Life — January 11, 1912 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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Men who in another age and beneath blucr skies might have ex- ploited their capacities by writing epics like Virgil’s have turned their attention to Alaska, with such results as we sec in the record of the Guggenheims duly set forth by Hampton's Magazine. A synthetic faculty which in the of Elizabeth would have been devoted to the drama is nowadays conscerated to robbing the city of Philadelphia after the methods exposed in MeClure’s Maga Alfalfa Book Ve are in the nter of the alfalfa district dare the largest handlers of alfalfa the U.S. We sell best grade sced at low price d pay freight on 2 bushels or more to points east of ississippi River. Ask for free Alfalfa Booklet. Also big catalog of all Garden and Firld Seeds Free. 250 So. 10th St.. Lincoln, Neb. F BRAINS “MADE AT KEY WEST— sine. Just such artistry as gave to the medieval world the Siena school of painters is at present manifest in the fine Italian hand guiding the destinies of Tammany to plunder and rich contracts. I am unable to catch the enthusiasm of the muckrakers for the subtletry they discern, or think they discern, in all that is called graft. They are all but deal- ers in shadowy representations of hum- bug. Never would the Italian republics of the Middle Ages have let themselves be plundered by such sccond-rate and fecble imitations of humbugs as ar apotheosized in the fifteen-cent month lies. It is impossible, therefore, not to fect amused at the simplicity of a mind which, like that of Miss Ida M. Tarbell, can discern in John D. Rockefeller onc of the world’s grand humbugs. In what chapter of her famous history of the Standard Oil Company does she manifest him possessed of the higher capacities of mind, lord of an empire of the fancy or master of that great realm of delusion SUCRE 8 Union Soldiers Stole This Engine; were Hanged as Spies THRILLING little-known story of the Civil War is recalled by this photograph. It is the tale of twenty soldiers of the Union Army, who went into the heart of the Confederate country, stole this engine from under the very noses of the enemy’s troops and set out to wreck a railroad. A deed of mad and mighty courage! They failed, and eight gave their lives for the failure. To-day this photograph’ remains an cloquent-witness to their heroism and sacrifice. That, in brief, is the story of one photograph—there are 3800 of these undying messengers from the great conflict. They were taken by Mathew Brady, artist photographer and her and his followers, who risked their lives to get these marvelous negatives during the Civil War Lost for many years—they are now recovered and placed within your reach in the Photographic History of the Civil War Complete Sets Now Ready About hundreds of the 3800 photographs there is some such story. Almost forgotten, they untold before us as we look over these strange photographs—their edges time-worn and ragged—but the pictures themselves clear and sharp and vivid—stor- ics remembered oaly by some veteran, but that every American should know. ' For nearly fifty years they have lain buried— Low Price and Small Payments through the New Wanamaker Book Club So impressed were we with this set of books and its value to the nation that we have formed a new Book Club especially for it. It is now some years since we have meta work which seemed to merit the forming of such a club. So once more, just as in the past—the Wana maker Co-operative Club will save thousands of dollars to careful book buyers. Through the Wanamaker Club you can secure a set at the low Club price and pay for it in lite mont! yments. 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