Judge — July 29, 1899 — page 6: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

THE COUNTRY EDITOR'S POWER. BER thirty-six years I ve took this here paper.” said Uncle Jedediah as he (old~ ed up a copy of the Basswood Corners /ustler and put it in his pocket, pre- paratory to going home from the store.“ Of course it ain’t up with the big city papers. It never got out but one supplement in its hist'ry that f know of, an’ that was when the editor got his house paid for an‘ got out a special edition to boom the town, It ain’t filled up with pictures of actresses an’ the like. The only picture it has had fer six years is of that feller down in Pin Hook. Georgy, that was cured by wearin’ Dr. Dupem’s liver-pad. It don’t have any correspondents in London, or Paris, or New York, or Washington; but it has items from Frogeye every week, an’ they're mighty interestin’, fer that’s where my wife’s relations all live. it don’t compare with New York or Boston papers in size or influenc n't particularly cnterprisin’; it never run a missin'-word con- test nor rafiled off a bicycle; it ain't a moulder of political sentiment; but, HIS APPLE . Weary Wittir—" I come he: in answer to your advertisement fer a nurse-maid.” Mxs. Haucitos—" You did?" Weary Witue—" Yes'm, I y like de job uv watchin’ de nurse-m: to see she don't steal de kid.” THEY COME NEXT. SAID one yellowed and a picture of the woman Dewey wanted and cot Now wh Now we'll print a series of pictures of women that Dewey might have fallen in love with if he had met them.” THE DIFFERENCE. WHEN you mate in the game of chess , 4 _— ‘The game is surciy won Ducror—"* Vou are very nervous, ma'am, I'm afraid you are suffering from overeating.” AWheisiuamate ta aanec sent Parient—" That's just it, doctor. Lrun a Brooklyn boarding-house, and the majority of my boarders eat twice a The ae ibe rauch as they pay for, It's simply killfng.” game is only be; “this little shect can set ev blessed woman in town to cack lin’ away so industriously that she won't notice when meal-time comes by simply sayin’ that there's goin’ ter be a weddin’-surprise some time next month, WG, BEOONS, HER PRIVILEGE. ] AM keeping very shady As to cycles built for two, While I'm waiting for the lady Who is so distinctly * new” That she'll have the r Of the place that When she asks me if I'll be a Partner in her tandem ride Tam never heard decrying What they label ** woman's rights,” And she'll find I'm not denying Her the place for which she fights. I will promise not to meddle Till she thinks she's had her fill If she'll sit behind and pedal On the tandem up a hill, YeANk HOR RATCHRLDEN APPETITE. te] CALL my new horse Cy- clone.” “Why?” Vexcy. If you wefuse me I shall die.” EtHri—** How soon?” Z fo Pexcy—"* Well, just as soon as I conveniently can aftaw getting back fwom the four-weeks’ fishing-twip I'm going on uum in his centre, to-morrow, dontcnerknow,”” A DESPERATE LOVER. “He seems to have a vac- comicbooks.com