Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-04-08

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am struggling with Z tempta-
tom 10 % out into the baimy air to-
day III the face of the evils which ar.
sure to beset me III the way of hats
with tons Of bricks under them ano
pennies with strings tied to them.
| OF course | would not stoop to pick
| up Il measley penny, "=o"rlallv II
thought it would DO jerked away.
Mere wealth is not nay onl y object
in life. The question is, could re
sist kicking hat if | saw it, knowing
that it might hurt my greatest and
most iliustrious toe.
Once | saw two hat episodes on All
Fools Day, and those three words
describing the day, remind ME how
universally the day is observed, and
what lot Of deciples celebrate the
occasion.
Or crowded street a lot of
Youngsters had tile, battered and
worn. 1t had evidently been lam
basted early and often. The kids
built small stone house under it
once more and laid in wait for vic :
tim. He came, he saw, he -,
well he lifted up the old chappean in
his hands, shook out the bricks and
brown stone front. and then re-
placed the remnant on the sidewalk.
He was big, burly man, probably
a football maniac. At any rate
when he "hauled Of" and belted that
hat with his number mines, it mosled
upward like balloon. When it rose
over a low house top, the wind caught
it and away it went. The kids let
out a prolonged wall that fairly made
my heart bleed. 1t is too bad to de
stroy childish JOY and merriment.
The other episode was different
A dude with silk stove-pipe affair
got caught in young, undevelor"
cyclone and his shining snr.'r'...
was ripped off from his initial =
head and went scurrying down the
street.
it stopped at corner just as a
Joyous celebrator of the day came
along. The man carefully poked the
ha- With his cane to ascertain whether
or no the usual brick accompaniment
was under it and then gave it such a
swift, hilarious kick that it was
stabbed fairly through on a picket
fence near by and the speeches.
owner just topped over ill dead
faint.
Perhaps some of your readers re-
member some stories that appeared
periodically in some of the San
Francisco papers, relating incidents
of the famous johnson street darkey
poker club of this city. At any rate
many of them will call to mind that
Thompson street is supposed to be
the heart of the negro quarter of
great New Amsterdam.
Well, l have walked the whole
length of Thompson street twice
without seeing single darkey. The
"colored gennermen," the ''uncle
Rastuses," ode brack chillun," do
not roost on that street.
saw dagos there almost almost ex
clusively. 1t is suburb to the Null
berry street italian quarter, tho
long way removed therefrom. Only
recently l noticed in paper here
that Thompson street is the abode of
the Senators from Africa, but that is
all myth. | want your people to
be set straight on the matter at any
cost.
A characteristic of the Dago which
| have not mentioned before is the
of the women to make
beasts of burden of themselves. They
may be seen on nearly any street at
almost any hour of The day, carrying
immense piles of wood or huge sacks
Of paper scraps, cleaned from the
streets and refuse barrels. They lug
everything on their heads and can
balance a cord of wood or hundred
weight of rags as easy as you and |
.ouid fail off log or downstairs. y
they make wad of rags
o place between the load and their
skulls, bat frequently their pysche
inot is their only protection from
he hardness and weight of the pack.
ii course the jays of wood etc. fire.
luently protect them from the ele-
nents, the generous expanse of tim