Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-30

acquaintance. would ulSOWn her IN
view of the hatchet and her attitude
toward " booze.
Isn't it funny what insignificant
and unimpOrtant fellows get into the
newspapers when they get away
from home? Half the people inter-
viewed by the reporters at the hotels
don't know themselves when the in
terviewers get through with them.
And how funny it all reads when it
gets back to where they are really
known.
Somehow there is a lingering no
ton in my Uranium that Messrs.
Rockefeller. Rogers and others of the
Standard Oil Company, are not hav-
ing any sleepless nights over that
little thirty million dollars fine i'm
posed by Judge Landis in Chicago.
The writer of DriftwOOd would glad
ly pay this assessment, if the
dear people would only let him
gather in the shcavcs' that are
surely to grow up from an additional
rise of about half a cent Il gallon on
oil.
1t is asserted by a political writer
that Teddy" desires to have Gov.
Hughes nominated for Vice Presi-
dent on the ticket with Taft. Now,
if Roosevelt can dictate the platform,
dictate the Presidential nomination,
ought not the Roosevelt shouters in
the country to be satisfied? They
should not insist that Teddy run
again under such circumstances.
Or, do they suspect that even if Taft
is nominated through the Teddy"
influence. he may be his own man
after he is elected?
a newspaper is a curious thing in
the public eye. The newsgatherer is
stormed at because he gets hold of
one item and is abused because he
does not get another. Young men,
and often young women, as well as
older persons. perform acts which
become legitimate items for publica-
ton and then rush to the newspaper
Office and beg the editor not to note
their escapades. The next week
they condemn the same paper for
not having published another party
doing the same thing they were
guilty of, forgetting apparently
their late visit to the printing Office.
And now it is believed in the navy
that the loader of the port gun in
the turret where the Georgia explO-
sion occurred, sometime ago, gave
an ASSUMED name when he enlisted.
and there is no record that he had
any relative. But he conferred
honor on the name Miller. which he
bore in the service, when he saw
that the powder charge of the star
board gun was ignited, and instead
of dropping to the deck or making a
break for the gun-port he jammed
the charge he was loading into the
gun and closed the breech block so
that that charge also should not
burn. He is dead. but whether his
true name be known or not, he has
been enrolled, by public sentiment,
in the list of heroes.
4 4 4
The Fairbanks buttermilk boom is
to be matched by new pleading in
favor of LaFOllette of Wisconsin.
LaFollette not only drinks butter
milk. thereby demonstrating his
craftsmanship, but is u vegetarian.
His chief diet, besides milk, is nuts
and spinach. Under the La Toilette
system of eating, the greedy beef
trust would quickly be put out of
business. Not only is the Wisconsin
man Il vegetarian. but he is an en-
thusiaStic advocate of the system.
He has converted every member of
his family and many of his neighbOrs
to milk. nuts and spinach. Accord
ing to the president of the LaFOllette
Vegetarian Club of Chicago. the
presence of LaFollette in the White
House would be a long step in the
direction of the elimination of dys-
pepsia from our national politics and
make for universal peace. 1t is.
then, hurrah for the nuts and spinach
candidate! Buttermilk Charlie"
will have to add . long green's to
his menu.
The man who works with his
hands, the speech delivered by
" Teddy ut the Agricultural college
at Lansing, Mich, now has free cir
culation through the mails, having
been printed by the Agricultural
Department, as public document.
Yet imagine that when the aver
age farmer reads it, and when his
wife reads it, they will both find
that Teddy" cannot be acquainted
with much of the hard practical life
of the man and woman who work on
the farm and raise u large family.
Teddy knows about the farm
from the viewpoint of those who
think it must be Il happy and con-
tented pastoral existence. Pitching
a wagon load of hay, does not make
q farmer, you know Teddy"
doesn't seem to know that it is the
ambition of almost every boy on
farm to get into something else, and
that nearly every girl hopes her
Prince Charming will be something
besides a farmer. Still the farm
life is steadily improving, and just at
this time it is particularly profitable
LUE +. VERNON.