Life — January 20, 1898 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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“Her carriage number is 181.” “You are desperate,” said the Devii. “What of it?” he replied. “Nothing,” said the Devil, “only you will do as I say. She was in one of the boxes to-night.” “Yes. With her father.” “Never mind. He is now reading a telegram which calls him down-town. Her carriage number is 181. It will be called in two minutes. Ride home with her.” «But the carriage is close, and I drank—” “Here,” said the Devil, ‘‘take a clove. Take two.” He went back. The next night he met the Devil again on the same corner. “She is mine,” he said. ‘We are to be married. And now about the price.” “My dear fellow,” said the Devil, pleasantly, mention it. You can pay that later—in installments.” “don’t A Hasty Conclusion. You say you had called to see Miss Billings and was at the house at the time the burglary was committed ? Wirness: Yes, sir. «Then how did it happen that when the prisoner dashed into the room and assaulted you, you leaped through the window and went home, making no attempt to defend the lady or give the alarm?” “I thought it was her father.” ATTORNEY: W. Jj. Bryan. Bw gentleman is a native of Nebraska, and is no greater than the soil he was raised in. He believes in the Free Silver Trust and uses gold only when he has it. His logical powers are well distributed, beginning where his brain leaves off and located in his lungs. Mr. Bryan recently refused to consider the possibility of entering Congress again, presumably on the ground that spouting to a limited audience of imbeciles in Congress at $5,000 a year is not to be compared with spouting to an unlimited audience of imbeciles out of Congress at $1,500 a lecture. Mr. Bryan has recently been to Mexico, and returns with glowing ideas about that country. Money is so plentiful there that about twice as much is used as in the United States—to buy the same thing. Mr, Bryan began his electioneering for the next presidential campaign early last Novem- ber, and, as he is young, he has many years of life before him to devote to the same purpose. In the meantime wheat is up, silver is down, farmers are pay- ing their debts, monopolies flourish, and the American eagle is throwing bouquets at himself and drawing a yearly pension that would steep the standing armies of Europe in untold luxury. HEN Civilization looks back over its own trail it can see that it has missed many a short cut. For a Good Cause. ALTIMORE is buck- ling on its armor. A number of her most prominent citi- zens are interested in the organization of the Anti-Vivisection Society of Maryland, whose efforts will be directed mainly against the Johns Hopkins University Medical School and Hospital. The Sec- retary of the Society, Mr. James Mce- Namara, says ‘the experimenters at our hospitals, and notably the Johns Hopkins, practice the most atrocious cruelties on dumb animals, and excuse themselves under the cloak of scientific necessity. They will takea dog, burn its nose, lay bare its spinal column and apply powerful electric currents, pour hot lead into its stomach, remove por- tions of its body and graft portions of other animals on, tear out its entrails and insert others, divide the brain and dip half its body into a kettle of boiling water, and singe the hair from its back. All this and much more they do without pity and without fear. The poor dog is helpless naturally, and these experimenters make it more helpless by removing its wind- pipe before they begin their work in order to prevent its crying.” LiFe congratulates this Society on its existence, and wishes it prosperity and a long life.