Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-04-18
GATHERINGS BY THE WAYSIDE
Pithy Paragraphs Picked Up on the Public
Pathway for Presentation to
POnderinq PEOPLE.

The Supreme Court of Wisconsin
has declared invalid law taxing ice
sent out OF the State ten cents ton.
1t was unconstitutional.
DR.. Petri, of Nice, France, reports
the cure of number OF cases OF small.
pox by the use OF five or six table
spoonfuls OF beer yeast daily.
The people are in revolt against
trusts, fancy prices and enormous
profits at their expense, and should
make their voices heard at Washing
ton.
An English publisher has offered a
prize of 10000 to Santos Dumont, or
any other aeronaut who will make an
uninterrupted trip from London to
Birmingham.
Miss Hill, daughter of the President
of the Great Northern Railway, re-
ceived as a wedding present from her
father, $250OOO for "pin-money."
Good news for the pin trust.
The word tariff comes f..om the
name OF Spanish town, Tarifa, where
a robber baron of the sea extorted
tribute from all merchants passing
through the Straits of Gibraltar.
1t is logicians' puzzle to explain
why protectionists still fight for high
tariff rates and boast at the same time
of their ability to sell American goods
in foreign markets cheaper than at
home.
There is no reason for protecting in
the home market a manufacturer who
can export his goods, for that means
that he can meet foreign competition
abroad, and il he can do that he can
do it more easily at home.
There may have been a time when
the plea Of infant industry" was .
just one, but that time is past, and
protection now means continuing the
opportunities of trusts to exact ex-
orbitant profits from the consumer.
The whiskey trust has decided to
revive the National Protective Asso-
citation, started at Chicago in 1886 to
make war on the prohibition move.
ment, and try to convince the public
that prohibition laws are Intellectual.
A petition was introduced in Parlia.
ment signed by $4,000 Englishmen,
asking for dnties on imported goods.
1t was treated as a joke and provoked
laughter, it being considered incon.
ceivable that free-trade England
should adopt tariff.
Legislation for the Filipinos is not
taken up with so much assurance as
formerly. 1t has been found that
avoidance of the Scylla of public opin-
on in the United States leads to the
Charybdis of the Philippine conten-
tions, and their claims cannot be abso-
lutely ignored.
Nine out of every ten farmers in the
country keep poultry, the fowl popula.
tion being 234, 600, 600 chickens, l..
100000 turkeys, 100000 geese and
100000 ducks. The average mum.
Der OF eggs per fowl has increased in
ten years. showing the results of better
breeding and care.
A number of well-known artists, in.
cluding John La Fargo, John J. Alex.
ander and Edwin A. Abbey, have is
sued protest against the imposition
OF the import tax on art. They are
the persons supposed to be benefited
by such tax, and it would seem that
their protest should have weight.
German educators have discovered
that suffering can be cured by at
tention to diet and to general health,
reducing the quantity of meat eaten,
and laying stress on outdoor exercise.
They pronounce it a nervous affection
which can be better reached by treat
ment on that ground than by vocal
exercises.
Bulgaria has protested against Mr..
Dickinson, Consul General at Con.
stantinople and diplomatic agent at
Sofia, as persona non grata to that
government on account of his "per-
nicious activity" in the Stone abduc.
tion case. he having intimated that
Bulgaria was not doing all it might to
facilitate Miss Stones release.
Koreans explain the motive force
OF the American electric cars at Seoul
by saying that the foreigners have
harnessed the invisible dragons OF the
air and the electric flashes so often
seen are fire spit out by the angry
monsters at being compelled to work.
There may be some truth as we'll as
superstition and poetry in this explain
ton.
Austria is having trouble with q sect
calling themselves Nazarenes" who
follow Christ's teachings as closely as
possible. They use the Golden rule as
creed, have no regular church Or