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This cartoon depicts a rooster addressing hens, with the caption: "The farmer and his son are going to that fourth-rate performance of 'Hamlet' to-night. Now—oh, don't it just beat how? Just as these eggs are almost hatched, too!" The joke is a double entendre: the rooster urges the hens to produce eggs while the farmer is away, but the text simultaneously mocks a local theatrical production of *Hamlet* as "fourth-rate." The cartoon satirizes both rural life (farmers attending questionable theater) and the poultry industry's timing concerns. The humor relies on the incongruity of farm animals discussing Shakespeare while prioritizing egg production—a common Judge strategy combining lowbrow observation with literary reference for satirical effect.
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ROM THE DATE of his marriage Castellane spent thirty-seven mill- ion francs; then the French courts interfered in behalf of the rest of the in- come of the count- ess, Is such a man crazy or merely selfish and soulless? IN and “ceo down at the polling- places,” reminds one of the younger Richard Croker of a good many years ago. Fortunately for all, the advice was omitted until nearly the end of the campaign. Oth- erwise it might have been unfortunate for him. BRESCI, who illed the king of Italy, shows an acute and perhaps an affectionate re. membrance of his wife as the weather grows cold. to buy thicker underclothes, and she sends it. him since he went away. A CALL Tue. RoosTER—" The farmer and his son are going SETTING 11EN—" Oh, dear! isn’t that too bad? He writes for money It is her first word from HE ALLIES found in the wall of the imperial palace at Peking the body of Chenci, the favorite concubine of the emperor, ah: girl who incurred the enmity of the empress dowager, and was killed by order of the latter before the flight of the court. oF : A SATURDAY Bryan spoke in a Pennsylvania town, and the pended business to listen to him Philadelphia Press frankly said, “It looks as if the people had sus- with cheerful frankness, “If he were really elected they would suspend for him for four years.” \ ze because George Jay Gould has been made trustee of the countess’s income. ‘The amount involved is eight million francs a year and he has used up six million and a half of man ought in addition to have a guardian and se\ The young I regular attendants. ‘HE RUFFIANS of Elmira who had planned to mob Stanchfield doubtless intended to do so to ward off suspicion that it was they who had mobbed Roosevelt. That was a very poor plan, since Stanchfield is a gentleman and would have insisted as far as possible on getting his share of that kind of attention,having entire contempt for any kind of protection the ruffians might have offered him Just as these eggs are almost hatched, too!* A BAD SUGGESTION. A CONTEMPORARY says that the only proper thing to do when a man points a gun at you is to throw a brick at him, and if you kill him so much the better, Ye-es; but first be sure that the brick isn’t loaded, because it is not pleasant to be locked up for murder, even if the victim escape being killed. There is such a thing as preventing crime by perpetrating it, and the law has a habit of punishing the latter kind of recklessness, too. SILLY CARTOONS. . *THE MODEST HANNA," says the Utica Odserver, “does not claim credit for the guidance of McKinley in his statesmanlike ways.” No, The modest Hanna is not a fool, and he knows that the cartoons and the remarks making McKinley a boy in his hands are utterly absurd, and make their authors ridiculor The record of McKinley is too good to be injured by any such foolishness. The greatness and honesty of McKinley do not need to be proved or stated, and the cartoonists who accredit them to Hanna are shocking the common sense and the sense of justice of every well-informed man. THE RUFFIANS KEEP TOGETHER. THE RUFFIANISM of this campaign has been confined largely to the Democrats. They started it, and their example has been only very lightly followed even by their own kind, The trouble at Cripple Creek and in Chicago was mild and barely worth mentioning, but such as it was it belonged solely to the side which has usually been responsible for it in the years gone by. ‘The years will apparently not change things much as time goes on. The party of the ku-klux will keep its rep- utation and its manner of doing business as it has thus far. The party of populism does not become better by calling itself democratic. It _ is the some kind of human nature con- trolled by a differ ent kind of propul- sion. It speaks and moves in a myste- rious way the same purposes to per- form. Hereafter, as heretofore, the whig and Republican parties will be the parties of gentler blood, whatever fighting may be necessary to sustain any consummation of principle. That is to say, the Re- publicans will miss nothing of the incidental scrimmage, but they will do their share of the rougher work necessary to principle, too. FOR EGGS. to that fourth-rate performance of * Hamlet’ to-night.” SOUTHERN PROVINCIALISM. THE EDITOR of the Richmond Times says that has come for the purpose of casting h has shown no disposition to meddle with local politics, he has been treated with kindness and consideration.” Again it says that if settlers “from other sections come here, and if they refrain from meddling in local poli- tics, they may be sure of enjoying to the fullest extent our trust and best southern hospi 7 pretty late in the day for a welcome like that. The conditions are not agreeable to live men, and in fact they are calcu- lated to drive aws n and capital that would otherwise be tempted to go south. The Siz says truly that it is this provincialism which hurts the south more than anything else; and it is doubtful if this editor speaks fairly for his section, the majority of whose people are supposed to have shrewdness as well as common sense. But Henry Watterson says the editor doesn’t mean the igrant who has a habit of voting, but the northern crank reformer and carpet-bagger who for a time dominated the south and ruled her local politics as if to the country born. The Rich- mond editor ought to have discriminated, of course; but, really, the kind of northerners specified by Mr. Watterson have passed out, and the fact remains that thousands of very modest and quiet business northerners have been driven out of such southern places as they had adopted for their permanent homes. when a Republican lot among us, and when he comicbooks.¢om