Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-23
NOTES AND QUERIES.
ALTITUDINOUS.


and semi-scientifical places of refuge as are
provided by those hooks and crannies of the
Dictionary which harbor such words as cleo
tricity, dualism psychology and altitude.
But let us not, i'll all fairness, humility and
conscience, let us not be misunderstood
his Annotator does most heartily respect
hose terms In fact, he has so thorough a
ense of reverence-not mere formal respect,
ut a real honest reverental feeling-to toward
solid, ponderous authoritative Dictionary
to be as far from daring to be tippant, or
EN- to be familiar herewith, as any we'll
gulated wording is with the editorial char
ter and personality The mind should re-
strain itself somewhere Why not, in an
photographed and syntactica, not to say
orthOepical way, maintain this humble defer
ence toward His Majesty, The photographer!
But there is something in ALTITUDE. We
mean to say that we have discovered, or think
We have discovered, some places where the
upheaved earth, asserting its warty condi-
lions upon the surface of things, brings us
within the realms and consequences of the
gentle, undulatng, fair-maidenish way, mid
march between the mountains and the strand
it asserts itself and opens the vast enticng
panorama of its beauties of copse and brook
side and laughing dale. Then it reigns su-
preme. When, i'll angry mood or in the mood
of moodish majesty, it uprears its face among
the clouds and airs and Boreal winds, it suf-
fers itself to be rudely assaied by these more
violent elements of the other spheres. That
is why the earth should endeavor to be round
and not eruptive, pimply and letter strewn as
her mountains make her seem. Nature has
her girlish moods and her maturities like
the recognition OF adolescence. We do not
paint and shipper and dye our hair uniusti-
fed The bare earth covers itself with
grass, and old oaks grow green again
and lift their tender, blighted acorns to
the August sun But there is a solid
significance and readiness in altitude. Eggs
which can be boiled in three minutes into
toughness of texture which makes the yelk
yellow - taw' and the white gelatinOus I'M |
pertnence, at the sea-level, require five for |
this-everyhody who has slept in blankets |
upon bleak hillsides and dreamed of the
homeland yonder, But what of it? Why
this Photographed and Scientitical refer
ence What about altitude! Well, only |
this, that that sturdy young rider and mar
velous leaper, Woodie Cook, who vaults over
more camels than carried the Jewels Of the
Queen of Sheba to Solomon, told this Scribe
that Just in proportion as he got hauled high
up. cloudwards he could not do his :" bust
ness. He found that in Virginia City
it troubled him to turn seven somersaults
Here he could turn thirteen. At tide-water
there is no limit to his fip-fopancy. Now he
is all amazing temperance man He dates
from Pittsburg, weighs a hundred and forty
pound, and jumps, when he jumps over the
camels and the balance of the caravan, no
less than thirty six feet-in single leap
Go to, 90 to, oh vanity of brutehood. Man
is your master-even if he has to take
springboard to help him to the assertion of
his superiority. But altitude has its effects
and its sigriicances, as this splendid young
athlete has testified.
THE PIONEER ) PICNIC.
To-day those remnants Of The Golden Age !
which is never, never more to return to NOR \
tai experience the survivors of the days of \
40. '5O-such as have found home in the T
,age-brush-these will ate themselves back :
20 the days of their adolescence and have a +
picnic. If The Ancient Mariner and The P
Wandering jew were to get on a spree and Y
sing a serenade III their hiccups, to Helen n
and Dido and the Mother of the Gracchi, it G
would be absurd and pitiful. But these com E
.anions of Jason, these stranded ArgOnauts, G
hese mariners who have been tossed NJ
up upon Il shore where no sea-waves B
bring and carry their tempests and their E
tides, these come here to renew,
not their youth-for that has never lett them
but their zeal of mutual regard which is as ~ :,
,Oung as the everlasting air and as impreg- y
liable to age as the never commencing fra .
rance of the alwaysiving rose. These Pho G,
GERS, inspired by the common impulses of B
ommon sentiment which is as exhaustless as o,
is hearty, and as invigorating as it is adm- Dl
able. come together to-day to renew the oath ~
+ allegiance t. the Pasta past as impossible :
f repetition as babyi4oQd Is to man and as sa- m
red rs the luminous traditions of the Gid | III