Life — August 23, 1900 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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154 SEEING THE SIGHTS. “LOOK, MARIA! THERE GOES ONE OF THEM AUTOMOBILES! SHALL WE MAIL THE THING AND TAKE A RIDE? The Combatants. ("7 in the summer night, When slumber’s chains have bound us, We wake to wage a mortal fight With skeeters that have found us. A Remarkably Clear Little Book. “WW E have received an unusual pub- lication, most artistic in its make-up but containing very few words. It comes from Philadelphia and, so far as we can judge from the title page, is without author or pub- lisher. However, there must have been somebody, somewhere, for even printers’ ink, when left to itself, does not run in just this way. We quote a little: about half the book. There are some lessons to be learned from the struggle. That for the British is that when they go marauding after a puny prey they should grasp it, not with hundreds under, a Jameson, but with hundreds of thousands under a Roberts. The glory of the war is all with the Boers, who haye lost everything, but saved their manhood. The lesson for the world is one of hope. ‘There is still a people in it with pluck enough to resist sordid wrong regard- less of consequence. Organized greed may hereafter hesitate when it reflects that the road to Pretoria was sprinkled with the blood of forty thousand Englishmen, and that the profits of the coveted Rand for a quarter of a century, and until Cecil Rhodes shall be dead, have been dissipated. Oom Paul takes his place, not in a niche in the Trans- vaal, but alongside of Leonidas and Winkelried, of Wallace and William of Orange, among the heroés of all time and the whole world, to incite the brave to effort for the ages yetto come. When the English nation, old and toothless, like the giant in the Pilgrim’s Progress, sits by the wayside, snarling over the memories of its victories won from the weak in Ireland and India, at Wyoming and St. Helena, with every traveler ready to knock it on the head for its past wickedness, mothers will tell their children, poets will sing the story, and historians will write in their pages how the burghers fought and died upon the kopjes of South Africa to save their homes. Our Ethnological Corner. Snort Historres or Great Races. THE SEMITIC. (THE Semitic race or peoples occu- pies the region known as Broad- way, and is extensively engaged in soubrette raising, coin growing, fleecing and other useful industries. Insummer specimens of the race can be seen at Saratoga, parts of the White Mountains, and nomadically along the seashore. They can be readily distinguished by their quiet, unobtrusive manner, their soft, well-modulated voices, and their absurd lack of display—you can also tellthem when you are looking at them. The Semitic race originally camefrom Baxter street, but have now spread out as far as Delmonico's. They are phil- anthropic in character, and practice this trait extensively, lending money when they know it will always be paid with interest. By nature, they are fire- worshippers, loving a well-insured con- flagration. Among the prominent members of the Semitic race may be mentioned Russell Sage and Hetty Green. comicbooks.com