Judge — February 23, 1901 — page 1: what you’re looking at

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VOL.40 NO.LOLO FEBRUARY 23 1901 PRICE 10 CENTS Enrenee ar tHe Poot Orraee AY Mev/ Yous as Secomo Cas Marren Corrment 1901 ev Jueee Communy, Tike Mrorerenes as A TaAoe SINDBAD BRYAN’S LATEST ADVENTURE, * I cannot tell how long I slept, but when I awoke the Democratic ‘ship was gone. In this sad condition I was ready to die with grief, I cried out in agony, beat my head and breast, and threw myself upon the ground, where I lay some time in despair, ‘I upbraided myself a hundred times for not being content with the produce of my first voyage in 1896. Not knowing what to do, I climbed on my high hobby-horse agai from whence I looked about on ali sides to see if I could discover any- thing that might give me hopes. Alas! whichever way I gazed I saw nothing but prosperity and contentment. F nally, however, I perceived something yellowish-white in the distance, and, coming down,,I took what reputation Thad left and went toward it. ‘As I approached I thought it to be a big dome—perhaps that of the capitol at Washington ; and I said to myself, ‘I'm not so far off from the white-house after all.” But when I came up to it I found it to be very smooth, with no opening for investi- gation on any side, and no means by which I could climb to the top. By this time the sun was about to set, when all of a sudden I beard a rattling of quills, and the sky became dark as if covered by a cloud of ink. This I found was occasioned by a bird of monstrous size that came flying to- ward me. I remembered that I had often heard the marines and Mongo- lian journalists tell of a miraculous bird called the roc, which was their circulation; and so'I dropped to the fact that this big dome must be a roc’s egg. It was of the Commoner, or yel- low species. ‘*So this is where the rocks come from,” said I to myself, As I perceived the circulation-bird coming I crept close to theegg—which, by the way, had a rank odorand must have been a bad one—so that I had before me one of the legs of the bird, which was as big as the trunk of a tree imilar size, I tied myself strongly to it with my head-piece, and the next morning at daylight the bird flew away and carried me so high that I could not discern the earth. Tt was out of sight! She afterward descended with so much rapidity that I lost my senses, but I found I could write my editorials just as well without them, The bird having set me down in Europe, I looked about and saw the road before me strewn with diamonds, some of which were of surprising big- ness, and vastly superior to the paste- pot jewels I had sported at ome. I collected enough to fill the large cala- bash in which I used to carry my silver and anti-trust arguments. Then, hav- ing visited several trading towns of the continent, I sailed for Bassorah, whence I proceeded back to Nebraska. ‘There I immediately gave large pres- ents to'my friend Croker and other poor Democrats, and lived what I call honorably upon the vast riches I had brought, gained with so little fatigue —to myself,—JuDGE's new version of the “Arabian Nights COPYRIGHT 1901 BY JUDGE COMPANY OF WEW YORK, ‘Sackett A Wideinis Litho & Prg Co Kew York BRYAN THE COMMONER AND THE ROC’S EGG. \ IS comicbooks.com