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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page 279 This page contains several humorous anecdotes and satirical cartoons typical of Judge's early 20th-century style. The top section "How It Happened" mocks Major Bluegrass, "a famous criminal advocate" from Tallahassee, Alabama, through exaggerated dialect humor—a common (though cringe-worthy) comedic device of the era. The joke plays on his theatrical courtroom demeanor. The middle cartoon "The Ruling Passion" depicts a bicycle accident case, satirizing how lawyers and judges focus on technicalities rather than justice. Lower sections include "Plain Enough," "A Practical Possibility," and "Hadn't the Game, But Wanted the Name"—short joke pieces mocking social pretension, domestic situations, and hunter braggadocio. The cartoons use exaggerated character types and dialectal speech for comedic effect, reflecting period attitudes toward class, profession, and regional differences.
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279 HOW IT HAPPENED. AS MAJOR BLUEGRASS, the famous criminal advocate of Tallahachiepoola, Alabama, sat in his office one hot day the door was burst violently open and Major Fireater rushed in in a remarkably excited and disheveled condition, even for him. “Majah! majah!" he cried hoarsely, wiping the perspiration from his face with his necktie. * Majah! I want t' sue Majah Pep- pah fo’ damages, suh! fo" Aeavy damages, suh !” “Be ca'm, majah! be ca’m, suh! an’ state th’ faicts, majah, sub,” interrupted the advocate with judicial dignity. “Why, majah ! majah ! ‘twas like this, sub. I was jes’ a-com- in’ out uv Majah Redeye’s saloon, sub, an’ Majah Peppah wuz a- hitchin’ his muel in front, sub, an’ I sais to him, * Majah,’ sais I, * majah, good-mornin’ to you, majah’; an’ he sais to me, * Majah Fireatah, sub, yo'r wuss'n a greasy yankee, sub.’ ‘Why, majab!’ sais 1, ‘majah, what do you mean, suh?’ An’ he sais, * Majah, taik PLAIN ENOUGH. Tos Charlie Deadbroke married a very rich woman, didn’t he?” Auice—""I guess so, I heard the minister interpolate something in the service about the holy bonds and mortgages of matrimony.” THE RULING PASSION. oe {7 3 ; yyy a Yiijiticz2 THE sufferer slowly raised his eyelid here am 1?” he asked. $ . : * You were run into by another bicyclist,”’ answered the attendant, HADN'T THE GAME, RUT WANTED THE NAME. Later, as he was about to breathe his last, he asked in a touching 4. CNOLLY—"" Me good fellah, would you kindly arwest and fine me for shooting : : jeer out of season? manner, * What was the name of his machine ? Gali wianes = tow mtoy did jet dost CHoLLy—"* I didn't shoot any ; but if you'll arwest and fine me for shooting six deer, and have it put in the Adiwondak eres, I'll take fifty copies of the papah and give you fifty dollars bonus.” thet, su.’ An’ majah, then the majah struck me, majah ; struck me ten times, su, ovah th’ haid s muel-whip, sub. I haid hens in this haind, sub, an’ I haid two dozen aigs in this haind, sub, an’ I sais, *Majah! majah!’ sais I, ‘majah! ain’t you a-makin’ a mistake, suh? An’ he sais, ‘ Yais sub, I'm a overheatin’ uv mabself, suh’; an’ then, majab, the majah he climbed onto his muel an’ he rode me down, suh ; an’ I sais, “Why, majah ! majah ! majah! yo've suahly been a-drinkin’, sub’; an’ now, majah, I want damages, suh ! “ Majah,” said the advocate solemnly, “majah, yo've a clear case agin th’ majah fo’ th’ price uv two settin’ hens an” two dozen aigs.” WOLF! WOLF! Y WIFE smelled fire for twen A PRACTICAL POSSIBILITY. _ty years Mrs. Cones (enthusiasticall))—" Loog, Shakop ; how vonderful! He dakes a nickel oud ohf der poy's nose und den Each night when she awoke ; magkes him a bresend ohf id ! But when at last we had one, did Mr. Conten (excitedly)—"" Sh! Rachel—don'd scare him | Not even smell the smoke. for us !" H.W. DARNARD, Berhabs he drys dot drick by Abie’s nose und finds a tollar