Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-07-09
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compo~itor that : half powder. and
tramp printer that ; half shot. a
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: Here is an advertisement which ap
/ poarcd in show-window of IA Seattl
cigar store.
This magnificent stock of cigars va
made specially for the A.-I.-P. Fair
which We have purchased.
Olympia is ali right outside and in
side, whichever way YOU take her
1t is the place in which to stay. i
You are already here. and the place
to come to if you are laboring under
the disadvantage OF residing any
where else
1t ; absurd to imagine for mo
| mcnt that any of our noted men il
the spotlight OF publicity wish t,
muzzle the press. Not a DIT of it
The newspapers are at liberty to say
all the hattering things about thes,
men they choose.
To escape the tariff, which double,
the cost of their goods. the famOu,
tailorS of London, the famous lens
makers Of Germany, the famous auto
mobile-buildcrs of France and 50 OF
lndctinitel have taken to opening
factories in this country, and nov
sell their goods at a reasonable rate
Rev. Anna Shaw declares she i.
ready to be hanged or burned at tn,
stake as a sacrifice for woman's suf
frage. Anna, Notwithstanding hel
/ willingness to become martyr, ha.
a long time to live yet, befor,
hanged, burned at the stake, in Op
position to her cause. She hasn'1
played the vaudeville circuit yet
you know.
In y History of England. by
Charles NJ. Andrews, professor OF
history in Bryn Mawr College (the
Allyn and Bacon series of school
histories, published in Boston, Mass.
is map of the United States, Ia
coma being the only city in Wash
ington State, named. Here, by
gosh, is were Seattle must admit the
City of Destiny has it beat to a
frazzle, in the advertising line, not
withstanding the Seattle spirit"
An old saw declares there is more
than one way in which to kill cat,
and it seems there is more than one
way to make people believe that
when rivers go dry that it is a
genuine blessing to a city or coun-
try. Here is an argument tending
to show the goodness and benefit
that insues from rivers going dry" "
1t is from the Los Angeles Times:
The tourist who laughs at the dry
rivers Of California does so for the rea-
son that he doesn't know any better.
He is not il-informed, but non-in-
formed. Most of these rivers, like the
Santa Ana, 20 dry at certain seasons of
the year. and in spots merely to con-
serve their waters. They are not i'm
provident streams. tumbling themselves
INTO the ocean uselessly. They bury
their waters, conserving them and hold
them to await the needs OF the fields and
orchards"
They are not improvident streams
tumbling themselves into the ocean
uselessly." Gee. Isn't this great
reading?
Soldiers of the Young Turks are
proving Judas fiends, red-handed
and cOldblOoded murderers - inhu-
man vultures in shape and form of
man. According to recent cable
news, Turkish troops were sent from
Constantinople to protect the poor
farmers in the Adena district, while
they gathered their fast-ripening
crops, failure to do this. meaning
famine and starvation to the poverty
stricken wretcheS. The officers of
the troops swarmed about the town
and eat up the best there was to be
had and instead of protecting the
farmers as they should, who dared to
venture out to gether their crops,
they proved traitors and assassins,
and shot down and stabbed to death
these poor, terrified tillers of the
soil, if you please, as soon as they
attempted to save the fruits of their
labor which would succor them from
actual want. The Unspeakable
Turk, " The Terrible Turk" as
names for these Turkish soldiers. re-
main this day as true ones for these
measly skunks OF humanity, as the
first time the words were written.
The words are still proper and cor
rect terms with which to refer to the
Turkish soldier, and fits him like
the paper on the wall, " so to speak.
This high-handed fiend of humanity
Shuffles, cuts and distributes the
cards of despair, misery and torture
to his fellow man as if dealing 4 hand
of " bridge whist or high five" in
Mob Hill residence. There is this,
and only this about it. Some nation
will rnf hnrn To Kill ,,icl- md 81