Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-05-15
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of Mead?
Though lost To sight to memory
dear will not be used in writing the
political history of GOV. Mead, after
next November. Hurrah.
Though he he single all his days.
To welded life averse,
! How often the photographer
A woman sees and taketll her
/ for better or for worse
The residents of Washington. DC.
having recently gazed upon Editor
/ in-chief. Col. Alden ]. Blethen, o.
the Seattle Times. need not. neces
Sarily. attend the Alaska Yukon-Pa
citic Exposition. Watts the use?
The P3St-H'rlIige"rcr will support
Gov. Mead for reelection. If the
/ P-I has no III ne success in this line
than it accomplished in its advocacy
of reformed spelling. its" skidoo
twenty three. back to the woods,
for Mead.
President Roosevelt is reported a>
going to Africa to hunt large game
in the near future. 1t $ a wonder he
didn go to the Senate the other day
in the hopes Of getting Il shot at
small game - two-legged skunkS -
who refused his request for four bat
| tle-Ships
The Puyallup Rcp"biicon, having
changed proprietors, will be issued
hereafter us a weekly. instead of a
twice-a- week publication. Now il
the P"yoii"p valley Tribune would
become Il monthly sheet. how serene
would be the journalistic field in
Puyallup
A Seattle man dropped quarter
off street car and cracked his skull
in chasing it. That's the Seattle
spirit" all right. They'll get the
money though it cracks a skull OF
makes job for the undertaken. It's
get the money, get the money, get
the money, with Satellites, "yester-
day, today, and forever"
Mayor Miller, of Seattle. has APP.
pointed j. f. Shrewsbury, a barber,
in the Queen City, a member of the
board of Park Commissioner. Won
der if Shrewsbury, will lather and
rub in, so to speak. his views of park
man agement on the other members
of the board. in such a manner tina,
they will consider his ideas wei
masSaged and shampoocd? Perhaps
| should have a bath myself after
scribbling this paragraph. Next.
1t discourages State officials t.
labor diligently and faithful in dis
charging their duties, which they
have taken oath to fulfill, in send
ing some criminal to the penitentiary
then to see all their work scatter &c
to the winds, 81 to speak, by the
issuing of pardons by Gov. Mead.
Mead wants to get in his work OF
pardons, for the people of his State
will elect another Governor this fall
Then it's back to Belingham fol
Mead, where he will have. plenty o.
time to watch the beautiful sunsets
Of Bellingham Bay,as boosted Sc
much of by Bellngham residents.
4 + 4
Lue Knows How 1t Is.
He said he was poet, SO he was
shown in the edi tOrial den where
John Miller Murphy. editor of the
WASHINGTON STANDARD, was laugh
ing heartily over a deep, learn ed ant
scholarly effusion prin ted in Oly as
an editorial. Ugh!
The poet began conversation by
saying: have written a poe IN or
the dog"
Whose dog?' demanded the edi
tor fiercely.
The Poet (faltering): 1T is no,
any particular dog"
Do you mean to say you took adj
vantage of the dog because it was
not particular, and wrote your poem
Oh it?' said the editor.
The poet: Il am afraid you dc
not understand me. | wrote the
poem regarding the dog"
But why were you regarding the
dog at all? What had it done that
you should regard it?" queried Mr.
Mr.. Murphy.
The poet: If you will allow me
to explain, | had been inspired by
the dogs fidelity"
If the dog was faithful, why
should you seek to hurt its feelings
by writing poem on it? And how
did you manage to write a poem OF
it," continued Mr.. M, lat any
rate?' Did you have the poor brute
shaved, and tattoo the verses on its
back, or did you brand them on
Perhaps you"
But the poet had fled.