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This poem satirizes the excessive public enthusiasm anticipated for Admiral George Dewey's return to America following his naval victory in the Spanish-American War (Manila Bay, 1898). The satire proposes absurdly harsh laws to protect Dewey from well-meaning but annoying admirers: fans wanting locks of hair, autograph seekers, people naming babies after him, and "souvenir sharks." The humor escalates from mere imprisonment to stocks, ninety-pound chains, and keel-hauling for minor offenses. The poem mocks both the public's obsessive hero-worship and Dewey's anticipated discomfort with it. References to "Hobsonesque" behavior allude to Richmond Hobson, another Spanish-American War hero mobbed by admirers. The piece appeared amid genuine concern that Dewey's homecoming would trigger scenes of mass hysteria—which it actually did in 1899.

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In ordcr to get its beneficial effects and to avoid imitations, please remember the full name of the Company printed on the front of every package. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. e IN DEFENSE OF DEWEY. A law should be framed to hold chumplets in check Before Admiral Dewey gets back ; If not they will chase him all over the deck. He'll be harried, bedeviled, reduced to a wreck ; ‘Ten thousand weird females may fall on his neck And give him the Hobsonesque smack. Just reflect— ‘The horrible Hobsonesque smack ! ‘The law should be simple, succinct and severe, And the penalties something immense. No kisser should get any less than a year, And the wording should make it exceeding clear ‘That each kiss is a separate offense— D'ye hear? A specific and separate offense. The people who ask for a lock of his hair Should be locked up for the rest of their lives ; Each autograph fiend should be tracked to his lair And, sitting in stocks in some prominent square, Should be loaded with ninety-pound gyves Then and there— With clanking and ponderous gyves. All babies named Dewey, where'er they are found, Should be promptly arrested and spanked, ‘Their parents meantime being kept in the pound ; While the souvenir sharks should be rigidly und And have all their wisdom-teeth yanked Clear around— ‘Their wisdom-teeth leisurely yanked. The minor offenders, as fast as run down, Might be keel-hauled in bunches of four; And then when our conquering hero strikes town He will have no occasion to rue his renown And flee from the blight of the bore ‘Any more— ‘The blatant and back-slapping bore New Orleans Trmes-Democrat, Marconi's wireless telegraphy appears to be Health Soap Don’t let your skin we chances; better use pure, white, clean Wool Soap. Your skin likes it. 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SSE JAMES, Fort Scott, Kan, mentioning Juoce a 140-page, half-toned illus- trated book on “Angling and Tackle” will be 1. | mailed you free. REUBEN WOOD'S SONS’ CO.,syracuse, N.Y. NEW YORK, N. ¥. LOUISVILLE, KY. a success, but the news about it still comes by For sale by all Druggists.—Price S0c. per bottle. wire.—Philadelphia Ledger, THE MAN OF THE HOUR. A Magnificent Portrait of Admiral Dewey (size 13% x 20 inches, printed in 10 colors on plate paper) will be issued with the DEWEY NUMBER OF JUDGE, July 1st, 1899. This portrait is being made from a photograph which Admiral Dewey told the JUDGE representative at Manila (Mr. Edwin Wildman) was the best that had éver been taken of him. It will be printed in the famous French style of color-plate printing. YOU WILL WANT A COPY OF THE DEWEY NUMBER OF JUDGE. ‘Order it in advance of your Newsdealer; otherwise you are liable to be disappointed in getting it. In the spring of 1896 JUDGE published a double-page portrait of President McKinley (who had then just been nominated for the presidency), and sold of it 600,000 copies. Only recently JUDGE. published the front- page cartoon shown here, and sold 150,000 copies, These are but indications of what the demand will be for the Dewey Number of JUDGE and the Dewey Portrait. Dowd CET LET! Semple terra the Cle Bogineerio Berend ‘room "positions. tor pamphlets. Price, $4.00. RALSTON HEALTH SHOE MAKERS, Campelio, Mass, comicbooks.com