Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-09-02
NOTES AND QUERIES.

SinAad the Sailor and Lynn Jim Baker and
the late lamented Clarkson still survived they
would each and all be blackballed by the Saz-
erac Living Club as ineligible on account of
their rare and exceptional veracity. There is
no doubt they would be sought, from far and
near, to suffer themselves to be led by the
hand into life membership with the Young
Mems Christian Association. For lying is
merely comparative vice-if it be vice.
Truth is not absolute and exact or pure, like
a diamond or piece of unalloyed gold or an
unadulterated tenor voice. In more inno-
(oh experience what a teacher you are),-
experience has taught us that truth Is thing
which is comparative, local and the result OF
contrasts and circumstances. For instance:
what was lie i'll Jerusalem in the year One
would be mere old fashioned shop-worn,
hy-blown atom of stale and mouldy truth
nowadays; or, if not truth, an unnotlceable
bit of harmless romance. AS to the truth
the unauthorized fact self-sustained and self
eYident-no doubt it exists, as in the walk and
but, as it is usually found, it is like weights
and temperatures and geographical degrees
and the magnetic needle-it is to be taken
with allowances, variations, grains OF salt
Ananias would no more have been capable of
the current lie that Jim Crawford had been
turned out Of the Mint and Daggett turned
in, than he would have been Of resurrecting
the stock market. 1t takes this latter one
quarter of the nineteenth century to achieve
such masterful whoppers as that. Sapphlra
would have blushed at such piece OF aimless
and baseless mendscity; while Munchausen
and the other gentlemen mentioned would
have suffered themselves to be tongue-ted
first Daggett would as soon fall down the
c. and C. shaft and become mingle with the
sump at the bottom as to take upon himself
the worry and work and responsibility of that
institution The Treasury Department, on
the other hand, have too thorough feeling
of confidence in Crawford, and the Mint
management is TOO safe and effective in his
hands for such catastrophe as his decaplta-
ton to happen. The rumor was one of those
bald, spontaneous, misbegotten lies that no
body has the hardihood to father. AS We say,
Aaanias-but let US drop the preposterous
subject . We congratulate all frugal house
wives with children of their own upon the
approaching school term. Ut begins to-mor-
ROW. Also we congratulate all fathers and
kitchen girls and nursery maids and Chinese
vegetable peddlers upon the close of this pro-
longed vacation. Why! Abundant reasons,
Sir and Madame There's your carpets and
front porch and your back-y yard and your
bump of order and your danger OF going dis
tracted, my dear Madame there IS your
peace of mind, your nap of an afternoon,
YOUR nerves and your bloomin' eth, my
dear Sir; ard there, Bridget, are your
blessed pots and pans; there the safe
ty and comfort of your little charges,
oh, ,ya bo,lne, and there the worth of your
queue and the Wilderness of your legs and
body, my celestial friend--these are the con-
siderations which should cause you to rise up
and bless the American school system and re-
ioice that it is about to receive new appli-
cation and enforcement in this community
Oh boys and girls! what stupendous bis
ter plaster you are! How you do forever and
eyerlastingly wear out everything but your
testaments, how you do go it and go it and
go it! Many of you need boiling, to extract
the alkali out of you-the alkah OF cussed- |
ness; many of you need-oh Heaven knows
what you do not need, pills and worm loz-
enges and warm baths and lessons in moral |
ity and shoes and licking. Christ We
should say so If boys hadn't got up SO far
that there was no place left above EN-, girls |
would be actually worse than they. Look at
em when they have had bureau or trunk
full of clothes or bundle of old love letters |
all to themselyes-look what they don't leave |
unframed and undone School is boon
Suppose they do not learn much} Aren't
they where they can't steal the AK and mis- |
appropriate the clothes line and make tent |
out of the table-cloth and play boss with
your silk umbrella and cut up your best boots |
10 make sling shots and your best coat for
the emergencies of playing circus} The cause |
of education is great thing; and any man |
Oh, woman who knows what what, will cheer
fully pay his taxes to help it along--seeing
how much it saves !. E. The game season be-
pins with this first month of autumn, and the
bold hunter cooking his eye and his gun,