Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-18
NOTES AND QUERIES.

there. On the 1st of May, at Vicksburg
Mississippi, the graves of the Confederate
dead were decorated there On that occasion
a poem written by Miss Hunt, whose nom de
plume is Madge was read. The closing
stanza is as follows:
ours the fate OF the vanquished
Whose heartaches cease;
| Ours the tears,
Regrets and fears
Theirs the eternal peace.
Anger they dropped forever
Nth the passing burden OF breath;
The Blue and the Gray
Are alike to-day
| To the coOrless land of Death
| And the living who the Blue
MAY bring to the sleepers flowers,
For the Blue and the Gray friends today
In happier land than ours
This is very beautiful, we think. We have
liking for all the manliness which rises
above sectionism and partisanship and insists
upon determination, 50 far as possible, of
the blue and the gray. 1t comes of the same
parentage as politeness and the gentler cour
tesies of life. 1t is the decorous coming
together of the parties to an honorable and
rreconcilable difference which is maintained
comfortable to an attitude Of self-respect
not calculated to impair the terms of a decent
mutual regard. This is infinitely better than
any pretence of surrender, complete recon
citation or final abatement of the terms of
disagreement. Nobody is required to say he
was wrong; nobody has IA right to brag of
being the victor or take on airs for being i'll
the right. Under such circumstances the blue
and the gray not only agree to disagree, but
to regard the Ratchet buried, for all time. In
the presence of a common SORROW the repre-
sentatives of Southern and Northern valor
preserve a chivalrc and solder-lke decorum.
The conditions Of such a determination are
altogether admirable. Better the smoked
glass spectaces Of Christian charity, softening
to the amiable vision the hard lines of a
wicked old reprobates mortal anatomy than
the green eyes of envy viewing with worldly
gaze the tender testimonials to moral worth
The congregation will rise while they sing the
words of the hymn beginning with the lines
Should earth against my soul engage
AMI fiery darts be hurled,
Then will smile at Satan's
Aud face fr"WninT world!
" The birds are very busy, very abundent
and very full of the business Of nest building. |
these days. We know a small person of the |
wren family who is very industrious these |
mornings He GETS out on ii tree top hard by |
the place where he is erecting his family |
mansion and sings with surprising vigor to |
his anxious mate. The song seems to be |
fruitful of no little encouragement. Mrs Wren !
darts her small head out OF the clearing chosen |
for their homestead, surveys the scene with
quick, searching glance and then proceeds to
select some building tinbers When they |
are too long to be fetched into the lot, side
wise, she turns them round and pokes them
in, one end first, Then she goes out and
prospects for something soft by way Of a crib
mattress. When she comes back with nice
soft feather bit of stray cotton she takes
it i'll and tucks it up with great energy and
determination. Meanwhile her husband
keeps darling about III state bordering on
fussiness is 50 important and at the same
time SO willing To do his share of the work III
the orchestra. By and by, when the little wife
gets her downy nest all followed to fit her
busy little body she will lay three nice little
eggs; and then. But we will not anticipate.
Many's the slip betwixt the pairing and nest
ing of brace of v rens and the further posi-
bilties of this egg-breaking and heart break
ing world $500. When Mark Twain went to
Europe and the Holy Land he went as one of
a joint stock company of pilgrims who chart
cred the Quaker City steamship. The expense
being averaged about and divided up each
one share Of the outlay, was much less than
if a different and more independent, or lndl-
vidualistic course had been pursued They
reaped the benefits of pony purse and shared
the same apple, as it were-each paying his
little part and all taking a bite. Well, why
may not who like cherries, and who are
too poor to indulge in good b--llyful, at
hucksters rates. club together and 90 on a
cherry eating excursion to San Jose or Napa
II somewhere over there If We stay here
We must either give up cherries altogether,
20 to an awful expense which ncurs the dan
ger of lInen-dusters and cold water next Win
er, Gf we indulge the natural appetite for !
hat fruit, or be content to nibble, here a
,herry and there cherry as our pinched and
)alsimonions investment may provide. Now
Why not make up cherry party, charter a ,
pecial train, lease somebody's orchard, and i
IL get as many cherries as we can eat! Why
ct us ask, is cherry appetite gwen to us if
We are not to indulge it! Why are we tempted
Beyond the possibility of satisfaction apart
rom insolvency! Look at the fruit stands
nd ask your conscience-your inner heart
f our suggestion does not mark out the only
lonest course to be persued Either one
must pretend not to like cherries purchase f
quantity of that fruit at a price
efficient to buy homestead with an orchard
ull of cherry and all other kinds of fruit
rees or swindle his natural appetite by just
nOugh of taste to be an aggrevatlon and a
lockery. We are prepared to head such a
Movement as we suggest and lead on, though
he way take us on to disaster and doctor
i'll. Either this or the secret humiliation Of
very cherry peddler in the State is the