Mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal.) 1854-1860, 1858-02-27
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Among auerlsts Il has sometimes been great que
~ how men become white, yellow, red or black but
TO u.s. a much more important query u presented
How do the different mental shades ariseY The glad
and gay or the sad and foreboding, the etohc, the
passive the active the energetic, the inemcient Let
some sage philosopher take \ In BIS head &c inquire
Into this matter, aud make himself prsctcal man
BY doing some good 10 the world.
lit really be better To be wise man than fool,
II be better to be happy and at the same time use
full than TO be an incumbrance on the soil thaL sus-
tnIps YOU, and piously Rrunt about Gods Prov
idence, then let the wise ones study into te causes
Of all these things. reduce It to science and intro.
duce Il ~ study Of paramount Importance mo All
the departments Of liic We have Immense volumes
90 how to think, give one fourth IS many on now
to do. Earnestly urge upon al the duty OF oOeylng
all dictates for physical improvement, Tor 20 sure -
all mental demonstration must be made through
physical organization, Just 80 sure VIII our
thoughts bear the impress Of that organization. II
We build house, and put match to the shsVlhgs
under Il and 1t burns down, or IL we NC IN Oeu IN
the Spring, aud In harvest get hungry aud cut our
own throAts, We would not prate very extensively
about the dea ing Of Providence, though no one we
believe, can possess more comprehensiVe ldea OF
the lnnitude Of Gods gracious provdences than our
sci. III fact We behave that God provided that all
should be happy, and II 10 only by dlsoOedience
TO his pn injunctionS, that We forfeit the most de-
Slrable good. There Is, however, much meaning 10
the words: 1.-THE sins Of the fathers shall be visited
upon the children, to the third and fourth genera.
ton" Time Is required to DELIBERATE the effects OF
past sins, even though thorough repentance and
spring of Incidence and refinement us It Is termed)
IL made q cruel disqualification Of the text. These
reflections are induced by observing people, and
more especially children In California. q country
free from sickness than this State could not we'll
BE-, and only that know the allotted life Of man Is
short, and that death must come In some shape, we
should almost look upon death as problenlatcal.-
There 10 seldom any sickness, unless Is brought on
by the most desperate Of dissipation, bor
or exposure.
Whv it? Isit because our climate Is the best In
the worldf This, doubt, Is one great reason, but
there others, less prominent perhaps, but none
the less in their influence, nor 10 this influence
BY any means d secondary one. Fathers and moth
ers came here, some OF them had never done days
work at home and never meant to they could help
IT, They start,-ffiends expect them to die on the
plains but the gil ter OF the yellow dust Is rressta-
bly, stduclive; and said they are started ,-Once
started, 1t Is not so easy getting lack, and next
comes real practical fear that they will die on the
plains. Then their first practical lessons;
they throw away the rocking chairs and the tongs,
sit Oh log and poke the fire with their fingers
Next the wagon body Is cut down, one horse Is en-
rty given out they throw out the trunks aud spring
seats and sit and sleep on the valuables that have
been suved from the trunks Next the shines nO body
brings shoes enouEh) nre oil worn out but one pair,
those be- sound TO into the sediments with,
they ScuH in the old ones or Wear mOccasnB, or
even worse. go without (some do). Next the wagon
comes to two wheels, with few edibes and these
reduced TO bread and polk or may be no pork, with
no chance whatever to ride But this has long
ceased to be n trouble II IL over six weeks since
sick even delicate person has been heard OF In
the train, and could tell by the look, for they
all have the same durable color, q healthy brown,
and II merry countrnances and sparkling eyes be
any Indication o. health, they must all be rs we'll rs
heart could wish But what has done all this ! Prov
idrnce! Providence yes, Of course it is Provi-
dence made the laws, and you, perforce for one time
Ain your life have Obryed them. That Is, your food
aud your exercise have for once correspondent. aud
your compulsory exercise has het in the open Ar. by
the time they get 10 gown thev have need for
dOcois by the way wonder how the doctors do geta
living any how? Well, aS for the children, they
themselves roll in the dirt, eat II by the hand
full ill they digest their o,d with gravel like chick
en, ind 60 In the house II they can help it, and
this necessity seldom occurs, as our weather Is al
most invariably delightful. Young America shovels
fights rolls in the MUD, wadrs the creek slides down
hill on u Single delivers addresses, ltarns Ills les
soii, propounds propositions philosophers could not
answer, and gives fair promise OF doing rom ettin0
Now the great secret Of all this mil aCle is, plain
food for all and work for the old folks and plenty Of
outdoor exercise for the children. What is regard
ed as earth's most peculiar curse and sorrow, toll
and want Of luxury, becomes her highest bles sing