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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-15
"Reminiscences of q Gambler.

John Watts, who died in Philadel-
phia short time ago. was in his day
one of the most noted gamblers who
made their trade notorious on the Mis-
sissippi river. Although he professed
to be ga man of honor" he was by no
means of the very best morals, and he
did not object to take advantage of his
fellow man. For instance With his
friend and accomplish he would board
o boat at Louisville, and, scanning the
passeager-list, pick out for his victims
some old csrd-plsyers of wealth with
whom he was personally acquainted.
To these people he would go very
quietly and say of his accomplish,
There is man who plays high, and
we can beat him you join with me and
we'll do it." The victim agreed and
the party was made up, but Watts al
ways succeeded in regulating success
the wrong way for his victim, and thus
the would-be bitter was often bitten.
Once he was accused of swindling in
that way, the charge being made in the
heat of play by q man from whom
Watts accomplish had just won SIC, 900.
"Is that your opinion?" he quietly
asked. Eyes, sir; that's what think"
roared the loser "you swindled me,
and stigmstize you as Q scoundrel."
The hour was late, and only the watch
man and the party engaged in playing
heard the charge but all of them drew
back and held their breath, for they
were sure "Jack" would take life to
wipe out the insult. It is said that he
had done that thing. II will give you
1000 right here if you will not make
that opinion any further public" said
Watts, drawing forth his pocketbook.
"No, sir; do not want the money; You
cannot buy my silence with money"
Then Watts smiled in his wicked way,
held pistol in one hand and the money
in the other. and said, quietly, as be-
fore: " My friend, for the suppression
Of your opinion 1 offered you 81, 900.
You refused. Now I offer you that
amount of money and your life. Do
you accept?" The man looked into
Jacks cold, steel-gray eye, and what
he read there was convincing. He took
the money and his life and kept silent.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-15
The HONEYMOON Tour.

The inevitable discomforts of travel,
and the unrest that attends continual
change of abode make the modern
houeymoon tour q very undesirable be-
ginning of married life. A visit to the
spa or q fashionable seaside resort is
scarcely better. None of these devices
give that outward peace and repose
which the spiritual life of the newly
married lovers SO peculiarly demands.
But the more immediate objection is
the unusual addition of trials of TEN.
per which these modes of spending the
honeymoon involve. Thus the unlucky
bride loses all her luggage, including
the most valuable of her wedding
presents or she catches crying cold
in her head, or the measels or she has
her most becoming bonnet irrevocabIy
ruined by a shower or the happy pair
ramble too far afield and find themselves
footsore and out of temper or else
they are intercepted by the tide, and
rescued at some risk, to the intense de.
Light of the watering place visitors. II
the honeymoon can be safely tided over
without quarrel, the happy pair may
cherish good hopes of passing safely
all subsequent moons. They must be
systematically amiable. Another Incl.
dent of honeymoon tours is, that hotel
keepers and hackmen think the youth.
ful pair suitable victims to their greed.
It is taken for granted that they are 80
absorbed in gazing into each other
eyes that they will never look into such
commonplace matters as bills; conse.
quently we have known a couple stray
ing through the fairy land of honey.
moon utterly forgetful of SO sublunary
. commodity of money, until rudely
awaked by q very substantial series OF
bills. All the sweets of the honeymoon
considered, it is probably q relief to
the parties concerned when it is over.
The man secretly longs for his regular
work, and chafes under perpetual petits
soins. The wife, too, yearns for her new
sphere of duties as a matron, and can
not help thinking how her wedding
presents will look in the new house.
Her little court has yet to be held visit
ors received and the usual round Of
entertainments gone through. 1t is
scarcely in feminine nature to abide
quietly among lakes and mountains
with these attractions in front, which
permit, too. of wearing the more gor-
geous articles OF the rousseau. But
the honeymoon, clear or clouded,
passes like all things, and gradually
falls into its appointed place among the
fragments of life. 1t is no longer, in
deed, the trance of love and happiness
(which it seemed when touched with
the rosy hues of anticipation, but il
has been period of predominating
delight, such as may we'll cover the flu.
ture of wedlock, an adumbration Of
what every really happy marriage
should resemble throughout its con.
tinuance. OF course it is out of the
question that its bliss should pervade
all the future years of the young
couple, but it becomes, at all events,
a test by which the happiness of theil
succeeding years may be guaged.
Though we ridicule it in after days,
we may we'll regard happy honey.
moon as an integral portion of all nup.
tial Joy.-Home Journal.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-15

A WHALE ATTACKS A SCHOONER
The Halifax Chronicle says: Captain
Logan, of the schooner Katie E. Stuart,
which arrived Saturday, reports that
when off Whitehead he saw whale
about fifty feet long coming toward the
vessel. He threw billet of wood at
the monster, which seemed to enrage
it, and it dived under the vessel and
came up alongside, blowing water on
the deck. 1t was struck by several
missiles, but did not seem afraid. Then
bilge water was pumped overheard.
This drove the whale off for few min
utes, but it came back and was evident
ly about to strike the vessel, when it
was struck close to the blow-hole by n
large lump of coal. This seemed to
take the courage out of the whale, and
1t swan off in the direction from which
1T had first come.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-15

RAsPBERRY VINEGAR. ut one pound
OF very fine raspberries in q bowl,
bruise them we'll, and pour upon them
q quart OF the best cider vinegar; mex.
day strain the liquor on q pound of
fresh ripe raspberries; bruise them
also, and on the following day do the
same, but do not squeeze the frat, or
it will make it ferment--only drain the
liquor as dry as you can from the fruit.
The last time pass it through a canvas
bag, previously wetted with vinegar to
prevent waste. Put the Juice into a
stone jar with pound of sugar to every
pint Of Juice; stir it, and when melted,
put the jar in saucepan of water. let
1t simmer o little, skim and remove
from the fire. When cool. bottle of.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-15
Mans Walking Powers.

Weston's performance in covering $50
miles in rather less than six days may
be of no particular importance from a
patriotic point of view. If Weston had
been new man the fact that he had
"beaten the record by ten miles or so
would have furnished an occasion for
the American eagle to display himself,
but Weston has engaged in so many
matches that his victory will not create
nearly the same excitement in New
York as if his achievement had been
made by Ennis. It has always been
Weston's weakness to set his mark lit
tie higher than he could reach, and his
remarkable performances have been
overrated simply because of the impos-
sibilities he has undertaken. Never
theless, what he has now done is very
remarkable achievement. Rowell in
Gilmore's Garden, and Brown at the
long-distance walk in Agricultural Hall,
seemed to those who saw them to have
exhausted the limits of human endur-
ance. What they did has now been so
badly beaten that there is more differ
ence between Weston's performance and
Rowell's than between Rowell's and
that of the second man in this race.
Rowell made barely 500 miles and Ennis
made 475, whereas the winner in this
race in making $50 miles has beaten
Rowell by something like fifty miles.
There is every reason to expect that
within q very few years long-distance
walking match of six days will be won
with a record of not less than 600 miles,
or 100 miles day. This would be an
excellent performance for o horse. In
fact, SO far as we remember, it has never
thus far been equaled or even ap-
preached by horse. People who have
studied the powers and performances
of horses and men have long been Of
the opinion that in point of endurance
the biped was much to be preferred to
the quadruped. They are justified by
the result of the recent long. distance
matches. The owner of horse who
should subject his animal to the extreme
tests to which Weston and Brown have
submitted themselves would probably
come under the official notice Of Mr..
Bergh. The record of any six days
walk is regarded with CONSERVATION by
every man who has walked enough to
know what fast walking means, and who
has yet not walked enough to know how
much exertion the human system will
bear. There is no reason to believe
that any professional pedestrian could
come nearer to Weston's record than
his opponent in the present match has
heretofore done. but there is reason to
believe that professional pedestrians
will hereafter succeed in beating Wes-
tons time even more than Weston has
beaten the time of his predecessors.
At all events, if the present race is re-
peated in this city, there is reason to ex.
pect that the record will be beaten, and
that the winner will be obliged to sur.
pass feat of pedestrianism which now
seems to be tho limit of human perse-
verance and enduranc. - New York
World.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-15

"Few things" says the New York
Times, in a recent article on Caleb
Cushing, care more exaggerated than
the amount of property men own"
This is startlingly true. Only the other
day we heard it reported on the street
that we were worth dollar and seven
ty five cents. at an inside estimate, and
could buy pint of strawberries without
feeling it. Let US say to our misin-
formed friends, while we are on this
subject, that man does not become q
millionaire in journalism in ten years
time.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-15

Fun AT FIcNICs.-There is lots of
fun to be had at little private picnics,
when the party goes up q stream in o
large boat 10 pleasant woodland. All
you have to do is to lug three baskets
of provisions and box of croquet to
the boat, and then help row it and get
four blisters on each hand, and then
climb tree covered with briars to ad-
just swing and work yourself almost
to death swinging the girl who never
seems to get enough of it, and then re-
verse the order of things until you get
home. There is loads of fun in it.
Fun? Why, it is just. reeking with it.
Ne,c York Sunday Star.
Cruelty to animals-pounding dogs.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-15

The chief art in learning is to attempt
but little at time. The widest excur.
sions of the mind are made by short
flights, frequently repeated.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-15

"a BIGGER BoAT."-Some men, like
the priest and the Levite, in the para
BILE of the Good Samaritan, turn away
from an opportunity to do good. There
are, however, those who, like the heroic
boatman of the following anecdote, long
for "a bigger boat" that is, for larger
opportunity to do good:
That was grand and heroic speech
of the Becton boatman, who was the
first to launch forth on the darkening
waters of the Thames, at the cry OF
hundreds of drowning victims OF the
Princess Alice steamboat.
This good man found copious har-
vest of human lives, easily gathered in
moment, to the fall OF the small
capacity of the boat.
And seeing how soon he had gathered
all he could accommodate. and hundreds
still struggling-and the vast majority
of them struggling in vain-with the
waters, he exclaimed, oh, that l had
bigger boat! 1 could save 30 many
more!
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-15

The man who disclsims pride pro-
claims it aloud.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-15
The Life Of the Russian Peasant.

We quote from the st. Petersburg
letter of London paper the subjoined
pleasant sketch of summer life among
the people of Russia, showing how
Alexander's dear children while away
the time saved up from business. The
writer says: The Russians are passion
ately fond of music-not sapientlJ, as
connoisseurs able to distinguish be-
tween the Italian and German schools
of composition, but electrically inso-
much that they will weep as ecstatically
over the last jingling waltz of NJ.
Planquette as over the "Stabat Mater"
Of Rossini. You must always mistrust
the genuineness Of Russians emotion
unless he sheds tears. On the evening
of q bright spring Sunday, il you
stroll through the Summer Park of st.
Petersburg, while the tinches are twit-
tering in the fir trees and band of
one of the guards regiments is discours.
ing music, you will behold number of
Russians stretched out on their backs
on the grass, with hands folded behind
heir heads and their cheeks bathed in
bitter tears. If you imagine they have
been bullied by their wives or bothered
by the tax collector, console yourself /;
for they are simply peaceable citizens
enjoying themselves IN their own way.
They have come out for day q holiday;
they have drunk little vodki. eaten o
little raw ham and some apple cakes 4;
perhaps they firted, and now they are
luxuriating with their faces toward
the sky and their ears open to the mu-
sic of that brass band which speaks to
them, maybe, OF happy land beyond
this, where there is no snow and no
police. no taxes and no wars-perhaps
not even q czar-but fair women and
cheap drinks, and plenty of repose on
grass smelling sweetly of dew and but
tercups.
The PRINCE OF WALEs.-He is fond
of late hours, but no matter how late
he may go to bed he rises early the
nextmorning. He is keen sportsman
and fair shot. At whist he plays an
excellent hand. And whether the oc.
cupation be whist, sport or dancing, he
enters into it with hearty relish. which
contrasts strangely with the 6lase airs
of the golden youths Of the day. His
constitution is an excellent one. He
rarely has q days illness, and he is q
living proof that no amount of tobacco
can enfeeble either the mind or body.
I believe that he was the inventor Of
the now popular drink. "lemon and
soda. London Cor. N. 7. Times.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-15
Felt That Way Himself.

"a soft answer turneth away wrath, "
and so sometimes does little good
natured raillery. Some people, be it
known, always wake up in good hu-
NOR, some in bad humor and some in
"middling" humor. Causeur had a
neighbor who is blessed with q daugh-
ter and q son, the latter some years
younger, little fellow who often says
a bright thing without knowing it.
The other day his sister had been en-
joying an afternoon nap, and woke up
just as supper was ready. She came
to the table, and having occasion to re-
prove her brother for some breach of
table etiquette-older sisters are great
sticklers for etiquette-spoke rather
more harshly than the occasion seemed
to warrant. Instead of resenting the re-.
proof, the boy looked up and said sym
pathetically, Been asleep, haven't
you?" Yes" answered the sister.
"Thought so, continued he, 81 often
feel that way when I wake up" That
boy has learned to Ground the corners
already; he'll find it a useful accom-
plishment when he begins his battle
with the world.-Boston Transcript.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-15

How TO Buy A HoRsE.-The Rural
New Yorker says: can intending pur-
chaser should have the horse brought
out before him, and watch the animal
as he stands at rest. If the owner is
continually starting the horse into mo.
,iou and urging him to -" show off"
something may be suspected. because
it is when the horse is at perfect rest
that his weak points are dlvulged. If
the horse he sound he will stand square
on his limbs, without moving any one
of them, the feet being placed flat upon
the ground, and all his legs plump and
naturally posed. If one foot be thrown
forward, and the toe pointing to the
ground, and the heel raised, or If the
foot be lifted from the ground, and the
weight taken from it, disease or tender
ness may be suspected"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-15

Cruelty to animals-pounding dogs.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-10-02
A disappointed Husband.

How many young husbands have been
wekss :sssi ttiheir dreams OF domestic
happiness end prosperity by the anxious
care OF siekly wife The homo is not
the elyaiumthe lover had SO fondly pic
tured: Its atmosphere is gloomy with
invalid comp!sints. Sweet.winged hope
that at first t;Ooded on its hearthstoIio
soon fled, an ala ominons brid is
there instead, Sroakiug of dianppoint-
ment. The NAL little household Offices
that should te t5a delight of the wife TO
perform are conaSsd 70 strangers. The
homo soon becohsa one only in name,
and the disappointed husband seeks
pleasure and socie@ elsewhere. and Toes
downward step byNesep, from vice, to
vice. until the ruin . eoTnrsie..ss; and all
because g wife hS lost her health.
and with it her teueoF and ali , tboss,
sweet womanly gtaeesthas can alone Tc.
tain tho love the ma;da had won. sDr.
Pierce's Favorite Presciptioa Is an eff.
cacious remedy for the iainisl diseaaaa
and weaknesses incident D th6female or-
ganism. It is both tonieand nervine
strengthening the parts as veil Y. RENE,
dying the diseased ccaditios.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-10-02

He HEARD Too MUCK.-Lewis Cav.
lord CLARK, the editor of the Rnickcr5ocE.
er Magazine, used to tell the following
story with great delight: .
Some tyH miles IN the river fron az
Johnsbury, Vermont, 10 q primative sort
of little village called .fThe Centre. .
Hear not long since, the rustic youth OF
the vicinity congregated to danca land
dance they did," said cur informant.
with an junction. unknown to your CITY
bellies and beaux.n One interestinr
man having imhihed 100 freely. becanas
"fatigued" In the course Of the evening.
and wiEely concluduG to retire for O short
rest. ~
Adoor ajar near che dancing hall reveal.
ed invitingly aglimpse of a comfortable
bed of which he took possession, with the
prospect of an undiSi1rbed 'sanooze.n
It happened, howbeit, that this was the
sooner had he closed his eyes than pair
Of blooming damsels came in and beTan
adjusting there discolored ringiets, the
ing the tenant of the bed. The girls had
tongues like most of their ''sexn which
ran this wise:
Whos q HiCS uAHCo were EAVjnEt
Have you heard anybody s..y sii s.isy q. .iiE .1s
about me, Jane?''
Claw, yes, Sally. Jim Brown says he
never haw you look 90 handsome aB you
do tonight. Have You heard anybody
say anything about mef"
About you'll Why, aartin. Heard
Joe Flint tell Sam Jones that You
were the prettieet dressed girl In the
fN .
Whereupon the dear things chuckled
and "fxed up" little more, and made
off toward the ballroom. They had
hardly Teesohsaa reached The tho dur, wiieu our fpif.
conscious friend raised himself on his
elbow, and, quite inteiligibly, though
slowly, ip;. 1ired: 1T.
"Haye you heard any6ndy cay any
thing about me, gsla7p q.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-10-02

KEEPING BoARDERs, - /" Anothe,
boardiDg-house busted up, see,n sighed
Q venerable Detroit landlady, as she laid
down her paper. "Well,. it must have
been extravaganza on the table. That's
what bankrupts seven out of ten. and
even then the boarders are crying hash +
and complaining of poor meals. Nov,
l run o boarding house for TWENTY-FIVE
years, and I made money and heard no
complaints. How did do It? Why
it's all in planning. For instance. a
neck piece Of mutton can be cut to look
like rib roast, and little extra fire
makes it just as tender. Lawd save you
I've been complimented n thonsar5 Ann
on my selection of choice spring lamp
when the meat was mutton four YEAR
old, and the toughest part at that The
idea OF spring. chicken on boarding
house table is absurd-ayeI almost
wicked. In my palmy days | could take
tough old hen, pound tho body with
potato mashe for ten minutes, and set
before my boarders q feast to make every
heart glad. Now I'll venture that there
aren't ten landladies in the city that can
bake pigs head and slice off the meat
III q manner TO make everybody believe
that he has the choicest cut in q pigs
body, anG it's wonder to me that there
aren't moro failures. Lots of landladies
buy nice, fresh butter, and thus tempt a
man TO eat five or six biscuits or half
q loaf of bread. What economyl al-
ways had my nice butter on the table at
breakfaRt, when we had little but toast.
and tho boarders got along on old butter
the other two meals. It Is all in the
planning. I used to have beef steak
every morning. Three mornings in the
week j bought sirloin, which ID very,
nice, yon know, and other four morn.
ings I bought neek.pieces and rubbed the
casa-knives over the grindstone. Give q
sharp knife and tough steak and he'll
never mako complaint-never. He'll
put the blame on his teeth, and the moro
steah ne leaves on his plate the moro
rabit pie you have for dinner - Detroit
Free Press.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-10-02

A METEOR WoETH TALKING ARouT
There being some talk in this city yes.
terdsy about the big meteor that passed
ov-f Salt Lake few nights ago. Hor
Sing, head mah in this city of the Chi.
uese company of that name, became in.
tereeted in what was said. He began to
tell something about q great meteor that
fell in China ages ago, and finally said
be had it all in G book at his place in
chinatown, and would translate the &C.
count to the best of his ability if the re.
porter would accompany him to his
house, an offer which was accepted. AZ
Hop Sing can not speak English very
huently, even when diacoursing or ordi.
nary. subjects, il was hard for him to ex.
press himself when he tried 70 translate
the account of the strange occurrence re.
corded by the Chinese scientist. What
ne was able 10 impart was briefly as fol-
lows: Ages and ages ago great meteor
fell in China, in the Province Of Che
Aeang. 1t came from the heavens in a
slanting direction, and was apparently
iifty feet in diameter. It lighted the
country for distance Of 200 or 800 miles
around. It did not explode, but passed
into the ground ontire It buried ;tsa,l
IN 3 spn. Of the Nan-ling mountains.
On the slope of the mountain it entered
was large village. The meteor passed
over this village at height of about
half q mile, and SO gr>e: was the seat
from it all the buildings in the place
burst into flames simultaneously. Ali
the people in the town were roasted, and
many in the country in the track Of the
meteor between the town and face of the
mountain. The aerolite made an inn
meme hole in che side of the mountain.
13ut OF which issued flames for several
days; then great volumes of stream
poured fourth, and, finally, large steam
OF water. The stream Of water is still
howing at the present time, and forms
one OF the tributaries ofa river that e,r
ters the sea near Ning-po. That, now,
was o meteor worth talking about.