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“Oils there io Life there's Hope.” VOL. XXX DEC. 19 West Trety-First Street, New Yorn, 1, 1 Published every Thursday $5.00 Postage to foreign countries in Postal Union, $1.04 a year extra. Single coples, 10 cents Rejected contributions will be destroyed un- tess accompanied bya stamped and directed envelope. The illustrations in Live ars copyrighted, and are not to be reproduced without special arrangement with the publishers, arin advance, omin signs of tl times in New York is the great increase of costly bach- elor apartment houses. New ones are g up all while ; the very handsome ones where rents are hi, os and tenants are r 2 deplorably comfortable. It is well enough that bache New York should have due shelter and wholesome food, but the ic th nh their better than a make-shift is very, very lors in “a of prov g for them as condition was anythir wrong Bacl fortabl he allowed to pay more than a limited lors ought not to be very com ul they certainly should not The sentiment of all well ut them is that it sum for rent ulated persons all is their duty to save money scrupulously until they get enough to marry on, and then to marry atonce. [tis well enough to let them belong to one or two clubs, for, of course, they must be kept off the t: but as for lod, the ideal ar. rangement would be that they should live Mills’ hotels, be kept out of their bed- rooms daily from ten to five, and obliged to keep all their property in trunks or a locker. Th tution in its day and helped to keep No doubt it is in some measure still operative, but it is by xl that it between stre ings hall bedroom was a good insti bachelors uncasy no means the for Nowadays power was. bachelors *LIFE: years old, support and forty enough to r themselves s caming families, ndalously. They in these expensi three or four rooms apic and entertain, all receiv without re- strictions or supervision, and are an aggravation and an offense to the more conscientious clement in the community. it not to be so, No house should apartment house should licenses be issued to rent suites of comfortable rooms with hot and cold water and conveniences to bachelors at MW ielors should be disciplined and discouraged. Every unmarried man over thirty years old, and nota lunatic or crippled, charged with the of a family, should be compelled to pay overall his income in excess of $1,600 yearly to Tammany Hall, to be kept in a safe for a time pending amendment, and after ten years, if not previously re- to be paid into the fund for providing shoes for children under ten years old and endowing poor but lovely spinsters. Bachelors in New York are too numerous and too flagrantly for their lairs, the town with them. The police ntly that it is a mistake or support deemed by marriag resigned ; and, is choked up will realize pre: to let them policy is to herd them to, quarter by themselve: be conveniently supervised, checked in unlawful courses, and kept out of mis- cellancous mischief. ter so, and that the wiser ether in a where they can i fea crowing importance of the pro fession of diplomacy in this coun try is iustrated by the rumor that the President’ will advise through Ambas- sador White with Emperor William as to what course 1 Germany in th - properly be taken by settlement of a claim which she has against Hayti, The rumor says that the President will warn the Emperor not to be too grasping, but ated by what the dispositions of the American statesmen concerned, Weare satistied that the Major isa man of peace and will not “rile” the Emperor with rumor in this case is allev we know of know that Ambassador White knows his busi- ness, and will act at-his end of the cable with judgment and grace, exercised over any headline cries about a chance of trouble over Hayti, and the news that a Yankee warship is going to Port au Prince is calmly received, and has no effect on the price of stocks. unnecessary ebullitions, and w So no one is JOSTMASTER GENERAL GARY is against the law which regulates 1 matter, and intends to keep up the tight against it which was started by Mr. Wilson of the preceding Administration, This is the law under which all weekly and monthly publica- tions and newspapers are carried through the mail at the rate of a cent a pound. This law at present costs Uncle Sam about twenty-five million dollars a year, a very large part of which goes to facilitate the circulation of trash, advertising sheets, and matter not originally intended to be covered by the law atall. A good bit of mone. ten millions or so, can be saved by mere eliminating the grosser abuses of this still in force to second-class mi novels, law, lea M* CROKER has publicly ad- i mitted that in his opinion the Democratic leader in New York State is not the Honorable David B. Hill, but Senator Edward Murphy. It cannot be denied that Mr. Croker’s opinion on Democratic State politics is important, and the idea that he has named Senator Murphy as the Democratic leader of the Empire State affords food for thought. There possibility of having Messrs. Murph hope for the Democracy in the Croker and their like conspicuously in power, They are quantities the value of which can be easily and clearly esti- and to have them where they can be seen and counted, and must be ac knowlec sa means of helping New York Democrats to realize for what, at present, the stands. cd, is wholesome organization