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Absent Treatment Paws the Bill.

Many 4 man-in print-has pi
for Christian Science treatment with
imaginary checks, but it has re-
manned for Christian Science healer
to put similar device into actual
practice.
1t happened in Seattle.
n Christian Science healer, gender
feminine, age not polite to ask, went
into the Office of Il prominent den
tist, in the Queen City recently, and
announced that she wanted her teeth
fixed up"
There's nothing the matter with
your teeth, said the dentist. You
only think there is"
But the healer ignoring the re-
mark, sat down in the chair, and
WINGED and moancd. "even rs you
and |. " There was a good deal the
matter, so that before her series of
appointments were over bill OF
eighty dollars had mounted up
against her. At the first of the
month the dentist sent around his
bill. But he was not a sharp man in
some ways. He had told her, while
operating that he was troubled with
rheumatism. and in a day or two he
received a reply to the bill, a little
note.
My dear DOCTOR" it read, Il
have been giving you a series of ab-
sent treatments for your so-called
rheumatism, and l find that our two
bills just balance"
Then the doctor grew wise, and
let the matter drop.
LUE f. VERNON.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-02-07
Robert. L. Owe n on Women's Right to Equa
Pay for EQUAL Work

Robert l.. Owen, who was over
whelmingly endorsed at the Demo-
cratic primaries in Oklahoma, for the
United States Senate, is one-eighth
Cherokee. Mr. Owen was born in
Virginia and educated at Washington
and Lee University. AS teacher.
editor, banker, lawyer and states
man, his career has been brilliantly
successful. He is immensely popular
with all classes in OaklahOma and In
dian Territory. Mr.. Owen advocat-
ed suffrage for women in the Con-
stitutional Convention of Oklahoma.
in a most remarkable address as
follows: 1t is perfectly well known
that in the stress of modern times,
women by the thousands and hun
dreds OF thousands and millions are
obliged to work with their hands for
their livelihood, and it has been
shown by actual experience that
where women have suffrage their
rate of wages forthe work performed
as that OF man, has increased de-
cidedly in value, so that the sweat of
their faces for a given amount of
labor has produced to them a better
means OF subsistence. Will you, as
honest men, knowing this history,
deny to them an equal privilege and
opportunity OF live, when the mo.
mentOus question of more equal
Opportunity among men of making a
living is the great issue that now
shakes this NatiOn?"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-02-07
AGAINST HIGHBALL FOR GIRLS
Club in New York Fights Cab Rides,
low-Cut Gowns and Peek-a-Boo
Waists.

! One of the simpler and more prac-
, tical phases of the anti-liquor move
ment was reflected as follows in the
New York Times:
Believing that many young women
are being led astray by following what
| they conceive to be the practices of
women in fashionable life, DIR. Ade
laide Wallerstein, of 3O5 West Eigh
! tieth Street, and twenty three other
women have founded the Philocalian
| Club. to wage crusade against girls
who ride from the theater in hanson
cabs, drink highballs, and wear decol
lete gowns and openwork waists.
DIR. Wallerstein is enthusiastic over
| the movement, but, while she and her
| associates are anxious that it shall ac.
| complish much good, she does not want
to be called reformer.
FIVE-STANDARD-1-31
club, but please do not call me a re-
former" she said in speaking Of the
new organization last night.
Our club is a very exclusive one,
and is limited to twenty-four mem
bers,' she said. No one else can get
in until some member dies or gets
tired carrying out the principles of
the club and quits"
How, then, do you intend to carry
ou: your ideas If you do not preach
them?"
why. by force of example, of course.
We have all pledged ourselves not to
wear decollete cut lower than the col
larbone. and you know that is not very
low. Then. we have pledged ourselves
not to drink highballs or cocktails.
And about hansob cabs: 1t is wrong
for two young people to ride about in
hanson cabs at nights. A couple
should go straight home from the thea
ter. instead of seeking the bright lights
Of restaurant. The young woman
should prapare dainty little supper at
home. She should be able to prepare
dainty feast. | think. l know she
would If she did not except to be taken
out somewhere.
1T is not that We lack confidence in
the girls of today. know that han.
som cabs, after theater suppers, the
highball, and the cocktail are con-
sidered perfectly conventional, but we
are pledged to do our best to change
these customs of the world.
Then there is another feature. Too
many girls meet their young men on
street corners. They should be pro-
vided with some place of amusement.
If | were a rich woman | should start
a movement to provide such a place"
What kind Of place would you
suggest"
"Oh, some good, Cozy place. where
they could sing proper songs and
dance. and play. and have a good time
under proper chaperonage. These
young people see fashionable folk in
theaters. In cafes. eating and drinking
cocktails and highballs. and they go
to the dance halls and do likewise"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-02-07
About Reached the Limit.

When you open your newspaper,
it may cause you to wonder if you
know that in all probability yours
are the first hands that have ever
touched its pages. The reason for
this is that the paper is made from
wood pulp, no doubt. The woodmen
cuts down a tree. 1t is brought to
the mill. The machinery strips off
the bark, reduces the wood to pulp,
and makes it into paper. At every
turn cranes, derricks, chains, cogs,
rollers, steel teeth, and other me-
chanical contrivances keep the ma
terial out of human hands. The i'm.
mense rolls are wound by machines,
loaded into cars and wagons by ma
chinery, put into press-rooms and on
presses by other machinery, and
finally printed and folded without
having been directly touched by any
human hand. This is a mechanical
marvel Of to-day which is, no doubt,
duplicated in other branches of in
dustry. 1t is very striking in the
newspaper industry, which stands in
the very front rank of mechanical
perfection. LUE F. VERNON.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-02-07

and the yellow race. Let nobody
hastily assume that it means cowar-
dice to shun such competition 1t
is not cowardice to avoid Il struggle
" ith typhoid microbes, with wasps, or
with the white ants of Africa, which
form an endless chain and devour the
traveller by reason of numbers. no
matter how many he may kill 1t is
not cowardice to protect oneself from
struggle where the higher qualities
of manhood must be sacrificed in or.
der to fight on equal terms There is
nothing essentially noble or even val
liable in the mere struggle for exist
ence.
Every advance in civilization has
been an emancipation from some
phase of the struggle for existence
The accumulation of capital retrieves
us from the hand-to-mouth fight for
bread and sets us free for other
achievements. The man who sends
his boy to college aims to raise him
above the struggle for existence and
equip him for more generous rivalry.
Houses, banks, churches, schools, all
our treasures and Institutions have
been invented and established to free
us from the bare struggle for exist
ence Hence the exclusion laws by
which the white man tries to protect
himself from ruinous competition
with Asiatics are entirely in harmony
with those measures by which the race
has advanced from savage poverty to
the civilized status.
1t is gratuitous superstition to sup
pose that the struggle for existence is
elevating. In most cases it is degrad-
ing. 1t produces fitness" indded, but
that fitness means merely adaptation
to surrounding conditions. If the con-
ditiOns are vile, so is the fitness to
them. Since the Chinaman can live
in conditions viler than the white, and
since unchecked competition between
the races will result in victory for
the one that can live at the less cost,
or the more vilely, it is easy to see
where unlimited Asiatic immigration
would end. We should have on this
coast servile yellow population of
laborers dominated by a few aristo-
cratic whites for while: but finally
the baser breed would complete their
triumph and the Western United
States would become virtually a prov
ince OF Asia.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-02-07
How Adam Was Punished.

A prominent pastor tells this story:
Il visited a certain school one day
where Bible instruction was part Of
the daily course. and In order to test
the children's knowledge, asked some
questions. One class OF little girls
looked particularly bright, and l asked
the tallest one: What sin did Adam
commit?'
"'He ate forbidden fruit
fright. Who tempted him.
Eve
"'Not really Eve. but the serpent.
And how was Adam punished?'
"The girl hesitated and looked con-
fused. Behind her sat a little eight
year-old, who raised her hand and
said: Please. pastor. I know
"'Well. tell us. How was Adam
punished?'
"'He had to marry Eve"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-02-07
THE GRADE SYSTEM.
Not Adapated to County Schools When
They May Be as Varied as
Capacity of the Pupils.

Ed. STANDARD:
Is the grade system adapOted to
country schools? l contend it is not
and. as mere assertion is no proof of
a fact, | hereby give my reasons for
my contention.
There is too much time taken up
with petty details that amount to moth
ing more than a waste of time. There
is no teacher living that can possibly
do justice to from three to five classes
In the same study. l have just visited
a school where the teacher had five
different classes and from two to five in
class In arithmetic alone. 1t isn't
possible for her to give more than ten
minutes to each class. Is that not a
waste of time when the same amount
Of instruction could be given to all the
grades at one time by having a recita-
tion seat where all could see and hear
the instructor? Time is money and
children should be taught the value of
it. Again the multifarious rules laid
down by the Board of Education has
a tendency to confuse the teacher, who
perhaps in mosts cases knows more
about the requirements Of his or her
own school than any member of the
Board. l contend that it is impossible
to adopt any fixed set of rules for the
conducting of all schools and the teach
er should be allowed to formulate his
or her own rules for the conduct Of
the school, and II teacher hasn't
sense enough to do that he has no
business In a school room in the ca
pacity Of a teacher. In city schools
| it is different where they have from
two to three hundred pupils and diff
grade, but for n teacher to attempt to
teach half dozen grades and have
perhaps from two to three pupils in
each grade is to my mind a great in
justice to the teacher and a woeful
waste of valuable time. have taught
school forty thirty years, twenty years
Of the time in Washington, and so far
as | know. my teaching was appre-
ciated, but / presume in this age Of
enlightenment and commercial su-
premacy. where the dollar Is placed
above the man, l would be considered
an "old fogy" and ought to be laid on
the shelf as back-number. but I have
the satisfaction of knowing that there
were many fine scholars and educators
who never had the advantage of the
grade system. You may consider me
egotistic, when say. can take a
country school and teach the pupils
more of what they ought to learn.
under my own system of teaching in
three months, than the ordinary teacher
can in five months under the grade
system If can't do it, I'll agree to
eat this old hat of mine without salt
If there is any wise guy" who wants
to take issue with me on this question.
I'd be pleased to hear from him
through the STANDARD. An exchange
Of ideas can do no harm and may be
productive of good Let us make our
education practical for on it depends
the perpetuity Of our government.
J. c. Cos.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-02-07
FALLEN LEAVES.

There's joy and mirth, when back to
earth
Lost beauty time is bringing,
When Sol is strong and days are long,
And all the birds are singing.
'Tis but a transient drcam-a Joy
For gloom and sadness ending.
Soon winds wax keen and Sol grows coy
To warn OF storms impending.
What time the year wanes into sere
The wilted flowers droop dying,
And fallen leaves like fuyitives
Before wild winds are flying.
Crushed under Needless feet that pass
On pathways dark and sodien,
Thus are the lovely strcwn, alas
How soon dead things are tro'l,len.
Such deadly darts for human hearts
Are ever round us flving,
What legions gone meath turi and stone
Like fallen leaves are lying.
The flower returns To lure the bee,
And blooms as bright a ever,
The leaf returns to deck the tree,
BIT man returneth never.
-Lnr +. Icrnon.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-02-07
Fishes That Fish and Shoot.


The gentleman angler casting his
fly upon the ripple is unique-surely
no animal can match the rod and
line! Yet there is fish with a long,
slender fiilament dropping forward
from its head. tipped with a fleshy,
wormlike appendage. The fish lies
quietly on the bottom and awaits a
nibble. Soon minnOw makes a dash
for the waving luscious morsel The
huge mouth opens, and the finny angler
has dined! A veritabl4 Shylock, this.
with rod, line and bait of his own flesh
and bone.
Perhaps the most terrible invention
of man is the rifle, by which he can
slay when far from his victim. And
this fact makes the shooting fish of
Japan more interesting creature,
writes William Abados in the Sunday
Magazine. A fly alights on a leaf, a
foot or more above the surface, bask-
Ing In the sun, its many faceted eyes
on the lookout for danger In all di.
rections except below. A small fish
rises slowly through the water and
carefully protrudes its long pointed
snout into the air. A long wait fol-
lows. when the fish is apparently tax.
ing aim. and then a slivery stream of
drops shoots uerringly upward and
tumbles the fly headlong into the eager
waiting mouth. The natives keep this
fish in tanks, and it is great favorite
on account of its curious habit. When
1t becomes accustomed to its new sur
roundings. it will readily shoot a fly
or bit Of meat held between the fing.
ers.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-02-07
THE REAL YELLOW PERIL.
The Result Predicted in these Columns thu
Past Quarter Century Seems Iminent.

Oreg0nlan.
The following extract from Judge
Harlan's recent address to the Navy
League has attracted good deal OF
attention In the East:
I'VE refer to the people of Asia as
the yellow race. There are 100000
600 Chinese, as strong physically and
mentally as We are. There is over
there another nation whose people are
progressive and ambitious. We may
some day see a skilled army in Japan
Of 100000 to 1O.OOO.O0O. They say:
You claim Europe as your coun-
try. This is ours. Get out" don't
think they have any such idea now.
and We have no hostility toward them.
But there will be a conflict between
the yellow race and the white race
that will shake the earth"
History teaches us that Judge Har-
lan's prediction Is by no means
groundless. In past conflict between
the white and yellow races the former
has managed to save itself from de-
struction, but generally with extreme
difficulty. We know Of no territory
where whites have permanently dis
placed Asiatics, while on the other
hand there are large sections of Eu-
rope which the latter have colonized
after dispossessing Caucasian inhabi-
tants. But 1t is likely enough that
Judge Harlan OverlOoks a danger to
white supremacy in the world which
is far more serious than the possibil-
ity of military conquest. Mr.. NJ. J.
Dee has pointed out this danger In the
Pacific Era.
He shows that In a peaceful strug.
gle for existence between Cinnamon
and whites the former will necessarily
survive because they can flourish In
conditions where the others would
perish. They relish food which the
white man loathes. They keep their
health in filthy lodgings. where the
white man would rot. They have no
longing for expensive pleasures which
the white man cannot live without.
Briefly put. the Chinaman can live at
less cost than the white man: there.
fore In free competition he will sur.
vive.
This cannot be denied. 1t follows
therefore, that IL the white man thinks
his civilization worth preserving he
must manage to prevent an economic
struggle for existence between himself
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drink out'n my end, and pays ME the
bit for it, then I'd take un Out'n hern.
and give her the bit Well. we's get
ting along fust rate, till Dick, durn
skulking skunk, he bourn a hole on
the bottom to suck at, and the next
time | went to buy drink thar wurnt
none thar.
Tim sorry your whisky's all
gone. but my friend, why don't you
play the balance of that tune?
Sits got no balance to it.
Tt mean you don't play the whole
Of it,
S.-Stranger, can you play the fidul ?
T.-Yes, little, sometimes.
T.-You don't look like fiddler, but
if you think you can play any more
onto that there thune, you can jist git
down and try.
(The traveller gets down and plays
the whole of it,
S.-Stranger. take half dozen
cheers and sot down. Sal, stir your
self round like a six horse team in a
mud hole. Go round in the holler
whar | killed that buck this mornin',
cut off some of the best pieces and
fotch it and cook 1t for me and this
gentleman directly. Raise up the board
under the head of the bed, and git the
old black jug | hid from Dick and
give us some whisky; l know thar's
some left yit. Til drive Ole Bose out'n
the bread tray. then climb up in the
loft and git the rag that's got the
sugar tied in it. Dick. carry the gen
tleman's hOss round under the shed.
give him som fodder and corn; much
as he can eat.
Til.-Dad. thar amt knives enough
for to sot the table.
S.-Whar's big butch, little butch.
ole case. cOb-handle. granny's knife.
and the one l handled yesterday?
That's enough to sot any gentleman's
table. without you've lost um. Durn
me. stranger. eff you can't stay as long
as you please, and I'll give you plenty
to eat and drink. Will you have coffee
for supper?
T.-Yes, sir.
S.-I'll be hanged if you do. tho, we
don't have nothin' that way here, but
Grub HysOn, and l reckon it's mighty
good with sweetin' Play away, stran-
ger. you kin sleep on the dry spot, to-
night
T. (After about two hours fiddlin y
My friend. can't you tell me about the
road I'm to travel tomorrow?
S.-TomOrrow! Stranger, you won't
get out'n these diggins for six weeks.
But when it gifts so you can start. you
see that big sloo over thar? Well, you
have to git crOst that, then you take
the road up the bank. and in about
a mile you'll come to a two acre and a
half corn patch. The cOrn's mityly in
the weeds. but you needn't mind that;
jist ride on. About mile and a half
or two miles from thar you'll come to
the damdest swamp you ever struck in
all your travels; it's boggy enuff to
mire n saddle blanket Thar's a fust
rate road about six feet under thar.
T.-How am to get at it?
S.-YOu can't get at it nary time,
till the weather stiffens down sum.
FOUR-STANDARD-1-31
Well. about a mile beyant you come
to place whar thars no roads. You
kin take the right hand ef you want
to: you'll foller 1t a mile or SO, and
then you'll find it's run out; you'll then
have to come back and try the left;
when you git about two miles on that
you may know you're wrong. fur they
amt any road thar. You'll then think
you're mighty lucky If you can find
the way back to my house. whar you
kin cum an play on that thune as long
as you please.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-02-07
Women the Best Fibbers.

An oath does mean something to a
woman, but she Is more clever than
the man when placed on the stand and
can usually get around things In a
better way.
A woman will lie and fib IL 1t is
necessary. but back of it all there is
more tact used than she Is generally
given credit for. Any woman who
goes on the stand to testify should
know perfectly well what she is going
to say and do. The lawyers are mighty
clever, but in the majority of the cases
they are outwitted by the woman.
would not believe a man in the
world. They tell little falsities. but
usually entrap themselves. There can
be no great division, however. between
the man and woman when it comes to
perjury, as the man will tell lie just
as readily as a woman. and Uice uersd
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-02-07
The Partinf.

Little girl, l am going away"
"SO?"
1t may be for years and it NAV
be forever"
But the chances are it will only
be until after Christmas. Well, SO
long ;Algy. Don't overeat during
he HOLIDAYS.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-02-07
A Sure Cure,

I'm love with that penniless young
scamp, are your said old ROxley.
Well, l propose to cure you of
that" "
You can't" retorted the wilful
young girl: I'm determined to
marry him.
That's it exactly. 1 propose to
let you do it."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-02-07
CANDY

In short such variety as is to be fonnd
in well-regulated Drug and Stationery
store. all offered at lowest prices. con-
sistent with quality, with prompt and
efficient service assured to all patrons.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-02-07

EVERY year France imports about
40 tons of human hair, and the
greater part of it comes from China.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-02-07

GERMANY ships 20, 600, 900 feathers
to England in the course of a wear
for millinery purposes.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-02-07
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For Yourself ?

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