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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page 138 The main cartoon titled "A FALSE ALARM" depicts a domestic scene where a man (labeled "Mr. Breckenridge") appears startled, saying "Hi dar, yo' folks! Ittah git out. I heerd d' flo' crack." A woman responds about Miss Winders causing a commotion. The satire appears to address racial anxieties and domestic panic, likely from the late 19th or early 20th century. The dialect and domestic setting suggest commentary on racial fears or labor disputes, though without clearer visual identification of the figures, the specific historical event remains uncertain. The surrounding text discusses various political topics including press power, electoral reform, and commemorative monuments, typical Judge magazine fare of social criticism.
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ENGLAND cannot be charged with the murder of any Irishman as long as she is able to hire Irishmen to commit the crime. ore THE MURDER of Dr. Cronin of Chicago invites thought as to the time when Irishmen may defy the world by trusting each other. 5 gy HER May of Great Britain has successfully passed her seventieth birth- Long life to her, even to her days of seventy-six. THE POWER of the press is great; but if young Bennett finds Gordon he will have to do it by proxy—the proxy, that is to say, of Gor- don. sé R. DANA effort to make the Democratic a protection party is worthy of se, but we never saw an animal on four legs that knew cow to lay eggs. EAL US A HAND,” says the reverend ed- itor of the New York //era/d. ‘Theseare strange words, Will you kindly give us their ex- planation, Brother Shepard ? R. RANDAL nounced in his surprise that a president shouldn't be satisfied with one term, one is surprised that Mr. Randall shouldn't be satistied with a great many. Mr. BRECKENR: Mk. Coates — SSO PFO tips ober d’ ice-cream, URING sixte alcoholism. prohibit months thirteen excise inspectors of this city died of It is almost as dangerous to be an excise inspector as a onist. ie TIONS in Guthrie, Oklahoma, are so frequent that one fears the will presently be shot at the inspectors from the noisy mouth volver. “~é % KING HUMBERT decided not to go with King W beeause the visit would humiliate the French, fet out of Italy so as not to irritate the pope. eee THE DOCTOR of this period is so hasty that every man ought to carry on his porous plaster the words, “Do not dissect me till | am dead,” the plaster would be so handy as a means to quench the blood. see JT 15 ODD that the Demecratie party should take time so by the fore- lock in the issue of ‘92, especially when one remembers that it didn’t discover anything particular about the late war till it was all over. R. CLEVELAND makes a specch as solid and subdued as the evening dress of a baron or a banker; but David B. Hill has all the color of a peacock in his enunciations, and that counts wid de boys. iam to Strasburg Now let his majesty JERE RUSK knows howto swing a scythe, and he is so bluff and hon- est that lots of men are given to scythes that he can’t go higher. see THE MAN who committed suicide for love of Lydia Thompson acted with great wisdom. It is difficult to see how he could have avoided it. THE RIGHT of a lawyer to libel in court the man he is employed to oppose is unquestionable; but we should think some lawyers would have their noses so pulled that they would have to wear them as a four- in-hand, wee EACON WHITE has perhaps been libeled, but Walll street is such free fighting-ground that the Wall-street man who sues for damages unavoidably gives out the impression that he is not as white as he has been painted. OBODY KNEW why the sua shone so brightly and the brooks and birds purled and caroled so gaily the other day; but next morning i was announced that Poet and General and Papa John Cochrane had been given another office. eee [7 TRANSPIRES through the vetoes of the governor that there is no reform of the ballot-box in this state, It is wonderful how much evil there is in any proposed reform in comparison with the evil that is known to exist and which every good man regrets. TAMMANY HALL rules out the County Democ- Now let the free-trade Democrats rule out those re ridiculous mugwumps, wut seven in number, who call themselves the protection Democracy, Let men carry their appropriate colors even if they have to steal them. eee THE HISSING of Kyrle Bellew in a Chicago thea- tre was a partial vindication of American opinion as to the right of which there can be no question ; but it is a pity his friend Mrs. Carter can’t be put on the stage, that there may be a vindication to the point of her immediate dis- appearance. LINCOLN AND CHASE ! A FALSE ALARM. dar, yo" folks ! ‘im back ‘heah, yo’ fool coon. Bettah git out, T heered a flo’ crack. Dat wuz Miss Winders smackin’ her 5 a thorough patriot as well as a great war financier. His mistake lay in underestimating Lincoln and overestimating himself, and so many great men are given to that that it is of all others the pardonable sin. But Mr. Lincoln was so different! While he never forgot that he was the chief executive, half the time he didn’t know that such a man as Abraham Lincoln had an existence, ‘That is the ncarest approach to Christ that any man ever accomplished ; and he wore h’s innumerable thorns with a grace, a manliness, and a silence that have been cqualed onty once in the history of the world. WHAT WE DECORATED. E DECORATED not only and nationality. 7 i We decorated life and ambition more firmly established to-day than it ever was before. The great centennial marches, in which the military spirit was honored along with the industrial; in which black and white were equally cheered; in which the gray was given as much enthusiasm as the blue; in which every adopted citizen and every adopted art and teacher of art were given glory—these gave to us assurance, if we have not the reality, that we are to be the greatest as well as the most lib- eral nation in the world, ‘The men buried nearly thirty years ago made all this possible—those who were true and those who rebelled. It was t gospel of fire that is sometimes necessary in great things to attain great s under the flowers of this June w: marty ious churches who soldicr who #! as truly a martyr for posterity died of torture centuries ago. comicbooks.com