Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-04-26
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Sonl Of the Motorcycle.

| Sonf Of the Motorcycle.
Sing song OF motorcycles. pocket full
of gold,
| FOur-and-twenty different kinds, and
each the best one sold;
Each one with its partisans it's eulogies
to sing.
The king has left the counting house, and
wisely spent his money,
The queen and he are motorcycling, for
getting bread and honey.
The maid has bought motorcycle, too,
and left off hanging clothes;
'TwOuld take nimble blackbird now to
nip off hall her nose.
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Oh, yes! / can slice by zhe dawnsh
early light,
An Z do It don't have zhe leasht
bit OF trouble;
fine izh my shight,
ways shee double.
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The suffragettes in London, by
the breaking of windows also broke
their chance to vote, for while at
least.
When newspaper says: The
reasons which induced the company
to take this step are obvious. The
paper means that the reporter could
not find out.
There are two things l have OBJ
served during my career on this old
planet-a funeral never starts at the
appointed time; and woman never
starts when she declares that she is
ready.
'sI am in favor Of the publicity by
law OF the names OF the owners OF
newspapers. Do you know that
some of the most influential news
papers are owned by predatory
wealth. - William j. Bryan.
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Mr.. Cotterill, clean and capable and
not committed in his candidacy or elec-
ton 70 the carrying into his adminislra-
ton Of any Qf the radical idqas Il which
he has been the tifelese exp6a1d6t, 1lionI6
give the city eais, business lite ana
constructive administrati0n.-P.-
For the love Of Mike, what do you
know about this? Before the primary
the P.-L; told its readers daily that
Cotterill was not the man for Mayor
Of Seattle-had too many "isms"
and 20 on and on.
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Rev. Frederick w. Keator, Bishop
of the Episcopal diocese Of Olympia,
says he is six feet and one. half.
inch in stature. 225 pounds in weight
and each pound and ounce OF height
and weight are for Taft now and IL
ways" Frederick. from my view
point. seems too big 9 man 70 pos
sess 30 little gray matter q 70
imagine for second his friend s.Bill''
viii be the next President of the
United States.
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The politicians are offering enough
new plans to aprinkle the hillsides with
bungalows. s.-zdconG Trj6xne.
I've heard Of the raining Of snakes,
frogs, worms-even OF cats and
Edogs"-the falling Of red. yellow and
other colors Of snow. but geel when
i comes to sprirkling !" bungalows''
The plans Of politicians, or any
other clique Of two-legged auimals1
well. it's me for . limburger sand
wich, dill pickles, and an amber
colored bottle Of Its the Water. .
T. s.: I'm at lunch. Let the Ta-
coma Tribune scribe sprinkle the
hillsides with bungalows. and 90
be d.
An Olympia man in his letter to
me. addresses me as Dear Mr..
Spud = l know the term Of en-
dearment is truthful, for : spuds -
well, ] paid 10 cents for pound Of
'em atan Olympia market The other
day. Dear Mr.. "Spudy Well, I
should giggle. What's more. it was
the last 1O-cent coin I possessed, nor
did have any other coin Of larger
denomination concealed ia my mus
tache, either. Nevertheless, though
minus the ter-cent coin. l enjoyed q
bottle Of Its the Water,' (amber-
colored bottle) and drank health to
the Olympia man who addressed mo
as Dear Mr.. Spud You bet.
Inotice an Olympia firm is adver-
tising Tacoma's Montamara Festo.
and Seattle's Golden Potlatch, on
its envelopes. also observe Is re-
CARDS Tacoma's Festo, that the ad.
vertisement Of the same on the en-
valope, IS as follows: Montamara
Festo." J" Then cut Of the tiger
(emblem of the Festo) and under
meath the same is printed: Ia
coma, q. S. A., June 29-July 4.
1872" While as to Seattle's ''Gold-