Life — January 31, 1907 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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LONGWORTH’S LITTLE MISTAKE At the bar October 18, the day a bronz manent settlement in the territ "Nick a stump speech tof the Ohio Company given in Marietta blet commemorating the first per northwest of the Oh Longworth told about his first Mark Hanna w cial and Longworth was one of the was un. Congress: Very early one morning ¢ arrived at Newark, Ohio, where a crowd was alrea and to appease their demands { a speech, Longwor He said only ked to go out and hold the crowd. rear platform and in his best voi Ladies and gentlemen”. t then a limited whizzed by and his first sentence hung Beginning again, he repeated adies and gentlemen” A switch engine across the rai poi ste punctuated ng words with hrill staccato shricks. Considerably flu: put holding him- 1, the orator once more began his speech up—was he walked out on th ¢ began: yard got in motion at this and its w ick’s" oper self well in ha “Ladies and It was ne A freight train, a mile long if it was an inch, came rumbling and creaking down the yard, and the interry; jon was of such duration that the crowd got restless, and " Nick, the top of bis disintegrating entirely, shouted a x. There are too own. Look at the n't need any speechmak perity in yc ublican pee tf But a voice in the And Ly ning Post fed back givin’ us? Th ear of feller, what ye " "5 empties." worth ppcared into the special —Saturday Eve ART IN HUMBLE THINGS s. the newly appointed Secretary of Commerce {pottery and pe porter in New York, Mr, Straus one Oscar S. St and Labor, is a connoisseur In co day pe, versation with sed the useful arts—wood-carving, and \ery.” he said, “has robbed us of our useful arts to a ic estry-weaving, cabinet: makin Mack great extent Ir machine-made things there can be po a: In hand-made thing rt quality, no individual expression the itself mblest, there is always an o y for art to show “Two street sweepers were quarreling one y about their talent in street “Well, Hill.) said one, *T middle of a street all right, b ornamental y —Washin weeping. Amit that you can ch up the doing an t you ain't capable « of work, like sweeping around a trolley pole “Whar a mn going to the fu you in such a great hurry for?” eral of my chief, and there is nothing tuality!"—Fly Leaves s like unpun iT, Nyllv) KEEN AND QUICK er of Banks of Massachusetts, at Louis, Pierce Jay, the Cor ¢ American Bankers’ Association's convention in St system, mission advocated a better account * Above all," said M Jay, “we want intelligence, if embezzle ly put down, and quick intelligence that terized old Captain Hiram Cack. ck lay very ill. One day Jownhearted. feeling that hopeless doctor,’ he said, ‘there isn't much hope for me." “Oh, yes, there is," the doctor answered. ‘Three years ago 1 was in your condition precisely, and look at me now.” gent and alert, said quickly: ve??”"—Washington Star. f Gloucester. INVULNERABLE MANY LIVES HAVE YOU LEFT? SEVENTIES. The “RATS! YOU NEVER HAD BET NINE FATHER COMMITTED SUICIDE TIGHT oF Ws.” mer wy AND 1 INHERITED WANTED THE WINNING LOBSTER Mr. Frank Danicls, the pop: recent engagement in Balti after the show one evening one was brought in minus a el he waiter, Mr. Daniels said me w fect lo Excuse me, sah, but Ah didn’t think you'd mind a little These lobsters got to fighting in the basket and this one lost his ¢ “Take this lobster ou “and bring me the wini lar comedian, while playing a ore gave a dinner to Broiled live lobster was on the ne friends What do you mean by an ir thing like dat, sah w,"" said the waiter. replied Mr. ning Daniels, ediately, Saturday E A WET WALK Tt isa foregone conclusion to the American schoolboy that the man who tries to walk anywhere from Australia is doomed to a ing; but to some Australians, whom the author of “In rch of El Dorado” met, the obvious was not so apparent. Say, boss,” said one of them, suddenly, “how far is it to the war?" “South Africa is you thinking of going?” “Well, some of the boys was talking that way, but none of knew bout seven thousand miles from here. Are he country, of whether the track was to sunrise or sun down.” “ Africa is west from here.” “Ist Mas “Well, I reckon old Joyhone, here, ean cr beats me to know how a feller can carry tuck re enough water for horses on the trail?” You cross the oce: s anything; but it for all that dis yof stations on the road, though?” tance. I suppose theres ple The traveler who was suppl nation sought for an explanation which would convey m ied fe dit not: a sudden sandstorm turned their thoughts from Youth's Companion. Wine all pocts have to be born, some of them take distinetive ways to discover t n of ob whose gift for verse-making revealed itself when a wasp stung him soundly. Walt Whit gray one said himself in his old full sil and bad the me.” One may say that hy the Whitman motif. In all his works the author of * Leaves 1 they are poets e was a Pers an's waking-up came, as the g uns scribe it exactly as it seemed to when Tow a ire to eis ex of the poet's own ass” was endeavoring to deal with the world of the senses “exactly as it seemed to me,” and with many pains of misunder standing. There have been many recent undertakings in the way of Whitman appreciations and biographies, Among them all the greatest measure of success has fallen to Bliss Perry's “W the reason is not a plain, hi case, that he Whitman” (Houghton, Mifflin and Co.), Ivis because Mr. Perry has ma document, without going into the di has done so well. His book is just what its title says. Mr. Perry takes Whitman from the time that he self * Walter” instead of * Walt" previously to 1855 —and discusses with as much interest th strojled Broadway “with his high hat niere™ in th arly "gos as th and slouch hat at whom the w Working, when Whitman first came to New York, was” far to seck pan actics of sd hin 108. nd Light cane ai gray-bearded poct in loose shirt ld looked askance years a an incident in a life crowded with si says this biography. And again, “London or I sine offspring of the pavements than the coun: ts and experience never pro duced a more try-bred Walt Whitman.” There are three portraits in Mr. Perry's book. 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