The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-02-09
EDITOhIAL COMMENTS.

New York Sun: There is a sray-Doard-
cd old American TO be seen in these
times who has had rough experience for
q half year, but Is yet as clipper as man
can be. He got out OF job last summer,
found something else 10 do FOR while.
and, when that failed him. tried other
things and yet other as temporary cx-
pedients while trade was bad. Finally,
in December. when his funds had been
reduced TO seven cents. he invested the
money in evening papers, took his stand
at the southwest corner of City Hall
Park. proclaimed. "The evening papers
one cent? sold ont, bought more stock.
and by 10 O'Clock had five honest nickeis
in his pocket. The next night he was at
the same spot With his papers, and he
has been there every night since. barring
Sundays. One night Of January, about
o'clock. when the snow was falling, a
pedestrian went over 30 him. got d paper,
and said: Isn't this pretty cold work?'
Not a bit; coat buttOned. slouch pulled
down, and running of the papers" An
other night the pedestrian appeared
How do you get along?' First rate"
he answered in CHEEKY tone. Another
night: 'How DO you like it, Like IL
tiptop, better than a Janitor' Another:
Doesn't this freeze you upF' cant
freeze me out; I'm here TO stay An
in got ahead now; no bluifinS; born Ia
the old Sixth ward ts2j; pay my way
every day; more money than J had ia me
Rockies; took up my stand at This spot
because there's no competition here ana
| don't like TO run against the news
boys and the old women; went over 10
Jerry McAuley's Mission last night TO
sleep. and they wanted me 10 20 on the
mourners' bench. but 1 wouldn't; much
gtt- ~xa1 ate
old gentleman likes to rattle away once
in q while. but does not tell much about
himself. He lost his job, but keeps his
pluck: he is hard up but better OF tnan
last autumn: he is far along IN life, but
the spirit of Young America is in him;
his voice is not strong, but he puts power
into it as he calls aloud his papers. Not
"A whine. not a snar. not an unparliamen-
tary word can be got out OF him. lie
asks no charity.
Such a man is worthy of his country.
New York Herald: The House yesier-
day adopted the resolutions declaring That
the policy of this country toward Hawah
should be no annexation, no protectorate,
and no interference.
We trust that a similar declaration VIII
be made by the Senate and that the peo-
pie Of Hawaii will then be left 10 manage
their domestic ahdffS III tiifh oNh "hs
Representative Draper declared during
the Hawaiian debate that samoa ana
Hawaii have been ripe to our hands Tor
years" That suggests the policy of the
rabid annexationists and jingoists. After
Hawaii. Samoa, and then, in all proDa-
hiIity, after Samoa, some other more
distant and useless group OF sea ISLANDS.
New York Times: Whatever other
meaning may be attached 10 the recent
reconciliation of Bismarck and his En-
perOr il is clear that there is no inten-
ton to abandon the liberal commercial
policy Of CapriW for the protectionist
notions of his predecessors. The text
of the Russian-Germany treaty OF COM
Inerce, which IS just made public. dis
closes that i'm return for the lower duties
IN Germany on Russian food products and
materials Of manufacture, Russia con-
cedes reductions on many mechanical
goods. and on drugs, chemicals, leather,
and wooden goods from Germany.
New York World: When Miss Eichorn's
poOl-roOm was raidei on Tuesday after
noon. so IL is recorded. many gowHed
and bonncted gamblers were found there.
for some OF whom private carriages
waited in the thoroughfare below.
The evidences that the modern woman
is sometimes possessed Of gambling pro-
pensities are growing apacc. In the
earlier, milder, and less professional
DAYS OF Our literature a novel that intl-
mated that the heroine bet gloves at the
county fair on her fathers three-year-
old was regarded as treading on the then
unknown but suspected borders Of Wrench
literature.