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- LIFE: “Mile there's Life there's Hope.” VOL, XVII. AUGUST 13th, 1891, 28 Wrst Twenty-tiirp Street, New York. No, 450. Published every Thursday. $5.00 year in advance, postage free, Sing: copies ro cents. Back numbers can be had by applying to this office. 1., bound, $30.00; Vol. II., bound, $15.00. Back numbers, one year old, cents per copy. Vols, IIT'to XVII, inclusive, bound or in flat numbers, at $5 co 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 Adress as well as new OBBIES are prizes even to the poor, much more to the very rich. Very much of the daily thought of ordinary mortals goes into the acquisition of enough money to procure the comforts of life, and in a nice adaptation of the supply of com- forts procured to the amount of money provided. Any one who is so curiously favored by fortune as to be able to command any reasonable comfort that money can buy without being obliged to take thought about the eventual meeting of the two ends, is shut out of one great field of thought, and is lucky if he has a hobby for a resource. ‘The hobby of the late Mrs. Ex-Hopkins-Searles was house building, and she cultivated it in a manner to be admired. She had no daughters for whom to purchase princes; no son to be supported at Harvard College. That made her family expenses comparatively light, so that she had a million or two a year that she could spare for a building fund; and she built with it, and had a good time. month usually sacred to weather talk and the gossip of the bathing beaches, but whether it is that this yg August has been much cooler than usual, or that we begin to be affected by the approach of an- other presidential year, the fact is undeniable that politics is ready a subject of discou The consciousness that the State elec- tions this Fall will have more or less effect on the chances of various presidential candidate: lerids exceptional interest to the proceedings of, or preliminary to, the State conventions. Z ERE it is still early in August, a > The fight in Ohio, between Gov. and Mrs. Mr. McKinle’ Campbell, and a pretty contest, and we are all interested in it, though not as much as we expect to be the month after next. It has the advantage now in being the only State cam- paign that is in actual operation. But the others are impend- ing, and meanwhile the supply of more or less momentous. political incidents keeps up in a manner that is very notable for midsummer. Prominent among these incidents is the retirement of Messrs. Quay and Dudley from the Republican National Committee. ‘ * * T has been said of us Americans, that if we had a fault, it was that we were somewhat in- discriminate in our choice of political bosses. Intelligent foreigners who are still tempted to charge us with this indiscretion, will please take notice that solely by the influence of public opinion acting upon the sensibilities of our friends the Republicans, Senator Quay has been induced to retire from a political position of great prominence, and, hand in hand with William W. Dudley, has passed into comparative obscurit Tt is true that our Republican brethren have been a good while accomplishing this riddance, but Rome, wasn’t cleaned in a day. It takes time. Quay and Dudley have made talk; so have Erhardt and Platt; so has the reported resignation of Secretary Noble; and so has the war among the Erie County Democrats. Buf- falo, an ambitious town at the western extremity of New York State, seems to want to rival the metropolis in the fervor of its political squabbles. Competition is the life of trade, and keeps up political interest wonderfully. There is no objection to the Buffalo Democrats enlivening the Summer with generous rivalries, provided they vote right, in the Fall, Meanwhile the retirement of Collector Erhardt, out of distaste for the dictation of Mr. Thos. Platt, should convince Buffalo of the folly of at- tempting to vie with New York in its specialty. * * . HE free coinage maniacs are not making perceptible pro- gress. In Ohio, the home of financial heresies, they managed to squeeze their plank into the Demo- cratic platform, but it is so weak a - plank that the candidate dare not stand on it. In Maryland they have been squelched. There is reason to be- lieve that by next year the silver hallucin- ation will have so far abated that to have said the right thing about silver at the right time will be a source of strength to presidential candidates. So speak early, gentlemen, and avoid the rush. Mr. Cleveland, as you may remember, spoke some time since. . . . I" is reported, and Lire hopes it is true, that when Sena- tor Stanford gets his university started he is going to take a course there in finance, and another in common sense. comicbooks.com