Life — June 19, 1890 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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“While there's Life there’s Hope.” VOL. XV. JUNE 19, 1890, No. 390. 28 West TWenTy-THIRD StrEET, New York. Published every Thursday. $5.00 a year in advance, postage free. Single coples, 10 cents. Back numbers ean be had by applying to this office. - Vol. 1. bound, $30.00; yois It1.. AV.. V, Vin, VII, -_ bound, $528 Vv ye IX. X., XT, XHL and X1V., bound or in flat “numbers, at regular rates. Rejected contributions wil 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. “= New York Sux, which seems like the sun of scnp- ture, to tackle the just and the unjust with impartial fervor, has found a worthy quarry in the great American hog. All peoples have their hogs. Ours is possibly less prevalent and gross than those of some other nations, but there is a great work to be done for him none the less, His qualities show best in the public conveyances, where he crowds, takes up too much room, spits on the floor, and gets himself disliked in various particulars. It is a great work to mend his manners. Here’s wishing that the Suz may have a large measure of success in it. ND while the talk is about efforts at reform, the strug- gles of several of LiFe's metropolitan neighbors to bring the voters of the city to a realizing sense of the delin- quencies of Tammany Hall are worth a moment's recogni- tion. The venerable vening Post in particular, has belied its years in the sprightliness with which it has escorted the id sub-sachems down to the front of the stage, and introduced them to the audience. The sachems haven't liked it very much, but bashfulness has not been accepted as an excuse. They and the voters are a good deal better ac- quainted than they would have been but for the Post's med- iation. It is a mystery that anything so persistently rotten Tammany should persist at all; but not a greater mystery, after all, than that there should be sin in the world. Tam- many forms on New York very much as green scum forms on stagnant ponds, because the materials for it are present and_the conditions favorable. It is not an exotic, but a nat- ural development. Presently it will stink so abominably that adequate measures will be taken to set the pond in motion, and then it will disappear again for a while, as it has before. New York is a wonderfully fine pond for scums. It takes a constant gale of public opinion to keep them under. . . . O you hate England? Probably not; but you could hate her with ease and dispatch if occasion seemed to a Wa Brgikilc o demand it of you. Of course, you don’t hate Englishmen, when they are pleasant; but England is not Englishmen alone. Itis Englishmen, and English institutions, and his- tory besides. The English individual is only one or two score years old, and stands on his merits as a man; but the nation’s age is a matter of centuries, in which there is much that draws you to her, and much that inclines you to take advantage of your nearness to scratch her eyes out. But are you interested in England? If you come of English stock, you are. And even though your origin is other than British, the fact that you speak the English lan- guage tends to Anglify you in some degree. However the magazinists may decide it, there is no sort of doubt that Eng- land is able to excite livelier feelings in the American breast than other nations can. Sometimes we love her; sometimes we don’t; our feelings vary with her behavior. But what- ever our feelings may be, kindness gives them added strength, . . . INCE the recent experience of John Harvard's statue in Cambridge, friends of Harvard who have feared that she would never win another ball game from Yale, are in a serious state from apprehension that she will. The demon- stration of May 31, including the exploits now widely known in the newspapers as the “Harvard outrage,” emphasized very particularly what a desperate interval had slipped away since the Harvard athletes have had anything worth crowing over, There is an affecting rumor that the heroes of the red- paint brush were seniors, who had never before had a chance to exult since they entered college, and were determined to improve the opportunity when they had it. Harvard certainly needs practice in the art of enduring success, What a pity it was that a handful of blackguards should have been in a position to mar a rare occasion by their petty rascalities ! . . . HE recent decision in favor of the Tilden heir, coupled with the recent victory of Prof. Fiske, emphasizes the truth of the remark that where there’s a will there’s a way— to break it. Asa founder of libraries, Mr. Carnegie is still ahead, and his method is hereby recommended to opulent citizens whose intentions are benevolent, . . . HE rumor that Chicago plans to have a great American beauty show in connection with the World's Fair is fostered by the enterprise of the Chicago News, which daily prints a column of portraits of choice Chicago ladies, with biographical explanations. comicbooks.com