Life — March 22, 1900 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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the world has never seen a greater. After that history was changed. Still, Ollie deserves credit, It is one thing to fight and another thing to talk about it. When you have both faculties you are a Peach, Ollie bad this, perhaps not sc much as I have, but still in a marked degree, Taking advantage of the fact that his own country was long on Parliaments and short on Royalty, he trekked up the aisle and made a speech which put his hearers to sleep in a short while. Little boys and girls, remem- ber this, There are two ways of putting others to sleep, Either knock them on the head, or talk to them, I can do both with equal facility. Ollie could perhaps fight better than he could talk, but he was laboring under a uis- advantage. He didn’t have a New York State Legislature to talk to, and be couldn’ write for the magazines. And now no more for tac present. Mr. Plait bas just rung for me and I must get up and dust. added Cawker, 227 N EW YORK has been full of music this season, but there is always an audience of intelligent music lovers Teady to greet the orchestra from Pittsburgh. This orches- tra, under the leadership of Mr. Victor Herbert, gave its second concert on February 26th. Pittsburgh is sooty, but it has what New York has not been able to achieve — a permanent orchestra which is doing good work now, and is sure to improve under its com- petent leader, This is a re- proach to the larger but less enterprising city. Benevolent Purpose. “ee 8 I understand it,” be- gan Cumso, * Mr. Frick complains that Mr. Car- negie wishes to pay him only about six million dollars for stock which is worth some- thing like sixteen million dollars.” “That seems to be it,” “Mr. Carnegie wishes to save Mr. Frick from the disgrace of dying rich.” For the Dumb Critters. OVERS of animals shouldlend ahand and encourage Our Animal Prutectice League, whose head- quarters are at 289 Fourth Avenue, New York, No cause is better. Kinder treatment of Animals must begin with the practical edu- cation of children and aduits in Lenlgn methods. Our Animat Protective League aims solely to incul- cate this higher bu- manity, Will you not aid itt by gifts of money and by personal support P It appears from a little pamphlet that one of the ends sought by the League is the constant application by the children of the knowledge gaincd by them in their Chapters. At every Chapter meet ing the boys and girls make written reports of personal work they have done sioce the previous mecting. We have selected a few items from these Chapter Reports, and we find them good reading. - “Forty-three. I stopped @ man that drove an ash cart, and asked him if he would please loosen that breeching strap, as it was too tight. He said; ‘All right, my little man ;’ so he did it.” “Fifty-nine. I was walking up the Boulevard, and I saw a horse with his eye all cut, and swollen as big as an apple. Iran home, and I got my salve box, and gave it to the driver, who was a good man, and he put the salve very gently on the horse, and it stood just as still! and soI gave the man the whole box." “Sixty-three. Meand Perry saw adog in alot that had no home, and he was sick, and so 1 got some carpet for him to lic on, and I went to the butcher and got him to give me some pieces of bone and meat; and then we builta fire and cooked the meat for the dog. Some of the other boys of the Chapter have taken it things to eat, One boy built a house for him.” ‘Seventy-five. A horse was feeding, and the strap of the nosebag broke. I was too short to get it back ; so I put the bag on my head, and held {t there while the horse finished his dinner,” Good for you, Boys! In Nicotina. TI sho was a gay little cigarette, And he was a fat clgur, And side by side, on a tabouret, They stood in a ginger jar, ‘Tho’ nary a word could I understand, (For they chattered in actobac), Yet wonderful things I am sure they planned; Like lovers all do—alack ! To-day #ho's a sad little cigarotte, For goue ts hor brave cigar, And all alone on the tabouret Sho stands in the ginger jar. oe ee Ab! love is a marvelous thing, ‘tis true, And many a fault ‘twill cloak— Butoften it ends, as the dream of these two, In nothing at all but smoke. Kena Cary Sheffield,