Judge — May 23, 1908 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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Building, 225 Fifth Aves New York, Cable Address,“ Judgark.” Tel. 6032 Madison Sau: JOHN A, SLEICHER, President. F. W. Schneider, Secresary. Arthur Terry, Treasurer, Wesrexn Avvarrisinc Orricn— 2136-7 Marguctte Building, Chicago, Hl Burges Johneon, Managing Editor. Grant Hamilton, Art Editor, D WEEKLY AT 10 CENTH A COPY. 290 tas on New York, or by express or postal order, wot by local checks Subscriptions payable in advance which areata discount im New Vork Qty. cies, and Mexico. To Canadian Provine The contents of JUDGE are orotected by covyright in both the Unites States ani Great year Brtain. Bream's building, Chancery 1 CONTFIBUTORS must inciose 4 stamped and self-addressed entoelope with all manuscmpts, othevivise return of the Latter when found unavailable cannot be guaranteed. 87 vewe-stand, tbe publlabers will be ender obligations if that fact be promptly reported on postal-card or by letter. GRAFTING. Croker’s past successes and hopeful of many more to come, It may | ATTER-DAY farmers tell us that be that he will make the English racing field appear so attractive to iP peaches can be grafted on to grape- some of his political successors in New York that they will be in- SH vine stocks, and plums will grow on duced to pack up their duds and follow him over. The only cata: trophe we foresee, if this thing goes too far and too many Americal n be brought about, even more — of the sort already Anglicized transfer their citizenship to Great Brit wonderful, as a result of experiments ain, is that King Edward may give up his job in disgust and become such as Mr. Burbank’s out in Califor- an American, We should be glad to have him over here; we could nia, But the Scriptural dictum still doubtless get him a place on the police force. But it would be bad holds true that you can’t raise figs for England. on thistles. There are definite limits ag beyond which man's skill is powerle A CURIOUS THREAT. Two fine old stocks in our political JT IS reported that friends of Governor Hughes have threatened GQ Pa garden, the Republican and the Demo- that he will run again for the governorship if he fails this term ° cratic, have had some strange graft- to put through his anti-gambling bills. This is an int i ing ex nts tried upon them by the various farmers who have commentary on present political conditions in New York | come and gone. Much can be made to grow upon the old Repub- corrupt machine is so fearful of another two years unde } lican tree. Mr. Roosevelt is doing a very Burbank act just now — ruptible Governor that they will sacrifice many things, even a large | little socialistic spriga on its old trunk, Some of umount of temporary plunder, for the sake of being quit of him. them will take root and some may not, All sorts of strange foliage — Would it be good ethics to use the threat for all it is worth, and then is sprouting from the old Democratic stump, and Bryan has proved —1un the Governor again? Strange questions of right and wrong p the most reckless gardener of all. The sap he has todeal with seems rent themselves in up-to-date politics ! | to take more kindly to exotic twigs and weird blossoms, Every now . } and then old-timers who have enjoyed sitting in the shade of one or HAVE heard that lemons are emblematic of sudden disap- | another of these trees become a little panic-stricken at some of the W pointesent or fallute-of expectation, The origin of the foliage they see starting above them, But let Republicans take com- phrase is a mystery to us unless, perhaps, the saying was } | ry trees, and many other achi in trying The ctions; but « fort from the old truth that thistles cannot grow from fig firat used by some man who thought ). P. must grow—and grow sometimes in new di he getting an orange and found may be pretty sure that foolish grafting experiments will thrive for that he had been handed a lemon. only # brief time and then die, while those twigs of radical appear- Whatuver the origin, it seems to us n heartily to have taken hold will be benefited by the that the largest lemon ever handed flows into them and aids their growth. out was received by the man who os plained about his gas meter to the KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. Public + Commission, and after E NOTE that Richard Croker has won another important their official investigation learned W horse-race nl. The vietory carries with it hat the machine was slow and that aconsiderable purse, It is possible that New York polities he owed the gas company a dollar a fits a man for the business of horse-racing, and we are grateful for Mr. month for the past six months, ance which see old sap tha THIS 15 mY Busy | Pipes: «. Tooaccu . MORE WORK FOR THE BIG CHIEF. } (Senator L tiny the use of Indian figures as cigar and tobacco signs.""—Preas Dispatch from Oklahoma.) Chor ntratuced u bill yestentay Indian—* We come to ask Heap Big Wh ather to make pale-face Oklahoma senate stop drive poor wooden Injun out of comicbooks.com