Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-29
TEE OLD TIMER.

/ Not at all to be COMPOUNDED with vags
bond reference or association, is the
recent meeting of the Pacific Coast Pho
ueers notwithstanding our reference 10
the following editorial remarks Of the
| San Francisco B,.L.iia Of the Goth inst.
That gay. seductive newspaper. hrillian:
| AMI genial as It Is. takes tiu- 70 deal
with the What IS It g." and to venture
into a somewhat well broken trail OF
humorous writing in its editorial columns
OF the date iniicatsd. We quote as fol-
lows from that humorous journal:
lie was venerable person, Of cadav-
eTous aspect. .=rayed in hsbilamen.s
that had apparently seen different terms
Of active service and passed through sue
csssive STAGES Of the secondhand trade.
His carut wGs suEmoUnted by dizzy
stove-pI1e. creased and iented from the
effects OF many depressiors. wherein.
Ike truth, it had been crushed 10 earth
and rose again. The only rsIsvin. fea-
.ur. Of his melancholy couutenancs was
a luminous proboscis, that o.c~el Ike
the beacon Of destruction ami the iss-
srt wastes Of ar iil-spent life. lie entered
dispensnTv of ardent beverages on
kearny street. aud inquired il .he retail
traffic in that branch afforded anything
Of wholesome quality and superior tone
IN the way OF EIn. The bartender STU
veyed the customer with s1ua@ inis-i'-
inSs in regard 10 his solvercy. In. being
treasured by the fastidiogs rseEire-nent
OF the delspilated gentleman. WAS finally
persuaded 10 place the black bottle con
tairing the juniper distillatign within
his reach Oh the counter. The customer
poured ont q copious potaiioD. aud
spUrriag the proffer-d aqueous dilutior,
GUIDED the trimming gas. ~ Amos;
single swallow Then he -uacEsl his
lips in an ecstacy of satIsfac.ioc, and his
cOUnte1aucs oeamsd with { sudden In
SEPARATION. That's the real o'.. stInCo.
he remarked with enthusiaS.f. "A smell
Of that stars - man up an sets hun
thinking Of old times. when Won could
get the be5l IN Frisco to lie bad IN the
world. / tell Won. my boy. IL : wonder
ful how things have changed since rs
old pioneers dropped in he.e aud 3; tins
town 4 running The peopl. in them
kItN- W0tA4LI kL-llLS A+l - Nta>aA
good. II = nisu had come IN here them
days and started in selling the kind Of
poisons they Cire p-np,s now. he would
have starved to death at the business. II
the first man that took drink il his
place didn't shoot him. IhsEe was old
Brown, that KEEP: round Oh jackson
street. he used to take all his stock night
on. the Custom House; but he's gone
long ago. And Tim Murphy, on Mont
gomery street; he's gone too. And Jim
Sullivan. and Tim Ward AMI Pete Hol-
lsnbsck-hov they have all gone. It
makes man feel as if there was not
much lei, for him when he thinks how
many of us old pioneers hay. gone,
gone The lonely old man turned sadly
away with dropping head; still nurmur-
ing, Gone. gonew when til. bartender
rallied sufficistly from he depression
produced by his "reminiscences to call
out, Here. you havn's paid for that
drink" But the venerable pioneer was
too much overwhelmed with his emo
tons and tine effects of the gin 10 heed
the interruption. and before the BAR
tender could grab club and get round
the end of the counter, he too was gone.
gone. The bartender pensively returned
TO his post and again relspsed into inedi
tation on the transitory nature OF LUmav
life and things generally.