Judge — September 8, 1900 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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age PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK AT THE JUDGE BUILDING. Terms to Subscribers. UNITED STATES AND CANADA It ADVANCE. weeks FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS — To alt foreign countries in the postal union, $6.00 ayer Henry Bright, manager, Boyce Building, Chica Actes lalernationat news company, Breasts building, Chancery lant, Fr. avenue de ’Opira, Paris: Saarback's news eichamge, Maina, ‘aay CORNER FIFTH AVENUB AND SIXTEENTH STREET, NEW YORK. {97 Circulation larger than any other cartoon weekly Ia the world. [9 NOTICE TO PUBLISHERS.—The contents of Juvas are protected by copyright both the United States and Great Britain, Infringement of this copyright will be promptly a sly prosecuted. DEMOCRATIC SILENCE on the silver question is golden WHAT'S IN A NAME? About all the consonants of the alphabet if it is a Chinese name. ‘THROWING AWAY A RACE—The anti-imperialist, who want Uncle Sam to quit the Philippines and abandon the Filipinos. BALLOON-RACES are promised by the Aero Club of Paris as an up-to-date addition to the regular cata- logue of sports, though the project as yet is merely in the air. cee OOR STEINITZ! He was for years the champion chess-player of the world; but the checkéred game of life was too much for him, and the moves in his last pathetic contests were all in black. ABOUT SIX HUNDRED Christian Endeavorers from America are stranded in Paris. They endeavored to do the round trip and take in the exposition for less than it would have cost them to remain at home. WES DAVIS, the ex-Republican Bryan spell-binder, weeks declined six hundred and twenty-three invitations to speak. This is a unique-record, and if Web will only keep it up no- body will begrudge him the credit that is his due. within three A STICKLER FOR DRESS says the American men have not yet learned to adapt their clothes to the weather. It isn’t always convenient to carry a Saratoga trunk down town to y business and change every two or three hours during the day. the New MARY E. WILKINS England novelist, says she has “plenty of rights,” without that of the suffrage. It was a New Eng- land farmer, by the way, who when his wife died, and when a sympa- thetic neighbor asked him, "Was 1?" replied grimly," She NEW YORK THEATRICAL MANAGERS promise for the coming grammes, in ink that will not rub off and soil the dainty gloves worn by the ladies and gentlemen who patronize the play-houses. If only they would go a step further and abolish the smudgy plays! ” Y FARMER has taken legal advice with a view to getting release from notes which he gave toa plausible and persua- sive stranger who undertook to protect his property against electric fluid, by means of lightning-rods. The only clement of novelty in the case is the farmer's contention that he was “hypnotized.” = SUMMER-HOTEL PROPRIETOR" This is your room, sir. Gurst—"T see; but would you object to my using the closet for a room and the room for a closet 7” FOSSILIZED. PROFESSOR JOHN HAYS SMITH has discovered in New Jersey a fossil fish that geological sharps reckon to be four million years old. JUDGE frequently receives fish- stories of about that antiquity. TO SING THE BOXOLOGY. IDER HAGGARD, in a recent address delivered in Lon- don, said thag athletic training is a most desirable prep- aration in the life of a missionary, because nothing in a missionary impress- €s the savage so much as to find himself equaled or surpassed in strength and agility by the stranger. You can’t convert Boxers unless you know how to box yourself. THERE ARE OTHERS. “It is generally known that Kipling received twenty-five thousand dollars for the serial rights alone of his new novel, *Kim’; that Marie Corelli is to have twenty-five thousand dollars for her forthcoming book, ‘The Master Christian"; and for Hall Caine's latest work, ‘The Eternal City,’ a still larger sum is mentioned.” —Literary Newt. E REPRINT the above item of misinformation in order to show that census falsifications and political-campaign lies are not the only kind. A ROLE FOR BRYAN. . s JOHN OLIVER HOBBES” (Mrs, Craigie) has undertaken to dram- atize Murray's New English Dictionary, There isn’t as much plot as she would like, but the dictionary was the only popular book left for the purpose, all the others having been adapted for Mr. Charles Frohman. For the leading réle in this bright lexicon play we would urge the engage- ment of that sterling silver comedian, William Jennings Bryan, who will be at liberty after November. MADNESS IN HIS METHODISM. ISHOP MORRISON of the Methodist Church South, delivered a re- markable address in Louisville the other day, in which he thanked God that the Methodists were responsible for the present trouble in China. He went on to speak of the far-reaching power of Methodism, and said that the only reason the North Pole had not been reached was because no Methodist missionary had been ordered to proceed to that region and evangelize the inhabitants (who are mostly walruses, polar bears and musk-oxen). Evidently there is madness in the Bishop’s Methodism. AIDS TO BRYANISM. ‘ +s LARRY" GODKIN, formerly of the New York Evening Post is now promulgating Bryanistic ideas through the yellow press, just out of spite against McKinley and Roosevelt. Aguinaldo’s Filipino Junta in Hong-Kong is credited with the resolution to raise five mill- ion dollars for the Democratic campaign fund through mis- placed confidence in Bryan. And now Oom Paul Krier, the Boer President, is said to be chipping in a few hundred thou- sand pounds sterling toward Bryan's “election expenses” by way of expressing his appreciation of the political brand of American sympathy. It cannot be gainsaid that things are coming Bryan's way. A BETTER PLAN. Observe the large, airy closet.” comicbooks.com