Life — May 16, 1907 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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Books Received The White Cat, by Gelett Burgess. (The Bobbs-Merrill Com pany.) The Giant's Strength, by Basil King. (Harper and Bre $1.50.) Katherine, by ET. Thurston, (Harper and Hrot $1.50) Titerius Smith, by Hugh Pendexter, (Harper and Brothers ers ‘hronicles o] Rebecca, by Kate Douglas Wiggin. (Hough. in and Company.) Love Letters, by Marah Ellis Ryan mpany.) (A.C. McClurg The Ministry oj] David Baldwin, by H.'T. Colestock. (T.Y Crowell and Company. $1.50.) Problems oj the Panama Canal, by Henry L. Abbot (The Macmillan Company. $2.00) Te Story of the Outlaw, by Emerson Hough. (Outing Put lishing Company. $1.50.) As. The Neture and Origin of Lije, by Felix Le Dantec Barnes and Company. $2.00.) Phantom Wires, by Arthur Stringer. (Little, Brown and Com. | $1.50.) pany Advice to the Court :PH was before the Court on the same charge. After the evidence was all in the h a perplexed look, said, “But I cannot comprehend, Ephraim, how it was possible for you to steal those chickens when they were roosting right under the owner’s window, and there were two vicious dogs in the yard. “It wouldn't do you a bit of good, jedye, for 1 ‘splain how I cotched ’em,” said Eph, solemnly; | you couldn't do it if yer tried forty times, and yer might get a hide full of buckshot de bery fust time yer put yer leg over de fence. De bes’ way for yer to do, jeclge, is fer yer to buy yer chickens in de market.” —Woman's Home Companion. Disciplining a Humorist UGH PENDEXTER, author of that book of droll and unique humor, “Tiberius Smith,” which was published this month by the Harpers, finds that the way of the humorous transgressor is sometimes hard. On the publication of his book he at once sent a copy to a dear old lady in his nativ ate, Maine, who has known him since he was a child and has always felt an interest in his welfare. But as! the dear old lady takes humor all too literally. She read Pendexter’s delightful account of discovering the town in Vermont whose in- habitants didn’t know that the Civil War was over, this part of the book especially jarred her, upon she wrote to him “That part of your book is a lie from beginning to end, and so I fear that other parts must be also. Hugh, Tam disappointed in you, I asked father to read about that town, too, and he agrees with me it isn't so. I hadn't ever expected you to write thin isn’t true. Why, there never was any such a tor as that or any can't make me be Pendexter is vainly trying, now, to win back his old friend's respect.— Harper's. uch people, and you WO men were coming into Denver from a near- by town on a local train the other day. The n stopped every five minutes, it seemed, and one | he men became impatient. Finally, when the halted for the engine to get up steam, the man’s impatience overflowed. “Now, what do you think of this train?” he said to the other. | “Te isn't ing much progress,” replied his fr “Progress; I should say n man. said the impatient “Tt would be a fierce job to take a moving picture of this train.” —Denver Post. All over the world the Nestor is recog- nized as the international cigarette of the discriminating man. man who has traveled, who has frequented countries from St. Petersburg to Yoko- hama, and you will find a man who not only prefers the 66 in Cairo. 25 cents for 1O— $1.25 for tin of 50 NESTOR GIANACLIS CO. Boston Cairo ESTOR’ Cigarette, but who is able to find it in all resorts where men of taste congregate. To give American men the same advan- tage as men in other parts of the world, we are making the Nestor Cigarette in America from the same tobacco as used Rub up against a London WANTED—One or two persons in each town able to present a subscrip- tion proposition of unusual merit to their immediate friends. A very few new names bring handsome returns. Full information and particulars upon appli- cation to LIFE, 17 West 31st Street, New York 601 MENNEN’S|: BORATED TALCUM for After Shaving. Insist that your barber uses Menpen’s Tolvet Powder aiter he shaves you. Mts Antiseptic, and will prevest any of the senses. tra contracted. here, or mi GERHARD MENNEN CO., Newark, N. 3. comicbooks.com