Life — December 28, 1911 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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sed find ollar $1.13, «Send months “Gye Too Easy In a letter recently published, Lord Roberts, great military authority that he is, says: “My country, right or wrong, 3h 8 is the sentiment most treasured in the breast of any one worthy of the name So said Stephen Decatur in a toast given in Norfolk in 1820: “Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.” In response, John Quincy Adams wrote: “And say not then, ‘My country rig! or wron| Nor draw thy sword in an unhallowed cause. But when thy country wanders from the right Furl up her banners and avert thy sight.” Which doctrine is right, that of the two soldiers or that of the statesman? —Literary Digest. All depends on who answers the ques- tion If your brains and moral sense are out of commission, shout for your own country, right or wrong. Tue last remark of Diderot on his deathbed was: The first step towards philosophy is incredulit THE KIND YOUR GRANDFATHER USED. UNDERGROUND GARBAGE RECEIVER ZING Bid a Hse MRs. HUMPHRY WARD Author of “Robert Elsmere” has written a sequel to that novel which so stirred England and America “The Case of Richard Meynell” @ For twenty years Mrs, Ward has written no book so important and vitally interesting as this. The publishers, while they fully realize the seriousness of the statement, believe that “The Case of Richard Meynell” is a greater work than “Robert Elsmere.” It represents the more mature and vivid statement of questions which are being propounded in all countries where people are awake to changing condittoms in all churches and all sects, @ As a story, the career of Richard Meynell is vastly absorbing and the statement of the new conditions twenty years after Elsmere’s time is powerful in the telling, as well as important. A book for a whole generation of readers Six photogravure Illustrations. Fixed price, $1.35 (postage 1 4c) DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO, NEW YORK GARDEN CITY Why the Dog Howled He was a poor, miserable-looking dog, and the stranger's heart was filled with pity. For the dog was howling, and it was only too evident that he was suf- fering pain, So he asked the tired rus- tic who lounged near why the dog howled. “‘Im?” asked the rustic. “He's just lazy, that’s all.” “But laziness docsn’t- make a dog howl, surely?” queried the benevolent one. “Does tim,” said the tired sowner. “Only lazy.” 1163 “But how,” queried the persistent questioner—" how can laziness make him how! “Well, you see,” said the rural lounger, “that pore dog is sittin’ on some real, tough thistles, and he’s too lazy to get off, so he just sits there and howls ‘cause it hurts so."—Tit-Bits. No Let Up as: Banks married his wife be- cause she was a good conversationalist. Dines; Yes, and divorced her because she talked too much. —Boston Transcript. comicbooks.com