Life — April 18, 1901 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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“LIFE Z, they were men of might and mighty deeds— Thothmes, Alexander, Cesar, Charlemagne, Genghis, and Timur, and the Corsican— Still when one reads How they swept up the heights of glory Tt makes a palpitating story— But mortal gory! But you, but you, our own, our Uncle Sammy— Why, damme! What do you there, ’twixt rows of corpses clammy ? What queer, preposterous gait is this you're striking? ‘That crew — Lord save us! — is it to your liking? Come off! Come out, old man! You've missed your steer. (My! but you do look queer!) 4 You're not a part of that old tale. The sequel rs Is what you're in, where men “born free and equal” Are meat no more for conquest, but with rights “6 ERLa TOU) OLN CEAY, IW'A WELLER “WAwre\TO:WAyR'A Unvexed, strive on according to their lights. ipa ISS AGNES REPPLIER, in her remarks before a recent meeting of the American Anti-Vivisection Society, said : “I was struck some time ago, in reading a book of Champfleury’s, by a remark of Mme. de Custine, which he quotes with approval. ‘The dog,’ she says, ‘is condemned to love us.’ It isa pitiful fate, because we do not deserve his love, but he can not escape his bonds. Nature has planted in his heart a sentiment which survives all ill-treatment. Thank Heaven! I pin my affections on the free dnd independent cat, which has a long and sad record of suffering at our hands, but who scorns to give us any love or loyalty in return. The dog, we say, is our friend. He might pray, with the cynic, to be delivered from friendship.” 00 ON A REOULAR TEAR, “ROME IDIOTS GOT ME TO OFFER TO DELIVER MY STEREOPTICON LECTURE BEFORE THE WILLIAM GROPER SCHOOL, AND IT TURNED OUT TO BE A SCHOOL, POR THE BLIND.” “THATS NOTHING. A MEANER TRICK WAM PLAYED ON ME WEN I WAS INDUCED TO DELIVER MY HUMOROUS LECTURE TO THE ROUND TABLE CLUR, AND IT PROVED TO BE A RIITISH-AMERICAN ORGANIZATION.” NEW YORK's THE PLACE.” comicbooks.com