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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-26
BRYAN BRIEFLETS.

The selection OF Cannon for Speaker
has not frightened the trusts any more
than the message did.
1t apears that President Roosevelt's
"shackling cunning" performances
,, were Tor press agent purposes only.
Perhaps the Treasurer of the Re.
publican National Committee has in
creasing proof that the trusts are good.
As long as Pennsylvania is Satisfied
with Quay, Mr.. Addicks will be un-
able to understand Delaware's scruples.
1t appears that it took but mighty
Little court-plaster to bind up the
wounds inflicted upon the trusts by
the message.
We are asked by the message to be-
lieve that Mr.. Knox roped the trusts,
but it appears that the President re.
fused to shoot.
Mr.. James J. Hill admits that he is
not opposed to the ship subsidy. This
reminds us that ducks are not usually
averse to water.
Now that the men who WELD the
pick are giving testimony the coal op-
orators are finding it difficult to keep
their halos on straight.
By increasing wages one dollar and
exacting two dollars more for freight
the railroads manage to acquire quite
a reputation for liberality.
The Boston Herald thinks that not
few aspire for can hour of Cleve.
land" Has the Herald been CORES.
ponding with the bond gamblersi
The Republican papers are just now
engaged in the business of selecting q
Democratic candidate for the Presi-
dency. 1t is not certain, however, that
the Democratic Convention will be
bound by the decision which they
reach-in fact, it will do well to avoid
picking the man most acceptable to
them.
One way to build up the Democratic
party is for Democrats to give hearty
hearty support to the local Democratic
newspapers that have loyalty stood by
Democratic principles as enuuciated
in Democratic national platforms. A
strong and we'll supported Democratic
press will be an invaluable factor in
the campaigns to be waged in the fu-
ture for true Democracy.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-26
OLYMPIA WASHINGTON: FRIDAY EVENING" DEC 26 1902

and the rest of the men looked theil
thanks at him.
Then silence fell over all.
A few hours later the passenger.
we're awakened by shrill shrieks Of Joy
Mamma, mamma! Wake up
Santa did find usw
And such scene of happiness en-
sued that the beholders have not YET
forgotten it.
"Let us sing q song," said the
clergyman.
In a trained tenor voice he began:
"Joy to the world. the Lord is come.
Let earth receive her King,
Let every heart prepare him room,
And Heaven and nature sing"
The clergyman and the women were
the only ones who knew the words,
but the tune was recalled by two or
three Of the men and they joined in
as best they could. Just as the song
ended faint whistle was heard. The
brakeman came stamping in a mo.
ment later and shouted:
"Snow plow's comin'!"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-26
"DEMocRATIc LEADERSHIP"

w. J. Bryan in The Commoner
makes answer to the stock.in-trade
wall of the Republican press that the
Democratic party is dead because it
has nc new leader in the following
language:
"The Eastern papers - especially
those which helped to elect Repub.
lican President-are just now much
concerned about leader for the DEM
ocratic party. They are searching
high and low for Moses to conduct
the party into promised land. They
with one accord declare that the elec.
tions have killed the money question
again and that no one can be con-
sidered q leader who stands upon the
Kansas City platform; they are also
agreed that Tom johnson is out OF the
question because his State went Re
publican. If some State controlled by
the reorganizers had only gone Demo
cratic they would have smooth sailing,
but they cannot find any one who can
promise success-and with them sue
cess is the only thing to be considered.
"The trouble is that the metropoli-
tan papers have been corrupted by the
commercial spirit which dominates
the Republican party and which DOM
mated the Democratic party under
Mr.. Clevelan's administration. In.
stead of regarding politics as the
science Of government, they look upon
it as q game in which Offices are
awarded as prizes 10 the most skillful
players. Instead of discussing as
leaders those who study public ques-
tions and seek to discover the best
solution OF each new problem, they
measure men by their shrewdness in
political management or by their uc-
cess in State campaign, overlooking
the fact that circumstances over which
the leader has no control may de-
termine the result.
"The Democratic party does not
need leaders 80 much as it needs
voters. The masses do not need any
one to think for them; they think for
themselves and they will have no
difficulty in selecting fit persons to
act for them when the time for action
arrives. They do not need the ser
vices OF self.appointed committee on
nominations and they will not award
the position OF standard-bearer to the
highest bidder. They are glad to hear
all that can be said for and against
each Presidential possibility, but they
are not apt to be influenced by advis-
ors who think more OF q candidates
availability during campaign than
they do Of his reliability in Office.
The Democrats who know why
they are Democrats, will see to it,
first, that the Democratic party
stands for Democratic principles and
applies them to every question before
the people, and, second, that the
candidates are sound on those princi-
Piles and will stand by them both be-
fore and after the election.
"The Democratic party recognizes
no boss and is seeking no leader in
the sense in which the metropolitan
papers use the term"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-26
ONION FINDS A DEFENDER.
Some Good Qualities Possessed by the Odori.
ferrous Root.


ferrous Root.
The onion is one of those siren.
uous vegetables about which one can
not be Indifferent. Ore either yearns
for it with q passionate longing or
else utterly repudiates it and every
body who has any trafficing with it.
If one never had to take ones on.
ions at secondhand it would not be
50 bad. If the law would only set
apart one day week for the consump-
ton Of onions and forbid it under
penalty of fine and imprisonment
at all other times it would be . boon
to the world. The onion hater would
at least know when to take to the
woods and how long to stay there.
As for banishing the onion from the
kitchen, that wonld be crime. There
have been poets who have sung its
praises. but perhaps some of the prose
rhapsodies are just as eloquent. For
instance, If you want to crush your
neighbor who regards your dish OF
onions with supercilious eye just ask
him if he knows that the onion is
called the rose among roots"
Ask him II he knows that without
it there would be no gastronomic art !"
that Its presence lends color and en-.
chantment to the modish dish, its ab.
sence reduces the rarest dainty to hope
less insipidity and the diner TO dis.
pair"
1tisquite possible that your naughty
neighbor may decline to follow this
hint and may show signs of not being
plunged into despair pending the addi.
ton OF onions to his own menu. The
antionionist is stiff necked party.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-26
POETIC FIGURES FOCUSED.
That Short Step From the Sublime to tn
Ridiculous.

That Short Step From the Sublime to the
Ridiculous.
1t has always been a mystery why
sensible people will regard as sublime,
poetry that which, in reality, is simply
ridiculous.
For instance: A much.quoted poet
describes . pretty girl a. having a
"throat like q swan" Imagine, if you
can, q girl with spindling neck two
feet in leugth, shaped like the letter S
and covered with feathersl Then
place on this "rose bud mouth
rather q puckery looking mouth,
should think. Then imagine "dia-
monds" for eyes and hair of "burn.
ished copper" and you will have an
illustration of the poets idea Of
feminine beauty.
If some artist would paint . girls
picture. true to this description, how
would it compare with that of . girl
with the features that God gave her?
Is it not safe to cay that il the
above quoted poet should meet the
young lady he has thus described in.
stead of worshiping his ideal, his hair
would stand on end with fright, and
he would take to his heels and run
away from such . fearful looking
creature.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-26
Georgia's Pension Troubles.

The State Of Georgia just now is fur.
nishing good illustration OF condi-
tions likely to grow out Of an abuse of
the pension system. The annual ex.
penditure Of the State for the benefit
OF Confederate veterans has reached
the sum Of $4,000, an amount 90
large that it will probably make de-
ficit Of about $500. 900 in the States
finances. 1t 10 contervatively esti.
mated that the Georgia pension rolls
are one-third larger than strict re.
quirements Of the law warrant.
To remedy the evil the Atlanta
Constitution says that the legislature
must do one Of four things-cut down
the pensions, starve the State insti.
tutions, largely raise the rate Of taxa
ton, or Withhold payment OF the salar.
les earned by teachers of the State.
Clearly the State institutions or pub.
lie education should not suffer. This
leaves two remedies. Which OF these
are the people likely to prefer, higher
taxation or reduction Of pensionss
The leading newspapers of the State
favor q prompt revision of the pension
lists. And they undoubtedly reflect
public sentiment and opinion. Georgia
has at least realized that pensions
should be placed invariably ON an
INDECENT basis, that only those actually
in need and unquestionably deserving
should profit through this public
bounty.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-26

en- Medical Discovery cures the diseased
stomach and enables the perfect digestion
and assimilation of food, so that the
sluggishness, irritability, nervousness and
sleeplessness which result from innutri-
ton are cured also.
1I was taken sick nine years ago with fever"
writes Mr.. NJ NJ Wardwell of I,inwood Leaven-
worth Co, Kansas. vHad the doctor and he
broke up the fever all right, but took diar
rhGa right away; he couldn't cure it and it
became chronic, and then he gave up the case.
I got so weak with 1t and had piles SO badly
couldn't lie down, nor hardly sit up. Was
that way two or three months thought I would
never be well again. but picked up one of DR..
Pierces Memorandum Books one day and saw
your description of catarrh Of the stomach. 1
thought it hit my case. We had bottle Of Dr.
.'ierces Golden Medical Discovery in the house
that was got for mother. You recommend it for
catarrh OF the stomach, so went to taking it.
The one bottle nearly cured me. I got two bot
ties next time and took one and one half and
was well. 1 haven't been bothered with diar-
rhoea since"
DIR. Pierce's Pellets cure biliouSness.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-26

$20,000,0OO is being destroyed, that the
land on the mountain slopes is being
washed away more in a single year
now than in ten centuries while the
forests stood, and that the soil swept
down is clogging the Ohio, Tennessee
and Mississippi rivers in way that
will be most injurious to navigation.
He earnestly urges the creation and
preservation of forests on the noun
taiuS,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-26

"UNcLE Sydney Clark" the inven.
tor OF the paper collar, who il now SO
years old, and who, during his life
time, has invented many useful things,
is now at work on . spring autmobile.
He lives at Black River, Wis, and is
in fairly good health for his years.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-26
PSSHESHET EWT.

Social progress has done away with
great many forms of punishment once
administered under the laws of enlight-
ened people. But nature never changes
or modifes her penalties. She still has
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-26

the S a III e punish
Inent for the man
W h o neglects or
abuses his stomach
as she had in the
far off days "when
Adam delved and
Eve span."
The physical dis
comfort, dullness,
sluggishness, irri-
liability, nervous
ness and sleepless-
II e S S W hich are
NlSlltu upon tHc
man who eats care
1essly or irregularly
have been from the
beginning the evil
dences of disease of
the stomach and its
associated organsof
\ digestion and nu-
! triton.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-26
A Missouri man who went to Wash.

A Missouri man who went to WASH
ington, D. c., to sell a carload Of
horses. reports the following condi-
tions: "The people travel on electric
cars and do not need roadsters; they
ride in automobiles and do not need
fast trotters; they gamble by wire and
have no use for race horses and the
government is run largely by jackasses,
and there you are "-Ex.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-26

Three year old Jack had pulled q
large bunch of nasturtiums in his
grandmother's yard, though strictly
forbidden to touch the flowers. A
A colrtmartial was held, with grand
ma as judge advocate.
"Jack," she said, "who pulled
gaandma' fowers!"
With Q sad countenance the beauti-
full little fellow replied: Kathleen
(his elder sister).
Then the grandfather, rather stern
old gentleman and q great stickler for
truth, spoke up.
"Jack, be q man and say did it,"
With beaming expression of relief
Jack cried out. "Ob, yes, Grandpa did
itw
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-26
Tough on Him.

miss Strong is exceedingly mascu.
line. isn't she?" remarked Miss As
cum.
Most atwociously So" replied young
Mr.. Sissy, with some heat.
You seem to speak from cxper-
ience."
"Yaas, I do. She got into the
elevatah with me in the Skyscwape
building one day and when she saw
me she deliberately wemoved her hat
and held it in her hand till I got off"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-26

THE age at which girls can marry in
Turkestan has been raised from ten
and twelve to fourteen and upward.
1t is estimated that rs per cent. Of the
girls who marry under the age Of
twelve die before they are twenty, and
for that reason the Russian govern
ment has decided to legally regulate
the marrying age.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-26

Hey therel" yelled the indignant
citizen, lodging quickly backward.
"You dropped brick just now that
came within an ace of hitting me on
the headw
"Kape i'll" shouted the workman
on the twelfth floor of the unfinished
skyscraper. "We've got plenty more
av 'em"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-26

The shingle mill operated by Gaus.
lin & Garthley at Everett was de-
stroyed by fire Saturday morning.
Loss, $4,000.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-26
A CHRISTMAS STORY.
TRUE INCIDENT OLA RAILROAD
BLOCKADE.

How an Improvised Santa Claus Made Several
Hearts Besides Of the Careworn Woman
and Her Two Children Beat With Joy-A
Happening Which Shows the World Akin.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-26

DIR. Pierce's Pellets cure biliousness.
The Springfield herald., 1902-10-31
NEWSPAPER DICTIONARY.

Abandoned-Th character of our
driveling contemporary.
Ass-The man who does not read
our paper.
Babble-The arguments of our driy-
cling contemporary.
Contemporary pirate who runs
a rival newspaper.
Printer-The man who manages tAe
managing editor.
Nonsense-The mater the o:A lS IA
per prints.
Evil-Something for the reporters
to write about.
Notwithstanding to increase cir
culation.
Poetry-Soma.hing that we ds rot
need.
enthusiastically high school
graduate.
Correspondent-One who writes flc-
tion from the seat of war.
Saturday-The day when the bills
come in.
Subscription-The largest in the
world (when it's our own).
Function-Anything from shoe
clerks picnic to the launching of a
battleship.
Grand Opera-An annual exhibition
of evening clothes.
Politics-A subject that always gets
us excited.
Something to keeI tae
reporters busy.
Editorial-An article written .ftsr
thing has happened, to tell hcy 1t
might have been prevented.
Ofice-boy-A person who runs tSe
paper when the city editor is not -.
Joke-A class of matter that is Eird
read.-News Letter.
The Springfield herald., 1902-10-31
oFT.USED QUOTATIONS.

Quotations from the plays of Bear
mont and Fletcher are often made, and
many of them have become part of
our common Speech and are used by
the masses without the least knowl-
edge of their origin. Here are some of
them:
Go to grass.
One foot ir the grave.
AS cold as sucumbers.
A soul as white as heaven.
He comes not in my books.
Beggars must be no choosers.
Kiss till the COW comes home.
No better than you should be.
Whistle and she'll come to you.
Calamity is mans true touchstone.
Though l say it that should not
say it.
There is a method in mans wicked
ness-It grows DIP by degrees.
What's one. mans poison, signor,
Is another mans meat and drink.
All your better deeds
Shall be In water writ, but this in
marble.
Nothing can cover his high frame but
heaven;
No pyramids set off his memories,
But the eternal substance of his great
ness
To which l leave him.
The Springfield herald., 1902-10-31
WITH THE sAGES.

Strongest minds are often those OF
whom the noisy world hears least
Wordsworth.
Beyond all doubt. the worst of our
enemies are those which we carry
about in our own hearts.-Tholuck.
Have nothing in your house that
you do not know to be useful and be-
lieve to be beautiful.-William Nor
ris.
Choose always the way that seems
the best, however, rough 1t may be-.
able.-Pythagoras.
All our relaxations, and every holi-
day we enjoy. are hut means to that
important end, the better discharge of
our duty.-LeatheS.
When bad men combine the good
must associate, else they will fall one
by one. an unpitied sacrifice in con-
temptible struggle.-Edmund Burke.
Mammon must be the lord of both
worlds, il he is the lord of either. If
we admit him to make our earth for
us, he will also make our heaven.-F.
ID. Maurice.
To consume your own choler, as
some chimneys consume their own
smoke, is negative yet no slight vir-
tue, nor one of the commonest in these
times.-Carlyle.
The entire grace, happiness, and
virtue of "a young mans) life depends
on his contentment in doing what he
can dutifully and in staying where he
is peaceably.-
Nothing is degrading which high
and graceful purpose enobles, and
offices the most menial cease to be
menial the moment they are wrought
in love,-James Martineau.
Do not flatter yourself that life owes
you any more than it owes anybody
else. 1t owes you, in common with
all others, Just as much as, climbing,
you can bring DOWN.. H. Beecher.
The aim for which we give our best
strength is everything, the Visible sue
cess as nothing. True faith may be
the greatest goodness and fidelity at
the highest, when visible success is at
the least.-John Hamilton Thorn.
Man is tanner of wild beasts, and
these wild beasts are his passion. TIC
draw their teeth and claws. to muzzle
and tame them, to turn them into ser
wants and domestic animals, fuming
perhaps. but submissive-in this con
sists personal education.-Amiel.
The Springfield herald., 1902-10-31
PHILosoPHIc Numbering .

People. like furniture, look mighty
fine until you remove the veneer.
Even the snail has house mere
wonderfully made than the kinf S
mansion.
Not until a man Is good and marrird
does he realize what an easy thi. e
it is to get into trouble.
"Once upon time" was more f-e.
quent with history than any period
since the birth of world
1t is common thing to joke ahee,t
coal, but now and then fellow tusns
up who has actually bought tor
About now the small boy is wonGlr.
ing if it wouldn't be wise move to
join Sunday school before Christmas.
If the man constantly dunned by
creditors wants to analyze his sen.
sations, let him think of the dog with
the tin can tied to his tail.
We have had all kinds of exrer-
ence with kitchen help. including see
ing the girl In the kitchen help her
relatives over the back fence.
Because Willie has a cramp altar
stealing the pie we talk learnedly
about the laws of compens nsation.-Bal.
timore News.
The Springfield herald., 1902-10-31

'The Father of the American Navy"
as Paul Jones has been called, was
born a Scotchman. When he was a
lad he was called John Paul after his
father, but later in life he took the
name of Paul Jones. This odd chang
ing of his name came about in the
following way:
little John Pauls father had dis
tant cousin who had migrated to
America and became Virginia plant
, err. The good man had no family, and
he, therefore, adopted as his heirs two
children of his relatives. the Pauls,
who were back in the western low
lands of Scotland. One of these heirs
was little John Paul
But John Paul, If he accepted the
property of his fGmily's cousin, must
also accept his cousins surname.
Such is the story of how John Paul
became John Paul Jones, or Paul
Jones as he is more often called.
But to this story of his boyhood. His
father, in his occupation as gardner,
lived some twenty-five miles from
Waitehaven. then an important sea-
port. A ship owner and merchant of
Whitehaven was in the neighborhood
of John Pauls home one day in the
summer of 1853, and his errand was
to find sailors for one of his ships
about to sail for America.
That afternoon a stiff northeast
wind began to blow and the weather
became squally. Over the Solway,
far in the distance, small yawl was
battling with wind and wave, and try
ing to run to the shelter of the little
harbor creek near by the village. Peo-
pie gathered to watch the progress of
the boat. Among them was the ship
| owner from Whitehaven.
The Springfield herald., 1902-10-31

say that the sight is not only unusual,
but strikingly beautiful, as the jacana,
has greenish-gold feathers under the
wings, which flash wildly
There is species of iapwing that
has a performance of the most re-
markable nature. 1t consists of a
regular ceremonial for the reception
of visitor. The birds live in pairs,
but one will now and then leave its
mate and approach a pair. The pair
advance to meet the visitor and place
themselves side by side behind them.
Then all three begin to march in that
order, the leader utterng loud notes
at regular intervals, and the pair
keeping up constant sound, like the
roll of drum.
Suddenly all three stop; the leader
raises his wings and stands erect
and motionless, still uttering loud
notes. while the other two, with puff
ed'out plumage and standing exactly
abreast. stoop forward and downward
until the tips of their beaks touch the
ground. Sinking their voices to a
murmur, they remain for some tim,
In that position.