Life — May 17, 1900 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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“OM, ISAAC, AIN'T IT AWFUL?” “YES; BUT AIN'T YER GLAD NOW DAT WE DIDN'T BUY FUST-CLASS TICKETS, RACHEL? "? Violets. Olt other girls the beauty rose, Rich with its regul splendor. For her, tho sweetest flower that blows, Fragrant with meaning tender. For somo the hyacinth and pink, Or pansies’ velvat glory ; But thero's a littlo lower, I think, ‘That tells a dearer story! Liko clustering thoughts tho blossoms speak Of happy words unuttered, When blushes bloomed upon her eheck And downcast glances fluttered, When fn the danco her hand I pressed, In love's divinest folly, For other girls tho rose is best, But violets for Polly! "Tis not because the flower I prizo For its dim purple sweotness, Like to the heaven of her eyes, Crowning my life's completeness, Her lightest wish my momory haunts, E’en though my purso regrots it, For Polly knows just what sbe wants, And usually gets it! Douglas Dunne, An Example. <¢7T is hard work to estimate the benefits the Republican party has given the country.” “T know it, Even Carnegie says that without it he couldn't have made forty- two million dollars a year.” BOLOMEN MOWED DOWN BY AMERICAN MAXIMS. —Heading on despatch from the Philippines to the New York World. Tt American Maxims were probably Patrick Henry's ‘ Give me liberty or give me death!" and General Grant's “Let us have peace!” or possibly that notable one of Theodore Parker's: ‘* A government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people.” JX New York all roads lead to rum. comichooks.cona)