Judge — October 26, 1889 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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PRETTY HARD ON THEM BOTH. Larrie Krrry (as Baton and Crumley come in)—"* Oh, mamma! Ask his keeper to let him do some of those funny tricks he did in his cage at the park if not extinguisha is controllable if it cannot be ‘The policy of the Republican party is the practical one. idealism must be abandoned. It is within the memor men that inebriety was more broad-spread and general thi ago than it is to-day. The milder malt beverages were comparatively un- known. A glass of beer in country towns was as rare as a goblet of nec- tar. Whisky by the fourth of a foot was the usual measure of the usual drink, The introduction of the German beers lessened, and has, so far as their use is concerned, diminished intoxication. There is a limit to human saturation, as long as appetite will in some way seek indulgence, and the sedative beer is far less baneful than the hilarious and crazy juices of corn or It is the opinion of a large body of thought- ful men that the best practical interests of society are better served by the absolute legislative control of the liquor traffic through re- striction, Further, that temperance is helped rather than frustrated by the displacement of the stronger by the lighter drinks, and that leg- islation could properly be lenient in the latter direction. M. costly and the non-intox inexpensive; limit the number of saloons in proportion to population, and true temperance will be the gainer. annihilated. Impossible of mature ve years Many men believe earnestly that if in the last campaign Senator ler had held closer to the discussion of the national issue, and less to the emphasis of the demand for “high license he would have won the gubernatorial honors, As it was, he neither satisfied the temperance extremists nor frightened those who did not regard the lighter beverages as baneful. _— Mrs, De. Sta Uncie Pett ENTIRELY AU FAIT. ‘Aren't you going to dress for dinner, uncle?” 's—"* Darn it, I hev! as _fulledress racket, an’ I went out an’ bought th’ fullest suit I could git.” “ec WHERE DOES Chicago propose to hold the world’s fair if she gets it?” asks the Omaha World. Oh, in New York, of course. Chicago is not ridiculous; she’s merely enterprising. see T IS STATED that nineteen hundred editors of the Pekin Gazeffe, the oldest newspaper in the world, have been beheaded. That is a com- pliment to the Pekin Gazerte which is equaled by nothing but the stu ity of the government which ordered the sacrifice. TWO GIRLS of this city fought, and one killed the other. Now the killer is in perpetual tears be- cause she thinks she is going to be hanged. Oh, Miss Anthony! you cannot make an entire ruffian of a person of your sex, and thank heaven it is only the other that can “die game.” ‘TIS TRUE that Governor Hill never drinks wine or the other inspiring beverages. But he by no means opposes them. “I found,” said the young lady in her con- fession at the protracted meeting, “that my new bonnet was drag- ging me to perdition, and so I gave it to my sister.” MB. CLEVELAND says we should not extol honesty, be- cause that is a public duty and a something naturally expected. That is so; yet one’s eyes will glisten x when he sees a diamond, and com- pliment for worth is so cheap that poverty itself can have its fill of it. And by the way, Grover, here is You told me it wuz goin’ ter be a \ our compliment to you. comicbooks.com