Judge — June 26, 1897 — page 6: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

udge 'TWAS EVER THUS. HE rain it falls upon the just And, too, upon the unjust fellows, But more upon the just because The unjust have the just's umbrellas. HER GRIEVANCE, THE occasion was a “colo- nial tea,” and Master Richard and Miss Florence, appropriately costumed, offi- ciated as guides to direct the guests to the gentlemen's and ladies’ dressing-rooms respectively. The gentlemen's room was on the first floor, and consequently Richard was in a position to attract considerable attention. Florence, peep- TI “AND THE CLOCK STRUCK ONE." HOTEL RATES, Hewitt—"' I had a nightmare the last time I was at that ing down the stairs, observed this. She heard him referred to as a handsome little page, but she said nothing till the next morning. “Mamma,” she said, “I heard them call Rich a page, but they didn’t call me any- thing: and I should think (looking at the costume she had worn) if Rich was a page | must have been a pageant.” AN EYE TO BUSINESS. hovel! Gotringskt (the rich pawnbroker)—"' No, mein young frendt, I can‘d be your fader tel.” What of it?” *T foolishly mentioned it to the clerk the next morning and he charged me for the use of one horse.” x OOD OLD TIMES. or Those good old times when we were young ! Our tiny home, our great good cheer! We pinched and saved year after year, Yet merrier songs were neverssung, Nor happier hours e’er passed, in truth, Than ours in that uncurtained room, For none I wish unhappier doom Than no such memories of youth. JUOITH SPRNCRR. LIMITED LUXURY. Ji DAWES had never made much success in life from the time the boys got the better of him in trades at school until he was jostled off his claim in Oklahoma. His special talent was for fence-buildiog, but in a country where produce is more plenty than coin Jim was paid for his services mainly in supplies. At hog-killing time he was the recipient of hog-jowls as recompense for his labor, and rarely saw a greater luxury. Through influence and persistence he ( finally secured froin the govern- ment a pension of two dollars a week, to which he had a legiti- mate claim, Passing him on the street one day a neighbor called out, «Jim, I've got some fences to be put up, and I want you to come out to the farm and help me. We'll have a hog-killing pretty soon, and there wilt be some good jowls for you to pay you for your trouble.” “Thank you,” responded Jim with the easy independence of a man with an assured in- come. “1 don't mind helpin’ you with your fences, but I'm eatin’ a little further back on the hog now.” THE BRUTE, Mrs, Hoon—* Why do you persist in referring to the fold- ing-bed ashe’? Why isn’t it just as appropriate to call it‘she’ as it is a ship?” . Old Hoon— Because it shuts up occasionally.” Eartess Eppie—" V fourteen lawyers, over in that cemetery. in-law; but (suavely) I vill be an ungle to you." 2, PROPHETIC, Yes, Parson Dingly had told Jones that he would backslide if he biked Sundays. wat Franck THE PERMANENT ABODE OF LAW. Cnouty Texperroot—"* Is this a law-abiding community, my friend ?" . Say, podner ; there's more law abidin’ in this community than you've any idee of. There's judges, an''six prosecutin’ attorneys, ter say nuthin’ uv deputy-sheriffs an’ bill-collectors, all planted comicbooks.com