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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-03

u"u abroad a- o. the simplicity oi m-
mpuuof. t,ttaiulv such AN incident
'- tho Distinguished Governor Morn.
az uimat' and MrhN esteemed
iu'ud OF ih, ir,-rd,ut. winning a
Niu' 'upr,r T., dntug 60 -ay tn Wash.
lurt"n VI, dear r,uor.l ana glad
=" see ,"u l""kiug So w,ll. and alter
ward drohtug that the lnok Wash
inRt"u had r,,n him Wl- such that
~ human mduo'mcnt could tempt
I" tnA' q like hh'ttv again. could not
ht," happened under Jefferson hut
leil'f.pu 'rl,hfltcd rdr uu horse.
back 10 hi~ inauguration was the re-
suit "i ma accident H. had pur
chased coach and four Tor the ccrc-
mouy. but u ,hd not arrive in time
n"-llcs thus. What man might do IN
the capital ~ It Wa ih that day-n
raw. struggling uupaycd village. re-
scmhlinr hickwouds clcarlug-was
very different from what the same
would III "a Philadelphia, New York
or Williamsburg
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-03
Patriotism Under Difficulties
Detroit Free Press.

Detroit Free Press.
A long, lonesome man, who was
most all nose and linen duster, and
who had no doubt been inspired by
that fluid which biteth like serpent,
called crowd around him at the foot
of Woodward avenue yesterday and
began:
Fellow patriots-To-morrow is
the glorious Fourth of July. Let
your banner wave Let the welkin
ring with your shouts OF victory
The naughty British government
attempted to-
Hold on there !" shouted one of
the crowd. Don't say a word agin
the English, or off goes your headw
"Well, then, a certain European
government put its foot
"Name your govp shouted a sec.
ond man. "Don,t throw no slurs on
Francew
"Und eef he mean Shermany can
lick him." added a third.
"Very we'll, let us skip that. This
government declared its independ
ence and on hundred battlefield.
shed its precious blood to-
"There weren't fifty fights in the
whole revolutionary war;" shouted .
man.
All right reduce my figures, then
At Bunker Hill the proud tyrant wa,
hurried to the dust amid the victorio,
cheers of the colonists."
"Not much called voice. "W,
fought 'em at Bunker Hill, but los
the day"
"Well, mebbe we did," continued
the orator, but turn to the pictur,
of Washington at Valley Forge. Ii
rags. poorly armed freezing in th.
wintry blasts, our gallant army me
and defeated four times their number.
What whooper !" shouted half .
dozen men in chorus. "There wa
no battle at Valley Forge"
There wasn't?"
"No, sir"
Every we'll. l cease. l quit.
subside. 1t is evident that oratorv !
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-03
SA WBoNES VS.. SHYLOCKs.
The Doctors Want q Chance at the
Anatomy Of tho Winners.

The following challenge is published
in the Tacoma News in behalf of the
Doctors Baseball Club, which has or.
ganized with DIR. G. C. Warner as Cap.
tain:
To the Lawyers and Rankers' Base.
ball Clubs.
We, tie undersigned baseball club,
representing the regulars of this city
desire to administer a purgative to
the victors in Saturdays game OF base
ball. We desire to vivisect you and
make of the erstwhile green diamond
one mammoth anatomical chart. We
want, with characteristic modesty, to
asphyxiate you and cram your cranium
into your esophagus, your bronchial
tubes into your viscera, and by the
same simple surgical operation to
grasp your os cocys and turn you in.
side out. When we get through
with you (the winners) there won't
be enough of your skeleton to articu.
late. In other words, we want to lick
you fair and square at a game of ball,
you to name the date and place of the
operation. Very respectfully and
modestly yours,
The DoCToRs' B. B. GLIB.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-03
DIR. CLARKE'S FEAT.
His Ascent to the Top Of the Spire
Of Salisbury's Great Cathedral.

During one OF his vacations DIR,
James freeman Clarke, in his youth
iul days, performed feat that well
deserves To be recorded, saws the Buf-
ialo Idr,riiSsr. When he told his
friends aitcrward it terrified them, and
1t l. no commonplace thing to read
about now. Here is the extraordinary
tale. Il, Dr. T.. f.. Hale, the editor of
the NDt"tfS, sets il down:
The spire of Salisbury cathedral is
little more than 400 feet high. With
some friends Mr.. Clarke ascended as
lar as the interior staircase goes to
what is called the weather door, about
thirty feet from the extreme top of the
splrc. The others were then satisfied
with what they had done. but he went
ont and climbed up the remaining
part Of the spire by iron handles fixed
in the walls. these having been ar
ranged for the convenience of work
men who have to attend to the vane,
and Of hardy visitors.
When he arrived at the highest of
these he found bar above him, run
ming around the spire, which he could
reach with his hands. BY this he
lifted himself to the level of the ball,
and, rs most versions of this antecdOte
say, stood on top of the ball, with
such support as the lightning rod
could give him, surveying the scene.
" He then returned to the support
ing rod and dropped himself. expect
ing to find the friendly bolt by which
he had ascended. But it was not
there, and he reflected, too late, that
he had not observed on which side of
the spirc it was. Then and there he
had, so to speak, to work around the
spire, hanging ny his hands; and
having unfortunately chosen the least
favorable direction, he nearly COM
pleted the circuit before he found I'M
der his feet the bolt, which was to be
the first step in his retreat"
When DIR. Clarke told this story
to his classmates more than q genera
ton after the event occurred, "old
friends OF his found they could not
sleep that night in their terror for
what might have happened" In his
letter to friends at home he merely
said at the time of the thrilling incl
dent: IL went to the very top and
stood 10y the vane. iO) feet above the
ground"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-03
DEATH STALKS AT HER SIDE.
An Invalid Whose Presence Seems to
Kill Doctors.

New YORK. June IA remarkable
series OF fatalities has followed the treat
mcnt of the woman suffering from ca.
tarrh by the physicians OF the Manhat-
tan Eye and Ear hospital, 103 Park av-
enuc. Upon three different occasions
the woman has placed herself under
the care of physicians of the hospital
II she should ever present herself again
she will be referred TO some other in.
stitution, as not one of the hospital
surgeons would be willing to do any.
thing for her. Opposite her name in
the hospital register have been written
the words, in bold hand: "The fatal
patient"
II was n couple of years ago when
she first called at the hospital, Cabinet
ID, where nose and throat diseases are
treated The cabinet was at that time
under the charge of DIR. johnson, who
died almost Immediately afterward.
THE SECOND VICTIM.
The next occupant OF the cabinet
was DR.. Pond. The "fatal patient"
did not call for some months after the
death of the physician who had origi-
nally attended her.
She finally did call, and DR.. Ponds
death quickly ensued. For year and
half she kept away from the ear and
eye hospital. but at length, as her old
complaint was beginning to bother her
again, she called last Wednesday. To
a gentleman she first saw in the build
ing she remarked that she thought
probably the doctors might hesitate
about treating her, in view OF the fate
of the two who had undertaken to al
le,iate her troubles. She was again
referred to cabinet ID, where DIR. David
Phillips had succeeded DIR. Pond.
DIR. Phillips was about 80 years of age
His ability in diagnosis was marked,
and whenever II complicated case came
up in the hospital he was invariably
consulted. After seeing the "fatal pa.
tent for the first time, Wednesday
DR. Phillips went to his home, 13l East
Eighty-sixth street. In the evening
he dined out and then made some pro-
fessional visits. Upon his return home
he complained that he was feeling i'll.
DID NOT GET UP.
lie did not get up the next morning
and his mother, vino saw him lying or
the bed, thought that long sleep would
do him good.
About noon an effort was made tf
rouse him, but he was then cold in
death. A physician was summoned
who declared that Dr. Phillips had dice
some hours before Of heart failure.
Dr. NJ. ID. Lederman, of 1929 Parl
avenue, who has taken DIR. Phillips
place in the cabinet at the hospital, EN-
phatically declares that he will neve
attempt to treat the "fatal patient"
Have believers in fatalism ever hear,
OF a more curious case than this to bea
out their theories?
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-03
TWO WRATHY WIVES.
Comparison Of Notes Showed How
They Had Been Imposed Upon.

There was a moments silence afte
the Introduction. Womanlike, eacl
was mentally "sizing the other up
Then one OF them spoke.
"My husband frequently speaks O
you," she said.
Indeed" returned the other
"My husband thinks you are wonder
fully clever"
Really, why that's the way my hus
band talks about you. He told me
that you reshaped and recovered tha,
old parasol, and so saved $S."
"Parasol! Why, 1 never touched i,
until my husband had harped all one
day on your cleverness in upholstenng
and refining baby carriage at saving
of &c."
Nonsense. The thing that made
me do that was the way my husband
talked about that parasol. Then he
got me to fixing over a last years hat
because you we're working over an old
DRESS"
But never started to do that un-
til my husband had told me five times
about your hat. 1 wasn't going to ad.
nit that you could be any more eco.
nOmical than l."
"Why, really, my dear madam, l
heard of that dress twenty-four hours
before l touched the hat"
impossible, L"
Then she stopped and her eyes began
to flash.
81 believe our husbands" she be-
gan again.
81 believe they have" chimed in the
other, becoming excited also.
"It's a wicked shamew
"An outrage! They've just tricked
us; that's alp
at was a regular plot! And to
think how he's made me work! I'll
get Lew gown to-day"
"And 1 a hat"
Then two women went into dry
goods store and spent all the money
they could scrape together, says the
Chicago Tribune. And two men got
mighty little for supper that night, and
when they complained, they were
promptly convinced that they ought to
have said nothing.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-03
GENESIS FIFTY-oNE."
A Biblical Forgery Which Has P az
z.ed Scholars For 500 Years.

For the past 800 years the follow
ing so-called Genesis Fifty-one" has
been a puzzle to biblical scholars, and
to-day, were it read aloud in any mixed
company, it is questionable, says the
st. Louis Republic, if it's fraudulent na-
ture would be discovered, so beauti-
full is the spirit and language OF the
Old Testament initiated. Below we
give this unique fraud full:
|. Aud it came to psss after these
things that Abraham sat in the door
of his tent about the going down of
the sun.
2. And behold man bowed with
age, came from the way of the wilder
ness, leaning on a staff.
3. And Abraham arose and met
him and said unto him, Turn in,
pray thee, and wash thy feet, and
tarry all night, and thou shalt arise
early on the morrow and so thy way.
4. But the man said, Nay, for l
will abide under this tree.
5. And Abraham pressed him
greatly, SO he turned and they went
into the tent; and Abraham broke
unleavened bread and they did eat.
8. And when Abraham saw that
the man blessed not God, he said unto
him, wherefore dost thou not wor-
ship the Most High God, creator Of
heaven and earth.
Z. And the man answered and
said, l do not worship the God thou
speakest of neither do I call upon
His name, for have made to myself
God which abideth always in my
house and provideth me with all
things.
s. And Abraham's anger kindled
against that man for what he had said,
and he arose and drove him forth
with blows into the wilderness.
9. And at midnight God called
upon Abraham, saying, Abraham,
where is the stranger that came by
the way of thy tent at the going down
of the sun?
10. And Abraham answered aad
said, Lord, he would not worship
thee, neither would he call upon Thy
name; therefore / have driven him
out from before my face into the
wilderness.
ii. And God said, have not borne
with him these hundred and ninety
and eight years, and nourished him
and clothed him, Notwithstanding he
has rebelled against Me? Couldst
thou not, thee thy self being sinner,
bear with him one night?
IL. And Abraham said, let not the
anger of my Lord wax against His SER
want. Lo l have sinned, forgive me
l pray of Thee.
13. And Abraham arose and went
forth into the wilderness, and sought
diligently for the man until he had
found him, and returned with him to
the tent, and when he had entertained
him kindly he sent him away on the
morrow with many gifts.
IA. And God spake again unto
Abraham, saying, for this thy sin
against the stranger, thy seed shall
be afflicted 400 years in a strange land.
Is. But, for thy repentance, will /
deliver them, and they shalt come
forth with power and with gladness of
heart.
The author of this pseudo.biblical
curiosity is unknown. 1t has been
traced back over 100 years to Il Persian
poet, who simply says ait was so re-
lated to me-"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-03
Up In Nonentities

Mrs Hinge ua the carriage. anxious
w. wonder where we can be We
passed Adams and Jefferson streets
long ago. Lets see. they are all named
after the Presidents" Mr.. Bingo--
" Look out quick. dear, and see what
name there is on the next lamp post.
Mrs Bingu (pecring OUT" Dear, dear
there isn't any name "n it. II il per
icctly blank Mr.. Bingo (-inking
checrlully back into the carriagc)-
Then IL must bc Harrison street.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-03

Il would have been little more mil!
itary and modest if Colonel J. G.
Haines, in command OF the militia ai
Seattle. had waited for orders from
Governor Ferry instead Of telegraphine
for permission to take his troops TO Gil
man. The Governors reply. that he
would await an application from the
proper authorities Lc.rre he ordered
out the militia, was a Just rebuke
When one attempts TO pay the dual
role Of fcorporation attorney and militia
colonel, he is apt to confuse his iden.
tity.-Oregonian.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-03
Drawing for Q Full.

One of the sights seen at Atlantic
City yesterday was q sweet, pretty,
dainty, delicate-looking little thing, and
she sat under the trees sucking up an
iced liquid through o straw. She
looked nice.
"What are you doing, Issbel'" g
companion asked.
Drawing for full" she answered
lifting her starry eyes to his.
The beverage was declared 70 me, by
an expert observer, to be q gin fzz.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-03

THOSE who think that the flea on the
tail of the dog OF the wild man of Bor-
neo has applied for pension will be
astOnished to learn that it is only the
wife OF the son of cousin of the Pres.
ident's grandfather who is after it and
expects to eat it.-Er.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-03

TnE Twentieth ANNUAL Reunion OF
Oregon rioncer- will hc held at AS
totia on the llth. l2th. aud 18th of
MAY, 1872. that being the time Sc
lected for the centennial celebration of
the discovery Of the Columbia river.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-03

IMPROVED FURNITURE PoLIsH.-
The composition is as follows: Beer
waste beer, cold tea. or vinegar. as
parts" methylated spirit or finish, 80
parts; dragons blood, l part; gum
benzoin, 3parts; linseed oil, 16 parts.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-03

The Episcopal conyocation, in ses-
sion at seattle. yesterday decided to
take steps 10 advance Washington in
20 separate diocese.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-03

CITIZENS of Blaine are confident that
coal, petroleum and gas will eventualy y
be struck in their neighborhood.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-03

A FEATURE of the Fourth Of July pa
rade in Seattle will be uniform rank
Knights of Pythias, mounted on horses
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-03
Three Revolutions.

The Dutch revolution of the Six
zenith century, the British revolution
of the Seventeenth century and the
American revolution of the Eighteenth
century were three logically connect
ed stages in the evolution OF liberty
Their history forms three social chap.
ters in the literature of freedom. II
is not at all surprising, therefore, that
there should be q marked similarity
in the language of the three people in
declaring their rights, similarity
sufficient to enable the critics o
Thomas Jefferson to say that he had
plagiarized from the declaration o.
the United Provinces of the Neither
lands and the declaration of rights by
tn, British Wings of l689-90. The
parallel between these declarations j.
indeed instructive; they all sum up in
one principle; the natural rights O
men to choose their form of govern
ment.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-03

WHATcoM quarry owners offer TO fur.
nish stone free for the Washington
State building at the Chicago Worlds
Fair.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-03

ST. PAUL women have begun an
anti-Sunday theater crusade.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-03

an unknown quantity in this town,
and that patriotism is dead. Who'll
treat to the lemonade ?"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-03
The DoCToRs' B. B. CLUB.

Allen C. Mason, of Tacoma, has just
received the bill OF lading for his Egyp-
tisn mummy which will arrive in Port
land next week on the steamer Batacic,
via China. His mummyship is $500
years old and was the best specimen OF
the royal dynasty which governed
Egypt 1000 years ago, that Mr.. Mason
could find while there on his recent
tour around the world. 1t cost him
1925 in Cairo, being the most expensive
mummy in the market, and including
freight will represent an outlay of $3.50
when it reaches Tacoma. 1t will be
the second real mummy ever brought
to the Pacific coast. Mr.. Mason has
given Mr.. w. P. Hopper, his book-keep-
er, the privilege of exhibiting the
mummy at some central place during
the summer for the benefit OF the Ma
son chapel in the North end, the pro-
ceeds to be applied toward liquidating
the church's indebtedness.
AT New York, on June 18th, a Bap-
tist Ministerial conference virtually
adopted the theory that there are
errors in the bible. Prof. VIM. X.
Harper, Of Yale, who is President
elect of the new Baptist university
founded at Chicago by John d. Rocke-
feller, delivered an address before the
conference, in which he claimed there
were many errors in points OF science
and history in the bible. But he
held that these errors may be admit.
ted and be allowed without surrender
ing the belief in the inspiration and
infallibility of the bible in matters OF
faith and practice. His remarks were
received with applause by the minis
ters present.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-03

Three lads escaped from the reform
school at Chehalis yesterday. One was
soon captured. The two still at large
are named Charles Shelton and Frank
Woodage. A reward of $50 is offered
for their capture and return.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-10-09
they were at the height of their success and
prosperity.
Vermont Good Enough for Them.

Mr.. Victor |. Spear, of the State Board
of Agriculture is in receipt of many letters
from people who used to live in the old
Green Mountain State and who wish that
they were back here now. A man in
Illinois writes:
There is no State like Vermont to be born
In and it is the wish of my life to get back
there before die. II | enigrate again it will
be to live there"
A resident of North Dakota, in writing
for n phamphlet says:
II am thinking of going to the Eastern
States to find mo n home. Dakota may be all
right, but for me it is too far from marke ts
want n home in a country whore there Is
plenty of timber, good water and near good
markets. Here in Dakota there is no market
for anything but wheat"
The steady and rapid growth in popula-
ton, making an ever increasing demand on
the food supply, is sure to make farming
more and more profitable in New England,
| as well as in the West. The time is already
past when Vermonters can wisely go West
| and become farmers. The great cities,
| however, will doubtless continue to attract
many Vermont young men to whom farm
ing is distasteful.
| Another influence, beside the growth OF
population, which is sure to mako farming
in New England more and more profitable
is the better knowledge of what crops will
sell, and how to raise the more profitably
Scientific farming is some day to be the
rule, rather than the exception.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-10-09
Albert Z. Jones.

ters ~ cents pound; mutton chops, u cents
Spring lamb hind qrs. y cents, fore qtrs l2 cents
lamb chops, % cents. Beef best cuts, West
ern. for porter house quoted at %
cents pound; sirloin % cents round ut Is cents
beef. to cents pound. Vermont beef IS
quoted at 10 to 10 cents pound Hams, sugar cured,
cents Califonis hams l. to $'t een'sa pound; smoked
led pigs' feet i2s cents pokei lambs tongues are II
cents per pound. Corn beef is to l24 cents Pork
roast Is 10 to 10 cents pound, steak IS cents; salt
pork ~ pound; lard Il cents;
roast veal is Is to ~ veal steak 1920 cents
blood sausage - pound. Boston sausage is cts.
German bologna sausage, lels TO IS cents; Albany
sausage, Is cents headcneess. Is cents. Geese
rs to Is cents pound; turkeys, IS to 20
cents. Fowls, sto % cts, Spring chickens % to q
cents per pound.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-10-09
Good Results of Secretary Proctor's
Work


Secretary Of War Proctor has received
numerous compliments in relation to the
exective ability and wisdom which have
characterized his administration of the war
department and the report of Surgeon Cen
era Sutherland furnishes still further evil
dence in this direction. According to this
report an aggrsgate.reduction of over $780,
600 will be made in the estimates Of appro-
priations for this bureau alone for the next
fiscal year. This is of itself an excellent
| showing and we hope that the opposition
press will not overlook this fact in their
sweeping condemnation of verything that
| pertains to the present republican admins
tration.
The various improvements which have
been instituted in the medical department
have also been found to work well. One of
these is peculiarly interesting. 1t was a
happy thought that soldiers in the regular
army might have many scars even in time
Of peace and SO new system of Identified
ton of deserters based on records of perma-
nent marks and scars was instituted Good
results have already followed this innova-
ton, but it can be readily seen how this
method might prove much moro effective in
a time of war.
When Secretary Proctor relinqushes the
control of the war portfolio to his successor
it will be of no little interest to the public
to see a summary of the reforms which
| Nermonts distinguished son has been able
to effect in the war department even in
these piping times OF peace.