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- LIFE: While there's Life there’s Hop. XXII. AUGUST 31, 1893. No. 557. 28 West Twenty-Tuirp Street, New York. VOL. Published every Thursday. $s,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 wnless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope, TH Evening Post does itself injustice when it finds * something quite amazing ” in the contrast of the present indifference of the public to the approach of cholera, with its e: /7, citement under analogous circumstances ‘Z “last year. There are plenty of reasons 7“ why we should not be scared. For one ain that we hi tual potential gripe in our insides. For another thing, we had worse cholera threats last year than we have had so far this s not hurt us. But the chief reason is that we suffered so terribly last fall from the deten- tion of Editor Godkin on the Normannia that we have no mind to speak above our breaths about cholera until the editor of Post is safe and comfortable in his Fulton street office. The Post has a inadequate appreciation of the vigor of its efforts last season if it does not realize that a moderate v ‘a would ma slight thing compared to the agony of having Mr. Godkin moored in the lower bay, and in daily communication with his organ. son, and they itation of chol * Ps UT, aside from that, nothing is fitter to distract attention from a possible evil in store than a real one in hand, We are like the old woman in the nursery rhyme whose cow declined to jump over the stile, W dent tha ‘© confti- as Con- pour water on the tire, the fire will burn the stick and the stick will beat the dog, and the dog will bite geta more to go Until Congress acts we are not going to. in gene It is only a We do not ask it to lift $s soon gress ¢ to the cow, and the cow will move on her,” and we will be able on about our business. take very much interest in things little thing that Congress has to do. the cow, but only to take the single, simple measure that will set in motion the machinery necessary to incite that heavy animal to use her own !egs for her own transportation. Con- gress has only to press the button. We will do the rest. Our apparatus is all right, and nothing but panic prevents it from working. Mine cure is what we need. We do not require huge doses of legislative physic, but simply the assur- ance that the silver-purchase law has been repealed and that there is nothing any longer the matter with us. * * * ANWHILE, while Congress is meditating and all business hangs fire, it is a great time to go to the Fair. To have been already is the only reasonable excuse for not going now. The summer is ended ; railroad fares are as low as they are going to be ; the newspapers teem with assurances that board and lodging in Chicago are all but given away. The Fair is still there, and the days of its continuance are numbered. If you stay at home and save your money some one wil! be sure to borrow it. The way to be really on the safe side is to get it into circulation. Moreover, even that you have been to the Fair already is not a good reason for not going again now, for in that case the heavy work of your visit has all been done, and this time you can give yourself over to recreation and pure enjoyment. * * . OBODY grumbles about the Behring Se: de n. Wesecem to have lost most of our case, but we are almost as well satistied to have it that way. The only anxiety that Uncle Sam has had in the matter has over a million dollar bone, and that fear allayed. After all, seals are mere overgrown, fur-bearing polliwogs, anyway, and the arbitrators seem to have given us as large a share in those of Behring Sea as we were honestly entitled to, It is not often that arbitrators succeed in pleas- ing everybody, but the gentlemen who have settled the Behring Sea dispute have fairly achieved that difficult feat, and John Bull and Brother Johnathan are both their grateful debtors, * . ° I" may be a fact, and still not be a source of towerin; pride to New York if it is true, as a contemporary journal of Gotham has proclaimed, that Chicago did not know how immodest some of the Midway Plaisance exhibi- tions were until New York had sent out an expert on impro- priety to pronounce upon them. Indecency, like beauty, lies in considerable measure in the eye of the beholder, and the fact that the Plaisance posturing did not offend Chicago's modes able qualities of her shame, as to its absence. y may be almost as reasonably attributed to the dur- comicbooks.com