Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-09

BY lUE r. VERNON
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Hold your horses. hold en- steady,
only Il year and half more of Teddy.
As Il general rule. legal victories
are more often won through techni-
calities than Justice.
Life is sweet, even to the most
wretched of humans, and it is only
natural for a man, though perhaps
being the lowest of criminals, to
cling to it as long as he can.
The Army and Navy Union. at
their recent convention in Washing
ton, ID. G., voted in favor of the
restoration of the army cantecn.
Now listen to the walls. screams and
ShrlekS from the W. G. Il. L.
An Idaho Postmaster recently re-
ccived letter addressed to his Of
flee rs follows:
Hand me to George H. Low,
4 man who likes to brag and blow.
| He's chopping cord-wood for his board
In Silver City, Idaho"
Luna Park an outdoor attrac-
tion in West Seattle, advcrtiScS it
self thuSly: The nations greatest
play ground on the Pacific Coast. I"
1t being just across Elliott BAY. it
has caught the boasting habit from
Seattle.
Now is the time for some enter
priSinG manufacturing concern to
| furnish the small boy with a Teddy
gun to kill off the Teddy bears which
his sister hugs around. and incident
ally to complete what race suicide
has not done.
1t is cold day that does not See IL
new boss at the head of the Panama
Canal. Each new man of course has
to take time to study the condi-
tions and by the time he has
studied them he is ready to drop his
job like Il hot potato.
Coffee or Coffin Houses Which?'
was the title of Sunday evening
haranguc ny tho Rev NJ A. Mat
| thewS, pastor of the First PreSby-
terian Church, in Seattle, recently.
From what noticed while in Seattle
recently. the Queen City has an over
supply of both.
At Evanston. Illinois. the police
are compiling Il volume containing
the particulars of all persons con-
victcd of drunkenness and of obtain
ing beer out of lawful hours. The
volume Is mplrlel on Dcbrett' 5
Pccrage. and its official title is
The Red Nose Book
al sclf-madc" men who begin
on beer and whisky and gradually
rise to the dignity Of tho drink
divine, " generally think it necessary
to assume to know all about costly
wines, for fear that the world at
large will think them to be nothing
more than common folks instead of
true blue bloodrd noblcmen.
Anybody who is crcdulouS enough
to believe that seven barrels of whiS-
key and two barrels of brandy were
allowed to remain undiSturbcd in the
hull of steamer wrecked in the
Mississippi river near Cairo, fifty
years ago, is entitled to the kindly
offices of II guardian. People would
not he expected to put faith in that
yarn, even though Will ViSSchrr may
declare it true.
In the magazines and papers that
appeal to auto people, | have noticed
numerous pictures, intended to bc
very funny, showing huge auto
Scorching along some country road
and soaring Il horse driven by a
farmer. Some of these pictures make
the poor natives horse running away.
while the contents of his wagon are
scattered along the road, to the great
amusement of those in the auto.
There is nothing funny about such
things. Everyone who rides in an
auto owes it to his own sense of
deccncy to treat those he encounters
on the road with fairness and con-
sideration. Some there are that dc
this, but there are too many who
ride roughshod over tho rights Ol
others and this does much to cause a
hostility of popular feeling against
autoists in general,
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