Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-04-23
EDITORIAL GLEASINGS.
WARD 80, MAI,oN DE SANTE,
SAN FRANCIscO, April Is, 1873.
APRIL DAYS.


the biz cross on Lone Mountain from the
other. Honc Mountain has its peculiar ex-
alterations to a hospital patient; but little
of such excitements, mildly taken IN, once or
twice day is enough) Louis, my friend Of
the early dawn and the faithfulest gorcom that
ever wore an apron, fetches me cup OF hot
tea and an account of the weather every
morning between and 6 o'clock; and with
his coming and the raising of the window
curtains, and the April days now upon us
renew our acquaintance. The SKY is sullen
too much of the time, and though the birds
keep up a constant chatter, the lowering
clouds are not cheering nor is the patterlng
rain an encouragement. In the Atlantic
Monthly for April find some extracts from
the journal of my favorite author (the charm
INCEST naturalist that ever lived), the late
Henry D. Thorcau Says he: II hear
robin singing in the woods south of Hos
mer's, Just before sunset. 1t is a sound asso-
ciated with New England village life. 1t
brings to my thoughts summer evenings
when the children are playing i'll the yards
before the doors, and their parents, convers-
ing, sit at the open windows. And SO doth
Robin RedbrCast cheer me, here, thanked by
pills and poulticcs and hiyh-roosted on reg
uation bedstead of the hospital order. Also
like old Thoreau when he says, in his high
disdain of the sordid things of this world:
"Nlens minds run so much on work and
money that the mass instantly associate all
literary labor with pccuniary reward They
are mainly curious to know how much money
the lecturer or another gets for his work |
need hardly say to the Faithful and Select
not to say -lristocratical and Cultured Few
who read with daily delight the MORNING
APPEAL, that this present scribe looks more
to their sweet approving smiles for his re-
ward than to the argentiferous treasures Of
the Comstock, the auriferous deposits of Cal
ifornia, or the precious fabrics of the wealth.
laden Orient (This is a trihe obscure, but it
is fetched up from the depths of an honest
heart and is meant to awaken a responsive
chord in the breasts of All appreciative
clientage)
OF HENRY N\D ELIZABETH
And Then equiyocatiun5, charges. counter
charges, confessions, recutations oaths,
attirmatious, praycrful attitudes and true in
wardncss the recent revival If interest occa-
stoned by Mrs. Tilton' startling ocif-accusa-
ton demands some passing notice And yet
the subject is an unclean one and not to the !
lling of this commentator. Id rather write |
Qf the lesser trihes Of daily obscrvation-the |
street cries and sights; the phenomena Of
great city hourly life; the coming and Going /
of natural events, or description of some of .
my fellowhospitall Frcnchy as they were |
yet within the very heart of Old Paris, or
still taking on the lights and shades OF .
Rouen, or even now stretching their dreamy
eyes across Thy cOrnhelds green and sunny
vines, oh pleasant land Of France. And 50,
with the mere mention Of the soiled andneyer-
to-be-c cleaned surnames of these sadly noto-
rious guilty or innocent twain, | drop the
proftless subject merely adding that |
suspect that Theodore Tilton is as mean a
man as Adam was when he turned States
against Mother Eve and made her bear the
brunt of that little affair in Eden won't
classify Theodore with Rutherford the Good;
for might, by doing, DO injustice to them
both; but | reprchend the former AS one who
has shown himself to be unmanfuI, shameless
and cowardly. | will drop him.
SPEAKING OF RUTHERFORD,
suspect that he will be made to sweat great
drops of guilt and shame ere many months. |
am uncharitablc enough to believe that he
has gone deliberately into the huckster bust
ness. now am awakened to a fear that if
the truth were known, he did sink that
dead soldiers money down i'll Tennessee. |
am afraid he takes out his percentage always
when the doing OF the same is practicable, as
his "grist' when he sets the otiice-mill
a grinding, If ever we had peanut and
popcorn President, Rutherford is the man.
He causes bad coffee and ice-watcr to be l
passed round at state dinners between the
on the family grocer and
pump instead Of the wine-merchant and the
White House cellar when the Executive
is setting forth the Presidential
inequalities And the evil tongue of Rumor !
lares to whisper that the rogue drinks strong
waters on the sly behind the pantry door
Thrift, thrift, Horatio"
Yes, think that what with the persistent