Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-07-02
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DRIFTXNOOD
BY LUE r. VERNON. (


other people way. but not SO much
as other people are in their way.
To physician humanity is divid-
ed into two classes-the poor whom
he cures, and the rich whom he doc
tors.
Startish: Did you go to church
Yesterdays
Klam: No; but | did the same
thing. took nap"
With strikes over all the country,
price of food advancing day by day,
thousands of men out of employment;
prosperity is certainly in our land
the prosperity of poverty, starvation
and death, amongst the masses.
4 Washington, ID. c., editor calls Sc
attle "a type Seattle, however, pre-
fers TO regard herself as a daisv.-L0S
I"gcits Tumcs.
Wrong, Mr. Times. Seattle re-
CARDS herself as the whole flower
garden.
A street hawker of music, who
was charged in New York with OBJ
structng the street, told the Judge
that if the law of our country pro-
hibitcd men from earning their liv-
ing in the streets in that way, it was
nearly time the authorities provided
a dea,h-chamber, where such men
could go and get a voluntary
death. He was fined 50 80
Two Olympia women stood in a
convenient doorway for shelter dur
ing a rain-shower, and while the
last drops were falling a beautiful
rainbow formed across the sky"
How grand beautiful eX-
claimed one of the women, in rapt
admiration
Isn't it?' responded her com
panion warmly. 1T looks exactly
like that piece of variegated ribbon
bought at Mottman 5 yesterday. "
That there is sweet philosophy in the
words of Julia Ward Howe. uttered on
her ninetieth birthday: THE deeper !
drink OF the cup of life, the sweeter it
grows-the sugar is all on the bottom"
Payaliup Valley Tribune.
There Is sorrow and disappoint-
ment to most individuals in this
world in the "cup of life;" for the
deeper they drink of it. SO to speak,
the more loathing and obnoxious it
becomes to the taste-for at the bot
tom, alas. in too many is caked the
bitter dregs of memory and regret.
Old Carnegie could well afford to
feed thousands of penniless people
who are starving in the cities, who
do not have time in this life to
patronize libraries, on accoInt of
having to labor when they can, in
order to keep the wolf from the
door. Bread and butter and meat
are to these people what books are
to the well-fed and groomed who go
to Carnegie library regularly to
procure books. instead of buying the
same, from their wcll-tilled purse.
1t pays to read the Bible. You
bet your boots, in the case of Steve
Marsh, of Fairfield, N. j., anyhow.
Steve was going on trip to Denver,
Col, to join his son, and while pack
ing his pie-box" was undecided
whether or not to take the Good
Book" While studying the matter,
Steve, the old devil, opened the
book and discovered S4,S6730 in
currency 1t pays to read the Bible,
| repeat-if you make such a dis
covery as Steve. Lucky dog! you
old boy Steve!
Samuel Gompers, President of the
American Federation of Labor. has
gone to Europe. He says he will
remain abroad until September For
the welfare and contentment of the
vast number of wage-earnerS, it is to
be sincerely hoped he will see fit to
remain abroad in some foreign To-
cality the rest of his days ON earth.
He is only promoter OF trouble and
confusion to those who must labor
in order to live. Notice particularly:
He goes aLroad, while his misguided
disciples go to work.
Thirty wears ago, John Jacob Astor
gave plot of ground and 1857 900 to
New York City for free public library.
Is this the incident that furnished
Carnegie with the inspiration Los
.ingeies Times.
Don't know If this was the incl
dent that furnished Carnegie his
inspiration, or not, but we do know
that the $350,000 represents much
hide and tallow, accumulated by
original John Jacob Astor, of the
Hudson Bay Company, while con-
ducting a hide store, located where
now stands Astoria, Oregon, from
, whom it was named. The Astors OF
this day and date, in New York, arr
: not giving anything away, except
, one of them, who gives King Edward
D the creeps, and of whom the King
D said He borcS me.
; LIVES are to be measured by theil
outgoings nor by thier income.
q THE English army now has A.
total abstainers.