Life — October 13, 1898 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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PUZZLE PICTURE. A FIVE-POUND TROUT OR ETERNITY? Moltke; went in with a whoop to knock down and drag out Dagos; gathered an acre of laurels; made Shafter sick; gave the Admipistration spasms; made the American gallery howl; and garnered miles of press notices. Theodore came home a favorite son, and New York said he was /t, The bland Mr. Platt, between the devil and the deep sea, between the Rough Riders and the Black Guards, went out to see Theodore, and came back to tell his friends, more in sorrow than in anger, ‘ Roosevelt is the real thing. He is It.” Unthinking people imagine that Mr. ASK ANY REAL FISHERMAN, Platt bas swallowed Theodore and has him inside in a safe place. where be can lay his hand on him, There was once an astute yellow dog which thougbt- lessly swallowed a large and active hor- net, and then said, ** I bhavehim where I can put my hand on him.” Later in the day the unwonted activity and anguish of the dog made people say that, asa diet, hornets were not as wholesome as Welsh. rabbits. Mr. Platt has hitherto dieted on large, soft, juicy, yellow Welsh rabbits; but Theodore is not a Welsh rabbit. Theodore says, ‘‘ A Governor is one who governs,” Joseph Smith. 295 Autumn Leaves. ‘0 all the leaves on every bough The Fall’s bright hues are lent; Tho pross of Timo is printing now Its colored supplement. Cuba, 2176, A. D. RS. SANTIAGO JONES: But is his family such a very old one? Mrs, Guantanamo Situ: Ob, yes, indeed! They came over with Sampson in 1898, The Exact Situation. E SOAQUE: I'll be glad when it’s cool enough to drink whiskey once more, Van Hoagur: I see, You're longing for the happy daze of winter. HY does the New York Herald make such a point of saying it soldiers, rather than sick soldiers? Does the Herald think that ‘ill soldier” is more euphonious, or more correct than “*sick soldicr,” or is it a case where Mr. Bennett's orders make other explana- tions superfluous? ‘Ill soldiers” sounds too much like an effort to use superior language, and it fails, as such efforts always do, OTEL-KEEPER (after an unsuc- cesaful season in the Catskills): Ob, Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Thou that kill- est the profits! CNES wrthn at te che of te Spamfh American mar 6 » Fath bey Lt love to walh along ancl meet Rough Riders proud, upon Oe strat. és uanform 18 very swell. . And inh feammick ss a Shell. ine a comicbooks.com