Judge — June 2, 1883 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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“Oxer a man.” ‘The otherwise, ealf ina though ag public man, always a public people will not once set have it up a golden high place they will worship it, would §} up around it, and it seeks to seelude itself from their gaze. Let am rd people in ened to n oracle, ane must the rdin remain, ane his every day This may be tla ter= s drawback friendly but it is very unpleasant. very utterances as oracular, ing, bat it h it_ may be It is not long since ave a dinner party friends thereto. an; his though some of them bor al tlemen al names reputation—were private gen- They were no longer in public next mornit ial chit chi and distorte chy a he papers con tof th nid tw nd put i The nd wine the with a we and the whe over walnuts was al import, vest at that he has eribed toa dinner table whose name- ired from life attention and aulthe public is sufficient irrest to challe Now thi y of 3 notas it should be. If th y social circle is to be invac Are the s of the regard himself as tralia into which the sp + will not follow a man whose name has become a name to conjure by? Are our citi- uve no. private s which are lic opinie to be ted into i ons of publie imy Furthermor dinner the rep cheek i memory? aire to be repr heck is thes imaginative faculty; what eeven on his innocently faulty In the very nature of thin impossible to report such Iv ‘ as we refer to, verhalia et literatim, reporter must the viol trust to his memory—and pone who is willin reporter mus sanctity of private intercourse, y betray the confidence he in- unfair to ume that he is incap: supplying the Ia ves, and memory from the copious fount of a vivid better for the ns, in their pri- A It will have enough to if it report rightly the public acts of | trins public men. | And ‘Two friends out to stalk deer. the other some d tance off in the underbrush mistook him for | the animal they were in search of and shot him. in ‘Tennessee went One seeing nter was very much put out | t, but was greatly consoled by “died gan by the aecide the fact that his friend | breathed; THE JUDGE. Mister Jonxsinc—* Lor bless de chile !— How pale heam, Guess you're been indulgin? in too many of dem bernana skins, agin.® HOUNDS OF THE PRESS. NG the many and 1 npon th benefits con- world by the press, we find ns which more properly belong on of the led: which, in fact, The power exercised by the press is suflicient to na upon any walk of life which ptly brands, and, . no life is so systematically vilified as a public one, It be high winds blow on high hills, but certain it is that no sooner de > himself orth. and arrows of an eset down as positive injuries, this country may because s any man ra above his fellows than a: slit ontra: se such tinst him a with leveled all the men are ruck from which they em seandal loves a shining mark. that since we are a man begins to m s marked. Now, all mortal and fallible, there no one whose life, exposed to the broad i of will stand flawless, are co shine, public serutiny, absolutely I the very eo man, who could worthily serve bis country, If forward to dose, ‘To office is to have every exposed to the third hold office very crime or fail- from putting hin be fault and sh aeandidate for oming } and fourth generation; te sto at once made sponsor fe ing that may appertain to the official of he heard Under these circumstances it is not wonderful th by whem we and not a few whieh nev or thought. he best man—the man ld wish to be olds aloof, and the coun- we had a choice | try is run by men who are pachyder- | matous cnough to be proof against abuse, Jor by men whose el ly that the worst vilification seems like flattery. racters are so bad in- when public life does show a man that is all, or nearly all, a public man should be, then the press immediately sets to work to compel his retirement. succeed. It succeeded in the case of R Conkling—a man against taint of a cov whose name the dishonest a man who action was never towered head and governed if | It may probably | 3 shoulders above his fellows by the sheer force of intellect. ‘The why? Beeans tion it him—be press hounded him—and —this was the only accu tself could bring a boss. malice wainst ‘That is to say, a leader had follow- He 1 bestowed upon him, rily It was nece eream for ri s blame Conkli As well blame water for level as blame his fellows for ne the above seeking it being led by him, has retired from public li is public life any better for it? passes but the press hounds away from his post, or flit helm of af can be Never a year ne good man miud on the irs till no man with elean ha and to hold it, It isdishearte it is unreasonable; vafles cor bate all heard 0 ppointed artist is the seve if it be innate malice. But stay, does it We hav 1 it be possible that the e ntrollers of th Vin anythin papers who can find all of them soured Are they only jealous rat the foot of an which they are unable to ascend? and is it only the eu the ascent? spointment? ter all, who st eminence instinct that bays has the since brave pioneer th t their Since y none can tastes, it must be con- fessed that it looks very like it. Wenpent Piticirs says ‘the best edu- tion in the world is tha t by str ling | How thorough the educa- and vet how few ¢ method of obtaining it! Most be willing to take their chances: education obtained in coll nd let 7 Then a jue taste and the sheriff Waesen’s dog doubt his friends tho Was a composer it was t the de buried with him ht that as W REFINED CRUELTY. Tooth-picks, only fice cents a package. comicbooks.com