Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-06-24

! SN"iO-hCau, anu pnOtORTapH III IauCy
border, with everyone saying, He is
the real thing" Life is game, yon
bet, and every other fellow is a sport
ing editor to critici-e us and give us
bumps if we dom: strike a winning
gate.
Something terrible. wasn't it, that
the gate-keeper at the St. Louis Fair
should require Miss Alice Roosevelt to
pay admission The gate-keeper had
orders to admit her in an automobile; !;
she drove to the grounds in phaeton,
and he demanded tickets. The ticket
taker was only doing his duty, and the
Presidents daughter is no better to
pay admission than the servant girl,
and the public should give the gate
keeper a gold medal.
If West Virginia Republicans will
continue their effective pistol practice
on each other at point blank range for
a few months, West Virginia may be
taken from the list Of doubtful States
and placed in the Democratic column.
Scarcely Republican convention, or
primary, has occurred this year in that
great little State without one or more
Republican statesmen having met
with violent deaths, which is a fine
illustration of Republican harmony
with great big II.
A British Columbia paper is rejoic-
ing over the published statement that
pugilist Munroe will invest his win.
nings in mining property in that
country. It claims Munroe as hailing
from Phoenix, B. c., and says he
could just as properly be advertised
from that town as from Butte, Mont.
This is another body blow for Butte.
Well. we hope the miner will himself
give many body blows which will re-
suit in bringing him plenty of capital
for investment in mining. 1t beats
the roped arena.
A young man was shot in a box.car
near Reno, Nevada, by drunken hobo.
A brother of the wounded man lived
in Chicago. He went to the manager
Of the Chicago american and related
his tale and also informed the mana
ger he had no money to 60 to Reno
to attend his brother. Hearst was
communicated with and in less than
two hours, the brother. at the expense
of w. r. Heart, was speeding on mis-
way to Reno. His brother recovered
and Hearst sent transportation for
two. with expense money, back to
Chicago.
So long as only Moros we're being
killed in the Sulu peninsular war, no.
body in this country seemed to care q
continental, for the Moros appear to
be universally regarded as a bad lot,
mere cumberers OF the earth. But
the news, recently, that seventeen
American soldiers were killed and five
wounded is likely to set the American
people thinking about the price we
are paying for our Philippine whistle.
Why should We 60 on sacrificing the
flower OF our youth in an idiotic cru
sade in that foreign land? The public
has been lulled to sleep with the dulcet
tale that peace prevailed in our insular
possessions. Now they know that
that oft repeated story is lie made
from whole cloth.
The following story is told on mar.
ried couple in Olympia:
The husband had been accustomed
to do all the shopping. but one day
having so much business on hand, it
became necessary to turn the buying
over to his wife. So he told her that
morning to stop into butcher shop
and get q shin bone to make soup.
She asked what a shin bone was, and
her husband showed his shin. When
the wife arrived at the butcher shop
she had forgotten the name OF the
bone she wanted, and to make the
butcher understand she raised her
skirts q trihe and tapped her shin
bone. When she returned home she
told her husband OF her forgetfulness.
and how she had demonstrated to the
butcher what she wanted. The hus-
band heaved tired sigh and remarked,
"Well, my dear, l am glad l did not
tell you to get rump roast"
The press dispatches recently con-
tanned an account OF a man who, dy-
ing. left a fortune of $250,00O to the
church of which he was member and
cut off his wife and daughter with $5,-
| 600. Such an act was common enough
in the days when religion was held in
chains of superstition and witches
were burned at the stake. but it is so
rare in the clearer light and broader
views of to-day as to be worthy of no.
tice. What kind OF heaven does he
deserve who seeks to insure his souls
salvation by depriving those to whom
he is bound by ties of love and duty OF
the means essential to their support,
and at the same time seeks to buy his
way into endless peace? Such a one
should spend eternity haunted by WIS.,
ions of fleeting wealth, be compelled
to read the Recorder each evening, but
with never smile or look OF love to
comfort his starved and shrunken soul.