Life — February 20, 1913 — page 39: what you’re looking at

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few dozen “side splitters” and help you out in your trouble. Lum is about the best hand on the Creek to spin a yarn, and I reckon you have often read my “Ripples from Scanty Creek” in the Memphis News Scimetar. I am the “Personal Rights” contributor in the Carthage Bung Starter, “Vox Populi” in the Scanty Creek News, and “Old Subscriber” in the Hog Camp Grape Vine. You, of course, have all of these “moulders of public sentiment” and “palladiums of liberty and freedom” on your exchange list. Judge Buck Ools reads everything I compose for the papers and sometimes he looks like he is almost tickled to death. In the event you conclude to Ket out a Humorous Number would George Ade? And when his stuff is published would Opie Read? I have been taking Lire for years— so has nearly every good citizen on the Creek, but they plead self-defense and the unwritten Iaw—and somehow git by. Yours truly, Greexperry Srraccts Scanty Creex, TENN., January 13,1913. Why Indeed ? To tHe Epttor oF Lir Why should we deport Mylius, an intel- ligent English gentleman, even if he did expose the present’King of England’s mor- ganatic marriage, when between 1901 and 1908 we have admitted 7,002,034 mostly ignorant, famished, middle-aged of the most detestable, miserly, clannish, moncy-grubl mongrel breed ever known, amongst which are many swind- lers, thieves, bomb-throwing anarchists, aliens Sent Anywhere in U.S. ‘This Outfit Will Prove It RECORDS INDEXED ALPHABETICALLY AND BY DATE AT THE SAME TIME AN Kinds of Records Can be Arranged Retier and Found Easier is OUR Loose LEAv MINDERS Than It Kept in Any Other waye urely helileg dred Vie Quality Linea Reed Sheets ruled eotorn (not Wo Set higbabetieal Index Sheet to ft Binder, with dor fabs printed on both sick diascaiaaiie Terstrtie Meare's Mevable Picbealy and According to Date One Special Weary Inder Sheet, sumed trom 1 tot. er FREE Root “Hoore’s tesern Be in Lame Lest Record Reed Neary 254 Tine Suvi tears Record Forte St wrhers for Indexing records Al- OMY C. MOORE CORPORATION, 600 Stove St. Rochester, N.Y. No matter where a ship may be along the American coast; no matter how dark, or cold, or stormy the night, the coast | guard is on watch, patrolling the nearest beach or rocky cliffs. This man, always on guard, could, by his own unsupported efforts, do little to save life, or to guide ships away from perilous points. As a unit in an efficient system and able, at a moment’s notice, to command the service of his nearby station. he be- comes a power to whom all ship owners and passengers are indebted. hired assassins, blackmailers, perjurers, usurers, forgers, bottle refillers, food poi- soners and adulterators, skin gamblers, crooked auctioneers and advertisers, fake real estate dealers, incendiaries, sweaters, coolies, child labor exploiters, white slave traffickers, tax-dodging plutocrats, fraudulent bankrupts, botch mechanics, manufacturers and builders, who have destroyed our business integrity, lessened our commercial and mechanical fame, tainted our social life, driven the splendid American people in horror from the localities where they were born, and BF Always on Guard In the same way, the Bell Telephone in your home and office is always on guard, By itself, it is only an ingenious instru- ment; but asa vital unit in the Beil System, which links together seven million other telephones in all parts of this country, that single telephone instrument becomes a power to help you at any moment of any hour, day or night. It costs unwearying effort and millions of dollars to keep the Bell System always on guard, but this is the only kind of service that can adequately take care of the social and commercial needs of all the people of a Nation. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES Every Bell Telephone is the Center of the System. then bought the reduced the forced our decent, respectable, reliable wages of our workingmen, and famous storekeepers and manuf. turers into bankruptcy, overcrowded hospitals, eye poor-houses, courts homes, infirmaries, prisons, and in other ways ous to mention played the groveling in- grate and traitor to the generous- hearted people they batten on and the country they plague? Marx Marrow. York, January 30, 1913. comicbooks.com