Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1911-06-16
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By 1T + +. VERNON }

The Strcct-car IS the poor man :
automobile
II your business is poor, and YOU
can spare time. read Psalm 3S John
u.
The chief industries in Seattle are
photo-vaudeviIe holsrs, gust at pres
cnt
Makes no difference how scarce
money may be in Olympia. she al
ways has Bettman.
Sea1tle's resources to the eyes OF
a stranger visiting the Queen City,
seem to consist mostly of bill boards.
There are more empty store rooms
and dwellings in Seattle to-day, | am
told. than ever before in the history
of that city.
When unusually bad weather oc-
ours anywhere Except in Olympia)
one is informed that it is the worst
they We seen for 30 years. Ever no
tice it?
If a man has to wait five minutes
at home for his supper he raises par
ticular h about it; but he can sit
all day fishing. and never get bite,
and never even mention the Incl
dent.
1t is said the Olympia Door Com
pany has space to burn. The
saying money to burn" is so COM
mon that the phrase space to burn
should he grasped by the public as
an door-able one. What?
The editorial in the STANDARD of
June I'd, headed, Abuse of the Tele-
phone System, should be printed,
and merchants should buy same and
give to their help and patrons. 1t s
a classic on the subject Indeed it
is.
Mrs Angus Belmont may teach
girls how to gather in the crops, but
she nor no one else will ever teach
some young men on the farm to lock
the grainery door, so that the most
valuable horse on the ranch Will not
founder.
\ Cambridge, Mass. preacher
mot IA cambridge. England, one;
they have too much horse Sense)
named Johnson. declares sin causes
gray hair. Now will Johnson, old
boy. inform the public what causes
yellow" hair-the chemical blond
sort?
. William Jennings Bryan, defend
ing the Bible, challenges atheists
and materialists. atheists and ma
terialists maintain the Bible is the
work of man, and not of divine in
spiration) to produce a book equal
to the Bible. Let them produce
it, says Mr.. Bryan.
What shame I. II. II. Gardner
the religious fanatic who dubbed his
wife to death at Kittitas. recently
because. he says, spirits told him
she would be untrue. and who tried
to drown himself afterwards. did no,
succeed. The world is better, far
better, without such religious fanat-
les rs Gardner
Moving pictures THE Life OF
Moses" and others, were thrown or
the screen in the Queen Ann Con
gregational Church in Seattle. Sun.
day night, the 2lst ult. The name
of the Illustrated song-singer. no,
, the pipe who played "ap
propriate music for the pictures" is
not mentioned.
To get down to brass tacks, wha,
u is the use OF the majority electing q
fearless man who has views of his
own and states them from the pub
lie platform, as regards public office,
If % per cent. minority. composed
of the clique that worked and voted
for the other fellow" can recal
him? The recall law should be bur.
> led IN oblivion.
Notwithstanding that Louis W
Hill, President of the Great North
, ern Railroad. is reported as saying
Seattle was foolish' to spend tn,
money in producin. the Golden
4 Potlatch, " Seattle will spend the
money and will produce the Colder
Potlatch. Louis can, perhaps, de
rive some benefit personally, in re
membering what cows do to daisies.
Worshipper at the shrine of Teddy
w. T. Howard, editor of the ki1nc
: Go""tg Times, will throw 81 varietie.
of fits when he reads the article il
the STANDARD OF a recent date, head
ed Twain's Opinion of Teddy" "
hope Old boy Howard may read it. |
may cause him to fill up few inche
Of space in column he prints in hi
paper headed Observations"
would be a dee-lightful" change O
literary diet for his readers, anyway
y law should be enacted prohibit