Life — August 7, 1902 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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Shipwrecked Briton: WHERE 19 YOUR SHIP BOUND FOR, MY GOOD want * Loxpo: “pur, t sav, YE KNow! Turne.” WANG It att! A Trying Situation. Te have my darling doubt my word Doth sometimes sorely grieve me, I speechless sit when she’s inferred She didn’t quite believe me. I sigh, as though most deeply stirred, And pray faith may imbue her,— It’s tough to have her doubt my word When I've been lying to her! Roy Farrell Greene, Still in the Air. HAT the Chicago masters in chancery have refrained from deciding the Bacon-Shakes- peare controversy occasions no surprise to such as observe the circumstances at all narrowly. Bacon made Chicago famous, and while the friends of Shakespeare do not openly impute prejudice, motives of delicacy naturally restrain the mas- ters in chancery from assuming juris- diction. There is little or no talk of a change T JUST CAME PROM AT A HEALTH RESORT. “Ane ALL THE ProrLe ERE INVALIDS? “OH, NO, SIR! SOME OF "EX ONLY JUST Come, 81R."” of venue. It is obviously better to leave matters as they are than to press the controversy to a decision which will not be generally binding on the literary world. NATURE, though lovely, is some- > what untidy. Medium. pousst AMERICAN: Which do you prefer, Marius, to be very rich or very poor? Seconp American: If I had my choice, Aurelius, I should be neither. I should have about five millions. fPHE less trouble we take in bearing trouble the less of it we have. “A ND so you ran away from your o wife to enlist in the army. What did you do that for?” ‘I'm a lover of peace."" Some Testimonies. [THIS year my asparagus bed did not thrive. After waiting until July, aud only an occasional head appearing, I started in to read aloud to it “Science and Health, With Key to the Scriptures.” [ am now sending a carload a day to market, after supplying my own wants. Mrs. Sapte Gunes. Two years ago I became a healer, after borrowing the money to pay for my course. Since then I have paid back all I owed, and. have money in the bank. I bless Mother daily. It’s a grand work. Stan's, I had a fierce claim of rats and green snakes. Insummer I frequently saw snakes But it happened that the saloon where I used to and sea serpents along the coast. linger had a bookstand next door to it, and on this bookstand was a copy of ‘Science and Health, With Key to the Seriptures.” I passed it ten times a day, and now, at the comicbooks.com