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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains political commentary and poetry from an American satirical magazine. Key sections: **"His Honest, Proper Poverty"** defends Senator Logan's honorable poverty, contrasting it with congressmen who enriched themselves illegally. Logan represents integrity in public service. **"Helping Ex-Confederates"** argues that states caring for wounded Confederate veterans—Georgia and Alabama's $250,000 appropriations—deserve no criticism, despite the South's defeat. The piece argues that supporting soldiers regardless of which side they fought for reflects proper national character. **"Rare Ben"** celebrates Ben Butler, a controversial Union general and politician known for unexpected political positions and strong opinions. The satire portrays him as perpetually surprising and valuable to public discourse. **The poetry "Pretty Little Woman and Pretty Little Girl"** is sentimental verse about observing an attractive woman and child at a train station—typical Victorian-era light content. The cartoons illustrate these pieces with period sketches. This represents Judge's mix of political argument, celebrity commentary, and genteel entertainment for educated readers.

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wage: A DRIFTY ARGUMENT. ; HIS HONEST, PROPER POVERTY. The poverty of Senator Logan was a badge| of honor. Now don’t let the youth who reads this assume that all poverty is honorable. The man in good health and with a fair share of intelligence has no business to be uncom: fortably poor; that is a badge of laziness, of stupidity, possibly of dishonor. Let him make all he can in a legitimate way and he will do| no more than he ought to do for himself and his family. But Logan had ample opportu- | nity to get rich illegitimately—many another congressman has done so—and he never had a dollar which was not honestly his own, All honor to the poverty of Logan! | HELPING EX-CONFEDERATES. Georgia has spent by legislative appropria- n $250,000 in behalf of maimed confederate soldiers, and Alabama $200,000. There| f mustn't be any howl about this.~ Those con- federates were on the wrong side; but the state that won't-care for its soldiers, whether | PRETTY LITTLE WOMAN AND PRETTY LITTLE GIRL. they fought to win or lose, for right or for! As I waited at the station, | wrong, doesn't deserve a conspicuous place in Something less than half awake, the galaxy. It was apprehended that congress On my cars, grown tired of listening under Democratic auspices would be asked to} For the train T meant to take, pension confederate veterans. ‘The invitation "hia inmedsiely ati ‘ale ae eee Te hia the beet walt, Camea vision would have charmed! me hath! ; : | Were I—what I'm not— a churl. be in order, and it will be so effective that it ean itewc. ‘ll Ive th avindowing it tol ith ‘Twas a pretty little woman will resolve the party indorsing it into smith- vith a pretty vi ATTENTIVE LISTENER—“'T swear T don't catch | oreens, 9 8 With a pretty little girl. rift of your argument a —— Her lips—I mean the woman’s— RARE BEN. There was mischief in their smile. 4 GREAT STATE OF DOUBT. Sc Her cunning feet—the baby’s— Waror peace in Europe? We think so;| The artists love Ben Butler, He is to They were dancing all the while; but a more pronounced opinion cannot be | them a perpetual joy. He is never in polities Andno form was ever neater tentured until there is somebody on. the| Without ideas, and he loves to place himself in Than tnamma’s, and nothing sweeter rian throne, little Battenberg is voted the most unexpected of political places. He is| Than her plump white neck--the wee one’s cance of spending money, the kaiser |always a sweet surprise when he is to be seen, And the wayward little curl bi | and a source of sorrow when he is in retire- On the forehead of the woman ment. When shall we see another face like ‘With the pretty, Uttle girl: anditis definitely known whether the caar|his? When shall there arise another an} When the locomotive whistled will perish of bombs or del who knows so much and_ places it to such | I was prompt, as you may guess, < small account? Ben, rare Ben! remain| — To protect the winsome coup! with us always. A dozen men to make up From the jostling and the press. for your departure would breathe an atmos-| _ Happy chance—to safely guide ‘e phere of loneliness and bring despa Happler chance-to alt beside ‘em. whicligig of time makes some thingseven, and hea etole'w oidaen kiss trois het now he is known to them as ‘‘a risen young I mean the little girl! man.” » the new year witnesses two ex- = " . asping: Maalpaarnes the bibody = Then I wondered if I quizzed the chasm and ineidentally taking their consola- 1 ee Tey AMA cera sean ata tion from the same canteen. With such a be- E y Frou bes blitieand bora ma ginning as that we ought to have peace the Would it make me broken-hearted and little Bulgaria wiped entirely Should she softly sigh “ Departed "— of nature. ™ But the locomotive whistled, " ry <i pani re | And [helped them through the whirl WAR PAPER—LOGAN'S FIRST FIGHT. H To the nrmis of “ohn,” said mamma, John A. Logan went into the first battle of “Papa!” screamed the little girl. Ball Run in citizen's dress, including a silk ") . A MRS, GEORGE ARCHIBALD. hat. He went as a spectator. He appeared fq promptly in Washington at the close of the sara HAS ass B preat de Hof gush ca the battle, thirsty and out of breath. Ns A part of our southern hren, so far as tal s your hat?” ede body. | goes, but it is to be observed that whenever a your hat ¢” inquired somebody. tS My practical concession comes in order the north vied it off for a military cap,” was the PA is always expected to make it.—7roy Times. e Where iieca'r™ J Think a moment. The practical concession se eg an Z ? made by Robert Lee under the Apomattox aru lean forgot to leave it;” and tree has really not been equaled in heighth, Be ee rosengurued | heres] ya upon . 7' depth or variety by any practical concession * u behind the bar and cried out, “If that ) ‘ i : . the north ever made. ly in half a minute I'll call you “nm hel and knock your brains out!” He was mai “THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN Cleveland and Hill,” says the Albany Argus, “is too solid He subsequently appeared in the military and enduring to require any public demonstra- and the kind of clothing that should ac- — tion.” We believe the extraordinary pains Smpany itand wore the same throughout the] But he seems to have caught onto the drift | taken to prevent a public demonstration shows Ml at last. - that there can't be any doubt of it whatever.