Life — October 12, 1899 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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You may salt, you may season ‘The cucumber, if you will, But the oid colic pren Wu cling to tt still =Chicago Daily News. Miss MABELLA St. Pency: Mamma, dearest, { have some- thing to tell you, Masta (enclousty): larting? “Yes, mamma, Mr. Moveyhags proposed to me last night.” * And what did my lithe girl say?" “Taida't give him a defin:te answer, mamma, 1 wanted to talk to you about tt first.” * And what does your heart say, dear?" “Ob, mamma, tt says—it wiys— Oh, mamta, ts It really true that Mr. Moneytugs will have ten thousand pounds @ year at his father's death ? Quite true, my child, and—and—the old gentleman ts very feeble.” “And [ should be sole mistress of Moneybags Halt, in ‘Scotland t" Yes, darling, and a beauttful house at Brighton.”” And I should probably go to town for the London season?” “1 have no donbtof it, my dear daughter. And—and—t don't want to influence you tn the least, my child. No one shail say that iy child was not left to follow the leadings of her own heart {n the chotce of a husband; but—but—you have “And now what does my child's heart say?" *On, mamma, It says—yex!”? “My own dear child! {have always wanted to see you married to the man of your cholce, to the man you loved and h Bless you, my darling, wnd may you be asbappy as you deserve."—Exchange. A FiLiixo Fante: A boy who had a brindle dog on a. string Was so Ured that the dog was on the point of achteving independence, when & member of the Soclety for the Preven tion of Cruelty to Autinals accosted the boy and chided him for not giving the dog his freedom, and Sally bought the string for the sum of twenty-five cents, The hast the boy saw of the kind-hearted stranger he was kicking the stufling out of the dog because it hung back when he pulled on the string. Judge Chartes 6. Garrison of New Jersey. A rvattist in Chicago was giving an Interview to a reporter recently, The puguist ts from Austrutia, and bas traveled in South Africa, so the reporter usked him if be had met Cect! Rhodes. © Rhodes,” replied the Austrattan; + what's his welght?"—Aryouant. “| WANT you to write me an obituary on the old lady,” sald the rural subscriber to the editor, orry to hear of your loss." + Well, I'm not kickin’ ag’in Providence.” On, of course! Well, bow old wus she “She never did tell.” UARPER AND BROTUERS: NEW YORK AND LONDON. Pfr: Seana Tey. By Atbert Lee. Adutrat Dewey, By Join Barrett. Kit Kennedy, Couniry Boy. By 8. R. Crockett, “ Furward March!" By Kirk Munroe. DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY: NEW YORK. Wen, afer Au’ —. By F. Frankfort Moore. Jone March, By 8. R, Crockett. The Orange Girt, By Walter Besant, CHARLES SCRIBNER'S BONS: NEW YORK. Auld Lang Syne. By the Rt. Hon. Professor P. Max Maller. The Yarn of Bucko Mate, By Herbert Eiitott Hamblen, Midsbipman Stua By Kirk Manroe. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY: NEW TORK AND LONDON. Henry Worthington, Uy Margaret Sherwood, Diomed, By John Sergeant Wise. Some Principles of Literary Criticism, By C.T. Win. chester. Development of the Engtish Novel. By Wilbur {.. Cross, La Strega and Other Stories, By Ouida. Philadelphia: Drexel Biddle. The Boys of Scrooby. By Ruth Hall, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mitin and Company; Mrs. Grimes: Does your husband go to church, Mrs. Brown? Mxs. BRowN : Certainly, Sometimes he goes to the Col- tartan, sometimes to the Orthodox, aud sometimes to the Of a retiring disposition, was she?” 0, slr—she wus mightily in evidence at all thmes,”* “Well, my friend, wnat on earth am 1 to say? Oh, Jest say that she wus took away by Providence, an’ Providence knows tts business! "—atlanta Constitution, catholic. “Ah, Taee! An Agnostic.” “No, he's @ plumber, When there ts nothing for him to do at one church there 1 pretty sure to be something for him AL one of the others.""—Boxton Transcript. heard about the Moneybags diamonds?” Yes, mamma," “They are superb! Ihave seen most of them when Mr, Moneytags's mother was alive, and they are all his now." “ob, mamma!" by all Newsdealers in Great Britain. The Inter- ‘company, Bream's Building, Chancery Lane EUROPEAN AGUNTS—Messrs. Brentano, ., England, AGENTS. \ 3t Avenue de l'Opera, Paris, Ready :: October :: 15th ILLUSTRATED BY CHARLES DANA GIBSON AND T. K. HANNA, JR. Predicaments: A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES. Established 1823. WILSON WHISKEY. That’s All! ‘THE WILSON DISTILLING CO, Baltimore Md, LOUIS EVAN SHIPMAN, Author of ‘D'Arcy of the Guards” and “ Urban Dialogues.” An Autumn Outing. » Gettysburg, Luray, Natural Bridge, Hot Springs, Richmond, and Washington. 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