Judge — October 16, 1886 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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“HIGH AND DRY.” Judge’s. Charge. THE EASIEST OF DEBT, Trouble is not so bad a thing to borrow. | It incel the debt that the has to call the second time for it. | CREDIT TO WHOM Titus, who is supposed to Tillie Smith, has done all 1 himself, Attempts at suici couraged even in these of penite! ave murdered can to redeem are net to be en- sases, but what other is commensurate with the me? JUSTICE AT UST. “Dead men throw no bombs,” ald, speaking of the Ch Then there isanother thing. There equality among dead men that m has been known to make the GIVE US SURCEASE. The humble origin of great men is a good deal too much talked about. After all, it is of no great eredit to a man to have had a hum- ble origin, If Iris origin. was of the other kind and he has vindicated it that is still more | te Ps be proud of, Too much of this miserable ut, ladies and gentlemen—too much, THE NATION'S GUEST. Mr. Geronimo has reason to regret that he didn't surrender ro; though it must be admitted that the privi of wholesale mur. der is rather more appreciated by gentlemen of his eh er than the luxury and idleness of the winter resort which Is blessed with his distinguished presence. Beéause’Mr, Geronimo isa very particu QUEENS ARE TRUMPS. The editor of the Cle nd Leader says the queen is fat, stout and old. Truth must not bea butcher, thou brazen ruttian, There was ape: a queen of that kind. There was neyer who was not your Catch | this Truth of yours; con n her to the art of gentleness until she learns to | be a queen herself. THAT WOMAN AND HER BABY. The court spoke last week with some warmth: about the woman and the baby. Heexhibited both pain and apprehension, if the torture to which he is continually subjected by that couplet is to go on either they or hen autiful world. — Pending the verdict he gripsack—he is really indifferent to which of the contending parties goes ; he not proud, and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are to him tters totally unimportant. What, after all, is an uncom fort ife in comparison with the sweet un- usness of the untimely or other kinds of grave { To that receptacle of all hope ambition, all fleshand bone, allsighs and tears, all laughter and all song, comes no wail of in fantile sickness or grief, with the pitiful help lessness that lifts sensitiveness out of its boots and turns its eyes aloft with mute questioning as to the justice of the torture: no,petulant lit- tle screams, no hateful screeches, no howls of ish, no fretful sighs sor pathetic court does not mean to'say that the nd the baby must be abolished. We Jcould not keep house without them, They are a part of the establishment without which there would be no such But we need not keep house. we can leave that do: ty. They can have 1 go off and di ti w agony that nner of exple nd dreadfully on, y will mark this, The court does the woman and the ba That is the rub. If he might hate them he could en- dure them, it being impossible “to cure them. He could extract satisfaction from their cor tinuous trouble. ‘The spectacle of the won Tl sobs, wi meatic We s an excellent choice ty departure and lates profanity and it in its entirety?) ive wickedness as it goes i: vearing herself out with nev tion to the baby--and mark thi: ;man is so much the mother that th never do for the baby in the contingency that lis alw at hand—tears his heart. The colic of the baby is a little thing to the rage ob- is not much territory for it to work in ; but it is more painful to the baby than it can possibly be to the man who hears the baby yell—and tlfat is the rub too. — This | woman and this are up at all hours of the nig’ continually awe-stricken and. mean ways of this world which they are too young to understand— i the baby. They are afflicted with the necessity—principally the baby—of adapt- ing themselves to a situation which is too old for them by several million years. The condi- tions are have to put themselves into a rocking-chair and alternately sing small songs and scream large screams. Sometimes there is a slipper, but the gets mad and has his. revenge. roaxes and the other coos, t rare intervals there is such a making gives both of them cnough of compensa- tory bliss to atone alf the wrestling and the agony. y gu to alee; other's arms, vowing 1 af- fection ; and the silence tnat ensues has the promise and glory in it that one instinctively associates with his idea of the dawn of the resurrection, though he doesn’t exactly know Soha: ending atten so} the wo- purse will The ju silenc ‘y will observe that the reference to . It is a poetic y such thing the court tions with the sleep—espec t hand to hear them ery. But the point i: d forever the point is—that you them. You are not fortunate kind of brute. You pity 7 more the baby than the woman and th: hing that makes you misera- Ile. How shall you recover from this agoniz- ing sympathy ? That is the question. enou, them Say. Pete, don't 5 Murphy 's trowel out to- 4 think dese bum throwers ought to be punished ? CHICAGO JUSTICE WANTED AGAIN. Dat’s de fift’ bum