The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-09-11


| Colonel Watterson, after a summer spe'i,i1
! in the North. remarks in Tho IouisSia..o .
| Courier Journal: White collars and wliie
| cuffs are good so far as they go, but in !. .
/ man rather incomplete without something
| white at the bottom of his pantaioonss
| Professor James A. Davis. Mr.. Charles W.
| Davis and Mr. j. 81. Davis. brothers OF SiI ME.
Baker. whom il IS charged Dr. bah s tangsd
/ condemned in Abingdon, Va, 10 DC La -
| poisoned. have published a card IN WHICH,
| they express a firm belief in the innocence VI
/ the accused =.
They are having diphthera Russia as wen se
az hereabouts An epidemic Is raging III Ino
province of Tambof Mothers purpVseLy
| place their children in the way OF iniectlon
preferring TO see them die OF the 1850 -
/ rather than see them starve. Inc ulsUc9o ~
the people is so great and the need OF moEey
/ so urgent that foais can be bought from laf-
| mers for p cents each.
The hundredth anniversary Of the oirtn
of IheOdor kOerner. the German poet. VIII
be celebrated on September 23d. and prepaITaa
tons are being made on great scale; no
| died the death Of hero on the field OF oatllc
! when only twenty-five years Old. lis FAMOUS
| song. I'm Schwert an Melner Iinkin." has
| inspired many young oihcer 70 ueeuS VI
| glory.
During his coming visit 10 Virginia Gov
ernOr Hill will take occasion TO make pii-
| grmage 20 JefEerson's old home at Monticello
and view his last resting place. lefas pA,
| per says that Jefferson's grave has furnisnsu
more wAlkinc-sticks TO tourists than All tue
| cane manufacturers in the country and that
If David b. goes there and IS able TO walk
/ on without cane he will be the hrst man
| who ever did it,"
-"Lohengrin" is 10 be produced IN Paris
this evening and measures have been TAKEN
| 20 prevent the League of Patriots from ais
| turbing the performance. No rot Is reared,
| and it is within the range Of probability tnat
the time may yet come when NasneeI lI.!
/ performance can be given IN 1aTis withous
police protection. This will be great
triumph for the German opera.
So far the trotting season Of 1891 has not
been marked by any very great performances,
/ except AlertOns mile IN 10. But now comes
| Senator Stanford with prediction that DIT.
Bonnors wonderful FLY Sunol VIII not only
| beat the worlds record before the season
| closes but may lower IL from 2:OS9l 70 z:UO:
The former achievement. TO say nothing OF
/ the latter. would.be sensation such as the
trOttng world has not experienced since
Maud S. made her memorable record SIX years
ago.
New York city seems to have large
number Of rickety buildings whose eonWtloh
resembles that Of the Park Place structure
which recently collapsed with such great loss
L
less than 600 buildings are recorded on the
books Of the fire department as condemned.
in every instance an official notice TO this
effect was pasted upon the front door, but the
World SAYS all the notices were promptly
| pulled down or q bill poster pasted over
them.
Colonel Thomas Whitehead Commission
er Of Agriculture. instructed and amused
| large audience the other day at the Shenan-
doah Valley Fair, in which he showed why
farming did not pay This he said. was a
want OF thrift. To make it pay 1t must DO
conducted exactly as n merchant OF banker
would run his business. The man who thinks
he can run his farm in a ship shod way and
make money Is away of. That sort OF farm
ing never did pay and never will. IL your
wheat crop costs more to raise than II sells
for, stop il and trying someth else. Pursue
this plan all round. BE busness-llke and you
will succeed.
Many papers are discussing the question,
How 70 Encourage al Editor One Of them
says that as a rule the editor gets thous-
and kicks 20 one carese. Once IN a while no
gets kind word, and it warns and cheers
his storm beaten weather-cracked heart 20 IT'S
innermOst core Most people are afraid tOitell
an editor when be writes an article that par
ticularly pleases them, for fear Of making him
proud, we suppose but if they find anything
that does not accord precisely with their views
they will neglect their business to hunt nm
Up and tell him Of It." To this the Charleston
Is. c. World adds. THAT'S all very pretty
maybe: but the proper way 10 encourage an
editor is t. subscribe to his paper and adyer-
tise literally in IT,"
Yesterday wednesday, says yesterdays
Religious Herald. was rcd letter day for
the Boykins church. We had "Children's
| Day for the benefit Of our 0rphanage. All
day meeting dinner and refreshments The
speeches of the children and the singing We're
appropriate and impressive. The climax was
reached when an orphan. with bare feet, tat
tered garments.and disheyelled hair patheti-
caiiy sang.
"Nobodys darling on earth,
Heaven viii mercif1l be-,
and little girl came in and told her Of the
Baptist OrphanGge. the beautiful home, and
with radiant face carried her OF The audi
ence was in tears. and tho pastor arose TO
make an appeal for the Orpbanage.
At recent colored Baptist convention
held in Virginia Rev. A. f.. Dickinson, ID. D.,
OF Richmond, WAS called on for a speech
Among the items If advice he gave was the
following: Look t. yourselves and do not
waste your time or temper in worrying about
white people not doing more for YOU. Right
OF wrong. the whites arc not going 20 help
you. except as they see you help yourselves.
You may not know IT, but do. Many Of the
white Baptists at the North, who have been
giving literally % the cOlOred people for moro
than "a quarter of a century, are discouraged
about you. / heard q man at the North re-
Gently say that he was sick and tired Of the
negro problem. and he said that that feeling
was spreading ut the North Look to your
selves brethren. Make money. make friends.
educate your children and quit begging"
By her great Transatlantic dash the
steamer City OF New York succeeded Tues
day in getting the mails which left Japan
August 29th 70 Queenstown within twenty
DAYS. The eclat Of this wonderful achieve
ment was slightly spoiled by the bunging OF
British postOfiice authorities. But It was
fully demonstrated that il is possible TO
transport the Asiatic mails from Yokohama
via the Pacific ocean. Vancouver and New
York TO London in one quarter of the time IL
took Jules Verne 80 make his mythical trip
around the world. This IS the greatest long
distance triumph o. steam yet recorded
The total distance trayersed was about 10 900
miles an average speed OF 800 miles a day.
AT this rate the globe could be spanned in
less than fOrty-eight days Ia 1890 II required
two days e. get letter by post from New
York 10 Philadelphia.
A childless couple up town. says the New
York sun. expend most Of their sympathies on
a canary bird. which Is crank on the feather
question. The little fellow. who is seven
years old. has always had an aversion to his
natural dress and has industriOusly pulled
out every feather he could reach. The result
il that ne has now smooth shiny skin
which looks ike polished parchment, two or
three lonely tail feathers and a trife Of plu.
mage on his head aud neck. Ia summer he
/ is all right. but the cold Of winter bothers
1 A. fr,a nrn..1 It4I t old Il II,