Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-02-01

ufunh 10 peGih Win, lhe aggressive
luxury on all sides helps out the intoxica-
ton. and you spin forever down the ring
ing grooves OF CHANGE (there is no small
change, by the way, west of the Rockies)
rs long as money lasts. They make greatly
and they spend layishly; not onlythe rich.
but the artisans. who pay nearly IS for a
suit Of clothes and other Injuries in pro-
portion.
The young men rejoice in the DAYS of
their youth. They gamble. Yacht. race.
enjoy prize-hghts and cock-fghts, the one
openly, the other IN secret; they establish
luxurious clubs; they break themselves
are instant in quarrel. At twenty they
are experienced IN business, embark in
vast enterprises, take partners as expert
eRced as themselves, and GO TO pieces with
as much splendOr as their neiohbors. Re
member that the men who stocked Cali
fOrnia in the tfties were physically and,
as regards certain tough virtues, the pick
OF the earth. The inept and the weakly
died en- route or went under IN the DAYS of
construction. TO this nucleus were added
All the races of tho Continent-French,
Italian, German. and, Of course. the jew.
The result YOU shall see in large-boned.
deep-chested. delicate women. and long,
elastic, well-built boys. II needs no little
golden badge swinging from the watch
chain 10 mark the native son of the golden
West. the country-brcd OF California.
Him love because he is devoid of fear,
carries himself like q man, and has q heart
aS big as his books. | fancy, too. he knows
how to enjoy the blessings of life that his
province so abundantly bestows upon him.
At least, heard little rat of a creature
with hook bottle shoulders explaining
that man from Chicago could pull the
eye-teoth Of Californian in business.
ABOUT THAT CLIMATE.
Well, if lived in faryland. where cher
ries we're as big as plums, plums as big as
apples, and strawberries of no account,
where the procession of the fruits OF the
season was like pageant in Drury Lane
pantOmime and the dry air was wine, |
should let business slide once in way and
kick up my heels with my fellows. The
tale of the resources of California
Die and minerals fairy tale. You can
read it in books. You would never be-
heye me.
All manner Of nourishing food from sea-
fish 10 beef may be bought at the lowest
prices, aud the people are consequently
well developed and Of high stomach.
They demand ten shIllings for tinkering
damned lock of q trunk; they receive six
teen shillings q day for working as carpen-
tiers; they spend many sixpences on very
bad cigars, WDlcl lHe pOOftSb VI tlCih
smoke, and they go mad over prize-hght.
When they disagree they do 80 fatally, with
firearms in their hands and on the
public streets. / was Just clear Of Mission
street when the trouble began between two
gentlemen, one OF whom perforated the
other When a policeman, whose name
do not recollect, fatally shot Ed. Hear
neyn for attempting to escape arrest was
in the next street. For these things i am
II. Il =. q. fraxfQl xpff N a IL
lceman in a tram-car, and while he ar
ranges his coat-tails az he sits down 10
catch sight of loaded revolver. 1t is
enough to know that 80 per cent. or the
men in the public saloons carry pistols
about them.
The Chinaman waylays his adversary and
methodically chops him TO pieces with his
Ratchet. Then the press roars about the
brutal fcrocity of the pagan. -,
The Italian recOnstructs his friend with
a long knife. The press complains OF the
wavwardness of the alien.
The Irishman aud the native Californian
in their hours of discomfort use the re-
volver. not once. but six times. The press
records the fact and asks IN the next
column whether the world can parallel the
progress of San Francisco. The American
who loves his country Will tell you thaI
this sort OF thing is confined 10 the lower
classes. just at present an ex-Judge VINO
was sent TO Jail bv another Judge upon
my word | oannot tell whether these titles
mean anything) is breathing red-hot venge-
ance against his enemy. The papers
have interviewed both parties ana conu-
IDENTIFY expect fatalissue.
AFRIcAN-AMEBICAN TYPES.
Nov, LET me draw breath and curse the
nero waiter and through him the negro IN
service generally. He has been made cltl-
zan with a vote, consequently both pohtl-
cal parties play with him. But that is
neither here nor there. He will commit IN
one meal every beiise that a senHton fresh
from the plough-tail is capable OF, ana ne
will continue TO repeat those faults. lie Is
as complete a heavy-tooted, uncoHpre-
bending, bungle- listed fool as any noen'sd-
hib in the East ever took into her estaol i
ment. But he is, according TO law, Iree
and independent citiZen-consequentl
above reproof or criticism. He and ne
alone in this insane city Will wait al taDle
the Chinaman doesn't count. -, -,
He * unframed, inapt, but he Will MI
the ulace and draw the pay. Now. Goo
and his fathers fate made him lnteHec-
tually inferior TO the Oriental. lie insists
on pretending that he serves tables oy &C
cident-as a sort of amusement. ne WISHES
Won TO understand this little fact, You
wish 10 eat your meals and If possible TO
have them properly served. He IS Dig
black. vain baby and a man rolled into, one.
A colored gentleman who lnslsteu Oh
re,t;ng me ME when / wanted something
else demanded information about lndia; i
cave him some facts about wages. On
he'll ~ said he, cheerfully, " that wouldn
keep me in cigars for month. Iheh ne
fawned on me for ten-cent piece. Later
ne took il upon himself TO pity the NATIVES
" Ia galla1 than rms
woolly one, whose race has been the ont'
of every comedy on the native
STAGE since the beginning. And i turned
and saw by the head upon his shoulders
that NE was a Yoruba man, II there be any
truth in chronological castles. He dld M
tbinkinp IN English. but he was 1oruDa
nero. and the race type had renamed the
same throughout his generations. m,
the room was full of other races-some Una
looked exactly like Gallas (out the Irhu'
was never recruited from thaI sue "
heads. and some kroomen, II ever Aroohiei
wore evening dress. ,,..u.
The American does not consider little
matters of descent, though by this time h'
oupht to know all about damnaoI'
| Lereditv.n AS general rule be Keeps
himself very far from the negro ana say
| things about him that are not pretty
There are six million negroes, mOto "
les. in the States. and they are increasing
| The American once having made theu
citizens cannot unmake them. lie says II
his newspapers they ought 10 be, elevated
| by education. He is trying this, hut ~
| ike 10 be a long Job. because black blooc
| is much more adhesive than white ah'
| throws back with annoying persistence.
When the negro gets religion he. returns
directly as a hiving bee to the first ihsylhc.
OF his people. Just now a wave OF religloi
il sweeping over some OF the soutneIi
states. In TO the present two Messiah
| and a Daniel have appeared, ana sseVera
| human sacrifices have been offered up .
these incarnations. The Daniel MANAGE
~ get three young men. who he insisted
| were Shadrach, Meshacb, and Adedhego
10 walk into blast-furnace. guaranteeln
REORGANIZATION. They did not return.
| have seen nothing of this KIND, pnt
nave attended q negro chuTehLtn 'e
nrav or are caused to pray by thehl
seiyas in this country. The congregatio
we're moved by the spirit TO groahs an an
tears. and one of them danced up the alsl
40 the mourners' bench. The motive ma
nave been genuine. The movements 2
| fbe shaken body we're those OF Lahzios'
| stick dance, such as YOU see at Aden o.
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