Arizona republican., 1892-04-24
SUNDAY THOUGHTS.

1t is by the little occurrences in ones
life that we make up our estimate o!
their character SO that ones reputation
is as often formed from trivial matters
as from weighty ones. When we
put an estimate on person it is a mat
ter Of principle and not result that con
trolls, and though that person may have
neverinjured us in anyway our estimation
Of him may be anything but hattering
You will say, "One Of the perverse in
cinations OF humanity" but you are
mistaken for it is one OF the redeemine
features OF mind still left, by the aid OF
which we can select the good and con-
denim the bad, rs 1t were, by intuition,
How often have you met people whose
very presence caused you nervousness,
and for whom without any apparent
cause you held an absolute, uncon-
querable contempt. / will venture the
assertion that it has been seldom that
you were led to change your opinion OF
such people.
There are people too, who want to get
acquainted with everyone they meet,
and will even go out OF their way to
an evidence OF travel and cultivation to
know everybody, and it takes very
little time for them to get acquainted.
After one meeting they will put hand
on your shoulders and call you familiar
names, Ii there is anything in The
world ] do despise, it is to be called by
familiar nance, and ii should ever
get so weak as to begin the practice |
want some OF my friends to dispose of
me summarially. When ii comes to
meeting these people am making no
new acquaintences. / think that an ac-
quaintance who becomes confidential
inside OF six months is altogether too
contiding for practical use, and when
one OF them begins to unburden their
woes to me am positive that | do not
wish to tell them anything, for the sim
pie reason that they will tell it to the
first one they meet, who will listen.
Once when | was east friends asked
me what kind of people lived in Arizona,
and every one of them was under the
impression that the inha bitants OF this
country were all blissiully ignorant OF
culture, and everything pertaining to
a higher life, and that is the prevailing
opinion respecting us. 1t is fact how
ever that there are more educated iu-
telligent people IN new country than
an old one, according to population. 1t is
not the ignorant who will stake all they
have on rambling venture and go into
a new country, and in the semi-civil-
lied portions OF the earth and
in all the barbarous ports of
the world the people you meet are
those who combine adventurous spirits
with education sharpened by travel.
While | would not stake much on some
qualities supposed to be possessed by
modern Arizonians, do think there are
more educated men here compared with
the mum ber OF its inhabitants than any
other place have ever been. In more
than dozen cases l know OF heart
that once beat high in the foot ball
games of Yale and Brown, that is
now covered by the woolen shirt OF
prospector, and through the mountains
of Arizona you may find in any camp
those who have the advantage OF a col
lepe recollection. Various reasons have
brought them here, but it is mostly at
tributable to the spirit OF adventure. 1t
can be truly said OF Arizona that you do
not know what a man is till you have
talked with him.