Life — January 24, 1901 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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“LIFE = EEQy fo ON CANDIDATES in large numbers are still crowd. x oN ing in for admission, which shows the ) popularity of Lire’s Hall of Fame. © But we regret to say that our selections do not please everybody. A great many people seem to think that we have made some mighty poor choices. One man writes: ‘Richard Croker was bad enough to begin on. He represents, without doubt, the worst element in the community, and he is a good many kinds of a disgrace ; but when you let in Chauncey Depew and Mark Hanna, this was too much.” Another sends us the following: ‘Why does Lire take such poor material for its Hall of Fame? Russell Sage and Richard Croker surely ought not to march along the road to immortality hand in hand, and this is what it means when you open your doors to them, Please do better.” Tut, tut, good critics. You mean well, but you don’t understand the business of conducting an up-to-date Hall of Fame. We are taking the best material we can lay our hands on, without discrimination, And besides this, if you will observe, we are taking the real ral This is the main point. Mark Twain and Grover Cleveland both applied last week and we turned them down. This is a Hall of Fame that recognizes only those who need us. This week we take pleasure in announcing a fresh young candidate from the shores of South Africa. The official examination follows : unit F, Winxstoy Cuurciiny. Charchill.”” tion to evr Winston, Winnie?” He writes historical novels. I act them.’ “What is your occupation ? “Lam a professional escaper.”” Where did you last escape from?” “The Boers.” * Have any trouble?" “Oh, no. ‘They were very kind to me and helped me ont.” “ Who is your guardian? * ** Major Pond.”” ‘Is he good to you?" >, Sir. “Too good. He has almost spoiled me.” “« Do you fully appreciate the honor you have conferred upon us as a nation in visiting our shores?’’ “Oh, yes. I had it explained at a dinner.” “ What are your impressions of America?" “It seems lucrative.” “* Will you come again? ’’ “Oh, yes, after every war.” “ That will do, Winnie. You're it.”” Can It Be? T appears, according to the papers, that Dr. Montague R. Leverson, president of the Anti-Vaccination Society, says, among other things, “ that vaccination is an iniqui- tous practice, and that the people should resist with force the vaccinators who invaded their homes.’? Which looks as if the wicked Dr. Leverson went so far as to believe the thoughtful citizen had some rights of his own, even when the M. D.’s were against him. He is also reported as saying: T have been vaccinated myself twice. boy, It was successful ; that Is, 1t “took.” down with smallpox in a virulent form, Up to 1894, however, with other physicians, I believed in vaccins- The first time when I was a One year later I was taken Se POOLED AGAIN.