Life — October 26, 1899 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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ITA Solomons 1F THIS PAMILY CONTINUES TO INCREASE AT THIS RATE 1 ALSO WILL BE TUE PATUER OF MY COUNTRY. with such a conclusion is that divorced persons who would be hindered from remarriage by the rules of the Episcopal Church are usually persons of tender conscience and scemly behavior, who don’t get divorces unless they are well entitled to them The proposed canon would involve hardship and injustice to such innocents, whereas the culprits whom it ought to restrain would go and get themselves married by a justice of the peace or by another minister, The great preventive of improper di- vorce amoug respectable Protestants is its extreme inconvenience. It is a very scconu-rate thing at the best, and so dis- agreeable that folks who are constrained to resort to it by circumstances for which they are not to blame, commonly have, and ought to have, the sympathy of their friends. If all the strong Protestant churchesshould join in discountenanciog the remarriage of innocent partics to a divorce, their action would carry less weight with their adherents than the rule of the Roman Catholic Church does with Roman Catholics, But if the Episcopal Church alone discountenances these mar- riages, while other Protestant bodies permit them, the result will indeed, as Bishop Potter predicts, be disappointing. A Redeeming Feature. CHICAGO “ drummer” tells tho follow- ing experience with ono of his cus- tomers, ovidently of the “commercial” race, “Teanc” and his brother “Jacob” had been partners and good customers of our commercial friend, and he was grieved to learn, on reaching their town after a two months’ absence, that Jacob was dead. Our friend, of course, called on Isaac at onco to offer condolences, which wero reevived as follows: “Yes! Yes! Poor Jacob! Id vas agroad Joss to me. Jacob vas tho pocsnes man of dis firm. I don't know how I got along vidout him. Id’s a very gread loss, a vory gread loss.” And the tears wore trickling down Isanc’s checks and the drummer wept in sympathy, Suddenly a bright recollection came to Isaac's mind, and with a sudden chango from despair to rejoicing, he exclaimed : “ Bud, ob ! Wo bad alofely administration sale!" _ - #6, ENERAL,” said Aguinaldo’s pri- vate secretary, a8 he looked up from a copy of an Amcrican newspaper, “President McKinley has refused to medi- ate between the British and the Boers.” “Good!” cried the unassimilated Fili- pino; “cable my congratulations to Kruger.”