Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-01-10
HUMAN NATURE.

Human nature is the same all the
world over, as developed in either man
or woman we all rave our little pecu-
liarities and idiosyncracies, and time al
WAYS comes when they crop out more or
less AS occasion requires. The hypo-
critic always tries to conceal his real
nature, and appear other than he really
is, bu, he cannot always make it win,
he is pretty sure to be detected in the
long run for human nature will not be
kept constantly in allegiance. He may
even deceive himself in trying to hum
bug others, and, lost in contemplation
Of the silken fabric he spins, forget that
he is the dirty little worm that produces
it; he fails to sec himself as others see
him.
What is more natural than for people
to do that which they are expressly for
hidden to do? The first example of this
peculiar development, is recorded in the
Bible as having occurred in the Garden
Of Eden, where our first parents could
not let the forbidden fruit alone, and as
the sins of'the parents are ofttimes in
herited by their children, so too, we are
prone to follow their example in that
respect. The most stringent laws that
can be framed for the government of any
community are the very ones the most
sought to be evaded. Passa law to the
effec, that nobody in Gold Hill should
imbibe n drop Of whisky for three
mouths, and in less than three hours
there would be three hundred men
as drunk as lords; no other bercr-
G than whisky would do them, either.
Pass a law saying that no one should
drive over the public roads on Sundays
faster than a walk, and on that especial
day horsefesh would most surely have
to suffer. Nothing short Of a ''two-
forty" gait would suffice. Stick a sign
on your orchard fence threatening to
shoot n one entering therein to steal,
or to turn your big dog loose Mt them,
and il will be robbed inside of q week
and your dog laid out stiff with strych-
nine.
Human nature ordains that the oppo-
site sexes should be alphabetically
attracted towards each other. A man
filed with warm, vigorous blood never
eontemplates q plump, rosy-cheeked lass
without experiencing an almost irresist-
ible desire to hug her, and if she ''stands
the press" it is simply human nature.
How natural it is for men to look, when
q well-rounded female limb accidentally
becomes exposed in stepping from an
omnibus, crossing a muddy place, the
wind blowing, or by any other means
no matter who they are, they riH look,
unless they happen to be blind. In this
way even ministers or deacons may be
caught worshippiug q "false calf" same
as the Israelites did at the foot Of Mount
Sinai; perhaps no; q golden calf" but
a savdust one, which is even less e1-
eusable.
Sickness or adversely brings a man
down to his proper bedrock. Then he
finds out who his true friends are, and
addresses his physician very deferen-
TALLY as "dear Doctor" instead of
"helio /! Doc," or sold Squills," same
as he used to when he was well. He is
quite on friendly terms, too, about that
time with the men whom he formerly
considered below him in social station.
Ne finds plenty Of those who, in the palmy
days of his prosperity, befriended him
at his expense-yet now they don't seem
to know him at all. They used to ask
him to drink once, but now they don't;
they apparently regard him as a sort Of
scallywag, out Of whom they make
nothing further. He feels like the peel
of an orange that has been sucked and
thrown away. He has cause to be
thankful that they don't even kick him
some, now that he is down, and they
on their part compliment themselves on
their great inherent christian forbear-
ance in not doing so. That's human
nature.