Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-10-04
.\>\~>\>~%~1
FIR TWIGS I
IsH LCE T.. VERNON

The " handy-man" of the admins
| trltion Taft.
Hello. Olympia Macs! How are
you feeling by now?
The largest thing about the ham
sandwich procured at country fair
is the price.
Albert Holman. one time editor of
the p-I, is now editor and prOprie
tor oi the San Francisco Arg"nant.
How can Bryan be a back num-
bcr' when his political opponents
are always pushing him to the front?
When your subscription to a news
paper is due, pay it. or have the
journal discontinued. That is busi-
ness.
Passenger traffic is heavy on all
Pacific Coast railways ut present.
One wonders where all the people are
from and where they are going.
| 1t is easy enough to make a man
understand when his company is not
wanted, but the average woman is
hard to understand hint.
The farmer who is awarded first
prize at a fair for his hog, really
imagines for a few minutes that his
is the only "porker" in the wide,
wide world.
If the average man could be as
successful in business as he is in
making fool of himself, the proper
ton of business failures would be
much smaller.
| Print the news and verify after
wards. was the manner in which
some newspapers in Seattle gave the
departure ef Secretary Taft on the
Minnesota, for Manila.
Instead of too much Johnson on
the Tacoma Ncws, some time ago, at
present there isn't enough. This
was case, however, when too
much" was just enough.-ED.l
If many women gave the same
time and attention to roasting the
meat Us they do in making up their
face with paint and powder, how de-
lighted would their husbands be!
You always meet, on train or
steamer, the man who, after visiting
the town two days, where you have
lived for years, knows more about
its resources and inhabitants than
you do.
There is more genuine, joyful ex-
citement evinced by the inhabitants
of small country town, when fair
is being held, than in large city at
"a visit from the President of the
United States.
The Pope is becoming uneasy at
| the amount of divorces granted in
the United States. Many lawyers
differ from the Pope on this question
those who are retained by the
cOntesting parties.
NJ. Pietrzycki is the name Of a
prominent physician in Dayton, this
State. Gee! If the medicine he pre-
scribes tastes anything like his name
reads, here's hoping | shall never
become ill in Dayton and forced to
secure his service.
If Colonel Alden J. Blethen, editor
in-chicf of the evening Times, should
die tonight, l wonder how many
pin headed, -" whelp" country edi-
tors would reverse their column
rules in announcing his demise?
Hey! [Certainly not e.-ED.]
Wednesday afternoon, while walk
ing up Main street, counted nine
girls and one old woman working
their jaws chewing gum. The idea
suggested itself to get up gum
chewing tournment to be held in
Olympia. The girl who works her
jaws the fastest to receive the prem
ium.
"The Port Townsend Gail is not to be
blamed for spelling charivari "shiveree."
Island County Times.
Probably no more so than the
Island County Times is to blame for
spelling Olympia Olympic, as was
the address on the wrapper of the X
copy of the Times which reached the
STANDARD Office recently.
There is class of scoundrels in
the world who proceed to get a di-
vorce from their wives because they
are not healthy. In o great many
instances the poor wives have de-
strOyed their health shaving for the
brutes who would cast them aside at
the very time when their devotion
should prove the strongest.
once knew a farmer who read a
chapter from the Bible before break
fast, and prayed long and loud
much to the disgust of the hungry
hired hands-who, right after the
meal, went to the barn and jabbed a
pitchfork into a horse, because the
intelligent animal did not stand
over" the moment he spoke to it.
Keep your eye upon the ''goody-
goody" man. He, himself, will bear
watching. 1 never met one of these
animals in my life that was honest to
the core. AS a rule, they hide their
dirty schemes from the spotlight Of
publicity for certain length of time,
yet when they have the mask torn
from off their makeup the world
peeps at such for a brief glance, and
then kind oblivion tucks them in.
Carriers of newspapers should be
more careful in delivering papers to
subscribers. There is no reason for
rolling, doubling and crumpling it,
in order to throw it upon a porch,
place behind a blind, fling it over a
transOme, as some carriers do, so
when Mr.. Subscriber grasps it, it re-
sembles mass of wrinkled and I'M
slightly paper. True. it may require
a bit more of the carriers time to
place the paper in neat manner,
but he can afford this on account OF
the genuine pleasure it gives to Mr..