Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-05-28

must have been absent.
Jim Hill says business is going tt
be good This means that Jim
will hire more Japs, guess.
A Chicago girl waltzed herself tt
death. Silly girl. She should hav,
taken the two-step route-it wOult
have been quicker.
Theosophists say we shall all live
again on this Earth. Well. if thi.
be true, Olympia for me. Its tn,
Water, you know.
Senator Rayner, of Maryland, say:
that the tariff makes all men liars
He might have addcd-in many
instances, milliOnaires too.
Taft to Hit High Places in tn,
North. is newspaper headline
He will. to be sure, if he visits Sc
attic during the exposition.
Tariff duty has been reduced OF
wire nails. A man can now use ont
OhOld up his trousers, without soak
ing his diamond or pawning hi.
piano, perhaps.
\ Yakima man wants divorce from
his wife because she smokes a pipe il
bed. HoOt mon. 1t might be worse
ior instance, she might use hel
tongue all night.
The Omaha auditorium was re
Gently lit by means of wireless cur.
rent. Great! Now if some one will
only invent wireless, bumpless, lump
less, stOneleSs mattresses, all will bt
serene.
Count Szechenyi is visiting the
United States. But society women
of New York, Newport and Long
Branch, will be much shocked to
learn the Count left his red pants
at home.
Austin Adams, the Socialist lead.
err, a former minister and a writer
for magazines, who for while re-
sided in Seattle, has left La Jolla,
Cal, on q 6OO-mile walking trip.
He says he will walk the entire dis
tance to San Francisco.
A company in Hanford, Cal, is
erecting a factory for the manufac-
ture Of pumpkin -four, a product OBJ
! tained by process of evaporation.
Gee! We will soon be in position to
have pumpkin pies any old time we
want EN-! Fine for the business.
The Roman Catholic Church at
Nome is surmounted by an immense
cross, blazing with electric light.
1t serves as lighthouse for miles
up and down the coast, and has
been the means of saving many lives
from shipwreck. 1t is also useful as
a beacon to miners coming to town
from the wilds.
The Chicago society women think
Mrs. Glyn just too mean for any.
thing" Well, if Mrs. Glyn's book
is not true. why does it create such
CONSERVATION amongst the women
leaders of society in the Windy City!
1t really seems that Mrs. Glyn go,
a good smell of Chicago society at
mosphere without living where the
stock-yards are in that city.
While Mrs. Helen Taylor, in Los
Angeles, was kneeling at the altar
rail taking communion at Christ
Episcopal church, recently, she was
robbed by man who kneeled beside
her. Gee! The authorities in the
City of Angeles" should close the
church Immediately. Places where
people are robbed should not be to
Grated for an instant. All ques
tiOnable places should be eliminated
you know.
Never permit yourself to make
any decision of Importance while yO,
are in state of depression. Never
commit the error of taking a seriou.
step while you are measuring life by
standards set up in the darkness o
an unhappy mood. Such standard.
are never true, never just. The esti
mates you make of yourself, of 9th
ers and of the world while you ar,
blinded by despOndency is a falls,
estimate always. The shapes yo,
see are distorted shapes. Your 7is
ion is at fault. The only time yO,
are capable of true judgment i
when your sight becomes clea
enough for you to really see tha
life is worth living and "all's righ
with the world.
:" am not going to losing m
temper said the captain of cOas
steamer to me the other day, Will
on a visit to Olympia, but | con
fess that when on one trip to Sa
Francisco, we found no fewer tha
eight men had managed to sto,
themselves away below. 1 felt il
clined to give them all a duckine
and said so. The stOwaway is pei
petual nuisance. Though the stric
est watch is kept to prevent his ge
ting on board, it is rare trip tina
is made without one or two spec
mems of the dead-head fraternity b.
ing carried, willy-nilly, free.
course, this is not done entirel
without connivance on the part (
? somebody on board the steame
The firemen are not infrequently I'll
guilty parties. With their or otl
ers' aid the stOwaway gets down int
the hold and finds a dark corner
which to secrete himself until I'll
ship is at sea. If then he is di
) covered and set to work, he does nj
mind. 1t is not the work he is afrai
of, but the being without work, an
the bread that accompanies i
When it is considered how man
dark places there are in the interiC
lOf q modern steamer, it is no. SUI