The Nevada journal., 1856-08-22

Ter yarn than this would, in most COM
munities, be regarded as fish story,
but we live in an age of miracles.
This is a whopper. Why viii the
wags stuff "L0lelitums" with such trash!
Nobody Will believe word of it.
TAKEC oURAGE-.The following article
from the Chronicle, is worth mint. To
those who have suffered the reverse of
fortune by the late fire, does it especial
ly come with healing in its wings. Not
one among our unfortunate citizens, but
will step lighter, with a more cheerful
heart and a irmer determination, after
perusing these soul-inspiring words:
Last night we sew man full grown,
more than thirty years Of age, apparent
ly weeping, crying, sobbing, by the
street side. He was pouring out TO
some friend the torrent of his sorrows.
We passed as quickly as possible, for
grief is sacred, and few sights are more
disagreeable than that Of strong man
IN mental agony. Unknown to us are
the the causes of that mans tears. Bat
they are a text for reflection. All, how
many hearts are as sad as his, how ma
ny spirits, brave and daring, but pressed
down by long and continued disappoint-
ment and misfortune, are almost ready
to rive ND the STRUGGLE, to Weld the
fight, perhaps just at the moment Of fer.
tunes relenting.
Man of toll and disappointment, yield
not yet, strike one bold stroke more
1t is the last days labor which brings
the miner to the golden deposit
For years he has worked away at pick
and shovel, drifting into the solid rock,
through the mountains firm base. Eve
ming NAV ind him weary and discoura-
ged; but the faith that the gold is there,
just ahead of his pick, and Natures
sweet restorer, balmy sleep" reinvigo-
rate mind and body, and the morning
finds him again at his task. His only
chance IS to persevere, and he knows
it, Perhaps of all the regrets express
ed by miners for their past mistakes,
none are so common as those for having
commenced working claims, and having
grown weatv and abandoned them.
Now every profes ion among men
may be considered "clainl." Iomake
Il 9ay you must work. To secure sue
ee you Ianst persevere. Whether law
So or ~ rorchant Db-,esgycsiisss,,- or farmer,
ditlh-digger or editor-two professio... !. :
the most laborious aud alike thankless
and unrewarded-work, work, work is
the motto, the unfailing fate Of him who
enters and would succeed, a fate as un-
falling as that pronounced against the
w andering Jew-"march, march -
There is no rest. Youmust work if you
would win. You must have faithin your
eventual success to sweeten your toll
Anticipation wipes the brow of labor,
and the triumph looming up ahead, will
fan the sweaty face like breeze, and
make the heart strong.
Oh, man of disappointment, once more
take courage. You are not alone in find
ing as yet your toll unrewarded. This
city is full of such, full of earnest, toll
ING men who have struggled long and
well, and who struggle still, although
their toll of years has brought them no
adequate return. They still are work
inc their s'claim," and they viii yet
break through the inner crust and find
their pile, which has been put there
hv God for their especial use
Where is his manhood who yield. 10
misfortune, though thousand times re-
heated? For our own part we have
more pride than Fortune has of antipa-
thy, and we had rather die IN manly
contest with her than expire with her
eyes plying us.
It IS not unmanly even to weep at the
proper.i me. But the tears that fall at
misfortune should serve as showers to
purify the souls atmosphere, lay the