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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-03
SMALLER NEWSPAPERS.
A Prediction concerninf the Journals Of
the Future.
Chica on ChrOntclo

the Future.
Chicago Chronicle.
No one can predict positively what
the newspaper of the future" will
be, although some gentlemen who
never were in the newspaper busi-
ness are prepared to tell us all about
it in the 1O-cent magazines.
One thing, however, may safely
be predicted by anybody, and that is
that the newspaper of the future will
not be any bigger than the news
paper of the present. The limit of
size in ratio to cost of white paper
has been reached by some journals
which even now are either losing
money on every paper they sell or
else keeping even by the narrowesS
of margins. Even with heavy ad-
vertising patronage it is clear that
increasing size under such circum-
stances would be to commit finan-
cial suicide. 4....
Other considerations make for a
reduction rather than an increase in
the size of newspapers. The most
important one is that the reading
public is becoming tired of the great
bulk of some daily editions and of
most Sunday issues. It is impossi-
BILE that such masses of printed mat
ter should be read. They become
wearisome and inspire the desire for
less bulk and more cogency.
The public pretty generally gets
what it wants and that will prove as
true of newspapers as Of political
candidates. There is growing
sentiment for smaller and more COM
pact newspapers and when that de-
mand eliminates the publishers will
comply.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-03
THE OLD THINGS.

The old things are the best things after
all;
Old joys that waken mem'ry's tender
Old hopes that linger, whatsoe'er be-
fall
Old homes-old friends-old wines
old melodies.
Old games we played at in the long ago
Top, leap-frog, marbles, and old-fash-
ioned ball
NO new amusements rival them -ah, no!
The Old games are the best games,
after all.
Surprising dolls. bedecked in rare array
10 win the heart Of innocence, are
made;
And yet the rag dolls of another day
Still hold their place, unchanged and
unafraid.
The waxen princess and the ringlet
queen
Reign briefly and then totter to their
fall
The old-time rag-doll fingers on the
scene,
The old dolls are the best dolls after all
New faces glimmer ont upon the glass
And win us briefly with their trans
lent bloom.
They bde little while. and then they
pass,
And mem'ry's throng comes trooping
down the room.
The girls of yesterday-we loved them
So
Nor dreamed they e'er would drift be-
yond recall.
In fancy they are with us yet, and oh
The old girls are the best giils after all.
New lights stream out of every window
pane
Electric arc and incandescent beam.
l mark how far they cleave the night
And then of those old-fashioned lights
dream;
The cosy parlor, with it's modest lamp,
Whose luster barely crept into the hall
The open fire, defying night and damp
The old lights are the best lights after
all.
The latest romance told for ist'ning ears,
The modern throng a little time may
thrill;
But borne a-down the colonnade of years
The tale of long ago endureth still.
How plausible each well-remembered
phrase,
How satisfying yet to great and small
The stirring myth of prehistoric days
The old tales are the best tales after
all.
The humors Of far.forgotten time
The busting modern may not all for
get;
The pleasant fancies told in prose and
rhyme
Awake the mirth of generations yet.
Those old and tried conceits-they shall
not die!
Or, being dead, some hand shall lift
the pail.
From age to age they cheer the rowing
eye
The old jokes are the best jokes after
all.
-Lue F. Vernon.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-03
THE CALIFORNIA SOLDIERS HOME
About Everything Is Supplied for Comfort
Still There Is Complaint.

Los ANGELES, Cal, April %, 1907.
ED. STANDARD:
The old reliable STANDARD, always
a welcome visitor, arrives on time on
Tuesday of each week and it is like
meeting an old friend. Aside from
the reading of the local news, l enjoy
the sketches of Lue Vernon. He,
she or it, is quite versatile but Wig
OrouS writer.
l joined the Soldiers Home yes
yesterday, and l thought perhaps a
short sketch of said Home might be
of some interest to the readers of the
STANDARD. 1t is located near San
telle, a suburb of Los Angeles, and
distant from this city about Is miles
and three miles from the old Pacific.
l am told the ground occupied by the
Home contains about 800 acres, a
good part of which is under cultiva-
tiOn. The ground occupied by the
buildings must embrace nearly 40
acres interspersed with beautiful
lawns and walks, and embellished
with semi-tropical shrubs and trees
of most every description. The
buildings for the soldiers quarters
are large and commodious, and scru-
pulously clean and tidy, as are also
the dining-room and cook house. Six
hundred persons can easily be seated
at ore time at table. The inmates of
the Home number about 5000, but
there are seldom more than half of
them there at one time. The old
vets" have nothing to do but eat,
drink and sleep. If they work, they
get paid for it. For amusement they
have a theater, brass band. billiard
and pool rooms, and fine library.
and yet, strange to relate, one will
find many who are dissatisfied, chron-
ic GROWERS. One of 'em, it is said,
died and went to heaven. St. Peter
asked him where he was from and he
said from Santelle Soldiers Home"
Well," said Peter, you can go
in but you won't be satisfied" This
illustrates the fact that it is impossi-
BILE to satisfy, or please, some men.
The hospital connected with the
Home is $50 feet in length and can
accommodate 600 patients and is we'll
supplied with nurses. The number
of deaths average nearly one every
day in the year. 1t won't be many
years till the old warriors are all
gone and we shall have to have an
other war to replenish the home.
Don't imagine for a moment that /
expect to be a continual inmate. /
can't stand restraint. l have to be
on the move, and there is a certain
amount of red tape necessary for an
institution of this kind which is not
congenial to one of my disposition.
l simply wanted the half-rates al
lowed every inmate of the Home.
]. c. Coo.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-03
"SUcROSE MASTIc!"
A New Varmint Imprisoned for the Enlifht-
ment of a Cub Reporter.

ment OI kuO reporter.
1t was curled up in an apple leaf,
only one end of its brown and dark
yellow body showing beyond the
green. Further down on the twig
there was another one, similarly
curled up, and both were prisoners
in bell-jar that kept meddling hands
from touching the twig and it's in
habitants. And then the cub report
er came in, looking for news. He
spied the bell-jar at once, and went
over and examined it. He had just
read book on the cottony scale, and
another on tent-caterpillars, and he
was interested in pests. And these
two yellow and brown ones were cer-
tainlv the limit.
He examined them with care, and
finally turned to Inspector Bowie.
They're shiny on the end," he
said.
The inspector went on reading,
pausing only long enough to nod his
head.
Where did you get them?" asked
the cub reporter.
Mr.. Bowie looked up and closed the
book with a sigh. He saw that he
was in for it.
/ got them in front of the -
candy store" he answered gravely.
The cub reporter said that he
hadn't noticed any trees there, and
the inspector admitted that there
was none. Whereupon the cub re-
porter said that he supposed Mr..
Bowie had picked them from some
passing wagon. The inspector shook
his head; and the cub reporter gave
it up, and asked what they were.
Sucrose mastici," answered Mr..
Bowie. The cub reporter wrote it
down; he was getting a scoop. And
Mr.. Bowie, desiring to give all the
information he could, continued:
They are oftenest found in tu-
lips" he said, only he pronounced it
two lips and they are really
harmless, in spite of their striped
and somewhat tigerish appearance.
One frequently finds them about
clinging vines, and sometimes sturdy
oaks are open to their attacks. But
they are quite harmless. Take the
glass off and examine one"
The cub reporter gingerly lifted
the bell-jar from the table and took
the twig in his hand. Mr.. Bowie
reached over and disengaged one of
the critters from the twig and calmly
put it in his mouth. The cub re-
porter gave gasp, and then looked
more closely at the other specimen.
Then he smiled weak, sickly, sheep
ish grin, and took his remaining sue
rost mastici and swallowed it also.
For sucrose mastici is hog-latin for
chewing candy, and they had only
been framing up a joke on the young
man.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-03
HOW TO GROW SWEET PEAS.
Here Is Little Information That 10 Season
able and Interesting.

Here is Little Information That is Season
able and Interesting.
Sweet peas are a universal favor
ite. They are grown by nearly every
body, and Everybody does not al
ways know how to grow them. So
take heed of the following point
ers":
Many expert sweet pea growers will
tell the amateur that they need brush
to support them. But they do not
need either netting or brush. Many
things are easier to give them than
brush and serve the purpose abso-
lutely as well.
Put a broom handle at each end of
the row you have planted in a well
and deeply dug trench. Then run
wire or a piece Of clothes line from
top to top of the posts. Now take a
ball of good brown string and a
handful of clothes pins. Tie the
string to the top of one of the posts.
Run it down to the sweet pea trench.
Straddle it with q clothes pin. Push
the pin into the ground to the head
and run the string back again to the
clothes line or wire. Give it twist
or two or knot it and take it back to
the trench again. You will thus
have a zigzag support of strings,
made in few minutes, that will sup
port the vines beautifully.
Cheap and light woven wire fence
is excellent if you have it. 1t is very
easy to put up. It should be about
four feet wide. A broomstick at
either end will do for posts and if the
row is very long a stick may be
needed in the center.
Sweet peas bloom for only short
time and then dry up. Well, that is
easily remedied. After the sweet
peas are up in good shape SOW .
cents worth of portulacca or Califor'
MIA poppies (escholtzia) all along each
side of the row. Then pat them
down with a piece of board or gar.
den trowel. being careful not to hi'
the pea vines and keep the roots
moist. That is what sweet peas
love, and then will bloom freely as in
colder, moister weather. But be
sure to pick the flowers freely and
constantly. Never allow pods and
seeds to form. The moment plants
start to 60 to seed they begin te
cease Towering. They can't do both
So the more flowers you pluck tht
more you will have.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-03
The Grand Jury.

The grand jury, as it lags super
fuous in our judicial system is o
paradise of perjurers. Within its
secrecy, conspiracies are Matched.
Any scoundrel may 60 before the
grand jury in its secret chamber and
swear away the reputation, the
property, the liberty or the life of
any member Of the community. The
accused is not permitted to face his
accusers. He may not be repre-
sented in the secret chamber by
counsel. His accuser is not subject
to cross examination.
On the mere say-so of personal
interest, malice or crime-seeking
immunity the machinery of justice is
put in motion on er-pdrte allegation,
to the enormous cost of the tax
payers, and frequently to the griev-
Gus and sometimes irreparable in
jury of the accused.
In many States of the Union this
antiquated and easily corruptible
relic of barbarism has been sent to
oblivion, with other scrap iron and
rags of unvenerated tradition.
Every accusation of crime is made
in the reformed States in the open
court, before an examining magis-
trate. The accused faces his accuser.
The examining magistrate listens
disinterestedly, and if q prin.a Jacit
case appears to be made out the &C.
cused is handed over to the criminal
court for trial. Is not. this o fairer
method than the secret chamber,
where perjury may lay its foul eggs
unmolested? LUE F. VERNON.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-03
QUITE BADLY GONE.
Here Is What Adolphus Thinks of His
Angelina.

Here Is What AdoIphus Thinks of His
Angelina.
The prettiest thing about the pref
tiest woman l know is her pretty
way.
She has pretty way of paying
you compliments, and a pretty way
of dropping into chair.
She has a pretty way of saying,
How do you do, and pretty way
of giving you rebuke-such a pretty
way of giving you rebuke that the
rebuke itself seems pretty.
Indeed, she has an adorably pretty
way of doing a very many things,
that one would never call pretty did
she not do them in such pretty way
that in the doing they become pretty.
She has pretty way of walking,
and pretty way of talking.
With her pretty way she trans
forms the process of asking the price
of cuff button into a thing of beauty.
With her pretty way she converts
a remark about the weather into a
JOY forever.
With her pretty way she makes
passing the pepper seem poetical,
and picking up pin dream.
A walk downtown becomes a great
pleasure excursion when walked in
her pretty way, and call at the gro
GERS an event.
Ringing up the telephone as she
prettily rings it up, is polite ac-
complishment.
Turning a door knob, as she pref
tily turns it, it a fine art.
Offering ones hand, as she prettily
offers it, is drama.
Crossing the room as she prettily
crosses it, is wedding procession.
Scolding as she prettily scolds, is
music-only she never scolds; she goes
over everything with gayety and
tenderness and such dainty percep-
tions of the feelings of the one scold-
ing that one only reflects that if any
one else has done it, it would have
been scolding.
Telling bad news rs she prettily
tells it, Eliminates the badness with
its silvery lining of gladness.
Whatever she touches by her pref
ty touching becomes a rose, a lily, a
garden.
All her mind, all her manners is
delicacy, grace, charm.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-03
AN UNPARDONABLE ACT.

AN UNPARDONABLE ACT.
This vigorous village of the
West, is the way in which Vincent
Harper, the Seattle writer-socialist-
novelist, speaks of the Queen City,
in an article in the Rdrem of Seattle.
headed: THE Power of the Press. "
Oh, Vincent! Pray, tell us how
you came to designate Seattle vii
lage? Vincent, you have, by this
sentence made your bed, and must
lie on it, You have cooked your
goose" Vincent, with Seattle folk.
Oh, why, why did you commit such
a deliberate, cold-blooded and rash
deed? Your career, from now on, as
far as Seattle's citizens are concerned,
however illustrious or brilliant, no
matter how famous you may become,
no difference how many letters of
the alphabet may be placed after
your name by those high in author
ity in the world of literature, your
name will be handled with rusty iron
tongs, whispered only by those who
have a bad cold, and then only in
back rooms and dark alleys, and no
babies will be named in your honor,
not even a new brand of yeast which
may be launched on the public by a
Seattle firm will be called by your
name-not even your photo will be
used.
We entreat you, Vincent, we i'm
plore you, we beg you, to inform the
public why you, in the city you have
selected to reside, where the P.-L
circulated your pretty rd-paint-
ings of musical and dramatic events,
the paper you allude to now, Vim
cent-Father Time works wondrous
changes to be sure, Vincent-as:
Our great respectable, reliable,
conservative morning journalr-
ever let your brain frame the sent
ence that has covered you with a coat
of frigidness which will be handed to
you by Seattleites, wherein the ice
glaciers of Alaska would appear as
the furnace of hell.
Vincent, you have left all hope be-
hind, as to being appointed to any
municipal Office by Mayor Moore OF
Seattle, that he may have power to
bestow. OF course, Vincent, I do
not know If you desire political Of
flee or not, but even should you want
it from Seattle's Mayor whom you
allude to as Midget Moore" in
your article in the Karen, it is now
out of your reach. This is a cinch,
you may bet your last nickel on this.
But Vincent, you allude to the
Queen City as q Vigorous village of
the West" Believe me, Vincent,
you have said something, and that
something will make you an outcast
forever, yes forever, in the eyes and
ears of the men, women and children
of the Queen City, who are instilled,
picked and saturated with what they
term, know and feel the Seattle
spirit"
l shed q few tears for Vincent.
Here are the tears:
Tim X VrpNON
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-03

when passing. Always knock at any
private room door.
Special rules for the mouth are
that all noise in eating and smacking
of the lips should be avoided.
Always precede lady upstairs and
ask her whether you may precede
her in passing through a crowd or
public place.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-03
A Mobile Face.

She: What are you grinning
at?"
He: Il amt GRIMM. Me face
always acts like dat when / see q
pretty gurl.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-03
OLYMPIA WASHINGTON FRIDAY MORNING. MAY 3 1907

ships; they climb nimbly out of their
boats; they show their official di-
plOma and they steer the newcomer
safely into the harbor. 1t is the
same in Finland.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-03
A Summer Resort.

A syndicate has been formed at
Aberdeen for the purpose of promot,
ing a new summer resort at the
beach. They have bought the Stan
cliffe place on North Beach and will
plat it and sell it out in lots for sum-
mer residences.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-03

LUE F. VERNON is sprinkling the Olym.
pia STANDARD weekly with his gems OF
pOesey, wit and wisdom. And he is
entertaining always on any subject
auburn Argus.
salam. LUE +. VERNON.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-03

HE loses any benefit from relation
ship to God who shirks responsibility
for man.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-03
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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-07-19
DANES AND DAUGHTERS.

Mrs. Elizabeth Espennk is town
councillor OF Bergen, Norway. and also
honorary secretary Of the Norwegian
W. G. T. L.
Baroness Won Eckhardstein is the lat
est fellow" of the Royal Botanic so
siety. She Is an authority on certain
phases OF plant life.
Miss lone Lucas Of New Haven,
Conn, Is a skillful pianist, although
she Is totally deaf. She is as sensitive
to q wrong note as person with full
powers OF hearing.
Mrs. u. A. Montgomery Of San Fran
cisco, whose husband used to own the
Bullfrog mine. Is said to own the only
flawless coffee colored diamond IN the
world II weighs three and onc-quar-
ter carats, and she has been offered
$4,000 for IL.
Mrs Thomas n Ryan, wife Of the
New York traction millionaire, has SO
much charity work in hand that she
has a private Office and staff of clerks
and stenographers. she has given
away about S4,Oo0000 in building hos
pitfalls, converts, schools and churches.
Mrs. William Howard Taft wife Of
the secretary OF war, has many ac-
compllshments, notably that of music.
She is graduate OF the Cincinnati
Conservatory, since which time she
has never let day pass that she has
not devoted at least a little time to its
study.
A popular vote taken by a London
newspaper places 1t upon record that
Lady Pole Carew Is the most beautiful
woman in England. The Ave other
English women who followed Lady
Pole Carew IN the order Of their popu-
larliy are Lady Helen Vincent, Prln-
cess Henry Of Pless, the Duchess Of
Sutherland Julia Nelson and Evelyn
Willard. The two last named are &C.
tresses.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-07-19
GLEANINGS.

The south is said to be getting richer
at the rate Of 100000 day.
For every ton Of gold coin in cIrcula-
tion there are fifteen tons Of Silver
A scientist declares that 4 per cent Of
the people of civilized nations ere col
or blind.
The ravages of that pest the phyllox-
era have cost France 100000 acres Of
vineyards.
A package of thirty-seven letters ly-
ing in the dust of the Mexican postof-
fee for more than thirty years, has
been received by the dead letter office
In Washington.
A man defending summons for not
sending child to school pleaded, at
Brentford, England, that he had nine
teen children and they required too
much attention.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-07-19
SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES.

II people seem unkind, read the if.
tenth chapter of John.
II you have the blues, read the
Twenty Psalm.
If your pocketbook is empty, read
the Thirty. Psalm.
If you are all out of sorts, read the
twelfth chapter OF Hebrews.
II you are losing confidence in men,
read the thirteenth chapter Of I Corin-
thlans.
IT you find the world growing small
and yourself great, read the Nineteenth
Psalm.
III you are discouraged about your
work. read the One Hundred and
Twenty-sixth Psalm.
If you cannot have your own way
in everything, keep your mouth shut
and read the third chapter of James.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-07-19
Science Slftlngs.

For penkniyes the steel Is tempered
at 470 degrees, for table knives at $50
degrees, for saws at 500 degrees.
In new method the velocity of a
stream Is determined chemically. A
certain quantity OF brine Is added to
the water and samples afterward taken
farther down are carefully analysed.
The noted French chemist Albert Lee
Wy has constructed an apparatus which
indicates as low as one-huudred-thou
sandth part Of oxide Of carbon Of the
air in closed room. This gas Is odor-
less and apt to cause severe poisoning
without the least advance notice of
such danger.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-07-19
Advertising.

Enterprise and advertising make the
biggest pair in the deck Chicago
News.
Don't wait until your business has
run down before you advertise. Adver-
tise in time to keep it from running
down. Exchange
There Is in England a firm Of soap
makers which has spent S15,0o0,00o in
advertising, and it is more than ever
convinced that advertising pays.--New
York Post.
A man who has had experience says
that If your business isn't worth adj
vertising advertise it for sale. And
there is lot Of truth in the statement.
Saltwater Gazette.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-07-19

Old man Bob Fitzsimmons, winner Of
many battle, must now retire and
dream Of those good old days when in
the heyday Of his ring success he needed
the adjuration Of his faithful wife to
punch him in the Stats, Bob" and de-
liyered the punch, much to the diseom-
future Of his adversary. His most re-
cent battle on Wednesday evening Is
evidence that in the field Of pugilism
Fitzsimmons should be Oslerized. Old
muscle must give way to young muscle
sometime, and now in the case of this
battle-scarred veteran.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-07-19
TALK OF THE TOWN.

Nelson Brown returned today from
ID few days visit with relatives in
Montpelier.
Mrs. Laura Holmes, who has been
visiting Mrs William Jack Of Keith
avenue returned today to her home IN
Boston.
The T. b. Cate real estate agency
has sold for a. 3. Whittier his farm il
Williamstown, known as the j. u.
Brockway farm to John Jameson.
Consideration $4,000.