Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-10-04
NOTES AND QUERIES.

of that queer little muscle which Nature ha
given the human facial structure for the pur
pose of moving the ear, as horse or dos
moves his? Well, we cannot call to mind the
name of it just now, but it is quite as well al
if we could There is such muscle, so the
PSYCHOLOGISTS say and it serves to illustrate
our fancy-which is, that the exercise or en-
ployment of this particular phase of Charity
we are talking of has been lost to certain COM
1nunities by its own prolonged desuetude. We
mean the unorganized but still potent charita-
bleness of feeling which not only excuses but
actually sanctions and protects the vagabond-
ish, the idle, the non producers-Les Misera-
bles. Somehow we are all of us too well
known to one another-we fortune hunters
and soldiers of fortune of the earlier days-to
be safe in the assumption of any very superior
virtues. 1t is not many years since We
were strangers to all banks and bank accounts,
all the pretentiousness and all the glamour of
''society," all the assumptions and require
ments of polished intercourse it is only too
well within the memory of your castaway
when he was the open-handed, Robin Good
fellow, and the now more fortunate Sir Kassi-
mere Broadcloth served him his bacon and
potatoes and was not too high spirited to rem
der him the nimble obsequiousness of his very
humble seryant-tho' the sycophancy never
was asked. We are all of the same house
hold, as it were, and are known to one an
other for what we are worth, and stand upon
our merits and not our pretensions. Moreover
your I" flint mill is not without its value as
school. 1t has great virtue in that it shakes
the snOb out of a man and makes the manners
of the parvenu sit awkwardly upon him.
And so the unfortunate and the down grade
folk (poor fellows) and even the vicious and
the scampish, all, indeed and even the
thieves and the man killers, these are not
subjected to any oppressive apprehension.
The pale" of society is loose affair with
none to keep it in order OF insist upon its
maintenance, and the law against vagrancy is
adead letter so far as our own cherished drones
are concerned-as it ought to be- The wretch
edness of homelessness is dreadful enough in
itself without being jeered at and prosecuted
by the comfortable and the domesticated
Am 1 my brothers keeper? There was our
unlucky friend, Lon st. Clair. eve are not
going to preach any pharisaical sermon over
him. He was as we'll behaved a man, in our
knowledge of him, as many who have stolen |
more and lived nearer the precious presence |
of Mrs. Potiphar.) He went to his death |
and his grave, the other day, friendless, home
less, with never any sympathy, never any
mourners, never any property for people to
squabble over and lie about. Who shall
blame him? Who will upbraid his cold ashes
and thank God they are not like this friend
less man whose lone life was so bitter? Oh
my friends, we are what we are, and each
plays his little part and goes his small way
and does his appointed task for better or for
worse and no man may stand above his neigh
boris grave and say @ his life could have been
better spent, but he would not" What makes
Peter Ploughman the untiring worker that he
is, and yet denies him the hig capacity to
lead the affairs of his STATED II Lazy Law
renee does not incline to work how shall he
acquire inclination Can any man by so
wishing add cubit unto his stature VIII an
effort of the will makes voiceless man singer,
Or color blind man painter, or a doubling .
man believer? AS well say that the health
of the body is matter of the will, as that
the health of the mind-the impulse of exer- c
ton or the genius of application and the stu
dious habit are subject to the motions of that t
mysterious agency. Is not the desire for ad e
an Unborn quality Are not ambi
ton and high aiming begotten of parentage
and pedigree and bloodl And shall not lazy z
father beget an indolent son and he beget v
sons and daughters after his kind! Can you h
kindle fire of the incombustible And shall
the slothful man cause himself to desire that
which he desires not to desire? Here was :,
homeless man. One may say, inconsiderately, :,
that he was lacking in the domestic instincts; y
that he preferred idleness and the paths of
The vicious and the association of the lawless.
How do you know that, oh judge2 How do
you know but that he yearned, with 'life 81
ong hunger in his heart" for that to which
he never could attain Who knows what he
suffered and how he longed for rest and COM
ort and the kindly hand-the hand as kind :.
II half as kind as his mothers was Who can
ell what were his self -denials and his strug-
,leS Perhaps he wrought with himself and IN