Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-01-18

BY LUE +. VERNON

- FP'ui6 hhb VAIN,
Wise and sedate,
They'll talk and talk.
Yet, one must confess
AS he gaZes around,
More intelligent crowd
Ne'er could be found.
nowadays that one Can hardly taste
the spice.
1t the Car supply is as short as re.
ports say, why don't they build the
cars longer?
It's just like a woman, when she is
talking to man over the telephone
to whisper to him so central can,
hear.
Whenever / hear a man constantly
referred to as "a good man." | dis.
cover that he hasn't very much force
OF character.
The Ohio man who has under
gone twenty-five surgical operations
must begin to think that the doctors
are regular cut,ups.
This tendency to divorce in the
theatrical profession indicates that
even the greatest entertainers can't
entertain each other.
Editors have their troubles, the
greatest bores are people who want
something published that don't inter.
est anyone but themselves.
"This paper has always opposed fraud
in elections. "-Er.
l don't see as that is anything to
brag Of. Why ehouldn't il?
Subsidiary companies OF the Stand.
ard Oil Co. in Ohio have admitted
their ownership. 1t is needless to add
that the goods have been found or
them.
A woman 10 Indiana who applied
for divorce had been married four
teen times. The paper fails to tell
what has become OF one of the hus
bauds.
People who are least acquainted
with their neighbors are the ones whc
get along best in the community.
scandal is always brewing when neigh
bors are too thick.
An evangelist in San Francisco
preached a sermon recently ito inf
dels who are honest" 1t is q wonder
that any preacher will admit that an
infidel can be honest.
The poor man who has travelled ovel
the road OF adversely gets his hand iu
bis pocket quicker for charity thar
does the wealthy man who has known
naughs but prosperity.
Down in Kentucky one citizen
called another liar and was arrested
and fined for it. In the good old
Kentucky days he would have been
embalmed and buried for it.
The Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company will build . sky -scraper in
New York City fifty stories high. Nc
doubt this has been made urgent &c
conform with their premium on poll
cies.
The police took . number of meu
from out of their bed in . 10 cent
lodging house in Seattle, and they will
be placed in the chain. gang a. vag
rants. No doubt the removal wat
thankfully received by the men.
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He had dined with Pierpont Morgan,
Was friend of Vanderbilt,
With his friend Rockefeller,
He never had tilt.
And his faith in human beings,
Who some say have no soul,
Was more intense and strengthened
He received one sack of coal.
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The Rev. DR.. Thirdly -" What,
this, weepinsf I have come just in
time. My dear young lady, you are
undergoing q change OF heart"
Young Lady -" No-boo-hoo-my
heart hasn't changed. but, o, dear
O, dear! His has"
The geographical center Of the
United States is marked by q grave
topped by q granite shaft and sur.
rounded by an iron picket fence. II
is on the Fort Riley military reserva
tion. three miles east of Junction City
Kan, and about 16O miles west o.
Kansas City.
Industrial education 10 almost abso
lutely essential to comfortable ex
istence these days. The boys who
have fortunes are few and far between
while the boys who have to make
their own living arc plentiful, and
practical education alone will properly
equip them for the battles of bis life
so crowded, in fact, that there is bu,
little, if any, "room at the top" The
skilled workmen are the ones whose
services are in demand now.
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This queer country. It has such 9
surfeit of business that the busines.
can only be done at q loss. There
aren't enough cars, enough labor
enough money to 60 around. We are
stuffed full of prosperity go that We
are uncomfortable. This is the story
that comes from the editors who serve