Life — April 6, 1893 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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Agent for Fifth Ave. Stage Co.: WWaTt atts Him? Dealer: WELL, | HAVEN'T EXAMINED HIM THOROUGHLY YET, RUT SO FAR, I FIND HE ONLY HAS HEAVES, RING-BONE, ELEPHANTIASIS, SPAVIN, SPRING-HALT, SCRATCHES, SWINNEY AND PINK EYE. Agent for the Co.: THEN WE'S TOO EXPENSIVE A HORSE FOR US. 223 N last week's LIFE, which was published on Tuesday, appeared a paragraph making the late Elliot F. Shepard the subject of a not ill- natured jest. Col. Shepard died suddenly on the preceding Friday, when the greater portion of LiFE’s edition had already left the press, and was in the hands cf the binder. Under the circumstances, it was impossible to delay publication, even though some people, who do not consider the mechanical neces- sities in the production of an elabo- rately illustrated journal, might ascribe to LIFE a bad taste and uncharitableness, of which it has never been guilty. Of Col. Shep- ard, alive and dead, many kind things have been said and written. To his friends and associates he showed a kindly and sympathetic side of his nature, which makes his sudden death a sincere affliction in which they have LIFE’s sincerest sympathy. A CHANGE OF TONE. ELLA (leaning over her father's chair and putting her arm around his neck): You dear, sweet, old papa, you've been very good to your little girl since her engagement. Mr. HYDE (déssing her): I'm always glad to make my sunbeam happy. BELLA: Ab, I know that! And you've given me swcé an elegant sealskin sack ; and dresses ; and hats; and such lovely diamonds ; and everything you could think of. Mr. HYDE (complacently): Yes, 1 want you to have a good send-off. BELLA: You have been perfectly lovely, and your little pet appreciates it. will be awfully sorry to leave you. Mr. HyDE: It is hard to lose you, dear; but you have the right to be happy. I only want you to think, sometimes, of your foolish, indulgent old father, and remem- ber that he did everything he could to make home pleasant for you before you left him in his lonely old age. BELLA: Oh, you dear, sweet papa! after all? Mr. HyDE (starting): Eh! BELLA: How can I be so selfish after you have been so good to.me, and done everything for me? I don’t care so very, very much for George! I'm going to tell him it was all a mistake, and that he can find somebody else, for I’m always going to stay home and be papa’s own dear little girl! And then, you can give me nice things a// the time! Mr. HyDE (¢” great alarm): Good Lord, Bella! what are you talking about ! Don't be so silly; you'll never get another such a chance! You marry George next month, and no foolin’ about it! Harry Romaine. She What would you say if I didn’t leave you ECTOR (0 chotr master): suit the church members. CHOIR MASTER: No. It ought to be kept up throughout the sermon. We don't have enough congregational singing to ake Barnum circus, perennially gorgeous and perennially greater than ever before, is with us again. It is a pity that the exigen- cies of the Columbian year make necessary a repetition of last year’s spectacle, but the management does its best to make up for this by im- provements in other departments. Even yet the spirit of the lamented Barnum seems to guide success- fully the proud creation of his life- time. HE Sun has come out in favor of office-seeking and the office- seekers. The popular idea of the office-secker is that he devotes all his time and energy to looking out for his‘own interests, and it is diffi- cult to understand why he needs an advocate. But it is said that much of the Sun's venom comes from once disappointed ambitions in the office-seeking line, and per- haps this is only an instance of a fellow-feeling making a newspaper wondrous kind. comicbooks.com