Judge — February 17, 1900 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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[ FCHAIRMAN Jon: is dropped by the Dem- ocratic national conimittee he will feel as if prosperity had been abolished for the entire century. Mé- BALFOUR of the British cabinet says there is an “if” in the Boer question. The situ- ation confirms his opinion, and it seems to be loaded. too. Bot# ELIHU ROOT and Senator Bever- idge say they do not want the nomination for vice- president. Now must this state lose the honorable ¢ Timothy Woodruff ? BRITISH =RALS consult Richard Harding Davis, who has gane to South Africa, and they will find “that the period of their defeats has gone by. ose THE BEARD, accord- ing to a scientist, is a refuge for microbes. In Kansas the little things do “not confine themselves to the beard. The dome of thought is their chosen Fravep Feerer: refuge. PATE Torne TA S NATOR ALLEN of Nebraska says he would not accept a nomina- tion for president if it were offered him unanimously. that removes another great public danger. OMEBODY blames Hanna for the result in Nebraska; but perhaps that matter can be laid over until it is judicially decided whether he persuaded or permitted Eve to eat that apple. THEY HAVE discovered out west that a combination of sausage and buttermilk results in a°sickness not unlike hydrophobia. Unhappily, ~ however, the sufferer can’t lay his affliction to the dog: Now perhaps ITIVENESS of a young man in Pittsburg has driven him to suicide to escape arrest for horse-stealing. Apparently he became sensitive after the stealing. Annoyances of that kind really ought to begin before the loss or the recovery of self-respect. SECRET SOCIETY of girls in Columbus, Ohio, punished tattling by spanking. A member tattled and was thus punished; and in conse- quence the spankers passed a day in prison. Perhaps it will be safer for these societies to visit their different kinds of penalty solely on the other sex. HOW IT -IAPPENED * Bill says he kin remember de time dat he swam in luxury.” 2—'* Yes; he fell inter a beer-vat once while applyin’ fer a job ina brewery.” ~A WICKED BOYCOTT. INELAND, NEW JERSEY, has a club of bachelor girls, and it boy- cotts young men who chew tobacco, or drink, or swear, or who “ think and talk about themselyes all the time.” But no young men are guilty of the latter. Sometimes they sleep. THE ‘DAKOTA GUSHER. [F WE MUST rule in the Philippines Pettigrew insists that we shall give the right of suffrage to the women there. Perhaps something is due the women of America; but, while the sympathy of the senator never goes out without gushing, it gushes in only one direction at a time. WILL THE RIGHT SURVIVE? HE QUESTION largely attending the Boer-British war, according to the New York Press, is the old one as to the survival of the fittes That is so; but unfortunately the question of superiority rests largely with the nearest battalions. Whether superior numbers and strategy constitute fitness is an open question, but heaven is apt to be on their side. WHO? SOMEBODY spent four thousand dollars to cable the Filipinos Senator Hoar's speech of sympathy. The sympathy expressed is calculated to prolong the war and incidentally kill more American soldiers. Mr. Carnegie was charged with the treason, but he denies it, though he inti- mates that it was money spent in a good cause. Who was the man? We know.of several who cer- tainly had the dispo! but they are unavoidably acquitted because they hadn't the necessary funds. LYNCHINGS. STATISTICS OF CRIME show a small- er number of lynchings last year than for a con- siderable number of years. They show also that two Texas lynchers are serv- ing a life-sentence in pris- on. Nota lyncher in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, and Pennsylvania has been prosecuted; and in Ohio state authorities prosecuted the guardsmen who shot down members. of a mob assaulting a jail. There is little to be thank- ful for in any of these facts, but the south at least shows an effort at im- provement. CUBS. . M*- PETTIGREW of South Dakota arises frequently in the senate to pass judgment upon the president; and when he tires of it Mr. Sulzer of New York does the same thing in the house. Neither gentleman says anything worth listening to, but little care they for that. Their sole pur- pose is to be noticed, and they think they can best do it by growling. To be sure the growling is ridiculous and harmless; but it serves to advertise the fact that the Democratic party has come to be a very ridiculous and contemptible party. A PRETTY WOMAN AND THE LAW. [AURA MORRISON, an actress, shot her leading man dead a few weeks ago because, as she said, he had insulted and annoyed her. There was ‘nothing in the evidence on the trial to show that he had an- noyed her seriously; but the jury in the case acquitted her in less than two minutes after retiring, and she afterward held a reception in the court- room. Since then she has lectured, with the stage as her subject, and has doubtless found the killing of the man a very profitable bit of advertising. She should not be advised to repeat the experiment, however, because she might find herself presently in the hands of people who have some respect for law, life and decency. comicbooks.com