Life — June 17, 1897 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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*LIFE: “While there is Life there's Hope.” VOL. XXIX. ju No. 756. 19 West Tuirt inst Street, New York. Published every Thursday, $5.00 a year in advance. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1 04 @ year extra, Single copies, 10 cents. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. The illustrations in Lire are copyrighted, and are not to be repro- duced without special arrangement with the publishers. CCOMMODATIONS should be provided in New York's new city prison for the class of offenders who propose to use park lands of the city for other than park purposes. Commissioner is, an efficient and reputable officer of the city, has come back from Europe with a proposition to take a strip three blocks deep off of the south end of Central Park and turn it into a parade ground. The right thing to do with Commissioner Collis under these circumstances is to clap him right into jail, and keep him there until he repents and gives bonds for good behavior. As it is, this cannot be done, because to plot against the in- tegrity of the parks is not a criminal offense. But it should be. One or two examples of severity would check the imaginations of innovators of this species and do good. Happily. there is not the least prospect that General Collis’s plan will be seriously considered. . . . HE last four years have been good years to be in college, and this year is a good year to be getting It begins to seem possible that young men who are graduated this month may presently find some sort of employment which in time may become remunera- tive. Certainly they have not missed very much in being at their studies since 1893. The chief business of the people of this country since that year has been the ac- quisition of wisdom, and they have been but little distracted from that quest by the allurements of money getting. To have been in college and not in business during these years was good luck. Now, however, the cow is going to drink the water, and the water to spill itself on the fire, and the fire to burn the stick, and the stick to beat the dog, and the dog to bite the pig, and the pig to get over the stile, and stagnation to give place to activity, Even now the wise men insist that the cow’s nose is in the pail. Mr. Russell Sage pro- claims that the times are better; so do Mr. Carnegie and Mr. Depew and Mr. Gould. President McKinley said something encouraging the other day in Philadelphia, and all conscientious persons are twisting their necks and striving, with expectant faces, to get a glimpse of the bright side. ‘ ‘6 ~O take courage, in- structed youths and maids accomplished g who emerge this month | from the classic shades! The world you step out into is not only a world in which there is much to be done, but one in * which there begins to be a prospect that the earnest laborer will receive his reward. While you have been at your books, we too have been atours. Ours have been chiefly ac count books, and our business with them has been to make them balance. To that end we have taught ourselves economy, We spend much less than we did four years ago. It is good luck for you to be able-to start for yourselves in such a thrifty, plain-living world as ours is If you have learned to do high-thinking, treasure that attainment. It is one of the few luxuries that we are anxious to encourage. Think as high as you know how; work as hard as you can; live as simply as you may. It is a hard-working, saving, wholesome world that awaits you, and we bid you welcome to it with good hopes of you, and a comparatively cheerful spirit. . . . Wyo SS now. HE New York Even- ing Post recently spoke of Mr. Stephen Bonsal as confessed thief, who published in Harper's Weekly an ac- count of things in Cuba which was a lie on its face.” Mr. Bonsal believes that the Post has done him injustice, and it has been announced that he will sue for damages. Lirr trusts that the announcement is true. The ost is somewhat overfluent in its use of epithets, and if it has misapplied them in Mr. Bonsal’s case the duty of repentance ought to be briskly urged upon it. The Post seems to pride itself, not altogether unreasonably, on disbelieving all Cuban news. If Mr, Bonsal can prove that it has erred in disbelieving his report, his effort will have an exceptionally instructive issue.