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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21
Language Of the Partisan.

Gov. Odell, of New York, who has
lust made a tour OF the Middle West,
tells the press that outside of Wall
street, the people are too busy with
big crops and other business to pay
any attention to the recent furry in
business and consequent failures.
" There is" he says, "no signs of a
panic, except in the East" He fur
Their affirms that "The excitement
and Generalization OF the East is re-
garded with indifference in the great
productive West" and the labor
strikes he found "Out there were for
shorter hours and better wages and
not against lower wages, which are
signs OF bad times" The ingenuity of
this evening up" Of conditions to
maintain the hilarious cry of prosper
ity, is a wonderful demonstration of
party zeal. But there is a candid ad-
that conditions are not as Sc
rene as the party shibboleth would in
dictate, and it is q new proposition to
advance that strikes for higher wages
are not controlled by the same condi-
tions as a strike against lower wages.
The fact is, that a demand for better
pay indicates that the wage-rate and
the price of commodities have parted
and the effort is as much for
on living equality as to
prevent the laborerss pay from being
reduced in corresponding ratio. There
is no prosperity for the poor man
when he is compelled to live literally
from hand-to.mouth. If reduction OF
wages is "sign of bad times" as the
Governor affirms. surely conditions
which produce like result from in
crease OF cost of living. is just as much
, " sign of bad times" so far as labor
is concerned.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

A BUILDING resembling the Tower OF
Babel, in some respects, was begun in
England, some years ago, called Jez-
reels Tower. It was designed to
"home" 10000 Jews. The walls were
carried several stories in height, with
great enthusiasm, when the interest
and funds failed, and the great shell
was left rootless and windowless.
Storms have demolished large sections
of the walls and the large structure is
rapidly falling into decay.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

CANADA is threatened with an over.
flow Of religious immigrants from
France, belonging to orders which
have been driven from there. Bishop
Duhsmel, of Ottawa, has gone so far
as to refuse settlement of any OF them
in his diocese, claiming that there are
more than enough orders now. In
view of the tax exemption OF church
property in some parts of Canada, the
influx of brothers, monks and nuns is
likely to create much ill.feeling.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

For heavens sake, use English, Oily
The STANDARD has felt inclined to
stand by its protege and even give
him the benefit OF any doub. in de-
corum and dictum. But when it
comes to pulling off" q pie.eating
contest at the carnival, in its local
columns, and the announcement edi-
torially that Baltimore wants to have
the national conventions next year
pulled off" in that city, we pause in
amazement and doubt whether such
language is the result of neglect or
ignorance. There is no excuse with
100000 words in the English vocabu-
larry to plead poverty in forms Of ex.
preston, and the people have the
right to expect the use of ordinarily
correct language, with the possible ex.
ception OF reporting baseball games
and ruglislic encounters.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

A TRIAL OF the new grain, corn
wheat, made by number of farmers
at North Bend, was complete failure.
The grain either did not grow or tailed
to ripen. The stalks turned yellow
and the farmers turned them dow Il
with plows.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

THE American yacht Irondequoit
has won the international trophy in a
race with the Strathcana, in Canadian
waters. The last race OF the series was
sailed on the 18th, and the cup for
mally passed into possession OF Com.
modore Van Voorhees,, of Rochester,
as representative OF the Rochester
Yacht Club.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

A DEMENTED man at band concert
in Winfield, Kansas. opened fire on a
crowd of 5000 people with a repeating
shot gun, killing four persons, when a
police officer ended the carnage by
shooting the maniac through the
head. He had the reputation of being
crazy, but had never before developed
dangerous proclivities.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

BALTIMORE wants to have the National
Conventions of 1904 pulled off in that
city.-Olympian.
The only suggestion which the use
OF the expression pulled off" affords
is that q stalwart exhibition OF some
kind is eminent, like that suggested
by conflict from an old song which
runs:
Pull Of your jacket and roll up your sleeves
For Jordan am hard road to trabble."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

The little tender to the dredger
about the size of q yawl.boat, the
smallest OF the dredging fleet, makes
more noise than all the others. She is
propelled by q gasoline engine and
when she is running at full speed the
popping OF her exhausts sound like
the explosion OF q string of giant fire
crackers.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

JEFFRIEs is still the champion heavy
weight pugilist of the world, having
knocked out Corbett in the tenth
round in the great fight at San Fran.
cisco, on the l4th inst.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

The condition of residents at ia
maica is reported as appalling. Thous.
ands are starving and flocking for
food and shelter to towns that are in
ruins and unable to afford relief. Aid
ia asked from this country.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

THE Supreme Court of Massachu-
sets, in passing upon Dakota divorce
case, holds that each State may re.
quire that divorce procured in any
other State shall be passed upon by its
own courts before recognizing its
validity. The decree of the Dakota
court was held to be invalid.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

MORGAN has ceased to be bogy to
our English neighbors, and our phleg.
matick cousins now breathe much
more easily than they did when the
Alexander in finance seemed TO be
looking for other worlds to cong uer.
1t was feared that his great interna-
tional shipping trust was intended as
scheme for controlling Great Brit
aims chief industries. It is common
thing now to hear the expression on
the Strand, He's only a Hooley on q
large SCALE" Hooley being an opera.
tor who, as promoter OF the Lappline
Corundrum Mine of Canada, succeed.
ed in penetrating some swindles that
reminded London's money bags of the
South Sea Bubble, as far back as 1720.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

GEN. Young's term as Chief OF the
Army Staff will run only till Jan. 9th,
when the age limit will be attained for
retirement and he will be succeeded
BY Gen. Chaffee.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

THE GAME Nor WORTH THE CAM
DLE.-It has sometimes appeared to US
that hair-splitting distinctions in po-
litical discussions were Improbable,
and time lost in advancement of pro-
positions which seemed of great i'm
portance in fixing the outline OF prin-
ciple, and how much more so must we
condemn spirit OF religious enthusi-
asm which impels one sect to tear
down the tenets of another, built posi-.
bly, upon the same Rock Of Salvation,
with probably little difference in the
mixing of mortar. The publication of
a communication entitled "Facts and
Fiction" treating of Popss and papal
descent, signed Clericus," is declined
for that general reason as we'll as the
extreme length of the article, and its
tone and temper, which is likely to
promote captious and acrimonious dis.
custom. The title Clericus," would
prove . very impene.rable veil to its
author, who has seemed to us to be
imbued with anything but the cap.
tious. not to say acrimonious spirit
which runs through his communica.
ton. He will, probably, on reflection
agree with US, that we have done the
proper thing in Withholding the article.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

A CANADIAN revenue cutter, last
week, on Lake Erie, sent a score of
cannon balls through the American
fishing tug Silver Spray, which had
crossed over the boundary line to re-
cover nets that had drifted. The
matter will prob ably come before the
State Department at Washington for
inuuiry.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

THE Northern Pacific Railway PEG.
pie contemplate putting on fourth
passenger train daily between Portland
and the Sound, to accommodate the
steadily increasing travel.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

THE Boston Globe dominates Gen.
Nelson A. Miles for Governor of Mas.
sachusetts, his native State, where he
has hosts of friends on personal as
well as political grounds.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

A THEORY Nor VERIFIED BY FACT.
The N. Y. World, in commenting
upon the drift of population to the
cities, says that it is owing to the SUBJ
stitution of farm machinery for hand
labor, which enables ten men to har-
vest an acreage which once required
hundred men to safely garner and
store for market. This may appear
very plausible, in theory, but it would
be difficult to convince the western
farmer with his thousand acre grain
field that there is any decline in de-
mand for farm labor, when passengers
have been abducted from passing
trains and paid the highest wages to
enter the harvest field. That improved
machinery will supply the want is not
shown by results, for this condition
recurs each season, and the owners of
these large farms have been amply
able to supply themselves with reaping
and harvesting machinery, if they
would have afforded adequate relief.
The World will have to find some other
natural law" than the one it so COM
placently sets forth and which it de-
clares lis not subject to repeal"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

POPE Plus x is OF humble origin
His name, Giuseppe Ssrto,is Italian fol
Joseph Taylor, and the first Taylor, OF
Sarto, was a tailor.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

HORRIBLE accounts of butcheries
come from Turkey, between Pacha's
forces and insurgents. Accounts of
slaughter of whole villages are given
in the dispatches.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

ROOSEVELT has promised Root the
Office OF President in 1908, if he will
help him now defeat his New York
enemies. Here is another evidence
of the strenuous life.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21
The Faith Cure in Politics.

The course OF action Of the Democrat
ic party in the next campaign excites
too much solicitude on the part of the
powers that be for anybody to assume
that it is not the result OF much doubt
and worry Their knives have been
slashing Mr.. Bryan till they drip with
sanguinary gore, and they have tried
every device known to diplomatic
maneuyer for galvanizing a defunct
aspirant into life as its nominee for an
easy victory over him. This has been
their plan in former campaigns, but
the most potent argument" hitherto
used has been the mighty dollar. The
cry of Prosperity" is delusion. The
prosperity is all on the side OF money
bags and the combines for their own
preservation and safety. "Stand pat
was but another admonition for MAIN
tanning the rules Of addition, division
and sll-ucc.' " Let we'll enough
alone" was virtual endorsement of
frauds in evidence which have since
proven the existence of saturnalia
of corruption. Hanna's antitrust
speeches remind one OF Satan's prom
Uses on the mount, and every effort to
divert attention from the plain record
is but travcsty on fair-dealing and
justice. Some of the more intelli-
gent and observing of Republicans adj
NIT this to he true, but complacently
ask "What are you going to do about
it?" The former success of such
methods has seemingly inspired con-
tidence that the same policy will pro-
duce like results, under circumstances
SO absolutely controlled by
united wealth.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

AND now Russia is in fair way of
having brush with Turkey. Her
home squadron has been ordered to
Turkish waters. It is thought that
the powers may intervene.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

ST. LOUIS surgeons lately took the
heart Of 13-year- Alma Tromey,
who had heen stabbed with pocket.
knife, entirely out OF the chest-wall.
where it pulsated several moments
while an examination was made to
ascertain whether the heart.mnscle
had been severed. No injury was
found save q severed artery, and the
organ was returned after it had been
tied. The pericardium was then closd
with ligatures. The patient showed
no ill-effects from the operation and
her surgeons think she will recover.
1t is said that the operation has been
performed less than . dozen times of
which science has kept any record.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

IT seems that warships are as fragile
as chinaware when they come in
friendly contact with ordinary ship
ping. The late sinking of a Chinese
warship by collision with a trans.ocean
liner at Hongkong, supplemented by
damage to one of our war vessels on
the coast of Maine while playing hide.
and-go-seek for practice, and the acct.
dental ramming of the torpedo boat
destroyer Decatur by one Of her class,
the Barry, at Oyster Bay, while the
American fleet was under review of
the President, are all instances which
seem to demonstrate that ponderosity
may be an element of weakness instead
OF strength, a result it is we'll to de.
termine in times of peace and before
we 60 to the cost Of building q navy
to correspond with Rooseveltian ideas.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

THE ELKS' CLAMBAKE.-The Ore
gonian says that 500 spring chickens
have been fattened in Mississippi to
add zest to the Elks' banquet in this
city, tomorrow. They will be accom-
panied by half a ton of sweet potatoes
from the Sunny South, where they
grow to perfection, and 1000 ears of
selected corn from the Middle West"
where the ears" grow to exceedingly
great length. The clans will be an
Olympia product and need no eulogy
other than the refrain OF Senator Mes.
mith's eloquent peroration couple Of
decades ago at the Masonic clambake
in this city, when presented with an
empty clamshell Of enormous size by
his many admiring friends. Opening
it casually with simulated surprise, he
in substance apostrophized the mani
mate object thus: "'Tis ever thus,
our happiest moments are o'ershad-
owed by cloud our brightest antici.
pations crumble to the touch; the
flattery of friends turns 10 merciless
of the passing jest. have
often found that the honors which
come with such beautiful coverings,
when opened, betray the fact that the
better portion has been distracted from
them before they passed to me.
Friends, thank you for this outward
Of regard. if 1 have mad
betrayed the fact that it con.
tains no inward evidence of a merit
that would have been so we'll typed
by natures handiwork, in your native
clam y
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

THE salmon season on the Colum-
bia river has closed, and the pack Of
the season approximates AL $40 cases.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

The Canadian Pacific steamer En-
press OF India, from Vancouver, B. c.,
July 9th. for Hongkong, collided with
the Chinese cruiser Huang-Tai, near
the port of destination, inflicting q
damage from which the warsbip sank.
The Empress saved ITO OF the crew.
The captain and thirteen of the crew,
the dispatch states, refused to leave
the vessel and were drowned.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

No PANAMA CANAL.-The Panama
canal project is doomed for the present
at least. The Colombian Senate unan.
imously rejected the treaty with our
government whereby work on the great
enterprise would soon have been re-
sumed. Tho French company whose
rights we had acquired was formed in
1876, and two years later concession
was obtained from Colombia. De Les
seps became its president in 1879.
Active work began in 1883. A third
company obtained control in 1894, but
the project proved to be too great for
it, and the push and enterprise of the
American people was the only thing
needed to justify hope Of its compile
tion within the time of the contract,
1910. The failure may divert the
efforts of our government towards the
Nicaragua route, but in any event
there will be several years delay.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

NEXT MEETING PROBABLY IN ST.
LOUIS. - The Trans.Mississippi Con.
gress, in session this week at Seattle,
elected Hon. r. c. Kerens, of St.
Louis, President; A. L. Black, OF
Whatcom, Vice President; Walter
Gresham, OF Galveston, Second Vice
President; John Garfield, of St. Paul,
Third Vice President; c. B. Booth, of
Los Angeles, Fourth Vice President
Geo. B. Harrison, of Kansas City,
Treasurer, and Arthur P. Francis, OF
Cripple Creek, Secretary. 1t is ex-
pected that the next Congress will be
held at St. Louis.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

WELL, we'll; the cards originally
dealt in the Dietrich matter have been
played, although from a confessedly
"stacked deck. He is now . free
man, having "antied" the limit of
$3.50 for his freedom, with the under
standing that he leave the State and
never return. While the law has been
declared valid by the high court, the
inferior tribunal has played the precise
card dealt for that trick that was pro-
vided to defeat its object. Where an
attempt is made to regulate morals by
statute, does not this look somewhat
like compromising felony?
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

THE Nebraska Republican Conven-
ton has endorsed Roosevelt's nomina.
ton for President and John L. Web.
ster for Vice President.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

A PORTLAND women lost an eye by
the throwing of confetti. at the Wood
mems carnival lately held in that city.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

Mr., German, as Democratic ex pert.
observes that Eve seem to be getting
away from a number of false ideas the
party has been chasing around after in
the past few years." The tendency still
continues, and the supply of false ideas
is always equal to the lively Democratic
1t is hardly necessary to state that
the above paragraph is from a pie.
counter organ, which seems to lose
sight Of the fact that the Republican
party, from President down. is engaged
in stalwart endeavor to adopt these
same false ideas which the Democratic
party has been "chasing" with such
assiduity, and that in 1896, the change
of few thousand votes in an aggre-
gate OF 100000 would have vindi-
Gated their popularity against the COM
bined power of wealth and official pa
tronage called to the. front rank of .
contention for most doubtful results.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21
IT'S TEDDY'S LUCK.
BOORISH TREATMENT OF NILES
MIGHT HAVE BEEN DISASTER

To Himself Had the General Been En- ReeIe
With the South - Senator Gormans Elsi-
sibility-Judse Gray. Of Delaware, Has Made
Good Record for Preferment in the An.
thracite Coal Arbitration - Where Is Dave
B. hill?-Wall Street on Powder-Mine
Notwithstanding Reports of Hilarious Pros
perity-Roots Retirement from the Cabinet
Will Weaken the President - The General
Staff Plan Suggested for the Navy to Offset
the lncompetency of Secretary Shaw.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

sition as President Of the Iowa Agri-
cultural College, is again in circula-
ton. Dem.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21
Passing OF the Bicycle.

One OF the signs Ct the times, or
rather OF the characteristics of the
times, is the decline and fall of the bi.
cycle. 1t has not been so long ago
since there was perfect craze for the
wheel-a craze from which no age,
color, sex or fads were exempt. Men
and women, old and young. adults
and children, all rode the wheel. The
streets and the roadways were filled
with riders OF the steel steed, and
wherever one passed a couple at
group in deep conversation, the SUBJ
ject of talk was sure to be the wheel,
its properties, its belongings, its ex-
cellencies and the proficiency in its
management to which the takers had
attained.
Now all is changed. As fad the
wheel is as obsolete as the dodo, es.
pecially among young women, who
before apparently, could not get enough
OF it. This is characteristic OF the
American nervous anxiety to get all
possible out of everything in the short
est possible time, and to run fad
into the ground. Then the natural
the inevitable, reaction comes, the
pendulum of popular caprice swings
to the other end, and what was before
so Admirable is dropped completely
and pays for its former supremacy by
being consigned to practical oblivion.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

The HOP CROP Is ENCOURAGING
The hop market has revived and the
old crop is selling at 20 cents. Con.
tracts for the new crop are being made
at the same figures, and it is thought
the price will go still higher. 1t is
estimated that the crop west OF the
mountains will aggregate 22,5OO bales,
and OF the Yakima country 1880
bales-a total product OF $4,000 bales
against 10000 last year. Oregon is
accredited with $4,000 bales against
$4,000 lost season, and the crop of the
coast is estimated at $4,000 bales
against 10000 last year.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-21

THE GREAT RACE.-The first OF the
series of international races off Sandy
Hook began yesterday, the contest
ants Reliance and Shamrock III.
starting promptly at IL o'clock. The
first race was over course of 30 naut.
ical miles to the seward and return.
The Reliance steadily gained from the
start, but the weather was not favor.
able for decisive race, and after en-
countering shower, storm and a
calm, with about one-thrd of the
course completed, the contest was
declared off, it being evident that
neither boat could complete the
course within the time limit OF 81
hours. The Reliance led off from the
start, and very soon the allowance for
Shamrock of one minute and 81 Sec
onds had been overcome. 1t was at
) o'clock that the race was abandoned,
with the Reliance more than a mile
in the lead. Betting before the race
began was two to one in favor of Re.
lance. Tomorrow and Tuesday had
been agreed upon for the second and
third trials and thereafter every other
day till the series had been completed.