Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-10-09


Editorial rooms. Wherever my rent is paid
(Pieces of individual opinion washed up by
the tide. doomed. sawed, split and piled for the
perusal and pastime of those who have enough
nerve to read it,
Spokane will erect garbage crema.
tory. Seattle could we'll follow suit by
building a high rent" crematory.
The man who admits that he is
sentimental made the mistake of his
life in not having been born a woman.
About the most horrible and CHASTITY
looking object in newspaper is the
cut of full plate of false teeth. Ugh
We believe all the talk about an in
sane man wishing to assassinate
"Teddy" was really sent out to sd.
vertise "Alice."
Gray's HarbOr country would make
an ideal location for . breakfast food
concern. Lots aud lots again, OF saw.
dust over there.
Under the caption of "Stories of
Notables" that the Pr. is running, we
have, as yet, failed to read one con.
corning John L. Wilson.
Yellow fever exists in bad form at
Linares, Mexico. The death-rate is
fourteen a day. People are leaving
the place as rapidly as possible.
When strikes are declared, as a rule,
the member wishes in his own heart
that il had been little later as he
has not much money to live on.
A. Jack, the hair. puller, has been
annoying the mattresses in q Chicago
restaurant. Has it come to this that
they object to man picking his but.
ter.
In winter Olympia people journey
down to Los Angeles, and Los Angeles
folks meander up here. In both cases
the transportation companies get the
money.
Dialect, tempered with slang, is an
admirable medium of communication
between persons who have nothing to
say and persons who would not care
Tor anything properly said.
"Nighthawk" is the name OF a new
town laid out on the Similkameen
river at the site of the Similkameen
Light and Power Co.'S plant. This
will be FOWL" right, no doubt.
Orting has Mr.. Fries, Seattle a Mr..
Boil, Spokane q Mr.. Roast. Now, if
some other town can dig up Mr..
Coffee and Mr.. Salad, on with tho
dinner, and let joy be uncon6ned.
The P.-I. in . recent issue heads an
editorial: "The Mysterious Salmon"
" Those Mysterious Indictments. or
What Good Were Theyr would make
q good head for an editorial subject.
Suppose housewives would growl
about long hours and short pay, whose
work Is never finished, would the wo.
men have the sympathy of union
men. should they conclude to strike.
The Yakima Herald runs an cad"
offering to supply rubber stamps.
Wonder what the Herald would think
should some merchant offer to supply
his customers with email job press
each?
Roosevelt, like any other man who
is seeking an office, will use flattery, if
he thinks it may fetch votes. That is
why he threw boquets at the laboring
man in his Labor Day speech at SYRIA.
cuse, N. Y.
As result OF a young lovers quar-.
rel Chicago lady has slept contin.
uously one.hundred days without
awakening. Some one should gently
whisper in her ear that her hat isn't
on straight.
When an old woman sees the affec.
ton OF young couple, she blows on
the ashes when she gets home by Civ.
ing her husband an encouraging pat
on the back, but there is no blaze to
reward her.
Az the time approaches, Teddy"
becomes more uneasy. It's all off
with Roosevelt. 1t has been written
80 by Wall street magnstes, and what
they say-so far as Roosevelt is con.
cerned-goes.
"Teddy" 10 vote.catching now, and
that is the reason he recently appoint.
ed Gen. Luke E. Wright to succeed
Judge Taft a. Governor General OF the
Philippines. Gen. Wright is q life.
long Democrat.
Berlin, Germany, local trains now
have special compartments for pas.
sengers with dogs" What we need in
the United States is local trains with
compartments for passengers who
are drunk and disorderly."
While Bryan may never be Presi.
dent of the United States there is one
thing that the paragraphers have over.
looked, and that is, he never has, as
yet, published in The Commoner the
old sworn circulation bull con-"
We are told damping the nostrils
with fresh, cool water, enables q hu.
man being to smell so per cent. better.
We always knew that the damping of
some mems lips with fresh, cool julap,
enabled them to talk 100 per cent.
worse and louder.
When will new phrase be coined
for obituary resolutions. We have
read many, and in most every case
they commence with the same old
forms almighty God in His infinite
wisdom" It is time some one found
something new in this line.
Law. is action" says the Office boy
in Frank Bacon's beautiful drama
Z" The Hills Of California" and this is
the reason, no doubt, that lawyer
Page in Seattle smashed a street.car
conductor in the mouth. Perhaps the
conductor had too much talking
"iuice" aboard.
II clerks in stores would watch the
business of the men who pay their
salary-whoeve heard OF clerk in q
store getting wages-more, and pay
less attention to the private affairs of
patrons of the Mace. thew would be