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“ While there ws Life there's Hope.” VOL. XL. JULY 24, 1902. No. 1030. 19 Wast Taixry-Finst St., New Yore. ry Thursday. 85,00 a year in ad- to foreign countries in tbe Postal $1.06 8 year extra. Single current copies. Weoats. “Back numbers, after three moaths from date of publication. scents. No contribution will de returned uniess accompanied by stamped and addressed envelope. The illustrations in LrrE are copyrighted, and are not to be reproduced without special arrangement with the publishers. Prompt notification should be sent by sud- soribers of any change of address. and Gov- ernor Taft will doubtless work out the Philip- pine-friar problem in the course of the summer. The friars are out already, and cannot be put back where they were. Nor does anybody seem to want them put back, The problem istomake a fair settlement with them, and be quit of them altogether. Governor Taft wants the Pope to order them out of the islands, The Governor, as the repre- sentative of the Philippine Govern- ment, is ready to buy all the friar-lands at a fair price, but doesn’t want the friars. The Pope, as representative of the Catholic hierarchy, seems agreeable to the sale of the lands, but is loath to order off the friars. The friars, as Spanish subjects, have a treaty right to remain on the islands, and that hinders the Philippine Government from expelling them. The Filipinos insist that the friars shall withdraw. If they were persons of reasonable delicacy they would respect the desires of the Filipinos and Americans and the embarrassment of the Holy Father, and go. But they are not constituted on that plan. Never mind! The end is certain, though the processes look con- fused. We know the friars are going. If the Governor and the Pope cannot plan a feasible route for them, there * LIFE. are other possible expedients, and at a pinch the Philippine Government can be reincorporated under the laws of New Jersey, which are guaranteed to qualify any corporation to do lawfully any illegal thing that seems to be good “De 8 ® SOME American Roman Catholic societies have complained to our Government that some of the teachers sent out to the Philippines from this country are trying to convert Filipinos to the Protestant religion. The teach- ers must not do it in school. We don’t allow religious teaching in our public schools here, and should not encourage it in schools under Govern- ment control in the Philippines. It does not appear, though, that it is anybody’s concern what sort of reli- gion, if any, the teachers may teach out of school, though the charge that they are proselyting seems very ill supported. Give the Protestants a fair show in the Philippines ! A reasonable amount of open competition between churches is a good thing in any country. The Roman Catholic Church in the Philip- pines seems not to have been an un- qualified success. A brisk Protestant competition ought to help matters. *h a It would make appreciably for the ~- relief of the public mind if Tracy, the bandit, and Mary McLane could be induced to embark their fortunes in the same craft—a frail craft preferred. Miss McLane—who may be a mythical personage invented by western news- papers—is reported to be moving east from a town named Butte, in Mon- tana, much to the disquietude of New England, and especially of Radcliffe College in Cambridge, for which ramor says she is bound. It is hard to believe she is real, though Butte is positively described by geographies and other repositories of fact as an actual place. A book has been published which is averred to have been written by her, and Chicago newspaper reporters assert that they have seen her. That is all the proof there is that she is real, and that is inconclusive, for mythical per- sons are often credited with being authors, and the Chicago newspaper reporters are subject to hypnotic influ- ence and have seen air-ships and many things that were not there. Be if the McLane is real, Tracy is the man for her. Tracy seems to be actual enough, though elusive. At this writing a thousand men or thereabouts have been hunting him in the Northwest for a month. They want to capture or shoot him, for he is an unroly person—an escaped convict —and has had to shoot a good many of his pursuers since he left jail. His remarkable abilities in eluding capture have won him so great a reputation that it seems a question now what will be done with him if he is canght. It will go against thrift to kill a man who has been so extensively adver- tised, and has shown such surprising energy. The newspaper pictures of him are growing handsomer with every issue, and he stands better with the general public with every new deputy sheriff that he shoots. It is a hard problem about Tracy. If Miss McLane would consent to elope with him she would carry relief to the Northwest, which could then get in its wheat. In that case, too—it can be promised—all the influence of Rad- cliffe College will be exerted to have the pursuit of Tracy stopped. [7 is pleasant to see a man startin to - have fun with his money, and nobody does it with heartier glee than Mr. Charles Schwab. It seems that he is going to build himself a big three-or-four million dollar house on Riverside Drive. That is doubtless unwise, but one of the advantages of having a great deal more money than one needs is that it enables one to do a good many foolish things and live on comfortably to see the folly of them. comicbooks.com