Judge — November 18, 1882 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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enemy, and a war would naturally follow, it did between Sparta and Megalopolis. Contemporary with Demosthenes was a man named Philip, who pursued the art of war as a regular business, working at it four tecn hours a day, and only taking thirty min- utes for dinner. He was a very successful warrist, too, conquering cnough cities in one season to last a less ambitious and grasping individual Finally Demos- thenes rel pyrotechnics and hurled a series of speeches against Philip, and thus invented * philipy But these war speeches did not induce white-winged Peace to spread her gentle pinions and hover over the land. Demosthenes continued to exude brilliant but ineffective oratory, instead of raising a regiment for three years or the war, and striking Philip in a vital spot—and Philip was victorious. An event in the life of Demosthenes was his unpleasantness with a certain Midias, the Jay Gould of Athens, This trouble between Dem, and Mid. culminated in an open rup- ture in a theater, during a “ Pinafore" re- hearsal, the chorus of which was furnished by Demosthenes, Mid hi i tried to spoil the che bad as some now on the road, rt was praiseworthy. Midias struck Demosthene blow between the eyes, causing him to sec about a million more stars than were on the stage. Many a man, under similar provoca- tion, would have picked up a battle-ax and split Midias in twain, from his helmet to his sandals, but Dem. simply had him arrested for assault and battery, and the plaintiff, in his address to the jury, said Midias had more than mean that he borrowed several 1 his vos years, ras money brain pd was nal: a second-hand mule so inf to ride when he drilled a cavalry company, of which he had been elected captain on the strength of his riches—(Vide page 49, Smith's Life of Demosthenes.) In the year 336 B.C.,a Mr. Ctesiphon proposed that Demosthenes should receive a golden crown for his patriotic services. ‘The scheme was opposed by Eschines, whereupon Dem, made one of his royal octavo double- medium speeches, in which he modestly de- clared that every other public man in Greece was implicated in bribery, star-route scan- dals, and other crookedness, and he alone THE JUDGE. a brevet angel, Instead of hi orting to Congressional language, calling him a liar and a contemptible puppy, they maintained a dignified silence, not wish- ing to provoke him into a four hours’ speech. For once, the verdict was in favor of De- mosthenes, and the comic weeklies in Athens printed colored cartoons showing the giited orator wearing a golden crown of dimensions; but Dem. didn’t get wrathy, and threaten to cowhide the editors. He aid that if Boss Kelly, Vanderbilt, and Jay Jould could stand such ridicule, week after for forty years, he should not demur. chines was so chagrined at his defeat that he went into reti ent, opened a school of oratory, and flooded the country with lectur- ers. y mean revenge toadopt. The end of Demosthenes’ life was very sad, One Harpalus, the treasurer of Alexander, despite the vigilance of the Committee of One Hundred, majorphippsed some of the funds De acensed of accepting a por- huge It was a mig and lit out, as they say in the classics. mosthenes wa tion of the loot as a bribe vestigation—and got it. him guilty. After standing up in the ¢ cil and declaring that he was th public man in Greee what any persons believed him innocent. He courted in- A committee found nly honest , this verdict was just might have beex expected, thou ble to pay the fine imposed, he was cast into prison, It was the general impr at the time that if Colonel Ingersoll had de fended him, and characterized him as a man with a mental horizon, the jury would have dis: Demosthenes himself ext another war breaking out, he emery his exilement, and shot sion ed. seaped from jail and made ly seldom for put, al from ches at the enemy cece ed, and Demosthenes was condemned Ie sought Poseidon in Caluria, and was hunted down aT nine time with his usual success. def to die, was again ge in the temple of of Piukerton’s detectives—an ex-actor Archias—who was employed by Anti- by one named pater, a ¢ Using his persuasive pow Demosthenes to surrende: to violent measures, He Hamlet's soliioquy. “Th in vain to induce 8 resorted to recite * exclaimed Demosthenes, in terre ANA threats a needte ‘gout the robe thai Binds son Atwut, hereing the wanat ti ‘olleagues | | time to write home to my friends.” ant relative of anti-nonopoly. | A attendant por stricken tones, “this is too much. Grant me And, tak- | "d pen, he put it in his mouth and | bit it, as was his habit when writing, and soon the fatal drug permeated his whole system: He then confronted Archias, and derisively imed > ‘* Base slave of a baser maste tell Antipater that I— "And he died without the aid of slow and soft or music, at the age of 6 Thirty years later the Athenians discov: ered that he was desery a monument, and, unlike Waghington, he got it. ing a poison hestral ‘The time now approacheth when the coun- try editor goeth to the dead galley, taketh down and dusteth off the standing ter which readeth thus: ‘Our worthy friend, of ——, who is so well known as of our most successful farmers, and who to the Bugle since every Pi tial eandi- date since that date, has left at our office a huge pumpkin, we nd measuring —— feet in circumference. can beat this?’ Then he putteth this item on | the live galley with confidence begot of long experience, knowing that the | weight will be forthcoming in time for the ma one subscriber 1840, and voted fi | has been a ning —— pounds names and next issue, ‘Tue secretary of club write “Our aim is to prot tion.” Go right along, young man, you are | right. Your aim will do more to protect the game than anything else you ean do. game pt the game of this see- id societies that pats and underwear must not be surprised if the dusky maidens soon commence a demand for lace trimmed corsets, striped hosiery, and a bottle of Bloom of Youth, ‘ine ladies’ ing pet men are furnish to Indian wo- es King Milan, of Serv ita potentate to be shot a Prince of Monaco look to his with. ja, is not too in- Let the defenses forth: AN uptown girl is said to be so super modest, that she has been known to blush deeply when asked if she had be sleep. 1 conrti [fcpowe \ “ines comicbooks.com