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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-24
EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY.
But Unlike the Cat. Has Only One Life
to Live.
The mornings light 10 past,
And evenings come at last,
And with II comes . thief
Who steals my meat away.
Hes of the bulldog kind

anu Win ~ COmco tuieI
Who steals my meat away.
Hes OF the bulldog kind
ass Vow : ssse Ola DOG DOG rr.v
The poor dogs are having 1.-The
time of their lives" just now, al
though it will be a couple of months
before the hot, sultry season known
as dog-days, when the rising OF the
dog-star (Sirius) is cOincident with
the rising of the Sun, will intervene.
The present scommotion is quite as
exciting to the dogs owners, who
have to dig up for a license-tag indi-
eating permission to live. A dog
catcher, in Big Sailor Bill" has
been authorized to impound CANNES
which do not wear the badge of dis
tinction, and as his capture portends
extinction as well, great is the anger
of those whose pets are enmeshed in
the tolls of the law. Poor Bills job
is an unenviable one. Umbrellas,
broom-sticks and hot water have
been brought in play, to rescue such
household treasures as have been
caught mapping, and others have
been concealed in all sorts of ways,
in hope that this frenzied attempt to
vindicate outraged law will soon pass
over. Others-men, of course-af-
ter vigorous Outburst of sulphurous
exrletives, walks calmly up to the
Captains Office" Gin this instance
the City Clerks dcsk) and pungle the
price of q license, and then stand
by and laugh at other victims as
they pass up the same line. This is
the first systematic attempt that has
been made to enforce the law with
impartiality, as it should be done.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-24

IT is said that Secretary Taft viii
not accept the Presidential indorse-
ment Of Republican leaders of Ohio
if it is coupled with a support Of
Foraker for another term in the Sen.
ate. All right. Let the war 60 on.
It will illustrate the old adage about
Rogues falling out"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-24

JuDaE Clifford of Tacoma united
eight nuptial knots in one day last
week. It looks very much as if the
City of Destiny was attempting to
rival Chicago in the divorce business.
For her size she makes a fair begin
ming.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-24

A GIRL thirteen years of age, at
Worcester, Mass, was wed to her
sweetheart of thirty-nine, on her
own solicitation, for the reason, she
declared, that her parents were old,
and she was fearful that they might
die and leave her alone to combat
the troubles of life. Such forethought
is certainly remarkable in one Of her
tender years.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-24

"HELP Taft, or be renegades!' is
the way Walter Bonn, Chairman Of
the Ohio Republican State Commit.
tee, under directions from Washing.
ton, cracks the whip over the heads
Of the Foraker following in that
State.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-24

ONE thing that needs explanation.
at least to the outside world, is how
Abraham Ruef, the San Francisco
boodler who has "squealed." can, as
the reports say, have plead guilty, u
coupled with the profession that be
was innocent of the crime charged Of
extortion"?
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-24

ANOTHER APPLICATION OF THE
WIRELEss.-Sir Hugh Bell, of Lon
don, presiding at q meeting Of the
Iron and Steel Institute, on the 9th,
in that city, predicted that century
hence ships will be propelled across
the Atlantic by wireless electric force
generated at Niagara Falls. He de-
clares that is no more improbable
than has been the progress of the
past century in electric development.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-24
The ANANIAs CLUB INCRrAsEs.-

The ANANIAs CLUB INcREAsEs.-
Senator Platt says he kicked Roose-
welt into the Presidency by placing
him on the ticket for Vice President,
an act for which he is duly repent
ant. He did it not from friendliness
for Roosevelt personally, but as a
matter of party expediency. Now
we can imagine with what stentorian
tones Secretary Loeb is ordered to
bring forth the Ananias list.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-24
A KNOCKOUT IN THE FIRST ROUND.

A Knockout IN THE FIRST ROUND.
John L. Sullivan, it seems, feels
quite Inundated over the fact that
the first and only request he has
made of the President and his Secre-
tary of War Taft, has been refused.
He asked that his nephew and name
sake, John Lawrence Linn, q marine
who had deserted from the navy, in
Cuban waters because the GRUB"
did not suit his fastidious taste and
went ON board a British cruiser to
get some good American food" be
released from the military prison on
Governors Island, New York. 1t
appears that the action of court
martial had been approved by the
War Department, and the prestige
of the ex-champion was hardly strong
enough to induce the President to
reopen the case, simply on the un-
cle's fighting record. John L. seems
to think that he was greeted with a
occasional, instead of the glad.
hand accorded him in palmy days.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-24

Rose CoaHLAN, the great actress,
is performing in Seattle, in that
drama of doubtful propriety MRS.
Warren's Profession" In her cur
tain speech the actress declared that
she had nothing to say against the
play or in its defense, that her COM
pany simply presented it as it was
written. Miss Coghlan was born in
Scott county, Iowa, in 1845, and has
been a footlight favorite for nearly
half o century.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-24

COMPLIMENT TO THE POPE.-ThoS.
w. Lawson, a man generally accred-
tied with possession of an ample
amount of that quality of nature
known as egotism, lately called upon
Pope Plus x, while in Rome. He
declared, after leaving the Vatican,
that he was greatly impressed with
the force and solidity of character of
the head of the church. HE is o
perfectly natural man," he said,
grand in his simplicity amid mag
nificent surroundings. When I en-
tered his presence, it was with the
full consciousness that l was six feet
tall; when I left, it was with the i'm
preston that l was only two feet
high"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-24
LET THE GoyERNMENr PLACE

IlE
TlME-IocK ON LAND.-At a meeting
of the State Legislative committee
held at Seattle, this week, behind
closed DOORS" (which of course
means that there is something to
conceal) it is given out that the OBJ
iect was to oppose the Federal policy
of forest reserves. 1t is announced
as the purpose of the commission to
have the lands thrown open to settle
ment. If that be the real object
there would be no cause for complaint
or concealment, but it looks as if the
nation has not committed any great
sin in placing the lands in such shape
that they cannot be absorbed by the
grasping land syndicates that have,
by fair means and foul, acquired such
enormous holdings of timber and
other lands. Only think of the prices
now paid for lumber and cord wood,
in this wooden country" and the
prospect of every available acre of
timber-land falling into the posses
sion of this rapaciOus trust. A score
of years ago it was common prac-
tice for cruisers to spy out available
land and provide applicants, for a
specific sum to be paid by the land
Spectator, and it is said the practice
still continues in a more guarded
manner. 1t is well that the govern
ment tie up this land, what is left of
it, until such time as adequate means
are provided for its transfer to honest
and bona .fde residents.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-24

AN UNIQUE INVITATION. The
is in receipt of q beauti-
fully embossed and engraved invita-
ton to be present at the breaking
of ground" for the Alaska Yukon Pa
cific Exposition to be held at Seattle
q couple of years hence. 1t is about
seven by ten inches in size, printed
on the heaviest bond paper and reads:
The Officers and Directors
of the
Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition
request the honor of your presence
Saturday. June first.
One thousand nine hundred and seven
at two o'clock
in
Seattle, Washington
to participate in the ceremony OF break
ing ground for the Exposition
to be held June first to October fifteenth
One thousand nine hundred and nine.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-24

IT may be said that Francis j.
Heney is truly holy terror" to
evil doors.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-24
Let Us Be Charitable.

It seems that public sentiment VIII
at times run in grooves and when 1t
gets fairly started follow the length
unless diverted by some superior
force. The New World now seems
agog over the marriage OF William
f. Corey to Mabelle Gilman; first be-
cause he is Divorce and second be-
cause he is wealthy-the Arrangement
being that he deliberately cast aside
one wife to buy another. Even the
minister who performed the ceremony
comes in for a liberal amount OF
tongue-lashing and has been COM
PEELED to eat humble-pie for rein
statement in the good graces OF his
church-people, and the report has
gone forth that even the U. S. steel
trust talk of deposing Corey as Presi-
dent for this Ubiquitous act.
While Mr.. Corey will probably be
able to worry along without the
princely salary of this leading trust,
it does seem like carrying things
with q high hand when ones private
matters are thus made the subject of
a conspiracy to mete out punishment
based solely upon facts that must be,
of necessity e.r parte to large ex-
tent. If the laws regarding divorce
are wrong, it is the duty to amend
them, but when a decree is granted,
it is safe to presume that it be upon
legal and sufficient, if not so-called
statutory" grounds. 1t may be
that the rronged wife in the case re-
CARDS the separation as q decided re-
lief in many ways, and though the
party under censure may not have
provided her q million dollar chateau
en- Espogue, has quite likely settled
upon her a competence that will
guard her from all vexatious worries
OF life. 1t IS not safe to pass judg-
ment Except it may be from scrip
tural point of view upon matters
that, at best, are imperfectly under
stood and if oil the facts were known
would scarcely justify the verdict of
total depravity on one side and per-
feet innocence on the other.
1t is therefore, with impatience,
that we are compelled to witness the
spectacle of a hue and cry raised upon
a presumption of facts that may be
unjust. People are impulsive and
liable to go wild" at times, just as
a pack Of dogs will join in freeing
game that may have been guiltless of
any trespass or invasion of rights or
privileges of any living creature.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-24

BELLINGHAM HAS AN INDUSTRY OF
It's OwN.-The U. S. Government is
making arrangements for purchase of
reindeer harness of dealer at Bel
bingham, in this State. A second Or
der for fifty sets has been placed to
equip the reindeer stations in Alas
ka. This dealer has reputation as
well for dog harness, aud Lieut..
Peary took with him $50 sets on his
last expedition, and is making ar
rangements for similar equipment
en- his next grasp for the pole. The
probable secret of this home monop-
oily in that product may be owing to
the manner of treatment of the leath-
er used. 1t is tanned with alum and
other substances which impart a very
bitter taste as well as q puckery"
effect upon the organs of mastication
of rodents and other animals, which
is found to be an ample provision
against its destruction from that
cause.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-24
Another Rooseveltian Scheme.

Mr.. Roosevelt has concluded L
recommend that Congress appro
pirate Il sum of money sufficient t.
provide pension fund for all EN-
ployeS who have served the genera
government for specified time
Here, it will he seen, is another elias.
distinction that will in the course o.
time destroy the pride and boast OF
American citizenship, that all are
equal. Why should one person, after
enjoying the emoluments of we'll
paid Office for many years, free from
all apprehension of want by the ever
changing conditions of labor or bust
ness, be- given Il preference in the
struggle for life ever afterwards,
simply because of fortuitOus circum.
stances that had provided a life-com,
petence with the least possible labor
andworry? Why should person per-
forming perfunctory duty be entitled
to more consideration than the pa
triotic citizen who has endeavored by
the sweat of his brow to uphold all
the sacred duties and onerous Obliga-
ton of free man of free govern
ment? How can we segregate pa
triotism from selfishness, when every
at of life may be measured by a sti-
pend that, in the course of time be-
comes regarded more as an individ-
ual right than pay earned by due
exchange of labor?
If it be true, as is claimed, that the
larger corporations are able to drive
their dependents to the ballot-box,
like lambs to slaughter, how much
more potent would be the beck or
nod of those who bestOw q lifelong
pension, not earned by sacrifices on
the battlefield that justify aid for lost
vitality in declining years? There is
already too much difference between
the poor and the wealthy; the wage
Garner and the salary drawer; the
long days and interrupted opportun-
tiles of labor, and the short hours
and the steady tenure of Office. Let us
not make the gap wider. Let us not
establish paternal government I'M
der which the fatted calf is served
for one member of the national fam
lily and liver and onions the other.
The only argument that seems ten
able for support of the pension theory
is that long clerical service units for
ether employment, and it may seem
cruel to compel such people to adapt
themselves to other employments.
That is probably as true in other
spheres and conditions of life, though
not so palpably brought to light. If
some action is necessary, let it be
modelled upon the beneficiary plans
of labor insurance, where q portion
of the gross earnings are set aside,
for care of the sick or disabled and
possibly as a permanent aid for the
INDECENT members, who in their
prime have contributed to its support.
This would be fair to oil, but there
is little hope of its adoption SO long
as political intrigue can devise an
easily handled and more potent lever
for control of partisan Offairs.
BELLINGHAM HAS AN INDUSTRY OF
ITG Own The III 6 Gouorn mont 10
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-02-22

which Kuhn, Loeb & Co., of New
York, and the National City bank are
the sponsors. One-fourth of it's al
ready paid-in capital of $2,5O0,OO0 is
American, the remaining three-fourths
being equally Cuban, British and
French, but it is controlled entirely
from New York. Further than that,
American capital controls absolutely
the electric traction of the island, per-
haps one-half of the tobacco output.
about one-quarter of the sugar indus.
try, the telephone and telegraph serv.
ice, which, however, is under govern
ment control; practically all of the
railroad systems east of Santa Clara,
three-quarters of the cattle industry,
something more than $10.000,000 in
real estate and unimproved lands,
with total holding of over 1000, 900
acres; practically all of the mining,
and most of the steam tonnage run
ming to the island. Various ventures
absorb great deal of the activity of
the island. The Cardenas city water
works are owned by an American cor.
poration, and in the retail and whole
sale trade of Havana Americans are
much in evidence.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-02-22
RASH BUT DISCRIMINATING
YOUNG MAN MAKES THINGS
WORSE.
COST FIVE DOLLARS EACH
Stole Two Smacks from Sleeping
Beauty and Then His Conscience
Troubled Him and He Re-
turned to Make Amends.

New York.-Lying early in the
morning in that delicious languor
'twixt sleep and waking, comely Mrs.
: Eugene R. Wisely, of No. 1746 Bath
avenue, Bath Beach, felt her lips
brushed lightly once, twice and ex-
perienced strange tickling sensation
on the tip Of her Grecian nose and in
the twin dimples at the corners Of
her mouth. IN spirit of indolent
speculation she wondered what kind
OF night-prowling moth had CHANGED
her way, and blamed herself for hav-
ing left fy-screen half up at one of
the windows. Horror seized her
when her fancy painted the POSSIBLE.
1ty that the creature was bat. But
not couldn't be. The sensation had
been too daintily elusive for anything
of that Sort, Suddenly it dawned on
Mrs. Wisely that she had been-yes,
positively, kissed!
She suppressed little scream and,
turning in bed, shook her young
daughter with a little less of maternal
gentleness than usual. Miss Wisely
sleepily asked what was wrong, and
Mrs. Wisely in turn inquired if the girl
had kissed her. A drowsy mo, dear, "
was the answer. Then Mrs. Wisely,
with more courage than any spinster
could have shown, turned herself into
a right-angled triangle and looked
under her couch. Nobody there.
Then her gaze swept the room, but it
was apparent even to her excited
vision that the apartment was un:
tenanted save by herself and her
daughter. But she knew she had
been Observation-Disclosures kissed-and
the kisser had got away without be-
traying his identity.
Mrs. Wisely started up in bed, and
instinctly her hand, brushing the floor
as she half arose, closed on an absurd
little slipper with tight-waisted
French heel-as if such a fairly trifle
as that could hurt anybody. Evident
ly the kisser was returning-perhaps
to steal more honey from her lips.
Well, If he took her chamber for a
beehive she'd see that he was stung.
It was with magnificent determination
that she held the slipper heel outward
and gripped the toe convulsively.
Amazement! The kisser was re.
turning, but not to kiss again. He
was there-oh, misguided youth-to
apologize! Fancy! AS if it wasn't
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-02-22
HAS NOT SPOKEN TO ONE FOR
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS.
WAS DISAPPOINTED IN LOVE
fathss Ordered Her Fiance from the
House, and Daughter Has Not
Spoken to HIM Or Other
Man Since.

New York.-The VOW taken by the
beautiful Caroline Osborne rs years
ago, when a stern father forbade her
marriage to her betrothed, that she
would never look upon or speak to
man again, has been kept so re.
ligiousiy all these years that the few
remaining people of the once pros
porous village of Baskerville, in the
Litchtield hills, near Waterbury,
Conn, no longer regard her with Gu
riosity. They have come to respect
the sad consistency of the recluse
whose beauty has slowly withered
under the blighting influence Of he1
great disappointment.
They say in Bakersville that "Cal
lie" Osborne, as she is known, will
90 to the grave without, taking the
slightest notice of the existence OF
the father whose opposition to hel
marriage scared her soul and caused
her to renounce the world. He passed
from her life that fateful Christmas
eve quarter of century ago, when
in terrible anger he ordered he1
sweetheart, Arthur Lumpkins, from
his door, and told him never to seek
his daughter again.
Albert Osborne, the father, is now
&c years old, and if he has ever re
GREETED the act he has not given
sign OF it to his neighbours The
daughter lives with the father, but
in separate apartments. When she
appears on the strteet she is always
yelled and hooded. She never looks
at man, and the times she has
spoken to her girlhood women friends
can be numbered.
More than so years ago Albert o.
borne married Caroline Baker, the
second daughter Of Anthony Baker
then the richest man in Bakersville
and the son of Scot Baker, who about
100 years ago founded the hamlet
which bears his name. Upon the
death of Anthony Baker his daughter
Inherited most of his wealth.
To the Osbornes was born a, daugh
ter, who was christened with he1
mothers given name. Caroline. Three
years after the baby came Mrs. Os
borne died. The mother left her for
tune in trust for the daughter.
Thus it was that Caroline Osborne
becane in later years the heiress
whose hand and heart were sought
by the eligible SWANS of the neighbor
hood. Early she gave promise OF
beauty, and as she blossomed into
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-02-22
MILLIONS OF OUR MONEY, IN.
VESTED IN THE ISLAND.
One Reason Why United States Does
Not Want to See island Rent
by Internal Strife.

Reliable information places the
amount of the investments made by
Americans in the island of Cuba as
something around $150,0O0,O0O, a
sum which would suggest a desire to
share in the politics of the island, but
such is said to not be the case, for
Americans who have investments
there have. refrained thus far from
mixing in the governmental affairs of
the island. The reciprocity treaty is
said to have been the commercial sal
walton of Cuba. 1t has given to her
our protected markets for her chief ex-
pOrts-sugar and tobacco - which
form 81 per cent. of the total exports
of the islands, and in return Cuba .ex-
ponds fully one-half her annual buying
power, amounting to $100,OOO,OOO, in
the United States. Before the Span
lsh war about the only large Amer
scan interests were at the extreme
eastern end of the island, in sugar es-
tates and mines. Now, after the lapse
OF eight years, Americans own fully
one-third of the island, and $15O,OOO,-
600 of American capital has been in
vestetd not only in products of the
SOIL, but in telegraph and telephone
systems, railroads, electric roads, no.
tells, banks, municipal roads and even
army vouchers. Whole towns have
been built by Americans, and colonies
established where scarcely word of
Spanish is spoken
The combined efforts of all these
various interests are creating along
the line of the trocha an American in
terest, center and sentiment in the
very heart OF Cuba, and an industrial
development that is stimulating the
surrounding country and by example
teaching the native Cubans, first, to
work where the employment is Of
fered, and then, to those who have
the necessary ambition, to cultivate
their own lands. The number of
American colonies which have been
established in Cuba since the war az
gregates 20, the whole eastern end be-
ing controlled industriallly by Amer
leans. A list of these colonies is in.
teresting:
Province of Pinar del Rio-Baja,
Las Ovas, Bahia Honda, Herradura,
Cabanas, Mariel, Artemisa, Palacios.
Havana province-Rincon.
Province of Matanzas-Union, tia.
DO.
Province of Santa Clara-Manas-
cas-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-02-22
Sports and Athletics.

Forms" in the running high jump
are as varied as are the physiques of
athletes who attempt them. There is
no event in which the manner of per.
forming with fair success possesses so
many ways of accomplishment. Some
favor running at the bar from an an
gle of about 30 degrees and with one
hip almost against the stick, making
the leap by pulling the legs over in
sitting position. This method is
used from either side and it is said
that the world champion in the high
jump accomplished the leap which set
the mark in just that manner, but as
a rule athletes find this form" unsat-
isfactory. though many of them use it.
Some go straight at the bar from
point facing it and when they reach