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This page from *Judge* contains two separate satirical pieces reflecting late 19th-century American social commentary. **"Chinese Dialect on the Trade Dollar"** (top) mocks Chinese immigrants through racist caricature and broken English dialect. The cartoon appears to satirize economic anxieties around Chinese labor and currency, using exaggerated stereotypes common to the era's anti-Chinese sentiment. **"Alonzo Bushee: His Life and Impressions"** (bottom) is a serialized story about an orphan boy's harsh childhood and questionable moral education under street criminals ("Hoodlum Jack" and "Bill the Cracksman"). The narrative—written in first-person—appears designed as social satire exposing urban poverty, child neglect, and the brutalization of street children, likely critiquing both poverty conditions and the failure of contemporary charitable institutions to protect vulnerable youth.

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THE JUDGE. than Jupiter Pluvius himself, and dried— | while on my back—by the ever-gracious Sol: | boots of Nature’s own fashion; my food the most delicious dainties the gutter afforded, and my education progressing under the fos- f + Hoodlum Jack * and ** Bill “Twas never troubled by of the officers a hed to vty for the Prove ntion of Cruelty to iT Chinese Dialect on the Trade Dollar. ae pin Tréedom, gradually i i ronventionalities of society pound water, and prep ustly und earnestly prey in the Penitentiary. ny AH rw x — . ee 4 Bill the © cksman and I wer friends. Bill. was naturally fond of chil. : dren. Why, Ehaye known him to compel CAN MAN no takee ape ae VEL CAN SEAN notation | his wife (Red Poll, daughter of Bull-head “J Four-twenty grain too da erved ‘bronty stretches for using Must Go yt in wait for y n coming from school, and with bribes of candy or cake induce to go with her to her house: and Bill ¢ Trade Doll. tin better far— thei aken at par. FE. he PENKosE, | WOUld get so fond of those little lost ones | _ that nothing but a handsome sum of money = - would induce him to give them up to their | | Alonzo Bushee: His Life and Im- my age father akes up anil Ticks greats, Bill was not what might he termed | pressions. er rep worthy aire * | a striking! fe muin—in fact, he was | = made a point of whipping my dam : ona ie man in facts u and | ny WILLIAM ttt ‘ yet Tliked and — | ave a tone te the st + Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inelined. thy appetite. F Harry Hill vaps he was right, eur ut It is not for a sen who rudely tears 1 he veil of years, to que: Tiat [owas better than the boy \ * h | day. in the narrow path of rectitude ment conn! Parley cous! Jeu Y [nev (Do y when pay sentene going off like the prover from mi i" mach and promoted 4 fren Ve" thaps he w lemona, when al- jo, major-general_in the w (Bill's) visage in his ar lines of his nose, atin head surmounted by ely-cut and wiry stubble, the ling brows beat about ared with olserve how that rounds off the | It throws an electric light of | Billy that hu elegance over the precein | ’ and furnishes a | latent ferocity. when by the tT never:thr Jcat intoa China. silver lining to the clouds of the aforesuud.) | fumes, arising to his brain, of the whiskey n’s laundry—if there existed the slightest. ‘Time passed on—you have noticed | that he loved so well; and the ears—huge, f the irate heathen catching me— that Time usually does. ‘Time don’t button- ani that, in_ spite mained hy town sentinels that stood out at right from the massive bullet-b 1- whieh | lenging the wonder and the admiration ¢ mal concern, until he all temp! Tree hole a man when he is busy t in my resolve never to hit patience with t er and. stronger than myself, was he has no pe id torture his recital of matters i . every one who passed, made Bill none the i due to the fact that the sweet influences of impelled to sally forth and Kill somebody {| less reverence his moral worth, ‘Throw Bill j | home were a round and about ¢ me don't loaf around and corner | overboard in the middle of the broad Atlan- “Home, home! sweet, sweet h xr and drink pe tic, and his ears would keep him afloat until | | Poets have raved of thee | Singstresses have ties, wasting health and n their owner was picked up by some passing | | at the rate of $10 for or- nities, and then envy the worldly position of 1. Had Bill been suddenly ealled upon | Lost maidens have wept for those who have been careful of the former, | to pluy the role of a cherabim, and somo- And cruel creditors have sued for and taken advant ‘Time Ee had forgotten to furnish the wings, the don’t sit by t nd provided for in | my old home! Home of my | make the hot iron sizzle with ice, ears off his he and maternal spanks, how weil | for hours at a stretch, and th home ex: | and clapping om his shoulder-blades. mber thee ! pecting o find « lot of Government bonds, ‘They would have made g wat a pair of tly- sTaasiap nv aasa ARG: DrGRNAL ROY HALEN UTNE which Fortune has broken inte his hou tis any traveling angel could have desired. | ee ioany bee brent” toleave for him. No! Time just atter ald weather Bill used them for blanket iy thousutw:atilt wansier back to:thes to his proper bn and passes on. and in hot weather th rame of us See > fi t being little chorus-singer flappers, with which to Keep off mosquitoes, | My dirty, Eastside tenement iH PI ve in some wretched juvenile « flies, and such small ¢ Bill, in his xcuse my emotion! Check not the tear, earning a miserable” pittance youth, had been a prize: r, but after a which rolls a-down a withered check, for it ; nwed mothe - battle with * Konky justly cele- ig a holy tribute to the home forever lost. taskmasters tos brated fp art, in which ice was condemned by the Buildin ita time on abril Bill had nee smashed — | | and on its much-loved site some to be into the consist foot jelly, his | | eriligeous hands have raised a candle fac- s of welledr collar-bone br : | . his right thumb dislocated, i 1 square of his my misery; | left ear ripped off, his skull fractured, and | of brutal his jaw torn out by the roots, he concluded — | it to instil infomy — that hting w low and brutal oc- v-looking 4 and seemed 8 of years drift slowly from be- fore my vision, sind I see thee now, as oft I ly placed in the ol saw thee then—my foot upon the threshold, teachers whoeruelly tl looking in upon the peaceful scene, My the ements of learnit ution, and. he a Pave it | haughty, patrician mother—her ancestor sleeping in . clean bed: clothed in entrated his energies to master the rudi- was a away on board the Mayjlower— ments which actually kept me warm; and ments of the profession of which he had | up to her elbows in the wash-tub, enveloped fed until I was ina horrible state of fulness been an honored member for twent in steam; my father in a happy. drunken and comfort: not being a bit like this, but, before [met him. The profe: stupor on the connubial couch’; my little on the contrary, a happy little street urchin After the encounter with | brother, Timothy, eating matches: and my = —happy in the possession of a drunken Sa twas noticed that Bill never sweet little sister—an, forthe father and a hard-working. broken-hearted S fists—if he hadn't a heavy h beer—beer that will worn mother; clad in well-ventilated pants, linen or a crowbar handy, he would st a man mother a happy woman if she can drink it that was washed by no less a laundry man with any trifle, such as an iron cuspidore, a mmer comicbooks.com