Life — May 26, 1904 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Sih Liberties. 'IGURES seem to say that we are paying out more for soldiers than several of the great military powers of Eu- rope are paying out. Assuredly there is something wrong when it costs kings less to trample on liberties than it costs a republic to extend these. The present bull tend- ency in the price of lib- erty may be due merely to the shorts scrambling for cover, and again it may— But sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Signal. HE year 1998 was made signal by the Philippines Purchase Expo- sition at Manila. The exposition was the largest ever held, up to that time, and represented an expenditure of about a hundred billions of dol- lars. The buildings covered one mil- lion acres, It took a per- son more than three weeks, trav- eling through the aisles in an automo- bile at the rate of a mile a minute, to see everything in the exposi- tion. The deficit was less than sixty billions. ECTOR: I'm glad to see you are such a constant attendant at church, Patrick. Patrick: Oh, I enj'ys it, sorr. = , I sits me down and lays me legs t We up and thinks o nothin’ A CONVERSION -: . ‘ $ * CAN'T you wait a year before SAY, MA, I BELIEVE fr."" bf id “ peuieve wat?" marrying my daughter? “THAT 11's MORE BLESSED TO GIVE THAN RECEIVE." “Tcan, but my creditors can | comicbooks.com