Life — October 31, 1889 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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“While there's Life there's Hope.” VOL, XIV. OCTOBER 31, 1889. NO. 357. 28 West Twenty-THIRD Street, New York, Published every Thursday, $5.00 a year in advance, postage free. copies, 10 ceots. ack numbers can be had by applying to this 1d, $30.00; Vol. I., bound, $10.00; Vols. IIL, IV, {and X11, bound, or in flat aumbers, at regular rates, tions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped pe A Subscribers wishing address changed will greatly facilitate matters by sending old address as well as new. RESIDENT ELIOT'S confession of his preference for the Democratic party has stirred such comments as might have been expected. The Republican journals do not like it, and are sarcastic and frankly indignant by turns in the expression of their disapproval. Some of them are amusing in the indignation they express or half conceal, but none is so funny as the valued Sw of this place, which feels aggrieved for two reasons in particular—because Dr. Eliot has avowed his disbelief in the policy of high protec- tion, and his political regard for Grover Cleveland. That a man should audaciously stand up and admit that he prefers Cleveland's administration to Harrison's and be- lieves that protection can come too high is enough for the Sun, which wails lugubriously over the spectacle and calls Dr. Eliot a destructive Mugwump in one breath and an offensive partisan in the next. It is too bad about the Suz, Only a man endowed with its patent reversible straddle can hope to assume a position on the political fence that will satisfy it. OUNG Mr. Carroll, of Maryland, has made a news- paper name for himself of a sudden by announcing his purpose of going lion-hunting in Africa. There is a differ- ence of opinion as to whether lion-hunting in Africa is much of a sport or not, but recent events have brought many minds to a concurrence in the belief that, lions or no lions, mid-Africa is a safer place for rich young men of leisure than either London or New York. Very likely Mr. Carroll is able to take care of himself in any part of the world and gives his [riends no cause for anxiety, even when he is at home. Still, if he has a personal interest in his own welfare, it will be a satisfaction for him to feel that in Africa he will be the hunter, while in most civilized parts of the world he might be the game. Trusting that he will make a nice bag of lions, LIFE begs to suggest that he combine philanthropy with pleasure by offering to personally-conduct a limited number of youthful offshoots of wealth to Zanzibar and keep them out of harm's way there till their beards have grown. HAT any person could want of Emerson’s skull, now that the brains are out of it, is not easy to say. Very few men have lived of whom it is easier to get a sample without digging than of Emerson. No one but a lunatic could have been at the pains to disturb his grave while his remains are so abundantly preserved between covers, But lunatics of all degrees are so common that, perhaps, instead of lamenting this futilee desecration, we ought to be thankful that no one tried to borrow the philos- opher’s skull until he had finished using it. . . . A SERIES of international marriages have demonstrated before now that America had nothing which she con- sidered too good to confer upon England. All the same it should be understood that Mr. Barnum’s show is not con- ferred absolutely upon our cousins, but only loaned for a season for their edification and delight. Several millions of young Americans will expect our modern Noah to take the road, with all the animals, next year, as heretofore. R. TALMAGE has lost his tabernacle, but the re- sources of the language are left to him, and, of course, he can keep right on. If the language, and the sacred Scriptures, and such other materials as the Doctor uses in his great work could be insured against damage as easily as his church, conservative investors could be found who would advance the funds necessary for the premiums. That a spark from fireworks used by the Doctor in a sermon may have contributed to the tabernacle’s destruction seems not to have occurred to any investigator. . . . HE notion that Miss Susan B, Anthony was indifferent to life’s sweetness if she could only get its light is corrected by her appearance as party to a suit against the American Glucose Company for a large sum, Miss Anthony is a trifle late in reaching out after sugar plums, but LIFE trusts that she will make her claims good and capture them in quantity. Miss Anthony has never been sour, but strength will stand sweetening as well as acidity. . . . A’ interesting episode is the selection of a colored class- day orator by the senior class of Harvard University. Inasmuch as the orator is chosen by his classmates and the office is one of exceptional dignity, the conclusion suggests itself that, in Cambridge at least, the colored brother enjoys that equality of opportunity to which he has a right to aspire. . . . HEY say the Prince of Wales is on his last legs. Alas, if that be true and “Collars and Cuffs” the next in line! It is the office of some sons to make their fathers mourn and of others to make them mourned. comicbooks.com