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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-26
FARMER TURNED THE TABLES.
Smooth Bunco Man Found the Hayseed Toe
Shrewd for His Game.
Denver Republican

John Vance, an aged Kansas farm
er, and his wife spent several hours in
the Union depot the other day await
ing the departure of western train.
He was on his way to Oregon, where
he will spend the rest OF his days with
his daughter. Vance and his wife are
about 10 years old, but both are as
hale as though in the prime of life.
"As l sit here" he said, his eyes
twinkling merrily, al think of the
visit paid here four years ago, when
first went out to the coast. Now, I
am an old farmer, and you see look
it, but l was once a railroad man and
worked on bridges near Kansas City.
When we got on the car going West
we had some time before the train
went out. There were two other men
in the car and they were genial, whole
souled looking fellows, pleasant and
all that. OF course, we soon got to
talking and one OF them said:
"'Where are you going?' l told
him l was going to Salem, Ore.
"'Are you? Well, that's good luck.
l am going there, too. am postmas-
ter of that town and we can 20 to-
gether.'
"'Well, said I, if you are postmas-
ter you must know my son-in-law, Mr..
Bevins. We write to him nearly
every week.
"But he did not seem to know Be-
wins; that is, he didn't say whether he
did or not. We talked along quite
friendly and then porter came along
and told him he must pay for those
things before he went.
"'Pay for what?' he asked. why,
l have paid part now.'
"'But that don't co. said the porter
fellow, you must pay all or we can't
let you have Them
"The man got mad and said it was
a pretty way to use him, when he was
buying from the house right along.
They had never treated him like that
before.
"'Can't help it, said the porter fel-
low, you must pay
"Then he said it was mighty unfor-
tunate; he must have the goods and
hadn't the ready cash with him. The
bill was 5000. He turned to me and
said: Say, we are going to the same
town; couldn't you loan me the money
until we get thereY
"Well,' said to myself, won
der if he is trying that old game on
me-
al told him didn't know. He got
excited and went out, and said he
would be back in a minute. Back he
came and said: Its mighty unfortu-
nate. I've got $500 with me, but it's
in the bottom of my trunk and I can't
get at it,
"That's worse than unfortunate
replied, because my money is also in
the bottom of my trunk, and I can't
get at it, That old trick did not
catch this long white beard"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-26

The printing of revenue stamps for
Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Mon.
tana will be continued at Tacoma, the
officials at Washington having refused
permission to the Blatchly company
under the terms of their contract with
the government from removing this
part OF their business to Seattle as
contemplated.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-26

their behavior on the day school; but
II they would only make the children
do at home as they are required to do
IN school, matters would be different.
They laugh at the child who lifts his
hat, or says Please or Thank you,'
forgetting that Others are trying to
make up for their neglect of duty"
This word in season should stir up pa
rents to a sense of the Importance of
cultivating by precept and example
the requirements OF domestic eti-
Qcrtte.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-26
Comets Avoid the Earth.

No comet, SO far as is known, has
ever come in contact with the earth or
mingled its substance with our atmos-
phere. The nearest approach ever OBJ.
served was the comet OF ITO, which
approached to within !, 400, 900 miles
of our planet.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-26
NOAH AND THE FLOOD.
Deluse Necessary to Prevent the Overpopu-
latlon Of the Earth.

latlon Of the Earth.
The building of the ark proves that
the family of Noah must have pos
sessed and transmitted large inherit
ance OF knowledge and skill in arts
that were common to men before the
flood, says the Brooklyn Citizen. The
magnitude and seaworthines of that
great specimen OF antediluvian marine
architecture, not less than 600 feet in
length and 100 feet in breadth and,
with its three decks, at least GO feet in
depth, are conclusive testimony to a
proficiency in the arts such as we
should expect from the immense ad-
vantage at which men worked who
had hundreds of years in which to ac-
cumulate skill, experience and meth.
ods, instead of dropping their life work
as soon as we'll begun, like the arti-
sans and engineers of the present day.
With lives ten times as long and
vigorous as ours, how long would it
have taken the antediluvians to fill up
the eastern hemisphere or both hemis.
pheres? Allowing them the 1856
years OF Moses chronology for max
imum, we shall stand aghast at our
own figures if we take the smallest
conjecturable ratio of increase in COM
putting the population engulfcd by the
deluge. At only three times postdilu.
Wan ratio, or 4.5 per century, the pop
ulation would have passed the present
number of mankind in little more
than II centuries, and when that
great day came the flood would have
found as its inconceivable prey a pop.
ulation 400 times as large as the earth
now sustains.
Although the an.ediluvian patri.
archs, with their average lifetime of
nine centuries, be assumed to CORE.
spond to our present "oldest inhabit.
ants" who may average at most nine
decades, we must still infer that the
general average of human life was, in
like manner, ten times as long by ma
ture before the food as now. Of itself
this heightened term must have seve-
raj times multiplied the present ratio
OF increase in population. The much
greater proportion of persons who
lived to become parents, with length
ened term of parentage in the individ-
ual, must have still further multi
piled the ratio of increase.
After making all possible allow
ances or even supposing no greater
ratio of increase in the worst of the
antediluvian centuries thar has pre-
vailed since we are compelled to ac-
cept the Mosaic chronology as the
longest that the limits of probability
and OF the capacity of the eastern
hemisphere will bear, and not only so,
but the deluge itself becomes another
logical necessity-that utter destruc.
ton of all families of the earth save
one was the only alternative to an
overcrowding OF the earth.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-26
WHOLE NUMBER 2,O79.
HOW THE BOERS FIGHT.
An Insight Into Their Manners by Portland
Man.


There is at least one man in Port
land who thinks the Beers will win
out against the British. He also
thinks that this war is the beginning
OF the end with the British empire,
and does not hesitate to predict that
after losing her South African pos
sessions, England will lose Australia,
India and Canada, one after another.
This man is Henry Miller, a native
OF Holland, but now resident of
Portland. He fought with the Beers
in the war against Britain in 1882,
and is familiar with the Boer methods
of warfare.
johnny Bull will never succeed in
conquering the Boers," he said.
"It will take at at least calculation
IL Englishmen to conquer one Boer.
Great Britain will never undertake to
sustain an army of that size in South
Africa. Besides, when the other ma
tions see that the Beers are as brave
people as ever lived, and are going to
hold out in this war, they will step in
and tell Mr.. Bull that he has gone far
enough.
"What that may bring about is
only guesswork, but firmly believe
that Great Britain will become as
Portugal now is before she stops the
downward grade upon which she has
started.
81 do not love the Beers. They are
a superstitious, peculiar people; but
they are honest and upright. AS
fighters there are no better, braver
soldiers on the earth. From child
hood they are taught to use firearms.
Both the boys and girls can use the
rifle with deadly accuracy at an early
age.
"Then a Boer does not fight like
any other soldier. 1 was with them
and know whereof speak.
"They are very stingy Of their bull
lets, and never become excited. If
Boer has his gun ready to fire upon an
antagonist and decides that the
range is too great, or for any other
reason he doesn't feel sure of hitting
him, he puts the bullet back into his
belt and waits for better opportun-
ity.
"All the time while engaged in
battle he talks to himselfin low tone
of voice.
"' hate to do it, he will say, as he
prepares to shoot; but you are my
enemy, and must do it, Then he
pulls the trigger, and usually his man
comes down. Then he prepares for
another, all the while expressing his
regrets at having to do the job, but he
does it we'll nevertheless.
"What Englishmen do not fall be.
fore tho Beers will die from the ef-
fects of the blue gas which rises there
after a rain. A man not accustomed
to it cannot withstand it long, and if
it has not already begun to get in its
work it will.
1.-THE laws of Transvaal may not
suit England, but then there would
never have been any war but for jane
son, Cecil Rhodes and Joey Chamber
lain.
"The first two want gold, the other
glory, but they are sure to find they
have undertaken an uphill job.
"The Beers know every foot of the
country. There are many passes
where Majuga hill may be repeated,
and rest assured that Joubert's army
knows how to occupy those passes.
While the men are in the war the
women and children are at home rails
ing the crops and attending the cattle.
If Johnny Bull thinks he can starve
them out, he is again in error, as he
will find sooner or later"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-26
RANKING BRITISH GENERALS.
Relative Standing Of the English Commanders
In South Africa.

Relative Standing Of the English Commanders
In South Africa.
The British have large number of
generals with the army now operating
in south Africa, and there is much
confusion as to their relative rank.
Field Marshal Roberts, now on the way
to the scene of action, will, of course,
be the commander-in chief and next to
him will come General Sir Herbert
Kitchener, his chief.of-staff. The rank
OF the others follows in the order be-
low:
General Sir Redvers Butler.
Lieutenant. General Sir Frederic
Forester Walker.
Lieutenant-General Lord Methuen.
Lieutenant-General Sir Fran els
Clery.
Lieutenant-G Sir William
Gatacre.
Lieutenant-Gener ]. D. French.
Major-General Sir Archibald Hun
ter.
Major General Sir Henry ColviIle.
Major-General G. Barton.
Major-General N. Lyttleton.
Major-General A. Fitz Roy Hart.
Major.G General H. J. T. Hildyard.
Major-General E. Wood.
Major.General ]. P. Brabazon.
Major-General g. H. Marshall.
Major-General F. Howard.
Major-General ]. NJ. Darlington.
Major-General J. H. Yule.
Major General J. F. Brocklehurst.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-26
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-26
An Old Church.

The oldest Presbyterian congrega-
ton in America is located at Snow
Hill, Maryland.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-26

There is talk of putting in two new
salmon canneries at Blaine.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-26
o. S. q. HENRY,
q 5. DEPUTY SURVEYOR

R~sidencss sixth Street, Swans Add.
tiOn to Olympia, Wash.
OURVEYING Of all kinds PROMPTLY at
- tended to. The re-establishinx OF old
Government lines speciality. TOwnsites
surveyed and plated. Railroads located
and levels run for drains. Lands exam
ined and character reported.
Olvmpia. April le. 1894.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1900-08-18
The Shirt-wafst Man.


The shirt-waist man-that is his
name He has come like vision
or a dream to brighten the hot
August days with the iridescence of
his gorgeousness.
No man knoweth whence the
shirt-waist man evolved or whittier
he goe,h. Speculation hesitates to
accord to him a chrysalis state even
though he be like unto the butter
fly in his gauze and colors; SO we
fain must accept him as he is.
And he is quite conspicuous in a
number of places. The shirtwaist
fraternity is no respecter of persons;
for, sad to say, they have inveigled
a dignified New Jersey supreme
Judge into their coatless brllliancy.
If the summer holds out, the
shirt-waist man may strike Lafa-
yette. If he does come, he will not
hide his light under bushel. You
will see him alright; the SHIRT waist
m an is noted for his GOODNESS and
conspicuous presence.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1900-08-18
r w. 7. ci,rest Presst JOsse. Seer
n Mrs.. u O
Home Charity Association.
of Lafayette. La.

local organization whose s to extend practi-
all that found to be deserving after per-
sonal investigation.
Contributions Of money and donations of clothing
and of books magazines and other useful
are solicited from of the association and the
public.
Contribution boxes to receive donations of money
located in the following places in town Post of1ce
Crescent Hotel Rgues House. First National Bank Cot
age Hotel Of Lafayette and Gardebleds
Donations of clothing will be received at the homes
Of Mrs Edward Mouton and Mrs F. Demanade
Donations of books, magazines ETC., should be drop
ped into the box receptacle that has been placed IN
the post office for that purpose.
The founders of the association invite all chartaby
ganzaton, the only requirement. for membership being
the payment of the monthly dues OF 70 cents APPhca
tons membership be addressed to The Secre
tary Of Home Charity Association of lafayette La
ciety president of the Association will
ceive prompt and courteous attention
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1900-08-18
Race War I'm New York.

Race War in New York.
An outbreak between the races
took place in New York City dur
ing the week, arising from the kill
ing of policeman by gang Of
negroes The doings of the mob
of white men are similar to what the
New Orleans mob was guilty of
few weeks ago. The States has this
to say about the subject:
But, to be serious; that a riot
should occur in New York under
precisely the same conditions that
it occurred here and the vengeance
of the whites was in both instances
wreaked on the negroes indiscrim-
inately, is not justification of the
attacks upon the negrors in either
case; but 1t shows, what the States
has so often called attention to,
that the antagon;sm between the
races is inherent and cannot be
eradicated except by the suppress
sion of one race or the other.
Some men have recommended
deporta ton as the remedy; but that
it utterly impracticable. Some have
recommended that the negro should
be driven out of the country. That
would be extremely cruel. In our
opinion, the onlv remedy at once
practicable and humane is, il we
may so term it, 'srepression." That
is to say, the negro must be ruled
down with an iron hand. He must
be made to understand that he if
the inferior race; that all hope os
anything beyond his personal
liberty, the protection of his life,
his property and wages, is beyond
his aspirations. When he learns
that fact aud ceases to listen to
demagogues and agitators, both in
aud out Of the press, and submits
himself to the position and the des-
tiny into which providence has
placed him aud assigned him to. he
viii reach I'll that dc can hope fol
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1900-08-18

The wolf in the fable put on sleeps
clothing because if he travelled on his own
reputation he couldn't accomplish his Pur-
pose. Counterfeiters of DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve couldn't sell their worthless
salves on their merits, SO they put them in
boxes and wrappers like DeWitt's. LOOK
out for them. Take only DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve. 1t cures piles and all skin
diseases. For sale by Lafayette Drug Co.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1900-08-18
He Smoked Them Himself:

He Smoked Them Himself:
Newark News.
Edison is fond of smoking, but
he becomes SO absorbed in work
that he even forgets that he has a
cigar in his mouth. When he had
an Office in Fifth avenue, New York,
the desk in which he kept box of
cigars was always open, and as the
boys came and went at all hours
his cigars disappeared with mystic
rious rapidlty. Finally he asked a
friend who was in the tobacco bust
ness if he could not do something
to discourage this disappearance.
s.Why, yes" said the friend, 'Ill
make up some cigars for you. I'll
put Hoffman House labels on the
outside, but I'll fill them up with
horse hair and hard rubber.
.'Well said Mr.. Edison in relating
the story, ssthat fellow went to Cal
ifornia and didn't return for three
months. I forgot about him mean
time, but when he got back I said
to him: Look here, I thought you
were going to fix me up some fake
CIGARS sWhy, 1 did, he said ir
surprise. you did? When7
why, don't you remember fla
box with a green label; the cigars in
bundle form, tied with yellow RIB
bon' Do you know" said Edison
innocently, 81 smoked them all my
self"
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1900-08-18

A Pity They Do Not Gag Him.
New Orleans Harlequin.
The negro preacher who, in the
Boston indignation meeting held by
the blacks, said that the negro
should defend his right of franchise
with the rifle, should remember that
he has that right by grace of the
whites, who reasonably might be
expected 20 revoke it at any time
there is the reason of the rifle for
its revocation. In louisiana the
Caucasian has done that, factions
of whites in this city being tired,
during municipal elections, of hav-
ing 20 buy and re-buy the negro
vote. You are going to discover,
parson, that your language is seal
ing the Caucasian heart, North and
South, against the propriety of your
exercising a voice in the Legislation
of the white men in a white country.
The best thing for a parson and ne
Groes who feel like him to do is to
chase themselves to Liberia where
they may establish a black mans
country. Such language as his is
reducing the question speedily TO its
elements-suggest such queries
as how much did his progenitors
conduce to the aid of Washington
at the time of the republics estab-
lishment and wherein lies Sambo's
inalienable right to the suffrage con.
ferred upon him, misg uidedly, BY
the Caucasion.
A pity indeed for the race thai
they do not gag such apostles as this
negro preacher.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1900-08-18
The Enormous Pension List.

The Enormous Pension List.
Washington Post.
In order to secure for the Repub
lican national ticket the allegiance
of all the members of the Grand
Army Of the Republic and other
old soldiers, the Republican cam
paign committee has issued docu-
ment which givesssome interesting
facts shout 2eaSitns. For instance.
ne total as1o0ns paid for Pensi''ns
Daring the four years Of Grants
6sst administration aggregated. in
sf0und numbers. SII6. 100000; dur
49, his second Standardization SIl4,
! 90. and during the entire
4 tesn ~ Presidents Hayes $IAS.ooo.
Z NV III &welys yeaFs, shsrseoss,
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1900-08-18

and become, in the pursuit of such
honest toll rs may be assigned him.
he will be happy human being.
But if he refuses to accept that fate,
in the South or in New York or in
Boston, whenever he attempts to
lift his head outside of lis sphere.
be he innocent or guilty, he will be
come the victim of brutal and ir-
repressible because entirely natural
race.
And the next time any trouble
with the blacks occurs in the South
let New York and Boston recognize
the fact that Southern men are as
human, enlightened and just as are
those of the North and then let US
alone and mind their own business
Rides Horseback at ~ Years.
A. T. Townsend. Weir, Missis-
sippi, says: NV mother was visit
ing me and while here was taken i'll.
The best doctor in this county was
called IN and at the end of ten days
said she could not live. had tried
Ramon's Liver Pills myself and in
my family and I insisted on heI
trying one, So at 6 O'Clock p. m.
| she took one of the Pink Pills and
| At next ? a. m. she called for some.
thing to eat. continued with the
pills, and in a week she was well
and has been in fine health evel
since. She is now II years old and
can ride on horseback any where
something she has not done fol
years. Any citizen in town viii
verify this statement. There are
twenty boxes of Ramon's Pills solo
! in this section to one of any othel
kind. For sale by Lafayette Drug
Co.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1900-08-18

the total expenditure for pensions
was ta7s, 600, 600. These were the
twelve years, too, Immediately sue
ceeding the war.
In the three years during which
Mr.. Mckinley has been president
the enormous sum of S4ao. 900, o.. o
has been paid to pensioners, and to
this fact the Republican managers
point with pride. It seems to Us.
however, that this showing, to-
gether With the further fact that
from July I, 1865. n June So. 1900.
the payments for pensions and ex-
penses connected with those pay
ments aggregated s.. GOO. 900, 900.
will be apt to awaken the country
to the drain which the pension fund
makes upon the national Treasury.
Even now, a third Of q century
after the close of the var. there are
9o3,5s9 pensioners on the roll.
We hope they are all honestly en-
titled to the gratuity which the
government gives them, but we
confess to the belief that . wedding
out Of the pension list would not do
injustice to any honest pensione'
and might save money for the gov
eEnment.
The pension roll has always been
used as a political adjunct, but
|.>.>. c,;<> ca Aau,ontlv "a in fhe
present instance. Some good will
be accomplished, however. if the
wide publicity which is being given
to the Republican National Com.
mittee's campaign document bring:
about an awakening and a reform.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1900-08-18

Mr.. Stevenson speaks as follows
Of the Dingley tariff law in his
speech accepting the nomination
for the vice-pres,dency by the
Democratic party:
stIn apt words the Dingley tariff
law is condemned. 1t is tersely
characterized as legislation skill
class, and to impose upon the many
burdens which they should not
bear. Adhering to the time honored
doctrine of the Democratic party,
we oppose all tariff legislation, the
necessary consequence of which is
at the expense of the consumer, to
secure unjust advantage to the
favored few. Experience has de-
monstrated that unjust tariff laws
have deprived the government of
needed revenues. secured to ia
vored beneficiaries colossal for
tunes. and largely increased to the
people the cost of the necessarles
of life. The baleful but logical re-
suit of the tariff law condemned by
our platform is seen in the sudden
growth of giant monopolies, comb.
nations in restraint of lawful trade
and trusts more threatening than
foreign foe to the existence of pop
ular government. Believing that
sewherever there is a wrong there
must be remedy" the Democratic
party will favor such legislation as
will curb the spirit of monopoly
and place an effective barrier
against the unlawful combinations
of capital which now prove an in
superable obstacle to legitimate en-
terprlse and investment.