Judge — January 12, 1901 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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Side. PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK AT THE JUDGE BUILDING. Terms to Subscribers. UNITED STATES AMD CANADA 1 ADVANCE, ‘One copy, one year, or $2 numbers One copy, six months, of 26 number y, for thirteen weeks Including the Cunistmas Juoct FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS — To all n countries in the postal union, $6.00 Henry Bright, manager, Boyce MTs—[ntermational mews com) “pa fing, Chancery lane, venue de Opera, Paris; sews exchange, Mains, CORNER FIFTH AVENUE AND SIXTEENTH STREET, NEW YORK. (2 Circulation larger than any other cartoon weekly a the world. EB- NOTICE TO PUBLISHERS.—The contents of Juvot both the United States and Great Britain, Infringement of this vigorously prosecuted, tected by copyright In. i will be promptly and [F UNCLE SAM digs the Nicaragua canal he is bound to fortify it against earthquakes and things. TH E ‘ BOERS are whipped, of course; but commissioners ought to be sent to them at once to give them the information. THE JANUARY THAW has set in early, and Grover Cleve- land talks freely about the rehabilitation of the Democratic party. . R. BRYAN again reads the gold Dem- ocrats out of the party. This would seem super- fluous, as they haven't been in it for several years. A CLERGYMAN of Denver says there is no God in Chicago; and we must remember that Mayor Carter Har- rison is serving his sec- ‘ond term. OBSON and Liliuo- kalina for a time occupied adjoining wards in a hospital here, suffer ing from typhoid; but nothing of an osculatory nature occurred. . THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR being over, Kitchener, evidently for purposes of celebration, sends an urgent request to England for every available mounted man. Jie Ranpit—" Soak him, fellows! ee CANAL at Nicaragua built with American money must exist, if at all, with or without the consent of any foreign power. The Monroe doc- trine says that, not to mention the sentiment of the people who pay for it. MRE will sue Mr. Lease for divorce, after living with him twen- ty-seven years, and Mr. Lease will put in no defense, having tired of being known merely as Mrs. Lease’s husband. Politics of this lady's kind never did agree with matrimony and never will. THE THIRD SON of Li Hung Chang has written a book in which he says that China will war against the world, there being room in the world for only one supreme authority. The boxers evidently hold the same views, and they scem to have lost the beginning of the great struggle. . [8 BOSTON the theatre hat is prohibited by a city ordinance, and the ladies there occasionally make trouble at the play, just by way of pro- test. In New York, where there is no attempt at compulsion in the mat- ter, the dear creatures invariably remove their hats of their own free will— and are very amiable about it, too. RABBIT PIE, UNPRECEDENTED! HE INDIANAPOLIS GAS COMPANY complains that practically the entire population of the Hoosier capital, including the churches and city officials, and James Whitcomb Riley, the poet, are regularly and sys- tematically stealing their gas. We marvel at this, and wish some of our Indianapolis friends would tell us how they manage to do it. ITS NAME AND NATURE. ‘THE LONDON FUN, as its name if nothing else would indicate, is a comic paper. It has been published weekly ever since the time of the younger Tom Hood, who was its first editor. It has always been a high- class publication, too, and was at one period the “serious” rival of Punch. So it seems queer to read the announcement that “Sir George Newnes has purchased all existing rights in Fun, which he is about to publish as a high-class weekly comic paper.” One is reminded of W. S. Gilbert's famous suggestion, “ Why not start a comic Punch?” NURSING AS A FAD. ++ AS FAR as the sick are concerned,” according to an English surgeon, “there are two plagues in South Africa, a plague of flies and a plague of women.” This in criticism of the fad of the English society lady to suffer with and succor the English soldier. And it is malicious criti- cism. Possibly the society ladies do no good, and they may do harm; but their intentions are honorable, and probably there isn’t a sick soldier who, live or die, wouldn't vote for their presence and their attempted aid and comfort. For it must be remembered that Mrs. Langtry was not at the front during the war, but here. Li WU’'S GENTLE IRONY. U TING FANG is a sharp one, though there is no venom in him. It took us some time to “catch on” to his subtle humor; but when he gravely suggested that the United States, hav- ing obtained control of the Philippines, should now ex- tend the Monroe doctrine to the continent of Asia, we be- gan to suspect that his Chinese excellency was capable of irony. In his recent discourse before the New York society for ethical culture Mr. Wu observed that the precepts of Christianity were ex- alted and noble beyond human practicability. “However,” he added with apparently child-like Cus-DIAKS-%B simplicity, “I perceive no disposition on the part of Christian men to take He's the one that's been chasing us all over.” these precepts literally.” EDUCATION AND THE PULPIT. BISHOP POTTER was very severe in a recent sermon on the unedu- cated clergy. The reverend Henry M. Lengel of Reading, Pennsyl- vania, confesses that he is not an educated man, but he built the church in which he preaches with his own hands, and paid all the expense of it out of his own pockets. He seems to think that the bishop is not entitled to his big salary, and then he asks some pertinent questions. “ Now,” he asks,“ what does all this education amount to, anyway? Did the disciples go to college? Where did the simple fishermen called by Christ get their education? I have known unlettered men who were the most powerful preachers I ever heard. Few of the young fellows who go to college are really called. They think preaching is a good thing for a man naturally lazy. Bishop Potter should not abuse those who do not know how to put on a full-dress suit but have been called to preach the gospel. To-day men who want to enter the ministry are no longer asked whether they are saved or have given their hearts to Jesus and feel his love in their hearts. No! These are the fool questions they ask them: Where was Washing- ton born? Do you read Sanskrit, and what is it? Do you know any French? How many letters are there in the Greek alphabet? Have you ever been in New York? How much algebra do you know? What is your favorite novel? Was Trilby a good woman? What do you think of expansion?” We hope the gentleman doesn’t mean to say that educa- tion ought to be a bar to the pulpit, but he is very earnest in his opposi- tion to it. comicbooks.com