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THE JUDGE. THE JUDGE. 324, 326 and 328 Pearl St., (Franklin Square.) NEW YORK. PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. (Usrre Staves axo Caxapa) * numbers One copy, for 13 weeks, aa els Perrestsok yaee ad Aaa TE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY $24, 6 and 2 Peart St New York, EUROPEAN AGENTS Tuk IsTERNATIONAL News Compasy, 11 ouverte St,, (Fleet 8t.) Loxpos, Rotax, NOTICE, put their valuation upon the articles they (subject to a price we may ourselves fix) or otberwise they will be regarded as gratuitous Stamps should be tclosed for return postage, with namo and addrens, If writers wish to regain thelr declined articles. CORRESPONDENTS. H-CORREAPONDENTS WILL PLEARE TAKE sx Maa, TO THIS OFFICE AT THEIR OWN RINK RENCLOMED WR WILL RETCRS REJECTED S108, BUT We DISTINCT ynce THAT THEY Wnene staxre OH EVERY Cash, WHERE 4 PRICE [8 SOT AFFIXED RY THE WRITER, CONTRIBUTIONS WIL. QARDED AS ORATCITOCR, AND NO AUREE QUEST CLAIM FOR REMUNERATION WILL RE ENTERTAINED. POOR DEMOCRACY. A Great deal of the sympathy of the Christian Church has been expended upon poor Lazarus, represented by the parable as sitting, starving and in rags, at the rich man’s door. No doubt his case was a very pitiable one, though no more so than that of many a less celebrated beggar, and the Bible story tells us how it was all made up to him afterwards. A like proportion of execration has been heaped upon the memory of Dives— very undeservedly, in Tur Jupor’s opinion, since there is nothing in the parable to show that he was any worse than any other rich man. Indeed, in some respects he would compare very favorably with several whom we wot of at this day. To be sure, he was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day; but that is the neces- sary prerogative of wealth and no one grum- bles at its exercise. Then Dives was char- itableufter a fashion. IIe allowed Lazarus to be fed with the leavings from his table, and sit at his gate. How long does anyone suppose that Vanderbilt Rer would suffer a tramp to disfigure, by his presence, the mar- ble steps of the millionaire’s Fifth Avenue mansion, and how many of the crumbs from the rich man’s table find their way to the poor? Decidedly Dives must have been relegated to the hot place for crimes unmen- tioned in the parable, or the future prospects of the average nineteeth century millionaire are decidedly sultry. ATTEN AB Pan a8 ros. | Has it ever occurred to anyone, before our | artist, to liken the Democratic party to poor Lazarus. If it has, it must have appeared how infinitely worse off poor Democracy is than was the Scripture mendicant. The | crumbs that fall from the table of rich and | powerful Republicanism are neither dainty nor numerous. ‘The on! lick the many sore spots of poor Democracy dogs that come to | are its own sympathetic press, and every one | | knows that a lick from a newspaper | cially a democratic newspaper—is more irri- | tating than soothing. ‘Then Lazarus w probably comforted by the knowledge of the | comfortable bosom which awaited him, while the aver appointment in Abraham’s | To him the | | name of Abraham, fraught as it is with Democrat has no such solace. memories of Lincoln, is anything but a pleasant sound, and though, like lives in hope, his hope has been very long arus, he | deferred and is by no means certain of ulti And then th comfort are so very few and far between. On the whole, and leaving Abrab: out of the question, we are inclined to think that poor Democracy is worse off, at present writir mate realization. crumbs 's bosom than poor Lazarus. CHEAP CABS. | CireaP street transportation has long been a great desideratum in New York, but until | quite recently it has ecemed a Utopian dream | impossible of fulfillment. We do not refer | to the clevuted “roads and street car lines which are sufficiently reasonable in price, and, in certain directions, universal enough. But the exorbitant price charged for car- | riages, coupes, and all that nondescript | species of vehicles generalized as “ hacks,” has long been a subject of wonderment to strangers, and of exasperation to inhabitants. Any man who is accustomed to the compar- | atively reasonable prices demanded for cab hire in London, Paris, and other European cities may well hold at the charges of New York hackmen, and may be excused for calculating how very few rides at the existing tariff would suffice for the purchase of the entire turn-out. ‘Thanks to the enterprise of a new compa- ny, this evil is in a fair way of being reme- died at last. The new cabs are clean, neat, and commodious, and, above all, they arc reasonable in their charges. They are se- curing, as they deserve, a large amount of public patronage, and in the face of many difficulties appear to have already achieved a substantial success. One good result of their existence has already manifested itself inthe flutter the new departure has created in the ranks of the old hackmen. Those worthies, brought for the first time into competition with an organized and formidable opposition, are beginning to realize that there may be some truth in the doctrine of the survival of the fittest, and are bestirring themselves to meet the new order of things as far as may be. » his hands in horror They have already cut their rates of fares down by about fifty per cent., and the fact that they can afford to do this and ran their at one-half their former rates, shows conclusively to what a monstrous imposition New Yorkers have so long been submitting. There is room for vehicles improve- ment still, and in the lively opposition thus inaugurated by the new cab company—still in its infaney—we may look for a grand re- sult in cheap cab hire throughout the city before the present year is laid away with its KNOCKED OUT. IN this speculative land of presidential election is more or less. fr with speculation. n the vul, nations or the results of an election, though that, too, we ours, every We do not mean specula- tion ar sense of betting on nomi- ave been informed is sometimes dealt in; but the speculative guess-work as to an unknown and uncertain result which is so pronounced a characteristic of the great American people and which prevails about every uncertainty, from the weather or a horse race, down to a dog fight or the Presi- dential election. Speculators on this latter result are fond of trying the pulse of the country in various ways. ‘They takea count of noses on a railway train, or canvs tain villag didat 8 a cer- or district in favor of some can- It is remarkable how very uniformly these tests, which have been applied pretty freely in view of the impending struggle, have resulted unfavorably to Arthur. Dis- trict after district been tested, and the present President is invariably nowhere. Tur JupGe cannot surmise how Arthur may feel under these repeated blows. Our artist appears to be of the opinion that they have affected him as the battle with the wind- mills affected Don Quixote; Arthur's case must be even w but we f rse. hardly imagine that he is sustained by the sense of high moral rectitude which anima- ted the knight of La Manch and politics hit harder than wind mills. A second term isan honor reserved for very few, and we may be excused if we share the doubts of the country at large that Arthur is not one of the few. Ruswine Bustxess—a run on the bank. maketh a full man—may be. maketh a man full—bet your life. Deacon S—, would like to hear brother jadstone preach because all the newspapers agree that he is such a Prime Minister. Ex-Senxator Camenon is a gallant gen- tleman of the old school. Even in a rage he never so far forgets himself as to be unmind- ful of the motto, Place au damus. A DISTINGUISHED member of the Penn- sylvania legislature who has just returned from the West, ingenuously owns that he never felt so flattered in his life as when, in acertain Kansas town, they mistook him for a horse thief. comicbooks.com