Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-09-20
A grim 1OOkinp old Indian q

warrior, broke into the speech with a
loud exclamation. something like this,
Heap tum-tum-wah!" The speaker
smiled in the direction of the old buck,
and continued speaking in optimistic
vein. A little later, following very
vigorous utterance by Roosevelt, the
same old Indian, who knew some Eng
lish. repeated his exclamation, Heap
tLm-tumwah!"
There were smiles on the faces of
those about the ex-warrior, and Roose-
welt was pleased and nodded in that
direction. Again the grim-looker
shouted as before.
After the speech a newspaper man
asked a half-breed for the precise
meaning of the old Indians explana-
ton. The response was, "Heem say,
Much hot air!"
DR.. Elwood Mead, former chief of
the Bureau of Irrigation, of the Depart
ment Of agriculture, who moved to
Australia a few years ago and has
become chairman of the Victoria State
Rivers and Water Supply commission,
declares that the American colony in
Melbourne Is almost solidly for Wilson
for president.
They are really sore because they
can't help elect Wilson," DR.. Mead
informed Representative Williams
Robert Smith, of Texas, the chairman
of the House Irrigation and Arid
Lands committee. Il don't think the
Americans there were ever SO enthus-
iastice before over presidential elec-
ton back home"
DR.. Mead has been a Republican all
of his life. but has contracted the Dem
ocratic fever-not simply because the
comforting epidemic is spreading
through Kansas, Nebraska, Vermont,
Illinois. Ohio. Pennsylvania, Maine,
ETC., etc., but because he desired to
catch 1t and wants to stay with it
and he expressed regret at not being
able to vote for Wilson.
Probably prompted somewhat by
wish to witness real 'the-biggest-
shOw-On-earth," certain friends of SEN
ator Joseph Weldon Bailey here have
suggested that joint debate between
Col. Roosevelt and the Texas senator
is in order. Senator Bailey has q
great supply of shafts for Roosevelt,
and towers lofty as an orator Of force
and eloquence. Bailey looks on Roose-
welt as a mailman, and Roosevelt no
doubt thinks Bailey should have lived
in the days when the constitution was
being framed.
1t might be inconsiderate to break
into Senator Bailey's rest on his Lex
ington farm, but-anyhow, 1t must be
admitted a forensic duel between
Roosevelt and Bailey-having 'em to-
gether on the same platform-would be
worth travelling from Fort Yukon,
Alaska, to Terra del Fuego to hear.
The protest of the British govern
ment against the Panama canal act
saved the life of a cat, as Mr.. Albert
Mitchell lines, counselor to the British
embassy, and at present charge DAT
flares, is yelling to testify. He ought
to know: it was his cat.
1t was something like this: Ambas-
sador Bryce, as everybody knows, Is at
home-in England. MIR. Innes became
the temporary ambassadOr-the head
of the house-when the Right Honor
able Mr.. Bryce departed. Mr.. Innes
owns a cat of which he Is very fond.
Also, Mr.. lines vacation time rolled
around.
A blarsted mental was called In by
the charge d'affaires at his apartments
and was instructed to look after things,
such as busting off the charge daft
aires desk, closing the windows when
it looked like rain, and most important
of all that servant chap was directed to
feed the charge d'affaires' cat, for the
said charge d'affaires was going to a
quiet resort on the Jersey coast to pick
up a bit of tan, dOnchernOw.
Two weeks or more slipped by, and
the British note of protest was re-
ceived. Mr.. Innes had to return to
Washington to formally present the
billet at the White House. He did
so. Then he thought, in as much as he
was here he might as we'll visit his
apartment. He did this, too, and
found everything about the apartment
neat as pin. But the cat; gracious!
Where was the cat?
After much searching an emaciated
creature, with the ear-marks OF the
charge d'affaires' once glossy-coated
pet, was found in the back yard. 1t
was alive-barely breathing. The
blarsted mental had fallen down on the
cat-feeding job.
The cat is almost itself again, thank
you, but would have died but for Great
Britian's protest against the granting
by this government of superior right
IN American vessels at Panama Mr.,
Innes was dispatched to Washington
Just in time.