Life — January 27, 1898 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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©N7OU must wake and call me early; call me early, mother dear!” I've got the biggest job on hand I've struck for many a year! It is the great Prize Puzzle, And it is made so deep, so deep, It pesters me by daytime, And haunts me in my sleep! Two hundred dollars, planked right down, Would tempt the Poet's self to try: So p'r'aps this second scheme of Life’s ‘*Pegasus”’ Contest. ANNOUNCEMENT OF WINNERS. VER twelve thousand guesses were received, and of those, the number correct was six hundred and two, mak- ing the sum of thirty-four cents dis- tributed to cach victor. This result seems to justify the opin- ion we recently expressed, that when a puzzle is made too easy, the reward, di- vided among so many victors, is not worth the trouble of striving for. There were many, however, who did not agree with us. In our first contest no one was victo- rious. To those who considered it too obscure, we hope the result of the second one will be cntirely satisfactory. And now, having demonstrated how casy it is to guess a puzzle which is no puzzle, with the kind permission of our readers we shall return to our original intention. ‘ Pegasus" Contest Number Three, a full announcement of which will be made in an carly issue of Lire, will be more like the firs! it will be a Puzzie, whose guessing will re- quire more than a mere knowledge of how to read. The reward heretofore has been one hundred dollars, In view, however, of the unexpected interest these contests have excited, the next reward will be two hun- dred dollars, And we shall hope to ar- range the conditions of the contests in such a way that this sum will be divided among a smaller number of winners. The complete list of winners isas follows: LIFE Tennyson's «Ten.”’ A PERVERSION, “Shall be unriddled, by-and-by.” “Strengthen me; enlighten me; I faint in this obscurity!” “So runs this round of Life from hour to hour!” The same old apple-theft of Eden's bower! “IT remember a quarrel 1 had with my father, my dear;” It makes me think of this picture. cost me many a tear,” The lordly sire a strong grip takes, in spite of maiden’s moan; He canes the boy, “Like one who does his duty by his own.” For, “ Others’ follies teach us not, “it Nor much their wisdom teaches; And most of sterling worth is what Our own experience preaches!” And now, to solve this puzzle deep, On Lives I'll squander many a dime. I'll give up play, I'll give up sleep, “And I will work in prose and rhyme,” But, “Seeking to undo One riddle, and to find the true, I knit a hundred others ne These poems, ten, contain the clue, I scan them well; I search them through. “T slip, Islide, I gloom, I glance,” But all is vain endeavor, “For men may come and men may go,” But J guess on forever! Mary Mitchell. Arkansas—J. C. Futrall, Fayetteville. Arie zona—J. W. Crenshaw, Phoenix. California— Mrs. E. O. Smith, Auburn; Theo. Hoover, Stan- ford University; Mrs. Howland, Inglewood; Mist Emma Morgan, Thomas Gell, Miss Susie McGraw, Miss Gertrude H. Carlton, Oakland: Mrs. Arthur H. Green, L, 8. Thorpe. Mrs. M. J Frick, Los Angeles. Colorado—Mrs. EL Hathaway, Colorado Springs; Hiss M. H, Whit- elly, Boulder; Lillia necticut—T. M. Hi M Mrs. J. A. Painter, C. M.S ton, A. B. Waldhaus, Bri Peck, Bristol; P. 3. Bliss, D Shelton, Derby; Miss M.D. Huoting G, Huntingtoa, Frank H. Schoneld: Miss Mabel M. Platt, H. L. Cleasby, Hartford; E. H. Bridge, Hazardville; Mrs, Tredemich, Meriden; Geo. ton, Mrs. C. Billen, Jr 2 Middletown; H. D. Brewster, Mt. Pease, E. L. Durfee, H. M. Bose, Fee OO NSyes SB: Morton GO. it Word, Miss Marion Armstrong, New Haven: Miss E° T w London; W. T. Olcott, L. C. a Toomey. Miss Stamford; W. Rosema: GE, Bangs, , Wallingford; Miss M. R. Waterbury; Miss Lula Stockwell, Windsor Det re—Miss Julia Du Pont ates. We sats Wilmingtor —Miss May Alfred, ‘Oeala” Georgie Mac Dougald, Atlanta: Miss Mabel Phelps, » D. Pous, Columbus. Itinols—Mrs. L. C. Aurora; Stanley Grimes, Decatur; Mrs. Malbura, Miss farriet Lane, Edith Knowlton, Freeport; C. S. Jennison, La Grange; Miss J. “And most of sterling worth is what our own experience preaches.” Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue." comicbooks.com