Life — August 6, 1914 — page 31: what you’re looking at

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ld 235 Pat Dorgan’s Section AT DORGAN was a section boss upon the A, & Z, It was his duty to report unto the company What things were needed on the line within his bailiwick, And his it was to test the ties by jab- bing with a pick. The word went out: “Economize”, and all along the line They cut supplies and estimates to make reports look fine; Although the high officials kept their yachts and other things, Their private cars and pickings large and salaries of kings, They took away Pat's helpers till he had but one or two; They cut his pay a little, though he now had more to do. The track kept getting worse and worse until it was unsafe, Pat's section was his joy and pride, and Pat began to chafe. He sat him down and ordered on the blanks he kept with care The things the section needed most to keep it in repair— Five hundred ties, a dozen rails, new sluice, another hand, The order reached the Higher-ups, who sent a reprimand. Swift Number Eight, behind its time, came tearing through the night. The rotten ties gave way beneath the anger of its flight. The rails pulled from their fastenings where main line met a switch, And Number Eight, the fast ‘express, went screaming to the ditch, Some forty injured passengers, some fifteen fatally; And Higher-ups came hurrying to see what they could see. The Higher-ups who'd robbed the road and called it High Finance N YL Wy SSG SC Shaving is always a nuisance but there is no reason for it to be a torture as well. The nuisance cannot be elimi- nated, but the painful features of the shave can be. SS '§"°vwvY45 5— .e >” The lather—not the razor—is the real cause of most shaving troubles. It doesn’t properly soften the beard, and so even the best razor pulls. Or it contains an excess of caustic which eats into the skin, causing that terrible smarting. Mennen’s Shaving Cream with a few strokes of the brush, works up @ thick, full-bodied creamy lather which almost instantly softens the stiffest beards without the usual mussy rubbing in with the fingers. It will give you a quick, comfort- able shave and a cool, refreshed face afterwards, One satisfied user of Mennen’s writes: “Tama mechanic and my beard is usually full of dirt and grit, which, before using your cream, required from ten to Sfieen ‘minutes application of lather. Iused your cream as per directions on same, and pro- cured a clean, close, velvet shave in less than five minutes. It does not irritate the skin, is pleasant to use and there is no waste,” Pthdinthie Shave just once with Mennen’s and zor will appreciate how much the lather has to do with the comfort of a shave. At all dealers—25 cents in air-tight tubes with handy, large, hexagon screw tops. Send 10 cents for a demonstrator tube containing enough for fifty shaves. GERHARD MENNEN CO., Newark, N.J., makers of the celebrated Mennen’s Borated and Violet Talcum Toilet Powders and Mennen’s Cream Dentifrice. SSS ' 6 °6 >w\"/° ”©°oeU™w€H™_ DCCC: XXXI” KS ennen’s @ Shaving Cream SS 0 > 6 "kkk r__]00 "5° ee 5ww,_}¢7z;jqyqyyzyiy»qqq}qy>y]q»qb_z__];»;gy]yyqqa,,, oO” Now wondered, through the daily press, how came such sad mis- chance. They couldn't: blame the Engineer, Telegrapher or “Con.”, So there was only Dorgan left for them to blame it on. The Higher-ups still have their yachts and right the road to rob, While people call them Supermen—Pat Dorgan has no job! Walter G. Doty. comicbooks.com