Life, 1903-08-20 · page 9 of 32
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 173 **"Death and Dollars"** (top): A satirical comparison claiming U.S. railroads kill more people annually than died in the Boer War, yet railways pay dividends while war damages material interests. The cartoon shows soldiers observing a rising sun, presumably depicting war's destruction. **"Cheap Books"**: Celebrates a court ruling allowing cheaper book sales, praising affordable access to literature like Bret Harte and Howells for working people. **"Strenuous Politics"**: Mocks Fort Leavenworth's Captain-General for refusing to comment on presidential candidacy rumors. It satirizes speculation about whether he'll campaign via cross-country horseback travel—a dig at Theodore Roosevelt's vigorous public persona and political ambitions. **"Bewitched"**: A love poem expressing distance and longing for an absent sweetheart.
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First Martian: now po you KNOW THAT 18 THE EARTH? Second Martian: can't YoU #EE NEW YORK? Cheap Books. HE Book Combine bas been declared ‘unlawful by the Court of Appeals, and the Department Stores can now sell books as cheaply as they plense.—Legal item. Hurrah for the lot of the reading man! Good books will be cheap as a palm- leaf fan. He will get Bret Harte for a small white dime, And a nickel will purchase rhyme. ‘And signs there be that we all may hope For a set of Caine with a cake of soap, While a cent that’s paid on a three months’ note Will buy every line that Howells wrote. immortal Strenuous Politics. ORT. LEAVENWORTH: The Captain-General of the Army leftithis place to-day for Denver, riding backwards and bareback. He declined either to affirm or deny thereport that he is a candidate for the Presidency. There will be relays of pbotog- raphers every ten miles. WasHInoTon: Friends of the ad- ministration profess confidence. They intimate that when the proper time comes for opening the campaign, the President will ride from New York to San Francisco standing on his head in the saddle. * New York: Wall Street looks for no improvement in the business situa- tion until it is definitely decided who is the roughest rider in the country. At middle age a man begins to enjoy life: he has forgotten his ideals. THE BAR SINISTER. 473 Death and Dollars. T= railways of the United States kill and injure each year more people than were killed and injured in the Boer War. But all the while the railways pay dividends, whereas war is enormously detrimental to material interests. Bewitched. [P08 my desk your picture amtles So pleasantly to-day, Thate to think how many miles, Sweetheart, you are away ; The mercury keeps going up; ‘The market, going down ; And mine is a most bitter cup With you so far from Town, So calm, contented and 80 cool You look this morning, Sweet, Town myself a very fool To stay here in the heat, Companion of the Bull and Bear And of the frisky Lamb: I might be with you now, I swear— You must forgive the damn. Above that shoulder I can see A fortune to be won,— ‘A dream of wealth that follows me ‘And never shall be done Until—until to-morrow, when My eyes behold these charms,— My lips against your own again, ‘And You within my arms! Feliz Carmen, comicbooks.com