Judge — January 2, 1886 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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A BILLION AIRE’S SOLILOQUY. W. A. CROPFUT A—h! Now I mount above the stitl At fast T drink these draughts of Tn tangled f ny feet shall halt; more that mi shoulders bear. Behind are left my stocks and bon My picture By one peac As by a jo I carried out the work my father planned. i ne ity load iny Nery, hors Was it worth whitey L never got my money's al the pl servat edd frou it wines of « d Lundern ork ny father ith the care, T tried to do the w planned. Men called me rich—"* y said of bank-bi richest man on earth;” at Lowned enough tuft re Led, Jed me * the we Hoating w And tha And thou tered me and ¢ grand,” words ed ahead Resolved to do the work my father planned. T did it—as 1 thought he'd have it done Lever sought the fields wher L never sold a thing Or bo d And yet they called ne Said 1 tite To give an avaricious railroad ‘The insult had its sting But still Tid the work my father planned. sumblers reap; ta this wan to keep. bandit king! s band ring"; {revenue from Labor Not It was not worth wh I tried to be Disereetly chai If 1 gave not, th Andif I gave, table with paper me the sl never he— iti band, — coh with x stroke y only 4 more, abused for word Libels invented hy the « My fe was always my From an assassin’s cloak And yet I did the work my father planned Now am I glad ‘ti To wreck the bri er weight fal freight Now peace and rest! Behind are be My pic Bat by Is and gold, land tL aan consoled — re-gallery ious the Tearried out the work my father planned. ‘THERE MAS BREN A grumbling atthe p Indian funeral. GOOD DEAL of asked visitors in wion of Hendrick’s The senatorial ¢ ce polis on the oc gation, for in- for an hour's Well, never be another great man’s fancral in Indiana, and they hay. It was only honoring the putting in his doctrines state sovereignty, including making war on the rest of the Union. stance, was charged of « hotel parlor, that there would use ote. they knew made deceased by practice regarding LITTLE LIKE A REAL “L” ROAD. The German Policeman Tells of a Trip he took on the New Brooklyn Elevated. By Jehan Ralpd, Autdor of the “Son's German Barter," “T took vonce a leedle ride by der cle- uilrote uf Prooklyn—it vos a veek Der iron rote, der sdeam ars, dem all looked haf to mysellaf oxclaime “Tt is ely like a real elefated rote nf Nye Yor- | Bat ri vay sdrate [ peen com- | belled to make an alderation uf my mind, alretty. “Igo py der di | der man, * vot sh t office, und I euf my hart-safed ¢ euf gidding chucked ‘arount from | von ent uf der rote to der oder?’ Prooklyn dicket beddlars got 1 dignity. In Nye Y | der dicket feller vould hi following flow uf languag Dem atall some Wy forward he vould for dwo or dree ruflians call owd, und dem vould seize me, dwist me outsite in, und den chuck me in down alretty. tit is not in Prooklyn der same like Oh, how pootiful! Der dicket bediler does not look od upon me asagord uf a moofing oxbress b: e, mate in imi- tation uf a man for der sake uf baying Cha | Gould a brofit on dwenty millions uf vortered | shtock. «NO dot Prooklyn man shmiles und f f you blease, sir; ut Haf you any obchections got dle silfer, sir? Comes along in von minute der drain, sir.” “* Owd on der blatform I blace myselluf | | in a reckl. © Yorick bosition for gidding chucked on ¢ rears. [haf bractised it so vot T can o soft like a fedder bed, in- stead uf a mass uf plood und prains like I pe couitidremen effery day py der city. htood, limp und soft like a budding in » to vait for der vild rush uf der bas- rs pehind und der vrightful clutch uf der prakeman who shall curse und shwear at echerks me in der air up. But am Der drain comes und all is Vhile I am vaiding, 1, der cars moofe avay. dings mit der dicket svaucher; nil he enchofs grade laughder mit me pecause I gomblain uf der rote und it isa mere imidashun uf a real elevated jot’s so,” he says; ‘used to peen | on a real elevated rote, but I got dissharged |pecause I vos too goot-natared und too shmall to bunch any von oxcebt_inwalids, ties und shildren,” Fora vhile I kebt- my blace on ackound uf pouncing a colored vooman off der ent uf a sdation. — Vhen I susbected I vos going to peen dis-sharged I kicked an olt chendleman in der vaistcoat for asking me der dime uf day, but unfordu- nately he vos aple to lick me likederdicken ‘und I lost my blace—for not grippling him? st dime a drain uf cars comes along I get in ’em, und bresently I see somedings vich makes me gwide at home, as if I vos riting up Sexth Affenoo. Effery here und dere, in vinders, in doors, on der roofs und sheds und in der back yards are dousands und dousands uf kisses peing chucked at der prakemen und enchineers. Old vimmen look up from sewing machines und leer der sites uf their eyes owd, married-looking vita- men uf all age e lily-vhite hants, young maids und olt maids lean far from der vin- ders owd und shake handkerchiefs, stock- comicbooks.com