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The main cartoon titled "A BUSINESS CRISIS" depicts two men in what appears to be an office, engaged in animated conversation. One says "There's der office-boy?" and the other responds "I sloosh fired him" and "He enter be in Sing Sing." This seems to satirize workplace conflicts, possibly referencing labor disputes or employee misconduct common to the Gilded Age. The surrounding text contains brief satirical observations on various topics: political figures (Congressman Breckinridge, Governor Tillman), social issues (women's suffrage, the Populist party), and cultural criticism (theater reviews). The satire targets hypocrisy and absurdity in American politics and society of the period, though specific historical references are unclear without additional context.

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COXEY is, mentioned as the pop- ulist candidate for president, but we cannot desert our Ingalls or our Peffer, How WOULD it be to have a United § ranted not to blow herself up with ates war-Vessel war- her own gunpowder? WILL SOMEBODY open the head of ex Speaker Sulzer of the New York assembly and ‘see how the wheels go round? GOVERNOR TILLMAN is still a fool, but the supreme court of South Caroltns ears and his,constitutionality OT EVERY government con- tractor is a robber, hecause sometimes the government has rep- resentatives who understand their business. has chpped his SeNIOR PARTNER yJustow Pan j two postage-sta SEN JUNIOR “VAKTA® ‘shpoilt both ohf dem. two cends! WHAT WITH bad milk and bad water, is it any wonder that the Demideratic party sticks to its-hard cider and applejack and tings? M®.CROKER'S STOCK FARMS run all the year round, but his Kepublican leg ‘ome ‘only a few months at a time. 5 Latures assist “his NED HEADS that met at the wedding in Coburg would ination, the same had THE chow have had more j not been somewhat confined. if-through threats of assia *SC)BSERVE.” says the musical critic of the Boston Traveller, “ when Melba opens her jaw wide and tosses up the tones in the front of her mouth.” We haven't noticed that, but how deliciously she wags time with her ears. VACCINATION at half-price was the leading feature of a church social inthis city. years ago who proposed a view of his sore thumb in exchange for the core of the apple. eee HE LONELIEST MAN in the world is Congressman Breckinridge Doubtless he deserves his punishment, but the eagerness with which certain organizations and individuals unite in clubbing him shows that there is « wonderful amount of humanity that is totally without sin, vhere’s der offi "1 shoost fired hin bs geil stu togedder und dh re vas a dead fen vorse dan dot. (Both partners faint.) Perhaps the reader will récall the boy of ever so many- THE OLD BARBARISM. HIEF WIND-IN-THE-FACE was married for the second time, in « San Fraitesco church recently, to the woman who had already been his wife nine years: ‘Thus we see how difficult it is to civilize the abo- rigine. It ts « popular idea among the whites of many portions of the west that one marrage 10 One woman is one too many. ‘ A NEW QUESTION, Fie PAUPLRS of this country ate organizing too much. Probably they hate fighting as they hate working, and are therefore not espe- cially dangerous; but they are a nuisance, and the cowardice which gives them food and transportation to other towns is not to be commended. Perhaps we had better consider what to do with them before they decide what to do with us. REVENGE FIRST, MONEY NEXT. THE WOMAN who sells her geod name for fifteen thousand dollars gets that amount too much for it. Having made herself notorious for that money, what an absurdity is her pretense of modesty and respect for public morals in refraining from an exhibition of herself in literature or on the st No—we have not heard the last of that woman, She pub- lished her shame’ for money, and she will want more than the money she gets of the man in whose sin she willingly participated. THE GOWN FOREVER. BLOOMER COSTUME is now worn by one hundred women of Denver, Color: rhe pioneers as to this kind of apparel were Mrs. Isloomer and Mrs, Stanton, but they gave up the experiment afte very severe trials of it and were never so happy as when they resumed the ‘The Denver women will suffer for a time mere than the pangs of fever and many jim- jams, and in a year there will not be one of them who will not have gone back to the a respect, admiration que old-style garments. pparel that wins and affection from the other sex. ‘here seems tobe a higher law that regulates these thi A PENALTY OF DEATH. U1 EXPRESSION given to the grief of the Chicago press club over the bier of Ben King was maudiin, Is intention was good, but its incompleteness was idiotic. It is dangerous to be pathetic in talk or print if the person who at- tempts it is not the sinished artist A shade too much or too*little pro- ridicule -and> forbids tears. The youth who spoke of Kin; fool might have made a pretty pliment; but he was clumsy in his choice and his use of words, and his depth of feeling ran shallow at the wrong place. Let us not toy with emotions unless we know how; and let it be every man’s prayer to be saved from the vbituaries vokes “He onter be in Sing Si as oh Merciful Kachel* two cends. L dried to ged dem apart und these THE GOOD OLD BANNER. ALTIMORE joins Abram §, Hewitt in the proposition that one flag 1s enough for the public buildings of the cities of this country. is something in the idea that the country is big enough and safe enough to afford the utmost generosity to all peoples and all emblems, but the red flay of the anarchist: may have rights under that liberality. The better way, to stop quarrels and jealousies, is the assumption that the banner of the stars and stripes is emblematic enough for all, and th: as don’t like it can take the liberty it confers upon them to go to where they came from and stay there the rest of their sever: There such persons ght buck lives. COMPLIMENTS: FOR CRIME. THERE IS AN EPIDEMIC of compliment for gamblers and keepers of bad houses. Writers are saying of them, “ Their business is bad, but they are square men.” That is, they will not permit robbery by their underlings or personally punch heads, and their promises are invariably kept. “What they say goes,” in other words. Now as a professional gambler doesn’t play a fair game and a keeper of dives is the lowest of men, it is difficult to see where the line is drawn, Shall we commend a man who pulls down a house’ because he saves one of the bricks? And let us hop: that there will be a few compliments left for men and women a square game” all around. comicbooks.com