Judge, 1891-02-14 · page 3 of 16
Judge — February 14, 1891 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several brief satirical items and illustrations rather than one unified cartoon: **"The Judge's Sweetheart"** appears to be a humorous piece about judicial valentines sent unexpectedly to various recipients, celebrating how judges distribute affection broadly. **"A Monopoly of Sport"** criticizes wealthy individuals and clubs monopolizing hunting and fishing on western lands. It references President Cleveland and suggests wealthy club owners exclude common people from natural resources, comparing English class distinctions to American practices. **"A Brotherly Jest"** shows two nearly identical panels with a man (Darrow) introducing a college professor or young lawyer, suggesting humor in their interchangeability or absurd credentials. The illustrations use typical late-19th-century engraving style. The overall tone mocks class privilege, judicial whimsy, and professional pretension characteristic of Judge's satirical approach.
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POSITIVE EVIDENC Isn't that Mr, Mudge hugging his horse so frantically 7” “Yes. He was telling me yesterday how fond of a horse he n sure I never imagined his affection was ¢haf intense.” SAS SAINTS—St. John and ex-St. Ingalls. PFEFFER? Pfeffer with an {? Blank Pfeffer!—/. J. /. RAarip TRANSIT — The passage of the bill of that name. Mk ¢ HE STAT transact LAND and Mr, Dana ate crow together recently. MANSHIP of Don Cameron is shown in his. silver ons too. [F THERE is no fighting where Charles Bradlaugh has gone the gentle~ man will feel like a total stranger. 331 ]F JOHN INCALLS should visit bis satire upon himself it would necessarily be a case of suicide, the opening for the steel is so awfully open. wee THAT SLUSH regarding the vote of Forger Dema- 2 rest of the assembly had better be drdpped. His vote was not tainted, it was merely misdirected; and his sins ought not to work the disfranchisement of the people who unfortunately elected him. SOCIETY is a little severe on Actress Potter; and so, it may be announced with. passionate appre- hension, Mrs. Potter will write a book on society, We trust, however, that the amenities will not be over- looked —in which case the book will not be written. THE JUDGE’S SWEETHEART. THE JUDGE sends out its valentines on no particular day of the year. They come unexpectedly to the recipient, like a blue-coated guardian in the night; and though they are not always pleasant to have they will do the patient good and at the same time benefit the general public, to which the JUDGE gives its most ardent affection. To the eminent men and women whom the JUDGE selects for its profoundest esteem and cism long life and as merry a one as their conduct makes justifiable; for there can be no death or retirement from their ranks which will not rob us of the opportunity we love and so grieve us to the marrow. There be two hearts joined with a dagger—the one of the JUDGE and the other of the world—and though some blood jets therefrom, Parthenia spoke for both in the words, ‘ Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. A MONOPOLY OF SPORT. POACHING is meddling with other men’s preserves. It is an English term, and we are apparently going to adopt it. English money is buying our western public lands, and there are millions of acres of wood and water in the east whose game and fish are monopolized. by men of money and shut out from men who haven't money. The proposed Adi: rondack park, according to a recent explanation and suggestion of ex- President Cleveland, is to be under the protection and really under the ownership of wealthy clubs and private gentlemen; so that in time we may have the English class distinctions of poaching and private domain, the mere man guilty of the former having nothing and the great owner of the latter having everything. If this is necessary to the preservation and propagation of fish and game and the continuance of the great water-shed north of us, that much may be said in its favor; but it is not necessary, . and on the other hand there are rights of the poor man which are just as sacred as the purchased immunity from the consequences of robbery of the wealth which clutches the earth and wants to freeze poverty and ordi- nary industry out of it. comicbooks.com