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“While there's Life Mere’s Hope.” VOL. XXI. MARCH 9, 1893. 28 Wesr Twenty-THikp STR No. 532. New York. Published every Thursday. $5 00 a year in advance. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a year. extra. Single copies. 10 cents. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. OMETHING has happened that never happened before. The President and the ex-President have swapped places. The only ex-Pres- ident we had is now President, and the late President is now our only surviving ex-President. Both offices are honorable and important. To our mind Mr. Harrison has got the most desirable one of the two, and it is a pleasure to attest his thorough fitness to discharge its multifarious and distin- guished duties. He is a most respectable representative of American citizenship. When his hack goes by in the proces- sions of coming years we can point to him with honest pride, and holler “Bully for Ben.” When he goes abroad we shall be quite satisfied to have him hobnob with the most exalted Europeans, and when he stays at home we will be very happy, on occasion, to associate with him ourselves. Mr. Harrison is greatly esteemed by a large majority of his countrymen, and will make a first-rate ex-President, which is saying a good deal, . . S for Mr. Cleveland, if he doesn’t make a first-rate President, LIFE will be contented to be found among those who have missed their guess. So far as he has gone he seems to have endeavored to excel, and his efforts have been well-directed. Abundance of good timber has gone into his cabinet, and abundance of good work may be expected to come out of it. A good many interesting things are going to happen in the next four years, and to the occurrence of a considerable proportion of them Mr. Cleveland will be a party. LiFe waits with a lively interest, but without trepidation, to learn what they are and what gets done about them. The office-seekers will take a good share of the President's time—worse luck to them—but among those persons he has got to do quickly, in the interest of the people, are the pension-sharks and the silver lunatics. ONE of the members of Cleveland's former cabinet have started with him on his second trip around the ring—nobody, that is,except Dan. LiFe, and everyone else, is glad that Dan is one of the props of the new administration. It is not quite clear whether he has been promoted or reduced, nor does it signify which, so long as he is there. Dan has luck, or something. He seems to get on. If a discrimi- nating navigator had to choose whether to be in the same boat with Dan's fortunes or Casar's, he would have to admit that he was up a tree, and would like to deck over both hulls and call ita catamaran, Since Dan has been out of political life, it is understood that by diligence and early rising, and sitting up late and working between meals, he has amassed a com- petence. He has also destroyed his health and regained it. That is a good deal to do in four years, particularly if Dan's competence is as adequate as we trust it is and his health is positively restored. It is to be hoped that nothing will occur in a long time to make it necessary for him to abandon politics again and imperil his constitution in civil pursuits. He works plenty hard enough when he works for his country. When he labors for himself his boss is too exacting and he wears himself out. * . | cee was there last Saturday, but there was another good comrade of the old regime who was not there. The Fourth of March is the most forgetful of all days. It is all Vive le Roi! with very little thought for the being who is dead or for anything or anybody who is not on hand to shout and stand up and be counted. Nevertheless there were a great many people in Washington last Saturday who would not forget the absence of Mrs. Whitney, and who sighed when they remembered it. Is it not a notable compliment to pay the memory of a public-spirited American woman to say that she was missed on Inauguration Day! And what makes it so much more notable in this case is that it is so sincerely true. . . . PLACARD on the wall of a dining-room at a recent entertainment given by the Women’s Christian Tem- perance Union in a neighboring city attested that : _‘* Liberia imports 70,000 gallons of intoxicants for every mis- sionary It has been known that the missionary business in Liberia was a dry pursuit, but it is not believed that either its excep- tional aridity, or the compensations incident thereto, have heretofore been appreciated. It is probable that there is room for more missionaries in Liberia, though intending applicants are reminded that a large increase in the number of workers would necessitate a reallotment of the imported stimulant and, probably, a considerable reduction in each individual's allowance. comicbooks.com