Life — October 7, 1897 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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AT SeGORS AT NuLLvf THE GOLD FEVER. Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he, So he called for his pipe, And he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three. They brought his pipe and they brought his bowl, Aad they brought them speedily, Bat he called with his might, And he called with his soul, But in vain for his fiddlers three. He looked up high and he looked down low, And not a one could he see, So he called for his man, And he told him to go Where he thought they would likely be. The man went West with a merry heart, Oh, away off West went he, And be found all the men In a Klondike part, And they captured some millions three. And old King Cole, the merry old soul, When be heard their history, He called for his pick, And he called for his bowl, And he sailed for the Behring Sea. —Montreal Herald, N. P. WILLIS was usually the life of the company he happened to be in. His repartee at Mrs. Gales's dinner in Washington is famous. Mrs, Gales wrote on a card to her niece, at the other end of the table: “Don't flirt so with Nat Willis.” She was herself talking vivaciously to a Mr. Campbell. Willis wrote the niece's reply: ‘Dear aunt, don’t attempt my young feelings to trammel, Nor strain at a Nat while you swallow a Campbell.” —Exchange. A WELL-TO-po Georgia farmer invited a merchant friend to dine with him, The merchant was known for his crankiness, and had once or twice tried to shoot people for imagined wrongs. The farmer had con- siderable business dealings with him, and they were on the best of terms. However, the farmer always kept a wary eye on him, Several days after the dinner at the farmer's house the merchant said to him: ‘I can’t account for the queer feelings and impulses I have occasionally. For instance, the other day when I was dining at your table it suddenly came into my mind'to kill you, though I had nothing in the world against you. I hada pistol in my pocket at the time, and once I had my hand on it, when the strange feeling passed from me." “Don't let that bother you," said the farmer. ‘I knowed all about your failin’s in that line, an' I wuzn't asleep when I saw your hand to your hip. My son Jobn was standing in the hallway back of you with a shotgun leveled at you, an’ you just did save your bacon by changin’ your mind. Ef you hadn't he'd er blowed daylight through you."—A¢lanta Constitution, F. TENNYSON NEELY: NEW YORK AND LONDON, [he Dreamers, and Other Poems. By Edward s, van Zile. A Mountain of Gold, By Willis Steel. A Son of Mars. By St. George Rathborne, Jsidra, By Willis Steel. Political Primer of New York State and ( Wty, By Adele M. Fielde. New York and London: The Macmillan Company. Master Skylark, By John Bennett. New York: The Century Company. A SCIENTIFIC association in one of the smaller towns had engaged a lecturer to deliver a discourse on bacteriology. 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