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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-25
Invention Even In Burgllng.

An enterprising burglar in Brook
lyn claims that he will soon revolu-
tionize the present methods of burg
larry by the use of an acid for melt
ing glass which he has recently dis
covered. The inventor, w. Williams,
is unable to profit by his discovery
because he is at present serving a
term in the Kings County Peniten-
tiary.
He is animated by the true scientific
spirit, however, and has given out this
valuable information for the assist
ance of his fellow craftsmen. The
methods of his new burglar are ex-
ceedingly simply. The burglar of the
future, equipped with Williams
preparation, will, he says, be able to
stand in front of jewelry store in
broad daylight and break through the
window without much danger of at
tracing attention.
1t is only necessary to make an im-
preston on the glass with a small
drill and apply the acid.
Williams claims that he has melted
quarter-inch thick glass in this way in
twelve minutes. The acid may be
held in rubber flask, and can readily
be carried about in ones pocket.
Expert Kuntz, at Tiffany's said OF
the reputed discovery: "Acids which
will melt glass have been in common
use for years. This fellow probably
refers to hydrofluoric acid, which has
some of the properties he claims for it.
1t is used extensively i'll etching on
glass, and 1t is applied in about the
same way that Williams describes
The action of the acid is comparatively
slow, and it is not likely to prove q
very dangerous weapon in the hands
| OF burglars"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-25
Japanese Toilets.

One of the principal charms of the
graceful Japanese women undoubtedly
lies in their toilets, to which they give
special care-nOt that toilet which
through one of the most senseless
changes of the new Japan has been
introduced from our old western world
into the farof land of the rising sun
but that which the Japanese women
have been accustomed to wear from
prehistoric times even to the present
day. In Japan, fortunately toilets are
not so dependent on the freak of
princesses as in certain other countries.
There no one has ever heard of crino-
line, puff sleeves and culs de Paris
The center of gravity of elegant cos
TUNES does not shift downward or
forward with every year and every
season. The Japanese women wear
no hats covered with stuffed birds and
other barbarities, as do those Of
Tahiti; they do not bore holes in their
ear lobes to weight them with heavy
jewelry like the-negresses; they do
not cramp their feet in stiff, narrow
shoes like the-Chinese. And as to
! the device of steel and whalebone, with
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-25

There is apparently no end to the
uses to which paper can be put in
this age of utilization and invention.
Paper buckets startled the old-fash-
ioned housewives. Then paper car
wheels did as much for the mechan-
icians. Paper hosiery more recently
gave the haberdashiery market a
shiver of apprehension and revived
the thrills that ran through society
when paper collars obtained a vogue.
The latest addition to the repertoire,
so to speak, of this irrepressible ma
terial is the making of telegraph and
telephone poles. Such poles are in
the market and are reported to be
staunch and reliable, resisting all
weathers and safely bearing their
burdens for economical periods. There
is a gleam of hope in this announce.
ment for public that has long suf.
fered from the sight of ugly, crooked
poles standing at all angles and hold
ing up their weight of wires so wearily
as to inspire feelings OF pity as well as
fear in those beholding them. If poles
must disfigure the landscape they
should be as unobjectionable as posi-.
BILE, and perhaps these paper poles
supply long-felt want. But their
introduction will not lessen the gen.
eral demand that all the poles should
be taken down and the wires they
now carry buried in conduits. Per.
haps some inventive genius may yet
discover that paper conduits can be
made to stand the tests of service be.
meath the ground. But whether oi
paper or terra Gotta or any other ma.
terial, the conduits will be had and
ultimately no city that keeps pace
with the times will permit a yard o.
electric wire to encounter the air.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-25
HOUSEHOLD HINTS,

Preserving Rhubarb.-This is done
in the same manner as for strawberries,
and is very nice for meats in winter.
Three-fourths of a pound of sugar to
one of rhubarb is sufficient. Rhubarb
jelly is made same as strawberry jell.
Currant Meat Sauce.-Take three
pounds of currants, pick over and
stem, and two pounds of raisins,
seeded; four oranges chopped fine,
and four pounds of granulated sugar,
and cook all this mixture together for
twenty minutes. After it commences
to boil, seal it up in glass jars for win
ter use. 1t is nice served with meat or
poultry.
Cream Tartar Biscuit.-Two cups of
flour, pinch of salt, half teaspoonful
of soda and one teaspoonful OF cream
of tartar sifted together, and mix we'll
through the dry flour; one tablespoon
full of lard chopped in, add one cup of
milk mix soft; then turn out ON the
board and roll and cut; bake in hot
oven. Do not work the dough with
the hands, only enough to thoroughly
mix. The result is light and delicious
biscuits.
Strawberry Preserves. - Make a
sirup of one pound of sugar to one Of
fluid; boil sirup until thick; add the
large firm Strawberries and let them
simmer for twenty minutes, or until
the sirup it rich and clear and thick !;
fill the glass jar full OF fruit first, or
nearly full, then fill the jar with the
thick sirup. This recipe has been we'll
tested. They will keep for years and
are delicious. Do not preserve but
three quarts of fruit at one cooking
this is the secret of doing them nicely.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-25
FIGHT FOR A BIRDH0USE.
Flycatchers Diven Out by Bluebirds
Wrens the Final VictOrs.


zone spring." said lover OF birds
there came to the birdhouse in my
! garden a pair of great crested fly
catchers. l had a dozen birdhouseS
scattered around. This particular one
was about a foot square, with a peaked
roof and Il chimney at each end, a
doorway for the birds to so in and out
and q couple of auger holes bored
through the back to give the house
light and air.
"This birdhouse, the summer be-
fore, had been occupied by pair of
bluebird., who had left their nest be-
hind them. This nest the great crested
fiycatchers pulled apart and threw
out of the house, every twig and straw.
They cleaned the house out completely
and they brought in everything new and
built a nest of their own and settled
down comfortably for the summer.
"But in few days pair of blue
birds came along, and they made for
this house. 1t might have been the
same identical pair of bluebirds that
occupied it the summer before. l
don't know about that, though have
no doubt that robins and other birds
that have been south for the winter,
hundreds of miles away, do come back
in the spring to the same places and
to the same trees. Anyhow this pair
OF bluebirds wanted that birdhouse,
and they were ready to fight for it,
and that is what they did. The fly
catcher is a nice little bird and a pretty
plucky sort of a fighter, but not
match for the bluebrd. They had
grand round up inside the house, and
finally the bluebirds pitched the fly.
catchers out, and later they pitched
out every stick of furniture that the
hycatchers had brought in, cleaned
the house out entirely and then
brought in fresh material and built
new nest according to their own ideas,
and they settled down for the summer.
"Well, few days after that a pair
OF wrens came along, and they took a
fancy to that particular birdhouse,
too, and they sailed right in and
tackled the bluebirds on the spot.
You couldn't zee the fight from the
ground, but every now and then you
could see straw or feather shoot
out of the front door of the house.
The bluebird is good, sound fighter.
but the wren is better one, and the
upshot was that the wrens fairly put
the bluebirds out and took possession
of the birdhouse themselves. And
then the wrens did just what the
others had done. They pitched out
every scrap of stuff in the birdhouse-
just tumbled it out of the door, to fall
on the grOund-and then they brought
in new stuff and built nest for them
selves.
Nobody molested the wrens. They
staid there and raised their young there,
and in the fall they all flew away and
left the birdhouse again deserted for
the winter"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-25
MONEY IN THE MOUTH.
Dangerous as Well az Dirty
Habit to Put Coins Between the

Dangerous as Well az q Dirty
Lips.
"Did you notice that?" asked DR..
j.. j. Clark, of San Francisco, to q re.
porter, as they were riding on Sutter
street car.
What he drew attention to was a
Chinese passenger, who, when asked
for his fare, took a nickel from the
interior of his left ear and gave it to
the conductor.
alt was with a view of drawing
your attention to a dangerous prac.
tice that I asked you to look at that
Chinaman," said the doctor, and then
he nudged me to look in the direction
of well-dressed lady who had mo-
ment before taken her seat and was
fumbling in her purse for her fare.
She found the coin she was in search
of and placed it between her lips
while she closed her purse, and then
taking the coin from her mouth held
it in her hand until it was called for.
al suppose you saw that lady place
that that coin between her lips?" said
the doctor.
"Yes, what of that? l have seen
that done hundred times"
"Did it ever occur to you that the
practice is dangerous one and the
source of more disease than many
people imagine? Does that lady know
where the coin was before she placed
it in her mouth? May it not have
been in the ear of her Chinese laun-
dryman or cook, or may it not have
been in the pocket of some individual
afflicted with a contagious disease?
If it was in the ear of an individual
who had an affection of that organ the
microbes of the disease would cling to
the coin"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-25
ELKINS TELLS THE TRUTH.
Telephone -itegister.

Senator Elkins was interviewed the
other day in Cincinnati by the En-
quirer. Said he:
Wages must 60 down."
"Wage earners do not see or believe
it, but it So"
wages in America stand against
any revival of business"
And there you have it.
The whole of the Republican CAM
paign is embraced in Senator Elkins'
words.
The great fight was made for no
purpose, for no other result, although
the truth was not told then as it is
now.
Republican orators who promised
prosperity now talk like Senator
Elkins.
Republican magazines are attempt
ing to impress the people with the fact
that these are normal times.
Coils P. Huntington says prosperity
will come when America makes use oi
the cheap labor of Asia.
And these are American citizens
who swallow every utterance of these
men and parrot like argue for them.
Prior to the late election the goldite
newspapers filled their columns with
illustrations of the importance to the
wage Garner of maintaining &" the 100
cent dollar of the gold standard
Orators grew frantic in describing the
beauties of wages of high purchasing
power. 1t was contended on the Other
hand by the silver men that wage
earners must suffer from steadily
decreasing industrial activity under
the gold standard; that opportunity
for employment must become scarcel
and wages lower, and that the pleas o.
the goldites were fallacious. 1t il
invitable that the apparent fall in
prices, which is really an advance ir
money, will effect the wage-earner a'
it effects the farmer. The wage-earnel
has labor to sell and the farmer ol
manufacturer or real estate owner ha:
produce or goods or property to sell
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-25

Labor, produce, goods and property
are all measured against money and
when money is becoming scarce or
dcarer those who have them to sell
Will receive a constantly lessening
amount of money for them. Debts are
the only things that do not fall. Be-
cause it takes more labor or goods or
property of any kind to procure money
1t takes more of them to pay debts.
Hence the only persons who derive
profit from the gold standard and an
appreciating dollar own debts and
fixed annuities that call for the pay
ment of a certain number of dollars,
and OF those who own debts and fixed
there are few in the United
States who really profit from an appre-
ciating dollar. Though they may gain
on one side they lose on the other.
Many of them are debtors as we'll as
creditors. Nearly all are interested in
sustaining business activity, enterprise
and prosperity as against stagnation,
the idleness of the money and hard
times. When money is rising no one
will buy property, produce or labor,
for property is going down, labor is
going down, while money lying in the
strong box is going up. Hence when
Senator Elkins says: "Wages must
go down, wage-earners do not see it
or believe it, but is so. Wages in
American stand against any revival of
business" he is telling wage-earners
The gospel truth about the gold stand
lrd.
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-25
A Short Hour.

"Say, Mister, that clock of yourn is
out of order." said the passenger in
the corner of the street car as the
cash register rang twice recording the
fares of a couple that had got on at
the corner. The passenger who spoke
had the appearance of having lately
arrived from some place not accus-
toned to rapid transit.
"That so?" said the conductor,
smiling and winking at the rest of us.
"What makes you think sop
"Well,' resumed the speaker, "just
after came in it struck one, and now
it struck two, an l amt been here
more'n five minutes myself"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-25
WHOLE NUMBER 1916.

which the women of-other lands,
compress their waists to give them.
selves the look of wasps, after the
fashion OF Chinese mandarins, they
could not understand such proceed
ings at all.
The toilet of the japanese woman
is, as its whole appearance and cut
show, of classic simplicity. 1t re.
calls the noblest costumes of classic
Greece. But it is yet more beautiful,
for to the long garments, falling in
folds, are added fneness and costli-
ness of material and, more than all
else, wonderful color, of which the
artists eye can never tire.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-25

AYERS pills promote the natural
motion of the bowels, without which
there can be no regular, healthy opera
tiOns. For the cure of biliousness,
indigestion, sick headache, constipa-
tion, jaundice, and liver complaint,
these pills have no equal. Every dose
effective.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-25

AS THE name indicates, Halls
Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer is o
renewer of the hair, including its
growth, health, youthful color, and
beauty. 1t will please you.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-25
RESURGAM.
Reflections on the Greek Defeat.

on the Greek Defeat
EurOpes glittcriug cross of gold
The Greek white cross has priced.
Now waves the cre5cents imnous fold
Ger the PROSTATE cross Of Christ.
Oh Christ, must this sad news be told?
No Christian power responds.
While Christian rights are bought and sold
With roll of Turkish bonds.
Great God. is this the darkening hour
Before the morning light?
Or has the sword of Allah power
To still defy Thy might
Hat Thou forsaken this poor world,
With all Thy angel host?
Or will Truths banner be unfurled
Ere every right be lost!
The master said, "I l come again.
And he will come with power;
For Jesus never spoke in vain,
His bride will have her dover.
Though all the hosts of hell unite
To desecrate Truth shrine:
The star of Bethlehem still is bright.
And will forever shine.
J. MARION GALE.
Bangor, Wash.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-25

Nor many business houses in these
United States can boast of fifty years
standing. The business of DIR. j. c.
Aver & Co., Lowell, Mass, whose in
comparable Sarsaparilla is known and
used everywhere, has passed its half
centennial and was never so vigorous
as at present.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-25
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NEARLY ALL MUST GO
WHEN BOMBASTES FURIOSO
MOUNTS THE THRONE.

The "Colonel,' Will Strengthen
the Party''-Nonc hut the Party
SPOilsmen Need ApPly-He Mag
nanimously Allows Wilson TO
Name Port ToWmsend's Postmas.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-25
PAINTS, = VARNISHES.
Oils and Brushes.

Your patronage is solicited and will
always be appreciated. No matter how
small your purchases, it will be our con-
stant aim to sell you the best and at
reasonable prices.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-26
SAN FRANCISCO WINNERS.
BuclIya, Collins and Preston We're
the Three Favorites to Get
Home in Front.

San Francisco, Jan. 25.-Weather at In
gleside fine; track fast. Summaries:
l. First race-One and one-sixteenth miles
/ Collins won; The Bachelor, second; Insti-
gator, third. Time, 1:49.
Second race-Seven furlongs. Minnie Gee
won; won; Ssimitar sS, second; Jack Ricbelieu,
Third race-one mile. Buckwa won;
Wheel of Fortune, second; Greyhurst, third.
| Time. 1:42.
Fourth race-one and one-sixteenth miles;
hurdle. Tuxedo won; Gallant. second; imp.
Autonomy, third. Time, 1:5G2i.
Fifth race-Six furlongs. Kowalsky won;
1:15H
Sixth race-six furIongs. Preston won:
Peixotto, second; Sport McAllister. third.
Entries for tomorrow:
First race1siX IS furlongs. Tryst, SO; Mas
49,: Aquom, 80; NebuIa, 80.
Second race-Three furlongs: 2-year-olds.
Ga,lista X; Jos; onqua Nita, 105; Count of
D. filly (Apache-Josie d., 112: Free Lady
ttree Knight Faunava lid, III; Kummel
dmp; Chesterfeld-imp. Zaral, III: Don Lo-
tbs (MidlothianA Alameda), lis; Old Jack
CDulle of Montrose-Christine). 112; Morelet-
to CMorello-Miss CromwelD, lis; Tom Spen-
Ger Cyrus -Phoebe), 115.
Bernardillo, "a; California, 105; The Drag
on, l0I; lamar IL. 10i; Farrier, no; David.
1Vl; Libertine III; Miss Ban. 102; Yankee
Fourth race-One mile. Bueno. 81; Form
al los; Cabrillo 104; Personal, IS; Olive IS;
Douole 2ulcK' iUO; Jane Andrews, 30; Judge
Denny; 100; Lobengula, 106; Rey del TERRA,
So McLight, 100
Fifth race-one mile. Addie Buchanan.
lGO; Trea6ehery. I95; Argentina, lis; APP
Sixth race-SiX furlongs. The Sinner, 121;
BaasqTii, lOi; Last Chance, 1873; Detective,
tate, 142: Mercutio, 1Oi; Inflammation, 12l;
Manchester, 142.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-26
vANDERBILTS SEEK THE COAST.
Huntington's Preserves, With n
Terminus at Los Angeles.

Chicago, Jan. 25.-Edward Rosewater. ed
itor of the Omaha Bee. in an interview to-
day, said that he believed the affairs of the
Union Pacific system will all be straight
ened out and settlement reached with the
government before March 4. In my opin-
ion." he said you will see an agreement
between the government and the Wander
bit interests all closed up, a foreclosure
sale held and the property turned over TO
the Vanderbilts before the present govern
ment goes out of office.
Just as soon as the Nanderbilts get hold
of the property they will begin an eXten-
sion of the system from Salt Lake City to
Los Angeles. When that is built the Union
Pacific will have the shortest and by far
the quickest route from Chicago to Los An
geles. In extending the road from Salt
Lake City to Los Angeles ! would not be
surprised IL they took the Utah Southern.
The time may come when the headquarters
of the entire Vanderbilt system may be
moved to Chicago as the great center of
operation.
IAN important point. especially to the
Rock Island and the Milwaukee &: ST. Paul
roads, is likely to be raised by the fore
closure of the Union Pacific. These roads
use the Union Pacific bridge across the
river at Omaha under a ninety-nine year
lease. Foreclosure sales of the kind about
to be held wipe out all pre-eNisting con-
tracts of all kinds and the syndicate could
declare this ninety-nine year lease can
celed.
"One of the first effects of the conclu-
be the opening of the Wyoming oil region.
You know that they have an oil region up
there which is far more extensive than
that in Pennsylvania
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-26
CONDUCTORS PROTEST.
The Local Order Adopts Resolutions
Against Proposed Two Cents
n Mile LeEfsIation.

Kaw Valley division, No. 55, Order of
Railway Conductors, at meeting held
yesterday afternoon, adopted the follow
ing resolutions, opposing 2-cent-a-mile leg
islation in Kansas:
Resolved, That We, the Order of Rail-
way Conductors, believe that the several
bills presented before the legislature of
the great state of Kansas, for the reduc-
ton of the passenger tariff from 3 to 2
cents per mile, are aimed ,at and vitality
interest every man who is in the railway
service in the state. Be il further
Resolved, That we, as railway men. be-
lieve that such legislative action would
work a great injustice 10 all classes OF
railway men in the state. Be it further
Resolved. That we vigorously oppose
any legislation which strikes a blow at
our wage-earning capacity, believing. as
we do. that we are entitled to some con-
sideration, being engaged in an industry
which is second TO none in this great
state. and believing that such proposed
legislation will have the effect of mater
tally reducing our forces and our wages.
Be it further
Resolved. That a copy of these resolu-
tions be sent to each of the daily papers
in Kansas City for publication and that
copy be spread upon the minutes of this
division -