Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-19
NOTES AND QUERIES.

ourselves to hopeless despOndency. Every
paper one picks up nowadays has letter
from the Black Hills; and every man who
writes from there consoles the bankrupt sage
brusher with the declaration of a wish that he
were back here sharing the frugalities and
fragrancies Of these recumbent slopes. All
these letter writers unite in the statement
that the Black Hills country is overrun with
''tender feet That's Yankees and the like
Eastern Slopers. Now the fact is only too
painfully evident to any one who has learned
| observation by the experience of comparison,
! that what used 80 be called The West -
! that is Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota, Kansas,
! Iowa and that lot-has been transmogriied
| by an all prevailing Eastern influence, within
| the past twenty years or First comes
the Western man and drives out the Indians
and then comes the Yankee and drives out
| the Western man. Here, and here only
where the land slopes into the Western Sea
can the true type Of the Western man any
longer be found. The fact is, this sort of
genial vagabond is getting scarce even III Cal
ifOrnia. Nevada now is the home of the
species III its purity and strength. The race,
like the buffalo and the mountain sheep, is
becoming extinct. We are between two fires.
On one side come the - tender feet from
New England, the Middle States, the Lake
region and the Ohio Valley; and on the other
side comes the Chinaman We still live
although We are, self-confessed, upon the
ragged edge of a departing era of flush times
which seems impossible Of restoration. But
we revel in comforts and plenty-thesc being
comparative terms. The man who knows
where his hay stack is, is better Oft when the
cold shades of might come on than he who is |
bedless i'll a land where yet no hayStaCks are. |
The friendly warmth Of a barroom or the |
shelter of the watch house are luXuries com |
pared with bleak hillside and no roof be
tween one's back and the down pouring rain.
An humble meal in a warm aims house is !
better than an empty stomach IN the windy |
air. In other words, If one must be pennless
the acqualntanceshlp and comparative com
forts of the State Of Nevada are preferable to
the condition of homeless stranger i'll the
Territory of Dakota. Let's let the tender
feet pioneer the Black Hills for us, and when
they have made things comfortable, 90 and
take the country away from EN-. There is
precious little nutriment in perpetuating ones
condition of a plospector. We notice some
little green patches on the mountain side
yOnder which are new 10 US. We are glad to
see these evidences of wise industry
Better Il ten acre lot with con,entment than
the wide expanse of the Great Basin where
no love is There is happiness in potato
patch; there is the golden prize of self-respect
in chicken ranch; there is domestic joy in
butter churn; there is soothing felicity III the
clipper of brood of young fowls; and there
is independence i'll the pillow, the hoe, the
rake, the AK, the wash board and the clothes
line. Sweet are the uses Of adversely. In
the earlier days of Carson when the elastic
step of enterprise was upon the Threshold of
brave endeavors; when young Hope stood
with the flush of ruddy health upon its mant-
ling cheek; when the bounding blood of
courage redeemed responsive to the exhier-
alton of danger; when life was all before us
and the sky was always bright; when far
along i'll the heavens stretched an endless :
pageant of corruscating stars whose cleaning :
pathway led up and up, and on on, and higher
and higher, forever and forever, past the blue
vastness Of the empyrean and away into the
resins of incomprehensible space
where world answers unto world, echoing
he tremendous responses of the jinIitless
'oid as it floats over seas of banished Spheres Z
hen, on then, the tired hand of the
;hild Of destiny found it net impossible, when
I'll other sympathies were cold and life
eemed but a weary dream, to awaken the
Otter emotions and the purer aspirations Of
he gifted, the tender, the contding and the
uileless by touching the chord which beai
to the subject of the Columbus
Wagon Road But the days are changed:
lfe seems like a tale that is told; the weary
lay grows dark with increasing shadows the :
oice of careless mirth is hushcd in sadness
ontidence fingers but feeby upon the dis
lantled couch OF debiitated credit man
ind is a moral calamity; and the way Of the :
and restless treaCnGIl Is ineXora
lie, insatiate and hard