Life — October 25, 1894 — page 13: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

He: She: REGINALD CERI SHE THINKS SHE down the stairs, and caused different parts of me to strike on each stair as I went down.” “ And did you not protest, Giaour ?” “Indeed, did 1; but to what purpose ? many more of them than there were of me.” “Wait without the gate, Giaour. Mustapha, drag this theatre man before me.” The Cadi disappeared behind the curtain for a few moments, and a suspicious gurgle as of fluid escaping from a bottle, seemed to indicate that he was indulging in one of the pleasures forbidden to faithful followers of the Prophet. As he resumed his place, Mustapha appeared, leading a fleshy man, adorned with a very shiny silk hat, several large and off-colored diamonds, and a hackman’s mustache. “ How now, slave,” asked the Cadi, “is the tale of the Giaour true? Did you and your minions beat him because he hissed at a vendor of chestnuts who appeared upon your stage?" “ Quite true, oh, sublime highnes “And is it true that you permit nothing but applause in your theatre?” “Also true, most just Cadi. And if every one, Giaour or other, shall hiss, he shall be beaten without mercy. There were so Y DANCES WELL, BUT IS SHE MARRYING HIM FOR HIS MONEY? “ Now, by the beard of the prophet, thou son of a son of a slave, and thou darest say this to our very face! That aman may applaud but may not hiss. Mustapha! Take the slave without, shave off his ears and one side of his mustache, brush his hat the wrong way, and then let him receive strokes of the bastinado until he can do nothing but hiss. Hham d’illah—praise be to God. Mahomet is his prophet, and I am the boss Cadi.”” Metcalfe, ASTER all the money that Newport has spent in the last two or three decades in the entertainment of foreign naval officers, it seems an odd notion of the government that they should require defenses. It is proposed to spend some of the people’s money on guns and earthworks to keep strangers out of the harbor in case of war. But Newport's true defense is her hospitality. Leave her free to invite the officers of an opposing naval force to come ashore, and let her entertain them, and a couple of days experience of her favors would leave them powerless for damage. The defense that New- port wants is against the newspaper correspondents. I wonder why Pillsbury committed suicide ? Oh, it is so much cheaper than divorce, you know, comicbooks.com