Life — June 26, 1902 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Lrr trusts beware their grasping For fates arv strangely linked ; If men are forced to eat the hay, Cows may become extinct — Washington Star. Sour time ago an earnest Prohibitionlet came anawares ‘on alone Maine fisherman, who happened at the moment to be quietly drinking something from a Ulack bottle. He was eo much scandalized by the sight, that at the prayer- meeting that evening, he referred (0 the incident as follows : *0 Lord, we ask Thee to turn from his evil ways the poor, besotted sinner I seen this afternoon swigging rum from a black bottle against the peace and good order of the State.” It eo happened that the einner referred to was present at the meeting, and at the conclusion of the prayer arose and offered the following petition: “O Lord, Thou knowest that when the brother seen me T was not drinking rum, as I do not like it, but Scotch whiskey, which the doctor ordered me to take to keep away the rheamatiz, and Thine be the glory forever, Amen."—Erchange. Arten a long eojourn in the cheerless and derolate caves of oblivion, the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy is ‘once more in the centre of the stage, with the limelight ebining upon it and a hoge chorus of argumentative cranks in a doable row behind it. Some of the latest theories pro- mulgated are as follows : (a) That Bacon and Shakespeare were one and the rame man. () That Bacon wrote the Shakespearian plays while in prison, serving a sentence of one year for profancly cursing and swearing on the public highway. (©) That the name Bacon was merely Shakespeare's nom de plume, assumed because the bard was a ham actor. (d) That Shakespeare, being ashamed of his plays, jamed Bacon, () That Shakespeare {nvented the Baconian theory in onder to mislead his creditors, (f) That the real author of the plays was Bacon's father- in-law, a saloonkeeper, named George W. Ferguson. {g) That Shakespeare rold out his playwriting business to Itacon after writing half of the play (%) That Shakcrpeare and Bacon were partners, () That they were not, (J) Thatmaybe they were. (k) That nobody knows whether they were of not. () That nobody cares.—Baltimore News, A stony is told of a Ceylon planter who wanted to go away for a day's shooting. Approaching his men, he said : * Although I myself will be absent, yet I #hall leave one of my eyes to eee that you do your work." And to the eure prise of the natives, lw took out his class eye, placed it on the stamp of a tree, and left. For some time the natives worked like elephants; but at last one of them, seizing his tin in which he carried his food, approached the tree and placed it over the ese, As fon as they eaw that they were not being watched they all lay down and slept peacefally until eansct—New Fork Tribune. ‘Tue were neither of them brilliant scholars, but they liked to move with the times as regards their knowledge of current events, 60 the daily newepaper was regularly de- livered at their humble domicile, and it was Jennie’ duty to read out during breakfast time all the most interesting items of the day. One morning, after wading through the latest intelligence from the front, she turned to another page of the paper and said : “ Tlerbie, it says here that another octogenarian‘s dead. ‘What's an octogenarian #" “Well, [don't quite know what they are, but they must be very eickly creatures. 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