Judge — November 18, 1882 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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TWO ROSEBUDS. I sexr the maid I thought 60 fait Two rosebuds, red and white, That s! favored ¢ At Hildreth's ball that ight wear “The red,” E wrote, * will du That you will be my wile; The whi Wil blight Oblivious of the revelry Upon the wa For her, in will J waited near the door, n Moor, xpectaney, The whi + Why have you thus the Of him who wo: betrayed hips yout I leave to-morrow, heartless maid. For Hobo Why, can't you see I've worn the re My love was color-blind. ANCIENT WORTHIES. DEMOSTHENES, DemosTHENES was born in the year 484 B, C., and if he were living today he would be over two thousand years old, Perhaps it is just as well that he died, for the probabili- ties are that he would be so feeble now, and such a burden on his family, that his would have sent him over the hills to the poor-house more than three years ago. re fendants, howeve yl the final result Demosthenes was seven years old when his | father occupied the most prominent ps funeral procession, leaving property mated at about $16,000. ‘The dimin stature of the sum is conclusive eviden the deceased never held the position o| Receiver. Young Demosth were his cousins, Aphobus and Therippides, | who, it may be correctly inferred, were Sun- day-school superintendents, for when the youth reached man’s estate, there was very little estate for him to reach, his cousins hav- | tenths of it, Demosthenes was an extremely precocious child, When still in pinafores he could speak Greek fluently. Why he should have fooled away his time learning a foreign tongue is in- able, considering that the English lan- , Which he did not understand, is so much more casily mastered. ‘The loss of his estate, through the peculations of his guard 3, preyed upon his mind, and he resolved to become a lawyer, in order to redress the wrongs of his house. Lawyers’ charges in those 3 were outrageously hi; as now, and Demosthenes ing absorbed about nin , the same neluded that it would be cheaper to devote several years to the study of Coke and Blackstone than to employ counsel to conduct his case. Ben Batler demanded a retainer of five thousand sequent charges would be at least fifteen | thousand, and twenty thousand dollars | thene wouldn't go into sixteen thousand dollars and leave anything over no how he could So he secured admission to the bar, ure it. POPULAR SONGS The jury not having lefendants, a verdic of the plaintii. were granted a new t was that Demosthe been “ tixed amount of the sum origi- | nally awarded. Demosthenes was deep thinker, a vigor. nes’ guardians | his delivery was faulty. | came by the very novel method of declaiming whose articulation 1 to find how ele: clive will be sur- und distinet his enun- come if he fills his mouth with \ brick in the hat will also make a coy man remarkably voluble, but his utter: | jack coherency. Although a shining le pches for members of © uproarious When these speeche right | ppeared, re- vised, in the Congressional Record, they were pronounced the greatest efforts of the speak- B.C. Demosthenes wrote a speech “Over THE GARDEN Watt.” | ey, instead of reorganizing and strengthening the navy. Why, si id Diodorus, quot- ing from the speceh, ‘look at our apology for | anavy! [am constrained toadmit that it is not as insignificant as the American navy, but in an engagement with Great Britain or our war vessels would be knocked out in less than three rounds! Our members of council, disregarding the protestations of the press and the people, vote millions of money j for the improvement of useless streams in which bull-heads couldn't turn around without rubbing their noses and tails against the op- posite banks! And look at the immense sums appropriated for pension half of whieh goes into the pockets of fraudulent pension agents ! Money is literally thrown away, and our navy permitted to become the by-word and re- proach of New Je and the rest of the ‘gal light, our subject’s | world!” wealth increased very slowly, and in order to auginent it he wrote sp Congress. alwa ‘The speech was such an oratorical clincher —so full of logical deductions and irrefutable ments, that the verdict of the council was in favor of—the other fellow. It frequently happens that way, It was strongly suspected tha had tampered with the jury. Demosthenes continued to devote his gift of eloquence to Navy Reform, With wither- ing sarcasm and blistering scorn, he referred Androtion for Diodorus against Androtion, which wa bitter arraingment of the ex' Androtion proposed th council should be presented with a golden dollars, and Demosthenes knew that his sub. | crown, paid for by the tax-payers, as a token Demos: | that the na pecch strongly opposed the measure, | omparing it to the 306 medal-scheme of the the council had nd when 1 recklessly squandered the government's mon- | Demosthenes to fire ofa sp aj to tke millions of money expended by Seere- | tary of the Navy Secorus Robinsonus on the outgoing | worthless vessel , Which always came out sec- ond best in a collision with a canal-boat. His speeches were so forcible and convincing vy was reformed— sixteen years later. 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