Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-04-26

find it in their hearts to intermit their love
making while they are exposed to the eye of
cruel criticism as to all these and their &C
companying sights and incidents, Just scum
bic them in from my scouts rough outlines),
as not homogeneous background.
HOSPIT-ALITIEs.
We have beautiful little park i'll front of
our nraiSon. 1t Is divided by trim gravel
walks and thickly studded with trees and
shrubbery and flowers; just inside the iron
gates is porters lodge. What on earth this
porter does (who always eats his meals in his
lodge, as if he could mt be spared from there
for long enough time to fOrtify the inner
MANI, is more than | can find out He looks
very contented and very harmless and / have
never known him to say one word or pay any
sort of attention to persons coming and going
to and from the hospital. His lodge seems
to be the rallying point of set of paunchy
old worthless who, l suspect, are more than
willing to be quartered here indefinitely. 1t
is Just barely possible that it is part of the
porters duties to stand guard over the
her lawn-not, as that good old soul did, to
drive the donkeys off, but, rather, to enforce
the rule of the premises against the admit
lance of all members of the canine family.
Conspicuously placed near the entrance are
painted signs bearing these emphatic words {:
II ~ est pas permits d'entre drec deS chicnS. Of
course if dogs cannot enter the grounds pro-
perly mastered and controlled, they cannot
expect to be admitted upon their own respon-
sibility | guess, therefore, that the porter
is sort of kind of high and magnificent
dog pelter Under the trees yondcr, COM
fortably snoozing on bench, reclines queer
old woman; and nestled on her breast lies a
hugely contented cat The attendants will
tell you, tenderly, that this old woman is
palsy stricken, mind and body both enfeebled
and past all hope of recovery. There are sew
eral paralytics here-somc so utterly helpless
that they have to be fed and otherwise tended
like so many infants Oh, how preferable to
this wretched existence is restful death !....
We have our excitements here even as they
do on ship board, at sea, and IN other isolated
places hear daily reports from the oper-
ating rooms; and there is the inevitable death
list. One poor fellow died Yesterday morn
ing after ten days of dreadful agony from in
ternal obstruction; and another died this
morning from the crushing i'll of his chest by
wagon wheel Two or three days ago a
young Frenchman was brought in with
sorry wound in his forehead He had snapped
his pistol, intending to fire it. When it
didn't go he looked down into the muzzle
OF course it went off then, The ball hit him
aLuvc and between the eyes, tearing the
scalp, but not entering the skull He came
to the MoiSon ever so-uuch worse scared than
hurt. Desire, (my FREUD, the head nurse),
which means that it is just mere scratch and
won't hurt the young man at all By the
way, | was mistaken when | intimated, as
did the other day, that the memberships of
this society are exclusively French. Any
white person Of decent character can become
a regular beneficiary by paying s. for the
privilege of membership. The dues are
and amount to one dollar, only. If
| were single man | certainly would become
a member.
CONCLUSIVE.
1t has occurred to me as being Just barely |
possible that l am running this hospitaic |
strain of mine a trihe too long, Perhaps |
shall drop the subject. Certain it is that |
wish it were time for the hospital to drop me.
When your ship heaves in sight of the prom
isel land nothing is so Yexations as DELAYING |