Life — September 30, 1897 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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274 I openly accuse Mr. Igg of the theft, of sball I bide my tne and’ seek to regain my property by strategy 2 Yacon since Brooklyn, > If the present proprietor of your strayed or stolen cattle has not already branded them with the $ mark, we should strongly. advise you to make an effort to recover them. That Scriptural injunction about turning the other cheek was given out by the Man in the Iron Mask, and it is not to be followed by any man who hasn't the blessing of a metal face. So we advise you to try to get back your own and not submit to further dep- redations. If the $ brand stamped on by Mr. Igg is ineffaceable, why not make an addition and brand the cattle $$? We think this would insure their sticking to you be- yond peradventure. WoW, Aulick. HE Prices of Silver, Wheat, and the Western Farm Mort- gage: When shall we three meet again ? Whom ? ISCOURSING in verse about Phar- aoh and the Sergeant, Mr. Rudyard Kipling says: Weare eating dirt in hand- fuls for to save our daily bread, Which we have to buy from those who hate us most. That's a little vague. Whom do you suppose Mr. Kipling has in mind ? ANAGER (of new burlesque): I want your advice about the costumes. AvuTHOR: Oh, don't bother me about such trifles, ‘(HIS FATHER LEFT SEVERAL MILLIONS AND HE HASN'T BRAINS ENOUGH TO REALIZE IT." “ pOOR FELLOW! WHAT CAN HE DO?’ “WELL, HE'S GOT TO CHOOSE BETWEEN MEDICINE AND THE UNITED STATES SENATE.”