Life — April 9, 1891 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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“OPMrife there's Life there's Hope.” VOL, XVII. APRIL 9, 1891. No. 432. 28 West Twenty-Tuirp Street, New York, Published every Thurslay. $5.00 year inadvance, postage free. Single Copies ro cents. ick numbers can be had by applying to this office. Vol, 1,, bound, $30.00; Vol_II., bound, $t5.00; Vols HL IV., V.. VL, VIL, VHT, IXX., XL, XID, XML, XIV.,"XV, and XVI, bound or’in flat numbers, at regular rates, Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. Subscribers wishing address changed will greatly facilitate matters by ding old address as well as new. VIDENTLY our friends across the water are getting ready Z for business. They have been sitting so long with chips on their shoulders that the atti- tude has be- come tire- some, and a very little thing at this stage of the game will precipitate a great war. France and Italy both have new armaments and military organizations which they are anxious to try. Russia knows that however the fight may go, she is bound to get some good out of it, either in the South of Europe or North of Asia. England might find in war an immediate solution for her Irish and labor questions. Austria is all ready to avenge Sadowa, But the most dangerous element is the nervous young man on the German throne. He is a new hand inthe governing business, and seems to be vastly impressed with the necessity of showing that he is running the machine him- self. Withso many dangerous elements in the European situation, it looks as though this summer might see the inau- guration of the war for which the great nations have been preparing for years. . . ND right here it behooves us to be thankful that we are Americans, We don’t want to rejoice at our neigh- bor's misfortunes, but if the calamity is inevitable, as it seems to be, it is a comforting thought that we shall be the gainers by it. Our position will be an easy one, that of strict neu- trality, and our commerce and manufactures will receive a strong impetus. Not the smallest of our advantages will be that foreign travel will become so dangerous that our society people, who squander annually so many American dollars in Europe, will be forced to stay at home. But the great profit of a European war will accrue to the world at large. When the peoples of Europe come to count the cost in blood and money, they may conclude that war- promoting kings are too expensive a luxury, and conclude to do their own governing. O one likes to invest good money and get no returns, but it is being done all the time, and Mrs. Grant will have plenty of sympathizers in her rumored dissatisfaction with her “steam stock.” It was pleasant to see, however, that she absolved Mr. Andrews from all blame for her mis- fortune. It appears that it was in some degree through Mr. Andrews that Mrs. Grant's money got into that seemingly unlucky investment, but of course that does not necessarily make him responsible for the result. All that can be de- manded of a financial adviser is that his advice shall be abso- lutely honest—that be shall do for others as he would do for himself. If the upshot isn’t satisfactory, it is better manners and better sense for the investor not to blame the advisor, nor to attribute his ill-luck to the fact that the advisor was mistaken about the investment. The thing to do is to accept the situation and admit that the investor has only himself to blame if he is mistaken as to his advisor’s foresight. [* is a pleasure to congratulate our new contemporary, the Recorder, on the completion of a-reasonable fund for a statue of Gen. Sherman. The Recorder is as lively an infant as New York has seen in many a day. . . T is reported that the new president of Stanford University is to be paid the largest salary of any college president in America, which is possibly accounted for by the rumor that there will be a number of spooks in the faculty of the institution whose services will be rendered without pay, leav- ing a larger balance for persons still in the flesh. . * * MAN who hasn’t ‘had pneumonia this spring is hope- lessly out of fashion. But he is here, and that is something. comicbooks.com