Life — November 12, 1908 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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1 Y 9 Second Courany BLACK SEA LIFE While campaigning in his home State, $ Cannon was once inveigled into visiting the schools of a town where he was billed to speak In one of the lower grades, an ambitious estertain the distinguished visitor with an ex on of amateur oratory, The selection npted was Byron's “ Battle of Waterloo,’’ and just as the boy reached the end of the first para- graph, Speaker Cannon suddenly gave vent to a violent sneeze. “But, hush! hark!’ '? declaimed the young- deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! Did ye hear it? ?"" The visitors smiled, and a moment later the second sneeze—which the Speaker was vainly trying to hold back—came with increased vio- lence. “But hark! (bawled the boy)—that heavy sound breaks in once more, And nearer, clearer, deadlier than befere! (rm! arm! it is the cannon’s opening roar This was too much, and the laugh that broke irom the party swelled to a roar when “ Uncle Joe" chuckled: “Put up your weapons, chil- dren; I won't shoot any more.""—IV. B. Kerr in ” Success. ON VACATIONS It is related in Mr. Stewart Edward White's The Mountains,’ that once upon a time 1 man happened to be staying in a hotel room which had originally been part of a suit, but which was then cut off from the others by only athin door, through which sounds carried clearly. It was about eleven o'clock when the occu- pants of that next room came home. The man heard the door open and close. Then the bed shrieked aloud as somebody fell heavily upon it. There breathed across the silence a profoundly deep sigh. “Mary,” said a man’s voice, “I'm mighty sorry I didn’t join that Association for Artificial Vacations. They undertake to get you just as tired and just as mad in two days as you could by yourself in two weeks."—Saturday Post. ASKING TOO MUCH T believe there is a story told of Mark Twain that in youthful days, being sent out by his nother 10 weed a certain flower bed, and find- ing more weeds than flowers, he came back in and asked if he might not “ flower the weed bed.”” Our little Alfred probably has as great an aversion to work as had the youthful Clemens. Admenished to pull some rather large weeds in the back yard, after a faint-hearted lift on one of them, he shouted : “Mamma, how do you think I’m going to pull these weeds when the whole world is hitched onto them? "Woman's Home Companion, PARADOXICAL “T have written a book that everybody ought 10 rea said the author, “T'm afraid it won’ i , answered the pub- ‘sher. “What the public seems to want now is that nobody ought to read."’—Washington pillar ‘ Hi Tommy!" called mother from Own-sicirs, “We're late now. Have you got son?’ namma—all but one.”’—Everybody’s FRANKLIN 1909 Weight is what wears out tires. In a paper read before the French Society of Civil Engineers, M. A. Michelin, the noted tire expert, says: “If the weight of an automobile is increased five per cent., it increases the wear and tear on tires fifteen per cent.” This means that the average water-cooled automobile with its extra weight of plumbing apparatus—and weighing as it does a third more than a Franklin model of the same capacity—wears out tires just twice as fast. Franklin light weight and large wheels and tires eliminate the tire bugbear from automobiling. Model D weighs only 2100 pounds, yet it has thesame size wheels and tires as other automobiles weighing 3200 pounds and upward. Model H has larger wheels and tires than some automobiles a thousand pounds heavier.—The larger the tires, the greater their wearing surface, and the longer they last. But no tires made are large enough to offset the wear and tear put upon them by the bulky heavy: water- cooled machines. You cannot reduce tire expense or any other expense to a reason- able figure in a heavy automobile. You cannot get the same refinement and simplicity—the combi- nation of strength with light weight—except through Franklin air-cooling. What would it mean to you to get rid of tire trouble and at the same time cut the bills down half ? Before you buy, think of tires; and all the burden and trouble that go with useless weight. Write for the catalogue describing the complete line of Franklin automobiles—touring-cars, runabouts and closed cars. H. H. FRANKLIN MFG. CO. Syracuse, N. Y. Model It, Six cvlinders.| Seven passengers, 3eiach wheels 127-Inch wheel-tase,” 2500 pounds. $3750. PF. 0. b. Syracuse. Hel II is the ment refined example of six-cylinder engineering —powertul, simouth, simple. There is not another large touring-car $0 comfortable and sale to ride in and so economical to in appearance and details ft has no superior. CLARK’S CRUISE of the “ARABIC” 16,000 tons, fine, large, SETAEL O THE ORIEN | |. M Quin eee CO- February 4 to April 16, 1909 um, eigned and finshed to, sult, tnd oa, durable and artistic, Standard for 2, Sev Mata, 19 Daya in Egypt and the Holy Land. © | Athens, Rome, the Riviera, et Crulse Round the World, October 16, 1909, C. CLARK, Times Bldg., New York sz comicbooks.com