Judge — December 6, 1913 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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THE RICHEST PRODUCT OF THE BEST OF MARYLAND'S FAMOUS DISTILLERIES @s) HUNTER BALTIMORE RYE THE AMERICAN GENTLEMAN'S WHISKEY Sold at all first-class cafes and by jobbers. WM. LANAHAN & SON, Baltimore, Md. “JUDGE” ‘Printers of =*¢ Art Color Printing Co. Fine Color and Nagin Printers The Art Color Building 209-219 West 38th Street New York City TELEPHONES 6476—6477 GREELEY oe Se q Set with an Original Baroda Diamond A true archetype of the Genuine Diamond. Not manufactured stones, but mined like all true dis- monds. Nature gives fire and li Is trating and if Rareds Diamonds VYoct eJ. MI. HUBER MANUFACTURER OF Dry Colors Pulp Colors FINE. tenesrsess’ INKS LETTERPRESS Main Office: 65-67 West Houston Street NEW YORK Philadelphia St. Louls Omaha Chicago San Francisco Cincinnati HUBER'S INKS USED ENTIRELY ON THIS PUBLICATION The Best of All By JOHN KENDRICK BANGS I SHOULD enjoy the wondrous fame That’s intertwined with Shakespear name; And there are moments when I wish I'd penned Ike Walton's thoughts ©n fish, I should not mind at all to-day If I had written Thackeray, Or Mr. Dickens’s novels great, Or Francis Bacon’s words of weight, He must, indeed, be but a clam Who'd not have wished to be Khayyam, Or have enjoyed the laureled sweets That came to Shelley and to Keats; Who'd not have joyed in those rich bays That followed after Byron’s lays, Or found great cheer that he had writ Lamb’s endless lines of gracious wit. In later days Lord Tennyson Seized laurels worthy to be won, And I'd rejoice had it been mine To pen one single Browning line, Or to have had that flow of speech That ever lay in Carlyle’s reach— And there be many to:nes unknown That I'd be glad to call my own. And yet of all the men who've sung Since Adam first let loose his tongue, From Moses down to—well, to me, The humblest fish that swims the sea— I envy most the man who first, With heart and mind and soul athirst, Blest all that were and all to be By writing just yO Encouraging Economy T CHRISTMASTIME,”’ ventured McFee, meeting me as I stood forninst the third pillar in the second aisle to the right, where my wife bad placed me safely, but where I was being continually bumped by brazen, bare-faced bargain buyers, ‘‘at Christmastime,” be said, ‘it pays to economize. Will you step across the street, where we may ex- change Yuletide thoughts in blissful igno- rance, and join me in a cigar? “It was some time ago,’’ he began, as he pocketed the certificate and lit his cigar. ‘I had a friend with whom I had been exchanging gifts at Christmas fora dozen years—not exchanging them as your wife and my wife exchange them, either at the stores for something else or by passing them on down the line to others who expected gifts. We gave each other something useful. At the par ticular time of which I narrate, I found! was going to be so financially short I would have to curtail my expenses to meet my expenses. “To give Aloysius a present, as I ex- plained to my wife, I must give up smok- ing. But I didn’t know what in the world I should give him. Mrs. McFee sug- gested that as I was going to give up smoking to please a friend, why not give him the cigars I was going without? Fine and dandy! So I purchased a box of choice morning wrappered smokes and set In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE, It will be appreciated. comicbooks.com