Life, 1898-11-10 · page 6 of 20
Life — November 10, 1898 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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# Page 366 of Life Magazine - Analysis **Top illustration:** "At the Horse Show—A Word in His Ear" depicts a woman whispering to a man near a horse. The accompanying text discusses a Secretary's health condition (likely Secretary of State), mentioning prescriptions and various medicines, suggesting satirical commentary on the Secretary's physical ailments and medical treatments. **Bottom cartoon:** "Confisticated Again" shows a comedic scene where someone appears confused by overlapping legal documents or treaties labeled with words like "MOVE ON," "TREATY," and "CONFISCATED." This likely satirizes bureaucratic confusion or property seizure during an unspecified historical period, though the specific political context remains unclear from the visible text alone. Both pieces employ visual humor to mock political figures or governmental inefficiency.
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* LIPE- kept changing just right, Bush would always be a prescrip- tion behind. The extreme assiduity with which our Secretary bas been relating with what extreme assiduity he has been doing his duty bas necessitated extra labor on the part of his horse doctor. Bush has been giving him Stivers’s Condition Powders right along, alternating with what he calls Old No. 2, which is made up of: 1 Ib. blue stone, 1 Ib. rozzum, loz, tar, He says that what he would like to give a person in Alger’s condition would be Green Vitrul and Niturk Acid, strengthened up with about equal parts of Niturk Acid and Green Vitrul. Otherwise, he thinks it’s more than likely to run into Mallenders and Sallenders. Asked if the fearful responsibility of caring for the Secretary did not weigh upon him, he said that it did not. Now that the example has been set. we presume there will not be a millionaire without his horse doctor, nor a royal family without its farrier. ‘Alger says that after treating human beings a while, the horse doctors and cot leeches lose much of their virtue as heelers. To be at their best they must be fresh from their horses, cats and dogs. So that is the kind he chose for the army. Williston Fish. Correct. TAauzian: Did you ever notice, when a man has \ been drinking heavily the night before, how long and earnestly he will look at himself in the glass the next N morning ? Wacteion: Certainly. That is thetime for sober refiec- go’ tion. WA Bee: Look at the fire-engine house; it’s draped with AT THE HORSE SHOW. black. A WoRD 1% HIS BAR. Tom: That’s so. Some poor fellow hasgonetohislast fire. tion, or he will have more time, or he will bear what Wash Akers is doing overin Birmingham township, and he will bring along a helper and they will put atwitch on Alger’s nose; or they will throw him and bind him (devices in veterinary sur- gery which take the place of the old fogy anesthetics and anodynes), and they will sit on his head and fire bim or blister him, as the case demands and tools permit. The after treat- ment then requires the nicest skill. For some cases Bush gives Stivers’s Condition Powders. In other cases i he says he don't know what's | 4 better. SSI Bush has no less than three pre- A a . oS scriptions, He can hit anything, if = | : XSERIES it will stand still long enough. Of SSSR tani course, medicine is not an exact art, and a person can sce bow, if things AGAIN. comicbooks.com