Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-09-12
NOTES AND QUERIES.

pfeSSlVe SOEt. certainly Inc D1ue-QeVlS are
bad enough at best; and we can imagine ne
excuse for inhicting them upon another. As
we'll 60 about, with malice prepense, distribu-
ting the mumps or the measles. But there
are some pleasant effects even in the more
soinbre Iues; and there is abundant life away
from the glitter and sparkle and strong re-
fections and lights and shadows of the sun
shine Better light burden ftimely serious
ness than oer-strained effort in the other di-
rection. There is nothing so melancholy as
uncorl1ed fun with the bead all gone. When
it ceases to bubble and has become stale it
had better go with the rinsings. .... In this
strain it is meet that this Querist take upon
himself a short discussion of a subject which
late sad events have suggested. Why have
not our people done as the dwellers In all
older cities of this size have done, taken
some systematic steps toward laying on and
enclosing and planting with trees and shrub
berry last resting place for the dead Where
is our Mount Auburn or our Greenwood Gem
etery! We confess that we are unable to an
sWer any one of the serious questions that the
agitation of this subject suggests We do not
know what the plans are which result in the
beautiful places where, in elder communities,
the dear dead are laid. It may be thsy are
owned by companies, gotten together for the
selfish end of money getting dividends and
share-prOfts, cent per cont Possibly they
are the result of corporate action and taxa
hut oil +bor aga how, 81 VANS
humanizing tastes and wishes. A green
grave under the friendly shade of Mother
Natures generous foliage; the white stone re-
heyed by a pleasant growth of greenvines; the
grey slab cOntrasted with the colors of flower |
ing plants resting place whose very form
and situation lends a picturesqueness to the
gentle sweep of meanderins paths; ths sights |
and contrasts of well-kept grounds whose
beauty grows with an ever watchful attention
and the care of which is widely shared labor
Of love-these exert an influence which is
wholly good and entirely grateful. Ws can
not 90 TOO far in a cultivation of the gentle
arts and more tender inclinirgs. Some vol
untary taxation, well applied, will give us
under the glazing sky and beneath the shadow
of the grim mountains our dead seem to lie
SO lonely, so forsaken and so neglected. There I
is companionship in trees and feeling of
in sunny hooks made cool with
bowers and twining sprays, Experience
the appearance of this glove-like little city of
our own-teaches US that attention and care
are all that are needed to make for our de-
parted friends, and for ourselves when we are
gone, pleasant, orderly place whose beauty S
would increase year by year and bring c
something of comfort to the +
furrowed face of grief. .... We a
confess to having contemplated an elabo- t
rate essay on wind; but having mislaid the v
authorities from which we intended to have =
confiscated our learned terms and scientifcal h
conclusions we are compelled to abandon the il
project as an effort in the owlish and instruc- G.
tive way The fact that the miniens of Bo- "
reas were on the rampage night before last, D
tearing away sails and standing rigging, blow Il
ing the mates hair of and capslzing the cook b
INTO the lee scuppers, this fact, We say lustl O.
les such an essay as we thought Of inficting
lpon the readers of these Ms. and Q's. But
disquistion, windwards, like the gale itself, la
las a wide sweep. 1t refers to great multi c
ude of things, directly and Indirectly. There Sc
5 the wind which, when properly blown, b.
makes what is labelled oratory. That ia a W
ery famous wind, and it has blown many &C
raft of small burden and meagre carrying -,
apacity into the snug harbor of emoluments, b.
otoriety and the honors which are so often II
ines "easy". Then there is what crusty al
Id Thomas Carlyle in his gruff way calls me-
odious wind, meaning the harmonious sounds
iven out by poets and musical folk. One M
night occupy no little space dissenting upon ia
his sort of wind and thereby engage himself aV
n a very readable sort of composition For st
Example, that beautiful soug of Aldrich's be
bout the tangled skeins of rain; there are the W.
weet sonnets of the Master and there are Bry- WI
nt's immortal and everlasting) lines, begin gu
10 mt
tThe melancholy days
mt for the nine hundred and ninety thous-
ndth time we forbear We shall probably
nd ourselves forbearing again and again as W.
lie season advances) And speaking Of wind, he
lad our pufs, elsewhere elaborated with fig
lid profusion and spontaniety of the breezy gu