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This page from Judge magazine (dated 1884) is primarily **advertising**, with brief editorial commentary at the top. The visible editorial content includes a political jab at Democrats, calling their "bandana clubs" equivalent to Republican organizations—a period insult suggesting Democratic grassroots groups were disorganized or corrupt. The page's main content consists of **patent medicine and product advertisements** typical of 1880s publications: Packer's Tar Soap (for dandruff/baldness), Penn Mutual Life Insurance, Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery (for scrofulous skin conditions), and Decker Brothers Pianos. There is a brief historical reference to **Charlotte Corday**, the French Revolutionary who assassinated Marat—presented as an example of "human gratitude" for eliminating a tyrant. This reflects 19th-century American ambivalence toward revolutionary violence. The page lacks a prominent political cartoon; instead it showcases the commercial advertising that funded Judge's operations.

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JUDGE Democratic ‘bandana clubs” will soon become so numerous that it would be well, for a change, for some ic organizations to call themselves the The terms are synonymous. —Norr is- a town Herald, *! His pills as thick as hand-grenades flew, And where they fell as certainly they slew,” was said of one of those ignorant doctors in the early times, who might well have been called the aide-de-camp of death. The sufferer from scrofula, with sores as bad as Job's, nged not now curse the day he was bor, for Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery will restore health and beauty, appetite and strength. " Especially has it manifested its potency in curing salt-rheum, tetter, boils, carbuncles, sore eyes, scrofulous sores and swel- lings, hip-joint disease, white swellings, goitre, or thick neck, and enlarged glands. By all odds the largest and handsomest and the most complete publication of its kind is the extra number of the Buffalo Express, iscued by James N. Matthews of that paper and edited by Frank A. Crandall, in con. | nection with the late fair in that town. The house of Matthews, Northrop and company does the best print- ing in western New York, and there is nothing too Mr. Cleveland is slow, but when he takes his pen in hand and sits down to write a welcome letter he never runs short of words. It would be a terrible calamity if, in the event of his defeat, he should take to writing books for a living. —Lincoln Journal. The JvDGE presents its compliments to Messrs, Em- right and Lobdell of 622 Broadway, and begs to con- gratulate them on the admirable manner in which they have advertised the JuDGE collar, The card they send out is worthy of the collar itself, and surely we could offer them no greater compliment’ than that, “DANDRUFF should never be neglected, be- cause its natural end is in BALDNESS." “The persistence of ITCHING is peace-de- stroying and exhausting to the vital powers.” SCRATCHING is not nice, nor half as satisfying asa SHAMPOO with |_ PACKER’S TAR SOAP which allays Itching, cures Dandruff and Skin Diseases, pre ents Baldness and leaves the skin delightfully smooth, sot, elastic and healthful. Removes odors from perspiration, ete. 25 conte. Druggists, or THE PACKER MFG. CO., 100 Fulton St., NewYork. Sample, four stamps, if Junce. is mentioned. PENN MUTUALLIFE J INSURANCE COMPANY OF PHILADA, Nos, 921 and 923 Chestnut Street. ASSETS... $12,600,259.03 SURPLUS 23469,841.67 ‘SOLID policy in a SOLID company i a SOLID com- fort io any situation ta fe? TOP ROYAL AN ASSURED SUCCESS. MANUFACTURED EXCLUSIVELY BY CORLISS BROS. & CO., enrOy N.Y. New York Office, 76 Franklin Street. Chicago Office, 247 & 249 Monroe St. ‘Onters have been placed for this new style of collar by lead- ing {urnishers in nearly every city in America, and we there- fore say its success is assured. I wish my wife would buy or sell some oil," said an ity man who had tried in vain to make a good turn the market. * Why ?” asked a friend, ‘* Because I think she would hit it right ; she’s lucky.” jow do you know she is?” “‘Tecause she once took a chance in a lottery and drew a fine prize.” ** What ?" Me.” “Tell her never to speculate."—Oil City Blizzard, A CLAIM TO HUMAN GRATITUDE, Charlotte Corday, the sad-faced, tenderhearted peasant girl of Normandy made great history by one desperate act! Sickened by the saturnalia of the French revolution, and moved to desperation as Robespierre and Marat were leading the flower of France to the guillotine, she deter- mined’ that.she would pat an end’ to Marat’s bloody reign. Marat had demanded two hundred thousand victims for the guillotine! He proposed to kill off the enemies of the Revolution to make it perpetual! Horrible thought! No wonder it fired the blood of this patriotic peasant mai Gaining access to his closely guarded’ quarters by a subterfuge, she found him in his bath, even then inexor- able and giving written directions for further slaughter! He asked her the names of the inimical deputies who had taken refuge in Caen. She told him and he wrote them down, "That is well! Before a week is over they shall all be brought to the guillotine.” ‘At these words, Charlotte drew from her bosom the knife, and plunged it with supernatural force up to the hilt in the heart of Marat. Come to me, my dear friend, come to ‘me," Marat, and expired under the blow ! In the Corcoran gallery at Washington is a famous painting of Charlotte, represented as behind the prison bars the day before her execution. It is a thrilling, sad picture, full of sorrow for her suffering country, and of unconquerable hate for her country's enemies, What a lesson in this tragic story! Two hundred, nay, five hundred thousand people would Marat have Sacri- ficed to his unholy passion of power ! Methods are quite as murderous and inexorable as men, and they number their victims by the millions, The page of history is full of ‘murders by authority and by mistaken ideas! In the practice of medicine alone how many hundreds of millions have been allowed to die and as many more killed by unjustifiable bigotry and by bungling! But the age is bettering. Men and methods are im- proving. A’ few years ago it was worth one’s profes- sional life to advise or permit the use of a proprietary medicine. To-day there are not two physicians in any town in this country who do not regularly prescribe some form of proprietary remedy! H. H. Warner, famed all over the world as the dis- coverer of Warner's safe cure, began hunting up the old remedies of the Log Cabin days; after long and patient research he succeeded in securing some of the most val- uable, among family records, and called them Warner's Log Cabin remedies—the simple preparations of roots, leaves, balsams and herbs which were the successful standbys of our grandmothers. ‘These simple, old-fash- ioned sarsaparilla, hops and buch, cough and consump- tion and other remedies have struck a popular chord and are in extraordinary demand all over the land. ‘They are not the untried and imaginary remedies of some dab- ster chemist intent on making money, but the long- sought principles of the healing art which for generations kept our ancestors in perfect health, put forth for the good of humanity by one who is known all over the world as a philanthropist—a lover of his fellow man— whose name is a guarantee of the highest standard of excellence. The preparations are of decided and known influence over disease, and as in the hands of our grandmothers they raised up the sick, cured the lame, and bound up the wounds of death, so in their new form but olden power as Log Cabin remedies, they are sure to prove the healing of ‘the nations.” Corday did the world an incalculable service in ridding France of the bigoted and murderous Marat, just as the man is doing humanity a service by re-introducing tothe world the simpler and better methods of our ancestors. DECKER BROTHERS’ “== PIANOS cried ed quarrel the abarpe that they freqeeatly are, coorccbySomnen AG ek” ; _ WASHINGTON SEC. Great Vintage 1884. 4, ROUSSILLON & (CO., EPERNAY, FRANCE. Known as the Purest and Driest Champagne in the United States by all lovers of g: E. PFEIFFER, General Manager, 169 Greenwich Sto NY. MAUD MULLER said, © Sweeter by far as the Judge rode down, Was the "N. & S." be Brought from town." SLEEPER’S N. & S.4 Is the Best Ten Cent Cigar in America. Trade Mark Itegtstered S. S. SLEEPER & CO, - Factory, Boston. Or the Taga Ttcan be the know! armless, pal Teck, It has been givenin thousands Of cases, and In every instance fins Tollowed. it ‘never fa imponabicy Yor thet at tt for the liquor appetite vo eisginn ara fal tia tere eaahe GOLDEN PECIFIC CO., 153 Race st Cincinnal.O: JUDGE’S CAMPAIGN | $0N “My Old Canteen” Major ALFRED R. CALHOUN, Author of “Marching Through Georgia.” Tllustrated, Price 10 Cents. Sent on receipt of price by THE JUDGE PUBLISHING C0., NEW YORK. For sale also by all newsdealers and booksellers, comicbooks.com