Life — May 18, 1893 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE- SSR) AT NLL LOOK OUT. HERE are children saving pennies where the noble Hudson rolls, And men in California are stacking up their ‘* doles.” The farmer sells his yearling colts—most prized of all his stock, And the city man is Coming—his wife with gorgeous frock. In short, with cash well laden from Beersheba to Dan, They are coming to make happy the Chicago bunco man. —Quips of Buffalo. Generai O. O. Howard was in Chattanooga the other day, a beggar, with a arm, fror the fingers and part of the hand were missing, came up to him nd asked for alms. The general, with a twinkle in his eye, held out his empty sleeve nd said: * You are better off than Lam, for you have your arm left, while 1 have lost ed at the empty sleeve (or a moment, and then extracted fifteen cents tattered jeans trousers. ‘Here, he said, turning to General got, but you're welcome to it."” There was a general laugh at he expense of the distinguished commander of the Department of the East, and he made ¢ man happy by giving him a silver dollar.—Argonaut. Soon after the death of Jay Gould, Robinson was trying to instil into his youngest the moral of money-getting. The little fellow sat on his father's knee and listened intently. “Now, Ralph, my boy, bere are two men typical of this generation, Gould and George W. Childs. The one made riches his god, and sacrificed everything, even life, to the search for wealth, The other won his wealth through honorable exertions, and uses his riches to make people happier and nobler. Now which would my boy rather be?” Ralph thought. "Childs," he answered. Robinson gazed lovingly at the youngster. “Now, why would you rather be Childs ?” ** Cause he ain't dead,”"—Budget, “Ah, that’s my own boy,” he said, N short, X. is a great personage. Suppose I address him: * My honored master’ ?* Nonsense! a scamp like that !"" Say, what would you put?” should simply write :“ My dear colleague.'"—Le Journal pour Tous. DuRIxG ‘ Stonewall” Jackson's campaign in the Shenandoah Valley, it became nec- essary that a bridge over a small creek should be built in great haste. One evening Jack- son sent for his old pioneet captain, Myers by name, and pointed out to him the urgency ef the occasion, saying that he would send him the plan of his colonel of engineers 9s soon as it was done. 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