Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-06-08
CLOUDS AND THINGS.

dust they bring with them we should EMO,
the afternoon breezes they fetch along to keel
themselves company. As it is, one may 81
under the speckled shadows of his thick leafec
trees and take in no little comfort from til,
cooling zephyrs which float along. Our sud
den coming heat seems to conju up the cleo
tricals and the afternoon sky gets darkened
along the southern horizon with threats O.
showers and thunder-storms. As we write
the air is getting cooled, and the voice of the
ice cream man seems to fade away into some
cold blue shade of the frowning Sierra There
60 some of our aboriginal friends, their bits
of scarlet raggery cleaning afar and adding
a tone of picturesquesness to the general
tameness of the battle-ground. We note
that the mosquitoes have come to share with
the butterflies and the June bugs the balmy
summertide. This is good season wherein
to observe the shape of your childrens heads,
albeit they undergo, irrespective of sex, the
"shingling' process; which tonsorial improve
ment invites the frugal housewife to her an
nual scrubbings of the juvenile pate and the
cleansing of winter-soiled scalps. Now swings
the husbandman his scythe; now delveth the
amateur gardener among his tender growths
now is awakened the perennial horror of such
insectiverouS life as finds nourishment upon
the cheek of the blushiug rose and seeks the
tender leaves of precious herbs We note that
the meadow lark is singiEt5 again, This means
that his early spring courtship and mating and
nesting have fulfilled the measure of their
Importance and resulted in their first "crop"
of callow larklings-with one of whom we be-
came unexpectedly acquainted yesterday.
This latitude beats all for yellow roses
Nonder is a bush-full which is nothing less
than flood of golden Eght-topped, by the
way, with some as naughty red roses as ever
claimed place in any landscape ~ Car
son is coming into her birthright. 1t is the
reward of modest merit that is about to come
to her There are three Of these modest sis
ters lying under the lea of the Sierra. These
are Genoa, Carson and Reno. We give them
in the order OF their age Modesty forbids
placing them in the relative condition of their
consequence God made tho country and man
made the town. The Mormons, who were
keen prospectus, settled Genoa and Carson. |
Hard by this lead pencil Is a spring of purest |
water 1t was first walled up or boxed !
)y Mormon hand. Reno was made
" man The K.u 5ad Company breathed
uto its nostrils the b. -ath of life and it be-
alae a l..ns settitm Mt Its city lots are
taked 10 sale above old Indian graves,
-Iormon Station (Which Was Genoa's first
Iame) will come to Carson tospend the Fourth
f July; and 50 will Reno. This will settle all
uestions with the suburbs; and SO Virginia
lily and Dayton, Silver City and Gold Hill
,in come here too. When we speak of Car
on we mean Empire also. Empire is our older
ut more sandy Completed sister. She sits
y the murmuring Carson and shakes the
ew drops from her locks She will sympa-
hise and participate and celebrate with us.
'hus we shall all dwell together in brotherly
we. We must keep our hospitales all well
live and FURNISHED for this on-surging tide
guests. Carson has always waited to have
er beauties recognized and extalled. She has
OF waited III vain. A less dittident city would
ave proclaimed her own attractions with loud
nd strident voice. She emulates the
odest deneanor of Reno. She strives to .
, known to the appreciative and yirtuous as
assessing a true Genoese chastity and good
'eeding. Hence her popularity. The time
near when beneath these grateful groves
i'll nestle the decorous learning and polished
Ilture of the State, as now its youthful
are given u careful shelter And
it will be just and fitting spectacle when
e Majesty of the Executive Office, COM >
ssed round about by the military heroes ,
no will assemble here as the staff of the
chief of our army and navy,
pear before us in the full splendor of their
uipments, prepared to do or die! Let us -
speak, as with one earnest voice, the best
Juys rich and balmy air for this proud o.
casion-an occasion which will justify the =
thence of our modesty and adorn, as with G
9 jewels of appreciation, our inherent but "
virtues
HoT QUARTERS. gentleman from Sutro, 9