Life — August 12, 1897 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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fe there's Hope.” AUGUST 12, 1857. No. 764. VEST THIRTY-FIRST ST., NEW YORK. Published every Thurway. ¢5.00n year in advance, Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 ayearextra. Single copies, 10 cents, Rejected contributions will be destroyed un- tess accompanied bya stamped and directed envelope, The illustrations in Live are copyrighted, and are not to be reproduced without special arrangement with the publishers. ONE WAY OUT OF A DILEMMA, HETHER or not Brown University is better ft since its president has resigned, it cannot be doubted that Presi- dent Andrews is better off for sending in his resigna- “tion, That was the right thing for him to do under the cir- cumstances, and it is pleasing to learn that he has already had his ard in being called to manage a new university to be established forth- with by Mr. John Brisben Walker of the Cosmopolitan Magazine. Just what sort of a university Mr, Walker is to set up is not quite apparent yet, but seemingly it is not to be ham- pered at first by trustees and endow- ments and buildings and embar: ments of that sort, but is to sail right in and diffuse knowledge, that species of knowledge being presumably pre- ferred which discloses how honest dollars may be coined out of silv sixteen to one. LIFE wishes Andrews and Mr, Walker good luck with their educational enterprise. They are both sincere men, and being apparently of one mind as to their duty, they ought to work together to their own satisfaction, if not neces- sarily for the edification of mankind. What a good thing it would be if the Brown Corporation, instead of ac- cepting Dr. Andrews’s resignation, should invite him to take a leave of absence for two or three years, and try, with Mr. Walker's help, to work his silver proclivities out of his sys tem. It is a pity that a good man *LIFE: should suffer for an honest opinion, and perhaps in a couple of years (especially if Alaska pans out as rich we hope) a man’s views about silver coinage may cease to affect his usefulness as the head of a New England college. NO SCARE. HERE has been a profusion of talk in some of the newspapers about Japan and her views about Hawaii. So far as LIFE can o»serve, no one is at all worried by it. Our neighbor, the Hera/d, which seems subject to emotions of especial vio- lence on this subject, has printed from time to time terrific dispatches relating to it, and has whooped in italics and tumbled in double leads, according to information received. But nobody has seemed to care very much. Nobody—not even Japan— believes the Japanese want to fight about Hawaii, or that Uncle Sam will give them just occasion to. NOT A SATISFACTORY ATTITUDE. THE prayer for fair weather in the Episcopal Prayer-Book takes it for granted that when it rains too much it is because we have been extra sinful, and have seemed to the Almighty to need a soaking for our manifold misdeeds. Lirr cannot see it precisely in that light. and prob- ably only a small proportion of con- temporary Christians do take that view. More of them incline to the belief that it rains on the evil and good without discrimination as to human conduct, but just according to circumstances, and that it stops, not in consideration of repentance, but simply when it gets ready. The old sentiment which provided a moral cause for climatic defects was more satisfactory. That enabled us to blame someone—if only our- selves—for such an unseasonable and disastrous down-pour as we had dur- ing the last fortnight in July. Now there is nothing for us to do but to grin and bear it. Our present attitude towards the weather is unsatisfactory. We no longer pray with any confidence for its amelioration when it doesn’t suit us, and yet we have made no appre- ciable progress towards regulating it by artificial means. We seem to be no better off than if our climate was fixed up by Congress. No one can tell far ahead what is going to happen, and no onecan be sure after the event that what was done was wise, THE NEW TARIFF. M*. JOHN WANAMAKER, who complained with so much freedom not long since of the con- ditions of business, feels better since the Tariff bill passed, and has given expression to hopeful sentiments. The grounds for despondency among citizens who still permit themselves to croak are somewhat remote, and do not affect the immediate future. The ability of corporations to control legislation, the alleged tendency of courts to appreciate the rights and privileges of organized capital more clearly than its duties, and other con- siderations of an analogous sort, are said still to make some thoughtful persons anxious, but there seems to be no bridge immediately in sight which we may not hope to cross safely. fyrancae QUESTION! A scientist has discovered that light may be produced from suxar.— Daily pager. S there any basis, do you suppose, for the assertion that it was by light so derived that the Adminis- tration thought it saw its way to. annex Hawaii? comicbooks.com