Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-04-15
WHOLE NUMBER 2.603.


up of conductors and brakemen
would do some good, perhaps.
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See what the prohibition hypo-
critics have done in Kansas Gee!
Isn't this awful, Mable? Read this:
Unable to obtain LIQUOR i'm Chase.
Rice county. Lee Baker, a travelling
barber, imbibed a bottle of hair tonic
and died in few hours. .'-Datly Paper.
Poor Baker. Just because he could
not procure liquor, Lee drank hair
tonic. and died. o you prohibition
lists. look out for the questions St.
Peter will ask you when you stand
before the pearly gates-on your
road to h. no doubt. Prohibition
lst hair tonic! ye gods!
y man in Seattle who owns some
property in the sluicing district of
that city, is responsible for the fol-
lowing verse. His wife and family
live in Illinois, and he has been try
ing to accumulate enough money to
send her ticket SO she can join him
in that city, but owing to regrade
matters he has failed to do so, it
taking every cent he can obtain to
maintain his property:
They are sluicing, sluicing, sluicing,
In Seattle, Jennie dear,
And Pm losing, losing, losing,
Patience, sweetheart, l fear.
FOR expense, expense, expenses,
Increase, even while sleep;
How III ever send you ticket,
Makes me weep and weep and weep
The individual who says we have
too much rain on Puget Sound, is
the fellow who generally goes back
East to live-never intending to come
to Washington State again-but in
less then six months we meet him on
Puget Sound, and when asked why
he did not remain at his home away
back East" he responds: "Oh things
have changed so; old friends have
died." and so on. This may be so
in some cases, but generally, the
chief and lone reason for his re-
turn, is, that he could not do with
out the cool Summer weather, and
the great, grand and glorious Winter.
rains of charming, enchanting, dear
old Puget Sound.
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You remember the old tale about
the fellow who was in the calaboose,
peeping out the one little iron barred
wicket of the structure, when a
friend of his came along and spying
him in Jail, said: Hello, Joe! What
the mischief are you doing in there?"
Joe told him.
Why" said the friend, "the
policeman cannot put you in Jail for
doing that. No, sir; they cannot"
Il know they can't" replied the
prisoner, but I'm in, just the same"
This applies to the Taft-Pinchot
incident. Pinchot's friends declared
Taft couldn't fire. the forester
PinchOt being too near q friend of
Roosevelt. But you know Taf: did
" fire" Pinchot.
1t was the case of the prisoner in
jail-the policeman could not lock
him up-but he was in.
If Olympia piano players wish to
learn what some women think of
piano-players, from q marriage view,
read the following clipping from the
Chicago Musical Register of q late
date:
Chicago has $50 piano. players. per-
haps more. each one in dire need of
life companion. At a loss as to the pro-
cedure in securing their hearts desire,
they called in the assistance of " Hank
North. "Hank" at once instigated
vigorous campaign placing lads" in
various dailies. ANY replies? To be
sure there were, and plenty of them.
Many of the fair sex wrote for further
information others were quite ready but
presented numerous conditions and on
these and these only would they ever
think of marrying a piano-player
Certain of the conditions enumerated
by some of the women were-never
to play Convent Bells," ANGELS
Prayer" "Rippling Waves" waltz, or
"The MOcking Bird" He must bring
home his weekly wages. He must not
smoke cigarettes. Il could love good
man even if lie was a piano-player,"
wrota Ona Of tho Woman