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This page is primarily **advertising and humor**, not political cartooning. The main satirical content is "Farmer Jay and the Circus Dude," a narrative poem mocking rural gullibility. Farmer Jay arrives at the circus with money from his harvest, confident he's too clever to be swindled by city con artists. He boasts he'll spot their card-game tricks ("the k'yard"). The poem's ironic conclusion—he leaves "wearily" at day's end, implying he's been thoroughly fleeced—satirizes the clash between rural self-confidence and urban sophistication. The humor targets the farmer's overconfidence and the timeless con of believing oneself immune to classic scams. Other brief jokes mock Philadelphians, women, and failed dog-purchasing logic. The page is otherwise dominated by **sporting goods advertisements** (Victor bicycles, baseball equipment) and patent medicine ads (tobacco-cessation products, hay-fever remedies).

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Victor Sporting Goods. WE NManutacture the test ine of Sporing heretofore charged. We have the best facilities and warrant every article Our Promise to Athletes: se-1f our trade-mark is found on an it is possible to make OVERMAN WHEEL CO. Makers of Victor Bicycles. PHILADELPHIA emicaco racinic Coast: Los Anceues sosTon NEW YORK oeraorr DENVER San rmanci St. Peter —“Are they all up? (taking another blow on his trumpet everybody except the Philadelphians." —Detroit Free Pros. ° PORTLAND George Gould says that yachts are like wo- men. He doesn't mean American women, for they cau't be beat—W"Ailadelphia Tomer. Mamma is thinking of buying a dog “Really! What kind?" ** Oh, she’s not par- ticular as long as it matches the carpets.” Boston Budget. POR ALL. $15 « mosth salary and ex- eases paid. Tt employment write Secertor0. VICKERY, dogeaaion prompt attention and better service fe when answering advertisements. Mllustrated fully in Leslie’s Weekly Leslie’s Weekly Special Photographer on the spot— J. C. Hemment. Leslie's Weekly Special Writer on the spot— Charles H. Sherrill Pete lanes contatntog ne trations of these events sh rend in thelr orders ne nearest newsdealer at once, or Send $1 for ARK: a three-months’ Trial Subscription REKLY COMPANY, 0 Fifth Ave., New York. Hi! IGHESTAWIR Te WORLDS bownTown'o SURBRUGIS9 FuLToNST A “Well, Mary, what did you think of the pictures at the academy?’ “Oh, mum, there was a picture there called “Two Dogs after Landseer,” but I looked at it for nearly half an hour and’I couldn't see no Landseer."—Spare Moments, “Don't Tobacco Spit or Smoke Your Life Away. ‘The truthful, startling title 0; a book about No-to- bac, the only harmless, guaranteed tobacco-babit eure, If you want to quit_and can’t, use" Nosto- bac." Braces up nicotinized nerves, eliminates nico- tine poisons, makes weak mea gain strength, weight and vigor. Positive cure or monev refunded. Book at druggists, or-mailed free. Adéress The Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago office, 45 Randolph St.; New York, 10 Spruce St. A‘ she is accustomed to the management of ** gentlemen."—Chicago Post. forelady” advertises for work. We hope sales- Ahead-line in a contemporary reads, ‘* On to Chicago!” ‘The country has been on to Chicago ‘or some time.—Aingston Freeman, FARMER JAY AND THE CIRCUS DUDE. Long ere the morning sun's first ray Had fallen across the sea, To the busy town came Farmer Jay— To the circus show came he ; And he was happy, on this day, ‘As mortal e'er could be— ** Fur—ole Jim's got the money, an’ don’t none o' yer dod-burned, plug-hatted, spike- toed show dudes ‘n land - sharpers Go t' monkeyin’ ‘ith me !" His pockets swelled with the ready cash He had gleaned from honest toil, ‘And his mind was bent on a sudden dash In the sharpers’ fierce turmoil ; “ T" see pore silly fools s’ rash,” Tt made his old blood boil— “ Fur—gee whiz! It's easy enough! All ye got t’ do's watch th’ k'yard ; an’ when | it comes t’ sharp-eyed James, ole Jim'll Do ‘em, as slick as oil !" The wheat it had all been gathered in And the hay it was in the mow, And he gayly jingled the honest tin ‘That came of his sweating brow ; But there were good dollars yet to win, So why not win them now ? “ Fur—geewhillikens! Therm young fools might a knowd ‘at an ole squr'l-hunter ‘d tell th’ k’yard fust thing !” And of course he showed them how. In the mellow light of the settling gloam Strode, outbound, Farmer Jay, As he wearily sought for his vine-clad home, At the close of that sad day ; For he longed to search, in the sacred tome, For consolation’s ray— “ Fur—by jinks! It’s jist like this! He know'd ‘at I had ‘im, dead sure, an’ when I picked th’ right k'yard, why he—but ‘tain’t no use Fur an honest man t’ play !* He sought his couch, in the evening shade, When whip-poor-wills charmed the air, And he thought of the sad day's escapade With a settled, fixed despair ; For the dire necessity he'd made To mortgage the old gray mare— * Fur-—laws.a-mighty ! ‘Them durned skunks an’ thieves, dod-bing their cussed or- nery, pusillanimous hides! wus liable t' ketch anybody, an’ didn't do busi- ness on a squar’, honest basus, er I'd —a—skinned—"em—you—bet"— And he muttered his evening pray’r! —Cleveland Plain Dealer, ‘A Chicago minister preached last Sunday on +: Where is hell?” Is the man blind, or hasn't he been around his town lately ?—Buffalo Fx- press. The only thing that we are kicking about is that our income is not large enough to be af- fected by the income-tax law.—Attica Demo erat, They have finally discovered the identity of the man who introduced the brass band in Virginia politics, but he is dead.— Washington Post, ‘THE CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE AND ST. PAUL RAILWAY RUNS Electric-lighted vestibuled trains between Chi- cago, Milwaukee, St, Paul and Minneapolis daily. ‘Through parlor-cars on day trains. between Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis. Electric-lighted vestibuled trains between Chi- cago and Omaha and Sioux City daily. Eight fast trains each way, daily, between Chi- cago and Milwaukee. Solid trains between Chicago and principal points in northern Wisconsin and the penin- sula of Michigan. 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