Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-06-25
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| In Colfax IA preacher named Buss,
! With flock, got into "A muSS,
His wife flourished gun.
Made - Dove of Peace" run,
Thus creating the usual church fuss.
Roosevelt says, in the OatiooE,
wherever Count TolStOi's s influence
has been felt it has been for evil
There are many people in the United
States to-day, who think the same
as regards Teddy
About the only thing the drivers
OF nearly l50 livery firms in Chicago.
who went out on strike, will get by
SO doing, is an empty stomach, and
be compelled, most likely. by hunger.
to work at something else for less
money. Strikers of any sort, as a
rule, never win.
Klam If you can find it in the
Island Go"nty T;mcS. it will be re-
garded as the ninth wonder of the
world.
Starfsh Find what"
Klam: An editorial showing any
intellectual knowledge. thought. or
even familiarity with subject which
it assumes to discuss"
The Copper Queen Company, of
BiSbte. Ariz., have 1000 working
men on its payroll, and while per-
mitting no interference of uniOnism
in the mines, still makes no discrim-
inatlon between the employment of
union and non-uniOn laborers. which
is as should be-gOod for the man
who IS willing to work.
Klam; Can it be possible, in
what some people term the beauti-
ful land above there are no women?"
Mrs. klam: Really, | have never
given the matter a thought Why
do you ask?'
klam: Il just read in the Bible
There was silence in Heaven for
the space of half an hour
| Poet: | can make no mistake
in saying her cheeks are like the
rose"
Friend: But you have never
met her -
Poet: That matters not. If she
is rosy, there are red roses; if she is
pale there are white roses, and if she
is Sallow there are yellow roses.
Gee! What q difference since AL
bert Johnson became editor of the
Grays Harbor Washingtoniau. 1t is
a newspaper now, and will continue
in progress and enterprise under
Johnson management Wonder if
" Sammy Perkins hash t missed
Johnson many, many times. since he
UOhnSOn) severed connections with
the Tacoma News. Johnson made
the News. and no one knows it Oct
ter than Sammy"
"Oliver Morosco and Harry Girard
are writing rural musical comedy.
They expect to finish the piece some
time this summer. Los ingeies Times.
If the musical comedy being com
posed by Morosco and Girard makes
no better hit on the opening than
did " The Aiaskun," written by Jo-
seph Blethen and Harry Girard, it is
shame to soil so much paper
Wonder if Girard intends to give it
its first presentation in Salt Lake
City Hey?
Gee. Seattle's police department
must hustle, if it would keep
up with that of Los Angeles.
The finest" in the City of Angels"
will wear taSselS on their helmets
Just why it was not orange sprigs'
is a puzzle. rs Los Angeles believes
in advertising itself to the world
yesterday, to-day and forever "
It's up to SeattleS blue-coatS to
wear small totem poles and the
Olympia police a bottle of Olympia
&" 1t S the Water" on their helmets
as advertisements for Seattle and
the Capital City.
american schoolboys are 'sissies' and
ought to be spanked. II boy is bad
him good. Beat him. This is the opin-
sity of Wisconsin, offered at dinner
given by the Illinois Congress of
Mothers"
Just what crowd of American
schoolboys, knowing the Doctor
made this declaration, that they are
"sissies. would do to him, if they
had him at their swimming hole, |
am not prepared to say; but may
guess.
Milton Boyce. organist of church
in Cincinnati is in Jail charged with
forgery. The money he secured by
playing organ in church was lost in
gambling. My. my If there had
been no church, and no organ, Boyce
could not have earned the money
playing, which caused his downtdU.
The reformers (moraD in Cincinnati,
should insist that all churches be
closed. Because. don't you see, by
the reformerS' idea that all saloons
should be closed, thus prohibiting
people from being robbed, why
shouldn't t they close a church, if it is
a breeding place for criminals and a
forger is a criminal.
The Librarian of Los Angeles, Cal !.
has decided that the city library
needs an intellectual pure-food law.
{ that. if it is important for the public
to know when they are drinking
. acids that would eat wire nails when
, they think they are drinking
. strawberry flavor 1t is also
important they should know they are
only reading pipe dreams and ro-
mances when they think they are
, reading history. To this end, poi
, son labels" will be pasted in the Ii
brary books is. in the refer
ence books" Laura Jean Libby and
. Mary McLain will not be molested.
. Whoopla ! Fine Great!
A mad attack by an enraged bull