Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-04-26
DRIFTwOOD
BY LUE F. VERNON
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Say, wouldn't it jar you?
| Nearly makes one daft.
Now that We have less of Thaw
| Wen get the more Of Taft.
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The daisy's dreaming in the dew,
The golden bees are seeking honey;
The skies above are just as blue
AS Is fellow out Of money.
And now do all the copses ring,
| The latest billiards. dead as Hector;
We rather owe all ode to spring
Than to the usual bill collector.
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Between appointing negroes to Of
flee and discharging others, Teddy"
ought to realize which way the wind
is blowing, and be able to discern
the black clouds of political Oblivion
forming which will envelope him in
due time in their misty vapor.
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| One may at last weary even of too
much of flowers and sunshine, you
know. The mass of people in the
United States are waning of Teddy. I"
He has been in the lime-light, spot
light and all others, so much that
the people want a rest from him.
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Teddy's son-in-law Nick" says
Taft is the man to carry on father
in-law's" ideas, or words to that ef-
feet. While Taft may be the man in
Roosevelt's eye, there are other men
in the United States, and they will
be at the National Republican Con-
vention, too. Wait and see.
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Plot For Modern Novel.
! He visited the tomb where his be-
loved was laid.
Carrying a lighted candle and
kneeling by her coffin, he exclaimed
passionately: Would l could die!
Would l could die!' Just then the
wind closed the door and extinguised
the light. The bereaved lover who
had just prayed for death rushed to
the door; he could not open it; he
tore at it, knocked, kicked, strug-
gled, calling loudly for help.
No answer, only the utter silence
and darkness of the tomb. His wish
was forgotten. He sank down and
wept; his tears were not for his be-
loved, but for himself. He felt pangs
of hunger; he thought of his candle
and cut it into four parts. He ate
the first quarter the first day, the
second on the second day, the third
on the third day, the last quarter the
fourth day.
No more, and he must die of star
walton. He made one more desper-
ate effort to burst the door, when it
suddenly opened, and the keeper of
the cemetery stood before him; the
sunlight blinded him-he fell from
exhaustion. He had been there just
four hours.
Hasn't Ghost Of Chance.
| The Morning Times of Seattle, in q
recent issue, in a "space-filler" arti-
Gle, says Mayor Moore of that city
plans to make race for Governor on
the Democratic ticket.
| Mayor Moore of the Queen City
hasn't the ghost of q chance to win
such race, though he even entered
the contest; no more chance than
the Morning Times has to win its
imaginative race for supremacy in
the morning journalistic field, be-
tween it and the peer of all news
papers in She Evergreen State, the
Past-Mtelligencer. That paper out
classes the Morning Times in every
way, shape, manner and form; just
as Democrats in this State, who are
too numerous to mention, outclass
Mayor Moore of Seattle, in requisites
required to be a successful candidate
for Governor of the grand, glorious,
prospering and progressive State OF
Washington.
| Nay, nay, Morning Times, you'll
have to send forth another space.
filler," claiming some other than
Mayor Moore, of your city, who has
aspirations or plans to make race
for Governor of Washington ON the
Democratic ticket, to create any
over-average, alarming, or wild de-
sire on part of disgusted public al
large to buy copy of the Morning
Times, with it's much cry and little
newspaper attributes. For:
Walla Walla has the Statesman,
Spokane has the RerieW,
Tacoma Ne,rs and Ledger,
Bellingham the American-Phew!
Aberdeen the Baltetin,
Seattle Morning Times, they call,
But the leading, always-ahead-P.-L
Is the monarch Of them all.
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J / was down to Seattle the other
! day, and the clerk of the hotel l was
staying at put bug in my ear, ,
SO to speak. You couldn't guess
what it was in q years time, so ]
won't keep you in suspense, but will
, tell you about it at once.
1t is a minister who Obeys "ur.
gency" calls, often at night, and
who makes young couple man and
wife with as little formality as pos
sible. Many of these calls come from
: hotels, and often demands to bt
lmade by very young people, perhaps