Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-10-25
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BY LUE F. VERNON
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ptNduSt SIlt Oltt1 I.
I. W., Gate City-The reason Il
man always takes a back-seat in
church is because he has no hat to
show off.
Once again the time has come,
Church SOcials will commence,
80 prepare yourself to lie, and say:
The oyster stew 5 immense"
To prevent coffee. chocolat, and
buckskln-colored niggcrS. il law max
ing hanging the penalty for mar
ria%e of whites and blacks, should be
enacted in every State in the union.
The Wall street scrub woman who
was arrested for stealing Il small
chunk of soap. should have under
stood that the proper things to steal
IN that locality are large chunks of
dough.
AS regard negroes becoming the
equal of whites, far us South Carolina
is concerned, the citizens of that
State seem to be from Missouri, tax
ing the speech of Pitchfork' Till
man, in Seattle, rs authority.
The Beautiful willamette" at
Portland resembles more of "buf-
falo wallow" than Il lovely river
softly calling to the sea, to a person
who has seen the violently and
free rivers of Washington State.
The young man who is building
those beautiful air-castlcS of future
greatness, when the world will fawn
ut his feet. men point at him and
say Behold our new Alexander the
Great, should remember Straws are
brittle and easily broken
Just few short, unkind words,
Will sever friendships grip,
just hearty shake of hand,
Will brace dropping lip.
Just sneering, scornful laugh
Will break fond heart so true
But just joyous Hello, old boy"
Will turn leaden skies to blue.
The country editor is close to
his constituents, remarks an East
ern Washington exchange. If many
OF his constituents were not SO
blamed close, the country editor
would oftentimrS he n great deal
better of financially.
Rain falls upon the just and I'M
just is an old proverb. But this
failed to happen the other day, when
a drunken chicken-thief was asleep
in a boX-car, and a minister was rid
ing in 4 coverlcss buggy, while the
rain came down in tubfulls,' so to
speak
Some men who pose as m, ,ral
And on worldly matters irown
Throw tit if dance is mentioned,
Rage and rant ut opera-clown.
Yet I've noticed all sucll buffers,
Who i'm daylight, pious seem,
Are hypocrites pack of devils,
When ut / \. VI. they're seen.
The genuine, old-timc tramp p rint-
er will never admit. if he should live
to be two hundred years old, that
machine set" work is to be com
pared in any manner with that which
he and the old-timc comps" of
years ago, produced, as they clicked.
clicked, clicked the type into the
stick by main strength and
whisky.
Running u locomotive must be a
good deal like running Il newspaper.
It's the same old thing year in and
year out. Same old loaferS on the
platform, same old jokes at the sta
tionS, same old travelling men on
and off. who always have the same
old kicks to make. Same old cOun-
try along the line every day. Id
hate to be locomotive engineer.
l stood on bridge at Portland,
And gazed at muddy creek,
Wondering il | was a-dreaming.
Orwas it a joke of Joe Meek?
Could this be the original streamlet,
Which of inspiration gave poet
chunk,
That resulted in "The Beautiful Will
lamette,"
If twas, Sam l.. Simpson was drunk.
DR.. Hamilton f. Biggar, John d.
Rockefellcr's family physician, says
that in order for mankind to reach
" Pier 70," they must eat chicken
and oysters. 1t is evident DR.. Ham
ilton has never lived in Seattle, Or he
would not have mentioned such deli
cacies as chicken and oysters, if he
had ever purchased those articles in
the Queen City.
The daughter of Col. Will Visscher,
who has been a newspaper writer
and illustrator at Los Angeles and
San Francisco, but who is now trav-
cling with her husband, w. A. Clay
ton, a theatrical man, as excess
baggage, visited her progenitor in
Chicago, recently, the first time in
five years. The Colonel enjoyed the
visit immensely.
For a young, brainless part-his-
hair-in- the middle dude to give his
sister, an invalid, her medicine every
hour, is an awful difficult job, but
to give pretty, giddy and silly,
giggling girl in a lovely brand new
picture hat and dress, hot air.
every minute lfor the space of two
hours, is considered an enjoyable
and most delightful task, by the
same iacksnipe.
am not a Socialist. yet it seems
to me under the Constitution of the
United States, the Socialists in Sc
attic have as much right to eXpOund
their teachings in the streets of the
Queen City as does the Salvation
Army" Gods Regular Army, "
The Volunteers OF America and
so on and on. Equal rights to all.
special privileges to none," is the
motto | advocate, first, last and all
the time.