Judge — August 22, 1885 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK, TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. (Usirep State axp Caxapa.) St numbers or Snumbers, Weents each: THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 924, $26 and 328 Pearl Si NEW YORK TO CORRESPONDENTS AND CONTRIBUTERS. Take SOTICE THAT THEY WHERE STAMPS YAR AS Fos A WEAK PHOSPHATE. You might as well try to make good lag with spent tan bark as to manurea run down farm with promis ‘The crops are bad on Uncle Sam’s farm. The business soil has been over-worked and run out and does not pay to cultivate. The new farm hand who offered his services pro- fessed to havea patent phosphate that would immediately restore the lost tone of the soil and make things boom, But when he got to work they found he had nothing stronger to spread than more promises, And he has been at it now seven months sowing wind. Shall he reap a whirlwind, or what? WHERE THE MONEY GOES. It is always hard times for poor folks, always flush times for those who earn the least, and least deserve plenty. There seems to be no diminution of the follies and extra eign airs of our par- Men may come and men may go but the supply of fools and the current of money to and out of their pockets keeps 2 forever. Enough money goes out of the country every year for foreign luxuries and travel, or is spent in fashionable extravagance, to pay the national debt. Say men have a right todo what they please with their own money. It is not their own money, in most agar venue rich. THE JUDGE. cases, ‘Three-fourths of this spending that | makes the country pinch, was gotten with- out effort—left the spenders by others or ex- torted from labor by speculations, monopol- ies und gouging. ‘This independent of the higher law, t alth isa trust which no man has a right to use for his own gratifica- tion alone, But there is one compensation, Fools and money will and ought to be speedily di- vorced, A man might do worse than spend his patrimoney or his ill-gotten gains in riotous living—he might hoard it. IT WILL NOT GO ON. With Postmaster-General Vilas. sending out circulars inviting all the favorite un- washed to « nquet and removing several hundred Republicans a week on trumped up charges of offensive partisanship; with Democratic county com- mitteemen all over the country busy appor- tioning the offices; with the rules of civil service reform systematically and ingenu- y evaded from the top to the bottom of ration it looks as if Democrats tisans most offensive to all true lovers of an honest civil service. They could put on the stolen garments of the star-eyed Goddess and make a brave show of reform, but when it came to putting on the slipper—there was the pinch. It was when Democracy wanted to walk in the way of reform that she found herself crippled. It was a case of a No. 2 slipper on a No. 8 foot. It belongs to some one else—to whom will be seen when the clock strikes twelve, three years or so hence, and the only one whose foot it fits willenter the White House. It may do Cinderella good to work in the kitchen awhile. She will be the better pre- pared to grace the civil service reform slip- per when she is called to try it on. ¢ up to the spoils t Iminis were the pa RULINGS. It Is A very slow town indeed that does not threaten to build a Grant monument. Those that conclude not to begin one will y-and-by not seem so slow as those that | start. | Butter Camparan documents shipped to Decatur, IIl., from New York, last October, were received by the chairman of the Na- | tional party at the former place July 20. | Butler was never before known to be soslow in expressing his sentiments. Presipent CLeveLAND published his proclamation against the ‘lying and treach- | crous representations ” of leading Democrats | all over the country. He has taken a long | time to learn the true inwardness of his own party. Does it begin to dawn on Democrats | why Republicans have to be retained in | office? OFF THE BENCH SveaktNG of butter—the poor ye have always with you, Morro or THe festive funeral director— “ From grave to gray. Statistics sands of unedu but to thou- inks” re dry readin ated people savings reports contain items of interest. THE CHOLERA BACILLUS has been dis ered in German cheese. So that’s: what ailed the limburger all this time. Wortn, THE PA made a baron, 'T! of his full-dresses has been woman who we Is milliner, rs one is made a bare’un also. OvT oF 3,877 murderers during last only 103 were convicted and hung, and not one of them was a regularly licer cian, ed physi- A NoOKWEGIAN PHOTOGRAPHER has suc- ceedcd in getting a negative of the aurora borealis in full play. He ought to make a specialty of children’s photographs. Iv 1s surroseD that poet Squire has taken his “shattered hand of Freedom [Lig F] from the dial of Time,” toa surgeon, — In- deed, the poet and his poem are in hospital. Tue Sun BUREAU advises, young man, never give up because the work is hard.” For what docs Chas. A. expect young men to give up work? He should furnish the other reasons if he vetoes that one. A PHILADELHMIA E.c. umn entitled, What Philadelphia editors think.” It was undertaken for the purpose of convincing the public that they do, actually, It’s rather a discouraging under- taking. has a daily col- Because THe Bachelor's Club, in Lou- don, has blackballed some American candi- dates, ill-conditioned editors are making a fuss and calling it ‘* The helor Club Scandal.” The Bachelor Club's candle is not even worth making light of. Tuts couNtRY Is suffering from an over- production of foreign wines. We can never have good times so long as every gallon of foreign wine swells to six gallons as soon as it comes in contact with the free air and expansive institutions of this country. Ir 1s PREDICTED now that the earth will come to an end 6,300 years after the 31st of next December. This seems to be a safe date upon which to found a healthy, un- doubting millerite movement. The trouble with prophets—second-advent and financial —is that they make too early appointments. comicbooks.com