Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-06-02
REMNANTS, ETCETERA.

SlOIe buaI III may become OutlaWeu III we pro
crastinate) The shortest way is the best way
We take back everything offensive that W
have said. We intimated that the new mont
was like to conduct herself in an unsummer
like manner. In the presence of her sunni
smiles, We retract the hurtful insinuations
We viii say more if it ia necessary. Yesterda..
was splendid. .... We received, in time t.
be too late, an invitation to attend the "ThirC
Annual Reunion of the Old Nevadans a
Badgers Park, Oakland, Saturday, June l
1873" The same came accompanied by thu
compliments of John CARRIER, President, alsC
of Chas Fl. Leavit Secretary, who will accep
our thanks. By cold Nevadans" is meant
not the early corners to the State of Nevada
but the early residents of Nevada County,
California The bylaws of the Society pro
vide that "The Great Register will be in read
mess to receive the autographs of Ex-Res
idents of Nevada County, with date of their
arrival and departure from the County, and
their present address. The signature secures
life membership to the Society of Old Ne
bership in that society-became SO by a res
idence in that County in 1851, during which
time he performed Herculean and hand-blis-
terins labOrs as an amateur paCk-mule in the
construction of fume in the Deer Greek
country. Freshly sawed boards with the
water still on 'em, was the cargo; and no ex
ira pay for being water-bearer. Also some
experiences as a horny handed son of toll in
the long handled shovel line, and depressing
consciousness of not being sufficiently infat
uated with the work to earn any extra per
diem. Also that some fresh experiences IN
the way of twenty deck poker did not i'm
mediately augment a rather lean oxchequer
There are other recollections of the nature of
What was experienc by Young Man who
enlisted in the services of a Beef Butcher,
embracing the varied emotions of a Slaughter
house assistent and peripatetic Meat -peddler.
And visions of Boyers Ranch with its Indian
camps; old memories of lonely walks thro'
resinous woods, silent save for the voices OF
the whispering pines; young mans first
knowledge of what is real and strong and ster-
ling in his follows; the comfortlessness of that
xpsrience which is inevitable in the lad
whose home has always been part of his life
and thought and rearing; and the constant
love and yearning for the old, far-otf freside,
never, never to be seen again. We
call to mind too prospecting excursion to
Sweetapples, ere Sweetapple's was a town,
and to Shade Greek (wssn't it Shade Creek 3
beyond there. The ignc mjny of that trip is
still fresh in the mind of man well nigh
twenty years after his committing the
monstrous folly of mistaking shiny mica
scales for gold, and being caught by some
heartless and jeering miners in the
act of panniug out the same More than
a quarter of century has come and gone, land
vet the heavy aromatic cdors of those piney
woods are as fresh, almost, as the smell of
sage brush after the late rains, rank and pun
gent as that perfume is Thus do early i'm
pressions assert themselves, lingering on and
on into our lives, themselves rs much part |
9f our existence as any breath we breathe or
function we enjoy. And so there is a half re-
greet at not having been able to sit quietly |
apart at this gathering, listening to Mr.. John
A. Collins Grafton and being reminded of the
events 80 long gone by. President CARRIER
will accept our Acknowledgements, with the as
surance that our intention is to be present at
all future reunions of ''The Old Nevadans,"
world without end !! Yesterday mornings
head line prefxed to this column was calcula-
ted to lead the reader to suppose we might
say something about Hens We do not know
what made us think we had anything to say
shout those useful fowls. If anything did
happen to suggest itself we are afraid We have
swallowed it" as the boys used to say. We
an only say that hens vary a good deal.
Some hens mind their own business, take
are of their chickens, keep the peace and are
egular and conscientious layers. Such hens
ire models of the domestic virtues-in their
phere For hen may be good layer and
ret not disposed to burden herself with the
ares of a family. A little inclined to over
,stimate the allurements of fashion and socl-
,ty, is such hen But the CAD abouts, who
,ossip aud backbite over their feed, who tilrt
With your neighbours rooster and thus breed
Iuarrels; who are forever scratching the
.ravel of discord and always cackling while
,ever laying an egg nor being willing to per
orm the sometimes useful duties of q sitter,