Life — August 11, 1898 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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asked, with a strange eagerness. Arthur Hodges rose to his feet suddenly, almost fiercely. ‘The first impulse of an emotion 1s not always articulate, “Ruth Fairfax,” he said, impending over her as some rugged cllif above a fragrant rose gar- den, “you've been reading one of those darned modern eplgrammatic novels, too, haven't you? I don't know what I mean, and so do*you. Let's talk sense awhile now and get married. Wil your” | 18) “YOU WANT HIM SO DAM MUCH, YoU KEEP Hit!" Expresston 18 two-thirds possession, It was as if the girl had been struck a terrific and unexpected blow, and Ruth Fairfax reeled under tt. « Yes," he murmured, softly, and they fired the eplgram. Ww. J. Lampton, Oman can humiliate you except yourself. Tm modesty is hedged about with pride, pmorece Klondike Editor: 1 wis) 1 WAS BACK IN KANSAS, WHERE THE PEOPLE USED TO PAY THEIR SUB- SCRIPTIONS IN PARM PRODUCE. A Mistake. ‘THE Fifth Minois Regiment of Vol- unteors has been made the victim of a mortify- ing piece of politics. After it had been ordered to Porto Rico, and had broken up its camp at Chickamauga, a delega- tion from Todiana in- vaded Washington and represented to the Presi- dent that two regiments of Illinois troops had al- ~ ready been sent to the front, while as yet no Indiana regiment had been similarly favored. Forthwith the War Department ordered the Fifth Illinois back to camp, and designated an Indiana regiment to take its place, Tho effect on the Fifth Illinois is reported to have been lamentably demoralizing. Tho regiment has taken its disappointment very badly, and behaved reprebensibly about it, But, all the samo, the substitution should not have b-en made after the first orders had taken effect. The order’ may have been ill-judged in the first place, but to rescind them has mado a bad matter worse, ACOBS: I see py dis paper dot Blumstein’s sthore was burned yes- terday. Isaacs (much shocked): Vy, I alvays thought dat Blumstein was makin’ moncy. “THE war has brought some great compensations, not the least grati- fying of which (though a thing in itself net important) was the expulsion from Santiago of three emissaries of the yel- low journals. Whet an enormous sur- prise it must have been to the represen- tatives of the Jourual to be apprehended for a little thing like posting up * Re- member the Maine” ina city full of Spanish soldiers! MPERIALISM is international klep- tomania, M laugh whi! enameled, Fixed. AUD: Sibyl scems to wear a per- smile. Yes, Somebody made her she was getting her face HE history of Spain is an almost unbroken succession of not having a thing done to ber. 4 gs comicbooks.com