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# Life Magazine, April 22, 1897 - Page 332 **Top cartoon ("While there is Life there's Hope"):** Shows a figure inside a large circular vessel or container, likely depicting someone trapped or confined—possibly related to air-ship experimentation mentioned in the text below. **Main text discusses:** Air-ship sightings reported in western cities (Omaha, Chicago). The author dismisses these as unreliable accounts, suggesting the "best story" involves an air-ship traveling from San Francisco to Washington, though the Chicago astronomer's theory lacks credibility. **Lower cartoons:** Appear to satirize religious conversion efforts toward Jewish people and debates about Christian missionary work—the text critiques whether forced conversion is actually an effective or ethical approach. The page reflects 1890s fascination with emerging aviation technology alongside skepticism about its credibility.
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"" WODhile there is Life there's Hope.” VOL. XXIX. APRIL 19 West Tiety. Published every Thursday. $5.00 a year in advance, Postage to foreign countries tn the Postal Union, $1.04 a year extra. Single copies, 10 cente. 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- duced without special arrangement with the publishers. I" may be that by the time this N number of Lire is out we shall know what truth there is in the yarn of the air-ship which is sup- posed to have been recently seen at various the West. about it have been in the newspapers, all wild-eyed fi and vague, but unusually perti- / acious. Lights in the air were al nights at Omaha and were reported later from Chicago. The best story about them is that they belong to an air-ship that is voyaging from San The least satis- factory theory was that of a Chicago astronomer, who thought they belonged to a star. lively age points in Divers stories seen for sev Francisco to Washington. Is it nota when the air-ship story sounds more credible than the theory of the astronomer! used to be that one of the special obligations recognized by Christians of good ecclesi tical standing as incident to Good Friday was to do something to promote the con- version of the Jews. For centuries the Jews have been very much on the mind of the , Church, and means have been provided Sx for their conversion, ranging from pincers 4 and boiling oil in remoter times, down to But to go on with lessened ardor, partly because the need of converting Christians is better appreciated than it used to be, partly because the great mass of Jews obstinately decline to be funds and missionaries in our day. nowadays the work seem converted. There is no sign of incapacity in the Jews to take care of themselves, and to obtain the thing on earth. and their conversion, for that is not the way to reach them. If Christianity is a good thing and we have got it, let us hang on like everything to all our holdings of it, not doubting in the least that our Jewish brethren share of every valuable Let us not worry unduly about them will hasten to share it with us just as soon as ever they find reason to suspect that it is worth having, There are some folks who will drink when they are led to water, and there are others, whose thirst if one would lake, he puts the water in a cask and drives the bung in tight. and marks on the end with figures, and leaves it in sight, and goes indoors and waits. . . . HE Patriarchs have dissolved their once famous terpsi: chorean sodality. They got tired of the trouble of giving balls when there were so many people in New York who were willing to take that trouble upon them- selves and to pay all the bills. Good-by, Patriarchs! You were great people in your day, but you have succumbed to the progress of the immensely rich. Why, to be sure, should you continue to take pains and spend money for your own amusement, when there are so many people with such grand establishments who are eager to provide you with all the social amuse- ment you can stand, at their cost! It isa great thing, Patriarchs, to recognize when one is dead, and not hang around unburied. HERE is no present prospect of anything but mis- chief from the Dingley tariff bill. The tariff sharps are almost unanimous in their agreement that it is the worst tariff bill yet, It pleases some short-sighted manufacturers whose eyes glisten at the prospect of plunder, and many far-sighted free silver men who see that such a tariff will disgust the country and drive the Republicans out of power. The worse the bill that Mr. Dingley and his co-operators offer, the easier it will be to pass it. The measure now before Congress seems certain to reduce the revenue ins d of increas It calls for higher duties than the Mckinle: mea expressly designed to cut revenue down. protection is better than free silver, but neither in the fire nor in the frying-pan may we hope for real comfort. ng it, bill, a ure Excessive It is time for a new alternative. IFE begs to recommend to General Sanguily to go to Paris and stay there until the Cuban war is over for He was released by the Spaniards at the request of the American government, after giving his word not to take any further part in the Cuban revolution. Since he cannot honorably plot or fight for Cuban freedom, would he not be better off in some country where he would be under less temptation to break his word ? better or worse.