Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-11-10
Chief Cook of the Seattle Fire De-

smoking. The Chief will not allow
smoking among his men while on
duty, or in any part of the city while
In uniform. Since the fire writer's
down there have been going after
Chief Cook, probably he thinks he
Will make it tropical for the fire
boys" under him.
Whenever editor Brainerd of the
P.-L wants to learn if "Col." A. J..
Blethen is in the land of the living he
gives him a slight prod. and behold
next evening the Times has a column
OF smallpox type editorial about Will
son and his hirelings, which gives to
Brainerd the required information.
Then Brainerd smiles that Yankee
grin of his and quiet reigns supreme
for week or 80.
If one is successful in this world,
the public fawns at your feet. II you
fail, society will frown upon you and
acquaintances will forget that they
ever knew you. They will shun you
as if you were some dangerous reptile,
and will evince q sudden and extra.
ordinary interest in store windows
when they see you approaching. The
outside world only bids you succeed,
and it will lay humbly at your feet all
its tinsel and gold, all its honors and
delights.
Sam Jones doesn't take much stock
in the agitation now going on among
the clergy in favor of the prohibition
of divorces. He says he believes with
them, that whom God joins together
no man should put asunder; but it is
the opinion OF Sam that men and
women who seek divorce in the courts
were never spliced by God, in the first
place, but by the devil, hence the
regulation does not apply in their case.
The clergy have not yet been heard
from in rebuttal.
A sculptor in New York city de-
clares that men are not angels. Won
der how old the sculptor is, and if he
ever attended a meeting OF the wo-
mems sewing bee? We supposed
every school-boy knew this. Men are
devils, rattlesnakes, dragons, hypo-
critics, balloons, Holsters and crows,
and the idea of the New York sculptor
even limiting that man is anyway
connected with the angels shows an
ignorance OF the subject as deplorable
as profound. Men angels! Nit.
Is there anything more dreadful
than being called clever? Nothing.
It is the most damning adjective
in the language. Whenever I hear
that person is clever, am sure he
will never amount to much. There is
only one word that approaches it in
deadly significance. That is rising
have known men whom the puffs
have referred to as ga rising man" fol-
twenty years. Can you imagine any
thing more dismal than being called
constantly by the same epithetf The
very amiability in the general opinion
permitting "clever" and "rising" &c
remain unalterable, shows that the
wearer OF these terms is hopeless, &
strong man would have made enemies
A Yale professor has been expert
menting upon his classes with a view
to ascertaining whether tobacco has
or has not, deteriorating effect upor
the brain. In dividing the students
into groups, he found that the non
smokers beat the smokers by at leas
10 per cent, in weight and height
also that they were far ahead in th'
matter of passes in the various sub
ljects of study. This is all right, q
far as it goes, and l am not going t
minimize the efforts of the Yale sav
ant in the least. Only it sets MT
a.thinking, and l naturally bark bacl
to another professor, Mr.. Lombroso
and I find him insistently pushing
forward the doctrine that any depar
ture from the normal is . sign of de
cadence. Geniuses and clever people
according to Mr.. Lombroso, are al
more or less insane. This is q com
forting reflection to people who feel I
trife stupid and get low in spirits be
cause they realize their mental de
fciencies. Now, 80 far as Yale uni
versity is concerned, it appears tina
tobacco is helping to preserve the nor
NAL man from breaking out init
genius, and, pari passu, developing
into decadent. If the man who eat
and sleeps be the only normal human
it would appear that he even improve
his record by an occasional smoke O.
} chew. 1t is a great problem, and
am not able to solve it, even to m!
own satisfaction, but should say tina
: q judicious and conscientious smoke
might, at the end of century OF ex
istence, have more leathery pair o
lungs than his non-smoking brother
upon the principle that kippered fsl
keep longer than fresh ones.
Might Be True.