Life — June 12, 1902 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE- | 513 Casus Belli. “ TT’S the chance of my life to win military renown,” said tho soldier in the field, inaugurating hostilities. “We must stand by our man,” said the adminis- tration at home, voting lives and treasure. ‘Wo must stand by the administration,” said the nation, paying the freight. Moreover, as transpired later, the war extended the bleasings of liberty, to say nothing of the new mar- . Sy My kets it opened. The Real Thing. RIGGS: I can’t believe these cigars aro imported, S. Herlock Holmes: we Stitt, WATSON. I MUST THINK. THIS SURELY Mas A MBANING, Ma-a-a-aut! Old man. ONE OF THE THIEVES WAS 4 COCKNRY—AND HE WAS WALKING SLOWLY AND TALKING Past. Gricos: But they are. They came from New Jersey. Solecism. KING with a crown is a solecism. Uncrowned kings, such as we have in our coun- try, are decidedly more in keeping with the spirit of the age. These uncrowned kings are pretty oppressive, in some ways, SS) but they don't assume to regulate the Ona length of the pants of persons who come to Honsy ‘i ®oOas see them. Let us but control the price of the people's pants (such is the course of their reasoning) and we care not how long they wear these. If the English only realized how much nicer it is not to have to knock off work and e dress up for a coronation every little while, they would soon come to our way. It will be a glad day for us when England ceases to crown her kings. It is not pleasant to be continually under the social or busi- ness necessity of compromising our fine republican principles by send- ing over official representatives, Cease ree 2 FLAT HUNTING, Br. Drake: MADAM, I AM APRAID THIS PLACE WON'T SUIT. WE MUST HAVE RUNNING WATER POR THE CHILDREN. Not His Fault. “ HAT! Fifty years old and still at it? Has it taken him all this time to sow his wild oats? "’ “ But he has been living in Philadelphia.” “CERTAINLY. TAKE IT RIGHT IN WITH TOU.”