Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-12-15
DRIFTNOOD
individual Opinion.
BY LCE F. VERNON.


tie had two guns and bowie knife
Expecting with thieves, to battle.
Did any Legislature ever pass Law
making gambling in Washington {
felony? We merely ask this after ,
visit to Tacoma.
There are some alleged jokes ap
peariug in Judge if uttered by a pro
fessional clown in the circus ring
would insure his immediate dismissal
Anti-cigarette clubs are being in
augurated in many towns. The younl
people ought to 60 further and organ
ize an anti.dude club, young fellows
who grow up in idleness and are sup
ported by indulgent parents.
MAN is creature of his own exertion
Environment cuts no figure. "-Er.
That is the queerest logic l ever
heard. Environment affects him more
than any other factor he encounters in
life.
Idon't take any interest in the in.
vestigations as to whether monkeys
talk, for l don't believe a monkey
would be able to tell some people 1
know anything that they couldn't
have thought of for themselves.
Conscience is mirror
Wherein our actions wake,
The good regard with pleasure
The wicked strive to break.
The wicked strive to break,
Not knowing, fools and blind,
Two fragments give them simply
Two mirrors, like in kind!
When . man is on the wrong path
in life it is seldom that he does no,
meet woman who says, "Don't &c
that way" But when it is a woman
who has lost the way. she always meets
q man who wants to sink her still
deeper into perdition.
Rev. Parkhurst, the celebrated New
York clergyman, denounces people
who only drop a nickel in the contri'
button box when it is passed around
If the hearing Of sermons is to be paid
for, the majority OF them are moi
worth moro than q nickel.
Take one young man with severa
unnecessary expensive habits and ont
young woman who is lazy, careless
and wasteful, and We have great re-
ceipt for either continuous poverty OF
speedy divorce. There are a number
Of these examples in Olympia.
Nearly every jury will give a verdict
against q railroad company. The
average man has it in for . railroad
corporation. The wonder is how the
railway companies manage to gel
along at all. considering the manner
in which they are mulcted in damage
suits.
The art of polite conversation seems
to have degenerated among men to 9
discussion OF the ways and means ol
making money. Every second man
in town has q scheme-and too often
it is scheme to get money from the
public without giving honest value in
return.
There is nothing that hurts business
so quickly as the prominent presence
in the world of . tight.isced, claw
listed, cat.footed, hog.hearted, penny
squeezing, man.hating. cross. between.
a.glue.pot and . vinsgar.jug, who
never spends dollar until he sees 6
dollar and ninety.eight cents in sight
Mrs. Mckinley who is worth, &C
cording to report, $500, 900. and hal
an income of $4,000 per year, still
draws that $1,000 pension of the gov
ernmeut. There are thousands ol
poor devils who served throughout the
war and are physical wrecks, and ar'
getting the princely pension OF Sc L
So, and the highest $l2 per month.
When some folk want to impress
upon you their social standing, theI
begin to tell Of their ancestors-ir
most cases they run back to the Roya
family and then some. This does no
give such animals a high standing
providing what they tell you be true
Say, fellow, don't you know there i
no record that Adam and Eve wer'
ever married?
Sir Frederick Treves addressing tn
Edinburgh Philosophical institution
on the subject, Medicine Ia Mode,
said that disease was the peoples sal
vation; that if it were not for diseas'
the human race would soon becom
extinct. Treves can hug his theor.
and preach it every hour, but most o
human beings will not concur il
wanting salvation OF the Sir Fredericl
sort.
It makes me wish 10 imbibe severa
hiehballs in rapid succession, to hea
some fellow say that he could hav
bought the lot for song, and nov
look what it is worth" What does
get hime Nothing. He didn't bu
the lot, hence he can't sell it if it
worth 81 ,OOO, 600, can he? No. The
Why will some men whine abou
what they could have accomplishe
years ago? It's what you're worth te
iday, old pal, not yesterday.