Life — October 21, 1897 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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BE will be found the result of Lire's picturesque effort to discover whom its readers would like to send to the Klondike for a permanent sojourn, the trip to be made on a beautiful SOLID SILYER-PLATED BICYCLE which becomes the absolute property of the winner of the contest. We reprint the coupon on which the voting was done: 2000000000000 005000000000 $ LIFE'S KLONDIKE COUPON. 3 = 3 I am in favor of sending to 3 the Klondike @ 2 ; @ eo e@ @ (ere Bill in name of your cholee.) on condition that he does not 3 return. Addressivisseveraxeaiasts rs | 900000900000 0000000000000 This has been a most successful competition, and has increased our circulation enormously. The papers may not have been read nor our advertisers benefited, but the cou- pons have been delivered at our office by the truck-load. Thirty- first Street, in front of LIFE Building, has been crowded with the candidates and their friends, button -holing passers-by and begging them to buy copies of Lire and give them the coupons. The start will be made a week or two from next Thursday or Friday atsharp midnight. Two street pianos and a Scotch bagpiper have been engaged to add é/a¢ to the occasion. The following shows the final result of the contest, with the names of the competitors and the number of votes received by each: Joseph Pulitzer. Thomas C, Platt.. Anthony Comstock. General Weyler. Charles Frohman, H.C, Vreeland Billie Hearst... Captain Chapman William J. Bryan. Steve Brodie.. Oscar Hammerstein. John L. Sullivan. Richard Mansfeld William McKinley... lan Maclaren... Dr. Parkhurst Mark Hanna... Hall Caine tees Dr. Andrews (of Brown Nelson Dingley, Jr... Chauncey Depew. Whitelaw Reid. 10,403, Henry George we 91816 Mayor Strong.. 6 Grover Cleveland . 45 Seth Low....... . oy 497,635 4974634 497,633 33248 B07 308,984 299,208 287,678 2494333! 183,224 92,875 754379 74,977 73,202 $6,302 $0,004 46,703 434906 10,512 Joseph Pulitzer wins by one vote. Two Abstemious Old Men. i EAL DOW, of Maine, lived to be ninety-three years old, and not only fought the rum business all his life, but gave a pretty effective personal demonstration that alcohol is not invariably indispensable to the perpetuation of human existence. Francis William Newman, who has just died at ninety-two, had also a strong prejudice against both alcohol and tobacco, and did not always think it expedient to eat meat, Hence we learn that some men are excep- tionally hardy, and that abstemious- ness, even when carried to excess, is not necessarily incompatible with a protracted longevity. EVER fail to rejoice at your friend's good fortune—he may be able to do something for you. His Good Night. E kissed her once, he kissed her twice, He said ‘* good night” and then He made a most judicious pause, And kissed her once again, And thus they stood, until she said “Now, dear, it is not right For you to stand there as you are— Once more, please, say ‘good night.’” A Visit to a Joke Factory. Ty OLLO,” said his uncle, ‘1 think I bave never taken you to a joke fac- tory, have 1?" “No, uncle, you bave not,” replied Rollo. “Thave seen the manufacture of steel rails, the carding and weaving of wool, the opera- tion of printing newspapers, and many other curious forms of industry, but I have never been inside of a joke factory, nor did I know that such establishments were to be found.” “Why, Rollo, where is your brain? You know that jokes are made, do you not ?”” “Yes, uncle.” “Then of course there must be places for their manufacture. Is that not reasonable?" “Certainly, sir.” “Put on your hat, my boy, visit a joke factory this very day Rollo was soon ready, and with his uncle he proceeded to a building on a narrow street not far from where he lived. On entering and stating their business to the ind we will Boy: WEY, JULIET, 1S YOU A POSTIN’ DAT TO YER ROMEO?