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* LIFE: “OMhile there's Life there's Hope.” VOL. XIX. JUNE 9, 1892. No. 493. 28 West Twenty-Tuirp Street, New York. Published every Thursday. co a year in advance. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, 8 year, extra. Single copies, 10 cents. Back numbers can be had by pnp! ‘at this office, Single copies of Vcls. I. and II. out of print. Vol. I., bound, $30.00; Vol. IT., bound, $15.00. Back numbers, one year old, 25 cents per copy.” Vols. Ili. to XVI, inclu- sive, bound or in flat numbers, at $10.00 per volume. Subscribers wishing address changed will greatly facilitate matters by sending old address as well as new. ‘Rejected contributions will be destroyed untess accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. HERE is one person for whom the Blaine boom has no charms. That person is Mr. Blaine. Individuals before now have believed that Mr. Blaine wasn't fit to be President, but at least one individual knows this year that he isn’t fit to run. In spite of the pressure upon the Secretary, and of the prospects that the firmament at Minne- apolis will be obscured by anti-Harrison hats thrown up in his honor, LirE has no more expectation of seeing Mr. Blaine run, than of seeing him go over Niagara Falls. If his name must go on the ticket, his friends should $: put it in the second place, with some able- bodied young man to stand between him ‘and hard work. It would be indefinitely better that the able-bodied junior should head for the White House direct, than that he should try to ride in the back way sitting astraddle of a coffin. . . . F the churches do not take kindly to Parson Rainsford’s plan of having them manage saloons, the alter- native suggests itself of having the saloons open churches. Either way will do, but it must be clearly understood that. if the church people start saloons they must be thoroughly satis- factory saloons, serving a good quality of stimulant under comfort- able conditions. Conversely if the saloon people open churches, they must be churches that people will want to go to, and which will pro- mote the moral and spiritual welfare of the people who fre- quent them, It is hard to say whether it would benefit the community more to have the church people zealously in- terested in the saloons, or the saloon people thoroughly waked up about the churches. To have these two important elements working together for their mutual advantage and profit would be a truly millennial development. Difficulties about Sunday Liquor laws would fade out before such acom- bine like Presidential booms before a convention roll-call. * . . NASMUCH as the officers of justice seem unequal to the job of keeping O'Brien in am confinement, suppose they ad- a ‘zz dress themselves now to the effort to keep him out of society. So long as he flocks by himself he can’t do very much harm, Men have been self-satisfied, self-sufficient, self-deceived, but very rarely self-buncoed. In that particular the midwinter- convention men were very exceptional. . . . HE intention of the new Chicago University to start complete is illustrated by the an- nouncement that provision has been made for a University press, and for daily, monthly and quarterly college papers to be issued bythe students. The experience of other colleges has been that when once the stu- dents got there the college papers took care of themselves, President Harper, however, believes in leaving nothing to chance. If hazing were essential any more to the existence of a real Univer- sity, it cannot be doubted that he would have a hazing apparatus ready for his lads when they arrived. Never before was there such a layette provided against the coming of an educational infant as President Harper has laid in for his nascent University. . . . “pL MERE is no politics in the Damrosch baby. Experienced statesmen who have listened to it from across the Street, say that its preference, if any, seems to be for Wagner. Anyhow it isn't for Blaine. It understands already that a grandfather in the hand is worth a whole regiment of Presi- dential phantoms. . ° . OV. RUSSELL of Massachusetts has appointed a deaf- mute to be a justice of the peace. In view of a recent exploit of Judge Duffy's, it would seem that so long as attempted suicide is felony in this State, it might be a merciful provision to have at least one deaf-mute police-justice to take charge of would-be suicide’s letters, . . . HE influence of the congressional “ leave to print" habit appears in the intelligence that stenographic typewriters are to be provided free to newspaper men at Minneapolis. comicbooks.com