Judge — October 13, 1917 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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Stories with Smiles in Jones was a very pand-shouldered and eccentric officer. Qn a particularly dark night in Egypt, shile practicing his company in outpost dety, he approached one of the sentries sho failed to halt him. In a great rage the officer demanded of he now trembling sentry the reason why je had omitted to challenge him. “If you please, sir,” stuttered the con- jused soldier, “I thought you was a camel.” —London Fun. Proud of Them—.Miss Prism—Don't sou let your dog bite me, little bo * Little Boy—He won't bite, ma’am. Miss Prism—But he’s showing his teeth. Lite Boy (with pride)—Certainly he is, ma'am; and if you had as good teeth as he as you'd show “em, too.—Facts and Humor About Teeth. The Tactful Husband—* Marcella?” He had a dream and it shot him! “Yes, Waverly.” Hee re les” RIGHTENED—ragged—dirty—the boy stood. It was midnight and the doctor, This one?” waked up from sleep, demanded—* But how did they shoot him?” The No, the next one. That is just like you.” boy trembled—stuttered. ‘‘He had a dream and it shot him.” What is?” Don’t you remember it—how that boy was Huck Finn—and how Tom “To reach right over the sweet one and Sawyer was shot—and Huck’s preposterous, terrified explanation? the sour one. You always do that . . . Not always.” ° How it rolls back the years! How it carries you back to the day, when “['d like to know when you didn’t.” as a youngster you read and read Huckleberry Finn until you nearly “When I got you.” . died laughing. “Huh!” Have you read Huck Finn this year and realized its bigness—its ‘ When] gu yous Marectlay/ reached over philosophy—its sadness—all those things, which now to you, become so me Pee DURCH OE HemOns and: picked & mixed with the laughter of youth? For Mark Twain was the most serious cr Waverly.”—Chicago News. of all our writers—he was a great fighter for freedom, for liberty, for ideals. GOING FOR GORE The Daily Oklahoman, Oklohoma City, recently published an amusing special from Konawa, Okla. It was headed “Request — | 25 VOLUMES ftom Sounds. Like Ass’s Bra | He traveled always sucha broad and brilliant highway Says, c oa . with plumes flying and crowds following after”—and his deat! Senator Gore greets with derision the de- __BOY STORIES left nations weeping. But in a larger sense he is not dead. nand of Oklahomans that he support the Ggt back the glamour of | He lives forever in work more truly American than that of President’s program for the prosecution of mm Sawyer, the bestloved | any other man, the war or resign. Here is his telegraphic boy in the world; of Huck, RUDYARD. KIPLING, writing to the most important > that precious little rascal; of * . * "] answer to the demand from Konawa: allthe small folksand grown | officials in Ivrdiay said: “I have seen Mark Twain this golden folks that made Mark Twain morning, have shaken his hand, and smoked a cigar—no, two atington, ae C., Aug. 27, 1917. so dear to the hearts of all. cigars with him, and talked with him for more than two hours! SP. Smith, Konawa, Okla. HISTORY Understand clearly that I do not despise you; indeed I don’t. jot for your teleg ra I ei) > sg liead 2 Joes of Aree i I am only very sorry for you, from the Viceroy downward. ide, Your message reminded me of the ass in ‘Sain in all his greatne .,,Pethaps you think you have read a good deal of Mark He was cuttin; great wath an ng the other ibe mrorid-—eccurats aa hice ie hi Me fies? All hobs i : a4 fog oer all she Za great 5) ong the othe: world — is- ' i : i i He was cutting a gre mong the world accurate as bis’ | the short stories? All the brilliant fighting essays—all the s until he undertook to roar. : lah. tory spiritanl fa i history? Mr. Smith’s reply sete eae Why the Price Must be Raised . . mn To Mark Twain two things were precious above all others—one w: {eeara, Okla «Aug. 20, 1017. of youth a a love for his wile—the other was a love of the peaple, At every aide he “ator Gore, Washington, D. C f whetherta och books was surrocnied by tributes of nonce. by joyous affection. In every cor- rapa as " Si oa Prince and The | ner of the world he was known and loved. And because of this it) w: rs on are quite welcome to the telegrams. I | per’ Connecticut 3 desire that his books be so made and sold at such alow price that HARPER & beayiehs shall be able to send you some more Yankee or “ Roughing It.” every family could own, a set. io Seay fpod jokes reallsoon, Ii {ace.-from the way they SHORE STORIES o this set of Mark Twain has been sold at a much lower price ranklin Sq..N.Y. Fei ecine Boe ye) than would ordinarily be the case for a set of books of thi Send me, all charges going up from Chickasha, Hobart and other They are so many and so | Character. But Mark Twain could not foresee that the price. prepaid. avset of Mark ma towns, I am afraid you are going to good. of ink, paper, binding—that everything that goes into the Twain's works in 2s vole hugh your fool se ; 5. PLS ESSAYS making of a set of books—was to go to heights undreamed umes, illustrated, bound in y self to death. S. P. Swim He could not see injustice even two years ago, It is impossible to continue th handsome green cloth, stamped : Bt of bec aod in gold, with untrimmed edges. Mr. Smith is edi fonawa Chic! without fighting it. The sale of this set of books at that low price. Por a few ah Smith is editor of the Konawa Chief- Base of Ma: cness eiared rocks longer -until the present editica fe taken ep nlf not Sitistactory, 1 will return and was chairman of the committee and burst forth in essays this low price will be in force, but on the next edi- 1 will send’you $200 within s days tamed by the Konawa home guard of 100 that will live forever. tion the price must be higher. snd $3.00'a tarath less monte: Uh 3 nwa bua a ac Ifyou send the coupon at once you can have big. the Deaedt of yous malherics enler embers to telegraph its sentiments of dis- | | TRAVEL your set at the low price—but send the cou- Setting le Benet of yor Bal pcs le {pproval of the senator’s course in Congress weet BAS PE ree the] pen at ence. Nena testes mt | du ou see it through Mark Twain's wise Harper & Brothers Address For our beautiful red hall-leathe the alove 1817 NEW YORK 1917 terms to $2.40 on delivery amt $1.00 a oonth to and humorous eyes.