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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-07-19
Sendinfa Wireless.

Charles f. Lummis, the known
author. traveller, and authority on
Indians, appeared recently in Wash.
ington in a corduroy suit, a sash, and
a sombrero.
Mr.. LummiS." said reporter,
in your study of the Indians YOU
must have come upon many strange
things"
In any study" said the novelist.
"One comes upon strange things
Take, for instance, the study OF
childhood. Nothing reveals stranger
things than that.
Il know q little boy in Los An
geles. He was bad the other day
and his mother punished him.
AFTER his punishment he was
seen to go to his fathers desk and
write something on a sheet of paper
Then he went out into the garden,
dug little hole, and buried the paper
in it.
His mother, after he had gone
away, dug up the paper. 1t con
tanned these words:
Dear Devil, please come and
take mamma.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-07-19
OLYMPIA WASHINGTON FRIDAY MORNING. JULY 49, 1907

In firing on an approaching fleet
the men at the guns see nothing
They are concealed behind heavy
concrete emplacements. The men
who direct the firing, on the other
hand, cannot see the guns. Both
branches of this work are being con-
Quoted by the guardsmen.
The detail which locates the ship
has a position in an elevated primary
station or observing tower. When Il
warship or given vessel comes in
sight it is located on Il depression po-
sition finder. The exact range and
aZimuth are then taken, and allow
ance is made for tides. curvature of
the earth. speed of the vessel and
time consumed by the projcctile in
connecting with the boat.
These findings are transmitted to
the gun crew, which adjusts the gun.
Changes and corrections are made to
meet suddenly altered conditions
Getting Il big gun ready to hurl
death into an approachin. fleet is not
unlike the tuning of a fiddle. When
tlll wv lbtl u VI VIZ Ntdlbtll Ill Y
adjusted an electrician presses an
electric button and the gun sounds Il
funeral march for the enemy Put
ting the primary stations out of serv-
ice gives the enemy no great ad-
vantage. Provision has been made
against just such an emergency.
There is new set of instruments for
range finding that can be set behind
Il stump or in any convenient place
and operated under what is known as
the horizontal base system.
Twelve men are required to man
each mOrtar-a chief of detachment.
gun-pOinter, breech detail of two
men, sponge and rammer detail of
two men, elevating detail of two men,
traversing and truck details, each
of two men. The detachment chief
takes up a position in the rear of the
breech, the gun-pointer near the All
muth subScale, facing the mortar;
the breech detail in the rear of the
breech, the sponge and rammer detail
in the rear of the mortar, the elevat-
ing detail at the eleyating hand
wheels, the traversing detail at the
traversing crankS and the truck de-
tail in the gallery in the rear and
facing loaded truck.
To load and fire, the battery COM
mander designates the kind of pro-
jectileS that are to he used and gives
the command to commence firing.
With fixed target, the mortars are
fired as soon as ready, but if fired on
a maneuvering warship or moving
object, the order TO fire is given
when the target reaches an estimated
or predicted position. The firing is
generally done by electricity, al-
though when single mortar is dis
charged at the instant of receiving a
signal from the battery commander
or primary station, which is a struc-
ture of steel, elevated well above
the Notifications for observation pur-
poses.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-07-19

If our people are ever again visited
by that pest the cut-wOrm, as they
were several years ago, when cab
bages, potatoes, and most all other
forms of vegetable life were injured
or destroyed, it may be we'll to try
the plan suggested and approved by
Mrs. Anna r. Walton, of Murray,
Idaho, who writes the .Spokesman-
Rerier, of Spokane, as follows:
"In a recent issue of your paper l saw
that the farmers are being troubled by
the cut-wOrms. | am sending for publ.
cation a tried and simple remedy. Be-
fore sub-planting wrap each plant with
strip OF newspaper wide enough to ex.
tend ut least an inch under and above
the surface of the ground when planted.
The cut-worms can not get through the
paper and the paper remains long
enough to give the small plants growth
and strength. 1t will be noticed that
the cut.worm does it's work entirely on
the surface. In this simple way we
were enabled to avoid the cut-worms in
the State of Indiana"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-07-19
THE DODGERS.

| wandered to the city, Tom,
And watched the folks awhile;
And say. the things heard and saw
Just made me want to smile.
Why. everybody's dodging, Tom,
It's dodge, dodge, everywhere,
Oh. such funny lot of folks
They beat me, declare.
OF course they're lodging taxes, Tom
The wealthy folks, mean--
The poor ones dodge the choo-choo car,
That run by gasoline,
And John ID. and some others, Tom,
Put in much time, they say.
At dodging servers from the courts
Who hunt them day by day.
A lot of politicians, Tom,
Have busy times of late
To dodge a public sentiment
That cries " Investigate ~
And several men are dodging, Tom,
The stern demand, Resign!'
It's dodge, dodge, dodge and dodge
Dodge all along the line.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-07-19
A WONDERFUL WATER SUPPLY.
New York City Has to Turn Another River
From Its Course to Secure
This Necessity.


Work was begun near Peekskill,
June 10th, on one of the greatest
engineering enterprises of all time.
Ground was then broken for the first
section of an aqueduct which is to be
part of Catskill Mountain system
of water-supply for the city of New
York.
A yearly increase of more than a
hundred thousand in the population
of the city and the necessity of pro-
viding for an annual increase of fifteen
million gallons in the daily conSump-
tion of water led the responsible Of
ticers OF the city to secure the appoint
ment of a board of water-supply, with
power to choose the best source from
which to procure more water and to
build the necessary works for its de-
livery to the consumers.
The aqueduct, on which work was
begun last month, will be one of the
worlds marvcls when completed. 1t
will start from the Ashokan reservoir,
to be built in the EsopuS valley, on
the west bank of the Hudson River,
more than eighty miles north of the
city, and with diameter of seven
teen feet, will be carried south to a
point near Storm King Mountain.
There it will be sunk in Il perpen-
dicular shaft to Il great depth, and
run under the river, to be continued
to the distributing reservoirs. More
than one hundred and sixty million
dollars will be spent on this aqueduct
and on the storage reservoirs at var
iouS points in the Catskills, Il sum
much larger than was expected on
the SueZ Canal.
When completed, it 1928, the new
works will increase by five hundred
million gallons a day the available
watcrSupply. 1t is believed that New
York will then have population of
seven millions, and will need in a dry
season all the water that can be i'm
pounded in the old CrOton and the
now Catskill watersheds, u total Of
about billion gallons daily, or more
than hundred gallons for every
man, woman and child.
If New York used no more water
in proportion to its population than
London. the present source of sup
ply would be ample for years to come.
The old city of New York not in
chlding Brooklyn-with less than
three million inhibtants, uses a hun
drcd million gallons a day more than
London, with population of seven
millions.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-07-19
A Jersey Ankel-Mosquitoes.

"A little Cleveland tot of three
years was put to bed, her first night
in New Jersey, by her mother, with
the words: Now go to sleep, dar.
ling, and remember that angels are
flying about your little crib and
keeping you from harm"
A few minutes later the patter Of
little feet was heard and a little white.
robed figure emerged from the bed.
room.
Why, darling, what's the mat.
ter?" said the mother.
Il don't like the angels" sobbed
the little girl.
Why dearie why not?"
One o the angels bit me-.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-07-19
THE INEVITABLE RESULT.
But Suppose We Do Not Care to Live With
the japanese.

X. H. Kawakimi argues deliberately
in the North 1nrricun Rerien for the
naturalization of such Japanese Us
might desire to become American cit
izens. He pleads for this privilege
because the denial of it is resented as
an aifrOnt to Japanese pride and as
affecting the material interests of
such Japanese as might desire to be-
come citizens, but chiefly on the
ground that to grant it would be a
very little thing in no way dangerous
to us.
BY o process of statistical reason
ing which seems accurate enough,
but which is too long to follow here,
he shows that out of approximately
81, 900 Japanese believed to be now in
the United States only about 3, 100
would care to be naturalized. The
careers or the desires of the others,
most of them laborerS who come to
earn what would be for them in Japan
small competence. would take them
away again. Those who would re-
main would be such professional men
as DIR. Takamine, the chemist; DR..
Asakama, the Dartmouth professor;
Mr.. Sahara, the Louisiana rice grow
er, and other professionals. farmers
and merchants.
We may remember that exactly
this argument was made against Chi
nese exclusion. The Chinese were
useful while they were here and they
were not going to stay. However,
many of them did stay, notably those
who were not especially desirable.
We were not deceived then, and we
shall not be deceived now,
The plain truth is that while the
argument of reason and logic and
what are called the humane Senti-
ments may be on the side OF the
Japanese this argument is futile
against the force Of racial Instinct.
We instinctively feel that, while the
civilization of the Oriental may be
admirable in many ways and the
Oriental himself acceptable person
ally to q certain extent, yet that CIV
ilization is repellent and destructive
to ours, and that our safety demands
that the Orientals be held at arms
length.
To put the matter in sentence,
we do not care to live with the Orien-
tails. We do not wish too many Oi
them about us. We cannot conceive
ourselves taking them to our tiresides
completely. Despite occasional &C.
centricities, the idea of taking the
Oriental's daughters as wives for our
sons and of giving to our daughters
Orientals as husbands is simply in
tolerable and abhorrent.
Against this instinct no reasoning
can prevail and no government stand
We have no desire for war with ia
pan, but if it came to square ques
ton of admitting the Japanese te
complete equality with ourselves II
our own country, or fighting, there is
not the slightest doubt of what tht
American peoples answer would be
We would fight.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-07-19
Should Children Go to the circus7

Mothers stories of their children
seem to me to be just possession of
the mOthers-Of interest to them,
and of no interest to other people,
The following is a case in point:
The first time | took my child to a
circus she was five years old. With
great gravity she gazed upon the
horses and dogs, the cats birds, and
even monkeys, but when the clown
walking timidly over a rope stretched
from the stage to the circles, pre-.
tended to slip to the accompaniment
of thud upon the big drum, she rose
slowly and said:
Take me away; you should not
have brought me here!''
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-07-19
JUST FOR TODAY.

Lord for tomorrow and its needs
do not pray;
Keep me from any stain of sin,
Just for to-day.
Let me both diligently work
And duly pray;
Let me be kind in word an d deed,
Just for to-day.
Let me be slow to do my will,
Prompt to obey;
Hell me to sacrifice myself,
Just for to-day.
Let me no wrong or idle words,
Unthinking say,
Set Thou Thy seal upon my lips
just for to-day.
SO for tomorrow and its needs,
do not pray,
But keep me. guide me, hold me, Lord
Just for to-day.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-07-19

There is something enormous in
the way of starting a thousand-acre
fruit ranch near Mountain Home in
southern Idaho. Over 100,O 900 trees
will be required and over 800, 900 in
money. The trees will be laid out
according to survey, as also the
road and streets that will intersect
the orchard. The land will be cult.
waited and narrowed by steam en-.
gine. Experienced fruit men with
their families from Washington State
are to be induced to make their homes
on the tract.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-07-19
REST.

Ii all the skies were sunshine,
Our faces would be fain
To feel once more upon them
The cooling splash of rain.
Ii all the world were music,
Our hearts would often long
For the sweet strain of silence
To break the endless song.
II life were always merry,
Our souls would seek relief
And rest from weary laughter
In the quiet arms Of grief.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-07-19
CATCHING.

"The public should stop kissing. y
least temporarily. "A Health Officer.
Jennie kissed me, lip to lip,
When she met me yester-m )rning;
Now I'm laid up with the grip
Failed to heed tn official warning.
Saw ! went out Summer-clad
And pneumonia just missed me;
Say Il told you So" but add
Jennie kissed me.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-07-19
XilIinf to crompramise

Please, ma am" said the unlaun.
dered hobo at the kitchen door
have youse a pie in de house da,
youse wouldn't mind givin' t a poor
blind man."
But" protested the lady of the
house, you are only blind in one
eye.
Well" rejoined the hobo. "el
youse is so pertickler, don't gimme
but half pie
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-07-19
The Smile Busted.

Georgia was reproved by her teach
er for laughing out loud in the school
room, when she apolOgized by saying
u didn't mean to do it; | was just
smiling, when all of a sudden the
smile busted.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-07-19

SAID He-A scientist affirms that
q wOman's voice ascends to more
than twice the height attained by q
mans.
Said She-That probably accounts
for it.
Said He-Accounts for what?
Said She-The fact that most men
let their wives do all the praying for
the family.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-07-19
Woman County Survsyor.

Miss Alice Perry has recently been
appointed County Surveyor of Gal
way. She is the first and only wO'
man in Ireland whe has qualified as a
civil engineer. In this particular in
stance American women have gone
their Irish sisters one better. The
first women civil engineer in this
country came from progressive
Western State, although she took
her degree in an Eastern college
For several years she has been con
nected with one of the largest firms
of architects in New York, and it is
claimed that she is responsible fOl
the ground plans of more than one
sky-Scraper.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-07-19
Olympia Tacoma NAY. Co.
TIME CARD.
Effective February 4. 1907.
GREYHOUND

GREYHOUND
Lv. Olympia 6 30 q. m. Lv. Olympia. :. 100 p m
Ar. Tacoma .9.45 .. m Ar. Tacoma. .3.45 p. IN
Lv. Tacoma 1000 q. m. lLv. Tacoma a 90 y. I'm
Ar Olympia .l2.i p. IN. Ar. Olympia. .6.b D. M
MULTNOMAH.
daily except SUM- Returning
Lv Olympia 4 % p. m Lv. Seattle ....2 2.I5 q. m
Ar. Tacoma .1l5 p. III. Ar. Tacoma. 500 q. IN
I.v Tacoma $50 y. IN. Lv. Tacoma. 40 q. III
Ar Seattle 1915 p. m. Ar. Olympia. 1915 =. III
The Greyhound makes direct connections at
Tacoma with the steamer Flyer at j. ID y. N. and
Interurban limited at 4.l5 for seattle.
m. Interurban trains, or on the 2.0J p. m. steam
er Flyer will make direct connection with the
Grey hound at Tacoma fOf Olympia.
The Greyhound connects with the Shelton boat
on tho q. M. and p m trip from Olympia, aud
on the p. IN. trip from Tacoma.
Through tickets sold over the Interurban, in
cuding street car rides for 81 - or 81. .25 round
trip. over the steamer Flyer for $1.l0 or $l.75
round trip. Meals served on board for 20 cents.
Tacoma and Olympia passengers from Seattle
may come aboard the MultnOmah at IL p m and
take berths.
Fare between Olympia and Tacoma, IS cents;
round trip. Sl.25. Between Olympia and Seattle
on MultnOmah, 81, or Sl.75 round trip; via steam
er Flyer from Tacoma, 81 10, or 3i75 round trip;
via lnterurbsn from Tacoma. including street
car rides, sl.2S, or s225 round trip. Berths, Soc.
Meals, SOC.
Multnomah leaving Olympia at 4 D. m makes
80 p m, steamer Flyer for Seattle.
F. II. MARVIN, J. T. PERCIVAL,
General Manager. Secretary.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-07-19
A Seasonable Memory.

Sing a song of strawberries
A very luscious fruit,
Saw them at the market-place,
And they appeared to suit.
But when the box was emptied,
We hollered for a cop,
For all the berries fit to eat
Were those upon the top.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-07-19

While waiting for your prayer to
be answered, try to get what you
want yourself.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-07-19
A Friendly TIP.

If you talk about your troubles
And tell them DER and DER,
The world will think you like 'em
And proceed to give you more.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-07-19

THE yew lives to be = 300 years old,
oak 1900, ceder 80, chestnut 600, ivy
450 and elm 225.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-07-19
THE MENACE IN KISSING.

| Don klSS the Baby. This is
the sign the New Jersey Commission
to fight tuberculosis wants to be
posted everywhere. 1t would be a
good sign in double sense. Poor
little baby. He don't want to be
kissed. If it is clean and pretty.
which all babies are not by long
shot, everybody wants to busS it. 1t
is helpless, dcfcnseless, and ignor-
ant of its danger. Men and women
yes sir, women-with a breath
that would knock down mule, grab
the baby and give it smack on the
mouth and the sweet little sing
has to take it. Let people kiss their
own babies. We are getting health
rules down pretty fine when babies
must not be kissed, but there are
plenty of grown folks. If they want
to kiss each other let them take the
risk and go ahead. Sometimes this
sort of thing is also dangerous-if
one is caught at it.
There are some things which are a
menace to health, say the doctors:
Kisses and flies, carpets and long
skirts, invite the spread of disease,
and the dirt tracked into the house
a sure menace to the childS health.
| All the horror of the dirty streets
can be found in more or less degree
in the home.
DR. Mayfield, of st. Louis, at q re-
cent convention, pointed out how
the house-fy, next to kissing, is the
most dangerous means of infection.
But where there's dirt there is the
fly, the moral of which is - keep
clean. The majority of the inhabi-
tants prefer dirt; it is bother to
remove it. And then DR.. Wood
Hutchinson scared the wits out of
some of his hearers by declaring
Pullman cars were next to collins, y
and that many municipal halls, be-
cause of their lack of sanitation, We're
"holes of Calcutta. Well, what
can be done about it? The popula-
tions increase and multiply in spite
of famine, earthquake, dirt, flood,
fire and plague! Never mind; the
population will be reduced by war
some day. LUE r. VERNON.
| The Irreducible Minimum.
Touching the painful position of q
small man in q large place, l heard
the following story told about Sena-
tor Ankeny the other day:
when Mr.. Ankeny first went to
the Senate" said the narrator, who
hailed from the Garden City. he
left behind him certain body of de-
voted constituents who fancied that
great personal benefits would come
to them through Mr. Ankeny's pow
erful presence in the halls of nation
al wisdom. One of these rural adj
herents, small farmer living on
Dry Creek, with some momentouS
political design on his mind, followed
Mr.. Ankeny to Washington, ID. c.,
in eager pursuance of that mySter-
ious object. He returned in about
three weeks, seemingly not much
elated.
49, Well, Bill, 4 Walla Wall ac-
auaintance asked him, did you see
Washington and Mr.. Ankeny. and
did you get what you went after?
80 Yeas, seen Washington. he
replied. grumpily, and | seen Ank-
eny, but Ankeny couldn't do nothin
fer me. He wus a-havin' hard work
to keep from gettin tramped on his
self. " LUE F. VERNON.
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The Marshall republican., 1907-04-26
In the Studs Season Of 1907
Elm Grove
Stock Farm
q miles west Of Marshall, Mo.
c. c. RUFF, Prop.
BIG BUMPER

The lne Belgian Stallion, BIG
BUMPER, known rs the Keebsrt
horse, will make the season OF 1907 at
my farm ~ miles west of Marshall On
the S~hackeIford road, at $40 90 to iu-
sure living colt Dr. $50 b. RE season.
BIG BUMPER weighs 1900 pounds
and will be 6.years.old In the spring
OF 1917. He 10 a dark dapple bay in
color, and has great action, the best
OF feet and legs and fine eyes and as
an individual he will speak for him
self. As a breeder, I will say there ia
no better OF his kind. IL 10 a
thing for bis colts at weaniug TO sell
at sS5 90 and 800 90. For pedigree
and register number see bills of both
horse and rack.
The Marshall republican., 1907-04-26
In the Stud--Season of 1907
MOTION TOM 1887,

Having purchased the fine Eng
lishire stallion OF MIR. G. &. Run, OF
Marshall. Mo ! desire TO state that
MOTION Tom will make the
season Of 1907 At my farm ~ miles
northeast OF Marshall ON the Slater
road, at $40. 90 To- insure living colt
and $500 by the season.
MOTION TOM IL u dark chestnut
shire stallion and has made n number
oi seasons and n pair Of his get late.
ly sold for SjUO 0O, which shows his
breeding qualities lie Is q Of the
best breeders, heavy Of bone, aad a
toppy draft horse. Cau refer anyone
To his former owner, Mr. &. G. RUIZ,
ss To his qualities NJ ~ individual
and breeder. lie states here are more
good high class colts 10 his credit in
the neighborbood where he stood for
the past three years than any one
DRAFT horse that ever made a season
west OF Marshall. See bills for pedi-
gree and number