Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1875-05-01
BEN FRANKLIN AND HIS BOY.

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|, ~ A little incident worth relating hap
pened to Ben after he had become q
married man, and was living in small
village down in Connecticut. j. w.
'Dusenberry' s great circus and manag-
erie just arrived from Blossenburg, and
was going to giye,a o performance in the,
evening, and Ben's oldest boy was
seized with an irresistible desire to at
tend. 80 ati the dinner-table he asked
| permission of his father to attend the
circus in the evening. ID ssaa
No, no, my SON.. your must not go
to the show. 1t is an unfit place for
me, as I consider it; how much more
dangerous must it be for you?. will
not allowia son of mine to attend a
circus performance, where I myself
would blush to be seen. Go to bed,
my boy, and your mother aud I will go
to prayer-meeting. Tomorrow / will
buy you q testament for your obedi-
ence.' 81, i:l..+ 5...Js
~ He went to bed, but not to sleep.
An hour afterward, Ben and his wife
might have been seen seated on top
board under brilliantly lighted circus
tent. Ben's face glowed with enjoy
ment, and his jaws worked industri-
ously upen big end of twisted dog
tail tobacco. Once he bowed his head,
and allowed half-pint of juice to issue
from his mouth and descend between
the seats. r s,l .s,..-. ,..i. .s- s,4
A smothered cry of pain came up
| from below. .r
Gracious! I do believe I have spit
ten in somebody's facet @
Said his wife: e .es ..,ss5,1sy
"Too bad; but oh! just see that man
bend to 'crab!'" and they both become
engrossed in the antics of the clown.
Next morning, at breakfast, this boy
appeared with a swollen eye.
Said his father: @7a:a@ .4.'
1" What is the matter With your eye p
g Some blamed fool spit in--that is
it is darned sore. I don't know what
ails it" said the confused lad.
Ben and his wife exchanged signif-
cant glances and wisely held their peace,
and the promised Testament wasn't al
luded to afterward by either father or
son, rft ...,
Z. FApISe Our.-The statement is going
TIE rounds that the original draft of the
Declaration of Indedendence is about
faded out, and that many Of the sigma
lures to that immortal document are so
dim as not to be read except with the
aid of a powerful microscope. An ex-
pert, one who is very handy with pen,
has been employed to trace over the
writing, and so restore it that it can be
read. The Declaration is filed away in
the Patent Office at Washington city.
Tne mere fading out of some writing
is not the worst part of the matter.
Some of the principles put forth in the
document have faded out of practice,
if not out of the public mind. We
believe that, five remember correctly,
the Declaration says something about
governments amongrm deriving their
Just powers from the consent of the
governed; and that when any form of
government becomes destructive of that
end, it is that right of the people to
alter or abolish it. That is one of the
principles that seems to have faded out,
as was illustrated in the Louisiana case.
Can an expert restore the fading out
principles? Ii such an expert can do
SO, where is he, that the people who
are interested may call upon him ? And
the great old writ of habeas corpus,
the foundation of English and Ameri-
can liberty, also, came near fading out
by the action OF the late Congress.
That celegrated Force Bill. had it
passed, would have faded out, or blotted
out the habeas corpus. 1t is wen for
the people to know and then turn and
by their votes restore those old land
marks of freedom. Never let them fade
out.-G. Y. Union. man sa
/ sCuRIous lFAoTs. An Italian physiolo-
gist says that if small quantity OF
strong liquor of ammonia be injected
into the skin tissues of dead body, 1t
causes no change and exhibits no ef-
fects SO far asscolor is concerned. But
in the living body, and even where the
patient is moribund, this procedure
causes definite spot or patch OF a
deep red color, verging occasionally on
purple tint. This test adds another
4 to the many already advocated with
view to ascertain if death really has
taken place. It's simplicity atany rate
commends it to the attention of physi-
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