Life — October 19, 1899 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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314 -LIFE- it cannot be overlooked or condoned. ‘Tuk Crvitian (awestruck); I should say not! What on earth did the wretch dot ‘Tue Cartan: Why, instead of drawing up a requisition in proper form, having bis Captain endorse it as correct, and bis regimental commander eudorse it approved, and forwarding it tu brigade headquarters for the General's approval, from whence it would be despatched as soon as possible to the departmental headquarters, from whence, if approved, it would be sent with- out unnecessary deluy to the War Department, and from Mamma Spider: SADIk, 1 WISH YOU WOULD STOP PLAYING. THERE MA8N'T BREN A PLY NEAR THE PLACE SINCE YOU STARTED, AND I'VE GOT TO GET SUPPER KEADY. where, if the Secretary thought the claim a just one and there- fore allowed it, it would be transmitted as rapidly as cir- cumstances permitted through the various headquarters and in the regular course of busi- ness back into his hands for action, when he discovered that the bathtub in his quarters leaked, what docs the hot- headed young fool do but rush off, regardless of all the rules and regulations, to a plumber, and bave him fix it at once, and pay him out of his own pocket, appar- one hundred millions constantly piliog up, and you do not make the effort you might to get rid of it. You haven't been to the milliner's for a week.” “T have, I have,” she pleaded. ** I was there yester- day.” ** That is some help,” replied her husband. * And did you tell the cook to take charge her- self and order what she wanted for the house ?” “TI did,” replied bis wife. “Good! We might also spend a few weeks ut some fashionable resort.” ently and grossly indifferent to ‘We bave made arruoge- the fact that it was govern- ments, dear. Don't you remem- ment property! Alex. Ricketts. ber how the coupon cutting ma- chine was kept at work night and day for this purpose for a Only One Way. moo? HE aged multi-millionaire sat for “So we did, and yet, in spite a long time with bowed head. of it all, the surplus grows. It would scem as if at last he fully This week I have ordered four realized that age was creeping upon new libraries, endowed half a him, and the bopelesszess of getting dozen colleges, given a mission- rid of his vast fortune was weighing ary society a new building, and him dowa, Calling his faithful wife yet Lam not happy. I suppose to his side, he confided to her the I might send around a barrel burden of his sorrow. of gold to that sick family you “ Bertha," he said, ‘‘I fear youdo spoke about, but alas! that 3 ° not appreciate the necessity of spend- would be charity. I must Joseph Jefferson as * Rosalind.” ing money. Here is the interest of be strict with myself, and give comicbooks.com