Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-25
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Now let Boni and De Sagan set
their guns and make a Kilkenny cats
finish of it.
Velvet Bread is advertised in
Seattle papers. Two to one the
price is silk.
Baltimore thieves have robbed the
pOor-house. Plain thieves, not polit-
ical grafters.
The new tariff bill will not neces-
Sarily be unpleasant because it bears
the name of Payne
If Pat Grove is as good at evange-
lizlng as he was at some other things
his future is assured.
Mrs. Gait, who calls the President
a treetoad, should rememb cr what
happened to DR.. Long.
Many of us will never really enjoy
breakfast until the hens begin lay,
ing again in the spring.
Carrie Nation has gone to Scotland.
An Olympia saloon keeper said he
was sorry it wasn't h.
The South is solidly opposed to
''cobless corn Some provision
must be made for iug-stoppers.
1t is not conceivable tn at future
historians will be able to prove that
Mr. Bryan did not run at lie asst once.
A composite photograph of the
Ananias club ought to show a
mighty distinguished looking person
age.
The Milton tercentennial is good
thing. 1t has stimulated popular
curiosity rs to why it ought to be
celebrated.
A church in North Yakima has
three men to every woman. 1t isn't
a Mormon church, that's sure. The
name please?
Seattle police are adopts in ar
resting suspects" but fail miser-
ably in arresting robbers, thieves
and murderers.
Kissing will remove freckles."
But what some of the girls want
to know is how to keep well freckled
all the year round.
1t seems Mr.. Archibold' memory
isn't strong enough to be taken all
over with him. Especially stuffy
cOurtrOOmS and such places.
Judge Parker says the Democratic
party needs new policies. Such a
necessity seems not to have occurred
to him in 1894, when he was running.
Mr.. Carnegie of course got his UNI
der protective tariff and naturally
he does not want every one to get as
rich as he is-but there is no danger.
Hawaiian here to attract tourists"
reads a P-L headline. Most likely
the Hawaiian is in Seattle intending
to 60 to work as q musician in some
cafe.
The inevitable reversion to ones
proper place that comes with age is
drawing Battling" Nelson toward
the windiammers club. He wants
to be an alderman.
Those who are claiming that the
prohibition wave is permanent ignore
observation as to wave motion, and
also display ignorance of the law of
action and reaction.
According to the Americaa of Bel
bingham, a fraud that has all other
buncO games beat to FRAGILE, is the
voting contest which the Herald of
that city is conducting.
Ole Hanson's bill to prohibit bet
ting on races is meeting with sue
cess amongst members of the next
legislature. 1t is a good one and
will surely become law.
THE cOmmonest ground for divorce
throughout the country is desertion.
But perhaps desertion covers null
titude of sins. "-Er Yes, or cruel
and inhuman treatment.
The Presidents declaration in his
message that the present system of
promotion in the army does not work
well, should be of interest to both
Gen. Wood and Gen. Miles.
A Bellingham woman applied for
a divorce because her husband re-
fused her two-cent stamp. No
telling what this woman would have
wanted from her husband had he re-
fused her an envelope.
A Seattle man gave children under
II, quarter each, SO on Christmas
with which to buy candy. Seattle
merchants who deal in chewing gum
should call an Observation-Disclosures
ination in business, don't you know.
A man who will drive an overloaded
team up hill without giving the
horses a blow is not fit to handle
horses and when caught doing this,
should be arrested. Even dumb
beasts have feelings, and are en-
titled to kind treatment.
A Tacoma man on his deathbed
married his nurse. Certainly, just
like man. After making her work
difficult by sickness, he still insists
that she be burdened with his name
after his demise. Some men never
had any sense of prOpriety anyway.
Announcement that taxidermistS,
naturalists and scientists are to &C
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