Life — April 27, 1893 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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> LIFE: A MYSTERY EXPLAINED. «6 C)H, poet, tell me why You love to try Such frequent flights to wing With Spriag. Though other seasons bring Themes worth your caroling, You seem to cling To Spring.” He paused ere he replied, And then he sighed, “Tsing Of Spring Because most anything Will rhyme with Spring.” —Industries, QUEER and racy are the tales told of the skill of the Maine ship-builders in the use of the adze and broad-axe. at a ship-yard for employment. One old-time yarn is of a carpenter who applied, very drunk, In order to have a little fun with him, the foreman set him to give a proof of his skill by hewing out a wooden bolt with no chopping-bloc y astone. The carpenter accomplished this difficult task without marring the edge og broad-axe, and Showed the foreman a neatly made bolt. Then he brought the w down with a terrific blow that shattered its edge upon the stone. ‘I can hew fusey on your chopping-block,” he hiccoughed ; ‘* but I'll be damned if I can make the ares in it when I git through.” The story runs that the foreman lost no time in employ such a workman.—New York Sun. THE lissome form of the beautiful woman was shaken by the convulsions of jy grief, and the fixed look of dumb, hopeless misery in her dark eyes was pitiful beyag words. “ Marian, Marian, for your own sake be calm,” entreated her friend as she key, her side and teaderly removed the hands that had covered the hot, tear-stained fq * Tell me what it all means, dear.” = “LT cannot, I cannot,” was the dull, listless reply. ‘No—no; I never can tel one.” You must—you shall,” insisted the other, firmly. ‘I cannot bear to se ness crushed out of your life without sharing the burden with you, sweet. Per it will make you feel better. ; “Nothing can do that now. But I will tell you, It is best you should know gl perhaps. You—you remember that horrid creature from Cadillac whom I engageta] cook last week ? Oh, I thought she was such a paragon. So young and modest ai dainty in her ways! 'I—I had every confidence in her. And this morning I happesel step into the dining-room just as there was a great crash in the kitchen. I opened door quickly and saw my new soup tureen lying in fragments on the floor and my by band kissing the cook. * The monster!" hissed her friend. ney sobbed the stricken woman, house."—Grand Rapids Democrat. “It was the loveliest piece of chioa numbers of LIFE, ‘Back can XVI), $15.00 each, bound. Vols III. 1V becrit be bad by applying ak this oftce i ¥., V.. Vio, EX XVIT and XVII, bers wishing address changed will jrreally facilitate matters by sending old addres as well as new. h, bound. Single ‘of Vols I. and IT. out of print. Vol. I., bound, $90.00. Vols II, VIII., XIII, and XIV., $20.00 each, bound. Vola. 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