Life — March 12, 1903 — page 17: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

-LIFE- 227 the hathen an’ spreadin’ the thrue religion widout money,” sez the sarpint cunnin'ly — sure, wasn’t he tho slick owld roosther? “It's meself,’’ he goes on wid all the earnestness in the world, ‘it’s meself will build churches an’ colleges, an’ hospitals an’ libraries till everybody sez there’s nobody like Saint Pathrick for convertin’ a counthry, an’ beside sez the sarpint, ‘ye shall have a campaign fund what'll make ye the only saint in the calendar, Thrust me,"’ he sez. But Saint Pathrick was too wise for him entirely, an’ scorned his bribes, he did so, an’ dhrove him off the island like the rest. But just before he plunged into the say, the sarpint turned an’ si “It’s a splendid saint yez are, Saint Pathrick ; but it’s a dam’ poor practical politician ye’d make. It's the ruination av any parthy ye'd be, as sure as I’ve no sowl,” he sez. An’ wid that he plunked si n’ into the say, an’ swam sthraight for America, where he's rilatives, so I'm towld. Alex, Ricketts, Apostolic. AN authority assures us that the Protes- tant churches of the United States raised eighteen million, three hundred and sixty-nine thousand, one hundred and sixty-three dollars for foreign missions last year. The original apostles got the gift of many tongues by an inspiration of the Holy Ghost. These matters are or- dered rather differently now, and yet not in- effectively withal. Certain it is that money talks to ‘men’ out of every nation under the sun.” GIRL'S best chaperon is her common sense. “THe RLOPRRS HAVE RETURNED TO ASK TOUR BLESSING." “RLRSSING. RUT HOW DO FHEY WANT IT? IN FE YORM OP AN ALLOWANCE, OR A Casi DEPusiT?"* THE widow. THE DANCE oF LIFE. comicbooks.com