Life — August 4, 1904 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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THE FAD OF THE DAY is to recognize the various makes of motor-cars,—to say, * Here comes a Columbia; there goes a Yale, etc.” In the August issue of MOTOR there is A Great Prize Offer open to every one. Half-tone pictures of the leading makes of automobiles are printed, without names, and the interesting problem is to NAME THE CARS CORRECTLY ‘The novice has the same chance as the expert. The same issue of MOTOR con- \, tains, with names, pictures of all the cars—thus making the solution simple to the careful observer. A valuable prize will be given for every correct solution, moToR \ MOTOR-=a all news-stands, or direct from publishers—25 cents 1789 Bvay \. MOTOR is the National Magazine of Motoring—a monthly magazine \.. “superbly printed and illustrated. Its articles cover all that the motorist Please send, wishes to read about and nothing that he doesn’t wish to know. Its ad- me MOTOR *, vertising pages are a panorama of all the miotorist’s needs, for six months, ®. For One Dollar we will send you fee which. I ee A Special Offer. 576th ‘moaths—regular price $3 a year—and a copy of the A B C of Motoring, a book on close $1 set the operation, care, and management of motor-cars. your risk. ing to your i USE THE COU- OTOR offer, send ine also a copy *, o> PON and put a 17 " ‘dollar bill in an envelope and 89 Broadway New York City of ABC of MOTORING saail at Gur riak toe Sree. \ alifornia and back Rate cut in two August 15 to September 10 Ride on California Limited Or go in tourist sleeper Eat Harvey meals Cool trip through Southwest Land of Enchantment See Grand Canyon of Arizona en route. Write to GENERAL PASSENGER OFFICE The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. Co. CHICAGO An Ingenious Advertisement. | TN Moscow,’ said Nathan Haskell Dole, translator of Tolstoy, ‘tI saw a little child crying miserably one afternoon. He walked slowly down one of the principal streets, and his howls soon brought a big crowd around him. “What is the matter, my child? What trou- bles you?’ everyone asked. “The boy paused finally. He looked at the | multitude which had assembled. Then, lifting up his voice, he shouted in a shrill treble: “Tam lost. Will somebody please take me ‘home to Ivan Troubetskoy, the champion | clothier of the South End, who has just got in his new stock of spring overcoats, suits, neck- ties, shirts, hats and umbrellas, which he will sell cheaper than any one else in the city ?’" —New York Tribune. GENTLEMAN, who, from a casual in- spection, had no other visible means of support than the bench he sat on in Franklin Square, was seen feeding the sparrows the other day with little pieces of bread. The fat and greedy birds came promptly and ate voraciously while the feast lasted, and still hung around when it was over. Then the host fished in a | pocket of his scant clothing and pulled out a handful of a powder composed of about equal parts of tobacco dust and bread crumbs. When he threw this down it was immediately surrounded by the winged gluttons, but they did not at once cat. They eyed the stuff with little sidewise turns of their heads, and when they saw that notning better was forthcoming all but two flew away without so much as 2 peck at it. The two that remained, however, began finally to fan the powder with their wings, and in this way effected a separation of a few crumbs, which they ate-—Philadelphia Record, ARREN SHELEY, a young son of Dr. O. C. Sheley, of Independence, is the possessor of a full grown ferret, a pres- ent from some place out in Kartsas. The ani- mal has the appearance of an elongated white rat with a kitten’s tail, and is not only thor- oughly domesticated, but is about the entertaining house pet imaginable. It plays with a string like a kitten and is very fond of music, dancing in a kangaroo sort of fashion when its young master whistles a lively tune. It seems especially fond of a zither owned by Master Sheley, and never seems quite so well satisfied as when resting its long, pinkish body across this instrument and scratching the strings with its claws. In addition to being a rare pet, the ferret is sure death to rats not to mention chick- ens. It is to be able to kill any dog that attacks it. its method of protecting itself be: to fasten its needle-like teeth in the dog’ throat and then to cling there until it has sucked away the animal's life blood. Master Sheley pet, however, seems friendly enough to his big shepherd dog, the two playing together in perfect comradeship.—Kansas City Journal. comicbooks.com