The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 52, January 12, 1895 Page: 4
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THE 1 ELXAS MINER.
THE TEXAS MINER
WALTER B. McADAMS, EDITOR.
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Entered at the Post-Office in Thurber, Texas, as Second-Class Mail Matter.
Thurber, Texas, Saturday, January 12, 1895.
MENTAL SELF=CONTROL.
will often develop into jealousy, anger and hatred; while, on the
other hand, pure and noble thoughts cherished will make the
character more pure and noble. We can brood upon our
troubles until they become unbearable, or we can dwell upon
our blessings until our hearts are melted into thankfulness. We
can ponder over the faults of our neighbors until we are imbued
with disppproval and contempt, or we can muse upon their re-
deeming qualities till the kindly sympathies of our nature assert
themselves. Self-companionship, indeed, is more influential in
forming character and regulating life than any other intercourse.
It is more constant, more unconstrained, more absolutely sin-
cere. Yet, to make its influence truly salutary, we must direct
its course, and not suffer it to drift with the wind and tide. We
must be master of our thoughts, as well as of our actions; we
must control the mental pictures in which we indulge, as much
as the words which issue from our lips.
THE COLUMBIA CLUB OF TENNESSEE.
WE would have said all of this if we could have said it as
well. Following is taken from the Philadelphia Ledger:
There is one part of personal culture which receives verv little
consideration, i. e., the direction and guidance of the thoughts.
The habits we acquire, the principáis we espouse, the duties-we
perform or neglect, the temptations we resist or yield to, the
words we speak and the influences we exert are matters upon
which we are often urged to be vigilant; but the thoughts and
imaginings which pass through the mind are seldom brought up
for scrutiny. There are two reasons for this—first, they are so
entirely hidcten from others that all the class of motives which
include the hope of esteem or the fear of censure are quite inop-
erative; and, secondly, we are accustomed to consider them so
involuntary as to prevent any serious sense of responsibility.
The first of these reasons is undoubtedly operative. No one
but ourselves knows what we are thinking about; therefore, we
can be held accountable for our reflections only to our own con-
sciences. The second, however, is only partly correct. Im-
pressions and conceptions do float through our minds unbidden;
but we are not unable to arrest them, to correct them, to turn
them into other channels, or to dismiss them altogether. The
power to do this resides in every sane person, and the degree to
which it is developed marks with tolerable certainty the " strength
of the mind and the manliness of the character. There are weak
and indolent dreamers who are slaves to their fancies, who
care not to break their chains, and whose ability to do so is
steadily diminishing. Yet, even in them it may be reinstated,
nor is it ever wholly extinct, save in those unfortunate cases
when, through disease or injury, reason has been driven from
her throne.
The human mind is never wholly inactive in its waking hours.
No matter how passive or how idle we may be, the thoughts and
the fancies are busy, with or without our will. Sometimes, in-
deed, they act energetically, in obedience to our purpose. We
set ourselves to work to think out a problem, to weigh an argu-
ment, to 'arrive at a decision, to fathom an idea, to consider the
details of a plan or a piece of work, and our thoughts serve us
well or ill, according to their training. To think consecutively
and to a conclusion is one of the supreme arts of life, and the
power to do it is one of the best gifts that education can bestow.
Beyond this, however, there is a vast amount of musing and
meditation that seems to go on within us involuntarily. Pictures
rise up of the past as it was or might have been, of the future as
we hope or fear it may be. These are more or less vague and
indistinct; but they either grow in clearness or fade away, accord-
ing to the interest they excite within us. Sometimes these float-
ing notions will take the form of suggestions, and will pass into
real purposes, which are put into execution. In the words of
another, "The mind plays with the picture of them, until sudden-
ly the picture becomes a fact." Many a crime, from which the
doer would have shrunk in horror, has slowly, shaped itself in
hours of secret meditation; and from long familiarity in solitary
thought has lost its repulsiveness, and assumed a strength and
proportion sufficient to create the actual deed. On the other
hand, many an act of duty or self-sacrifice, at first supposed to
be impossible, has, by continual contemplation, become so at-
tuned to the disposition that it has been performed with ease and
even with pleasure.
Even where these imaginings are not realized in active life, they
promote various mental conditions and nourish various emo-
tions. A faint suspicion entering the mind and brooded upon
WE wish that we had the space to reproduce all of Hon.
William R. Moore's speech at a meeting called to ratify
the election of a Republican Governor, Henry Clay Evans. We
• |UOte a few words at the opening:
"Mr. President, Gentlemen of the Columbia Club and Fellow
Citizens: The 'Solid South' is broken. The brazen idol of De-
mocracy is irrecoverably shattered, and Henry Clay Evans, a
true and tried Republican, and a man in all respects worthy the
people's confidence and regard, is now the Governor-elect of the
great state of Tennessee.
"To the material interests oí the state this event, measured by
a money value, is worth, prospectively, 50,000,000 (fifty million)
dollars. Its value to all the Southern states, as a whole, is indi-
rectly simply beyond computation.
"Let us, therefore, thank God and take courage, and in enter-
ing upon our splendid victory let us do so temperately and with
a wise discretion."
If this great state of Texas could do what Tennessee did at
the last election it would be worth more than $50.000,000 to the
state, and add 10,000,000 inhabitants to the population.
"DON'T LIKE YOUR PAPER. D—N YOUR POLITICS."
WELL, my dear fellow, we do not expect you, or any of
your kind, to like us; in fact, to tell you the honest truth,
we don't want you to like us, for if such men as you did like us
we would be dead sure we were on the wrong track and would
have to switch. Your letter gives us the assurance that we are
on the right track, and that we won't be run down by the mogul
engine of free, independent, thoughtful public opinion—that seems
at present to have courage, honesty, intelligence as the engineer
so, my dear boy, keep on d—ning us. You and all your ilk
will have to take a back seat; prejudice, ignorance and cursing
won't win in the latter part of the Nineteenth century. As an
offset to your letter, every mail is bringing letters from gentlemen
who have brains, who have education, who desire only the wel-
fare of this country, who give us words of good cheer, so good-
bye. We remember an adage you might read with advantage.
You will find it in the 26th chapter of Proverbs, nth verse, and
27th chapter, 22nd verse.
"The Cleveland Administration," says the New York Re-
corder, "has been from the start, and is to-day, the political crea-
ture and cat's-paw of the International Usurers' League. It was
in the interest of that combine of money lenders that it first dis-
credited silver and closed our silver mines, and it is in its inter-
est that it is now trying to crowd a bank-note-inflation bill down
the throat of Congress. The ulferior purpose of that bill is to
force the retirement of all the legal tenders, compel other and
larger gold-bond issues, and transfer the entire power of issuing
money from the people's Congress to the parlors of the banks."
Cleveland's Rump House of Representatives ought to do
something before they go into "innocuous dessuetude"—put the
Nicaragua canal through, so you won't drop out with eternal in-
famy, and without a line to your credit.
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 52, January 12, 1895, newspaper, January 12, 1895; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200499/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.