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The Mystery of the Ravenspurs. It is a romantic tale of adventure, mystery and amateur detective work, with scenes laid in England, India, and the distant and comparatively unknown Thibet. ”

“ In this matchless volume of irresistible, rib-tickling fun, the Bad Boy, an incarnate but lovable imp of mischief, records his daily exploits, experiences, pranks and adventures, through all of which you follow him with an absorbing interest that never flags, stopping only when convulsions of laughter and aching sides force the mirth-swept body to take an involuntary respite from a feast of fun, stupendous and overwhelming. ”

“ Through the political fight, the victory and the defeat, the love thread is never lost sight of. The intense struggle in the heart of the heroine between her Church and her lover is of such deep human interest, that it holds the reader in ardent sympathy until the happy solution, when the reader smiles, wipes the moisture from the eyes, and breathes happily again.
While the narrative is intensely interesting, it is more; it instructs and educates. To read it is to feel improved and delighted. ”

“ In the pages of this excruciatingly funny narrative can be found the elixir of youth for all man and womankind. The magic of its pages compel the old to become young, the careworn gay, and carking trouble hides its gloomy head and flies away on the blithesome wings of uncontrollable laughter. ”

“ There’s nothing like it. You may not be sporty, you may not spend money with them, but if you can—“by a simple twist of the wrist”; “now you see it and now you don’t”; “the more you watch the less you know”—and do it well, you are just the real fellow. This book is the latest and best on the market. All the new card tricks and sleight-of-hand monkey-doodle business. Price, 25 cents.
Any of the above books will be sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt of price by J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 57 Rose Street, New York. ”

“ Well, in the first act the villain comes on and strikes the heroine—
Tom: For ten cents to buy an automobile.
Dick: Yes, for ten cents to buy an auto—no, no, he strikes her—
Tom: Why, he must belong to the union, then?
Dick: Certainly, he does—no, he doesn’t either. The idea!
Tom: If two peaches make a date, and two dates make a pair, what do apples make?
Dick: Why, apples make cider, of course.
Tom: And Pears make soap, is it?
Dick: Is it! You talk like a cake of yeast.
Tom: Sure. You see I always rise when I talk. Ha, Ha!
Dick: What are you laughing at?
Tom: That joke. ”

“ We are all kings and queens in this country—we all have crowns on our heads.
Men’s minds are like onions: some of them are stronger than others, and what is in them often brings tears to women’s eyes. ”

“ The author has a knack of intricate plot-work which will keep an intelligent reader at her books, when he would become tired over far better novels not so strongly peppered. For even the ‘wisest men’ now and then relish not only a little nonsense, but as well do they enjoy a thrilling story of mystery. ”

“ If you want to be popular when out in society you must have some funny things pat to your tongue to say, and when you get the boys and girls to laughing it’s a sure thing you’ll get invited to every party. If you are going to “act out” in the amateur show that the boys are getting up, this book has just the piece or monologue you want. We send it, postpaid, for 25 cents.
STAGE JOKES. A big hit. Nothing in the way of a book of up-to-date jokes and funny sayings has been published in years as good as this book. ”

“ Well, an old woman, 78 or 48, who lived in the town died one day. Of course, that isn’t strange, because old women die every 57day. But this particular old lady—but she couldn’t have been particular, either, or she wouldn’t have died. But anyhow she died, with a will, or against her will; that is, she had a will or left a will when she died. In the will she bequeathed to the corker—I mean the girl who married the fellow that didn’t know she had a corker—she bequeathed to her an old arm-chair. ”

“ Numberless books have been and are being written and published treating on these questions, and if through reading them we are enabled to enlarge our view, look at our problem from a different angle, appropriate for our own use the benefit of others’ experience either actual or imaginary, by just so much are we better able to live and think aright and secure to ourselves the happiness that is our inherent right and goal. ”

“ I never attended anything that I got so disgusted with in all my life. Did you ever have to go to one, fellows, with your wife? The women all sit around in bunches, and each bunch runs down the others. ”

“ The druggist fixed him up a powerful liniment, some pills and a corn-plaster, saying: “Rub your chest with the liniment for your cold, swallow the pills for your liver and use the corn-plaster for your toe.”
My friend kept repeating this to himself all the way back home, but when he got there he was all puzzled up. He stuck the corn-plaster on his chest, swallowed the liniment and tied the pills on his corn.
After that, he never suffered any more pain—he died without a struggle.
Isn’t it strange the funny things a man will run into? Now I ran into a well-known comedian this morning. ”

“ Graphology opens up a new field for intelligent effort, and the rapid strides it has been making the past few years bid fair to soon place it above Palmistry, Astrology, etc., in point of popularity. Book sent postpaid for 25 cents.
Pursuit of Virtue. By Roland Burke Hennessy, author of “Beautiful Bad Broadway,” “When a Young Man’s Virtuous,” etc. This is the latest from the pen of Mr. Hennessy, and we consider it one of the best stories he has ever written. The scenes are in and around New York and abound with many thrilling adventures. ”

“ Position, money and power, seem to those who do not possess them, to bring happiness. Such is not the case, however, where stability of character is lacking and where one depends upon the pleasures of sense for the enjoyment of life rather than on the accomplishment of things worth while, based on high ideals. ”

“ By mail, 15 cents; cloth-bound, 30 cents.
DON’T MARRY This book was not written with the idea of advising people not to marry, but rather with a view to giving them advice as to whom NOT to marry. You can readily see how important the marriage question is, how it will come into your life, and how your decision may be your uplifting or your downfall.
This is a question no one is free from, and this book will not only help you to decide, but will result in life-long happiness. “The genius of selection is the rarest of faculties.”
The following is a list of contents:
Don’t Marry for Beauty Alone. ”

“ I say American citizen once, because an American citizen prides himself that he is under no tyrannical ruler, enjoys liberty and the fact that he can do as he pleases. Therefore, a married man can’t be an American citizen. ”

“ Squashopolis is the largest town on the map. You see it was this way: The mayor and the fire-department and the postmaster—that is, the fellow that ran the saloon—bought a map of Indiana to find out where they were at, and finding that the man who wrote the map had made a mistake and overlooked the flourishing town of Squashopolis, the mayor and the fire-department, etc., of the aforesaid town betook themselves to the pen and ink and placed Squashopolis upon the map in a manner calculated to give their beloved town its due importance and dignity ”

“ The most up-to-date German dialect conversation, cross-fire
jokes, gags, conundrums, songs, parodies,
and wit, on the market. Raymond and Caverly are known from coast to coast as the most popular vaudeville team of German comedians. Mr. Wm. R. Hearst recognized their talent by running their humorous articles in his chain of papers, including “The New York American,” “Boston American,” “Chicago Examiner,” “San Francisco Examiner,” and “Atlanta Constitution.” Thousands will embrace the opportunity to secure this good material in book form. ”

“ You can see why this book is so much better than others—it is not “written to order” by any one man, but contains the best efforts of nearly fifty of our best and most popular comedians. Nos. 1 and 2 now ready. Either book, complete, 25 cents.
HOT-STUFF JOKELETS. Hand-lettered and illustrated. “The Unkissed Maid”; “A Fool Story in Three Chapters”; “Monologue,” by Edwards and Ronney; “The Chaser”; “Get Your Money’s Worth”—and hundreds of other choice things are illustrated with the funniest cartoons you ever saw. There is positively nothing on the market to equal this book. ”

“ Price, 25 cents.
CARTER’S MAGIC AND MAGICIANS. There is no use talking, but the girl or boy, man or woman, who can do a few simple card tricks is the “cock of the walk” in any sort of social gathering. The tricks in this book are so clearly explained and illustrated that it takes but a very little while to get proficient in the art. The girls flock ’round you as thick as flies on a “squashed” tomato in the sun. ”

“ Heroine, as poor flower-girl, enters in an automobile; bunch of violets in each hand, bunch of roses in another, while with the other she holds herself—erect. She wears a beautiful sealskin coat, and a sad smile, for her parents have only five million dollars apiece and no coal, and she has to help 91support the family by selling violets and daffodils at so much per daffi. ”

“ If you have no wife, call in somebody else’s. When you reach the middle of the book, call for the whole family and you’ll all have a merry-go-round.
Will send you copy by prepaid mail upon receipt of price, 25 cents. ”

“ There is a wealth of material in this book for the up-to-date performer, amateur or professional, and while it is fresh is the time to make a hit with it. Some of the shorter selections are just the stuff for encores. Or they can be assembled and strung out in such a manner as to keep the audience screaming while you are on the stage. The “rapid fire” by Harry L. Newton is worthy a place on the most select bill. All the above, postpaid, for 25 cents. ”

“ COPYRIGHT MCMIII BY WILL ROSSITER Tom (Comedian) : Can you tell me where there’s a fire-insurance office?
Dick (Straight) : Why, are you going to insure your property?
Tom: Well, not exactly; but my boss says he’s going to fire me, and I want to see if I can’t get protection from the fire.
Dick: Well, why don’t you attend to business? Get around bright and early in the morning. ”

“ It’s in reference to giving women the same right to vote that men have. Some men are in favor of it, while others are not; but, strange to say, the politicians to a man are against giving woman the right to vote, and I’ll tell you why. ”

“ What kind of cow gives the milk of human kindness?
71If all men were created alike, as the constitution of the United States proclaims, what an awful time married women would have trying to find their husbands! ”

“ The snow is still snowing. Nothing is heard but the howling of the audience—howling of the wind. Enter the villain and Mickey the Mouse. Villain bribes The Mouse to kidnap the heroine, tie her to the cold, cold snow, 92go down to the river, bring it back, and make the heroine take a cold plunge—to death.
Mickey the Mouse accepts. Enter Chasem Cheese, the brave detective. He has been on the trail of the mouse so long that he has grown stale. ”

“ A few days after that they sat down to the breakfast-table—the fellow, the glass eye, the arm-chair and the corker—and while sitting at breakfast, talking over their cocoa, the husband said something over his cocoa, and then the wife said something over her cocoa, and they got into an argument over their cocoa, and finally he picked up the old arm-chair, over his cocoa, and passed it to his wife, over her cocoa, and broke it all to pieces—not the cocoa, but the old arm-chair. ”

“ Of Detective Stories Ever
Offered to the Public. These astounding and absorbingly interesting accounts of crime in real life abound in hair-raising incidents that hold the reader spell-bound. Being narratives of actual facts, truthful records of the doings of crafty and desperate criminals, these stories possess for the reader a zest and interest wholly lacking in similar works on fictional lines. ”

“ Then the conductor began to kick about having to stop the train, and I was the receiver for his kicks. They came so fast I couldn’t stop them all. I do hate to feel—hear a man kick against little things. It wasn’t fair—or rather it was fare—that is, I didn’t have the fare. But anyhow it made 52me sore. I wouldn’t get back on his old train.
After I had collected my thoughts and the other parts of my anatomy, I found I was several parts of anatomy shy; so I went up to the conductor and I asked him if he had any old anatomy of mine hanging to him ”

“ It doesn’t become her! It would be just the same if she had a Worth gown on, and the hat—well, she could put on picture-hats from all the picture-books published and it wouldn’t make her look dressed! Why, she can look well with nothing on! ”