Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-02-11

thf"e-bali net.
NolSclcSS Y. but with all his might
the burglar tuggcd at the bureau
drawer. In vain. 1t refused tC
open. He tugged again.
Give it another jerk, said Z
voice behind him, The burglri
turned
The owner of the house was sitting
up in bed. and looking at him with
an expression of the deepest interest
on his face.
Jerk it again. There's lots OF
valuable prop, rty in that drawer
but We haven t been able to open i,
since the winter rain began. If you
can pull it ont I'll give you a big per
ccntaGe on everything that $
But the burglar had jumped on,
through the window, taking a part
Ol the sash with him.
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1t is hardly known outside of the
immediate neighborhood, but it is q
fact that in SOnOma county, Cali
fornia. there is a railroad unique in
construction. In the upper part Ol
the county, near the Coast. may bt
seen an actual road bed in the tree
tops. Between the Clipper mills
and Stuart Point, trees are sawn of
on level with the surrounding hills
and the timbers and ties are laid on
the StumpS. In the center of the
ravine two huge redwood trees,
standing side by side, form a sub.
stantial support. These giants have
been Topped OFT seventy-tive feet
above the bed os the creek. This
natural true bridge is considered one
of the wonders of the Golden State,
and for safety and security far ex.
ceedS bridge framed in the mos,
scientific manner.
Quite often | hear the accusation
that q newspaper editor leaves out
items of news DurpOsely, because Of a
dislike or prejudice against the per-
son. believe this declaration un-
true as whole. Editors have a
thousand different things to think OF
and to look after in connection with
their paper. They get all the news
they can, but it is impossible for
them to obtain all the news without
some help. And when they ask for
news. it is only one person out of Il
dozen who will give them a single
item. So whenever a criticism, of an
editor. rises to your lips, stop ard
consider whether or not you are con-
tributing anything to make the
columns of your favorite home paper
more readable. Country editors do
the best they can to give all the local
news, and you help them and see if
they can't accomplish more.
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If man should put rubber tires on
the wheels of locomotive and drive
the same at express speed or any
where near it, over an ordinary wagon
road he would be pronounced sui
cidal lunatic. Yet this is exactly
what men presumably of sound mind
are doing every day with their auto
mobiles. An automobile is practi-
cally locomotive, and, like the lat
ter, it can be driven with safety at
any speed faster than a dog trot only
on a specially prepared track, free
from distractions that might dera'l
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rocks, telegraph or telephone poles
and other things by the roadside.
An elaborate system of signals is re-
quired to prevent collisions between
locomotives on the rails, but our road
locomotives zigzag over uneven and
treacherous rOadbeds, turn hair
pin curves on steep grades and take
a hundred other chances that would
make q railroad engineer hair stand
on end. The daily bulletin of auto
mobile fatalities ought to bring the
conviction that common roads are
not built for running locomotives at
even the lowest speed now authorized
by law and that the regulation of au-
tomObiles needs to be made Strictcr
and untiinchingly enforced rather
than libcralized.
SCOT As a Fertilizer.
Over in England SCOT is sold in
large quantities as fertilizer for or
chards. and the fruit men snatch at i,
eagerly, knowing its value as 4 tree