Life — December 28, 1899 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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558 -LIFE- One More. ‘TTHE folks in the South have burned another negro, this time in Kentucky. There seems to be no doubt that he was a bad man, a murderer and worse, but to have burned him is disgusting. Sudden and uncontrollable impu'se seems to have led this negro to commit the crime for which he died, for he Appears not to have been known beforehand as a misbehaving person. Sudden and uncontrollable impulse seems to have led his white neighbors to bum him. Murder and rape are dreadful crimes; to burn a man at the stake is alsoa dreadful crime, and it bas the peculiarity of being move out of date than the others. I]ow thankful we all ought to be that no power bigger than ourselves is watching us to see what degree of self-government we are fit to he trusted with. Cheap at That. N RS. DORMY: I wonder you are not afraid to smoke. Just let me read you what there is ins cigar: Acetic, formic, butyric, valerianic, pro- pionic and prussic acids; creosote, phenol,ammonia, sulphuretted hydrogen; and, besides, nicotine, viri- dine and picoline. Mr. Dormy: And you can get all that for a nickel ! “Para, is it what is your politics, or what are?” “That depends, If you are a Democrat, you would say, What are your polities? A HOLIDAY ECHO. “WY DIDN'T YOU ATTEND THE CHRISTMAS DINNER, MY PRETTY MAID?" “NOBODY AXED ME, SIR," SIE SAID, A Virtuous Enterprise. Christendom should regard this self-sacri- A Riddle. ficing act us an ignoblo assault on a TPPHERE is nothing very humor- peaceable neighbor. ous in Engtand’s war with But let us remember, in justice, that all the Boors unless it bothe English England {s not of this view. The peace Point of view. The British Em- party is larger than it appears, The fools Pireevidently considersitself ary on top, enjoying, at present, tho state “long-suffering and of hysteria that we Americans knew so well True as fabled lovers aro, far too patient vie- about a year ago. Strong as hope in happy youth, tim, who has finally Those who keep their heads are cou- Holy as Good is, or Truth; started on a holy — sidered traitors to the country. Puro as is light from a star,— mission, that mis- Who, think you? sion being the ex- . Hildegarde Hawthorne, tormipation of an A Different Article. . noun, Bike GIGHTSBER (smithe/ Benata;paiiers) s OUNG PHYSICIAN: When you Boor. It may absorb incidentally the Boers’ ‘? So these are our National Solons, have a case which bafiles you, gold and diamonds, but that is the pious are they? whom do you call in? roward of a noble deed. And the British Guipe (amazed at such ignorance) : OLpv Doctor (grufly): The under- Empire is still amazed that the rest of Naw. Them’s the Senators. taker. AIR as blossoms on a bough, Whiteas moonbeams in the snow, Light as thistle-heads a-blow; Tender as love-thoughts allow,— What, think you? comichooks.coup