Life — March 4, 1909 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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of 8 season is the unique, efficient, long-wearing “Firestone Non-Skid_ Tire Its all-rubber tread presents a ‘mass of angl edges and points of road-contact that Pre vents skidding. men An unusually large ‘vearing aT of ‘odahes Firestone tread rubber insures” = tongslife It has no metal or-other self-destro oxsng feature a in its construction to -tear: =throus hor: cut” The non-skid feature is moulded” “right the tire, cannot be forgotten and left at home, cannot break or get out of -order, but’ is always ready and_at work. So popular has this tire “become, that Amen- can automobile- manufacturers at~the New York and Chicago” shows exhibited more Firestone Non-Skids than any two other non-skid tires combined. : Economically the logical tire for YOUR car. FIRESTONE TIRE & RUBBER CO. - Akron, O. Branches and Agencies Almost Everywhere Nothing about an Auto will take the place Evans’ Ale A= joyful beverage with all the mirth of the hop pickers and fragrance of the Aw hop fields in every bottle. A genuine “touch of Nature” that carries a substantial smack and afterglow of satisfaction, In “Splits as well as regular size be 7 Cc. H. EVANS & SONS, - HUDSON, N.Y, ing days, to remind ourselves of that. A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right i Thomas Carlyle, “ Hero and Hero Worst Autograph Fiends There have been autographs written by proxy: for example, Doctor Dodd penned one for Lori Chesterfield. But to oblige a stranger in this way is very dangerous, considering how easily a few lines may be twisted into rope. With regard to my own particular prac have often traced an autograph with my w stick on the sea-sand. I also seem to remen writing one with my finger on a dusty table, and am pretty sure I could do it with the smoke of a candle on the ceiling. I have seen something like a badly-scribbled autograph made by chil- dren with a thread of treacle on a slice of suet dumpling. Then it may be done with vegetables My little girl grew her autograph the other day in mustard and cress. Domestic servants, I have observed. are foat of scrawling autographs on a tea-tra slopped milk; also of scratching 1 deal dresser, the lead of the sink, the quicksilver side of a looking-glass—a surface, by the way, quite irresistible to any one who can write and does not bite her nails. A friend of mine possesses an autograph—Re- member Jim Hoskins—done with a red-hot poker on the back-kitchen door. This, however, is awkward to bind up. Gentlemen in love delight in carving their autographs on the bark of trees, as other idle fellows are apt to hack and hew them on tavera benches and rustic seats. Among various modes T have scen a shop-boy dribble his autograph from a tin of water on a dry pavement of the “go”. The go, fat, ro quiet, go cheap, and go fast result from use of Dixon’s Ticonderoge Flake M@TOR Graphite Stands for readiness, reliability and long life in a motor. You will at once see the com- mon sense of it when you get our booklet on lubrication. Write to Department A. JOSEPH DIXON CRUCIBLE Co. Jersey City, N. J. Sparks from Old. Anvils (Continued from page 275) Carlyle on Theodore Roosevelt » “All the considerable men I have known, and the most undiplomatic and unstrategic of these, forebore to bble of what they were ing and projecting.’ fe is not what I call a strong man. An excitable, spasmodic man; at best intense rather than strong. He has not an invaluable talent. stake to call vehemence and rigidity strengt is not strong who takes convulsion-fits ; though six men cannot hold him then. We need forever, especially in these loud- shriek. 276 The celebrated Miss Biffin used to distribute autographs among her visitors which she wrote with a pen grasped between her teeth, Another, a German phenomenon, held the imple: his toes. (Continued on page 277) The Collver' Tours A YEAR’S JOURNEY Sailingfrom ~=ROUND "$4850 WORLD APRIL 16th—ACROSS SIBERIA and including Japan, and Poland, $1475. Write or Telegraph for reservait Boylston and Berkeley Sts., Boston, Mss. comicbooks.com