Life — March 5, 1908 — page 31: what you’re looking at

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don’t understand. But you would, I’m sure, if you had studied and thought and dreamed about this as much as I have.” “T don’t believe I would,” I says. “TI ain’t quite built that way. But go on. I love to hear you talk.” “Think!” she cries, ‘‘of those old days. Think | of the age of Pericles! At one time he was the boss of the place. “Think of it!” she went on. ‘How the armies of Persia were beaten back! How orators, philosophers, poets, the grandest the world has ever seen, crowded this space underneath our feet. Oh, can’t you understand,” she went on, “that we owe everything to them, everything! Don’t you feel the historic sentiments that carry one fairly off one’s feet?” I looked at her strong and full. “Miss Nellie,” I said, “you'd be miserable, wouldn't you, if you didn’t have some one near you, all the time, who understood these things?” “ yes,” she said. “Then I’m goin’ to tell you something,” I replied. ‘I owe my success to your dad, who told me six years ago to take nobody’s advice but my own. Miss Nellie, I’m goin’ to pass it on to you.” I took a step nearer. “Don't allow anybody to fool you," I says. | — “You're rich enough to marry lords and dukes. Or you can settle down into a quiet home life with a natural man—like me, for instance,” I says, with a smile. ‘But don’t you do it. You take a fellow that has something in common with you, if it’s postage stamps or places like this,” Isays, sweepin’ my hand around the horizon. “You take him,” I says, indicatin’ the pro- fessor, holdin’ out my hand. “I’m goin’ to,” she says, quietly. “What, Mr. Sacket, you’re not off ?” “Yes, Iam,” I says. ‘Say good-by to him for me.” And with this I shook the Acropolis and made my way back to the hotel. Old man Digger was still at it. “T’'ve come to say good-by,” I says. “I’ve just got time to catch the steamer.” He jumped up. “Good Gawd, Jake!” he says. “What do you mean? You don't mean to tell me you have abandoned the claim!” “Yes,” I says, “and by my own advice. For Tnever had any educated right to it, anyway.” THE END At the Capital ASENT: How long do you intend to .emain in Washington ? Revorwer: Until Congress passes a couple of Decessary laws that” “Gee! You don’t want to rent a house—you'd better buy one."—Washington Herald. The Seats Were Safe Driven Coupe is the ideal car for city or suburban use. The body is interchangeable with our Queen Victoria Model, thus giving two cars for practically the price of one, adaptable as an open car for Summer use or as a closed car for Winter and stormy weather. Baker Electric Vehicles gloe more speed and greater mileage without recharging than any other electric made. Handsome in design, elexant in all thelr appointmenta, perfect in every detail and abso- Iutely dependable, Baker Electrica have dem- onstrated their superiority beyond challenge, Let Us Send You our 1908 catalogue that illustrates and de- scribes the complete line of Baker Electric Coupés, Broughams, Victorias, Landaulets, Surreys, Runabouts, etc. The Baker Motor Vehicle Company 55 West 80th Street, Cleveland, Ohio. Agencies in the Principal Cities. PALL MALL FAMOUS CIGARETTES Freeminently the Best Tr WOULD please me mightily, Miss Stout,” * said Mr. Mugley, “to have you go to the theatre with me this evening. “Have you secured the seats?” asked Miss Vera | Stout. | “Oh! come now,” he protested; “you're not so heavy as all that."—The Catholic Standard and Times. | HE more critical your knowl- edge of what good ale is, the greater will be your appreciation of the goodness of EVANS’ ALE. A drink for well and ill. Hotels, Restasrants, Saloons, Oyster Houses. 261 COLLVER TOURS (AWAY - FROM-THE-USUAL ) Japan, Trans-Siberia and ROUND THE WORLD EUROPE BY MOTOR CAR and TRAIN DE LUXE Berkeley Building, Boston comicbooks.com