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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-04-29
WHOLE NUMBER 1857.
CORN BEEF AND CABBAGE
A Dinner Fit for the Gods, In General
Grants Opinion,

An unpublished story oi Genera
Grant was told at the Grand racit,
Hotel, Chicago, by Paul Cores.
81 was stewart at the Palmcl
House." he said, "when the on presi
dent stopped there on his return from
the tour of the world. One noon
was all but stupeiied at seeing General
Grant slip in at tho kitchen door q.
though escaping from some one. : I
am sorry to trouble YOU he sail. s-
though asking great favor. but may
| nave little corned beef aud cab.
bageY"
"Why. certainly" replied" but
shall / not send it to you out In the
dining-room"
"No," he answered, "I'll eat IL right
here, if you let me sit down at tins
table"
So l cleared n place on q rough
board table where the cooks had lcen
fixing the meal, drew up stool and
the way he got away with the corn
beef and cabbage made my eyes bulge.
When he had finished he laid down
his knife and work with a funny mgh
OF satisfaction, put one hand on MY
shoulder and said: Young man.
suppose you don't care for that ut all,
but if you had TO eat what I have Tor
the past few months IL would taste
like dinner for the gods
He had dined with every one from
the queen down, and that cabbage In
my kitchen did him more good than
all the rest together"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-04-29
LITTLE BEN.
He May Decline to be q Candidate.

A late special from Philadelphia
says there will be no reconciliation be-
tween Senator Quay and President
Harrison, and, as result, Mr.. Harri-
son may eventually not be candidate
for denomination. A few days ago
Congressman Bingham, O'Neil and
Reyburn, accompanied by Postmaster
General Wanamaker, called upon the
President to urge him to forget the
past and to receive Quay. This was
with the idea that the Pennsylvania
Republican Convention, to be held on
April 30, would declare for Harrison
and TO assure him of the sixty-four
delegates from the State to Mime
apolis.
The surprise of the delegation was
great when the President turned to
Mr.. Wanamaker and said:
THE less you have to do with Mr..
Quay the better it will be for yourself.
He is not n fit man to associate with"
Then the President said that he was
not So certain about accepting the re-
nomination unless he was assured that
the party WAS harmonious, and that it
would stand together on all questions.
He said he saw here and there
evidences of dissatisfaction, and that
he preferred to stand aside rather than
to place himself in the power of Mr..
quay and some other men who had
attempted to dictate terms for re-
nomination. The President told the
congressman that he would not place
the patronage of Pennsylvania in
Quay's hands, because the men Quay
had recommended to him were no
better than himself and were not fit to
hold office. The President said that
II it depended upon Quay whether he
should get the Pennsylvania delega-
ton. then he would not get it.
Mr.. Wanamaker talked in his most
persuasive manner, but it was of no
avail, and the President warned the
Postmaster-General to keep away
from Quay.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-04-29
a UNIQUE PETITION.
Baby Mckee as Mediator for An
geles.
PORT Angeles Democrat.

or AbscitS DcHiOc1k1.
An interesting petition signed by
nearly $50 school children is now be-
ing conveyed to Washington by the
delegates selected by the Citizens As
sociation and the Port Angeles Board
uf Trade, in which is stated by the
children the hardships which thew,
with their parents and friends are now
being subjected TO on account of the
long delay of thcrgoyernnent's accept
ance Of the survey of this townsite.
The petition in a childish way-be-
ing composed by child-suggests the
relief which Baby Mckee can afford by
using his good offices with his
grandpa in their behalf and requesting
him to interccde with his influential
parsonage to secure an early accept
ance OF the field notes and appraise-
ment of the lots, that they may soon
know they have truely a home in
Angeles which they may call their
own, and that the cloud upon their
titles to the property they have fairly
earned may be removed forever.
There is but little doubt but that
little Baby Mckee will feel himself so
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-04-29

when his application would probably
be considered and determined. A
week or so later the American Minis
ter was surprised by visit from the
tall American, and beginning to as
sure his visitor that an interview with
the Emperor could not be obtained,
the American responded that he had
already seen the Emperor and had
just called in at the embassy for the
purpose of saying goodbye, as he was
on his way home. Mr.. Dallas was
dumfounded and inquired into the
particulars, when he found that the
man actually had, by sheer force of
brass, succeeded in passing the guards
at the palace and seeing the Emperor.
:" gave him present, too." "What
was it ?" inquired Mr.. Dallas. can
acorn from Mount Vernon from a tree
that grew over Washington's tomb.
The Emperor planted it in the garden
with his own hands. l followed him
out and saw him plant it." Strange
as the story was it was true, and the
oak now growing in the imperial gar
dens at Saint Petersburg sprung from
the acorn carried thither as a present
to the Emperor by the long, awkward
American.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-04-29

paifn much lsss concentrated than
ans sr have hal 1T least since 1876.
ten the vote of N,w Work state may
unt determine the r'-nlt whichever
uaf itWss There will be- fighting all
slung thr hue, and thr tiohtcr." will
receive attention in many other States
ie-Ils= in,liaus The whole country
- 90 lsr isiiticslly stirred ~ IL has not
tsto stirred luf many years. and there
vill he q campaign lor hlood" in
states Nnfih aud south. where for u
tintvn Nrats voting in "A Presidential
tnrtrsi has been mere iormaliiy
uli patty tioa w,ll h. broken and new
allentneuts wlll BE- msdc The politi
al hnfaseupe mus, lee rrcast for 1892
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-04-29
nsllRloua Tnlaration

ihe Re, nf stafford. a we'll known
Catholic priest aud thcologian. who
stands eluse tn Cardinal Gibbons,
made snmo femsfks about the policy
IT the Catholic Churrh in lecture
lately delivered before the Phmnix
'iuh in baltimore, the leading Jewish
sfrisl organization ~ the city. which
afs causing surprise and comment IN
religion. siFrlrs II l. not often" ne
satl. " the Catholic priest Is invited by
= n"n Catholic or non.ChTistian organ
lsatiuh o. lecture. lu the past II vas
untno in ouf day II l. rare. but
thank tlul q teticf spirit IL beginning
ln prevail Men ARE beginning Ia
uui ffsiand that they can adhere to
iboif respective religions aud profess
,hem without despising those who
d,nef irpm thcm We nhhor the
usstuv nin,lrdness ui those who
think that lu profess one religion
mau IL b. dsapi.e all who DO not pro-
isss u THIS new spirit is abroad in
,hs land. aud am sure all will agree
With we shon attribute this happy
condition rntitrl, to the enlightened
i.ali,s and htuad niiudrd churchman-
sh,p 81 90. distinguished prclatc who
pfrslsl"s utsi tbs. an,,.nt see. aud who
,udusus e- thr church throughout the
tnuutfA
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-04-29

lt u.I 20 lu-,meut TINS
O.. 100 battle-ground #
N.e N.f 'mm,ucut and Indiana
eI| .rHH .lt q uuuhrr oi otn"r
.I.. ...f .... o.. ,.ut,I a- doubt
e..N m.l,to'u, have hc,n
.t. rt.n,le .ur. n.r one .iLc
tf o.. E,puhh.u. must
.'s.I IHt .tsu.l,, Iu nll the II.
..f .t. u lNa. Muuc-nth and
N.#.m.. anI o. Will l' no chase
5000 f.iHe.e. "f tine p,mocrat- to
mst. q Iurti, 'h.rt g. carry those
states sud Nebraska
un ,H' "'l', h,ni thn Republicans
mat pt, iho aggressive IN the two
Ntf0nisus Nftau-a- Trnnncssrc ard
NHth 'u.itr, auj even p,rhap, IN
iae.ant \l1'pmt nui south Caro-
Htf HIfh ,hnn,'- met {" hr dIspiscd
tt.Hu. 30 ht-t fur ol them. Ia
iHHIslaHt mtti,f- are -o complicated
i tb it,..ut nrht over the governor
s..I ani co., hostility oi the McEncry
ant t..nf s.iiun- ot the prmocra,y
th' b. BE- lWu'--ihlr e. predict what
fH. .iuNIHu als mouth- m.ucr may
t. a. uuur. book now. Louisiana
zoe hfrilt o., ,lt-.,d ~ nn absolute
sHft iitui.,faiir state
tN.s. tu.pi,raiiun- point toacam-
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-04-29
It Was An Accident.

Il understand" remarked the po-
lite reporter to the close-mouthed
manager of a western railroad noted
for its poor time, "that there was an
accident on your road last night"
"Oh, do your" was the sarcastic
reply?"
Yes, sir"
"Do you know anything about it?"
"Only that it happened to the train
which was due here at 10"
"That train came in promptly on
time, sir" said the manager firmly.
care you sure of that?"
"Of course / am"
Thanks. That must have been
the accident referred to-" And the
reporter lodged out safely.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-04-29
Matters Of Interest.

There are said to be $4,000 lepers
in India.
The rarest thing in all Arizona, IL 10
said, is thunderstorm Sometimes
there is not one year.
The annual crop of English wnlnuls
in Southern California reaches q mil.
lion and half pounds.
1t is said that Denmark, small a. u
is among nations, consumes twice ~
much liquor as Germany.
The members Of the Yale corpora.
ton have voted to wear the academic
hat and gown at commencement.
Though Wales is deteriorating, aud
even the language is dying out, there
it a colony Of $1,000 welshmen In
London.
1t cost a Glasgow waxworks pro.
prietor one shilling per mile recently
to convey lion by rail from London
TO GLASGOW.
The lowest temperature ever regis.
tered by the thermometer in England
was at Kelso in 1879. when the mer.
curry fell to l6 below zero.
A Scotch Presbyterian church is en.
deavoring to save sinners by expclling
member who supplied the duchess
with milk from his dairy on Sunday.
The costliest pocket knife made /.
sold for $25. It's handle 10 Of solhI
gold and it contains two small blades
only-a nail file and a miniature pal,
OF scissors.
Forty-nine years after being wreck e,l
a schooner sunk off Cape May Inlet
has been rescued by the waves from
her bed of sand, and within q weel
will be foated. The sea does give an
its secrets after all.
DR.. Theodore Wolf, lately the STATE
Geologist of Ecuador. has made q
special study of the Andes OF thai
country, which he says are between
ten and twenty miles further ava,
from the Pacific Coast than most o
our recent maps show.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-04-29

. When this was told the Senator he
was angered. He Immediately began
to discuss with his fellow Senators the
availability OF Blaine as Presidential
candidate. and the boom in the inter.
est OF the Secretary last week is due
to Quay's work. The men who were
present at the interview with Presi-
dent Harrison say that, unless Quay,
Platt, Clarkson, and the rest are sclid
for him. Mr.. Harrison will decline
the nomination. Up to this time
Quay has refused to tell his most init
mate friends who is his Presidential
choice.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-04-29
Story Of An American Oak.

Concerning the American oak grow
ing in the imperial gardens at Saint
Petersburg, this story is told: When
Mr.. Dallas was in Saint Petersburg as
American Minister, he was one day
visited by tall, awkward American,
who, being requested to state his busi-
ness, Immediately stated that he want
ed to see the Emperor. He was as
sured that obtaining an interview
with the Empeior was no easy task,
but not being disposed to take a re-
fusal, he was requested to leave his
name and return in about fortnight,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-04-29

FOUR years ago Miss lena Woolarl,
living at Thorn Greek, sowed the seed
from one head of barley. She harvest
ed the crop with a pair Of shear. and
and sewed the amount received the
next year, again harvesting II with
her shears. The third crop her father
cut with grass scythe, and getting
enough barley from this crop To SOW
forty acres last Spring, which averaged
forty bushels TO the acre when
threshed, making a total yield OF L..
60O bushels from one head Of harley
in four years.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-04-29

AS tree fiourishes in proportion
to the richness of the soil, so the hui
man body thrives in accordance with
the quality o. its blood. Hence the
necessity OF keeping the vital fluid
rich and pure with Ayers Sarsaparilla,
the best blood medicine you can find.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-04-29
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-04-29

tltsEuAt iiost,H,Ns ha. taken
rains in crffrct iur the honcht of the
Ws.hingion P,,' thc curious proverb
concerning most desirable Wild fowl,
ltefythinr ,- iu,cly aud the goose
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-04-29

As cl,stuc ailvay from Spokane
g. rtuf 4 Alenr Lake j. talked of.
The LAX wuuld become summer re-
snh lot the citizens oi spokane.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-04-29

lh..' r.o-.I.r',,ou' point to Il cam
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-13

largely because he draws with both force
and grace, but largely, too, because ne Is
never afraid of strong, big contrasts Of color.
Too many drsughtsmen work as though
generally grayish tone were their aim, or,
in striving for sufficient contrast, cut their
work up into meaningless daubs Of white
and black. They don't make pictures-and
Mr. Gibson does.
As a chronicler of well-bred American
life, Mr.. Gibson stands easily first. No one
is 50 sure as he to make his young women
look like ladies and his young men like
manly gentlemen; and he has caught and
fixed the true air and spirit of the Gamer
ican girl" OF course, he has not caught
her in all her protean variations. The action
of different climates and the intermi1ture
Of different races have made as many types
Of American girls as of chrysanthemums.
But some of them Mr. Gibson understands
so well that I hope Mr.. Du Maurier will
subscribe to the paper Mr.. Gibson draws for
if he means to pursue an international path.
What he thinks of an American girl you
can see in Harper's Magazine for March. It
is what no American draughtsman would
think of her. But this girl is lady, and
while most American draughtsmen can get
the real type after a fashion, they can t draw
ladies as Mr.. Gibson does.
Whsre Gibson Should Study.
But Mr.. Gibson's young folk are far more
successful than their elders. They are vera
cious and individual The older men, and
especially the older women, are creatures of
convention. Mr.. Gibson, one fancies, has
subscribed too long to Punch. What he
needs now is to spend great deal of time
working in his head outside his studio. He
needs long course of opera and theater,
street and horse car, afternoon tea and sum-
mer hotel piazza.
Then he will give UP his very un-Ameri-
can bishops, his alien old maids, his exotic
dowagers, and draw real native types in
stead. Considered as a social type there is
no such thing as an American bishop. Pre-
latical rank impresses on one and
rarely transfgures personal countenance
and bearing. American matrons as a rule
don't dress their hair as Mr.. Gibson says,
and don't wear such sour expressions They
may be nervous and irritable-looking, or
sad and scared looking, or dull and mega
tive looking, but they are not pulled up
with small social prides or nourished on
mental vinegar. Nor are American old
maids so bird-like of aspect or so overtly
covetous of masculine attentions. But Mr..
Gibson is clever and skilful enough to
draw whatever he sees, and quite young
enough to learn to see hundred things that
he has not yet apprehended. Many of his
drawings were sold at prices ranging from
SIS to 800. M. G. VAN RENSSELAER,.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-13

ize us and say they are the finest things in
the world and declare it is lese majestic to
make pies out Of pumpkins. This fellow
does; he 10 as self-asserting as the big, ugly
admiral In Berlin, and remember no other
painted parsonage who il quite worthy to
keep them company.
1t is long step from bucolic majesty and
splendid color like this to the town-bred
triAes of an artist who illustrates the jests
of the day in black and white. But as yet
we can take very long steps in art and not
feel that we have gone outside the charmed
Enclosure. As yet, I say. As yet VIC are
allowed to be idealists or realists, classicists
or romancists, moralists or jokers, as our
mood may be. Indeed, we are allowed to
be all these things by turn, and nothing
very long.
Beauties in Pen and Ink.
But who knows how soon things may
change? We have been seriously informed
Of late that only one kind Of opera and one
kind of novel can be approved by rational
beings; and probably some schoolmaster
will soon be abroad in our galleries to de-
clare that the aim he approves in art is the
only possible right one. Meanwhile, however,
we could 60 with innocent hearts from Vollon
and Cazin to some 60 drawings in pen-and-
ink which Mr.. Dana Gibson had brought
together All had been previously repro
duced in New York paper. But hope
that sight of the originals taught people
who are not acquainted with artists a use
full lesson. Such people, when they see
what they call "a graceful little sketch in
paper, are apt to think that "sketching"
the foibles of ones neighbors must be quick
and easy and pleasing task - more like
play than genuine work. But now they
could learn that little cuts are reproduced
from large drawings, and that these draw
ings are not Sketches" but carefully con-
sldered pictures, over some of which the
artist must have labored long. Here, for in
stance, successful figure has been cut
away from unsuccessful surroundings and
pasted on a new paper preliminary to a new
effort, and there the major part Of the draw
ing had been satisfactory, but one or two
heads had not and SO other heads had been
neatly inserted in their places. These, of
course, were but the most visible signs of
that conscientious patience which all of Mr..
Gibson's work revealed to eyes that Know
what good drawing means.
Gibson Doesn't Fear Contrasts.
1t is difficult thing to compose large
group well, and most Of Mr.. Gibson's are
extremely we'll composed. They are full of
a variety which does not seem forced, but
appears to result naturally from the ex-
igencies of the subject Their chief figures
assert themselves as such, al
though they are brought into true pictorial
union with the accessory ones, and their
story is always clearly suggested. They are
strong and telling as arrangements of line,
and in the distribution of their main masses
of light and shade they are admirably con-
ceived for execution in pen-and-ink. If MI
pictures are always effective. it Is