Life — December 20, 1894 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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> LIFE: hile there is Life there's Hope.” VOL. XXIV. DECEMBER 20, 1894. 1g West Tuirty-First Street, New York, Published every Thursday. $s.0oa 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 unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. Pre « L' E remarks with interest the oa ° ‘ = rumor that Senator Daniels of Virginia is disposed to abandon the Senate and go into the minis- try. The Senate, nowadays, is not much of a place, and if Senator Daniels really feels a strenuous call to promote the spiritual welfare of his fellows, it seems all the more a pity that he should not stay where he is. Sen- ators practice law, gamble in stocks, own rail- eel trusts and engage in various kinds s without ceasing to be Senators. “If these secular employments do not interfere with the work of legislation it seems a pity that legislative functions should be thought to be at variance with more pious works. It has been thought that there was something of a dearth of truly good men in the Senate. If Senator Daniels wants to do good, by all means let him stay where he is, and try to be a means of grace to his colleagues. WHen the Chinese at Shanghai called for the two Japanese spies who had taken refuge at the American Consulate, Secretary Gresham looked at his hand and let the young men go. It is not asserted that he held cards which warranted his keeping them, but it i thought in some quarters that if the Secretary had been as proficient in the national game as he is said to be he might have made a bluff. To give those young men up to torture may have been justice, but it would seem as if might eat least delayed their fate by having them held in a jackpot while the cards were being shuffled. In view of this uncomfortable incident at it would reat reputation of the Se ngha seem as if the etary as a poker- player must be founded on the malice of his enemies. . * * T is a pity of course that New York is not to get the Walters art collection. ‘There are more people in New York than there are in Baltimore, and the collection if kept in the Metropolitan Museum would give pleasure and profit to more observers than if left where it But that Mr. Walters should prefer to keep his collection in his own family and his own town is entirely natural and cannot occasion complaint. There is enough inducement already for folks from lesser cities to visit New York, and any allurement that any citizen can contrive which shall help to make any other American town a good place for New Yorkers to visit will help to alleviate one of the great dis- advantages of living at the centre. Now, if the gentleman who bought the peach-blow vase will hold up his hand it will ify his fellow citizens to be able to identify him: Several years of renown to which he was entitled have already been lost to him. His countrymen are anxious to meet him, and if he can be induced to disclose Where he keeps his vase they would be glad to have a sight of it. . * * DDICKS, the gas phenomenon, is attracting much attention to the State of Delaware. It seems a pity that our national machinery includes no appliance for absorbing states which have degenerated into the condition of rotten boroughs. Delaware, like Nevada, will continue to send her two Senators to Washington, but at sible to send them back to her if they can be shown to have bought their seats. Her voters cannot well be made to pay Addicks back his money, but at least they may be helped to cheat him out of his goods. Delaware seems to be pretty wicked for such a little State. least it is pe * * HE value of the game of foot- ball to nineteenth century ci ilization continues to be the subject of vigorous dispute. Most of the men who play maintain as of yore that itis a grand game. Folks who don’t play are of diverse minds. Some are surer than ever that it is a brutal sport; others point out that it is the palladium of our liberties and that without its robust and invigorating influence an enervated people would be at the mercy of the first invader. The game must be valuable indeed if it is worth such a preposterous deal of dis- cussion. After all it hardly calls for legal intervention, and may be trusted to work out its own destiny like any other form of sport. It is over now for on, and parents have nearly eight months in which to determine whether to furnish the material for the cam- paign next fall.