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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-12-03
MAYT0WN

Miss Beryl Martel spent the week
end in Tenino.
Mrs. o. s. Carroll, Mrs. D. q. Ser
Wis and Mrs. A. L. Hawks motored to
Olympia Monday.
Mrs. Harry Townsend spent the
weekend with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. A. Tibbetts Of Little Rock.
Mr.. George Martel has been on the
sick list this week.
Oran and Orval Nichols spent
Thanksgiving with their grandparents
1t Rainier.
Mrs. A. A. Tibbetts and daughter
Rita of Little Rock were the guests
of Mrs. Harry Townsend Friday.
Miss Ida Albright spent Thanks
giving with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Albright Of Tacoma.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. s. Carroll and
daughter Pauline, Mrs. George Mar
tel and Miss Lillian Townsend mo-
tored to Centralia Saturday.
Miss Della Pearce spent Thanks
giving with her parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
George Pearce Of Grand Mound.
Mr.. George Shelley took business
trip to Olympia Monday.
Mr.. Robert Anderson spent the
weekend in Tacoma.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Shelley enter
tanned Rev. ]. e. Walker this week.
Mr.. Chester Rainey made a bust
ness trip to Tacoma this week.
Preaching services will be held In
the n. d. church next Sunday morn
ing and evening, at II a. m. and 1880
p. m. Everybody welcome.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-12-03
PLEASANT GLADE

Rev. D. A. Thompson will conduct
Sunday school at 2 O'Clock Sunday
afternoon and church at 8.
Mrs. Sarah sumpter of Olympia ia
making IN indefinite stay at the home
Of her brother, Joe Longmire.
lfiss Marsaret Cook spent her
Thankssiving vacation with her sister
& auburn.
N. ana Nrs. Frank Hannaford
spent "wednesday It the J. 4, Rob.
hlna home
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NEWS OF YOUR FRIENDS
AND NEEGHBORS

(BDtTOR'S PUBLICATION
CURRENT WEEK. CORRESPONDENTS
WEDNESDAY WHENEVER ANY ITEMS SENT
sPONDENTs OMITTED. BECAUSE
RECEIVED TOO LATE FOR PUBLICATION WE WILL GLADLY PRINT
LETTERS CAN GET YOUR
IS IN TlME)
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bolts parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Talcott, in Olympia.
Mr.. j. f. Campbell was a business
visitor in Olympia this week.
Mr.. j. e. Walker received word
this week that his sister, Mrs. Curns.
is very sick in Seattle.
The South Union road is being
graveled. 1t was needed very much.
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be given Saturday evening. Decem-

be given Saturday evening. Deem
Der T..
, The Lacey social- Hnd- athletic club
met Wednesday evening at the school
house.
The Ladies' Aid society of Union
Mills met at the home of Mrs. Judd
Greenman this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. e. Dolan and fam
lily and Mrs. e. Zandell Of Wards
Lake visited at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. c. J. Gallagher recently.
Mr.. Roy Hall of Olympia spent Sun
day hunting with Francis Gallagher.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-12-03

We make plates at from $40 to
$15, and guarantee a fit if it is
possible to make plate fit your
mouth. Our plates are made of
the finest materials and the work
manship is unexcelled.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan Arnold spent

Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan Arnold spent
last Saturday In Olympia.
Mrs. F. w. Billiard and Mrs. 0. !.
Evans visited with Mrs. Barley ana
Mrs. Brown one day last week.
Hubert Brown and Jim Milhron
spent Saturday evening at the Arnoid
home.
Mrs. F. e. Billiard called on Mrs'
George Brown Monday Of last week
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-12-03

the home of E. X. Fitch.
Mr.. and Mrs. PARROT of Yelm and
MIR. and Mrs. Clarence Fox and chill
dren spent Thanksgiving at the home
OF Mr. and Mrs. Tom Cubit.
Miss Genevieve Fitch was a week
end visitor in Tacoma.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-12-03

All Work Guaranteed.
White Cross Dental Offices
DIR. T. r. NELSON, Mgr.
Olympia National Bank Building:
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-10

Ipnd have appealed 10 many. been
able 10 supply the combination or even
satisfactory dlacrit!cai marks,
>h this is b. the way. however. for
We are To discuss the double owcled
a" and III Nearly every one OF the
Southern states mas ts own little
luirks OF pronunciation; let North
Carolina stand up for it's "Rollcy": let
Charleston gather its dainty "skuh-
IT'S and mount the heights OF it's or
,nocpic steers"! sing the beauties OF
- before IA and IT, which belong
to Us alone among All peoples
rue. the ~ sound Is retained in
girl ~ the English Ia varying de-
src"s. ranging iIori the pluchcd Plcca-
AMY 'syml' TO the honest. clean Gu,
Nirgih!an 'Syurl' of Sir Johnston
Forbes Robertson. But where else is
the y" given its ful! value In such
words as car guard" carpet" and
garden" besides Virginia? In !, very
OLD English dictionary ! have cccn the
pronunciation OF guard" given "a
'gyard.' but THAT IS tho only instance
j can recall where any authority rs
given for the ~" cxccp, the author
h%-whicn many Of " still look IL
with pr!de--coutcrred by custom and
tradition
It should he understood that the
great majority even OF Virginians now
"days DO not sound the ~ but /,
should further be understood tina, no
Oh" except Nivg!n!an has the slight
est idea when and how il should be
sounded. / remember hearing a com
p"t"nt actress IN The Littlest Rebel,
give q very fine reading OF her part.
rntl she addressed the Federal
colonel as "kyerncl." when the illusion
OF the mistress or a Virginia manor
departed and never returned
The list OF words in which the ~"
IS ihierr"!at"d, or properly sounded.
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Born in Fighting Zone

PARIS, October 22.--For more than
"a year now Rheims has been under
bomhardment. any DAY. any hour. any
minute y shell may fell at any spot,
bringing destruction and possibly
death. Yet ordinary lifa continues.
shops arc open, mothers sit outside
their houses and sex and children play
around.
The work Of the Maternity Hospital
mas never been allowed to tie inter
ruptcsi. AS was shown 10y report read
TO tho Academy Of Medicine by Dr. Hen
rot. who has had charge OF il since
III, war began.
THE maternity department was sit
uat.d in II separate wing of the civil
hospital. The hospital suffered greatly
from bombar dmcnt. but the maternity
ward was not touched. II was. how
ever. 4 necessary prccaution to remove
The inmates 10 the cellars as soon rs n
shell or two announced the beginning
Of q bombardEcnt, which generally
lasted half an hour in the morning
and the same in the afternoon. Those
unable - walk were carried from the
mate rnity ward to the cellars and later
back again. This work was done by
the head midwife, Mile. Bcmoit and
her pupils. girls Of eighteen.
TOO high praise cannot hc given
them for the courage they showed in
never failing single day in their duty,
but carried out this arduous task ut
all times Of the day and night. One
night 1000 shells were fred on the city
between . in the evening and 8 next
morning.
"'Ihc women who arrived at the Ma
tcrnity Hospital were not only poor
women Of Rheims. but many refugees
from tho ArdcnncS department. all of
whom did not reach the hospital. many
dying on the road. in the train, ut the
station. III the street and sometimes
as they reached our threshold.
In the cellars, beside the wine casks.
the women who had just become moth
crs lay or a bed of sacitinG, sonnet lines.
when there were many, even on the
door. Mattresses touched one another
and had to put one foot on the mat
trcss to feel 81 pulse or examine Il pa
tient. The young pupils in midwifery
had to kncel down to do anything to
their patients, and yet. although these
women had suffered all sorts of priva-
lions. were often tired out by long voy-
ages. the general health las remained
excellent. During August, September
October and November net II case or
infectious malady has occurred and
only two women have died.
"Onc day I saw remarkably hno
baby being brought into the ward, and
asked who was the mother. I was told
that splinter of Il shell had struck
tho mother and laid open her side The
baby was taken out in perfect health
IN unprecedented example of Il Caesar
IAN ion."-Correspondcnt New
York Sun.
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SEEN ON THE SIDE.
Owed to n Pal.

What book OF all the millions sold
The premier place should have and hold
Wise men are doubtful-very-
That mooted point they argue yet,
But overlook the one best bet,
The riming dictionary.
Let others praise Bill Shakcspcarc's plays.
. Or acrid Pope's satiric lays
Or laud old Chaucer, merry:
| pin my faith, and pin it hard,
To that best friend OF every bard,
The rinling dictionary
Now there's n volume that contains
y balm for all poetic pains
real apothecary:
Take from me Dickens. Thackcray,
Take Burns and Scott, but leave | pray
My riming dictionary
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GARDEN SPELLS "GYAHDEN"
Days Best CartoSnc.
NY Dnu%ins Gordon.

This pronunciation OF ours mere in
Virginia, may be poor thing. but II
is our own and We love 1t. Therefore
this monograph. which. following the
style OF Mr.. Thomas Dixon. may be
described. with becoming modcsty. as
a passionate plea for the preservation,
undciiled and in purity, Of the price
less heritage of the double cled "a"
and a.
Other verbal hcrcditamcnts are ours.
descended TO us from our grandfathers.
who knew the tawny stream that flows
BY Rcimond's hills as Jccms's River.
and who wcr" 50 lately sprung from
til" older England that they, even
University men. spoke OF thar" and
sometimes what" Common Ia the
Who'll" south. too, is the habit Of speech
OF those who We're and are, our own
people. The ahominablc misuse aud
displacement III the word done" by
the unlearued from the hithcr North,
who seek To tell darky stories or
miscrablT attempt TO portray tn darby
on tthe stage have caused the souls
of all Of us 70 wrthc within us
When a man says. II done got to
do it, instead OF using the pristine
saxon. Use got to do it," We know
that he is initiating tn" negro Of Ohio
OF of Russia. or OF som" other country
where The negro doesn't belong: or
else that he learned his dialect from
some hcnighted person whose knowl-
edge Of the negro il confined 10 that
hcterodoN species known As the Pull
man porter. And whcn--horror's crown
of horrOr--he sp"aks or writes NJ
house and about" as moose" and
"ahoot.' wc first pity. then want to
kill him. Actors tell us Mars polk
Millcrs story about DE Haunted
House" speaking OF IL as The Hawn;-
ed loose, and marvel why We fash
with rage instead OF being convulscd
with laughter.
Bat here we cannot help the iruor-
ant. much as wc should like to. There
is, so far rs considerable investigation
has disclosed. no way of indicating
phonctically the VirGinian-and hence
corrcct--proaunciatin OF thos. words
No letters or combination OF letters
can make II clear. | once spent pa
t:cnt hours teaching one OF the most
capable character actors in America
Frank Keenan,. how To pronounce
about" house" and ice" light" and
similar words. which are also impos-
sihle To phoncticiae. At the end Of
That time, we had got them straight,
but neither he nor | could write down
the pronunciation that we used Nor
mas amy expert that / have consulted,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-10
Beavers Rebuilt Dam

The beavers. which have been WORK
ing havoc with farms in Wisconsin
because the farmers are not allowed by
law t" Kin the beavers or damage
their dams. have caused a wave OF
protests from North Wisconsin rail-
road mon.
i violent aHuea! for assistance made
to headquarters here has resulted in
n.w order, which mems the stamp
iuT oIt OF all the beaver colonies ~
the state and their transfer 10 the
state forest reserve around Trout
Lake
Chairman James Ncvin. of the Con-
stiVati"n Commission. issued this order
wh"n IL was reported To him that the
81. Paul Railroad tracks between Mer-
ill and Goodnow, in Oneida County.
are being flooded by water backed up
mt" the swamps by the beaver colony
on Bear Creek
ne water Is 80 high that travel over
tae road is dangerous and wasl:6ut
is likely at any time, il is said
farmer named Hansen, i'm Mari
n"ttc County. has been complaining
That beavers have wrecked his farm.
dam throwing forty acres of his cui-
tivated eighty acres under Il foot Of
water.
lie was permitted to dynamite the
cam, but the beavers would rebuild IL
over night. lie and his men would
send half OF the next day blowing IL
out again. and after the procedure con-
tinucd several months his complaints
became vocifcrous. Hc was not per-
Inittcd to Kill the animals, however
Thc Commissioner OF Conservation
has issued orders to the game wardcns
in ,arincttc to catch the beavers there
md take them to the tightly fencel
State rcscrvc.-St. Paul Pioneer Press
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-10
News OF Fifty Years Az,

a. n. Kelley. the brilliant editor of III. Pc
tershurs Index. and Miss Rshecca Davis were
Rev. Thomas Midway. The happy couple left
Immediately after the ceremony for short
honeymoon. but told no one where they were
going.
late hour last night says General Augur will
hang CAPTAIN Henry Wrz privately in The
yard of the Capitol Prison ut early hour this
morning.
Johnson that he cannot preside over the court
for the trial of MIR Davis in Richmond for the
reason. among others. that there is no regular
~ orsanized court in Richmond or any other
part OF Virginia. Thus the government is nj
sea, the President maintaining that Mr. Davis
cannot he tried ut amy other place.
Captain John G. Guthrie. of Portsmouth has
been pardoned by the President Before the
war he was lieutenant in the United States
Navy During the war he captain in the
Confederate States navy. and he is the frs,
naval officer TO lie pardoned by the President
The Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad is being
rnn'aiN pushed to completion Trains now
folk. "
Twelve hundred women of Norfolk have united
in strong petition TO President johnson for
the release OF Mr.. Davis. either by pardon or
on parole.
Over eleven hundred licenses have been is
Sucd TO retail liquor dealers In the District Of
Columbia. This is equal one liquor shop 10
every ninety-one persons In the District.
Governor Picrpont has appointed Thomas
croNion, of Tappahanmock. Essex County to he
adlntaht ana FIRST lieutenant of State militia
with authority TO organize a conpanv nS
lou mounted men cor the protection of tho
county This is consequent upon look cd for
trouble with tho Freedmen who are getting ycrv
unruly - ESSEX County.
Among the arrivals ut the Spotswood Ilote,
Yesterday was General SLOVENIAN. OF the United
states Army, whose daring cavalry raids around
Richmond during the war are wen rcnc,nhcrnd
ny almost everybody in this city. The general
comes not on war business this trip but Ia
see iS'chiionh as sh" looks in her peace reualia
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Guide Recalls IInBpipr nrys

Was she ailus this way? You mean wife,
asked the Guide Of Capitol square i'm answer 10
question ny Newcomer. Not always one
E'2!tt durin' our honeymoon awful storm, hii
the house where We he'd put up an tore ,,c
shingles OMEN tho top OF the buildin The wind
tore round awful, am lifted wife outen har
feather bed an carried her outcn in the road
team wuz rnssn by. an wife landed in IT, am ON
another feather bed tibet i'm the wasniu
The bosses rund They past another
Nohi-klc tibet wuz loaded with household goods
an among the goods wuz another feather bcd
~ the runaway dashed by wife WIZ suttenlv
lift out Of the feather bed on which shc v.uv
lcclinin', am dadbltst my hide cf she wus,t Gas,
right over inter the feather bed In the Other
N"hi-klc. come along jest then an hclprd her
out an carried hcr to mighty house She
EnGccd me an s.d wuZ the best man i'm tho
world. Wen, sun, she's bin waitin' ever since
10 lac totcd to Il feather bed somewhere An Won
Know there amt emmy more soft places i'm this
mundane world fer cnnybody,"
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Dreams Tint Were.

The Ounce has disappeared from the schools.
ana is not even pointed out in the streets as
crstwhile.
And the dear old man who used drop in
a few hours before supper and declined to re-
move ms topcoat because he hadn't but n few
minutes to stop, and who fingered until he was
invited to cat when he accepted. and who re-
NAMED until 10 o'clock in the evening, and then
remarked that it was time for him ito be shown.
up the creek"
And the fine old gentleman who came in from
the farm carrying, u change in ? pair Of saddle
bags When did you a pair of these
bags?
And the gracious lady, the ncighbor. who
never baked anything good that she didn't send
to your house? Eth"
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The New House.

My little house is very young:
No shadow makes 1t grave.
With blucbird chintz and roses hung
It's chamber windows wave
Here never blmdeyed Grief has
Knocked
And entered cropping in
The doors. that seem so free, are locked
AS yet to Death and Sin.
Here only happy. wondering dreams
Walk nightly to and fro
They are the friends OF white moon
beams,
And simple as the snow.
My little house is very young
And very unaware
Ihat dreams arc wrought and songs
are sung
In any subtlcr air.
. might | keep its bluebirds bright
us hcnrth still warm and CAV!
. might my house hut know delight
And not be dark some dayI
Fannie Stcarns Davis.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-10
The Same Old plea

CTRlPPED of verbiage and unessentiuls tho
- defense of the British press to Secretary
LahShGs charges OF gross violations of the
law oil nations is that the conduct Of Cor
many JuStiiios, and even demands these do
par'ures from civilizations established rules
w nat we have done is the necessary product
OIL what Germany has done" say the London
newspapers, in effect, and as we are figbtiup
huihahity's battles, neutral humanity must
yield TO our Judgment"
III that plea is valid. il excuses ANYTHING
ana everything. II is the same plea that was
offered by Berlin in cNtcuuation of tho mur-
ocr oil American citizens. Germany also so
we were told, was fighting for cyistenc,
against an INSCRIPTIONS foe
President Wilson's unninchiup din,omocy
mas wen from Berlin complete abandonment
so FAR rs II affected American citizens, of the
policy of "frightfulness we shall exDon, !.
IKE concession from London That tho
wrongs inflicted by Britain on this pcopIn navo
nceh less hidcous than those inflicted hv Cor
many is true, and it was imperative that tho
lesser injury should wait while the are.to ar
was redresscd. The principal task however
has been performed and ii is Britain's turn
TO be called to account. II must not defend
It's course by an argument that in tho ease of
Germany we have declared dsingenuous and
worthless.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-10

Is it known when Ladtto. the pirate began
his operations" T. T. CHRISTIAN
No. The appearance Of the l.niittc brothers
Jean and Pierre. in New orleans. where they
opened Il blacksmith shop the north side Of
ST. Pierre street. between Bourbon and Daw-
pilinc, Il not matter OH exact record. The date
~ generally put in 1SoS. In that year the Inn
p"rtation Of slaves became unlaw full ana SNUG
Cling began to be big business. The I;,htte
brothers had been priv:ttccrSruen and knew
just what fittings needed for vessels en-
gagged in lawlcSS traffic. and thuir shops became
the rendezvous Of the slave snugglcr. who
soon involved Ill" I.attt"s I'm their business
whence II was short step to real piracy. In
1910 Jean IMfittc organized the business Of run
ming cnr;:ocs Of slaves, going Earataria as
headquarters. while his brother STAYED i'm New
Orleans 10 manage the sales departments la
hitc vanished in 1921; know where
Many OF his men We're executed imprisoned
at different times. and hc driven from his
last stronghold, Galveston by the United states
vessel Enterprise No attempt was made 10
arrest him lie was suffered to gather his
property on the fine brig, the Pride, in which
nc sailed away, say to meet death in
fu"a;an some. in France. ANA some in an ac-
ton with an American warship on the south
coast oi Cuba.
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Finances in Sound Shane

IT HAT the finances OF the state of Virginia
K are in excellent condition is shown by the
report Of State Treasurer Hartman, just sub
United to the Governor. Disbursements from
the general fund for the fiscal year were less
than the receipts, and the surplus carried
over, 1854 ,0S6.17. is substantially more than
the balance on hand at the conclusion of the
fiscal year 1914, the increase being $222, 900
If this surplus skaters a precedent and does
not drive the General Assembly crazy. there
will be further reason for qualification.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-10

In 1920 as the story goes. ship went
ashore on the reef of Cocos Island, and
treasure of $30.000,000 was hid in the sands.
What claim Missouri has upon the money is
not stated in the news that an expedition has
started from chat State to search for the
wealth The hunters are under the guidance
OF an pirate. How Missouri ever got in
touch with such a man is mystery
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-10

The Portsmouth star has joined in the search
for running mate for Candidate Woodrow
wilson 1t asks: will the traditional 'arth-
metic man and the political lightning calcu-
lator' assist American accountant of inuuiriuu
mind TO figure out how Democratic national
nomination with Woodrow Wilson for Presdcn,
of the United States and Brand Whtlock for
Nicc-tresdent could possibly be defeated on
counted OUT
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-10

produce acceptable service. If the New York
school is to prevail in fitting boys in search Of
work. ii means scholastic course. A taste
Of academic fruit will unfit any boy for the
job of waiting in the anteroom. That the
office boy Of to-day needs pruning and cult
waiting must be conceded.
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I.IltiIIpli,

Say what you Will OF Bernard Shaw.
Say that his plays are ofttimes raw.
That paradox he chooses;
say that he teaches ethics wrong.
Tint with the crowd to 90 along
The stubborn wight refuses;
Say that he lacks all reverence
And makes a joke of common sense
The fellow yet amuses
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shakespeare for Evcrybody.

ioi the man who has stood the test
They say best men nodded of faults:
-,nd, for the most, become much more the bette
For being Il little bad"
Measure for Measure, " l.
For the joker:
"A jcsts prosperity lies in the ear
OF him that hears it, never in tho tongue
OF him that makes it..
Loves Labor Lost V. .
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''Don't''

THAT "One Of the Days Best Cartoons
that appears on this page this morning is
entitled to the respectful consideration Of
every parent It's subject is one of the
tragedies of childhood and one of the s,upidi-
ties Of manhood and womanhood The car
toonist treats 1t humorousy, but there is II
serious and somber aspect
Three fourths Of the education child re-
ceives at home is negative Don't says the
nurse 10 the infant pra;tler. and Don't
dent. don't" say father and mother to the
boy of larger growth. The whole influence
is reprcssve. fatal to initiative. originality
independent thought and judgment and all
the qualities that distinguish the successful
man from the failure. The exceptional parent
avoids these faults and the exceptional hoy
shakes off their handicap. hut for the mass the
facts are as We have stated them
Give the lad opportunity 10 develop nat
uraiy. Lay little less emphasis on what he
should not do and little more on what he
should do, Give him q chance