Life — March 22, 1906 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE- “NOW PROMISE, (18 PROMISES.) . TOTTER, YOU WON'T LET ME FALL.” Are We Gold Mines ? HE hitherto silent revolt against surgeons’ fees to beacquiring voice. Th ‘2 these gentlemen profit unduly by their victims’ fears—and gratitude. The p nly takes all the risks. That the may mean life to the patient is a poor excuse for robbers’ tribute. An overcoat on a cold day is also a life saver, and with no risk to the patient. Butif the tailor, for that reason, should demand a thousand dollars for the garment, we should resent it. We are told, in a recent editorial in the Vew ork Globe Dr. Doyle may get $590 for a hours to write. ory which it takes him four ¢ Dr. Morris receives $1,000 for the extirpation of app , completed in twelve m twentieth the time. —twice as much earned i Furthermore, if we may trust Dr, Morris's pro- phetic powers, the time is approaching when $5,000 will not be con- sidered exorbitant pay for such a feat But why does not I Morris charge $5,000 to-day ? Why wait? If that operation is worth $5,000 it is worth it to- And why Why not make it $10,000?— k about plumbers ! Political. ays Mr. W. T. Stead, alt is his ungovernable reticence, ‘tI heard it constantly asserted that the revolution is being financed in England and directed from London.” Well, what is world-politics, anyway, but a branch of stock-jobbing? Grim-visaged War and Red Revolution are faithful genii of the lamp, and kings and cabinets the puppets by whose antics the public eye is kept off the real business until it isdone. The Rothschild who climbed the tree at Waterloo in order that he might know “ Is St. Petersburg," whose one great carly whether to buy or to sell his country's securities, is long since dead, but his soul goes marching on. Howe’s Travels. OW the great round world looks to Kansas eyes may be discerned by readers of the letters which are sent home from foreign parts to the Atchison Globe by Editor W. Howe. They are good reading and have been widely quoted in the other newspapers. Mr. Howe knows and likes Kansas intimately. He left it reluctantly and is trav- cling around the globe. He travels submissively but without enthusiasm, observing, recording and measuring everything by Kansas standard. When he gets home the verdict of Kansas on the terrestrial sphere will be completed and filed. It is sure to be intelligent and it will differ from the verdict of Mr. Henry James on American ci: ation to an average intelligence. But probably nothing momentous will come of it—no sweeping changes or improvements. The rest of the world could not change and be like Kansas if it would, and Kan- sas does not want to be Like the rest of the world, It is in Mr. Howe that there is likeliest to be change. A Kansan can hardly drag himself all the way around the carth and set home with his Kansan point of view unimpaired. If Mr. Howe comes back a citizen of the world like Colonel Watterson or William Allen White, it will be tragic; one more violet jolted owt of the mossy bank and evoluted into 1 polyanthus ! One Thing Certain. RIGGS: Don’t you think a man ought to feel dead sure bout the girl he is in love with ? Griccs: No, If he did, he wouldn't be in love with her. Motive. a HATEVER started the story that robbery was the motive of the killing 2?” “Well, you know, it looked at first as if death had resulted from an operation for appendicit Smith : WAVE YOU HAD THAT DACHSHUND LONG? Schmid? : DAT TO1G? ACH, NEL NEFFER ANY LONGER DAN HE NOW 188! comicbooks.com