Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-05-13

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1t will help you.
Miss Clara Morton, the pretty-oI
course-soubrette, now playing the
Orpheum circuit says, according to
Ashton Stevens in the Examiner oi
San Francisco: 81 have an idea that
| can be as decent Christian on the
variety stage as in church choir.
Certainly you can, Clara. 1t is not
the position one occupies that makes
one Christian, or an honest person.
A convict in the penitentiary can give
good advice, Clara. 1t is Self, not
clothes, money nor position, that
makes a Christian in words and deeds.
Edward K. Clarke, who created
quite sensation last winter by marry
ing Rosalind A. Bower, better known
as the "Sweet-pea Girl" of the Dur
rant trial, has been granted a divorce
in the San Francisco courts by Judge
Seawell. Clarke's lawyers are suing
him for ST. $50 for legal services rem
dered. 1t strikes US that the Judge
could not Seawell, or he would have
ordered that both Edward and Rosa
lind be compelled to live together for
six months and to star, jointly, in a
play at popular prices-10, 20 and SOC.
The New York Medico. Legal So
ciety has determined to introduce a
bill in the Legislature of that State
re-establishing the whipping-post as
a penalty for witebeating. It has
been urged against it that it would
be a return to barbarism, but when
we have barbarians to deal with we
are compelled to return to rude meth
ods to meet that condition. A man
that would beat bis wife is more than
a barbsrian-he is brute-and while
even brute is amendable to kindness,
a wife-beater is amendable only to the
lash.
A certain lawyer in Nevada was a
formidable opponent, at the bar, when
he was practicing law. and after his
promotion as Judge proved no less a
success. He had charming wit, too.
Once he was sentencing a hypocritical
prisoner who, hopful of softening the
Judges heart, shed copious tears, and
in reply to his question, Have you
ever been in prison before?" sobbed
tearfully:
mo, never wasp
"Well, don't cry" was the Judges
reply, "Pm going to send you there
now."
The average newspaper man is the
greatest booster" for every profession
in the community and for every in
dustry in the town-except his own.
If one Of his local lawyers wins big
case; if his neighbor, the doctor, per.
forms successfully an extra hazardous
and skillful operation; if a factory is
started or a new store opens, if any oil
these things happen, the newspaper
man "plays it up" with flaming head.
lines, and receives little thanks, with
probably resolution at the State
Convention that advertising is Gun.
professional" and subjects a doctor to
a charge Of quackery.
In New York city recently the po.
lice were called upon to maintain Or
der among from 1000 to 5000 appli.
cants for positions in a new depart.
ment store. And some people grum-
Bile when ten or twenty persons ask
for something to eat on" Glad we
are in Washington. Let's see. We
have heard OF song "In Good Old
New York Town." but we believe We
would rather listen to the ditty "The
Old Settler" which starts off with
"I'll build myself cabin
On the shores of Puget Sound"
Anyhow when we hear it we imagine
ourselves a greater distance from New
York city.
"By none OF the laws OF moral re.
sponsibility," says the Rev. T. De
Witt Talmadge, "can you charge that
q man who sells glass of whisky to
another is directly guilty of a crime.
This, sir, depends altogether upon the
quality Of the liquor. You can not
lay down hard-and-fast line in this
matter. The man who sells glass oil
pop.skull snakejuice, is as clearly
guilty of high treason as if he had
run away with another mans mother
in-law, whereas, if he had sold only
ordinary forty.rod-and-drop stuff" his
act would have been as creditable az
preaching pitiless platitudes to the
impenitent deaf.
There is always a class OF people
who are pitching into the newspapers
because they do not publish things
correctly. The newspaper man can
not be everywhere at the same time
and is therefore dependent on the
people for some OF the happenings,
and, of course, he has to publish the
news as he hears it, when he doesn't
see it himself. An editor always ap-
preciates the favor, when an item oi
news is given him, but he often ha. to
ply people with series of questions
to obtain news item, when one re-
quest ought TO bring out the whole
thing. You tell an editor news
item, that will interest the public, and
its two to one shot that the same
will be published.