Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-04-19
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R'p"LHc is throwing lemons at the
K"rniag Times of Seattle.
Now is the moving season of dis
content made glorious by the thought
that after the job is completed, we
can go fishing. Sable?
The country editor gives away as
many free puffs" as the saloon
keepers does free drinks, so it is
hoss-and-hoss" you know.
If Mayor Schmitz, in San Fran
cisco, can prove himself clear of all
graft charges, he will be considered
a "crackerjack' fiddler and a good
leader"
We miss the brain-wOrk of Albert
johnson, nowadays, as we read the
Tacoma News. What was a Perkins
loss is Blethen's gain, and stick a
telephone pole there.
The anxious public is eagerly
awaiting the book entitled: What
l Think of the Editor of the Walla
Walla Ermiag BuIletin," written by
the editor of the Walla Walla .States-
man.
Every poor man with family should
join some order where there is an
insurance, for the sole benefit of his
wife and family. He owes this as
protection and duty, to those he
loves.
A book written by the editor of
the Wdshingtonian of Hoquiam, in
forming the residents of Gray's Har-
Dor what he thinks of the editor of
the Aberdeen Bulletin, would be in
teresting.
The "Up-to-NOw: Current Com
ment on Current News" appearing
in the Morning Times of Seattle have
all the ear-marks' of Albert John
son, formerly editor of the Tacoma
Ne,rs.
If the dove of peace" should, by
some hook ,or crook, alight on the
shoulder of Roosevelt or Hartman,
the 1O-cent popular magazines would
grOwl and shout that the 5000, 900
campaign story has skidooed up the
spout.
He: "The minister preached a
scathing discourse on the extrava-
gance of women"
She: "Yes, and there his wife
sat with $17 hat on"
He: That was probably the
cause of the sermon"
The Seattle Erening Ne,cs is daily
forging to the front in the Queen
City. Its editor, Edwin Gill, is con-
Quoting a clean and full of news
journal, and his work is appreciated,
as the continual enlargement and
prosperity of the paper shows.
"The Republican elephant is big
enough, thank goodness, to carry Taft. !"
-Oregonian.
Will Teddy" be able to lift Taft
upon the elephants back? Anyway
the elephant is to be considered, fOr
Taft will need trunk" to place
his Presidential aspirations in. next
year.
A merchant in small town who
sends away for all his job-wOrk, must
not expect to borrow the country
editors Bible, for Sunday service
The merchant should have included
one of his own, when he mailed his
order for goods to the large mail
order store in Chicago, instead Of
ordering the firms latest 15-cent
catalogue.
An Olympia Sunday school teach
or was trying to impress upon the
little boys in her class the need Ol
working for the Lord and closed by
asking if any one had done anything
for Jesus the past week. Promptly
a chubby hand was raised.
"Well, my little boy what have
you done?" asked the teacher.
Licked a boy for cussin," was
the triumphant reply.
The unapproachable North Pole
has been q nuisance about long
enough. 1t has caused innumerablt
chilblains, bronchitis and disappOint
ments, much popular boredom and
| not a few deaths, to say nothing o.
the financial waste. Nobody gets
there, for by the time fellow come:
within something like 200 miles of il
the hardship has turned him into an
other sort of man-the sort thai
reneges. This may 60 on indefinite
ly unless we find a way to cut il
short, and that isn't easy. 1t ha:
recently been suggested that if sOm'
one should absent himself for while
and then come back and say he hat
climbed the pole the agony would
abate. Science would overhaul hi
data and find lacune in it. Th'
search for the pole would be re
newed. Besides there's the Soutl
Pole. Divert attention from tn