The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-11-01
ALL HOPE NOT GONE.

ALL HOPE MOI GONE.
q Every one of the toIers on the daily news
papers will he glad to acclaim the tidings to his
craft that come from Norfolk. All hope is not
N zone Far from it. in fact. Hope fingers still
ID lure the newspaper to bright VISION, even
when he is tranpng down the muck OF adverse
I circumstance through which he plows. Hope tor
Z this world and the next. Hope-bright. lutilant,
1 shimmering, The prison gates are falling agar;
I the glorious sunshine falls full upon dingy cell,
q without the shadow Of the bars; the poor news
n paper man may look abroad and above, to eaten
the radiant light oi everlasting hope making
/ rainbcvs OF the teary mists that blur his happy
4 eyes What d relief
We are thus enthusiastic because, be there hope
for the Norfolk Landmark, there be hope Tor
ail. lie Landmark sometimes seems IN bravado
10 cast all hope aside II time and again tempts
81 lenient fate. 1t permits itself to jest at The
B great aud become ribald with the great forces
starting from the minds OF magnlheently I'M
" porrant men Looking a cruel world squarely IN
1.-THE ewes il Is wont nj times IL laugh brazenly
in Its face with tie utter abandon OF lght-hearted
land hopeless indifference. To brother
Hut the profession thus make mock Of pomposity
and merry with all the most sacred bromides, has
k1lised n- fear that it withou, the pale.
&Ee have admired. while shnddered at its
Intrepid levity. Ii there be hope for ii, there
hc hope for lis. all. The boon in this instance is
fnclnsive of boon in general.
III is Portsmouth correspondent who has rush
sed to the Landmarks aid at what evidently
4 fle darkest hour before dawn. He advises hope,
&s1nd prescribes it. He diagnoses the ease, and
mikes the dose. At what must have been desper-
@1te moment, the Landmark has found one who,
n1odestly signing himself "One of Your Friends
u reaches forth hand to snatch it from destruction.
Hear him
10 The Editor of The Landmarks
Yes. there is hope. Hope for mhom'
Hope for ererybody. Is there any hope
for the abom to commit suicide?
Ies, my dear friend. # the thought Of
saictde has etossed your path, don't
cherish that thought. Banish II. Hi II.
There IS hope for you. There .s delire,-
a,rce for you Ind NTH thai hope and
thai deliperance. there rs assurance Of a
better and happier life for you-botA
~ this Word and ~ the morid to come.
Ire yoa uaiing to continue l,ri,tq
NM II yon hare better hfe2 Of
course you are Then d,vre yoau
enemy. the derit, array utth that o~fal
thought Of self mnrder and let me help
you. for knou can # goa ,eiH listen
M How much delusion is carried in brave and
@Smiling front! We should never have thought
y that over the horoscope Of this braeely smiling
4 brother tapped the batlike shadow of suicide.
" We, At least, had hopes Of tiff not for this
sworld, in the next. Yet evidently, while the
B Petersburg lndcx-Appeal. and the Charlotte OBJ
Rxeryer, and the News and Courier and other iibe
@1M contemporaries Knocked and misunderstood
md smote, and ragged, the Landmark ken its face
Isbo bllthe--wore tho valiant mask that hides
\ breaking heart How little after all we know
II ne sorrows OF friends. Realizing its narrow
Escape, We trust that hereafter NAV one and all
M kinder, and gentler, shocked-a all must be-
With the thought OF that which might have been
ESS 80. to the Landmark Courage! To one and
&eu OF tried and all but despairing cult. Up and
$M EN- The day is long and the night black
md the way that tries the hardest 10 be straight
s1ae most crooked Of all But for all that there
hope. Every lane has its turning every Jour
icy its end Eyes ahead Right-shoulder arms
<&orward March
gNHsA e. y: vi course the best physicians some
hmes prescribe impossible conditions. Even to
keocape suicide, the Landmark could not drive
&MMAy ITS devil. 10 do that would be TO invite the
@ky destruction il seeks to avoid But--eyen
NTH the devil the job-believe us--there is
'fin Hope!
PROGRESS AND RESPONSIBILITY.
An increase within five years OF SI5.649. 4s3
seal estate valuations for the seven wards com.
lelng the old city OF Richmond, and not in