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“While there's Life there's Hop VOL, X. DECEMBER 15, 1887. 28 West TWENTY-THIRD STREET, New York. Published every Thursda: Single copies, 10 cents. to this office. No. 259. $5.00 a year in advance, postage free. Back numbers can be had by applying Vol. I., $1.50 per number; Vol. II., 25 cents per » VI, VIL, VIII, and IX. at regular number ; Vols, III. 1V., V rates. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. Subscribers wishing address changed will greatly facilitate matters by sending old address as well as new. NY R, CLEVELAND'S message gives universal satisfac- tion. However members of various shades of political belief may disagree with his views, they all accord him due measure of praise for so manfully planting himself square- ly on the issues which most of our public men have hitherto seemed afraid to touch. There is no beating about the bush; there are no fine words to draw attention from his meaning. The message is a clear, forcible exposition of the xreat question before the country to-day, with the Presi- dent's views of how affairs can be remedied. It is short and to the point, and cannot but carry conviction to the heart of the people that we have a President who is not a mere figure-head, but a broad-minded, fearless officer, who sees what is right, and means, so far as he is able, to do it, re- gardless of consequences. We are gradually waking up to the fact, that while Mr. Cleveland may not be the most astute politician in this country, he will rank high among its statesmen. T is not forbidden to be amused in the intervals of edi- fication at the homilies of the venerable and esteemed Evening Post over the enormity of the manufacture of one and two cent newspapers. The rise in price of one or two papers in the interior of this State, the advance of the Herald from two cents to three. and the birth of the one-cent Press have each and severally given the Post a chance to intimate that journals which can be bought for less than three cents are sinful, and ought to be suppressed. Lire is quite of the Post's mind as to the demoralizing tendencies of extreme competition between the cheap papers, and is glad to see the Hera/d pull out of the ruck, but it isn’t ready yet to concede that a two-cent paper is intrinsically im- moral, or that when three cents will buy twelve pages of Post it is prima facée evidence of depravity to sell four pages of Evening Sun for one cent. While the editor of the latter journal is at Washington serving his country at large expense to it and to himself, is it fair for the editor of the Post to make faces at his orphaned journal, and say its habits are bad? Oh, no! That cannot be right; and the Pest forgets one thing, too, that can be said for the cheap journals. The buyer can afford to read a little in them and throw the rest away; but once he has invested in the ost he is tempted to over-exert his brain in the attempt to get his money's worth, IFE congratulates the Republic of France, which re- cently set out to elect a new President, on having per- formed precisely that feat. Usually when France announces that she will elect a President, the world has feelings like those of Chicago when Mr. Lowell comes to town to talk olitics, The world wonders how nearly the goods will coin- cide with the invoice. If France had elected Boulanger or the Count of Paris or Colonel Isismark himself, there wouldn't have been very much more surprise than at her selection of M. Sadi-Carnot, Mr. Carnot’s grandfather was an enterprising Republican, and a particular friend of Napoleon the Big; his father was more of a scholar than a politician, but a Republican always; and the new President himself—for all that his name has a joint in it—is as sound a Republican as his forbears, though, it may be, more moderate. LIFE presents to him our respectful compliments, and wonders how many of the years for which it was the sweet will of his country to choose him he will be allowed to serve. Co NICHOLAS SMITH may place too high an es mate on the value of his services as Mr. Ovington’: groomsman, but if he can prove that he was a good son-in- law to Horace Greeley, any shortcoming in his relations with Mr. Ovington will be overlooked. A morning paper inti- mated pretty plainly the other day that Colonel Smith had dispersed such funds as Horace Greeley had left behind for his children. Colonel Smith made a late but very plain- spoken reply, wherein he denied that Mr. Greeley had left any money, denied that he himself had spent it, and af- firmed that it was due to his own superhuman efforts that a moderate sum was realized from the odds and ends of Mr. Greeley’s estate, of which much still remains. It is to be hoped that Colonel Smith has not deceived him- self in these matters, or suffered his imagination to intoxicate his memory. It 1s a severe trial for any person to be reck- oned the handsomest man in Kentucky, and a soul oppressed with such a misfortune should not be burdened with any lvad which is not accurately its own, comicbooks.com