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THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1900. : 6 ‘mc Rcaon [LAURA JEANLIBBEY.|” 77/E FUNNY SIDE OF LIFE. 2 ELECTRICITY 10 HIS RESCUE, DOES THIS BOER YOU? ITHEDAY’S « wt LOVE STORY. * A. GIRL’S WHIM. | LITT1.19 town, accustomed to its own mo@e of life and its owe people, would naturally be Surprised thag any otranger should come ameng ‘ them to live. Bo when Miss Mary Brown and her aunt took @ qutet little tage on one of the quietest streets the @ood people wondered who they were and why they had come there. Miss Brown did dressmaking, and soon became popular, She obtained the patronage ef hier people of « ughters of Judge ning Mary sat sewing with her aun some one knocke her door, On opening it a tell young man salt have come for my sister's dress.”* Mr, Jack Vernon was a little surprised ag the beauty and evident refinement of the little éress- nd inquired of hls slaters concerning her. But = “S they were not interested in her, and merely said: “She is only Miss Brown, the dressmaker; no one knows anything about her,” and dropped the eubject. Not go with Jack. He obtained an introduction to |GEORGIE’S PA TALKS OF “ONNER.” “ AW," maw ast when we Got to eating Brock- fust yistady, “why are they Trying to put Sumbuddy out of the Senate and making so une abou What Shall Be Done with the Bachelor? Caprright. 1000, by He Prem Pubiting Company, New York Word.) HAT should be done with the bachelors? That {s the query which a dozen notes went in one envelope—ask me. I would anewer, and in good faith: Make yourselves so charnting, my dears, that the bache lors cannot resist the desire to win and wed you The bachelor’s life is not one to be envied, by apy manner of means. He sails aloug smoothly enough when the sails of his craft are fitted out with greenbacks and tt {s sunny weather, when youth and health and strength are his ' He may be courted for his money by relatives } friends and acquaintances alike, The former ask} after his health most anxiously, wondering, the; while, how much longer he 1s to last, and keep} them out of his fortune. The nephews and nieces! have long since been caiculating what they will; “40 with old unele’e money when he dice, But,} dear mo! It almost looks as though he were al termined to last forever, for pure spite,” they | mentally add. The friends whom he counts on would drop off ike dead leaves in Autumn If his wealth were to take wings, and there would not be one among them who would offer him a corner at their fre-| "But tm sides. His acquaintances would not think of him or regret bis absence from among them a day after he has been taken to his last home, } He may sicken or die in a hotel or a garret, but} none about him care how long the etruggle lasts; \ ' ' | (eatacs ty (ho Pram Pubuching Convenr, © t» @ DARE ROW, atared ot tho Pet GBes ot Mow Port co Gerenodinas Aissl Meatea, wi paw sed, “What show are they going to be pritty soon for a man that wants Get enner and pays ail they ast for it, if they Go to taking It Away from him afterwards? You Bee s man starts out in life Getting to be a millyunare, and He keeps so bissy doing it that he Hazzent enny time to waste lerning muteh about grammar or making peaches, but the First thing you no he Wakes up WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1900. ose coeeNO, 14,071 by my fello Sitaguns. If they would Eleot me to the Benut, when | aie congress Would a Jurn over Sundy to She !ts Respect. That's sumthing worth living for. Il go over to t! ‘apiiie this morning and | 't hire the legislacher to onner me ! can ‘Well as not, and mebby sum of need ft enny way, What I want Without onner I never can go to My grave happy. Munny |p good to Have around, but If you can have it and onner, too, you go in Better sostety. When the Legisiacher elects a man to the senut it shows he is Th to's faverit Son. It shows He is @ man the people luv to onner, and everybuddy Puts their trust in Him, So I gese I'll 60 Over and By up the Crowd that wants to Vote for other peeple and get to be onmered. It's a nobul thing to feel Down in Your hart that the peeple put their well fair and @ chance to Get on the inside when the shugger market is Going to go up in your hands and the Crown of onner on your brow, and Being | have the munny to @pair I mite aa weil be the One to Have all this Glory!" “Yes,” maw enserd, “but they can't prove enny munny was pald to Get votes.” “I no tt," paw Tela her. “A Senatur fe too Nobu! te De Sutch « thing. What would enner smount to If you ha@ to Go and by It like you would sasaidge at @ meat Market? No! the men that Was Doing the voting Spurned the offer, an@ some of them Bed they pew How they could Lose @ few Hundred thousand around whare the peeple that wouldn't take Bribes could find it. Bo pritty soon they began to ¢ he 4 was the State's faverit son, and he Got onnered." “What's that! As T live {t's the step of the Sherif! } He-I see they've kopjered Cronje. rf ppose Britieh think cal prepared for him this time! He won't Ret} iormercidt cant a oan e's any more of my things ff thie invention of mine works |" : right. IN CHILDHOOD'S DAYS. hia death or recovery are of equal indifference to them. He never knows unt!! that dread hour faces him) how much he misses by not having wife and chil- dren about him—human beings to whom his life is} dearer by far than all the wealth the world holds. Heaven pity the bachelor who has led such a miespent life as to leave himself a prey to such Paal’s hat brim bas been blewn of, hat ottll remaine. Tt ts on the sickbed that a bachelor always rea!- maw sed, “I don't see mutch difference be- tween getting onner That way ané paying for It rite Out by the yard or pound or which Ever way it com "IT don't s'pose you 4o,"' paw eays. ‘That's the trub- bie with Wimeen. They can't see these fine points desolation at tho Inst! ' “I'm vorry to disappoint you, officer, What you see { worth levying upon — NOT A POLITE CRITIC {zem this. There Is no loving, patient wife to} smooth his fevered pillow, bold his trembling hand; WW : ett, {and Whisper words of hope and affection, and en-! | form the lon; artery in New York's | traneit ee xf courage him to make « valiant struggle for life! There is no question that the pa- for her sake, and for the sake of the obildren who Ldéke the men we Hire to make laws with Loup holes in them, So that’s why I say wimmen won't Bver| Miss Brown, and met her continually, As stand enny sno in pollitioks ti!] they Larn a few les- | Passed he grew to love her with all the sons from those that got onnered without being cot | nature. at it.” GEORGIE, in Chicago Times-Herald. One evening as they sat in ber little her of bis love for her, and learned he return. As they happily planned for the |GRAND JURY TO THE FRONT! y HE Third Avenue Railroad Company's lines § | z g 3 3 HH — i love him so dearly, marrying tronage {s oufflclent to assure them 8 : $00048000444OG oe eoososeotseseeeoe | suddenly grow grave, splendid prosperity it good business ts al-| Ave! And for their anke he rallies, and takes a “What will your famtly say at . fewet to prevail over bad politics new, dewporate hold on life, and pulls through, WHAT A BOY CAN DO. = $/aressmanert” abe atte a, | Bet, a2 The Evening World has shown, the and ves, to be cherished anew by those who so Baby Elephant (to its mamma)—S8o it 1s true, }® ERE are some of the things a boy can do: {| Jack reluctantly confessed that hie father bed ; Sexes sieearty hae toon relsed tp athe. fondly love him, and whom he loves. imasees (Got the slephenes are ated of mite! Tune He can whistle vo loud the alr tums blue, g/ {uner Tiane for hm, and wished him te marry © Miss : The company treasury bes been | The relatives of rich bachelors have much to/ pau taeaeie mee Make all the sounds of beast and of bird, $1 Oit'tremas, “Bul” eald ba "l wahine segey woman ¢ , the stock has been foresd down, the |A##wer for in encouraging them to remain single.| ———- — fe sca wae tal Gaia cat aie Sok for my wite. They are spotled by the flattery they fs threatened with ebsos. They bave everything to hope for if he dose not Just Itke a rooster, a hen or a duck; Pseeha aged idles ly Spica Ma 0 rf H North te cold and thinks only of marriage. I am eatisfied with my little aweetheart.” Mise Brown's eyes shone mischievousty es ohe told him she must go to the city to prepare for Ber mar a is here an imperative call for the Grand | ¥¢4, and a fortune to lose if he weds. to conduct @ prompt and full inquiry, regard-| What are his comforts or discomforts to them ‘of what may yet happen in the stosk market. |!2 comparison to this? ‘They laugh et and carieature the noble women He can bark like @ Gog, low like a cow, And @ eat itself cam't teat his ‘me-ow.”’ He can roer ang puff like a railway train, Whistle down brakee—then be off again; Ané with the voos! powers at his command THE MODERN CHILD. ae Ss q . whom be may express the slightest regard for, riage, and gave him en address at which to call on j LET MARRIAGE STILL BE FREE. |taxe care to potnt out their detects (if they have pe ell pid peccablvogletaph cory her ina wee He te the whole show and a street parade It's @ pretty sure sign that @ boy is ill # If hee wide awake and is perfectly still, But earth would be minus half of its joye Ané4 a éreary old plage were there no boys. hasis is afforded by the experience of any |any), and carefully hide from him thelr virtues. State for the assumption that a weiding To express my earnest views with all candor up- Ucense law ser::s efther to dscresre the jon the subject, I repeat: It a designing relatives umber of {!!-judged marriages or to les- | ine times out of ten who deter well-to-do bache- sen the evil of divorce, “ns mele me fs, that these maguided the other hand, a strict marriage License law jd not see It ere it 1s too late to remedy thelr many times revenied tteelf as an obstacle to | desolate existences. A week later the mansion belonging yo ee LEPT-HANDED PARTIES A FAD. parties are one of the lat Quests are requested to come with eoourely bound up. They must register their Blag the plane, make all gestures and eat with (! assistance ef the left band. SOCIAL SIDE TO THE CHURCH. By Rev. Benjamin Fay Mille. She-Why ts it that at the plano I- every- in this cold world really} thing else? oe He-Quite natural, but don't you think yeu ought to think Title of {et ener?—Moggendor! Litter eriaw tor The Brening World by permio. ir Aad 7 eaten ee ie — 4 | dresamaker, will het” abe adds gayty. ee TO THE LETTERS event voun Saye Sky Gleam Was Firelight. To Ghe Milter of The Evening Werk: A correspondent asks what was the cause ‘“maysterious ght" in the southern past of the the evening of the 1¢th day of February? The myo- atroyed the large dancing pavilion at Ulmer South Bensonburst. Fort Hamilton, N. Y, THIS IS FUNNY “ZIM.” | drocenoee erore--oners HILE Cronjo of the great heart wes con- Talks of Success for Girls. fronting inevitable aurrender after a e slorious defense on the Modder River, ©) WN Waitt 1 Na) \ \ ti rf i , 7 l g i i thuccses: ne questi. Bh Imposaibla, in the light of experience, jhe painted signa. There area Mra. “Zim” and Itt value to mental tratning for young | “me” of whom the artist te exceeding fond. & girl knows, the more varied are = - ae Apes 4 AND NOW MANY RIFLECT The Bible Society of England gave 5,00 eoples of whe lecks money, and It the New Testament and the Paniter to South African & college girt who has troops, i | | f | i § f | ii i s Wes Datey? ‘Mise Daley—You ought ¢ know, dear toy. Reggy—Me? Weally, why? Miss Daisy—Beeanse “ignorance ts ttiss.” & ! i i s i ] : i i Hy RECENT ARRIVALS FROM PARIS, i ; I epeciai- intending iv ve a eopy- . If it Ie necessary mould not, i fs i i 8g gs i 23 la Chink others viernes apprenticnsh |p. to be the centre of i I ' : i il i i ff tf i! at Goleonds which te fed by waters from the het springs. This pond has three scres, and the temper- ‘The group of untrimmed tration fs Just from Paris, ele that undoubtedly will ha’ marked favor will worn tn the Direc FELL i HL dj Ho gargar gil! anil