Life — August 30, 1894 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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rise “OMVhile there io Life there's Hope.” XXIV. AUGUST 30, 1893. 19 We VOL. No. 609. Tuirty-First Street, New York, Published every Thursday. $5.00 year inadvance. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a year, extra, Single copies, ro cents. Reyected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. > AINFUL as has been the intelli- gence that Mr. Partridge, the well-known Chicago grain pirate, has succumbed to the thirst for ardent beverages, the news is not altogether without its ingratiating side. This same Partridge, who lately filled Chicago with the uproar of his endeavors to get out of an inebriate asylum, where his thoughtful fam- ily had placed him, is the identical person whose views on education were admiringly quoted a year or two ago by the American press. Posing as a successful man, whose achievements warranted him in speaking with authority, he explained how little edu- cation had to do with business success, and with how small an allowance of it he had himself been able to get along. His pres- ent predicament suggests how much a little learning might have helped him—not by keeping alcohol outside of him, for Greek itself cannot be wisely trusted to do that, but by making him unfit to be a grain gambler, and steering bim into some comparatively respectable line of business where his nerves and internal machinery would have lasted his time. It is a sad thing to exhibit a fellow-being as an awful example, but Partridge in a drink-cure establishment is too instructive a spectacle to overlook. Cesario at the guillo- tine was not half so useful a warning to us Americans, for assassination is not a branch of industry that we admire ; but getting rich by gambling of some sort is attractive to us all, and we need to have it thumped into us from day to day that riches so bought may easily cost more than they are worth, ’ , * HE time is close at hand when a great host of people who have been wondering for some weeks why they left town will begin to realize that it was largely for the pleasure of getting back. Nothing makes home seem happier or more enviable when the cool weather comes and one gets back to it than a thorough experience of the con- temporary appliances for the “evasion of the heats of summer. To people who are rich enough to have two comfortable houses, and money enough to run them both, these remarks may not apply, but other people will recognize that variety seems never so much the spice of life as when it brings the recurrence of settled domesticity and the familiar task. Hail September, month of the recurring oyster, of the re-opening school, and of the return of the pilgrim to his settled abode. HE yacht Vigilant is not so superior to the British boats that it should take two of them to beat her. Yet it is asserted that in the race of August 16th, the victory was fairly divisible between Satanita and Britannia—the latter busying herself in crowding the Yankee off the course, while Satanita went ahead and gobbled the mug. If that style of yachting suits the British taste, one yacht is not enough to send across the ocean. Another year it may seem desirable to invade the British waters with a fleet. HE Sugar Trust magnates have not yet achieved a reputation for general benevolence at all comparable with that of the Standard Oil men, but that is too important a branch of the business to be overlooked, and men of their ability may probably be trusted to attend to it in due time. It is only under exceptional conditions that a property in three or four Senators will suffice for the Trust's protection. If it is to be permanently safe, besides investing liberally in politics on both sides, it should make itself strong with the people as a patron of education and a diffuser of light as well as sweetness. * . . a , HE first instalment of the income tax will be payable next July, and everyone who cleared more than four thousand dollars in the twelve months previous will be invited to pay their share of it. Profound thought will be expended between now and then in devising methods to evade it, but LiFe’s advice to its read- ers is to be honest and pay what they owe, The chief objection to the income tax is that it en- courages dishonesty and deceit, but that is a drawback that individual rectitude may obviate. To grumble about the tax and fight it at the polls is un- objectionable, for it is a very inconvenient species of tribute, but to lie one's way out of it, or to bribe the collector, won't pay. Itis better to demonstrate the iniquity of the thing by paying up, than to soil one’s hands by making a personal exposition of its demoralizing tendencies. NOTRE comicbooks.com