Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-03-01

unless you have blood in your eye you
will not succeed. I remember when I
was a little chap the nurse used to
frighten me into submission by telling
me the bears would get me. There be-
ing no bears hereabouts, nurses utilize
the peelers, and they are much more
terrible to the young imagination.
They very rightly suppose that their
helplessness would make them very
tempting bait to the official appetite,
for virdicating the majesty Of the law.
ask in c,oi:ng, as I asked at the
beginning, how have we grown into
this ruffianly common, but it is not vul-
gar in the sense that only the common
herd are guilty. This boorishness, this
ungentleness, this supercilious snobbery
permeates all the channels of trade, de-
files the very elect of commerce and
the professions, and is fas. getting us
into the habit of snarling ours.
The hurry Of business naturally gives
rise to short answers, and these shorten
into curt replies, and these sour into
uncivil rcjoinders, and these soon grow
into positive rutiianism, provided man
is weak enough to drift with the current
of habit.
But the whole theory is wrong. Short
answers do not expedite business.
Curt replies bring on discussions, and
rufianism will utterly destroy q bust
ness if persisted in.
Gentlcness, courtesy, kindness, are
the perfume of life, the aroma which,
from " Araby the Blest," sweeps over
the desert of our lives, and makes us
dwell in. gardens, though we walk
through dreary waters.-N Y. Ners.
A Banks OPERATIONS BY the San
Francisco Post long article is furnished
which purports to lie an account of some
of the great operations of the Bank Of
California. Referring to the statement
recently tclegraphed, that this Bank, in
connection with the Central Pacific
Railroad, is about to buy up the Union
Pacific, the Post alleges that the Cen
raj Pacific is already fully controlled by
that Bank, this control having been
acquired some time ago, through favors
extended by the Bank to the railroad
company, which obligations the latter
was unable to meet and the Bank took
the whole concern. It is also said that
the Bank now controls the Pacific Mail
Company; and if a combination can be
formed to get the Union Pacific, the
Bank of California will become the
great railway power of the continent.
1t is alleged that the same corporation
is obtaining leading position in the
financial concerns of the Northern Pa
cifc. Also, that it is operating to OBJ
tain commanding influence in the
Sandwich Islands, with a view of get
ting reciprocity treaty, so that money
can be made by letting the products of
the Islands into the United States free
of duty. Other operations on large
scale are detailed circumstant'ally. If
the statements border on the truth, or
come near it anywhere, the Bank Of
California is acquiring power which
few people dream of. There is no tel
ling what would be the result of such
bold and extensive operations ii con-
tinued on such q scale for 20 years
more.
SEX IN WAGEs.--What we claim is,
that wages for the same work, whether
done by man or by woman, shall be the
same. All talk about the less cost at
which woman can live, as agood reason
for defrauding her, is simply the cruelty
and the impudence of the stronger par
ty. The device of cutting down their