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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-05-08

Mack Wood, the bartender who was
, drowned in bathtub at Seattle, on
the 1st, is said by his friends and 9TH
ers who are in position to know, to
have been heir to an estate OF $1,000
600 and nephew OF the wealthy duke
of Hamilton OF England. Wood had
lived in Seattle for number OF years.
A few months ago an agent OF the
duke OF Hamilton, his uncle, came to
Seattle and made every effort to induce
Wood to quit his dissolute life and re-
turn to his family in England. "I
would rather lose my fortune than my
whisky" was his invariable answer to
the opportunities OF the agent.
Ii Sheriff Brewer had made another
trip to Benure Island after pirates, he
probably would never have reached
home alive. While hunting on the
island man named Conner from La.
Conner heard the mewing OF a cat
coming from a small shack. He
opened the door cautiously and stared
into the muzzle of a 45-caliber rifle,
which was cunningly arranged so that
string from the door would spring
the trigger. Sheriff Brewer and depu-
ties recently made two arrests among
the pirates on the island, and it is be.
lieved that friends OF the arrested men
laid the trap for the Sheriff's death.
DR.. de Forest, the inventor of the
Forest Wireless Telegraph, made
a trip recently to Cape Flattery,
where he selected the site for the
American terminus OF the wireless
telegraph system that is TO connect
this country with Asia. He was &C.
companied on the trip by w. G. Clark,
of Kilbourne & Clark, E. E. Hall, the
engineer who will have charge of the
actual construction work, OF Seattle,
and Frank r. Beahan of the U. S..
signal station at Tatoosh Island. The
location selected by DR.. de Forest is
near the extremity of Cape Flattery,
where the elevation is about 250 feet
above the sea. The country is densely
wooded, but beneath the the surface
soil is solid rock that will furnish
an excellent foundation for the 225.
foot towers that comprise the struc
fnra
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-05-08
A SCENE IN EDEN
Reported by an Unseen Angel Who Couldn't
Keep a Good Thing.

"How does it come, dinner isn't
ready?" demanded Adam impatiently
as he arrived home after q hard days
toll in the garden.
81 am sorry, Adam, DEAR" said Eve
penitently. "but I have been embroi.
dering you q new figleaf. There is
really no reason why we shouldn't
have more clothing when figleaves are
so plentiful"
"Do you know" said Adam, tenta-
lively" I sometimes question the pro.
priety of you wearing a fgleaf."
"Why, Adamw exclaimed Eve,
aghast, "What do you meanT
Er-well," ventured Adam, "don't
you think figleaf is trifle decol.
lete, so to speak?"
"No," said Eve rather snappishly,
$50 long as 1 don't give any garden
parties, think figleaf is all right.
Dear me! Do you wish me to wear q
sealskin sack this warm weather."
Adam did not answer this last sally,
but sat down to the table aud poured
out cup of coffee.
"This coffee is too weak" he said
irritably.
"You are very touchy to-day,
ADAM" said Eve, reproachfully. "Next
! suppose you'll be telling me that /
can't make coffee like your mother
used to make"
"I wish 1 had my rib back" re-
turned ADAM" "I'd about as lief live
alone az drink lukewarm dishwster."
"Well, il had q mamma" sobbed
Eve in an injured tone," you bet I'd
60 home to her.
Adam ate the remainder of his meal
in silence.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-05-08
TIMELY HINTS.
Things Worth Remembering About Vegetable

lhInSs Worth Remembering About Vegetables.
1t is believed by vegetarians that a
purely vegetable diet makes people
amiable, good-natured, generous, de-
veloping the finer characteristics OF the
user, and that excessive meat eaters
become the opposite quarrelsome,
selfish, etc.
Whether this be true or not, we
know that fresh vegetables are appre.
ciated in the early spring and are an
essential change from the heavy winter
viands and should form the greater
part of our daily menus.
Almost every vegetable has its par.
ticular use in the human system and
Dame Nature provides sufficient varie-
ty to keep US in fine bodily condition,
if we will live in accordance with her
laws, and not abuse her gifts.
Tomatoes act directly on TIE liver.
Onions, garlic, leeks, shallots, chives,
etc, stimulate the calculation, increase
the saliva and gastric juices, and pro.
mote digestion.
Peas, beans and lentils, called also
legumes, are among the most nutri
tious of vegetables, containing as much
carbon as wheat, and more muscle.
forming food.
Lettuce and celery both have q good
effect upon the nerves; the former is
soothing; the latter tonic.
The free use of pieplant or rhubarb
is considered "Spring tonic" and
will take the place of medicine which
is often apparently necessary to tone
up the system. Being such a common
and inexpensive plant, it is really not
appreciated by the majority of house
wives. When so fortunate as to have
it growing in the garden, it is gener-
ally used in small amounts for pies
early in the season and the remainder
allowed to 60 to waste, when it might
be utilized in variety OF sppetizing
dishes all the year around, as it can be
preserved for winter use equally as
we'll as the more expensive fruit.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-05-08
Prohibition That Doesn't Prohibit.

While Maine has prohibitory liq-
uor law. it does not seem to be en-
forced in some Of the larger cities. In.
stead q peculiar method of collecting
license fees is followed. Bangor has q
plan by which, it is said, all dealers are
fined once year and are then allowed
to 60 free from molestation the remain
der OF the year provided they conduct
orderly places. There are said to be
over 200 liquor saloons in that city.
Recently complaints were made OF
about fifty dealers, nearly all OF whom
appeared voluntarily in court and
paid fines, the minimum rate being
S2lO, and $40, ,522 was collected in that
way.
The men who pay the money pro-
ceed with their saloon business, feeling
that they are safe for another year, if
they keep orderly places. If public
sentiment sustains such a practice, it
is probably useless to try to enforce
the prohibitory law.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-05-08
How Robson Became an Actor.
Baltimore Sun.

Baltimore Sun.
Stuart Robson tells this story OF
how he became an actor:
"I had run away from my home in
Baltimore aud had drifted to Wash
ington with my playmate, Arthur Pue
German, now Q Senator-elect from
Maryland, and for several weeks l was
on the verge of starvation. German
had lot of push and he landed as a
page in the Senate, but somehow l
couldn't connect, but I used to hang
about the capitol just the same, and
one day. remember it we'll, because
it was marked by dull, red clouds,
that now is spoken of as the yellow
day in Washington-Gorman came to
me and said: "'Rob, if you'll see
Dan Webster he'll fix you
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-05-08
THE SOLE OF HER FOOT
BY 1t WOman's Fortune Can Be Told as
Well as by the Palm.
New York Su

New York Sun.
Character readers believe that the
sole of the foot is as good an index oi
personal traits and the individual
destiny as the palm of the hond.
The lifeline in the normal person
should run without a break from the
base OF the big toe to the base OF the
small toe. The inequalities in this
line signify the illnesses the persun
will experience and whether those
illnesses will be in youth, maturity, OF
late in life. If the line ends abruptly
midway across the foot and cannot be
discerned further on, the breakage
means death at middle age.
The lines on the average heel are
generally indistinct, but in persons OF
remarkable intelligence or tenacity
those lines are plainly distinguished.
Numerous lines on the heel running
crosswise and in many directions mark
the owner OF the foot as qualified to
take the initiative and achieve sue.
cess in whatever pursuits he elects.
Such lines appearing in confusion also
signify versatility.
A cross-line on the ball of the foot
indicates love of family and truthful,
loyal temperament. The more marked
this line the better index it is that the
individual will excel in the domestic
virtues, be good wife or good hus.
band and faithful in filial or parental
relations.
Persons with slight dent in the
center of the sole are apt to be of a
sanguine, enthusiastic nature with the
tendency to 60 all lengths in love, in
religion, patriotism, or whatever en-
cages their interests. The deeper the
dent the more intense the nature.
The moderately plump, somewhat
short foot is index of a steady-going,
practical person, systematic, and to be
trusted. A long, slim, tapering foot
indicates refined sensibility and a log.
ical mind. The owner is usually a
person of conservative taste and cor.
rect standards.
The plant, delicately nodded foot
joined to a small ankle, generally be.
longs to a person who is impression
able and a good deal controlled by i'm
pulse. The owner OF such foot will
have strong instincts toward inde-
pendence and will prize variety and
intellectual stimulus.
The thick, blunt foot, joined to an
ankle rather large and stiff-set, belongs
to the industrious plodder Of not over
quick perceptions.
The termagant, the peace lover, the
crank, and the fanatic, can all be told
by their feet. The shape and length
or shortness of the toes is considered
in conjunction with the contour and
size of the foot itself. Uncommonly
long and unusually short toes, wheth
er thick or thin, indicate character.
istics out of the normal. The toes OF
the well-balanced, judicious person
are of medium dimensions only and
moderately tapering.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-05-08
ElaY0rinq for Soup.

Often we have some stock made
from tastless meats and hardly know
how to make it palatable. The follow
ing recipe renders the stock deliciou,
however tastleless it may have been
Mix together one tablespoon OF lemon
juice, one teaspoon of sugar, one hal
teaspoon grated lemon peel, one fourth
teaspoon of nutmeg and ten drops o.
extract of ginger. Add to the stock
before straining or clarifying.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-05-08
THE HEATHEN ChINEE is Pc
CUllAR.
How He Worked the Express Company in
| Securing an Unclaimed Package

How He Worked the Express Company in
Securing an Unclaimed Package
The Oregonian, in its Side.Lights
on Life in Portland" has this to say
of very ingenious trick played on the
e" Melican man." by his copper-colored
brother: valuable goods are put up
in small packages" said the old auc-
tioneer, "but that's a proverb that
doesn't 60 with Chinaman. He
wants all his moneys worth and be-
lieYes he's ahead of the game when he
gets boots and clothes several sizes too
large for him. But did you ever hear
of the gold brick one Chinamsn bought
at an express sale here years ago?
You know the express companies have
an annual sale of unclaimed packages.
l was hired to auction off big bunch,
and several Chinks' were in the crowd.
They didn't bid on thing until l got
to the biggest package of the lot-a
great oblong box that weighed pretty
heavy. They sized it up and raised a
white mans bid. He raised back, but
they shut him out with jump OF $5.
Then another white man thought it
looked good, and went after it. I've
no idea what fool notion they'd got
into their heads as to what the box
contained, but the Chinks jsbbered a
heap about it, and they ran it up to
$50, when the white man quit.
"Then the winner pulled a hatehet
somewhere from under his shirt and
knocked off board. What dye think
was in the boz?
"Nothing but the cheapest-looking
coffin you ever saw. They'd bought a
blamed old uncalled-for stiff. The
other Chinks and the crowd laughed
fit to bust, but the buyer raised quite
a howl-wanted his money back and
all that. But l needed the commits
sion and didn't want any legal fuss
ing about a mysterious corpse, so l
made him load it on truck and get
off with it.
at told him, says 1: Its none of
my funeral, now; that up to you,
Chinkie.'
"And he went off a 'uk. k.a-hi.ing'
and hitting to beat the band"
Just then an EXCLUSIONS official
who chanced to be among the auc.
tioneer's listeners, inquired:
"You never heard the sequel to that
story, eh, Joe?"
"No-somethiDg more to it?"
"Well, rather. About week after
that sale we got onto the information
that that coffin was chock full Of
opium and never an ounce OF it paid
duty. You Chinks had been put wise
in some way, and that's why they were
at the sale, and they knew they had
the right package soon's they saw the
coffin. That holler about money back
was all bluff"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-05-08
English as She Is Spelt.

There are some curious things in
English spelling and pronunciation,
and the knowledge of them does not
come by instinct:
If an S an and an and an o and U,
With an X at the end spell Su,
And an E and Y and an E spell an I,
Pray, what is the speller to do2
Then if also an and an l and aG
And on H E d spelt eide,
There's nothing much left for the spell
Ter to do,
But to 60 and commit siouxeyesighed.
BEETEM-Pshaw! / must have $50
by noon to-day, and l left all my
money at home in my other clothes.
Can't you help me out?
Wiseman-Sure. I'll lend you car
fare 10 60 home for it.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-05-08
Corned Beef Hash.

Cut cold, cooked corned beef very
fine and mix with twice its bulk Of
mashed potato. Add shredded green
pepper to every quart, season with salt
and pepper and serve very hot. This
recipe comes from the chef Of mans
club. Corned beef hash served on
toast, with poached egg dropped on
each portion, commands high price
at good restaurants.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-05-08

"AH, Colonel" said the beautiful
grass widow, "you don't know how
glad I am that Lent is past"
"Why, Have you been practicing
self-denial very hard?"
"Yes. That homely woman over
there beside the punch bowl made
some awfully mean remarks about me
not long ago. I've been waiting.
Now that We shall all be going out
again and meeting every few nights,
I'm going to make eyes at her hus.
band. Watch me for week or two,
and see if don't make her crazy."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-05-08

THE only trouble with " carrying q
big stick" in the form of a navy, is the
temptation to use it. 1t is the man
who carries gun that is tempted to
shoot and the boy with a new jack
knife who cannot resist whiting the
school furniture.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-05-08
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-05-08

HIRT is the name of q New York
dentist-and of course he does.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-05-08

MEN are seldom thankful when they
get what they deserve.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-05-08

A WRITER without ambition is al
most as bad as poet with an idea.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-05-08

FREAKS of individuality upset oil
calculations.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-05-08

With roast beef, grated horse-radish
Roast veal, tomato or horse-radish
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1903-10-16
Women S Sympathy
Is PrOverbial. StauntOn Women
No Exceptions.

How much we owe to the sympa.
thetic side of womankind When 9th
ers suffer they cheerfully lend a help
ing hand. They tell you the means
which brought relief to them that you
may profit by their experience. Read
the testimony given here by Staun-
ton woman.
Mrs. g. a. Tyler, whose pla:e OF resi-
dence is at 3 Hancock street. says: 81
suffered for years with my kidneys, and
although l spent hundreds of dollars
for medical advice and medicines did
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permanent good. l cannot describe IN
ordinary word what endured from
the terrible aching and misery in the
small of my back. Sometimes the pain
was so severe it caused tears to run
down my face. 1 was obliged to keep
my back covered with plasters for the
slight relief they afforded. could not
| walk even a short distance without
| getting out Ol DfeACu. OlGcu u BLK
| ing feeling would come over me and a
glimmering came before my eyes sc
that could not stand. was also both
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when l saw Doan's kidney Pills ad
vertised and highly recommended
went to B F. Hughes drug store ant
got box. On using them I noticed
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the use of the remedy until had take
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know a lumber of people 10 Staunto
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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1903-10-16
Cures Rheumatism and Cat arfh
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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1903-10-16

con IECTloKs
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Va U'hesarssk s Western JunetieA} with
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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1903-10-16
Saves Two From Death.

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niece, who had consumption in an ad
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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1903-10-16
Ladies' cIoaks and Capss.

We have the 6n.st and 81 sspes' lire
W. ever carried. We have them from
81 $3.50 IS 90
BEAUTY AT IS 90 In light tan.
r val blue q stor aud B,ac' a. IN Il I
very la:sst sly 10 Of high grade. Melton
ci 9TH mus b. 'en 10 be Appreciated
LADIES PLUSH HAPE5 never e.
o 1t OF s:yi-froM 500 $500
Children baskets from ) 70 8 years
a: IS cts.
Chi'dtem ling CO ks from 81 90 to
s. GO. they are beauties:
LADIES q, LLARET1 rs from
81 co TO s. 90
l. di.s skirts. Never have We bad q
stronger line than We are now seEiag.
Wool K.rsey v king skirts S rows
OF sticking arouLd bottom At % cts.
Fine grade skirts from $500 to d 90
all tailor made aad perfect as to at.