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- LIFE: “WMhife there's Life there's Hope.” VOL. XVIII. JULY 23d, 1891, No. 447. 28 West Twenty-tTitrp Street, New York. Published every Thursday $5.00 a year inadvance, postage free. Single copies to cents. Rack numbers can be had by applying to thisofice. Vol T., bound, $30.60; Vol. IT, bound. $15.00. Back numbers, one year old, 26 cents per copy. Vols. III/to XVIT., inclusive, bound or in flat numbers, at $5.00 per volume. 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. learn with astonishment that LIFE is one of three publications the perusal of which the Powhatan Club of Richmond, Va., has decided to discontinue, because “ those pub- lications constantly admit to their pages matter which is grossly insulting and unfair to the South. Century and the North It is possible that those periodicals have been rubbing the South the wrong way. he Century in particular, is known to have published a protracted series of bloody war a The other two publications are the American Ri yew. ticles, in some of which Southern troops are asserted to have been defeated in battle. It has also per- mitted it to be alleged between its covers that food was at Andersonville. farce It is possible that the members of the Powhatan Club do not like these allusions. Heaven knows. what the North American has been saying that is offensive to the F. F. V's, but it is hardly possible but that it said some- thing equally offensive to the North in the next number. It is a streak of fat and a streak of le But that Lire, too, has hurt believe :—LirF that bubbles so n withthe North American, ‘ginia’s feelings is hard to h affectionate regard and good-will for the Southern brother! Dear, dear! What das Lire been saying? It remembers to have hinted in time past that the Southern brother was a little too prompt at times in pulling his gun. Can that have rankled in Richmond HE fact that Lire, editorially speak- ing, never heard of the Powhatan Club before, and may never hear of it in, takes some of the sting out of this mely parting, but not all. We don’t like to part with the Powhatans we have come to know them, differences of opinion as may exist between the Powhatans and LiFk. are a better ex for a me If the Powh We are sure that any such ting than for a lasting separation. an Library Committee will stop in at this office when he comes to town again, we will be glad to discuss these sectional issues with him, and then if he wishes it, we will cheerfully go down with him and poke pow- dev-crackers under the front porches of the Century Company and North American Review. Don't stick so close to Richmond, Powh: York for your health. ins. Come to New tN EW York's new capital punishment law has worked pretty well as far as it has got. So far as it applies to mur- derers its recent application gave rea- sonable satisfaction. Only about that clause in it which deals with news- papers is there any serious hitch. The law forbids newspapers to print unneces- \. sary details of executions. The newspapers of this town, and of the State generally, believe that: they have violated this clause of the law, and have been calling lustily on the district attorneys of their several districts to have them brought to justice. But so far no one has been punished. Either the newspapers are less enterprising than they think or the statute is a good deal harder thing to violate than ap- pears on its face. In common justice, though, it should be said that if our contemporaries have not done anything illegal it is due less to any care of theirs, than to the fatherly pre- caution of Warden Brown, in keeping a series of stone walls between the execution and the reporters. If all laws, human and divine, were as difficult to break as the press clause of the electrical execution law, sinners would be in demand at dime muscums. Perhaps another time the warden will be less cautious or the newspapers more enterprising, and there may be a chance to test the press-gag clause’s constitutionality. * * > TN organizing a crusade against soda-fountains Women's Christian ‘Tempe Union, of WP Washington, has struck a thoroughly meritorious work. The intoxicating the “ance beverages are bad enough, and do harm, owing largely to the tendency that is more or less prevalent among men to undertake too many of them. But the non-intoxicating beverages are deadly. One of the saddest of summer sights is the familiar one of a of young girls standing before a marble counter and inflating their precious insides with ga: water, It is not known that soda_ water, like perance beer of Maine, contains salicylic acid, and brings foam and syrupy the tem- on Bright's disease; but no epicure needs to be told that to a taste once corrupted by it, nice discrimination in food is im- possible. to pronounce upon cooking. She can only judge by her hus- band’s temper whether his food has been properly preps or not. Hen hostile soda fountains are domestic pea A thoroughly soda-watered woman is disqualitied e we see how nd how rife the times are for their exit comicbooks.com