Life — January 25, 1900 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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A Passage at Arms. H E: You have promised to bemy Why, don't you remember ? Ali, so I did. Suppose now I should take that back. I should consider you — Well, what? I hardly know. 3 Don’t be afraid. He: Fickle, But, no; that isn’t the word. Sue: Why hesitate? Well, dishonorable, then. Sne: Ah! But suppose when I gave my promise I sincerely thought I loved you, and then afterwards I BLIND MAN'S BUFF IN THE WOODS, discovered I did not. Would it not be Willie Rabbit; THIS 18 JOUNNIR WEDGENOG. 1 CAN TELL HIM BY 1118 QUILLS, better for me to break my word than. Les Avengles. “ ER bat was seeet? I'm suro her gown € e from abroad!" they eried, “ All lost on you!" Mow they did frown On me, a man, who dumbly sat And felt himself a stupid clown, Stupidity? Perhaps ‘twas that! Had [no suving grace? Tid not noties gown nor hat, But ah! J saw — her face! W. P. Diz, For the Restriction of Agony. LL lovers of animals are presuma- bly interested in the bill introduced on December 6th by Senator Gallinger. The Dill was prepared by the Washing- ton Humane Society to reguiate vivi. section in the District of Columbia. Unless the sportive live-animal cutter is bent on too much pleas- ure, the following provisions are certainly in harmony with the modern ides of civilization 1. A vertebrate animal on which an experiment calculated to give paln ts to be performed must be placed wholly under the Influence of ether or choroform ; except that In tne - cculation expertments or tests of drugs the animal need not be anesthetized ; nor in surgical ex- periments need animals be kept Anesthetized during recovery. 2 No such experiments may be performed In pubite schools. 3 All experiments upon living animals may be performed only in registered places and by persons properly licensed. But the li mal cutter, when his eye is red and his sleeve rolled up, does hate to be hindered. And in this case he will probably make a hard fight for his rights. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, comicbooks.com