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The central cartoon titled "Assistance Requested" depicts a dialogue between a railroad clerk and what appears to be a passenger or customer at a Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City Railroad office. The humor seems to derive from a man requesting help locating his "bulky mules" at the office, with the clerk responding about a "general passenger agent." The satire likely mocks railroad customer service inefficiency or bureaucratic confusion—a common complaint during the Gilded Age when rail companies faced criticism for poor service. The absurdity of searching for livestock at a railroad office amplifies the joke about institutional disorganization. Without additional context identifying specific individuals or historical railroad incidents, the broader satirical target appears to be railroad company incompetence rather than specific political figures.

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JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. Publisher 2 We. ewe Art Department - — Bexxnand Gitta Editor. 1. M, Gancony. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS, UNITRD STATES AND CANADA, IN ADVANCE. One copy, one year, or s2 numbers - Pg. One copy, six months, or 26 numbers + ‘One copy. for 13 weeks = = including the Curistwas Jupce. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS To all for cign countries in the postal union, @ year. THE JUDGE PUBLISHING CoMPANy (JuDGE ButLpiNc), Cor. Fifth Ave. and 16th St., New York ERs guarantee advertisers a larger circulation at cheaper rates than any other American satirical paper published. The Juve 11 for sale at Brentane'n 17 Avenue de COpera, Paris. and at Brentane's, 400 Strand, HE EXCITEMENT out west over a new discovery of gold is appar- ently much ado about considerable. T IS TOO much to expect; but the wish is legitimate—long life to Samuel J. Randall and William D. Kelley. [F THE OPPONENTS of Mr. Parnell were to be hauled over the coals the same would evolute into a great blaze. LET. US not despair of the ice- yl crop. In the spring there will = " | Bi be enough of it to kill the peaches 7") {l | several times over, ‘THERE ARE SOME republicans in Spain. They want a republic so that they can get up a revolution and have another kingdom. THERE IS an assumption that Mrs. Maybrick is guilty, and she is given the’benefit of the as- sumption, That is English law. eee . MB: MAHONE pays the national administration a very fine com- pliment. “I have,” he says, “no in- fluence with this administration.” eee ROVER continues to cry out for ballot-reform, and with every cry David puts his hand on a sore spot and it feels like a new injury. see ASSISTANCE REQUESTED. JUDGING from the number of lies that are being printed about CLER) Miss Anderson there can be no Gresen sir. doubt that she will soon return to Busenbark, the general passenger agent in?” ENATOR INGALLS has the grip, and says he feels as if he had swallowed a paper of pins. But he always feels that way, and many who have been near him say the pins stick out and scratch them. ess COUNT EDISON goes abroad again in March. Presently he will begin to stay abroad, like the actresses, and then he will sport his title and chew his words, Alas! the only safe way to go abroad is to stay at home. eee THE BUSINESS of whipping negroes has been formally revived in and about Jessup, Ga. The favorite weapons of the Georgia whit: are the lash and the revolver, and he thinks his right to use the former is a part of his birtheright. Let a negro resist the lash and he is fit for the revolver. Is this the new south? SHALL WE BE SICK WITH LUXURY? EDWARD BELLAMY speaks hopefully of an era when there will be no tariff, noickness, no intemperance, no race issue, and no poverty. Yes, Edward—yes, indeed: but we don’t want to die and go there now. ‘Then, after all, with nothing to quarrel about, no ambition to outstrip others, no money-making, no work, and nothing to do but sing, what a monoto- nous existence this would be, and how many suicides there would be to get out of it. On the whole, Edward, the conditions of life are pretty well fitted to the men who live, and the embarrassment of blessing that you anticipate is fit only for another world. COPYWRONG. [F BRAINS were dry goods, hard- ware or groceries there might be a copyright law; but being merely the means to the production of those and other useful things they are of slight account to the men who make laws. Writers and publishers produce yearly to the amount of millions of dollars, but everybody is protected with their exception. Why is not something done for them? Haven't they the requisite funds, can’t they have a lobby, or are they really of no ac- count, as the law-makers appear to think? THE TIGER. T 1S a curious fact that the more you feed Tammany the hungrier she is, Tammany doesn’t represent all the political parties of this city, ANGER —"'Is this the Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City railroad office?" nor yet the whole of the Democratic party; yet she demands all the po- litical patronage, and if she gets it Yes, Ae GRANGER —" Will you please ask him if I can holler his name at my balky mules her mouth is still open and her long, the stage. out here? I'm stuck in th’ mud hub-deep, an’ I've swore everything I know how.” lithe body still unfilled. You pour HE ATTACK on Baby McKee has been transferred to the babe's mother, and we must say that it 1s vigorous and worthy of its authors, hae THE KAISER recently received from his royal grandmother a kiss by postal-card, “That is the best way,” he said. “When they come that way they can’t bite.” = HURLED the senatorial sceptre from his classic brow,” sa} exchange. Well, if that’s where he carried it he must have felt better when he got rid of i see ises his soldiers to be in “a state of constant preparedness.” ‘That is to say, they must constantly be prepared to run, and never away from the enemy. eae ‘THE EMPRESS of Brazil survived her entrance into private life only a few days: but she had the luxury of a natural and peaceful death, and that is something for an ex-empress to be grateful for. oon THE SULTAN of Turkey wants back the jewels and things he con- ferred on Sam Cox, and perhaps he will be satisfied with a slight rate ‘of interest for the time Mr. Cox thought he owned them coin into a bottomless well, and there is no hope of building the pile up so as to get a dollar of it back. You might as well drop it into the ocean for all the good it will do you. ‘Those hungry chops are continually open and expectant, and those eager eyes continually snap with yearning and threat. The lion's share is the larger portion and is received with royal dignity; but the tiger's share is everything, with anger because it is not half enough. The people are afraid of Tammany, and its lust of power and wealth grows larger and more dangerous with opportunity. THE PENALTY OF WAR. Si MONTHS of war, it is estimated by the London 77mes, would cost Europe $1,500,000,000, That is pretty good argument against war, and it seems to be needed because all the powers are talking for peace with great force, hoarseness and volubility. Further, every power is increasing its standing army, all the rulers are exchanging compliments with the very evident intention of coaxing alarm, and two or three of the rulers have exchanged the kiss of peace with a loud smack. By the way, a seven months’ war would cost a great many lives and make husbandless and fatherless a great many women and children, How would it be to try that argument? Or isa surplus of life of small moment in compari- son with a surplus of wealth? comicbooks.com