Judge — July 21, 1906 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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Chicage, ft, CRW TERMS TO SU! $3.00 250 135 Curasrmas Je I foreign countries in Tnel 1 postal union, $5.50 a year. arack's News Exchange, Mains, Germany, Brentans's, Avenue del Opera, Paris: 5 Infringement of this cooyright will be prompily and Pigorousiy prosecuted, The accompanying joke or DRAWINGS and alt descriotive letler-press should in ébery instarce be written upon tts indtvidual picture, and NOT upon a serarate sip of paver. inclosure of stamps to the full amount of postage (3 also required, (0 insure safe and prompt return of material not accepted. JUDGE'S THIRD CHOICE FOR A DEMOCRATIC TICKET. JUDGE proceeds with the pleasant task he set for himself some weeks ago of selecting presidential candidates for the Democracy. As before, we see no chance for variety of choice in the head of the ticket. Since Mr. Bryan has become an acquired appetite with the Democrats, we have no desire to combat Rigidity in the head of the ticket allows greater freedom of se- lection for second place. We have already suggested Bryan and Hearst and Bryan and Watterson, both having a good sound to the ear, and being admirably adapted to the campaign yell. But now we suggest something even better—Bryan and Bel- mont. The alliterative quality here shows up strong, and alliteration is one of the chief assets of populistic Democracy and Democratic populism. What could bring more positive assurance of the full conver- sion of the Boy Orator of the Platte to a safe and sane mental estate than to have him peaceably and happily in yoke with the great millionaire conservator of Wall Street and the Subway. Here is a ticket that reaches from the east to the west, from the New York *L"” to the farm in the outskirts of Lincoln. Mr. Belmont, we have no doubt, would run. He has been in the running all his life, and he would take a chance, And besides, there is Maurice R. Minton to help him. Minton says he made Parker. Minton can make anything. Bryan and Belmont, with Minton on the side, would be a great team. AN INDIAN MAHARAJAH has recently gone broke in New York and got a job washing dishes in a restaurant. He confesses that he was never in India, and that the maharajah business paid well. CONGRATULATIONS TO MR. BIDD DUBBS. Bidd Dubbs sat on a fence-rail for two hours, Tuesday, whittling. —Lecsburg (Mo.) Light. Biee DUBBS is the most interesting spectacle now before the peoples We say right out, and without knowing Bidd Dubbs from the man in the moon, that we like him. There is something about this picture of Bidd that has held us as by a magic spell since the moment we read the above paragraph. In an age of hustle and of muck-raking and mud-throw- ing and general hysterics, when everybody is on the run in full cry, like a pack of hounds after a panicky fox, it is nothing short of delicious to turn from the frenzied scene and gaze upon Bidd Dubbs sitting for two hours on the fence, whittling. We said we like Bidd Dubbs. We almost love him. The very thought of Bidd Dubbs is soothing. He rests the mind. He fills the turbulent breast with the oil that brings contentment and peace. For all we know, Bidd was chewing tobacco and thinking as the mild- eyed cow thinks; but there is nothing to show that he was making himself offensive to anybody on earth. We prefer to think that he was just gazing. Perhaps it was at twilight time, or it may have been while the morning dew still lay like pearls upon the fields, Bidd Dubbs may have been absorbing the beauty and serenity and quiet of a perfect summer da It makes no difference to us what Bidd Dubbs was doing. In an unquiet and troubled age he was sitting quietly upon the fence, whittling. That endears him to us, MW JUDGE casnot be found at aay vews-stand, the publishers will be under obligations if that fact be promptly reported on postal-card or by letter. THE stingless bee, being next in order, has appeared. It produces very fine tasteless honey. © IT SEEMS we are to have a muck-raking magazine for muck-rakers and by muck-rakers. an GIRLS frying exgs to music as a graduating exercise shows how the commencement ceremonial is yielding to the demand for variety. ME WELLMAN waits. He thinks he would rather go to the Pole some other summer. In our judgment, that is the best time to go to the North Pole, SENATOR BAILEY says that in his whole career he has spent less money in politics than Hearst spent in a single ward in one election. Well, what does that prove? LUTHER BURBANK TACKLES THE POTATO. LUTHER BURBANK has trained his magic upon the potato. He has selected some 12,000 plants, and will now proceed to see how many different kinds of things he can do to the potato. This strikes us as the most sensible thing we have heard of in years. Why should scientists be making themselves crazy over x-rays, n-rays, radium, and other high- priced mysteries when in every household is the great calm-eyed potato, not only waiting for but inviting, nay, challenging, scientific inquiry? What we want is a ready-boiled and ready-skinned potato. Another line of experiment should be di- rected to producing a ready-roasted potato. There is no telling what delicious fruit might result, for instance, from a blend of the potato and the fiery red pepper. Since Mr. Burbank has proved himself the wiz- ard of the vegetable kingdom, there ought to be no natural obstacle to his hitching the potato up with the red pepper, or with anything else that will ‘throw a little vari- ety into this commonplace tuber. What 5 the American people want to-day is a potato that has variety. There has been too much sameness to the potato hitherto. Let us have a potato that has style and finish and versatility and other things. coe S/SAwaTH, King of Cambodia, thinks our American women wear too many clothes. Where Sis comes from they don’t wear any clothes at all. AND NOW it is said that Mr. Carnegie will pay $50,000 for the ashes of Dante. Some people don’t even know that Dante’s ashes are to be had. ECRETARY TAFT is “the politest man living,” says Justice Brewer. Well, there is so much of him that when he gets headed that way he can’t stop. LL that you need to do under the new law in order to get a pass on a railroad is to certify that you are a destitute person, an agent for the railroad company, and engaged in eleemosynary work. ONDON fashion note: ‘* The cachepeigne mingles well with the little chi chi curls which posticheurs sell to fill the hiatus back of the hat beneath the cachepeigne.”” This cachepeigne thing is a bandeau of tulle— but beyond that we are guessing like other people.