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

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JUDGE. for as small an amount of moncy as possible; but it has entered into the common run of business to such an extent that the more a man cheats the sm: nd the better man hinks he is. Th r devel nent has sent a good he peni ury, and if entire justice were done with und to the smaller p it would send a seul many others behind the bars fora limited period, at the same time subjectin fines to the full amount of their money. But the patient citi He is not combs If he ap: peal to the polls there is there the same| to submit smal] smartness that beats him at the counter and in his household. If } islaturo with his enormous gas-bills, be- dd! the money he has given com juny is there before him, — If he talk throug! the newspapers they will give him irtesy and occasionally a little hy—that is a matter of va curastan But he will be all right in the end. Every- ley must necessarily be. He will die, and ufler the undertaker has had his perquisites le will rest. for a time—perhaps until enter prise makes it necessary to send ¢ the go to the symp tilroad igh his patient bones. THE PIED PIPER OF GOTILAM. Mr. Browning tells us of the vermin of Hamelin “ Rats! wht the dogs and killed the eats, Nnd bit the babies in their cradh ate the cheese And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles; Split open the kegs of salted spra M without Dick | terpri wore pditors.” Ty drowning their spea With shrieking In fifty different sharps ‘There suddenly appeared before the sorely | Mke 8 cand! at juzsled snayor of tha town the pied piper, who| a the rats to death, a spted pt, wrinkled, aharp eyes twinkled, You heard as if an And the mutteri And the grumbling out of the h olfered te umbling, mighty ran the rats came tuml proposition w “Then, like Ww the pipe his lips 1 . tawny rats, rs, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uneles, cousins, Cocking tails and prinking whiskers, ilies by tens and dozens.” = = Grave old plod FRIENDLY ADVICE. wed the piper from street to street, pte th in all plunged and pe The piper of to-day pipes for the relief of the town of Goth ruts he is luring to nd disgrace are charged with larger nd more persistent theft than Hamelin. The people of this been taxed unmereifully, and finally been robbed of thei nee by as accless a set of official rascalsas ever existed. pribery as that resorted to by hiscompany, in this city and » the days of Tweed, and it will be criminal on the part of the law to let any guilty man escape. One self-confessed rase and will shortly inhe ~— id he w ” as Cuum ed bath, Y upon your personal a Iskar *Youm don't know talkin’ about, I took a bath long islature will hardly dare you'm alright. The governor has " for reform his broadest encourag: ise than pn the move pment, Let * What, can't go down this street? Creditor terprise and experience could surely find some way to be if you only knew! Wh. awakeo' nights, inventing ways to ms The | tion of evil might see you? It seems it takes all my ability, en- m trust me.” | the music proceed and let the rats dance them: selves to death OLR NICEST SIVVERS, The chief penitent of the lenten season is in ical sackcloth, with an involuntary co under li ‘ penitential eyelashes at the Easter millinery that no woman in her right senses can aiford to forget. And she shall | be forgiven. Though her yearnings were as her longings as all the colors of vbow, yet there is that in human ture which the Lord will respect beeause he ade it, however moderately bad it may be; were not a woman we should riverse and find nothing and no body to fill her place. Thereupon there would be such rebellion on the part of the re maining carpet-baggers as would make the r. Bunyan’s Satan ondin man would kill off « purpose of findin; alf of the sinners had y of speculative counte the hypocrisy of the of poker, which means “bluff” and all the de ceit possible to large shrewdness and villainy is little that she thinks or knows which apart of her face or her winning but tale-bearing eyes; and, though there are. bad penitential women as well as good ones, the sum of the penitence is mostly in the assump: r than the commission of i es this penitent to his heart s her have the utmost comfort. The furtive glances at the Easter millinery and the tT and bi comicbooks.com