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# "An Inventive Genius" — Judge Magazine Cartoon Analysis This cartoon depicts a police court scene mocking a farmer's creative legal defense. According to the caption, "Farmer Jones" is accused of firing his haystack (apparently a disguised firearm). His absurd defense—that he was merely testing whether hay could ignite—satirizes both rustic ignorance and legal sophistry. The judge and court officials react with evident skepticism to this implausible explanation. The satire targets gullible juries who might accept ridiculous testimony, and perhaps critiques rural defendants' creative but transparently false excuses. The cartoon's title "An Inventive Genius" is ironic; the farmer's "invention" is transparently dishonest. This reflects Judge's urban, educated readership's attitude toward rural simplicity and attempted deception masquerading as innocence.
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Infringement of this copyright will be promptly and vigorously prosecuted. T°? UTAH— ring sister, come in in peace. TRE DRUM of England beats its way around the world. Josnce ween | Justice + Dut |! cee wih UNRAVEN didn’t succeed in establishing his various boun- daries. LENCE of Mr. so impress a pin drop. ard is ve that you can hear JOHN BULL, oddly enough, is mostly successful in bearing the money market. APPROPRIATION for the“com- pletion “of the “new “capitol at Albany? Ah, what a joke that is! ERAL MIL in some of his conversation indicates his belief that a miss is as good as he is himself. LFRED AUSTIN is a better politician than Swinburne, and therefore Lord Salisbury thinks he is a greater poet. THE EDITOR of the Zeening Poutce-courr jupce— Post had better look out. His stack on the night of the fifth instant bawling for peace might result in Flowery Fietps—" W'y. judge, it wuz like di hemor orter have a third term. I said he hadn't. see wuz soft. Den Weary called me a bum, SOME RE beries emphasize the serene feeling of safety which most of us are graciously permitted to enjoy. [TIS TRUE that M. Dumas wrote plays given mostly to outraged inno- cence and consequent agony, but it may be said to his honor that he never let his daughters see them acted. TH E MARLBOROUGHS and the Rothschilds are taking too much money out of this country; but Uncle Sam will be rich enough a century hence, when he gets his debts. paid. THs NEW WAR between the British and the Boers of South Africa is another case of gold. Same thing as in Venezuela and Alaska. ‘There is but one way. The pulpit must pray, in behalf of peace, for the annihilation of gold. BITRATION having been refused, the Westminster Gazette pro- poses a board of conciliation. The little Frenchman who w: pounded kept crying “Hurrah.” Why don’t you say a looker-on. vord pefore. being Enough’ ?” asked cre! said the little man; “1 gif much to know dot leedle ERY SUNDAY, according to Warner Miller, Herkimer is as dry as a powder-horn. go up there and touch a match to it to see it go off; and when it goes your uncle Warner will be mighty apt to go off too. HEN A NEWSPAPER of this country charges the Armenian butcheries to this government because doctrine has temporarily distracted attention from those horrors, it has done more to establish its reputation as a tory and a traitor than was done by any American or English tory during our first fight with England, HE NEW WOMAN is more or less a hypnotist. Shall we witness her destruction presently by the wife of the man whom she has led astray? Turn about is fair play; and the good old woman must learn at once the great art of handling a pistol without shooting herself. The privilege of wrong-doing and dying for it has been held by the man too HE MEANEST SCOUNDRELS are those who call themselves white- caps. Their ignorance is as dense as their crime is great, and their assumption of morality and the right to make and execute law is an insult : Me an’ Weary Wraggles : : zs of thé lungs wuz a-layin’ under de hay-stack gossipin’ like, w'en Weary said dat Cleveland Cloquently he adorns himself with Weary said he had. I said Weary — the shield and buckler of the church, Den I called Weary a hobo. Den we i-dis bot’ got red hot an’ de heat set fire ter de hay, an’ "—— fr aa NT diamond rob- juvce—" Five-hundred-dollar bonds for the superior court.”” patriotism in view. The common have the blood of the man who resists the common enemy. LYNCHINGS in the north are generally done by one man. The man is the person whose sister or wife has been induced to misbe- have, and his victim He is the hero of jur But the wretch who is killed is given no opportunity of self-defense, no lege of declaration of innocence. He simply dies, innocent or guilty. What of his character, his fam It must be stopped. R. MCKINSTRY, a civil-service commissioner of this state, sent his resignation to Governor Morton after an inv trouble with him was, his duties too well, and. though he is a Republican, the governor wanted his place for « spoilsman. The charge is funny enough in view of the office involved, but not too much so to be true. When a man wants to be president he isn’t quite responsible for some things; and, after all, this civil-service office was created mostly for the purpose of being outraged. EXTREME THIRST. But that is not safety. Some day Brother Platt will A SHAMEFUL CHARGE. s advocacy of the Monroe PROGRESS. IN BRADLEY’S STATE. to decency and an affront to com- mon sense. The half-dozen who shot and burned a man and a woman in Kentucky should go to the gallows without any unneces- sary delay. THE JUDICIAL VIEW. GOVERNOR MOKTON is calm, very calm and judicial, in his treatment of the Venezuelan question. He thinks,on the whole, that we hadn't better begin to pro- tect that republic until the British have possession of it—and not then. It must be said, however, that he doesn't want to destroy such per- sons as are willing to fight for jus- tice and the old flag. There is . nothing ferocious about Governor Morton. THE WICKED PATRIOTS. T IS POSSIBLE to be so em- phatic and copious in behalf of peace as to win the title of tory, or copperhead. One must, however, admit the valor of the peace war- rior. With what emphasis he at- tacks the man who would fight for his country or its honor, and how with the destruction of ordinary enemy is his friend, and he would OUR LYNCHINGS. the wretch who brought her to that misfortune. not of judges, and public opinion indorses him. y, and his friends? There is too much of REFORMING REFORM. ation to do so. The ver, that he performed according to the Utica Obse i i comicbooks.com