Judge — July 1, 1905 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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Ar me Panxee Boreprxa, Fe PUBLISHED WEEKLY VRTH AVENUE AND NINETEENTH STREET, New Youx. Wasrexn Apvexrisine Orricn—13 13 Hartford Building, Osicage, lit TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS: UNITED STATES AND CANADA IN ADVANCE, ‘Ove copy, one year, or 52 nambers - 2S ‘One copy, six months, or 26 aumbers - ‘One copy, for thirteen weeks Including the Cuistwas Juce. UBSCRIPTIONS—To all fore: RUKOrmAN SALES-AGKNTS—/atermational News Company, The contents of FUDGE are protected by copyright tn both the United States and Great Britain. iream's building, Chancery Lane, F.C, London; Brentano's, Avenue del" Opera, "5 News Exchange, Mains, Germany, Infringement of this copyright will be promptty and rigorously prosecuted. CONTRIBUTORS mast inctose a stamoed and self-atdnessed ervelove with all manascrints, otherwise return of the Latter when found unavailable cannot be guaranteed. DRAWINGS and all contributions sent to the Art Department should have the sender's full name and addvess Wwritten plainly on each and every separate sketch. descriptive letter-press should in dvery instance be written upon its indrostual picture, and NOT upon a separate slip of paper. tnsure safe and promot return of material not accepted. NORWAY’S FOURTH OF JULY. IHE ACTION of the Norwegian storthing came as a surprise to the American people, and the gentle, courteous way in which the descendants of the vikings up-ended the throne and fired their king makes one of the amusing contrasts of history. Imagine the brave old fighters of the middle centuries accomplishing such a suave and bloodless coup. The survival through ninety years of the ancient Norse love of independence and its assertion now shows how racial char- acter persists and how deathless is the aspiration for liberty. When the union with Sweden was effected in 1814 the Norwegian people declared it “en forening att grata ofver’ (a union to weep over); and the cry of Bjornson, ** Fred er ej det bedste, men at man noget vil ’—which, in short, means that war is better than disgraceful peace—has been the slogan of the nation in recent years. Monarchy ought to feel cold chills up and dcwn its back as it contemplates the quick, business-like work of the Norsemen. The trick of ousting royalty seems easy when a people rises up unitedly in storthin sdag, reichstag, parliament, or legislature and says to a mon+ arch, . A MONUMENT to Captain Kidd is suggested. The study of the best pirates is needed. The business is getting too tame. yr LOW JOURNALISM must acknowledge defeat. ‘* How this paper brought the czar and mikado to terms"? has not been top-lined, scare- headed, or editoriated once. r IS SAID Henry James kept silent until a certain Bostonian remarked that he liked certain ** drorings " he “* sor”’ in an art-gallery. From that moment the philippic on our untidy English was a foregone conclusion. NOW FEEL myself a really great man,” said President Roosevelt laughingly on being presented with a statuette of himself by Miss Janet Scudder. Don’t hear anybody objecting. Toso won his great victory on the sabbath day. It was on a Sunday, you'll remember, that Dewey did a neat trick in Manila bay—and there was that little turn by Schley and Sampson at Santiago on a certain Sunday morning. Sunday seems to be quite a day for feats on the water. BENJAMIN of the Flying rollers is collecting the animals at Benton harbor, Michigan, @ la Noah. Says another flood is due as soon as the Chicago strike ends. He's corralled twelve animals in a month, At that rate he'll get them all in just about the right time. HE FIXED PERIOD,” by Dr. Osler, is an- nounced. Probably refers to the period after the chloro- form. nye AYOR DUNNE isn’t saying much about that Dalrymple advice he import- ed from Glasgow, and yet it was mighty good advice— , Chicago isn’t Glasgow. far from the station. in three minutes."* A REAL-ESTATE PIPE. Mr. Buco (a prospective tenant)—"* Yes, | like the house very much: but it's too Mr. Lonatecs (real-estate agent)—‘*Too far? Why, man! I can walk it easily The accompanying jube oF Inclosare of stamps to the full amount of postage (3 also reguireds 10 THE TROUBLES OF THE MAYORS. OMETHING should be done to make life easier for the mayors. They are having more than their share of troubles. There is the Pittsburg executive. From the lumber business to the city chieftaincy, he went to do good and make light and gladness where all was dense and smoky. Now he is heading back toward the tall timber. His brown locks have whitened under the burdens of the office. Stanch friends stood by until he wanted them to take places in the administration to help carry out his re- form schemes. Then, when he looked for them, lo! they were not any- where to be seen. He has been abused for what he did, and worse abused for what he did not do. When some Republicans called the other day to urge him to run again he blurted out, ‘1 would not accept this job for an- other three years if the salary were increased to fifty thousand dollars a year. No more for me.”’ All the world knows what a time Mayor Weaver has had, and Gotham’s young executive is having no June picnic; and as for- Judge Dunne—well, consider the Chicago city seal. The ordinance calls for the image of “an infant sleeping in a shell” on the official stamp. The great seal, thus embossed, has been used for some time; but it turns out that the baby is not sleeping in a shell, but is sitting on the ragged edge of the shell in a thoroughly awakened state. Now, Mayor Dunne must show that a baby can sleep sitting up, or all his official acts, stamped with this seal, are knocked into a cocked hat and two million dollars of bonds, just issued, are worthless. These are the things, unforeseen, un- expected, which are turning our mayors’ locks gray and bringing the ugly, croaking ravens of sorrow to perch upon the busts over their chamber- doors. . . WE AMERICANS LOVE LAWS. WE ARE in no danger of becoming a lawless people. Americans love laws and like plenty of them. The people of the empire state, for example, are law-abiding, and they now have seven hundred and sixty more laws to abide by than they had last year, that being the net product of the last session of the law-mill at Albany. The other states have a like record, so that we may say, in round numbers, each year adds something like twenty thousand laws for the people to live up to. That figure may not be exact, but who cares? Just so we have enough—so many laws that we can never know what they are, nor do anything that is not somewhere forbidden —in short, while we have enough laws to hopelessly tangle us up, and the lively expectation of plenty more in next year’s crop, we are happy and the country safe. There are prob- ably some ten toousand men in this broad land at this very moment whose sole ambition is to get up an aggregate of twenty thousand more bright, new laws before another year rolls round. THE DOVE of peace will be wearing eye-glasses and showing its teeth next. ITH Grover Cleveland back on the active list, it will seem like old times. MELWAUKEE invited Rus- sia and Japan to hold peace conference there. Evi- dently tired of having only one claim to greatness. comicbooks.com