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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-11-26

THINK OF OTHERS. The honest e4-
preston OF an honest belief ought al
ways to awaken respectful sympathy,
even in those who cannot share it; and,
if We only drew closer to those whose
opinions are adverse to our own, we
should find much in them to draw forth
this sympathy. Nothing can be more
unjust than to charge people with moral
delinquency because their intellectual
perceptions are at variance with our
OWE; yet this is precisely what we 40
when we decry an opposite party anu
attribute to its members mean anu un.
worthy motives when their only crime
is that they will not adopt our views OF
pursue our methods. Holding ourselves
so far aloof from them, we imagine
them to be monsters; if we draw near
enough to discern their mental condi-
ton, we shall find them to be men NE
ourselves, and a still closer approach
will enable us to extend to them me
right hand of brotherhood without the
least infraction OF our own "i the'r
perfect liberty OF thought.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-11-26

covered with two th:cknesses OF cotton
cloth. Dissolve one teaspoonful NJ
white gum arabic in half en-. ~
water-it must be free from color and
sediment; if too thick il will stick. 4
polishing iron is Indispensable. We,
little piece of old linen with the pnm
water-not dripping wet-and rub
quickly over part OF linen and pass
the polishing iron directly over it 81
that it will no. blister Though have
no trouble of that kind; then take tba
round end of the iron and polish with
all your muscle. y good strong right
arm Is very necessary in this polishing.
although weak one will often have 10
DO 1t. Continue to wet with arabic and
polish over and over again until Won
are satisfied with your work. Set the
bosom board to dry after ironing each
bosom. BCsoms starched in this wav
will not break. The polishing-iron
must be AS hot as it can be and not
scorch. Wash the irons after using.
and polish them with fine bath brick
dust on brown paper and wax them with
white Wax while using. Sand paper is
the best polisher for smoothing irons.
1t removes all roughness and starch.
Housekeepers who are limited in their
supply of good washing water can make
it do double by dissolving alun in hot
waterand throw it into the tub of soap.
suds. In a moment the soap will cur
die, and, accompanied by muddy par
ticles, will sink to the bottom, leaving
the water perfectly clear and devoid Of
the smell of SOAP. This water can be
used for washing second time if
poured of the sediL lent. Where water
is scarce, this fact is Invaluable. Tie
UDpSth0&d
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-11-26
Changed British Policy.

The Beaconsield cabinet played it's
game with Russia before all Europe
with dash and boldness, very much as
If it were q run for luck; the Glads tone
cabinet tries another method, which is
that of frankness and truth In this
latter style of public policy there is q
controlling element of humanity as
well as of honesty. In view OF the not
improbable breakup of the existing
coalition at no distant day, the British
Cabinet, according to the statement of
. Russian Journal, has applied to
Russia to know just what she wishes
and intends in the East. It needs q
good deal of moral courage in a public
man to put such question, in 80 cat
egorlcal q manner, to q power that is
easily liable to become an enemy, but,
II the above report is true, Gladstone
Is the one public man of the present
time who has shown himself to be the
possessor of it.
Such step woald very clearly indi.
cate the marked change which is com.
ing over the administration of interna-
tional affairs abroad. 1t testifies to the
fact that modern civilization exercises
an influence that cannot be set aside;
that progress is as real in political
affairs as in all others. The Gladstone
way Is holder way than the Beacons-
field one, which took so much better
with the multitude; but the latter way
Is one that is sure to come to an end
soonest. whether by open violence or
not. Now it remains for Russia to
frankly declare her intentions, keep
lug nothing back. It is not, of course.
expected that she will do any such thing
for it would be entirely opposed to the
craftiness of Russian policy; but in
case OF future complications, silence or
evasion will only make the standing of
Russia less tensble in Europe.-Mass.
Ploushman.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-11-26
They Found Her Dead.

The other morning, when dozen or
more men formed group at the ferry
dock, one OF them said that poor old
Mary Lee was dead. Every one knew
her. For years and years she has
crossed on the ferry boats and tramped
up and down the wharves with bas-
ket of notions or fruits, and as she was
for one day so she was forever. She
lived alone in dark rooms in an old
howell, and the poorest clothes and
plainest food were hers. She died as
she had lived, lonely and friendless
and amidst pinching poverty.
Yes, they found her dead in her
wretched old bed this morning." con-
tinued the speaker, "and let me ask
if there is one among US who ever
gave that poor old womaH kind
word"
No one answered.
Did one among US remember her
when we sat by our blazing fires and
heard the howl of the winter winds ?"
They could not answer yes.
"Who of us ever thought that she
might need food or fuel or raiment
We knew that she was old and alone,
but what man among ushad sympathiz-
ing words?"
No voice replied.
A word from us would have brought
the sunshine across her path. A dol
lar piece would have kept her poor
old body warm through long winter.
Did We ever think of it?"
No one answered.
Tsusunr fCr ~vo kl,o,, = looo IL a.
Christian people, no man could remem-
Der Of having spoken kind word to
poor old Mary Lee. Thousands of
Christian men and women passed her
daily and saw her thin, patched gar.
ments and pinched face. Yet no one
ever offered her helping hand. In a
city OF churches no Christian man or
woman had spoken Christian words to
one whose eyes would have filed with
tears at the smallest favor.
After she was dead some one sent
flowers to place on her cheap coffin,
and others felt the stings of conscience
as they entered the place whore her
weary years had at last reached close,
but it was too late. Alone. friendless,
childless, old and poor, she had gone
her way down the dark valley of the
shadow to feebly knock at the golden
gates and plead with the angel for for
giveness. Long hours before men and
women spoke kind words over her
dead body, and the Great Ruler had
passed judgment on her page of life.
And who can say that beneath it was
not written:
Living in poverty, dying in neg
lect-none here are clothed in whittier
robes T'.-Detroi Free Press.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-11-26
Tie Weather is Right.

How foolish to quarrel with the
weather! Complaining does not affect it
in the remotest degree. Neither COM
pliments nor reproaches swerve it from
its appointed functions. People who
recognize this fact and place them
selves in harmony with it touch one
of the secret springs of true philoso-
ply. Rev. Fl. w. Thomas appears
to belong to this happy class. In
sermon at the Desplaines camp
meeting near Chicago, he preluded
it with some pertinent remarks
intended as rebuke to those who had
been complaining of the weather which
had prevailed since the camp meeting
opened. He said that he had heard
good deal of talk in the city and on
the road out to the camping ground
about the bad weather. He did not
like this. He had no objection to their
blaming him, but in talking about the
weather they discussed a subject much
above misunderstanding which was
under the care and management of the
Greatest of All. The weather was a
wonderful thing, the nights and the
days, the changes from heat to cold and
from dryness to rain, and it was best to
make peace with it at once, and not
have any quarrel about it or with it.
He once got from travelled friend q
bit of the philosophy of the old Jesuits,
and this was to the effect that it was q
wise thing to make peace with nature,
and If this is done it will be found that
nature will no longer hurt one, but if
one complains and fights with nature it
will hurt him. He used to fight with
the Chicago weather some eight years
ego. but he got at peace with it, and
since then he has never suffered from
it. He remembered, when boy, rid
ing along on the outside of street car
on snowy day-the first of the season
and while he was enjoying the bit
terly cold weather the conductor swore
at it heartily. It was exactly the same
weather to both. But they were look
ing at it in different way. The wealth
er at present prevailing was just right.
and he didn't want to NEEDLE with any
thing that was on so grand scale.
DR.. Thomas has struck keynote of
human enjoyment. The fatalistic doc
trine that "What is is best " cannot be
"HCAAoA WIN ooACCy VI COolIOIt, VI 1OSl-
cally, to mary features of life, but it
sustains relation to the weather that
makes it wise piece of theology to in
sert Into our everyday creeds. It is
better for our e. j ,yment of life that we
should apply that doc' inc to the wealth.
er, and, if we do, We will be surprised
to find, in the great majority of cases,
how we'll founded it il. The weather
is one of those features of nature that
must be judged in the light of the eter-
nal years and not in the cleaning of
the hours.-Ha,oheye.
A remarkable family of fat children
live in Barren County, Ky. The
father, Smithland Chambers, weighs
l3O pounds, and his wife only 112
pounds, but q six-year- old daughter
weighs 23O pounds. The latter is about
as tall as other girls of her age, but
measures eighty-four inches around the
waist. A son died when five years old
weighing 200 pounds. and some
younger members of the family ave
growing fat rapidly.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-11-26
Absent Minded.

One of the most amusing cases Of
Observation-Disclosures of which we have
heard for some time, occurred in this
city few days ago. A prominent and
very successful business man, whose
place of business is in the fourth ward,
being requested by lady friend Of his,
who is q stranger in the city, to 60 with
her to the postoflice, where everything
was made satisfactory, our man OF
affairs had hired small boy to hold
his horse until he would transact his
business in the postoffice.
After satisfying the clerk as to his
identity of the lady, he took the mail
out of tho box and hurried back to his
place of business on foot, leaving the
small boy still guarding the horse.
Arriving at his Office he proceeded to
digest the contents of the numerous
letters, and then with characteristic
promptness answered those that needed
replies, and started back to the post
office. AS he approached the latter
place he noticed, standing ct the side.
walk, horse that struck him as being
remarkably like his own elegant road
ster.
14O WOuucICu WIZ COuAu 10 tuO All
tunate posessor of an animal SO com.
pletely resembling the one that was the
pride of his heart, and Immediately the
thought that he would like to secure
this one, and thus be able to turn out
with match team that would make
him the object of envy of all horse fan
ciers in the country, took possession
OF him. The more nearly he approached,
the more striking became the resem-
blance, and the more anxious he became
to purchase. until his memory was
startled from its slumber by the piping
voice of the small boy who held the
horse inquiring:
Mister, are you pretty near ready to
take your horse ?"
There that faithful youngster had
been standing in the broiling sun for
an hour or more holding that horse,
while its owner was entirely oblivious
to the fact that he had driven it there
that day. The feelings of that bust
ness man mny be imagined, but not de-
scribed. 1t may reasonably be sup
posed that if kicking himself would do
any good, he would not be able to sit
comfortably for week. Hartford Cou-
rant.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-11-26

New regulations are about to be
made in regard to the admission of
visitors to the Tower of London; and
those who desire hereafter to inspect
this interesting historical monument
will be allowed to wander through it
NJ their leisure, unannoyed by those
who have hitherto acted as guides.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-11-26
PUiitpncsS OF Our fOrpfa.Ilrps.

Not long since, whilst turning over
the dusty contents of box of books
labeled all at 81, my attention was
drawn to rusty little l2no bound in
wcll-worn sheep skin. A short examiA
nation showed 1t WAS complete, and for0
the small sum of SIX peuce | became
the possessor of Il literary treasure
which has since afforded me much
qualification and amusement: 1.-The
Rules of Civility; or, Certain Ways of
Department observed in France, among
all Persons of Quality upon Several
Occasions. Translated ont of French.n
Such is the title of the work which has
brought up this train OF ideas, and it's
perusal goes far to convince me that our
ancestors were not to be envied. Of
the instructions given for behavior at
table the following are the most curious
Of those that are tit for general perusal:
In eating observe to let your hands
I've clean; feed not with both your hands,
nor keep your knife in your hand; dip
not your finger in the sauce, nor lick
when you have done; wipe your mouth,
and keep your spoon clean. Gnaw not
bones nor handle dogs, nor sprawl
upon the floor; and if you have occasion
to sneeZe or cough, take your hat or
put your napkin before your face.
Drink not with your mouth full nor
unwiped, nor 50 long till you are
forced to breathe in the glass. He
must have care his hand be not first
in the dish, unless he be desired to
help his neighbors. If you be carved,
tits but civil to accept whatever is
offered, pulling off your hat still when
it is done by superior. TO give any
thing from your own plate to another
to eat of, though he be ia inferior,
savors of arrogance, much less IN ap>Rls
or pear rhat has been bit by You
before. Have care likewise of blow
ing froth fror, off cup, or any dust
from roasted apples or toast; for the
proverb saith, There is no wind, but
there is some rain We are to wipe
our spoon every time we put it into the
dish; some people being so delicate
they will not eat after man has eat
with his spoon and not wiped it. 'Tis
rude to drink to o lady of your own.
much more of greater quality than
yourself, with your hat on, and to be
covered when she is drinking to you.
When dinner is going up to any noble
mans table where you are stranger,
or of inferior quality. It's civil and
good manners to be uncovered. If it
SO happens that you be alone together
with q person of quality, and the candle
is to be snuffed, you must do it with
the shutters, not with your fingers, and
that ghatly and quick, lest the person
of honor be offended with the SMELL
The Antiquary.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-11-26

In Germany, plates, dishes. ETC., are
being made from wood-shavings and
paper in the following manner. Sc
lected plane shavings are bound into
bundles, and stepped in bath of weak
gelatine solution about twenty-four
hours. then dried and cut into suitable
lengths. Plates are cut of strong paper
or thin pasteboard, of the size of the
objects to be produced. These are
moistened with a liquid consisting of
weak gelatine solution with sodium
water glass, and pressed in heated me
tallic molds. After drying, the pressed
paper objects are coated on both sides
with an adhesive material made of five
parts Russian gelatine and one part
thick turpentine, the shavings areaP
piled to them, and the whole is sn6-
jected to pressure. (Wood-shavings
alone would, because of their thickness,
resent uneven surfaces.) The objects
are now cut. if necessary, dried anu
vanished.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-03-21
TELEGRAPHIC
ANCIENT MASONRY.
More Interesting and Import
ant EmbIems Under
the 0bRIIsk.

New York, 20.-Her0ld'S Paris 80
Our Cairo correspondent communicates
by telegraph, today, a fact which will
revive IN a still higher degree the interest
excited among students of Egyptian
mysteries two or three months ago, by
Lieutenant Commander Gorringe, and
the discovery of Masonic emblems IN
dernesth the pedestal of the obelisk at
Alexandria, destined for transportation
TO New York. Interesting and important
as were the discoveries of Commander
Gorringe and DR.. Fenton, they were not
exhaustive, and the practiced eye of an
other distinguished Masonic dignitary has
just det= cted an additional series of en-
blems of a value and significance far
greater and more unquestioned than those
previously reported. Mr. S. a. lola,
grand commander and president of the
Scotch ancient end accepted MEsons
rite for Egypt, and Egyptian ex-grand
master of symbolic Masonry, has exam
ined the foundations of the Alexandrian
obelisk and hiss discovered another series
of stones, which not only bear all the
existing Maso7ic emblems, but furnish
the key which has heretofore been lack
ing TO explain the entire dimensions and
of what proves to have been
an elaborate Masonic ediice including
the obel!sk itself, the pedestal, the
ard the foundations. Mr.. Zola,
processes to be able by this discovery TO
throw vivid light upon the ancient
Egyptian origin of Masonic symbolism !
% energetically disputed by Swan, and |
/ Is expected that the publication of his
detailed drawing, which hiss been secured |
or the Herald. will finally settle more
han one of the problems which lie st the
7ery foundation, not only of Masonry,
tut of the obscure and complicated reli-
-lous system of the early Egyptians.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-03-21
SEashington Aavtces.

Washington, 2O.-The select committee
on inter-octanic canal, to-day, Tesfiifmed
the previous action, and instructed their
chairman to call up the resolution intro
duced by him, with the purpose of OBJ
tanning the views of the House.
Secretary Sherman and Treasurer Gil
fllan explained to the House coinage
committee, this morning, the connection
of the New York clearing house and
treasury. Warner regarded the consent
of the treasury department 10 the rule by
which the receipt of silver coin in pay
ment of balances is prohibited, as a virtual
abdication of the right of option which
the law gives it over the mode of pay
ment of government creditors, whether
in gold, or silver, or paper. Sherman
disapproved the rule, but did not SO
interpret it. 1t was merely an exercise
by government of its option. His atten-
ton was called to the fact that in so doing
he was aiding in the depreciation OIL
silver. The secretary could abrogate OF
modify the agreement between the treas
ury and clearing house in the interests Of
government, upon thirty days. notice
At present it was perfectly convenient tc
pay out gold and paper In settlement o.
balances. Adjourned.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-03-21
The Foreign Budget.

Cabul, 19.-It is reported that lively
regiments of infantry and foot cavalry
from Herat, are marching on Ghuznee.
Berlin, 19.-Prince Alexander, 0
Hesse, the Cars brother-in law, ha
arrived in Berlin from st. Petersburg
with mission from the Car to EN-
peror William for completing the re-
| Cancellation between Russia and Ger
many.
Liverpool, 20.-The steamer Palestine,
from Boston, lost many sheep owing tc
heavy weather.
Paris, 20.-The report is untrue that
Father Beck, general of the Jesui,s, Las
come here from Rome.
The project of police has issued q cir
culsr to commissioners of police, in
strueting them to furnish him with a de-
tailed report respecting all religious
communities in Paris and the provinces.
st. Petersburg, 20.-The minister OF
the interior has prohibited the GoloS
from publishing advertisements for two
months.
Rome, 20.-Durlng heated debate in
the Chamber of Deputies, Signor Manci
remarked that Bought, minister of pub
lie instruction in the Minghi cabinet, had
treated the left with Olympic hateur. He
was called upon by the president to mod
crate this language. He answered that
the expression was not an insult, and
engaged in hot discussion with the
president, who finally left the chair and
the vice-president adjourned the session.
The president rendered his resignation
when the deputies again met, but it was
not accepted.
Athens, 20.-The Greek ministry has
resigned in consequence of a resolution
adopted by deputies expressing dissp-
proval of the policy of government.
Halle, SaxOny, 20. = Two passenger
trains cOllided at the railroad station.
Seven persons were killed and many in
iured. Several coaches were destroyed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-03-21
The Christianey scandal.

Washington, I9.-Mrs. Chritiancy is
talking very freely to newspaper inter
viewers, and is filling columns with
stories Of her alleged wrongs. From her
statement the ex-senator must be very
bad man. She represents him as an
opium eater, a drunkard, a man of
intolle1ant prejudices, wife beaten and
Jealous beyond description. Those who
have known Judge Cnristisncy through
a long and honorable life viii be sur
prised at these statements. His friends
here are. very indignant at these SANDERS
aud insist that Mrs. Christiancy is resort
ing to this method TO gain public SYM
patty.
son of the minister, and chief clerk in
the custom house, pTonounces an Internal
lie, the statement that his father sold out
to Chandler. 1t is one of the most far
fetched falsehoods he ever heard of. He
had never seen his fathers wife, and
could think of no one but her who would
start the story, now that no outside
influences We're brought to bear on his
father. He was sure his father fOresaw
trouble with his wife and wanted to get
away from Washington to save talk.