Judge — August 19, 1899 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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wuage. PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK AT THE JUDGE BUILDING TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS UNITED STATES Axo CANADA TH ADVANCE One copy, one year. or sz numbers - $5.00 ‘One copy, six menths, of 3 numbers = 2.50 ‘One copy’ for thirteen weeks Ps including the Cwaistmas Jvoce. FOKEIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS ~Te ali Sorcign countries in the postal Soon ‘a year. SaLasacents—/mtermational news company, Bream's building, Chancery lane. sdpm; Brentane's, avenue del Opera. Paris: Saarbach's news exchange, Mains jue and Sixteeath Street, New York. cer than any other cartoon weekly in the world EB NOTICE TO PUBLISHERS.—The contents of Juoce both the United States and Great Britain, Infringems A r rosecuted WOMEN are ceasing to marry. according to a lady writer, because men are ceasing to marry. We had suspected this. THE AVERAGE DEMOCRAT is not strenuous for free silver or legitimate currency. rotected by copyright 9 of this copyright will be promptly a He is out for what he can get. THE TAN ON LUXURIES is high in Hesse, the diet of which makes bachelors pay twenty-five per cent, more than married men A NEW FEUD in Kentucky has resulted in the killing of five men, and the Goebel and the anti-Goebel Democrats haven't yet begun to shoot. THE DEMOCRACY of Pennsylvania are silent as to silver and wide- mouthed in behalf of Bryan. The eloquence of idiocy rely gets a finer tribute than that. ARK TWAIN'S BOOK to be published a century after its author's "death will see the light contemporaneously with the completion of the monument to Adam. mocracy of Kentucky is such that Henry Watterson can’t write a paragraph with- out dodging with his head and getting up to look be- hind the door. FREE SPEECH must and shall be preserved. Its chief privilege in this coun- try is to abuse the president. This does not involve, how= ever, the necessity of swat- ting him with a club, = W E DON'T KNOW how much money the editor of the Rochester Union had up on Fitzsimmons, but he says the fight was a burning shame and Governor Roose- velt was responsible for it. se THE MANAGEMENT of Sing Sing prison is not all that it should be. We ob- serve that one convict, writ- ing for the Star of Hope, the prison organ, charges another convict with eating with his knife. T WAS O. H. P. Belmont who said William C. Whit- ney had gone to meet Dewey to get him to run for presi- dent on the Democratic tick- et; and yet neither he nor William has gone to sheol or bedlam, Lutu—*' The wretch! and there I refused him ” Mase. h! And what did he do?” LuLu—" Lit a cigarette.” SURE DEATH. He said if I refused him he would take a dose of poison then THE CAUSE OF IT. [NVESTIGATION by the Spaniards shows that Cervera was not to blame for the destruction of his Heet. We trust the American war- vessels will not be drawn into this inquiry, because they might not get off as easily. VAN, THE USED-UP MAN. HE VAN WYCK TICKET, which was formally presented in Tam- many hall on the fourth, would have been a flash in the pan if it hadn’t been a sizer. Nevertheless Judge van Wyck will probably have as much support when the Democracy meets as Gorman will, poor man, VAULTING AMBITION. R. VALENTINE of Perth Amboy wanted to lead in society, and so stole a large sum of money {rom the bank of which he was cashier. Probably he will lead in the society in which he will now spend some years of his life, but possibly it is not the kind of society he would select if he had his way about it. TOO MUCH OF IT. HE SCIENTIST who has discovered how to make men and women live fifty thousand years has not done a good thing. With the next life so far off few of us will behave; and to the truly good heaven is a con- summation to be desired within a reasonable period. ‘Then, too, there won't be a professional undertaker anywhere in this world. FAIR PLAY. THE AHEARN LAW has in view retaliation for legitimate prosecution of public officials, and is not right; but a law for the protection of men against malicious prosecution—certain suits for libel against news- papers, for instance—ts urgently needed. is used in this way ought it not to give the defense satisfaction and damages? VERY BAD SHOOTING. EX-KING MILAN of Servia, who had himself shot at in order to achieve for himself a popularity that he never deserved, is a fair judge of human nature; but he should have known that he would never be popular until he was dead, The only good Milan, as in the case of the aborigine, is the dead Milan; and there is no doubt that his former subjects would attend his funeral with the most cheerful alacrity. NARROWNESS. THE CAKEAWALK has been condemned by the colored clergymen of Plain field. New Jersey. It is the old judgment—whatever you most want to do that is the most sinful of all the indul- gences. One would think that beyond the gratification of a little harmless vanity there was nothing reprehen- sible in these exhibitions, and they certainly are enjoyable to the observers, particular. ly the white ones. Do the church people want the out- side world to have all the fun as well as all the best tunes? BUSINESS AND THE HEART. OMINIE SHELDON, author of * In His Steps.” wants a million dollars where- with to buy and print a daily newspaper which will print only such news as will ‘en- large the heart and promote moral endeavor, The sum is large, but he will need far more to keep the paper from dying. Business is business. Should a cooper make bar- rels merely for the enlarge- ment of the heart? The New York World was started as a religious daily, and within six months it went straight to depravity and became a Dem- cocratic newspaper. comicbooks.com