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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-06
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
How to Manage Lamps.

uo" " WdhdSS LdHiPS
A young farmers wife writes that
she cannot manage her lamps. She
has always lived in q town where she
had gas lights. and now, on the farm,
where lamps are necessity, she would
like to know how to produce good,
clear light by which she and her hus-
band can read.
A common kerosene lamp will give
an excellent light il it is properly
cared for. First, you must use the
best headlight oil and the best burn.
ers-economy in price on these points
is not economical. The bowl of the
lamp should be filled with oil every
day, the charred top OF the wick wiped
off with q cloth and the lamp made
thoroughly clean. A lamp that ia
clesned only occasionally, and filled
only when the bowl is entirely empty
is not a success.
When you buy new chimneys, place
them in pan Of cold water and set on
the stove until the water boils. then
set it of, allowing the glass to remain
in the water until it is cold and you
will find they will not be so liable to
break when exposed to sudden changes
OF temperature.
Soak the wicks in vinegar and when
perfectly dry, use them, and they will
give clearer flame and not smoke.
All founts, burners, ETC., should be
washed occasionally in a suds of soap
and water, using a stiff brush to re.
move every particle OF SCOT or oil from
the flues.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-06
THEY SEE NO GHOSTS
SECTIONS IN THE LARGE GENE
TERIES SEE NO GHOSTS.

Chicago Grave Dssers May Be a Class by
Themselves, But They Affirm That Thay
Have Never Yet Seen Spirits. Except
Through a Glass-They Inter Passing Hu.
manity as a Matter Of Business, Same as
They Would Lay a Gas.Pipe.
Chicago Tribune.
There is little or no superstition
among the grave diggers in Chicago
cemeteries. At least that is the opin-
ion Of the officials and sections OF
these institutions. They say that the
grave diggers have genuine belief in
spirits, as is attested by the large
number of saloons found in the vi
cinity of every cemetery, but that
otherwise the Chicago grave digger
has less supernatural ideas than has
the granite used in the tombstones.
"My men dig grave just like they
would dig hole in the ground for a
street water pipe or dead dog" said
one superintendent. az met one OF
them yesterday and asked him How g
business?' He said Fine to day, zur.
he'd nine big ones and five leetle
ones That's the way he looks at it..
Merely matter OF business, with no
sentiment anywhere about it."
Down in the country, where one
man has for many years the sole
charge of grave yard, the loneliness
and solitude of his position often
breeds, after few years, strange no.
tions and beliefs. But in Chicago
many of the grave diggers are men
with no imagination and unable to
understand or appreciate any of the
traditions connected with graveyards.
Solitude has no chance to weave its
spell about them, because the Chi
cago cemetery is surrounded by the
bustling, busy city. Besides this they
10 not remain as long as their employ
ment as do the sections and grave
diggers in the small towns. They are
laborers who are employed according
to the demands of the cemetery as
sociation for their work. At other
times they are employed as ditch
diggers or in laying water or gas
mains, and all digging is the same to
them, whether the hole they make
in the ground is to be occupied by a
gaspipe or dead body. They COM
mence work with the whistle and
knock off at 5 o'clock in the evening,
and they have proven how far apart
they are from the traditions OF their
calling by organizing a union and 60
ing on strike when dissatisfied.
"The men employed around Chi.
cago graveyards are not superstitious,"
said an official of Rosehill cemetery.
II they were they wouldn't last long.
There are none OF the conditions pre-
vailing here to bring about the state
of mind which breeds fears and
phantoms. It's simply business all
the way through"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-06
OLYMPIA WASHINGTON: FRIDAY EVENING" FEB. g. 1903

quality OF the food, is the care of the
feeding bottles. AS soon as bottle is
emptied it should be washed and filled
with borax water. The rubber nipple
should be washed inside and out and
placed in the some solution. When
needed rinse in clear water before fill
ing with milk. Never use the long
rubber tubes as it is almost impossi-
BILE to keep them sweet and clean.
Proper care in this respect-of
cleanliness-and in sterlizing thu milk
will greatly lessen the danger arising
from feeding the baby.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-06

River of the North, had emptied into
the Arctic Ocean instead Of the gulf?
Commercially speaking, it would have
cut off this great river system from
the world, would have made the
Isthmian Canal useless to the Missis.
sippi valley and would have spread
annual devastation throughout its
course, because the floods OF spring
from the southern portion of the
river would have poured down upon
the northern while the latter was still
ice-bound. Tilting the basin OF the
Mississippi only few hundred feet
would have made all this fast differ.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-06

up in the blanket again, and crawled
through the fence carefully, so as not
to drop him this time. Everybody
was in mammals room so | slipped
around the house and laid the baby
on the doorstep and hid around the
corner. l wanted to see what they'd
do when they found him. Soon l
heard shrieks and such laughing and
kissing you never saw. Gee, but they
made the awfullest fuss over nothin'
at all.
But, l was glad the baby was back
again. l won't touch him anymore,
perhaps when he gets bigger he may
be some fun.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-06

A Shrewd New Yorker Has Devised Means
for Trapping the Susceptible-ne Sells Pic
lures Of the Lady to Applicants for Her
hand-The Victims Generally Do Not Squeal
and the Sharper Reaps Golden Harvest.
n Y World.
This is the story of a group OF peO-
pie who had not read enough bad ic-
tion. Shades of blondined French ad.
venturesses, beating your way through
four hundred pages, nobody who had
ever been acquainted with you could
have walked into this latest New York
swindling trap!
A New Yorker sat in his Office ex-
changing the photographs OF beauti-
full woman for an equal number OF the
minted reproductions of the features
OF the Goddess of Liberty. He had
put an advertisement in the papers:
Lady to settle estate legally must
marry before June. Her trustees take
this method of finding suitable husband,
on whom they will settle $50, 900 without
restriction on day of marriage.
TRUSTEES.
To every answer to this advertise
ment its author sent out circular.
The circular said that the marriage
would be for purposes OF finance and
not of sentiment. The next step after
the wedding would, therefore, be the
divorce. The only thing that the
lady wanted was the marriage cere-
mony. If the man wanted to see
what the lady looked like. let him
send q dollar. When the dollar came
the photograph was sent. Here the
transaction ended. Nothing more
happened. The author of the scheme
insisted, however, when he had been
arrested, that he would produce the
lady on the 1st OF June. Perhaps he
has taken in enough dollars to pay the
lady's dowry. In that case the affair
has been a kind OF rattle. Everybody
puts in q dollar, the winner goes
through a marriage ceremony and
gets $4,000, the manager takes the
surplus profits.
All of which might have been avoid
ed if the people who sent the dollars
had nourished their youthful minds
not on "tales and golden histories OF
heaven and its mysteries" but on the
tales Of the tricks of sharpers and con-
fdence operators. They would have
become familiar then with . few of
the more obvious devices by means of
which such persons are enabled to
continue to disport themselves on the
face of the earth. If a man does not
know the adventurous eide of life and
does not: want to know it, then he
should know at leaet its reflection in
the writings OF persons who have given
it conscientious study. This second.
hand information may put him on his
guard against heiresses who are ready
to give $4,000 for q husband. They
exist in novels and it was from q novel
the New Yorker got his idea-but are
not found in real life. He got 5000
answers to his advertisement. There
are at least that many gullible Ameri-
cans.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-06
Obiter Dicta,

Col. Bob Ingersoll was trying a case
in one of the courts of the State
OF - when, in the exuberance oi
argument, he gave offense to the
presiding judge, who promptly said
"Col. Ingersoll, you are fined SIS fol-
contempt" Bob made a pretence,
without evincing the slightest con.
Germ or perturbation of hunting all
through his pockets for the necessary
IS, when with An assumed look of
deep concern but with . merry twinkle
in his merry eye indifferently con
cealed, he marched up to the bench
and whispered behind his hand "Say.
Judge, please lend me S."
"Mr. Clerk" says the Judge in
great haste, "that fine is remitted
Tioga county can better lose S. than
I can"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-06
Carins for the Babv.

The ruler of a great nation does not
feel the weight OF his responsibility
more than does young mother, who,
with no especial training to fit her for
her new duties, undertakes the care of
her little one. She may be miles
away from her own mother, who would
be = sympathetic and safe adviser, and
there may be no doctor or druggist
within reach and sometimes this is q
blessing in disguise for il will compel
her to use the common sense with
which most young women are blessed,
but she will soon master all difficult
ties of her new task, helped by "moth-
er instinct" and the baby will not
suffer from her inexperience.
One OF the first things that claim
the attention of the young mother is
the clothing OF the child. Babies re-
quire flannel underclothing even in
the warmest weather; it should be
very soft 90 that the tender skin will
not be irritated, and loose enough to
be always comfortable. Tight bands
interfere with the circulation and
digestion and after the first fortnight
Of baby's life do very little good.
The room in which baby is kept
should be we'll ventilated, as pure air
is priceless boon to the little folks.
Care should be observed, however, that
he il not exposed to draught as that is
apt to cause an attack OF collie, if moth
ing more serious.
The bath should be given at the same
time every day. When the little face
and body have been bathed and wiped
dry with soft, linen towel, dip a soft
cloth in q solution Of borax and water
and with it wash him most thoroughly
cleansing the tongue and gums from
the white coating that gathers on
them. This treatment will prevent the
thrush, common and somewhat dam
gerous disease of babyhood.
All children need q great deal Of
sleep and everything ought to be done
to make it comfortable and healthful.
The room should be kept at a uni.
form temperature, neither too warm
nor too cool tho light should be care
fully shaded from the eyes and all
noise and disturbance kept away while
he is sleeping, as many delicate chill
dren are injured by being obliged to
sleep amidst the noise OF the family
room.
The proper food for the baby has
been the subject Of much study by
physicians and scientists. If the
mother can furnish plenty of milk for
the child, no other food is needed as q
general thing. 1t sometimes happens,
however, that the mothers milk is in
sufficient or does not agree with the
child, in such cases do not let the
little one suffer, but feed him on good
fresh cows milk properly diluted, or
on some of the many prepared foods
that are offered.
The most important thing to be con-
sidered in artificial feeding, next to the
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-06
WELLS THAT Breathe.
Scientists Studying the Peculiar Currents on
Nebraska Plains

Scientists Studying the Peculiar Currents on
Nebraska Plains.
In recent paper published by the
United States Geological Survey ON
wells and windmills in Nebraska men,
ton is made of the interesting phe-
nomena of the breathing wells or
blowing wells which are found dis.
tributed throughout large portion OF
the State Of Nebraska. These wells
are of the driven type, mostly in use
upon the plains, but are distinguished
from those OF ordinary character by q
remarkable and unexplained egress
and ingress OF currents of air which
produce distinctly audible sounds and
give the names variously applied to
them of breathing, sighing, blowing
or roaring wells, according to their
characters. in different places.
The air currents are readily tested
with the flames of candles or by drop
ping chaf or feathers into the we'll
tubes. There are periods when these
wells blow out for several days and
equal periods when their air currents
are reversed. 1t has been observed
that the blowing occurs with the
changes of the barometer. Some
wells are found to be most audible
when tho wind is from the northwest,
with rise in water level; but with a
change of wind air is drawn in and
the water is observed to sink.
During the progress of low ba-
rometer area over one Of these regions,
wind is violently expelled from the
wells, with noise distinctly audible
for several rods. Professors Loveland
and Swezey of the University of Ne
braska have made observations on q
we'll of this nature in Perkins county,
and found its breathing periods were
exactly coincident with the barometic
changes. No satisfactory explanation
of this strange phenomenon is ad-
vanced.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-06

A WRITER in the New York Times
says that when Mark Twain was q
young and struggling newspaper writer
in San Francisco, a lady of his &C.
quaintance saw him one day with a
cigar-box under his arm, looking in al
a shop window. "Mr. Clemens" she
said, II always see you with q cigar.
box under your arm. I am afraid you
are smoking too much" at ism,
that" said Mark; I'm moving again.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-06
LUXURY FOR POOR MEN.
Finest Cheap Hotel in America to Be Opened
in Chicago.
Chicago Tribune.

Chicago Tribune
Excepting New York, no city in the
country possesses more modest priced
hotels and lodging houses than does
Chicago, which, in the opinion OF
those competent to judge, accommo-
dates upwards OF 10000 men every
nigh in the year.
These temporary abodes of the
homeless and benighted in this city,
are, as a rule, as good as can be found
elsewhere at the same rate, but plans
have been recently drawn for a new
modest price hotel which, when COM
pleted, will not only excel in every
particular those houses erected in New
York by ID. o. Mills, but will be the
best in the world for the poor man.
This new hotel will be called "The
Northern" There will be 25O rooms
which will be furnished in a style
never before attempted in this or any
other country. That is, no other city
in the world will have hotel which
will offer to patron the comfort and
conveniences of "The Northern" for
the small sum OF 20 cents per night.
The rooms will be amply large, 12x14,
containing a new model metallic bed.
with pure wool mattress. A Turkish
rug will cover the floor, and three
solid oak straight back chairs, together
with rocking chair, a commode with
mirror attached, pictures and, in fact,
everything necessary for mans com.
fort will be furnished the patron of
this new hotel for the small outlay of
70 cents per night, or $1.4O per week.
There will also be other rooms, larger,
with more conveniences, for which 50
per week will be charged.
This new hotel will be as near fire.
proof as human ingenuity has as yet
devised. On the ground floor will be
located the business Office, library,
reading room, reception room, and
smoking room. In the basement, or
sub cellar, there will be six bathrooms,
which will contain porcelain tubs,
each having . shower bath attachment.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-06
New York's Big Store.

Here are some figures about a new
dry goods store just opened in New
York:
The space OF the structure is more
than "a acres.
If the area could be reduced to
shops each fifty feet in depth, they
would make frontage equal to the
distance between 18th street and 125th
street.
By placing the strips that cover the
floor end to end line could be made
reaching from New York to Detroit,
Michigan.
The building weighs 100000, 600
pounds.
It contains 100000 pounds OF
structural steel and iron, 2,l50,0OO
pounds OF ornamental bronze and iron.
5,340, 600 common bricks and 2,3O5
separate columns.
There are 18 miles of tubing and
pipe in the pneumatic cash system,
forty-six miles of beams, 1888 miles of
flooring planks, AZ miles OF electric
wiring and 10000 square feet of win
dow area.
In the building are 33 hydraulic ele-
vators, four escalators or moving steps,
and six marble and iron stairways.
The structure is lighted by 1,40O
arc lights and 5000 incandescent
, lamps.
To furnish power there are eleven
water tube boilers capable of develop
ing $500 horse power, and engines and
dyuamos aggregating 3,O40 horse pow.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-06

In the Superior Court at Spokane,
last week, q jury awarded Mrs. Agnes
w. Marsh verdict of $500 damages
in her suit against Mrs. Mary Marsh.
The plaintiff had asked $4,000 dam
ages because of alleged slanderous
statements about her character by the
defendant.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-06

enriches the blood, stimulates the liver,
nourishes the nerves, and so gives health
and strength to the whole body.
Mr. Thomas A. Swarts, of Sub. Station c,
Columbus, Ohio Box Io3, writes: ri was taken
very sick with severe headache, then cramps in
the stomach and my food would not digest, then
kidney and liver trouble and my back got weak
so could scarcely get around. The more doc
tored the worse got until six years passed. I
could only walk in the house by the aid of a
chair, and had gf1xn np to die. Then one of
my neighbors said, Take my advice and take
make new man out of YOURSELF The first bot
tie helped me and after had taken eight bot.
ties in about six weeks was weighed and found
I had gained twenty seven (27) pounds. and I
am as stout and healthy to-day, think, as I
ever was"
,Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure con-
stipation.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-06

THE census Office estimates that
electricity has entered into the life of
this country to the extent of 81 worth
per year for each man, woman and
child OF the population. OF this 50
worth is supplied by the electric trac-
ton companies, $1.5O worth by the
electric light concerns and rs cents
worth by the telephone companies.
The telegraph also takes about 81
cents q year from each OF the 75,OOO,-
600 people. while the rest OF the 81 is
charged off to electric fire alarms, sig.
malls and general supplies.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-06

TEAcHER-Bessie, name one bird
that is now extinct.
Little Bessie-Dick!
Teacher-Dick1 What sort of q
bird is that?
Little Bessie-Our csnary-the cat
extincted m!-Puck.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-06
OAsToEIA.
Bear. til. HIh Kind You Aa. Always B'pgt
's;;''' = &xzZSu.

The years have Innings just as goblets do;
The Old Year 10 the lining of the New.
Filled with the wine of precious memories,
The golden scas doth line the silver ts
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-06

nutritio For
when the stomach
is diseased there is
a loss of the nutri-
ton contained in
food, W hich is
the source of all
physical strength.
w b e n a m a n
doesn't feel ju ST
rig hit, W h N he
doesn't sleep we'll,
has an uncomfort'
able feeling in the
stomach after eat.
ing, is languid
nervous and irrita.
BILE, he is losing the
nutrition need ed
to make strength.
Such a man needs
to use DIR. Pierce's
Golden Medical
Discovery. 1t cures
diseases of the
stomach and othe1
organs of digestion
ord n,,fr;fiO0 n
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-06
A StPonq Man

Is strong all over. No man can be
strong who is suffering from indigestion
or some other disease of the stomach and
its associated organs of digestion and
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Editor and Proprietor.

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ANOTHER FLIM-FLAM.
A PROPOSITION TO ACHIEVE
WEALTH AND MATRiMONY.

A Shrewd New Yorker Has Devised a Means
for Trapping the Susceptible-te Sells Pic
lures Of the Lady to Applicants for Her
nand-The Victims Generally Do Not SqueaI
and the Sharper Reaps Golden Harvest.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-01
STRANGE METAMoRPH0s1s.
Parrot in New York, a Brick in New
 x. Haven. fa


 Parrot in New York. Brick in New
 Haven. 'a
 There is one West Haven resident who. when he next buys bird of any kind. or parrot in particular, will in- sist that She cage containing the bird shall not be covered with paper and he has good reason for, this.
 This man who is careful not to reveal his name to the few who know the cir cumstances. lives near Park street, West Haven. Thursday he went to New York, and while there saw man selling parrots on the street, He was struck by the beauty of one of the birds and asked the price of it. He was told $25 and as the bird was nice one and the case a good substantial one made of brass he bought and paid for the combination. thinking to give the bird to his wife.
 At the suggestion of the vendor he ac- companied the bird seller to nearby saloon where the cage was covered with paper and securely tied up. Then he started for New Haven. Then he started for New Haven. When he arr rived here he spoke of his purchase to Patrolman Dippold, who asked if he might see the parrot. When the paper was taken off the bird was not to be found. but a. nice red brick had been substituted in it's stead. The man was dumbfounded and he refuses to tell what story he told to his wife concern ing the empty cage.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-01
CITY cnIIRT CASES.


 Edward Johnson and Frank Sala- none, charged with trespass on railroad property, pleaded guilty in, the city court yesterday. Judge Tyner sent each to jail for 30 days, t
 George Horton, jr, of 45 Haven street charged with support, was granted continuance until August 3. Y Cases of breach of the peace against Patrick Fitzpatrick, Annie Fitzpatrick and James Fitzpatrick went over until August [.
 Robert Eustice, charged with theft of t bicycle, will be tried August 20.
 The case of Arthur Carter. charged with two counts of theft and enbezzle' ment. was continued. He will be trlee in Hamden. E, John Mowat and Richard Stevens charged with stealing seven hens, wil be tried August z. Mary Ross was fined $10O and ordered sent to jail for six months in the city court yesterday by Judge Tyner. fol keeping disorderly house. An appea under bonds of $4Oo was taken.