Life — February 28, 1901 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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“1 pRINo you the stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, beamirched and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chou, Manchurta, South Africa and the Philippines, with ber soul full of meanness, her pocket full of ‘boodie* and her mouth full of ptous bypocrisies, her soap and towel, but hide the looking-glass."" — Mark Twain's Greeting to the Red Cross Society. If you see an tstand sh Which has not been grabbed hefore, Lying {n the track of trade as Islands should, With the simple native quite Unprepared to make # A SEISSORS AT NvLLv And, with builet and with brand, Desolated all the land ; But you know we ouly dtd It for thelr good. CHORUS (Fortissimo, beginning with a how!) : Ow t Just club your gun and kill him for his good ; Don't you waste a cartridge, give bim.steel or wood. When he's wounded and he’s down Brain him, ‘eatse his skin ts browa, Bat he careful that you do tt for tifs goo “Take no prisoners,” but kill them—for their good. Yes, and still more far away, Where the Boer is being hunted for his good. He would welcome British rule It he weren't # Mooming fool ; ‘Thus you see that It ts only for his good. CHONCE ( plantestno) : So they're burning burghers” houses for their good, As they pour the kerosene upon the wood, I can prove them, tf I list, Every man an altrutst Making helpless women homeless—for their good ; Leaving little children roofess—for their good, On, you Just drop In and take It for bls good. Where the “Christian * Down tn China tet us say, robs the * You may barn and you may shoot, Cores Oh, you kindly stop and take tt for bis good, Not for love of money, be It understood, Chorus But you row yourself to land, Wh With a Bite in your hand, And you pray for him, and rob him, for his good ; As you prize them If be hollers, then you shoot bim—for his good. JInst repeat a littl You may Ml your sack with loot, But be sure you do It only for bis good. 1 you're Jooting Chinese Buddhas for thelr good, Picking opals from their eyeballs made of wood, at with care, © prayer, ‘To tho purport that you do It for thelr good ; There've been sad and bloody scenes In the distant Philtppines, Where we've slanghtered thirty thousand for thelr good. For sale by all Newsdealers in Great Britain. Tho Inter- national News Company, Bream’s Building, Chancery Lane, London, i, C., Eoxiand, AGENTS. Make your pocket-picking clearly understood. Or this lesson T can shape ‘To campaigning at the Cape, Monat, There's a moral to my song, But tt won't detain you long, For I couldn't make tt platner if | would. If you dare commit a wrong On the weak because you're strong You may do {tif you do It for iis good. heathen,” for bis good, You may rob him, if you do It for his good ; You may kill him, If you dott for bis good ; You may forge and you may cheat ; You have only to repeat This formula, +f do it for your good,"* Crime ts“ Christian” when It's really understood. Exchange. Ecuor 37 Avenue N_AGENTS~—Messrs. Brentano, Popes Paris, Established 1823. WILSON WHISKEY. That’s All! THE WILSON DISTILLING CO., Baltimore, Md. BEST TONIC HE SHAKSPEARE SAID GOOD WINE IS A GOOD FAMILIAR CREATURE” LET US MAKE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE LABEL OF THE BEST GOOD WINE i f RUINART CHA BALLANTINE BREW Absolute uniformity and the high- est degree of #kill in every process from the grain to the bottle. India Palo Ale, XXX Canada Malt Ale, id Burton A Porter, Brown Stout, Halfand Half, On Draught or in Bottles, P. Ballantine & Sons, Newark, N. J. 134 Cedar St., cor, Washington, New York. LIFE. Vol. 36. and Gold, Full Black. PRICE, $4.00. If Copies are returned an allowance of $2.00 tia made, Vin Brut. ecient ‘ROOSEVELT 8 SCHUYLER, Sle Ayut f Ute Ses Canta. Bound in Maroon and Gold, Green| FSTERBROOKS For Sale by all Stationers, ‘Works, Camden, STEEL PENS 450 Varieties, It takes a month to make one perfect Esterbrook Pen. THE ESTERBROOK-STEEL "PEN CO. 26 Jotn 8. tow tok © 0000000 09009500O690O08 Om Indispensable as a tonic stimulant Baltimore Rye Pure, Old Rich and Mellow Itcheers, comforts, refreshes, strengthens Batrimone RYE worrce oY WM LaNAHANG SON BALTIMORE and is particularly recommended to ‘women because of its , age and excellence I first-class cafés and by jobbers Soe LANAHAN & SOS, ad ty hn 929900 0O909O9O09O00O0OO6 OOOO Between New York and ~ Chicago in 24 hours... Via New York Central — Lake Shore Route, “LAKE SHORE LIMITED’ comicbooks.com