Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-01-10

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the sale of each composition.
First Olympia Citizen: " frank
" admit that believe in the equal
/ ity If the sexes
! Second Olympia Citizen; Wait
TIL you're married and you won
! he So conccited, my boy.
Owing to the increased cost Of
white paper and labor that is neceS
sary in publishing Il newspaper these
strenuous days of prosperity, the
| P.-I. and Times of Seattle have in,
creased the price of subscription.
A man in Maine has celebrated his
10th birthday. He announces that
he is a moderate whisky drinker.
Now if he will only add Olympia
beer. It's the Water he will live
to celebrate his 2OOth birthday. He
can help it.
Tommy notes the sausage links
Swinging wild and free
And he to himself remarks,
In tone of glee:
Are those things bananas, and
ID, they by the sea,
In the sunny trOpic grow,
Ga the log-woOd tree"
Harve Scott, with the Ongoaion,
has said toot-toot, FAREWELL to
the Republicans of Oregon. This
was somewhat of q surprise. but
Scott knows that the revision of the
tariff is the only thing for the Re.
publicans to do, and do it now. But
will they?
An Olympia man is business first,
last and all the time. When his
intended sOn-in-law asked him the
other day for the hand of his daugh-
ter in marriage he replied: Yes,
take her, and if she isn't up to our
advertisement. bring her back and
exchange her.
A hObO-Of course he was a hobo,
for he was Stoney-broke in Sacra-
mentO, stole a suit of clothes, was
arrested, and sentenced to three
months hard labor. Serves the fell
low right! Why didn't he buy one
from a merchant on credit and never
pay for it, like gentlemen?
That religious editor of an Eastern
Washington paper who criticises
paragraphs in this column pertain
ing to Sky Pilots" is more to be
pitied than censured. His intellect
is so dense that it would take the
auger of common sense longer TO
penetrate it than to bore through
Mt. Rainier with a boiled corrot.
A friend of mine met an Olympia
woman on Main street, last Tuesday
afternoon, and said to her: Isup-
pose you are very glad that your
husband is entirely cured of rheuma-
tism?' Yes, replied the woman,
l suppose ought to be, but from
now on we shall have to guess at the
weather or buy q barometer, if his
bones stop aching before a damp
SPELL"
My DEAR" murmured the Olym-
pia sick man to his wife. II am near
ing the golden streets. hear the
strains of sweetest music, unearthly
in its beauty, -"
William" said his wife, what
you hear is the talking machine in
the house across the street" 80
it is. Darn those people, anyhow.
No consideration for their neighbors,
Go and tell them to stop that in
fernal racket at once"
Many people have queer ideas
about those who are engaged in the
show business and are prejudiced
against any and all things theatrical.
There are just as good and virtuous
folks amongst those who " tread the
boards" as in any other class of So
ciety on this old Earth. 1t is an
honest business and let me tell you
that these men and women who are
engaged in the profession work hard
and earn every dollar they get.
It was Sunday morning. The
minister had started for church.
The family were preparing to follow
when the youngest. a five-year-old,
protested, l do not want to go to
church. Il do not feel much like
it myself, Fred, this morning." re-
piled his mother, but we must 90.
Father has to go-has gone already,
and he has to preach" Yes"
said Fred, unconcerned, but we
have to listen, and that is worser."
When a tramp printer used to
hit" the town, If there was no
work the boys in the offices would al.
ways chip in to help him on to the
next burg. This thing was a sort of
unwritten law amongst the craft.
About the same as old time gamblers
in years past, stalking one of their
associates who had gone broke
through run of ill-luck. It won't
be long until the old rum-soaked
tramp-printer will be as extinct as
the dodo.
Do not attempt to destroy any system
OF religion until you can offer q better
one in its stead.-Er.
Probably there is not a case of
that kind. Everyone thinks his re-
ligiOn the best. 1t would be far bet
ter to say: Accord to everyone abe
right to the religion that suits hin..
The agitation of thought is the be-
ginning of wisdom" and it applies
as well to religious thought as on
any other subject in which there are
differences of opinion.
Talking about hold-ups, porch
climbers and safe-crackers in Seat.
tie, they are not in it. I read In the
F..L issue OF Dec. 9th, where a
saloon-keeper In Seattle complained
to the management of the Pacific
hospital of the Queen City, that sew
eral bottles of beer and champagne,
left there for his wife who was o
patient in the hospital, had been
stolen. An investigation was in
stituted by the hospital nurses and
physicians. The blame was placed
on two Seattle physicians, who had
patients in the hospital. Talking
about stealing pennies off q dead