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“While there's Life there’s Hope.” cH, AUGUST 10, 1893. 28 West Tw No. 354. ENTY-THIRD STREET, New York, Published every Thursday. $5.00 year in advance. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $icy a year, extra. Single copies, 10 cents, Rejected contributions will be destroyed iuntess accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. OT since the editor of the Evening Post attempted to bribe a police- man has the propriety of proper people received so rude a shock as from the recent knock-down-and-drag-out altercation in the House of Com- mons. We are told that Mr. Glad- stone looked on at it “sitting bolt upright, with inflamed face and an expression of sorrow, indignation and astonishment which will never be forgotten by those who saw it.” Mr. Gladstone did not blush alone. All of us respectable people on this side of the wet blushed as we read about that disturbance. We are glad that nobody was very much hurt, but still we were amazed and sorry and indignant. To what English-speaking assembly can we point with pride now? What club is left to us wherewith to correct our representatives when they misbehave? F ‘en our obstreperous Congressmen rarely go so far as to indulge ina free fight, nor do we apprehend so violent a disturbance even over the impending discussion of the silver bill. And if such a thing had to happen, reasonably be thankful that it happened in London and not in Washington * * * we PTS] "TCHE fact that we are feeling a ell little blue makes all the more opportune the visits of the princes and potentates who come our way on their wes to Chicago. Not many et know a Nawab from a Maha- rajah, but we are glad of the chance to learn, and particularly happy to inspect <a allthe diversities of spouses and sun-hats which these salubrious dignities bring out of the All that we have you want anything you do not see, pl st. High- yours, and if se push the bution, nesses all, we salute you LONG may have too much pension, and, indeed, there docs seem to have been a rather surprising reiter- ation in his supplies, but, at least, he has got a hole in him that was made by a bullet, and, moreover, what pensions he has had he has spent himself. If he has more than his share, LIFE trusts that his case will receive due attention. But after all, the pension money that itis most desired to save is that which goes to men whose claims are based exclusively upon feats of the claim-agents’ imaginations. * * * ROVIDED we do not have a fiscal collapse that monopo- lizes every one's attention (and that is not likely), and provided further that the silver discussion does not bring the dome of the Capitol down around the ears of Congress, public attention will centre this coming fortnight on the performances of half a dozen new yachts inthe races of the New York Yacht Club. Anyone who is ambitious to talk to listeners these next ten dai must inform him- self especially as to the qualiti differences, build- ers, owners and sailors of Vigilant, Pilgrim, Colonia and Jubilee. Not to acquire a speaking acquaintance with all these vessels will be to insure for one's self a condition of conversational inability for at least a fortnight to come. The talk that will go will be of fins and centreboards, of “ tuning-up,” of steering quali- ties, smoothness and the capacity to carry sail. * * * ND these are anxious times. There is a certain amount of excitement about the views of sharp declines in stock and banks that close their doors, but the most light- headed newspaper reader had enough of that. The storigs that come now are the sequels of all those othe tales of factories shut down and mill-hands out of work, of honest people who are hungry and find no chance to carn their bread. To be a bank-president has been a vulgar synonym for light work and large pay, but the bank- presidents are having little fun this summer. We read of them as staying in town and paying strict attention to the work- ing of the safety-valves of their institutions. We are all tired enough of hard times, and ready to forego * flyers” of all sorts and to be prudent and parsimonious and live on what we know we can earn rather than on what we hope we can “make.” That is the lesson such seasons are expected to teach, and will the authorities ple: have learned our: take notice that we and will they please let up on us. | comicbooks.com