Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-07-10
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Pieces Of Individual Opinion Washed Up b,
the Tide. Doomed. Sawed. Split and
Piled BY lue Vernon.
Strikes and injunctions are the fad
OF the hour-outside OF floods.
About the only thing a newspaper
man enjoys giving free puff is good
cigar.
The boOtblacks OF Seattle have or.
ganized a union. My, how they will
shine!
The coal and the wood dealer can
hardly cease smiling long enough this
weather to take orders.
The season OF the year has arrived
when the ice cream and strawberries
and cream, twins, are working over
time.
l have noticed that the fellow with
a gold-plated fishing rod and silver.
plated reel does not always catch the
most fish.
Ii your chapeau blows off while out
hiking. call at the WASHINGTON STAND
ARD office, they have plenty of "caps"
in the cases.
The Fourth of July is over, but the
list of those injured by their own care.
lessness in handling fire works" still
continue to come.
Just think of it! The Carnegie
plant, which is said to earn over $24,-
OOO,OOO year, is one of the "infant
industries" which receives protection.
The BARRIERS now charge five cents
extra for removing the hair off the
back OF your neck. They don't charge
for removing flesh or spilling of blood,
however.
Judging from the manner in which
automobiles kill so many people, il
seems to us that they are as danger.
Gus, If not more SO, than the coal-oil.
can girl, empty-gun people, or the
black death.
In Rossland, B. c.. the other day,
Editor Dyer got his ear chewed off be-.
cause he roasted a man by name of
Kirby, of the War Eagle mine.
Moral-Editors should not "roast" a
man of metal"
A flood is no respecter OF the rich,
poor, lame or blind. A rich mans
house in the path OF the water is not
more sale than poor mans. Money
will purchase votes, but it will not stop
or retard volume Of water, when it
comes without warning.
The good old Summer breezes
Are scheduled to be here,
The balmy air that pleases
Should come this time of year,
But We sit out in the rain-storm
And pray that it will quit,
And will we change our underwear?
The zephyrs murmur init"
A smart hobo was arrested at the
depot in Seattle for being q vagrant.
He was asking for money from passers.
by. When the policeman told him to
come to the patrol-box. the hobo asked
him if he was the prettiest thing 10
Seattle. The policeman replied that
he was until about about Is minutes
ago, when they finished painting that
truck.
A man named Simon is under 800
bonds in Walla Walla for beating
Sidney Hornet, a salesman, out Of
$3.50. at the game OF Pinochle. Hornet
claims Simon used marked cards.
This 10 case of Simon (not Simplex
getting the best of Hornet, the good lit.
tie boy, by taking the plum from
Hornet, said plum being the $l6O.
Fruit comes high in Walla Walla,
it seems.
The reason that women should not
be allowed to vote is this: If . wo-
man was to be bribed she couldn't
keep the price she got 10 herself, but
would tell all the rest of the women.
Then every man that don't think
that women ought to vote, will think
that he had ought to get at least as
much for it, and rates wonld 90 up
higher than the insurance on q block
of houses owned by firebug.
Walla Walla has a new monthly
magazine, namely, The Washington
Agriculturist. 1t is published by H.
H. Showerman, of The Argus. As the
name implies, it will be devoted to
farming news and doings. We hope
Showerman will turn out the Aqri-
culturist in such a manner that in.
stead of him being a Showerman, he
will be "man showered" with ad.
vertising, subscribers and dollars.
"a queer title for book" said the
Olympia daughter to her mother.
What's the name of iii" asked the
mother.
mot Like Other Girls" answered
the daughter, land / wonder what she
can be if she is not like other girls?"
The Mean Boarder-" Perhaps she
goes into the kitchen and helps her
poor old mother do the work instead
of sitting in the parlor and playing on
the piano some love-sick song"
The boarder and the daughter do
not speak to each other now.
The South Bend Journal says: "a
Nanaimo miner has found a petrified
potato 700 feet below the surface. Be-
side it was q piece of conglomerate
clam shell and sand as hard as a flint
Prehistoric man evidently had the
same tastes as We have, for all three OF