Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-09-04
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Hey, Rube!
Don't be clam. Be turtle then
you'll have more snap to you.
Newspapers change hands in We
natchee as regular as clock work 1t
would seem.
Some newspapers one never hears of
are far better than than those that
are filled with boiler plate"
The reason the gentleman followed
the Olympia lady for an hour was
quite natural. She had stolen his
heart.
A number of people who borrow of
and sponge Oh neighbors for the STAND
ARD ought to subscribe, or at least, buy
one once in while.
Walking delegates are getting it on
all sides, and the disturbers of work
ing men aud trouble makers, as they
are, deserve all they get, and more.
The Capital says that there is
syndicate furnishing nice editorial
matter by the cord. The Capital
would do we'll to purchase five or ten
cords soon as possible.
We may be myth to some pencil
pushers, but the way the rent.collec-
tor finds US each week only goes to
show that myth like myself must
pay honest debts or go to prison.
Leonard Fowler OF the Common
wealth, Seattle. has purchased the Re
publican of Wenatchee. Fowler is
probably trying to head off Sammy
Perkins in the number Of publications.
Here is what some OF the advanced
Socialists think OF elysium:
Where every day is pay day,
And all the drinks are free;
Where never is gray day,
And Care has lost her key.
"The Parisians ate $4,000 horses
last week." says the Spokesman.Re-
pie,o, but it fails to state if the horses
we're dead or alive; also how many
germs were included in their consump-
ton.
To test the standing of Admiral
Schley (Democrat) in the estimation
of the people, the United States should
put him and Roosevelt up as candi.
dates for the Presidency and watch the
result.
We could never understand why
manufacturers always place lock on
pianos. They never prevent the girl
who thinks she can play, but can't,
from annoying honest and sober
minded people.
Mayor Frank L. Boyd, of Spokane,
being a first class printer, and We
know whereof we speak, has not, as
yet, "pied" any of the good business
like actions Of Spokane citizens, as re.
CARDS push and enterprise.
No law ever enacted will stop gamb-
ling entirely. IT may restrict, but
stamp it out, never. Men will gam
BILE long as churches stand or the world
wags. If not openly and publicly,
then privately and secretly. And
there you are.
Just think of it. An Olympia wo.
man went out to the cemetery east
of Tumwater, Sunday, purposely to
cry over her late husbands grave
and had to give up the job on &C.
count of forgetting her new black
bordered handkerchief. Wasn't it too
badf
And now for a change OF the Jewish
creed-a shifting OF the Sabbath one
day to the front on the calendar. If
this revision of creeds keeps on, the
agnostic is likely to have cumulative
testimony that much OF the worlds
religion is msn.msde, a. he so insist
emily claims.
A man in Olympia was displaying
an egg, last week, which had in raised
letters Make Thy Peace With God"
The fellow was quite nervous about it.
This is getting to be an old gag and
has lost its Interest. The letters are
raised with an acid. The gentleman
was much alarmed at first until the
fake was explained to him by drug.
gist.
We cannot imagine how 20 many
posters, miss-called newspapers, by
those who don't know any better, can
live so long. having patent insides.
There is such poster not many miles
from Gate City that ought to purchase
four or five cords Of editorial matter
and "run" it each week, from q GER
tain syndicate they happen to know.
The paper would be more readable.
Its strange that whenever any trou-
BILE comes up in public departments,
that the head officials must either get
sick, or else HE away on vacations. For
instance, General Postmaster Payne
is running around on pleasure trips
when he should, as q representative
of the people of the United States, be
at work, and find out, if possible,
those officials under him who have
been using the Postoffice Department
as means of making money. Be-
cause these men are high in social
circles is no reason when a steal has
been exposed that they should not
have to explain few things.
The country is never happy unless
it has an outlaw hero on its mind.
Just now it is man who was known
in Centralis by name of Swift. He
shot and killed the Marshal of Cen
tralia while resisting arrest. The
murderer is still at large. A short
time ago it was Pat Grove, the kid
NAPIER. Further back il was the