Life — August 6, 1908 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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PRESS MACNATES ay state to you, what ix well known to you all, .8% is impossible, nowadays, to found a newspaper usle:s a man be a millionaire, or through a combina- tion of capitalists @ hope to be millionaires when they crow big. In getting together any combination of capitalists in any large city it is impossible to escape including in the number men who have chiefly ed their wealth through investments in corpora- based upon public franchises of one sort or anotiicr; and this being the case, we know it is only mon nature that such men will insist upon the conduct of the newspaper in a way to insure the pro- tection of their own interests. In the case of new: jayers founded by men of small mears in the past, | acd now attained unto greatness, we must remember that the founder in each instance has invested his orey in exactly those erterprises which look for ibeir success to the exploitation of the public. Thus, bis ieterests becon special interests, and wheth=r be will of no, in jucting his newspaper, he will ve sympathy with all private interests similar to Take the case of the New York World and rulitzer. Mr, Pulitzer has reached his present fr humble beginrings. He has conducted a newspaper, gererally speaking, along free and de lines, d yet, when a certain popular te for President replies to the strictures and acks of Mr. Pulitzer’s World, with an inquiry co: the railroad and other investments of Mr. here is none of us that fails to realize the fect appositeness of the retort. William Marion Reedy, in the St, Lowis Mirror. A SARTORIAL QUESTION Little Newman's mother had faithfully tried to | answer his question in regard to death and the future {he had been told that whea he died his soul wuld go to heaven, Ore day he came running in from his play and in ymert cried, “* Mamma, mamma, if just my soul heaven, what am I going to button my pants —Delineator. isco traveler and war correspondent ture tour in Scotland spoke one night at a| lage four miles from a railway station. © chairman of the occasion, after introducing | the lecturer as “the mon wha's come here tae broaden cot intellects," said that he felt that a wee bit prayer | ‘ot be out of place. | } , O Lord,” he went on, “pit it intae the this mon tae peak the truth, the hale truth, J nacthing but the truth, and gie us grace tae | * him.” F Then, with a glarce at the lecturer, the chairman | : I've been a traveler meself! "Youth's Com: A FEAT FOR BLONDIN “Why don't you Republicans walk on the straight and narrow path in this tariff revision business?” asked Representative Champ Clark of Speaker Can- * the Speaker replied, “that question of a story about a man I knew in Chicago stayed very late at a dinner at the club. When be came out he started to walk in the middle of the | street | “*Iey, John,’ said a friend who met him as he | g the best of his way along the car tracks, on the sidewalks?’ snorted John. ‘Do | ak I'm Blondin?’"—Saturday Evening Post. MR. GREEN'S WATERLOO Mr. Green had been paying four dollars : his appetite constantly increased. ndlady saw that she must either sell out and quit or raise her boarder’s rate. One day, after watching him feverishly devouring plateful after ot Wateful, she plucked up courage, ard said: | ‘ “Mr, Green, I shail have to raise your board to ive dollars.” Me. Green looked up with a start, then in a tone 3} | of consternation, he said ae | h. Mrs. Small, don't. It's as much as I can 4 ; w to eat four dollars’ worth."—I’oman's Home FRANKLIN Automobiles—1909 Sensible practical automobiles for every use 16 horse-power runabout with rumble seat or hamper 28 horse-power five-passenger touring-car and runabout 42 horse-power six-cylinder seven-passenger touring-car and runabout Brougham, Landaulets, Limousines, Town-car, Taxicabs Only a sensible design can produce a sensible automobile. All Franklins are light in weight, strong, easy to operate, easy to control and to care for, and economical. No Franklin is over-heavy, over-powered for its use, nor over-expensive. Type H touring-car, the most superb-riding automobile in the world, weighs under 2500 pounds. It has six cylinders. It seats seven people and leaves ample luggage room. Even as a five-pas- senger automobile it is better—cheaper, safer, more comfortable, than any five-passenger water-cooled automobile. In using it you do not feel the weight. It has none of the burden and anxieties of a heavy touring-car. It is roomy and luxurious, but not ponderous—not a road-locomotive. It has the feeling and flexibility of a small automobile, and the independence that goes with it. The question of touring is a question of comfort. The more comfort the better average speed can be made, Every Franklin automobile has four full-elliptic springs and a lami- nated wood frame, the only combination that produces easy and perfect riding quality. If you have ever ridden in a Franklin you know this. All Franklins are free from the bulk and complication of water- cooling and have been from the start (seven years ago). . Therefore Franklins are lighter and simpler. And they are free from the extravagant using-cost that makes all heavy automobiles unreason- ably expensive to own. In style and in high-grade construction Franklins lead all American makes. They cost the most to build and the least to own. They meet the requirements of family and business use as no others do. Of all automobiles they are the most practical and sensible. Prove this. Go to a dealer; and try a Franklin. Write us for the 1909 Catalogue H_H FRANKLIN MFG CO., Syracuse N Y PLAY. THE PIANO WE ALL CAN é BY HAND—OR MUSIC ROLL. THE PIANO ALL CAN PLAY AND ENJOY Any one and eve cf rsuscal taining) can slay, cote” land iy fea as ‘leans oh wae fo the folea chicat wah ihe aid ‘This marvelously frithful iustrument makes players pad rd eee our comn.and eve every compontion in music. "The AUTOPIANO is exataly the pao for the heme and dasa tao because every one a Hay player and oo-player alte. 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