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“« While there is Life there’s Hope.” VOL. XXXIX. JAN. 30. 1902. No. 1005. 19 West Tarery-Finst St., New YORK. eravilshed every, Thursday. $5.00 8 year foreign countries tothe Postal Tear extra. Single current copies, Weer Back numbers, after three months from Gato of publication, Ssceute, No contribution will be returned unless accompanied by stamped and addressed envelope, The illustrations in Lire are copyrighted, and are not to be reproduced without special arrangement with the publishers, Prompt notification should be sent by sub- soribers of any change of address. _ TEE sence appointment of Dr. Whitelaw Reid to be Special Ambassador of the United States at King Edward's coronation seems in all respects a judicious y one. Dr. Reid has been Special Ambassador before, and possibly has a suit of ambassador clothes hang- ing in his closet, He isa distinguished man and handsome, and has had a comprehensive European experience as Minister to France, as Peace Commissioner, and twice as could-have-been-Minister to Germany. He will know his whole duty at the coronation ; what will be helpfulest to the King, what most complimentary to Mr. Choate, he will discern, and do it. So there could not well have been a trustier delegate named. Yet if one were wishing, one might almost wish the job might have gone to Mr. Reed, of New York and Maine, rather even than to Mr. Reid, of New York and Ohio. Mr. Thomas Brackett Reed has had much less experience of courts and pageants than the Editor of the Jribunc, and it is disputable whether he is so handsome a man, but he is a grand man to send to a corona- tion. What coronations most need is bubbles. They are apt to be heavy. Mr. Thomas Reed isn’t exactly a bubble, but his presence, while duly majestic, could be trusted to affect a large and overdressed company some- what as a lump of yeast affects a pan of dough. He would have done the coronation good—he and Mr. Choate ; and neither of them would have LIFE laughed—not out lond—even though they had both been there together. i is very polite in the Emperor of - Germany to send his brother here to help our President’s daughter name his yacht. Prince Henry’s pic- tures speak well of him. No doubt he is as agreeable as he ie handsome. A distinguished group of officers accom- panies him; the imperial yacht will meet him hero with some of tho Emperor’s best household effects aboard, and we may anticipate a very joyous and imposing interchange of civilities. Certainly it will be inter- esting to have such a visit from such a representative of European royalty, and of German royalty especially, be- cause of the large German element in our population. Well, well! There will be new stories in the newspapers, and new pictures in the picture-papers, and a good nine days of lively times, Not many solvent princes, in active business, visit us, and never one beforo came in such style and brought his yacht. It is a good precedent. And the prince is a married man, too. COB.o-e~e M®* CHARLES SCHWAB has probably seen enough of real life, high finance and the wickedness of this world to make a passing hunch at the roulette tables at Monte Carlo seem to him by comparison as innocent a pastime as picking violets, Tho stories of his exploits which the news- papers have told have made much din and some scandal, Judging the es- teemed press by its past, the stories were four-fifths romance. Mr. Schwab, as far as these tales have bothered him, is the victim of his own virtues. He is so reputable and also so important that neither his time nor his money are quite his to spend as he likes. He must envy his contemporary, Mr. Gates. When Mr. Gates breaks the bank nobody shudders, If Mr. Schwab is tired of loafing and desires to strengthen his standing with that part of his countrymen whose views are strict, let him hie to Turkey and fetch loose Miss Stone. All will be forgiven if he does that, and a credit given him that will cover some future indiscretions. Cash in hand and a readiness to take chances are useful in dealing with brigands, = bac = i AR es TO doubt the Cutts incident will lead to further effort by Yale and Harvard to devise effectual rules to keep out of college athletics men who ought not to be in them. To practice athletics for money is an hon- orable enough business, especially if the money is received for instruction. But it takes the man who does it out of the class of amateurs. Men who try to make a living out of athletics and still maintain their status as ama- teurs are in a very unsatisfactory busi- ness indeed, and all persons who abet them in pursuing it are ill employed, and blameworthy in a degree that no kind of success can excuse. Whoever cares for college sports, Harvard men especially, should rejoice that Cutts, at however late a day, has had his memory so refreshed by documentary evidence, that he has been able to re- call transactions, innocent in them- selves, which made him ineligible to play on the late Harvard football team. Since he «as ineligible, it was highly important that it should have been dis- covered and published. Harvard pride has had a fall, but the hazards of play- ing elderly graduates of other colleges on Harvard teams have had an exceed- ingly impressive illustration. T appears that there is a new move- ment afoot to shut the trucks off Fifth Avenue during the crowded hours. It ought to succeed. Dis- crimination against trucks in that case is simply an act in abatement of a public nuisance. There is nothing undemocratic about it. It ought to have been done long ago. It is sure to be done sometime because it is right and reasonable. Let us hope it will be done at once. Be comicbooks.com