The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1885-11-21
TH1BoDAUx, LA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 1885.
Tho Heyday Of Lile.

Ane1o Will Always Do slight differ
enoe In the opinions of the young and
the mature relative to the general plan
on which the solar system should be
operated, no doubt There are also
points of disagreement in other mat
tiers. and it looks as though there al
WAYS would be.
10 the yoang the future has . more
roseate hue. Tho roseate hue comes
high, but we have to use it Ia this
place. To the young there spreads out
across the horizon . glorious range of
possibilities. After the youth has in
dorsed for All intimate friend few
times. and purchased the paper at tho
bank himself later ON, the horizon
won't seem 10 horizon 20 tumultuously
as 1t did aforetime. remember st one
time OF purchasing such piece Of &C
commodation ut bank, aud still have
it. / didn't need it any more than q
cat needs eleven tails ss one and tha
same time. Still the bank made il an
object for me, and l secured it. Such
things as these harshly knock the
fluff and bloom of the cheek of youth.
and prompt US to turn the strawberry.
box bottom side up before We pur-
chase it.
Youth is gay and hopeful, age is COW
cred with experience and scars whero
the skin has been knocked of und had
to grow on again. To the young dol
lar looks large and strong. but to the
middle-sged and the old it is weak and
inefficient.
When we are in the heyday and fizz
OF existence, We believe everything,
but after awhile we murmur, whats
that you're givin' us?" or words of like
character. Age brings caution and
lot OF shop-worn experience, purchased
at the highest market price. Time
brings vain regrets and wisdom teeth
that can be left in q glass of water over
night.
Still we should not repine. If people
would repine less and try harder to get
up an appetite by persweating in some
ones vineyard at so much per diem. it
would be better. The American people
OF late years seem to have deeper and
deadlier repughance for mannish in
dustry, and there seems to be grow
ing opinion That our crops are more
abundant when saturated with foreign
perspiration. European sweat, if may
be allowed to use such low term, is
very good in its place, but the native
born Duke of Dakota or the Earl of
York State should remember that the
matter of perspiration and posteritv
should not be left solely to the for
eigner.
There are toe maly Americans who
toll not, neither do they spin. They
would be willing to have an Office foist-
ed upon them, but they would rather
blow their so-called brains out than to
steer pair of large steel-gray mules
from day to day. They are too proud
to hoe corn, for fear some great man
will ride by and see the termination of
their shirts extending out through the
seats Of their psntaloons; but they are
not too proud to assign their shattered
finances to friend and their shattered
remains to the morgue
Pride is all right, if it is the right
kind; but the pride that prompts o man
to kill his mother because she at last
refuses to black his boots any more is
An erroneous pride. The pride that in
duces q man to muss up the carpet with
his brains, because there is nothing left
for him to do but to labor, is the kind
that Lucifer had when he bolted the &C.
tion Of the convention and went over to
the red-hot minority.
Youth is the springtime of life. It
il the time to acquire information, SO
that We may show it off in after years
and paralyze people with what we
know. The wise youth will LAY low"
till he gets q whole lot Of knowledge,
aud then in later days turn it loose in
An abrupt manner. He will guard
against telling what he knows, a little
at time. That is unwise. l once
knew q youth who wore himself out
telling people all he knew from day to
day. so that when he became q bald
headed man he was utterly exhausted
and didn't have anything left to tell any
one. Some Of the things that we know
should be saved for our own use. The
man who sheds all his knowledge, and
don't leave enough to keep house with,
fools himself.-BiN Nye. IN, the Engle-
side.
Gastronemy Among the Tartars.
On one occasion Tartar @Bek" who
had given me some food paid me the
additional ccvopy,p,opk of AoI:,- -