Life — July 25, 1901 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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'O those who write, and who try to write, We would utter a ling word; We would let it go forth ia its rolling might ‘Till the hardened hearts be stirred. We would pray to those who are drunk on fame, Who have drained its cup to the lees, And to those who are yearning to taste the same, Yea, even still more, to these We would shriek from cities, and village From } Oh, don’t, books, ins where the wild dece feast, on't, don’t give us any more For a hundred years—at least! Maddine Bridges, The Fond Father. HUMP has ono child and he is forever talking about that infant. He has told us how clever she is till wo can’t stand it any more. When ho begins, ‘ The smartest thing —" every one rushes away. Well, the other day he followcd me on the street, and while I was looking for a place to turn off, he talked so differently I thought the man was raz Said he, ‘It's wonderful how silly children are. Now, my little girl was telling a story to your Charl the stupidest thing Lever heard. She said that in Populus Land there are plenty of geese, and they are nearly all so poor that they are scarcely food for powder. There are lots of frog ponds there and places for’ geese to build on. But these geese make big nests with great labor, and then hand them over to a lot of fat geese that just sit on the ground and gabble. They appoint a few noisy geese to govern them. When they are ill- served by these office-holders, they choose others just as bad, They buy ‘EEE * all their food from old geese that first found out that there was any food to be had, or who invented the ‘art of swallowing it. Whenever the fat ones want a favor, they bribe the noisy rulers with some of the food thet the others bring them. A few of these geese, she said, form companies which are granted rights of way in the air, 50 _ that no other geese can take flight without paying fares. Then, she siid, some cf the geese claim all the land, end (he water, too, because they wero bought from the mosquitoes, or because those geese got there first.’’ “Did she say where that place 2”? Lasked, No,” said he, ‘but she said the poor geese had made it a perfect hell for themselves.”” I said: “It serves them right for being so selfish and stupid; now, if thoy hadn't been geese—eh—I mean— that is a silly—why, that’s just what vo do ourselves Dolton Hall. Lack of Confidence. SISTANT: Is tho meaning of this poem absolutely incompre- hensible to you? MaGazine Epitor: Absolutely ! You're going to accept it, aren't you? “Oh, yes. But I wasn’t willing to trust my own judgment." ‘HERE is a Yale man named Taft who is the Governor-General of the Philippines. Most cf us know more or less about him, He was a judge in Ohio and gave up that cftice to go to Manila. When Yale was look- ing for a president Judge Taft was thought by many persons to Le a very suitable man for her to choose. It is as well for her, and better for him, that she did not get him, for Le scems the kind of man that ought not (o be taken out of political life. Almost everybody speaks with great respect cf Judge Taft. All we hear cf him is praise, and itcomes from discriminating observers, If there isany American that is growing faster just now than Judge Taft of Ohio and Manila, whois he? There is nothing in the Constitution that affects the ri; of the Republican party to take its Presidential candidate from Ohio three times running if it wants to. HE displeasure of the New York public is divided just now be- tween Mr, Willis L. SER. Moore, the local prognosticator of weather, and the five-cent chairs in Central Park. Neither Mr. Moore's weather nor his predictions have given any sort of satisfaction this last month. His deliveries have been fatally hot and his hot spells have been protracted be- youd human endurance, while his predictions have discouraged beyond warrant the suffering swarms who turned to them for hope. Mr. Moore ought not to be blamed for the heat, which really was not his fault, but an intelligent and timely optimisin on his part would strengthen his hold on his job. As to the chairs in the Park, it is con- ceivable that the Park Commissioners have thought that by putting out chairs for hire they were promoting public convenience. But the chief glory of Central Park is the immense it renders to that part of the y's population which has no money tospare. Ja3t as many benches as the Park can pronerly hold should b» pro- vided by the city, and they should all be free. T takes only one generation to un- - make a gentleman. RIGHT KNIGHT FOLLOWED BY A DARK DEY.