Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-02-25
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1t is announced that the price of
Bibles will be advanced on March
lSt. Put EN- on the free list.
Tombstone, Arizona, has a res
taurant called the Can-Can. It's
not French restaurant either.
Count that day lost the which,
from night to morn, sees not good
DR.. Cook still going. going, gone!
The thing that stalls the stalwarts
just now is the difficulty of deciding
whether Taft or the Senate is doing
the insurgent act.
| Just want to say before | forget
it, that the WASHINGTON STANDARD
is the tircside companion and Bible
of all real Democrats.
Lady Constance, the barefoot dane
cr, has been advised never to appear
before King Edward again. To the
ingenuity of press agents there is
no bound.
Why worry about DR.. Cook s de
"rccs and decorations? He proba-
bly, will have infinitely less use for
them in the future than anybody
else now on Earth.
Having dictated the members of
the House Committee elected to in
vcstigatc the Ballinger charges. it
will not be necessary for either Taft
or Cannon to dictate the verdict.
The final report puts the yield of
oats this year at more than a billion
bushels. the largest on record.
give this information for the benefit
of the horses. Nobody else seems to
care
It's an old-faShioncd government
which offers 81, POO in common money
| for the detection of modern train
! robbers when 100 pounds of Swift 5
or ArmOurs brand of ham would
put the whole community on the
trail.
\ woman who takes exceptions t.
my remarks on the crazy ideas OF
prohibitiOnistS, writes to the STAND
! ARD and says term all ministers
priests. Not |, madam. would
not insult the priests, madam; not
for anything in the world.
There is considerable politics go
ing on at Washington now. Mr.
Taft is on trial. Senator Aldrich and
Speaker Cannon are still in the sad
die; the insurgents" seem to be
gaining strength; the z. o. p. is in
confusion and in danger of defeat
In 1912 Mr. Roosevelt may be called
upon to restore harmony to his
party and keep it in power. This
seems to be the handwriting on the
wall from distance.
Did you ever see writer to
newspaper who sends in roast
ing communication yet wants the
name withheld or asks the articl,
not bc published. to be anything
whether 4 man or a woman, Chris
tian or intidel, but the sneakeSt, stab
in-thc-dark hypocritc. When yo'
write an article to an editor. sigr
YOUR name and don't be Il coward
let it be published under your sigma
ture so the one attacked may know
who wrote it.
Flying appears to be the importan
topic these days. History record
the case of Icarus, who had a yer
, fly time, and eventually became
cropper, and history in the twen tiet
> century is repeating itself. Is
planes, aeroplancs and monoplan'
are being constructed in back yard'
+ and sensations crowd thick and fas
upon us. Pauhan accomplishes
/ fine performance, then Curtlss break
: a record, then somebody else breal
= his neck and excitement is kept
n fever heat.
' The census enumcratOr will shor
y ly be knocking at your door. He
/ or it may be shc-will ask you que
e tions of various hues and shapes an
I lengths. Many questions will see
u ridiculous, many impudcnt, and nj
II a few will put test upon your I
miliarity with yourself and your q
's fairs. The census will 90 mo
s. smoothly and be more accurate tn;
, in former enumcratiOnS, If every a
IT is given the collector of informatio
l. Indeed, a penalty has been provide
by Congress for those who obstru
" the business of the enumcrators.
- Well. it seems | have been d
:, covered at last-thOugh really, n
70 to my knowledge, at any rate, ha
g been lost. A he, she or it, nam
- Ruthie, whether it wears tall'
made pants, or a dress that butto
in the back, | don know. neither
| care, publishes to his few readt
is that through some verses OF mn
ne which the he, she or it read in