Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-07-17
RANDOM TIIOCGllTS-NO =.
EY JETURO JETHRINGTON.
a Home In sight,

A Home In Sight.
Reader, have you ever suffered on
the arid wastes of southern or South
eastern Nevada from the want of food
and water? Have you ever been on
prospecting trip when your provisions
were reduced to the last crust, and
when. after riding two days without
water under Il fierce summer sun, YOU
came ut evening to a pure. rirpling
stream? If this has been part OF your
experience, YOU will always remember
the enjoyment you derived from your
first substantial meal after weeks of
partially enforced starvation. one of
those things you can never forget Is
the moment when YOU and your poor
rn-out horse reached the cooling
Stratn and drank of its bOunteous
fullness with a pleasure that water
never seemed to give before.
If. while you were suffering on the
desert from hunger, thirst and fatigue,
or from fever raging in your veins, You
tra,tive mansion, embowere / 10y state
" trees which were mirrorcd i'll the
depths of a clear lake. you would prob
ably have concluded that you were de-
tcivcd hv the mirage; but if you had
rid len towards the cheering spot and
got SO near as to see choice Seml-trOpl-
cal fruits growing i'll i spacious orch
ard, or 10 catch Il glimpse of birds OF
fair plumagc fitting among the branch
eS, and to hear their sweet warbling
noes echoed from grovet to grove, You
:light. perhaps. have thought yourself
the victim oi an enchanting dream. II.
after rubbing your eyes AMI looking
a sain. You had seen groups Of lambs
PLAYING i'll Il green pasture Htid ana
lawns samboling and racing beside
their dams ina noble deer park; il you
had seen Il trim boat sailing on the
placid lake with happy, richly dressed
children in it. and others, equally hap
nv. cniovinU themselves on the shore:
and if, after looking at all this wealth
an happiness. YOU had turned aside
saving, "thiS is no place for me,
the owner of the houS had come to
the door an | called "lIo. pro>pcctor!
don't 90 away; come i'll and rest and
make Yourself nj home; You can have
everything here You need without any
..harye:" YOU could hardly have refused
lii. invitation urthouGh. NouSclf other
wise than fortunate i'll receiving II.
And So does the man think himself
fortunate who, having listened, when
he WAS again turning into thc desert
of ,"orldlineSS. to the invitation Of the
MaS;cr of Il house not made with hu-
man hands. is allowed without money
and without price TO partakc oi It's
hountcouS cheer. Whicl, though un-
seen hv he edleSS men, is TO him, even
on earth, il reality as much as Is his
own existence.
4 NOuuct of Flowers.
ON one Fourth of July celebration
the Liberty Car, filed with beautiful
girls, WAS indeed Il ta>tetully arranged
bauuct of human flowers. \ cluster
OF boys is we'll enough in il WY, but
is only in looking at fair Young girls
that one is led to think how beautiful
the angels in heaven must hc when
such lovcliuc>S is permitted 10 visit
the earth; but it wa> impossible TO
look on the attractive picture Which
that ear presented and not have sol
enn thoughts. W here, in twenty wears.
shall all these children be? How very
ouc prove from that which her parents
have marked out for her? May not
some of these little ones be homeless
orphans ere five Years c,apSc? How
MANY of the number will death re
move in few years? Will the beau
" ot to-day last for more than short
period? Will not the soul i'll some
eases grow downward instead of up
ward? and will not the present sweet
expression of face depart with the de-
ltarture of Innocence and return no
more? These were questions which
boldly prc.cnted themselves and re-
fused To be turned away until they had
uttered their warning counsel>.
Each child entering on an earthly
career is an organized world, having Il
possible orbit in which he may revolve
around the great central Light of Life,
with happiness to himself and bless
ing> 10 others 1t * the duty and the
privilege OF parents and guardians SO
10 tram an / enlighten the opening
mind of a child that he may be GUIDED
at least to the outskirts of thai
orbit. Ca them is laid this aw
;Hl responsibility. If they evade
1t, their punishment is certain
I" come, and the hands of neglected
children Will apply the sconr@e. II
the child Who has been trained in the
paths Cf virtue refuse aS he advances
III life To walk therein, lie will go far
lher and farther into the dtrknc>s Of
infinite space, and if not brought back
hN almost miraculous power. will I've
come Il wandering star forever. On
the other hand, how different is il Will
he enid or grown-up person that Is
brought by seen and unseen influences
INTO his appointed sphere i'll the spir-
ltuai universe. and rs Il responsible be-
ing endeavors to keep in il! lie may
not always remain in his proper cir
cunt he may even at times seem to
get beyond the influence of his central
sun, and GOODNESS and apparent death
VIII be the result, but ultimately he
WIZ hnd his true place in the con'tcl-
iaIIon OF Heaven.
4 Robbery.
The owner of Il good farm of seven
Well-ianced fields made the follow ing
LIBERAL offer to poor, industrious man:
will lease YOU my land for Il period
oi Years, rent free, on the condition
that one field, which | shall name,
must always I've in pasture. do this
u cause | wish tu see Npu succe -. III
anu hap9v, and as long as you let that
one iieii res, you will prosper; but as
s'rh as Nau put the plow in il the be-
5lnning "f your ruin Will have come.
i'N having AN Enclosure in rich old
i'N. ne, You Will lac able 10 keep your
sock IN good condition. luu Will
make more money out of II than il ii
Were IN grain, and its bright green sur
"'ce VIII ALWAYS be pleasing 10 the
eye. The POOR man was greatly sur
IIl,'d at the liberality OF this otier,
anu al once agreed to its terms. For
many Years he worked the farm, and
hfo'perei, his old pasture field being
me most profitable of all tho seven.
u"c,suse 1t helped TO make the others