Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-06-28

BY LUE r. VERNON
M-e1N-1NIN N1'S~N.S -7S


Tacoma has Bishop I,iddy. tn
] sporting editor of the NowS.
The latest message from Mars
Haven dug your ditch yet"
Printing offices always remind m
of Il ship, because they all have gal
leyS.
Fairbanks, it is said. hasn't tn,
courage of his badness. Neither ha
Rockefeller
f.. H. Hartman: Governmen
suit against you abandoned. Yol
and | are practical men. Il. r..
A Berlin correspondent says tn,
Kaiser has the telephone habit
Teddy" has the megaphonc habit.
In union there is strength i
not believed now by Schmitz of Sal
Francisco, whom the jury has pro
nounced guilty.
1t is often said that Teddy has tn,
courage of his convictions. Th,
courage would be all right if tn,
convictions were.
Some men can take new furnitur
and make it look rs if it was made {;
century ago, says an exchange. S,
can some children.
The London 81. .Luncs Gusctt
boasts that England has the bes
fruits. Yet Stead could not gel
enough pruneS when he was owe
here.
a Pittsburg paper says: NJ
placid Princeton for our strenuous
President. Certainly not. Teddy
prefers a bowling Harvard or a vel
ling Yale.
Mrs. Fiske requires hand.
to wear white gloves in handling hel
scenery. Well, the theatrical syndi
cate handles her without gloves OF
conscience.
Wonder what DR.. Long thinks ol
that famous story of a certain ex.
allied parsonage killing a Spaniard
with his trusty pistol, on a certain
hill in Cuba?
L propose" began the deliberate
old lawyer. who called around to see
q young lady on business. His viva
cious client exclaimed: Il accept. .
They are now partners.
The quality of mercy may not be
strained, but its quantity in present
use looks much as though it had been
sparingly forced through several
thickneSSes of tough canvas.
The New York World says that
cobbling in the metropolis is running
down at the heels and is dying
industry. Even Evangelist Moody
found saving somfs a difficult calling.
Prof. Landland has photographed
the canals of Mars. 1t is to be doubt
ed if even the Martians have devised
a glass powerful enough to catch the
CLINT of water in our Panama ditch.
Cant recall any municipal scandal
in America quite as bad as the mix
up in San Francisco. The Golden
Gate is a misnomer when applied
to the entrance into that kind of a
heaven.
Il have nothing to say about any
body or anything" said DR.. Park
hurst as he left New York the other
day for Europe. The doctor must
have had premonition that the ship
would sink.
When someone asked Edison how
he could stand the strain of from Is
to 18 hours work daily, the wizard
replied: My work is my pleasure.
If l don't work I get tired" But
most of us would not only get tired
but hungry.
That undesirable person at Wash
ingtOn" is the way Socialists of New
Jersey characterize Teddy in reso-
luton, which predicts for Meyer,
Haywood and Pettibone fame as en-
during as that of Abraham Lincoln,
John Brown and Carl Marx.
Blue ribbon essay.
Diploma, grand,
Sweet girl graduate
Abroad the land.
Knows all on Earth or Heaven,
Imagines SO, at least,
Still, it's up to mother,
To make potato yeast.
A good head of hair is as much a
Grown of glory for man rs it is
for woman, Notwithstanding all the
poetry on the subject isapplied to the
female sex, exclusively. In the sea-
son when flies bite, the bald-headed
man can sympathize with the Egyp-
tians who were so severely plagued
on account of the children of Israel.
Old, staid, prim and high-toned
Boston is not a bit too literary and
aesthetic to have an eye open to the
main chance; 1t is getting tech
nical schools galore, and has added a
course of scientific craftsmanship to
the curriculum of it's high schools.
Why not? The world is divided into
those who manufacture and those
who sell.
Faith in the possibility of the high
er moral training of the negro re-
ceives many staggering blows, the
most recent being the news from
Augusta, Ga, that the nurses in the
colOred hospital there deserted in a
body, leaving forty patients, some
of them critically i'll, without proper
attendants. and giving no other ex.
cuse than that they were tired OF
work"
If the advice of the ordinary locker
on is worth anything, it is that
Roosevelt and his Interstate Com
merce Commission would do well, for
their own sakes, to abandon their
expressed determination to take Har-
riman into court and make him
speak out" In these Bryan VS..
Teddy days it is l6 to that Harri-
mans speech may be " silver" and
his silence emphatically "gold."