Judge — February 5, 1898 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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PUBLISHED ONC TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. One copy, one year, or $2 numbers - $5.00 One copy, six months, or 36 numbers = 2.80 One copy, for thirteen weeks = 135 facluding the Crarsrmas Jvoce FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS —To alt the postal union, $0.00 ‘A WEEK. ith Street, New York. rem NoTH both the U: vigorously prosecuted. are protected by copyright in ingement of this copyright will be promptly and $1,000.00 witt be given to the contestant in JUDGE’S prize- puzzle competitions who is the first to solve correctly every one of the puzzles in three successive contests. MB: SMALLEY may perhaps be mentioned as the man without a country. THE FINANCIAL DISCOVERIES of Nansen in this country are more potential than any of his discoveries up there. [F MRS. LEASE ever has a chance to address Speaker Reed it will be found that our congress has a czarina as well as a czar. [7 ISTHOUGHT that the leg- islature of New Jersey wi grant the request of Mr. Whisk- ers for a change of name, but it will be by a close shave. [F PRESIDENT SAM might compromise with earthquakes as he did with the German cruis- ers there wouldn't be a dime left in the Haytian exchequer. EALTH WILL BUY any- thing but peace. That is conferred largely by death, as several millionaires might testify if they might recover from their self-destruction, THE ALDERMAN of Chi- cago who proposes curfew for adults hits the nail on the head. With men and women locked up it would be safe for the children to be out all night. THE GREAT VICTORY of the new year thus far is the elimination of Mr, Weyler from the topics of the period;’but it is humiliating to reflect that it has failed to kill him, THE PENSION LAWYER grows rich from the sufferings of soldiers and robbery of the government. He is as bad as was the confed- erate cause, and he or Uncle Sam must go. DURRANT, murderer of girls, remarked, just previous to his execution, “I know the Lord is with me.” Let us hope it was so; but it is safe to say that there was never any previous communication of that kind. MB: CROKER, who is opposed to Mr. Hill, may presently recall these ancient lines : He digged a pit, he digged it deep, He digged it for his brother; But by-and-by he found himself In the hole he digged for t'other. HAVING BEEN annihilated in politics, the Courter-Journal says it doesn’t propose to have a theological fight with anybody. - We im- agine it isa case of theological exhaustion too. For some time back its theology has consisted largely of powerful adjectives of the most shocking description. R OF PRECAUTION. tion army, Weary Wracces (suspiciously) —"* Bin givi Torn Tomrxins—* Nope ; peddlin’ soap.” THE BOOTHS BOOTH-TUCKER has inadvertently done much for the American volunteers by declaring that Mrs. Ballington Booth affects sick- ness in order to create sympathy. The face of the lady is a sufficient answer to the calumny; and there isn’t a woman in the world who has so thoroughly the faith of religionists and sinners alike. It is as mean a blow as a man ever inflicted on any woman, A COMIC-OPERA KING. PAPER having the average amount of common sense treats with gravity the proposition that the kaiser will take Hawaii and then make an effort to whip the United States. It is no compliment to the young man that such foolishness could be suspected of him; but what a reminder it is of the grave misfortune which has been brought upon Ger- many through death and the consequent succession. BLOOD IS CHEAP. HE SULTAN is forgotten in the eagerness of the powers to kill China and distribute her remains, The safety of his majesty lies in the troubles of others, and it is so pronounced at this time that he can kill a hundred thousand Christians without the slightest danger to himself. Perhaps the powers will have small trouble in settling the means to their enrichment, but the saving of blood is a dangerous thing. WHY IT EXISTS. NE GOOD THING about a women’s club is the fact that it enables its members to tell every week in set speeches just why the club exists. Another delightful thing ' is its placid satisfaction over the } weekly increase in the number of its members, and in imagin- ing an opposition on the part of the press and the public which does not exist. But it really ought to have its pretty songs, like the Sunday-schools, where- in the members sing, “ Ob, how Tove my dear, dear club,” etc ete, CHICAGO POLITICAL MORALITY. THE DEMOCRACY of Cook county, Illinois, assisted Memphis in its late local elec- tion, as it assisted our own Tam- many last November. Mayor Harrison has inaugurated a new idea, not to call it a new salva- Cook county will, be a reserve force for the Democ- racy of the entire country dur- ing Harrison's administration at least. But the reflection as to different effects from the same cause is curious. The presence of Harrison's cohorts, including “ Billy-the-fox,” “ Bath-house-Johnnie,” etc., in behalf of the Republican party of any lozality would ruin that organization beyond recovery. HER PAINFUL LOGIC. THE WOMEN of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, protested against the ad- mission of Miss Ada Gillette to practice law before the Worcester county bar, and the application was refused apparently for that reason. It was not alleged that Miss Gillette was incompetent or ineligible, but that she had. lived, innocently enough perhaps, several years with a man who had been divorced from his wife. The public, not to say the Phila- delphia lawyer, will find it difficult to associate the fact and the application in any legal or reasonable way, but is it not characteristic of the logic of the average woman? SEX BEFORE BIRTH. ‘THE NEWSPAPERS of the country are unanimous in the opinion that if the sex of children can be selected during the period of gestation by the kind of food eaten by the mother we shall inevitably have, in time, a superabundance of males and hardly any girls at all. Their argument is that boys are more easily self-supporting and more valuable from most points of view. They omit consideration of the fact that women are more competent to take care of themselves by fifty per cent. than they were fifty years ago; but there may arise the greater danger that for that reason they may eventually refuse, from a ‘purely business point of view, to be mothers at all. boxin’-lessons?” comicbooks.com