Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-06-06


knew when to quit. He did not men,
ton the tens Of thousands of Hindoos,
Syrians and other foreigners imported
from Asia and Southern Europe to
work in the shingle mills of Washing
ton in competition with the native
born citizens of the United States. Mr..
Johnson only spoke 10 minutes and,
perhaps, he did not have time to men,
ton the Hindoos and Syrians in his
brief address.
why Durbin Returned.
| (Quilcene Megaphone)
Many of his friends in Port Town
send are wondering why Carlos Dur
bin returned from farmers life Of
ease in Idaho and engaged again as
hotel clerk.
The fact is that Durbin was sent to
Sam Harneds ranch to work.
"Durb," said Sam, you go over
there and take care of the place till l
come. The fence around the alfalfa
field is not very good, and cattle might
break in. l wish you would fix the
fence up, and do what other work you
think the place needs until l get
there"
So Durbin went over to the ranch.
There was ten-acre field where sheep
had been corralled nights by former
owner, but portion of the fence had
long since fallen down, as the yard had
not been used for years. All the land
had on it was sage brush. This sage
was what Durbin took for alfalfa, so
he set to work, and after a hard week
of labor the fence was repaired. The
sage brush-or as Durbin thought-the
alfalfa needed cultivating. He found
the sage planted so out of line that 1t
couldn't be plowed-the only thing
was to use a hoe. Durbin started In,
and by the time Harmed arrived Durb
had nicely hilled up two and half
acres of the sage, as he would spuds.
This was too much for Harmed, and he
canned Durb at once. Durb came
back sad but wiser man.
More Editorial Courtesies.
(Raymond Herald.)
A Hoquiam woman dropped dead the
first of the week while reading a news
paper. Could stray copy of the
Journal [South Bend] have reached
that distance?
The World Do Move!
edmond Tribune.)
A grocer in Walla Walla has estab.
lished what he terms "grocerteria."
to be conducted without clerks, tele-
phones or delivery wagons. Custom
ers will bring their basket, select their
groceries, carry them to a desk, pay
for them and get home as best they
can. Surely the world do move.
An Old Trick.
(New York Worldly
Mr.. Wilson was never asked to
pledge himself to four years in the
presidency in case he was elected. No
representative Democrat ever SO in
terpreted the platform. Nor has Mr..
Bryan ever so construed 1t in any
public utterance with which we are
familiar.
Mr.. Bryan said at Harrisburg the
other day that "a man who violates
party platform and betrays his party
and the people is a criminal worse
than the man who embezzles money"
A little coterie of Democrats in the
United States senate who are trying to
sandbag honest tariff revision would
be glad indeed If they could convince
themselves that Mr.. Bryan was talking
,, to President Wilson, not to them.
Advice to senator Jones.
! douglas County Press)
Senator Wesley l.. Jones announces
that he will go before the people next
year as a candidate for reelection. If
we were Wesley we would table that
resolution.
The Family Garden.
Untermountain Journal)
The family who Is planning on rails
ing good garden and keeping few
chickens, cow and perhaps a pig or
two. won't need to worry over the
high cost Of living It's the ones who
have not the opportunity to do this or
are too indolent who are held up for
| big expense.
| Clausen's sudden Virtue.
(Colville Examiner)
State Auditor Clausen has turned
over a new leaf. After holding Office
for some years under the Hay admin