Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-10-16

| Ideas of men and things. these renect out o
our Past the possibility of what our Presen
would be, minus these scars. How careful
then should be each one of us who holds any
share of the attention of the reading public
to observe a purity of style commensurate
with the general correctness of language as
we find it self-shaped in popular conversation.
Can we blend letters and life, rescuing the
one from pedantry and slang, and the other
from vulgraity and grossness, these years Of
hardship and exile will not have been spent
in vain, vain as may be proven our search for
wealth or the Fountain of Perpetual Youth.
We have faith in the creed of the Survival of
the Fittest and if the leaven of vivacious CO.'S
mopolitanism here implanted is as full of the
principle of life as it is fit to live, it will per-
feet itself year by year and being perfected ,
will spread abroad and work such reformations
as shall gladden. the senses of the critical and
add yet another cadence to the swelling rythm
of this grandest of all Languages, this magnif-
lsh" = It has come to the ears of this No
tary that certain goodish people with a sweet
tooth for gossip and neighbc rhood chit-chat,
would be glad to exchange him and his for
something good deal more newsy and more
highly spiced In one instance where the com
plainant exhibited admirable candor, this
Querist was told that the married sister of the
prosecuting witness "a person of great profun-
dity of erudition and severity of taste), wished
that this Annotator would take a prolonged
vacation in order that the local department of
the MORNING APPEAL might present ivelier
aspect and furnish forth more facts and fewer
fancies. In another instance it was lady
who brought suit. She thought there was
too much preaching going on. Another
thinks we are mt funny enough-that we
ought to do something in the Danbury line,
or the Hawkeye way, or the Detroit Police
Court sort. Friends, countrymen and lovers!
Each man in his time plays many parts and
each newspaper or paper which ought to be
lewsy but is not, goeth the way in which it |
vas foreordained to 60 1t is feature of the
Oanbury News to be funny and so it is of
he Hawkeye and so of the Detroit Free Press.
The MORNING APPEAL could, if it would, be |
,reat deal funnier than any of these But
would it be becoming in US, the only Notary
nd the solitary Querist of the Morning Press
f Ormsby county, here under the shadow of
he Capitol, either to be -mongerish or
unny9 Come together in convention, oh our
judges, and condemn MS to q toilsome
fe of witt;cism or the treadmill
f news-fnding and we will submit even
hough it shorten our days and bring our
rey hairs in sorrow to the grave. But until
e is thus favorably admonished this fashion
r of Notes and propounder of Queries, led,
5 he feels himself to be, by the hand of Fate,
f Fate hath a handy, is like to keep right on,
eaf to gossip or dumb for news, preaching
nd praying, singing and spouting, musing
nd droning, now practical, now vague, anon
lult finding or over adulatory as the humor {
lctates; and may heaven spare him to see t
is error if in the ways of error he is
owing! Something is accomplished even if
the end of long and toilsome life one
inns not less distinctive name than that of
he greatest Bore of his Age