Judge — October 20, 1900 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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WANTED CHANGE. HE fair attend- ant at the stamp win- dow of the Corpus Christi. post- office wearily sighed. Then a smile wreathed her lips; the sort of smile that reminds you of ahum- ming - bird hovering nigh honeysuckle. “I'm to be reported again,” she said; “yonder short man with the vandyke beard has a grievance.” What have you done now?" “Well, he says he mailed a letter to a city address and had put a two-cent stamp on it. He is going to complain of me to eon wicks alge dovetioe fon 4 Oebie ce Sebel ay "ARSON JACKSON —"* I wish yo" would make a call on de widow Jones, deacon! De bible tells us to comfort de wid- the president because | Won't Gwed and fatherless in deyr affliction, yo" know.” give him a one-cent stamp in Deacon Jounson —"* Dat's jist it, parson! Knowin’ de late lamented as well as I did, T ain't quite sure dat it's an change.” affliction.” CONFUCIAN ANALECTS. (From the Chinese.) LIKE copress-teaves and pine that come to stay, Friendships there are that never fade away. ‘The man who up to forty years has grown Is little worth if he is still unknown, Where laws are good and equal in a place, He who stays poor incurs deserved disgrace ; But when the government is full of blame, To roll in wealth is certainly a shame, Be not too liberal with your “ musts” and ‘* nays,” For doubt may rise and your best thoughts displace ; Be chary also of too many ** I's" For egotists are hardly ever wise. Most men hold beauty very rare and dear, But halt at virtue, which is more austere ; The first enslaves us by its loveliness, And yet the last should not be thought of less. ‘Though the fine graces and great gifts of Chow * Your person and your character endow, The broom of justice sweeps them all aside If they promote in you unholy pride. THE TRUTH AT LAST. JOEL Bxton, Farmer—" Say, this pose us farmers is allus taken that * farmin’ don’t pay’ beats a trust all holler fur agate Domest tis bead ol 0 sanchreneraied: Chinese scarin’ off competition.” HIS LOSS. 46 CONFOUND the infernal luck!” the able editor of the Pettyville Plaindealer was snorting, as a friend entered the office.“ Gosh- hang the blankity-blanked demon that stole, borrowed, or made ‘way with our clec- trotype of the late Pydia E. Linkham! Aw, what's the difference?" questioned the visitor.“ That worthy lady has been dead for several years, ference ?” howl ed the angry scribe. “* What in tophet and so-and-so are we going to use for IN TOPSYTURVYLAND. a portralt of ‘the DRUNKEN Lamp-rost—" Thish comes in handy some. dOWager em- timesh, I kin tell yer.” press of China A VICTIM OF THE GAME. Motier Cow—" How often have I told you not to go in that lot with those golfers. They don’t care how many times they hit you.” comicbooks.com