Life — August 16, 1900 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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126 Our Fresh-Air Fund. Previously acknowledged. $3,737.27 D 5.00 6,00 3,00 0.00 0.00 + 6.00 25.00 Guests of Hiawatha Lodge, 10.00 W242 B... 10,00 Sablath Sch Farmington, 1.05 In Memory of Mothe 6,00 EM. 5.00 cc 10,00 in Memory of Pepper. 10.00 9.00 15.00 Bellevue Hospital Fuad. 12.15 $3,968.07 yp ASEER : One is never too old to learn. Jumpupre: O, that idea is out of date, The present idea is that one is never too young to teach. ‘ The Trusts. L us corner up the sunbeams Lying all around our path, Get a trust on wheat and roses, Give the poor the thorns and chaff. Let us find our chiefest pleasure Hoarding bounties of to-day So the poor shall have scant measure, And two prices have to pay. Yes, we'll reservoir the rivers, And we'll levy on the lakes, And we'll lay a trifling toll tax On each poor man who partakes. We will brand his number on hit Thathe'll carry through his life ; We'll apprentice all his children, Get a mortgage on his wife We will capture e’en the And confine him in a cave, And then through’our patent process» We the atmosphere will save. ind god, Thus we'll squeeze our little brother When he tries his lungs to fill, + Pat a meter on his windpipe, And present our little bill. We will syndicate the starlight, And monopolize the moon ; Claim a royalty on rest-days A proprietary noon. The right of way thro! ocean's spray, We'll pay just what it’s worth ; We'll drive our stakes around the lakes, In short—we'll own the earth! John Kenyon Kilbourn, THE BROOK AT LIPE’R FARM THE LATEST BOOKS AX amusing little love story is Oh, = What a Plague Is Ice, by Kathe- rine Tynan. (Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Company.) The Web of Life, by Robert Herrick, is an exceptionally interesting novel of to-day, as novels go. The scene is principally laid in Chicago, and the interest is maintained throughout. - (The Macmillan Company.) Anyone who wishes to learn just how the ‘wheels go wound” inside the Trusts can glean that information from Mark Hanna's Moral Cranks, by William H. Muldoon of the Brooklyn Eagle. The book is more or less of a campaign document, but it gives both sides of the Trust question clearly and in deétaily anthit is far from dry read- ing. (Brooklyn: George F. Spinney Company.) A book which is declared to be ‘in- spired by the crisis of 1898-1900,” entitled Liberty. Poems, is a collection of anti-imperialist verses taken from pericdicals and papers. (Boston: The James H. West Company.) The series of Westminster biogra- phies has been enriched by Robert Browning, by Arthur Waugh. The pocket size of these books commends itself to the reader, and this volume, while containing nothing new about Brown- ing, fulfils its aim—that of giving in a compact form a readable account of the poet. (Small, Maynard and Com- pany.) Up in Maine, by Holman F. Day, is a collection of Yankee verses, It is the kind known as “homely,” and those who care for this sort of thing will be well pleased with this little book. (Small, Maynard and Company.) R. GUDUN: What do you consider the most trying thing in the world on a man’s patience? Mr, Supsuss: Well, I should say it was trying to smoke the stub of a poor cigar and wash the dishes at the same time. The Sanctity of Cows. YX India they treat their animals in a very different spirit from that. displayed by the European. It is not’ a part of the Hindoo religion to cut up alive their four-footed ‘friends when no longer of use. They even go so * far, being cranks and ignorant for- eigners, as to treat them very much as they treat their own kind. We read in the Philadelphia Journal of Zoophily—a paper, by the way, that alllovers of animals should read—that “about ten years ago a society of rich Hindoos established a ‘Workhouse Asylum for Aged and Infirm Beasts and Birds’ at the Sodepur station, 8 Mr. Fattoun: ovess vit cet wE10nED— comicbooks.com