Life — February 9, 1899 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Atheneé to Charmides. THE RULING rassto: ACK, daring mortal! the veil That hides a goddess? Turn thee to thy flail, Thine oaten reed, and pipe thine amorous lay To rustic maids, upon the sweet-breathed ha Aspire to dryads, steal of nymphs a kiss, When safely hid from dart of Artemis— I, Pallas, spare theo; quick, clude thy fate; And—tell me, is my helmet on quite straight? —Irwin Beaumont. Wouldst thou pierco A Sword for Sampson. ONGRESS should pull itself together and vote C a sword to Admiral Sampson. It has dono as much already for Admiral Dowey. Dewey commanded the floet that smashed Montojo; Simpson tho fleet that smashed Cervera, Of the two exploits, the more important was Sampson's, A sword would have been voted to him before now if it had not been for tho claim that the victory was really “ Jack the Kisser.” LIFE'S PANTHEON OF POPULAR PETS. Scbley’s. That claim won't wash, The npson’s. Fact and precedent agree about that. Of all the work that was well done in the late war, Sampson's was the most important, If we had another war to-morrow, Sampson would hold the most important command inthe navy, He was tried and found compo- tent. Congress, this present Congress, should vote him a sword. T does not take many years for a girl to learn her good points, and fewer still to conceal her bad ones, A Secretary of War. MARBLE STATUES OF UP-TO-DATE GODS, COMPILED BY OCR OWN LIGHTNING CARICATURE CINSELER.