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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-09-19

creasins IN volume Prospects rs to-
the lumber markets IL tie cities G!
Eastern ASIA. Australia and othe 7
ISLANDS Of the South Pacific, are
quite a. hopeful As any Of those we
have cited
The great secret IT every public
or private emergency l. buoyant
hope and unshakeu faith that every
thing will ultimately turn to the
good account OF all concerned. 1t
Is vital principal OF intelligent ex-
istence that every able-bodled man
shall be a producer as well as con
sumner. Ii this regulation were car
ned ont IN all that it originally con-
,emplated, We world hear of but
few uauics, business depressions or
fainines.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-09-19

OF half a million active Christian
men and women could be treated
with dIsrespect uo longer. The first
measure likely 10 engage the atten-
ton Of tn, new committee will he a
National Commission, tue b.ll TO
provide for which has three times
passed the Senate, but which has
hitherto failed in the House. 1t Is
thus apparent tina: If is only ques-
ton of time, and very short time
at that. when the subject may at
east have fair hearing before the
people.
The National Temperance Society
has extensively circulated form of
petition, which We subjOin much as
II matter of information as for use by
the several temperance organizations
in an appeal for Congressional ac-
ton:
To tie tnited States SchHte ant House Of Rep
Teseutntires:
Your petitioners, citizens of the United
States, respectfully ask that YOU will pro-
vide, by appropriate legislation for the
appointment. Ivy the President of the Uni
ted States, of "a Commission of Inquiry
concerning the alcoholic liquor traffic, its
relations to public revenue and taxation,
to crime, pauperism, the public health,
morals, education and the general welfare
OF the pc oplc and also, the results of Ii.
cen.e, restrictive and prohibitory legisla-
ton in the several States, and in the Dis
trict of Columbia and the Territories.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-09-19
Good for Olympia.

Mr.. Charles II. Brodix, late of
Bloomington, H., one of the asso-
ciate publishers of that admirable
work. Zell's Condensed Cyclopaedia,
pays high compliment to our beau
tiful city and its wideawake citi-
zens. In u conversation with num-
Der of our people, he made the I'M
qualified assertion that Olympia was
years ahead of any town of like size
he had visited, on this Northwestern
coast, in point of beauty of situa-
ton, romantic surroundings, bust
ness facilities and the high moral and
intellectual culture of our popula-
ton.
Mr.. Brodix is ii man eminently
qualified to speak upon this subject.
and depenent, as he is, upon the entire
coast for patronage, he has no per-
sonal motive to prompt him to in
dulse in the glowing terms he uses.
He has ransacked about every city,
town and hamlet on the coast from
San Francisco to Victoria, and then,
in making up his notes, be gives
Olympia the preference over all 9TH
ers, as exhibiting the most harmo-
NOUS assemblage of those elements
which he conceives to be most essen
tial to the welfare and abiding pros
perity of free and enlightened
people. In canvassing for the sale
of his work, Mr.. Brodix remarked
that almost without exception, be
found either an organ or piano in
every dwelling, while the walls were
profusely adorned with elegant pic
lures and The tables spread with
such books and papers as indicated
the unquestionable assumption that
the people, in the main, were famil-
iarly conversant with the best litera-
ture of the day.
Such unsolicited commentators
notices As these should be duly ap-
preciated by our people, and it is to
be hoped that Mr.. Brodix, on return
ing to his Eastern home, may be in
strumental in inducing intelligent
emigrants to turn their steps hither-
ward.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-09-19
4 New Source Of Disease.

WLllea good deal las been said III
Ies, about the practice Of ladies hold
IL. up their Dire, skirts. II seems
that al eminent IysIc.an l. turning
tie subject t. serious account.
He PROCESSES To- have discoNe:ed the
fact that Their. = large Increase in
spinal disease among women, both
married and single, and especially
among those moving IN fashionable
society. The ply sician asserts that
1t Is the constant STOPPING TO pick
NJ loayy tlaIn at every oIossing
and the resulting inclination Of the
body to carry it so as not to impede
the act of walking, which Is working
such mischief to the spinal column
The backbone of all vertebrate ami
mails, fishes and reptiles excepted,
are ill-adapted to lateral movements,
and this is minantly observable in
the spinal column Of the human
species. While acrobats and athletes,
display wonderful agility in back
ward and forward movements, later
al flexurcs are practically impossible.
Each lair of vertebrae III man are
separated by what luachlnist might
appropriately call packing, admit
ting of II sensible movement In one
direction only. 1t has been observed
that when an adult person loses an
arm, there follows, to a certain de-
gree. q lateral inclination of the
body, resulting necessarily, in
crooked spine, Just as an originally
straight tree leans over after having
been deprived of it's limbs on one
side. Fashionable ladies who read
these structures may be inclined to
think the physicians ideas are far
fetched. On the contrary, the theo-
Nv involves some of the soundeat
principles of human and compare
tive anatomy and physiology. That
spinal affections are largely on the
increase among those women who
move in the higher walks of society,
| +bora c.u no bnt LITTLE uueStion and
the assumed cause of the evil is ell
tirely in keeping with the fact cited
i'll regard to fashionable practices.
1t is to be hoped that some right
minded, whole-souled women will
yet arise, come to the front and in
stitute much needed dress reforma-
ton.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-09-19
The Advent of Prosperity.

That the business of the country
is slowly regaining its accustomed
healthful tone, there is no question.
1t is certain that steam-boating, on
our Sound and it's tributaries, is rap
idly growing in importance in spite
of the widely extended depression
that has overshadowed our land for SO
long q time. Word comes that the
smaller river routes of the lower
Sound are pushed to their fullest Ca
pacity. While the unprecedented
crops may have something to do
with this, is quite evident that there
are other advantageous elements at
work of which the people are not so
cognizant. As has been we'll ex-
pressed, we believe that the back
bone of the country is beginning
to assert its supremacy. The lowest
spoke in the wheel of fortune has
been reached, and now there is an
unmistakable upward tendency in
all departments of our national in
dustry. The dullness that has so
long prevailed in the numbering in
:erests of our Sound country, can
not, in all human probability, and
by any mode OF reasoning continue
a great while longer as it at present
exists. Two causes have combined
to bring about and maintain this re-
markable state of things. The un-
settled condition of political affairs
California, and the hostilities
which have not yet wholly ceased in
several of the Western States of
South America, may be regarded
as the two principal elements that
have worked 30 much evil to the
commerce of this part of the Pacific
coast. Election has passed in Cali
fornia and there is a we'll grounded
prospect that new prosperity will
obtain throughout all parts of the
State befo re the advent of another
year. The South American war,
like all wars, has seen its worst and
the devastations it has caused must
soon be obiiterated by q renewed ad-
vance in the arts of peace. While
it is with pleasure that We note these
signs Of an improved future, our
abundant crops, throughout the
length and breadth Of the land,
should not BE- lost eight OF nor un.
derrated. We can easily spare mil.
lions of bushels Of grain for Euro.
pean gold. and the profitable OK.
change is even now. not only hope.
fully inausurated but rapidly in.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-09-19
Temperance in Congress.

The greatest stride that temper
ance reform has yet made, was in the
action of the National House of Rep
resentatives, at its last session, in
creating Select Committee on the
Alcoholic Liquor Traffic, to consider
and report upon petitions and bills
pertaining to that business. Hith-
erto the right of petition has beer
practically denied to a large proper
ton of our citizens, through the te-
merity of politicians who have ever
regarded any action calculated to TO.
ment agitation as detrimental to the
interests of the individual or 4he
party allowing it. But IS old issues
subside, far-seeing statesmen begin
to realize the importance of the move
ment which has attracted to it's ranks
much of the best talent and many of
the most determined advocates Of
reform.
The political complexion of the
House and the vote on the measure
are happily such as to remove it from
any connection with partyism. It is
an independent interest, which,
while it may not receive endorsement
from either party, is of sufficient i'm
portance that they dare not longer
crush it beneath the Juggernaut of
indifference. The petitions of the
people on this subject, which have
hitherto went through the filnsy for
mality of q reference to the Judicial
~ or the Ways and Means Commit
tees, whose chairmen are we'll known
opponents of the proposed legisla-
ton and heen promptly but.quietIy
pigeon-holed, will hereafter 80 to a
committee that. by the strict rules Of
parliamentary law, must be composed
Of friends of such measures as are
suggested by the petitioners.
This action is significant Of the
growing importance Of temperance
reform. It indicates that the voice
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-09-19

A RIDICULOUS war of races has brok-
en- out in the Puyallup valley and on
White river, between the Indian and
Chinese hop-pickers. The Indians
have the advantage in numbers and
have driven the Chinese away from
several fields. It is estimated that
there are no" not less than three
thousand Indians in Puyallup valley
alone. Many of thsse Indians came
from Vancouver Island. in their
canoes, bringing all their worldly
effects with them. While they do
mot work at 20 low wages as the Chi
nese, the difference is more than
made up, since the indians spend
most Of their earnings before they
leave tho country.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-09-19
Diligence Rewarded.

the present month. 10 Thomas A
Ellison. for the electro light apparA-
tus on which Il. has been So long
and persistently working. VIII e
there Is nothing peculiar about the
issuing of the | atent, the whole mat
ter, from the beginning to the end,
ineulcates a profitable lesson TO
those who are situated as Edison
was year or two ago. Ii may lie
safely asserted that no inventor ever
exhibited a more indefa,isab!e spirit
through the long and terrible ordeal
of national rivalry and competition
than has been shown by Mr.. Edison
while laboring to perfect this, his
last and most brilliant achievement.
The circumstances under which this
patent has been granted speak in
high terms of its value in point Of
practicability and universal appli-
cation. The people are aware that,
for a couple of years, kthe whole
world has been moved on the subject
of electrical illumination. English,
German and FreDcn scientists, as
we'll as a score American expert
mentors hav. !' doYSedly disput-
ing the ehNi..nIo ground upon which
this brilliant, intellectual contest
was waged.
According to official reports and
statistics, the United States Patent
Office has been for year surfeited
with applications, from allparts Of the
Union, for patents to be granted for
this or that device, having it's object
the utilization of the subtle electric
fluid as a public and private means of
illumination. In consequence of the
hot competition that has been for so
many months going on in the field
of the inventive faculty of this
country, patent office officials have
been on the alert, and to guard
against any inefficient or unworthy
apparatus being foisted upon the
public and backed in its worthless
career by the patent laws of the
United States, the lines of demarka-
ton have been clearly drawn, tai
ented and experienced examiners
have been detailed; in fact. none
other than star experts in the alb
struse minute of electrical science
have been employed to test the rela-
tive merits of the scores of machines
that have been presented.
The facts we have adduced will
tend to show the character of the
ordeal through which Mr.. Edison
has passed and the public may safe
ly rest upon the assumption that, at
this late date, they cannot be very
eGregiously deceived as to what the
ultimate result may be. Mr.. Edi-
son, unlike Kelley, of tho famous
vapor motor, has, step by step, prov
en- his faith, ability and honesty by
his own good works.
Already has the announcement of
the late patent caused another agita-
ton among the gas companies on
both sides of the Atlantic. and they
have good reasons to fear that the
time is not far distant when they
will find that their occupation is
gone. The forward march of the
worlds intellect is Ole OF the few
things that cannot be arrested and
held in check by capital. Potent az
gold may be, it cannot cope with the
moral and physical progress that is
now exercising the public mind in
every civilized and enlightened ma
ton on the globe.
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-09-19

THE legislature OF Iowa is doing
good thing for the prairie districts
OF that State, and a similar regula-
ton would work good results in
Eastern Oregon and Washington.
For every acre Of prairie planted to
an orchard, the farmer is exempte&
to the amount of fifty dollars, easa
year, in the payment of his taxes
For every acre put into forest trees,
he is exempted one hundred dollars
worth of taxes fol- ten years. The
operation of this law will involve
the expenditure, on the part OF the
State, of about six millions of dol
lars for the year 1879. Washington
Territory has vast treeless region
east OF the mountains, and it is to
hoped that either the General Gov
eminent or our own Legislature may
in time provide means for its trans
formation into verdant woodlands
and fruitful orchards.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-09-19

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, re-
Gently devoted one of his Sunday
discourses to q review and, some
what pointed criticism, of Robert
1ngersolfs Grafton at the funeral SER
vices of his brother, in Washington.
Though differing essentially, from
the tenets intimated by Mr.. Inger-
soil in his remarks over the dead
body of a beloved brother, Mr..
Beecher distinguished himself by
an unusual measure of liberality on
that occasion, and his sermon has
been widely published and comment
ed upon by both the press and cler-
gymen Of various denominations.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-09-19
The Two Ruling Questions.

Among all that Is written by East
ern correspondents in their letters Of
inquiry concerning the Inducements
offered 20 settlers bv our Territory.
no two questions aIe oftener asked
than "Wha; about your church ia
cilities?' AMI, Have YOU good
sci ools for our ch!lIreu:" Now We
believe no p!ac' 81 Western Wash
inGton Is ttl' prepared to render
favorable an>ws.s to these questions
than Olympia. Our place long since
gained the appellation of the City
OF Churches, and that quite justly.
There are, at present, seven ele-
CANT and we'll appointed church edi-
fees in Olympia and stated services
are held in all of them. Six Sun
day Schools are prosperously main
tanned, sufficient evidence that the
morals of the young are as well
looked after as in the generality of
cases in new and border country.
We also think that the average
church attendance in our community
will compare favorably with that of
many larger towns in this Terri
tory, if not in Oregon and California.
OF course, we are not entirely aloof
from those admixtures of objectiona-
BILE social elements in our populationz
always incident to seaport town.
In this respect, however, we have
very decided advantage over many
of our neighboring towns lower
down the Sound. And while this
advantage is due, entirely, to local
and purely accidental causes and cir
cumstances, and not on account of
our own intrinsic merit, we deem it
perfectly in keeping with proprietv
that the facts in the the case should
be mentioned as they really exist.
Aside from the churches, the up
ward tendency of the morals of our
people are not little indebted to
the numerous temperance reforma-
tory societies existing among us and
sustained in praise-worthy manner
by their faithful and devoted adhe-
rents. Unlike many Pacific coast
towns, if we have outcroppings of
bad morals in our community, it is
refreshing 10 be able to say that all
such are exceptions to the general
rule.
We have no morning police courts
to dispose of the arrests made dur
ing the night; our whole poliq
force, in fact, consisting only ofa
single Waterman, whose beat in
wolves the whole length and breadth
of the town. AS to whether our
clercymen are we'll sustained, or not,
it is doubtless enough to say that they
are a portly, well-fed class of men,
ard for information beyond this fact,
we should have no hesitation in re-
ferring all inquirers to those gentle
men themselves. Our friends east
of the Rocky Mountains are quite
right in exhibiting due anxiety in
regard to the important question as
to the moral status of our people,
and we should value such new-com-
ers all the more for showing such q
well-timed solicitude. Let them
come among us, bringing along
their good habits, and we will be
willingly taught Of them. In rela-
ton to our educational facilities,
time and space forbids the discus
sion of that subject in the present
issue.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-09-19
A Fraud Oh Publishers.

A petty fraud, truly, but none the
less reprehensible, is the subject of
this article. Scarcely day passes
that does not bring to our table
a postal-card from some portion
of the Union, requesting that a
specimen copy" of our paper he
mailed to its sender. Some of these
are baited with the promise to sub
scribe, if "terms are favorable"
while others throw the bare hook,
doubtless under the impression that
publishers are such voracious set
that any attempt at delusion is I'M
necessary. Some publishers respond
to these requests, or the fraud would
come to speedy termination; but
we have yet to hear of single in
stance, after publisher has given
his paper away and paid for the priv
i!ego (pos.age), that the pos.al-card
solicitor has become an actual pa
tron. The sooner our brethren of
the press realize the existence of q
class of bilks who sponge their read
ing, since the postal-card nuisance
came into vogue, the sooner will a
stop be put to a growing evil. The
individual who really wishes to be-
come subscriber, does not adopt
this "cheap" means of obtaining
information. He encloses with his
request stamp for postage, at least,
and probably the price of a single
copy. The usual subscription price
of weekly newspapers is from two to
three dollars year, but the postal
card blk is enabled by cheek to OBJ
tain fifty-two numbers, of as many
different publications, for fifty-two
cents, if all the publishers addressed
fall into his net, a clear saving of
from three-fourths to fve-sixths the
the usual price of either publication;
besides the blk obtains a variety,
which is said to be the "spice of
life."
That success attends this species of
petty fraud, is apparent from it's con-
tinuance. All the stock in trade re-
quired is a newspaper directory cost
ing nothing, fair share of impu-
dence, and the sum of 50 expended
for postal-cards and these will bring
him three hundred newspapers, or the
equivalent Of from s12 to s18, if paid
for at the lowest yearly rates at
which they are afforded to Legitimate
patrons.
We trust that our friends OF the
press will unite in putting stop to
this outrageous imposition. Let US
redeem the craft from the charge al
being school of gudgeons and easy
prey for all who choose to ply their
arts. Adopt as rule, at least, that
stamp shall accompany requests
for specimen copies," to pay the
requisite postage, or better still that
enough money be RENTED to cove,
all actual costs.
A TELEGRAM from Mr.. George H.
Hines announces the death of his
brother, Horace G.. Hines, in Port
land, at o'clock yesterday. He
was some time ago stricken with nsrv.
Gus prostration, which terminated
in typhoid fever of that severe form
which speedily results in death. The
sad newsiwas Immediately commune
Gated to the afflicted mother. who
lives few miles from this place.
The remains will be brought over by
the train to-day, for intsrment al
the family burial place on Chambers
Prairie.
The Water supply failed agar
Yesterday. Guess we'll all have t
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-09-19

ONE of the Portland papers pub
fishes an item about a vicious COW
"goring little boy in the northern
part of the city," whereupon a con.
temporary morunfully remarks that
a person "gored" in that vulnerable
part of the anatomical structure sell
dom RECEIVERS. Another enterprising
journal, in abiding to the same excit-
ing incident, says that tho animal
tossed the child up by its horns, 3"
which would appear to indicate that
tho tender part is located some
where about the head. How they
do mix up. things over there, to be
surei
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-09-19

The Water supply failed again
yesterday. Guess we'll all have to
put in new pipes, to remedy the evil.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-09-19

The people of Walla-walla county
are a good deal exercised by the
clouds Of grasshoppers which have
lately darkened their skies. But a
short time is left for them to DO
harm, this Fall, before the setting IN
of the cold weather, and il the eggs
they deposit cannot withstand the
frosts of Winter, no specia: mischief
need be apprehended, and the pref
sent influx will soon be mingled wiz
the dust, only to enrich tho soil for
a succeeding Spring.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-09-19

LEAGUE meeting Sunday.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-17
OUR PLATFORM.

"The functions aehich re exercise
IRE committed to as as q sacred trust.
The Government achich ace control as
public officers is not oar oacn, it be-
longs to those who placed as here. The
laacs ace enact do not cypress oar acill,
they are the voices Of the people. The
money vhich nee handle belongs to
them and not to as. We can only take
it from them for the legitimate &C.
penses of Government. More than
this is robbery. Official generosity Is
official crime. Erery needless tao
cuts some comfort from thousand
homes. 1t means less food, less fuel,
and less cheer IN many families."-
Gov. LUCIUs ROBINSON, of New
York.