The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-03-09

| have sort of got it fingered OUT
that you people don't give a tinker S
well a tinker's toothpick whether
| ever come back or not. When
came over here l asked you to write
to me any kicks or good words you
had. and blessed if l have had more
than one letter Just one lone letter.
OF course, that shows you haven't
any very serious kicks to make, but,
am sorry. If you haven't got any
good words to say | wish you dlu
have some bad ones. 1t is alrlsght
some people think for paper TO run
along in this pink-tea sort Of assn
ion. but it don't suit me. What's the
matter? Haven't you got red blood !
Or, is it the paper that is getting
enemic Bless my heart if we don't
stir up something pretty quick we
will get to quarreing. You know
there is no quarrel breeder like TOO
much peace.
For gracious sake start something.
If we can't be friends, let's be enc
mics. None of this after you Alton
so" business for me.
AS | understand the dispatches the
state road will be located according
to the judgment of the state engl-
neers. Such being the case 1t VIII
take the Guide Meridian, Sumas-
Blaine route. The state engineer mas
expressed his preference for that
route.
1t never pays to do anything you
are ashamed for the world to know.
Nine chances to one there is some
one around the corner peeking.
Have you arranged to sprinkle
your lawn this summer? Have you
bought lot of flowers, or borrow
ed or stole them? You know we
ought to be the most beautiful town
in the state of Washington now.
There is absolutely nothing to him
der it unless it is ourselves.
A prize-fighter, and saloon tough
was converted in Bellingham, accord
ing to the Herald Thereafter for
several weeks he was out Of work
and he borrowed money of several
of the church members Then on the
complaint of the minister of God he
was arrested by the police SO he
could not fleece any more of the
flock. At the station this is what ne
is quoted as saying:
me for the padded mitt and the
sixteen-foot ring" exclaimed Patter-
son as he cast his Bible away from
him in deep disgust. This is a swell
bunch of church workers | have tal-
make an innocent touch here and
there, and straightaway you can hear
the righteous scream clear to Mount
Baker. | don't savoy the system;
back among the roughnecks for mine,
where | can understand the game bet
ter.
Possibly there were eXtenuating
circumstances that warranted the ar
rest of the man, but if 50 the Her
aid doesn't tell them. 1t strikes me
that the ex-prize-fighter did just the
right thing in declaring that he was
going back to the old friends. And,
1T strikes me that many church men,
bers may learn. a lesson from him.
Do you know, if he was an eX-
fighter, he told an exact truth when
lie said Il don't savoy the system.
Among the people he had been as
sociating with, If he was short of
money he hesitated not to ask for
it. He got it too-probably in larger
chunks than any he borrowed from
the church people. Then he got out
TO look for someway to repay his
friends. If he didn't return the non
ey he had borrowed in two weeks,
the bar-keep who had loaned it 20
him wasn't looking for any warrant.
If the bar-keep learned that he had
also borrowed from several other
bar-keeps it didn't bother him. If
you too had loaned him little
money and had gone to the bar-keep
to enquire about why it wasn't re-
turned, the bar-keep would have said
a good word for his friend. And,
sooner or later, when he had gotten
a wad together again he repaid the
bar-keep and the tout, and the fall-
en- angel and the dozen and one other
whom he had touched
want to tell you church people
that now when We are doing away
with what We call the wicked saloon
element, we better take a tumble TO
ourselves and copy a few of the viz
tues of that element. We are too
cussed suspicious of everyone. We
think too much of a dollar. We are
too ready to condemn everyone who