Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-09-28

a spotless gem of serenest virtue growing like
a perfect flower amidst the ruin and wrack
and utter hidieousness of moral deformities.
These sudden coming breathings of balmy
atmosphere are like Robert Browning's sur
prising word pictures, each made by mere
line of verse, and a1fpresented under the title
of Meeting at Night. Says that strange, i'm
pulsive poet =
The gray sea, and the long black land,
And the yellow half-moon, large and low
And the Startled little waves, that leap
In frey ringlets from their sleep
As gain the cove with pushing prov,
And quench its speed in the slushy sand.
Then mile OF warm sea-scented beach,
Three fields cross, till farm appears
A tap at the pane; the quick, sharp scratch,
And blue squirt, of lighted match;
And voice less loud, through its joys and fears,
Then the two hearts beating each TO each.
We doubt if there be in all the range of
English poetry more notable instance of the
power of sententious or condensed description
than this In some respects it surpasses Ten
nyson's opening lines in Enooh Arden begin
ming
Long lines OF cliff breaking have left a eh4sm;
And in the chasm foam and yellow sands
Beyond red roofs about a narrow wharf
In cluster; then-etc.
The words, "Then mile of warm, sea-
scented beach, in Browning's poem somehow
remind one of the warm night-airs above men
toned. go. Not to fall into too severely or
pretentieusly literary mood, here is a bit OF
English humor which to our mind is quite as
pleasant as the more startling sort, delivered
at the rasping hands of the modern paragraph
ist As the story goes, Lancashire inspector
of schools reports the following as of the re-
suits of an examination of candidates for
teacherships. A boy read the following lines
by Pope:
Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound;
Content to breathe his native air
In his ground
What" asked the officer is meant by
'his native air}'" The intelligent boy
nromptly replied, q The air of his own cad.
This is of piece with that good old play
upon words variously charged to Sheridan,
Horne Tooke, Jerrold and other wits, of &C
costing rustic with a rabbit in his hands,
with 81 say, my friend, is that your own hare
or a wig9" The young woman who came INTO
the MORNING APPEAL Office to have some bits
of pasteboard trimmed to suit her plans never
had the most distant notion Of talking after
the manner of the sophisticated when she
held out the same toward an attentive typo
and said, persuasively, MIR, d. Will you be
kind enough to cut these cards} "..,. In the
far-oone DAYS when such thing as Septem-
Der Gale made Doctor Holiness poem posi-
bility there was little possibility of such a
burning season as this we are having now 1t
was these dry weeks in the early Autumn
which made the old overland passage so severe
ON horsefesh and oxteams. Like the cold IN
the "great and prosperous Northwest, it is
the continuance of the drouth which tells.
There be seers and soothsayers, oracles and
wiseacres who insist upon it that September is
orr most unhealthful month. We have some
doubts of the correctness of this, but these
doubts of course could not stand against dates
and figures. But it is only too true that there
is a great deal of ailing here and hereabout'
People on every hand are "run down" as the
saving is-doubtless affected by the prolonged
drvness of air and earth and wind. 1t IS sur
prising how well the trees stand it. The cot
tonwoods whose native places are down by
the ever moist river-beds are holding their
verdure surprisingly; and all trees OF years
root seem to be as strong and vigorous and
green as one would expect to see them IN
country where the rains are not restricted by
aeasons or withheld during long intervals
The fruit trees especially, all of them natives
or descendants of natives of moist climates
orrov with wonderful luxuriance. These Notes
are drawing their lazy length along within
reach of a peach tree on whose branches are
even now half peck or more of quite eatable
peaches. They 'idig deep their hbres round
the ribs of earth" do these hardy trees; and
the earth itself is vast reservoir OF moisture
Hard by these Queries, also, is never fall
ing spring whose waters are cool even IN 1he
dog-days and whose yield seems but little oil
minished by the long continued heated ana
rainless period. We are able to quote
word or two of theory relating to this ques-
ton of the healthfulness of mountain valleys
from the Scientific Miscellany of the current
Galaxy. It is as follows: "Mr Alfred Havi-
land lately informed the London Social Science