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This page contains three distinct satirical pieces typical of early 20th-century Life magazine: **"Simon Pure Democracy"** (top right): A narrative mocking American political corruption. A stranger observes four New York City officials—a mayor, police commissioner, police judge, and uniformed officer—arguing over a bottle found in the street. Each claims it isn't his. The satire targets how city officials deny responsibility and contradict each other's statements, suggesting widespread dishonesty in urban government. **"An Heirloom"** (left column): A brief anecdote about Professor Masson at Edinburgh who scolds an inattentive student, then asks what notes the student will take. The student replies he'll borrow his father's—implying laziness and intellectual complacency pass generationally. **"Something Like Jumping"** (bottom right): An incomplete anecdote about a cowboy herding cattle to Leadville, apparently setting up a humorous story (text cuts off). The page also includes period advertisements for Wilson whiskey and New York Central Lines trains. The humor relies on observational satire about bureaucratic dysfunction and personal failings.

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He wrote of these headquarters, sim SThem's the Blaecs men in Rewemed! “Thales other thing ache, he’s the mayor; that tail one next to hi And over the.desk in His Highness's tent isa ¢ photo- yeolice commissioner; the little stout man is chief of p graph of Marie la Jambe, the beautiful ballet dancer wet one is judge of the ‘Wheo Fartford ood New Haven Conny Hefore this article could appear, the censor changed that With unassumed amazement and curiosity the stranger West Rewben oe ibey sok re 10 ? the North drew nearer the distinguished group, A similar gat Could Noah build a Little Rock Ark wer the desk in His Highness’s tent isa large maj 4 New York City officals, he declared subsequently, we If he had no Guthrie Ok? the theatre of war.""—New York Tribune. not only cause sensational speculation, but would be made We call Minneapolis Minn of broadcast publicity that a political conspiracy was in the Why not Annapolis Ann? 7 Tf you ca tell the reason why, T'll bet Topeka Kan z ayor sighted an empty bottle lying in the roadway, He picked it upand, addressing the commissioner of police remarked But now you speak of ladies what 3 “Say, Doctor, does this bottle belong to you?” A Butte Montana is! Z “Ismy name on it?" responded that dignitary, If 1 could borrow Memphis! Tenn ‘ No.” T'd treat that Jackson Miss. i “Then it isn't mine.” is what the stranger actually saw and heard: Woukl Denver Colo cop because saw that bottle lying there yeste * said the chi Ottumwa Ja re. police, i f my n to Kick it into the sews And, thou; py Portland Me doth love, whereupon the head of the uniformed force proceeded to c I threw my Portland Ore? out his own instructions, *Shucks!" broke in the judge of the city court, “I saw that —Maurice Smiley in Lippincott’s Magazine, lying there two days age AN HEIRLOOM Professor Masson, of Exlinbargh, author from Gotham turned away with a smile ap A DEVIL OY & BLOT ed to himself f anybody wants to find the quintessence of democracy ql life of Milton, was once exasperated by the listlessness of a student in one of his clases. After bearing long in silence the _ ; young man’s inattention, the Professor one day broke off in the A Re.t0 sAabemne.!— Herm (neds CHS) AY er midst of his lecture and addressed himself to the student. THE REASON SOMETHING LIKE JUMPING Fates an rer mitibeembeiiee gous ee Tasthe:kilt hy Avenue Surnday-echog| The best story of a horse's jumps which comes tom Ie Teacuie: Why must we always be kind to the poor, Ethel? ofa Cal LiBSe ents, art seeeced ie Mulan Emre (lightly mixed): Because among the sundry and ' “Then when the exami + you will wish for notes on these lectures, What will jor them?” “I bae my father's, sir."* was the reply.—Har per’s Weebly ja cowboy, He was taking steers to Leadville, und . had camped for the night on Bear River near its junction with the manifokl changes of this wicted wockl we'doa't Kooy how Little Snake, In the middle of the night something occurred 10 they may become February Lippincelt's stampede the catth ‘The man mounted his bronco and role’ hither and thither on the flank of the herd until their fright ha Four of five ti h +t felt his horse give tre ndous leaps, iscovered the cause The cattke had climbed to a level plateau which is intersect! hy a cafion four miles long and from fifteen hundred to two thov- sand feet deep. Its walls incline toward each other at the top, where stance is fifteen or twenty fee In riding, the man had kept the steers circling about this plateau, A dozen of them, Wity were you so anxious to send that man to Congress At one time the bailiff in charge of a jury was sworn to keep. “We thought it be a good thing for the community,” them “without meat, drink of fire." It was Mr. J) e Maule answered Farmer Corntossel, have him where he coukl who gave the classic reply to the bailiff who inquired whether he make speeches where folksare patd to listen instead o’ foterruptin' is not meat, and I should not call it drink Yes, you m Nearly all Maule's good sayings had a stro ‘h of irony Wren x Vanderbilt was in Europea native of Fi * May God strike me my lod, if 1am 1" exclaimed taking him for his own chauffeur, told him what he thought of a prisoner when the jury found him guilty : those dogs of Americans who rush about French country toads he found, had fallen down the cation and been killed, waited a few Jtben said: “Pr he trying to kill pe I havea sick hog.” said the peasant, Hoof marks showed that the great jumps made by “which I will drive into the road and you kill it. Then I will horse were occasioned by the animal's clearing the cafon ¢: collect from your master and divid time it came to the taking off spot.—London Evening Staxdord, Live. is published every Thursday. $5.00 a year in ailvance. Postage to foreig ics in the News Exchange, s Res. saarbach's News Exch 1, Via Firenze, Milsn Pestal Union, $1.04 a y Single current copies. 10 cents. Hack number months Saarbach's xchange ye rom date L No contribution ‘will be returned unless accompanied by stamped and addressed envelope. Lire. is for sah 3 alers in Great Britain. ‘The International News Company, Bream Ss ee cece Ce ond adecieed cmvele Building, Cha n. E. C., England, AGENTS The illustrations in Lure: are copyrighted, and are net to be reproduced. Saarhach's range. 1, 3 Street, Leicester Square, W.. 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