Judge — February 12, 1898 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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TERMS TO SUBSCKIBERS. Ove copy, one year, or $2 numbers - $5.00 Ove copy, six months, oF 26 numbers = 2.40 oy fectuding the Cueisrmas Juoce. Soreien countries im the postat waren, $0.00 THE ARKELL PUBLISHING COMPANY (Juncr Buioinc), Corner Fifth Avenue and Sixteenth Street, New York. E-Circulation larger tham any other cartoon weekly in the world. £27 NOTICE TO PUBLISHERS.—The contents of Juoce are protected by copyright in both the United States and Great Britain. Infringement of this copyright will be promptly and vigorously prosecuted. $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. COUNT ESTERHAZY is not guilty because Dreyfus is a Jew. SPEAKING of autonomy in Cuba, there is no such thing as autonomy in Cuba. HERE 1S a suspicion in Ohio that one of Mr. Hanna's chief opponents is the man who Kurtz no ice. R. CROKER as a club and society leader has a four hundred that is a thousand times that much too numerous. T DOESN'T SEEM right for the El mira Gazette to call Carl Schurz a flip-flop. Mr. Schurz doesn't flip —he merely flops, LET_US HAVE COMFORT in the reflection that, while Ohio politics are still active, the election of Mr. Hanna was achieved without bloodshed, ++ GREAT popular demonstration against any further agitation of the Dreyfus case” is a Parisian proposi- tion good enough for an Irish bull. [71S NOT steange that Bismarck should be vexed at reports of his own death. At his age a man doesn’t want to be re- minded that such things are liable to occur, WE CALL the attention of the gov- ernment of Spain to the suggestive fact that one American cowboy recently HOW IT WILL BEGIN. YOU MAY LOOK for trouble with Spain through just such riots as the one at Havana which invited a visitation of United States war- vessels. It may come to-day or to-morrow, but its coming some day is inevitable. THE GUILTY MAN. THE PREACHER of Bridgeport, Connecticut, who denounces the president as a drunkard and says he has sunk to the level of the heathen, undoubtedly wants notoriety. It is of small moment that his veracity is greatly mutilated as to the alleged fact; but the sinking men- tioned must be attributed to himself rather than to McKinley or any other man, MONEY AGAINST BLOOD. HE PROPOSITION of the governor of Maryland that damages for Iynchings be paid for in cash may lessen the number of murders of that kind. Men who are indifferent to bloodshed are generally notorious for their timidity against attacks on their pocket-books; and if they have to pay for the indignation which leads them to kill they may conclude not to indulge in it. THE SAVAGE IN WOMAN. THE FACT that a mother whose son had been killed in a game of foot- bali objected earnestly toa bill prohibiting the game, and the other fact that many young ladies of Richmond applauded speeches in the Vir- ginia legislature in opposition to a simi- lar bill, demonstrate a love of danger on the part of the sex which will not permit the other sex to get away from it. There is a great deal of the savage in the gentle bosoms of those persons yet. FRANCE AND THE JEWS. CAPTAIN DREYFUS in his disgrace- ful exile is a factor in French politics far greater than he might have been if he had kept his freedom. It is certain that his guilt was not conclusively proven, and he ought to have had the benefit of the doubt in view of the magpitude of his punishment. Governments cannot afford to be unjust, and the suffering of one in nocent man because of hatred of his race may bring about suffering to the nation which is responsible for his undoing. CIVILIZATION. HOSE SEMINOLES who are indig- nant because the whites of their neigh- borhood burned two Seminoles at the stake ought not to make a fuss about it. Doubtless the whites have been reading back and have merely adopted the old In- dian manners and customs that included this species of amusement. ‘They ought to look upon this fact as a personal com- pliment; and besides they must remember that in some portions of the south black men are not only burned at the stake but killed four Spaniards on the Mexican AN UNWILLING GROOM. are filled full of lead. border. PARSON (as bride presents left hand)—"* Doan’ yo’ know soe dat de right han’ am nes‘sary toe mek er legal cerymony THE UNHAPPY FAVORITE. THE FASHION of some society ladies of London of having themselves pho- tographed in their night-gowns would seem to indicate a modesty that forbids a picture in evening dress. WE TRUST the man in Alabama who killed himself on the day ap- pointed for his marriage was thoughtful enough to give his intended an insurance-policy. [T 1S doubuless true that the Yale victories are celebrated by revels, as the Voice says; but how much stranger it would be if that part of the regular programme were to be omitted. MBS PLATT must start a club. Possibly he is a silent partner of Mr. Croker in the one already started, but if he ever tries to join it he will be, blackballed by an overwhelming majority. THE OFFER of twenty thousand dollars for the discovery and identifi- cation of Sirs. Luetgert alive will probably amount to nothing, be- cause, as was remarked of Sairy Gamp’s Mrs. ‘Arris, there ain't no sich pusson. Bride—"" I does. I'm usin’ hit fo' dat berry puppose.”” THE FAVORITE ACTOR of the mat- inée had better behave himself. The newspapers jump on him with every opportunity, quite as if, like the lesser and meaner critics, they were the victims of a cheap article of jealousy. In the case of Ratcliffe there was apparently a conspiracy; and this is partially proved by the fact that the injured lady claimed to have dan- gerous injuries, while in truth they were comparatively trivial. In no case must a man strike a woman; but why make a fiend of a man simply because he is a favorite and a good actor? BLUFF AGAINST DEATH. WO MEN recently killed by the law died with protestations of inno- cence on their lips, and the result is some sympathetic comment in their behalf. But we believe the last words of distinguished murderers convicted on circumstantial evidence have been of that character in eight out of ten cases; and it is a fair inference that the person capable of mur- der is likewise capable of the minor crime of lying even at the moment of his punishment. Possibly, too, he has proclaimed his innocence so many times that he has come to believe in it himself, however guilty he may be. It is clear bluff; and again he may have a courteous objection in behalf of himself to denial of his previous important statements. comicbooks.com