Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-08-10
Random Thoughts; Nc. l..
BY JRTHRo yETHR1NsroN.

By JRTHRO yETHfINGToN.
ExPERIErcE.-To know a thing br
having leathed it at some cost in
labor, disappointment or money, is a
kind Of education in the school of
experience continually going on in
the life Of every man.
The love-sick swain who. adorinp
Angelina, receives from her q final
leave of absence. passes through an
experience Of life which the old
bachelor. whose heart Curid never
wounded, Is entirely ignorant of. The
father Of twenty-one children, who
have been dandledin his stall art arms
through thousands Of hours of mid.
night screaming. has studied a score
u one chapters i'll a book into which
many men will never care to dip,
Brigham Young could write a tome
on matrimonial multiplication, and
his wives could easily tell us how il
feels to be q shareholder i'm a husband
to the extent of 10 lbs. ayoirdupuis.
An individual who filings his scant
bedroom garments to the breeze, As
he bowls along the streets with a
yawninK six-shOOter on his track, &C.
quires q kind Of knowledge few will
care to covet. The greenhorn who
constructs water works 10 find at last
he has no water, might explain how
an ass feels when baked Of his dainty
thistle.
The ranchman whose mountain
meadow of the slushy Winter turns
OI1f milo ~ mid Ank rIa~ a. A.
summer comes round, has studied
dry facts to some purpose. The miner
who has "struck it big" and vet
somehow survives his departed hopes.
suffers less from disappointment than
most men, simply because he has got
we'll used to 1t; he is fairly satiated
with ex perience Of that sort.
And So OH and on he goes. Men are
ever learning and u%nlearning what
they have previously learned. They
would be wise IL they could retain and
assimilate the wisdom they have
bought aud paid for, but it runs away
from them rs q river from its source
II We turn to experience in its rela-
ton 10 moral action. its value as All
educator of our higher nature will be
clearly seen. The man who against
the frOwns and kicks of fortune tries
to do AS far a. possible what is Just
and right to all men, and at the same
time keeps his heart pure in his Max
er's sight, learns golden lessons every
day he lives; he may be no church
member, but he is living the higher
life and may we'll make the loud
street cnrner Chris ian who permits
his wealth to bs used in swaying the
judgment of degraded jurymen blush
as in the presence of being far above
his level.
The juror who boldly refuses bride
because he knows it is intended to
make him commit an aci of robbery
for the benefit of knave, who would
just as soon send him after the x
press box, feels himself a man, while
the poor shamble-sold slave who did
his masters bidding recognizes HIM
self as little better than Il dog.
10 dare to be singular rather than
heedlessly step on an incline plane
a kind of experience OF great value.
in giving strenK h to the will and
character. Man in hisjourney through
life Is being trained for futurity. II
he finds the true orbit OF his being
and keeps in it. happy will it be for
him now and ever; but alas, there are
wandering stars OF humanity. What
is wrong to-day can not he right to-
morrow; the cedar tree shall never
bear grapes; the diamond ground to
powder is q diamond no longer.
What is the experience worth acquir-
ed in its destruction? Surely it is less
than nothing.