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oe While there ts Life the: XLV MAY y No. 117 1, New Yous vol 1 West Tuuery-Fiest Srev cat wars still in at this betweer Japan, ther the intestinal the Equi- Life Assurance one Russia and conflict’ in table ‘ociety. Interest inthe former dispute hinges now on the pe sibilities of a sea-fight be - tween Admirals Togo 1 Rojestven- sky. but i: is hard to discuss prospects in any detail, because of the difficulty of reliable accounts of the con- the Russian ships, and of e whereabouts of cither fleet. getting d a) the pre About the conflict in the Equitable, on the ce there has been ouring of facts, rumors, ch which has embarrassed ob- vers with its ve All the news- papers, some of the magazines, 1 yers, the I partment of State, an life i e¢ De- army of rading law ns various of the District Att summoned courts : ad the has expected to. be There any moment never was a more violent tempest The fact to whi oth tion of this bitterness at this time is bigger teapot. h, me than to any fact, the culmina- lue is the gulf of years which stretches between Vice-President James Hyde and President James Alexander. | If Mr. Hyde had been older and behaved so, it would not have happened yet If Mr. Alexander had bee felt so, it_ might not have younger and appened, ‘The contlict can hardly be expected to rejuvenate Mr. Alexander, but it is likely to have material and important effects in the way of aging Mr. Hyde. Asa means of imparting to him in a few weeks the experience of a lifetime, it could hardly have been excelled. *LIFE- Never man had a more thoroughgoing initiation into the solemnities of busi- ness than Mr. Hyde has been gettit It is impossible that he can have an illusion left twenty-nine. than fift Three months ago he was He cannot now be less NOTHER interesting ning on vigorously is the war that is war, It is raging most fierce- ly in the Middle West. In India new law went into effect on April hibits selling or giving away cigarettes in Indiana, or having them which p on the person or premises with intent to Under t papers said, a man was fined $35 pose of them, law, the being caught with cigarette papers on him, and others were fined for smoking ciga Whether the new law war- rants these fines, we don’t know, but the design seems to have been to hit cigar- ettes, ettes as hard as was constitutionally per- nt has nd proclaimed in Wiscon- missible. A law to the same int been made sin, and Michigan was lately arran; for one on the sa How other Western, or Mid-Western, have got them, or contracted for them, © lines, movement was having a pretty strc in the more emotional precincts « RESUMABLY this legislation is chiefly in the interest ys. Cig and unluckily 1 anti-cigarette ttes are bad for boys, ny boys know it, and To keep » forming in- are possessed to 8 boys and cigare timactes is sonable forwardin; should be encouraged, But the | lation to this end adopted in Inc and Wisconsin does not seem reason- able. Cigarettes, pernicious as are some of their traits, are not such deadly things as our Western brethren seem to think them, Men can smoke them, and still be good part of the time, and hold their jobs, and maintain harmonious relations with their ilies, If Indi- ana could abolish boys, cigarettes would make no serious trouble. Why not make a law in Indiana that any citizen ing in his possession a boy under eighteen who smokes cigarettes shall be subject to fine and imprisonment? Such law would stimulate parental vigi- lance, which is what is wanted. Fine dealers who sell cigarettes to boys ; and punish boys who smoke cigarettes, if necessary, but don't try to keep cigar- of the State. Itcan't be done, and is not necessary or proper to be Cigarettes are bad enough, but they are not so unhealthy or so incon- sistent with the practice of virtue as ettes ¢ done, those simple Hoosier legislators have been taught to believe iy Pond Po MUCH worse practice than cis ette-smoking is prevalent in this and t inconsiderate legislation. Every State Legislature in the United States is a danger point from the beginning of end. A large number of our legislators. country ts session to the are venal, tent and lots more are incompe- ‘They have enormous power, and the Governors, who are expected to check the misuse of it, are often fully equal to that duty. Nothing better illustrates the great strength of the democratic form of governmentthan our ability to live as well, and prosper asmuch, of the our laws for us, O% s we do under the supervision men whom we employ to make lature is as bad as any. It passed the Stock Tax bill, which put stock-gambling industry of this town at tage in competition with the same industry in other States. Tt passed the Mot re Tax bill, which, ifit becomes a law, will mark up the price of real estate loans one-half of It won't pass a good and equitable tax law, such as might Its reputation for in- tegrity is low, and for unselfish intelli- gence is lower, yet it has not at this writing passed the bill to give Niagara Falls to some impudent rascals from Lockport. That was too rotten a job even for Albany. a serious disadva one per cent. easily be drawn. comicbooks.com