Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-15
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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The Fountain of Truth, to all who
may ask-The Taxpayer.
But one-fourth OF New Workers at
tend church, by actual count.
Superstition is a combination ol
plain lying and ignorance enough to
believe it.
No woman seems anxious to be
thought worth more than about l3J
pounds in gold.
There is fellow in Olympia who
boasts that he never changes his mind
This is true. No one will exchange
with him.
There are some persons who pas:
half their lives visiting. The sense oil
knowing when they are not wanted is
lost in these chronic visitors.
Thirteen prisoners made their escape
from the Jail in Tombstone, Arizona,
recently. Can you blame the men for
wishing to leave such quiet town.
1t flatters the owners OF a newspaper
to know that people borrow il from
their neighbor, yet will not subscribe
for it, as they "don't see anything to
read" in it.
Cbestnuts are used by Italians as
food. Chestnuts are also used by a
great many factors" as jokes. But
the jokes, a. a rule, like many of the
nuts, are wormy with age.
When the P..L had two paid Pi.
pers" on its pay roll, there was music
in its paragraphs which was tuneful
and catchy. But now there 10 a Pyls
of discords and woeful squeaks.
A Tacoma poet has sent the STAND.
ARD poem entitled, 40, Let Me Die
at Home" Editor Murphy says he
will do as he asks, provided he keeps
away from the STANDARD Office.
1t is now known that that thirty
school teachers lost their lives in the
great Iroquois theater fire in Chicago.
While this is sad and pathetic, to be
sure, there are many boys who will
not think thirty school teachers too
many.
We heard a remark the other day
about girl that pleased Us. A friend
"She makes good butter"
A girl who can make good butter has
been brought up to work. That little
remark tells the story-she is indus.
trious.
The Rev. Ian MacLaren, OF Bonnie
Brier Bush" fame, declares the world
is on the eve of the greatest revival
since the time Of Constantine. And
Brother Dowie can respond: "That's
dead right, Mac, and Pm out to de-
liver the goods"
A London doctor says that it is
beneficial for mans health to get
drunk every fortnight. There are
men in Olympia who believe in the
London doctors idea. Yet, we think
some Of them overtax themselves when
they keep drunk 365 days OF the year.
A preacher in an Eastern Oregon
town heads his Sunday evening ser.
mon, my twenty-five Reasons for
Not Dancing" His reasons may be
good, but he should know that his
twenty-five reasons" will be offset by
4 thousand others why dancing is the
proper caper-by the young folks.
A. E. Reames, District Attorney of
Jackson county, Oregon, bought a gas
plant situated in Jacksonville, from j.
E. Hunt Of Portland. Now Reames
wants his money back. He says the
plant did not give the light promised,
and proved q disappointment. And
this talk from . lawyer! No doubt
Hunt considers Reames' "sue" talk
that of "gas."
An Indian at Kitkatlah, in North
ern British Columbia, came near
meeting death at the hands OF others
of his tribe, because he wore . ball of
fat, bound with hair, pierced with fish
bones, in his shoe; hoping it would
gain the love OF a certain Indian
maiden whom he wanted for his wife.
His brother Indians suspected him Of
practicing sorcery. How about the
Boston man who patronizes mediums
and Hindoo fskirs?
A bachelor in Paris has erected Q
seven.room house, using buttons as
A married mans wife in
Olympia, recently gave . party and
when some Of the young people asked
her husband for q button, to play
Who's Got the Button" he confessed
that his wife, only that afternoon, had
sewed the only button they had in the
house on his shirt. The wife is to be
presented with . new center.table by
her invited guests.
The Pope says that the gowns OF
the women, at receptions, which are
by Cardinals and other pre-
lates should be somewhat high cut.
1t would not be . bad idea il they
the gowns-were not cut at all, at
attended by men, whether
or Of any other creed. worn
by the women. Sam Jones, was once