Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-09-04

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the tide, doomed. sawed, split and piled for the
perusal and pastime of those who have enough
nerve to read it,
What's the matter with Hanna for
President?
"Time and tide wait for no man."
Nor does the flea, either.
Why is wet ginger cooky like a
dull sermon? No snap in it. See?
"Dead Town." is what an Eastern
Washington editor calls Tacoma. This
is grave remark, to be sure.
What bore it is to meet a man or
woman who is always giving advice to
keep you from going to the devil.
If minister is weary after preach
ing long sermon he at least has the
heartfelt sympathy of the congrega.
ton.
Don't pray to God to Danish all
liquor off the earth, then sneak back
OF the door and take drink from the
bottle.
We miss "Clover Leaves" in the
late issues of the Seattle Times, by
Ella Higgison. What's the matter,
Mr.. Times
Some women are so busy telling q
young married woman how to cook,
that they forget to prepare meal for
their own husband.
There are q number of men in
Olympia who are afraid to speak their
opinion on religious or political ques-
tions for fear of losing their jobs.
A music box in saloon in Seattle
has card affixed which resds as fol-
lows:
"Just One Girl
Out of order"
A policeman in parade at Seattle
during the labor carnival tainted.
Surely, when q Seattle policeman
faints, the less said about the parade,
the better.
1t only took six puffs of smoke to
elect the new Pope. 1t only takes one
puff OF newspaper to elect some men
in town to the idea of thinking they
are the whole hnro
1t simply disgust us to see man
wearing Panama hat which he proud.
ly boasts, cost him $50, ask friend to
loan him 55 cents in order that he may
pay his laundry bill.
III there were as many good, kind,
humane, charitable and honest men in
the world as the late Peter Gessner, al
though gambler, who recently com.
mitted suicide in Seattle, there would
be no need Of so many jails.
There are more robberies and hold
ups in Seattle now than when gam
bling was in full swing. Gambling
cannot be held responsible for the
night and day robberies being com.
mitted in the Queen City now.
We would just as soon eat with a
gambler as minister. Either one
may be hypocrite or BLACKBOARD, or
they may be the highest type of gen.
tlemen. 1t is not the vocation man
follows-it is the man himself.
That brakeman on the Northern
Pacific railroad, who seduced and in
oculated with horrible disease little
9-year old girl at Missoula, Montana,
should have quick and speedy trial
and be hustled to prison, where he
justly belongs.
A very pretty, fresh, rosy.cheeked
country girl called at the STANDARD
office Monday and wanted work. She
was from the country east of town
South Bay. Girls are good deal like
boys, they want to begin life in the
city and leave the farm to the old
folks.
The Enumclaw Courier under its
name-plate runs this announcement:
"A Weekly Journal Devoted to the
Interest of its Readers and Profit of
the Publisher" We can readily un.
derstand the first part of the notice,
but as to the profit part, we plead
ignorance.
We may seek for friends and fail to
find them-we may each zealously
strive to make friends, and yet realize
in our sad experience that we have
but made enemies. But it is better to
be true friend, and suffer as the
friend deceived, than to be base de.
ceiver of friend.
If less space was given by papers of
the Sound country about milk, and
more to the manufacture of butter,
instead of smiles, few citizens of the
State OF Iowa would have a look on
their face which would resemble the
undertaken when a week goes bye with
out death in town.
The editorial in the Tacoma Necs
OF Aug. 7, under the caption: Seat
ties Carnival of Crime" is truth, and
an article which the Times aud P.-L. of
the Queen City could we'll afford to
reprint for the enlightenment of their
readers. But they will not, for the
fact that it was published in Tacoma
journal will positively forbid them
from using it.