Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-02-28
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or some people.
All lawyers are liars, but all liars
are not lawyers.
Three 1O-cent shows for Olympia is
a sure sign some fools and their money
are soon to part.
Thaw has been acquitted on the plea
of insanity He is now in position to
kill, in dirty cowardly. cur-like
manner, some other man.
Lord is the name of an Olympia
banker Perhaps there are men in
town who call him Devil. One can't
always tell about such things. you
know.
A woman sold piano she did not
own to a man in Seattle. She was ar
rested. and crying bitterly was re-
leased on suspended Judgment. She
is probably hunting another victim
now. Justice?
! The people of Georgetown must be
''tickled to death" so to speak, at the
editorial in the Sunday Times. issue
Feb 2, headed 'All Is Fair In Politics" ="
The editorial is vulgar, indecent, and a
slur on the good citizens of George
town
| IL you want to keep peace In your
| family, old man, don't go down town
nights lust to see friend" Stay
home and play with the children; read
the STANDARD. get acquainted with your
wife and you'll come pretty near fill
ing the bill.
Several days have passed. since
Thaw was acquitted Of the murder Of
| Stanford White, and no dispatch has
flashed over the wire saying Evelyn
Nesbitt Thaw has been seen drinking
wine and having a high old time in
the red light district of Gootham.
They say that a man who never
drinks or smokes nor stays up late at
night always lives to a great age
Inat MS punishment.
Some women sew all day for the
heather. while their poor husbands
have to use nails on their pants for
the want of button. Ugh!
When a public Office holder has held
down a position a few years, he. as a
rule. believes that the people are the
| servant, not him. and imagining So
treats the patrons of his Office accord
| ingly. Turn the rascals out" should
be the slogan. and kept up until 1t is
accomplished.
From the description of the vermin
infested city Jail Of Seattle papers
infested city Jail Of Seattle, as related
by Seattle papers. man who would
set fire to the disease breeding old
shack Ough to be given gold. damon
studded medal, by popular subscrip-
tion for destroying such rattletrap,
death dealing building.
A correspondent, writing to Mr.. John
Miller Murphy. editor of the WASHING
TON STANDARD. from Gate City, says:
Il have two sons in the poetry busi-
ness. They can write 1t by the yard,
or foot-just as needed. l don't know
how you measure it. but what would
you give for five or six yards? My
boys are hard working fellows, and
they need the money"
At the recruiting office. in Seattle,
the other day. the officer in charge
advised stoney-broke man to enlist
In the army. In reply the man ex-
cused himself as follows:
| Some years ago, at Walla Walla, l
made application to enlist. l got along
fine and dandy" until l stood before
the doctor for examination-then
was rejected. He said, my mouth was
too large to march before the wind"
| A Mrs. Horton Phelps, in Seattle, is
heading a movement to change the
name of Pike street, in the Queen City
to Duwamish avenue. 1t should be ac-
complished. Seattle should erect a
handsome monument in Pioneer place
to the memory Of Aunt Angeline, who
saved its founders from LOSING their
scalps, and whom the great humorist
"Bill" Nye christened Princess Ange-
line" Do it now.
Editor Montgomery of the Puyallup
Valley Tribune has published a work
entitled Robert Burns, the Board Of
Love and Liberty" / have not read
1t. but II it in any way gushes over
with sweet words of love and adora.
tion, for Burns. as did Montgomery
two-column wide editorial effusion on
the event of the stork leaving a baby
boy at his house. which recently ap-
peared in the Tribune, all friends of
the great Scotch bard should be satis-
fled.
l don't make show of my kind Of
Christianity. like some who squat In
church. and imagine their harp and
crown have already been selected. the
path to heaven strewn with beautiful
flowers for them to tread upon, etc.
My creed is to keep a clean trail, feed
ieliowman who may be stone-broke
and hungry. If I. myself, have the
price, and to assist those who may be
In trouble. il they will allow me.
My scripture is the valleys and
mountains, the rivers and trees. These
are good things for me. and I'll risk
the future life on what they teach me.