Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-03-09
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BY LIE r. VERNON.

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Now that Pat Grove has been &C.
quilted at Omaha. of kidnapping, l
wonder what will be the name of the
play in which he will star?
Alter dining Booker I. Washington
in the White House, did Roosevelt
intend to overlook Booker as an in.
vited guest at the marriage of Alice?
It seems so.
Throw the tule life-preserver over
board. Every life appliance on a
steamer should be examined each day.
They should always be in proper
working order.
Red, White and Blue" is the
brand of coffee sold in England. To
stand this off, we buy John Bull
Whiskey," thus making it case Of
boss and hoss."
WoolloomoollO," is the name of a
fish market in q suburb OF Sydney,
Australia. If the fish sold on the
stands are as soft as the name, l de-
cline to purchase.
A resident of London, England, says
he has discovered the way to live for.
ever. The attention of Susan B.
Anthony, Uncle Russell Sage and
Hetty Green is called to this.
Carrie Nation was elected from q
saloon in Hot Springs, Ark, recen tly,
and lodged in Jail, charged with dis.
turbing the peace. The authorities
should have sentenced Carrie to take
bath. Perhaps one or two Of her
ideas of destroying other peoples
property, could have been boiled out.
While Congressman Longworth high.
ly appreciates, no doubt, the many
beautiful and costly presents given in
kindly spirit to his wife, coming as
they have from the four quarters of
the Earth, yet he probably frowns at
the thought of being compelled to
spend 100000 in erecting building
to store the same.
The press Of Washington should not
cease hammering away, so to speak,
until Uncle Sam duly establishes q
life.saving station At Neah Bay, with
all the latest and best facilities for
rescuing humanity who may be ship
wrecked, in future. One life saved
more than repays all financial expense
of creating the same.
In my opinion, the cartoon appear.
ing in the Spokesman-Review some
time ago, entitled L" Senator Mitchell's
Record" was the best thing in that
line ever printed. A hand is pictured
as if writing letter, while q woman
representing the State Of Oregon is
weeping, and underneath is the fol.
lowing lines from Omar Khayyam:
''The moving finger writes, and, having
written,
Moves on; nor all your piety nor wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half line,
Nor all your tears wash out word Of
it."
It may be news to old.timers to
learn that Hattie Moore, and Harry
Gates, her husband, are dead. They
used to visit the Northwest in Terri.
torial days with musical attraction
known as "The Hattie Moore Comic
Opera Company" Harry Gates was q
tenor singer and sang for years Q! the
old Tivoli, in San Francisco. During
recent years he published the Music
and Drama, q weekly paper. He sold
this, and started the Star. q dramatic
venture. 1t was Q failure. Gates
died penniless.
Something was evidently wrong at
the Alice. Nicholas wedding. There
were Cinnamon and Japs, but no
"colored" gentlemen, except the wait
ers. I failed 10 read of Booker T.
Washington as among the swells and
nabobs. Did "Teddy" forget Booker!
Has he drawn the color line? Perhaps
the President thinks the presence oi
the negro may be fine and dandy u
guests of your daughters wedding, but
when it comes to his daughters mar
riage-well, the negro as an invited
guest, was not there.
People who have strolled hand 10
hand most of their life, with poverty
as . boon companion, should not take
serious stock in the biblical quotation
Cast not your pearls before swine
lest they trample them under foot
and turn again and rend you," for ]
have noticed that folk always quoting
the proverb, have not the money, as Z
rule, half the time to liquidate theil
honest and legitimate debts when due
let alone bein possession Of pearls e
cast before swine, or even those whom
they chose to designate as having 9
diseased brain, so 90 speak. 1 say thi,
is my experience, caring not wha'
that OF others may have been.
There is a certain saloon in Olym