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# "The Judge" Page Analysis This page contains three distinct pieces of satirical content from the 1880s-90s era: **"The Three Trampers"** is a narrative poem about three vagrant men who steal chickens from a farmer. When confronted, violence erupts and the tramps are killed. The satire appears to mock both the desperation of the poor and the harsh rural response to petty crime. **"A Rising Young Journalist"** profiles an ambitious young writer who boasts of rapid career advancement from a sensationalist penny paper to a respectable weekly publication by writing increasingly sophisticated social commentary. The satire targets journalistic careerism and the pretensions of writers who inflate their own importance. **The sidebar "Sarcasm Bitter"** offers brief satirical quips mocking contemporary figures and institutions—including jokes about asylums, General Grant, billionaires, and Brooklyn. The cartoon illustration shows three shabby men (the tramps) confronting what appears to be a well-dressed gentleman, visualizing the poem's narrative. Overall, the page satirizes class conflict, journalistic ambition, and social hypocrisy typical of *Judge* magazine's approach.
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THE THREE TRAMPERS First | was empl a paper Whose specialty is the delineation of life among the middle aud lower classes Ryortae bullionaires: The Silver Kings, Taree bummers traimping out in the Wet and for this sheet 1 whooped up sarcastic descriptions Out in the West as the sun went down; of the ten cent soality of corner loafers, something as | race work: Patching French political affairs. Each thought of emptiness under his vest, owe And “cops” who chased them out oft! : Thew's Heany and Burke For hummers don't work, and bummers must ¢ Nad No who ant wens Att oiust have shoes to put on thelr feet And atay Mec Very soft soap: OM paper dollars In spite of common folks’ groaning. sah thawy ie nut Jonas the Turk Atnd Charlie the let | Who carries dirk Wranne is a wo Tramps looked at the door, at chickens well fet, While behind him tues D —n the public” if iti ‘Tur city of smirehes: Brooklyn. Low water mark: Finding a frog in your milk can. ‘The farmers sat up in a chicken-house shevt Up in the shed as the tramps came ‘lone And choked the laters’ imm “. The German count —Merek For tramps are hungry as well Ani like th rf-a nice fat b But the men keep hidi Of course my lyrics Were soon quoted far and w A sew play by Oscar Wilt: + Bunce, an my fourth week in the business fo 7 on a mildly bumorous soeiety paper in whiet T A yoes 1 Volk sang all evening to Threw guns went off with a horrid hang my playfal fancy rein, and filled my space with mers | Company of friends at Montgomery, Ala, and then tn the mbinigs crane like this ot himself a The fact that after singing all The women . incase ibaa BSH iales ning be bad to do bis own shooting shows concli- The tramps were buried by the town, Cees rie ta akiae sively that the wearing of weapons is falling Into dis- For if tramps west steal, farmers must shoo ik Gh tie toe te cea Jous G. Saxe denies the report that he is na quickly aa zon'reia from hypochonsdria, but in the face of the fact that he The teans are coil, the 18 0 is still writing humorous poetry for the newspapers A Rising Young Journalist The coOte’s bole! for ball an box, the Heald ad's allow cil unecrtAln sbuni Anal Miu in haste te clear the tatie i ye eries, ~ you lazy thing Tue st ilobe-Democrat Was anv article on How to sleep on railroad trains.” Wonders will never We wonkin't be surprised any day to Yen? said (he claing young Joornallit, 3 be threw From this to a position on the Weekly Eyitayh sack the collar of his seul-skin overcoat, elevated his | wax a chanse inde : all my versatility was browht into play, and Toneel hardly say that my muse was y fally equal to the requirements of my new position. and lighted a fifty-cent For det Pumar, “yes, the out: | simple of the kind of matter whieh found side world is ly misinformed in regard to the bills | favor int of Mr. Roefal’s readers will suf mona.” tant qualifications and preparatory training necessary — matent leathers on a chair in front of the one he was 1n the bore’s corner of the estitorial sanetiin pick up some rash, reckless newpspaper and tad an article ov © How to remain awake during church ser- hefore a young man can become a successful jour Mow could you, brartiens, silent t Tue Cincinnatl Timea-Stier saya that the Princeas of alist. Of course, it dors not pay either me, whe Kmbrace my Theophrastns such, Wales wears a very swall bustle, It is something re furnishes the brains, wit, and savoir fatre to till sis take Gil ts roar roulas ot markable that a public mat like the Prince does not th mos of a newspaper, or you, who do the more mechanical drudgery of patting the filling in Lam at present engaged in the astoclate manaye position and standing between me and the proof-reailer | ment of one of our swell, upgerctendom periodicals We. confess to a commendable ignorance of * the to give the snap away, but that the public are, | which the doings and sayings of Beacon street awl | fair sex,” but w a fashion journal affirms that before, very much misinformed on the subject. | Colambus avenu chronicled, and in which the pink veils are worn over baskets, to give a beauty Heft college after a year's trials (which even now, as 1 | thing in thie wav that’s all eem indistinct and hazy), on we- | — ght misunderstanding with the faculty Jn the spring-time did 1 meet htm, | Wituiaw Sauisacry, who has lately been in a seven | heaven, and met Washington. Christopher Columbus, spiritual phenomena. I resolved to waste no time in Frond be was, a acquiring more knowledge, for I felt that I alrealy Queen Elizabeth, Voltaire. knew much more than the great and shadowy public, James, Esq., Hon, Charl for which T bad made up iy mind to cater, and at and other celebrities. If anybody un once set to work to turn my poetical talent to account. |, With the shertert apd the te ion spiritnatiem after thia, it will be his own fault “Twas the summer saw our courting comicbooks.com