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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-02-10
Growing a Grandmother.

He was q wee little man, only 3
years old, but very brave, courageous
and more accomplishing than any one
knew, for though he was only baby
he had trials to bear. The family had
gone to a new country in the far west,
the mamma, this little man, and the
sister, a little older. 1t was a very
new country, very different from the
city in the east where they had left
many friends, relatives and. nearest of
all, dear old grandmother. The
mamma was so busy in her new home
that she had little time for the bal fes
except to see that they were clean and
we'll fed. So they were lonesome,
as mamma found out one day ia way
that brought tears to her eyes.
The little 3-year-old had been very
busy and very quiet making big hole
in the ground with such earnestness of
purpose that she went to see what was
being done.
The hole was completed when she
reached the spot and in it had been
placed something that she took out
and examined with with wandering
curiosity. 1t was the strangest thing
to 60 into hole in the ground-an
old daguerreotype, a picture of the
dear grandmamma at home.
"Why, baby" exclaimed mamma,
"what are you doing with this"
"I fought" said the little man
with quivering hip and all the pent'
up loneliness and homesickness in his
voice, fought, maybe, if I planted
it anozzer grandma would grow"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-02-10
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON: FRIDAY EVENING, FEB 10 1899

over the plains on her fathers most
spirited horses is the source of deep
satisfaction to her. Daring the past
lO years Miss Wilkins has devoted her.
self entirely to the raising of horses,
and she makes frequent trips all over
the country buying and selling horses,
and she is said to be one of the shrewd-
est traders in the business.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-02-10

The tongues of the cat family are
covered with recurring spines. Inthe
common domestic cat these are small,
but sufficiently we'll developed to give
the tongue a feeling of roughness.
but in the lion and tiger the spines
are strong enough to enable the ami.
NAL to tear away the skin of mans
hand merely by licking it.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-02-10

A YARN comes from Seattle about a
slot machine bearing the announce
ment: "Put quarter in the slot and
get surprise" Sometimes a tender
foot who thinks he wants a surprise
drops in quarter. He gets the sur.
prise all right, for the mechanism
points a loaded revolver at him and
displays this notice: "Drop in your
money and your watch. or I'll explode
in 80 seconds"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-02-10

Ex-Gov. Mcconnell, of Idaho, now
United States Inspector of Indians,
and R. C. Bauer, supervisor of Indian
schools for the Puget Sound district,
are on an official visit to this State.
The two officers visited the Puyallup
reservation and school this week, and
are reported to be preparing important
data for the department at Washing
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-02-10

on constitutional exemption of $500
worth OF personal property from taxa
ton.
| Mr.. Pendergasts, prescribing meth
cd of formation of new school districts
on petition of five heads of families.
Mr.. Baldwin's, relating to assessment
and collection of taxes.
Mr.. Falknor's, reducing redemptions
of property from executions by amend
ing the act of 1897.
Mr.. Welty's, to permit counties to
pay valid claims for labor performed
in laying out and constructing high
ways under the road law of 1893, prior
to the time that law was invalidated
by the courts.
House joint memorial by Mr.. Ny
ers, for electing United States Sena-
tors by direct vote.
In the Senate, Friday, the Capitol
construction bill came from the
Judiciary committee with a waiver
from Mr.. Goss, the contractor for the
superstructure, OF damages from fail
ure to build under terms of the award.
The bill passed, 2J to 3-only Preston,
Andrews and Schofeld voting against
the measure.
Bills introduced were:.
100, Baum-For improving State
wagon road from Kettle Falls, Stevens
county, to Marble Mount, Skagit
county. Appropriation, $4,000.
Keith - Licensing nickle-in the
slot machines. License $25 per an
mum.
Hammer, by request-For public
highway from Venturao. in the
Methow river, via the Hart trail over
the State Creek pass in the Cascade
mountains, Ruby creek to the State
wagon road at Marble Mount. Ap-
preparation, $4,000.
Crow-Prevent the removal of per-
manent Improvements from real
estate subject to mortgage or other
liens without the consent of the
holders or owners OF such liens.
Crow-Repealing an act granting
to judgment cred itors the right of pos
session, of rents and property of real
estate under execution during the
period of redemption.
And 135, by Crow-Repealing an
act relating to deficiency judgments.
Adjourned to LA. NJ. Monday.
In the House, the resolution for in
vestigation of matters at the Medical
Lake Hospital for the Insane, after
considerable debate was put to sleep
by reference to the committee on
Resolutions and Memorials.
Mr.. Lambert's bill creating a tax on
dogs to be placed in special fund to
reimburse owners of sheep killed by
dogs, failed to pass.
Bills indefinitely postponed we're:
BY Heilig-Relating to negligence.
Calvert-Amending act relating to
decisions of Supreme Court.
Browne-Relating to stock killed
by railroads.
Somerindyke - Requiring horse
shoers to pass examination.
Mount of Spokane-To create the
new county of Ferry, was passed.
Bedford of Pierce, extended to the
Legislature on behalf of Senator-elect
Foster an invitation to an informal
banquet to be rendered in Tacoma,
Tuesday evening. February7.
An invitation from the Olympia
Entertainment committee to the
members of the Legislature to attend
every Friday evening, as guests, So
cial hopp at Olympia hotel, was read
from the Clerks desk.
Speaker Guie asked if there were any
church announcements to read:
There were none, but the Christian
like announcement that somebody
had found a pocket book and was look
ing for an owner, came instead.
Adjourned to Monday,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-02-10

"HABIT" is hard to overcome. If
you take off the first letter, it does not
change ga Bit" If you take of
another you still have a "bit" left.
If you take off another, the whole Of
"it" remains. If you take off another,
it is not at" totally used up. All OF
which goes to show that if you wish to
be rid of a habit" you must throw it
off altogether.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-02-10

AN unmarried lady of uncertain age
who was recently registered at a hotel
in Tacoma was heard to utter cries OF
distress late in the evening. When
help arrived she declared hysterically
that there was a bootjack under the
bed,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-02-10

IT is said that fortune knocks once
at the door OF every man, but when
she is busy elsewhere she sometimes
sends her daughter Miss Fortune.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-02-10

A CLUB has been organized in Bos-
ton to abolish marriage. That is a
sort of infringement on the rights OF
the divorce courts.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-02-10

DON'T think that o man is great
prayer because the knees of his trous.
ers lag. For all you know he may be
q crap-shooter.
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-03-16
WHAT ACTORS ARE PAID.

The salaries of actors and actresses
vary so much that no fixed prices can
be quoted. 1t may suffice to say that
the salary list Of a stock-house will
not come to less than $1,000 a week,
and is often considerably more. The
salaries in the front" are about as
follows: business manager, $50 to SO
week; boX-office man, $50; assistant,
SIS; two doorkeepers, So to S12 each;
head usher, So; other ushers (three
or FOUR, ST; Autograph men (two),
SIS; night Waterman, $40 The sala-
ries of the attaches of the stage are
all fixed at union rates. Furthermore
the manager must employ three men
o. side-that is, three stage hands
o.4 each side Of the stage, including
the stage-carpenter and his assistant
and two fiymen, men who work the
curtain and drops up in the ''1ies," the
regions above the stage The union
rates are as follows: age-carpenter,
$50 week; assistant, S25; electrician,
$25; assistant, SIS; property-man,
S25; assistant, SIS; back door-keeper,
81; stage-hands, $3.50 for each per-
formance, $3.50 per day for putting
on play, fifty cents an hour for re-
hearsals, and sixty-two and a half
cents an hour for all labor half an
hour after the fall of the final curtain.
Orchestra leaders get $40 to $50 a
week and the union rate for musicians
is SIS, except in operettas, when it is
81 a performance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-03-16
A MAN WITH TWO HEARTS

A cOlored person called William
King, of New Bedford, has enjoyed the
uninterrupted possession of two hearts
for century, as he is 100 years old,
and still so hale and literally hearty
as to be able to bend bars of iron
across his arm. According to the New
York Herald, which records this re-
markable freak of nature, DR.. Munroe
B. Long, of the Muhlenberg hospital
staff, a physician Of high repute, after
visiting King, said; King has one
heart on the right and one on the left
SIDE of the chest, whose separate beats
in unison could plainly be determined.
By certain muscular contraction
King let one heart drop to the left lilac
region, where I clearly heard the beat
ing; then let the other heart drop TO
the right lilac region, where it's beat
ing was also plainly heard, both beat
ing in the lower part of the abdomen
in unison. Next, King threw over the
interior of the abdomen a wall of bone
from the neck down, giving every evil
dence of having two sternums, or
breastbones, one of which is movable
at his will and seems to lie behind the
regular breastbone when in repose."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-03-16

gnawing hard tack, softened by good
coffee, and chewing beef dried on the
hoof," not the "embalmed" article
which Gen. Miles has recently de-
Scribed, when from a hill about half
mile away half a dozen of the enemy
appeared with a light field piece, I'M
limbered and let us have three shells.
l jumped up to form my men, but
could not speak. The suddenness of
the attack paralyZed the vocal organs
for moment, but the danger was not
as great as in the engagements named,
for a squadron of cavalry put the
enemy with their one gun, down the
road in great HASTE
That same day l was detailed to
take message to Lieut.. O'Hara, COM
handing the picket line. 1t was near
shutdown, and the line lay through a
swamp. The orders were not to chal-
| lenge man approaching our lines, but
| to shoot. There was no "countersign"
| in the immediate front. found O'Hara
and delivered the orders and started
back, believing that I was within our
| lines. There was a bright flash and
| the song of a bullet. My heart
seemed to stop and my tongue again
Glove to the roof of my mouth, and |
dropped to the ground for safety and
to learn the situation. Conversation
between the pickets developed the
fact that | had somehow got be-
tween the lines and was in front of
my own men. Speech was then re-
stored, and after that it was never
lost if my comrades were correct in
saying that when I was in command
of the color company the colors could
be located by my eXpletives.
This is instanced merely to show the
effect of terror on the brain and heart.
In early life | used language which l
regard as ungentlemanly today, as it
was the current conversation in the
lead mines and on the frontiers, and
in the excitement of battle | must have
, used improper epithets, for our chap
lain called me to task for it. In the
cases above related the unexpected
attack produced an effect which an
expected one did not.
have oeen told of rabbits dying
from coming suddenly upon man
who yelled at them, and | can see
, how such a thing is possible. 1t is the
shock of suddenness which paralyzes
the heart and stops it's action. This
never happens with young birds OF
> animals when taken in the hand; their
sense of fear has not been fully de-
o veloped, but with birds or animals Of
a highly nervous organization it is
! easy to believe that it may occur, anC
both the quail and the rabbit have
delicate nerves. Such death seems
impossible in such fighting animals as
foxes and hawks.-Forest and Stream
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-03-16
PARALYSIS FROM FRIGHT.

Terror paralyzes the brain, and may
stop the heart action. Men have been
found dead on the battlefield with no
mark Of injury upon them; and amid
the crash and shrek of shot and shell
and the ping" Of rife balls the man
who says he never felt fear should be
eligible to the liars club
Let me relate a personal incident in
the civil war, where by the way the
enemy were very uncivil in annoying
us in every way. We had been in a
few such engagements as the Wilder
ness, Spottsy1vania and others when
we halted at Milford station, Va, for
dinner. Capt. Kennedy had gone off
to gossip, and l was the senior officer
of the company present We were
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-03-16
DOMESTIC.
Sugar goes up.

Sugar goes up.
Chicago May wheat, 75s at 71%c
A severe storm ragged on the Atlantic
coast.
Fenner Kimball, aged &C. died al
GAINESVILLE.
Ohio's attorney general tackled the
sugar trust.
Additional institutions announce an
increase in wages.
Robert S. Gardiner, aged 81 years, is
dead at Boston, Mass
coal combine is planned, with
$SS9,000,000 capital.
New York states punishment for
capital crime is shocking.
Gov. Smith of Montana vetoed the
bill permitting prize-fights.
The American Steel and Wire com
pany buys Mesaba iron mines.
Americans who were in the Nicara-
qua revolution returned home
Ernest Roeber defeated Hall Adali,
the Turkish wrestler, in Boston.
Minnesota Indian reservation pine
fraud charges are to be investigated.
Alger is willing to leave the cabinet
If permitted to name his successor.
DR.. Won Raffel, the German agent
in Samoa, arrived at San Francisco.
Austin Bidwell, the $5,00000 Bank
of England forger, died at Butte, Mont.
Brickmakers on both sides of the
Hudson river Incorporated a $4,000
600 trust.
Sam Wah, Chinaman, was a Juror
with five negroes in a suit at Fort
Scott, Kas.
AS the farmer boy will tell you, the
red-tailed hawks are already building
their nests.
More sensational testimony is
ELECTED by the Pennsylvania bribery
investigation.
A cyclone and cloudburst in Tenn
essee caused great damage to life
and property.
Rev. ]. R. Soule, one of the oldest
Methodist ministers in Illinois, died
at Sterling, III.
The three new battleships building
for the United States navy will be
about perfect.
kin, husband of Cordelia Botkin, has
applied for divorce.
The new postal laws. which save
thirteen days between San Francisco
and Australia, go into effect.
Il. B. NJ. warship Talbot arrived
from Bermuda and took Lord Her
schells body to England.
A number of Kentucky farmers were
drowned in crossing streams which
were swollen by unusual floods.
The Ohio river continues to rise.
and damaging floods are expected for
several days along it's course.
Sidney c. Hubbard, a pioneer in
surance man, capitalist and real estate
dealer of Fort Wayne, Ind, died.
Republican leaders at Dover, Del.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-03-16
CREOLE BELLIES SOCIAL DEBUT.
Must be Introduced to New Orleans
Society at the Opera

'Sociey goes to the French opera on
Saturday night because it's great
grandfathers handed the custom down
to 1t" writes Harrydele Hallmark in
the Ladies' Home Journal so es-
tablished is this custom that DO social
function is ever prepared for Satur-
day evening during the season. The
family that gives out an invitation for
that night is Immediately cIassed as
| not versed in the usages of society and
not worthy to be known. This is so
deep-rooted in Creole life that such
an invitation would be jeered at as if
coming from barbarian.
THE best singers save their voices
for this browning night, and the
house is like private ballroom, where
the guests visit and laugh and chat
from the balconies of the boxes as
they do from the little iron balconies
that connect their houses If one
does not go to the opera on Satu--
day night through lack of invitation
or money one is very careful not to be
seen elsewhere, giving out the sug-
gestion that sickness or trouble i'm
PEELED ones absence. The proud
Creoles of the French set, some Of
them in grinding poverty, ignore all
that costs a picayune, in order to save
the amount to appear at the opera on
Saturday night. No debutante of New
Orleans enters society in the correct
and approved manner unless she make
her debut in box on this particular
evening. If the social aspirant has
sufficient money and tact to secure the
good will OF leading family to invite
her debutante daughter into it's box,
this daughter has received the most
precious hallmark of society. If a
man who owes social call pays the
call to his friends in their box at
the opera it is just the same as if he
called at their house. The center
boxes are reserved for the debutantes.
There they receive the homage due
them; there they are WOOeG and
sometimes won, but certainly there
they make or mar their chances for
bellehood. Some Of the debutantes
may wear the simplest of muslin
gowns, but the simplicity Of their cos
tunes never counts against the fact
hat they are there"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-03-16
FOREIGN.

Rudyard Kipling is TO be made a
peer.
Mgr. Clari, the papal nuncio at
Paris, is dead.
Ambassador and Mrs. Choate dined
and slept at Windsor.
The pope continues to recover from
the effects of the surgical operation on
his thigh.
Admiral Won Knorr, commander-in-
chief of the German navy, has re-
signed.
The Chinese foreign Office has re-
fused the Italian demand for a lease
of San Nun bay.
Thomas Montague Morrison Wilde,
third Baron Truro, died at Mentone.
He was years old.
England and France, it is expected,
will effect a complete settlement of
| their dispute within two weeks.
The German scholarships Charlotte
and Stosch have arrived at Tangier,
Morocco, to enforce demands for in
demnity.
A magazine containing 100000
pounds of powder exploded at La
Goubran, France, killing at least forty
persons.
Queen Marie Henriette Of Belgium,
who is suffering from pneumonia, had
a relapse, and it was feared that she
was dying.
United States Ambassador Choate
attended a reception given by the
Warehouses of Landsdowne, wife OF
the secretary of war.
Madame Bianchini, who is alleged tC
have experimental on her dog with
| poison and then given it to her hUs-
} band is on trial at Paris.
Queen Victoria has cabled to The
president and the American nation hel
thanks for the honors paid to the
memory of Lord Herschell.
The Empress Of India brings news
: of the murder and torture of Father
Victorian Jean Belbrouck a Belgian
priest, by thieves near Ichang, China
A semi-official note issued in Pari
states that a satisfactory settlement .
the African frontier question will
: Great Britain is expected in a fort
night.
I 1t was announced in the house O
commons yesterday that the British
= government has decided to introduc
competition in the telephone service }
S the country.
Y A verdict is expected to be reache
/ today in the case of Madame Bian
chini, who is being tried in Paris Of
o the charge of attempting to murde
= her husband.
= William st. John Brodrick stated i
|. the house of commons that Great Brit
= ain stands, by the act of her agent z
d Muscat, in threatening a lombard
x ment of that city.
5. NJ. Delcasse, French foreign minis
L ter, stated in the chamber of deputie
: that Great Britain had expressed dee
regret for it's recent conduct in fore
) ing the Sultan of Oman to annul
French concession.
. The appointment of Prince Henry c
:, Prussia to the command OF the Ger
= man cruiser squadron over Admire
Won Diedrichs is said to have been a
! expression OF emperor william pei
sonal desire to maintain friendly re
. lations with the United States.
Il The queen has postponed her de
parture to the south of France unit
Saturday in consequence of the storr
in the channel. The pOstponement @
Il her majesty's departure is a strikin
u illustration of the extreme care an
Il of the precautions with which she i
surrounded.