Life — June 28, 1888 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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]} So aN THE WISE MEN OF THE EAST. BOUT this season of the year look out for many hun- dreds of wise young men who know more just at present than they ever will again in all their lives. Next week they will begin serious preparation to edit our news- papers, write our books, conduct our profound philosophical and scientific researches, and make themselves generally useful. In two or three weeks more they will, perhaps, admit that there are a few men, aside from the classes of '88, who know almost as much as they do, and, in course of time, they will come across others who may perhaps know even more on a few subjects that they have paid special attention to. In six months the newly-graduated men will be able to learn something from somebody else, and in a year they will begin to become valuable members of the community, each with only his own proportion of wisdom, * * * VEN though Uncle Sam is up to his knees in superfluous wealth that he does not know what to do with, he is calm and serene on the glorious Fourth. And well he may be. Though a great many of the juvenile population will perish or undergo damage on the Nation’s birth- day, and the entire adult population will suffer from the effects of the juvenile celebration, we may all throw up our hats and shout hurrah! What is the matter with America? Why, she’s all right! We feel bigger on every birthday, and have something to feel big about. We can lick any two nations on the face of the globe, if we want to, even if we have no navy. A small minority of us may go over and toady to monarch- ists, but the big bulk of us are republicans in the best sense of the term. We have hanged our anarchists since our last birthday, and thus again shown our ability to take care of any internal disorders that may arise. We are proud! tri- umphant! and we don’t care who knows it. * * * WI e® HEWITT has taken a leaf from the book of Blaine. He declares that he will not run for Mayor again under any circumstances. We cannot see why he shouldn't. Mayor Hewitt has had more fun since he has been in office than any of his predecessors, and has written more letters. More than that, he has accomplished more good than most of the rest of them. Accept the nomination again, Mayor Hewitt, and make the fur fly for another year. Ae now let the Republicans flaunt the blue silk mouchoir in opposition to the red cotton bandana. Or why not take a leaf from the book of the. late Honorable Mike Cregan, and make the oriflamme a pair of silk stockings? * * * HE president of the Anti-Saloon Republicans was at the Convention at Chicago, but, as the leader of the Anti-Pocket Flask Republicans was absent, the delegates had a merry time, defied dipsomania with the same genial enthusiasm as ever, and were just as much amused when pink snakes, wearing blue goggles and top hats with red bands, sat upon the foot-boards of their beds. * * * ST. LOUIS reporter, who saw Mr. Gould’s youngest son, Says: He is very exclusive and realizes to the fullest degree that he is the son of Jay Gould. Beyond this nothing harsh can be said of him. Surely, beyond that nothing harsh need be said of him. * * * OUR FRESH AIR FUND Before After E were informed last week by a contributor to this fund that the two faces above had induced him to part with certain of his dollars. It is gratifying to feel that our little heading is doing its share of the work, and we wish it were within the limits of pictorial art to show our readers some of the advantages other than physical which result from this two weeks of country life. To most of the children it is simply a revelation. It is an experience in a fresher, purer world of which they had no previous conception, and which, for years to come, will remain a spot of sunshine in their lives of want and misery. The moral and mental benefits are by no means the least. Three dollars will do it ! Previously acknowledged . Maceff E.. P; . . J. H. Postlethwaite BO.H. Some Boys. . L.C.B. &G. HB. Cc. P.W., Jr. Mr. &Mrs.T. “Baby Bessy”... Master Richard M. Jesup . Orestes Pierce... 1 eee F. N. Goddard . . * . . Mrs. David J. Johnston and Miss C. E. Bullions A. E. Dickerman . . + * . LeWe & $228.50 250.00 5.00 3.00 10.00 10.00 12,80 6.00 4.00 6.00 2.00 3,00 10.00 50.00 6.00 5.00 1.00 Total, $612.30