Life — November 5, 1891 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE: “While there's Life there's Hope.” XVII. NOVEMBER 35th, 1891. No. 462. 28 West Twenty-THirp Street, New York. VOL. Published every Thursday. $5.coa year in advance, postage free. Single copies ro cents, Back numbers can be had by applying to this office, Vol. 1., bound, $30.00; Vol. II., bound, $15.00. Back numbers, one year old, 20 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 astamped and directed envelope. Subscribers wishing address changed will greatly facilitate matters by sending old address as well as new *T°HE campaign is over, and the well informed reader does not need to be told who was elected. Our Lire thought all along that jt would be that Another time it will be better understood perhaps that the men for whom the State of New York has use, are men who work for the State of New York, and not men who work for {Zammany reader has a pencil in his pocket. he kindly run it through one of the bracket- ed names, and so point the moral of the election with a little more certainty than can be done at this writin next governor will be Mr. F—. way. H ow dingly small seems the material stake of most poli- EES cin in any election compared with ~~ the amount of time and trouble they expend on it. If one is an office-holder, or a political jobber of some kind, of course it is different, and in many ¢: és different. But the woods and the wards are full of patriots who go into politics from purely sentimental considerations, for the fun they get out of it, and because they like it, Politics is like misery in the vari bedfellows that it induc ind a change of bedfellows, figu- ratively speaking, is a great boon, To get out of one’s every day rut, and to have a lively, common interest with a lot of other men, is worth a good deal of trouble. No interest that establishes new relations between man and man, whether it be politics, religion or sport, is to be sniffed at; particularly if it brings men together who have no other common bond. . ° ° Sit OSTON is deeply disgusted over the recall of Father Hall, a high church Protestant Episcopal priest, who came from England some years ago to labor for the conver- sion of New Englanders to the true faith. He made himself very acceptable and precious to sundry of the Bostonians, but it seems that he was under vows of obedience to some su- perior in England, who has suddenly ordered him to throw up his job and come back to England, to live a secluded life ina monastery. The main fault that the Britisher monks find with Father Hall seems to be that he connived at the election of Bishop Brooks. It is a sore pity that any European church function- ary should have authority to regulate the action of any Ameri- in clergyman ; but since Father Hall is so unlucky as to be in such a fix he may find some solace in reflecting that the British persons who want him to come back seem even more in need of earnest missionary effort than the Bostonians. . LL of which recalls the rumor that the Pope is thinking of absconding from Rome. If the report is true, and the good old man is house-hunting, perhaps he will permit LIFE to call his attention to the desirable residential qualities of the city of Chicago. There is nothing the people of that town would like better than to reproduce sudden fac- similes of St. Peter's and the Vatican; get one seasén’s wear out of them for fair purposes, and let the Pope have them at a second-hand price for his permanent use. Agents of Chicago, now in Europe, would be glad to call up the Pope at his convenience, and give him full particulars about the climate of Chicago, its religious privileges, schools, and what- ever else he wants to know, “THEY “say that Mr. Nicolay says that the story about Mr. Lincoln's dealings with Spirit- ualistsisn’ttrue. The more that one knows about Mr. Lincoln, the more one must admire the discretion with which he omitted to tell Mr. Nicolay all that he knew, . * * T HE valued Morning Advertiser of this town doesn’t believe in the rain-makers, in the Keeley cure for the rum habit, or in the committee that is investigating Clinton prison, LiFe is of the opinion (subject to correction upon conviction) that in these times it is better to have a good deal of credulity and get sold" sometimes, than to venture too little and get “ left.” A great many curious things keep happening in these days that unimpressionable persons are liable to mi And for those very people it is better to be fooled than to miss anything. comicbooks.com