Life — September 19, 1895 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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VOL. XXVI. SEPTEMBER 19, 1895. No. 664. 19 West Tuirkty-First Street, New York. Published every Thursday. $5.00 year inadvance. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a year, extra. Single copies, 10 cents. Rejected contributions will be destroyed untess accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. OME one has computed that in fifty years or so Chicago will ave seven millions of people in it, and will be bigger than any city in the world except London, which will have eight millions. If Chicago is going to be so big no doubt she does well to provide betimes for oe her necessities, All the same there {7 is much curiosity in states that border on the great lakes as to the effect of that drainage canal which she is building to connect her back yard with the Gulf of Mexico. The under- standing is that Lake Michigan will feed itself into that canal at the rate of 10,000 cubic feet a second, and whether the great lakes can spare as much water as that without feeling it is something a good many people want to know. Chicago will say that so long as the water gets eventually to the sea it makes no difference whether it goes down the Mississippi or the St. Lawrence, but Buffalo may see it in a different light, and so may Niagara Falls, and the ports of Lake Michigan are more interested than either. When Chicago gets her sewer dug, and the Hudson river is bridged between New York and New Jerse we shall what we shall and most of us will live to see it. see see, HE manufacturers of plug tobacco are about to compete with the American Tobacco Company in the manufac- ture of cigarettes. It will be remem- bered that before the American Tobacco Company was formed, the competition between the concerns, which now comprise it filled the pockets of children with demoralizing pictures and was carried to an ss that made ita public nuisance. Heaven send that the impending strife of cigarette-makers may have no such nauseating developments as that former one. Here’s wishing good Sport to both sides, so long as the public comfort is not interfered with. $6 DEACE first,” says Spain, “and after that autonomy for Cuba, and every other reason- able thing that she desires.” Let me draw your claws and your ) teeth,” said the Woodman \ tothe Lion, “and after that \ my daughter will be most \ happy to receive your ; addresses.” Un- happily for Spain her professions of distin- guished considera- tion for Cuba gain \:no credit. Nobody believes but that if she can manage to get the Cubans under again, she will use them in the same way and to the same ends as heretofore. Spain is very poor and Cuba is profitable to her. Cuba can pay, and Spain hopes to make her pay in the future as she has done in the past. But after all, there is asimple way out of all the trouble if only it can be followed out. If Spain cannot continue to pay expenses without Cuba's assistance, the most reasonable solution of that incompetency is for Cuba to annex Spain, and shift the capital from Madrid to Havana. If Cuba must support Spain, let her govern her too. ‘That is just and seemly and conforms with the usages of every-day, nineteenth century life, as well as with the tenet of Scripture which proclaims that to him who hath shall be given, and from him who hath not shall*be taken awa‘ (Gee events seem to favor the clearing out of the hath-nots in various parts of the world. China is in imminent danger of being par- celled out in conven- ient lots to competent powers, Spain, shorn of all her other foreign possession: ii desperate fight to re- tain Cuba, and Turkey has had a notice from Lord Salisbury, the precise dimensions of which have not yet transpired, but which is understood to mean that an English keeper is to be appointed to see that such as are left of the Sultan's subjects in Armenia get proper treatment. No abatement of Turks or Chinese need cause nthe most tender-hearted person a qualm. The Turk in Europe is an anachronism. Any good master would be better for the Chinese than the incompetent and cruel bosses they have now,