Life — October 10, 1907 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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<~OuR FOOL!sH “ @NTEMPORA! RES ESAS DISCOVERY AND EXISTENCE listeners the rather pathetic story of a young girl who had con: cted yellow fever from a ox of lace purchased fur her bridal | and mailed to her from New Orleans. A physician t once declared that the disease could not have been “Twas in the town at the time was my best friend, knew all the circumstances.” Impossible,” he pe © Experiments made a few yea in Cuba demonsteated fully that the disease can be conveyed sito, the Stygomyia fasciats oment, divided between politeness d conviction, and then api But, you * she replied, smoothly, happened ten yearsago, before Harper's Weelly TIME WAS MONEY 10 not long ago received the following notice re- | age that was to ke place at the furish house: is to give you notis that I and Mis Jemima Arabella is comin’ to yo rch on Saturday afternoon nex’ to | — the operation of matrimony at your hands. Mease be | promp, as the cab is hired by the hour.’ —Ladics Home Jowrnat. | Tere tired citizens—a lawyer, a doctor and a newspaper man—sat in a back room recently in the gray light of the eatly | lawn, says the Boston Record. On the table were many empty | f packs of cards. As they sat in silence a] rat scurried across the hearth into the darkness beyond. ‘T three men shifted their feet and looked at each other uneasily. | After a long pause the Lawyer spok “LT know what you fellows are thinking, he said; “you think T saw a rat, but I dida’t.” | Soonre ur later the United States is bound tolose the Philippine the speaker a visionary optimist. — Philadel ph ser Tu Socru ror Hosriracity: ‘The Manor. Asheville, North olina, is the best inn South.—Booklat, Aw Lets friend had insisted that a Scotchman should stay at nd kept him there for a mont detail, even to him to sundry vis t. When the visitor was returning home, the Irishman saw him to the station, andl they went together to have a last ci ™ Now, look here the Scot, “I'M hac nae mair o' this, Here ye've been Keepin’ me at your hooe fora month, an® payin’ for a’ the amuse and cabs and so on—I tell you I'll stan pac mair o” it! We'll just hae a toss for this one!” Bellman. A MOVING APPEAL He was a motherless boy and his father’s only chikd, but some of the relatives had decided that be should be sent to a boy's school, fifty miles from home, and at last the father had agree! to the plan Forty «ight hours after his boy’s departure the father received | a Ketter, which was, although nct faultless as an example of so much to the point, and so in accord with his own that the plans for the future were speedily readjust Dear fat rote the exile, “its all right here and I'm not homesick I teleave, but life és verry short, and don’t you nk you'd better ket us spend some more of it together? Your affectionate son, “THostas. Youth's Companion THE PHILIPPINES Inquisitive Constrtvent: Senator, what do you suppose Japan wants of the Philippines? Eurwent Statesman: My dear sir, that js what the Japanese will be asking themselves when they've had the Philippines as Jong as we have.—Chicago Tribune. J.P. Morcax, like other people, may be fooled on European art treasures, but he generally knows what he is about when he purchases American securities. —Washington Star. EAT BEAR SPRING WATER 8 purity has made it famous.” you u do drink, drink Tp; Ss é Bie Nble - Ne aed er cw at THE MAN WHO LEADS “Weg want no Kings but Kings of tol, ¢ No Crowns but Crowns No Royal buth but @erling worth, ‘Mua mark the man that leads."” —Ella Wheeler Wilcox. whiskey Green Label: AT ALL FIRST-CLASS DEALERS SOLE PROPRIETORS WHITE, HENTZ & CO. Phila and New York ESTABLISHED 1793 “WHAT'S THE USE, ANYWAY? NOTHING BUT AN Et YESTERDAY AND A FEATHER DUSTER TO-MORRO! Ajter Mark Fenderson in color, 13 by 15 in, 50 cents LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY. 17 West Thirty-first Street, comicbooks.com |