Judge — December 6, 1884 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. independent now with a vengeance—inde- | pendent with the ind of Alexan- der Selkirk, who ‘monarch of all he surveyed,” by the supreme right of solitude, ndenc 18, Just reflect on the position of these men. They have been trained and brought up in a Republican school, and they | a moment of pique, to rende ing and experience m ve ch all their train- tory. ‘They abun- doned the party in whose ranks they had fought and conquered, and cast their lot with their immemorial opponents. ‘They slunk in among the sutlers and camp-fol- | lowers of the great Democratic army, and now, in the hour of trium the Demo- cratic army is little disposed to 16 For the Democra “In spoils and patronage we booty, but barely en if we cohorts. ard them. leaders will argue thus: have gh to go aroun, even confine the distribut eat These bolti nto our choi publicans only joined our ranks to satisfy a private and per- Well, we have aided them to their revenge and their rev has aided us: but shall we fur reward them, to the detriment of those who have fought with us shoulder to shoulder for so many years tow- ards the just res Republican: with them. sonal grudge rievement of this glorious resuit ned? Perish the thought. ‘The ¢ left—let the bolters be left We are sorry for the latter, annot help them but and they should have it of all this sooner.” Thus the Democrats, with born of long fasting, and a ke loaves » born of he And so the Independents badly left we will realize better now than we can to-day which very few people take now-a-days—but still it wil Ti bolted, not only from the Republican pa but from its su h appetite neye for the nd fish rty appetite. re —h 4 year from Take the or instance—a } rve for an exampl cribers, i very bread and butter, ‘I ment hel irculation, its tion e: ite- dit toa factitious rally, though at no time did its edition come within for per cent of the is pricked. Republican the Times, Democ sees its the e ,and a once influential paper becomes pitiful in its vibune's. Now the bubble © disgusted with ts » not nt at; it old rival, the Tribune, easily filling tire field which it once sha self-inflicted degradation—a moribund cock in the journalistic pit. That is a fair instance of the position of these castaway Republicans. De rted_ by both parties, trusted by neither, with nothing but their own little mutual-admira tion-society circle to console them for the contempt of the nation, they will live to learn that the defeat Blaine indeed a Pyrrhie victory for the Repub- lican deserters. of James G. “Jouxny, why don’t up the rent in your trou “Coz she’s up ter church, er sewin’ for ther 'euthens.” ur mother sew THE HOME STRETCH. — The Cashier. fayl whieh Tennyson w Brook.” if he had ever lived In New Jersey. I come from haunts of solid ‘men, Where stocks are brisk and busy; { make a five—[ mal With eaten, ye T pass with The p And certify When brokers call for n sive en's checks by scores We failin much ¢ For men may come and men may go, But I go o'er the border. With many a dodge my hooks T fix ‘To hide the way I'm ac And entries true and false | mix In manner most distrac I swindl Tamt For m Bui Iw swindle high boss defrauder, How, I skip o'er the border. about, and in And take With here And by And here and there a mining share That tells of Nipped cleverly from bull or bear Goes with me when T travel nd out, lar; nd there a treasury note, nd there a dollar, all T can c Tdraw them all along, To join my co-defaulters; er or may fail— Kk clerk never alters men may pro The y is the root of all evil. may come and men may go, one tuted for bis How to Keep a Piano. Some pianos cost as much as a fast horse, and deserve thesame kind treatment. After it has had a pretty hard time of it all day and all evening, up till twelve o'clock, with the windows open to give it air, and your neighbors a chance to hear how it works, and you think you have run it enough, and it is exhausted and over-heated, and likely to take cold and develop a distemper, you should throw a blanket over it right away | and go to bed yourself. Keep the top open when you play, or the music will be apt to choke up and explode the piano. Every six months rake out the old hair pins, Combs, buttons, gum drops, curl papers, and other dric-a-brac that have been sucked in, If, from playing disjointed tunes, the case has become disjointed, fill the inside with water and Jet it souk, otherwise the music will leak out all over it. When singing, do not yell too loud into the piano, “We have known several pianos, and strong ones, too, to be unfixably injured in this w: Don’t strain it so. The more you let a piano stand idle with- out exercise, the more skittish it becomes, and is li to balk and run off the track. Please remember this | Ifyou use gutta-percha thimbles for the ends’ of your fingers they will not wear through so quick, and if the ivory on the keys wears through you can replace them by putting old tooth-brush handles in their place. Always try to have the tone of your piano average pretty well with the tone of the fam- ily if it 43 toney. | “It might be that the piano sometimes skips stitches, You can remedy this by Is that) tightening the tension on the threads of ur radical reformer is always crying | song, readjusting the bobbin, and souping the fly wheel. comicbooks.com