Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1911-08-04

There is an Old aiage saying,
There is honor among thieves;
but there is about as much truth
IN it as there is in a hundred other
accepted truisns, which by actual
have proven untrue.
\ news dispatch from New York
to the Seattle TimrS, recently, says
Hearst will start a morning paper in
not later than March l. 1912,
' The advent Of a Hearst morn
ing paper in Seattle will be warm
" welcomed by Seattle merchants.
have seen men Sneer at II hand
organ player, ridicule and jeer at his
profession. have known some of
these sneering holier- than thou hypo-
critics, to go to the penitentiary af-
terwards, while the hand-organ man
was free-to keep on turning the
handle
Mrs Ted Callow, Of Walla Walla,
is the first white woman to land on
the Island of Sinabang. near Sumat-
IA. She writes her parents that the
natives fell on their knees when she
stepped ashore with her husband
She was the first white woman they
had seen and they never tire doing
errands for her.
One writer says, eat Sauer kraut
and you'll live forever. Another says
drink buttermilk and you'll live
forever. Well, |, not wishing to live
forever, shall continue to eat and
drink what | know agrees with my
stomach - nothing that does not;
shall keep far away as possible from
drugs and doctors, and trust to luck
for the rest.
Puck in declaring, What fools
these mortals be" hits the nail
square on the head. Tuesday |
heard man on Fourth street say
that the Hindus should be jailed for
burning their dead, and in less than
FIVE minutes afterwards | heard the
same man declare. with seemingly
much satisfaction, that he had had
his father cremated.
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From reading the P-I. and Time,
of Seattle at this date, it is plainly
seen that at the burning of the
hammer antic in the Queen City,
those two journals placed theirs in
the safety vault, thus holding out,
or in other words cheating. for not
only are these two Seattle papers
knocking once again with their ham
mers, but they have the mallets,
,ledges and mauls working overtime.
Yes, sir.
Do not look with derision upon the
wild fern because you have beautiful
roses at home. The fern will suS.
tain life in your body should you be
come lost while in the woods; be
without food. and hungry. Start q
fire, if possible. gather a bunch oI
the tall male fern. place it on the
fire; when the stalks have been made
black, remove the pith from the
stems, and eat. 1t is bread
and will keep life in you, as long as
the staff of life" will.
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Here is pointer for thousands oi
preachers over all the country. They
should cut it out and paste it in theil
hat. Here it is:
Among the stories related by the
late Rev. DR.. A. +. Pierson was one
of a marble-cutter, with chiSel anG
hammer. working Il block OF stone
into statue. A preacher who was
looking on said: L wish | could
on hearts of stone, deal such trans
forming blows! "
" Perhaps you might" was the
workman S quiet answer, if, like
me, you worked on your knees. y
A Seattle brewing concern adver-
tises thusly: " When you gaze upon
bottle of beer you behold a perfec
ton of the brewers skill encased in
purest glass, artistically labeled.
This is the same brewing concern
which says: 1t is the beer and
not the bottles that counts. Wher
| wish an enhancing, seductive
charming and delightful bottle o.
beer. | am not looking for "pures1
glass" cut glass. nor pure china
ware. Neither am | searching fol
specimens of the lithographers skill
artistically labeled works of art
no sir; it's dcr | want, therefore
always ask for Its the Water.
in amber-colored bottles, please.