Life — December 20, 1900 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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+ LIFE - A} PLICATIO 4 coming in by every mail, and if there are many who feel themselves temporarily ni 5 it must be remembered that the number of candi- dates is very lar, t men were never so plentiful before, that each should be gi an appropri © requires that everything must be done ¢ order, Every Hall of Fame should h regulations ve its rules and We are no exception. pconD Day's Procee: Promptly at one A. M., the I met on the roof of Lire Building, and mail had been opened and the telegrams read by the Secretary, the business of the day bega rman, ‘who is the Repre- sentatives from Chauncey Depew, Henry James, DeWitt Talmage and Mark Hanna immediately rose to their fect. They all began to talk at on scene of great confusion would have followed, had nota tall, sturdy looking individual, armed with two revolvers and with a mask over his face, suddenly sprung to his feet. Everybody else retired. Mr. Chairman,” he said quietly, but with an air that plainly meant he would brook no interruption, * 1am an advocate of the strenuous life, and if there b who dares to assert that Theodore Roosevelt is not entitled to first place on the list, let him come up now and face me.” He toyed nervously with a “When it tinued, “no one is i Tur © among ye evolver, amid of applause. he con- Who has written more for the magazines? Who has talked more about himself? Who is a better fighter? And when it comes to modern statesmanship, who is more promiscuously deserving than he? I move that Teddy's be inscribed upon the deathless scroll of fame.” With this a quiet, demure individual in th to his fee Mr. Chairman,” he said, motion, and T have only one thing to add to it on his nid T got to ku I there *, in commemoration of his peculiar talents, that when his st ordered, it be made of solid bell metal as the only material suitable for such a great man.” The motion was carried unanimously The man with the mask then took the floor. “Gentlemen,” he said, showing his teeth in a broad smile, “1 thank 3 T must g now, as Marcus wants me.” And the unknown advocate withdrew with a great clanking of spurs pmes to pure it with Teddy. of the audience “TL second that I was with Teddy whim fairly well, And arose His Successor. TRE downtrodden farmer that Markham has drawn No more is the fellow that gocs ; For Santa Clans, jolly, and happy, and fat, Steps forth as the Man with the Iose. McLandburgh Wilson, Some Literary Notes. TNE editors of Seritmer's Magazine, fully alive to the demands of readers, announce for the forthcoming year that no novel by J. M. Barrie will appear in the magazine, It is said that during the coming year Mr. Marion Craw- ford will read his own works through, a task that before this he has never had the time to accomplish, Miss Marie Corelli has been having her imagination made over and refitted. A lot of new material has been added, and some entirely new and gorgeous effects may be expected for the coming r. Some of the reviews of books in the Bookman have been so good of late that they are going to be set to music. Mr. Frank A. Munsey will shortly offer a prize of a million dollars to anyone who has ever read anything he ever wrote for his own magazine. Mr. Munsey is said to be the Russell Sage of Magazinedom. Hall Caine and Alfred Austin are thinking seriously of having themselves dramatized, and, if they carry out their plan, will appear soon in this country as rivals to the Rogers Brothers. tye yyy vy fP UM UY, Ys iy og o A GUILTY CONSCIENCE, Johnnie: wwew! Now 1 WONDER WHO TOLD DEM DAT I SNEAKED IN wIToUT PaAYINo? comicbooks.com