The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-28
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IN DENVER CITY
Passed There Very Much as in Other.
Places in Our Land.
a GOOD PLACE FOR NEGROES.
They are Treated With Social Equality
in Colorado's Capital-Edisors of
Yellow Journal Shot
But Not Killed.

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Yellow Journal Shot
But Not Killed.
DENVER, COL, Jan. 25.-Since my last
letter the season for bestowing gifts has
come and departed, and many of the
numerous Christmas presents the world
over, bestowed in the usual way, are
already laid upon the top shelf where.
moth and dust will corrode. That being
so does not mean that all gifts are thus
treated; many there are that are fitting,
and come at fitting time and I'LL a long
felt want, both pleasing to receiver and
giver. Upon HE whole, outside of the
Juvenile world of little happy hearts east,
ly made joyous, how much sham and
mockery there is in this universal GUS
tom. Emerson has said:
1.-The gift, to be true, must be the flow
ing of the giver unto me, correspondent
to my flowing unto him. The only true
gift is a portion of thysef. Therefore.
the poet brings his poems; the shepherd
mis- lamb: the farmer, corn: and so on.
Christmas. in Denver is very much the
same as in all other places: a holiday and
turkey dinner Eighteen hundred and
nirety-nine has passed into history; s-ie
figures is, which has been in such constant
use for 9 hundred years, can row nave
rest Thus the dawnirs of nineteen hun
dred reminds us how fleeting the years,
how soon they become las tale that is
told
Time flies away fast,
The while we never remember,
How soon our life here
Grows old with the year
That dies with the next December"
Between the busy hours OF each day
and the needed quiet rest OF each even
ing I have found but little time for other
things hence all else has been neglected,
The Times is not excepted. If cold con-
tracts why is it that one will make q
fellows head feel as big as house?
When ne have a head feeling to be atont
that size. we seldom have a correspond
ing inclination to use it, or to exercise
the brain. which does not seem to eX-
pand in proportion to the said enlarged
head. If a stranger in strange land
ever feels like Being let alone. it is when
under this "big head" condition. 1t is
then when thoughts come of home and
kindred, OF the happy boyhoodi days when
he was dosed with hot decoct:ons ard
rolled up in blankets for a good sweat.
Not particularly happy moments just
then. but they seem SO in after life.
Though q man may wander Ter the GARTH
meet and nlingle with the stranger and
the wanderer like himself, though he may
form friendships and endeared associa-
tons. even acquire fame and
wealth. in a far-oT part of the
land, his outlook upon life may widen.
but his heart never becomes estranSed
from his old home The old house, the
old garden, the emerald meadows where
as q boy he had let down the bars and
called the cattle in, these are imperishab!e
pictures, finer, to his thought, than those
of all the ancient masters of the art
centres of the earth, needing never to
he restored since the colors were pe-f
and unfading There Is not q wanderer
traveller or even a tramp upon the face
Of the earth but to him come such
thoughts as regularly as the waxing and
waning of the moon.
] did not intend to refer to the moon
or say a single word about that grand
old lnmnary Of he night. that faithful
periodical visitor. who has performed her
routine duties with unequalled regularity
from the foundation Of the world: yet
full OF charges. y wit has remarked that
the only thing he has against the moon
is, that she will ''set full
IT'S Mr.. Niger HERE.
To make a radical change in the sub
iect: 1 often possessed of a mingled
feeling OF amusement and wonder at the
urbane attention and social quality
to the nisgers; they call them
Miss, Mrs. and Mr.; sit on the same seat
with them in street-cars. and same pew
in church, ard not infrequently eat at
he same table, and drink side BY side at
the soda-fountain. To 4 man who has
been brought up to look upon them in
their true light a race distinctly alien to
him by all the laws of nature to be thus
suddenly placed in the midst OF such So
r, ha
been shaken Up by an earthquake and
came down into juinbled mass of So
cal defcrmity To see an apparently
dignified gentleman who when he meets
his "colCred acquaintance Gas ne calls
hin) on the street. take him by the hand
and say Good morning Mr.. Back. is
an aspect bordering on social degensra-
ton, at least it so strikes a Southerner,
and leads him to wonder il the cOioring-
matter had by some mistake been left out
of the said white mans construction. 1t
is all very well to endeavor to uplift the
standard of the niger If he would re-
main upifted. The effort of the North TO
educate few Of the blacks of the South
and send them back tc educate the bai-
ance has not proved a success: many Of
the so educated ones, when coming into
minglins contact with the poor shiftcSs
masses gradually fal! back into their
condition before reaching the results
aimed at the outset. and thus the last con-
dition is no better than the first. The point
T desire TO raise, as found here, is the
over-reacfed predv.::inating social distinc-
ton. or removing the coon from his
true ard proper ptace where by nature
he belongs. The fat.lOus social equality
niger has no cause to complain of Dem
YER where he is treated as though he
was not niger. One would think the
whole South would soon be emptied out
here, with not enough left back there 10
shine your shoes. But, the fact that it
is not so is proof hat the Niger as a
race is niger and nothing else; that
he knows the Southerner is his best friend
if he behaves himself. He feels that he
has reached the acme of life when he
gets plenty and enough to eat: anything
more than that is 9. burden to him.
new generation has been born since free
dom. was granted the race, and to-day
their condition in the South is worse
than in ante-belluE times and days OF
slavery.
A GRAVEYARD TRUST.
rolorado has the reputation of being