Life — September 27, 1888 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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O what is luck ? Luck’s something that the other fellow has Whene’er I buy a ticket at the track. He knows no more than I of horses in the race, Nor has he straighter tips than mine ; And yet, when quarter and back-stretch are past, And jockeys ply the whip and spur, And, with a wild, exhilarating rush, The steeds tear underneath the wire— ‘That gay-striped check, on which I built fond hopes Of hours of * wein, weib und gesang,” Is flung in tattered bits upon the ground, While he, of greasy hat and rusty coat, Rakes in the shekels that I've helped him win! That is luck, R. STAGG, of Yale, will not become a professional ball player, because his moral principles will not permit him to kick in sufficiently effective language. . . . [oer Yes, our three-sided fishery controversy with England and Canada does seem to be a sort of Try-Angle-O-Saxon affair, But be careful not to do any- thing of this kind again. . . . T HERE are two very objectionable trusts that have been recently formed, and with both of which we presume Mr. James G. Blaine, of Augusta, Maine, will consider that no one has a right to interfere. One of these is the John L. Sullivan trust, and the other is the Terpsichorean Trust, otherwise known as the American Society of Dancing- Masters. . . . HE first of these trusts has made John L. Sullivan a monopoly, having formed a syndicate to train him for conflict with other pugilistic gentlemen. The result will be that Sullivan will become an expensive commodity, and the public will be obliged to pay its dollars to observe him slug his fellow men instead of witnessing him, gratis, staggering about the streets of Boston thrashing cabmen and waitresses. The Terpsichorean Trust is an even greater menace to the welfare of society. The trust refuses to admit rural dancing- masters, because those gentlemen having thus learned the fashions obtain patrons who would otherwise come to the cities to be taught. By these means dancing is made expensive and the poor are deprived of their necessities. The Sullivan and the Terpsichorean trusts must go. OUR RESH AIR FUND Before After HIS is the last appeal we make this season in behalf of the city children, but any contributions hereafter received will be devoted to the purpose, and at once. We thank our readers heartily for the money they have so freely given. More than nineteen hundred children have been made happy by it, and many cases of sickness and death have probably been averted. $5,827.61 3.00 Zoo «2.00 20.00 + 6.00 100.¢0 + 6.00 3.00 Previously acknowledged A.C. L Cha Bx W.B.D. 7. In Memory of J. C.'C. “Whistlers” . . . A Young Bachelor’. ” F. F.0. F. ‘In Memoria ive-Cent Pieces”... Proceeds of a Fair held by Carlie Olds, Frank Lombard, Tom Barnes and Connie Wilder, four children from Fort Wayne, Ind. Arar) Total, see 8 eo $5,977.76 . . . F that rat that created the excitement on First Avenue, near Fifty-eighth Street, last week, has any sense of humor, it must be laughing over the matter yet. The rat came out in a trap to make a Roman holiday for a bulldog, a terrier, the proprietor of the two latter animals, and the residents of the thoroughfare for two blocks in either direc- tion, When the crowd had assembled, the rat was let out of the trap, and straightway jumped into a cellar. The bull- dog, in the excitement of the moment, killed the terrier by mistake, and bit three men, and then a policeman killed the bulldog. And the rat is wondering which of them all had the most fun. . . . THE IMPORTANT POINT. ean was a Chicago girl, and she was deeply ab- sorbed in a novel. A bland old gentleman in the next seat leaned over and asked: “Ts the heroine mar- ried yet?” “Oh, long ago,” was the reply, “but I'm just dying to know whether she secured a divorce.” comicbooks.com