Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-04-26
HIS KIND NEIGHBORS.
n, "IdlG" EulVsIysS Those Who Live
In His Vicinity.
r,p pocroR TREATED HIM BADLY
c,o,t, chirps About Chirography-
Colorcd Nurses Have Their Faults
md Tax the Patience of the Most
sanity.

sbo dcpizcns OF my own dear. beloved
cary street have arched their backs In
,.qsi,orly Indignation because forsooth,
nave occasionally alluded to this popu-
,..s section, now famous rs the haven
measles and humps. The abutting
.,-onerty.holders are a butting at me
,.-,use sometimes I have referred 10
,seir little feuds-just as II al sections
and all peoples don't have feuds-and
,l,,e OF them even treat me co.dly and
,-.,end not to be specially interested in
d. when they know we're going to have
particularly good dinner The trouble
they don't see my jokes. but, after
Al shall not be harsh with them about
b.e. That's one thing above all others
at.rh makes people read my essays.
reey're always expecting 10 find some
.r.-e funny in my writing and so they
..., on reading and a reading and a
ending. ever 'n the hope OF sighting my
n,5se polar star. And I'm apt TO keep
bem reading IN the future. Then again,
tfe-e are other folks who couldn't sight
ioke in Puck II they had one Of
!blse X-rays instruments at their COM
nand But, after all, charity begins at
home. and my real purpose to-day is TO
sr'ogize these same neighbors Of mine,
who are good. law-abiding citizens-citi-
gems who invariably keep the Snow off
their sidewalks and help TO contribute
!oWa-ls the street-sprinkler.
IL IS in times Of sickness, when, to use
tho language Of the gentlemens clothing
merchants. I lay painting on the bed
With a coating on my tongue, that these
good folk show their loving kindness and
fymrathy 1t ia then that we have am
nesty. and It is then that old sores are
healed and Christian forgiveness pre-
dominates. Who but my own dear, Cary
street ncighbors think 10 send me walters
o. el.bies when l toss on my couch and
make the lives OF my family a bowling
rstr y2 Who but these same abutting
b-0perty-h0ldcrs Of this same picturesque
section hurl palatable projectiles over
ny back fence and make me the residu-
sry neNciary OF their Sunday dinners7
None none, I say. And after all true
friendship IS in my mind never so we'll
tested as by these generous contribu.
tons Of food. and people never get so
close 20 NE as when they reach me in
tas way. Really. there have been times.
when owing 70 this spirit. IL has been a
positive pleasure for me 70 get I'll. In
long spell Of sickness-say. Of two or
thres weeks duration-I have sometimes
accumulated enough provisions TO last
me for a season. In fact the sweet
thought Of this generous spirit has often
cent me 10 bed and kept me there for
days az q time-especially when the
grocer refused TO recognize that we'll
known legal principle that negotiable
Iapor-my negotiable psper-was designed
90 supplement the use OF currency. And
o.. for reasons which 1 have delicately
eet forth above. our family physician
has been surprised TO find that
the members OF my household are
exceptionally frail though strange
20 say he invariably notes that
whafeve- the malady may be- their
hppe,tes continue good. Appetite
iy the way. IS the most prominent char
actcglstc of my family. When / recall
these evidences OF neighborly kindness,
my heart Is sOftened. and i forgive the
boys who have stolen the peaches OF our
backyard trees. or assaulted my beloved
nousek.Iler with intent to main. dis
figure ard Kill. Through all their faults
see the spirit OF Christian benevolence
iu ny Cary-street friends Sympathy is
never acceptable. except when needed.
il IS when the herring barrel is low, the
-four Is exhausted. and the hearthside
nice are hungry that we need comfort.
on the days when our larder is filed
end we have money for charitable dona-
ions we can proudly spurn our friends.
tfFfa LTe4-fafI
gang aft aglee." Recently ] wrote up a
lraphic description Of the Horse Hospital
Ia our neghbOrhood and I'm the fulness
OF my heart I said the establishment OF
THIS institution. together with the erection
or The Hotel Jefferson, had done more for
The moral and social elevation of Cary
street than anything ] could recall. The
Iroprietor Of the hospital, however. upon
reading my article, backed his ears in
Ntu0ls Indignation, and forthwith wrote
fne cruel note. Says he in red ink and
burning letters: Il am more than graft
he'd that an authority so generally recog-
hzed as yourself has publicly called at
l-huon 10 the fact that the Hotel JEFF
iaison and my institution have greatly
developed our end OF town and brought
u INTO 50 much prominence, and we're it
not FOR my native modesty / might refer
u the fact that ! came first and paved
the way; then came the Hotel Jeff; then
the large stables on Canal street; then the
s'neIson stables back OF me. the new
saloon "on the other corner" with fits
tf~tocratlc anneX-the crap-shop; then
the 6-inch water main down Adams street;
Then the mud. and then the increased
icense-tax on our noble calling blessings
never come singly)."
Long association with certain kinds OF
oualfupeds has made the proprietor Of
mat Horse Hospital a kicker, for he
complains that did not give him due
credit FOR his enterprise. lie murmuringly
Gays: While all the other recent enter
Ilses in cur nelghbohood are Joint stock
aislFs. mine IS a personal undertaking.
although ! must confess that II could
not succeed without stock. and l will
a4d, Joints also. 10 a certain extent, as
large percentage Of my income is de-
rived from the treatment OF the joints OF
i've stock In my letter | kindly al
A.cd 70 the large dog al the hospital,
ana 20 the courteous way in which this
tlf-mouihed insect received me- Con-
'tinug the dog, the Doctor, I'm kindlier
tp.rt. says: Yesterday my old dog Spot
Was Just an ordinary bird-dog out Of a
.oh since the recent Legislature forced
-"H !Ato a sort or Supefannuated exist
tIee but this morning he woke UP and
found himself famous and there has
been constant stream Of visitors TO
zee the dog that made q stand on the
Idle Reporter Your friend. the mule q
Alluded TO a mule patient In one OF the
wards IS doing as well as could be eX-
ptcted under the circumstances" con-
uupes the healer OF equine sufferers
lour article revived him considerably.