Life — November 2, 1899 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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

“ ELLO. This theTransvaal” “Yes. Who are you?” “T want Oom Paul. This you, uncle?” “Yes, This is—?” “Lire, You got mad pretty quick, didn’t you?” “Oh, I don’t know. What did you expect?” “Well, uncle, you might have waited.” “For what?” “ Until England landed all her troops and had you firmly by the throat. Then you could have protested with better effcct, and—" “Yes, Lire, and been robbed just the same. We may be small compared with England, but we know our business. As long as we were going to be robbed and looted of our rights anyway, why there wasn’t much use in sitting around trying to awaken useless sympathy when the robbery had already begun.” ‘Guess you are right, Oom Paul. But England says you don’t understand this thing.” “Don't, eh?” “Tf you would only listen to reason now.” “Yes, Lire. That's what the spider sald to the The Commodore: INDEED, LADIES, 1 BELIEVE DAT AIRIAL NABAGATION 18 A POSSIBILITY, AN’ DAT IN DE NEAR PUTURE WE WILL BE MOVIN’ FRO DE AIR— comicbooks.com