Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-10-17
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cious essay upon the character indicated in
autographs. There was good deal of truth
mixed up with good deal of the spice of ma
lignity i'll his deductions and examples. We
recollect that he plagued Tom Read (the poet
artist by producing wood-cut fac smile of
Toms signature (Which was small and rather
deicate), as an evidence that he, Read was of
an efeminate nature-which notwithstanding
his sometime profigacies, was only too plainly
apparent. OF course the extent Of interpreter
ton given to these autographs by Lippard was
absurd for he treated them as if they were
infallible keys to the whole character of their
owners. There is a vast degree Of character
in gait. Men who are successful in carry
ing load Of dignity are almost always equally
successful in sustaining an impressiveness of
stride; while, it is quite as invarable that slip
shod men have shutting and sloyenly gait.
We once knew man who seemed possessed
at all hours of the day and night to seem Jocose
and to treat everything in life as if it were rep
rehensible ever to seem to be in earnest He
had sort of mock vehemence in his fashion
of walking which at times came very near de-
generating into a roller-skater's motion
something between a straddle and a stage
strut, and all the while in the very spirit of
mockery and burlesque. Since time first
lighted the bejumbled fragments of Chaos,
old maids have had mincing gait; bullies
have staggered and different nationalities
have betrayed each itself in the manner Of its
walking What native born Yankee ever
walked like yon springy paced Paddy as he
lightly holds his way upon his good, elastic
pins? Mark the stately stride of our friend
from the sacred soil. No New Yorker ever
walked in that fashion. Your distracted
descendent of the Nayfower walks planti-
grade, as Thorcau did and as a certain wilful
Senator always does-spraddles out, as it were
and takes in all the space he can monopolize.
The quick nipping step of that clerk there is
of his unconscious loyalty to his class They
all walk in that fashion There is the availa
bic pertness of fippant utility in it. No
tidy man, meanwhile, ever carries himself
with slouchiness. Be erect and step off with
an habitual bearing of self-respect, my son,
and so shall you be regarded with favor by |
eyes whose attention were worth attracting. |
1890. There is a community of misfortune III |
this world. A touch of pain or mark of de-
feet, when all other signs and symbols |
fail indicate the strong relationship between !
all men, no matter what their color, CT the |
width of the distance between the places Of
their birth. This Notary saw yesterday
Chinaman with hair lip. He never saw the
like before in any native of the land OF the
tea plant and silk worm. Odd incidents and |
appearances like this find us reconciing our
selves to the theory Of a common origin.
Was Mt it St. Paul who said to some Of his
elf-conceited hearers in the Orient that God
had created of one kind or character or ten
dency all the people of the earth? We think
we have never seen deaf and dumb China
man or hunchback or six fingered. But
We doubt not there are such evidences Of suf-
fering, misfortune and deformity. Also we
have never yet seen drunken Chinaman.
This would seem, more than anything else, to
Justify the widening of the gulf between John
and his critics. " Man being a reasoning crea
ture"-you know the rest of what Byron said.
But if certain windy crusaders we wot of,
who, when they are not pouring their small,
walls of dilute eloquence upon the
inhamed and angry head of John Barleycorn
are inveighing against John Chinaman, would
but calmly and iudiciously and justly recog-
nize him as an admirable exemplar of temper
ance, fortitude and industry, the cause of
cold water would come into court with
cleaner showing than now it has. Whiskey
is bad, very bad but it is not much worse
than water which is unfiltered Of the impuri-
ties of uncandor, inconsistency, equivocation
and suppressed truth. This world is full of c
queer things. Now if a piece of pie of the t
traditional boarding house variety happens to T
give man the dyspepsia or send him to the t
apothecary in a fit of indigestion does he at b
tempt to disguise the cause of his illness?
Not at all On the contrary he and the men r
and women with headaches and stomach aches
md neuralgias and the other aches and pains
oegotten of disordered stomach never hest
tate to discuss with an unbeautitul frankness
the state of their digestive apparatuses. But
hat roor old malefactor, John Barleycorn, is q
;abooed. If John Doe gets his skin distended IT
With an over-potion of intoxicables he gener i
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