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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-02-10
The Power Of the Press.

One OF the old-time editors of Micbi-
gan was boasting the other day that be
had never been sued for libel. or at
lacked IN his sanctum, but he could
recall many narrow escapes. Twenty.
h?e years ago he was running a red.
hot paper on the line of the Michigan
Central Railroad. A man named Car.
son, who was running fer some county
office. was given bad racket, and the
editor received a note that if he had
anything more to say he might expect
good pounding. He had still M ore
bitter attack the next week, and the
paper was hardly mailed before in
walked Carson, the candidate. &C.
companied by q brother and two
ceasIns. LAa feur wero strapping big
fellows, and each was armed with O
horsewhip. Tho two compositors and
the "devil got ont with all speed,
leaving the editor without support. lie
realized the situation at once, and be.
gan:
Walk in, gentlemen; 1 presume you
have come to horsewhip me?"
We have" they answered.
Very we'll. Have you thoroughly
considered the matter?'
1t doesn't need any consideration, >
replied Carson. You have lied abou,
me, and I'm going to lick you within
an inch of your life"
"Just SO. my friend. but first hes,
what | have to say. Did You ever heal
OF the press being stopped because the
editor was cowhided
- dunno"
Well, You never did. Lick all you
choose, and my paper comes out week
after week just tho same. The powe,
of the press is next to the lever that
moves tho universe. It makes O,
breaks parties. builds up or tears down
plants or destroys. Aggravate the ed
itor and the press becomes q sword to
wound and kill. Wollop me if you
will, but next week I'll come out more
bitter than ever"
There was an embarrassed silence
right here, and the face of each horse.
whipper had an anxious look.
1T will 60 out to the world-to
America. Canada, England, France
aye! clear to Jerusalem, that the Carson
family of this county live on roofs and
johnny cake; that they stole a dog
from q blind man; that they murdered
a peddler for pair Of two shilling sus.
penders; that the women are club
footed and the men work their ears
whom thoy sing; that the
"What is the regular subscription
price to the Herdd?' Interrupted Car.
son.
"Only twelve shillings year."
Put us four down"
Very we'll - six dollars-that's
correct. Run in and see me-all of
you, and if any of you want to see any
of my Detroit exchanges shall be only
too glad to serve you. Detroit Free
Press.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-02-10
Stay East, Young Man!

We have often called attention to the
waste lands and abandoned farms of
New England, as offering greater in
ducements to really wide-awake young
men. than DO the quarter-sections in
the new regions of the West. The
Taunton Gazette has some excellent
remarks on young mans taking an
eastern farm, from which we make the
following extract:
First. the farm which invites his at
tention lies upon well-built and we'll
travelled road; in fact, better road
than can be found in the horrible mud
dy country of the West.
Next. this farm is already fenced
with good, rough, stone wall, that is
easily kept in repair. and generally
deties cattle.
Thirdly, lot of good old apple-trees.
that for the simplest attention return
ample fruit.
Next, he has, or can have. we'll of
the best water ever drank, and in most
cases living spring or brook beauti-
fies the farm. AS another jnducement,
the roads, bridges. churches, school
houses and town-house are all built
and paid for, so that all taxes on them
are saved unless for repairs; hence
taxes in most rural towns are light,
And let it not be overlooked that he
has ready market for every vegetable,
apple, egg, or fowl, pig. horse or COW
he may raise, and that the land only
needs an ordinary outlay of culture to
make it remunerative, and millions of
acres can be bought for q sum that
would not equal by the acre the actual
cost for reducing government land to
a comfortable condition.
Any well-developed young man with
but little money, but chuck-full of
patience and energy, can avail himself
OF all the advantages to be derived
from small farm, and, by putting in
his time advantageously and skillfully,
in the line of improvements, cultivating
a few acres highly, setting ont fruit
trees. draining swamp-land, clearing
away movable rocks, rearing cattle,
sheep. swine and poultry, to which bees
may be added, can in twenty years lay
up more money or obtain more proper
ty than he can secure in double that
period by ordinary work in city, be-
sides enjoying good health and rustic
independence. But he must shut out
one lurking devil that always stands
ready to afllict all thrifty farmers-that
is spirit of low miserliness. This
appears in the common habit of skin
ming farm, neglecting needed i'm
provements, and investing the money
in stocks or putting it out at interest.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-02-10
WHOLE NO. 11O4.
A Dose of Medicine,

Probably you've had your little
wrestle With medicine. We have.
Usually. when we ere sick We feel in
duty bound to take The advice Of phy.
eician, in justice - our insurance COM
peny. and to do nothing that he advises
IN deference to our own taste. How
ever, we have to pay him ell the same,
and so at lcst we resolved we'd get our
moneys worth by doing what he
ordered. He gave us piece of paper
on which wss the diagram of the travels
OF fly suffering from horrible attack
OF delirium tremers-at least that is
what it looked like-and we took it to
the druggist. He looked at the thing
from all four directions, and with an
expression of dense ignorance that con-
vinced US that he didn't know what In
blazes the thing meant. This was very
resssuring. However, it occurred to
us that the man was no enemy Of ours.
and would take pains to see that what
ever he gave US was harmless, 10 We
resolved to see the thing through. He
evidently made up his mind what to
give us, when he started to go. and the
thought occurred to us to ssy:
MAKE it something that doesn't
taste bad"
He looked at us with profound con-
tempt, and said, -
"If you want this prescription put
up as written, you'll have to take the
taste that goes with it."
He was evidently bound to keep up
the pretense of knowing what that
diagram meant. We feared that We had
offended him, and said no more. He
began to mix. The first ingredient he
put in the bottle was particularly dis
agreeable looking yellow. The next
was colorless, but had 9 perfume as OF
q soap factory. Then came stuff of Q
scum-on.a-mud hole green, and various
other things that looked - though they
might make man wish he was sea-sick
so he'd feel comparatively we'll. Hav-
ing got the compound together. he gave
it to us. Our courage began to fail,
but we had resolved to zee the thing
through. We paid him and took the
stuff home. Then, having drawn the
cur''ins and shut the door 90 nobody
could see us, We proceeded to swallow
a dose. The druggist had charged us
S2.75 for the compound, and We had
thought the price exorbitant. Bat We
now scquit him of the extortion. We
had got our moneys worth. Such
este as that couldn't be furnished for
less.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-02-10
First Cousin to q Brass Foundry.

The man who travels on the railroad.
and sits dowa by the side OF lone f.
males while lsboring under the i'm.
preston that he recognizes Likeness
in their faces to his wife's ault's cousin
met his match on one of the roads in
this vicinity lately. He sat down in
the half Of q seat, the other half of
which was occupied by pleasant-faoed
young lady. His first question was:
"Pardon me, miss. but is your name
Jsnes9 I have cousin by that name
whom you greatly resemble"
"No. SIR was the reply; "my
name is not James. But pardon nae.
is your name Zinc or Copper2"
"Zino or Copper? No. ma'am," said
the astonisaed man. "Whst led ron
to suppose I had such names?"
Excuse me" was the quiet reply,
"but I thought certain you must be
first cousin to brass foundry.
The man fell over two seats and
kicked bird-cage halfway down the
Ger in bis haste to get to the smoker,
while the young lady smiled gentle
smile behind her handkerchief.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-02-10
Ocean Currents.

But the currents of the ocean influ
ence something besides the weather.
Upon them depends, to considerable
extent, whether a certain part of the
coast shall have one or another kind of
animals dwelling in the salt water.
This is not SO much true of the fishes
as it is of the mollusks or "shell fish" >"
the worms that live in the mud of the
tide-hats, the anemones, sea-urchins.
starfish and little clingirg people of the
wet rocks. and tho jelly fishes, great
and small, that swim about in the open
sea.
Nothing would injure most of these
"small fry more than change in the
water, making it a few degrees colder
or warmer than they have been accus-
toned to. Since the constant circuls-
ton OF the currents keeps the ocean
water in all parts almost as precisely of
the same density, and food seems about
as likely to abound in one district as
another, naturalists have concluded
that it is temperature which decides the
extent of coast or of sea-area where any
one kind of invertebrate animals will
be found; for beyond the too great
heat. or else the chill of the water, sets
wall as impassable as if of rock. 1t
thus happens that the small life of hot
Cuban waters is different from that of
our Carolina coast; and that, again,
largely separate from what you will sec
off New York; while Cape Cod seems to
run out as partition between the
shore-life south of it and very differ
ent set of shells, sand worms and SO
forth to the northward. This is not
strictly defined; many species lap over,
and q few are to be found the whole
length of our coast; yet Cape Hatteras
ends the northern range of many half
tropical species, and Cape Cod will not
let pass it dozens of kinds of animals
abundant from Massachusetts, Bav
northward.-- Wide Awake.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-02-10
Frightened.

A brave man may be pardoned for
trembling when he feels for the first
time the shock of an earthq make.
Nothing but nerves of steel and heart
of iron could resist the weakening effect
OF the novel sensation. The following
anecdote exhibits the courageous
"Stonewall " Jackson as frightened by
the throes of an earthquake:
I recollect asking Stonewall, says
Governor Jackson, of West Virginia,
who was my cousin, if he had ever
been frightened in war. He said yes;
once he had been considerably under
q sense of fear. 1t was in the City OF
Mexico.
A chest containing large sum of
money mad been put in Lieut.. Jackson's
charge, and to be perfectly secure of
it, he ordered it carried to his head-
quarters, in an old abbey or convent,
and lay down there alone in the room
with it to sleep, sentinel walking the
corridor outside.
He had been there in bed only few
minutes, and was getting drowsy,
when he distinctly heard something
under his bed, which lifted up US if a
man was secreted there.
Jackson said he leaped out of bed
and drew his sword ard examined the
bed and the room in vain. Jackson
then supposed he had been possibly
dreaming and resumed his bed.
Just as he was thinking it was all a
mistake, his bed lifted again, plainly
and with some force. lie started forth
q second time, sword in hand, and be.
hold! there was nothing there.
"This time." said he, {" 1 was scared
indeed, till my attention was called to
a shouting outside in the street, and
then I found that it was an earthqu quake
passing under the City of Mexico that
had lifted my bed up and given me such
apprehension"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-02-10
Utterance.
BY JOHN q. WHITTIER.

But what avail Inadequate words to touch
The innermost Of Truth Shall ESSAY.
Blinded and weak, to point and lead the
way,
Or grasp theme for angels overmuch O..
let II it be that something not my own.
some shadow Of The thought 10 which our
schemes
And crceds and rituals are uncertain dreams
Is even 10 my unworthiness made known
may not hide what yet scarcely dare
To utter, lest on doubtful lips f mine
The real seem false, the fitness less divine
SO through the pauses Of an inward prayer
! own the faith which seems the simple
truth
Mcvening time, as in the dawn of youth
christian Union
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-02-10

A CURIOUS CUsroM.-Monsieur x
l e'scovaire one curious custom In
your countree, madame.
Madame-What is that, Monsieur -
Kit ees zis: Ven . young ladies
she get-vot You cal, Unmarried, she
bag her game, I tink I hear you ssy.
M.-We sometimes so remark. Mon
sieur.
X.-And ven young ladee she tells
q young man she no hat heem, you say
she geef heem de sack?
M.-Qc;'e true. Monsieur.
A-NqYa madame. when I read in
ze dic-in ze dieshum-ze vat You call
est ?-I find. 70 sack and 70 bag are 20
same ting. So,s ,sAe lame, I find mo dat
1t is ze custom in zis countree ven .
young ladee she will marry she put 70
young man in re bag: and ven ze young
lsdee she will not mary, she make Of
ze beg present to 20 young man. Zis
il one curious custom I find in your
country, madame; and it mooch inter.
ests me.-[Oil City Derrick.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-02-10
Cookery and Digestion.

The Journal of Chemistry says that
cooking food does not merely improve
the food to the taste. 1t may be looked
on as preliminary digestion which
saves man a part of the work performed
by the more vigorous digestive power
of the lower animals.
Cooking, however, is not the eff
spring Of science, but it has come to MS
from the accumulated experience of the
race. Hence fruits are not generally
cooked, for experience has shown them
to be equally digestible whether cooked
or uncooked; and science now proves
that their value depends mainly on
their sugar, which is unaffected by
cooking.
The only animal food we cat raw is
the oyster; and science now tells us
that it contains within itself q bag of
fluid (diastase) which digests it as toon
as the teeth break the bag. 1t is thus
seIf-digestive. Bnt when boiled it
must be digested by our own stomachs,
like all animal food.
The popular practice had been to
boil eggs. but a notion for time pre-
vailed that they were much easier of
digestion raw. Silence now justifies
the old.time practice. finding that raw
albumen, of which the egg largely con-
sists, is very slowly acted on by the
digestive faids. while it Is rapidly and
entirely digested when cooked.
We cook meats, and science shows
that they are not simply softened and
Gsintegrated thereby. but changed into
geiatine, more digestable substance.
In cooking wheat and other farina-
ceous foods. the gluten is similarly
changed into substance much more
easily digested, while the starch is also
thereby freed from the envelope which
protects its grsrales from the &C tion of
the digestive fluids. Youths Com
panion.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-02-10

CURE-FoR SALT RHRUM. honev
applied on going to bed or whenever
practicable during the day is good
remedy. As salt rheum is disease of
the blood and cannot be cured unless
that fluid be cleansed the patient should
eat the honey freely as we'll a. apply it
to the surface.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-02-10
Reform the Fences,

Somebody has made q calculation
showing that the money invested in
fences in the United States amounts in
the aggregate to more than the national
debt. These fences, moreover, musI
be renewed on the average once in
every ten years. They are growing
more expensive with the scarcity ol
timber and the increasing demand TO,
lumber for more important purposes
Some substitute must be found, Wire
is extensively used, but there are seri
GUS objections to it in all its forms.
Why not adopt the Usage orange;
Properly treated. it makes an excellen,
hedge. When the plants are allowed
to grow up untrimmed they make
beautiful trees, and few of them, per
mittsd to shoot up at intervals in the
hedge. are very desirable both for shade
and ornament. With good attendanc.
hedge may be obtained in three O,
four years that will turn the LARGEST O,
the smallest stock. Better still. it will
turn men and boys. The lawless tres
passer will have a hard road to travel
when he has either to bolt through an
Usage hedge or run quarter of o mile
to find gate.
Nothing would 60 further to relieve
the farmer from this annoyance, which
in the neighborhood of towns is almos,
uncomfortable, than the general intro.
duotion of the hardy Usage hedge
The sportsmen, who are annually ure-
ing the Legislature to greater string.
ency in the laws for the preservation o,
game, may also probably consider how
much this cheap and simple expedieu,
would contribute to their object. The
hedge is the best friend of the bird
and the worst enemy of the trespaseer
and the pot hunter.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-02-10

To cover bad life and its fruit the
evil strive to divert attention from our
selves by laying evil at the door of the
innocent.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-02-10
Tho Flying Dutchman.

A name given by sailors to phantom
ship, supposed to cruise in storms of
the Cape of Good Hope. According to
tradition, Dutch captain, bound
homo from the Indies, with long g-con-
tinued head winds and heavy weather
off this cape, and refusing to put back
as he was advised to do, swore very
terrible oath that he would beat around
the Cape if it took until the day OF
judgment to accomplish the feat. He
was taken at his word, and doomed to
beat against Winds all his days. His
sails are believed to have become
threadbare, and the ships sides white
with age, and himself and crew reduced
aim ost 10 shadows. lie cannot heave
to or lower boat, but sometimes halls
vessels through his trumpet and re-
quests them to take letters home for
him. The superstition has its origin
in the looming or apparent suspension
in the air of some ship out of sight-a
phenomenon sometimes witnessed at
sea, and caused by unequal refraction
in the lower strata of the atmosphere.
FRENCH CHILDREN. i French chill
dren do not 60 about clamoring for the
best places and sulking if they do not
get them, and talking in rude, bolster
ous way. They do not take favors and
attentions as matter of course and un-
acknowledged. The slightest attention
shown them is acknowledged by the
sweetest kind of bow-not the dane
ing-master's bow, but genuine one
and the invariable Merci, Monsienr!"
or Madame, or Mademoiselle, as the
case may be.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-02-10

A title girl went timidly into q shop,
the other day, and asked . shopmau
how many shoestriRgs she could get for
q penny. "Kow long do You want
them2" he esked. 81 want them to
keep" WIS the answer. in . tone of
slight surprise.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-02-10

No better advice could be given to IN
aspirant than the terse little COUNSEL Of
bmerson: "If you want success, suc.
ceed."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-02-10
The True Wife.

Oftentimes l have secn tall ship
glide by against the tide US if drawn by
some invisible bowline, with hundred
strong arms pulling it. Her sails I'M
filled, her streamers dropping, she had
neither side wheel nor stern wheel;
still she moved on stately, in serene
triumph as with her own life. But
know that on the side of the ship,
hidden beneath the great bulk that
swan SO majestically, there wasa little
toilsome steam-tug, with heat of fire
and arms of iron, tuggiug it bravely
on; and know that if the little steam
tug untwined her arm and left the ship
it would wallow and roll about, and
drift hither and tbither, and 60 oil with
the refluent tide, no man knows whith-
er. And 80 l have known more than
one genius, high-decked, fulI-freighted
idle-sailed, gay-pennoned, but that fol
The bare. toiling arms, and brave, warm.
beating heart of the faithful little wife
that nestles close to him, so that nc
wind or wave could part them, he would
have gone down with the stream and
have been heard of no MORE Oliver
Wendell Holmes.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-02-10
An Error of Writers,

Some writer's. ambitious to be au-
thors, entertain The error OF thinking
that the editor can crafty their ambi-
ton. To such We commend these
words OF Charles Dickens to a CORE
epondent:
You make an absurd, though common
mistake in supposing that any human
creature can help you to he an au
thoress if you cannot become ono ir
virtue of your own powers. 1 know
nothing about impenetrable barrier, >
outsiders" AID charmed cir
cles."
know that any one who can write
what is suitable to the requirements Of
my own journal, for instance, is person
am heartily glad to discover, and dc
not very often find.
And believe this to be no rare case
in periodical literature. cannot under.
take to advise yon in the abstract, as !
number my unknown correspondents
by the hundred.
But if you offA anything to me for
insertion in Al tie Year Round, you
may be sure that it will be honestly
read. and that it will be judged by its
own merits and adaptability to those
pages. But am bound to add that l
do not regard successful fiction as a
thing to be achieved in "leisure mo-
ments."
A MYSTERY EXPLAINED. - Several
wagon loads of leather have
been dug out of the ground near Sand.
wich, Ont, and the people have no
recollection how it came there. The
mystery is easily explained. A railroad
restaurant once stood on the spot, and
what is supposed to bs leather is merely
the remains of thousands of ham sand
wiches, which passengers threw around
promiscuously after vainly endeavoring
to insert their teeth into them. Hence
the name of the adjacent town-Sand.
wich.-I Norristown Herald.
Two young swells we're making fun
of a good country curate. The abbe,
after standing it pretty we'll for while,
said: "allow me to say, gentlemen,
that am not precisely fop. nor alto
gether fool. but betwixt the two"
The young men departed.
Humility is the source of all true
greatness; pride is ever impatient
ready to be offended. He who thinks
nothing is due to him never thinks him
self i'll treated. True meekness is moi
mere temperament, for this is only soft
ness or weakness.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-02-10

The Sunday school was in debt, and
the superintendent got up an excursion
to wipe it out, and was successful. At
the next meeting Of the Sunday school
the superintendent congratulated the
scholars on what had been accomplished
" Now, children" said he, rubbing his
hands, "we are out of debt; what shall
we do?" "Get in againl" piped up a
shrill voice from a small boy on the
front seat.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-02-10

To RESTORE FADED HANa1NGs.-Beat
the dust out of them thoroughly and
afterwards brush them; then apply to
them strong Iather of CASTLE soap, by
means of hard brush; wash the lather
OIL with clear water and afterwards
wash them with alum water. When
dry, the colors will be restored in their
original freshness. When the colors
have faded beyond recovery, they may
be touched with q pencil dipped in
water colors of a suitable shade. mixed
with gum water.-IFurniture Gazette.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-02-10

The poison of sting from bee.
wasp or hornet may be almost instantly
neutralized by the application of a
little liquid ammonia, and it is said
that the poison and sting may be forced
ont by pressing the barrel of q small
key firmly for a minute over the wound.
No pain or swelling will result.