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This page from *Judge* magazine is primarily **advertising** with one notable editorial content piece. The main article, "How Mark Twain Introduced Senator Hawley," is an anecdote about **Senator Joseph R. Hawley of Connecticut**. The humor relies on Mark Twain's famous irreverence: asked to introduce Hawley at a political rally, Twain describes him as a church member and author of "Beautiful Snow," but adds a backhanded compliment—comparing an honest politician in corrupt politics to "a bottle of perfumery in a glue factory." The joke satirizes the pervasiveness of political corruption; even a genuinely virtuous man seems out of place in the system. The remainder is period advertisements for **Wilson Whiskey, Gold Seal Champagne, Eagle Popular Cocktails, railroad lines, and photography products**—typical commercial content for a satirical magazine that relied on advertising revenue. A humorous section titled "Out West" includes a brief joke about a sheriff and a chaparral.

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HOW MARK TWAIN INTRODUCED {a neighbor whose vegetable garden adjoins | ways gave him a letter of introduction to me. SENATOR HAWLEY. mine—well—well, I watch him. As the author | Pure, honest, incorruptible—that’s what's the Howard Paul writes in the London Caterer :]0f ** Beautiful Snow” he has added a new ter-| matter with Joe Hawley. Such a man in poli- [et summer T spent some weeks at the Paris| fr to winter. He is a square, true man in| tics is like a bottle of perfumery in a glue-fac- exhibition and while there met at the Hotel | Politics, and being so I must say he occupies | tory—it may moderate the stench, but it doesn’t Continental "Senator ATawley of Connecticut, | somewhat lonesome position, So broad, so| destroy it. I haven't said any more of him Nha resides at Tlartford: sad was for many | bountiful, is his character that he never turned | than I would say of myself. Ladies and gen- year a near neighbor of Mark Twain. We fell|@ tramp empty-handed from his door, but al-| tlemen, this is General Hawley.’ to talking of our mutual friend, and ke told me an anecdote of Mark. They happened to fall in with each other some years ago at a town in . the state of New York during'a presidential Established 1823. campaign where a political mass-meeting had been organized, Mark was.asked by the chair- man to introduce General Hawley to the me ing. The humorist protested that political speaking was out of his line, but he would rid himself of a few remarks, and he said, ‘ Fellow- citizens, General Hawley is a member of my church in Hartford and the author of ** Beau- tiful Snow.” Asa citizen I hold him in deep respect ; as a personal friend I value him; as s GOLD SEAL} That’s All! ‘THE WILSON DISTILLING CO. Baltimore Ma. “ Special Dry” “Brat” Champagne AMERICA’S BEST SEA B ATHING A girl's idea of doing hard work is the time she spends calling her brother to come and fill the wood-box.—Foolish things don’t seem to be so bad when you are doing them as whea ALL W INTER. the neighbors talk about them.—Times have — changed. It is no longer possible to find a man whom a girl can flatter by saying she prays In Southern California one can bathe in the Pacific Ocean for him.—I don’t like the word ** shrinking” every day, and yet the air is bracing. Just the place for those applied toa woman. It always reminds me of who don’t feel well and want something to brace them up. The a flannel shirt that goes into the wash too big and comes out too little.—Arkansaw Thor, NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES oar have eight trains a day between New York, Boston and Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati, an‘ connect with every California line. Gold Seal ‘ equal to any French wine and superior to 3 any American wine. 3 Then why pay twice as much for foreign labels? Ask for it at your club and café. It is for sale everywhere. ; &| URBANA WINE CO., SOLE MAKERS, Urbana, New York. "e ceceeeeeceeececeecccceee” Eague Poputar Gocktaus | , PIA MAKES TH ALWAYS READY. A copy of No. Sof them Four-Track Serles.”"\ America's Winter Resorts.” will be seat free, post-paid, to any address, on receipt of & postage stair, by George 1. General Passenger Agent, New York Central & Grand Central Station, New York, Hudson itiver Rallroad, i i They're handy at home— u anywhere. f fj " TON WHISKEY, | cd: Cpe: Z : €c wle MANHATTAN, Witan MARTINI, GIN, ¢ TOM GIN, Coches MERMOUEN; te AN ye 1 : 5 _ |e |Lackawanna Eagle Leu 5 MA le =| Railroad 1} 8 | P . HOMMEINE BEI WER “Pocket Kodak UVORT. | MEYVORM Portraiture” aS AND (CHICAGO! is the title of a daintily printed and 1, instructive booklet about home picture OUT WEST. FAST. TIME: BETWEEN taking, which has just been issued by Suerirr Fiy—" Excuse me, stranger; but I'd like to look through that chaparral. NEWYORK & ST.LO the Kodak Press. ‘The illustrations] | *hink a crook I've been chasing has taken refuge in it.” athcouetes Pade . ipatacessiee are all from the Kodak of Mr. \ Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr., charming student cil fe. Pre bs FLAMMARIO Menhitlan at the Kodak dealers’ or by mail. OnERA GLASS ¢ TIFLD OLAS OF THE CELEBRATED ASTRONOMER EASTMAN KODAK CO. oace Grow SEL THAT «1 Rochester, N. Y. Fr rade on a amas e485 VET AY, OPTICUAR, NEW-YORK You wilt get more prompt attention and better terri? & by mentioning Jvpox when answering advertisemen® comicbooks.com