Life — October 26, 1899 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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“GREAT SCOTT! WRITIN’ A DIARY?” “ SOPE—MY OKTER BIOGRAPHY POR THE SUNDAY Journal.” To a Diamond Ring. HOU bauble of inconsequentini size, That gleams alike on joy and on distross ! Circlo of fute! No cobble-stone that lies To make a pave, but caps thy usefulness, If T should crush thee with my heol, should spurn Thee from my sight, what matters it, I say? Unto thy parent earth thou wouldst but turn And Love and Death would still keep on their way, And yet? Go, little ring. I know thy powor. Mighty, but useless. Yet, for my design Who knows but thou may rulo tho ficklo hour— Muke somo ono who {s not, this day be mine, Go, brilliant messongor, and play thy part! T'll be content if thou, beneath her look, Will mako the same impression on her heart As thou hast made upon my pocketbook, Tom Masson, HE Canada Evening News, of To- ronto, has been moved to the following utterance by a recent para- gmph in Lire, And all because Lire did himself the pleasure of a few remarks on Britain's forcign policy: There was once a nation culled the United States, which went to war with a far weaker power named Spain, from whom she took ait her Menge losses in the nate of humanity, This magnanimous power 14 now preaching the doc- trinesof liberty and independence to the Filpinos by means of bayonets and bullets, though, +trange to say, the Fillpinos are so stuptd as not to per- celve the connection between the Declaration of Independence and the subjugation of the Phttip- pines. This same kindly and large-hearted country called the United States ix so anxious for the welfare of the Indians within her borders that, recognizing there 14 no perfect happiness here below, she wishes to exterminate them as quickly as posstile In order that they may enjoy thelr happy hunting grounds without delay. Which only proves that Uncle Sam has inberited some of the lower qualities of his dad. books.com