Judge — August 24, 1889 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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Miss Pesattow—‘ There's your friend, Mr. Coley, Bess. ised to introduce me, you know.” mander. his services and sacritices would not be quicl holds the scourge. Yet the veteran has his foibles. ‘The old habit of pushing to the front He looks somewhat on public place as proper loot, and the offices in the gift of the government some: thing the same as the intrenchments around Vicksburg or Richmond, this aggressiveness we once and raiding the sutler still clings to him, to be taken by persistence or storm, It is praised that now, in this other direction, is condemned. The “boys” did not need a college diploma to fight, or a civil-service ex= amination to test their courage, and think, not wisely perhaps, that it is in other lines not needed now. Having done their share in saving the country, they do not show hesi taney in serving it. Let us bear with this. ‘The ranks are thinning with age, the blue is fast fading into the gray; and if, as Shake- spe Men's evil manners liv@ in brass; their virtues We write 18 water,” reverse the axiom? engrave their virtues in brass and write their weakness in water, It is wiser to err on the side of kindness, even if parsimony is pinched and stinginess grow It is better that greed make an occasional gain than that one deserving well of his country should suffer, Commissioner Tanner's heart may have climbed under his hat; it is no dis credit that he is merciful rather than unjust. Having himself lost both limbs in the army, it seems natural that Democrat and mug- wump clamorously demand his head. Let every maimed and broken man receive his need, Scrutinize as carefully as required against fraud. Remember, however, no mat= ter how humble the instrument, or rough or odorous the man, it is to such we owe not only a debt of gratitude but dollars. These men cemented with privation and blood the union of the states. These men wiped out the proposed dividing-line that would, were it not for them, have built a boundary from the Potomac across the Mississippi to the west- em sea. ‘They saved us from a cordon of uous fortifications, manned by watch- If the old soldier who fought did not now vote it is doubtful if y overlooked. that Justice, carrying in the one hand the balance: Mr, Coney ( Yor rom ‘You p you, T assure yc Miss PESHALLOW (aside) —" He seems to ful force: sions to be paid into the While It is fortunate scales, in the other and cating with land is drawing on her vit: sharper and greater cust than all the pen- p the “peace of Eu- rope,” and fortifies the island with floating iron-clads, she has money to immortal words and h ity toward none.” AT THE VOLUNTEER BALL. Miss *It seems as if the whole Trish reserve were here to-night. I just danced witha sub- lieutenant who was positively redolent with Dublin whisky.” Miss Couttsbawx —*'And did you see the old colonel who took me down? I'm sure, by the way he waltzed, that he had Cork legs,” spare to pension a family of figure-heads with a total of more than the lessening millions we contribute to our late defenders. not so far forget itself, its promi them r The republic will to re Lincoln's toward nd char- or its honor, a id," With malic: ya EY RYBODY will pledge the health of Mr. Parnell, and with the more unction because he seems to have a lack of it. eee ‘TIS TRUE that congress will locate the world’s fair, but meanwhile New York and public sentiment elsewhere will locate congress. 5 sate T 1S THOUGHT by most of the English people that Judge Stephen, if we may bor- row an expression from Whitechapel, ought to be knocked out with a Maybrick. eee DISPATCH inti a well-known actress hadn't been in Paris five minutes before she began to buy dresses. Dramatic enterprise would scem to indicate that these distinguished ladies had better cable their orders so that they can put on their dresses before they go ashore. ates tha DEMOCRATIC RAINBOWS. THE JUDGE spoke some wecks ago of overnor Hill's desire to carry the sen- ate. Since then the daily papers have caught the discovery and are making great measles of it. They think the governor wants to be elected senator to fill the seat of Brother Evarts, and that is very likely; but if he should carry the senate he would have a marked advantage over Mr. Cleveland wheth- er he went to the national senate or not. Here is a very pretty little point for Grover and the Republicans to think of, and we guess they are doing the thin! ‘Though, to be sure, there are impossibilities , and, without or with rainbows, the skies never rain Jarks, ‘Comicbooks.com