Life — March 6, 1890 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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“OMhile there's Life there's Hope.” VOL. XV. MARCH 6, 1890. No. 375. 28 West TwENTY-THIRD STREET, New York. Published every Thursday, i free. Sin govies to canta. "Back Peities cai tad op aoeire iy soning to thi offce. wet vue a eK, Xan, XT, Pasa Round or i Hat numbers, at Fegulad rates. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stam: and directed en sj denarii becribers wishing address changed will greatly facilitate matters by sending old address as well as new. HICAGO has got the Fair, and therein is the Scripture verified which promises to them that seek that they shall find and to them that ask that they shall get it. Chi- cago wanted the Fair, and from the time she ascertained her mind about it her coat has been off and she has been hust- ling. All manner of game has been made of her. Her pretensions have been ridiculed and her abilities disparaged, but she has never stopped long enough to be discouraged. She has hustled continuously, leaving no dollar ungathered and no purchasable commodity unbought to accomplish her aim. She has deserved to win, and her victory is decisive and significant. . . HICAGO has bitten off a good deal, but of course she has only undertaken to have as much of a Fair as can be held in Chicago. * . * IFE was unable consistently to pretend, much less aver, that its peace or prosperity were in any serious degree bound up in having the World’s Fair in New York in 1892. None the less is it able to admire the efforts put forth to that end by many worthy gentlemen, generaled and led by Dr. Chauncey Depew. Dr. Depew is very notable, indeed, in his gift of making the most antagonistic forces work to- gether for good. His ability in that direction is doubtless due to his faculty of keeping his mind on the real object he has in view and not wasting his energies on side issues. Most of us, when we want something very much and can’t get it, waste some of our strength disliking whoever is be- tween us and what we want and making them dislike us. . . . HAT scems not to be Dr. Depew's way. It does not appear that he wastes an ounce of strength on animos- ities—that he hates any one very hard or makes any one hate him, It is all skilled energy with him; no temper. He makes no vain assaults that would only confirm his opponents in their opposition; he merely walks round and round the walls of his Jericho, blowing a stiff but pleasing air all the while on his horns, and lo! presently the walls are down, Jericho is his, and the insiders are all his very good and obliged friends, thank you. Is Thomas Platt “agin” him now as the result of the Cooper Union meeting? It does not seem so, Thomas has not complained of being thrashed, ~ but is rather disposed, on the contrary, to give himself vic- torious airs, ‘Hurrah for Platt!’ cries Chauncey, and down the road they seem to go, he and Thomas, hand in hand, leg- ging it briskly in the direction of the Fair. Great is Chaun- cey and very clever—almost Scriptural indeed in his manip- ulation of adversaries. . . . Te fact that they make butter out of the milk of the cocoanut now would have accounted, in the good old times, for an attempt at a tariff for the protection of the domestic cow. It begins to be different now, and some other means must be devised to help the farmers. R. MOODY, a gentleman of experience in reaching people, says that the hardest class to reach nowadays are the “active young business men of the cities,” who live in luxury and “are disinclined to pay much heed to religion or matrimony.” They are a pretty hard lot, Mr. Moody, and it is a pity you can’t do more for them. Never mind, sir. The sheriff is sometimes successful where religion fails; and as for those who shun matrimony, a worse thing is very apt to happen to them, too. The lady in the vermilion skirts, of whom Solomon spoke with such scant consideration, traps them with astonishing iteration, and makes them a startling succession of horrible examples to one another. Man cannot live by activity in business alone, Mr. Moody, as you well know. . . . i is most interesting to learn from a recent letter of Ex- Minister to Greece Gen. Meredith Read to the New York Tribune that certain allegations lately made in the press concerning General Read's responsibility for the con- dition of the monument of one of his ancestors are unfounded. It was charged that General Read's Great-grandfather Mere- dith’s grave was not enjoying proper care; but the General says that that was not his fault, nordid he know of it, but that he has taken measures to correct the evil. He adds that he is personally looking out for the care of the tombs of his uncle, his great-uncle (son of the signer), of his father, the chief-justice, and many other Reads in England, and that all these tombs are in good repair. It is gratifying to learn that though this country has to rub along for a time without General Read's presence it has so many memorable tombs to keep his memory green. The bones of the ancestors of so remarkable a man certainly de- serve to be adequately sheltered. comicbooks.com