Life — April 14, 1910 — page 38: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE- The Egyptian Cigarette of Quality AROMATIC DELICACY MILDNESS PURITY > At yost Club of Dealer's THE SURBRUG CO., Makers, New York. “You're a libeler,” says deponent, look. ing the editor squarely in the “w Behold Hinkley fingering nervously the hair-trigger of retort, scanning the code of Webster the while—repudi- ating at last the office dictionary, rest- ing his case upon his own original defi- nition of “welcher,” softening the im- peachment, diluting the asperities of defined speech with the milk and water of private interpretation. The thing has been done before. We employed the improper name -“adul- teress” to describe a certain pseudo- Christian Scientist. In protest, de- fendant did not deny that she had used the language quoted, and alleging in justification that “adulteress ” was one who adulterated the truth, Thus by a kind of Chautauqua ex- tension the true Christian Science would apply the “ right of private judg- ment” to the dictionary. It is, we be- lieve, a dangerous precedent to estab- lish, and Editor Hinkley's attempt is on all fours with it. True, we are not note the precedent: Jn re George Milne vs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy. Torts conversant with the ethics and the and Retorts, Chap. 59, Sec. 3; Me- ctymology of political sparring. We Clure, Judge. Case on appeal. In this know little of bouts or bets. In the action deponent affirms that Mrs. Eddy (Continued on page 699) The Literary Zoo (Continued from page 697) though it be at the muzzle of a six- shooter. In the overcultured East Dickens is unread—or is it that Pick- wickian is implied? We had supposed so. Had we not seen the branded liar counter courteously on the paunch of his opponent, turning his cheek to the uppercut of epithet? When the fear- less editor of the Evening Ochre gouged the moral character of the Peo- ple’s Friend, had we not observed that patient servant of the proletariat con- tent himself by calling him “ another”? Indeed we had. Sometimes marveling at these things, yet, as a connoisseur, bored a bit by a certain sameness in the figures of speech employed, we have wondered why political opponents -fat and scant of breath—could not summarize their retort in the syn- thetic speech of the diminutive African: “All them things you says Tis you is.” Yet here comes Hamilton Fish, harking back to ante-bellum ideas of what a gentleman may or may not tol- erate at the hands of the Fourth Estate. CLUB LINEN PLAYING CARDS Az Ideal Melage Card. "Desien of tack, hemautched ilnen, pat. pt. 24, "07. Colors old ed A Remarkable New Novel of the Western Forest Range FOREST RANGER CAVANAG By Hamlin Garland ITH an Introduction by Gifford Pinchot. Truthfully is Cavanagh—Forest Ranger called the Novel of the Hour. A rush of action, a bugle-call of patriotism, a poignant sincerity of emotion—all make this a remarkable romance of Western life. “The national resources of forest and the national need of respect for law find voice in the heart story of Ross Cavanagh and Lee Virginia Wetherford. Twenty years’ experience of Mr. Garland in this alluring forest world has gone into the making of the poetic at- mosphere. As the story proceeds, Cavanagh is driven to defending his reservation against the encroachments of those who regard the national forest as a legitimate poaching-place. Cavanagh represents, indeed, the far-off Federal authority, and displays a soldier's loyalty. Here the real story begins—enthralling and ennobling to the final page. With Frontispiece. Post 8vo, Cloth, $1.50 HARPER AND BROTHERS, Publishers comicbooks.com