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“While there is Life there's Hope.” VOL. XXXL FEB. 24, 1898, No. 703, 19 West Tainty-First New York. Published every Thursday. $5,000 yearin advance, Postage to foreign countries in the Hostal Union, $ogayearextra, Single copies, 10 cents Rejected contributions will be destroyed un- less accompanied bya stamped and directed envelope. The illustrations in Live. are copyrighted, and are not to be reproduced without special arrangement with the publishers. ie FE begs to extend to Sefor de Lome the assurance of its sympa- ‘ase in which he finds name thy in the painful himself. The pastime of calli at Major McKinley is one in which we have all indulged so freely, and with so little resulting inconvenience cither to him or to ourselves, that it seems a sad misfortune that so common a_ sport should have brought the Spanish Minis- ter into so much trouble. That he should have wished to resign and go home after exposing so much of his mind was natural enough, but for the Administration to bein such prickly haste to get rid of him —though it ms to strike everyone as highly proper—was not really very sensible. To know precisely whatisin a n Minister's mind is what the Sta Department desires. Yet no sooner ii fior de Lome’s mind exposed by the publication of a stolen letter than the government falls over itself in its haste ck him off home and replace him y someone whose views are not so well understood. That is not really astute, but it seems to be diplomatic, and every- one scems satisfied that it was the ri thing to do. As Lire goes to press the incident (any fuss with any foreigner is an inci- dent) is pronounced closed. Seftor de Lome has gone home; Spain has dis- avowed his private remarks, and we are frve to resume such sentiments of comity > LIFE: toward the Spanish Government as our sympathy with the Cubans will permit. 3d d- HIE present cra seems to be no ex ception to the gencral run of eras, in being provided with ill-advised peo- ple who don't know how to behave. We Amcricans, with our silver crazes and pension frauds, and our Tamman and our high-protection foolishnesses, have less to brag of than we might; and there are the Spaniards undergoing again in Cuba the course of instruction that they took centuries ago from the Dutch; and there is England crippled by strikes, and wofully mixed up about her foreign policies; and there is Germany with a self-conceited emperor riding to a fall; and worst of all, for the moment, there is France. It is a good while since those highly intelligent French have stood as persistently on their heads and waved their legs in the air with quite so much violence of gesticulation as at present. The whole Dreyfus inconven- ience seems past comprehension to readers here, but we all recognize the presence of an Ethiopian in the Gallic woodpile, and admire the grit and energy of Zola in his struggle to get him out. It has not been fully demonstrated that Dreyfus was not guilty, but it does seem to be clear that he was unlawfully tried and convicted on secret evidence. The understanding has been that when the Bastile was pulled down, that sort of legal proceeding ceased to be toler- ated in France. The Dreyfus scandal shows the error of that view, But though Zola seems likely to suffer for his boldness, his fight promises to be worth while, and to result ina reform and modernization of legal procedure in French criminal cases. Queer country! Queer folks! It is part of our good luck that we are not more centralized, To be sure, it is in- convenient for New York to have the capital of the country at Washington and the State capital at Albany, but the system has its excellent points. When Paris gets out of its head all France is crazy, but New York—or Chicago, or St. Louis, or Boston, or any other centre —may have an aberration, and still leave the government and the bigger part of the country comparatively lucid. se We Oat f ] Na letter recently communicated by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union to Timothy Dwight, President of Yale College, demands are made as follows: “ First—That you will forbid students under your charge to enter places where alcoholic liquors are sold for beverage use, to keep such liquors in their dormitories or rooms, or to have them furnished at their class or other spreads and banquets. “Second—That you will use your great in- Hluence to secure prohibition of the sale of intoxicants within the city of New Haven, the same as has been secured at Cambridge. And warning of the penalty of dis- obedience is thus given: “ Until such action is taken by your honored body, much as we honor Yale University, we feel compelled to send our sons and brothers to institutions where these provisions for safety against intoxtcating drinks have been adopted.” It is reassuring to notice that the de- mands of Miss Willard and the other ladies who have signed this ultimatum, though not expressed with much verbal felicity, are specific and casily under- stood. They give Dr. Dwight a fair chance to reform his establishment, and if he won't, the consequences which he must expect are frankly disclosed. Lire has always believed Dr. Dwight’s place to be about as orderly as Dr. Patton's, or even Dr. Eliot's, and it would regret to sve his license taken away. He means well, and if, lacking the large experience that the W. C. 'T. U. has enjoyed in man- aging young men, he makes mistakes, no doubt excuses could be made for him It is best, however, that justice in his case should not be tempered with any surplus mercy, The terms are explicit. If he won'tcomply, let the ladies put his shutters up and padlock his back door. aid dio vevwe#8”? wwog HE friends of Dr. J. M. Buckley, of the Christian Adcocate (the gentleman who remonstrated with so much feeling at the use of wine at the annual dinner of the Wesleyan Alumni), will be glad to hear that he has recov- ered from violent illness induced by overindulgence in canned corn on Feb- ruary 7th, and while traveling between New York and Pittsburg. The can, on occasion, may outbite the cup.