Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-07-12
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If you like Il man. show it by re-
fuSing to laugh at his cncmy's Jokes.
Among other things that Harry
Orchard has coming to him is witness
fees
How odious gambling on the turf
appears to those who run other games
of chance.
Boise City, Idaho, has the best
advertised Orchard in the United
States-Harry.
It's better for man to be anchored
to his wife's apron-StringS than
stranded on the bar.
How mad it makes the women to
see Il big, fat, slob of a man. married
To Il skinny little wife.
| find that if she is the right wo-
man. she looks pretty good to man
no matter how her clothes are made
1t may be true that swallowing
meat in chunks, as DR.. Wiley claims,
is not unhealthful, but it's mighty
expensive.
Oklahoma'S blind candidate for the
Senate is not SO badly of as might be
supposed. There isn't much to see
in Oklahoma.
You can take it from me. young
fellow, that no girl is really in love
with you if she criticiScs your taste
in the selection of necktics.
Harry Orchard, the professional
murderer, charges his downfall to a
woman. Just like Adam The trail
of the serpent is over us all
have noticed that while man
may be called Dave by his friends
he is always David to his wife
and Davie" to his mother.
confess that | have never been
able to understand why Il hard board
at ball game is softer and more
comfortable than Il cushioned pew in
church
From appearances Schmitz of San
Francisco will have plenty of leisure
time in the near future to write 4
book entitled: How to Play the
Violin
Schmitz, the cx Mayor of San Fran
cisco, may know how to rOsin 4 bow,
from reports, but he did not know
how to feather his nest without
being found out
An Idaho undertaken has knocked
out the familiar advertisement: You
press the button. we do the rest, >
| ,,,,th III Na,, l-;,.l- 10
bucket, we do the rest. "
If | ever become Il SpiritualiSt and
get SO proficient at it that | can con-
verse with the departed, | shall GER
tainly make an effort to find out
something about Heaven.
Nine out of ten of the customers
you lose might have been held by ef-
fcctive advertising in the WASHING
TON STANDARD. The tenth one. per-
haps, nothing could influence.
The Iowa woman who wants di-
vorce from her husband on the ground
that he is bow-lrgged. should not take
Il mean advantage of him because he
can't hide the defect with skirts.
Personally see nothing eXtraor-
dinary in the feat of the California
man who developed a talking chicken.
The old hens have been doing most of
the talking in Olympia for years.
Jaggs (writing letter. | say, BaggS,
shall | spell muscle, meaning the
muscle of my arm, musSel"?
Baggs-No, if you do, your CORE
SpOndent will think you are Il clam.
An order has been received at
Orang. County, Cal, for 1000 bar
rclS of Slucrkraut for consumption of
the Russian army in Siberia. If that
dOesn make them fight, the devil is
u Dutchman.
Earthquake shocks, besides doing
damage to buildings in San Fran
cisco, shattered. bent, twisted and
put beyond repair the characters of,
until recently, number of its lead
ing citizens. y
Thomas A. Edison rises every
morning about 5:3O, about the time,
it is said, when Thomas A., Jr., goes
to bed. Many fathers get up about
| ttlC SoiiS ~ w i''0. ht
| father sees the sun rise and the son
set.
You cannot buy any groceries or
delicatessen food ON Sunday in the
Queen City. Even Boston. Mass.
grinS ut this act of Seattle officials,
for it, with all its blue laws, allows
its citizens to buy fOOd-stutf on a
! Sunday.
Senator Beveridge has gone to
Europe to study the inheritance tax.
1t is simple proposition. You die
and your executor pays the taX-if
you leave an estate. If not, then its
all off. Bcveridge takes himself SER
iously, poor man.
You can not always tell what pub
lie opinion is You can tell what it
is going to be. So the wiser plan,
as well as the most honest plan, is to
carefully, conscientiously form an
opinion of your own and then have
the manhood to stand by it even
though you stand solitary and alone.
Could it be possible that the but
termilk supposed to be drank in an
Aberdeen saloon on Sunday, by the
Chief of Police of Seattle, was mis-
taken for moonlight whiskey? The
moonlight with its bits of corn
silk floating around, is white, and
perhaps this is what caused the Aber-
deenites to think it was buttermllk.
Hey!
| Critics of extravaganza in dress
are condemning the daughter of the
New York millionaire who spent Sll,
900 for gown. Asit is only through
vanity that most of the millionalres
and their families are induced to
part with fractions of their wealth,
it is "a mistake to head them off when
they are returning money to clrcu-
llatiOn.