Life — September 4, 1902 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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Sunday-schoot Teacher : AND HE PUT M18 HAND IN HIS POCKET AND A OOLP BALL FELL OUT. WHAT Doxs TuIs TEACH US? Bright Boy: xot 70 G0 To suNDAY-scHooL. Lessons in Politics. ““ \7 ES, my son, the sugar beet was originated abroad, but it at- tains its worthiest uses with us. Abroad it serves for food, merely, while with us it is a buttress of the protective system.’’ “* And yet they say of the sugar beet that it is mostly a myth? ’’ “Precisely. It is the mythical char- acter of the sugar beet that fits it for the important part it plays in our civic life.” “ Pray, father, how may this be? "’ “The tariff makes wages so high that the farmer cannot afford to hire the help needed to cultivate sugar beets unless there is a very large duty on sugar, This duty would come out of the consumer, who is also a voter, were it not that beet sugar is a myth, anyway.” “Rather involved logic, this, is it not?" “Theoretically, yes. Practically, however, there is no difficulty. The sugar beet in practice is an excellent stalking horse for capturing the farm- ers, while still leaving it possible to fool most of the rest of the people long enough to starve the Cubans into favoring annexation.” at T ‘HERE are more ways than one,”’ 2 said the doctor who had just purchased an automobile, ‘of killing people besides prescribing for them.” NOW, CHILDREN, LAST SUNDAY I ASKED LITTLE TOMMY TINKERTON IP HE WAD BROUGHT HIS PRATER-BOOK WITH HIM, “ HOw, superior your butler is. His lofty manner really frightens me."” “Oh, don’t mind him. guying you.” He is only Nop: I'm going to give a chil- dren's party. Will you come? Topp : On one condition. “And that?’’ “That I can play with the children, and don’t have to talk with the grown- ups.’”” LIFE'S ESTEEMED CONTEMPORARIES. See page 194. . THe MAIL AND EXPRESS, . THR TELEGRAM. . Tae Jewish MussENGER, . Tuk YourH's COMPANION. St. NICHOLAS. comicbooks.com