Judge — June 2, 1906 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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HANK MEDDERSS. COUNTRY-SEEING AUTO. SCHEDULE OF TRIP. Henry Snyder's chicken-coop. House where Reese Ripp wrote his poem, + Rippling Brook.” View from turnpike. New cheese-factory. Home of Ezra Meeker, invent or of the “ Meeker gate.” Buttermilk Creek. Home of Aunt Martha Wil- liams, who knit a pair of socks for Uncle Joe Cannon. Road-house where Bill Beard won the great tobacco-chewing con- test of 93. Bill Beard’s grave. Home of Elmer B. Gosh, rich- est man in the village, THE LATEST RUBBER-NECK INDUSTRY—SEEING-THE-COUNTRY AUTOMOBILE. SOME CURIOUS EFFECTS OF THE BOOM IN ICE PRICES. 'E WENT over to the ++ parlor across the way and called for a prick" of mixed and put down the price we had paid always before.” The young lady chirped, «Five cents more, please." We asked why and wherefore. ‘Ice has gone up,” she said, Ah, yes, so. Ice up from $3.00 to $5.00 a ton, ice-cream from thirty-five to forty cents a quart. Exactly. This led us to investigate. We found the following facts—approximately, allowing something, of course, to a deep inward activity of feeling : Our beef went up because of in- creased refrigeration cost. A bunch of radishes cost two cents more. Oranges jumped, and all kinds of fruits. But we did not see just why kindling-wood went up twenty-five cents a bar- rel. Of course it was easy after we found out: it cost more to supply the kindling-splitter with ice-water. Then bricks went up forty cents a thousand. The owner of the brick-yard ran the ice-plant, and the rise in bricks was a purely sym- pathetic movement—like the inflammation of the eye because the other has got a cinder in it. Then we discovered that a corner lot we wanted had gone up $100. This stumped us until we learned the intimate con- nection between this cor- ner lot and ice. The lot-owner, it seems, had got shut up for three hours in a refrigerator, and contact with ice had imbued him with the idea that everything was going up. But the most singular effect of the ice- boom came out as fol- lows: We asked for an increase of salary and icy eye all ina moment. Then we realized that ice was up and it was costing more to congeal employing interiors, leaving just so much less for the interiors of the submerged classes. Ae THE MAGNETIC “AD.” A JOW the lucky country landlord gazes with a sigh prof On the guests whom he has gathered through his “ad's” attractive sound, And the summer boarder's comments are best mentioned with a blot As he shivers o'er the pamphlet that allured him to the spot. bws AN HONEST TRAMP, s+ ADY, won't you give a poor old fellow something to eat? I'm an honest man," pleaded the tramp at the back door. “Prove your hon- esty,"” suggested the sweet little woman, + [have not suffered from the San Francisco earthquake.” Without another word he was taken in and given such a feast as seldom falls to the lot of those who take so many free rides on the railroads. HER LITTLE HINT. HE full moon flooded the porch with shafts of steel-blue rays, It was late, but he showed no signs of departin + It has been said he remarked dreamily, “+ that the moon is dead.” els that any rea- son,” she inquired with ayawn, « why we should sit up with the corpse 2” 66 [0 you wish to have me make your portrait life-size 2” asked the artist. «Certainly, Mrs, Justgottitt. + It'll probably cost more for the frame, but, gracious! GETTING HIS MONEY'S WORTH. Jonnny Hirro—* Give me a half-fare ticket to Jungleburg.”” Ticket-acent—" Heavens! it wouldn't take many of these to ruin the road." we ain't goin’ to stick at got the frosty face, the a little thing like that.”” glacial glance, and the comicbooks.com