Life — September 8, 1892 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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LIFE “OMAile there's Life there’s Hope.” XX. SEPTEMBER 8, 1892. No 506. 28 West Twenty-Tiurp St r, New York. VOL. Published every Thursday. $5.00 yearn advance. Powage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a year. extra. Single copies. 10 cents leer numbers can be had by ying at this offi Siaate copies of Vols. ‘and II. out of print. Vol. I., bound, $30. bound, $15.00. Hack numbers, one year old, 25 Cents per copy. ae IIT. to XVE., inclu sive, bound or in flat numbers, at $10.00 per vol “mcrivers whhing adgress changed will greatly facilitate matters by sen ing ol address a3 well as new. Kz jected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. IFE trusts that a large percentage of the young people of the State of New York stood in the win- dow or out on the sidewalk at the proper time last week and saw— The troops come marching home again With gay and gallant tread. Gentlemen of experience like the managers of this journal, all of whom are now gray, except those who are totally bald, recollect some such returns that happened before the majority of the rank and file of our present defenders were born. But for many a long year it has been a rare sight to see American soldiers return from real business engagements. Our young friends who saw it last week should remember what it is like, for Lire hopes they may not have another such chance for some time to come. The troops fought nobly ; and they were not ‘well fed either. Considering the risks they ran of starving, getting malaria, being stoned by strikers, being run over by cars, and getting accidentally shot, their service was nearly as hazardous as it was useful. Bully for the N. G., 5. N. Y.! HAT a grand illustration it is of the ws medica- trix nature that actresses persist so in getting married. They are generous * creatures where their hearts “are concerned, and the ex- pense of divorce never seems to daunt them. Neither do they think the path through the court-room is too round-a- bout a way of getting to church. Bless their dear hearts, what perseverance is theirs ! . T is a little late, but we hope net too late, to commend to the good offices of all the railroads and par- ticularly those that touch Buffalo, a gentleman named. Quinn, late a switchman of the Nickel Plate railroad. What Mr. Quinn's first name is LIFE at this writing has been unable to ascertain, but he will be sufficiently identitied as the persistent striker who struck Master Workman Sweeney so forcibly upon the nose. Recogniz- ing the probability that Mr. Quinn was quite as mischievous while on strike as any of his fellows, Lire is still persuaded that so far as in him lay he atoned for his fault. Having repented and brought forth sweet fruits, it seems appropriate that he should get his job back if he wants it, or if not that a new one should be given him else- where. Ny I" is from no unkind or malignant spirit toward Master Workman Sweeney that LIFE desires to have this par- ticular striker looked after, but solely from the conviction that Quinn did a useful work in helping to bring home to Sweeney, and through him to all others of his sort, a lesson that they have the utmost occasion to learn, That Sweeney should have been laid out by the same lawless violence on which he relied to carry his point, was poetical justice. No doubt his power for mischief is pretty well over, but to have his exit opportunity punctuated by Quinn made it all the more exemplary and impressive. When the switchmen choose his successor, Heaven send them due discretion to select a wiser man and to limit his authority, N° American city seems to be much disturbed yet by cholera prospects, ex- cept Chicago. With bad water, bad drainage, a most serious typhoid record, and all her spare money up on the Fair, Chicago is naturally a little restless. A little un- seasonable cholera would un- doubtedly play the mischief with the Fair, and Chicago knows it. “The result of it all will probably be a lot of extra hustling and cleaning and care that will make the place healthier next year than it could have been without a scare. comicbooks.com