Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-07-26

Looking About dis nj Home for a
Watermelon MAN.

looking About dis at Home for n
Watermelon Man.
Eureka is about as unliterary a place, in
one respect, as possible. Not that we are
without cultivated men and women. On
the contrary, we have a community of in
t~elligent, we'll informed people. We lave
in Eureka no mean number of persons
that are learned in the sciences and famil-
lar with general literature. What the
SENTINEL means by saying that Eureka is
an unliterary place is this: There is not one
literary institution in the town. There is
no public library; there is no association
of persons for interchange of sentiment on
educational topics; there is no historical
or scientific society, not even a debating
club. The only meetings of the kind that
are held here-and whether they are of the
kind or not is with us a mere guess-are
the reunions of the various secret orders.
There are many persons, ladies and gentle
men and the youth of both sexes, with
whom the hours of the evening are often
long and tedious, who, to speak plainly,
are a load Upon themselves-puzzled to
know 10Y to kill time. 1t is not the aim
of the SENTINEL to propose anything radi-
cal in the way of a scheme for pastime. 1t
would be, as it were, lifting up the edi-
torial voice in a wilderness with nobody to
hearken. and this paper is not ordained
for clerical work, to moralize. There is
an inevitable in the social condition as well
as in natural law. The people of Eureka
are set against heavy things, old stories,
such as dissertations on the life of Christ
and the like, as well as against
the hard labor that is necessary to fit them
for the discussions of diplomacy, as in
volved in the Egyptian question, or to
create in them the requisite enthusiasm
for graphing with such problems as the
origin of man, or whatever is expedient is
right. They speculate with much more
readiness and alacrity upon the probable
value Of d hand at poker, or upon the pos
sible outcome of q combination at q pri-
mary election. They want something
presented to them crisp aud light and
easily digested. They would like to listen
to some sprightly talker once or twice in
the evenings of the week, to a person who
could dish them up something that they
could take down with as little effort and
with as much relish as the heart of a ripe
watermelon, or a claret punch. We are
looking for that kind of a person whom
we expect to find among the men, but if
there is any woman to be found with the
adequate quantity of proverbial honey on
her lips, We will be glad to do the square
thing by the sex and trot her out pro bono
publico. There is no community that
is without its quantum of persons that are
pregnant with talk, and good talk at that.
This is the rule, and Eureka is not an ex-
ception to it,. An occasional lecture these
evenings, which are now delightful, ex-
cept for those afflicted with ennui, would
be acceptable as a change from pedro, polit-
ical vapors and the aimless, arduous work
of sloshing around until bedtime. There
is a general uprising OF the people who de-
sire to be talked to. We voice their
wishes, as always, correctly and earnestly.
There is a big opening in Eureka right
now for a talker. There are several per-
sons that we might name, several of our
lady friends, for example, that the people
would listen to gratefully. Well just
wait and see if anybody takes the hint.