO heavily
upon the necks of the workers.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-05-02
work.

AT a recent convention of mill
tant suffragists jealous member
introduced resolution to the effect
that the slavery and degradation
of women proceeds from the insti-
tuition of marriage"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-05-02

FRANKLIN seized lightning by the
tail, held it fast and tanned it; Morse
put clothes on it, and taught it how
to read and write and do brands, and
Edison trained it to do a mans
,uor11
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-05-02

In society, WHOLESALERS don't mix
with retails; raw wookdoesn't speak
to five cent skeins of yarn, and pig
iron turns up it's nose at ten penny
nails.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-05-02
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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-05-02

Sometime ago an exciting scene
occurred in little Baptist Church
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-05-02

MIRROR publ Prison.
by
pathological
which
public
shall of funds
wiHbe n the of the prison library.
The daily sentinel., 1912-04-29

Willow Island, Neb.-If a man hai
for companions. what's the use to
worry about none? That's the philos
ophy of "old Man" Mcmillan, Neil
Mcmillan, 80 years old and going on
100" general storekeeper, telephone
exchange manager and postmaster OF
Willow Island.
Mcmillan smoked and chewed and
clean forgot that he had slowed away
in the past forty years $500 in the
walls OF his old store building. Every
day or so he was selling a garden hoe
for As cents, suit of clothes for $3.50
or a few yards of calico. he being the
only storekeeper; he was drawing his
pay as postmaster and telephone man
ager; he was making plenty of money
to keep himself and his dog, for he Is
a bachelor and lived in room at the
rear OF his store. Why. then. should
he worry his brains by remembering
money that he had forgotten years
and years ago?
Recently MCMILLAN built a new
store. His old one. which has stood
for 40 years, bssans so weather-worn
than the rain damaged his stock and
caused the postage stamps to stick
together. The other day he removed
all his goods and the United States
postoffice and the telephone exchange
to the new building. Neighbors help
ed him to demolish the old store. II
was a reversal Of the rural house
raising process. The neighbors chew.
ed plug from McMullan's tobacco
stock and worked diligently. They all
The daily sentinel., 1912-04-29

liked "old Man" MCMILLAN and work.
ed for love.
'Jimminy Chris'mas," cried one OF
the men, how'd this here big tin can
git IN there betwixt the studdin' and
the weather boardin', I'd like to know.
Guess Ill throw 1t at the dog"
But the tin can was found to be too
hefty to toss aside. The finder lifted
it with both hands. Something metal
lie ratified inside. Other men gathered
about The first man yanked off the
cover of the can. All took peek
within
Dog my catsi" yelled the discover.
er. II it haint free silverl Lools-ee
there, boys!"
The heftiness of the can was caused
by its contents-several hundred dol
lars in silver None of the coins bore
date later than a score of years ago.
The can and contents were turned
over to Mcmillan, who said:
by iings!" he said, I'D clean for.
got about that can O. coin"
The neighbors returned to their
work and half an hour later another
man found receptacle between the
planking that contained $1,000 in gold.
The, willing neighbors, now thor
oughly aroused by the discovery of a
gold and silver mine right here in
town. all above ground and the metal
properly minted. returned to their
work. The shingles and the weather.
boarding and the floors planking flew
apart. That day they panned out
$4,000
Next day the villagers returned to
their treasure seeking. They had lost
Interest in demolishing the building
per see. Willow Island had become
bonanza. That day they mined $4,000
more from the odd corners and cram
nies of the old store. which by that
time had become q tot ~ -