Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-11
Ole Carson 1ailp appeal


the California Winters weren't tit for "a
the civilization Of the middle ages. and
with their oatbs and uncouthness. land
ell at the then port OF entry Con the
Pacific side, into the sweet plains and
beautiful orange orchards of that mag
nIfcent country of indigo, rice and cane.
At that time the comestiblss wers hard
boiled eggs; and uncouth chunks of sill
yer, bearing rude stamp, were the only
authorized circulating medium. Soap,
(xabon) was an article of barter. and
the nuts of the Cocoa tree-those pine
nut looking things from which chocolate
Is made,-were legal tenders.
Well. along came the riotous Missou-
risn and the spenithrift Yank, each
with a swagcer in his manner and
.'specimen." in his shir.-ths shirt
meanwhile bearing the too obvious evil
dences of the w-arer's weakness to
squirt his amber" from between the
interstices Of his front teeth. Even
these.-ihe>e fellows of the whip lash
md the CAD" brought with them an
American Idea Of Advancement. and
they fiouted the old wooded bread pans
Of the innocent and antediluvian Greas-
ers, with as much JUNCTION as a Yankee
schoolmarm ieriies the nI>>pellins of
sentences. of whose grand and far-reach-
ing purport her hipPant mind has not
even a glimmer of comprehension But
Gcd moves in a curious way,
His wonders to perform.
Even Missouri brought her quota Of
the spirit of the New Age. to make light
shine in the dark places OF Central
America (It's pretty black night of
Ignorance. when a Missourian comes to
lie the Evangelist of Light. Maybe they
were destined to reform Nicaragua, and
bring tie gospel of bombarjment to the
Mosquito Kingdom But "a truce to
all this as Mart Reese used 10 say.
God bless his memory
Now and again the mind observes the
attempt of the date-backers to revive the
Glories Of the Past. This is the charac-
ter of things which promotes. hy the aid
Of small beer demagogues the placing of
distractions on the new canal which.
with its locks and grades and boats
utilizes the waste waters of q vagrant
stream and makes dry waste navigable.
(They who oppose this character Of i'm
provemsn. II nspose the Miracle o:
Cana, al 1 '-rnwI:.r int y 80
jE- co.'s .u,J- '"ai
Sew ia LII IL. hlu5!ls.
Passing by the self-sncrificing days of
Socrates, the misapprehend.d but still
glorious triumphs of Gallileo and Galen; !
trying to forget the lost arts of masonry
and siass-paipting of the artists of
Pompeii and Herculaneism; staring the
Acropolis out of countenance and smit-
ing with imbecile hammer the Great
Sphinx; dsriding the Chinese with their
accomplished civilization and their in
comparable scholarship Uhsy are the
only people on earth whose nobility is
an Order of Learning. ignoring these
aud Aztecs and the ruined temples of |
the sun which lie about the base of |
ChimbOrazo. we como to contemplate |
the possibilities of civilization in tho |
Great Basin.
In the earlier days of the California
emigration, when men from Maine en-
barked themselves and their all upon the
gentle and the ssething Sea, and when
the courageous borderer marched out
With has health, manhood and posses
sions upon the arid wastes whose OBJ
stacles are drought and alkali and Indi-
aus. there were wide and lonesome
distances between us and the Loved
Ones. Many q ono OF NJ has hasted,
gieefully to the nearest ''banker''-faro,
monte. and other.-to get the change to
pay the four-bit price of his newspaper
and the two-doilsr- and a-half expressage
to Sam Laneton for the letter from his
dear mother.-or the dunning note from
his despairing creditor lin the States
Bye and bye came the wagons and the
stages. and they froze out the Langtons