Show AS I 1 RECALL THEM isac by OLD TIMER A boll A wholesale liquor dealer in a atana cow town appeared on the sarp limping and carrying a cane most people thought it was mon tana rheumatism which waa was quite popular then with even some of the best but ike explained that lt it 1 aka JL 0 1 when sitting he used only o 0 chair and took most ot of his meals standing A few days lat er the local paper ran the following why Is ike like a lococo tive because he has a tender tenderfoot when we arrived in this three year old town before it became a cow town it was supported largely by the soldiers from the hearby nearby gov eminent post there were 36 sa loons and gambling houses and sev eral oral dance halls and codville vod ville thea you can imagine how strange it sounded to the eastern tenderfoot to see and hear a man walking down the principal street ringing a hand bell and shouting keno heno tonight charley brown browns s keno heno tonight charley brown 8 I 1 charlie boasted that the doors of his gambling joint were never lock ed ran 24 hours every day and night tor for many years alaskan loses five this same charley brown was the father of kid brown who operated a similar business during the alaskan boom A down and outer who had lost bis his all at the kid a tables said kid lend me TEN kid stepped back over to the cash register rang up FIVE dollars and said we each lose five humming birds A butte clothing merchant sold a miner a suit of clothes after tak ing his purchase home his wife said these clothes are full of moths you better take them back and get your money the man approached the merchant and said I 1 these clothes are full of moths and the merchant snapped back what do yon expect cummin birds winter dais perhaps it was this same merchant who was looking over a drummers samples and asked the term when told 60 days he replied vat days in de do vinter dime yen de days are so short butte the manager of a large mining machinery business in butte in the long ago came home late one night noticeably under the influence and when his wife questioned him he said jack robinson Is in town I 1 not long ago the same thing bap hap bened again he was unable to find the keyhole so she opened the door and said icily I 1 suppose that damned robinson Is in town again A director lawyer did I 1 understand you to say that your son was one on the dl di rectors of the equitable lite life assurance company I 1 mrs buggs I 1 why yes you must have seen him the thes a that tall fellow follow who stands in the hallway and dl di erects people to the elevator streets officer gasped the man in the automobile I 1 just ran over some person a block back I 1 know did responded the genial policeman but no matter he was only a first term congress man philadelphia bullet bulletin 1906 honesty captain howes late iron from the ocean said all men are honest but they don t stay honest want if ilk fl f 10 lo L to hell two of captain captains s neighbors caleb and laban on the cape were great cronies had been to sea to gether but had retired they would go up to boston frequently tor for a good old time I 1 when they returned home caleb s wife would razz him to a finish this went on tor for years in tact fatt till laban passed away A little later caleb a wife passed away later on old caleb sat eat around bad had lost hia his desire to go to boa bos ton finally caleb became very sick and bis his daughter said father you are very sick don dont t you want a minister caleb said I 1 no don t want any minister 11 then said the daughter dun don I 1 you want to so go to beaverr with mot or no I 1 want to go to hell with la ban church collection three Scotch men were in church when the parson announced a spec lal collection they whispered to each other and just before the plate carrying deacon reached them the one in the middle was suddenly tak en sick and the others on each E s de carried him out the building A liberal giver A montana man formerly from massachusetts the home of or the thrifty attended a small church sunday evening the congregation was small the usual collection waa was gathered in one of the ushers was seen to speak confidentially to the pastor who then thanked those pres ent for the large amount collected after the service the thrift one went ment up and said that he had put in a ten dollar gold piece by mistake he did not realize it until the pastor had praised the liberal giver then he said he had realized that in error he had put in a ten dollar gold piece that his intent had been to put in a quarter most men would have let it go at that but not our massachusetts boy he went up and ex planed his error and in exchange put in a quarter and got back the gold piece horal moral aven a minister can talk too oo 00 much especially on finance |