Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-17
MUTANTUR.
The Ups and Downs of Life on
the Pacific Slope.

"The times change" and so do
mems condition in life. The vicissi-
tudes OF fortune on the Pacific Slope
are of so common an occurrence that
no one stops to consider them. Rich
to-day, poor to morrow; a lucky
strike, an unfortunate speculation. and
we hurry on, not having time nor in
clination to pity or envy; for while so
doing, our own turn of the wheel of
fortune nay come and escape our no.
tice if we be not OH the lookout to seize
it. And so we go on in this happy
go lucky race, exercising TO the full
bent this essential American charac-
t~eristic. We were led into this train of
thought by o~verhearing a %onversa
ton of a party of gentlemen who were
stating some of the positions formerly
held by men now engaged in la
porers' work at the Richmond
furnaces, but they seemed TO for
get that their own career fur
nished as striking examples as the
ones they were discussing. One OF the
gentlemen was educated for the min
istry, came to the coast in '49, and was
by turns a miner, expressman, saloon
keeper, ballad singer in a minstrel
troupe, kept a hotel, and run for office,
and has finally settled down as a re-
spectacle county official. Another one
of the party came here in early days
and turned his hand to any odd job
that fell in his way until his ability
procured him a position with n OF
our largest mining companies and he
acquired a competence. Still another
was one of our popular saloon keepers
in II, and is now superintendent oil
the - Compauy's works and has
fortune in his grasp. The only poor
devil in the lot was a member of the
" art ~preservative;" he had followed
his profession for thirty years and
found himself at last poor, but honest.
The examples quoted in the converse
ton were ofthose who had commenced
at the top of the ladder and were now
at the foot. One of these was an Indi-
ana banker, who had a fortune be-
queathed him and carried on a flourish
ing business in Indianapolis. Unfor'
tunate speculations bankrupted him
and he is now engaged in the honor
able but laborious work of wheeling
Stag at the Richmond furnaces. An.
other is a learned philologist and had
been a professor of languages in an
eminent European college. Family
troubles sent him wandering, and ne
finally brought up in Eureka, where
his accomplishments serve him to nc
purpose, unleSs it be to think over hi'
fallen fortunes in half a dozen differ
ent tongues as he feeds ore to the fur
naces. A third is a graduate of the
French Polytechenic Institute and has
occupied a position as draughtsmar
under three different European Gov
ernments. A rowing disposition lee
him to the State of Nevada, and hi
pays the penalty of his erratic life by
handling charcoal sacks at the Rich
mond bins. We could extend our lis
indefinitely, but Il readers no doup
have have met men with the sam,
experiences daily. We note this on
difference of race, that while the Amer
lean chafes at the fall OF his forum
and is constantly on the Qut otre I
better his condition, the old world cit
lien accepts the situation in \ phlegmal
ic way as one of life's dispensatlons
and as a rule adandons all aspirations