Life — June 6, 1901 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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“DUPE “Done,” cried the youngster, and he had stripped .off his hat and shoes in an instant. He took the first three rungs of the ladder in one leap, and up he went, up and up, with the Harramadoo ever ahead of him. The senior major’s wife gave a ringing scream, and a hush as of fright fell over the whole assem- blage. The two on the ladder disappeared into the clouds and an awful, expectant silence followed. Far away from the native village came the sound of a Bushlah woman’s voice singing a plaintive song : “ Ronto, ronto life is fleeting Khad the memsahib is greeting Rhask the poont khonthalis shore.” One of the subalterns ran down into the village and stopped the woman; it was too much for their tense nerves. Suddenly the rope ladder fell to the ground, but empty! The two ends had been neatly severed; experts said by a rekka knife with a long, keen THE EASON WHY THE NARTIANS ARE SIGNALING TO_CS=NO GIRLS IN blade. Now, everybody knew that the youngster MARS AT LEAST NO AMERICAN GIRLS, carried such a knife, but nobody knew what to make of it all. Nothing was ever heard of the youngster. The youngest Poomslaugh girl was found to be quite clean stark mad. Every one thought because this dreadful thing had happened in their bungalow. As for Bridget, well, her story you can read in my tale of ‘‘ His Engaged Fiancée.”” Mabel McGinnis, THE valued Worcester Spy declares that Mr, Schwab'a remark that the boy who takes ® university course can never catch up to the boy who enters business life at the age of seventeen, sounds like the utterance of a cad, Insolent ‘and contemptibie. Mr. Schwab made no such sweeping declaration as the Spy asserts. His opinions may be disputed, but they were carefully qualified, and were intelligent and manly. They have been absurdly misquoted and vilified. Such nonsense as the Worcester paper talks about them is an interesting illustration of the re- markable touchiness of some college graduates about the value of a college education. What Mr. Schwab said he said at the commencement exercises of a Manual Training School. He talked about prepa- ration for an industrial career, and gave the results of his own experience and observation. Garbled ex- tracts from his talk give a wrong impression of it. It was good talk by an able man, and was very proper to its occasion. Love Finds the Way. AURA: Her father cast her off without a penny when she married without his consent. CiarrE: How did they manage? “wey, Mme WORLET; 1'x enOCKED—Wwat's tne-troveLe?” “Oh, they published two volumes of their love “WEIL. IP YOU DON'T KNOW YOU MUST BE DRUNKER THAN 1AM, letters.”