Life, 1908-07-16 · page 22 of 26
Life — July 16, 1908 — page 22: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and humor content**, not political cartoons. The main text feature is "The Hard-Working Plowman," a humorous anecdote about a man trying to quote a line of poetry (apparently from Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard") who becomes increasingly frustrated as various townspeople—a schoolmaster, lawyer, traveling salesman, elderly man, and village loafer—each "correct" him with different versions of the same line. **The joke**: The humor lies in the absurdity of multiple people confidently insisting they know the "correct" quotation, each offering a slightly different wording. The original speaker stubbornly maintains his version while everyone else contradicts him, and the passage ends with each person believing they were right despite their disagreement. The page also includes a brief anecdote about Representative John Sharp Williams and a story involving "Jeff Truly" and prohibition, though it's incomplete here. The remainder consists of product advertisements for gloves, hats, paper, and cosmetics—typical of Life magazine's mixed content format.
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I remind myself of the line: “The plowman homeward wends his weary way.” “You mean plods his weary way,” said the schoolmaster, as he went cut of the door with a can of kerosene. “He meant to quote the line that reads: “Homeward the plowman plods his weary way,” remarked the village lawy “T meant to quote just what I did quote,” the first speaker, sternly “The weary plowman homeward plods his way."" said “T understand your quotation,” said a man who was sitting on a sugar-barrel, “to be: “Weary the homeward plowman plods his way." said a neighbor, who was “He said: “You are wrong,” inquiring the price of hams. “Weary the plowman homeward plods his way.” “Pardon me,” broke in a traveling salesman for a sausage house. “If the gentieman intended to quote from Gray’s Eulogy, the quotation should read: “Homeward the weary plowman plods his way.” “Please understand,” said the man with the three and one-half pounds of granulated sugar, “that I do not make mistakes in quotation. 1 have twice said that the line is “The weary plowman pods neward way.” I understood you to say," observed another bor: * Homeward the plowman weary plods his way.” pay easily have heen mistaken as to what remarked an elderly man, “but what he ubtedly wished to say was: “The plowman weary homeward plods his way.” “That is not what I wished to say and not what I did say!” retorted the man with three and one- half for seventeen cents. “I said, and I will stand Hods hit for butting in again, but I must insist, as before “Pardon the sausage drummer, that if you would accurately quote the immortal Eulogy the line must read: “The plowman weary plods his homeward way.” “Gen'm'm,” said the village good-for-nothing, ctting up from a keg of nails behind the stove, you're rol ong—'cuse me, you're all wrong. quocation is: “The weary Thereupon they went their ways, every one, even to the last speaker, believing he was right.—Youth’s Companion. 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