Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-11-11
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paid-lIp subscribers, also for those who be-, bOr-
row and steal the STANDARD in order that they
may enjoy II little sunshine us they journey
| through the vale of tears.)
There is a right way and profitable
way for every business man to adver-
tise, and it's up to him to find it.
We assume the Moses, OF biblical
fame, is the oldest scout known in
history. We have read of him being
a guide.
The way the Russians are Turing the
Japs on, reminds one very strongly OF
the manner in which small boy pro-
ceeds his father to the bedroom upon
the occasion of spanking.
Hamlet's advice to players is fine
for poetry, but it hasn't practical value.
He gives them lot of instructions in
elocut!on when he ought to be telling
them how to get to the next town.
Councilmen Gill and Benjamin Of
Seattle, who enjoyed-perhaps-a fast
ride of ten miles down a mountain
road on handcar, can now have some
idea as to the sensation caused to the
man who is compelled to ride in Sc
attic patrol wagon, mayhap for the
| first time.
Judge Tallman, in Seattle, recently,
to imprisonment for five years, coupled
with fine OF one thousand dollars,
for living off the earnings of a fallen
woman. There is only one fault to
this, and that is the woman should
have received the same sentence.
Editor Fowler, of the Wenatchee
Republic, certainly will have his hands
full, so to speak, in replying to the
folks who live in and near the "home
of the big red apple" From reports,
Fowler doesn't seem to have the
confidence placed in him by many OF
Wenatchee's citizens that a reader Of
the Republic would suppose.
The stamping ground OF speakers Of
all creeds and classes on Washington
street, Seattle, for years, is now taken
away from the people who advocate
reform in seventy different manners.
Chief of Police Delaney has issued an
order to his men to clear that part of
the city from Saturday and Sunday
night agitators who speak-ior money
there is in it-thus collecting crowd
OF listeners and blocking of the side
walk.
| Here is an extreme case OF modesty.
Mrs. Wilkinson, age some years and
married, went to the Worlds Fair, and
when she saw the Igorotes, in the al
together, her modesty caused her to
faint. When revived she thought OF
what she had seen and tainted again.
She kept on fainting until she had
gotten on a train and was leaving st.
Louis. A visit to the art gallery would
probably have caused Mrs. Wilkinson
to have fit.
Long may the Portland Oregonian
live. and may Harvey Scott live for.
ever and forever-Amen. The Ore.
gonian has been the schoolmaster to
many a young man and woman in the
days when Washington State was q
Territory. We remember when, if a
family did not take the weekly Oregon.
ian they were considered very, very
poor, and they were in intellect, if not
financially. And where can you find
another paper in the United States or
Europe to surpass it.
It's a shame and disgrace the way
everybody conspires to rob rich man.
An Olympia man, who as the old say.
ing goes, "has money to throw at the
BIRDS" gave a party at his house re.
Gently, and to amuse his guests ordered
a quartet. And would you believe it,
if four singers didn't crowd into the
room and sing, and the Olympia man
had to pay all four of them, and, mind
you. dear reader, he only ordered one
solitary quartet. That's the way the
rich are swindled every day OF their
lives. Isn't this shame?
There are places in this country
where great deal of classic music is
played. To any one but doctor OF
music the performance is caviare. He
hears no tune. distinguishes no move
ment, he looks in vain for any theme
and he can see no connection and no
beauty. Yet the house is crowded
with the very people who, if they were
to devote lifetime to it, could not
understand a note of it. We once
passed all evening with so-called
classic music at a church concert,
three or four years ago. The profes.
sor took his seat at the piano and he
pounded the instrument with force
that would have done great credit to
the striking ability of James Jeiiries.
All Of the music down on the pro.
gramme was classical" Several peo.
pie seated near US applauded every
time the professor finished. 40, it
was just grand" we heard woman
say. Now these same persons had no
more idea of classical music than
Mead had OF becoming Governor OF
Washington. Ifyou had asked them
about Beethoven, Wagner, Listz or