Life — November 3, 1892 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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LIFE “While there's Life there’s Hope.” VOL. XX. NOVEMBER 3, 1892. No. $14. 28 West Twent.-1nirp Street, New York. Published every Thursday $5.00 a year in advance. re to foreign gguatries in the Postal Unicn, $1.04 a year. extra. Sin gle con ies, 10 cents. Back numbers can be had by appl ppiytng at a hi office, te copies of Vols. I. and II. out of print. Vol. 1, Sys Vol $15.00. Back numbers, one year old, 25 tens oot copy. vo Hi. to tox. iacloe sive, bound or in flat numbers, at $10.00 per vi Subscribers wishing address changed will greatiy facittate matters by sending old address as well as new. Rezected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. ‘ioe a6 extenuation of the absence of the Prince EL of Wales from Lord Tennyson's funeral, it is explained that English royalty does not go to great men’s funerals, but to royal funerals only. And besides, there was a horse-race going on at the time, and royalty does go to horse-races. If the Prince does not care for funerals, his com- punctions about allowing the funeral habit to grow on him are worthy of respect. Indul- gence once too often might result in his be- ing a mere mortuary emblem for the rest of his days on earth. Let him enjoy his pre- rogative while he may. His job will be elective presently, and then a regular attendance at funerals will mean bread and butter to him, . . . NE of the things that has made the clos- ing days of this remarkable campaign seem a little like old times, has been the at- tempt to stampede the Irish vote. Begun by <4 Mr. Blaine in his suggestion that Irishmen ought to remember that the “free trade” party was the party of Engiand’s hopes, it was taken up with enthusiasm by the Tribune, and the Republican and anti-Cleveland papers generally. But somehow it has seemed to make flat reading. ‘There has been so much less senseless clatter than usual this year that “* whurroo ” eduonls don't go. * fae essepliaaal dimensions of Mr. Grover veland’s discretion seem to have been again apparent in his firm refusal to go to the Columbus celebration in Chicago. Many per- sons who did go suffered both privations and extortions, and were hustled and prodded by “+ “day, and inadequately sheltered at night, and both at such cost as scemed to suggest that ™ Chicago wanted to get all its money 7 back before the dedication and start even, Governor Flower, of this State, was one of the persons who found the town much too crowded for comfort, and sr .ntimated in language of characteristic force. It is a long, long time since so forcible an occasional speaker as Mr. Flower has been Governor of New York. His recent reply to the United Clothing Cutters, who “ de- manded" the pardon of one James Hughes, a black-mailer, was off the same piece as his celebrated remarks to the representatives of the clam-diggers of Islip, at the time of the cholera scare. It has been rumored that the Suffolk county men are going to give expression to the sentiments engendered in their breasts by those remarks by voting next week in solid platoons for Mr. Harrison. That is probably a cam- paign lie, but we will see presently. It would just about break the Governor's heart to think that any language of his should have cost Mr. Cleveland any votes, but he would doubtless continue to express himself with candor on occasion just ce same. PS Py T HE stieaith of this journal is hereby tendered ci _ to Mr. T. K. Yin, Minister of the Chinese Empire at Washins;ton, in the painful domes- tic complications from which he is reported to be suffering. It seems that Mr. Yin has employed an interpreter, one Ho, who, from having long had his say about everything that was done, has come to believe that he is ] a far more potent entity than the Minister himself. Being better able than Mr. Yin to make himself understood, Ho has spread the delusion in the Minister's official family i until, the papers say, Mr. Yin has neither backer nor adherent in the legation, and, pending advices from China, has to chalk his own shoes and get shaved at an ordi- nary barber's. It may comfort Mr. Yin in his annoyance to know that interpreters, from their much speaking, are exceptionally liable to the affection known as swelled head. Perhaps the most noted case recorded is that of a newspaper of this town, which, having for some years been political interpreter for some hundred thousand Americans, essayed once on a time to substitute its own sentiments for those of its employers. Straightway it got effectually called down, had its pay docked severely, and came uncomfortably near losing its job alto- gether. Mr. Yin’s interpreter, Ho, will be lucky if he gets off as well. What we think is more likely to happen is that when the Emperor of China gets Mr. Yin's letter of complaint he will simply exclaim, “ What, Ho! Off with his head!" Official business is still done in that way in China. . . . HE. most idiotic and despicable reason waged against Mr. Cleveland's election is the fact that he left the re- viewing stand at the recent Columbus Celebration while the Grand Army of the Republic was passing. It happened that Mr. Cleveland left because he had public business to perform as one of the trustees of the Peabody Fund, Even if he hadn't, LIFE sees no reason why the fact that he tired of the procession and wanted to do something else more profitable than watch- ing, is to be urged as a disqualification for the Presidency... comicbooks.com