Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-29

60 to work-tighting the fire An
officer has the right to show his
badge or give some evidence that he
has authority to command man.
A good many 10-cent officers use
their brief authority as though it
required all men, women and child
ren TO pay homage to them, having
the SO-called power of mediums and
secOnd-sight seers, to know that the
man who commands" is limb of
the law" All officers, who are men,
will show their badge of authority.
Undertakers doing business on Pu-
get Sound. who have grufites cours-
ing through Though their veins.
should know by now that Judge Lind
say, court commissioner. of Seattle,
is just and humane man, who be-
lieves in "A square deal for every
man, no more, 70 less and intends
to see that a man gets this even
though the man is dead one.
y Tacoma firm of undertakers, it
seems, according to the Seattle P.-L.
"unsuspectingly" presented a bill for
1852 for the Obsequies of Arthur B.
Lowe, who died on April IL, 1909,
without friends or relatives, leaving
property worth approximately 81 900,
to revert to the State.
Judge Lindsay ran his eyes over
the bill and said:
What's this ? '$9 for device to
lower coffin into grave Does it cost
50 to lower body into the grave
SIS for burial robe DID the man
have no clothes when he died? A
charge for socks Sc for pail bear
ers.' Had the man no friends I? 1925
for embalming. Why embalm a man
who had no friends or relatives d?
$50 for caSket. | won't stand for
this destruction of a little estate.
The bill for 1862, including 50 worth
of flowers, is cut to $3.50. Call the
next case
Blessings on Judge Lindsay. of Se-
attic.
The Seattle Post Intelligencer is al
ways prone to invite Eastern folk
who reside in localities where many
prostratiOns from the fierce and
intense heat of summer sun occurs,
to come, come at once to Seattle and
enjoy the delightful arctic toned
utOpian summer weather. There
fore, it is strange, strange indeed,
to read in the P-L. issue of July
18th, the concluding paragraph as
regards the vaudeville show at Pan
tages theater in that city, which is
as follows:
"The bill finishes with moving pic
lures. All told, this weeks bill is q
corker. 1t jammed the house yester-
day, and the indications are that it will
break all box-office records for this
time of year. The house is cooled by
the Pantayes new vacuum system,
which makes the house cool at all times,
despite the sizzling heat of the streets. "
Gee! What's the use of Eastern
people fleeing from the prostrating
heat of their respective districts only
to land in Seattle, to swelter in the
sizzling heat Of the streets?" II
they are to sizzle in the streets in
Seattle they may as we'll sizzle at
their home in the East and save
transportation money. Far as the
sizzling" in summer time, in Sc
attic is concerned, while it becomes
pretty warm some days, there is no
sizzling hot summer weather in Sc
attic, and the P.-L'e assertion, far
as " sizzling summer weather is
concerned, is a sizzling" piece of
tommyrot. bunk and falsehood. "Siz-
zling heat of the streets!' meaning
Seattle. Gee! Wouldn't this rattle
your stays, Miss Seattle?
John f. Humphries, candidate for
the United States Senate, feels cha
grined at the Seattle Times, which
refers to John e. Humphries, the
star-letter writer to the P-L., as
Jack Falstaff." Here is what John
has to say aboutit:
1.-The Tines, thinking to bring me
into disrepute with my fellow-men,
has published to the world that l am
commonly known throughout the
State as Jack Falstaff," without
any explanation. Jack Falstaff was
a fictitious character used by Shake
speare in his plays, The Merry
Wives of Windsor" and Henry "" 3"
and his picture is used on beer signs
in all the saloons in England. The
character OF Falstaff is that of liar,
a coward, boastful person, drunk
ard, poltroon, a man who never
pays his bills, and in fact worthless
wag; yet the men connected with the
Times know full well that l never
took a drink of liquor in my life;
they knew full well that l was not a
wag; that | was not drunkard; that
l was not a coward; that ] never pa
raded my exterior to the vulgar rab-
BILE for admiration, and they knew
full well that if there was q man in
the United States or in the world
that the character did not aDn)v tn IL