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This page contains multiple brief satirical pieces typical of Judge's editorial commentary: **"Judge's Charge"** collects short quips on contemporary issues: suppressing saloons harms criminals ("bad men in the swim"), ice cream poisoning in Memphis, and a Missouri man's unfair legal penalty affecting his innocent wife. **"Our Hay-Seed Sovereigns"** mocks rural Massachusetts voters who supported licensing laws for other towns but refused reform in their own—hypocritical moralizing. The jab at Massachusetts claims it seeks to "improve the moral condition of every section of the globe except its own." **"Some Religious Matrimony"** criticizes the Salvation Army's coercive marriage practices, noting a woman was arrested for contract violation when she refused to marry a prescribed officer. The piece darkly references a similar case involving violence. **The cartoon "A Terrible Example"** (bottom right) shows a tailor poorly fitting a customer's suit, then the customer sarcastically saying if the tailor can't fit himself properly, he'll shop elsewhere—mocking incompetent tradesmen. These pieces reflect Judge's skeptical, irreverent stance toward religious institutions, rural morality, and incompetence.

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Sage: OUR AUTOMATIC DOORS. Wheri the office boy goes out pussy sees ‘4 mouse in the hall, and jumps for it But the door gets there just the same. gd Judge’s Charge. AN UNAVOIDABLE CONCLUSION. ‘The suppression of the dives is bad for the bad men in the swim. GIVE IT UP, Speaking of the Coronet, a contributor says, ‘Good wine needs no Bush—does a good We know not what others may think, but as for us we must do as the Dauntless did. THE OPENING SACRIFICE. In Memphis, Tenn., tus early in the season fourteen persons have been poisoned by ice-cream, ‘There is but 0 The high-license principle must be applied with rigidity to this deleterious compound. IT IS NOT FAIR. The Missouri man who was mi 7 for kissing a neigh- bor's wife was thereby robbed of the ge of buying his own wife aster bonnet. Thus, as in-most cases, the penalty of misdoing -y largely upon the innocent TOO LATE TO PROSECUTE. alias W. K. Rogers, who escaped the law thirty- y nd built upa fortune and an that time, has worked out his redemptior him further without « confession of weakuess that it cannot afford to undergo. ‘OUR HAY-SEED SOVEREIGNS, Some of the country friends of the Crosby license bill voted for itand argued for it on the ground that it didn't apply to the whole state. That is to say, they were quite willing to reform the people of this wicked locality, but they proposed to take their own time for their own refcrmation. And yet they don't live in Massachusetts, which claims the sole right to improve the moral condition of every section of the globe except its own, ‘SUBJECT FOR DISCUSSION. The average man was born lazy, according to the Liverpool Post. as to his voice, we and yet the erage woman can beat him in this particular and not half t THINK OF IT. Mrs. Langtry suc ecceuy ceeded despite her asso- “Re gush, T spend my money when Teometo town! Ciation with the prince Give us a bolivar.” of Wales; but it was a long struggle and one which only a woman of genuine talent could successfully undergo. As to those who succeed with the aid of the prince, what isa brief success worth in comparison with the long failure that follows it? FROM OUR FRIEND THE ENEMY. “Some of the best men in the country are journalists,” says the Woman's Journal. Thanks, dear. It is a long time since we have met anything so strikingly corroborative of our own views. LOST MOST. Most says he shall be a socialist, anarchist, and atheist till the day he dies; and as it will then be too late to repent he will be redeemed only through a special interposition of Providence. But of course he wouldn't accept that. He is a proud, proud man, and the iron in the heel of the mule that kicked him has eaten its way intu his soul—or rather his cheek, SOME RELIGIOUS MATRIMONY, Miss Whitesides of Halifax joined the salvation army, and soon discovered that she was expected to marry an army offlcer whom she disliked, the penalty being arrest and trial for violation of contract There are a number of salvation-army peculiarities that the public is not acquainted with. Ina northern part of this state recently an army youth shot dead an unregenerate person whom his sweetheart pre ferred to him. Possibly that kind of demonstrative religion is legiti mate, but we should think it would be embarrassing, if not to young ladies at least to the religious enthusiasts who are hanged. A TERRIBLE EXAMPLE. Costomen—"If you can't fit me better than you have yourself, I think I'll 0 somewhere else. Tatton—"Sesh! De firm bays me five tousand dollar a year as & terriple egxample!* AWA, OLD TRUEPENNY! The editor of the Inter-Idaho refers to his friend of the Idaho Statesman as “acorrup: whelp of Satan,”*who is ‘a cancerous ¢ * polluting the fair name of the city of. Boise. He says that he intends to keep on hurling hot shot ‘at him, from his jour- nalistic locker until “the thin mantle of quasi-respectability_is torn from his shoulder, revealing him as he really is—reeking with cor- ruption, morally leprous, sin-stained, debased, despised, abhorrent. abominated, detested, scoffed at, reviled, a liar and a sneak!” The court recognizes the picture on sight. The man can be no other than the hatchet-faced reptile who formerly published a disre putable rag across the street, and who, owing to the mysterious dis- appearance of Neighbor Brown’s bay mare, left this locality between two unlovely days. comicbooks.com