Judge — June 15, 1907 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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DRAWIN S and all contribations sent to the Art Desartment should have the sender's full name and adiness Written plainly on each and every separate sketch. The accompanying joke or descrioteve letter-oress siouid in every instance be written upon its indroidual picture, and NOT upon a sevarate slip of pazer. Inciosure of stamps to the full amount of postage 1s also required, to insure safe and prompt return of material not accepted. 1 JUDGE cannot be found at any eews-stand, ibe publishers will be ander obligations if that fact be promptly reported on postal-card or by letter. THE TUCTU BIRD, BOBOO-TREE, VACATION, AND PEACE. Te REASONABLY relate together unrelated phenomena is a task re- quiring the ingenuity of a philosopher. JUDGE is not a philosopher, and therefore at first glance is somewhat puzzled by the strange group of facts here presented to the attention of his readers. For example, there is the Tuctu bird, which, we are credibly informed, belongs to the mysterious realm of the Mahatmas. Then there is the Boboo tree, belonging, we surmise, to the same mystic realm. Next, in this rosy June time we en- counter the phenomenon of the peace congress at The Hague, where na- tions, full of the preparation for war, are met to discuss the project of beat- ing their swords into plowshares. Turning to the side of the world on which we dwell, we discover another notable incident of world politics, viz., President Roosevelt begins his summer rest at Sagamore Hill. Now, by what process are these widely separated and totally unrelated phenom- ena to be blended? Why is there a haunting something about them all which seems to bring them into some sort of a spiritual unity? Let us ex- amine their several qualities. The Tuctu bird, we are told, is remarkable in this, that there is but one in existence. He (or she) has this further re- markable quality, that persons dwelling in his (or her) vicinity are charmed into an unutterable peace of mind and contentment of spirit. The Boboo tree is gifted with a similar quieting effect upon the human spirit. Under its shade all jangling strife changes to a music like the concord of sweet sounds. Assuming that the Tuctu bird is none other than the dove of peace, and joining together the two remaining facts of our mystic group— viz., the peace conference at The Hague and the retirement of the President to the quiet of Sagamore Hill—we begin to see some meaning in what was before puzzling and incomprehen- sible. When our President rests he is more active than when he works—or, rather, the scope of his activities extends from local to general and world-wide functions. Once before, while he rest- ed, it will be recalled that he found rec- reation in pacifying the Russo-Jap em- pires. Now we may suppose, as he sits under his own Boboo tree, the Tuctu bird shedding its strange influ- ence upon him, the councilors of peace striving together at The Hague will be inevitably drawn within the zone of his power. From Oyster Bay, through all these restful summer days, this tri- une strain—the mingled power and be- neficence of the Tuctu bird, the Boboo tree, and a President whose strenuous militancy is all for peace—will radiate to the ends of the earth and lay its po- tent spell upon all peoples. Persons who may travel to Oyster Bay this month or next will do well to have this great thought in mind and to feel the awe they ought to feel. A LETTER written by Petrarch, poet, has turned up. No doubt there is correspondence to meet whatever he has said in the possession of the Luckiest Letter Writer in the republic. MAksE HENRY thinks there may be hope for the Democratic party after all. All that is necessary to give it success in 1908 is cholera in the Philippines, yellow fever in Cuba, corn at thirty cents, and wheat at forty cents. Give the people plenty of disaster and they won’t mind an extra dose in the shape of a Democratic victory, is the Watterson view. VACATION. LA FOLLETTE’S boom is under way, says a headline. We knew that years ago. 5. é, 3 THE latest theory is that tears kill bacteria. We have heard of gentle- men who take a “smile” to kill germs. HE educational movement is world-wide. There is Oxford appealing for a million dollars and Cambridge for six millions. eee IROBABLY it is felt that General Methuen can handle the Boers now. The trouble before was that the Boers were mad. eee THOSE nineteen Finn women, we note, no sooner get into politics than they chase right after the marriage question. That’s the way of women. A SIX-MILLIONAIRE is seeking advice as to the best way to dispose of the six. We know, but we are not going to tell him until we have “seen, been WE GUESS that a certain insurance company feels shaky since it is announced that suit is to be brought against it by Mr. Dampskib- sactreselskabet Hermod. AT THIS writing Nature Fakir Long is still unanswered. We wonder if this statement will still cover the case when these lines are come under the eye of the reader. SPEAKING of peace, it seems to be agreed that, while arbitration is to be seriously considered, it need not be so seriously taken as to require any slack-up in the gun-factories of the world, vee GERMANS seem to be proud of that midnight paper in Berlin, Pshaw! What's a midnight paper alongside of a ten-o’clock saffron home edition of a paper for Thursday night published be- fore sun-up on Tuesday? INTERESTING to note that the czar, at the same time he is sending his representative to the peace congress, is also entering upon a constructional programme for the navy which calls for the ultimate expenditure of $800,- 900,000. cee HE Hon. John W. Daniel of Vir- ginia seems to think that the Dem- ocrats should take the right man, no matter where he happens to be. We suspect that Mr. Daniel thinks Vir ginia is as good a place to hunt for the right man as anywhere. THE economists are having a hard time figuring out just how women are our leisure class while five million of them are hustling for a living in factory and field. Statistics are knocking the romance out of a lot of things nowadays. comicbooks.com