Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-09-25
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business rooms s...................An Any old place
Editorial rooms. s.... 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
lerve to read it,
Seattle has steel plant. Having
already, if report be true, a good-sized
graft" plant in operation, she is now
ready to do" anything she can.
By substituting the phonograph for
the stenographer, Edison will have the
thanks of all married women whose
husbands employ pretty girls for that
work.
Besides being the N ucleus of an ex.
citing international incident, Vice
Consul Magelssen will have the pleas.
ure of reading whole stack of his
own obituary notices.
At the rate those Indiana ghouls
are confessing, there won't be q single
notable mystery left unsolved. They
evidently reason that it is just as we'll
to be hung for sheep as lamb.
You can't always tell by appear
ances. A clock appears to be terribly
modest, with its hands always before
its face, but you'll find there's
great deal OF brass in its composition.
Those who picture Abdul Hamid, of
Turkey, as being seriously worried
over the present situation lose sight of
the fact that Austria, Russia, Italy
and England are doing the worrying
for him.
Saloons being closed up daily is
the news that comes from Northport,
Washington, and that, town being
near the boundary line, We are at
loss to know why business is SO bad in
the liquor trade.
Of course every man in the United
States is not working, yet every man
is not loafng. We don't want calam-
ity howlers in this country; we want
people who believe in sunshine, pros.
perity and Uncle Sam.
The man that has discovered that
living in a tree-top is good for con-
sumption seems TO have made a prac.
tical application OF the general advice
to take to the woods in the case Of
dangerous emergencies.
We hope those battleships of ours
will not attempt to carry out their
mission by chasing the Turks over
land. We had to have one of our
warships burned nearly q century ago
because OF this sort of an attempt.
The Younger Bros show "busted"
at Ft. Wayne. Ind. The presentation
OF such shows is not helpful to Young
America, aud it is just as we'll that it
has quit. 1t smacks too much the
Seattle " Tracey" production. and of
the dime novel sort.
A man in South Carolina says he
eats sand to help indigestion. elf
chickens eat it, it must be good for
man." he says. This is good econ"
talk, but there is only one fact about
it, and that is, that the South Carolina
man stands in with the grocer where
he buys his sugar.
The merchant who does not adver-
tise in his town papers. but uses the
blue stencil, soon finds that his bust.
ness prospects are as blue as the
stencil ink he uses. Then his goods
are boxed and the sign "This Store to
Let" printed by the Newspaper, is to
be seen on the front door.
Now that Upton failed to lift the
cup this year, it is claimed that Can.
ada will endeavor to do the trick next
year. This will suit Americans. A
new competitor, especially Canada,
would add to the interest of the con-
test. But what would England say if
her province should lift the cupf
The publication of a bit of valedic-
tory poetry attributed to Editor Shen
Chen, who was executed by the Or
der of the Dowager Empress, will 60
far to remove the sympathy that bis
execution caused. When the editor OF
q valedictory poem, his case is hopeless
and his violent death is easy to FORE
see.
The daughter of Dan Rice, the fam
GUS circus clown, q young woman OF
attractive appearance and fine voice,
has gone upon tho stage. She is
member of the Peggy From Paris"
chorus. Her father always greeted
the spectators at the circus with the
exclamation "Here We are again."
Dan Rice died few years ago.
When q man has lost his pocket
book or a gold collar.stud, the ques.
ton asked by nine people out of ten
is, "Where did you lose it?" And
this is always . very soothing question
to the loser, because if he knew where
he lost the article, it is not reasonable
to suppose that he would be looking
in forty different places to find it.
The vile OF Lawyer J. F. Milliken OF
New York has just secured 3 divorce
on the ground that while she was
away singing with an opera company
be introduced to his friends lady