The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-11-17

THOUGHTS AND THEMES BY OUR
MAN-ABOUT-TOWN.
The Doctors Donated n Deserved Tribute
ItTook Ten Days to Tell 1T, But IL Was
a Zig observation-disclosures Notes.

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hold Swallowed with the sweat cloths o.
, dlseasr.
The happy laugh is bushed, the waters o
, merriment ripple no more IN gleesOmenes.
: Gloom gathers so deHsely that silfery ligl'
is PRAYED tor. FOOTBALLS IN the chamber ar,
mufiied, voices fall into soft, m0dulatd
. tones. and the centre Of all eyes - the
sufferer Hope has sturdy combat viii
reality in her attempts to sOOih. The -lOwl y
revolving hours Il the night bring IN iheil
. train trailing phintoms. gauni, ghostly and
, fall Of distressing shadows.
!, You turn 10 the physician.
4, Fir-t, the great lhs stefan that can heal
all wound. and weaknesses. and then 20 the
, earthly one. How you long for his pre-enct
! and listen for hi, football. and how eagerly
Won sean his face while be sits beside Nh,
, sufferer and notes the telI-tale pulse, watches
! the flushed face, and pins bis memory
tightly To the task Of diagnosing the case.
"Dici0r, j. he dyiHg'
Suppose that question was put 10 you.
Suppose that yOH had seen the anguish Of q
family which had. with Your assistance.
been fighting death from their door, how
would YOU feel? ThOusan Is Of kind-heirted
IN u who Practice the noble profession 81
medicine can tell YOU how the, had Their
heari-,irings D. pui-aie ~ keeHest sYmP, .
thy Of suffering when disease had ballled
their skill, and they had 10 say:
There is no hope, death may come al
my minute
Reverse the picture and hear the doctor
,ly 1.-THE worst is past, with careful aiten-
ton health viii be restored"
% not forget the doctor. In sickness.
sorrow and suffering. NJ man does more
than he. and when health is restored gel
sick in Imagination occasionally, and you
will not forget the best friend you ever had.
SOMEWHAT OF LIAR.
In the etern Il fitness ~ things. il IL ne
.essary that now and then the world must
h we the benefit Of enjoying even the freak
Il Leyiathan liars. One Of the most charm
Ing specimens of this queer compound Of
odds and ends OF humanity lives in Bait.
more, and some of his recent exploits have
been 30 exquisite that il has caused N,
Liar League" of the North to feel sorcli
jealous.
This is to be deprecated. There is an
abundance of talent i'm the League" and
rather than see it sift itself in innocu0n-
d III Jude the Solid South. solid i'm IT,
stern immunity from harm, Will permit
these bri sht and burn NJ meudacious lights
10 practice their puny profession. by send
ing their straw darts OF vituperation against
tn stonew'dls If honesty and truth thai
surround It's institutions.
That particularly enviable liar writer Tor
the BuIffn.Orr 1mcric0u from Washing
ton about our electOn-and dates his letter
November 18th. whereas the election tool
place November 9th. ten davs before. II
took him an this time 10 get over the I'll .ct
of the negro whisky in Jackson ward, o.
which in no small degree, perhaps, is at.
tribulabe the big score he has made iu
] lying Workmanship.
TIE BIG ONES.
Here are a few specimens Of the big lies
" Governor Lee and the Democratic man
ayers had pretended that they feared
trouble ~ jackson ward; and, therefore
the first few struggling RUS of -unii ght stW
the city Of Richmond like q military rem
iczyOus. Soldiers in uniform were hurry
ny 10 their armories. whore they were KEPT
all day ready al an inslants call. Regular
and special policemen were flOcking to the
police headquarters
THIS will b. news 10 Richmond people |
and il numbered lie No. p:
The two Democratic morning ncwspa- !
per, hal taken very good care % announce |
cnuspicuOusiy on Tuesday morning that |
every policeman and every special police !
nan was armed with q sclf-c0cking. live |
barrel smith Il Weston (u) revolver; So
tl1t betw the military with their Spring |
irld. ana the policemen with their Smith a
WestDns, Richmond WAS determined o.
awe quiet election if they bad 10 XII
every negro in the CITY"
No man ever heard Of any such liquor law
10 this State rs the one contained in lie No.
}, as follows:
~ word OF commentator right here. be-.
cause II j. deserved. The election liquor
law is very stringent in Richmond; il pro-
Ydes ih q DO liquor shall be sold from n
)'ciock in the evening preceding the election
until the sunrise Of the day after the cleo
tom
In justice 70 the negro Republican from
whom II " - charged the B fillmore man
got his liquor ana his Information, il j.
proper 10 state, On Il the negro does not deny
wing him III whisky but does di-claim
h wing furnished any such irregular state
mcnt.
IRREPREsSIBLR AS EVER.
The negro brOu.ht VI the biggest red
h lnded. ruinOuS war that was ever seen IN
I lis country. Gabriel and Nat Turner'S in
-urrectOn were ncipient agents and then
John Brown came. and his soul seems 10 b..
on. The negro can not keen
quiet or al least. his peculiarIiies are such
Tn It the bad men Of the white race will not
let hun rest. II he needs Cbri,filnizing b.
comes before Christian assemhlages OF ,
white men. and be is right in 50 doing. but
1t the same time, he lOrmulates
,creed from Washington. M which he [
Win "preYenting by force and fraud tn
negroes from enjoying the rishts guaranteed e.
hem by the constitution AM the common
Avs OF our country. and declares th d .,
this disgraceful and barb lriOus condition
If affairs is asseuted r.. if not ENCOURAGED
~ the local governments Of the states. and 2
hat the general government hats for nine Is
cen years failed 10 apply any redress or
cmcdy against these nhumIn Outrage. n
lglinst is colored citzens. o.
In Their circular the Washington negroes
lsk for a national convention, u he held in O.
ne city Of dshneiOn on the first Monday >;
y February. lsiJ, The obj 'ct- % De at lined -
'einS TO relieve negroes from personal out
ages, and to obtain their right, 4, Amer -
IAN citizens, and 10 ak Con gr.ss 10 pas- 81
1ch legislation ats will enable the coiored
americans TO enjoy the privilege Of fran 60
a Sc. ri
ID they want the earth?
The negro his aH Idol that he worships. of
nj II Is the white man. lie can't deny ~
ls. You can't make q negro out Of
'hte man. unless he is "A very bad one. and =,
ga can't mt white man out OF negro. "
o matter how good the negro is II the y
ny To improve his c0nd ton t. made a.
rlight as a gun barrel he will not find il. a
ma If you give him All the pick-axes. h
iades, shOyels. hoes and implements neces- hC
~ 10 tue accompaniment or MIS- task. the
gro will never make a way for his future nm
-iicrmcni. ri,
lie is the nations ward in reality. af
THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS.
There Is a great dead NOR. in the liraless mn
production Of loved and lost one, than /. an
corled by the th0ughtless. The photo H..
alh has sent % the heart OF the living
rohs OF m0urniul pleasure M the sight Of T..
pse who have been CALLED from this 10 an. ' ','
her world. ~
The rrayon and the paint brush have -
a. ut the lineaments of the de~p trteG
rs while they were yet in the bloom of fro
allh, and when their places were vacant b.l
We served to keep vivid the recollections VI,
happy hours. N.
There is something soothing in the rsnec.
m, when gazing upon lif-lse represen- :
Iion oi.thOse whose natural features n we on
en- removed 10y the hand Of death. The J o.
story Of life lies in the picture. and i'm era
2 helds Of Imagination the rlrest flowers Dee
n ne cullcd nj leisure. :
some such thoughts rs these will strike a.,
beholder when b. looks upon the criyon f,y,