Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-09-27
NOTES AND QUERIES.

villages. The country is to be enjoyed fol
the purity of its air, the sweetness of it's milk
the simplicity of its manners, the blythe
carolling of its birds and its quietude and pre-
vailing beauties of hill and meadow, mountain
and valley. The city is the home of the ar.
fist, the place for great libraries, the center.
ING place of brilliant and beautiful attractions
such as the dramatic and the lyric stage. The
half way places which are neither one thing
nor the other, neither town nor country but
with the disadvantages of each, these are not
wholly satisfactory to the hungry mind and
the awakened taste. (Of course we do not
classify Carson among these little dreary waste
places, these poverty stricken way stations,
these deserted villages. Oh no! Have we not
the State Library here with its vast accumula
ton of useful and entertaining books have
we not many churches and eloquent preachers;
have we not schools and daily newspapers and
handsome shops and Mint and beautiful
prison; have we not a theatre and handsome
hotels and common sewer 1t is the out-of-
the-way places where there are none of these
we refer toy It is the real city-the urban
egation-toward which the footsteps of
your Kelloggs and your Januschecks, your
Brignols and your Strakoshes take their way )
and thither must go the dwellers in the lesser
settlements if they would see and hear and be
charmed The Mountain which will not 90
to Mahomet must be gone to by Mahomet if
it is to be seen. We feel sense of commits
seration for those whose lives being cast in
the places of isolation and neglect are denied
these refining and elevating influences. Pos
sibly if we were situated as they are we
should complain. Thank God we are not as
others be, not even as these who suffer depri-
walton! How happy we should be- \ And
is this covert complaint Has this Querist
forgotten his philosophy that he thus MUIR
murs at his lot under the thin guise of an ILL.,
begotten sarcasm2 Heaven forefend But it
would possibly be of profit to those who thirst
for the waters of the Fountain of Life if it's
share of the pleasant luxuries of Capitoline
delight and metropolitan refinement might
reach us with trife more of frequency.
Forepaugh's circus is well enough in it's way, |
and the advent of the not infrequent juggler |
is far from uninteresting; but there is some
thing of sense as of irreparable loss when |
the best among living artists of the stage have
come and gone and left us with as blank an
ear as if we were deaf, and when galleries of
the fine arts have closed, leaving us as bad as.
color blind in our sense of bereavement.
When this Notary's full-rounded future per-
mits of the completion of his scheme of erect
ing Temple of the Muses-but let us not
fall into the personal vein, nor yet anticipate.
The future, thank God, is all before US ..
An unemployed Winter is before US. By I'M
employed we mean Winter whose general
and monotonous level is not to be stirred by
any Legislature or other periodical excite
ment. There will be many idle nights if we
do not provide for their use in some system
attic way. We have already expressed the
hope that the Arions will effect reorganiza-
ton. We can conceive of some amateur th,
atricals that would be very attractive The
Oratorio attempted here last Winter was very
,leverly done We have our doubts about the
proving an attraction, save by a
thorough going and business-ike manner of
conducting its affairs. The trouble is we are
90 far off the line of Lyceum circuit to be
within reach. But we have singers who can
make very pleasant concerts and we have no =
loubt there is a good deal of dramatic talent =
mong US only waiting an opportunity to bud
nd blossom and bear fruit Who will take
he hint and make a move in the matters? -.
t will be observed that we keep pegging away s
t the places where stagnation is, seeking to v
rouse some life We are not Tin this sacred 1
olumn) given to the controversies nor yet to t
he dogmatic; but we have a mission, we e
eckon. Perhaps it is not up to the full fedge n
# mission, but merely something which Il
myers along the edges and outskirts of activ- Il
ty and enterprise. Maybe it is only theo- r.
etical stir, an imaginary hustle, an Utopian "
pirit of endeavor which has seized u.s. If so,
hen so much the worse need of an actual,
tactical stirring up of things by some other !,
yency than this. Sleepy Hollow is well =
aough in romance and theory; but it breeds q
upor and Incidence and somnoleney and
lst. As we said the other day men get the
Try Rot before they even know it or suspect -,
themselves This comes of keeping out of g
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