Judge — April 27, 1889 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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SEEMS so strange that Washington, a man with no intent To pull the forelock of old Time beyond its natural bent, Who sought no thing fate did not bring, and had no love for pelf, Should be the man beyond the rest—he even beat himself. But that’s the modesty that wins—-it does no talk that’s rant; And that, you doubtless here recall, was so with U.S. Grant. A sort of Providence ru'es the world in very curious It may be quite superfluous to give it song or prai Old George the third of England had the majesty of rule, But our George put that other George back to his earliest school; And when my people had the power to wear old George's crown, It must be consecrated by the death of old John Brown. ink with pride, but sorrow, of the deuce that's been to pay Since those bogus Indians drowned that tea in Massachusetts bay Of the fight begun in Kansas and which died when Richmond fell, The tigers of the boys in blue and that far-off rebel yell; Bat I have When they And England taught us that to do, and set the precept square, ‘That to submit to conquerors is nothing more than fair; jad all these states will lift the glass—their probit » the memory of that Irishman called Philip Sheridan. 1 wish for no unpleasantness—I part my lips to smile, Instead of winking with one eye and a countenance of guile, ‘Yo think our Indians whipped Burgoyne, and how Cornwallis smote ‘The fate that brought the rope around Britannia's ample throat: I bear no thought of evil to the outside world, and yet 1 want to shed one simple tear right here for Lafayette. Je, and speak right out, for the boys that injured me ‘ot up their rebellion and went out with Robert Lee. ne goes right on, and always is that same old lesson taught at not so much our wishes as the Providence is wrought: ‘The wealth that came from Nazareth comes from the cabin door— The modest, patient, fearing man gives wealth to men galore; ‘The man who wins the right to win is not the man of sham, And chief of all will always be the father Abraham, And now, to think! a hundred years since George and I be To make things square in civil life and proper man for man— ‘Think how the stars have multiplied and spread from sea to sea Of labor fed, rebellion dead, the black man fat and free! What of the hundred years that here and now have just begun? T think I want the continent—what say, Ben Harrison ? ARADOX—He is the richest man on May-day who has the least property. THE EAGLE is the bird of the golden egg, but in George’s day she hadn't come to her little hatch yet. ROVERB—Even the Mc- Allister will turn, GEorc 1 i HATCHET was very large, or the cherry-tree was extremely AY GOULD is dancing around those poles a day were an ay. HE PEN of M, Halstead is loaded to the muzzle, and its owner had better not be in the rear of it when it goes off. THIS 1S anation of patriots. There is not a man living who isn’t willing to take any office in the gift of the people and to keep it until he wears it out. T WAS very kind in the confederate states to in- augurate their rebellion in time to have it ‘settled and leave a clean deck forthe va- pe thry an’ a law-lovin’ rious centennials. THE ANNEXED DISTRICT PARADE. IMPERSONATOR OF GeNnerat Wasittnctox—"* Oi m: in, but be th’ powers! ay Oi cateh pit a brick in thot bookay’Oi'll hov th’ blood ay him ! Is THOU y some that the Grant monument will be com- pleted in a hundred years, as George's was. NEWSPAPER MEN are the best men for office; but they are the poorest. men when they have office to give news and opinion to their newspapers. BUT FOR the mother of Washington this country would have been an orphan. rsw not to cross a stream till you get to it, but D. B. Hill thinks he has already commenced to run for president in 1 THIRTEEN in the case of the colonies was a very lucky number, and it has grown and accumulated with amazing success. WIEN WOMEN vote not a woman will be permitted to hold office, The sex knows the sex so well that it always prefers the other. N 1989 there will be a Panama and a Nicaragua canal, and so many bridges over the East and North rivers that the fish will come out on the abutments to dry and change their clothes. y be th’ father of me coun- thafe av a Britisher thot