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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-03-25
"Forglve and Forget"

If all persons would forgive and for
get. what a great increase there wonld
10 in the happiness of this life. OPP.
portunites for revenge would no longer
ne sought or desired. Many dark clouds
which arise in our moral skies, produced
Ivy malice, might he instantly removed
by those musical words " / will forget
AID forgive" Excited passions would
oe Quilted and there would be kind
words and cheerful hearts. We often
hear the expression :" can forgive, but
cannot forget" Ii we truly forgive,
then to forget is a natural result. When
We speak of forgetting wrong We do
not wish to be understood to say that
all remembrance of it is entirely oblit-
Grated; but that the mind is so occupied
by better thoughts of friendship and
love that the thought remains in
oblivion until some circumstance pro
duces q recollection Of it, but when it
does recur to the mind it has not power
to excite any feeling of displeasure.
With such regulation of our thoughts
and passions, our lives will contain less
gloom and more sunshine. Our hopes
may be raised up to the verge OF bright
realization; our ambition be made the
highest and most ENROLLING; our faith
be made strong, all bound as the golden
chain Of love-the fruit of forgiveness
and our barque will glide over the un
seen hand of the omnipotent and 1t
will guide us past all danger, and as
We near the shining shore We shall see
the Golden City which will be our
f ernsl Home. May We all Forget
| and Forgive"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-03-25
Botherlng q Waiter.

A plainly dressed, mlddle.sged man
will an immobile expression Of coun
tenanc-, entered St. Louis restaurant
he other day, AMI called for dlaner
Oue If the walters hustled about for y
moment, took the strangers order
aud presently presented before him d
bowl of bean soup. Afer carefully in
-prcting it for moment, the guest
louked up with an astonished air and
said:
What's this?'
"Why, IT'S bean SOUP" replied the
waiter. apparently very much offended
- Yes, that may be-" replied tn.
guest, seriously, "but what Is 1t now? P
Tue waiter looked puzzled for q mo
ment and then snapped out:
Why tell you. it's bean soup"
"YIu said that before, you kn)s,"
replied the guest, quietly" Ill admit
that it may have been soup, but what
is it now?'
You're cute, aiu't you?' said the
waiter, looking az though he wanted t.
break the heck of the guest. "Well
it's bean comp right now"
I'm glad of that, but how long has
it been bean soup ?" asked the guest a.
the waiter started for the kitchen, NUT.
tering about the people who are toe
smart to live.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-03-25

EVERYDAY KINDNESS IS not nee
essary to be- always actively kind. There
is one little piece of kindness which al
most all people, old and young, have
opportunities to perform, aud by whose
practice they Can very materially add
to the comfort and happiness of less
fortunate persons. 1t is to avoid look
ing vt deformities or marks of disease
when they are metin the street or the
home. II person has o misshapen
foot, or lacks an arm or leg. or bears
upon the face some Disagreement, or is
evidently suffering from disease, We
may be sure that the fact is sufficiently
impressed upon his mind, by his own
thoughts and by the marked attention
of the unkind or theughtless. without
any stares or remarks of our own. The
keen suffering OF Q sensitive person
and vii persons with noticeable de-
formity may well be supposed to be
sensitive on that subjects such as
one who has felt 1t can alone understand
to the full. OF course it is the most
natural thing for the eye to fall upon
that which IL marked or unusual; but
that is poor excuse for unkindness.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-03-25
A Strangers Mistake.

A few days ago d western merchant,
| who wanted to do some sightseeing and
buy his fall stock, entered dry goods
j 'bbiug house on Broadway, and &C
costed the first person he met with.
Are you the proprietor hereP' "Not
| exactly the PROPRIETOR was the reply
"At present am acting rs shipping
| clerk. but am cutting my cards for "
partnership mex year by organizing
| noon prayer-meetings in the basement y
The stranger passed on to very i'm
portant- looking parsonage with dia-
mond pin, and asked: Are you the
head Of the house?"
"Well. no; can't say rs I am at
present, but have hopes Of partner
ship III January. I'm only one of the
travellers ust now, but I'm laying for
Il $500 pew in an uptown church, and
that will mean u quarter interest here
iu less than six months"
The next man had his feet up, his
hat back aud y twenty-cent cigar in his
mouth. and he looked so solid that the
| stranger said:
You must run this establishment ?"
Me-? Well. l may run it very soon
AT present I'm the b, ok. keeper. but I'm
expecting to get into q church choir
with the old mans darling and become
| an equal partner here"
Tue stranger was determined not to
make another mistake. He walked
around until he found man with his
coat off and busy with case of goods,
Hnd he said to him:
The porters are kept pretty busy in
mere. | See"
| Yes" was the brief reply.
Bat suppose you are planning to
invest in u gospel hymn-i ok and sing
the old man out of IN eighth interest,
aren't you p
We'll, no, not exactly" was the
quiet reply. I'm the old man him
self"
And all that the stranger said, after
long minute spell in looking the mer-
chant over, was, Well, durn my but
| tons!"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-03-25
A Coon COUNTRY FOR FAT MEN,

A Coon COUNTRY FOR FAT MEN.-
The Spartans of old showed no mercy
to fat humanity. They paid mach at
tentioa to the rearing Of men. They
took charge Of the frmness and loose
ness of men's flesh, and regulated the
degree of tstness to which it was lawful
in free State to any citizen to ex'eud
his body. Those who dared to grow too
soft or too fit for military exercise and
the service of Sparta we're soundly
whipped. In one particular instance,
that of Nauchis, the son of Polybius.
the offender was brought before the
Ephori and meeting of the whole peo-
pie of Sparta, at which his unlawful
fathers WAS exposed, and he was
threatened with perpetual banishmeut
if he did not bring his body within the
regular Spartan compass and give up
his culpahle mode of living. which was
declared unworthy of Spartan.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-03-25
Cutting q Boys Hair.

rberc il no npe Ia fooling around
an, il. When y boys hair has be-
o,n long and blcncl,ed and scrhggy
- mli # bars and feathers it il time
o. ru, II and the Inevitable must be
faced.
Ma one 3,.cr ',%8 - speaking acIrsint
ance With boy who tloagn: the time
boi arr;y.. whcn lie couli part with
annuph h.ir to stuif IA sofA.pillow.
TL.y ;, u, ". coorccd, and kin words
and brold rroniisrs arc thrown away.
Cnercinu it. The only rasth"!.
7 let NV bsys run about 81 long and
I'm w:,. !, eet y spare half day play
harLer. rnere is no appeal from my
5o'i, ion. When l come out fiat footed
cn,ry my point or die trying.
"Yau x mau, you can get ready to
have your hair cut.
"N.xt week ?"
"N,, sir nov!
"Ni,h bnzz saw?'
eyes. If the shears won't do it.
"Wont sou draw blood p
81 may nave to-"
elf ,ou won't cut thy hair, I'll bring
in 'nuif wood and cosl to last all win
ter, and won't ask for light Wien l
60 to ned!
"Come ont here and make readyi :"
Ineyer take any chances on q boy
IhAve an old chair bolt-d to the floor.
and then bolt tae boy to the chair.
fix him 30 that he can move neither
hand nor foot, put soft-gag in his
mouth to prevent " neighborhood alarm
and begin work. The first step to wards
cutting a boys hair ia to put in ten
minutes hard work with curry comb.
Ii he hasn't been running loose over
two or three years this tool will be
found sufficient to rake out the snarls,
buttons and articles previously men
kioged. A basket is placed behind this
air for them to drop into. sni they
IAN be decorated with fancy pictures
and made to serve rs parlor ornaments.
When IL boys hsic il ready for the
shears brace yORr feet AMI shear away
Shear front back, top and side without
reference to liues or angles. The OH .ct
il to remove hair. Tncre is no use OF
any conversation, not even when TIL
shears tiuI u piece Of wire and refuse
to cut it. the boy wouldn't know how
it got there If you asked hun. He has
had his head in closets, cellars, garrets,
barns, fence. corners, barrels, boxes and
all sorts Of looks, and sucn extra a.
tachmens are no surprise to him.
No one should be less than half an
hour roOuIng al average boy of hi,
capillary substance. Any attempt to
hurry the j ID will result III overlooking
lot of shiusle nails, the mlssing screw
drlver, or something which may dam
age his Sunday hat. My average is
thirty-tive minutes, aud [ have only
two minutes left after being able to Set
that he has scalp. 1t then takes an
additional ten minutes to look HIM over
ami Identify him rs the same boy be
gan on. Hts neck has grown Longer,
the size Of his ears Increased, aud the
whole shape of tho head is altered.
When | feel sure that it Is my boy, ana
no, the son of some nelghbor who his
skulked III on me, brush him OFF with
All old bro IN. crack his hoad three or
four times, draw the bolts and remove
the gag, and then hold the door open
for uin to shoot into the back yard.
am II loving father on all elsa, bur
when | cnt boys hair al " stern old
Roman OF the first water. VI. & lad,
in Detroit PRESS.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-03-25
All Sorts.

Even an Irish p,i tier when he goes to
n dance. leaves his stick behiud him.
Buffalo Courier.
Cincinnati has " Matrimonial Bsne.
I'll $ ,cieiy," which pays each member
Who marries 81 600.
M IN is surpas. ed by woman in that
he b g no feasible way of fastening his
hair on lis head Nat. Burbank.
Kissing q girl on the cheek is like
eating the skin of An orange and throw
ing the JUICY pulp away.-[Fulton
Times.
Maiden lady's quotation slightly
alte' ed from an old aphorism When
sincleuess is bliss tits folly TO he wives.
- Rome Sentinel.
There's an Impression abroad
said the irate pareut, az he kicked his
daughters young man out Of The house
Il New York Times.
The girl who WAS courted by a spruce
y.uDg lawyer sad sue liked to be pro.
t-cred by tue strong arm Of the law
Turner's FILLS Reporter.
The Nycum AdoertisDr says that what
40 W0usOu 40 al OAOOttAO sA6hv Voob VIDA
show to medical eyes the internal ma.
chinery Of the human body.
Ex Qleen Isabella rides out behind
mules, and the New Haven Reg, stcr
thougbttully remarks: She Is q re.
msrkable woman for q mother.iu-lsw."
The census giv's the Uaitel States
credit for only 713, 700 assas. That is
prima facie evidences of fraud in emu
merA'ion. 1t isn't half enough BIS.
ton Post.
A Miss ouri man with an ingrowing
nail chopped bis toe off. Tie remedy
never faiIs. For sale at all hard ware
stores. B-ware of mutations Norris
town Herald.
To the query of Danbury dentist
to an applicant for new set as TO what
| sort OF teeth she wanted, she said,
Something that won't show dirt. -
D.nbury News.
When that fast southern mail begins
to arrive GU time, some of our Texas
conten por4ries will be able to have I'LL
original EDITORIAL in every issue
Gaiveston News.
At the recent silver wedding of NJ.
and Mrs. Willard, in Washington. q
cake baked for the original bridal
twenty-five years ago, WAS served in al
excellent state of preservation.
The world is like skating park, nice
when You Can slide smoothly over its
| surface. but cruel and co!d to sit down
On when you get your feet knocked
from under you.-[Whitehsll Times.
Persons giving Christmas presents to
newspaper men, should rsmemt or that
the fashion is to give nothing worth
less than several thousand dollars
Anything costing less the editors can
buy themselves, or 81 without Der
| rick.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-03-25
An Alligator and u Mule.

Tim Morgan was owner and captain
OF th' Commercial E,nporium. hn
boat wlucA, in the spring OF 1868. draft
cd do%n the Mississippi and our agni NJ
the legte at DuncaDsby, where, wheu
the river went down, it and TIM "set
tied" Those were flush times. Cot
ton was worth twenty five cents u pound
whisky twenty five cents y drink
no questions asked or complaint.
made AZ to the quality of the latter.
Consequently, I'm prospered ami
bought, among many other things use
ful en- attractive, fine mule, which
quadruped he hired January Wash
iuglon, retired roustabout to
drive and care for. One night when
the Emporium was filled with motley
crowd, III which the colored element
predomiuated, greatly excited darkey
rushed mp to the door and exclaimed,
"Fore God. Mr.. Morgan, your mule
gwine to be 'stroyed up! jest seed de
biggest alligator dat ebber nude n trac
sneakin' up on him out in do paster.
"De ye moiud. now!' said Tim, "every
mothers son of We get guns and pistols
and we'll kill the bloodthirsty surpont.
The monster was soon surrounded and
fired into. The mule of course received
q few stray shot, and made haste to get
away from the seat of war, but the fast
or the mule fled the faster the alligator
followed, frequently jumping clear of
the ground, as il intent on leaping on
the mules back. After they had circled
round the field once, the alligator struck
stump and stopped still as death,
Whiia fhn MIA wont Qnnrfinn Qn1 m
voriing over the levee toward distant
cane brake. Then Tim and his squad
began furious assault upon the unre-
sisting monster with bsyonets, axes and
cane-knives. At this juncture January
Washington arrived with light, which
revealed TO the astonished crowd, not
Oil all-devouring alligator, but as
harmlessa chunk Of drift.wood as ever
floated down the Mississippi. Then
January thus addressed his fellow -citi-
zens: /" De Lord help SIGH gang O.
fools as you'ns. I'll git ole Hoodo
Mingo to bore you for de hollow head.
Don'tyou know dat used to be had to
iiptch dat mule from do cane brake
~SDery nornin'; scoce / got tired oh dat
i Kind OF rekeration, 80 now when night
Comes Jest ties de rascal's lariat to onr
Oh desc old chunks an he drags it rcu.,''
de pustur till mornin', but nelser goes
oher de levee.' BY way of letting him
self down easy, Timothy called out al
the top Of his voice: Show mo the
black healhen that bro't that dirty lie on
the boat and Ill make 'em wish an ALI
gator had swallowed him!'
There died at Now Philadelphia, o.,
recently, what was known as "the petri-
fled (ohsitiedD child" Its arms, legs,
neck and breast have been as hard Us
bone for more than a year past. and,
though treated by the best physicians
in the Suite, the strange disease would
not yield.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-03-25

AN APPRENTICESHIP PLAN.-A man.
ufacturer at Sprlug teld, Mass, has re.
vived the old apprenticeship system
upon new plan. The boys bind them
selves to serve six years, and are to re-
ceive tive cents an hour, at the be
ginning, which is advanced by degrees
to twelve cents at the end. Another
good feature of the plan is. that two
cents IN hour is placed to their credit,
thus providing about 500 for start
on his own account when his time ex-
pires. The employer is also secured in
retaining the service of the boy for the
full term. The boy is required to give
fifty eight hours week to work and
nine hours to study.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-03-25

The Boston Journal Of Commercs asks,
" 10 the electric light safer Oh, yes.
perfectly. Nobody 10 touching it
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-03-25

He who cannot keep his own secret
ought not 10 complain If another tells ii.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-03-25

Mean souls, like mean pictures, are
often found in good. looking framse.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-04-30
From Maj. Sykes.

COLUMBIA, Tenn, April %, 81.
Editor Standard AS you well know
| have been trying for the last seven
years to bring about a settlement of
our State debt upon the very best terms
that could be obtained for our people.
| have been at all times been willing
for any debt settlement that might be
agreed upon to be submitted to the peo-
pie in the only proper and constitution
al method.
But the question is now settled by
legislative enactment, and although not
in the manner and upon the terms l
desired, yet it is a final settlement, and
any attempt to disturb it can only re-
suit in expense and injury to the peo-
pie.
There are other measures of legisla-
ton to which we should now turn our
attention that will save us more than
the whole of our State and county
taxes. We can also devise ways and
means TO pay this debt which will in
reality be beneficial to our people. Let
US unite upon practical, live issues, and
not cling to the dead past l am glad
to say that even under this settlement
the taxation in Tennessee, including
State, county and municipal, is less
than in any State in the Union, either
NSth or south. Let us forget and for
give the past. elimination and recrimi-
nation can now do no good. This is
the only way to make the country pros.
per as it should. So far as l am con-
cerned l will never again discuss this
State debt question, for there is no use
in discussing a settled question. o
Yours truly,
WM. j. SYKES.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-04-30
Let There be no Division.

The STANDARD was perhaps the
first weekly paper in the State to raise
Its voice against the 1908 settlement.
The proposition was first published in
the American on Thursday, March 10,
and although our issue for March 18th
had been closed before receiving 1t, yet
we opened our columns long enough to
say this ave look upon this as
speculative proposition not without po-
litical significance, and Tennessee is in
no mood to be tantalized with such po-
litical legerdemain."
In the above language we meant by
political significance" that the 1908
was Republican measure which they,
as party, in what is regarded as le-
climate party tactics, intended to use
as twoedged sword for the division
and defeat of the Democratic party
dividing it with one edge if the bill
should pass, and keeping up the divis-
ion already made with the other edge
if no settlement should be made.
1t was strictly a Republican measure,
fathered by Gov. Hawkins in his mes
sage to the Legislature recommending
its adoption. 1t was not the choice of
any Democrat in the Legislature, al
though some voted for it because they
preferred it to no settlement at all.
Whatever credit or discredit attaches
to it justly belongs to the Republican
leaders. We say leaders because many,
if not a majority of the Republican
party were opposed to it,
While there was a hope of defeating
the measure the STANDARD gave no
uncertain sound in its opposition to it,
but now that which we opposed is the
law of the land, and as it cannot be re-
pealed nor defeated, we counsel acqui.
escence in the settlement, and urge
Democrats to stand together as one
man and hold the Republicans respnsi
BILE for it at the ballot box, defeat them
.on their own measure, and adopt a
financial policy that will relieve the
people of the burdens of taxation.
Some such policy as that proposed by
Maj. Sykes can be made to accomplish
Tins object, an outline of which we
published some two weeks ago, and
copy again ibis week in our columns
from The Nashville Banner and which
Is endorsed 10y that paper and the lead
ing papers of the State generally,
.rhflA name can show why if wi II moi
accomplish the purpose contemplated.
We again mrge the Democracy to ACT
unftedly in this matter and make the
best Of it.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-04-30
How Hhe Debt May be Settled
Nashville Banner.

Nashville Banner
70 those who believe the State is
ruined by the coupon feature of the
settlement ct the State debt we would
like to suggest plan that will meet all
the requirements of honesty and save
tae feelings as well as the credit of the
State. 1t will also make the payment
of interest as certain and secure as the
coupon feature of the present bill and
relieve the people from the so-called
odium of having sold themselves to the
bondholders. The plan is simple, prac-
teal and easy of accomplishment. 1t
is as follows:
Call a constitutional convention and
enact an ordinance issuing bonds in
number sufficient to pay off the debt,
entirely guaranteeing the punctual pay
ment of the interest. The debt for in
stance is SGT 900, 600. This, at 3 per
cent, will create an annual interest of
the amount of $4,000. Now $751;
100000 bonds at per cent. will pay
the same amount, or near y SO, near
enough to fulfill the necessities of the
debt. The market value on the 3 per
cent. bonds is 60 cents on the dollar.
Hence 60 per cent. of the bonds equals
in round numbers S16,000,000. Or
in other words, $4,000, 1000 will buy
up all the outstanding bonds at 60 per
cent, the selling price. Now then, if
this amount of bonds could be put on
the market at rate of 5 per cent. in
therest they will pay the same amount
of interest with the $27, 100000
Bonds drawing per cent. could be sold
in the State to our own people, pro-
vided the payment is provided for in
the constitution. This assumes the
bonds sold at 60 cents. But it may be
that the bonds will sell at 20 cents. In
such case the number of bonds would
have to be increased, or the rate of in.
terest raised. Or it might be possible
to place the bonds, with payment OF
interest assured, at 4 per cent. 1t is
highly probable that they could be,
United States bonds are eagerly sought
drawing 3 per cent, and certainly
Tennessee bonds drawing . per cent.
with interest punctually paid, should
cell as well. In such contingency
the sixteen millions would pay thu
debt all the same. and the interes
would amount only to S64O, 600, al
annual saving of $4,000, which
would make a very genteel sinking
fund to extinguish it in time.
Of course, unless the holders Of tht