Life — April 30, 1896 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE: While there is Life there's Hope.” VOL. XXVIL. APRIL 30, 1896. 19 West Twirty-First Street, New Yorx. Published every Thursday. $5.00 @ year In advance. Postage to foreign conntries tn the Postal Union, $1.04 8 year extra. single copies, 10 cents. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanted by a stamped and directed envelope. The tllustrations in LiPE are copyrighted, and are not to be repro- duced without special arrangement with the publishers. DAY of July weather in April, in New York, is a good joke that everyone is ready to appreciate. A week of it is no joke at all, The clerk of the weather will please take respectful notice that scorching in April is prohibit- ed by municipal ordinance in this town and that no delivery of frost in June will be accepted as offsetting the recent outbreak of excessive heat, \\. The taste of New York in weather seems not to be thoroughly under- stood in the weather office.” New York always gets plenty of summer, and it prefers that its springs should be springs \WWZ, \ / SS - a SS baked deliverances of unsea- sonable goods. Ofcourse the recent hot spell did some use- ful turns: it brought the grass up and the leaves out, but its best work was to ripen the McKinley boom so that the least frost will spoil it, and if the boom should survive that, the first hot day in June will rot it. No known method of nursing or cold storage can keep that boom in marketable condition until July. Another effect of the spell has been to thaw the reserve of Mr. Reed, who has allowed his friends in Maine to bring him forward as a Republican candidate for President on a gold basis. We did not swelter for nothing, but we did swelter, all of us—that is, except Mr. Harrison. He kept cool. . . . HE attention of silver en- thusiasts, and McKinley- ites who want to postpone prosperity until we can tin- ker up a new tariff bill, is called to the condition of our neighbors, the British, who report good business, satisfactory profits and a as heretofore and not half- 7 surplus in the government treasury, all earned on a gold basis. Competition may be the life of trade, but honest money is the legs it stands on. . . . HE Burden jewels have been found, and the men who stole them are under arrest in Lon- don. The only safe thing to steal nowadays is something like the Heine monument, that nobody wants, The members of the respected Burden family are still declining offers to go on the stage, and are likely to refuse to allow their celebrated jewels to be exhibited, except to private audiences, as heretofore. . . . HE New York Legislature thinks that bicycles are baggage, and that the New York Central Railroad ought to carry them without extra charge. The bill to that effect, which has passed the Legisiature and been signed by the Governor, seems superficially to be in the interest of bicyclists, but it is possible that its chief beneficiaries may be the bicycle repair shops. We know what an earnest baggage man can do with an objec~ tionable trunk. We may learn presently what effect he can have on a bicycle which travels free. . . HERE seems to be a lively competition between Ohio and lowa as to which shall have the best regulated citizens. lowa has supplemented her laws in der-~ ogation of the drink traffic with a new one which forbids the sale or eee gift of cigarettes. In Ohio LE one branch of the Legisla- — ~ ture has passed a bill pro-~ hibiting the practice of treating to drinks, and perhaps that in due time may become a law. lowa and Ohio were both recruited largely from New England, and no doubt this tendency in them to make straight paths and compel folks to tramp in them is atavistic in its nature, and is an inheritance from the New England Puritans. If these careful commonwealths continue to be so precise in their regulations it will be necessary presently to stop strangers on their frontier and coach them out of the revised statutes, so that incautious liber~ ality may not get them into trouble. There is some excuse for extreme measures in Ohio, because Kentucky is just across the river and keeps setting an example the effects of which of course have to be checked, but lowa is in a safe enough place, and, it would seem, might safely trust her citizens to grow up naturally, comicbooks.com