Life — November 15, 1883 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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very cheerful and inspiriting play. It tells how one Jagon choked a fellow-creature to death, and goes finally into the hands of an executioner. But, at any rate, there is some interest in this tale of horror—while the other two plays are merely horrors. Yet I must not fail to make this point—that Mr. Belasco, with his usual modesty, describes himself as the author of ‘* The Stranglers of Paris.” Mr. Belasco did arrange M. Belot’s play for our stage. G. E. M. (Vixen. MONSIGNOR CAPEL, WHAT'S ina name? Our friend Capel On talk is nowise hazy, But rhyming with his name repel Will nearly drive him crazy. And some whose wits are rather dull, Although their learnings staple, Insist that this renowned John Bull Should be pronounced Tom Capel. But those who make the fewest slips Do not with ethics grapple; I have it from his priestly lips, Monsignor calls it Capel. AFTER the Hon. John Sullivan, of Boston, has pound- ed a fellow man's head to a pulp, the victim is ever afterward opposed, on human grounds, to capital punishment. ‘LIFE: RENDER VNTO $CIS§$OR$ THOSE THIHGS WHICH ARE SCISSORS - sy 8 THE TERNS IV, 8 48. WHAT IS THE USE. Ww is the use of this impetuous haste ? ‘The end is certain. Let us take our time, And hoard the vital forces that we waste Before the day has reached the golden prime. What is the use of rushing with spent breath Alter Old Age, its furrows, its white hair? Why need we hurry so to welcome Death, Or go half-way, with hands stretched out to Care ? There is no use. Dear heart, if we but wait, All things will find us. Let us pause, I say. We cannot go beyond the silent gate ‘That lies a short day’s journey down the way. Let us take time for love and its delights ; It is the one sweet thing that pays for all The bitterness of life, for Sorrow's blight, For Pain's despair and Death's funereal pall. 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