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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-07-28
Up in Il Balloon.

The speech lately delivered for as
.umed to have been delIvered) III
Congress by our Delegate, Mr..
B.ents, was evidently written by one
Of TIE $2U-sciibes, who iniest the
capital una pick up stray jobs. No
SO Bohemian could indulge in such
Il liquid flow of adj-c,ives as is con-
talued IN this brief extract:
Huge coniral mountain peaks htr"
the ycrIurc-clotatd range below INT" the
REGION OF eternal SHOW; crystal at i:art-
pour their ceascic>, i,.aniv to.rt.is nom
DIZZY heights; liinpiI water, wander
through grassy meadows. ripple through
NCrGant wOod-, or dash IL niadh' -
liz ou.h craSgcd mountain G"rScs; clear
lakes, burdered with perennial SIeen, and
Il thousand other enchanting sights greet
the eye, and charm the senses OF the lover
uf natures roinan:o.
The " limpld stream business,
dashiug i'll madness through cras-
gy mountain gorges, pnts one IN
mind Of the poetic flight of another
of Washingtons representative
statemen, who, while at the Nation.
al Capital, was called before Il
committee of Congress, to expe-
dite" some appropriation bill. Pos
sessing a Traditional knowledge OF
the effects of oratory upon the aver
age law-maker, and an exalted opin-
lou of tue reputation of the West for
forensic display, he felt the impor-
lance of the position he must for the
nonce assume. Placing himself in
the attitude of Henry Clay address
ing the Senate, he broke out in the
following rhapsody:
Gentlemen. come from the land of the
setting sun, where the snow-crested sen
tinels eternally raise their heads i'll yernai
splcndor."
Let US adjourn, out of respect to
the memory Of the hoary-headed SEN
tinels," suggested the Chairman, and
the remainder of the speech, owing
to this irrelevant interruption, was
lost to posterity. Whether the
House accorded our Delegate sim
liar mark of respect, is not recorded
We hav space but for one more
extract from this speech, which rivals
The Epicurean in folidity of Ian
guage and boldness of metaphor. l,
appears that some Senator had spo'
ken IN contempt of The perpetual
snow-banks OF Washington Terrific
ry." This was too much for oul
Walla Wallian Jove, who hurled
this mighty thunderbolt:
THAT Senator did not say, for doubtless
lie did not know, that these snow.bank.
only coronate our grand mountain giant,
which pierce the clouds. great Nature!
lightning rods, that ever serve to neutral
ize the electric currents and give us tina
pure healthful, ezoic air enjoyed else
where after maddened thunders have con
sumed the muggy poisons of the atmos
pierre"
1t is sincerely hoped that the dis
mayed Senator was enabled to oh
tain enough "ezoic" to restore hi
physical and mental equilibrium
While he has the sympathy of ever.
tender soul, the popular verdict vii
be, Served him right. A Senator
should have more sense than to foo
with an electric machine or the hin,
legs of mule.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-07-28

The shipments to Portland by the
steamship line average over 1000
tons per trip. As steamers arrives
at periods of five days, this would
give an aggregate by this line of over
$4,000 tons per month.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-07-28

-Four fishing boats were swamped
in q gale off the Columbia bar, last
Monday, and two men were drowned
The remainder managed to get ashore
on Sand Island.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-07-28

An exchange notes the fact that
during the past month twenty Pu-
get Sound boys and girls have gone to
California, to enter different schools
in that State. And it might have
added that not in a single instance
could these pupils have failed to
receive as ample instructions within
the Territory.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-07-28

THE pay of any contribution or
assessment for partisan uses by the
officers of the Government will be
cause for removal" said Daniel
Webster. But that was forty years
ago, and political morals have run
down at the heel a good deal since
then.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-07-28

The Northern Pacific south. abound
train was ditched, by running into
band of cattle, near Tenino, last
Tuesday, resulting in few hours
delay and a slight damage to the
cars.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-07-28

ABOUT Cows.-The census informs
us that there are 12,G11 ,14S COWS in
the United States. This shows
COW population equal to about one
fourth of the human population.
The estimated value of these cows
is 1923 TAG, GAG, or about S27 each.
The cows are not distributed among
the States with much regard to popu-
lation. In Iowa there are 635 900
cows, while in Louisiana, with about
the same number of voters, there are
only lis. 900. The average value of a
COW in the Southern States is only
SIG. In New England it is between
$50 and $32. California holds fair
rank among the great dairying
S ates, being the sixth in valuation
The States which have higher val
uation are New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Illinois and Iowa. Michigan
Indiana, Wisconsin and Kansas
have nearly the same number, but
their valuation is less. The number
in California is 4S7 Capitalization
$l6,051, 702.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-07-28

The EFFECTS OF MONOPOLY San
Francisco paper says: Last month,
it appears, the freight rates for hard.
ware and all manner OF iron goods
from New York to San Francisco
were advanced from $50 GO per
ton to s134 40 per ton. But those
shippers who will bind themselves
to send no goods round the Horn
(which is the only competing route,
the Pacific Mail company being paid
an annual subsidy by the railroads
to stand in" with them) are
charged but $50 per ton. The object
of this pretty arrangement is, of
course, to drive off the clipper ships
altogether. A few large firms, it
seems, are holding out against this
monstrous exaction, at what o sac
rifce is readily seen. When the
same kind of goods are brought here
by two firms, one Of which is taxed
$l34 40 per ton, and the other only
$50, it is obvious sooner or later the
former house must submit or break.
If they submit, the clipper ships,
which have already been forced to
surrender everything that the rail-
roads could wrest from them by prac.
tees similar to the one in question,
will be taken off the Horn route, and
then the railroads, utterly without
competition. can do entirely as they
please. What they will please to
do may be inferred from their method
of obtaining the power to do it. ALI
freight rates will be instantly ad-
vanced and the price of everything
that comes over the roads will jump
up out of reach from any lower stand
point than the summit of Mob Hill. B"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-07-28

IT appears that the prayers of
the righteous have prevailed, and
copious showers of rain have
quenched the fires and reiuvenated
the landscape.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-07-28

IT is thought that Carroll Brown,
of Napavine, who was accidentally
shot by his brother last week, will
recover.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-07-28

The most serious loss to the whole
community during the recent fire,
says the Palouse Gazette, was the re-
cords of the United States land
Office. Every single thing in the
shape of book, plat, blanks and re-
cords were entirely destroyed. The
loss was immediately teleS.aphed to
the Commissioner, ard he replied
under date of the 18th, saying that
blanks had already been shipped,
and that plats and records would be
started within two weeks. He in
structed the Register and Receiver to
establish themselves at some con-
venient place and proceed in the
most decreet manner to entertain
such business as they could safely
atterd to without records. The
officers have temporary quarters
with the clerk of the court in the
county building. 1t will probably
be two months before the full sup
ply of records, etc., can be replaced.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-07-28

A coMPosrToR in Seattle printing
office. a few days ago, set $4,000
ems in fifteen hours.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-07-28

Incline tUt lnlnrS oil lilcu TX 0tth 81
curity and repose in the absolute
power of an individual; and sooner
or later, the chief of some prevail
ing faction, more able or more tortu
nate than his competitors, turns TINS
disposition to the purposes OF his
own elevation on the ruins of public
liberty.
Without looking forward to an
extremity Of this kind, (Which, never
theless, ought not to be entirely out
of sight, the common AMI Continual
mischiefs Of the spirit of party are
sufficient to make it the intele>t ana
duty of wis., people to discourage
and restrain it.
at serves always to distract the
public councils, and eIteebie the
public administration 1t aSitates
the community with ill-founded
jealousies and false alarms; Aindles
the animosity of one part against
another, foments, occasionally, riot
and instruction. 1t opens the door
to foreign influence and corruption,
which find facilitated access to the
Government itself, through the
channels of party passion. Thus the
policy and the will of one country
are subjected to the policy AMI will
Of another.
"There is an opinion that parties,
in free countries, are useful checks
, upon the administration of the Gov
eminent, and serve to keep alive the
spirit of liberty. This, within GER
tain limits, is probably true; and in
Governments of a monarchical cast,
patri 3tism may look With Indulgence.
if not with favor. upon the spirit Of
party. But in those of the popular
character, in Governments purely
elective, it is a spirit not to be en-.
couraged. From their natural ten
dency, it is certain there will always
be enough of that spirit for every
salutary purpose. And there being
constant danger of excess, the effort
ought to be, by force of public opin-
ion, to mitigate and assuage it. A
fire not to be quenched. it demands
a uniform vigilance to prevent it.;
bursting into a fame, lest, instead
of warming, it should consume.
ain Offering to you, my country
men, these counsels of an old and
affectionate friend, I dare not hope
they will make the strong and last.
ing impression could wish; that
they will control the usual current
Of the passions, or prevent our ma.
ton from running the course which
has hitherto marked the destiny oil
nations; but if may even fatter
myself that they may be productive
ofsome partial benefit, some occa
sional good; that they may now and
then recnr to moderate the fury
of party spirit, to warn against the
!, mischiefs of foreign intrigues, t.
guard against the impostures o
pretended patriotism; this hope vii
be a full recompense for the solicitud,
, for your welfare by which they hav'
, been dictated"
But Washington was an {" ole
fogy," some may exclaim. If b,
q was, he was indeed a prophet as we'll.
Who of the present generation coult
, more faithfully outline the Danger
which threaten US as people than i,
done in the above quotation from
that immortal document the il" Fare
o we'll Address," delivered when tn
!, founder of the Republic, declining
= "third term" as Presid ent, retired
E to the peaceful shades of private lif'
. revered by everybody?.
oWksnlA
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-07-28

The town authorities again ask the
people to vote o special tax for fiIe
purposes, the former vote being void {.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-07-28

BRENTs believes, with the redoubt.
able Grant, that a third term is al
together admissible.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-07-28

The new schoolhouse under con-
tract at Seattle, is to cost $40. 800,
and will accommodate 600 pupils.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-07-28

An unknown man walked off the
wharf at Seattle, Tuesday morning,
about 8 o'clock, and was drowned.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-07-28

The OrCgopi0n affects great sur.
Prise that Senator Logln's admir-
able scheme" to make the whisky
tax available fer the supper: of COM
mon school. does not met With the
approval OF CONSCIENTIOUS temper
unce men. 1t says thai their OPP
ro-itiun is" Que of those singular III
stances Of narrow mindednesS some
lines resulting fIom an excess OF
ZEAL This is AL easy method OF
.iisposing of the mater, bot the fact
sill Remains that the Leaders Of tenn
perance rcforn are, 1T least, the
peers of the DiftlItiiG" Iii all the
mental qualifications necessary to
form an impartial and comprehen
aivc Judgment Oh this subject. Tins
Is quite we'll understood and the
course of that journal b. not in-
spired implicit confidence in:he falla-
bility of its opinions. 1t is only
necessary to refer to the inevltahi g
defeat of almost every project OF Il
local nature that it has advocated
whenever the people have been AT
forded an opportunity Of expressing
an opinion adverse to it, t. sub
stan,iate this assertion.
1t will require considerably more
than sophistry to convince observing
people that the custom of tipping Is
not influenced more directly by pop
ular sentiment than any other cause.
Wherever it is " fashionable and
"respectable,' there restraint is
removed from many whose barom-
e;er of morality responds to thc
most sensitive changes in social
ethics. 1t is only necessary to place
the evil in its trle J., Int before such
people for it to be stunned. This
fact being conceded, it requires ac
argument to show how the attach
ment of a good object to bad
cause, may result i'll an occasional
gulping down of the whole dose, for
the benefits expected. That the END
may justify the means, has passed
into u proverb, ard been the excuse
of many transsressions.
If whisky drinking is an evil-ant
nobody will dispute tiff it empo
ver,shes the individual in mind, body
and pocket, aud taxes the commun
ity for its support; ii it leads to
mental arrangement, transitcry oil
permanent, and frequently iucites t.
crime, then it is nuisance in thu
broadcast sense of the term, and III
stead of being sugar-coated, SHOULD
be suppressed, in the name of hu
mainly. There is no escaping thi
conclusion when the matter is sub
jectedto the crucial test.
, 1882-04-21
The Question OF Gloves.

Society insists that long, loose gloves
shall be "de rigeur." The fat woman
gets into them and has the satisfaction
of atfording infinite anus ement to those
who are not entirely lost to a sense OF
humor. Her arms look like twin bologna
sausages. Tho women with beauti.
full arms spoils one of the rarest of
charms. Women with thin, ugly arms alone
covers her self with more or less glory.
AS matter Of fact no two beings are
fashioned alike; many are fearfully and
wonderfully made, and hands and arms
are as distinctive as eyes and mouths.
There are women whose arms cannot
we'll bear more than six-buttoned gloves
even in ball dress. Why should they
injure their appearance by initiating an
actress who would be the first to rail at
such folly? Have they not taste enough
to Judge Of effect? Admitting taste, do
they not possess sufficient strength
of mind to have the courage of convic-
ton? The wearing of gloves, be they
four, or six, or twenty. buttoned, is scarce
ly subject upon which to wax ,,elo-
quent, yet this same apparently trivial
detail involves principle, the princi-
pie of individuality, or independence of
thought, or propriety in adornment.
There is no such thing as seAsless beauty.
There is always reason why beauty is
beauty, however ignorant the many
headed may be of the course of object
i've pleasure.
, 1882-04-21

HENS EGds TWELVE HUNDRED YEARS
OLD.-At st. Eloi, in the Faubourg st..
Antoine in France, nestful of eggs was
found under the ruins of the old palace
where King Dagobert lived. So they
knew that 1900 years before some hen
had stolen her nest, just as our hens do
nowadays, and had been disturbed, and
left the nest before the eggs had been sat
upon. The workmen who, in clearing
the ruins to build the old church that
still stands there, had found the nest,
were going to throw away the eggs, but
the Able Denis, who was then curate OF
the parish, remembering that wheat had
grown from grains that were found with
the mummies in Egyptian tombs, which
must have been 5000 years old, thought
there might be life in these old eggs. He
set them under one of his good, moth
erly old hens, and sure enough, in
twenty-one days she came off the nest
with fine brood of king Dagobert"
chickens, as they have ever since been
called. The breed has been carefully
kept ever since, and the Dagobert fowls
have so increased that the able of the
parish has organized sale Of king
Dagobert" eggs for the benefit of the
poor of his parish.
, 1882-04-21

"Who do you consider the best slight
of-hand performer in the United States, -
was asked Goldberg
John Goldberg" he promptly an
swered.
How about Hartz and Hermann and
Allen?"
Il consider them fair"
He thought $50 an excessive charge.
Mr.Allen was asked who he considered
the ablest slight of-hand performer in
the country.
He anwered: Edgar S. Allen"
"How about Hartz, and Goldberg and
HERMANN"
Fair"
This was the case.
Judge Kelly found for the defendant
Fearing, Hartz to pay the cost of the
action.
, 1882-04-21
PrestidIgltateurs In court.

His Honor Judge VIM. Kelly, the gen.
ial justice Of the 9th district court, and
who divides with another justice Fred q.
Gedney of the 9th district the bulk of
theatrical cases, had before him last week
very interesting case. The plaintiff
was Hartz, the prestidigitateur and the
defendent Mr.. Fearing the Wall street
banker. 1t appeared from the evidence
that Fearing had engaged Hartz to give
sleight.of-hand performance at his
house but had made no formal arrange
ment as to pay. Mr.. Hartz had given
his entertainment and sent Mr.. Fearing
bill for $50. This, the Wall street
man regarded as excessive, so he sent
him 800. Hartz brought suit for the
balance claimed $50.
1t was shown by his evidence that he
had often received as high as $50 for a
single evenings performance, but he
had frequently appeared 70. very much
less. On cross examination he was asked
if he had not been employed at Bunnell' s
Museum?
Yes" he responded.
"What salary did YOU receiver"
81 decline to answer"
Judge Kelley admitted the question.
"$200 month, responded Hartz.
For defence John Goldberg and Ed.
gar s. Allen, prestidigitateur were called
as experts.
, 1882-04-21
A WOman's Heart.

"Lemme see," said the old man, mus
| ing with his chin on the top of his cane,
and speaking in the shrill falsetto voice
of age. sit must be forty-seven years
since Anna Maria died, yet l. can remem-
Der the very gown she wore, and the
color of the long curls that hung down
over her shoulders, and the red on her
cheeks that was like winter apple |!
Dear me she's never faded mite in all
t. EN- years, but just sits there a.lookin'
at me as she did when brought her
home. You see, thele was kink OF re-
nance tew il: and / often and often
thought that i; I had the power and
could rite il orr it would read beauti-
fuller the 4 a novel. The fact was Ann
Maria had another beau, but that amt no
wonder. for she was the smallest and
prettiest and best girl in the hull coun-
try side: but what ] mean she had favor
ed him eve so lit e,afore come around
and began keepin' her comparJ. Folks
kind OF coupled their names together.
and some of 'em, to bother me, limited
that she cared heap for him. why,
you'd orter tew hev seen him. He was
slim and fine { 8 lady, o id wore galter
shoes, and had holler eyes es i he'd never
had quite enough to eaj. Ann Maria
care for him? Why, the girl had sense,
and knew the difference atween fellow
rs straight as q sapling with a color ike
new mahogany, and such q melancholy
looking specimen as that. Besides, L he'd
q mortgage on the old homestead, and
Ann Maria father owed me money, and
did right bv them. l told her ef she
married me I'd deed the whole thing
back to her, and I did. Well. we was
married, and we made as purity couple
as yol ever saw in your life. Ann Maria
had se.tin' out OF china and linen, and
1 provided tie house, and folks said L
had the best wife in the world, and I'd
got everything just as L wanted it. and
s'posed it would always be so; but from
the day we we're married my
wife failed in health and spirits,
and in six months / buried her
folks said it was consumption.
but it didn't run in the family. was
blind and full of pride then-but I've
thought since"-here the old man lowered
his voice-"that mebbe all he time she
loved that white faced chap as l de-
spised; a woman's heart, I've found out,
is q queer thing, and love goes where it
is sent; but if she did and married me
from a sense Of duty, why, all I've got
to say is I've been punished too, for /
loved her! Perhaps never felt it as
much as I did when L saw her lying
white and peaceful in her chintz gown,
with the violet on it and something
round her neck that never see before
little cheap locket with some hair in it
that wasn't mine.
"Then I mistrusted that her heart had
broke, and I said solemnly as l kissed
her goodbye, My dear, I'll never have
wife but you if live the four-score
year and tenr And never have, and 1
think mebbe she will see that l loved
her truly, and forgive nle at last"
, 1882-04-21

At a meeting of patriotic artisans in
London the other day, to protest against
the Channel tunnel, the Chairman in
his opening said: "Gentlemen, We are
here to protest against this Tunnel
Channel-I mean this Uhunnel Tannel;
| mean we are met to oppose this Tannel
Chunnel." Here this disabled orator
sat down. His confusion seems fairly
to represent British ideas on the subject.
More success in converting the Chi
nese TO Christianity has been achieved
in Salt Lake than anywhere else in this
country. The cause lies, according to
the conductor Of the work, in the use of
stirring Methodist hymns. Little is
done in the meetings except to sing. The
music, so unlike his own, enraptures the
Chinaman, and after that the conversion
is easy,
, 1882-04-21
Seeking InfOrmt:On.

The first passenders of the western.
bound train to finish breakfast were
coming out of the dining.room at Colfax
on the Central Pacific Railroad, One, a
young man from beyond Omaha, with
innocent blue eyes, and locking cheerful,
and as if he was full of questions, ap-
preached a man who was looking, in an
Indifferent sort of way, at the train and
passengers, and who was roughly dressed
and wore a shaggy beard. The young
man opened:
Live bout here?"
mot fur"
"Mining?"
"Ne."
SCOT rancho"
mo"
"Born in this country?"
"Mizoorer,
"Must follow something's"
"B'ar huntin'."
go! many bears in these mountains?"
"Good deal Of bar in the Sary Ne
vaidys."
"Grizzlies?"
"Grizzlies."
Like it?
"Yep."
"Resting?"
"Come in to get my hghtin' rods,
fixed"
"Lishtning-rods !"
"LlghtDin rods"
Have to protect your cabin !"
Myself"
"How?"
"Ligtnin'' 5 nifty bad in the tops o.
the Sarys. Bar hunters have to wear
lightnin' rods"
Wear them?"
"Yet. Been struck so of'en lately, my
rods got p'ints all wore off. Come in to
git EN- rep'inted. One wuz wearin'
ylstiddy got too blunt, an didn't take
lightnin' good. Got my pipe broke by
the lightnin, and boot-heels busted off. p"
Thunder! How do you stoop with
one on?"
"Got two hinges in 'em. One at the
bend nv the knees, an one above"
The bell rang. The young man rolled
on toward where the sun makes his
couch.-Exchange.
, 1882-04-21

A wealthy gentleman ut Forest City, in
Iowa, being somewhat skeptical as to the
amount of labor which minister would
be willing to do, offered to pay such cler-
gyman as would saw his wood for him
VI per hour for their services. He was
considerably astonished when nearly all
the ministers in town came marching
forward with saw and buck prepared
70 accept his terms. Some Of them have
9een working right along, four to six
hours per day, Sunday excepted, ever
since, and their grit will probably last
as long as the skeptic's wood. They
ave been paid promptly for their work.