Life — July 7, 1898 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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REFLECTED GLORY. She used to smile upon me, But she doesn't any more; She holds her head mueh higher ‘Than she ever did before; She regards me asa being Of a lower sphere, to-day, For her cousin fought with Dewey When he took Manta Bay. She used to sit and listen To the thrilling tales I told; She used to look upon me As among the brave and bold; Bat I've ceased to interest her, She looks down on ine to-day, For her cousin was with Dewey When he took Manila Bay. Ob, Tw We And that [ had been with Dewey To pitch in and take a hand! Ah, her manner’s cold and distant, And her glances seem to say: + You were not out there with Dewey When he took Mantla Bay!” —Cereland Leader. b her vallant cousin » Van Diemen’s Land, DON'T BE CARELESS. In these days of nursematds, the Gatl Borden Eagle Brand Condensed Milk ts a great safeguard to the health of the little oues. It will not easily spotl, being perfectly stert!- tzed In Its manofacture. AN Arkansas editor, who read that a young lady in New York kneads bread with her gloves ov, say with our pants on; we need t oar subscribers in arrears bread without anything on.""— Exchange. AT a recent sitting of the French Academy, the members met in the vestibule It two Sisters of Charity seeking alms. Everybody gave t ething; but the nuns, not having percetved that M. de Bornler had contrib- uted his share, soltelted from him a second time. Naturally, M. de Bornler politely protested that he had done his daty. * [believe him,” Coppée in the ear of M. de Hérédia; “bat I did not see It! “And 1," replied M belleve it. Argonaut, de Hérédia, “| saw him, but I do not “The woman next door,” sald the fat mau, “owing to some ‘sort of missed connections, had to fall to and do the washing herself last week. And what do you suppose my wife did?” “Went over and wore herself out helping her?” asked man. “Not she. She sent out a hurry call to a bunch of her cronies, and they had a perfectly lovely game of lawn tennis while that poor unfortunate in the next yard was hanging ont clothes."—/ndianapotis Journal, Tue Womay: The first thing we want to do ts to tear down those old curtains those people have left. Hex Hsanp: It seems you have no reverence for the shades of the departed. —Cincinnati Enquirer. BriGGs: Talking abont patriotism, Tdon't see as you've done very much for your country as yet. Cau Ob, you don't, en? Well, understand that I've done a good deal, My wife baked a lot of plex and cakes for the soldiers, and 1 took them out after they had been boxed up and threw them into a brush heap. Cleveland Leader, T want you to A WELL-KNOWN Washington woman, doing the cathedral cities of England last summer, wore a thay American flag pinned to the waist of her traveling-dress. A good many of the English people whom she met did not understand, or pre- tended not to understand, what the flag stood for.“ Y belong to some secret soctety, I perceive,” sald an English- woman to whom she was introduced, pointing to the dimtnu- tive starry tanner. “Yes, responded the Washington woman, amtably, “there are seventy millions of us."—Argonaut, “ Prince of Wales's Favorite Wine, de LOSSY-HOLDEN CHAMPAGNE, MAKING A MASCOT, Denny certainly was playing in a streak of hard luck. As he put it, even the wind was against him, and be had reached the point at last where he had come to expect his dinner to disagree with him, That things didn’t go right was too obvious to talk about; the reason for it all was not apparent—the in- ward and spiritual grace seemed to be there, but the outward aod visible sign was hopelessly lacking. It was to solve this riddle, if possible, that Denny lay in wait for Unclo Nat after a lonely and thoughtfal dinner at the club, “Uncle Nat” (and I write it in quotation marks to show that tho name was public property, as one might regard the Statue of Liberty or the Garden of Eden) was used to having young men bring thoir troubles to him, and it was seldom that bis long and varied ex- perience could not suggest the balm for the woe in question, Tommy Bright once remarked that be had | to havo troubles of his own every 80 often, justto have tho pleasure of having Uncle Nat advise and reminisce, So Denny spoke his lines, admitted toan education and a start as good as the averago, announced that his progress of late had been the progress of a blind crab, gave his symptoms—and waited. For a long minute the oracle smoked in silence, studying the portrait of a long-dead admiral on the wall opposite; | then ho delivered himself, “Your disease, Denny, troubles about seven young men in every ten—you need your mainspring tight- ened, The caso is good-looking enough” (Denny smiled a bit and bowed slightly), “the crystal is clean, the hands straight enough, and the works bear the name of a mighty good firm.” (Uncle Nat was a family friend, of course.) “So far 80 good—but your reliable watch depends on its motive power—or motive, if you choose—and it is motive you need. You'll do well enough the very minute you accustom yourself to work steadily to any good end. Quit drifting, have a definite purpose, and save money. That's your pre- scription, Waiter, get some Scotch and seltzer.” Denny left the second ingredient of his medicine till the last (as Kipling says, “but that is another story”), and having a position which could reason- ably be supposed to furnish the first, he started in to devote ali his largely latent energies to the third—to saving money. Tho second day out of port ho ran across Bright in front of old Trinity, who offered to play pilot for a time and run him intotho very harbor he wanted. Together they struck down towards Nassau, and after a short and peaceful trip through that narrow canyon of the city’s business pulled up in the entrance hall to number 32, “Is this one of your real fanny jokes, Tommy?” asked Denny. “Do you understand that I want to save money, not buy contracts?” “That's just what I do understand, milord, and If| you'lltake my humble,well-intended, and experienced | advice, you'll save money by buying one of these very contracts—by insuring your hitherto purely orna-| mental life.” Which is just what the worthy Denny did. He got in line with some hundreds of thousands of other men and women who bavo entrusted their savings (large and small) to The Grand Old Mutual, and he found out before the year had rolled around again that be had actually done the very wisest thing in the whole of his “hitherto purely ornamental life.” The incen- tive to save had been given him, the motive powor found, and the watch has kept perfect time ever since. 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