Life — December 26, 1901 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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T. S. SULLIVANT. HENRY HUTT. beyond your power of silence—and if you blame me in person, you will find, perhaps, that I will lay it upon Masson; that Masson will attribute it to Metcalfe, and that Metcalfo may hido behind Martin. ‘Thus wo all have our usos. To one who has never tried, it might seem something of ao undertaking to guide the morals of a world and throw tho light of Truth upon every folly. But such matters, with Lire, aro sido issues, Beside scaring tho wicked, encouraging the good, and bringing choor and comfort to mankind in general, Lirg gives a two weeks’ outing in tho country, evory summer, to about two thousand children of the poor. And 80, while the poet Gay may have spoken truly, ho did not tell all {n saying, “ Lifo is a jost.” J. A, Mitchell, ©. TOASPERN,