Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-13
NOTES AND QUERIES.

40; Yet perfected, his project of compiling the
materials which are to be gathered together
for the presentation of the history of Nevada
We are not at all sure that Bob would have
made a success Of his work History is not
the adjustment or the presentation of facts.
1t is not portrait. 1t is nellowed picture
Of the blessed dreamy past; and no man can
write history who has been an actor in the
events which lac would portray. He may
dot down the substantial occurrences and
compile the indisputable figures and present
the ndisputable dates; but that is not history.
That is furnishing for the future historian
the crude facts out of which histories
made Two eye witnesses never agree; two
auditors never hear alike. When tle facts
and the figures and the statistics have lain
and mellow ed and blended; celebrating harsh
lines and softening individual asperltles,
doing away with the insectiverous workers
and the petty plans and purposes and giving
us the concrete wall of marvellous coral,
then some judicious and reflective mind,
inspired by the genius Of discriminating
research, gathers these results together, filters
away the unpleasant things, classifying them
among the list of lies and cognate malignities.
and gives the world poem in prose. Andso
history is made, under the master hand of
Carlyle, a Ialnartine or a Macaulay. Other I
sorts of ''history' are police reports scandals;
shop-accounts; lists of broken hearts; the |
relies Of disordered es-anemalculate |
records. That is gossip. History is found
iii the Idyls of the King and in the Arabian
Nights Entertainments. But our friend Bob |
Lowerv had enough materials at one time to |
have made very acceptable Had or if not |
an Had, Pepy's Diary; and We are sorry he
never made his attempt We do not think |
he would have made his fortune; but he
would have saved many valuable fact from
oblivion. The story of ROmulus and Remus
but psha" this is getting pendantic-
like and stupefying; besides has his
depth to wade i'll and he had better be care
full how he gets out of it into the peris of the
great deep. The relevancy of all this lies in
Hank Monk. We promised Doc. Benton,
the other day, that we would introduce the
subject of Lake travel and such business
like themes into the sacred metes of these
Ms and Q's We did attempt, in discurs-
i've way, to allude to that subject, the other
day-as some of our less forgetful readers
will recollect. We took the liberty of intro !
ducing MIR. Monks name. We again make
free therwith to say to the readers of these
lucubrations that we are not a time table
Possibly that fact may have been discovered c
before. Also we are not Livery stable nor 7
the SON of Livery stable; but if any readers :
of the MORNING APPEAL should happen to n
have friend who is going to make tour OF a
the Lake, he will do himself and his friend b
much justice by saying to him that this An o
notator and Querist, WILL in due time, pre-
sent some of the facts of history relating to
Mr.. Monks romantic career as a guide, phil
osOpher and friend; also his connection
with the great Carson and Glenbrook Mail t
Stage Line, connecting with the steamboat
at the landing and the Y. & T. Railway u
trains; leaving the Hormsberry Ouse on e.
time and stopping for meals upon the shores pI
Of the great inland sea; also buggies, carry Al
ais, and all sorts of vehicles, for particulars SC
apply to J. NJ. Benton, NJ D.. by mali or in ~
person, children half price and no questions NJ
masked if the goods are returned within ten W
lays, likewise careful drivers and the most SO
.eliable information given by ostlers and e.,
others i'll quantities to suit purchasers and til
nothing done, not even in the barn, to hoffend fu
he hye of the most fastidious That is to tn
av, we shall take Mr. Monks life with his III III
heerful assent. Price --- but never mind
hat now . We expressed some solicitude
n the presence of Mr.. Fayette King, few In
avs SINCE that the sage hens would become stt
under the shot gun policy of the u
ot hunters He remarked that in the ira ,.
itional past, when he used to wear coat H.,
nd was not wholly given over to shirt sleeves str
s winter costume as well as a summer pie
ressing, he came across very large covey ap
f these birds in valley not many days w,
Quincy hence. (He mentioned thousands, 81,
MT this is veracous and temperate record, the
nd are not at all disposed to soil its the
haracter with any crude or offensive extrav-
gances of statement). Not many months D.
nee, as Mr.. King informs us. he found
ear here quite a large number of w
lese peculiar birds. He repeats the aver
ent tina. they have no gizzard As