Life — October 26, 1893 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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> LIFE: Y AM SEISSERS AvT IN HIS OWN COUNTRY. HE. prophet hath a curious way His nders to perform; For he predicts a sunny day And straightway comes a storm “My answer is final, Mr, Whackster,” haughtily replied the young woman, idea is absurd 1" Haven't you any love for me, Miss one, sir! listen toa proposal of marriaj I don't know,” answ e from you?” me that causes you to reject me so scornfully ? ed the young man, reflectively. —Kate Field's Washington. “The ertie 2" What have you ever seen in me that has led you to suppose I would “What have you scen in 1 think Iam not mistaken in the con- clusion that you reject me with more or less scorn 2” ** You are not mistaken, Mr. Whackster, and fam perfectly willing that you should know the reaso in life. You are a drone in society. You seem to have no worthy ambition, no definite purpose, no object You have wasted in trivial amusement the years that other young men in your station would have devoted to fitting themselves for a high and noble destiny. You have no conception of the joys that reward the man who con. secrates himself toa lofty ideal, You know absolutely nothing of the pleasures of the thinker, | Content to dnift along on the surface of things, with no wish or amLition 19 control the course of events and leave your impress on the age in which you live, you are aman with whom no high-minded, self-respecting, intellectual woman could think of linking her fate, without a shudder !”" “Perhaps I am,” rejoined the young man, reaching for his hat and confronting ber, as he rose to go, with a look as proud and haughty as ber own.‘ Perhaps | am, Mis Gertie Plunkett, but I don’t weara pink shirt !"—Axchange. NS MULLER, a private in the Pomeranian Grenadi flogging, went down into the barrack yard to undergo his punishment. The officer appointed to superintend the proceedings was rather surprised at the man's demeanor, something quite unusual on the like occasion, Muller was evidently in good spitits, ard had difficulty in repressing a strong inclination to laugh. At the first blow he exploded; his merriment increased during his cruel sufferings, and when at last he was left panting and bleeding on the ground in the yard, he laughed till the tears came. “Now, then!” said the bewildered officer, “what has come over you? Why do you laugh >” “Tam laughing,” replied the victim, * because for the last half hour you have been laboring under a tremendous delusion, ‘There are two of us in the ccmpan Hans Muller, and another, Fritz Muller. 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