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This cartoon depicts two men in what appears to be a betting or gambling scenario. The dialogue indicates they're making a wager, with one character saying he won "life tollar on mein bet" while the other claims he won "life tollar on mein bet, but mein heardt beat his it longest mit noch unch, unt I don't know vat it vill cod t'fix it." The exaggerated dialect and caricatured features suggest these are immigrant characters, likely German or Eastern European. The cartoon satirizes working-class immigrant gambling culture and the "struck average"—a compromise or middle ground between competing claims. The joke appears to mock both the gambling itself and the immigrants' speech patterns, reflecting period attitudes toward turn-of-century immigration.

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JU PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. Publisher J. Anxnt, Art Department Editor Z TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITED STATES ARD CANADA, IN ADVANCE, One copy, one year, or s2 numbers - $5.07 ‘One copy, six months, or 26 numbers - "2.50 ‘One topy, for 13 weeks 435 ingle copies, 10 cents each. FOREIG) SCRIPTIONS— ign countries in the postal wni $6 @ year. it for- THE JUDGE PuBLisHiNG Company (Jupcr Buitpin Cor. Fifth Ave. and 16th St., New York. {97 We guarantee advertivers a larger circulation at cheaper rates than any other American satirical paper published ET US HEAR no more about Judge Bookstaver. your pope, and your pope can do no wrong. THE PAPER called the Star is not traveling on its uppers. than that—it is wearing out its poor old Shanks. Your judge is Worse s¢THE DEMOCRATIC BANNER fi temporary. Ya EVEN YEARS in the penitentiary for Lester B. Faulkner, ex-chairman of the Democratic state com- mittee. Insatiate just would not Tweed suffice? RANCES WILLARD is trying to have the smoking-car abolished. There is such a thing as tyranny, and we tell Fran- ces Willard that her adamantine cheek. NEW COIFFUR called the Eiffel The woman who makes and Wears it must have to climb a pair of stairs, and, bless her dear soul! she may break her neck before she gets down. high this year,” says ; seems to go ‘way up to the ceiling, to SARA BERNHARDT says her household « penses average hun- dred dollars a day. That is strange when one con- siders that her husband is dead and all of her family is grown up. MBS. RAY HAMILTON being in the penitentiary and Robert Ray having sued for a divorce, we think marriage is a success be- cause there is a fair chance to obviate i InkeLueit— _ MANDELHAUM —"'T'ain’d sure, Abey. beat so it stopped mein yatch, unt I don'd kn five [7 IS COWARDLY in the Democratic party of this state to say it doesn't advocate free trade, because that is to deny its sole and y birthright and leave it without a state or national habitation and AT to be a good ‘thing for the society of theo- sophs and for Madame Blavatsky that the lady and the society had separated; but the one clings to the other with the idiotic des- ion of the pair. THE PRINCIPLE of civil-service reform as it is practiced, if not preached, by the professional civil-service reforme at | want to, get in and you ought to get out. That is all there is to a large, mean humbug with a tin halo above its sacred wooden head. THE PAPERS are discussing the question, “ What is success in life?” Success of that kind is success in death—the mere privilege of six feet square wherein to rest your bones, and no reading of the daily newspaper to find whether Smith or Jones shall be elected. A STRUCK AVERAGE. Vell, mein frent, win anydings on der lasd race ?" DGE ‘THERE IS ONE curious thing in Democratic comment on Republi- can conventions. The more harmony they have the more the critics are convinced there is dissension, It is a method of drawing con- clusions that is almost as ingenious as it is feeble and absurd. HEN A RAT is driven into a comer it will fight—what else can it do? But the Democrats in convention at Syracuse are nevertheless to be commended for their courage in behalf of high li- cense, though it was merely the courage of fright and self-defense. S4)MIY CHURCH is going to pieces,” says a Minnesota clergyman, “on account of dancing and card-playing.” That is an argu- ment for the strength of card-playing and dancing that we had hoped would never come from the lips of a representative member of the Christian church. THE COSTLY LUXURY OF LAW. F ONE belong to a ring of scoundrels he had better insist, on discovery of the crime, that his fellow-scoundrels be tried first. Justice is not satisfied until one or two of a ring are convicted; but all the others are innocent though the same evidence applies to them that sent the one or two into stripes. That at least is the opinion of Aldermen Jaehne and O'Neill, who, being in prison, are totally forgotten. That also is the opinion of the public, which has paid out a fortune to set free men who must inevitably have been as guilty as Jachne and O'Neill were. Is it an old subject? Not so very old to the two men who are in Sing Sing. Not so extremely old to the tax-payers of this who pay out fortunes every day to secure immunity of punishment for men just as bad as they. ONE PEOPLE AND ONE DESTINY. HE political records of European epochs are dated by the signatures of compacts between Europe's strong military powers. The treaties of peace, or of al- liance, are the postscripts and conclusive arrangements agreed to after and resulting from military successes. His- tory is punctuated by the red seals of the great powers, whose disks of assent give it a lurid illumination, and mar- gin the written vellum with lines of faded gold and blood.’ It is left to the new world, the republican governments north and south of the equa- tor on this continent—for Brazil is republican excepting in name—to in- itiate, for the first, the spectacle of a representative congress, gathered in the capital of the United States, in conference for a communion of inter- ests, and to canvass the basis of mutual interchange of climatic products for the common benefit. No swift or instantaneous results can reasonably be expected from this congress of American representatives. Contact must precede inter- course. The object-teaching of an exhaustive investigation of the activi- ties, manufacturing and agricultural resources, the wonderful system of internal communication and railroad commerce, and the marvelous cities of the United States, will address itself, without other appeal, to the judgment of our geographical neighbors — neighbors who are joined to us by the common occupancy of the new world. The dream of the earlier statesmen of this republic is shaping itself, on the threshold of its new century, into realization. A brotherhood of defensive policy against European occupancy and aggression will be the natural outcome of the alliance between the northern Saxon and the south- ern Latin races of the two American continents. It is inevitable to the monarchical systems of Europe, and the assur- ance of their geographical integrity, that each, as against an adjoining ag- gressor, maintain itself by expensive and vast military armaments. The mutual watchfulness of Germany and France, the threat of the Muscovite, a. I von fife tollar on mein bet, but mein heardt jow vat it vill cosd t’ fix it.” comicbooks.com