Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-06-03
CHIPS AND RAGS
by LUE r. VERNON.
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The biggest fool that we ever me-
was the prettiest woman that we about
ever saw. but she didn't live in Olym'
pia.
A. d. Aberdeen-No, the Times o.
Seattle is not known to the editors in
the State as q" Family Paper" though
it requires family to publish it.
"Try Me-" is a brand OF butter sold
in Olympia. Lsndladies of boarding
houses buy it. The boarders might
accept the invitation, don't cher know
Sheep-shearers are experts az a gen
eral rule in fleeing sheep. And they
are just as good in getting ieeced
from their money after their work is
finished, as rule.
We must conclude from the num-
Der of Russian ships, which the Japan
ese have already sank, that Goodall
Perkins & Co., are not the only own.
ers of vessels in the world.
A Shelton saloon keeper would rath'
er have five empty beer-kegs sitting
out in front OF his place of business
than ten full barrels inside. Makes
the other saloon-keepers jealous, dom,
you know, of the amount OF beer he
sells.
Haven't you noticed the number
Of strikes occurring each day? This
means unrest and starvation among
the working people. Wage-earners
should study the strike system, and
see if, as q whole. that strikes ever
benefit them. l think not.
A delegate in Omaha charged Su.
preme Commander Spinney of the
Bankers Union of the World with
robbipg the order OF $4,000 during
the past year. The members re-elect'
ed Spinney to the head of the order
Spinney ought to get away with the
whole fund next year.
The greatest war the United State:
will have to contend with, will be q
civil one. 1t is coming. il something
Unexpectedly doesn't occur. Labor
agitators, who are only using their
positions to draw the salary and who
care no more at heart for the working
people than a cat does for a canary
bird, will be the cause OF it.
The so-called scab," in our opin.
ing. is more magnanimous than the
union man. If union man, who is
broke, comes along and wants to work
alongside OF him, he can do so; the
non-union man don't kick; yet if the
"scab" is stoney broke and wants to
work alongside the union man, he i.
turned down in hurry, by the man
with the "card."
There are diving pigs on certain
islands Off Florida, and they subsist
chiefly upon the refuse fish cast away
by fishermen. There are big, fat
healthy, lazy, beat-their.honest-debts
two.legged, lying hogs in the State
of Washington, who live off the hard
money worked for by honest wage
earners. The ones we speak Of are
too lazy to even grunt after a hearty
meal.
He flew the country. Who? Why
DR.. August Greth in his airship. He
started from San Francisco to San
Jose and was in the air over, an hour
He has demonstrated the fact that
soon we can board an airship, fly over
to London, England for supper, at
tend u theatrical performance in New
York city and arrive home in time
for a snooze and be ready for business
in the morning.
The cake walk, that recently was
the craze, seems to have vanished as
all other fads of the hour. What on
earth any body could ever see in the
fearful and wonderful contortions oi
the darkey walkist to admire, is be.
yond my powers Of comprehension.
| But that some folk did admire the
cake-walk, there can be no possible
doubt. Still it has passed away, to a
great extent, and we hear little of it
nowadays.
May the day soon come when obitu-
ary verse will be thing of the past
As q rule it il not worth the time
spent in reading it, and rs the poor
printers seldom receive any pay for
setting it up. it would be doing a great
favor, both to the newspaper and pub
lie, if the person who feels called upon
to grind out the vile and unreasonable
doggerel would pass the call up, or
after finishing his "ode" throw it in
the waste basket.
The man who advertises with short
and sudden jerk is the man who blames
the editor because it didn't work; the
man who gets the business. gives a
long and steady pull, and keeps the
local paper from year to year quite
full; he plans his advertisements in
a very careful way, and keeps forever
at it until he makes it pay; he has
faith in all the future, can stand . sud.
den shock, and like man of scrip
ture, has his business on rock.
The editor of the Aberdeen paper
who criticised some OF the wild, rant
ing articles palmed off on the unsus-
pecting public as editorials, appearing
in the Times, of Seattle, and who haC
his newspaper cut off the Times ex
change list for go daring the god o
journalism, should be truly thankful
that there is no law compelling hin
to exchange with il. The editor will
now, perhaps, have command, in few
weeks at least, of his normal mind.
1t makes some of the newspape
owners green with envy, back in thu
Eastern States, to know that William