Life — September 23, 1909 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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AN EXTRA EDITION A Change of Owners ore pathetic situation has come to our attention recently than that ini- plied i the following advertisement, clipped from a well-known New England “Fox Saue—In Pittsfield, Mass, a large boarding-house with 35 boarders Business and property near Stanley plant. Address Republican Correspondent, Thirty-five of them, and probably knowing no more of their destination than fowls on a siding in a crated car. Free to leave if they do not like the new landiady? True only in theory, not in practice, as those know who have arder nature. It will take more than one turn of the screw, however new régime, to goad those boarders to the packing point. Action is precerled by long passive discontents; and you will often see a house of writhing boarders, who nevertheless remain. It is known to historians nists, but to students of boarder life the immobility of human indi; nes often as a surprise. It is a rare boarder who gets away as soon as you think he would, We have known keepers who could so neatly gauge the turning of the worm as to mete out rigors for a term of years and always just within the danger line—maddening but not expulsive—every inmate seeth ing, yet none quite boiling over and out. Knowing the art of “ falling off and the exact margin of safe encroachment, they drew their best advantage from houses kept thus just below eruption-point, houses of smothered rage. We have known keepers changed from kind to cruel whose boarders. still stayed on, and years afterward have seen them there, greatly emaciated. There arc no more unpunctual fugitives. That is the danger of the Pittsfield situation We may of course be doing some injustice to the new owner of the thirty-five, but we have had in mind the dictum of Prometheus that new keepers are always savage when they first begin—The Bookman. Didn't Want Justice A well-known attorney of this city had a client whose case presented a mass of technicalities, of which his lawyer took every possible advantage. Before the final argument and handing down of opinion, however, the client was forced to take a journey of some hundreds of miles and was compelled to be absent for several weeks. He arranged with his attorney to flash him by tele- graph the result of the trial of his case, but told him to so word his telegram that the oddressee alone would comprehend its import The result the awarding of a verdict in favor of the litigant in ques- tion, and his delighted counsel sent him the following message: Justice and truth have triumphed. What was the amazement at receiving a few hours later a telegram from his client which said : Yours received, Hard luck. Appeal immediately.""—Philadelphia Times They Were Shady fi Buxe So you have succeeded in tracing back my ancestors? What is your fee? Grxtaocist: Twenty guineas for keeping quiet about them. — Cassell’s Saturday Journal. Correct Liveries for House, Stable or Garage at reasonable prices. Send for Illustrated Catalogue. BROADWAY Cor. TWENTY SECOND ST., NEW YORK —) Cognac (Founded 1715) Kk * AND FINE OLD LIQUEUR BRANDIES GENUINE OLD BRANDIES MADE FROM WINE Sole Agents G.S. NICHOLAS6CO, New York comicbooks.com