Judge — March 30, 1889 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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AT THE OPERA. HE curtain rose, Faust sang his invocation, And swift as mounting fame Mephisto came— A courtly prince, whom no con sideration Could tempt to linger when one called his name. No arch-tiend he, of manners di- abolic, Glances like lightning terrible and fleet, Nor yet with satyr smiles upon the frolic He meant to have with Faust and Marguerite. Not even was he masked in saintly brightness, ‘With brows whereon angelic beauty sat; He simply seemed a man of great politeness, Well-featured, sinall of height and very fat. A jovial smile about his moustache fluttered And twinkled in the corners of his eyes; Each bar he deeply sang, each note he uttered, Sounded like throttled laughter in disguise. His menace had a mirthful implication, Uis scowl was more than offset by his wink. He scemed enjoyinig his enforced vacation From torrid duties on dark Tophet’s brink. ¢ fatty tissue of this priest infernal Upon the audience acted like a charm; (So plumpness ever works on minds eternal.) And everyone agreed he meant no harm! ‘The house so melted to this phase of devil— This round and merry soul to smiles decreed ~ It fell at last, in kind accord with evil, And hoped Mephisto’s plans would all succeed. n by the large and usual assessments for re So frequently made a cover for compensation to political managers. ‘The secrecy of personal selection would hinder bribery or its attempting. ‘The uncertainty of an agreement being carried out would m; gre: Jack (dre an’ Tl whistle.” the hazard of wasted compensation too as the man who would sell his promise is not unlikely to lie. his method furthermore opens an opportunity to elude the bond of party and express by vote a political preference that. without such seclusion of selection, might be open to various forms of intimidation, ‘The proposition is in the line of practical reform, by making all promises undetectable and uncertain, In the low moral line of political evolution it is worth the test of further experiment. ‘The next step, however, should be and must be an educational qualitication, It is like of our sovereigns would be driven to learn to read before being select a nominee of the political opinions they desire to indorse, Without IRREVERENCE,. Grandpa and grandma had consented to show the family what the old time minuet was like. yin at the close) —" ww, Grumps, you an’ gran'marm give us th’ ‘razzle-dazzle’ cation than now held there will be added to universal suf- rant and unguarded suffrage of a sel by chance. ‘The writer overheard a voter at the polls offering as an argument to his companion, * Whenever you tind a man who has something vote certain way; it is safe for us to vote the other." This could not be called intellectual discrimination, yet was it not a bubble breaking to the surface, evolved of sewage of ignorance and envy, and of that spirit of com- munism that exists more widely than we know ? BA © PIGS in the clover include almost everybody but the exasperated man who tries to get them there. PREPARED FOR THE FRAY. Farmer Bitincs—* Well, boys, ys, goin’ coon-huntin™ Mx. Biiss—" No sah; not ter-day. We's been requested ter go down ter Mistah Prinders ter help him shoe det ole roan mew! ob his'n.” comicbooks.com