Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-10-23
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Patent medicine men are always
on the lookout for some novel idea
which will impress the medicine
taking crank with the virtue of their
preparations. One of these fellows
advertiScs that his digestion alder is
a sure preventative Of appendicitis.
As not one person in ten thousand
probably ever had or ever will have
this dreaded malady it will be hard
To prove that this doctors pre-
ventativc is not success; but what :
the difference, if it sells?
The telephone is the most potent
factor for counting and scandal that
was ever invented. If the stuff that
passes between men and women, in
one day, over the phones in Seattle
We're To be published. it would raise
the roof of many IA house \ num-
Der of phones are put in for the cX-
press purpose of carrying on liaiSonS
and intriGucS. \ certain grocery
man on Pike street forbid Young
fellow the use of the phone. He was
in the habit of calling there and
making a date with Il married wo-
man.
Many folk think that the convcn-
tlOnal arrangement of the hands on
the dial Of a jewelers. sign watch Cat
! Al, L
at which President Lincoln was shot.
y pretty tradition; but Lincoln was
not shot at sis. People past sixty
will tell you they have seen the hands
SO arranged before Lincoln died. As
a mere matter of drawing, the ideal
arrangement. for balance and sym
metry. would be to place the hands
at 5 and I; then to avoid placing the
minutc-hand over the Hi, it was
moved up Il little, landing as il hap
pcned at Sis
\ friend of mine. Il country school
teacher, in Territorial days, lived
near Olympia, and had small band
of sheep. Among them was a fine
ram of which he was particularly
proud and had named WaShin.
ton. From his fighting propcnsi-
ties, the ram was IN object of great
interest to the boys of the neighbor-
hood, but to general regret he was
one morning found dead in the cor
ncr of a field.
Not long afterwards my friend hap
pcncd to bc talking on Amcrit an his
tory to his pupils, and dwclt at some
length on the scenes of l776. After
some details he put the question a.
to the death of Washington. The
class was mute till one little tow
headed fellow volunteered the infor-
nation that Washington chokrd
hiSsclf on turnip and died thrc,
weeks ago
Though sncaking and stab in the
back enemies may laugh and snrcl
in dcrision and cXclaim from the
houSe-top: 90, he's Il back mum
Der Il haS-bcen, in the political
game of this State. and so on. il is
my humble, individual opinion tina,
they are not Squandcrng Il particl,
OF time in Watching Tacoma Grow,
or even thinking of the old-timc slo
gan: Keep Your Eye ON PaSco,
but are strcnuOusly laboring over
time, dcvoting the best part OF THEN
working hours, making noise, SO tt
speak, like they are keeping Il thor
Ough, constant and unceasinr viyi
upon the movements and declara
tons of that brilliant scholar anC
statesman, namely-cx- United State.
Senator John l.. Wilson, of the Stat.
of Washington.
t While talking with a member o.
, the magnificent musical attraction
e The GOndlier Band, which recent
: ly played date at the Orpheun
r theater in Seattle, he impaired ;
/, story which am sure will Interest
D all lovers of the violin. The Gondliel
l band is composed wholly of Italian
' musicians. According to this music
: ian, Genoa, Italy, has u treasur,
= which any city in the world NIGH
I envy-thc violin of Paganini, left b,
3 him to his native city, and kept in
b. crystal case with the utmost care
, For years after the great composer.
death, it was the custom annually I,
give Il concert, at which Maestr,
LivOri, pupil of the composer
: played on the sacred instrument. bu
he, in turn, went to his last sleep
and the violin took long rest, be
ing only occasionally used. Recent
+, Y, no viewer, the violinist. Huber
mann, arrived in Genoa, and to d,
him honor and ut the same time I.
> give pleasure TO the musiclovers O
the city, he was invited to play OF
the famous Guarnerius. The con
!. cert was a marked success, Huber
> mann rendering Paganini's 'Strcga'
I, so marvelously that he seemed +
, the imaginative. reincarnatiOn @
, the composer. The young maestr
thanked the authorities most heart
lily for the honor done him, declarin,
:, it was one of the greatest events G
/. his life.
q Bryan and the Democratic part
, stand for the guaranty of bank dc
t posits. They ask why the man VIII