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This page is primarily **advertisements** interspersed with three short humorous anecdotes. The advertisements promote luxury goods (Lea & Perrins sauce, Park & Tilford provisions, Evans beverages, Grand Marnier liqueur, and Burpee's Seeds)—typical of *Life* magazine's affluent readership. The three brief stories appear designed as light entertainment: 1. **"General Miles's Thoroughness"** jokes about military precision—General Nelson Miles supposedly ordered a driver to turn around repeatedly to verify he'd hit every rock on a 75-mile journey. 2. **"As the Logbook Told It"** satirizes naval bureaucracy: a ship's logbook records catastrophic disasters (iceberg collision, crew loss) in absurdly spare language ("Damn near dead"). 3. **"Dog Showed Appreciation of Good Samaritan"** (partially visible) appears to tell of a physician helping an injured dog. These anecdotes employ the deadpan humor typical of early 20th-century *Life*—finding comedy in obsessive attention to detail, bureaucratic understatement, and ironic contrasts between events' severity and their documentation.

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In the society of every capital of the world it reigns supreme. ‘Made in France since 1827 Sold Everywhere LUYTIES BROTHERS, NEW YORK General Agents Hest Malt and Hops Mountain Spring Water Matured in the wood Brewery Bottling Sn EUROPE 272" North Cape, Round World, Japan, etc. Cafes, rants, ees FRANK C. CLARK, 96 BROAOWAY, N.Y. C Hotels and Dealers ITY A New Book of 200 pages, mailed Free to all who want to plant the Best Seeds that Grow. Address BURPEE’S SEEDS, Philadelphia. GENERAL MILES'S THOROUGHNESS Some years ago General Miles started to drive from Red Lodge, Mont., to Cody, Wyo., to see his friend, Buffalo Bill The road was rough, and the reckless driving of the man bold ing the lines made it seem rougher, but the Indian compressed his lips and clung to the seat without complaint When near Cody, the General suddenly prodded the driver in the back with his walking stick and said curtly: “Driver, tura around." “What?” exclaimed the astonished driver. “Do as I tell you,” commanded Miles. So the man turned the horses about and started back to Red Lodge. Now turn here,” ordered Miles, after they had driven a fe yards. Convinced that his distinguished passenger had sudden! lost his mind, the driver turned about once more and started for Cody. “There!” exclaimed Miles, in a tone of satisfaction, as the side wheels struck a stone and he bounded into the air. “You hit it! Now, driver, you can go back to Red Lodge and tell them that you drove seventy-five miles and never missed a rock. You've hit them, every one." —Lip pincott's AS THE LOGBOOK TOLD IT The logbook of the average sailing vesel is a mere common: place record of wind and currents, temperature and speed, with such other entries as are required by law. Among these statements of mishaps to sailors, records of complaints by the ‘The logbook tales of tremendous episodes are some- crew, etc. times pitifully meager. I recall a case which came before the British Admiralty and which Thad occasion to watch closely. A vessel had collided with an iceberg, losing her masts and their hamper. Afterwaed in a tornado she lost her entire crew of eight, leaving the captain only, who was asleep below at the time, but was rescued late with the ship’s log and other papers. The logbook told th story of his terrible experiences thus April 6—Fog. Dead calm. Three-knot mt N.N.E In collision with berg seven bells second dog watch, Masts gone. May 1o—Gale S.S. E. Heavy sea. june 2—Damn near dead “June 4—Picked up by Red Star steamship Amsterdam. Harper's Weekly. DOG SHOWED APPRECIATION OF GOOD SAMARITAN - A prominent Saginaw physician while making his morning calls. a short time ago noticed a dog lying by the roadside with a wounded foot. The doctor, being something of a fancier, stopped and dressed the wound with such facilities as he had at hand, and went on. ‘The next morning, passing along the same street. he again noticed the dog in the same place. He redressed the wound, changed the bandages, and left the animal as he had done before. ‘This again happened the next morning, and ako continued for several days. At last the wound reached the stage of being completely healed and the doctor removing the bandages. patted the dog on the head, sayin “Well, my good fellow, T ues it’s all right now.”” ‘The next morning the dog was not there, and he has not been seen since. Hereafter the doctor will be more ready to believe st the almost human intelligence and gratitude of dogs than ever before. —Courier-Herald. HOME WORK A little fellow in Altoona, Pa., not long ago hustled into a grocery with a memorandum in his hand. “Mr. Jones,” said he, “I want fourteen pounds of tea at twenty-five cents.” “All right,” said the grocer, noting down the sale and instruct ing a clerk to put up the purchase. “Anything else, Tommy?” Yes, sir. 1 want thirty pounds of sugar at nine cents.” “Loaf sugar? All right. What else?” “Seven and a half pounds of bacon at twenty cents."” “Anything more?” ive pounds of coffee at thirty-two cents; eleven and a half quarts of molasses at eight cents a pint: two nine-pound hams at twenty-one and a quarter cents and five dozen jars of pickle! walnuts at twenty-four cents a jar.” “That's a big order,” observed the grocer, as he bill. “Your mother wants it charged. or do you pay for it now 7” The boy pocketed the bill.“ Mother hasn't a thing to do with this transaction,” said he. “It's my arithmetic lesson, and I had to get it done somehow."—Success Crew gone. ies of \de out the are best because they have optically LOBE) icstectienses srranzed to ive ex: MOTOR. treme wide range of vision. OGGLES 2000 ‘Write for illustrated circular. GLOBE OPTICAL COMPANY, ~ - Boston, Moss comicbooks.com