Judge — April 24, 1897 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. ONITRD STATES AND CANADA IM ADVANCE. One copy, one year. or s2 numbers - $5.00 One copy, six months. or 26 numbers - 2-50 One copy, for thirteen weeks == 1.35 Taclading the Cuxistaas Juocr. FORBIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS —To alt Soreign countries in the postal union, $0.00 ‘year. THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY (JupcE BUILDING), Corner Fifth Avenue and Sixteenth Street, New York, 6" Circulation larger than any other cartoon weekly in the world. (27 NOTICE TO PUBLISHERS.—The contents of Juoce are protected by copy- right in both the United States and Great Britain, Infringement of this copyright will be promptly and vigorously prosecuted. T 1S GENERAL ORDERS that no egg shall have more than the three colors that belong to the old banner. L=t MR. GLADSTONE succeed with his bicycle and much will be done in behalf of the preservation of trees. se HE HEN comes first in the year as the national bird. ‘The eagle and the turkey come later. Let us celebrate the hen. A COLORED CONTRIB- UTOR is behind time in his remark that the late Mr. Corbett found the ‘ mons too sour and too high. F GOWDY, the Hoosier consul-general to Paris, really doesn’t wear a neck- tie, he won't be in Paris two weeks before they'll spell him. with a D, im- THE TRUTH IS that the government of Germany lost its head not only through the advent of the kaiser but through the retirement of Bismarck. . . WOMAN'S CLUB in this town has just died after a life of seven years. There can be no successful woman's club which is not made up pretty nearly alto- gether of men. A CABLE to Honolulu is not to be looked upon as an unmixed blessing. A little of the politics of that country is quite enough, and we don’t want daily contact with it. we have on this car !" SECOND PHILADELPHIAN (testily)—** Yes. [7 MAY be true that the story of Balam and that of Adam and Eve perish along with the story of Jonah; but we at least insist that the good book shall keep its ten commandments. [7 MAY be feared that if the capitol at Albany ever is completed the contractors will engineer a law providing for a new tower of babel. Might it not be well to let bad-enough alone? AT A POPULIST meeting out west recently three women tore out the beard of a male compatriot. It was powerful argument, but it set- tled nothing except the injured man’s determination to get a shave. THE PRINCESS CHIMAY is not to be blamed very much for jumping on a Paris stage and kissing an actress. We know of lots of persons who have wanted to do the same thing, and they didn’t belong to her sex either. [F ONE starves himself sufficiently, according to a theosophical author- ity, his vision becomes so clear that he can see the colors of souls. It is possible, however, that some souls are off color, and there may be others that do not hoist any. CONFIDENCES. First PHiLaDeLrnian (in Philadelphia trolley-car)—"* What a disagreeable conductor the annoying way he keeps saying ‘Step lively, please !"" NEPOTISM. HY PUNISH a man because he happens to be a relative of the president? That man has as good a right to hold office as if he had only poor relations. Let us have the kind of civil-service reform that tabooes no competent and honest man merely because a certain kind of blood runs in his veins. GROSS INCONSISTENCY. Soctacism urges that there must be government control of railroads and of the machinery of production. Yet there never was a socialist who didn’t hate a government and who didn’t do his utmost to destroy it. With such wholesale government as that, however, there would be con- tinued revolution—and that’s socialism. A HEROIC FIGURE. RANCES WILLARD adds prize-fighting to her list of evils that mus: be crushed, and would prohibit kinetoscope exhibitions of the same. Let us suggest a compromise. Thousands of people want to see the pictures of the Carson incident, and they must not be wholly disappointed. Let Miss Willard do a good thing for the progressive woman by insisting that no set of pictures shall be exhibited which does not include the figure of Mrs. Fitzsimmons as a leading feature. BLIGHTED LOVE IN POLITICS. A MR.SHORT of a Kansas town kept company” with a Miss Parsons twelve years and then mar- tied a divorced woman, Mr. Short had been successful in local politics ; but the women of the place sided with Miss Parsons and last election-day they ran him out of office by a large majority. Questions of matrimony ought not to have influence in politics ; but there is nobody who won't rejoice at this evidence that the women of Kansas have as much human nature in them as anybody else. ROYALTY AND DIS- EASE. THE KAISER has a habit of playing tricks with his officers, tripping them up with his sword, poking them in the ribs, etc, that has occa- sioned fear as to his sanity; and the czar is suffering from a blow on his head received several years ago, and has a dislike of the duties of his position quite as pronounced as before his inauguration. Mr. Gladstone's litle para- graph as to the misfortune of authority in the cases of these young men is very suggestive; yet it is but a repetition of history with respect to every royal house in Europe. TWO SOULS. WE LEARN from Mrs. Besant that the soul of Blavatsky now occu- pies the body of a dissolute Hindu of India of the age of nineteen years. The youth bélongs to a royal family which has greatly deteriorated. The Blavatsky soul drove out the original occupant of the body after a lively fight, and the latter, so far as known, is wandering about in a state” of eternal eviction and consequent unhappiness. Theosophy professes better things than such downright robbery as that, and we hope the Bla- vatsky essence will presently have thunder knocked out of it in its turn. MORE NICE THAN WISE. ATTLES BETWEEN ARMIES are not agreeable things. They are infinitely more wicked and shocking than battles between prize- fighters. Yet the newspaper that ignored them would be laughed out of existence. To be consistent that newspaper should likewise ignore all news of a melancholy nature. Why give news of accidents? Why the sickening details of earthquakes and floods? Are not they, too, demoral- izing and unfit for publication? Millions of people wanted the news of a late prize-fight. It didn’t follow that they approved of the disgraceful exhibition, ‘They wanted the news, they paid for it, and they had a right to it. Newspapers are not altogether material for Sunday-schools. He must be from New York, judging from comicbooks.com