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# Analysis of This Judge Magazine Page The main cartoon, titled "A Sure Sign of Death," depicts a doctor telling a woman patient to "Calm yourself, dear madam" while she sits distressed in a chair. The joke appears to be about a patient's dire prognosis—the doctor's reassurance itself signals hopelessness, as if his platitudes confirm the worst outcome. Below are several brief satirical items mocking contemporary figures and situations: criticisms of political reform efforts, commentary on police corruption in Tammany Hall (New York's notorious Democratic machine), and jabs at Southern violence and lynching. The page reflects Judge's late-19th/early-20th century focus: attacking urban political corruption, social hypocrisy, and racial violence through sharp wit and visual humor.
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WEALTH has its private yacht; but Edisonian science has its private prize-fight. THE MOUSE that came of the con- stitutional convention labor is not large, but it is quite pretty. F THE CZAR has Bright's disease and lung disease he can look upon the nihilists with extreme contempt ZNRY IRVING never acted bet- ter than when he sent five hun- dred dollars to the forest-fire relief fund, A MAN tried to swim the East river for adrink. As he was drowned it may be inferred that he got a very large one. + sO MEAT is better than a dis- eased article,” says the New Vork Telegram. What's the use of lying like that? YOUNG McALLis sued for breach of promise by an energetic woman, feels as if at least four hundred were after him. A SURE SIGN band is seriously ill." + Mxs. KENTUCKY CoLoNrL—"* Oh, he is die, HINA is not progressive, but it must be admitted that her soldiers have a wonderful capacity for getting themselves killed. Mé- FLOWER came down from his pole with great celerity, and will make no exhibitions of himself at any county or state fair from this time on. AS BETWEEN Tillman and M. C. Butler anybody ought to be able to get up and be an orator; and we hereby nominate Sam Jones to that position, KATE FIELD says she is without a vote because sh not a male immigrant steeped in anarchy bites like a steel trap. is a woman “and id ignorance." That THERE IS NO BOOM to our place,” frankly remarks a man from a country village, “No. We We haven't an elevated road, and our folks have to do their sui- We haven't even a trolley, and murdering is done with a gun or the good old-fashioned club.” don’t boast. It would be too ab- in old-fashioned ways. “Calm yourself, dear madam He has refused his morning drink of whisky. THE MISTAKE OF SIX GIRLS. N ENGLISH WRITER says Rudyard Kipling was rejected by six English girls, Well, we suppose the rejections of his earlier manu- scripts reach.d a much larger figufe, and as he has since won fame, money and an American girl he is more than satisfied. THE PRIVATE AND SELECT SCANDAL. DON'T KNOW that domestic troubles and actions for divorce are any worse if the parties to them happen to be rich; but it must be pleasant for a poor man and woman who are not on the stage to reflect that they can have their differences and scandals without excessive pub- licity. There are worse things than poverty in certain cases; and there are times when wealth is a curse of many and ghastly sy!ables. NO ENGLISH REFORM HERE! SOME SOUTHERN GOVERNORS denounce in severe terms the English committee that came here to investigate southern lynching and tell them they had better go home and attend to their own villainy. There is something in that. This is called a land of liberty, and if white men can’t shoot black men full of holes where is our boasted independ- ence? But, really, if everybody attends to his own sins there won't be any time left to investigate those of anybody else. Let us never forget that. THE RULE OF THE SCOUNDRELS. THE POLICE of this city, ably aided, paid, and guided by leading mur- derers, thieves, burglars, green- goods men, dealers in bunco, and followers of Tammany hall in general, have or- ganized the finest systems of robbery the world ever knew. They rob citi- zens and strangers alike, and every effort for justice in a Tammany court must be attended with bribery if the effort is to be successful. ‘The ballot- box ought to have something to say about it. SOUTHERN FAIR PLAY. FIFTY WHITE MEN in Tennes- see, ambushed after the manner of cowardly savages, ‘shot down six black men who had previously been chained against all possibility of de- fense, Is that southern courage and fair play? Was it proper retribution for the crime of burning barns, of which the negroes were supposedly guilty? There is not a coward a where else in the world who wouldn't tear his hair if he were charged with orden such sneaking villainy as that. T do not think your hus- AN ARTLESS SINNER. se TRILBY " was very wicked with- out knowing it. She was so bad that many parents doubt the wisdom. of letting. their daughters read about her. And the ignorance remained with: her until she died. Shortly previous to the death she was asked to tell the wickedest thing she ever did. She said it was the leaving at home of a child when she rode out for pleasure with an admirer. The depravity of that selfishness spoiled the ride. She never forgot it, and she sobbed and covered herself with accusation as she told of it. I know he is going to MORTON AND SAXTON. THE JUDGE doesn’t claim to have been the first paper to nominate Mr. Morton, He got the honor without any of our assistance. Doubtless he owes much to Mr, Platt; but he had the entire convention with him, and in point of fact it was so unanimous that it strained the machine to its innermost cog. The JUDGE is not a mugwump, and it ves Mr. Morton hearty congratulation and assurances of the support of its several bailiwicks so far as it can control them. He is a good man, his record is clean and pure, and he will. make one of the best governors the state ever had. And the JUDGE commends the selection of Senator Saxton for the second place. There is not a shadow to his cetriment, and with him at the head of the senate there will be extra effort and more suc cess in behalf of ballot-reform, The ticket and the platform are equally good, and, as Governor Flower has indirectly indicated, they will be adopted by an overwhelming majority. comicbooks.com