Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-01-04

10 drain ranch-mOrtgage it.
The largest loops ever heard Of
Kamloops, B. c.
Romance is sweet sixteen. Religion
is sixty, if she's day.
Happy is he who never knows when
he gets the worst OF it.
When the button comes off the
back OF q mans shirt his choler begins
to rise.
Most Of us are dissatisfied, some
with what We have and some with
what We haven't.
To alight from electric cars while
they are in motion should be made
punishable offense by law.
Conductor could never be,
On pugilism do l frOwn,
Such business is too tough for me,
There's too much knocking g-down.
If people should save all they say
about coal and coal kings, and put the
language in the furnace it would be
hot emo ugh.
What we need in this country is
elastic currency, something that will
stretch . mans income 80 as to make
both ends meet.
don't care how low down q mans
position may be; il he does the bes, he
can, he is hero here. and il there be
q heaven, he will be recorded as such
hereafter.
"Wash the windows. Sarah,
Patch the old worn shade,
Prop up the tOttering table,
Yes, it's rustic and homemade.
Shake the iute-;olOred rugs, Sarah,
STUN mattresses with more hay,
For the Legislature folk are coming,
Sure! High rent they pay!"
There is no doubt but that there are
honest and smart attorneys upon this
old planet. The trouble seems to be,
however, that the honest attorneys are
not smart and the smart attorneys are
not honest.
At Ksnkakee, ILL.,, preacher aged
IA. wanted TO marry a girl of l6 years.
The mother of the girl WAS willing,
but public sentiment entered a protest
and the marriage has not yet been
consummated.
People can stand off their debts, the
barkeeper, the milkman, the butcher,
the baker. the candlestick maker, and
go on, but when old Death comes
knocking, it's all of-Death takes the
trick, and ends the game for all.
Roosevel,'s negro. soldier policy is to
the Republican party just what the
great Republican critics claimed for
Bryan's Government ownership of
railroads" speech in Madison Square
Garden in New York city, upon his
arrival homo from Europe-a vote
killer.
Judge Holden Of the Cook county,
ILL.,, Superior Court has won immortal
renown, as we'll as the gratitude of
mother in.lsws forever, by the enun.
citation OF the dictum that o mother.
in.law around the house, that don't
bite or scatter feas, is no more objec.
tionable than . dog"
And now the President has Congress
on his hands. but he will see to it that he
does not have Congress on his neck
Seattle Argus.
Probably. Just now, however, the
President is very busy engaged try
ing 10 wiggle from under the pressure
of the Senate which is upon his back,
in the case of the discharged negro
soldiers.
Rev. Thomas b. Hyde, Of Cincin.
natl, urges women to take into their
own hands the matter OF proposing
matrimony, holding that many more
marriages would result from such q
course. He says that some men are
too bashful to propose and would be
grateful if women would help them
out"
Editor-in-Chief Blethen of the Sc.
attle Times is weary, tired and dis
gusted with the insanity plea adopted
by every murderer in this State. It's
only farce. When person deliber.
ately shoots . fellow man in cold
blood. he should pay the penalty
death-himself. No man has the
right to murder another. Not one OF
these cold.blooded murderers, out OF
ten, are insane. II is only . plea to
save their own miserable lives.