Life — April 24, 1902 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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ALL HAIL THE MICROBE ! Go draw the curtains, sister, and stop up all the chinks, For microbes and baclilt are kicking up high Jinks, Go sterilize the water and disinfect the cook— ‘Tue germ ts grimly stalking like some pursulng spook 1 And while you're doing these things, You'd better do "em twice— And when yon've got ‘em finished, Go down and boll the tee ! Be careful of the matton (oh, guard ye well the meat 1) It's full of varied microbes we would not care to eat! And trace the antecedents of that reductive st We know not how much danger is lurking tn the brew! Go vaccinate the oatmeal And sulphurize the rice-— And once again, dear sister, DON'T fall to BOIL the ICE An! knowledge all upsetting! and free, And didn’t build our fears on microbes we couldn't see : Bat sclence bas exposed "em, and now they're every: where — They're polsoning the stuf we eat, the air! If we neglect to heed ‘em, ‘They'll have us tn @ trice. So, sister, dearest sister, after you have finished reading that romance {n three acts, entitled “The Deadly Germ ; or, The Sclentife Solar Plexus," and after you have drawn the curtain, stopped up the chinks, sterlltzed the water, disinfected the cook, examined the matton and secured the history of the stew, GO DOWN AND BOIL THE ICE 1 — Baltimore News. Once we were bilthe they're masters of Mk. D. ELpatva® Moxxor tells an interesting story of the preaching of Nelson Bone, a famous slave preacher In southern Maryland many yearsago. Whea Bone was to preach, white and colored people came from miles around. One of Bone's favorite characters was blind Bartimeus, ‘and rarely did he fall to introduce the prophet in his sermon, On the occasion of which Mr. Monroe speaks Bone’s subject was the power of prayer as shown by the triumph of Eiljah and the discomBture of the prophets of Baal, He elaborately portrayed the futile efforts of the prophets of Baal to bring down fire on thetr altar, ** because,” he sald, * dey was enemtes of de trae God, and dere gods “mounted to no mo*dan @ crooked gum slick. De profits of Ba'l pra‘d,an* pra’d, an‘ pra‘d, bat dere was no fre—not a spec’ ‘ob fire, an’ no roas’ meat wid all dere pra‘in’. Dey hadn't faith. Dere pra'rs didn’t mount on de wings ob de eagie on high—no, my bruthers an’ sisters, dey didn't reach knee- high, De Lo'd wasn’t Iisinin’, an* wasn't hearin’ ‘em, I tell you, my children. Den dey give it up, an‘ had to own up dat dey was beat, all over beat, an‘ everiastin'ly con- founded. “Den de children ob de-Lo'd pra'd dat de fre an’ cooked meats might come down on dere altar, An‘ dey pra‘d,an’ pra‘d, an’ prad, but de Lo'd didn’t answer. Dey couldn't pile in ¢nough faith, Dende Profit ‘Lijab, he pra’d, an’ pra‘d, an’ pra’d; still no firean’ no meat. *Lijah was a mighty big prophet in bis day, but not big enough to git de year ob de Lo’d widout falth ; an’ ‘Lijah had to give it op ‘an’ go to sleep under a Juniper tree. * Bat, oh, my bruthers an‘ sisters, dere ts mighty power tn pra‘ran’ faith. De Lo’d he was # hol'in’ lack for some one else to pray, an‘ dat one was on de spot ready wid his pra'r.”* Tue preacher now ralsed bis voice to an ear-splitting pitch as he cried “Come fo'th, Blind Bartimens ; for you!" At the name of Bartimeus, the audience, recognizing an old and fatthfal friend, responded almost as one voice with a mighty volume of sound : “Yes, Lod! Glory! Come erlong, come eriong, come eriong, Blind Bartimeus!"* “Yes, he did come," impressively continued the preacher, “an*he pra'd de pra'r ob falth. De pra'rsob Bind Bartimeus went up on de wings ob faith! Dey went up mo’ dan knee-high, mo’ dan house-high, mo’ das mountatn-bigh, mo*dan cloud-bigh—dey went up Into de very Heaben ob Heabens, an’ de Lo‘d answered [iliod Bartimeus, Suddenly de Heabens was a great sheet ob biindin’ fire; an‘, ob, my bruthers an’ alsters, glory je Lo'd ts a-waltio’ halleluyer t Down fell de bull on de altar already cooked !" —Baltimore Sun. (1) Give & Georgia darky a “chaw” you're a cap'n, (2) Give bim a quarter, you become a colonel, (3) Paralyze him with a dollar and you're a genera) for life. (# Throw in an old suit of clothes and two sti “drama of corn liquor, and he ratses all his childrea to call you “ governor.""—Atlanta Constitution. of tobacco and “Ip I were the Mayor," remarked the stranger, who had attended a meeting of the City Connell, “1 wouldn't permit the Aldermen to waste so much Ume tn useless wrangling over trivial matters." “The Mayor knows what he 1s abont,” repiled the citizen, “When they're wrangling they're not doing ary mischief." Chicago Tribune, For sale by all Newsdealer: London, E. C., England, AGENTS. Great Britalo. The Inter. pational News Company, Bream’s Iuilding, Chancery Lane, EUROPEAN AGENTS—Mesars. Brentano 37 Avenue del'Opera, Paris, ” Established 1823. mA) Cinta ‘@ THE NAME [5 EVERYTHING” Esterbrook WILSON WHISKEY. That’s All! THE WILSON DISTILLING Co., Baltimore, Md. Real Laces. | Polat Venice Laces, Carrick-ma-Cross, Limerick and Irish Crochet Laces. Real Lace Mitts, Bridal Veils. Neckwear for Women. New French Neck Ruffs. 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