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> LIFE: “Q0hile there is Life there’s Hope.” VOL. XXIV. OCTOBER 11, 1894. tg West Tiurt No. 615. “inst STREET, New Yor, Published every Thursday. $5.00 a year in advance. Postage to foreign countries in the Pestal Union, $1.04 4 year, extra, Single copies, 10 cents Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless acconipanied by a stamped and directed envelope ~ ENATOR HILL has come nin. Whether SS >. he was his own resurrectionist or was dug out against his will by cager friends is in dispute. Appearances certainly indicated a willingness on his part Senate, but His have welcomed his reappearance with clamor and cries of to hibernate this winter in the appearances sometimes deceive. friends exultation, but their enthusiasm does not hide the fact of the embarrassment of many thousand New York Democrats who grieve at the prospect of having to make up their mind once more whether or not he represents anything in politics Lir Those of them who can persuade then- selves that to vote against Hill is to vote against tariff reform they are willing to help along. is sorry for these worthy citizens. and a Democratic administration may vote for him. Those who feel that under his leadership the Democratic party c never deserve or retain the confidence of the people may vote against him. How many New York Democrats entertain this latter sentiment will appear in November, and we shall all want to know. ing again, Mr. Hill, it promises to be worth seeing. M*: MORTON, if he gets votes enough, will make avery nice Governor. Nobody's So politics have grown suddenly interest- We shall sce what we shall see, and thanks to a . pleasanter. Jersey cows are any better than his; nobody's manners are Moreover, he isa sagacious gentleman, whose matured energies, however strained by a four years’ term as Vice-President, have since been renewed by foreign travel gricultural life at to be said against Mr, Morton, unless, perhaps, that he is on t, and charitable persons will set that down rather as his misfortune, than The a “barrel” may militate against him in th judgments of some, but as no ene hints that he got it other- wise than honestly, LIFE does not consider this a valid He must be careful how he uses it though. and a peaceful home. There is nothing speaking terms with the wicked Thomas P! as evidence of any serious defect in his integrity. possession c objection, [ JNusuAL unanimity of opinion obtains about post office official who proposed to change the name of the post office at Appomattox Court House to “ Surrender.” It is felt on all sides that he may be competent official in some other respects, but that he is an exceedingly and at naming post offices. “THE Princeton under- graduates, with the consent of the President and all the Faculty, have voted to hazing. hazing at Princeton ar in inexpedient quantity, and full j tice was done to it by the ever-watchful Ameri- can press. This year Fresh- ably scarcer in the college than they have been for some years past, and the dearth is attributed to the prejudice of parents against Sophomoric hospitality. So the present Sophomores have agreed that hereafter Freshmen shall live unmolested, and ripen as they may without It is a slower process, perhaps, aboli There wa last y men are conside undergraduate interference. than the old one, but safer, and whatever individuals may lose by it will be more than made up by the gains of the college, And so the press wins another victory, and is able to announce with duc headlines that under its wise super- on another relic of barbarism has been swept out of the path of progress. je THE sarin te East is improving a Sl. sa-souree’oraews!. ‘The naval bat- . tle off the Yalu River made, on the whole, very fair reading. Of course, ee > where heathens are thumping one \ “another, there is not quite the same thrill about the proceedings as where enlightened Christians tern, helped matters very much, and made it seem more like autkentic warfare. The interest in the war, especially fall to, but the fact that the ships on both sides were Christian ships of modern pat- among the British, is divided between a desire to know which side is going to win, and curiosity to know whether the fighting is done and the results follow precisely accord- ing to Mahan. One of the most prominent and interesting features in modern European war has been the war corres- pondent. It is matter for regret that the benighted Asiatics seem disposed to fight out their difficulty with little or no help from warriors of the pencil and pad. It is just as much fun for them, perhaps, but it is less for us, since a naval battle described in their inadequate fashion makes hardly as good a story as a really artistic report of a scandal in high life. comicbooks.com