Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-06-22
DRIFTwOOD
individual Opinion)
By LCE F. VERNON.

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few notable men have been refused
election because they are not quite
hairless on top, and quite a number oil
less notable people are on the "wait
ing.election" list for the same reason
Some are declared to have secured
election by having the few remaining
hairs plucked out.
Is respect for the law decreasing?
There seems to be growing defiance
OF law and order, which means q gen.
eral spread of anarchy, unless some-
thing Is done to check it. Respect for
the primary principles of law as a
fundamental condition of good citizen.
ship should be taught and impressed
upon the rising generation in every
institution OF learning, great or small.
This ethical lack must be met, il at
all, by those charged with the response.
bility of forming the youthful mind.
"And now," said tho inqu;sitive
person who had been asking all sorts
OF impertinent questions of the timber
cruiser who sat at his cabin-door smok.
ing his pipe, "now / will explain to
you why have been so inquisitive,
am sociological investigator, and l
am doing this in the interest of science
and humanity" Chow things do
change" remarked the timber cruiser.
as he leisurely stretched himself.
"When / were boy we called your
kind of people durn .noop. .nosed med
| dlers."
There is friend of mine living in
Seattle who had all the ills flesh was
heir to, and he took pills and powders,
and powders and pills, without result.
So he called in physician. The doc.
tor looked at his tongue, lifted up his
eyelids and looked at his eyes, and
shook This head.
"How do you diagnose my case,
doctor" anxiously inquired the pa
tient.
"Well," said the doctor slowly, 81
can't tell exactly what's the matter
with you, but the post mortem will
show"
The Buffalo clerk who used half a
million dollars of his employers
money in real estate speculations was
accustomed to carry almost the whole
financial responsibility OF the firms
business, handling sometimes $50 900
a day, for the salary which had been
gradually raised from $25 to $62.5O a
month. He had family to support,
too. OF course every man ought to
be honest, even for nothing; but still,
human nature being what it is. it
seems to be taking q great deal of risk
to put $4,000 into mans hand aud
tell him that he may use $2 Of it to
live on. 1t is piliug on temptation
needlessly thick.
DIR. Wiley, government chemist, de.
clares a warning against soda.water
and iced tea. To drink these hot
weather mixtures is suicidal, accord
ing to the wise man. Worse than
this. however. is the announcement
that vegetables are not what they are
cracked up to be. DR.. Wiley tells US
that the preparation of the soil for
vegetable growth is a fruitful cause of
disease. He further says that meat.
eating is expedient in hot weather as
in cold. But he recommends bread
and butter as especially blameless.
Yesterday "science" said thumbs up.
To day it confuses the understanding
by Unexpectedly ordering thumbs
down. Tomorrow it will be wiggle.
waggle.
Your most delightful acquaintance
is the man who grows ON you. You
know people in plenty who do not
gain in your appreciation every time
you meet them they seem more shall
low and more petty than before. In
deed. there are times when your dis
coveries of inner character within the
circle of your associations run so much
to paltriness, that you feel in danger
OF being compelled to classify all hu'
man nature as deceiving sham. Blu,
the man who grows on you, saves you
from cynicism. Every day you are
finding in him some factor of man
hood that you had not expected
every day he proves in . new test e
have resources Of strength upon which
you have not counted in your esti
mate Of him.
A Puget Sound man visited recent,
friend of his who has a farm OF
plantation in Texas, and who employ,
q large number of negroes who ar,
treated with great kindness, but Wit
cannot keep their hands from pickini
and stealing. The visitor ATTENDED
their Sunday service, after which the
negro preacher, whose name by th'
way is Sin.Killer" Griffith, asked
him how he liked the sermon. The
reply was complimentary, and "Sin
Killer" grinned. Then came the re
mark: "I think you should preach
to your people on the sinfulness o
theft-stealing fowls, ducks and eggs
Sin.Killer's" face became gloomy
and he rejoined: "Well. sab, de truf
OBJ de mattah is, I hab tried dat style
but some how or oder it allus seemed
to trow q kind OBJ coolness ober d,
meetin'."
i No man, or set OF men, is responsible
for the trust "evil." 1t is . condition
evolved by the irresistible force OF pub
, lie opinion. Granted that il is ,
problem, the most bigoted sanity can
not estimate it as biabolcal plot.
think the trust is . capitalization o
, our growing commercial and indus
. trial necessities as a nation. Just nov
it is in the muddy stage OF solution
The social and national exigencie
which unconsciously reared it viii
find that they builded better thar
they knew. The good spirit OF re
sistance which now seeks to ment
and curb it was the energizing motiv'