Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-11-26
A Small Subject.

A Small Subject.
Major Enoch Adams (his Christia
name is not spelled with ~ some hav
il; that is only for his descriptive desie
satioo) has become Grated on tho wif
question since his reclamation b. wife b
had run away from five years before. r
atone for his marital recusance he enter
upon . crusade 10 behalf Of editors wives
to raise them from the obscurity in which
they have been kept by their husbands 4
. notoriety as unenviable as that he ha
conferred upon his own. Fools will rasi
iu where angels fear to tread" The re
spectivc wives of the publisher and tn,
editor Of this paper-of whom the public
had never before heard through the public
priuts-are among the objects of his chiv
alrous eudcavor, believing as he does thai
they are greatly wronged in not being the
subjects Of constant editorial notice by
their husbands; and then, as If to reassure
himself, he again protests that "Mfs. Ad.
ans, our wife, all will agree is lady;" and
"Mrs. Adams is lady so distinguished IA
every respect, and so universally respected
that the public like to hear about her. -
We concede the point; We were educated
in the belief that the present Mrs. Adams
was a very superior woman; we recollect
we'll Of reading about her in the "iNew
England Primer" as one Of tho passengers
by the May Floscer, and subsequent y hs
the Maiden all Forlorn." We have the
profoundest veneration for her devotion to
the New England idea Of miscegenation as
illustrated by her experiment in attempting
to cross the Yankee with the Baboon. by
a special dispeusatiou Sarah, though strick.
en- in years, became the mother Of the chos.
en- people Of old; and why may not Mrs.
Adams become the mother Of the coming
man." the ideal Of the amaIgationists, with
Adams for the putative father.
As the " Major" is one Of the notables
among the Federal representatives, 10 this
Territory, conducts the recognized leading
organ Of the Gar6elde party, we AZ glad
he has furnished US clue to his aniece.
dents. He speaks Of an incident in our
youth, when, he says, at "sugaring off,"
We put something in the kettle that was
not sugar; and, by the same token, VIC
recollect Enoch as the fellow who ate it
without recognizing the difference, and
thence the origin of the vulgar proverb for
the fool who didn't know the difference :"
and from that repast Euoch drew the sole
inspiration which has since distinguished
him as an editor; this also secured him an
engagement in the celebrated company Of
" Docsticks, Bulldogge and Damphool ;"
he acquired his military title as the mule
rider in travelling circus-the capacity
in which Grant 6rst distinguished himself
his theatrical name being "Jocko."
The military title and riding costume at
tracted the fancy Of the ancient maiden
who became "our wife"-the pronoun sig
nifying plurality husband, which also
probably has attractions to woman who
had lived so many years without any. Be.
fore the consummatiou of his marriage
felicity his Characteristic ambition without
discretion betrayed him into the var, where
the FIRST Gre frightened him 30 that he only
stopped running when brought TO hal,
by the Pacific ocean. Here he secreted
his physical termination under military
coat-tails and dropped the terminal syllable
Of his name, calling himself Adams instead
Of A-dau-phoOl, the name BY which he had
achieved oil his previous fame, hoping BY
these devices 10 secure himself against re.
eoguitioo Of his former sequsintanees and
the freedom Of single bleredssss but b
ambition and want Of sense again betrayed
him. When he became an editor be pub
lished himself Ia the world % the vsritable
Damphool Of whom there could be 10 par.
sllsl; and By thh means his wife, aided BY
"Od Nye," discovered and brought hin
to time; spd 10 this circumstance are the
rssssn Of the Rtgistey Indebted for The
weekly refreshing of their .sst slsas..s
childish pseollsstisas Il IL ksssiss d
their early resdisss, rssssssd 70 thes IL
the person Of Mn- Adams, eur WIFE,
q Mr.. George Jooes, . gardener a
many ysan' experiesee, has supplied this