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: LIFE * “AWhile there iv Life there’s Hope.” VOL. XXIV. ty West OCTOBER 4, 1894 Tiugty-First Street, New No. 614. York. Published every Thursday year in advance. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a year, extra. Single copies, to cents. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. HE calendar year begins in January, Nature starts her year in March. Folks in theirs about now. town start The sports and oveu- the summer are over. Houses that have pations of closed June are The children are in The col- “ lege boys have set their balls rolling, » and reoccupied the been since open again. school. various valuable newspaper has been devoted all yacht-races, baseball and tennis. space which summer to horse-races, There is an old fiction, founded on the experience of poets with agri- in October the year begins to die. With us in October things begin to get really lively again. ‘Everybody's vacation is over, and everybody's strength, if it had any capacity for renewal, has been renewed. We are off for another nine months of strenuous endeavor, with the fall elections, the football matches, the horse-shows, the holidays, lots of hard work, and lots of lively play before us. cultural proclivities, that But we have changed all that. There are few mortuary suggestions left to autumn, at least for the dwellers in towns. Work is cool weather is a ¢ Reunited families are glad to be together again. pleasant change for people who have been idling : ght to toilers whose tasks have held them through the heat. Great is October, and blessed are all good Americans who have lived to see a new one. { ASTERN taxpayers will be g fied at the orders lately issued by the War Department to close up tive of the far Western army posts and fetch the soldiers out of them eastward for the protection of big cities and the delectation of the inhabitants thercof. For some thirty years we of the st have been contributing to the maintenance of Uncle Samuel's litte army, and have rarely got .sight of any portion of our military investment. Because we have been comparatively peaceful and well regulated. surviving red-men of the plains continued obstreperous, t while the rly all the soldiers. This has been an injustice We have had much less red-men got ne both to the soldiers and to us. than our share of brass bands and military parades, and they have had less than their share of our society, which the majority of them prefer to that of the original Americans of the plains. But the Indians have grown fewer and tamer, and we have developed ability for obstreperousness, until the centre of uneasiness has been to travel once more in our direction, and the troops have begun to follow it. Nineteen companies will cross the Mississippi this fall to dwell with us at various points between the lakes and the Gulf, and entertain us with their proceedings, and see that we do not pull up too many rails and burn too many railroad cars in our occasional outbursts of dissatisfaction with our common carriers. We shall need their supervision from time to time, and between times we can use them for decorative purposes and as playmates in our The nineteen are welcome. periods of leisure. QUESTION that temporary politician is what to do about the organization known asthe A. P. AL Tf he hits it too hard on the may refuse to vote for his man. If he doesn’t hit it, he will probably be ac- cused of being in worries the con- head it league with it, and he cannot tell how many votes he may lose in consequence. It leaves him in an embarrassing predicament, fair slice of public sympathy. The mongoose is a very useful animal in countries where there are snakes enough to keep it busy, but a destructive nuisance in countries where snaki The ALPLA is a sort of political mongoose,and the question of its tolera- tion turns upon the question whether there are political snakes enough to warrant its existence. uncertainty that the average feels about the answer to that question that the A. P, A. has grown to be cnough of a power to embarrass politicians. pminee W 2 fear that Judge Haight, the Republican for the Court of Appeals, will have difficulty in ex- plaining an earlier connection of his name with the Standard Oil Company. It was claimed that he prostituted his judicia! powers for the protection of that concern. Our highest court should be like Casar’s wife, and explanations from Judge Haight are in order. and entitles him to a are scarce. It is because of the voter still comicbooks.com