Judge — December 11, 1897 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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age PUBLISHED ‘A WEEK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBE UNITED STATES AND CANADA IM ADVANCE. One copy, one year, or 52 numbers One copy, six months, oF 26 aumbers = ‘One copy, for thirteen weeks. ~ including the Cunistwas JU%cE. FQREIGN SUBSCRIPTIO. Soreien countries im the postal ‘a year. THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY (Junce BuiLpiNc). Corner Fifth Avenue and Sixteenth Street, New York, EBr-Circulation larger than any other cartoon weekly in the world. £2 NOTICE TO PUBLISHERS —The contents of Juvce are protected by copyright in both the United States and Great Britain, lofringement of this copyright will be promptly and vigorously prosecuted, HRISTMAS briggs: good cheer because it brings the CHRISTMAS JupGe. Our'Christmas number will be published next week, and will girdle the globe with glee. To avoid disappointment ask your newscealer to save a copy for you, or send twenty-five cents for one to the publisher. THERE MUST be larger birds.. The women want them for their bon- nets. see ELECTIONS in Kentucky speak THE GOOD SULTAN. WRITER who has been entertained by the sultan says his majesty is quiet and very much of a gentleman, He has a velvet voice and is evidently a man of conscience and culture. He cannot help the assassi~ nation which has occurred pro and con between his subjects of different religious creeds, but he is sorry for it. Perhaps Byron described that person better—“as mild a mannered man as ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.” THRONE OR WOMAN? ‘THE BROTHER of the khedive of Egypt who gives up his chance for a cheap little throne in order to marry an American woman is not entitled to large praise. As the khedive he would have very limited au- thority under the control of the English government, and between the office and the lady there could be only one sensible choice. Who wouldn’t give up the toil and trial of that office for an American woman? The man is mighty lucky to have the chance. IT WAS ONLY SCOTCHED. THE SILVER IDIOCY is not dead. The political observer will notice that the silver ticket in Ohio was beaten by only a small majority, and further west the crank politicians are stronger than they were a year ago; while the Democrats of this state are controlled by the silver men, and the loudly for free murder and free silver, WEYLER can put in the defense that he didn’t butcher—he mere- ly starved, see Lt US HOPE that the Spaniards will not get up a war with Hannis Taylor too. Me: HANNA squeezed through. but. the tightness took all the buttons off his coat. THEY ARE talking now of making Seth Low governor. Why not make him king of England? Me. PULLMAN was a stern man. His will shows that he considers his twins no better than strikers. HE SPANISH BULL-FIGHT is cruel and barbarous, but in voicing our rebuke let us not forget that Aug- tria has a reichsrath, THE PLACES that have known Ar- thut, Gorman will have to be re- introduced {o him if there is to be any ¢ hurted, capting.”” future recognition. Foor-Bai Rusper— 4 AN AUTHORITY says that Sena- tor Hill has no equal as a political leader. That may be, but latterly he has led by carrying the pail at the tail of the procession. G0 MUCH STARCH was taken out of the civil-service law in this state that not a Republican official by appointment will be able to stick to his place, MARK TWAIN, in, saying that be'is still deeply in debt, reminds us-of thedaty. of wahsotatem through the remark that the world is still more deeply in debt to him. o THE CLERGYMAN who married a couple in a lions’ den took care to remain outside during the ceremony. He hadn't the blood of the late Mr. Daniel in his veins, and he had no desire to go to judgment. MB: SULLIVAN is right in saying that he can look as wise as any- body. We noticed that after his meeting with Mr. Corbett; and not only that, but he knew what had happened just as soon as it had occurred. A DIRECT INSULT. Rupper (after the game)—"* Dat new half-back feels bery much CAPTAIN—"' Why ; what ails him?" Why, he came out ob'de game widout a scratch, Dem Yale players didn't eben tink ernuff ob him toe kick hees ribs in.” same is true of Kentucky and other states. General prosperity ought to have made this situation impossible, but Mr. Bryan has some reason for his high hopes. CHURCH SEVERITY. BURNT CORK for women min- strels in behalf of charity having been forbidden by Bishop Potter under the auspices of his church, one recalls the remark of Henry Ward Beecher that the devil has no right to all the best tunes. A minstrel show of that kind has a deal of (un as well as char- ity in it, and has the church no right to fun either? The proprieties and the dignities spoil a good deal of enjoy- ment, though they have their rights too. THE DUTY OF A NEWS- PAPER. IF MR. DANA left orders that his own newspaper should be beaten by every other journal in the country in connection with the news of his own death, it is evident that something was the matter with him besides the alleged cause of his departure. Eccentricity is pardonable where it can't be helped; but the kind of eccentricity that troub- led Horace Greeley was permitted no authority in the office of the 7ribune when that good old man went to his reward. = EXCESSIVE HONOR. D°ES ANYBODY know of any white man who, sentenced to death and given liberty pending his execution, would voluntarily go to the place set for that event when his term of freedom expired? That is the ecstasy of honor, and two Indians have had the experience recently, a Choctaw and a Creek, one of whom was shot and the other reprieved. Possibly the stoicism of the red man has something to do with the honor, but the white man is not so constituted as to be stoical when his life is at stake. A CHANCE FOR FOOLISHNESS. ‘THE FIRST SESSION of the fifty-fith congress will unavoidably spread the ¢agle’s wings and make the bird scream. The Cuban question will receive its first attention, and they say that if action in behalf of the island is not taken many western representatives will lose their seats, the west being wild for intervention. The Hawaiian matter will have prompt attention, and the opposition of Japan may force annexation through regardless of consequences. There will be great talk and there may be prompt and dangerous action. Business is now good and is im. proving. The action of this congress may easily create trouble for it. comicbooks.cbm