Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-02-05


lish language to express deep shades
Of feeling. than OR Mr. Carker. the
man Of teeth. " in the White House
It has been done. however, by iudi-
rc-tion creating the necessity for
such words Of force ami viTnr which
it is very generally thought j. almost
exclusively confined to the short pro
funrVucabu,arY. Probably. however.
it has only served to bring into use.
or rive new significance To. unfamil
lar OF Scldom-u>rd words. as applied
10 the any->idcd nature OF the Pres
idrnt, than the creation Of new words
or original forms of expression.
Take. for instance. Gargnylc.
1t is more Il suggestion Of the inilu-
cncc of acute passion upon expires
sion Of the face. which has been calico
the index Of the soul. than Il di-
rect caricaturc on the subject. though
that too may have been aided by an
inclination to distort into hideou>ly
fantastic embellishments to archltcc
turc. whose only service was TO pro
jet water from the roofs clear of the
walls. 1t is doubtless the grOteSquc
carving on these devices. rather than
the service they performed that led
Congressman Willctt to adopt it as Il
Il Similc of our President. Perish
the thought that any reference to a
Squirt might have fitted through the
doughty Congressman : brains 1t il
too much lacking in the qualities man
ifcsted in all their profuSion by the
athlete clown preacher. Billy Sunday.
Other cpithcts found in the Con-
gresham vocabulary are simpler
and easily understood but each ellie
its more thorough analysis of Roos-
evclt : character Some of them are,
Imitation King" Tyrant. = " Bo-
gus Hero. "Quarrelcr. Polly
glot, Pigmy Scion and Foun-
tain of Bilingsgatc. All these only
need the connection in which they
are used to become live Sentient fig
IRE of speech. Hay Teddcr" may,
however, need a little explanation,
to show just how it fits in the mosaic
of invectivc. The Mt.,uofi""ui En-
cyciop"Jic Dic'i"ncry is our authority
for meaning of the term, which is,
\ machine for spreading and stir
ring new-mown hay. to expedite its
being dried by the sun and air II
any living man has done more in this
line of stirring and scattering the
swath into which it had been thrown
by the party machine by his ever ac-
tive pitch-fork, his name is still I'M
recorded in the annals Of Fame.
Here is the significance Mr.. Willett
places on the Hay Teddcr:
at must be confessed, Chief Magis-
trate who has himself no sense of humor,
moving like horse tedder over the hay
field OF American activities; stirring up
every drying blade OF once green grass,
to let it fall ,irier than before; unarreling
one day with the Practical politicians,
then will, the -von,hair-in-th, mid
tie ref"riurr then with the >"'iall-l>
then with the Great industrial rur,,nra-
tons; wrestling in agony of spirit with
Noah Webster and our glorous English
tongue; taking fall out of nature
takers; eXhOrting our women to avoid
race suicide, cannot but be an unmixed
nuisance"
u. ). FORESTRY SERvICE.-GiffOrd
Pinchot, Forester, has lately made a
report to the Board of Directors of
the service for the fiscal year ending
1908. He reports 1872 national forest
reserves in Il States and Territories
and Alaska; that the government
has spent S2,526.09S, or about II
cents an acre on them the past year.
Permanent improvements. including
the construction of ,, 400 miles of
trails, 100 miles of wagon roads, B.
200 miles of telephone lines, $50
cabins and barns, 600 miles of pas
ture and drift fences. $50 bridges,
and 40 miles of fire lines cost 1892
1863. 10. Telephone wire to build APP
prOXimately 400 miles of additional
lines was shipped to the Forester.
but with the funds available before
the close of the year the work of con.
structiOn could not be completed.
Some of this work was done on each
of the forests in the United States.
Although many needed improve
ments could not be undertaken, the
benefits of what has been accomp-
liShed are seen in the more cOnven-
lent and economical manner in which
the forest officers are enabled to
carry on their work and in the Open
ing up of territory hitherto inaccessi.
bic. The remaining 1907 $40. 40 of
the total of So, 4l6, lO7. Is, disbursed
on account of work of the Forest
Service, was used in forest investi-
cations, costing $235. $50. IA, and in
diffusion of forest information and
Federal cooperation.
THE EARTH STILL SHAKING.-And
now still other earthquake horrors
come from over the sea-this time
from Africa - but so far, in such
meager detail as to leave hope of a
minimum loss of life. 1t is reported
to have happened on the Doth nit