Life — August 29, 1895 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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“Qhile there is Life there's Hope.” VOL. XXVI. AUGUST 29, 1895. No. 661. 1g West Tuirty-First StREET, New York. Published every Thursday. $5,004 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. HE unusual compre- hensiveness of this year’s list of August murders excites astonish- ment and wide-spread comment. In the South especially, people have been killing one another in unusual numbers, so that the newspapers are scandalized and deprecate the effect of so many homicides upon the repu- tation of the communities in which they have oc- curred. August seems to be a very )) cross month. People who have to 3 stay at home and work through the dog days get very much worn as to their nerves, and find self control much more difficult than at other seasons. They should take pains not to feel any worse than they can help, and special pains not to behave as bad as they feel. The more the execution of one’s August impulses can be deferred until October, the less, as a general thing, one will have to regret. HE people of the United States will be glad to see the Cuban revolutionists succeed in their purpose. They sympathize with the Cubans, not because of any enmity they bear the Spaniards nor from “any desire to see Spain deprived of anything she feels is her own personal property, but because the Cubans seem better a to govern themselves than Spain is to govern them, The people of any country who are fighting for their release from the control of any European master must be very undeserv- ing people not to win the sympathy of the Americans. oG T would be interesting to dis- cuss how far the undeniable progress of woman toward the un- restricted pursuit of happiness has been due to the Woman's Rights agitation of the last fifty years, and how far it has been brought about by the natural growth of our civilization. There are enthusiastic woman suffragists who claim everything that has been done in this country to protect women in the enjoyment of their property, and to enable them to earn their living, as the immediate result of the efforts of woman suffragists to throw off the yoke of the tyrant man. On the other hand there are those who believe that greater liberty for women was a-natural result of the working of our institutions and was a part of the progress of the times, and that it would have come rather sooner if the suffragists and Woman's Rights enthusiasts had held some of their peace. LiFe would hardly venture to embrace this opinion, but it is a fact that there are many men to whom the vociferations of the suffragists are somewhat obnoxious, who yet will go far out of their way to secure for women any right, easement or privilege which promises to make life safer, easier or more agreeable to them. It would be a bitter thought to some of our worthy contemporaries that American women had any really valuable privileges which the Woman's Rights agita- tion had not won for them, but bitter as it is there is a possi- bility of truth in it. . . . ROFESSOR BEMIS, the late occupant of the chair of political economy in Chicago University, has severed his rela- tions with that institution. Chicago gas costs $1.10 a thousand feet; Professor Bemis thought sixty cents quite enough to pay. It costs five cents to ride in a Chicago street car; Pro- fessor Bemis thought three cents a better rate. It is supposed that Professor Bemis impressed the University authorities as being too practical a man to be advantageously employed on a theoretical job in a growing city like Chicago. os * . ARK TWAIN says that his lecturing tour is not for his own benefit, but that of his creditors. He is ambitious to pay in full all the debts of the publishing firm in which he a partner. - He thinks he can earn the money by lecturing in three or four years, and after that he intends to settle down and make a living comfortably by writing. . * . EPORT says that Lady William Beresford (late Marl- borough), and her husband paid $4,000 for a salmon stream in Norway and caught two fish. That was high for salmon, but Lady Beresford is too good a sportswoman to haggle over cost. She has angled for British dukes, and she knows that the fun of fishing is in the fishing, and bears no near relation to the value of what one lands.