Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-08-26
e ffe ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
CHIPS AND RAGS
By LUE +. VERNON.
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The chief industry OF Seattle jus
now is renting furnished rooms an(
housekeeping apartments.
Roosevelt's hair is dark. Well, afte
November next it will, from all indi
cations, have the cast of green-a jeal
GUS green.
Seattle must be somewhat quie
when they have to junket lot o
Filipinos around the town, in order t.
scare up newspaper copy"
If the fall of Rome required ths
length of time that Port Arthur i.
taking, how disgusted the newspaper
correspondents must have been.
Seven women were arrested during
a raid Of police lately in Seattle, il
the Kentucky saloon. The number o
men escaping has not yet been learned
"Stand Pat" is the Republican
rallying cry, but Fall Flat" will be
the name on the coffin-plate, Novem
ber 9th. when the old elephant kick!
the bucket.
The talk OF organizing and drilling
in California a company OF Chinese, i;
all bosh. If ever China awakening
comes it will begin at the center, moi
around the edges.
A Seattle physiognomist says tha,
men who are impulsive and aggres
sive usually have black eyes. That's
right. We have noticed they are sure
to get 'em sooner or later.
An Olympia swain gently sighed
al dearly love birds" And then wha,
did she do but hasten to the open
piano and softly begin singing "1
wish l were bird" They are look
ing for a nest now.
We have read the Texas SJtings
The old time Puck and Judge,
Have glanced at labored articles,
Editorials-Seattle 1fmes-O. fudge!
We have smiled at " Eli Perkins"
Laughed at witicisms per Bill Nye"
But when We read the RerordHr
gNlC thor, w Wnnf fn--orv
Judge Parker, says the P..I., is sale
to be a man who can hold his tongue
This i. more than can be said OF Roose
welt, as while at Los Angeles, during
his Western tour, or when he shook
his fist at Gen. Miles, year or more
ago.
General Booth, head of the Saliva
ton Army is said to have declin ed
knighthood. The story may or may
not be true, but, if offered, the Gen
eral might we'll decline, for the titlt
"Sir" could add nothing to either hi
fame or usefulness.
The Chinese government has de-
cided that a war CORES pondent il
worth $25, 900 and have offered to pay
that amount for the one who wa.
killed by Chinese soldiers. And ye,
there are persOus who profess to be
lieve that newspaper men are of nc
value.
A book agent called on an Olympus
woman the other day and wanted to
show her a beautiful work telling all
about the habits OF savage animals
The woman gave the agent a frosty
look and informed him that she die
not need such book as she had been
married four times, already.
1t is estimated that Hon. w. r
Hearst spent more than a million o
dollars in his fruitless effort to secure
the Presidential nomination. He has
nine papers which will support the
Democratic ticket and Mr.. Hearst viii
get his money back and great dea
more before the campaign closes.
Not Till Then.
As regular as the days roll by,
Sure as the sun will set,
Long as there will be wrecks at sea,
Short as the weight we get.
Soon as the "longest leased wire in the
world"
Ceases its lies to tell,
Then We may expect the Eusning Times
To admit that Rome. once fell.
Armenian outrages?" Haven't w
heard that beforef o, yes, come t
think OF it, it was one Gladstone wht
a few years ago made speech de
nouncing the Turks for massacreinl
Armenians. But Gladstone is dead
the unspeakable Turk" goes on hi
way slashing throats and all Europ'
keeps silent, fearing blaze in th'
| Balkans"
In the P..I. issue OF August 10th
appeared a cartoon by Davenpor
headed d" Crowding Him Of" 1t rep
resented Bryan sitting on the brink o
a cliff with the feet of Cleveland, Hill
and Belmont showing him over. Dav
export should have placed Roosevelt
on the brink, instead OF Bryan. For
by the work OF Cleveland, Hill ant
Belmont, "Teddy" will not only b
crowded off the brink, this fall, bu
will be thrown bodily down the can
yon of oblivion.
There was q radical difference be
tween the Republican Convention he'll
in Chicago and the Democratic Con
vention held in st. Louis, and this dill
ference was not merely in politica