Life — September 2, 1886 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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“While there's Life there's Hope.” VOL. VIL. SEPTEMBER 2, 1886. No. 192. 1155 BRoaDWAy, NEw York. Published every Thursday, $5 a year in advance, postage free. | Single copies, 10 cents. Back numbers can be had by applying to this office. Vol. I., $1.50 per nurhber ; Vol. II., 25 cents per number ; Vol. III., IV., V., VI. and VII. at regular rates. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by | a stamped and directed envelope. HE sea has flowed in upon Texas in a great flood. But Thomas Porterhouse Ochiltree was away from home, and his incandescent hair is consequently still unquenched. It | will be a very wet day when Colonel Ochiltree is put out. * * * Te sympathy of this journal is extended to Alexander | of Battenberg, late Prince of Bulgaria. His subjects have discharged him, and he has returned to private life. He is reputed to be a deserving young fellow, and it will go hard with him if he cannot find a better occupation than fighting for the ungrateful Bulgarians. He is well connected, and can doubtless form an advantageous matrimonial alliance, if he has not done so already. It remains to be seen whether he is a born son-in-law, like his younger brother. It also remains to be seen whether he will stay deposed. * * x T Hartford, last week, Calvin Ellis Stowe departed this | life at an advanced age. The news of his death made a short paragraph among the press dispatches. In some newspapers it was headed “Death of Professor Stowe,” but more often it appeared as “‘ Death of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s | Husband.” : So far as the encyclopedia gives information about this ven- | erable gentleman, it appears that for many years he practiced certain branches of the profession of his choice with ability and usefulness. His energies were directed less to preaching the gospel himself than to fitting other men for that high | office. He was known as a professor in various institutions of academical and theological learning up to about the year | 1852, when his identity began to merge into that of the fa- | mous author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Its subsequent dis- | | O UR persistent difference with Geronimo has been a trifle appearance in that direction is a matter of public notoriety. If Professor Stowe had been an insignificant person whom nature had mercifully clothed in obscurity as a kind precau- | tion, the circumstance of his extinction would not have been | remarkable. But it does not seem that he was so consti- | tuted as to appear to the best advantage when he blushed unseen. It was because he was a clever man that his case is amusing. Two reputations grew up side by side, attached to | the same name; the fittest survived, and appropriated the whole of the name by the automatic action of natural laws. There is no evidence that Professor Stowe ever rebelled against his fate, or complained because his wife has grown famous on his hands. He appeared to have been sustained in this trial by philosophy or religion, or possibly by a sense of humor which enabled him to make his gains more than balance his losses. That he lived to be eighty-four years old is presumptive evidence that, in spite of possible temptations to resurrect himself, his domestic paths were peace. Once more in his case we are reminded of the great oppor- tunities of American women, and that all the avenues to glory for which they are qualified are open to them, The tyrant man in this favored country is too wise and too humble to | stand in their way. * * * HESE are trying times in Boston. The best and bravest look with suspicion on their own right hands, lest un- beknown to their left hands they have pilfered. The calami- tous fall of several Bostonians who enjoyed the confidence of their neighbors and the favor of society has made many hearts sad and shaken the confidence of investors. Robbery is an | unpleasant development in a New York alderman. In a Bos- ton merchant it is shocking. * * * HE Anarchists are to be hanged. LIFE is not blood- thirsty and would rejoice in the death of no human being; but stern measures for these bombastic cut-throats seem to make society more secure, and all good citizens must be thankful for them. * * * EXICO has turned Editor Cutting loose. He had de- veloped a fine, hearty appetite, and the chances were | growing less that Secretary Bayard would consent to pay for his board. It was very sensible of our neighbor to strike off his bonds. It would have been smarter still not to have shut him up in the first place, for Envoy Sedgwick means to inves- tigate the Greasers up to the full limits of his commission, and if they have done anything wrong it is time for them to repent. * * * more animated this last week, and rumors have pic- tured the nomadic Apache as on the brink of capitulation. The Arizona dispatches continue to be interesting, but at this season the sea-serpent stories run them hard. ‘J lot col ma ing at t @ ere jus comicbooks.com