Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-09-27
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a plow by any other name looks as
disgusting to many country boys.
When type gets off its feet it is al
most certain that some printer has
lost his head
Love one another. is Il motto
that oppcais neither TO Seattle nor
Tacoma citizens.
Peculiar. vet no matter how short
the country is of hop pickcrS, it is
always long on beer.
While hop-pickcrS will not pick
pockets. as Il rule, neither will pick
pockets pick hops, us fact.
Coal. this winter, will be high
The dealer laughs with glee;
Already he's mapped the view points
That next year he will see.
When some men put on their best
Sunday go-tO-mecting clothes in 4
small town. folks begin to inquire
who is dead.
The country-town sigr Don t
Hitch Your Horses Here, is rapidly
being succeeded by Stand Your
Automobile Here. y
Some men tote around SubScrip-
tion paper in order to avoid giving
any money for charity themselves.
! Did YOU ever notice it?
Why should scientists cross oceans
to roam in foreign lands in search of
ancient ruins when it would be far
less expensive to visit Tacoma?
The railway companies of the Pa
cific Coast should provide more pas
senger coaches for their vast army
of patrons. or else sell less tickets.
Look in the windows, next time
you go down the street, and if you
see two clocks keeping the same time,
call at the STANDARD Office and re-
ceive-eXpression of surprise!
Most anyone can conduct n news
paper far better than its editor. At
least Il great number of ignorant,
numbskull. two-lcgged animals, with
brain the size of q millet-seed, think
| so.
H. NJ. Gate City: Though you use
a pearl handle gold pen, and perfect
ly lovely" violet ink, it is no sure
thing that your short story How
Sister May Shared a Husband, will
be a bowling success.
City men want to live in the coun-
try, and country men prefer the city
nowadays. About the only thing
that can be done in this matter is to
move the cities into the country and
the country to the cities.
Sparkling diamonds seen on the
wife of Il $l0-a-week er-jumper,
is not sure sign they were given
her by her father-in-law as present
for cooking, or even sewing the but
tons, much needed, on hubby's trOus-
ers.
Really, after reading Seattle pa
pers, it is to be wondered how Rev.
NJ. A. Matthews, the sensational
preacher of that city. finds enough
spare time to dust his Bible, Occu-
pied as he seems to be, with SO many
worldly affairs.
Secretary w. T. Taft, in Seattle,
stated that the injunction was great,
good and grand, or words to that
effect. Wonder if the agitatOr of
organized labor thinks so, when q
business concern is possessed of such
as regards pickets, when a strike is
on?
Insane Asylum" THE Peni-
tentiary," The Cemetery" and SO
on, were the signs to be read on street
cars in Salem, Oregon, and when the
first car ambled slowly toward him,
bearing the sign " Depot" the strang
er boarded it with delight and salts
faction.
North Yakima is much pleased
at it's success this season with fruit
shipments. Here's to North Yak
ina, its friends of irrigation and the
fruit farmers. by their fruit We
shall know them" and, believe me,
North Yakima has big list of ac-
quaintances.
Jacob Furth, the Seattle banker,
says he has not attended circus for
fifty years. He doesn't need to.
He sees enough circus stunts in Sc
attic each day, free of cost, which
makes it unnecessary for him to be a
spectator at performance given in
the " big tent"
A Seattle man in Olympia, Tues
day afternoon, was ungentlemanly,
unkind and cruel enough to remark
that the 24-story editice Tacoma SC
proudly boasts of building in the
near future, will be completed at the
same time Seattle citizens refer to
Mount Rainier as Mount Tacoma.
Isn't it disgusting to hear a man
cursing the Japs and Cinnamon, say
ing they are taking work from white
men, while at the same time his wife
is buying vegetables from Jap OF
China huckster, and has the wash
ing bundled, awaiting the arrival OF
the Chinese laundryman? | say,
isn't it disgusting?
Because people are seen on a Sun.
day with bible or prayer-book in
hand vending their way to church
is no sure sign that that they are
really devout and sincere in the
teachings of the creed of their re-
spective places of worship. Some
folk only attend as a policy of bust
ness, others to see the young girls,