Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-10-04

half the world if they don't discard
the idea!
But the mystery OF life is not settled
by war and bloodshed and death re.
veals none of natures secrets, no diff.
ference how many poor mortals give
up their lives to establish the fact that
they know all about il.
Curious combination of crude con-
stituents compounded carefully in ma
lures crucible, and called life! Salts
and gases and juices and wind! Come
back to the earth, you high-toned i'm
beetles who fatter yourselves that you
are just little better than the aver
age animal called man, for We are all
made out Of the same identical ele-
ments, compounded in the same mys.
terious way, and are all equally sure
to 60 to pieces later on.
To be sure, one man may have lit.
tie more of some particular component
part than another, but this difference
does not alter the conditions very
much. You take man who little
bit Of honesty in his composition, and
bring him face to face with some disa-
greeable truth, and it will send the
blood rushing to his face and neck to
create the blush Of shame. But if the
man has none of the elements of hon.
esty in his composition, all the disa.
greeable truths and facts and condemn.
ing evidence in the world cannot bring
blush to his face. Truth must be
mixed with honesty to make blush.
Like one time when father and /
were going down street and passed old
Deacon Prayu unsing talking to another
man on the street corner. The
Eeacon's face was AS red as a boiled
beet, and, after we passed the two
men, I said to father:
Do you think the Deacon has
been drinking something stronger
than water?"
"Why do you ask?" inquired father,
as he turned to look back at the two
men, who were still standing on the
corner.
Because his face is so red," l ex-
planned.
"Oh, is that ALI" exclaimed father,
with grin. "No he is not drunk
He is too stingy to buy drink Of
whisky. But he has met the assessor,
and the assessor is plying him with
very sharp questions, and the Deacon
is trying to tell the truth, but finds it
one of the hardest jobs he ever tackled
OH earth, and the unusual strain
brings the red into his face"
After that time l was slow to &C.
cuse red.faced man OF drinking.
Telling the truth is harder on the sys.
tenn than red liquor, and many q red
faced man is accused of taking on q
jag, when he is only wrestling with
truth and straining himself red in the
face to get around dangerous point
without paying full fare, as it were. in
. manner.
1t is very amusing to me to see
these so-called aristocratic people
strutting about the world like turkey
cocks trying to scare a strange dog
out Of the barnyard, and looking down
upon their neighbors with the air of
pious angel looking at jug Of rum
hid behind the bake oven. l always
feel like saying to them: Come down
out OF the clouds. you miserable skin
full OF salts and gases, and find q salt
and gas relative in the old mule that
kicked the end gate out of your grand.
fathers cart, and an amphibious
cousin in the frog and tadpole and
mud turtle.
Every animal that breathes is our
oxygenated relative; every animal
that drinks water is our compound
oxygen and hydrogen cousin. We all
depend upon water, air, and earth
on common dirt. They should all be
free to all. We cannot live without
dirt, any more than We can live with.
out air and water. We are only dis
connected vegetables-walking COM
pounds OF salts and gasses. Just 50
soon as the puckering string breaks
that now holds our gasses together,
our gas light goes out, our salts 60
back to salt the earth, and our water
goes back to the original watered
stock, 90 to speak.
Whether this integration is the end
OF the beginning, or the beginning of
the end, no one can positively say, and
produce any tangible evidence to prove
the proposition. When one comes
right down to handling salts and gases
and water, the leakage and evapora-
tion is so great that we are lost in q
mist OF mystery before we can follow
the bell COW out OF the woods, so to
speak.
But how ridiculous it is for young
people to fall in love with each other
for . young man to be smitten and
fascinated with a female dress full of
salts and gases and schoolgirl ideas or
for q young lady to love and admire
mere skin full of oxygenated carbon
lied salts and gases and a tobacco
scented skin full of water and lime
and starch and a handful of hair, so TO
speak. It is almost the same as one