Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-06-19
Communicated
The Future,

AS
We are all intere ted i'm the future:
IL Is upon it that our hopes are con
centrated. An eminent poet says:
The Past is nothing, and, at last.
The Future can be but the Past"
This resolves our lives into nothing.
Yet we are unwilling to take SO trifing
a view of life. There is much to live
for, and while many OF our former
hopes and anticipated pleasures may
lie buried in the grave of the Past,
yet there is a weli-spring in our breast
that should always furnish a new
supply. Without this there would lie
but little inducement to live castle
building, generally a source of great
pleasure, would not be INDUCED in,
and as a o sequence, life would be
burdensome and gloomy. For in
stance, boys and girls between the
ages of ten and fifteen may and do
find happiness in the enjoyment of
the present; but their greatest source
of enjoym ent is in the anticipation of
the future. Plans are laid as to what
they will do when they shall have ar
rived at the aye when they must step
out in the theatre of life and bear q
responsible part In its affairs. Boys
have aims, and discuss them intently,
each one taking his own view of the
future: the professions, trades, and
other pursuits in lite. One will he a
lawyer, and how justly and ably will
he stand up in the courts Of Justice
II defend the innocent and punish
the guilty. Another will adopt physic
As his profession, and life will I've de-
voted to the amelioration of suffering
humanity. Another will select the
Christian ministry, and attempt to
save souls from future woe and des-
pair. The ambition of another will
be to become a mechanic, or a mer-
chant, and so OH until the whole field
OF life and labor is surveyed. 1t is a
well-knOwn fact, that there is often
times more pleasure in anticipating
our future than there is in its realiza-
ton. So, too, we might speak of the
little miss of ten years old. aud follow
her along until she passes the stage of
girlbOOd, and finds herself a young
lady with the beaux dancing attend
ance upon her; her early hopes in this
respect are realized, but the realiza-
ton would be unsatisfactory if there
were not other anticipations suggest
ing themselves. She nov looks for
ward to courtship and marriage, and
travels on, living more on the antici-
patton of the future than in the reali-
cation of the present or the recollec-
tons of the past.
We have a few suggestions to make
to u young friends as to their course
through life. If you wish to be sue
cessful and enjoy lite, you must form
habits of virtue, temperance and
morality. TO the young men we
would say, be honest, industrious and
sober; for with these virtues success
in life is almost certain, and your
future will be an honorable and a
happy one. We inquired one of a
man. who at an earlv age reached an
eminent position in life, and who had
a model wife and five little children,
two of whom were girls, the others
boys, what were his plans for the
future of his children? He said, $50
far as my boys are concerned, l would
have them intelligent, moral, manly
and brave; and as for my girls, l wish
to have them educated, and particu-
larly would l have them cultivate
that grace which so highly adOrns a
woman-modesty." Do you not think,
reader, that his standard was
worthy of adoption by all?
DIR. MELANCHOLY.