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**Content:** This page contains two sections: a lengthy editorial essay titled "The Judge's Charge" and a comic strip titled "Another Telephone Difficulty." **"The Judge's Charge"** discusses a controversy over whether South Carolina banned "Yankee Doodle" during the Revolutionary War. The author defends Confederate figures—particularly David Atchison—against charges of impropriety, arguing that their simple dress (hickory shirts, suspenders) reflects democratic virtue rather than disrespect. The piece contrasts this favorably with the elaborate formal dress of earlier presidents like George Washington and Jefferson, sarcastically praising Democratic simplicity. **The satire targets:** Northern accusations against Southern leaders; Democratic claims of republican virtue; and the idealization of frontier informality as moral superiority. **"Another Telephone Difficulty"** shows six comic panels of a frustrated caller repeatedly hearing "HELLO!" responses while unable to connect with the intended party—satirizing contemporary telephone technology's unreliability. The page reflects post-Reconstruction-era Republican skepticism toward Democratic mythologizing of the South.

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There hi with p been something of a conte nl to the charge in Appleton's Cyc pedia that the tune‘ Yankee Doodle otficially prohibited in South Carolina at the ope of the war, Mr, Small, the present Seeretary of State of South Carolina, somewhat ks that pedia shall have was indign future the tly denies the charge and ¢ slitions of the Cy lesired correction. Court looks upon all matter of this uall business. If South Caroli- ¢ Doodle ® > which a ger ppen tocare anything about kind as very na prohibited Yan did a very foolish thing, but o1 will pardon, if it} it, In time us public of war a great many grown people Tittle passions but the better tendeney is: fre whatever the it to the best music of the at deal of it nd. ** Dixie” Las soon as it was in that “Yankee Dood borly knows that it was a satirical Ei become as children with th and prejudi quently successful purpose. Some of t period—and there was a ntributed by t opted North alm was section; and as for duction designed to cast ridic ed continentals, and that the lat git with all its ridie and ni by ade assump: h upon their laugh the royal essence of t lost its flavor to this d, tion of cot adversuries—a which has 1 The Court observes that there recurrence directly of the birth ation; and re universe ries of that kind or the better one is dead. As far as the Court is ¢ ing alittle se nthe e will not he is becom for the publ of hair wh sis frequ premises, at an ab- ht to be con ntly a result, not at all of certain number of years, but ¢ ply of goodness and et with « too ref senc re th spieuc n inording f unavoidably rough con rare combi es that we had better remember it se of Gi n the front: force was ed hh and lived just long en his foolishness. George dock before the en going to fight Indians one so that when his was awfully wh properly lament irked toMr. Bras aut when one is ad better do as JUDGK. lock said he knew what he was about, reby committed the | kind of ¢ sod which is often | fatal and to which too many rked of Ge Indians do; but Mr. regious: f fusare It may be ren! fought with al band bei rin, gentlemen, is a little world of wisdons h ought mor round and round forever the other day a little David Ro Atehi David in his wild west facts that he worea hickory shirt, t] at he had in the heat of which he prope and that his trousers were der, “that the Un portion of the humiliation!” Gentlemen, there was no humili tionality of David Atehison idea as it prevails that a biliments | of civilization, | st aside his vest and cou at with ah ipulate with Jd upby one suspen “Gods! The rude uncony was typical of th today. Itisn man should alt usual to a and | clothe himself s« with simplicity and the abundant though perhaps somewhat transpar: ent atmosphere; but he should avoid the ex of ove yle of the various kinds which now predem- inate, The first President, borrowin of propriety from the 1 English, you know, badly whipped, rod Kd matte alress, over-courtesy and over g his views p which was too nd which th fore got » behind white horses, im of huge ions, had colored servants beyond num do had ruffles on his shirt-sleeves ar ported his clothes, kept a wine cel propo! per, a shirt-front; but he ¢ early time of Jefferson, but that gentleman was curi ously oblivious to the demands of Democ as the fi He a thoroughly educated man a thinking man as well nparatively ss upto the tie | for He was He dressed himself dividual usually mentioned as a gentleman, He talked well thought well, entertained well, an¢ ted himself as if he had bee of the repulsiv kind of simpl simplicity, inst. ct is, was, as became the condi possessed What gentle. hing known as culture, ty was that? men, tas you kno around with a fastened to shingle-n} single suspe the Sune ne locality of his trousers with i irabout him should have hsand smoke. He should abling the democratie nd color; and if he wore of apparel ought to 1 | known no flat-iron on peril of its im extinction. The Court is ill, gentlemen, itic simplicity nant from. th der, 1 a hand rese earth both as to si a shirt that articl isists of fourtee en kinds of wine. Let us ha d-fashioned J toh ied with th let us t the sam kind of J Beds must hav good old days whe with their fathers. a rare Iuxury in the even the patriarchs slept ANOTHER TELEPHONE DIFFICULTY. comicbooks.com