Life — September 8, 1904 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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% World’s Fair St. Louis The very best facilities for comfortable, pieatint, and prompt journeys, between the fast and St. Louis are provided by the Lake Shore's train service, the most extensive and complete of any line. Fast through trains from New York, Bow ton, Bufalo, ete.,in connection with the New York Central and Boston & Albany toads and the Big Four Route. Choice of routes via Cleveland, Toledo of Chicago. Tickets reading over The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway aford stop-overs at Niagara Falls, Lake Chav. tauqua, Put-in-Bay and Chicago (mot toexceed Jo days in either direction at latter place}. Tickets sold at points east of Buffalo give option of going by rail or steamer either way between Buffalo and Cleveland with extra charge. For your trip. To assist in arranging your trip get a copy of our book about the World's Pair, containing a complete colored map of grounds and other useful matter; also book entitled *List of Hotels, Boarding and Rooming Houses in St. Louis, with ratesyete., and “Book of Tr: Adove sent to aay, address for four cents postage to cover mailing cost. A. J. SMITH, G.P.& T.A., Cleveland, O, The PENNSYLVANIA RAIL- ROAD COMPANY announces that it will SELL EXCURSION TICKETS to BALTIMORE and Re- turn on September [1th and 12th, at rate of $6.50 for the Round Trip New York, account of NATIONAL CONVENTION, FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES. Tickets will be good to re- turn until September 1 6th inclusive. from the | appreciation. | Rod, Omnium ; Saturday - -LIFE- Bore on Too Heavily. “THIS won't go for only one stamp,” sai postmaster to old Uncle as the latter handed him a bulky and much- sealed missive “Whuf for? What's de maddah wid dat “Too heavy,” replied the postmaster, balanc- ing it on his hand. “Umph! I tole dat boy so when he was a- writin’ of it. heal han’, but he kep’ on a-bearin’ down an’ a-bearin’ down on de pen, lahk a load o° hay. I'll take it back, sah, an’ mek him write wid a pencil. T ain't gwine spen’ no mo’ two centses jes’ fer his pigheadedness.”—Youth's Companion. ” I tole him he was writin’ too HIS week closes one of the most brilliant and thoroughly delightful Autumn Meet- ings that the Coney Island Jockey Club has ever known. Ideal weather, the finest horses in the country and the unstinted and well-de- served support of the best social element in the city have proved an irresistible combination, which has rendered this meet not only a pro- fessional, but a popular and fashionable Four more days yet remain s meeting, during which the devotees port of sports can gather at Shee; head Bay for the final events, as follows Wednesday — Belles, Waldorf, September ; Thursday — Flight, Russet ; Friday — Golden ‘Westbury Steeple- chase, Great Eastern Handicap, Annual Cham- pion, With these glorious days at hand, an outing at Sheepshead is one of the few things to be desired by those who appreciate the quickening of the pulses and the exhilaration which accompany the contests waged by the kings and queens of the turf. OTHERS and other guardians of youth will appreciate the point of a story found in Sunday at Home, Alexis came home one night with his clothes full of holes. “What has happened to yo! mother. “Oh, school closed,” Alexis replied. op?” echoed his mothe: “Yes. was something,” Alexis explained exclaimed his we've been playing shop ever since We opened a grocery, and everybody “Twas the cheese.” S SPTEMBER—the loveliest month in the y for a vacation, The trouble is that so few of us can get away at this time. If you e one of the lucky ones, take a word of ad- 30 up to Lake St. John, Ca inland sea—one of the most beautiful spots in the world. Drop a lineto H. ager, ‘The Roberval,"’ Roberval, P. Q., and learn particulars. Creature comforts in the al wilderness. You'll be glad is wondrous spot when vice : Beemer, Man- midst of prime some one told you of you see it. PACES OF THE J. W. PRATT CO., NEW YORK, Nature’s Tonic fo Weary Heads | and Hands Any Dealer Anywhere Any Place, SURBRUG’S Arcadia MIXTURE. There is only one mixture in London |deserving the adjective superb. I will not say where it is to be got, for the result would certainly be that many foolish men would smoke more than ever; but I never knew anything to compare to it. It is deliciously mild, yet full of fragrance, and it never burns the tongue. If you try it once you smoke it ever afterwards. It clears the brain and soothes the temper. When I went away for a holiday anywhere I took as much of that exquisite health- |giving mixture as I thought would last me the whole time, but I always ran out. This is tobacco to live for. My Lady Nicotine (p. 17.) SOUTHERN PACIFIC CALIFORNIA $ 5Q.2 FROM NEW YORK VARIETY OF ROUTES SEPT. 141TH TO OCT. 151TH iwauine Bostox, 170 Washington St, PICLADELPara, 632 Chestnut St. 3M9Broadway Battiwone, 210 No. Charles St, 1 Broadway SyRaccax, 129 So. Franklin St. New Yous, comicbooks.com