Life — March 20, 1902 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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VERSES FOR A CHILO. Ve lived out under the pear tree, We dined upon tarts and cream, I married you there forever ; But, dear, "twas on'y a dream ! We sailed away In the branches To countries strange and new, For we owned estates in Dreamland ; But, sweetheart, It Isn't true ! We made a church tn the pear tree, Where the angels came to sing ; We stroked thelr wings—but, dearest, You mustn't believe a thing t We cut our names tn the tree trunk, So the bark could never grow, And the Dryad cried! But, my darling, "Twas none of It really 80! Josephine Dodge Daskam, in MeClure’s Magazine. FORCE OF HABIT. Moat people belleve that Americans boast, A noted traveler ouce sald that they are the only really brave people who boast of thetr own bravery. When an American pos. seases & medal he has no hesitation in showlng It, Toa large extent he ts right. Bat few of us realize why Americans boast, It ts a trick they learned frown the Hed Indians, In dealing with the ruddy child of the forest tt 1s necessary to deal In clarion tones and not show too much false modesty. For sale by all Newsdealers in Great Britain London, E. C, Kogiand, AGENTS. ‘The Inter- national News Company, Dream's Building, Chancery Lane, For Instance, » cheeky redskin in a powwow with the Americans will say ~ Chuckablut, chief of the Comanches, opens hia mouth to speak to the pale-face pigs. * Chuckabiuif {s the real thing. So pientifal aro the scalps of the pale-faces upon the poles of his tepee that they obscure the light of the sun, and the gas ts kept going in the village all through the summer day, + Listen to the words of Chuckablutf and of the things he will doin Latile to the white dogs who bring the fire-water from the land where the sun gets up. +The windows of the Indian chleftain's tent need clean- tng. Tis young meu will clean them with the faces of the chaps who polson themselves with cheap rum “There will be alongand quiet silence in the pale-tace camp, for the dead are rarely nolsy. + Each of the braves of Chackabloff will kill six hundred pale-taces. Then they will tire of the slaughter, and eat and feast while the aquaws kill the rest. ough! Chuckablutf has spoken. A SUDDEN Decamraugnt. Having issued this deflance the redskin general adjourns on & dead run to the nearest elsewhere, fearful of being captured. When the American general has read this despatch, he answers It as follows : «The Great White Father reads with sorrow the words of Chackabluff, for no man can hear the sasings of the dying unmoved. “For Chuckabiui ts to dle with all his young men, ang his squaws will spend the rest of their days knitting coins for the copper-tinted corpses. “For the White Father has the long tubes that talk the language of lead, and his young men are brave. Each of the young men can chew up eleven redsking before the ringing of the second breakfast bell. Let Chockabluff beware, for the brave White Father upon his tral. “Great and noble ts the White Father, and rich aad good With one hand can he play poker and take 10 all the Jackpots, while with the other he ktlls Indiana, * Listen, Chuckablutf, and tremble tn the tepee of sour fathers. “The scalps of the pale-faces which you have saved up daring @ long and economical life hide the face of the sea, but the scalps of the redskins which the Great White Father 1s going to take will reach up to the sun itself and pat it oc:, as the damp leaves extingutsh the fire over which the coward ly Comanche brolla bls pemmican. “The great and nobic White Chlef haa satd bis spoke. 0 Tuesday week be will begin to batcher.* Is it any wonder that # natton, forced for generations 1 talk in this high pitch, should have got into the habit of it? Few people understand how close the friction has tees between the reds and the whites, or that the sort of talk thar we have mentioned 1s the legal tender of negotiation hetwers them, We explain the matter out of friendilness to tte Atuericans, for we do not like to see them misunderstood, act we belleve In fatr piay.—English Exchange. Me ErRopran AG! Mesara. Brentany, 37 Avenue delOpera, Established 1823. WILSON WHISKEY. That’s All! THE WILSON DISTILLING CO., Always Best b; y Every Test Wa. Laxanay & Sox, Baltimore, Md. AS IT LOOKS FROM THE $3.50 Complete Odometer For Horse Drawn Car- riages andAutomobiles pleasures of driving by 5 Vents fa plain pumerais Our bw’ ‘end tutl In ordering Odometer, Cyclometers, Counters and Fine Castings, Wash Fabrics. Plain and Embroidered Panama Sultings, Ponzee Tissues, Figured Swixses, Embroideres| Butistex, Mulls, and Nainsocks, Vrinted Irish Dimities, Linen Lawns, ard Molls, Frerch Piqués, Croquet Checks. 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