Life — December 29, 1898 — page 15: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

“A BRANCH ESTABLISHMENT.” _ The Troubles of the Populist. A® Arkansas farmer, who was a dele- gate at a convention in Little Rock, was greeted by a fellow-farmer and dele- gate the morning after his arrival, and asked how he felt. “ Mighty poorly,” was his reply; didn’t sleep a wink the whole night through.” “ Why, what was the matter?” asked the other. “There was a goldarned light shining right in my eyes all night long.” “Why didn’t you get up and blow it out?” “Blow it out?” was the reply. ‘‘ How could I blow it out when the blamed thing was shut up in a bottle?” OSEMARY: Should you call young Mr. Callowell clever? MARIANNE: Clever? He doesn’t know enough to turn around when he wants to ~Ss After rejecting him: 1 AM THE GIRL, WHOM YOU BOASsTED WOULD NoT REFUSE You! Z N "hh WELL, SIR, WHAT HAVE YOU TO SAY ABOUT IT Now? — “WHY, I-ER—ER—TO TELL TUL TRUTH, | NEVER MEANT TO PROPOSE TO YoU." A POST-OLACIAL PERIOD, Comicbooks.com