Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-02-08

BY LUE r. VERNON
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Russia leads the world is planting
forests. America is devastating them.
de is rich whose wealth satisfies his
wants, and he is poor whose wealth
doesn't.
a hundred men may make an. en-
campment, but it takes woman to
make home.
Dealing with the question of strikes,
new opera, composed by Alfred
Kaiser, will soon be produced in Berlin.
How Time hurries when we get to.
ward the end of our journey! He's
like a horse with oats ahead-the
nearer he gets home the faster he goes.
The vocation of a "private detec.
tive" may not be a high. minded call.
ing, but, after all, in the present state
OF civilization, it seems a necessary
one.
There is nothing which 80 affects
the courage OF an Indian as a belief
that you possess a supernatural power
They are spiritual believers in the
fullest sense, and have been for ages-
long before such thing was thought
OF in civilized circles.
1t is astonishing how quickly some
men cool down when they look into a
pistol barrel and know that a steady
finger is on the trigger of the weapon.
l have known a raving bully, a "bad
man" of the fret order, a gambling
assassin, to subsids in q second, when
placed in such situation.
F. M. Smith, of Oakland, Cal, known
as the Borsx King, was married re.
Gently. He need not imagine for an
instant that the bride will spend her
honeymoon in the "prairie schooner"
drawn by twenty.four" mule team.
Not much. Smith. It's "buzz wa
gon," for her. or she remains at home,
and don't you forget it.
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Mamms: What makes you so
ill2 l hope you haven't been chewing
tobacco"
Eddie: O-boo-boo! "No, nam.
ma"
Mamma: "I'm glad to hear that,
but what t."
Eddie: al was goin' to chew it;
but-boo-boo-I saw you comm an
1 swallowed it whole"
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The citizens OF Colorado, you will
remember. presented President Roose.
welt with . heart of solid gold, in
recognition of his efforts in establish.
ing peace between Russia aud Japan.
A bale Of cotton-solid cottou-will be
presented to Teddy" by tho inhabi.
tants OF South Carolina, if he estab.
fishes the idea in Ben Tillman's mind
that he did . "square deal" when he
discharged every man in the Twenty.
fifth Infantry.
Money is the text nowadays, which
most folk discnss-money, that curse
which every one (except scribblers
like me) SCENE so ready to bear; that
d" necessary evil" which makes more
men Williams, more women unvirtuous
and more people miserable, generally.
than any other i'll on Earth. BY the
banishment Of money. the Spartans
became the purest, noblest race on
|, Earth, luxury was afterwards intro
duced, and they dwindled down to less
than nothing.
The telephone, it is said, makes
slow progress In Russia. And is il
any wonder! Fancy . man going to
an instrument and shouting: "Hullo.
is that you, Observation-Disclosures.
I, skif"
"No, it is Zollemschouskaffi Q affirnock.
, nstiffegrOwOff. Who's speaking?"
Seximochockiertrj rjuaksm xkischok.
emoff. 1 want to know if Xliferomau.
skefilskillmsj Observation-Disclosures .
ki is still stopping with Dvisastkivch.
emarlvoiczski?"
When Q married man il sent to the
+ penitentiary, people say: This is
good enough for him. Now his poor
vile has an opportunity to get q d.
vOrce from the brute OF q husband"
Still, it beats all how some women
will cling to man, even when they
know him to be heartless and crimi.
nal. But it isn't 90 with all of 'em! /
know . case where the wife, though
she knew in her heart that her hus-
band was innocent, let him become
the victim OF base conspiracy, list
ened to the perjuries of gamblers and
courtesans, and in his darkest hours
OF trouble, deserted him-left him TO
his fate. But he rose above his foes,
and-she never has been happy wO-
, man since.
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. Isn't it to be deplored that few
editors will gravely inform the public,
three times . week, At least, that there
is no more "Masou and Dixon line" )"
} that the citizens of the North and
South are united in the opinion and
sentiment, and that "The line has
'been effaced forever, amen," then in