Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-07-22
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
CHIPS AND RAGS
BY LUE +. VERNON.
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Don't lose courage. have no fear;
If yOn only softly whisper
"Will you fellows have a beer?"
At the commencement of a new
week, some people commence to make
new debts.
More sinners patronize a dance hall,
than do those who profess to be saved
attend church.
The "open shop" policy is the way
shingle mill owners are conducting
business in Olympia.
The News of Tacoma says it contains
all the news. Shouldn't wonder. It's
written so in the Ledger.
Hill planned all the business,
Littleton made the talk,
And now it's up to Belmont,
To make them walk the chalk"
Many man, last week, was ask.
ing the small-sized. freckl ed. faced boy,
where the swimming hole was located.
Parker passed around the plate in
church last Sunday, but think of the
money that Belmont and Davis will
have to throw around ere many moons.
When people think he's crazy
Or of politics has had his fill
They're way off their trolley
"Johnny-on-the-spot" is Hill.
Her voice trembled like the totter-
ing steps of drunken man. From
Ladies' Home Journal, $1,000 prize
love story. She must have had q vo-
cal "jag."
A pitcher 1000 years old, is on
exhibition at the st. Louis Fair. Must
be the only survivor of those that
went not too often to the we'll and
was not broken.
A Western educator says more than
100. 900 school teachers will abandon
their profession this Summer. Several
million school children will also be
idle all Summer.
The Examiner OF San Francisco says
some of the delegates at st. Louis had
to pay $26 for a room. This may be
considered cheap from the experience
they may have had.
Old John d. Rockefeller says his
wife went to church for eighteen years
and not soul ever had a word to say
10 her Perhaps she wore a bonnet
that WAS out of date.
1t is said that paper money is fairly
reeking with microbic life, called
bacillus staphylococcus. Perhaps this
may explain the frequent market
quotation: Money active"
The P-L. has discovered that the
Tacoma Ledger has an Alfred Austin
employed on its staff. The Ledger
will have hard time to find any
such person conce aled with the P..L.,
however.
The old song "Wben You Were
Sweet Sixteen" is out OF dato and
style now. The proper song, especially
to those whom politics has ensnared
IL, I'm just as Gay as l Used to be
for l Just Past Eight.one."
The melancholy days are always here,
For man will rail, no matter what his
lot.
This week he kicks because it's wet and
And next he'll kick because it's dry
and hot.
Just think of it. In all the mag
nificent accounts of the Democratic
convention sent out by the Associated
Press, among all the noted Democratic
orators, we failed to see the name of
James Hamilton Lewis. Fame, where
is your megaphone?
You may as we'll try to stop the
sun from shining, or the rain from
falling in Washington during the
Winter, as to stop gambling entirely.
1t cannot be done, and what's more,
any one man, or a dozen, who think
they can, will only find out later that
he or they were foolish in mind when
they imagined so.
Some singers and pianists at q
smoker consider that they are sup
posed to give the entire concert.
These play and sing all the evening.
Folks should remember that there are
others who have talent just as good as
themselves, and perhaps better. Do
your little stunt, and rest bit. Don't
want to be 1T the whole evening. Re-
member there are others.
San Diego must be up and doing.
Tacoma proved beyond doubt, that
beautiful roses is product Of the
"City OF Destiny" and, they are as
pretty as any California rose. The
Rose Carnival in Tacoma, on the 9th
of July, was truly success, and each
and every person who was fortunate
enough to witness the magnificent
floral display that day, voted Tacoma
the City of Roses"
"Your poems," said the editor, are
all right in rhyme and metre. but
they lack color. Bring me some.
thing with . little color, and l will
pay for it,"
So the poet returned to his room 10
the garret, and constructed the fol.
lowing:
ITO many sky-blue river
To many a saffron shore,
Where the pearl-grey shadows quiver,
Or the moss-green breakers roar.
The rose-hued maid is going,
To spend week or two,
| Where brick-red kline are lowing.
And the meadow breeze is blue.
She'll leave the fresh green fellow
At work in the grim, grey town,
And read romances yellow
In the forests vandyke brown"
The editor had to admit there was
plenty of color in this poem, but fo'
some reason he refused to take 1t
The reason we use it, is to fill up this
amount of space.