Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-02-08

count Of discussion by United States
Senators, as to whether the war be.
tween the blue and grey" should be
referred to as "the war of the rebel
lion," "the civil war;" "the war Of
secession" and at the end of their
debate, 10 learn they have concluded
to call it 1.-THE civil war;; to read that
it was the bull-headed Grover Cleve-
land who attempted to return South
ern flags captured in battle by "our
boys in blue" that Gen. Lee, while .
livery fair man in military tactics,
could not be classed with U. S. Grant,"
that" the South, by defranchising the
negro is inculcating the ideas of a
Czar," that some one in Nashville.
Tenn, store the picket-Ience from q
Union soldiers grave and sprinkled
birthstone upon it," that {" the men of
the South all carry pistols and are
never so happy as when they can
engage in a street duel" aud so on,
and so on.
Is it assuming too much to suppose,
granting the Mason and Dixon line."
has been " wiped OUT" that this con-
tinual nagging and prodding of the
South by Northern newspapers will
not tend to increase their love for US,
nor to heal or obliterate the feeling of
hatred in the breasts of those who
fought for the cause they believed just
and right, but lost?
Judge Pollard's Method Of Reforming Drunks.
l have been reading of the method
adopted in the treatment OF " drunks,"
by Judge Pollard, Of St. Louis, who
appears to havo evolved quite an
original form of temperance propa-
gsnda. Judge Pollard is police
judge in the city OF ST. Louis. and in
the course OF his professional duties
he probably comes into contact with
as large q number OF "horrible ex-
amples" as the next man. He doesn't
believe in sending men to prison for
drunkenness. He argues. with much
cogency, it must be admitted, that it
is not the prisoner. but HE wife and
children, who suffer, and he therefore
seeks to cure the offender Of his evil
habits rather than to punish him for
their results. He begins by reading
the "sinner" . strong lecture on the
folly OF his ways, and then fines him
$25 with the option of month. add.
ing that il the said "sinner" will
pledge himself to total abstinence for
one year, neither the fine nor the
month will be exacted. As l have
said, his method is decidedly original.
The "backslider," who signs the
pledge in court, is ordered to call at
the Judges house to report progress
on q given date, and must bring his
wife with him as witness. Then, when
the alternative sentence has expired,
he must report at court, and if he has
kept the pledge the fine is stayed.
But il at any time during the stipu.
lated twelve months the backslideI"
slides again, the execution is put in
force, and the delinquent goes to Jail.
Mr.. Pollard says that his method has
worked like q charm. and that, during
nearly three years it has been in oper;
alton, less than one per cent. of the
parties have broken the pledge. The
experiment, l think you will admit
has something particularly taking about
it. The curing Of "sinners" who gets
into the hands of the police in this
State, as we all know, have proven
dismal failures. Why not give the
Pollard experiment q trial?
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| Our Friend the Cat.
"Evil is wrought by want of thought
As we'll as want of heart"
So wrote Thomas Hood, and a
greater poet might have couched the
same idea in language somewhat more
brilliant. But the truth remains, only
as far as cruelty to the cat is con
cerned, it is not only want of thought
but gross ignorance OF the animals
character which is the cause thereof
Nor is this ignorance confined TO the
lower classes. I could mention men
and women, OF the brightest talents
who are possessed of those silly no
tions and fallacies concerning pussy
which lead this most affectionate little
domestic to suffer ills that make it.
life q very miserable one indeed.
Cats, they will tell you, are attached
to places, not to persons. They are
false, and their pretended affection fol
one is mere cupboard love. They are
moreover. treacherous. All these as
sertions are most untrue, and q hun
dred OF others that l have no space to
name. Well, much pleasure though
I feel sure many would add to their
lives, especially such as be lonely
from the possession OF a pussy as q
pet, do not wish to press such com
panionship upon any one; but l do
most earnestly long for the time when
cats in this country shall be better
understood and better treated.
Pussy needs q generous allowance
OF milk, bread and meat, thrice day.
The last meal is supper, and il this
is given regularly she will come in to
time, and ought to be kept in the
house all night, having her bed made
in clean room, unless she is permit
ted to choose her own place of rest.