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“ White there is Life there's Hope.” OL. XXNUL MARCIHL 2, 1599. No. S48. Wo Weer Tunery-r sr. New Yous $5.00 a year in ad- th tal ale ent coy F three mouths from of publicat No contribution will be accompanied by encelope, returned unless stamped anit addressed righted, The illustrations in Live are cop: and are not to be reproduced without arrangement ith the publishers. Prompt wolification should be sent by sub- seribers of any change of address. IE President has been to Boston to swap civilities with the Home Market Club, which has great sympathy and admiration for his sentiments about Protection and the expedi- ency of our. sell- ing things to one another. There isa certain amount of conflict about the old- fashioned high-protection which aims to keep foreigners from bringing their wretched wares into this country, and the growing propensity of our merchants to sell American goods abroad; but the Home Market Club seems to believe in seeing one thing at a time. The club’s reception committee thought it expedient to warn the gentlemen who were expected to meet the President not to squee his hand, but did not tind it necessary to caution anyone not to wink athim, Doubtless, therefore, the Major and his Boston friends able to understand one another without the aid of too many explanations. Naturally, the President made a speech to his entertainers, and, naturally also, he spoke of the Philippines. When he alluded to ‘the blood-stained trenches around Manila where every red drop, whether from the veins of an American soldier ora misguided Filipino, is angui to my heart,” he bad us all with bim, The employment of American soldiers to shoot Filipinos, to whose fight, much as we deplore it, we have to yield a large Ane were LIFE measure of sympathy, makes us all feel sick, It is the dirtiest job that Fate has imposed on this generation of Ameri- cans, and if the President, when he thinks of it, finds it necessary now and then to relieve his mind by going out behind the barn to swear, he only does whatall the rest of us are doi! and public sentiment would justify his pri- vate ebullitions, The situation is hate- ful, and all the more hatetul because it requires enuity to dis- cover anyone upon whom the blame for it can be justly fixed. There seems noth- ing to do but to ad, grin and bear itin public, and gi our feelings such private relief as we may. Heaven send that the Filipinos may gain wisdom fast, for this b urry the blessings of liberty to them with smokeless powder and Gatling guns is very, very irksome. RE BI a INEZ I ROWN UNIVERSITY, with a de- plorable lack of gallantry, has invited the President of V ‘ollege to leave that seat of learning and become the successor of Dr. Benjamin Andrews at Providence, Colleges nm to have bo more manners than churches, When a church needs a new minister it looks around to see at others fold seems to be doing well, and when it finds one where the sheep seem fat and comfort- able it does its best to get their shepherd ‘0, when a college needs a presi- if it finds a likely man at the head bas com- punctions about bidding for him, This is well enough in most cases, but respect for the privileges of the gentler sex ought surely to have estopped the Brown trustees from an attempt to take Vassar’s man away from her, It seems hardly a moral proceeding. Dr. Taylor has not accepted Brown's invita- tion yet; but he is a Baptist. and Brown is enough of a Baptist university to require Baptist preferences in its presi- dent, and, as the supply of likely Bup- tist college presidents is hardly up to the demand, Dr. Taylor may feel constrained to go to Providence. If he does, Vassar can get back at the Baptists by calling Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler of Cornell, whom all the lead- erless Baptist colleges want and can't get. Dr. Wheeler is a good sportsman considerable in, Bor away dent, of asm: ier college it seldom ordi and a handsome man, and Vassar would like him, yu aes when he really tries, can make as good an appointment as anyone. His selection of Mr, Barrows of Boston to be the Libi n of the Con- gressional Library is generally approved. He wanted Mr, Putnam, the Librarian of the Boston Public Library, but Mr. Putnam was satisfied with the job be had. Mr. Barrows isa Unitarian minister by intention, a newspaper man by. profes- sion, and a Congressman by occupation; but his term in Congress expires this week, so he is ready for new duties, He can read and write, has been to Europe and Chi , and knows a great deal about many things, and among others about prison reform. He can write short- hand, too, and for sixteen years he edited a Unitarian paper in Boston; so, though be has not had much experience in man- aging libraries, he has had lots of experi- ence in other things, and is strong in gumption and general culture, There was not much politics in Mr. Barrows’s appointment, Itis true that he is a Republican, and that he is an admirer of the President, but the appointment went to him because he was. the fittest man for it who was available. I | APPILY, this is not so stirring a spring as we had last year, but it has its interests and its passing excite- ments, What with its blizzard, and its slush, and its poisoning case, New York, at least, bas had enough local news of lively quality to distract its mind from the Philippines and everything else that it doesn’t want to think of. The poison- ing case has been a great success as a mystery. We are daily threatened with ations that shall take it out of the realm of hvpothesis and make history of it, but, at this writing, the sender of cyanides is still to scek, and everyone is at liberty to suspect anyone of a whole series of edi g misdeeds. When the poisoner does turn up he will be warmly welcomed by a large circle of ladies and gentlemen to whom his persistent avoid- ance of publicity has occasioned very serious inconvenience and concern. reve