Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-09-11
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and generation than they seem to have been
III the far distance as we look back toward the
life that is left behind in the fields where are
buried amid flowers and sunshine the days of
boyhood and youth. Is this so, or is the
change with US who observe and note, and
not with the general tenor of events 1t has
been said that healthful youth and youthful
health never contemplate death as the inevi-
table catastrophe. The business of life with
these is living and enjoying, not rejecting
and repining As years and cares accumu
late the more serious thoughts force them
selves upon the attention; and with length of
days comes the experience of accumulation.
The graves we know seem to make the burial
places more numerous The aggregate, in
creased by constant occasions, presents us
with what seems more rapid falling off than
we used to know. The wider the acquain-
tanceship the more frequent the gaps along
its lines. And yet, explain it how we WILL
the catalogue of startling events within ones
personal knowledge seems fuller than in the
calmer life Of the far-gone past. Look at the
long succession of uneventful years which
come to the dwellers even in the populous
villages of the olden time Life was routine;
small occurances were noted with earnest sim
plicity; simple habits and equally simple
tastes forbade extravaganza; the high pressure
Of today was thing of dreams and wonder
ment; and as to the world twas distance lent
enchantment to the view Now, our appe-
tites sharpened by the stimulants of life of
excitement, we take the strongly seasoned |
food of daily shocks and hourly accidents with
something very like Indifference. We have
got past the simplicities of common expert |
seem to come with greater frequency than in
a more humdrum state of existence. The
casualties in the battle of life increase with
the progress of the strife. The grievous
shock which came upon us all when the news
of the tragic death at the Glenbrook reached
the town was something more startling and
heart-rending than any of our every day SEN
sations. There was shuddering sensation as
of a bright happy young life suddenly torn
away by violence; and we find ourselves horri-
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the larger sense would be that of sympathy
and sadness. To the father thus left alone
and heart broken in this world let US ex- l
tend cur sympathies. He is dreadfully,
cruelty, overwhelmingly bereaved. ......
Mars, the planet of war and warriors, has
been in opposition with the sun, lately, we :
believe. (Our astronomy is of the speculative +
and inexact sort, it will be seen. It is like 1
our playing of the violin-we know something :
of the principle, but we are in Indifferent |
practice) We observed with the naked eye), :
last evening that it was in opposition, in the '
cleaning, to right new slip of moon,-a a
wee bit crescent just family discernible, l
Thus does sweet Hecate, her soul all given to =,
peace, look with beseeching eyes upon that {
frey star, praying for cessation of his riot v
Gus reign along the hills and strong towns of L
the Danube. But Mars reddens his bold front
and lighting anew his fires snubs our pale sat
elite and tells her to her sorrowful face that
peace is all moonshine-and the impudent F
star seems to have the right of it, At all &
events, the mothers who read with anxious d
eyes the red returns from the war which RACES 7
between the Russians and the Turks are only O
too conscious that peace is very far from A
where their sons are struggling. Somehow h
we are beginning to feel that the worst of the r,
hard times is over. On all hands we hear the s
opinion that the money market is getting Il
easier. The fact is, when the stock market tt
vent to pieces it found very large proper W
lion of this people systematically anticipating g;
Ill their wages their gains and their salaries in
o keep their accounts in order at the brokers', tt
Small earnings went this way, in wofully &c
steady stream When the market collapsed, ~ ~
t left these small operators without stocks or D
anything to show for them. Then came the pC
sense of bewilderment-the temporary par q!
alysis of the shock Then, in the general 90 90
depression, the conclusion was that the bot tn
,om had fallen out of everything, and that tn
he country was gone to the dogs. Now e'
here are signs of a recovery. The little ~ ~
loardings which the demands of the stockers h
endered impossible, are beginning to accu- al
nulate. Moreover, wholesome lesson in be
rudence has been taught. From having WI
eased to gamble away all their earnings, the M
eople are going back to the old stocking m,
ank This brings on certain sort-and br