Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-12-07
EDITORIAL

5 BOOTS. lie was In the most &C.
static mood possible, whenever any one
would indulge him in this Whimsical de-
lire, that was apparently sane enough
IN pretty much all other subjects. The
'ellow married a strongminded woman
With a terrible big foot, at last, and she
broke him Of it. The first time she
made use of him to extract her hugo
brogans, she gave him a kick in the rear
which sent him spinning into a orn
She said that was the way she always
disposed of q boot-jack after using. He
stand that. It destroyed all
the romance of the thing. Bishop War
tells of a man who thought him
self a goose pie; and DR.. Farreday, of
Manchester, had a patient who thought
he had swallowed the devil. In Paris
there lived q mar who thought he had,
with others, been guillotincd, and when
Napoleon vas Emperor, their heads
were restored, and in the scramble he
had got the wrong one A newspaper
editor fancied that he was a paragraph,
and rs he lay in bed, debated whether
he should rise altogether or sentence by
sentence. Who has not seen the man
who thought himself eminently quail
fed to be a leading character in the
political world ; a statesman and who
therefore on all public occasions is eter-
nally intruding and rendering himself
disagreeably conspicuous with his loud
mouthed vaporings? Then, too, there
is the minister of the gospel ; he who
dons the priestly. robes, and imagines,
and would have people believe him to
be an emulous follower of the meek and
lowly Jesus, who cursed not those who
despitefully used and prosecuted him,
but said if man smite thee upon one
cheek, turn unto him the other ALSO"
Just write or say anything that he
doesn't like, and see how quick world
ly spirit of belligerency will animate his
spirit. He'll forget all about the Chris
tian doctrines and precepts he breaches,
and respond in the same bitter revenge
full style and language a any other man
Of the world.
In the eyes of the world, stealing i,
generally considered a crime, busgettiug
caught at it is q far greater, in fact
objectionable, in many instances. There
is no merciful consideration shown
towards a Chinese chicken thief, q
petty larceny rogue, q neon burglar, or
a ~pickpocket. All such low trash are
considered even unworthy ofredemption.
1t is your deep, smooth, heightened
rogue, moving in the upper circles Of
society, who gets the sympathy and all
feasible assistance, in case he happens
to get caught in any Of HE sly rascal.
ties. The upper ten never like to have
it to say that any one of their number
has to be put in prison. 1t sounds
vulgar aud unpleasant. Scores of meu
have taken advantage Of positions o.
trust and responsibility they may
occupy, to use the money of other:
placed in their charge, specializing or
their own account. If they were sue
c~essful, no one was the worse or wiser
and the sly rogue stands before the
world, envied as the personi6cation o.
o smart, successful business man
respected by all. He may become O
pattern of morality, yea, in the spiri;
of self-atonement he may rel join the
church and occupy a costly pew therein.
But woe, woe. is the portion of the
unlucky wight who commits the crimi-
nal mistake of getting caught in the
midst of his rogueries, from not having
covered up his tracks properly. In
such a case the world may forgive the
sin, but the blunder, w
1t is said that about half of the best
choir singers in New York are profess
sional Ministries, who, on Sunday, SUBJ
stitute the psalms of David for burnt
cork ditties. In San Francisco, or in
fact in any other leading city, fine
churches require fine singers, accord
ingly none but the best vocalists are
engaged, and at adequate salaries, too.
Talent in that line is secured, let it be
operatic, ballad, or minstrel singers, as
long as they are reasonably respectable,
and especially well posted in sacred
music. The real tastefulness of the
idea is perhaps correct enough, and in
fact it is generally conceded that Watts
hymns would sound far more attractive
sung by the voices of nightingales than
by those of hawks. The varieties of
musical instruments made use Of in
church is far more circumscribed. The
organ, bass viol, flute and violin mot
"6ddle") are all acceptable, but the
bones, tamborine and banjo never.
According to latest statistics, there
are 437 1884 widows in the State of New
York, and only 44,s04 widowers, or
nearly ten widows to one widower. It
is difficult to account for this uncom-
Portable discrepancy, unless it may be
that the moro enduring love within the
female heart, eherishiug the memory of
the dear deceased, disinclines the widow
from the formation of a new matrimo-
NAL alliance, while the bereaved widow
err, impelled by the a%ggravation of hav-
ing only himself to care for, goes and
commits suicide, or recklessly marries
again.
THE fair sex of this State, says the
Stockton Independent, seem constantly
in trouble-or, rather, determined to