Life — August 15, 1912 — page 36: what you’re looking at

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THE FINEST OLD WHISKEY IN THE WORLD HE Gibson Rye Whiskey distilled in 1900, and held, in the original wood twelve years, is T today the finest old whiskey money can buy. l Ripened and mellawed by the subtle processes == of time,‘ it is smooth and delicate, witha wonderfully rich bou: demijohns, box, warehouses t yvet—a whiskey too fine to sell twill be drawn in-one-gallon and shipped direct from our of, yout) dealer — or to per- sonal “address, express /prepaid-+ at $J0.00 a gallon. Derixe the American war an Irish- man in the American service, having come by surprise on a small party of Hessians who were foraging, seized their arms, which they bad laid aside. He then presented his musket, and with threats drove them before him into the American camp, where the singularity of the exploit occasioning some wonder, he was brought with his prisoners before General Washington, who asked him how he had taken them, “Be Jabbers, general, " said he, “I surrounded them.” Hotels in New England I have personally a very kindly fecl- ing toward the New England hotelmen and the New England hotels, for I was raised in a little New England hotel in a little New England town. My parents paid four dollars a week for my board, and it is my pride and boast that the landlady never made a cent out of me. A year ago I took my son on a tandem bicycle and rode through some of the in- teresting old towns along the eastern Who are particslar about the little thingy, are more thas pleased wit Krementz Bodkin-Clutch Studs and Vest Buttons With Sleeve Links to Match rety of ted Gold They Go in Like a Needle Without marriogg the stffest ablet frowt, aod they Hold Like an Anchor sastastly released. So shaple te iy bother free and For ose with French of Soft Cuffs these Sleeve Lisks are cesarpassed. ‘Ask to sre them at the lealing Jewelers and haberdaabers—ee wets to ws for a biklat sowing mnany stylen, KREMENTZ & CO. © Chestnut 8... - = = = Newark, NJ shore. If there is anything in this world calculated to give one a copious thirst, it is pushing along on a tandem a large overgrown boy, with a natural shrinking from overexcrtion. We visited a lot of fascinating Colonial towns with historic interest, but singularly deficient in lager beer saloons. I found that my thirst for knowledge was entirely outclassed by my thirst for malt beverages. I bore that thirst with me for many a weary mile, and I shall never forget Newburyport, for that was the first wet town I struck, and there I slaked my thirst. I am a temperate man, like most hotel men, but a few visits to total abstinence towns, I am satisfied, would drive me to a drunk- ard’s grave. I remember Newburyport with peculiar pleasure, not alone on account of the slaking of my thirst, nor because of the courtesy received at the Wolfe Tavern, but because I saw there what [ never saw before. When dinner time came, the little son of one of the proprictors put on a little white a and went in and helped wait on the table. When that boy grows up he'll know something about his father’s business. It's a rare thing in this country to find a boy who isn’t too high-toned to learn his father’s business. 1616 I was also fortunate enough to pick up some rare and costly Revolutionary china, which I expressed home and sub- sequently found was being manufactured right along at Trenton, N. J., and was worth some two dollars a cord. I insisted upon having my boy edu- cated in New England, because I re- ceived my education in New England, in spite of my violent protests. I received my education, so-called, at a village school in the State of Connecticut. Now, when a teacher single-handed has to cope with about seventy-five pupils, ranging from three to thirty years of age, espe- cially if he doesn’t happen to be an especially good coper, he naturally has to spread out his knowledge pretty thin; and I, being of an unselfish nature, never endeavored to absorb more than was my just duc, But there was one branch of learning which I thoroughly absorbed in this tem- ple of learning, and that was the art of sawing wood; and thus, although I was never able to square the circle, I was able to square the teacher. Up there in Connecticut the winters were very long and cold, and the stoves very large and the supply of chilblains among the pupils far exceeded the supply of wood, and the consequence was that the teacher permitted me to give rein to my natural bent and permitted me to be bent over saw-buck most of the time. It was only favored pupils who were permitted, in this institute, to saw wood; the less ored ones had to ring the bell and draw water and take care of the stove, while the rest were forced to content themselves with the degrading occupa- tion of improving their minds. But it has always been a source of great satis- faction to me to think that I was edu- IF you want miles - miles - miles —and smiles every mile of the way, ask your dealer for LEE TIRES Booklet “M" explains why and how our use of better quality rubber and the finest fabric that money can buy, leads to greater mileage and increased satisfaction. Write for it or get it at OUR STORES 835 Seventh Ave., New X wk CHE: ean Ave. Chi '2 Woodward Ave., Detroit. LEE TIRE & RUBBER CO. CONSHONOCKEN, S.Ellwood Lee. Pres. cat my ric wo cee to Re: 19¢ cha tru wo wh he bor wil wa stir cut aft the yor suc on que ed foc clo flows i fabric, life of 1 comicbootine us