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“ While there ia Life there's Hope.” VOL. XXXVI. SEPT. 20, 1900. No. 932. 19 West Taiwry-Finsr St., New Yore. Pablis! ance. devery Thursday. $500 a year In ad. patage to forelan countries in the P.-stal Single current copler, ter three months from (No contribution soill De returned wntess accompanied by stamped and addressed envelope, The illustrations in Live are copyrighted, and are not to be reproduced without special arrangement with the publishers, Prompt notification should be sent by sub- soribers of any my change af address. HM T has been a very hot summer, and a great many persons y)_have been unfavorably affected by it in their health and dispositions. In New York it has been neither pleas- ant nor whole- some. Perhaps that is one reason why, here and in other parts of the country, it has been so very easy of late to raise a mob for any work of anger that has offered. People’s tempers have been worse than usual; their nerves have bothered them; they have been under more or less conscious self-restraint all the time, and ready to fly out on the instant if the least excuse was given them. This gencral irritation which has resulted from excessive heat has doubtless had much to do with the negro-baiting propensities which have lately developed in New York. Almost all the negro troubles come in hot weather. Then tho misbehaving negroes are most apt to misbehave, and the ill-conducted whites take the lead in retaliation. Nothing is so good for the negro. problem of any given year as frost. It will do us all good this yeur. It may even clear up our minds so that we shall know how we ought to vote. Mr. Richard Olney is not wait- ing for frost before making his mind up. He says he is going to vote for Bryan. It is the most impor- tant vote Bryan has guined so far. Mr. Olney tells why he is going to cast it. It is not out of any admiration for LIPE Bryan asa leader. Mr. Olney makes no pretense about that. Bryan does not please him, and he says there are things in the Bryanite platform with which he by no means agrees. He votes for Bryan because he is strongly opposed to the present Admin- istration because of its too close alliance with favored business inter- ests, and because of its dealings with the Philippines. He is dead against its foreign policy. He knows a foreign policy when he sees one, having had to do with them in former lines of employment, and he declares that Major McKinley's is very, very bad. Cuba, the control of which he thinks necessary to our welfare, is turned loose, he eays, and the Philippines, which we have no use for, are kept and have had to be conquered. So says Mr. Olney, and says it tersely and with vigor. He is against the new colonial policy which plans to include the Asiatic dependencies. So, we believe, are a majority of the voters. So doubt- less in their hearts are the President and Cabinet. The Philippines blunder has been made, and they must see it through, but, dear, dear, how they must hate it! Practically all of us hate it, for the real division of Ameri- cans on the Philippines question seems now to be between those who know the job was a blunder and admit it, and those who know it was a blunder and either deny it or say that it was necessary. But, of course, one can deplore the Philippines blunders without voting for Bryan. It makes us laugh, albeit sorrowfully, to see so many god men halancing against one another McKin- leyism and Bryanism and trying to make a choice. “Give me Bryan, drat him,’ says Olney, and he fills his mouth with foreign policy in hopes to get him down without tasting him. “Give me McKinley,” says Edmunds. ‘‘Consarn his dadbinged imperialism, but I'm less afraid of him in Manila than of Bryan in Washington.” So it goes; and election now only six weeks off. Do yon suppose that Mr. Olney’s letter was held back until the Vermont election showed that Bryan was beaten and that it was safe to support him? A vote that would at the same time rebuke the policy of subject colonies in the distant tropics and Bryanism at home—what a luxury that was, be! t SPHE Dewey Arch in New York is far gone in dilapidation and ought to be taken down and put away. Nowhere near money enough has been subscribed for its perpetuation in marble. That is a pity on some ac- counts, for as a work of art the arch is beautiful. But after all there ismuch to reconcile us to its disappearance. For one thing, no one has yet discovered a suitable and convenient place for it on Manhattan Island, For another thing, what it commemorated was not worth so much commemoration for all time. The glory of Manila Bay was not so substantial in its immediate quality, and has not yet proved gainful enough in its results, to warrant so big astack of marble. Put the arch away for ten years, and then if the public thinks it proper, make it permanent. It is not to be regretted that haste has not been made in this enterprise. The staff arch has been a wonderful suc- cess, and has admirably accomplished its purpose. It deserves an honorable retirement. fh SE % 'TATISTICS seem to vindicate the educational preferences of the col- lege woman. Professor Mary Smith of Stanford University has been gather- ing information about her career and has made a_ report. The college woman marries at twenty-six, two years later than her sister who did not go to college, but she marries better. She has good health, but no better than other women. She istwice as apt to earn her living before marriage as other women are. Once married she has about as many children as other women do, but whereas forty-seven per cent. of the children of other women are boys, the percentage of boys among the children of college women is stated to be fifty-five per cent. That seems odd, but it will hardly keep women out of college, for mothers as a rule like boys and don’t object to a rather liberal allowance of them. _ 9aiccantonet acca oe comicbooks.com