Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-05-29
PLUMS AND COTTON-BALL

hrst black eye. There is something about it,
history and possession which rises above tn,
humble level of warts and gum boils and places
it in near relationship to the distinguishing
and all absorbing eminence of dislocated toe
or broken arm actually carried in a sling.
There is glory about it; and its possessor has
the right to take upon himself the airs and
attitudes of the heroicals He is as one who
has returned with honorable scars from the
perilous edge Of battle We have known a
sporadic case of the rheumatics to confer some
thing of this exacting honor of invalidity upon
deserving boy. But a black eye is OF the
legitimate laurels of rcnown. A boy is no
longer to be suspected of being girlish or milk
soppy, once he is thus adorned. 1t is the
next best thing to a mustache. Well, after
all, it is an ill wind that blows nobody any
good Yesterday we were lamenting the dam
age done to Our fruit trees by the gale of the
day and night before; but when we come to
see with what an impartial hand the balls
have been stripped from the cotton wood trees,
our sense of bereavement is Modified and we
begin to feel new trustfuness in the wisdom
and ways of Providence. For it is cotton
wood balls that breed cotton; and when cot
tonwood cotton gets to floating about the air
We begin to feel like yielding to the too gen
eral prejudice against that quick growing and
handsome shade-tree 1t is all very well to
maintain high and magnificent contempt for
the cottonwood, and talk loftily of the elm
and tho manila tha blaoE NO limit a fbO 10
elder; but where would have been our shaded
walks and our abundant verdure if, instead of
availing ourselves Of what is hardest we had
chosen to be treeless until our streets and
door yards had come to be fecked with the
choicer standings of those more slowly growing
natives of the forests of the far, unsympathis-
ing East Let's stick to the sharers of our
earlier hardships and disadvantages Mean
time if we would plant the cleaner but tender
locust, the slow growing elm or the maple, let
Us do so decently; remembering that it is far
easier to forfeit old friendships than to gain
new ones. There is as much reliable friend |
ship in tree that takes kindly to the climate |
and grows green in spite of wind and weather
rs there is in some of the more pretentiOus |
srowths of this world of wars, women and |
whimseys Here and there a vagrant flight |
Of snow flakes yesterday reminded us of the
nearness of the surly Sierra Somehow we
seem to carry on our small husbandries here
subject to the constant risk of such visitations
of snow and ice as are said to be standing
menace to the dwellers under the shadow of
the Alps Agriculture and the raising of fruit
are surely carried on in these attitudes at what
the mercantiles know as the ''Owners risk.
But we do hope-not very hopefully, but as
matter of prayerful duty-that the threatened
.'black frost of whose coming we seem to be
warned by these feecy harbingers may be in
definitely postponed. But the temperature
Of the early morning is that Of 'anipping and
an eager air" If, however, we get cleyerly
over the center, as it were, weathering the
weather, may we not look for larger and more
abundant crops than in any previous year
since Nevada became Statel In his in
structiye and reassuring article in the North
American Review, Ralph Waldo Emerson
says; "In ignorant ages it was common to
FduuI Guc hutIldu ny |
the instinct of other animals but better
discernment finds that the difference is only
of less and more. Experiment shows that the
bird and the dog reason as the hunter does,
that all the animals show the same good sense (
in their humble walk that the man who is their
enemy or friend does; and if it be in smaller
measure, yet it is not diminished, as his often
Is, by freak and folly" Verify do we believe
what the great and good philosopher thus {
hints at We do believe that those two dogs
which make such racket whenever any s
stranger comes within the gates have their
small supply of reason, Else why do they {
come to the door instead of trying to gain en-, {
tsance to the house through its walls; and
why doth that small, guilty looking, wiry, t
horrid dog tuck his tail under his body and
shy off when yon mother hen bristles up at
himl The rogue When his master or mistress
is not nigh he is as bold as a lion in presence
Of that hen, and will dispute with her the path 7
Or scramble with her for scraps of bread and |
meat. But he knows-his conscience tells 9
any annoyance on his part toward v
that hen and her brood will not be tolerated
by the powers that be; and 80 he affects a hui L
mihty and pretends to terror which are not @
native to him This arCrlea IL shows.