Judge — April 13, 1907 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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FOREIC Evnorean satus-acunts—/uternational News Company, Bream’s building, Chancery Lane, E. C, London The contents of FUDGE are protected by copyright in both the United States and Great Britain. Infri 225 Fourru Ave.,New York. Caste Appness,“Jupcann.” Tet. 2214 Gramercy. Western Apvernisinc Orrice— 1313/1 UNITED STATES AND CANADA IN ADVANCE. One copy, one year, or s2 numbers = = One copy, six months, or 26 numoers = ‘One copy, for thirteen weeks é UBSCRIPTIONS—To PUBLISHED WEEKLY 4 Building, Chicago, lt. TERMS TO RS: $5.00 ; Rustemeey bee oe re nas ins, Germany. jement of this copyright will be promptly and digorousiy prosecuted. CONTRIBUTORS mast inctose a stamped and self-addressed eivelove with all manascriots, otherwise return of the latter when found unavailatle cannot be guaranteed. DRA INGS and all contributions sent to the Art Department should have the sender's fall name and adiress written plat ty on each and every secarate sketch. The accompanying Joke or descriotive ietter-press sould in dvery instance be writien upon its indrosdual picture, and NOT upon a seoaraie siip of pacer. Inciosure of stamos to the full amount of postage is also required, to insure safe and promot return of material not accented. FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO JURIES. 'HE THAW TRIAL ought to result in the formation of a society for the prevention of cruelty to juries. Whether a murder trial of the modern sort ends in a conviction or an acquittal, one of the parties to the trial suf- fers in so many ways that it looks almost like punishment. The judge, the prosecutor, the counsel, the experts, and a multitude of subsidiary persons find in a trial the ordinary field of their salaried ac- tivities. The twelve good men and true have the greatest burden of responsibility, with them are the issues of life and death, their services, so far from being in line with their profession, are a withdrawal from and a complete stoppage of their le- gitimate labors, and all they get out of it is more or less public reproach and two dollars per day. Some of the Thaw jurors have suffered greatly in business—one is said to have been reduced to the verge of poverty—and all have made sacrifices for which there is neither credit nor reward. A juror is called upon to do the most onerous duties of citizenship, and in aduition to all the rest he has to listen to the testimony of experts and try to sift out a grain of sense from mountains of nonsense. Something should be done to make life a little more worth living to juries. T IS charged that Bath-house John Coughlin, the Chicago muse, ‘hires’? a man to write his poetry for him. Thus goes on the awful work of spoliation of renown, AND now this question, Who will own the North Pole? if there is a North Pole, after it is discovered, if it ever shall be discovered, has got to be argued out between Canada and the United States. WESTERN RAILROAD TRIES A NEW “STUNT.” THE DISPOSITION of the railroads to make themselves agreeable to the public is becoming more and more evident each day. For example, we learn that a certain western railroad has lately employed a man who has been dubbed in railroad parlance ** The General Public.” ‘‘ The Gen- eral Public” is employed to travel over his road in the guise of an ordinary passenger. He buys his ticket and mentally notes the conduct of the ticket- seller; whether he has the hard look, the metallic voice, and the uncom- promising and disagreeable firmness of the ordinary ticket-seller. He boards the train and keeps a wary eye on the behavior of brakemen, conductors and porters. He notes the energy of the whisk- , broom and estimates its revenue-compel- ling force. When the conductor falls afoul of the woman with five children who is traveling on one ticket and a half, he draws near to witness the bout. ‘ The General Public’? sits in cold waiting- rooms at night and stews in packed com- muter cars by day, and each day he records all his observations and impressions and reports them to his employer. It is also his duty to travel over other roads for the Purpose of comparing their treatment of the public with that of his own road. We foresee a career of great usefulness for ‘‘ The General Public,” and on our own motion, without consulting anybody, we invite him to come east and spend a month with us in New York. We would like to read his report. 1 JUDGE cannot be found at any news-stand, the publishers will be under obligations if that fact be promptly reported on postal-card or by letter. SOWELL dig the ditch or bust!” Uncle Joseph says so, and so we guess we must. ELL-KNOWN lady verse-writer seeks divorce. cised her “ pomes.”” What is the argument? WE PITY the court and prosecutor who have in hand that case against the Danish Steamship Company Dampskibsselskabet Kjoebenhyn. The senior class at Trinity College, Boston, -toy, and for sport will play Her husband criti- O FOR the mollycoddle! has adopted the Teddy Bear as its clas: marbles on the campus. WHAT a return to simplicity in the very thought that Mr. Rockefeller takes his church-choir on a picnic, treats them to soda and ice-cream, and ends the day by singing hymns in the family parlor! COLORADO'S PREACHER-GOVERNOR SETS AN EXAMPLE. GOVERNOR BUCHTEL of Colorado has supplied to a waiting world an example which, we make no doubt, will be received with enthusi- asm, In the course of his official duty it became necessary to sign a Local Option bill—the first temperance measure, by the way, ever passed by a legislature in Colorado. The governor immediately arranged for a reli- gious service to solemnize the signing of the bill. We have not the pro- gramme at hand, but we believe there was an invocation, a hymn, a Scripture read- ing; then the governor signed, after which there was another hymn—the legislature joining in the singing, we hope—the serv- ice closing with the benediction by the preacher-executive. Such a service is not only an agreeable novelty in state-house practice, but it imports into the exercise of the gubernatorial prerogative a quality, or flavor, or fervor, which at present is en- tirely lacking. Not every state executive is as well qualified as Colorado's preacher- governor to conduct such a service, and it might be necessary in some cases to call in the aid of the clergy. Also it might be necessary at times to hire singers, since not every legislature has had the advantage of the Methodist training in that direction which has fallen to the lot of the Colorado law-maker. But the idea is bound to prevail, al- though we fail to see at this moment just how some legislation that we wot of could be adjusted to any sort of a religious exercise. se President Eliot, by a vote of five to two, is the greatest living Ameri- can, And hea mollycoddle! We had thought another gentleman of high position and well-known name— But a vote is a vote, and that settles it. eee EW YORK has a way of extracting from every event its essential juices and compounding an ultimate residue which contains all of the event which is worthy of survival. Memo: The final result of the Thaw trial is “ The Brain-storm Cocktail.”” REEN swizzle! We don’t know what it is, but somebody who does writes that one drink of it makes the drinker see in New York a pic- turesque town with romantic avenues of royal palms, the scent of cinna- mon-trees and magnolias, and the whirring of countless humming-birds. What New York needs is not a new railroad commission, but plenty of green swizzle.