Life — January 6, 1887 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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VOL. IX: JANUARY 6, 188 1155 Broapway, New YorK. Published every Thursday, $5 a year in advance, postage free. Single copies, 1o'cents. Back numbers can be had by applying to this office. Vol. I., $1.50 per number ; Vol. II., 25 cents per number ; Vol. III., IV., V. and VII. at regular rates. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. ENERAL LOGAN filled a large space in the public eye. He had been on a recent presidential ticket ; he had been a major-general, and was a senator; he never had kept out of any fight that offered accommodation to his tal- ents ; he was energetic, ambitious, a stalwart, and a partisan. He was as likely to be on the wrong as the right side of any given question, but whichever side he took, he took it with his teeth set and fire in his eye. The American people had a considerable regard for General Logan, and in many ways he deserved it. For one thing, he was not a politician for busi- ness purposes. If he thrashed the enemy and spoiled his camp, that was enough for him. He gathered in his legiti- mate booty with entire good-will, but did not try to get to Wall Street ahead of the news of his victory. He was hon- est, and paid his countrymen the compliment of dying poor. And he was a patriot, and when he happened, in the field or in the Senate, to get on the right side of any question, he was liable to do his country good service. There are plenty of wiser, and plenty of worse men in politics than Logan, but few braver. * * * E present our compliments to Editor Grady of the Atlanta Constitutéon, the same who made the late speech at the New England dinner. Mr. Grady has as pretty a gift of the gab as any gentleman whose legs have curled up under Mr. Delmonico’s mahogany for many a long day. They say that in his fiery passages he fused pistacio ice-cream with strawberry. That may be all poetry and exaggeration, but there is no doubt whatever that Grady talked beautiful sense in an admirable manner, and fairly won the praise that every one is giving him. It is a most comfortable thing to hear a Southern editor, manifestly speaking from his heart, proclaim that Lincoln was a hero, that slavery was wrong and mis- taken, and that the war which killed it gave the South a new chance greater than it had ever had before. And it is espe- cially gratifying to have evidence that the best spirit in the South is of Grady’s mind in these opinions, and endorses him. E S, sy Good for Grady. His is the voice of one demonstrating at Delmonico’s that Chauncey Depew, and Evarts and Jo. Choate have not a monopoly of spoken language. Come again, Grady! * * IFE desires to express its sympathy with the President in being the victim of rheumatism. We have had it in our’s, and it is no fun. The sentiments wrung from Mr. Cleveland by his last attack —that he had had his own way before, and now the doctor should have his turn— are proper to the emergency, and encourage his friends to believe that he will get the better of his ailment. * * * HE newspapers insist that Secretary Lamar is going to get married. That is a good thing to do, and the news ought to be true whether it isor not. The genial sec- retary is much liked, and the people believe he would make an exemplary Husband, but the newspapers have made matri- monial arrangements for him before, which he has failed to fulfill. * * * HE news of the retirement of Lord Randolph Churchill from the British ministry, has been received with in- terest in New York. Randolph, by virtue of his marriage, is a connecting link between Gotham’s high social circles and the nobility of England. Certain Anglomaniacs have avowed that they heard Lord Salisbury’s ministry drop when Churchill got out from under it, and it is not certain that their sharpened senses were not prophetic. * * * R.HAMMOND'S account of his experiments with coca- ine is better reading than anything in his novels. His con- fession that in moderate doses it increases his already intem- perate addiction to copy-making givessome ground for public alarm, which is soothed by his admission that cocaine-made copy falls below his publisher’s standard. * * * AYOR HEWITT'S reign has begun. Long live the new Chief Magistrate! He belongs in Congress, and thither he must eventually return, but New York is a pretty important field, and if his recognized integrity and statesman- ship can give us good local government, Gotham will hardly let his Honor have reason to repent the time he gives her. * * * 88 ! ANOTHER year of LiFe. It shall be as clean I « and as cheerful as it knows how :—as it has been since it began, four years ago. Its friends have been faithful. It is not too late to wish them , A HAPPY NEW YEAR! comicbooks.com