Judge — January 25, 1908 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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Wastems Auvent Subscriptions payabl which are at a discount te in 0 im Ne Canadian Provinces Chancery Lane, hange, Marna, Fifth Ave, & Twentysseventh Street, New York. € JOHN A. SLEICHER, President. PF. W. Solin Burges Johnson, Managing Editor. by draft on New York, of by express of postal order, mot by local checks irk City. ble Address, Judgark. Grant Hamilton, Art Editor. t3.00 250 as The contents of FUDGE are orotected by copyright in both the Unites States and Great Britain. CONTRIBUTORS must inciose stamped and self-addressed enoeiope with all manuscrDts, otherivise return of the latter when found unavailable cannot be guaranteed. Ht JUDOE cannot be found at any aewe-stand, the publladers will be wader obligations if that fact be promptly reported on postal-card or by letter. OUR FIRE. TERE are advantages in routine ks which we term drudgery are completed with httle weariness to the flesh if they become part of the routine work of the day. We ae- plish them * subconseien while w our thoughts for the planning of other thing Much of the work of bringi weekly Paper is handled in this way; th tant re- currence of all the little and big tasks eon ch new number tends to make all of us—editors, busin Hers, steno raphers, office boys, alike—leave much of our work to our subconscious, unthinking. selves We need a jolts and the jolt has come. Ju S, cuts, phites, type, priceless up in smoke. While the floors New York our pre Id. From a little 1 out to ¢ papers, offers Our desks are Se OUF presse anytl to you.” Artists and writers hunte sthe best they had less inspir- nected with is burnt up. Manuscripts, drawi 1s, everything is and the thames lightin curing an option on new offices b studio inthe Platir the printer, Before the came te us f At your service.” that we have that may be of u usout with material worth havi AL JenGe is burnt up; but you W't touch the spirit. We are ge ing to make that old Pheenis-bied, of classic report, look like thirty een Fire doesn’t: burn every thing. ‘The dressof routine is pone; the gold of our best traditions is only purified. We can S smoke still teatiny fo the oll Tis an ourse we want from the ruir inspiration. y npathy,—it's the only form of charity we need, so give us lots of it. And watch ust Ashes make the best sort of fertilizer for grow: yt plants + 3 TERE was an old fellow named Jener, Whose be were all burnt te a smudge Cried he, “What's the diff! Old bones make Just observe what a lively young chap Lam without ‘em. vu stiff, * * litorial which we led not to write. It was to hay about a recently published book. ‘There are. two reasons why we fhave abandoned the task: in the first phtee, it is a hasty book: inthe second | i wuthor, unable to distinguish be. tween iety and fame, hails any mention of her story as. advertis= ing. ‘This space is not for sale Contributors to Ju MSS. or drawings had been accepted before the fire i} possible, at an carly date. WE KNOW IT ALL. F the convention were to be held this week, Hughes would be vie- torious, after al ballots. Connecticut is for Taft. Johnson of Minnesota is lying low for the Democratic nomination, and is doing everything at present to hold the good will of the Bryan ele- ment; liter he will come out into the open. Roosevelt is not un- friendly toward Hughes; it has been the policy of certain mischief- makers to spread abroad this impression. “Knox will get more votes in convention than either Cannon or Fairbanks. Japan will allow her younger stitesmen to make a fool of her sooner or later, ive course. ‘There will bea ng well into the spring. n peach crop, before it is Ss? Wedon’t. But we he inspired, va hefore she learns to steer a Sune cons late winter this year, with cold weather I Fears will be entertained for the Michig harvested. How do we know all of these thi have a right to just as many yuesses as the next fellow, but of course confidential, sources of information of the d. on our nerves every now and then, We to« ed. “We know itall, but we won't always tell. When we do let go, we advise you to we your ears up. But have you never wondered why the news iper writers who give tips on the races aren't rich enough to enable then to stop writing? press yet eet TO BE VIEWED WITH CONCERN. WHAT a thin voteanie crust does man dwell upon! Our pre- nee in creation is built upon the abject service of an wmerous and aim nye of our horses that isa thousand times more rithan we. A concerted upri 1 give us considerable trou- The simple household pussy cat can kill us with the poison of her bite, ‘The insidious spider has us even more at its merey. Oysters have already slain their ‘thousand If every oyster determined. in his heart — or ach —to work us our business, instead ur celkurs, ‘Think e of or mouse at at suffragette conventiot It is horrible ty contemplate. ‘Trust and confidence are the corne n. Someone his Dut not so well. stones of stid this before, ee # TIME TO GET BUSY. OVERNOR FOLK was a fire- hero the other day; rushed into a burning house and tied the mano out in his arms, if we re- member rightly. Quite right, But it will need a record of small children saved from drowning, re- pulse of a highwayman or two, slaughter of a Japanese spy, and other deeds, all on the eve of con- vention, to overcome the inexplica- Ile handicap which favors the hero: of the Widow Bennett beque ee Ovr motto—Be cheerful ! i conjer a favor by sending us duplicates, comicbooks.com