Life — October 19, 1893 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE: SIGNS OF THE TIMES. “THERE once was a LL.D., Well versed in the wisest old SS.; But he had not a £ To his name, I'll be bound— Though I ne'er could discover the CC. —Boston Courter. SevERAL years ago there was an old family in Pennsylvania named Roth, "Indeed. the long line of Roths was about all the family had to show by way of distinction, and so. much did they make of the long branches of the family tree and the Niagara of blue blood that had ia centuries past coursed through their veins, that people of the more recent generations really began to think these Roths were of some account. One evening there happened to be a party in the little town of M—, and besides the great Roth family the guests numbered among others young Dr. Sharp. He was a popular and rising physician, and considered by match-making mammas a particularly desirable catch. Mrs, Roth had four marriageable daughters, so at the first favorable opportunity she cornered the young doctor and sought to impress upon him the importance of her wonderful family. “Why, doctor,” she said, ‘* we all came over in the Mayflower ; so I know you wij not think me bold in asserting that the Koths are really one of the first families * Pardon me,” replied the young physician, ‘ but I have no hesitation in sayi your family enjoys even a greater distinction.” +O, doctor,” gushed the old woman, giving herself a congratulatory h ing triumph." Indeed you flatter us.” Not at all,” he replied, * for T know you are fhe first family.” Who told you that, dear dector ?” “The Bible,” he rephed reverently, ‘for it says the Lord was Roth. Budget, comi Once during the argument in a lawsuit. in which Lincoln represented one par lawyer on the other side was a good deal of a glib talker, but not reckoned as deep: found or much of a thinker. He would say anything to a jury which happene his head. Lincoln, in his address to the jury, referring to thi “My friend on the other side is all right, or would be all right, were it not for the peculiarity 1 am about to chronicle. His habit—of which you have witnessed a sey painful specimen in his argument to you in this case—of reckless assertion and statements without grounds, need not be imputed to him as a moral fault or as telling blemish.” He can't help it. For reasons which, gentlemen of the jury, you and I have not the time to study here, as deplorable as they are surprising, the oratory of the gente man completely suspends all action of his mind. The moment he begins to talk, bis mental operations cease. I never knew of but one thing which compared with my fried in this particular. That was a small steamboat. Back in the days when I performed my part asa keel boatman, I made the acquaintance of a trifling little steamboat which wd to bustle and puff and ‘wheeze about the Sangamon river. Tt had a five foot boiler and aseven foot whistle, and every time it whistled it stopped."—Argonaut, ots Land II. out « 99 each, bound. V Rack numbers of Lire can bo bad by aj XY. and XVI, $15.00 each, ‘Vols. Bubseribers wishing ing at thia office, Single copies of way XVI. and XV i WIV. V., Vi 1. gio, ldrews changed will greatly facilitate matters by sending old address as well as Vol. I, bound, $0.00, Vols IL, VII, XIII, and XIV , $900 each, Vound, Vols. VIL, X.,X1, IL, and XX, $5.00 each. Back numbers one year oki, 28 cents per copy. 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