Judge — December 1, 1883 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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CONTINUATION OF THE CAREER OF At THE JUDGE. S. SOLDIER. DETAILED FOR FIELD DUTY my many years of service | have and fought in fifty-seven battle tk 1.473. pretty girls, [Cheers record any man may be proud My wife is not as proud of it {Vanghter.] But she didn’t come cf rroud a family. [served the Union. id hee! As my friend Jack MeCullough remarks, in Coriolanus, * Alone L did it.” ; I may here say that I consider est actor living. [Cheers] rs.]—[ hope the army will get on all right without me, but [de {[Cheers.] Phil isa good boy, but he t any brains—no one hi [Ch (Ch q C Tam the grandest y of this nation, you forget it. wont!) After all, ohn is about as {¢ ¢ anned sed hat’s a [Cheers] as Tam, as After all—[C! in the And don't wont, brother have in the country. 18 handeome as [ by a jugfall (Chee .)” ‘Phere’s one to understand, any thing I wa ant. you all ight ere. [will aot, on be President. (Cheer Well, I could if But I don’t. Take brother, B wanted to. thusiast want to. words about myse cheering.) IT don’t think me of egotism. (‘No! Mode sty has been’ my great drawback in life, (Tt has! it has!) If 1 were not so infernally modest I might ask you to indorse me asthe hero of the war, the saviour of this country, few (Cheers) But as it is, [will only say that if it hadn’t been for me, these United States would have roarious and continue Grant—vou know t 1 made Meade, and and the whole damne T don’t say a fact. (( the best (Cheer » we dol) ‘Thomas. and Shei lot of them. If, to fae policy in the And now, if you will pardon me, I would ike to say something to vou about If. husiastic and prolonged cheer- 2) You have do ‘ives the honor, this evening, of tendering me this reception, You have done a wise thing and a just thing: for Lean’t think of—on the spur of this mo: ment—any one more worthy the m Isa feather in your caps to have me he ewith vou, (Cheers) But what's the good of telling—vou knew it as well as Te, (Cheers. Now PE owant to say something abont the war and wi there (Tumultous hardly ‘tell you th + your comrade at but my war would have lingered on many vears er than itdid. (Che ) And if Thad had supres mimand—to which Timay I pardoned for addi my great military skill 1 me—(Cheer: it’ wonldn’t long. (Ch The fact is, (Chee provided that one was Sherman, (C ) But enough on that Luckily, L have book on the ion, and while readers, the great deeds performed by my. [self for the Union will not be forgotten. written aj that has | right now.” THE END OF HIS CARE HE Is SCALPED, And now a few last words about (Verrifie cheering.) 1 know I s my duty like a little man, and in back over my long and honorable can see but one dark spot-on my and that is my lamer want of teem. . Lam con- will ti it lights of my able jor which will forever strc of my history! the (Cheers. ) if have don lookin, nu from the glorious. px Choked with emotion, nly strove to hide his f which happened, fortuna Colonel Mike Sheridan has just completed y of Philip Sheridan's aeceptat tice of General of the Tt wa terrible and althou through it—with the aid in, to the end, his friends hold out small hopes of It is reported that Ch an eye on dent's chair. Nothing of the kind—he both eyes fixed there. very tic one—was ont called the “Grandfathers.” An indispensable qnali- fication for membership is the pc the relatives from whom the club nate Red men, whe are only the their the tain ay It need bers is proportions, \ well-known society gentleman, whose wealth rolls up into the millions, escaped Dlackballing only by the skin of his teeth; but just us the fatal fiat wa forth. of the committee arose i that he knew the petitioner had a fath r he, (the attended his hangin applicant wi adinitted. In a community where only a very favored few of the would-be-aristoerats r back than an immediate an- of them not even th: who hus been hanged is better than no grandfather at all. only m of his granc nob. ance into the charmed circle. arcely be said that the list of mem- overpowerir ntie in its girl sat on the door-steps look- w moon, when she remark mi told me that no one eve nw hadn’t ought to tell such stor for yonder humb nal in the clouds, saw How about Tammany, now ? comicbooks.com