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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-11-20
International Monopoly.

The cabled announcement that four
hundred German sugar manufacturers
are organizing a monopoly which will
cooperate with our own is thoroughly
in line with the logic of the system.
The monopoly movement began in
America under a high protective
tariff, and at first its only object was
to collect the benefits of the tariff by
abolishing home competition. Now,
however, trusts which have become
national by completely monopolizing
a given line of production in this
country will be forced by the logic of
the system to become international.
Up to this time the movements of
trade and the exchange of commodi-
ties have been regulated by treaty as
part of the sovereign functions of gov
ernment. But when the German
Sugar Trust joins that of the United
States the Russian manufacturers will
be forced into the combination, and
the trade of the world in one of its
greatest articles of consumption will
be controlled by two or three men.
That at least is what the sugar
monopolists hope. But six months.
enforcement of the American Anti
Trust law would make their hopes alb
surd.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-11-20
st. Louis Republic.

Rain is, as We all know, the mois.
ture of the atmosphere condensed
into drops large enough to fall with
perceptible velocity to the earth
The variation in the sizes of the drops
is dependent upon the difference in
the height from which they have
fallen and to the amount of atmos-
pheric disturbance present at the time
Falling from great heights, the drops
suffer gradual division into smaller and
smaller parts until they are at last
converted into mists. In calm
weather, with the clouds near the
earth's surface, the drops are apt to be
large and heavy. The formation OF
rain is in general continuation of an
enlargement of the processes by which
clouds and fogs are formed. The de-
position of moisture depends upon
the cooling of the atmosphere, but
concerning the precise process 10y
which the cooling is effected various
opinions are entertained even among
those who have made metcorology
n life study. i'll considering the
matter we have deduced our reckon
ings from what is considered the best
authority on the subject. From this
it appears that the temperature of a
given mass of warm air is lowered in
the ordinary course of atmospheric
phenomena by one of the other of the
processes mentioned in the follow
ing: BY radiation to the cold sky,
by radiation to the neighbor-
ing masses of clouds or the cold
ground, by mixture with cool air
or by the absorption of heat in the
expansion of ascending columns of
air. Whatever the process may be,
one thing is sure-the cooling must
take place before the moisture will
collect into drops of sufficient size to
cause them to fall from the mass Of
vapor in which the constituent parts
have been floating.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-11-20
Wedding Hints.

Only maids should wear white;
widows are to be dressed in gray or
mauve, and bonnet, too, is consid-
cred best form for widow.
1t has become very fashionable to
have odd days to be married on, such
as Monday or Saturday, an unheard-of
thing few years ago, when Wednes-
day or Thursday was the day invaria-
bly, chosen.
A very pretty fashion is to have
loose punches of the prevailing flower
fastened to the top of the pew's end in
the church; not every one, but at
careless intervals, and the effect is
very striking.
The bride-to-be, or some near friend
if she can't get through with so many,
writes a note of thanks for each gift,
the sooner the better, and it is usual
to introduce the groom's name in
some way and write them in the plural
number.
A very pretty idea is the one in
vogue for the last few years of having
the marriage certificate bound in white
kid, with q number of vacant pages
appended for each guest to sign his
name. 1t makes very interesting
thing to have and to hand down.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-11-20
What u Billion Means.


The following remarkable calcula-
ton on the length of time which it
would take person to count 1,0OO,-
100000 recently appeared in an issue
of an English periodical: What is n
billion? The reply is very simple. In
England billion is a million times a
million. This is quickly written and
quicker still pronounced. But no
man is able to count it. You will
count 160 or ITO a minute. But let
us suppose that you go up as high as
200 minute, hour after hour. At
that rate you would count 10000 an
hour; 2S8,OO0 a day, Or 105, 10000 in
year. Let us suppose now that
Adam, at the beginning of his exist
ence, had begun to count, had con-
tinued to do so and was counting still.
Had such thing been possible, he
would not yet have finished the task
of counting a billion! To count q
billion would require a person to
count 200 a minute for period of g.
512 years, 54S days, 5 hours and 90
minutes, providing he should count
continuously. But suppose we allow
the counter twelve hours daily for rest,
eating and sleeping. Then he would
need 1S,O25 years, 3l9 days, 10 hours
and As minutes in which to complete
the task.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-11-20

angles, dark hair and eyes, is alkali
and receptive, and will be sticking
pins into Cupid by marrying an angu-
lar brunette.
Mental qualifications should be con-
sidcrcd also. Solving the frequent
assertion that couple to be happy
should be fond of the same things.
Prof. Windsor explains that this fond
ness should be differently manifested
III each of the two individuals. An
actor, after Il year of matrimony with
an actress, will dream of correspond
entS. But an actress of elflike loyli-
ness may cuddle safely upon the
parchment bosom of her manager
husband. She admircs art for art
sake. He admircs art for the sake of
the box-otlicc.
The professor has verified his iudg-
mcnt of mems natural abilities. He
was almost lynchcd i'll Fort Worth,
Tex, for publicly warning an unknown
citizen to refrain from handling other
peoples money. The man proved to
be Il popular banker. A year later he
proved to bc also an unpopular en-
bezzler. BY representing such weak
points when young children and
youths may perfect their characters,
The memory is partly physical and
can be strengtl:enedby improving the
digestion. Thus he who is met, but
not seen by the hcircss he loves may
take comfort, crying aloud, {" In sooth,
the maid doth love me still. But
marry, hath she not supped on buck
wheat cakcs?"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-11-20

Kenesaw, Lexington, Chelsea, Glouces-
ter, Germantown, Allegheny, New
London and Tacoma. The names OF
American towns on our navy list, new
and old, now include Annapolis,
Atlanta, Baltimore, Bennington, Bos-
ton, Brooklyn, Castinc, Charleston,
Chicago, Cincinnati, Columbia, Con-
cord, Detroit, Essex, Hartford, Helena,
jamestown, Lancaster, Machias, Mar
blehead, Marietta, Minneapolis,
Monterey, Montgomery, Nahant, Nam
tucket, Nashville. Newark, Newport,
New York, Olympia, Omaha, Pensacola,
Philadelphia, Portsmouth, Princeton,
Raleigh, Richmond, st. Louis, San
Francisco, Saratoga, Vicksburg,
Wheeling, Wilmington and Yorktown.
These show wide distribution, and
for the new ships have some gifts
showing the appreciation of the conf
munities thus honored. This list
might also be supplemented by other
towns, were it not that rivers and
mountains and so on appear in such
cases TO be the real source of the
name
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-11-20
An Enterprlsing Thief.

"The most enterprising thief 1 ever
heard of was one whom I was ap-
pointed by the court TO Defend" said
Henry w. Joy, prominent st. Louis
lawyer. "a wealthy man died, and as
fine coffin was obtained as money
could buy. There was some very
heavy solid silver plate on it. As the
hearse moved off well dressed, bus
iness-like looking man was seen to
enter it, carrying sack as if of tools.
Every man who noticed him at all
supposed he was an assistant of the
undertaken. Just before the process
sion reached the cemetery the man
emerged from the hearsc and went
ahead, disappearing at the gate. When
the coffin was removed all of the trap
pings were gone, and the young man
was not to be found. He melted the
silver and sold it, and had not it been
for pal betraying him he would
never have been caught"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-11-20

New York Ledger.

1t has been proved by abundant in
vestigation that one prolific source of
epidemic diseases is found in the
liability of the germs Of such diseases
to lodge in the mouth around the
teeth and gums. A physician OK
amined the teeth of the children of q
certain school. He found disease
germs present in almost every case.
By careful watching he discovered
that those children whose teeth were
kept cleanest suffered less from epi-
demic diseases. The neglected con-
dition of the teeth is, therefore, a COM
mon cause of illness. Indeed, if one
takes the trouble to observe with what
rapidity the tartar and cheesy matter
accumulate around the teeth of peo-
pie who are out of health they will
not be long in making up their minds
that thorough and judicious use OF
the toothbrush is not very far from a
means of grace.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-11-20
Gold Production Doubles.

The Director of the Mint declares
that his estimate of $220,OOO,OOO as
the worlds gold production for this
year is conservative one, but if the
production shall reach that figure it
will break the record.
The worlds production last year
reached $203, 0,OOO-the largest ever
known up to that time. The produc-
ton for 1890 was $11S,OO0,OOO, while
the average annual production for the
ten years preceding was only slightly
over $lOOOOO,OO0 ($1,O59,OOO,OOO for
the decade).
If the Mint Directors figures are
within bounds-and there seems to be
no reason to challenge them-the
years production will be more than
double the annual average of the last
decade. The increase is certainly phe-
nomenal.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-11-20

A gold ring that is supposed to
have spent nearly two years in a cows
stomach was sent the other day to
its owner, young lady of Home
stead. Two years ago the young lady
was visiting on a dairy farm near
here and while in the barn picked up
kitten and tossed it in pile of
chop and bran. With the kitten
went gold ring from her finger,
which could not be found, and was
given up and finally forgotten. Sew
eral days ago Edward Jones, a Suter-
vile butcher, bought a cow from
Frank Hough, the dairyman, and
when the cow was killed the ring,
with the young lady's name engraved
on it, was found in its stomach.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-11-20
WHOLE NUMBER 1914.
One ON Mckinley.

A correspondent of the st. Louis
Republic relates the following:
"Old Joe Walker, of Massachusetts,,
who will probably be chairman of the
committee on banking and currency
in the next House of Representatives,
while cordial admirer of the political
economic principles of Major McKin-
ley, is not a personal devotee of the
Ohio statesman. In 1890, while the
Mckinley tariff bill was under consid-
ergtion, it was the custom of Mckin-
ley to take charge of the measure in
the House during the day and permit
Burrows or Dingley to look after it at
night. The night sessions were prin-
cipally invoked for the purpose of CIV
ing ambitious statesmen an opportu-
nifty to make speeches. Mckinley
lived at the Ebbitt House, which is
adjacent to the Republics Washington
Bureau. One morning as I emerged
from my Office to 60 to the capitol I
encountered Major Mckinley on the
sidewalk on his way to the capitol, too.
We boarded the grip car together for
the purpose of enjoying a smoke, and
half way down the avenue Joe Walker
boarded the car, took a seat in front of
Mckinley and myself. Walker faced
around and addressed the future Pres
ident:
"Major," said he, al am sorry you
were not at the House last night. /
know you were tired out and needed
rest, and that very little can be said
on the question of the tariff that you
are not familiar with. Still, 1 flatter
myself that made a speech last night
that threw some light on the question,
and that l think you would have been
glad to have heard"
Mckinley, with all his righteousness
responded:
~ am indeed sorry, Mr.. Walker,
that did not go to the House last
night. If l had the least idea you
were going to speak nothing could
have kept me away. You made a
great speech. 1 read every word of it
in the Record this morning, and there's
not speech that has been made dur
ing the session that 1 enjoyed so much
or that so completely conformed with
my views"
"What" said Walker sharply, "you
read it in the Record this morning?
Damn it, man, it was not printed in
the Record. 1t won't be printed for
two weeks yet"
laughed outright. McKinley's face
got ashen, while Walkers countenance
became red with rage. After that the
relations of the two men were not cor
dial.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-11-20
Duties of Citizen MS hin,

"The thing We have the most to
fear" writes DR.. Parkhurst in an arti-
Gle on The Young Man as q Citizen
in the Ladies' Home Journal, is not
the depravity and the criminality that
are rampant, but the decency that is
languid and the respectability that is
indifferent, and that will go junketing
when the State is on the edge of cri-
sis or go fishing on day when the
city is having its destiny determined
for it at the polls. Would that there
could be some legislative enactment
by which every reputable traitor OF
the sort could be denaturalized and
branded with some stigma of civic
outlawry that should extinguish him
as an American and cancel his kim
ship with Columbus, Fourth of July
and MY Country, 'Tis of Thee
Il speak with full assurance when
say, for instance, in regard to the city
of New York, that there is no single
moral issue capable of being raised in
regard to its administration where the
great preponderance of sentiment
would not be found to be on the side
OF honesty as against corruption, pro-
vided only that sentiment were suffi-
ciently resolute and alert to come for
ward and declare itself. The purpose
of a campaign under such circum-
stances is not to convince people of
what is right, but to stimulate to the
point of action those who are already
convinced"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-11-20
M'KINLEY AS A COOK.
His Fellow Soldiers Kicked at the
Grub He Gave Them.

Speaking of Mckinley" remarked
voyager from Kansas, "did any of
you fellows ever hear that he used to
be a cook?"
"No," responded the chorus.
"Well, he was," retorted Kansas.
"That's straight. He was once a
cook and he got $13 a month";"
What are you giving us?" asked
u quiet young student from Columbia
College who had been out in the
copper mines at Butte, whereupon
there was a hearty laugh, and several
irrelevant suggestions were offered,
when the Kansan resumed:
There's n fellow of the name OF
Wagner in our town who claims that
VIM. Mckinley used to cook for him,
and that he was the worst cook he
ever ate after. His biscuits were as
heavy as lead and his coffee was like
the water of the Missouri river-all
water and no taste. He could fry
bacon pretty well, Wagner says, but
anybody can fry bacon. All you've
got to do is to put it in the skillet and
turn it over now and then"
"Where was this cooking" asked
the Pawtucket man. "They were
camping out, weren't they?"
dyes; down in West Virginia dur
ing the war. Wagner was member
of the Twenty-third Ohio infantry,
which was McKinley's regiment, and
belonged to company X. Mckinley
was detailed as company cook, and the
men kicked so hard that they got him
promoted to Commissary Sergeant, so
that he had to hustle for the grub
while some one else cooked it,
William, E Curtis in Chicago Record.
On the proposition that everybody
must be fit for some vocation, the
number in which success is possible is
increased by enumeration of those for
which one shows especial inaptitude.
Grant, if will be remembered, was a
complete failure in all business pur-
suits, and this probably enabled him
to concentrate his mental force on
ending the war-after Secretary STAN
ton had concluded that it might be
terminated under his command with
out detriment to the Republican
party.
1t is matter of congratulation to
the people that Mckinley cannot bake
hot rolls and make clear coffee,
although he may know something
about the "frying" process-he has
that much more brains to uphold the
policy of Protection with which his
name is inseparably connected from
the blunder Speaker Reed made in
making him Chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee having the
tariff bill in charge. All he had to
do with that measure was "to put it
in the skillet and turn it over occa-
sionally-but it made him President,
with the aid of Mark Hanna's "try-
kettle"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-11-20
A New Telephone.

A Russian electrician named Kills
chewsky has perfected telephone
which practically disregards distance.
AT a recent test between Moscow and
Rostof, $50 miles, talking, singing
and instrumental music at one end of
the line were distinctly heard at the
other. An experiment is to be made
by land wires and Atlantic cables in
talking between London and New
York.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-11-20

OF these twenty cities Mr.. Cleveland
carried fifteen, several of them by
large pluralities. 1t will be interest
ing to compare these results with
those of the late election.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-11-20

WHILE playing "craps" at the Star
saloon gambling table at Colfax, Tues
day night, an old man who has been
about town for some time, and who
went by the name of Eugene Jacques,
fell dead over the table as he was
throwing the dice. The cause is at
tributed to heart disease.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-11-20
How the Cities Voted I'm 1899.

In the Presidential election four
years ago twenty OF the largest cities
III the Union voted as follows:
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-11-20
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Business (ar'l}.
You Win be Satisfied 49,,

BY giving us just one trial, that no
better IL cent meal can be had in
the State of Washington than is
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ltabso.
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