Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-07-31

are always class of men who Will tell
you Just who is going to be elected.
Never, never bet on these fellows
Judgment; if you do you will lose.
Chicagoans are now claiming that
place as the logical center for the
Capitol OF the United States. Well,
1T may be the center of the universe
and the logical place for heaven, but
ltlsn't heaven and never will be.
We feel that we can never master
All things beneath the sun.
| We think the world our OYSTER
When we are twenty-one.
The years will beat and bruise us,
We change companions then,
We think the world lobster
When we are two score and ten.
An Olympia society woman was
very much mad the other day. She
gave her dog Fido to the laundress to
wash and she starched him. The way
the dog acted almost caused the
owner to lose her mind. Horrible
wasn't it?
King Edward is showing a DISPOSE
ton to do everything in his power to
draw England and America closer to.
gether. He has placed the stamp of
his royal approval on the cakewalk
and says ragtime music isn't hawlf
5awd, don't cher know.
A Texas editor wrote that certain
young lady's breast was filled with
rage, but the printer got it "rag.,"
and the editor is now camping out on
rise northwest of the town, where
he can get good view of the land.
scape In four different directions.
Lady of house, to tramp" Here
] is some pie, turkey ard lemon sherbert.
Now, l suppose you will tell me how
much you suffered in Alaska last win.
ter, and how you lost every cent you
had?"
Tramp" Nome. Thanks, lady"
If q policeman would, while shoot
ing at a vicious dog, kill street
masher. who by looks and actions in.
suits every woman that passes, once in |
while, and let the canine escape, he
would not make much of a mistake. |
There are some things worse than a
cross dog.
That minister of Christian Church
in Guthrie, o. T., aged 70 and father
OF twelve children, who eloped with q
young lady aged Is, is fine specimen
OF Gods servants. His name is o. X.
Posey. In our opinion he is a with.
cred pOsey and his initials o. h. are
out of place. They should be N. G.
l believe that man is entitled to
wings when he becomes an aneel-if
there be such things as angels-much
as a woman. Some people believe in
immortality; Others do not. Both
are entitled to their opinions. Still,
We say again, if there be such things
as angels, we will bet that Lincoln.
Garfield and Mckinley have a dia.
mond-studded pair of golden wings.
though they are men.
When the Bookbinders' Union in
sist who shall work and who shall not
i'll the Public Printing Office in Wash.
ington, ID. c., they are seemingly in.
sisting on taking the law from the |
government halls of legislation and
forcing their own laws of their own
connecting upon the people employed
in government institution. Let
Uncle Sam be up and doing. Organ
lied labor is in many instances q |
disciple of the Gear of Russia.
The owner of fish boat" in Van.
couver, B. c., hired laborer to assist
in unloading his sloop with fish. AS
the boat was about to "cast OFF, her
line, the laborer who was jingling the
price OF his work in his pocket, cried |
out as the boat swung into the stream
Captain, l lost your pole overheard,
but cut big silver out of the deck
right at the spot where it went down,
90 you'll find it when you come back"
"The impression OF those who to-day |
passed before the gates of st. Peters to |
view the remains was one Of intense pity, |
combined with certain sense of horror.
The body was tilted upon the cata falque
in order that all might see the terribly |
shrunken face. An ordinary skull in a |
| frame of gold lying in tho midst of a
mass OF red robes could scarcely have
been more typical of DEATH" - P.-L,
July %.
Such dime museum fake as this is
an open insult and disgrace to the re.
mains OF such brilliant man of edu-
cation and statesmanship, diplomat
and author, as was the dead Pope.
There is demand for funeral re.
form. The custom of dragging q be-
reaved family over town in process
sion and compelling them to sit in q
church while q morbidly curious
crowd pushes its way to the front to
look at the dead and see how the folks
are taking it, 10 barbarous and should
be relegated to the rear. Preachers
should cut their funeral sermons
about half. A broken. hearted widow
and a half-dozen children won't re-
ceive great deal of comfort from an
hOur's disc0urse