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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page The central cartoon, captioned "VERY APPROPRIATE," depicts a woman (labeled "Lucy") riding in a toboggan with a man identified as "Jack Hagger," who is described as "only dead six months." The joke's dark humor relies on the phrase "sliding for second," a baseball term for advancing bases—here applied morbidly to a widow with a recently deceased husband. The surrounding editorial snippets offer political commentary on contemporary issues: Democratic conventions, press censorship in Manila (Philippines colonial context), treatment of convicts as soldiers, and accusations of Democratic disloyalty. The page reflects early 20th-century American satirical style, blending crude humor with partisan political criticism typical of Judge magazine's Republican-leaning editorial stance.

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PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK AT THE JUDGB BUILDING. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. GncTED STATES AND CANABA'TH ADVAMCR. ne copy, one year, oF sa numbers - $5.00 ‘One copy, six meaths, or 30 aumbers - 2.50 One thirteen weeks = ss 135 ““Fecioding the Canistaas Juocs. ;N_ SUBSCRIPTIONS —To alt cr) fo imtvies in the postal union, $0.00 reams building, Chancery l jarback's mews exchange, Ma Corner Fitth Aveaue and Sixteenth Street, New York. [W-Circulation larger thaw any other cartoom weekly 1m the world. [27 NOTICE TO PUBLISHERS,—The contents of Juoce are protected by copyright in Loth the United States and Great Britain, Infringement of this copyright will be promptly and vigorously prosecuted. PROF: IR wants to call the American Indian the Amerind. this man want to see another Indian outbreak ? Does HE CHIGNON is to be revived, is it? Well, the woman who bags her hair ought to be obliged to hide her entire countenance. T IS TWICE generous in the czar to say the French navy is the best in the world, because his majesty didn’t make it or have anything to do with it, ei a) & A CONTEMPORARY advises the gold Democrats to make a demon- stration, Why, they can't! They had their funeral as much as two years ago. «ahh RECENT CONVENTION of Democrats in Kentucky adjourned without the loss of a life, though every delegate carried arms and was loaded to the muzzle. GIRL in ,Massachu- setts worth two mill- ion dollars has married her coachman, This was some days ago and the suit for divorce hasn't yet been commenced. VERY HOODLUM claims to have assist- ed in the resignation of Alger, and shows a very dirty pair of hands in proof of his handling of the requisite mud. eee THE EDITOR of the Poughkeepsie News- Press says he buttons the pocket as he thinks of Elihu Root; but he does better than that —he buttons his further re- marks, oe THE POPULISTS of the middle-of-the-road kind being determined to go it alone, they must put barriers at the polls to prevent two-thirds of the Democrats from voting with them, eee SOME TENDERNESS isnow used in lynch ing black men in the south, The best citizens omit to burn the victims alive, contenting them- selves with merely hang- VERY APPROPRIATE. Lty—"" See Mrs. Breezy sliding down the toboggan with Jack Hugger—and her husband ing them and_ shooting only dead six months !" DANGER. Att STRIKES “are strikes against capital. Will this kind of amuse- ment presently go higher and attack trusts as a matter of principle? And when we have entered upon that era of strikes, shall we not be close toa revolution the end whereof no man can predict ? . _. ,. WHY ROOT WAS SELECTED. LIHU ROOT doesn’t know a sword from a pruning-hook, and all the fighting he ever did was done in his law-office and in the courts. Therefore he ought to make a pretty good secretary of war; though it is to be hoped there won't be a resumption of trouble with Spain for some days yet. A GREAT MAN. COLONEL INGERSOLL in everything but the title he went by was a Christian, There was no wrong that he did not attack and no good thing outside of theology that he did not support. He was a poet and a prophet, and he talked with steel in his hands and tears in his eyes. Surely heaven will judge kindly the man who, so far as he knew, judged others with the utmost justice. THE WAY TO VICTORY. ‘THE PRESS CENSORSHIP established at Manila is so unsatisfactory to the correspondents that they pronounce General Otis the wrong man in the wrong place. There is but one way—the correspondents must be permitted to run the war, as well as the information, themselves. Let that be done, and we shall be able to read, day in and day out, that the rebellion has finally been crushed. CONVICTS AS SOLDIERS. HE ARMY SURGEON who wants to send convicts to the Philippines as companions in war of American soldiers has merely repeated the proposition of one of the mugwump college authorities; but we shouldn't advise him to talk the matter over with the soldiers, who may be as much opposed to convict soldiering as workers are to convict labor. Indeed they might borrow his tools and subject him to some amateur dissection. A POOR EX- CHANGE HE LADY who ran away with an usher who was to have officiat- ed at her wedding to an- other man has talked con- siderably for newspaper publication, remarking es- pecially that she is per- fectly happy. As for the disappointed man he has had not a word to say; and the conclusion is irre- sistible that, whatever the kind of man she secured, the one she lost is a person of great good sense and worthy the affection of a prettier ard nobler girl than. she can ever hope to be, TRAITOR! HORACE BOIES says that sixteen-to-one is not necessary to Dem- ocratic faith, This man is going to be very lone- some unless he gets some- body to introduce him to his own party. Hasn't he read Bryan's old and new speeches? Isn't he ac- quainted with Altgeld and other Democrfttic anarch- ists? Has he any idea of Democratic sentiment -in the west and south and the country through? So far from being touched by presidential lightning again, he will be mighty lucky if his party doesn't them full of lead. Rureet—"* Yes; that’s what you might call ‘ sliding for second’ with ‘one man out.'” hang him for treason. comicbooks.com