Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-10-03
NOTES AND QUERIES.


called, being the recordation of mundane
events. but follows the universal law, then, il
thus presenting us with repetitions. Whe1
those of US who are old enough to have hac
contemporaneous knowledge of FremontS
daring venture into the wilderness, watching
him from afar and learning of his exploits and
perils day by day, thought at all of this Great
American Basin, we thought of it in every
other light than that in which stands in all
his peculiarities the corner lounger and street
inspector. The man of leisure, the idler, the
fellow who manages to dress well and eat well
and preserve (oh lucky dog }, without work or
toll or care of any sort, a condition of respec-
liability in outward attire, is not the kind of
man we naturally associate with a rev and
sparcely settled country like this Nevada of
ours. We somehow classify these not una
lniable gentry with the older and greater
cities, and let our imagination people these
newer settlements with harder, more indus
trious and more seriously occupied race than
such as breeds the vagabondish and the idle.
But, as We are. always Dragging, this Is the
poor mans paradise. Poverty brings no dis
grace, nor does unofending idleness And
why should it, pray! If my Chevaher In
dustie has learned the art of living without
work why should he not so ive2 Who shall
say him nay and belabor him for vagrant
and dronel What is life made for What is
the aim of human existence Is not happiness
III; o,,l No
comp laint of your true Fellow of the College
of Incidence He is a man of taste; knows
something Of letters is almost dilettante in
his notions of the proprieties, the harmonies
and the graces Of life. He is ready to inject
into the brain of your dull, plodding block
head some gratuitous ideas of propriety; and
so he is an instructor, and thus earns a rig ht
of wine and bread. The severity of his tastes
and this abates indecency and commands the |
peace This part of his Office entities him to |
the full, unstinted privilege of public pen
sioner. Your genuine Street critic is never
indecorous. His profanity, even in private,
is of the reflected, qualified, less shocking sort.
He is not unworthy example, even to his
betters. He never begs, is never greedy,
never intrusive, never violent, never quarrel
the bearing of gentleman towards all per-
sons of the opposite sex are eminently proper
even to the verge of chivalry and punctilio
Of course he is a generous drinker for he
knows wines and spirits and may safely be
trusted to instruct you of the quality of your
,ellarage. He greets you as an equal, observ-
ng the propriety, always, of your Sir name.
He is above the vulgarity of an over-familiar
labit His self respect renders this impossi-
Die How does he live? This is not our con-
,en. We will not seek to penetrate the veil.
We recognize him, with thankfulness, as a
oenefcent, welcome, cleverly ordered piece of .
street ornamentation-as good in his way as a
fountain or a statue "a restraining influence,
seer, a critic and purifier He is not an
make no hints of the actuals,
pursue no models,-but he is generic, univer
al, an original element, no more phenome-
ION than dull responsibility whose rebuking
plflL dIu CellSOr lie u.s. ne Has SeIFlle 1llllld-
ors; but these, like all shams, are intolerable.
But he, himself, sees to it that no rude words a
re uttered in the presence of any lady; and 8
% makes the avenues as safe for self respect a
1g women, night and day, as if he were a t
uard of houor. May he be continued long #
i the land of his usefulness We can better
e rid of gooder man We spoke of il
this Nevada of ours" We counsel no ex- it
,avagance and We have learned to reckon tt
conventions in that category.
tut we could land would) heartily Justify the
alling together, by authority, of a College of p
State Institute of Philology j
hose first duty it should be to relegate "Ne- W
ada" to that county in the parent State, yon- u
er, where it belongs. We would strike out
Nevada" and substitute Washoe, and thus Ia
egin the world with name of our own, m
,mething native and aboriginal "a propogat- h,
q, virile noun and not a mere sexless adjec- -
re. What if we have said all this before
was by frequent iteration and reiteration
at those who stood in Congress for the right
petition got final recognition. Give us
t of aboriginal sustantivity for name
nong the sovereign States, and not lisp of y
understood, second hand Spanish. ..... w.,
e note among the items of reduction by the
1ard of Equalization the assessment on the