Life — June 23, 1904 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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False alarm of ‘‘ Man overboard !"" but otherwise comparative quiet. Firtu Day Our.—Somewhat rough- er. Small boy taken from rigging amid great excitement. Report of small- pox among steerage passengers, but confidence quickly restored. Fourth issue of daily newspaper. In touch with English coast. Further sen tional fall of stocks. Stout man with red face threatens life of operator un- less he sends order to his broker. Stakes in poker game rising. Stxtu Day Ovr General apathy a Stoker commits overboard. -ggy weather. nong passengers. uicide by jumping Fifth issue of daily news- paper. Further slump in stocks, Stout man with red face becomes dangerous, and is put into strait-jacket. General mix-up in smoking-room on discovery of cheating at cards. Concert in even- ing is interrupted by breaking of shaft. neral stampede for the deck, and two children are tram Under way again at midnight. don, eveNTiHt Day.—Reach Southampton in time to catch steamer returning to America, Stout man with red face is transferred to asylum. William Wallace Whitelock. The Restlessness of Hortense. ORTENSE, the young wife, hav- ing lived with her husband a year in New York, naturally grew restless, On the other hand, it being extremely unnatural for Hortense to live in the country, where all she could do was to steal aw. her neighbors’ servants, borrow their food and talk about them behind their backs, there seemed no help for it. “Could I find,’ said Hortense, ‘‘suf- ficient solace in bargain counters to satisfy the cravings of my high-strung and delicately sensitive temperament, I could even bear to live with a mere clerk, who, though good enough in his. way, yet lacks those finer feelings that make it impossible for him to enter into my soul longings. Yet to see around me women who are so much better gowned than I, rhaddens me.” Edward, Hortense’s husband, ob- served her restlessness with dismay, “Could you but name," said Edward, “the one thing that would make you LIFE- happy, I will devote my best efforts to supply it. “Money no doubt, my dear Edward,” she added, a cruel gle: “that you will be able to fulfill all my wishes, for, at the end of another year, is there not a fine pros- pect of your getting two dollars a week more?” with Edward did not quite un- derstand. “Doubtle he said to himself, ‘th ‘ht of so much luxury constantly before her eyes is turning the head of my adored Hortease."" And being dull and commonpla with little sense of satire, he redoubled his loving care and thoughtful atten- ns, once even stopping on the street and buying Hortense a half bunch of violets. Hortense sighed. “They are too small for the real thing,” she said. ‘My dear Edward, will you never be somebody Able men all around yoy are acquiring vast wealth so extremely easy. At this Edward began to brood. “With money as my rival," he said, ‘how can I compete? But there must be some way.”” Edward found the way by and by, being cashier and buying stocks margin. Hortense was delighted. “How I respect you,’ miringly. na she said ad- e ee ¢ OME time later, out of the goodness of her heart, she visited Edward in jail, and brought fresh flowers. Edward seemed sad. “T could stand the disgrace," he mut- tered, “did I but know you were happy.” Hortense, on the other hand, was gay. “I am happy,” she said, fingering lovingly her new chatelaine, “Have I not found my real affin- ity?” she added, aside. Tom Masson. For Students of Russian Politics. HERE are two awful lions in the path that leads to familiari the situation in Russia. They are Pobyedonostseff and Bezobrazoff. One has to know these two names, and be replied Hortense; “but I have Vat aw BUT WHEN I'M OFF WITH GOGGLY EYE YM NOT So wise. TO WIT! 1's A EIT CF A DRUTE. able to speak them fairly glibly, before he get ahead any, or hope to do himself credit in talking Russian poli- tics. Bezobrazoff merely the pro- moter and expansionist whose influence was highly important in fooling the Czar, and fixing upon the Russian Gov- ernment the Far Eastern policy which, so far, has proved so disastrous. The worst lion is Pobyedonostseff. His name is preposterous, but there is no avoiding it. It must be learned, He is the ruling spirit of the Russian Church, who looks like an old-time New England Calvinist minister, and behaves like Torquemada. He is a thoroughly old-fashioned person, and disbelieves sincerely and effectively in papers, free speech, democracy, , popular education, and all the modern ide: He believes in having the Czar govern Russia absolutely, and in having the Russian Church govern the Czar. And, of course, he—Pobye- donostseff—is to govern the Russian Church, Pob, isan accomplished, and, without doubt, a conscientious person, who believes absolutely what he does believe, though, according to our ideas, he is immeasurably narrow-minded. When he goes on the shelf with Pleyve and the rest of his group, Russia will begin to have achance. If the Japa- nese hit Russia hard enough to shake Pobyedonostseff off his perch, the Rus- sian people will be gainers by the war. Keep an eye on Pob., and when he goes, rejoice. Meanwhile, learn his name in full. It is indispensable. comicbooks.com