Life — October 22, 1896 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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*LIFE: + QWile these is Life the XXVIIL OCTOBER 22, 18¢ 19 West Twiety-P VoL ingle copten, yee syed unless accompa amped The illustrations in Live are copyrighted, and are mot to be repro- duced without special arrangement with the publishers. NE good result that promises to follow the capture of the Democratic party by Bryan and his incendiary gang is the utter demor- alization of Tammany Hall. John Sheehan and the other little chiefs are sitting up nights, nowadays, read- bs _ing the bigger chiefs Meee out of the organization. There are still ten days left before election, and such progress has already been made that we may confidently expect that when Tammany carries its Bryan ballots to the polls there will not be a leader left in the organization of ability, influence, or clear action. Amos Cummings still abides. Amos is able in his line of business, but how much character and influence will remain to him after election is a matter of nice calcula- tion. Besides, Amos hardly counts. His trade is not to lead, but to be present and report. ° . . LI congratulates its Roman Cath- ; olic friends on getting a new boss from Rome who gives promise of being quite as intelligent and affable as the able gentleman whom he succeeds. A cardinal goes; an archbishop 4 comes. There is some temporary . loss of rank to the ecclesiastical outfit in this country, but very pos- Z sibly Mgr. Martinelli may be made a € cardinal presently, and dignities be AS ~) equalized. ~ The deposition of Bishop Keane from the direction of the Catholic University in Wash- ington seems to be promoting thought and discussion among our Catholic brethren. It was most urbanely done and most submissively received, but it makes the dis- passionate observer speculate as to how long our Catholic countrymen will continue to be Roman Catholics and take their orders obediently from a throne across the seas, . . . “THERE are, of course, greater English- men than George Du Maurier, but Lire cannot think of one who would be so much missed and so much lamented in the United States as he. Very many of us who have been grown up these many years have known him through his drawings ever since we were children, Thirty-six years ago he began to contribute to Punch, and since he succeeded Leech as a member of its staff his pictures have been in every number. How much of what we think we know about the British and their manners and modes we owe to those pictures! Thanks to them, Du Maurier was already the familiar friend of many of us, when, only six or seven years ago, he began to write books, and demonstrated that the qualities of mind that had made him charming as an illustrator, served him to still more delightful purpose as a teller of stories. No Englishman since Dickens has sent us a story that found so promptly so many American readers as 7ri/by. Perhaps it was a lucky book rather than a great one, but it deserved ‘ts good fortune, for it made its readers the happier for having read it. Du Maurier was only sixty-two years old. We wish he might have filled out the full Span of human life. He was a very pleasant man, who had charming ideas, and de- lightful thoughts and memories, which he was admirably successful in bringing home to the comprehension of his fellows. Such people are very scarce. Wecan never spare them, and when at any time we lose one of the foremost of them, we have abundant reason to lament our loss. . HE interest which ladies of fashion and social activity are 4 taking in the game of golf is one of the interest- ing features of the fall. Their recent tournament at Morristown for the cham- pionship and Mr. Robert Cox's cup, was as ardently disputed and quite as carn- estly watched, and as fully reported as any of the tour- naments of the men. There is something that is some- what new-womanish in the enlistment of ladies in athletic contests of so much moment, but, after all, the new woman has her good points, and very likely her interest in golf is one of them.