Life — September 20, 1900 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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The Omar Cult. CULTURED old gent of Siam Grew enamored of Omur Khayam. id he, ‘* My dear Omar, Oh, you are my Homer.” And Omar Khayam said, “1 AM.” Our Fresh-Air Fund. Previously acknowledged. Wilkes Barre, dack Orr. Fourth Subscription for 1900 on Annual Subscriptios 100.00 Check. 6.00 GT Brssvssveese 0.00 Alfred North Rowland. 10,00 1.00 5.00 James Stillman. 100 00 Carmun... 15.00 Clara Carter Myatt... 100.00 Fredk. Lockwood 10.00 In Memory of Peg 8.00 $9,714.68, A Letter to Life’s Farm. AUGUST 27, 1900. WE allarrived safe at home about ten o'clock and tt ts very warm tn the city, aud some girls sald that they wish they were back to Live's Farm for two more weeks, Its nicer in the country when you get up at sIx o'clock, butif you get up at alx o'clock In the city It Is not so nice. [hope the boys and girls that are there now are having as nice a time as we did. We had » very bad storm yesterday, the lightning struck many places. Two boys were struck by the lightning. They wanted to see # plenic and they got up on a tree; the lightning struck the tree and Killed the two boys right away. Send my love and kisses to all the teachers, the boys and girls also, and hope they have # good time like we had. So good-by. Answer soon, From MARY Mxrz. A SMALL Boston child of our acquaintance went to the Baptist Sunday school for the first time. When she returned her mother asked her what she had learned there. She said, ‘‘ That John the Baptist was found in the wilder- ness, dressed in a sealskin coat, with a silk scarf around him, that he was eating cockroaches and wild honey, and that he was baptized at Jordan Marsh’s.”” Honeycombed. “GRE seems to command a salary all out of proportion to i her ability as an actress.” “know it. But her life has been full of scandals."” (THERE isa rumor that Jommy and Grizel, by J. M. Barrie, now creeping its slow length along in Scribner's Magazine, is to have an end. It is said that the publishers are going to prevail upon the author to wind it up in the same year that our war with the Philippines will close— whenever that may be. Put even this is encouraging. EOPLE interested in the trend of affairs in the Far East cannot do better than read Archibald R. Colquhoun’s Overland to China, It stands out amid all that has been written during the past year upon the same subject, much as the walls of Pekin loom above the plains. It gives a con- cise history of the Chinese Empire and of the various races actually or nominally subject to it, and also discusses the aspirations and achievements of the Western nations in the East with more intelligence than any writer since Henry Norman, (Harper and Brothers.) Four years since Lippincott’s Magazine published a story by Duffield Osborne, called A Mountain Moloch, The story now appears in book form as The Secret of the Crater (‘A Mountain Moloch"’). It is, in style, a combination of Jules Verne and Rider Haggard, and those who like that sort of thing will doubtless enjoy it. (G. P. Putnam’s Sons.) A May and December lovo story is told in The Melon Farm, posthumous work by Maria Louise Pool. A very pretty story is marred by the utter improbability of many of the incidents. (Harper and Brothers.) A number of papers and addresses by Whitelaw Reid, upon various subjects relating to the Spanish War and our policy toward the new territory acquired thereby, are gathered together under the title of Problems of Expansion, They are written in an exceptionally broad-minded way and can be read with profit by anyone, no matter of what party or opinion. (The Century Company.) If one-half of the charges brought against the United States Army and authorities in the Philippines by Richard Brinsley Sheridan in his Filipino Martyrs are well founded, we have traly much to answer for. It is but fair to say that Mr. Sheridan’s book bears no trace of any desire to do more than to state boldly the truth concerning things which he has seen and heard, (John Lane. The Bodley Head.) Miss E. R. Scidmore, in a volume entitled China, the Long- Lived Empire, describes in her usual entertaining style the sights of those parts of China which, until within a few months, extended to tourists a welcome, grudging though it might be. Pekin and its environs and the Yangtse River are dealt with at length, while a passing glance is given to the other cities usually visited by foreigners. (The Century Company.) ———— comicbooks.com