Judge — March 14, 1891 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE AN AMERICAN TYPE. EHOLD in this calm face thoughtful mien ‘As bids us pause, when like a Frankenstein ‘A nation dares create another race. No longer here the crude And unformed features of a savage face ; But in those pleading eyes a kindred race ‘Asks for the highway out of servitude. Like as the Amazon With mighty currents marks the ocean's hue Until her leagues of tide blend with the blue, So do these patient millions stil press On. Such at the cradle-side Have crooned as foster-mothers, sung and wept, Across the chamber doors of pain have slept, ‘And for their sisters pale have gladly died. ‘Two hundred weary Of burdensbearing in a shadowed path, And yet no hand 1s raised in cruel wrath, ‘And all their wrongs evoke as yet but tears, ears _ Study the problem well, sphinx a message somewhere lies; lory For in u oor its shame may ris ‘out the reading what these features tell. SIMPLY TO EVEN THINGS. Count Peccaponna—" Your daughter vas fall more deebly in lof mit me der longer ve vos married.” Mr. Dusuque—" That's good.” Count Peccapoxna—"* Vell, can'd you maig dot hundert tousan’ a hundert an’ twendy-fife ?” THE SAFEST WAY. S6]F YOU were watching a game of whist and caught a player with more trumps than had been dealt him, would you ex- pose him 2” “No; I'd bet on him.” THE. SEASON'S PLEASURE. GLEIGH-RIDING must possess some charm To fill you with such haste, Because it takes your good right arm And makes it run to waist. THE TRUTH OF IT. Dashaway —‘1 see that Robinson's engagement has been broken off.” Cleverton —"You surprise. me. out how poor the girl was.” Dashaway— No; the girl found out how poor Robinson was.” NOT EXACTLY A SCARECROW. Robinson must have found Party oN sHoRE—"* What are you doing, Uncle Jim?" Uxcie Jim —"'T'm goin’ ter sink this ‘ere figger an’ see ‘f I can't keep them dinged dog-fish off'n my eyster-beds.” A LOGICAL SEQUENCE. A TRAMBP, putting his head inside the door of a grocery, as mister, gi’ me a piece o' paper to wrap A piece was given him; the door closed, but in a sec- ond opened again. “Please gi’ me su'thin to wrap in it.” A THOUGHTFUL GIRL. WIEN Paddy called his court to pay the brewed a mug of hot potheen; And as it was Saint Patrick's day She flavored it with wintergreen. HE. KNEW HOW TO PUNCTUATE. Quizzee—"Why do you call that quack M.D, Doctor Period ? Sharpleigh —“ Because he has made so many lives come to a full stop.” SOMETHING NEW TO HIM. Visitor (from Indiana) —* Pleeceman, what big stone house is that, with the queer thin tall roof?” Officer —* That's a church.” Visitor —" Church? What's a church?” THE QUICK RECOVERY, CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES. She—"Don't you think the subject of the décolleté should be ignored in good society?” He—Not if her neck and shoulders are pretty.” This is a picture of Jones as he appeared before the jury in his suit against the Way- backe and Lake Skookum Shortline for five thousand dollars damages for running into him and throwing him into a blackberry- patch twenty feet off, ‘This is a picture of Jones five days later, when he has won the suit and got a com: promise verdict of seven hundred and fifty dollars. comicbooks.com