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“OWhite there is Life there's Hope.” VOL. XXIX. JANUARY 14, 1897. No. 734+ 19 West Tyrty-First STREET, New York. Published every Thursday. $5.co a year in advance.» Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a year extra. Single coples, 10 centa Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. . The illustrations in LiFe are copyrighted, and are not to be repro- duced without special arrangement with the publishers, PLANATIONS of the unsat- i state of business are in active demand and_ freely offered. The one most generally current, and which seems plausible enough, that election came between seasons and too late for the fall trade, the profits of which are now being collected. The revival for which we are all anxious is 4 a now deferred until the early spring, ‘f) S when, it is understood, there is to be no account of weather, postponement on y wars, tariff, fre silver agitation, bad crops, potato rot, Congress, or anything Meanwhile, conditions con- tinue somewhat painful. A good s men who have bor- rowed heavily to tide them over bad times are reaching the limits of their credit. Every day some of them are driven into bankruptcy and the hands of receivers. many busin S which have made loans to them have, in too many cases, repented too late, and have been forced to put up their shutters. Men who have taken which was not theirs, to help them hold their own, have been found out, with lamentable results. money There is much to encourage the hope of prosperous times, but the prosperity lags, and to all except the strongest the delays are dangerous, as well as exasperating. aylight ahead, and, if the jingoes can be squelched and the high-tariff fanatics kept within bounds, it is possible that we may come to look back on ‘97 with emotions materially different from the distressful ones which are stirred in us by the memory of Meanwhile, blessed still is he that has come down to hard pan, and has no further descent to anticipate, The times are mending, but the length of time it takes to patch them up makes one realize how badly they were out of joint. irresponsible act.” OVERNOR BLACK prom- ises to make an interesting record in office. He has declared, in his inauguration speech, that ‘‘no intolerant clamor or irresponsible assault will force or prevent a single This announcement is interpreted that the Governor intends to do his own governing, with what assistance he may get from Mr. Thomas Platt, and that the suggestions of the Evening Post, and other newspapers which are not of Mr. Platt’s mind, will not be influential in determining his action. He seems to intend to appoint Mr. Louis Payn Superintendent of Insurance, notwithstanding that the press of the State outside of the Platt news- papers are vociferously skeptical as to Mr. Payn’s qualifications for that office. Governor Black, who has several creditable items in his record, has never taken any pais to conceal that he is a thorough-going Republican partisan. No doubt he will do many things that will grieve the independent voters and newspapers of the State. Yet he is understood to be intelligent, and is believed to be honest, and at least may be expected to give us the good points of a partisan administration as well as its ev fter once Mr, Platt has taken a Republican up on a high hill and showed him all the counties of the State, and Washington in the distance, it seems singularly difficult for that politician to see things in quite the same light as his fellow-citizens who have never been personally conducted by Mr. Platt to any lofty perch and invited to view the prospec! . . . to mean HE main trouble with Mr. Bryan’s lecture project seems to have been that what he had to say was not interesting. Men who are born great, or who become great, may reasonably hope to succeed in the lecture business; but men upon whom greatness has been thrust, do better in vocations. in which they may be seen more and not heard {so extensively. Except in seasons of political ~~ excitement, it is necessary that men should think thoughts before they can make speeches that folks will pay to sit under. . . . T was reported the other day that Mr. Hanna was considerably indisposed, and showed the effects of hard work. The report was denied, but still Lire hopes that Mr. Hanna will take warning by it, and make a note of the career of Mr. Daniel Manning, and avoid the gener- ous indiscretions which cut off that lamented gentleman just as he was beginning to prove himself indispensable to the proper administration of government. There is. no use in a man becoming indispensable unl he stays on the carth and keeps in working order. ~