Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-17
DRIFTwOOD
BY LUE r. VERNON

All telegraph wires leads to Boise
City, Idaho, just now.
Some people with Vanderbilt as
piratiOns must suffer terribly with a
Jobs turkey income.
know of some professional funeral
mournerS, and also know of a woman
who can faint when the occasion de-
mandS.
There are a few folk in every COM
munity who will never be hung for
their modesty in trumpeting their
own merits.
l believe in always trying to look
at facts exactly as they are. A man
is a fool to try to twist them around
to suit himself
1t is usually amusing to watch the
antics of some people who wish to
break into the ranks of society"
It's too funny for anything.
Zone touch of kindness makes the
whole world akin" While this ism t
the exact quotation, to my thinking,
it is just as good as the original.
Olympia has a newspaper" de-
voted to Socialism, and several 9TH
ers devoted to raising money which
will ensure their next publication.
"It is better to have loved and lost"
The husband who was henpecked said,
"YOu'll find, when by q wife you re
bossed,
Than it is to have loved and we'd"
It's about time for the Tacoma
Ledger to grind out an editorial:
Why the Capital Should Be Re-
moved to Tacoma" It's long over
due.
There is a man in Olympia so gift
ed as q talker that he can coax a
bird out of bush, lie the legs off an
iron pot, and then swear the bottom
out afterwards.
If Gov. Mead wishes to learn how
much he will be missed by politicians,
in the near future, let him stick his
finger into bucket of water, then
try and locate the hole.
That purse of SIS given by the
Seattle jury to Mrs. Ruth Jackson,
whom they found not guilty of mur-
der, turned out to be a case of cast
ing pearls before swine"
The editor-in-chief of the Washing
tonian (Hoquiam)-near Aberdeen
says there is only one Colonel in
his family tree. The editor of the
Washimgtonidn surely meant bugler.
When you look forward, o dozen
years seem in the agony of despair
or the yearning impatience of hope,
to be an eternity. When you look
back, a dozen years are but flash
in o dream.
All divorce cases should be tried
in open court. This way of doing
it might put a brake on so many
couples applying for separation pa
pers on such silly complaints as is
now the case daily.
In nine cases out of ten the clerk
who draws a salary of twelve dollars
q week, dresses better, and puts or
more style, than the proprietor oi
the concern, who can count his
money by the thousands.
If your business plans are not sue
cessful after battling magnifcently
to gain your objective point, do not
despair. Probably Fate entered the
field upon the other side. Even q
Napoleon was crushed by fate.
In Seattle is it always good policy
to ask o man how he calls himself,
and never presume to think because
you have met the man before in an
other State that you know what
name he uses in the Queen City.
A man who processes to believe ir
equal rights to all, special priv
ileges to none," and so on, who finds
the administration of Teddy" to bt
the proper thing, should drop his
mask and join the elephant gang.
Too bad that Teddy" did no,
write his own name amongst his list
of undesirable citizens. Never
mind, Teddy" the people of the
United States will see that yours il
"jotted" down. Don't you worry.
Many folk boast of their fighting
abilities who-like the Chinese fight
ing men, relic upon fierce outward
appearance to scare the enemy
they were put to the test, would moi
be found half so bad as they
imagine.
A minister in London provides
midnight soup for the poor ant
hungry. Seattle has an association
sometimes called "City Dads" who
have taken away soup in daytime,
midnight, or any other time, from
penniless people.
They sent Hamlet to England
when it was feared that he was los
ing his wits. AS the English were
all mad themselves his little trouble
in that line would not be observed
Probably it wouldn't be an unwis'
thing should Mead move to Seattle.
The Bulletin of Aberdeen tunes W
its harp of David, twangs the strings
and sings the praises of Gov. Mead
Hasn't the Hamburger, who edit
that journal learned yet that Meat
has been elected, sworn in, as Chic
Executive of the State of Washing
ton, many moons ago, and has, lon6
before this. given all the free pencils
and blotting paper away?
The P.-L heads an article: "Wo
men Climbers Slept Under Stars.
Now if the women had slept abov'
the stars, the P.-L. could have yellet
"A scoopl A scoop!" But as th'
women accomplished nothing alarm
ing, or an unheard of feat, no ex
citement will ensue. Where in tn
devil did the P-L suppose the wo
, men would sleep? Surely not abov
the stars.