Life — March 28, 1895 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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*> LIFE: QMhile there is Life there's Hope” VOL, XXV. MARCH 28, 1895. No. 639. 19 West Tuirty-Fixst Street, New York. countries the Fonal Unide, Sona fear, caire, Single copien socenae Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. T? = question of the propriety of the extradition of Mr. Charles A. Dana from the State of New York for trial in a ® libel case in Washington, is warmly de bated in the contemporary press. LIFE’S advice to Governor Morton is not to give Mr. Dana up. Few living citizens are so useful as he to the people of the state and city of New —_ York; few do so much to ab; we pel care; few can so ill be spared. If riness and dis- Mr. Dana has committed any triable “=> offense, let New York. Our laws are enlightened, our courts are re- He is here, and whatever he did, he was here when he did it. If there are any bears anywhere that are hungering for Mr. Dana, bring them on. If they are reason- able bears they will not expect him to be served up to them in their dens, his accusers meet him in spected. TH friends of the Craig Colony for Epilep- tics at Sonyea, in Livingston county, New York, are doing their best to defeat the bill of Assemblyman Kel- “e sey, who wishes to turn out the present man- XA.,> agers of the institution and replace them by > others who will be more responsive to the claims of the local Republican machine. Success to their preventive efforts, The Colony is in good hands, and is far too good and important a charity to be handicapped by concessions to the local hunger for the fruits of patronage. . . « NE of the unfailing signs of spring are the newspaper paragraphs that tell of Captain Robert Cook’ sat- tion with the Yale crew, or of his final determination to have no more to do with coaching. This year they take the form of news that Captain Cook is in Europe and will not return until May tst. But that will give him about seven weeks to coach in. If Dr. Eliot, who is also abroad, has the good of his university at heart, he will endeavor to make Europe pleasant for Captain Cook and keep him there. . * . ABOR in New Orleans uses the same means of enforcing its will as find favor with Labor in Brooklyn, Buffalo and Chicago; but a labor riot in New Orleans is liable to additional complications from the race ques- tion. It would seem to be grow- ing more and more desirable that the mayors of the larger Ameri- can cities should be men of some military experience, who know how to use troops promptly and effectually to suppress riots. So also it is more and more evident that all great cities should have a sufficient force of well-trained militia which can be relied upon 4 to quell disturbances. The ,,_ feeling in the country against Ra domestic peace is still strong, but there is no prejudice against calling out the militia when maintaining a standing army strong enough to keep our occasion demands, or against maintaining a militia force that is efficient enough to be worth calling out. HE fire in Mr. Nicholas Tesla’s work-shop seems to have involved the most disastrous destruction of brain products since J. S. Mill inadvertently burned up. the first volume of T. Car- lyle’s work on the French revolution, Carlyle’s book Was re-written, and no doubt Mr. Tesla’s wits will recon- struct his lost devices. But the loss is very sore, and he is very sore concerning it, and everybody is sorry for “~~ him as they should be. There was one possible good issue of the blaze, but it seems unlikely to result. It appears that Mr. Tesla needs rest and the fire gave him his chance to take it. Carlyle took to the woods and loafed grandly for several weeks after Mr. Mill's misadventure with his copy, but the newspapers say that Mr. Tesla is at work again as hard as ever. comicbooks.com