The Texas Miner, Volume 2, Number 22, June 15, 1895 Page: 1
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VOL. 2.
THURBER, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1895.
NO. 22.
FLASHES OF THOUGHT.
"Why is it all men crave for wealth?
Ah, wealth untold
Is good enough, yet is not health
Worth more than gold?
And as each day, that ne'er returns,
But joins the past,
Comes and goes by, the rich man toils
Hard at his task.
No time for thought or anything
But just his wealth.
Can he be dreaming life's for aye?
Now fails his health,
And death comes in and beckons him away.
Pleasures ne'er spent
Are lost, for this rich man
Spent not nor lent.
Good that was in his hands to do
He left undone,
Forgetting in his race for wealth
Life's setting sun !
His thoughts all lay in how to make
One dollar seven;
And then, too late, he found for gold
There's no demand in heaven."
—[Gladys Dudley Hamilton.
She sat on a sliding cushion,
The dear wee woman of four;
Her. feet in their shiny slippers
Hung dangling over the floor.
She meant to be good; she had promised;
And so, with her big brown eyes,
She stared at the meeting house windows,
And counted the crawling flies.
She looked far up at the preacher,
But she thought of the honey bees
Droning away in the blossoms
That whitened the cherry trees.
She thought of the broken basket,
Where curled in a dusky heap,
Three sleek, round puppies, with fringy ears,
Lay snuggled and fast asleep.
Such soft, warm bodies to cuddle,
Such queer little hearts to beat,
Such swift, round tongues to kiss you,
Such sprawling cushiony feet!
She could feel in her clasping fingers
The touch of the satiny skin.
And a cold wet nose exploring
The dimples under her chin.
Then a sudden ripple of laughter
Ran over the parted lips,
So quick that she could not catch it
With her rosy finger tips.
The people whispered: -'Bless the child!"
As each one waked from a nap,
But the dear wee woman hid her face
For shame, in her mother's lap.
—[Exchange.
NEWS NUGGETS.
The printing machine was invented in 1814.
The telegraph was invented by Morse in 1835.
The first steamboat was run on the Hudson river in 1807.
The Tammany Hall judges are all going to be removed by
Mayor Strong.
The Illinois Central railroad has ordered 1300 freight cars, to
cost $650,000.
There has been a tidal wave on the coast of Peru that caused
destruction of property.
It is said Cleveland has giyen notice to Secretary Morton to
"dry up" in his financial talks.
Young Moses Taylor, worth *$40,000,000, it is supposed will
marry in the Vanderbilt family.
The French steamer Dom Pedro was wrecked off Cadiz re-
cently and eighty lives were lost.
Hon. John Henry Brown, who was mayor of Dallas in 1885-
6—7, died at Dallas May 31, aged 75 years.
There have been extensive forest fires in the Pennsylvania oil
regions, which destroyed an immense amount of property.
Goldites may sound the slogan of "50-cent dollars," "sound
money," but it won't work with educated American citizens.
The Dallas News is going wild over Dallas having a chance of
a prize fight between Corbett and Fitz'simmons coming off in that
city.
Governor McKinley, your John Sherman goldbug views will
kill your chances of being the next President. Make a note of
this.
Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst sailed from New York June 8 on
the Teutonic for Europe, and will spend the summer in Switzer-
land.
There have been contracts given out for building 22,030 rail-
road cars in 1895, which will cost $10,000,000.—[Railway Ga-
zette.
We exported in 1894, 71,880 tons of copper. Spain and
Portugal, that formerly supplied England with copper, "ain't in
it" now.
Cleveland is about ready to move to Buzzards Bay. In that
silent retreat he can study up the effect of his manifesto to the
Illinois Democrats.
Dollars will be wedded to dollars when young Borden marries
Miss Sloane. She is the granddaughter of W. H. Vanderbilt
and he is the heir to a large estate.
Oscar Wilde is not insane, as has been reported. On the con-
trary, the weekly report of the governor of Pentonville prison to
the home office says he is doing well.
Chauncey Depew says he is not a candidate for Presidential
honors. If he is not, then he- thinks a goldbug stands a poor
chance in the next Presidential contest.
The first car of 1895 wheat arrived at St. Louis Saturday from
Coffeyville, Kan., grading No. 2 red. The car was auctioned off
for the call at the premium of 95 cents.
A fight to a finish in a twenty-foot ring between Mr. Carlisle
of 1878 and Mr. Carlisle of 1895 would draw a crowd and prove
an intellectual treat. The certainty that the latter would be
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 2, Number 22, June 15, 1895, newspaper, June 15, 1895; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200512/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.