Judge — December 19, 1885 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE, THE JUDGE. PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK, TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. (Uvrres Stan fy ape Ove copy, one year. ors? numbers, « nzle coptes 10 cents each; THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 924, 326 aud 323 Pearl Sty NEW YORK TO Cor ESPONDENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS. it Witt PLEASE Take SoTtcR THAT THEY ows nisx, WHERE sTAxDe QUEST CLAIM POR AEMUSERATION WILL RE EN PAID FOR FRO RATA ON THE PRICE a\ commis "res. Taisen, Warne ED THAT PART WILL BR KED CFON FOR TUE WHOLE SOMETHING TOO MUCH OF IT. The least convincing Iegic is that which he vaulting ambition of proves too much, many a debater o'erleaps itself and falls on the other side of his hobby. This is the reason why carry the day. ‘They m but not convincing. “on concedes, This is the funlt of assailants of the Bible and religious faith, like Col. Ingersoll. Prolably nine-tenths of those who before hearing him are inclined to go with him on the general question of dissent from creeds, will draw back from 1} following at the close of one of his brilliant lectures. He resolves everything into nothing. So far as adicals go. rarely y be unanswerable, Instinct revolts against what re logic and wit go he leaves nothing for any one to stand on, and even the agnostic rubs his eyesand says, “ Where are we, anyway?” So the whole effort, considered as to sults, is the height of folly. Its most practi- cal bearing is that it fills the Academy of Masic at a dollar a head. ENGLAND'S APPARITION. “Tf the American Union be maintai said Carlyle, pending our civil war, goes post to Democ That prediction, ratificc ned,” Europe by Appomattox, re-union, and payment of our war debt, has been verified by the successful establishment land of the French republic, the unsnece for a time postponed republics set up else- | | wher nd now by Democracy’s itself appear- | ing to disturb the plans of the British im- perial statesmen, When Gladstone extended the franchis to two million of oters, he added another seal to the prediction. new When Salisbury built his party on Trish | support, in exchange for Irish self-govern- ment, he unwittingly whipped up the post- speed of England h ; | The cheers of English ‘mud sills” for | Chamberlain’s radical issue of church dises- thlishment, free popular education and land reform; nay, the clubs and brickbats that the newly-emancipated voters threw at conservatism, aristocracy and royalty on the stump, were but goads to the post that gur- rics England to Democracy. The day is comi by competing ening to Democracy. ‘The apparition raised statesmen to their own aid will not again down at their bidding. parliament may put on the brakes, but another election will reveal the power of the people. The day is coming post-haste of the de- it of privilege and of manhood to rule in throneme the uccession gland. OUTSIDE AND INSIDE DEVILS. A personal devil is a necessity to keep hu- Tt will be adark— —day for men when they gine a being worse than them- Bob aying, ‘An honest God is the ha manity in countenance. t to say a cannot im selves, nor one to tax with their sins, Ingersoll noblest work of man, its complement in, “A man is known by the devil he | invents.” The logic of it is that a man’s conception of badness, personified in his at Enemy, will reveal his own nature. he man who desires to be rid of his defects, will make a devil of the same defects exaggerated, and fight it. will flatter himself by con- structing a devil with the faults of his neigh- bors, magnified, Some men are ¢o well convinced of the hopelessness of improvement in their own cases that they will undertake to demonize | They | all things better than themselves. want to pull everything down to their own level. t that they need a personification of evil blacker than themselves, but that they cannot endure the existence of any qualities better than their own natures. This cla of an Evil One, because such men can’t realize an objective Satan worse than the subjective devil that they are so familiar with. Hence, as an axiom of demonology, we might lay down the rule: If a man’s ideal | devil is below him, he may i him, he cannot. Because, in the former se, the tempter is outside cisted; in the latter, it is inside and has | possession, moving the man himself to war upon good. This | sof men has no proper conception | nprove; if above | nd may be re- | RULINGS. THe PoLtceMaN belongs to the true Re- form club, only he does not always seem to recollect the fact, and its bearings. A MANUPACTURER ADV | of Health Soap.” detergent to N. Y., TIsES “ Board Send a carload of this . OD. B.D: Q Ir WESTERN PAPEKS COULD HIRE some New York pressmen and mail-clerks their | respective circulation ceuld be made to | double in ninety days, and have it sworn to. | Aw Atpany (N. Y.) clergyman has in- vented an automatic corkscrew. It ought | to be accompanied by a device for preserving the autonomy of the bottle and its contents, As THE WINTER'S ADVERSITIES strength- en the wild and bungry longing for river and harbor improvements and federal build- | ings fills the land with its pathetic, sad | wail. Tuy iprove oN Jcpas Iscariot in Boston. ‘There, when a disciple betrays his ter he does n't commit suicide. No, he hires a hall and sets up as a little god on roller-skates, himself. HOFIELD'S report argues the problem, ‘how Indians can best be fought.” Ile seems to have strangely overlooked the | plan of sending the street gangs of New York out to settle the problem. SeEVERAL EDITORS in Mexico have been imprisoned for writing insultingly of the rulers of that country, Any man with the ability to insult Mexican govern:nent ought to be pensioned instead of prisoned. | Batty says, The follies of youth are drafts on old age, generally payable twenty | years after date but Tue Jupor says, The energies of youth are drafts drawn against old age and discounted to take the place of capital and experience. ‘They double the power and length of a life.” A postsasTeR IN WasnIncTon Terrt- Tory was tied to a fence and beaten by twenty women. He hadn't been revealing | the contents of their letters and postal cards; he'd only been beating his wife and acting as an offensive partisan of another woman, Queer codes of propriety they have in these frontier towns. IT Is RATHER A SINISTER portent that the | next Boston novel (by Howells) is to be “The Minister’s Charge.” Of course, there is no literary gossip as to what this minister is to be charged with, but we hope it is ina different order of cultural tranegression from some that has lately Leen charged aguinst Boston ministers. comicbooks.com