Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-10-16
NOTES AND QUERIES.


system will keep if it is not soon renewed)
there is something to be said by future
somebody who can observe closely and write
cleverly, illustrating certain fact which comes
glimme1ing into the horizon that bounds the
view of this Notary. We mean the wedding
out of mere provincialisms and the softening
of ones patois by the constant influence OF
cosmopolitan experiences, the endless compl-
cations of q widely variant personal contact.
Bret Harte has done all that New Yorker
could be expected to do in the way of placing
in literature the suppositive language of the
Far West AS Burns's poems are to those
who cannot always understand his words but
are in constant sympathy with his sentiment,
SO of Harte. His poems, whether in verse or
prose, are always delightsome, spite of the
monotone of their "lingo." But he has doneal
that needs ever to be done to illustrate GER
tain jargon of the mining camps, gambling
houses and barrooms of the Pacific States.
He has worked out his own claim, let alone
having made it barren for all future prospec-
tors. Mark Twain, when he writes lingo"
writes his own. He is funniest i'll his native
Missourian He knows it and sticks to it,
like the very sagacious man that he Is. But
sooner or later your well developed represen-
tatiye Pacific man will talk better language
than any Eastern bred man. Says the poet
sculptor, Story
Give me of every language, first my vigorous English
Stored with imported wealth. rich in its natural mines
Grand in its cadence, simple for household EN-
Worthy the poets song, fit for the speech of
metal alone the perfected mirror shapen
Not from color is built the ranbows aerial bridge,
Instruments blended together yield the dvnes OF music
Out OF myriad OF flowers the sweetest OF honey drawn
Thou hast the sharp clean edge and the downright blow of
Thou the maestica and stately pop of Latin
Thou the euphonious swell the rythmca roll of the Creek
Thine the elegant suayty caught from Italian
Thine the chvac obesnce, the courteous grace OF the
Norman
Thine the Teutonc Germans Unborn gutteral strength
1t is the virtue of our every days inevitable
association-of speech, thought, opinion,
habit, taste, temper and view-that we are
approaching. Those of US who were born
and reared in New England can recollect the
time-we of middle age-when German was
a man, when met, to be stared at and ques
toned when Jew was regarded with some
thing more than mere curiosity and with a
keen sense of interest, as one whose race and |
religion were of the kindred of Moses and |
Samson and Soloman and David and Jeptha
and Ruth; when Spaniard or Turk or a
Russian was regarded as from wonderland :;
and when the ,Fakir of Ava was not clever
Irishman, and the Numidian Giant was not
an overgrown Pottawattomie Chief who had
been Barnumized We came here with our
Yankeeisms strong upon u.s. Among the other
things in our budget was a not small stock of
vanity. The New England world had worked
its circumscribed self consequence even into
the most modest of US. Many of us made the
constantly recurring error of installing what
was not like our own to be wrong because of
that dissimilarity. If we were lucky we got
much of this provincial narrowness rubbed off
by something less severe or humiliating than
the proverbial hard knocks. Elsewise we got
the knocks. By and by some crudities of
thought went the way of good deal of inele-
gance of speech and there have been Yam
KEGS who have learned to swear with all the
graceful volubility of Mississippi steamboat
captain. Meantime your more impossible
Southerner became conscious of desire to
gradually drop certain of his fashions of walk
and conversation the New Yorker forsook
his little lapses of pure English the West
erner set his tongue and his table in better I
and broader habit; and even John Bull, c
Paddy and our enthusiastic friends from the I
other side the st. Lawrence began to take e
part in the general assimilation and blending. t
Many of US who got our full share of the rough v
camp days owe no little of our education to L
the barrooms where We went so often the
gambling saloons where we acquired what h
small knowledge we possess of the ways of the 4
lard players the street scenes which embrace !,
20 much of the problem of human contact and "
The force of individual assertion. Maugre all T
he boyish pride of the claim, we are a race of c
oeople-we Pacific Coasters of the early i'm o
in ourselves. These f
,auses that we have limited at have brought W
IL this about. Such a people, freed from
much that is essentially vulgar because essen
iallv local and narrow, must in time, speak IL
urer language than a people without such =
experiences. By and by these attitudes and u
ongitudes and attitudes will be the prescribed ol
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