Life — October 15, 1896 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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ause, jand’s aut. *LIFE: MY LOVE’S REBELLION. Her rebel mouth, her traitor eyes, How many a soldier falls between! Do sunny smiles ‘neath cold gray skies Conspiracy’s arch signals mean ? In this old war of North and South, With which enlisted shall I be? To fight for freedom, with her mouth, Or with her eyes for slavery? —Boston Transcript. TOOK THIRTY-SEVEN INSTEAD OF TWENTY-NINE. LOWSTER MILL MIXED THE MEDICINE UP, BUT A DOCTOR PULLED HIM THROUGH, ANS\ BELLE JOHNSON TAYLOR, a softshell crab vender, well known in the Tenderloin, went to the West Thirtieth street station aday or two ago ina state of mind, What's the trouble, Aunty?” inquired Acting Captain McDermott, who was at the desk. “Torrible orful!" exclaimed the colored woman. So dreadful torrible, Capt'n, | liked ter died. You know my nusban’, ‘Lobster Bill?" Well, sah, he scart me most to def, an’ I ‘clare ter all dat’s good Ise der frightenedest woman ‘in dis hyer town.” “What did he do?” asked the police official. “Do? Why, he took thirty-seven instead of twenty-nine, an‘ den he hol- lered worse'n a steamboat whistle. He jest biled over dat ‘ere kitchen floor an’ Kept a rubbing his stomach like he done gone out of his common senses, Dat’s what Bill did, an’ der tenements from all ob der houses on der block came “round to see what der discussion were about. Den we gota doctor, an’ Bill came ‘round all right. “ Afterward he sot in der rocker chair, pale'n a ghost, an’ I sez * Bill, how did it come?’ He tole me an’ Sis Nelson dat he took thirty-seven when he oughten er took it, as he wanted twenty-nine, an’ Sis an’ me laughed like we'd have fits. So Bill throwed a hammer an‘ a cup an’a plate an’ a saucepan, an’ he then ups an’ chases us into der bedroom wif der carvin' knife. Dat's where Lfrightened. Now he sez he’s not goin’ ter “low me in der house no mo’, an’ I wants a officer as ken quiet him doun.” “Let me understand this,” said McDermott. Tbe trouble began by Bill taking thirty-seven instead of twenty-nine. Was he playing poke or shooting crap? “Lawsy goodness, no; dese yer number are from der patent medicine book. Yer see, thirty-seven am de opposition rescription of rescription twenty-nine. Bill, he was sick of twenty-nine, an’ in cose he can’t read, 0 he took dat ere patent medicine book, Dumphry's Pacifics or what you call it, and showed it to Mister Madden. Dat gentleman marked out rescription thirty-seven, an’ Bill had der medicine cashed atder drug shop. Den he took it. Den der doctor had tercome. Den Sis an’ I thought it were a good joke, an’ Bill got madder'n a mad dog in dog days. Now he's in der house swearin’ he'll cut ma heart out, all on ‘count ob takin’ thirty-seven for twenty-nine,” A policemen was sent around to quiet Rill, and Mrs. Anna Belle Johnson Taylor went back to the house and threw the patent medicine book into Mrs. Lucinda Jones’ fire escape garden on the third balcony. CALIFORNIA. 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