Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-10-05
DRIFTWOOD
individual OpiniOn.)
BY LCE F. VERNON.

An Autumn Leaf.
Read what is written on this leaf
BY frost and shower:
81 lived my life. | knew not grief
Before mine hour.
Untroubled, daylong did l play
Where warm winds blow,
Mine was happy, happy way,
l made it So"
The CHEEKY, sweet philosophy
From Natures pen!
Thus will she write, at last, maybe,
On hearts of men.
II you've each day good food in sight,
II you can sleep eight hours night
With appetite to send you to it
And have the bed on which to do it
If, now and then. dance, play,
Some simple pleasure comes your way,
You have far more than many get
Don't fret
City Engineer Thompson, OF Seattle,
still holds his job Notwithstanding the
constant warfare made upon that
gentleman by the Seattle Times.
Thirteen bodies OF the Valencia
wreck were buried recently in Seattle.
At last report, the tule life preserver
was still doing business as usuvl.
An old maid told me the other day
that it was far better to be laughed at
because you we're not married than
not TO be able to laugh because you
are. What do you thinkf
A woman visitor in Seattle recently
asked . policeman where Madison
street was, and he told her he didn't
know. If the womar had inquired for
the Alaska building, the result, no
doubt, would have been the same.
One Vincent Harper, novelist and
magazine writer of Seattle, is strug.
Cling to follow in the wake of the
" call of the wild" as it were. He, like
Jack London, has embraced the So.
cialist faith, and don't care who knows
it.
Senator Tillman is scanning bis die
tionary Of expletives. Until he com.
pletes that task he will not feel that
he can do the subject justice. But if
the public will only exercise q little
patience he will be heard from in due
time.
The man who will send out of town
for . piece of printing, even if it's only
a dollars worth, is in no position to
ask people to patronize him. With
good print-shops in town, there is no
excuse to 60 away from home to get
printing.
He: IL AN in favor rather of the
English than the American mode OF
spelling"
She: "Yes?"
He: "Yes indeed. Take harbour
for instance. Having you in it
would make all the difference in the
world"
Surely one Of the diseases of the
present day is overwork, . disease that
is prevalent in all classes of society.
The working man is worn out long
before his time, bis vile 10 an old wo.
man long before che is fifty. all through
the struggle to live. But 10 nearly all
the professions the story is the same.
The streets OF Seattle are enough to
disgust an Eastern visitor, or even
those from other towns in Washing.
ton. They are torn up; building
material is scattered promiscuously
where there is no reason for it. and q
pedestrian is confronted with dis.
aster as be ambles along the avenues
OF that city.
"I'll have you know, stranger, tha,
I belong to Seattle" said the man
with the suitcase ct the Greyhound
wharf, the other day.
Who'd have thought it," replied
the thin-faced, sceptic individual, who
was fishing at Percivals dock, "from
the way you've been talkin' I thought
Seattle belonged to you."
Tacoma wants the Capitol.
Tacoma wants new depot.
Tacoma wants Olympia trade.
Tacoma wants women kept out OF
saloone.
Tacoma wants Pete Sandbere's pull
obliterated.
Tacoma's wants, like the poor, are al.
ways with 10.
Tacoma wants every thing in sight.
SHAvE-5c q side; haircutting 15c q
head; massage treatments at popular
prices. 10th and Paciic-basement
Tacoma Neus.
Thus do we progress. II you can't
wait for q two.side shave, purchase
one; and it is startling to learn hair.
cutting l5c head" We always sup
posed until now. that the hair was
clipped from the feet. 'Tis true we
live and learn.
Tho following paragraph, printed in
English, have clipped from . Korean
newspaper. which was sent to me by .
friend:
Seoul, Korea, Aug. 15.-Lately the
Police Headquarters ordered to forbid
the servants etc. to run the horses fastly
on the big streets as they sometimes
pressed the children down and hurted
them on the ground and the police
stopped a mapoo running a horse hardly