Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-07-16
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The News- EraDincr. of Centralia,
sings in major key, in praise of its
Pretty WaShington-Lawn Gene
terry" and would YOU believe, that
paper does not ask single reader to
try lot in Washington-I.awn
Cemetery. and you'll use no other" :;
nor suggest the purchase of silk
lined casket" from "Ceffin. Hearse
& Flowers" Modest NewsEramin1
Here's bunch of violets for YOU.
Every man, woman and child in
this State is fully aware if Senator
Piles (Of whom an eastern newspaper
declared was the handsomest
dressed man in the Senate') had not
thanked President Taft for opening
the A.-4.-P. exposition, it would
have been a dismal failure But as
Piles did the thank stunt, the people
of the Evergreen State may now
sleep soundly at night, knowing that
Piles will be on guard, as it were.
One, truly, must 90 away from
home, so to speak. in order to learn
the news. \ San Diego, Cal, paper
in an editorial headed, The Port
land Election. among other things,
says: Then, too. the city's fin
auccS are not in the most Sltisfac-
tory condition. Its debt during re-
cent years has been piling up in a
manner to cause concern. Is this
true of the Rose City? My, my; how
this will tickle Seattle! if the declar-
alton of the San Diego paper be cor
rect.
If the world ever had a hero-then
Father Clemont, who recently died in
the Hawaii Islands, where he had de-
voted his life to the lepers in the Mo-
lokai colony-waS one. He needs no
granite pillar, no broken column, no
marble monument, none of these Or
naments of show, only placed at
graves for the eyes of idle paSSerS-bye
to view and comment on. No; none
of such does the good. kind and life
sacrificing Father Clement need. If
there be hereafter; heaven; then
Father Clement will receive the great
reward he SO grandlv deserves. The
world grieveS when such grand men
rs Father Clement dies.
The cold storage warehouse is no
longer regarded as merely a recep-
tacle for meats and provisions. 1t is
now formidable rival of the camphor
ball. tobacco and tar paper, a state
of affairs that causes the destructive
moth to gnash his teeth with rage.
Nearly all the warehouses now have
cold storage adjuncts where people
may place their winter clothing and
other articles of a perishable nature
out of harms way. There is no
longer any reason why the harassed
housewife should bother her head
about doing up winter things in
packages and placing them away in
cedar chests filled with camphor.
only to find in the autumn that the
moths have first fattened themselves
on camphor and then eaten the furs
and other articles of winter attire for
dessert
Robin CruSoe did some remarkable
feats, to be sure. Though is may
seem astonishing to you to learn, it
is a fact just the same. that even ex-
perienced writer's sometimes make
their characters do astounding things
Crusoe had some great escapades, as
you will admit, and did some great
stunts, but the most stupendous,
bewildering, gigantic, magnificent,
wonderful, amazing and mystifying,
in all its Oriental splendor' so to
speak. was the feat accomplished by
old boy Rob when he abandoned the
wreck and swan ashore. after re-
moving all his clothes, by some
str ange magic, of which the secret
has been lost. the author makes him,
while in this condition Of Nature,
| fill his pockets with biscuits. AS to
how Crusoe did this perhaps, if you
write to the Answer to Correspond
ents' editor of the .Npokesmaa- Rerieic,
he will, no doubt, give you all the
! information.
The Me- Perce County Standard, of
Lewiston, Idaho. in its issue of May
% has an editorial giving the oyster,
as a breeder of disease, " Hail Co
lumbia, so to speak. The article
claims the juicy bivalve menace to
health; carrier of fever; that bO-
racic acid has been used to keep
dead oysters from decomposing' in
fact, what the editor of the Standard
doesn't think the oyster capable OF
doing in harmful way, he fails to
mention. Let rs think. really be-
lieve, had Maurice O. Fitzmaurice,
editor of the NJ: Prce CoaHty .Ntaad-
ard been allowed the privilege of de
Gliding whether he would stand trial
at Pomeroy, Wash, or swallowing
an Olympia oyster cocktail, he would
have chosen the cocktail. swallowing
the oysters, acid and all at one gulp,