ComicBooks.com Register / Loginit's free!

Judge, 1892-05-14 · page 3 of 18

Judge — May 14, 1892 — page 3: what you’re looking at

📖 Open the full issue in the page-flip reader →
Judge — May 14, 1892 — page 3: Judge, 1892-05-14

What you’re looking at

This Judge magazine page from the 1890s contains political commentary and satirical sketches: **"The Wind's Fault"** (top): A poem about a maiden losing her belongings to wind, likely satirizing how politicians blame external circumstances rather than accepting responsibility—a recurring Judge theme. **Political Remarks**: Brief commentary on Harrison's 1888 election victory against Cleveland, with sardonic observations about political judgment and Cleveland's respect for subordinates. **"A Sure Plan"** (middle): A sketch of what appears to be a life insurance pitch, satirizing aggressive sales tactics of the era. **"In the Style"** (bottom left): Mocking social pretension through dialogue between characters. **"The Minnehaha" and "Murder by Ballot"**: These sections address Indian servants and anarchist threats to European monarchy—reflecting late-Victorian anxieties about colonialism and political violence. The overall tone is characteristic Judge satire: mocking political incompetence, social climbers, and contemporary anxieties.

📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

| KNEW a maiden gay and free Soon it blew away her locket (Fairy maiden—unwary maiden !) (Fairy maiden—unwary maiden }) Who went to sail upon a summer day. ‘She searched with troubled mind both high and low, The wind blew out to sea And did not think to track it And, as one might foresee,” To the rogue’s vest-pocket It blew them far away. Had to let it go. “Twas not their fault, but the wind’s fault, | ‘Twas not her fault, but the rogue’s fault, The wind’s fault ! The wind’s fault! The rogue’s fault! The rogue’s fault! I find that’s very apt to be the way. 1 find it’s very apt to happen so. When they reached the land again (Fairy maiden—unwary maiden!) And she paused to gather up her things, Her heart was gone! In vain She sought for it in pain, The wind had lent it wings. “Twas not his fault, but her fault, Her fault! Her fault! From the world’s creation Adam sings. DIM ELaER, MB: HARRISON was elected against Mr. Cleve- land in 1888, He is twice the man to-day that he was then; and what folly it is to urge that he cannot be elected against Cleveland in 1892. URELY it is superfluous for any political com- mittee to declare itself irresponsible with re- gard to Colonel Shepard's eccentricities. The col- onel's velocity of judgment is a go-as-you-please. ME. CLEVELAND has a high respect for Boss Mel 2 what the boss won't do in a 3 though, to be sure, Senator Hill g knows what he will. T TRANSPIRES that Ward McAllister is a Democrat and opposes Cleveland because Gro- ver refused to give his son an office. We know of nothing more mad- dening since the repudiation of De- mocracy by Her- man Oelrichs. A SURE PLAN. Lonety WALKER —"'T'd like to have my life insured.” AGENT—"' Well, there's the tontine ten-year plan, endowment plan, mutual bene- fit, old-time life, and Loney WaLKer—"' Well, isn’t there a plan by which I could get fifteen cents to-day in advance—on account ?* THE MINNEHAHA. [NDIAN GIRLS for servants is a new benevolence. Anything in the servant "line must necessarily be an improvement, but the native American is un- certain, If the Indian girl learns she does so under protest, and if she suc- ceeds she naturally wants to be her own mistress. The Indian girl of the novel- ist is a sweet thing, but the girl and the squaw of fact are suspicious and as cruel as the grave. Still, the experiment might be tried—by somebody else. MURDER BY BALLOT. ‘THE ANARCHISTS who want to kill the young king of Spain are the old kind of anarchists. They draw lots to see who will do the killing, and the lucky ones immediately give themselves to the police as a choice between dan- gers. It is the old story of that kind of scoundrelism all over the world. It is especially that of Russia and Germany. The average manis not as safe, though never threatened, as the heads of monarchies. The young king of Spain will Faith, an’ it do be all the shtoyle now, I saw the missus die of consumption or old age, and his chances are better the more his people doin’ it this marnia’, fit themselves for the liberty of a republic. comicbooks.com