Life — August 16, 1900 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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the been ears liate vise, book rest, the bra- EDS, [ASE INST | OF PRO- EAT TURE Life’s Guide to Voters. OR War, Teddy, Tax- ation and Trusts, vote for William McKin- {OR the Constitution, Peace, Panic and Populism, vote for W. J. Unequally Equipped for Debate. LL, Colonel, how're politicsout your way?” “Quiet, sah, quiet. Nothin’ mo’ doin’ than’s if ol’ Backus County was a country graveya’d.”” “ How's that?” = “Well, you see, sah, us Bryan men has mostly all duG-miand- got Winchestabs, while the McKinley fellahs has nothin’ but ol’ muzzle lodahs ; 80 it’s ‘blame ha'd to get up any ahgument that is an ahgument.”” August. ER sunshade! 0, her sun- + shade! ‘There's not a summer's day But what it comes a-flaunting Along the dusty way. An aurcole, a banner, A flame of rosy red Behind her slender shoulder, Above her shining head. The passing wind blows over, And faith, ‘tis set aswing Like some new-opened poppy, An airy, fairy thing! A tiny, tiny sunshade, You'd scarcely say would do For one—and yet Clariasa’s Are always meant for two! What wonder that my fancy Goes wandering a-dream Beneath that dainty shelter By many a babbling stream, O’er many a sunlit meadow Beside her, and so near That careless as her heart beats "Tis all the sound I hear. The echo wakes. She's coming.” She's here—she hesitates. She glances at my window. It is for me she waits! O sunshade, little sunshade, ‘Above us two unfurled, Your narrow arch shuts in for me A whole enchanted world ! MEW. LIFE For the Dog Days. TPO tho Imperialist who is getting hotter as the summer advances, we recommend a cooling device. Pin the following in your hat. Read it when you anticipate a rush of blood to the head. And try and forget in reading it, that Mr. Carl Schurz is of necessity a fool because he is not an Imperialist: The Fillptnos, our late allies against a common enemy, refused to be bought Ike a herd of cattle from that same common enemy, and then the conflict wantonly provoked by the President's order came, Witha bloody hand we destroyed thelr government, that had conducted thelr co operation with us, and we carried death and desolation into innumeratie homes of our late allies. We killed many thousands of them. and the killing {sto go on until they are terrorized ‘and subdued enough to become our submissive subjects. ¥ “COME men have no judgment.” “ For instance?” “There's old Moneybags. After making a million he became a vegeta- rian and a prohibitionist.”” Her Remark. USBAND: Didn't you tell that cook I wanted my breakfast right on the minute? Wire: I did. “« And what did she say?" “She said that we all have our disappointments.” Farmer Beetle; O£E WINNIKER| ULL NEVER PLANT PUMPKINS IN MY PARM AGAIN!