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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30
The Total Vote for President.

The total official vote of the United
States for President, except OF four
counties in Michigan and one in Ten
nessee, which are estimated give the
following aggregates:
Roosevelt, Rep ........... ... 7.6in,36
Parker Dem .... 5I@l,'Hl
Swallow, Pro ..-..-. .... ..-. .is.lll
nebs. Socialist .... .... 3'a,N5I
Corrcyan soc Lab .............. ..- 3,59
Aside from these totals there were
quite = number of scattering votes.
The general vote was approximately
13,513,S 500, decrease of 455,233 from
the total vote of 1900, and this too
while the natural increase of popula-
ton should have shown an augmenta-
ton of numbers. The plain reason of
this is found in the stay.at- ele.
ment, who, unfortunately, we believe,
are impressed with the idea that they
perform the duty of citizenship by ab.
staining from use OF the ballot as a
remedy by choice of evils.
The plurality of Roosevelt over
Parker is two and half million votes,
nearly half million more than were
cast for Mckinley in 1900. Every
party had a marked increase except
the Democrats. Aside from the stay.
at-home vote, which the result shows
was phenomenal, doubtless many voted
for Debs and other conscience candi-
dates who bob up each quadrenulal
contest, as a safety-valve for the
strenuous elements in our national
politics.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30
SEASONABLE POEMS.
THE. PASSING YEAR,

Orphan hours, the year is dead,
Come and sigh, come and weep.
Merry hours smile instead,
For the year is but asleep,
See it smiles as it is sleeping.
Mocking your untimely weeping
AS an cart hIuake rocks corse,
In its coffin in the clay.
SO wild Winter, that rough nurse.
Rocks the death-cold year to-day;
Solemn hearts wait aloud
For your mother in her shroud.
As the wild air stirs and sways
The tree-swung cradle of a child.
So the breath of these rude days
Rocks the year; he calm and mild,
Trembling hours, she will arise,
With new love within her eyes.
January grey, is here,
Like sexton by her grave;
February bears the bier,
March, with her grief, doth howl
and rave,
And April weeps-but o We hours,
Follow with Mays fairest flowers!
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30

THE Tobacco Trust will concentrate
its plug tobacco business at Louisville
and close up its other factories. This
may be good for Louisville, but the peo-
pie thrown out of work in other places
may not appreciate the benefits.-N. y.
World.
Suppose the laboring man should
retaliate by simply throwing away his
"quid," and quit chewing. But will
he? Will habit or common sense
control? Chewing is, at best, a vile
habit, and expensive withal for shall.
low pocket. Here is a chance for
"union" endeavor which, if it fails
in its primary object, would be bless.
ing 10 another form to mankind.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30

SEVERE WEATHER IN THE EAST
Severe weather greatly impedes the
activity OF New York. Rain and sleet
have prevailed, and this has been fol.
lowed by incessant precipitation which
turns into ice the moment it strikes
the railroad tracks, and on inclines
makes even walking dangerous. The
elevated cars, whose schedule time is
~ minutes, has to consume two hours
in trip. Telegraphic communication
has been greatly handicapped and
through trains greatly delayed by
by slippery rails. These conditions
are said to apply very generally on the
north Atlantic seaboard.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30

PHILADELPIIIANs are called slow, and
yet nine days before Christmas they had
dinner where each waiter was dis
gulsed as a Santa Claus.
What next silly freak will the
equality" not introduce? The mon.
key parties, wAdiag into park foun.
tain, carrying doll babies, a horse
banquet i'll which a meal was served to
guests upon horses by mounted wait,
ers, climbing into a church through
coal holes to witness a fashionable
wedding, are still fresh in the mem.
ory, and do not need the Philadelpbis
episode to keep up their traditionary
reputation for stupidity.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30
Women Debarred in Praise Of God.

At last reason is given for substi.
tuition OF the Gregunian chant in the
Roman Catholic Church service by
stolid monks, for the sweet and pure,
through grand harmonies of womens
voices. An American who has spent
some time in Russia, and heard only
the former, says the feminine voice
" has been banished from the church
services because it was too enticing
and suggestive Of the snares of the
world" Well, well: that is a reason
which is not founded on reason-or
common sense, the basis of reason.
How there can be anything sugges.
tive Of sin or vice in the pure, rich
harmony Of u woman's voice, passeth
the understanding Of the truly pure
in heart and righteous in judgment.
The highest conception one can have of
the felicities OF Paradise are based upon
enhancing waves Of melody from an.
gelic choirs, and who ever heard OF an
angel in any other form than beauti.
full woman: Male voices may do for
singing campaign songs, or for
" stag" rcvel, but for the exalting
strains Of church service that are de.
signed to raise the soul to communion
with the blessed ones beyond the skies,
the voice of gentleness aud purity and
love and reverence must free the d.
vine spark from the environments OF
Earth and exalt it to kindredship
with deity. The Punishment of wo-
men from the church service, if it
rests upon a no higher palliative than
that of being an alurement and
snare, is most ridiculous and
stupendous blunder. Carlyle says,
Music i. the speech OF angels; Long
fellow that it is "Writ in Heaven in
the language spoken by angels" and
another American poet says:
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30

THIS has been anything but holi.
day season to Mrs. Chadwick, who has
spent the time at Jail in almost inces.
SAINT weeping over the indictment OF
her husband for alleged completely in
her schemes of finance. She declares
him to be wholly innocent. When
the Cleveland Sheriff left for New
York to make the arrest, che called
him to her cell and implored him,
time and again, to be kind 10 Mr..
Chadwick. He is accused of being an
accomplish in alleged forgery of the
Carnegie signature to the certificate OF
trust on which she obtained 30 much
credit at the banks.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30
The Mlstletoe.

II Is not very generally known that
the people Of our State are compelled
to import most, if not all, the famed
" Ml>t!ctue bou.hs" for Christmas dec
oraton-, and it may be noted as an
unexplained incident that much less
of it has been used this year than
usual. Mr.. Chilt.rg. who has been.
in ,aar- past, sole dealer in this city
OF tie evergreen shrub, 50 closely con-
nected with the winter holiday sea. IN,
has not sold one. fourth the quantity
hitherto required to supply the de-
mand. The holly has in great de-
gree di<plantrd it, although the GUS
tom OF young men being entitled to n
kiss from such Of his lady friends as
happen, by chance or otherwise, to
pas under it, does not apply To the
holy. Mi>tletoe l., by one tradition,
said To he the forbidden tree Of the
garden of Eden, whose fruit has de
generated into a berry which only
some species of birds eat. The pleas.
ant Christmas custom referred to, is
said to have come from our Saxon an
cestors Of the feudal ages, when the
mistlctoc was considered sacred, and
was cut from the tree on which il grew
with great ceremony on the first day
Of the year and consecrated to the
chief diety of the Druids, or fores,ers,
of the Celtic nations.
The mistletoe is parasitical plant,
and was once attached to the oak-trec,
where now il is so seldom found rs to
raise a conjecture that it may be some
other plant. /, grows mainly in trop-
ical regions, few only being found
elsewhere. The common mistletoc is
found plentifully in England and
many places throughout Europe
and i'll some Western and Southern
portions Of the United States. chiefly
among the branches of Gins ard hick-
cries.
What has caused an apparent disu.e
OF the mistletoe as festive decora.
ton, or whether it may not be only a
local condition, we have no means of
knowing, or of the causes which may
conduce to impair its popularity here.
1t can hardly be true that the privilege
accorded to gallantry in the most hal
lowed season OF the year, is growing in
disfavor from any radical change in
human nature, or that people are be-
coming more prudish than were our
ancestors. Nor can We attribute the
wane to leap.year, season when GUS
tom relegates to the fair sex the precise
form Of social details, for were this so,
there would probably be an ebb and
flow of sentiment, as often rs Febru-
airy, by taking on an extra day, set the
pace for the remainder of the year.
The origin of the holly is likewise
lost in the mists OF antiquity. It was
used on festive occasions as far back as
the fourteenth century, as is shown by
carol in which it is mentioned. Holly
is found in the Atlantic and some of
the Southern and Western States. 1t
is an evergreen, and has deep.green,
glossy, wavy-margined, spire-toothed
leaves, and bright red berries, which it
bears throughout winter, making it
valuable adjunct to the mistletoe for
that season.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30
After the Deluge.

And now jamestown wants a ter.
centinsry celebration in 1907, and for
our venerable Uncle to put his hand in
his pocket to the amount of five mil.
lions OF dollars and buy "Pike" or a
Midway Plaisance," to make it a sue
cess. The object is to celebrate the
three-hundredth year since the plant
ing of the first permanent English
colony in what is now the United
States. President Roosevelt says, in
his message, that it is an event in
which all the people of the United
States feel an interest,"" and Repre-
sentative Maynard, of Virginia, has
introduced a bill making the appro-
priation suggested, but the measure
does not appear to meet with very
much approval. The people have had
quite enough of worlds fair excitement
in the last half OF the past century to
make it apparent that it is constant
drain every few years upon the vitality
and the purses of the people. There
is not much about jamestown to ap.
peal to patriotism, for three centuries
ago no thought was given to the evo.
luton OF free government in the
wilds of America. After the Lewis
and Clark Fair, the people OF the globe
should be allowed a breathing spell. to
gather energy and strength for an.
other ordeal of doubtful value even to
the community Immediately inter.
ested2
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30

THERE are hundreds of thousan nd, of
acres OF spruce timber in Alaska,
which it is against the law TO export,
and Congressman Tawney, of Mime
sofa, proposes by bill to repeal it and
afford manufacturers Of paper the op.
portunity to break the trust prices on
the grade OF paper mostly in use, that
upon which the news is printed, which
enters so largely into every individ-
uals life demand. The provision will
be included in a section of the forestry
bill.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30

The Walla Walla Statesman boasts
that that city is to have q razor fac.
tory, which will incidentally manu-.
facture other cutlery. 1t is hoped
that it will not be so long in showing
results as our Porch Column Factory,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30

THE report published in u recent
issue of our paper that the turbine
steamer Victorian had failed on trial
to give expected results, and that the
construction of that class of vessels
already planned would be abandoned.
The Scientific american OF the oath
ult., states that the report is canard,
pure and simple. and in fact the tur-
bines had not been placed in the ship
when the report went forth. The
British navy, in its experiments, gives
the result of comparison between
reciprocating and turbine engines
which show decided advantage in
the latter.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30

The st. Louis Republic says that
the total admission to the big fair az.
gregated nearly twenty millions of
people, or, to be exact. 19,624,S55. of
this number, 6.s9O,2 39 were free adj.
missions.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30

A FOREIGN egg, in liquid form, has
been tabooed by Uncle Sam. 1t is
found that the manufactured egg is
preserved with boric acid, or borax, a
substance which the Department has
found to be injurious to health.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30

THE ST. LOUIS MEDALS RELY UPON
FIAT FOR THEIR VALUE.-All the
medals, whether of gold. silver or
bronze, will be cast in the latter metal,
and so far as the moro precious metals
is concerned will be only a token rep.
resentation OF the award. 1t will state
that "gold" or "silver" award has
been made for certain exhibits, but
the emblem will be, like the fiat power
OF the greenback expressed in the let
tering and not by an intrinsic value
fixed aud guaranteed by law. The
medals will be made in the Philadel.
phia mint.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30

1T is said that Charley Hopkins has,
or will, receive warning from Wash-
ington to abstain from pernicious
activity" in management Of the Seua.
torial aspirations of Sweeney. That
is proper; no man holding a Federal
position sho uld be allowed to DO cam.
paign manager of candidate for any
position who talks through a barl.
The United States has already been
scandalized. by the open purchase OF
seats in the American House of
Lords" and the administration, if
consistent. should restrain its agents
from acting as fuglemen.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30

The Portland papers declare that
Senator Mitchell seems to be greatly
worried over the investigation of the
land-fraud cases now under way in the
Federal Court at Portland. Repre-.
sentative Hermann. on the contrary,
seems to be lighthearted and appre.
hensive of no damaging results. Their
names have been unpleasantly mixed
up with the stories told of the wild
carnival of fraud that has for years
prevailed on this coast.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30

AN inventor in Arkansas has pa.
tented an electrical apparatus for fell
ing trees aud saving logs by means of
a platinum wire, heated by an electric
current to high temperature, which
burns its way through the wood. The
apparatus affords the advantage that
it may be operated at a long distance
from its source OF power, giving it a
wide area of operation. 1t likewise
admits of cutting the trees very close
to the ground. The mechanism for
operating the saw.frame may be run
by an electric motor, or any other
trsnsportable power.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30

The Federated Union, which lately
met in Spokane, resolved not to en-
dorse William Blackman for the ap.
pointment of Labor Commissioner.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30

ASSISTANT Attorney General OF the
United States Frank L. Campbell
holds that the laws of this govern
ment are not applicable to the bel.
OF land traversed by the Panama
Canal, as not being an organized
territory OF the United States.
and there 10 no provision in the
treaty with Panama making the
laws OF this country applicable. The
question came up on the point as to
whether the patent or trade mark law
extends to the canal belt.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30

NOTWITHSTANDING the unbounded
prosperity boosted of by the Republi-
can party the report of the State Bank
Commissioner of Iowa, shows that
forty banks in that State have failed
during the past year, with losses OF
owes twelve million of dollars.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30

CAPT. Baldwin's sirship, Arrow,
made several very successful flights,
at Los Angeles, on Christmas day.
The machine responded readily to its
rudder and sailed about 20 miles, in
one ascent, in little over an hour, the
return to the place OF starting being
against a stiff breeze.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30

HE Oregon delegation in Congress
seems quite confident of obtaining a
liberal appropriation for improving the
lower Columbia river and at least half
a million for the upper river.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30

PRESIDENT Francis, OF the late st.
Louis exposition, has been invited to
be guest OF honor at the Portland
exhibit next year.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30

MRS. CHADwICK's "FoOL FRIENDS"
u. S. District Attorney Sullivan, OF
Cleveland, Ohio, has been four times
threatened with bodily injury and
death if he does not abandon his per.
secution," as the cranks call it, of Mrs.
Chadwick, the woman who borrowed
with so much abandon and dispensed
so lavishly. She took bevies OF girls
on trips to Europe, paying all ex-
penses, gave grand pianos to her
friends and diamonds as 1" tips" to the
walters, and there now seems to be
very little doubt of mental unbalance,
which made her totally oblivious OF
responsibility. 1t is, therefore, by no
means surprising that she should have
very steadfast friends. One letter
threatens disaster to Judge and jury,
as we'll as the Marshal, and "all who
take part in prosecution Of the wo-
man."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30

IT is announced that the Sweeney
"bar'r" will be in charge of Charley
Hopkins and George Stevenson, the
lobby kings.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30

Gov. ELECT Mead has announced his
intention OF Responding Adjutant-
General James A. Drain 10 his present
position.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30

The many old-time friends OF genial
Will l.. Visscher will be pleased to
learn that he is still in the land OF the
living, II we may judge from delight
ful illustrated poem, which appears in
the st. Louis Republic, entitled "On
the Road to Rosy Bay"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30

IT is said that the White House in
Washington il fairly overladen with
Christmas presents from personal
friends in this country, from Europe,
Cuba. Porto Rico and the Philippines.
The justice of such inequality is illus
trated in the saying, to the owner and
dispenser OF gifts all things are given.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30

DROUGHT IN THE EAsT.-A most
astounding drought exists in Western
Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio. A
dispatch OF the Goth inst. says that
never in the memory OF the oldest in
habitant, nor in the records of the
weather bureau, has the drought been
so general or SO lasting, and a panic
has been aroused as one industry after
another has been compelled to suspend
operations as the streams ran dry.
Railroads have taken off many trains
because the use OF sulphur-impreg-
mated water, taken from the mines,
has so corrOded the locomotive boilers
as to literally make them unsafe. The
Bessimer steel works have been closed.
The water famine in Irwin is costing
Thousands Of dollars day to the coal
companies. The snow on the ground
was about six inches thick, which is
equal to about .06 inch of water, that
would not do much towards relieving
distress. Since January, 1901, there
has been deficiency of 344 below the
lowest record ever made. Every
month except May and June a def.
cheney has been noted. Rivers that
no man has ever trod dry.shod would
be as dusty as Sahara but for a GOV.
ering of snow. Ice dealers have given
up their expectations OF harvest this
eeaSOu
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30

LEAP-YEAR has shown up the banner
marriage record, at Spokane. with
nearly 1900 licenses issued against
1,04S last year which so far had been
the extreme limit.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30

New YORK city was treated to q
Christmas snow storm.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30

SENATOR Foster has under way Con.
gressional action for an approp ration
to establish and maintain an insane
asylum in Alaska.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30
Philosophy Of Gift. Ma king.

" Dorothy DIX, IA popular essayf-t
takes rather a pcSsimistic view Of the
holiday gift system, hen she writes
that
One now hears. with horror and
alarm, that Il friend is going To he mar
rlcd, or that a baby has been born. or an
acquaintance has died, or that the oJth
"i December has rolled around. \ we'd
ding invitation is as much holi-up ion
N"nr purse a. Il highWavman's pistol. a
christening i, a syht-draft on YOU for a
present, and even al funeral the tears
Nou shed are "a much Tor the floral de-
sign Tor which y"u have gone in debt as
Tor the friend you have lost"
This may I've rather overdrawn, but
the generous impulse, which with am
pie means, sets the example that weak
minds and lean purses persist in fol.
lowing, surely gives support to Doro-
thy's cynical presentation of the sub.
ject.
She has lust now Il notable instance
to point her moral in the astounding
pranks of Mrs. Chadw ick, whose chief
incentive appears to have been the
pleasure derived from making others
happy. If, in doing so, she conferred
misery on others, it was result that
she never contemplated and so cannot
he charged with intentional! cruelty,
or indeed want of consideration of OH
crs' well-being. She simply gave the
matter no further thought than pleas
ure of her friends in which che found
the highest disqualification. The
disposition to play Lady Bountiful is
a generous impulse. But it leads to
imitation which often imposes bur.
den upon others. 1t arouses an ac-
ton which subordinates reason as
completely as the disposition TO take
the family to the circus by eliminat-
ing for time some article of prime
necessity in the household, or to 60 to
the Worlds Fair though it entail o
mortgage on the farm or works hop.
Generosity is laudable but honesty a
virtue, and the object should be to
teach the true meaning of the homcly
injunction, never to look a gift horse
in the mouth. In other words, a gift
should be a token of remembrance
rather than the price of affection.
When this condition prevails, costly
gifts will not be necessary because they
will not be expected, and no season of
festivity will be robbed OF some portion
of its pleasures by anxiety aud self.
denial.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-12-30

81 tod is its author, and not man: he laid
The key note of all harmonies; he planned
All perfect combinations, and he made
Us 50 We could hear and under tand'