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This page from *Judge* contains multiple satirical pieces typical of the magazine's humor: **"A Low-Down Trick"** (top left): A traveler brags about swindling a Kansas farmer out of 160 acres by trading a heifer for the land, then exploiting the farmer's illiteracy during the paperwork. The satire targets agricultural gullibility and frontier dishonesty. **"Rules for War by the Next Peace Conference"** (center): Mock regulations proposing absurdly bureaucratic constraints on warfare—requiring 30 days' notice, "captains of industry" ratification, and neutral mediator credit for peace. This satirizes the optimistic but impractical peace conferences following WWI, suggesting that even well-intentioned rules can't realistically govern war. **"Plantation Philosophy"** (right): Dialect humor from an African American character offering folk wisdom about hardship and fate—typical of the era's often-demeaning racial comedy. **Bottom section**: Various brief jokes about marriage, horses, and relationships. The page reflects early 20th-century satirical style: targeting political naivety, agricultural/frontier culture, and domestic life through exaggeration and dialect humor.

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A LOW-DOWN TRICK. DILAPIDATED wagon, drawn by a lank . crossed the Missouri River bridge at Atchison, Behind the wagon, a sleek two-year-old team of horse led by a rope, heifer. “Where ‘Wd you get the heifer?” in- quired the stranger. “TL swindled a man out of her,” re plied the traveler. You see, | had a 160: acre farm out in western Kansas. Lived there thice years, an’ was gettin’ pretty lean, One day a feller come along with this here heifer, I'l give ye this heifer fer eighty acres of yer farm,” he says, says “TM take ye," T said. We went to town to make out'n the papers, an‘ found out the feller couldn't read , So I just worked off the hull 160 on him.” he. ner writ RULES FOR WAR BY THE NEXT PEACE CONFERENCE. HE. rule pealed All's fair in love and war,” is hereby re- Any attempt by one combatant to injure the tis strictly prohibited. t blank balls shall be used exc other cart yes and rubber can- b no pt by consent of the opposing side, In order that a limit may be put to naval equipment, it is hereby pedo-boat-destroyer-destroyer. ation unless its intention declared unlawful to destroy at No battle shall be begun by a so to do shall have been published thirty days in a newspaper of gen- army or eral circulation. wo Pp: action shall not be final until ratified by a convention of the captains of industry of the respective nations. Due notice shall be served upon the opposing, party of any inten- ties shall constitute a quorum to make war, but their tion to fin notice shall cannon or other destructive implement of warfare. Such te the proposed date of firing, the loca non, and the direction in which it is eed, If one kets belonging to desires in ample time to give the possessing. ns ion of the cans nds or re | HL mal nh Opportunity to n desires, by forcible means, to st nother nation, such nation sli ¢ known its make such defense of its lands or its markets as may be deemed nec- essary. After a war has been declared, and it is desired for any reason to conclude peace, it shall be unlawful to do so without giving credit to 1S 8 JON, some neutral ruler or president for the Nol PERSONAL ITEM. Mr. Cy Linder Bore has unexpectedly returned to his stables and th PLANTATION PHILOSOPHY. EP YOR ain burn down an’ yore rib keteh Des’ keep in? content, Ef yo" hadnt Idem moughty gout ings Dem tse nut Dem whad Aas is de ones ‘Caze dem whad Aain't dey cain't! RELATIONSHIP, Genial Dennis (to grumpy passen- whose doy occupies the only avail- ¢ seat) . thot Grumpy passenger Uph!" Genial Dennis vine « DISPROVED. * Don't you think a ho shoe isa sign of good luck ? “Not fer me. Every durned horse 1 ever bet on wore shoes. Shure, now, thé baste sits in th! sate wid all th’ liger av a human bein’, he does." Griunpy passenger —» Uph Genial Dennis now ?” Grumpy passenger (spatter! sizz Faith, an’ phat koind av a dog moight he be, —!)—" Part Irish and part Genial Dennis“ Ve th’ saints! thot makes him related to both ww ous, don’t it? “ONE WAY OUT OF IT. + What ever made you cut that hole in your roof “Had to. My wife objects to my smoking in the house.” 8 EASY. AUD Stella te Bella, s When Tigo to skate rerfeet at ¢ A beautiful § Said Helle te Stelle Thal Conside “Dhe size at yeate sh SOPORIFIC, Irate wife Vw what is the use of my tlking when you just go te sleep? Do you hear? (Mang!) What is the use of my talking when you just go to sleep ? Tired husband © On the Jenny, it was only because 1 was listening to you that E dozed off." HIS MISTAKE. Mr. Jones —“ Would you chter in the support my da style to which she has been acctstomed # Chelly —« Ves, sir.” Mr, Jones Then you're an idiot, and you can’t have turf again, her!" comicbooks.com