Judge — April 16, 1904 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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PUBLISHED WEEKLY At Tue Parker BUILDING, FoUrTH AVENUE AND NINETEENTH StRKET, NEw York. Waster Apveerisinc Orrice—1313 Hartford Building, Chicago, Mt. TERMS TO S UNITED STATES AND CANADA IN ADVANCE. One copy, one year, or sznumbers- + ee One copy, six months, or 26 numbers One copy, for thirteen weeks EUROPEAN SALES-AGENTS—/nternational News Company, Bream’s building, Chancery Lane, London : Brentano's, Avenue de U’Opera, Paris: Sas Toclading the Cunisratas J 'S—To all foreign countries in the postal union, $6.00 a year. ch's News Exchange, Mainz, Germany. The contents of FUDGE are protected by copyright in both the United States and Great Britain. Infringement of this copyright will be promptly and bigorously prosecuted. CONTRIBUTORS must inclose a stamoed and self-addressed erfoelove with all manuscripts, other vise return of the Latter when found unavailaNte cannot be guaranteed. DRAWINGS and all contributions sent to the Art Department should have the sender's full name and address written plainly on each and every separate sketch. The accompanying juke or descriptive letter-press should in ébery instance be written upon its indtoidual picture, and NOT upon a separate slip of paper. Inciosure of stamps to the full amount of postage ts also required, 10 insure safe and prompt return of material not accepted. N THE BRIGHT and shining lexicon of political candidates, many are boomed and few escape being boomeranged. THERE MAY BE a slight basis of truth in the light and airy statement that Russia is ina general way meeting with a continuous Waterloo- ovitch, wee THE rolling meadow ’s myrtled, The pond is snapping-turtled, And in the breeze And o’er the trees The baseball ’s swiftly hurtled; And now the tar-ball constitutes the stuff That quick unmoths the overcoat and muff. cee At THE PRESENT TIME the very tomb itself cannot compete for all- round, murky silence with old Uncle David Peanut Hill and have anything like a fair chance of capering away with the larger end of the purse in its jeans. tae THE violet ’s beginning to empurple all the green, The Bagdad rug is thumped the while it’s hanging o’er the line; The very frisky lambkin in his finest skip is seen, The coal-fiend unbaronial begins to mope and pine; And while the merry simian projects himself in glee Against the blinds and window-sill for shekels through the town, The goatie tells us ’tis the spring while in rare ecsta-see, And proves it by the bockful mug that wears a foaming crown. eee HE DEMOCRATS have so mediocre a set of statecraft champions from which to choose a ticket that it might not be inconsistent with good taste to suggest to the vast closing their ideas of right and wrong to all people who can see daylight through a headless barrel. Mr. Roosevelt has again distinguished himself as a fearless champion of right who is indifferent to all the penalties in- volved in the antagonizing of political pirates and guerrillas. He is ex- tremely fortunate in having incurred the ill-will of such creatures, who will always have good cause to regard him as a thorn in the flesh, and never as a feather in the cap. When the cave of echo shall give back the strident and nerve-splitting ‘‘ ouch”? of the grafter it will be as wolian melody to the ears of all honest men. ——— THE FRIENDLY FEELING that exists, and has existed for some time, between John Bull and Uncle Sam is a relationship that is any- thing but satisfactory to Russia, Germany and France, and they writhe and perspire and look like people who have but lately risen, not from beds of roses, but from couches whose envelopes have been generously strewn with the crackers of commerce in a granulated form. They are perturbed and uneasy, and full to the proverbial brim of wistfulness and anxiety. They regard it as a most important move to separate and estrange these worthies, and to keep them apart by hook or crook. A familiar picture, illustrative of the spirit of peace which is common to civilized beings, is that of one man trying to pull apart two men each of whom is using his finest art and energy in an attempt to annihilate the other. But the picture of a man, or men, trying to separate two that are desirous only of keeping and sticking together in the bonds of friendship is one that certain- ly enjoys the novelty of being unusual, not to say unique. The chances are, however, that John Bull and Uncle Sam will keep in friendly touch, irrespective of the combined efforts of France, Germany and Russia to pull and keep them apart. If these countries would but attend to their own affairs they would have their hands full and overflowing. If Russia wants to do some separating that will be to her lasting good, she should lose no time in separating herself from the Jap, who is now giving her a continu- ous thrashing and making her look small and insignificant, not to say like the proverbial seven cents of our bright and breezy vernacular. aggregation of press-agents, managers and keepers of the Jeffersonian contingent to toss up their favorites and to fill out both ends of the ticket in accord- ance with the way in which they come down—head or tail. eee 'HE SHERMAN anti-trust law is a veritable stumbling-block for all the champions of monop- oly, and, like the brick placed beneath the antique silken tile for the unwary wayfarer to kick, it causes the projector of. the hostile toe to gather that mem- ber into his hand for the mas- sage that mollifies and soothes. These soldiers of graft and get- rich-quick methods are now lift- ing up their hands in anguish and their voices in lamentation, and .the picture presented by these parasites and sycophants, as they do their calisthenic, welkin-splitting. act, is entirely satisfactory to all law-abiding 7171 people who realize the cause of their unmelodious discomfiture. Their howls of impotent fury which now freight the air should at least have the effect of dis- Crmmie—" Hully gee! FAMILY PRIDE. Luzzie—" Aw, say! me sister Mag's got Paderewski skinned ter death as a pianist—an' she never took a lesson.” Me big brudder Mike hez got ‘em all fried to a crisp on de violin—an’ he made his own violin, too, outen a soap-box an’ some leather shoe-strings.”” comicbooks.com