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SERIE. aa sal “White there's Life there’s Hope.” XXII. EPTEMBER 14, 1893. 23 West Twenty-THirp No. 559. TReET, New York. $s.co a year in advance. Postage to foreign ‘0g. a year,extra. Single copies, to cents, 1Ul be destroyed untess accompanied by a stamped Published every Thursday. countries in the Postal Union, Rejected contributions and directed envelope. 7 WSHINGTON was set down two months ago => as a storm centre for the month of August, but the storms on the wrathful billow that came from the West Indies fairly out- did the silver tempests in the Capitol. It is a very exceptional lot of gales that will bear talking about a fortnight after they have passed, and happily the Au- gust hurricanes were particu- larly ptional. There is _ little fun to be got out of them even at this distance, but it is some satisfaction to Lire, as a journal published in the State of New York, to point outthat while the Atlantic coast has been strewn with wrecks, and the great lakes have reported a long list of marine casualties, safety’and comparative serenity have continued to prevail on the great internal water-way of the Empire State. Canal boats sank on the Hudson river, but it is not recorded that so much as one mule was cast away on the banks of the Erie canal. The canal was already enjoying unaccustomed prosperity before the August gales began, but since its recent appearance as the sole place where summer navigation is absolutely safe, it seems bound to recommend itself to the uses of pleasure as well as of com- merce. If Mr. Richard Mansfield had been sailing in the Erie canal instead of on the Sound, he need not have made haste to get ashore and sell his new yacht between two cyclones. If the New York Yacht Club had cruised to Buf- falo instead of Vineyard Haven, it would not have been delayed and baffled by fogs and calms. There has been much, a great deal too much, this year, to recommend the navigation of reliable old Erie for purposes of health and pleasure. O long as Governor Billy Russell doesn’t want to run again in Massachusetts, there is sound judgment in the purpose of the Democratic managers down there to nominate the Honorable John E. Russell to succeed him. Habit is strong with the rural Democrat, as appears from the ‘on. With William on the stump and John on the ticket it will go hard with those managers if the habit of voting for Russell does not prevail, * HE Honorable Wil- liam Maxwell Evarts has been a public charac- ter for so many decades that LIFE need not apolo- gize for offering its dis- tinguished compliments to him and his wife in view of the recent celebration of their golden wedding. In very many particulars the example which Mr. and Mrs, Evarts have set their countrymen has been especially worthy of the contem- porary American's attention. They have raised twelve children, a very remarkable exploit for thes times; they have lived for tifty years in New York, and for the same period have maintained summer house at Windsor, in Vermont. In these days of centralization and hurry and constant change, families that are large enough to be worth mentioning as familie: and homes that have permanency enough to be worth talking about as homes, are scarce and far between. If Mr. Evarts had no other title to distinction than as a parent and a home- maker, his claim to be an eminent citizen would still be good. But besides his achievements in those lines he has kept his place for forty years in the front of the bar of New York, has shown himself a cogent and persuasive politician, ha: represented his State in the Senate, and his country as Secre tary of State, and has figured besides for a protracted period as the leading alumnus of the college of Elihu Yale. It isa pleasure to dwell upon a career so pervaded with notable and intelligent effort, and attended by prosperity so lasting and so honorable. To wish that Mr. Evarts's shadow may never grow less might seem an ambiguous greeting, but there can be no doubt about the cordiality of LiFe’s hope that his earthly span may be as protracted as one of his own sentences, and that the hand of time may rest as lightly and ineffectually upon his venerable head as it traditionally has, these many years, upon his venerable hat. * * * before the close of August Dr. Holmes had a birth- It is so many years si had passed the three-quarter pole and was on the home stretch, that it seems obvious enough that he has got by the starters again and is warming up on the second round. What urance to this hypothesis is that he gets a full s birthday presents every year. No one gets birthday presents except the young, or persons who are growing younger. comicbooks.com