Life — March 17, 1898 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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He prached to kings Ot hivinly things. And touched their hearts terristial; By him tbransfixed Their minds wor fixed On golden crowns celistial. The sick and poor About his door Would flock in crowds stupinjous, And, faith, it made His big heart blade, Until he'd wape threminjous. From distant climes There'd come oftti Wise men of every vation, And at his fate His words repate, Sthruck dumb with admiration! Jn books aud scrolls And mighty rolls, What that great man aforedia, Within thim books Whoever looks Will find the same recordiad, Sure, Kathleen dear, If he wor here, He'd search vo scroll nor book in; ‘Tis your swate eyes— I spake no lies— Would break his heart wid lookin’, Faith, no complaint This holy saint Will make, nor think I'm scornin’, When for your sake This verse 1 make On bis day in th nin’, Me Corny Sykes EFINITION: to surat; to lo worse than another, EXAMPLE: the yellow Leslie's Weekly Vas rrovsted journals “THE MAN OF PLEASURE [8 A MAN OF PAIN Young's “Night Thoughts Elephant (submerged): 1 AC Yes; ancestors certainly help to person social pri Tom: Especially when they are wealthy and one lives with them. HE great trouble with war is that it is so apt to make angels of the wrong men, If there was any prospect that war with Spain would result in transferring the activities of Mr. Pulitzer and Mr, Hearst to a different sphere there would be compen- sation in the thought of it. Alas! the bar- dieet and most vociferous jingo does not venture to hope for any such result. Mr. Pulitzer is too blind to go forth personally to battle, and there is no probability that any chances of winning imperishable glory in the field or on the sea would lure Mr. Hearst to an inconvenient distance from Wall Street. All that Mr, Hearst seems to be after is to raise hell, and he can do that safely and commodiously ashore. He is say, - EWarde Blaisdell) G1, 18 NOAM IN SIGHT YET? the same person who, while bellowing for free silver in his daily journals, was accused, on very interesting evidence, of purchas- ing and storing up a very large nest-egg of coined gold, in case anything shoud hap- pen, Mr. Hearst plays with what he can afford to lose--with money, of which he has ‘plenty to spare; with reputation, of which his supply in hand fs of that quality that to lose it all would be an immense gain, There is no probability that war would cost him a penny, or expose him to the risk of being hit by anything more dangerous than stale eggs. FTER all, the publication of authors’ portraits is not wholly without its uses. The two pictures in a late copy of the Critir, entitled “Miss Wilkins at Sixteen,” and “From a Recent Photograph,” form a sin gularly convincing argument ogainet the practice of banging the hair, To have so fine a brow and cover it up, is not that lomentable +