Life — April 25, 1901 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Hurean for the death of the Army Canteen! Hurrah for the cause that beguu IU" It's knocked on the head and 1s totally dead And Christian Temperance done It, Hurrah for the trade of the gin-milt And the beautiful lesson it's teacht With its runter-Loot grog aud Its polsouous nog— (Results of good temperance preaching.) + Sing bo for the stealth of the private in blue Whose throat for a drink’s always needy, ob, Who always ts not unwilling to trot To the gin-mill outside the Presidto. Hurran for the movement that killed the Canteen t Harrah for the saints who begun It!— But the soldier's still drank as a lord in bis bunk, And Christian Temperance done tt News Letter. Wren the new boarder went tnto the dining-room ani sat down there was only one other person at the table, The new boarder had a kind heart, and thought he would be atfable. +1 «pose you've boarded bere for some time T™ he sald to the other man. Yes. Quite a while.” How ts it? Any good t Yes, pretty fair. I have no compliant to make.”’ ™ Landlady treat wr + Weil, perhaps 1 ought to"— and then he hesitated. Oh, never mind, old man,” said the new boarder. “That's all right. But say, mebby you never tried chucking her und pouce lua while, That's the way to get on with em. 1 uever bad # landlady that didn’t treat x OR me Al yet. It's all In’ the way you handle ‘em. ‘sister and give ‘em softy, sweet, oozy talk about their look: That * the way to fetch ‘em, Tl bet 1 can lve here for & mouth right vow without bein’ asked for a cent. Watch me nudge her when she comes in, Before this the to-mor- row shell be telling me her fatnily history. Poor old girt! She looks as if she'd had her tronbles. Probably got tled up chickeus out of the sard, and thats all, My oame’s Hudson. Let «see, | haven t heard yours, bave 1?" © N—no, | belleve not. But tt doesnt matter. the landlady 8 husband.” — Chicago Times Herald. Call ‘em I'm just A GRANGEK was in tbe Colon station, the other day, and was telling of an occurrence on bis farm. One of bis em- ployes Was aGermsn. He was a hard-working. honest and consclentious man and was married, His wife was taken sick and Snally died, the busland, of course, leaving bis work for several days tn consequence. Two weeks later he Appeared at the house of his emploser and asked to be re- leved from work for & couple of days, when the following conversation took place : + “1 vould like to get off for apout two tays.* “Lcan‘t spare you unless It Is absolutely necessary, You know you Joat several days two weeks ago, and we are be- hind in the work. What ts (be pecessity for your getting oof? inquired the farmer, “Vell. 1 vas to be married.” Why, Fritz, your wife died only two weeks ago, and now youare about to yet married again’ { do not under- stand that. « Vell, replied the German, “1 don’t bold sptte long.” The farmer dismissed the case without prejudice. — Columbus (G.) Dispatch. A Honsick atts correspondent writes to the Trcy “Quotations from tombstones iu graveyards seen t Promineutly of late in the Troy Fimes aud other hewapapers of to-day, and suggest that this village, In og al- ways up to date, bas a contribution to offer that ony te worthy of place among the most odd and quain', an¢ which can be seen and read at any time tn the dayligit In Maple Grove Cemecery, south of the postofiice, there is headstone upon which ta the following : “+ Her body was stolen by fendish men, Her Bones anatomize; Her Soul, we trust, has risen to God, Where few Physicians Rise.’"— Troy Time. heure lug Warn I got to the chateau where Monsleur Ralzac was staying, | found him tn the garden writing a novel. Ile was so busy that | waited a bit, Many sheets of paper, with ne writing, lay around him. He would writ then stare wildly about, and then go at It again as if be knew that world was waitiog for his words, After standing wear and watching him a while I had to {oterrupt him to get his measure for the trousers, Monsteor Balzac was very good-natured. fe smiled while I measured him, but he ‘spoke bat once. No feet,” be said, as I Onished, and returned at once to his work. . I didn’t know at all what be meant, but some way { didn't have courage to tuterrupt him again to ask, but 1 wet A servant and Inquired of him what bia master meant ty No feet.” . “Ob,” saya he,“ Monsleur Balzac wants bis trousers made without any openings at the bottom, #0 that he cas st and write without having to pat ou alippere. = The Ontocker For sale by all) natioual News Ce London, B.C, land, AGENTS. ewsiealers in Great Britalo. The Inter- any, Uream's Building, Chancery Lane, ECRoPraN AGENTS~ Messrs Breatano, 37 Avenue de l'Oyera, Maris, Established 18 WILSON WHISKEY. 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