Life — January 4, 1900 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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+L HAVE @ will of Iron,” sald he ; “There's nothin creation *t resist — unless It be, 1, possibly, temptation.”* —San Francteen Examiner. To Illustrate the position of one of the great national parties during a campaign noted for tts tery partisanship, Mr. Depew tells this story of the youthful politictan and the woodchuck : “Th {n one of the smaller schools near my native town of Peekskill had drilled a number of his brightest scholars in the history of contemporary politics, and to test both thelr faith and thelr knowledge he called upon three of them one day and demanded @ declaration of persotal political principles : “+ You are # Republican, Tom, are you not?’ “Yes, sie? “And Bill, you are a Probibitiontst, I belleve ?* + Tam, str, * And dim, you are a Democrat?’ “Yes, air? “Well, now, the ene of you that can give me the hest reason why he belongs to his party can uve this woodchuck which Leaught on my way to schoo! this morning. “+1 am a Republican,’ said the first boy, + be Republican party saved the country In the war and abollshed slavery.” “+ And bill, why are ye + Lama Protibttiontat,’ rattle Tum Is the country’s greatest enemy ut overcrowded f etions and port run w, Why are you & Democrat, Jin? wnse the The pany, ieeam's Hutidings Chancery 4 England, AGENTS. ++ Well, str,’ was the slow reply, ‘1am a Democrat be- cause | want that woodchuck.* “And he got tt, too,” added Mr. Depew. —Saturday Evening Post, AT the time of the Sloux attack on Fort Ripley, In 186: the Mille Lac Chippewas axxtsted the white men, and th Secretary of the Interlor and the State of Minnesota, grateful for this wedatance, promised that as a reward the Mille Lac Chippewas should never be removed from thelr reservation. Only a few years later, the Interior Department sent a spectal agent to the reservation, to endeavor to persuade them to move from Mille Lacs to north of Leech Lake. There was quite a powwow, and one of the best-known men In Minnesota addressed a meeting of the chiefs, My brothers," he sald, “the great father has heard how you have been wronged, and he sald, ‘1 will send my red children an honest man to talk to them.’ So he looked to the north, to the east, the south, and the west, and he sald, * Hlere 1s an honest man,' and he sent me. So, brothers, look at me. The winds of fifty.tive years have blow my head and stivered itover with gray, and during that the I have never done a wrong toany man. fam your frend, my red brothers, and as your friend 1 ask you to sign this treaty.” When he had finished, one of the chiefs arose and sald : My friend, lock at me, The winds of more than fifty plown over tny head and silvered It over with gniy, but they have not blown my brains away: ‘Then he sat down, and th neil was ended. — Argonaut. + WHAT bx spectallat? + He's a ian who has discovered which of his talents will Jring him in the most money."— Chicago Record. Live ta not so very stagnant tn North Carolina, if we ts m these items in a recent issue of a rural N + Major Willams has had bis leg cut off In a sawmill, el Scott happened to the accident of having head blown off by a holler explosion, “Our new preacher had his house burned down recent « Five Mormon elders were tarred and feathered ye: day, “The new town hall was struck Tuesday. “A circus mute kicked one of our leading citizens a Saturday evening last. “The new Coroner was run over by @ rallroad Wednessay. “ There ts no news of tmportance tn town.” — New York Tribune To & young man who stood smoking # clgur the other & there approached the elderly and impertinent reformer 4) {mmemortal legend, “Mow many cigars a day do you smoke?” asked licensed meddier tn other people's atfulrs “Three,” replied the youth, #8 patiently as he could. 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