Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-09-15
NOTES AND QUERIES.

homely advice and wiseacre maxims did
great deal of good in their day. They had al
undoubted restraining influence Old Proba
bilities is very much brighter and more scien
tfcal, but we doubt if he ever inspired hal
as much respect for his prognostics as Poo
Richard did for the dark O the moon, or kee,
as many simple people out of the rain anc
other scrapes of weather and wind as he anc
his maxims did But there may be, and toe
frequently is, vast deal of depravity in e
stove-pipe. There are times when it is posi-
tive loose character. In this condition it rep
resents thriftlessness, Incidence, indifference
to appearances and that uncleanliness which
is so closely related to ungodliness. We do
not pretend to say that all chimneys are good
and upright and well conducted. If they
were there never would have been any
"sweeps." (By the way, how many young
men or mothers or manageable maidens of
these degenerate days ever saw a 'sweep'
and heard his CHEEKY song p
From the bottom to the top
Without ladder rope,
Sweep no! sweep!
mighty few, we venture.) Indeed we might
as well confess that we knew, personally, a
very bad and vicious chimney once. A GER
tain officer of the Volunteer Union army had
caused mud -and-stick chimney to be builded
at the rear of his wall tent, which he had
stockaded for winter comforts and he had
had an old sugar barrel put atop of the chin
ney to make it draw. 1t did draw, splendidly,
the first time trying; but it drew up the tent
along with it, and some gallons of good COM
missary, and proved a terrible delusion and
snare. The conaagration was temporarily
ruinous and very roastful to everything with
in its heat The most vicious stoye-pipe
could hardly have done more. But there is
no excuse for any mortal man or woman
hosting a stove-pipe, with its thin skin of
fimsy iron through an unguarded hole in the
woodwork, or what's more, the cloth lining.
Such carelessness is absolutely immoral. AS
to the violation of all the rules of safety which
this lamentable fashion land it is fashion,
far spread), it is too obvious to need any men
ton. And now, when the cool air of Autumn
prevails, night and morning, stoves and their
pipes are brought in requisition out of old
storing places and set up for a Winters duty.
Hence the relevancy, and as we believe, the
treacherous heat of your smoke conductors,
oh Friends, Romans, Countrymen tighten |
the looseness of your slackened stays of wire;
cast down and destroy all rrlsted joints with |
spark holes in their sides and by your pru-
dence and well invested carefulness, defy the |
foul fend of insidious disaster, extinguish in |
advance, the merciless flames of destruction,
and rescue your names and the names of the
generations of your race from the accusation
of shiftlessness and the condemnation of the
wise and prudent .... But there won't be
many comfort giving fires without fuel. Is it
possible that none but those ant-like neigh
bors of ours, the Cinnamon, can make it prof
liable to scour yon hill-sides for the abundant
debris of old tree-trunks and limbs lying SO
profusely there2 Why not some cooperative
labor among the impecunious, looking to the
stacking up of some convenient supplies of
that easily available fuel. A stick of cord
wood day, laboriously "packed down a
from the hillside there, is better
than glowering idleness and aimless despon-
dency, cold of foot and hollow of stomach
Our good friend, Elder Willard, (who provi-
ded the MoRN1NG APPEAL with notice of
the Conference meeting of the Latter Day {
Saints), is worth any mans talking to on !
Mormon matters. He denounces Brigham {
Young with great severity and thinks that the 6
of He'll are to be his Just reward
He believes i'm Joseph Smith and will declare
10 his auditor, with earnest eye and utterance |
hat Joe was true prophet and that the gift C
If prophecy, descending since the world be-
run from sire to son, in direct inheritance, =
belongs to Joe Smith Junior, the head of his
'ect, the Josephites This direct heir of the
original Mormon Prophet lives in Plano, Hill q
lois, and publishes a paper there: Elder ?
Willard informs this Querist that Joe has ~
,een sent for to go to Salt Lake City and be
he head of the anti polygamous church there
here are no more earnest people than these, L
n their faith The great gathering of the W
eeple of God is to take place in Zion and a.
n the fullness of an implicit faith whose
are as the everlasting hills, Jack
on county Missouri is the precise geographic Il
al locality of Zion. In that favored spot the tt