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“OMhile there's Life there's Hope.” VOL, XVII. JUNE 4th, 1891, 28 West TWENTY-THIRD STREET, Published every Thursday. $00 year inadvance, postage (ree. Sia copies 10 cents, ick numl can be had by applying to this office. 1, bound, $30.00; Vol. II., bound, Seg Vole. HL IV, V5 VL. VEL. WHE, 1X. X., XT, XID) XIIL, XEV., XV. and XVI, bound or'in dat 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 sending old address as well as new. CCLESIASTICAL news continues to take precedence. It seems now that Dr. Heber Newton wants to be tried, and that Bishop Potter has half a mind to accommo- date him. Also that Dr. Briggs has been able to square hi8 beliefs with those of the guardians of the Union Seminary, and has gone off in triumph across the water. Also that the Presbyterian Committee on the Revision of Calvin has come out in favor of unelect infants, Also that Dr. Phillips Brooks of Boston, will be Bishop of Massachusetts in spite of some sporadic objections. Such matters not theological as have found a chance to happen have had to look sharp for it. Creeds and clergymen, catechisms, confessions, and church trials, have had the call on all mundane affairs. But now the Summer begins and perhaps we will have our news with less benefit of clergy. . . ARNING of a proposal to provide a pavilion at the Chicago fair, to be called “The Blue and the Gray,” where veterans of both sides of the late war might congregate, Lincoln Post, No. 3, of the Department of the Potomac, G. A. R., has proclaimed its dissapproval of the project. Lincoln Post thinks that inasmuch as the Union soldiers fought for the right and the Confederate for the wrong, it isn't best to show the ex-confederates any unnecessary attention. It is possible, however, to knock a bad plan on the head less un- graciously than that. Let us not have any organized gush about the Blue and Gray, either at Chicago or elsewhere. Such a proposal as this for the pavilion gives the enthusiasts on both sides a chance to display their rancor and unwisdom. It is an exceptional Union veteran in these days of pensions who has not demonstrated his ability to get properly cared for. Our ex-defenders will get along very well at Chicago without any pavilion, . . . A apropos of the World's Fair, Dr. Hale of Boston, is said to have suggested to Secretary Tracy to detail a ship next Fall to duplicate as nearly as possible this end of that voyage of Columbus which resulted in the discovery of the Continent of America, some 400 years since. Dr. Hale thinks it would be nice to touch again at the proper date at the point where Columbus first sighted land, and follow his course from day to day, landing where he landed, catching sharks and other marine creatures about where he caught them, going ashore here and there for blueberries and yams, and experiencing his experiences generally. LiFe is surprised that Dr. Hale should try to put up’a job of this sort on General Tracy, who, everybody knows, is a stern and warlike person, and averse to the trivial pastimes of peace. The man for Dr. Hale is some Boston yachtsman with time and money heavy on his hands. To sail a yacht over the course that Columbus and Dr. Hale have laid out, with a literary man aboard to keep the log and a camera to illustrate it, ought to make an enticing ending to a summer of aquatic delight. And we would all agree to read the mag- azine article that would result. . ° HE Commissioner of Pensions disburses nowadays over $100,000,000 a year. That is a good deal of money, and a man thoroughly capable of looking after the distribu- tion of it would be a pretty good man of business and deserve a fairly liberal recompense. It seems that Mr. G. B. Raum, the present incumbent, gets $5,000 a year. That is not much, and yet there are valid objections against paying Mr. Raum any more. It is a very great pity that Mr. Raum cannot be relieved of his rather ill-compensated duties, and a ten or fif- teen thousand dollar man hired in his place. We could afford to pay a good salary to a pension commissioner, whose repu- tation could go through a Washington Summer without dis- comfort to the people's olfactories. * . TT" Boston Globe learns that: “That pious monopolist, John D, Rockefeller, has given orders that hereafter the Standard Oil Company's pumps shall not work on Sunday, even though they can be worked automatically without the aid of human or animal labor.” A man so bent as Mr. Rockefeller on keeping the Lord's Day, must have observed with concern the disgusting propen- sity of the ocean tides to ebb and flow on the Sabbath the same as during the rest of the week. It is suggested that if anything can break up this disreputable habit it would be the application of Standard oil to the troubled waters on Satur- day night. Mr. Rockefeller, out of the abundant increase with which he has been blessed, might make the experiment. comicbooks.com