Judge — February 16, 1907 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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5 Fourtu Ave., New Youn, Westen FORFIGN SUBS wmn's building. Chancery Lane, F.C The CONTRIBUTORS mast in tents of FUDGE are oro ose 4 stamped and selt-adiressed erideio fo the Art material not accented. Decartment s en woon it indi 1 JUDGE cansot be found at any news-stand, the publishers will be under obligatio THE DOCTORS GO AFTER SAINT VALENTINE. HE ARRIVAL of Saint Valentine’s Day has suggested to some medical experts that the people to-day are diverting too much energy to the regions of sentiment. Every valentine, we may say, is so many ohms or amperes of nervous force gone to waste. We all know how disastrous the Fourth of July is to the nation. The doctors tell us that Christmas leaves a stretch of gloom across the nerves of the country, and Thanksgiving induces hepatic melan- cholia, Altogether, it strikes us that the doctors are getting us tethered up pretty close to the stake. One says we eat too much; another says we sleep too much; and both these views are indorsed by Mr. Edison. Another says we work too much, another that we talk too much. Another too much, and next comes a man who says we loaf too much, And now we are told that we love too much. It seems to be a case of whatever you don’t do, do; and whatever you do do, don’t. Some day poor advised and warned and doctored humanity will rebel against the ever-multiplying millions of germs and the ever-growing claque of medical admonition which abounds in the yellow press and settle down comfortably with its old diseases and ails and be unhealthy and happy ‘once more. Too [¥< MUCH | rou. says we res EIGHT HUNDRED pianos made "Frisco happy, says a dispatch from the Pacific coast. Why happy? ONGRESS determines to keep up the free-seed farce, says an editorial. Well, congress must have something free. N AUBURN-PRISON convict has been accused by the Star-of-Hope editor of plagia A great commotion has ensued in literary circles in the prisons. ism. A MURDER-TRIAL A SPECTACULAR SHOW. THE THAW TRIAL ought to go down in history as the turning-point in criminal prosecution. But probably it won't. Every phase of this extraordinary affair lends itself so easily to burlesque that it is difficult to approach the subject seriously. Of course, to the common mind, the case is simple enough. A rich young man shot down a person of some note, and must answer before twelve good men and true for his act. It is for them to de- termine whether there was justification for the whether it was due to a burst of murderous passion, or whether it was the work of a madman. In the old slow days this inquiry would have followed close upon the act itself. In these swifter days, if we are to judge from the elaborate pre liminaries, the snail-like progress of the trial thus for, and from recent precedent, the end will not be reached for years. It will not do to say that the newspapers are to blame for the unparalleled sensatio! ism which beats about this noted case. The newspapers merely answer the public demand, and the fact is that the public demands to know all about this grewsome tragedy in the so-called high life of our day. The pity of it is that there is no great demand for justice, but only an enormous curiosity to know the bitter story down to the last item. Anvrsristse KLY JvpcarK.” Tet, PUBLISHED WE Cante Appness, 14 Gmauency. Orncr—1313 Uartford Buiiding, Chicago, Ne IPTIONS—To a written plainly on each and every senarale sketch. The accompanying foke or 2 of pare. Inciosure of stamos to the full amount of postage 1s also reauired, 12 hat fact be promptly reported on postal-card or by letter. CIENTIST says the broom must go. Is it because some of the new brooms are sweeping so clean? THE late proceedings in Texas seem to have implanted in Senator Bailey ‘a chronic disposition to fall into a rage. HE congressmen voted to keep those ‘* Birds’ Notes.’ dently has some birds and likes their notes. nent in the ‘ Salome "case shows that the real operatic author- ew York City is the Metropolitan Real Estate Company. THE Albany clergymen, in offering to pray for the New York State legis- lature without pay ¢ raised a knotty problem for the country at why did they do it? THE BRYAN WORKS IN FULL BLAST AGAIN. T IS REPORTED that Mr. Bryan will shortly start a magazine. Mr. Bryan is already the editor of a weekly paper, lectures nightly, and has eighty bookings on the Chautauqua circuit for next summer. This ex- traordinary activity is ominous. It looks like preparation. If we were guessing we would say that it looks almost like an attempt to corner the next great awakening and capture some big conven tion in 1908. One section of Mr. Bryan's Commoner is entitled “Brain Leaks.” It might not be a bad idea to transfer this title to the new magazine, for surely noth- ing could better describe the outgivings of this great Nebraska mind. No such a spectacle of effluent and affluent brains was ever known before. This intellectual and political absorber goes about the country gathering to itself all the quickening and reformatory impulses and discharging them simultaneously to all the world. We ques« tion whether this reforming agency is an individual mind any longer. Mr. Bryan appears to have become a va intellectual factory. He rumbles and quakes with the mighty machinery that is constantly producing new thoughts. Night and day the chimneys belch forth smoke, and a haze of shimmering heat surrounds the Bryan reform plant. The blazing intellectual light flares forth like flames from smelter. If Mr. Bryan keeps on losing there will not be magazines enough in the world to contain his output of thoughts. KANSAS has had a hanging law so long without hanging anybody that she has finally decided to get along without a hanging law. eee ‘THERE is a strong desire in the west to dam the Colorado River, and it begins to look as if the desire would shortly spread to the Panat Canal. Congress evi- ity in} N R. SMOOT is going to get the surprise of his life one of these days, for it would be just like the Senate, in an absent-minded moment, to do something with his case. | T WOULD be interesting to see an advertising circular issued this month by any house that did not begin with a few remarks about the glorious character of Abraham Lincoln, ‘ OW to be pretty on one dollar a week is the alluring headline in a magazine. One of the recipes is to take old bits of toilet-soap, add borax-powder, let simmer until the mixture jells. The article does not state what to do next. comicbooks.com