Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-10
CARSON CITY. NEVADA:
WASHINGTON, D. c., April so, 1876.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April so, 1876.
Mr.. EDITOR: My coming to the Ma
tional Capital has not lost me my good
habits. l may have vices: may have
ineradicable and intolerant political pre-
judices, but though
The tender grace of day that is dead
Will never come back to me,
7 have never lost the sweet influences OF
my earlier religious teachings. 1t is
needless to say that on this hal,uy Sab
bath morning, while the English spar
rows we're blythe with a JOY which, I am
unhappy to say. is unregenerate, earthly
and not of the churches; when the mir
acle of the grass grew with profane
but agreeable verdure; while the drifting
clouds cast their impartial drops III
lishtsome, gentle showers, wendell my
way, under most pleasant pilotage. to
the Unitarian church, which stands,
peeled and scabby and old like true
Southern edifice), on the corner of Sixth
street and Louisiana avenue. An usher,
whose cheering grin rebukes the scoffer
and exemplifies the fact that true reli-
gion is not all gloomy, adjusted his eye
glasses and showed US to our pew.
noticed, with worldly eyes, this amiabie
persons manners in depositinS visiting
ladies' of the fairer and younger sort in
their places of sitting. There was u
smile upon that holy mans face almost
seductive; and when he took her by the
hand, and hit her neat little finishing
tap upon the shoulder, methought there
was something angelic in him, and l
deprecated myself that I, too, was not a
sexton.
As we went in we noticed that the
Sunday school was in session and that
the Rev. Mr.. Cudworth of Boston, Mas
sachusetts, was kindly addressing the
scholars. We were about to take mod
est seat in the rear of the auditorium,
when this fascinating, able and accom-
plished usher pressed us forward, saying
with tone of mingled self-congratula-
ton and encouragement, "Come up.
where you can hear him. We did as
we we're babe, and went within ear-shot
of MIR. Cudworth. He held in his hand
q piece of cotton cloth, about the size OF
one of those bits of gauzy stuff in which
our two-pound rolls of butter are
wrapped, and was explaining to the chill
dren the natural history and final des-
tiny of boil of cotton. He reversed
Hoods Mrs. Gardner, and instead of
making himself identified with the plant,
and speaking for it, he made the plant
speak for itself. He told how the cotton
plant was planted and grew; how it was
"ginned;;" how it was put in bales; how
it was shipped; how. when it got into a
mill in the Congressional District of the
late Richard H. Dana. it was picked and
carded and spun and woven and sold.
Then he made the cotton plant say it
was glad it hadn't been suffered to lie
in the ground and rot and never be of
any use to anybody; and then he asked
the children to guess the conundrum,
and they seemed understand me, I
merely say seenaed-to give it up. Then
be produced a piece Of green silk cloth,
md asked the class if they knew any
hing about that fabric. One little girl
With q voice which, am sure, will gain
her q kindly ear at the hands of good
St. Peter (if, indeed. one may be said to
give his ear with his handy, spoke up
imidly and said silkworms." "Ah,
ves! silkworms." said good Mr.. Cud-
worth, who then proceeded to explain
III about the culture of that curious in
ect; how, when it found its death was
lear, it constructed for itself silksn
'ofin called . cocoon; how the worm
aisers, in order to prevent the Larvae
rom destroying the cocoon. baked the
anne; how the silk WAS reeled and spun
md woven and sold, and how ladies
anne to church in silks; and then We
loticed yellow faced young man with
Students stoop in his shoulders smile
queer sort of smile, and then bend his
ar to listen close again. The man Of
Tod then proceeded to relate to the
hildren how gold was obtained; how it
,as dug, how it *as found in quartz,
nd how they crushed the quartz, and
ow-and here brought an end to the
leasant and instructive discourse, which
,ss all the more valuable because OF the
earned and beautiful language he used.
hen q young man with quite an earnest
ut prematureIy dry goods or shce shop