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“OMNile there is Life there's Hope.” VOL. XXVIII. SEPTEMBER 24, 1896. No. 717. 1g West Tuirty-First Str New York. Published every Thureday. $5.00 a year in advance. Postage to foreyu countries In the Postal Union. $1.04 a year extra. Single coples, 10 ceata Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. The illustrations in LAE. are copyrighted and are not to be repro- duced without special arrangement with the publishers. ENATOR HILL still hesitates, thereby causing the sound-money men merriment and the silver men some distress. No one has at any time had the least doubt as to the senator's sentiments about free coinage, but it has not been foreseen in what degree his convictions might influence his conduct. At this writing the Buffalo convention is still in prospect, but it seems to intend to declare for Bryan, and if it does, Senator Hill will probably continue to hesitate during the rest of the campaign. Senator Murphy is experiencing no such inconvenience. He is frankly for Bryan and Popocracy. It is the great recommendation of Mr. Black, the Republican candidate for governor, that he has been the most outspoken and energetic foe of Murphy and Muphyism that the state has produced. He has fought Murphy in his stronghold and fought him hard. Bully for Black! . . . THE present fashionable stand-up-turn-over shirt collar for men is an absurd creation Y that reflects discredit on its inventor and makes ) most of its wearers ridiculous. It serves no single purpose which any of the ordinary stand-up collars does not serve better and more handsomely. No cravat has yet been discovered that looks well with it. © When it is new and stiff or has been skilfully ‘‘done-up,” it can be overlooked on a long-necked man; but the average man's collars are rather imperfectly done-up, and the average man’s stand-up-turn-over collar after its second washing is a gaping and dishevelled absurdity. Women wear these same collars, and of course carry them off better than men do; but they are trying to most women for the reason that they sustain no perceptible relation to the human anatomy, either male or female. It seems to be the intention of nature that there should be radical changes in all the gear and adornment of women at short intery and if these new-fangled col- lars are a lawful decree of fashion, it is not worth while to object to them as far as women are concerned. But men should discountenance the silly things. A year or two ago there was an edict that the tails of men’s coats should be three inches too long. Men who knew how long their coat tails should be paid no attention to it, but men who didn’t know wore their coat tails too long and looked silly. Only men who know no better will allow these absurd stand-up-turn- over collars to be imposed upon them, . . * Oz late guest, Chang, whose hy agreeable to us and whose society was enlightening and valuable in so many respects, cannot be said to have set us a particularly useful ex- ample in the matter of smok- ing cigarettes. All cigarette smokers know that cigarettes are pestilent things, obstruc- tive to the operations of the intellect, bad for the nerves, the heart, the liver, the di- gestion, and miscellaneously pernicious. We know that they scar the conscience and shorten life, and a_ large proportion of our male pop- ulation is in a chronic state of intentions looking to their Our late guest is seventy-three years old, and ex- disuse. though infirm in some particulars, is apparently ceptionally complete possession of his mental faculties. Yet, if we may believe the reports of our newspapers during most of the time of his stay with us, two able- bodied heathens found constant occupation in putting cigarettes in his mouth and lighting the further ends of them. Let no inexperienced person argue from this_that cig- arettes are salubrious or wholesome. They are not. The truth is that Li is tough, and besides that he goes to bed early and is temperate both in his food and beverages. The most that his case teaches is that a man who is tough and circumspect in all other par- ticulars, may possibly smoke a good many cigarettes in the course of a long life without becoming incapacitated for business. Comicbooks.com