Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-09-19
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lutte or the frey and explosive presence of 81
Lucius O'Trigger. The uses of this world en-
nance, in the mind of the observer, the valu,
as well as the sweetness of peace. Repos
awakens the domestic virtues, Gains the pas
sions, open the mind for the reception of wis
dom and enables US to estimate at their true
value, the gentler and less snowy phases o.
this life. While it is true that man cannot
live on bread alone, yet it is still as true as
any maxim may be that it is the staff of life.
1t is after the storm that we experience the
joys of the peaceful calm We believe that
communities, like individual men, have their
boisterous and unruly times of life, and that
if they possess the better elements underlying
the strata which form their character, they
will outgrow their unseemly habits and SOW
their wild oats. We who are given Ger occa-
sionally to the croaks and the grumbles and
who regret the good old days of the Pioneers
need, for our souls repose, to analyse the Past
and examine what it was made of. 1t is easy
to fall into the ways of sentimentality and
seek expression in what Justin Mccarthy calls
splendiferous rubbish. Let us beware of COM
uniting the thoughts of us to bathos and pick
ling our past in vain repinings The dry-rot
is always near danger and it should be kept
off by frequent brushings and cleansings and
dustings. A very strange disease, this dry
rot and only too easily caught, my brisk young
friend Dickens deals with its symptoms
diagnoses" it, as the doctors, with a cheap
,,,o1O &c
lytical probings of disordered parts and func-
tons, too often permit themselves to say in
defiance of their Latin tutors ard their Eng
lish lexicons. GA very curious disease the
Dry Rot in men," says the great humorist,
land difficult to detect the meaning of 1t
had carried Horace Kinch inside the wall of
the Kings Bench prison, and it had carried
him out, feet foremost He was likely man
to look at, in the prime of life, well to do, as
clever as he needed to be, and popular among
many friends. He was suitably married,
and had healthy and pretty children. But,
like some fair-looking houses or fair-looking
ships, he took the Dry Rot. The first strong
external revelation of the Dry Rot in men is
a tendency to lurk and lounge; to be at street
corners without Ineligible reason; to be 60
ing anywhere when met to be about many |
places rather than at any; to do nothing tan
gible, but to have an intention of performing |
variety of intangible duties tomorrow or the
day after. When this manifestation of the !
disease is observed, the observer will usually |
connect it with vague impression at once
formed and received, that the patient is living
a little too hard. He will scarcely have had
leisure to turn it over in his mind, and form
the terrible suspicion of Dry Rot, when he
will notice a change for the worse in the pa
TENTS appearance, "a certain slOvenliness and
deterioration, which is not poverty, nor dirt,
nor intoxication, nor ill-health, but simply
Dry Rot. To this succeeds smell of strong
waters, in the morning; to that, a looseness
respecting money; to that, stronger smell as
of strong waters, at all times to that loose
ness respecting everything; to that tremb
ling of the limbs, misery and crumbling to {
pieces. As it is in wood, so it is in men, Dry s
Rot advances at compound usury quite in
calculable. A plank is found infected with it s
and the whole structure is devoted. Thus it s
had been with the unhappy Horace Kinch, t
lately buried by small subscription. Those r
who knew him had not nigh done saying, $50 +
well off, SO comfortably established, with such i
hope before him-and yet it is feared, with +
slight touch of the Dry Rot = when 10 the
man was all Dry Rot and dust" Friends, f
Countrymen and Lovers, speak gently to one q
another and to yourselves, asking the ques- b
ion, If there be any instances of the Dry Rot il
n this pure atmosphere of a vale lying under [
me shadow of the snow peaked Sierra But u
ct us be honest and faithful and CHEEKY; for b
TO be otherwise is to fall into the paths of de-
moralization and mold and ashes. We can O
ook about ourselves and be encouraged and
lifted up by the grateful emotion of self salts
action. Our little city has outgrown its rather u
lnruly and unhandsome boyhood. Not only u
n it's personal comeliness has it vastly i'm Ia
,roved, but it has developed most credita- o.
lie capacity for social improvement. Look CO
ack, oh old timer, to the days and nights,
he streets, the scenes, the experiences of re
welve years gone by. Avoid the vain false ~
God and self deceit of calling those the better f.
ays-for they were not better in any single, NJ
legitimate sense. Save in mar Va