Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-05-20

citizen who has money in his jeans, by
the bold, bad pickpockets.
- 1t has always seemed peculiar to me
why, at any great commencement or
opening Of an exhibition, when the
President of the United States is TO
start the machinery, that golden key
Is invariably installed for his use
Would it not be change to use an
iron, brass, leather or wooden KEY, at
one Of these functions?
The story that after a mans wife
leaves him, that he Immediately goes
to rack and ruin, is all bosh. The
wife OF Milton, the poet, left him and
instead OF his friends seeing him be.
come wrecked man, he became more
famous than ever, for it was after his
wife leaving him that he wrote" Para
disc Regained." Yes, indeed.
AS the Elk's lodge of Tacoma is
against the wanton killing OF the elk
animals just for the two teeth to be
used as emblems o! the order and has
passed resolution to that effect, it can
expect boom in the crowd of candi-
dates for membership in the lodge.
For when men treat dumb brutes
respectfully, the human being need
not be afraid to attempt to ride their
lodge goat.
William Randolph Hearst is the tool
OF no men, nor set of men. Because
he has showed under, distanced and
run entirely away from newspaper
men who have always posed and held
up their heads as gods of the news.
paper world, few of the big paper
owners OF San Francisco have sharp.
ened up their knife and are after the
scalp OF Hearst. 1t is awful when the
"green.eyed monster" is loose.
There is a man in Seattle who
never goes out to Leshi Park to see the
animals. He says his oldest daughter
does the kangaroo walk, his second
daughter talks like parrot, his son
laughs like hyena, his wife watches
him like hawk, his cook is as cross
as bear, and his mother.in law says
he is an old gorilla. When he goes
any place, it is always to Tacoma,
where he can find peace and rest
The Four Hours Sleep Club is an
other fad of New York's Smart Set.
Its members bind themselves not to
spend more than four hours out of
the twenty-four in slumber, and to in.
duce their friends and relations to do
the same. 1t is believed that this
excellent excuse for not retiring till
the small hours, will attain great pop
ularity in New York. We have no.
ticed number of Olympia citizens
being up at late hour, recently, but
did not know they were members of
this club.
Plough Monday" is a holiday
that is confined to London, England.
1t being the first Sunday after Epiph.
any. On that day the Lord Mayor
dimes and wines the city officials. it
seems any excuse is good enough for
feed in the largest city in the
world. Still, in certain parts of the
United States every day is plough
day, during n certain season OF the
year and on those days a jug of water
hidden in the shade is all the one who
plows ever gets chance to tackle in
the drinking line.
The Ohio State Liquor League held
its annual meeting this year in East
Liverpool, whose Mayor is w. A.
Weaver-the only prohibition Mayor
in the Buckeye State. Mayor Weaver
believes that man in his position has
certain public obligations to fulfill,
even though in doing so his own feel
ings may sustain shock. So when
the liquor men invited him to deliver
the address of welcome at their gather
ing he accepted, much to their sur
prise. He acknowledged the presence
of the convention in courteous lam
guage, which gave no hint OF compro.
mise as to his own principles. He as
sumed that the delegates were there
for the purpose of furthering their
interests in lawful fashion and there.
fore saw no reason why he should not
welcome them. If more towns in the
United States had Mayors with the
broad gauge mind of the Weaver
stamp there would be less police in
vestigations and corruptfulness in the
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