Judge — December 22, 1883 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. | $24, 326 and 328 Pearl § NEW YORK (Franklin Square.) PUBLISHED ONCE 4 WEEK TERMS TO SUBSCRI no | | EN Pearl St, New York: Wr rostson rm PANY, AN AGENTS Tue terensatiosat, News Compasy, 11 1 Meet St Lospox, Exot asp, averte St NOTICE. must put thelr vatuatto will te regarded as return pestage, with am 10 thet de articien "CORRESPONDENTS. Er ConnesroxDENTS WILL FLEASE TAKE SoTICE THAT THEY fenp Maa To TH OFFICE AT THEIR OWS RISK, WHERE STAMPS RE EXCLOMED WE WILL RETCRS REJECTED MATTER AS Fan AS Fon WHERE 4 PRICE {9 SOT AFFIXED RY THE WRITER, REMUNERATION WILL RE ESTERTAINED. want, oct weeer ciate WINTER PASTIMES. Tue present winter has, so far, been an exceptionally mild one; nevertheless, there are those who hope for the full usual quota of snow and ice before it melts away into the beautiful and poetic and pulmonary of spring. Mankind has an abiding faith, founded on experience, in the phenomena of the 8 While April is still chillin; with its possible snow and pneumonic blasts, the kee| of the summer hotel is getting ready for the influx of guests which he never | doubts a month or two more will ason her While people | are still dehating if it is really worth while to pat on an overcoat yet, and whether that | round his hospitable board, ulster would not be safe in mine unc! keeping for a little longer, you may sce last | years sleigh getting dusted off in the livery | stable, and the newest patterns of the same ex} in the carriage-builder’s | store. Men are apt to be guided more by the almanac than by the thermometer in such matters. The} conscious becau: it is December, that it ought to be cold, even veh are as they will be conscious six months he that, because it is June, it ought to be hot. We are creatures of habit, after all, and given tor As a matte 20 | from analog | fact, though, this winter | ably’ mild one from an atmospheric point of view. Politically, it has not been quite so mild, but then politics run on independent of weather. So far, soning of has been a remar' | peculiarly liable to be upset by letters or the THE JUDGE. the skates in the shops 1 the market, but the chosen few are girding up their loins for a skating tournament which will be held, ice or no ice, during the ning year; and the goal and prize thereof is the White House. However dull things | may be in other respects, politicians are busy, and the race will be an interesting one. | influence with a foreigner or embroiling her: Of course, the skates and the ice are merely | self with Europe. ‘That False Prophet has figurative; but, having regard to the diffi- | proved a fearful element of discord in diplo- culties and dan the same time, unless to shut Egypt up in her guarded strong Ireland and her trant dependence she can act ve been drugs upon | and can manage aavonet-and-navy- house, along with India, other more or less recalei- it is difficult to see how the present phase of the Eastern question without either sharing her of the track, and the | matic calculations; and the worst of it is case with which the contestants may slip | that he will probably be worse before he is up, the simile is not ill chosen, Every one | better. knows how little a thing, comparatively, on | the polished surface of a frozen lake will| WORTHY OF SEVERE PUNISH- trip up a skater aud send him headlong to | MENT. aqua firma, We have known a man upset | —_ while skating by such a trifli dropping a letter—not a letter 11," for in that case no Englishman conld skate, but an ordinary written epistle, which fell from his t, tangled him up somehow, and over- him. It must have been extremely gratifying to every father of young daughters, and es- pecially to every father whose daughters are developed beyond their tender years, that | Jersey justice hus, again, vindie proverbial firmness. threw ated her his thing of turning young heads with promises of marriage and of dazzling young eyes with pinchback | jewelry, with the sole purpose of ruining young lives, has become notoriously com: mon, — Well-dressed rakes | tongued roves way! Presidential candidates are | like, whi it would b utiously drop—perhaps for presidental skaters Tt may save some ugly And that is all THe Juper has to yabout the matter at present; except that he wants to see eve start fair, and no ck, tripping, crossing or “foul willbe permitted, And now skate away, gentlemen. not to write at all. tumbles. and ‘smooth- y the school-girl trip- | ping along, however virtuous and modest; old lotharios and g the streets and ogle sa on pulling ba Don Juans throng ing” nd smile at the pretty | maids whose innocent minds can not but be impressed by sach marked attention from “venerable gentlemen. gentleman calculate their chances to a i They know how often a hard ’s study is ended by a dull and, some- times, miserable evening; th ‘y know how a young girl longs for entertainme nec it is, to keep her good, that home should be attractive and amusing, and so they are sure that their way lies open toa discontented child. But the case in point proves that their wiles can even ontbalance parental care which, however devoted, can not be ever present. tion, “double-entente” promises of wealth and position are too often fatal weapons, when the mother’s shield is lowered, and we, once more, e Jersey that she has set an mple to these ancient mashers that it would be well for us to | quickly fc Loc Don’t mind waiting for ice. You will find your way slippery enough without it. But these same ENGLAND AND EGYPT. Wires down abi had been effectually sat upon; when the French had been frozen out of Egypt; and when various favorite British officers had covered them- selves with glory and emoluments in the land of pyramids and sphinxes, England thought she had done her work on the banks of the Nile, and had nothing farther to do but reap the profits. And now comes that e False Prophet, with strong evidence of his ubility to create a very real disturbance, and all Europe is set by the gain, and Egyptian politics are once more a topic of lively and absorbing interest. En, 1 is certainly to be pitied. She must do her work all over again if she does not want France to do it for her, sidering that the False Prophet’s successes and how Persuasion, insinua- sively annoying congratu ears 8 the wretches up where sprightly faces and shapely figures will not quicken the sluggish current of their blood and keep our modern household gods—the pure minds and innate modesty of our their vile bes Indeed, con- ion caused by the ems to have spread as far as Tunis and Algiers, it is difficult to see how France can be excluded from taking a hand in the pacification of disturbed Africa. French influence was well nigh lost by the vaciilating conduct of the Republic during the Arabi Bey troubles, and France has never regretted her inaction but once, | Of course, the injury to French prestige in the East was nuts for England, and she will deeply deplore the calamitous chance which seems to offer her ancient rival a chance of rehabilitation. At ghters—free from nd their baser prayers, Tue President has appointed Lawrence Weldon, of Ilinois, to be a Judge of the Court of Claims. It was ‘* well done ” of the President to give Lawrence the chance of well doing in the future. One William Dunnell, of Montana, is also hankering for an office in the new territory. As he has heretofore * done well,” could the President do better than to give hima position at the next vacancy? and that is ever since. comicbooks.com