Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-07-27
DRIFTNOOD
It's a popular fad-insanity.
individual Opinion.
By LrE F. VERNON.

It's a popular fad-lnsanity.
If you want revenge on your enemy,
shoot him down, then plead insanity.
| "Is il hot e-?" But at this mo.
ment a shot rang out, and the victim
hit the dust never to rise again.
Anybody Can pray for rain, and his
prayer is certain to be answered il he
has patience to wal, long enough.
Isn't it strange that one sort of a
religious party will econ and turn
their heavenly tending nose up at the
other?
A New Hampshire man hanged
himself to escape suffering from the
heat. The question naturally arises,
did he escape?
Why do people leave their horses
exposed to the hot sun all day, when
for a small sum they can get them
stabbed and wa,ered?
He,ty Green says that hash causes
more divorces than infdelity. She
might have added that the young
wife's first biscuits cause more agony
than does the early cucumber.
Young Thompson, of Seattle, who shot
Judge Emory, was great admirer and
partaker of prepared breakfast food
Er.
Yes, and the sound of the six shoot
er was music to his ears, it seems.
What material for blood. curdliug
climaxes the writers of mick Carter"
The Brady's" and Deadwood Dick"
libraries could have obtained in Sc.
attic the last few weeks from actual
life.
The viligant committee should be.
come insane for a few hours in Seat.
tie and clean out few people who
kill others with no more hcsitancy
than if they were shooting at a mad
dog.
Now that John l.. Wilson says he is
not a seeker for any Office at the
political pie.counter, wonder If Editor
in Chief Blethen OF the Seattle Times,
will cease using the words, perennial
Candidate" when speaking of Wilson
A man or woman, being Of legal
age. has the right, backed by the Con.
stitution OF the United States, to wor.
ship as he sees fit, whether it be
amongst Holy Rollers. Methodists,
Catholics, or Adventists. provided
they act decently.-EDl
The Summer widower is abroad, and
most mournful he is, with nothing tc
do. There's 20 chance for gayety in q
small town where every one knows you
and it's town talk next day if you're
seen promenading on the street with g
woman who isn't your wife.
The height OF some ranchmen'l
ambition is to drive to town Saturday,
hitch his team to a telephone pole
eat square" meal at a restaurant
stand on the corner OF Fourth ant
Main streets and talk about "crops,
drive home, grease his boots and 20 e
bed.
If the officials OF King county had
done their duty as prescribed by law
soon as Mitchell was acquitted for th'
murder OF Creffield on his plea of in
sanity, he should have been removed
to Steilacoom. Humanity is not sai'
with an insane man running amuck
you know.
| just after eating dish of ice cream
a Kansas City girl made such hypnotic
goo-goo eyes at the fellow who hat
treated her that he proposed marrisg,
and married her the same evening
Young men who are contracting tn,
habit of treating girls to ice.crean
might avoid unpleasant consequence
by making them wear blue goggles q
the table.
If Gov. Mead should purchase tn
ballad written and composed by tn
) late Paul Dresser entitled, "The Par
don Came too Late" commit it T.
memory, and warble the same to him
self three times day, it would not in
fuse in him desire to have pardon
reach the Warden of the penitentiar
at Walla Walla one minute NOR
> promptly than has been his rule il
the past.
George Mitchell took the law in hi
own hand, so to speak, when he kille
the Holy Roller" Creffield. He wa
acquitted as being insane. Now tina
George was shot and killed by hi
sister, she has taken the law in he
own hand. as it we're. She had just q
much right to kill her brother, legally
as Mitchell had to murder Creffielc
legally, and if she pleads insanity
should be acquitted as was her brothe
Both sister and brother outraged an
disgraced the law.
We have law in this country fc
the punishment OF those who disobe
it. This is why we have Judges, Law
yers and court houses. No individus
has the right to assume himself til
right of being judge and jury. A ma
, who shoots down a man from ambus
is the lowest human cur that walks th
Earth. 1t shows that the assassin