Judge, 1900-09-01 · page 7 of 16
Judge — September 1, 1900 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three separate satirical pieces: **"Exceedingly Odd"** mocks newspapers' inconsistent reporting—they fail to mention whether a disappearance was "sudden," suggesting editorial carelessness. **"Forearmed"** uses a Northern philanthropist and a Southern Black preacher (rendered in dialect) to satirize anti-lynching rhetoric. The preacher's "remedy"—advising his flock to carry alibis—absurdly suggests victims should prove their innocence beforehand, skewering the inadequacy of proposed solutions to racial violence. **"A Quiet Affair"** presents an Arkansas editor's anecdote: a wedding where all guests *expected* a fight and came armed, yet everyone's mutual readiness for violence paradoxically prevented any. It satirizes frontier violence culture by showing how normalized combat expectations were—so thoroughly embedded that preparedness ironically ensured peace. The comic strips below ("The Discourteous Illustrator and the Book-Agent") depict unrelated domestic comedy.
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EXCEEDINGLY ODD. SSTHERE is a very queer thing about this—latest disappearance.’ —- “ “ What is it?” “The newspapers do not say that it was a sud- den one.” FOREARMED. we But” said the philan- thropist from * the north, “is. there no rem- edy for the fearful evil of lynching >" “T doan’ know o° but one,” Parson Wooliman replied, ““an’ I done ham- mer dat inter my flock eb- bery chance Igits. Lad- vise ‘em all ‘ ter nevah leave home widout fust provin’ a alibi an’ takin’ it wiv ‘em fer an emergency.” . Faxuex Buo—"' Darn these weeds, any way! -T cat't for the life of me keep them out of my garden.” A QUIET AFFAIR. ‘ +e YOU, might. just say, as. you. usally do, that it was a quiet weddin’ and let it go at that,” said a moss-grown but shrewd Arkansas citizen, who had dropped into the sanctum of the able editor of the Tum- linville Banner with a bit of news. ‘You see, everybody went thar’with the expectation éf participatin’ in a fight and prepared accordin’, and:found that everybody else Had come with the same expectation and similar prep- aration, and the result was just about the peacefullest weddin’ I ever had the pleasure of witnessin’.”” 1 BA comicbooks.com ,