Judge — April 16, 1898 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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ape JUDGE'S FABLES. THE MINER. AND THE TREASURE, FAMISHING. Klondiker once, while. on. an arduous journey for provisions, caught sight of a half-hidden something glitter- ing ahead of him on the frozen trail. “Ugh!” he exclaimed, “ nothin’ but a nugget of gold, an"I've got them to burn. Now why couldn't it have been a dough- nut or a ham sandwich?” Suddenly his soliloquy ended in a delirious cry of joy, and rushing forward he soon unearthed a can of the Gilt-edge company’s brand of corned beef that. some luckless miner had lost. “Eureka!” he cried, dancing about in ecstasy ; “ my first real bonanza. Gold is all right to have in possession in the states, but I wouldn't part with this prize here for all the nuggets in the Klondike.” Moral—Precious things are for those that can prize them. WR. COOK. APRIL MADRIGAL. APRIL hedges all a-bioom, April nests a-flutter ; Spring is weaving at her loom Thoughts that all the air perfume, Thoughts no tongue can utter ! Breeze and bird in rivalship Flowery fields to capture ; Lad and lassie gayly trip Down the path of lip-to-lip— Oh, the world is rapture ! By the brooklet’s tune and time Every heart must know it's Just the month of rippling rhyme, Just the month of chant and chime— What a month for poets ! CLARENCE URMY, NATURAL TRIMMING, Miss Flowerpot has such a fine Easter bonnet that she is the énvy of all her lady-friends. Teer Sree KACE PREJUDICE, Hewrrt—" How did you queer yourself with that French girl?” (JEWETT—"'I asked her to dance the * german’ with SPRING CLOTHES. H, THERE'S nothing new. under the sun, Tn rapture, in rhyming or reason, That poet and song have not done Exalting the beautiful season. The crocus, the wind's caress, The branch, and the nesting upon it, While I resurrect iy last year's dress, And remodel my last year’s bonnet. Oh, the winter comes and it goes, : Spring wakes with its beauty and passiof ; If nature would only make over old clothes And renovate them into fashion. — iota rLayTae Seabury, LENT AT DAWSON CITY. * SHOW shall I cook the boot-leg to-day, Mike ?” said one Klondiker to another. “ This is Lent, Dan,” replied the latter. We must now give up luxuries. We'll have frappéd snowballs for breakfast and icicles au naturel for dinner.” OUT OF THE QUESTION. . sys.” meditat- __ed the sultan of Turkey, “it is quite out of the question for me to become a Christian, Thave been reading of the observance of Easter. Just think of my having to provide new Easter toggery for a harem the size of mine.” And he order- ed another massa- cre. A VALUABLE RECRUIT. GerNxRaL GoLDBRAIDo—" So you wish to enlist in the Spanish infantry, do you? Have you good qualifications ?” SPANISH RECRUIT—"'I have a record of thirty minutes in the six-mile run.” GENERAL GOLDBRAIDO- few Spanish left after a fight.” Excellentissimo perfecto! I will make you an infantry captain and you shall lead your soldiers in glorious retreats. Excellenza! T IS sometimes easier to forget than not to think. It is sometimes ‘There will beg easier not to think than to forget. comicbooks.com