Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-09-13
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ISH LCE r.. VERNON

after he gets tired of it.
The trouble about advice is that
: the only men who take it are not
worth giving it to.
What are wealth and honors, or all
the golden gifts of fortune, compared
to Il contented mind?
If the predicted panic is pulled
of. Loeb will have to shoulder that
responsibility along with the rest.
1t is becoming more and more evil
dent that the jaw of the prize fighter
developeS ut the expense of the brain.
The Kansas wheat crop is eStimat-
ed at 20. 000, 600 bushels. Thus it
escapes being regarded as Il complete
failure.
Chancellor Day says The Stand
ard has nothing to conceal" " 1t
tried hard to conceal some rebates,
however.
Mr.. Rockefeller says that he is
the public servant" " John hasn'
got on to the fact that he has been
canned.
Mrs. Mary G. Baker Eddy did not
appear personally in court Perhaps
the court arranged to give her alb
sent treatment.
| And now once more our old and
ever interesting friend Some import
ant changes-in-t he-cabinet appears ON
the first page of the big dailies.
The wife of millionaire JAS. pease
of Chicago, has divorced her husband
to 60 scrubbing floors. The moral
of which is, of two scrubs, choose
the least
The Governor of Tennessee has
written Il letter to the Governor of
Kentucky, and what the Governor of
Tennessee said to the Governor of
Kentucky was plenty.
Tsi An may be a great empress in
China, but if she looks like the pic
lures of her printed in this country
she d be very likely to be taken else
where for the jack of clubs.
Alabama has new law which pro-
hibits the carrying of pistols that
are less than two feet long. Hip
pockets are likely to be worn pretty
long in Alabama after this.
Teddy is awfully busy these days
keeping track of Taft, and reading
marked papers containing speeches
of William, mailed by himself, no
doubt, to the big stick" gazaboo.
A scientist asserts that the south
pole of Mars it at the top. Possibly
it was Mars about which were writ
ten the classic lines beginning:
"'rwas midnight and the setting sun
Was slowly rising in the west"
According toa Philadelphia preach
er man may be Il consistent Chris
tian and politician at one and the
same time. Mind you. he doesn't
say successful politician, how
ever.
Now that vacation days are over,
the time when everybody is out of
town, will soon be succeeded by the
time when most everybody is out of
money. But maybe pleasant time
was had.
1t is said that Wall street used to
be described as the street with Il
church at one end, river ut the
other, and hell in the middle" The
middle has been raised till the ends
are Obscured.
How ridiculous and disgusting it is
to see man the size of Taft, strain
ing and pulling, sweating and grunt-
ing, in order to put on Il suit of
clothes made for 4 man of Teddy's
physical shape.
I, The men who went from Pekin to
Paris in an automobile and the man
who had travelled from Tacoma to
Oyster Bay in an Ox-wagon were
both actuated by that strange force
known as sentiment.
A man was stabbed fourteen times in
Los Angeles and still lived. He was a
, printer, nobody else could have stood
it.-Er.
/ That's nothing. Printers get half
: shot" every day and it never faxes
them.
A good many suggestions are Of
fered the Government as to what it
shall do with the nearly thirty mil
lions that it has fined the Standard
Oil Company. Perhaps the most
practical one would be: First,
collect the fine"
I know people who declare the
| nj
are determined to have it. | notice
they succeed in getting it, pretty
good one, too, and with very little
: trouble, Judging from number OF
people | see around the streets of
) Olympia who were never known to
y work.
"Those so-called fashionable wo-
5 men spend all their time these days
3 in bridge and smoking cigarettes and
l drinking weak tea and strong whisky.
3 Every one of them ought to be at
home working, and they would be
: better Off" declares Mrs. Hetty
t Green. From which it appears that
' Mrs. Green would merge the reforma-
s ton of society and the solution of
8 the servant girl problem into one
r great movement.
When State Legislature makes a
:, law it should be Obeyed until the
courts decide against it. If there is
q law enacted against petty thieving
: and a thief is caught he takes his
: punishment. If he talked of defyins
$ the law until the courts had passed
upon it, he would be regarded as in
sane. The corporations which com
0 nit grand larceny do this and are
e justified. 1t is not right to make
fish of one and fowl of the other.