Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-05-13
CHIPS AND RAGS
By LuE +. VERNON.
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Many a man falls in love with a
work of art and marries it."-Idcoma
Ledger.
| A great many men must have awful
dreams as to what work of art con-
sists Of, if their wives represent the
art.
When the oceans blue turns to
gold" and battleship "turns TURTLE"
isn't it about time the wicked sinner
was turning his weary footsteps to-
wards the house where church bell
and hymn books are much in evidence?
A Long Island preacher denies that
angels are graceful, white.robed fe-
males with wings. We never could
understand why angels are always
represented as women; still an angel
wearing whiskers wouldn't look very
we'll.
The bursting of an eighteen.inch
water main at Salt Lake, came near
destroying the famous bronze monu-
ment of Brigham Young. No doubt
the statue appreciated the cooling
flood after the hot reception its found
ers have been receiving in Washington,
DC.
The preachers are denouncing the
innocent game OF Finch, in the East,
which affords so much pleasure to the
boys and girls. Finch will continue,
however, to be played. 1t is not half
as hurtful as the many schemes gotten
up-church suppers, etc-to pay off
church debts.
The Statue OF Liberty Enlightening
the World, stands at the entrance
OF New York harbor. 1t, from i'm
migration statistics shows, undoubt-
edly, that as a signal light to guide
the outcast, paupers and scum from
foreign shores to the United States, it
is decided success.
"Let the punishment fit the crime,"
is now to commence in earnest with
Japan, with no music of violins, harps,
trumpets and so on, but accompanied
by the music of bursting shell and
cannon roar. Gilbert and Sullivau's
opera has been witnessed by thousands
who will remember the above sentence
in the Mikado.
1t was tramp who grew wild with
excitement the other day when he felt
a dime slipping around within his
neither clothes. He couldn't stand
such flood of good luck, but called
up his friends Immediately. After an
extended and painful skirmish up and
down pantaloon legs and stocking
tops, he drew forth to the admiring
gaze OF the bystanders-a loose button.
| James J. Hill should not get down.
hearted, even if be did lose the merger
case. He will not be compelled to
work on the Great Northern for Chin.
ese wages and board himself. James,
my boy, keep a stiff upper lip. When
ever you need dollar, 60 to the
Orientals you love so we'll and ask for
it. You are a big Hill in name, but
a small potato as far as wages is con-
cerned, in the eyes OF those who labor.
The Presidential boom of William
Randolph Hearst is growing so rapidly
that it dumbfounds the Republican
leaders and bewilders them. They
have never in their political life seen
its equal. The PEOPLE are rallying to
the support of Hearst as has been
done for no other man before. He is
the fayorite of the working people and
of many of the wealthy magnates.
The PEOPLE want him, and they will
get him.
Gone, but not forgotten-the age of
the "Ann" gag. Now comes San
Francisco with q rival puzzle which
has created a mild sensation in that
windy city among clerks and account
ants. 1t will never get the space
from newspapers as did the Age of Ann
article. Here is the puzzle: eff q
brick weighs seven pounds and a half
brick, how much does q brick and q
half weight" So far, those who have
tried to solve the puzzle have found it
to be "kiln" one.
i Our minds are so constituted that
we must believe in something. Often
We believe in something presented to
US as truth without thinking about it.
Our beliefs, when received without
thought, become superstitious. How
many of the beliefs OF our time may be
classed superstitious? This believing
without the understanding constitutes
. mental bondage more degrading
than the slavery OF the body. We
must strive to be free from the one as
much as we do to be free from the
other.
The man (or woman) who can make
trip to the woods on a bright day
without losing all thought of life's
cares in the beauties of Nature, is q
very unimpressionable individual. The
. endless variety Of blossoms on tree
and bush delight every sense, while
modest daisies, lovely violets. and all
manner OF pretty plant and shrub,
indigenous to this locality, carpet