Life — November 12, 1896 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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*LIFE: remembrance a statue of W. J. Bryan, mute, that all who gather near may do so in safety, and made of =~ silver and brass, one-half the size of life. The silent countenance of David B. Hill should surmount our public squares, filling us with reverence and a humble sense of ourown unfitness, and noble Anthony Comstock, with cast-iron fea- tures and arrayed in a brass health band, should rise above the common throng, inspiring us to chaste thoughts and high aims, Let there be over the mouth of every sewer in town a cast of the pungent Pulitzer, to constantly remind us of the fact that he is still doing his work “in our midst.” Let us look more often on chestnut vender Depew, the lady-like Bok, and the sublime Talmage. There are also others. Thus may a new industry be founded, moulding and casting factories start up on every hand, and the laborer, whistling at his work, may feel that he is not only sup- plying his family with the luxuriesof life, but furnishing to a free people a hitherto unknown source of inspiration and energy. aa ANYWHERE BUT THE WHITE HOUSE. The shade of Horace Greeley: “GO WEST, YOUNG MAN, GO WEST, AND GROW UP WITH THE COUNTR AT THE HOSPITAL. SSISTANT (¢0 House Physician): We have just re- ceived an aeronaut who fell two thousand feet, and a football player who got tangled up inarush. I am the only doctor who is not engaged. Which shall I attend to first ? HouSE PHYSICIAN (émpatiently): 1 have often told you - that in a case like this you should first attend the man who Hie N. is most seriously injured. Look after the football player, ON THE ROAD. of course. The balloon man can wait. comicbooks.com