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This page is primarily **advertising** with minimal editorial cartoon content. The main satirical pieces are: **"Carl Pretzel's Philosophy"**: A dialect humor column featuring a German-accented character offering folk wisdom. This was typical Judge content—ethnic humor based on immigrant speech patterns that would be considered offensive today. **"Parallel Lines"**: A longer piece using visual parallel lines as a metaphor for arteries/veins to promote "Warner's Safe Cure," a patent medicine. It argues that kidney failure causes systemic illness and advertises this product as a remedy. **The remainder** consists of testimonials and advertisements for patent medicines (Allcock's Porous Plasters, Magee's Emulsion, Barry's Tricopherous Hair Tonic) and products like clothing, cameras, and tooth polish. The page reflects late 19th-century Judge content: ethnic stereotypes for humor, extensive patent medicine advertising (unregulated at this time), and commercial rather than political satire. The "parallel lines" piece exemplifies how pseudoscientific health claims were presented as logical reasoning to sell dubious remedies.

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28 CARL PRETZEL’S PHILOSOPHY. Every t'ing dot makes pure der heart vas gif dot heart plaindy shtrength. Dhere vas two kinds of firtue. One mit some airs of solemnidy und der odder mit a two-hand suit of close on. Vhen you make oben der door of your mind to oprer- ion, dhen shoopidity und ignomus flies der vindow Bad mans yas snatch der goot tings of dis life yoost oa Vief, but der goot fellers sot em down to the goot tings of dis life under der shmile of heafen.—.Vational Weekly. PARALLEL LINES. Every student knows that in close reasoning parallel lines of thought are laid down and deductions educed: We have drawn the above visible lines simply to bring them prominently before your eye and to ask what they represent to you. ‘A railroad man to whom we showed them said, ‘* To me those four lines represent a double. ‘A doctor replied to the same inter lines are to me the large arteries and veins lying along- side each other in the human body As every intelligent man or woman knows, the blood of every living person flows with almost railroad speed through the arteries, forced by that wonderful engine the heart. From the arteries it is side-tracked through the capilliaries and veins, and every drop of blood goes through the kidneys for purification no less than 2500 times every twenty-four hours. If the kidneys be d ‘eased the impurities of the blood containing the worn- out tissues, and deleterious acids are not drawn out or excreted aS nature intended, bat continually pass and repass through every fiber of the system, carrying death J decay with every pulsation. Unless remedied the heart becomes weakened, the lungs trying to do double work break down, the liver becomes congested, the stomach refuses to digest food and the result is a general break down, Why? Recause the kidneys, the sewers of the system, are foul and stopped up, and the ‘entire blood becomes nothing more nor less than sewage + Now is it not criminal, nay, sui state of things to continue when a simple remedy is with- in your reach, known fora certainty to do as represented, which will open the closed pipes of the kidneys, allow the effete matter to escape, relieve the overworked heart, lungs and liver, cause a healthy appetite, put the bloom of health in your cheek, the dove of hope in your breast and the light of life in your eye? Do not allow prejudice to blind you to your best in terests, but to-day procure Warner's safe cure and be put on the straight road to rude health and correct living. Our parallel and closing lines to you are; take our ad- your experience will justify you in thanking us for bringing under your notice a remedy without a parallel, lal, to allow such a vice and Clunr—" Vid you notice how beautifully my dress sat at the Harvard assembly ? Bessic—" Ves, 1 noticed it sat most of the time."— Harvard Lampoon, HIS PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. L. T, Harrington, ex-Sheriff of Chautauqua Co., New York, writes : “Lam glad to say, from a long personal experi- ence with ALLCOCK’S POROUS PLASTERS, th: n able to endorse all the good things that have id about them, and supplement these tI frankly believe their value cannot be estimated, Their breadth of usefulness is un- limited, every ache and pain that flesh is heir to, no other remedy, in my opinion, cither external or internal. equals them in certainty and rapidity. I have used them at one time for rheumatism, another for back- ache, again for bronchitis, always with the same result—a speedy cure.” of imitations, and do not be deceived by misrepresentation. Ask for ALLCOCK’S, and let no explanation or solicitation induce you to accept a substitute, and for prompt and sure relief to almost | JUDGE A DUTCH LULLABY. ynken, Blynken and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe; Sailed on a river of misty light Into a sea of dew. “Where are you going, and what do you wish?” The old moon asked the three. ** We have come to fish for the herring fish ‘That live in this beautiful sea; Nets of silver and gold have we, Said Wynken, The old moon laughed and sung a song, As they rocked in the wooden shoe, And the wind that sped them all night long Rufited the waves of dew; ‘The little stars were the herring fish ‘That lived in the beautiful sea Now cast your nets wherever you wish, But never afeard are we; So cried the stars to the fishermen three, Wynken, Blynken And Nod. All night long their nets they threw For the fish in the twinkling foam: ‘Then down from the sky came the wooden shoe, Bringing the fishermen home; “Twas all So pretty a sail, it seemed Asif it could not be: And some folk thought ‘twas a dream they dreamed Of sailing that beautiful sea: But I shall name you the fishermen three: Wynken, Blynken And Nod. Wynken and Blynken are two little eyes, ‘And Nod is a little head, And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies Is a wee one’s trundle-bed: So shut your eyes while mother sings Of wonderful sights that be, And you shall see the beautiful things As you rock on the misty sea Where the old shoe rocked the fisherman three, Wynken, Blynken And Nod. —Eugene Field in Chicago Daily News. IF YOU ARE sick 204: pean enue Tooth Polisher To greatly add to your comfort, [izamare WELL aad would a. Joy iife’s fullest ae at health aod happine [C yea live to Moclety weit to impro' pearance. If you Live ka Solitude uae it to pre: sare Four teeth. “Tf you are Wich ft will make you richer. It you are Poor it will save you ocrease, Waaeren Yorn Aow ox Coxomos ‘The Chicago Times is authority for the statement that Whitelaw Reid’s name will be reet by the Parisians. Why doesn’t our western con- temporary hide its Choctaw dictionary and stand by Ollendort Buffalo & The cats, dogs and_poll-parrots of England having been properly provided for, a hospital for fish has now been established. Fish are much exposed to dampness and pulmonary diseases would naturally be most com- mon,— Detroit Free Press, “Tis well to put an editor In office anywhere: For habit will compel the man ‘To do the write thing ther —Washington Critic, PISO’S CURE FOR i CURES WHERE ALL ELSE jn Best Cough 8yrui Sher ne ° in Ure, "Bol CONSUMPTION. @ of Presiteat aed Mes. Mar. ‘Presbicat aod Mra. orton ADERTISING CO., 103 Meares Si, Coleagey IIL, Pubssners _ Nitg0n sie aaverusteg Carts cad Speci, Calaloges fre. MACGEE’S EMULSION No other proprietary medicine has the endorsement | of Physicians to the same extent. None is used in Hospital practice with so large a percentage of satisfactory results. No other remedy has cured so many cases of CONSUMPTION and other Pulmonary Diseases. SCROFULA is entirely eradicated from the system by its use. It is as easy to take as Maple Syrup or Honey, and can be retained by the most delicate stomachs without nausea, IF YOU have a Cold, Cough, Bronchitis, Dys- pepsia, or a generally run-down system, you can regain health and strength quickly by the use of MACGEE’S EMULSION Ask your Druggist for it, and take only that labeled J.A. MAGEE & CO., Law rence, Ma: ° uk SPRING AND SUMMER WRAPS AND JACKETS. Representing the latest Paris and English Pashtoon SILK BLOUSES In all Shades, Very Handaomely Made. p Robes, Steamer Rugs an. jes! 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