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This page is primarily **advertising** with minimal editorial content. The notable pieces are: **"Georgia Field-Song"**: A racist dialect poem from the *Atlanta Constitution* depicting enslaved or sharecropping Black laborers in the post-Reconstruction South. It reflects the period's normalized racial stereotyping in mainstream publications, using offensive language ("Nigger") and portraying exploitative labor arrangements as cheerful rural life. **Joke section**: Three brief jokes about worn-out comedy tropes (the "tack joke" and "mother-in-law joke" as ancient, tired material), plus anecdotes about correspondence and logic puzzles—typical light humor for the era. **Advertisements**: Dominate the page, including bicycles, a Lackawanna Railroad story promotion, and notably a **Williams' Shaving Soap testimonial ad** featuring a customer praising the product's superiority, typical of early 20th-century advertising copy. The page reflects *Judge*'s mix of satire, light humor, and commercial content, though the racist poetry reveals the deeply problematic attitudes of the publication's era.

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Here's a Georgia field-chorus which strikes the season favorably : “ Now dey'll git dey wishin’ Down in Georgy state— White man a-fishin’, Nigger diggin’ bait. “ Lizard on de fence-rail, Spider on de wall ; Hoe dle co'n en cotton, En I'll pay you in de fall. “O, mister white man, Blow de dinner-ho'n! Ain't yo’ got a dram dar, In de jimmyjohn 2” —Allanta Constitution. Pure blood, bright eyes, bounding step, high spirits, good health—synonymous with Abbott's Angostura Bitters, intelligently used. Test it. The tack joke and the mother-in-law joke met on the brimstone streets and be- gan to quarrel. «You're so old_you wobble !" tack joke acrimoniously. «Methuselah ought to sue you for in- fringement of copyright!" retorted the mother-in-law joke with a sneer. Just then came wandering by a ghost so'old that the two antiquities knelt rev- | erently and shed tears of pity for the fee- ble old thing. + No man knoweth his age !" tack joke. |" « Adam found him sitting on the front- yard fence waiting for him when he first arrived !" said the mother-in-law joke. ‘The old and dilapidated specimen was the joke about the young man being kicked down the front steps by his sweet- heart's irate dad.—San Francisco Bul- | letin, said the said the | He wrote: «It's my hope For you there may be Much joy in thi MCMIV She looked at the card I don’t know a soul Whose name |a man, and in my modest opinion, of the best of its kind that ever went the rounds. Here it is enths of chicken, two-thirds of cat, and one-half of goat? “Of course you give it up. “Well, the answer is Chicago. * Chi is three-sevenths of chicken ; ‘ca’ is two- thirds of cat, and ‘go’ is one-half of goat. Pretty good, isn't. it?”— Philadelphia Press. “Yes,” said the boarding-school teacher, “T think that is a model letter for you to write your fiancé. But of course you will copy it, leaving out those numerous spaces ?” “Oh, dear, no!" replied the girl. “ Those are for ‘dearest.’ I have it ona rubber stamp."—Detroit Free Press. BARBERS SALOONKEEPERS WANTED to act as our agents everywhere. BIG MONEY Write for particulars. DANIEL STEVENS ‘Temple Court, Chicago. You will get more prompt attention and better servibe by mentioning Juoce when answering advertisements, : -” No, thank you! I want WILLIAMS’ Shaving Soap. I beg your pardon, there isn’t anything else ‘just as good.’ I have used Williams’ Soap all my life and know what I am talking about. O, yes; I’ve tried the other kinds, but they were all failures—lather dried quickly, dulled my razor, smarted my face, made shaving a torture! Give me Williams’ Soap, please; none of the ‘just as good’ kinds for me.’’ Williams’ Soaps sold in the form of Shaving Sticks, Tablets, etc., everywhere, Write for Free Booklet,“ How to Shai THE J. B. WILLIAMS CO., Glastonbury, Conn., U.S. A. FREE! Sample Tablet of Williams’ Shaving Soap for ac. stamp to pay postage. Our lives are ships upon the sea ; They sail to storm the fort, But lots of them seem only used To bottle up the port. —New York Sun. Floor-walker—“ Wonder why that lady in the brown hat is always in the bargain- counter rush, She never buys anything.” Salesman She carries an accident policy and she is trying to realize on’ it.” —Boston Transcript. Patron—V'll have a piece of pumpkin ic.” | Magistrate—s Will you take this man Waiter— Punkin pie, y ! to be your lawful husband—love, honor Patron—" Pump-kin pie. and obey him?” Waiter —"Oh, yes, sir. 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