Life — August 27, 1896 — page 13: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

- LIFE: NICK CONSENTS! The Czar of All the Russias Falls in Line With Our Proposition. AILING in our efforts to secure Richard Harding Davis, Lire is pleased to announce that his ma- jesty, Nicholas II. of Russia, has decided to accept our princely offer of $6.00 a column, and will hereafter cover Russia (including Siberia) for this journal. Nicholas needs no introduction to our millions of readers, and while his debut as a member of our staff will occasion no surprise to those who are already so familiar with our well-known enterprise, we justly feel that we should make some mention of it merely to THE NEW CZAR. show that we are sparing no expense to make Lire the greatest paper on earth. The Prince of Wales has just cabled us as follows: ‘“LIFE, ‘New York. “Nick has told me all. him, Wish you all success. Congratulations on getting Ma sends love. “ALLY.” (Collect.} The accompanying picture of Nicholas is said to bea striking likeness, 6c ID you develop your arms any this summer?” “Yes; I was the only man at Lake View.” WANDERING FROM THE SUBJECT. DOWN TO HARDPAN. HIS is the third summer since the Americans began to feel poor, LiFe wonders whether the inhabitants of Europe have noticed as yet any change in the habits of our countrymen who go abroad in summer. Do Russian princes and Americans still have the first-class carriages to themselves, and are the Americans still the only people to whom small econ- omies are not worth while? If values keep on shrinking long enough and profits continue to hang fire, it may presently produce a change in American habits that they will not outgrow. PROTECTED. “NOT a breath of scandal ever touched his official career,” “Why should it? He was the subject of a legislative investigation during most of the time he was in office.” comicbooks.com