Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-19

ABOUT lHIS INK look OUT lOi !e'Hthr
from Blue Canyon. Clipper Gap aud The
snowsheds. The wayfaror who has had
his burr! brought mp with round turn
by being Enlarged by land slide,
snow slide or side off the track ~ any
of Those rnin.s can testify TO the severity
of the strain upon tho nncon'erted mind
to keep the uncUGssst-d mouth from
giving vent TO an outflow OF emphatic
profanities of the sort which arc wicked
ly supposed to DO needful TO do justice
to such heart rcrding emergencies. The
sage brushsr il spending week vac.-
ton amid the seductive delights OF the
Bav CITY. In u moment OF d!stress he
| receives telegram from he wife Of his
bosom that the baby il sick, and urS
ing hiu, TO return with ali the speed Of
steam to his cloom-shsdowed home.
With many hurried steps he GOES and
excuses himself from the big dinners
and peasant club meetings and charm
ing It'll. entertainments His friends have
marked ont for bis drlecta,!on he rext
fortnight. Next morning. perspiring
With haste and fev.r.d with The inmss
! OF restless bed, he finds himself and
hi. Luggage hustled aboard OF the ferry
beat aIa into the cars. In the hurry Of
him hs has neglected 10 secure 4 sleep
ing berth. So he takes his seat among
great. staring crowd Of nomeward
bound Eastern tourists, mainly invslid-,
and all more or les. addicted to wearing
spectacss. AMI favored with the favors
Of the sightseeing. cod liv-r- -taking,
gingerbread s.uttinc. hard boiled -gg cat
Ing. nicket.rincLing, complaining. ngue-
suffering Isho3. Of the West and con
sump,ive-uur-iug hypoc 3ndriscs from
the blue hsiiied ard hucklsberrisi pre-
cincts of New Euglsrd. Il rains IS i
rain-d upon Noah and Sham and Js-
phs.; and is rsver sees q sight b1t it is
dismal and dripping never g.ts drink
icky Massachusetts, spinstet condensed
milk; never sees 4 soul he ever saw be-
fore: never has minutes peace for the
iabbsr that aksails his ears, the tastes
that bsfoul bis pslate and the smells
that crazs his outraged nose. Night !
comes on, and he sinks into troubled |
rest, corsoling himself as he affects a
drowsy tenderness toward the train at !
tsndsut vino lights the lamps, that when /
he awakss hs viii awake in Gods /
country and be launched into the Par /
adisical joys Of Reno and tho Virgins !
and Truckee Railroad. About forr
clock in the morning = strange still.
ness and the sEttocating atmosphere OF .
adult lotions and warm babies wake
him. The stove j. red hot and the
brakeman is asleep hard by with his big
vizered cap hauled down over his ewes
and his lighted lantern between his legs.
Our hero opens til. door and peers into
the darkness. He has been there before,
God help him, and he knows that he is
wedGed into the snowshsis and that the /
only hope left to him ON earth is scraln-
be down the track and acrossa dozen
feet Of snow down into the desOlation Of
Clipper Gap for the comfort OF brown
sugar cocktail. OF course he has lost his
overcoat or left it at the hotel in San
Francisco, which 10 all the same There
is no use to Ssk-he has been there too
often for that he knO,rs that the train,
detained by the wreck of half score
Of freight cars further on, cannot bulge
an inch for the next twelve hours; and
SO he nurses his wrath unquestioning
the sweating conductor and warns him |
self at the tavern stove, down in the Gap
there, till the telegraph nan opens hi.
office. Then he sends a message home,
lnquiring, with nervous apprehension,
- How's the baby?" just before the
train is ready to start, and by the time
be is two-tbirds crazy with suspense, he
gets the half assuring answer that Tho
babe" (women always call a sick child
- a babe. as If " baby" was too light
md unssrious name for child that
N invalid, is little more comforta- {
de-" Then, Ie Deus lduldmuS, light ,
begins to dawn He strikes Truckee
md An acquaintance or two, has cheer
III swear AZ the Eastern tourists, and a {
,racipg toddy. and is thence carried on
lis way, still anxious about the little one,
o be sure, but yet Of moro liehtssme
leart and Drawer hope. Reno is
cached; tho Carson train is boarded; | :
lie speeds along among hearty friends,
lmost forgetting his anxiety and his
TIL he is landed carpet-bag a
n hand, a five minutes cool walk from
is
Happy home
Beyond the dome
Aad crest Of the