Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-17
ALL ABOUT SNOW.
What the Editor Knows About
Feathery Flakes, White ROBBED
Snow, ETC., Etc.
AN EXHAUSTIVE ARTICLE,

swer that one could not want a bette
one than the snow-storm. We stood
it manfuliy until the editor suggested
it, and then we proceeded To draw hin
out and see what he knew about snow
first explaining that there was no new
in it, and that anybody that did moi
know it had showed by this time never
would. Our first question was, "What
can we say ?"
Just state, as a matter of fact, that il
commenced showing on Sunday morn.
and had continued up to the present
time. You might sling in so netting
about the white-rohed visitor. You
can go in on the feathery flakes for A
quarter OF a column; then you can
TAKE the detention on the railroad
lines and interrupted street travel-that
MAKES a half column; and then you
a talk OF the pure and undefiled sur.
face as it lies on the ground, and-and
another quarter on general slush."
But there Amt any slush."
Newspaper slush,1 mean. You've
got three quarters Of a column, and
you can swash around generally for
the rest"
"But I've been smashing around all
! day, and rest is what want. | don't
| know anything about any detentions,
and as To the feathery flakes, I've got
a boot full here now. The white .robed
visitor might do 10 linger on, but that's
only a quarter OF a column, and | want
TO 20 home"
tNn,r n, Won ctors Off nnintIy-
and state in a few easy and flowing
sentences that out ofthe dark and SOM
Der clouds that hung heavy and low
over the city on Sunday morning. the
soft, cool flakes came floating down,
lodging here and there as if sent from
some empyreaD ark to find a resting
place"
How do you spell empyrean ?"
LOOK in the dictionary. Then you
can speak OF them as floating hither
and tbither in the frosty air, as Noah's
dove hOated, looking anxiously for
some foothold where she could fold
her tired wings and in her own cooing
die away to sleep and forgetfulness OF
her weary wanderings."
"Well, suppose l do? Nobody's 60
ing o believe it. Besides, the dave
vac Nfiois olhh ttiAio Wv Ola
with blood"
"No. she didn't; she went back to
the ark"
Didn't she find a rest anywhere?
Didn't she fold her footsteps under her
tired coo and die away TO wanderings
in her weary forgeifulness!"
"No, she came back to the ark.
You'll find it ALL in the Bible"
Lets print the Bible, for that is
news IN most folks
You want to introduce a sleigh
with its laughing chiues. The dull
thud OF its"
Hold on! Dull thud belongs to an
execution; you can't run that in;
that's where the trap falls and the pa
tient ONE down hard"
"That's so. Well, leave out the dull
thud, and tell OF the horses busy feet
flying with lightning hoofs over the
shimIneriug surface below"
1.-TWO ms in ~shimmering, aren't
tbere?"
"Yes. Then o want IT, work in
the rosy-cheeked girl with bright,
sparkling eyes"
"Saw one to-day. She had on Cardi-
nal socks"
"WeIl, jam her in a sleigh beside
the man she loves, and tell how they
went out over the silent roads, the
very fields echoing back h mac
clashing of the bells. Tell of the
tingling the cool air sent through
her nerves and blood, and how her
cheeks grew roster and her eyes
brighter as her companion bent closer
to her ami whispered words in her ear
that we're sweeter than all the bells
that chimed the accompaniment
to the music of the spheres. Tell how
the sweet moisture came TO her eyes as
she listened to the words That made
sleighing to her something never To be
forgotten, how he told her that she
came to him when the snow was fall
ing, and how he wished she would be
neal him, with him, when lie watches
them falling for the last time from the
angels wings that come to carry hlm
where the snow flakes are born. Then
says the editor, warming up, "then
run in the bells again, and how they
rupg out notes that seemed to hear the
clash of marriage bells, and echoes
that came from afar in the soft ca
dences of wedding marches.
"Might get in something pretty
about alimony and the custody of the
children"
"No, no; just leave it right there.
Then you might come back to "
Take the church-going people, and tell
how they plodded through the drifts
to the doors of the sanctuary, caring
nothing for discomforts and incon-
veniences, intent only on doing the
Masters will. Speak a good word for
religion and that lovely, holy Gospel
that teaches torgetfulness of temporal
wants in seeking after the spirit that
comforteth when all else forsakes, and
welcomes the sinner from the paths OF
unrighteousness."
at Mas awfully cold in the church
went to this morning"
"You needn't say anything about
that. Sometimes Providence forgets
the stoves to a v the souls. After you
have got through with the churches
you might take up the travel"
"Say that the drays and charcoal
teams came boldly forth from their
various barns at about the usual hour,
and stepped out briskly to their daily
avocations. They tore through the
glimmering th~oroughiares and across
the echoing fields, climbing the fences
| that had been robbed of their beauty
by the crystalline snow, and shining
up the gaunt trees, whistled wedding
marches with red stockings on until
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