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“While there is Life there's Hope.” VOL. XXIX MARCH 18, 1897. No. 19 West Trurty-First Steer, New York. Published every Thursday. $5.00 @ year in advance. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a year extra. Single copies, 10 centa, Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. The illustrations in Live. are copyrighted, and are not to be repro- tuced without special arrangement with the publishers. 743. simply black in the fa Here in the United ares are held to be bad for busi- and if we have even a little one all the traders moan. In England business must be done on some other theory. She has shared nearly all the really bad war-scares that we have had, and has had a lot more of her own with which we have and with her latest war-scare. States war nes had no concern, yet times in England are good. No doubt trade and capital, and public confidence, and Il those sensitive things, get used in time to being scared blue every other day, and learn to go right on with their business. There is a great deal in habits, once they are formed. C NE of the things the mind of contemporary Ameri- can man finds it hard to comprehend is how the Kings, Czars, Emperors, Sultans, Prime Ministers, ex- Ministers, Presidents, and other rulers of Europe, find andwich in their professional labors between their jobs as correspondents of American newspapers time to ST PAR VOBISCUM © [PAA = VOBISCUM -] N view of the continuous scrapping between Police Commissioners in New York, no little anxiety has come to be felt for fear that ief Conlin, or Cap- tain Chapman, or some of the active men of the force, will pres- ently that the Commission is disorderly and raid it, and lock the Commissioners up. Lire welcomes all rumors and tokens that so unfortunate an occurrence may be averted by projecting one of the Commissioners upstairs into the employ of the Federal Government, Colonel Grant is said to wanta foreign mission, and the President is thought to have a job that needs Mr. Roosevelt. Here's hoping Colonel Grant may get his mission; but as to Mr. Roosevelt, is it not more profitable to keep him here in New York? decide L If it is a national necessity to keep Mr. Roosevelt up to his chin in battle, it can’t be done cheaper or more effectively than by leaving him where he is, and letting him continue to fight Conlin ard Parker. But if, as Lire trusts and believes, Mr. Roosevelt only fights because his situation compels it, it would be far better to abate the necessity for his bellicosity here, and give his energy a chance to spend itself in useful channels. Lire would be sorry to see him leave the Police Commission without first having a fair, unhampered chance to show what he can do. . . . A DISPOSITION is showing itself = on the part of clubs and libra- 4 ries to exclude the new - journals BEN During the last month various public libraries and reading - rooms have stopped taking the World and the Journal. So has the Century Club, and some other clubs, These are all hopeful symptoms. If it is profitable to make news; s that are destitute of character, it will doubtless continue to be done; but it isadisreputable business, and persons who are responsible for it ought not to escape the social consequences of its disrepute. “TTHE sodality of real-estate owners in New York, known as the West End Association, believes that the ashes from their quarter of the town should be cartes ross Central Park and Fifth Avenuc,and dumped on barges inthe East River. Colonel Waring says that’s too far to cart so much ashes, and wants to build a dump ata suitable place on the North River and load ashes there. Hence a local dispute in which, for the Lire of us, we can't see that the West End Association has a leg to stand cn, L! *E deplores the practice which the publishers of some of the best American maga- zines have fallen into, of serving their wares with some of the pages uncut at the bottom. Of course one can always buy his magazine with trimmed edges, but to many trimmed edges are hateful. But uncut at the bottom are worse To get at them the ma ine must. be turned upside down, which loses one’s place frets temper. The reader, with the paper-knife which every reader should have handy, can slice the pages at the side and top without un- reasonable trouble, but those bottom folds—oh, good publishers, abate that plaguy nuisance! It is a new one, which you have doubtless adopted for reasons. Well, then, whatever the reasons are, they are not good enough to warrant it. people and one's