Life — August 16, 1906 — page 10: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

“LIFE: created the peculiar variety of millionaire. Investiga- tion reveals that wherever large wealth is developed from metal in its native state, the resulting million aire is possessed of raw and metallic characteristics. Hence, Schwab, Swift Water Bill, Coal Oi) Johnny, Tabor, Fair and all that itk have invariably hailed from States and Territories famous for the production , of raw metals. ; ng (i Dore: Pyatisn ; ‘Therefore, as a generalization, I would suggest the HERE are twenty dead 9 Dear Life take exception to your classification name of Raw Metal Millionaires,” inetead of " Pitte, the slopes of Bud Dajo, of millionaires, in that you have confused locality jyrg Millionaires," as more comprehensive and hadow of the crater where the bolos with material. Pittsburg as a locality is not the descriptive in its character. raison d'etre of the Pittsburg millionaire, but the raw Respectful: And their comrades feel it bitter, and their cheeks material which has made Pittsburg possible has also July 18, 1906 H.C. Hopkins. row hot with shame, When they read the 4 comments which have held the They were tokl to scale the mountain and they stormed its bee ail the frantic Moros, though they did their level best, LYLE BZ h the bullets whistled thickly, and the cl YEE BIEL Gy was lined with foes, Ley Ly Though the . and the kriss Y Pe ee ee nee 777 Yb he fue was drunk with frenzy and the women in the he Thought that paradise was certain could they kill first with the sword. ‘They'd been freely offered mercy, but they'd scorned offered stshad told them Allah promised victory sure and swift. They were foolish and their folly cost the lives of wife and son, But they fought their fight like heroes; there were none that turned to Fun. i i iA | \S y Wy L 3 how they'd and sain and ravaged, though Ite ae y ‘jp \ iY th ah, iy My YY H SSSA + shad mounted h Though ‘tis true that naught became them like the death they chove to die, One would think to read the papers that the troops who scaled their fort Were a lot of brutal ruffians shooting girls and babes for sport. More one who's sleeping soundly ‘neath the shade of Bud Daj Lint his life while giving succor to the one who dealt the blow, Yet his comrades feel more bitter and they give a far worse name To the men who dubbed them “butchers” and have smirched the army's fame, —Alfred E. Wood in the Manila Cablenews. ORT ASSINNIGOINE, MONTANA: i INH Wiss Dear Life~1 think that your love of fair play il Wit, shook! justify you in publishing the encloved lines Wf [reprinted above) The Fight at Dajo.”* ON One very small class of your readers will feel less e(S i fmer bitter when verses published where oP they will reach th c lat read an attack in vere on *T a word of the truth may also reach your SNAPSHOTS: IN: HADES: 1 mind, as, with best wishes for your Megaphone Demon: Now, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, | WANT TO CALL YOUR ATTENTION pment, 1 hope it may YO THUS LONG CHASM BELOW US. PEOPLE: WHO CONTINUALLY USE COMMONPLACE MAXIMS Sincerely yours, IN CONVERSATION ARK COMPELLED To RUN BACK AND TORTH THE LENOTIE oP TiS Fred’k 8. Fol THOROUGHFARE WHILE DEMONS ABOVE HURL ROCKS AT THES ON WILICIL ARE INSCRIBED July 10. 1906 Captain, Second OLD, HACKNEYED PHRASES. WH WILL NOW PROCEED TO THE NEXT DESARTSENT. comicbooks.com