The Texas Miner, Volume 2, Number 19, May 25, 1895 Page: 1
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VOL. 2.
THURBER, TEXAS, SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1895.
NO. 19.
FLASHES OF THOUGHT.
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Whatever evils Day hath done.
Whatever souls have suffered wrong,
Whatever woes the falling sun
Will leave to darkness to prolong.
Thou art a dream of beauty, even !
Thou art a dower to lonely eyes;
Thou art an evanescent heaven
Descending through the languid skies.
Thou bringest rest to weary strife,
And tears to eyes that longed to weep;
Thou bring'st a hush to weary life,
A calm that deepens on to sleep.
—[L. Morrison Grant.
Yes, people change; we did. you know;
Last August, just a year ago,
You wore red poppies in your hair
That night at Brown's; I called you fair,
And you were pleased, I thought you so.
The music, throbbing soft and low,
Seemed filled with joy—or was it woe ?
I could not tell, for you were there- —
Yes, people change !
To-night your gown's like drifted snow;
The wedding-march peals softly, slow;
For Tom a bridal wreath you wear,
And I—some way I do not care.
I should have cared a year ago—
Yes, people change !
—[Helen Nicolay.
Wild blew the wind and shook the house,
The child lay trembling in his bed,
And listened like a wainscot mouse
While the blast roared on overhead.
Around the gables how it sung,
Dashed the fierce snow-sleet on the pane;
Far out to sea its^ great voice flung
And ploughed the wood, and ploughed the main.
But when the blue morning heavens smiled,
And shining lay the quiet snow,
"The wind has gone ! But," cried the child,
"Where is it when it doesn't blow ?"
—[Harriet Prescott.
Lo! on our weather bow there seems to be
A spectral ship which gives no answering hail;
Its stealthy presence makes the stoutest quail,
And as we reach to windward fast and free,
We leave the floating phantom on our lee
To drift from zone to zone without avail,
The toy of tossing tide and driving gale—
A white-robed spectre on the wide, wide sea.
High o'er the frozen bulwark flies the spray,
And through the mist a shaft of sunlight streams;
Amid the ghostly shrouds the rainbows play,
And all the frosted fretwork glints a d gleams—
Drift on to be dissolved, and then rise,
Type of the soul that dies, and r>~ver dies.
—[Lucius Harwood.Foote.
NEWS NUGGETS.
Texas has a dificiency of $496,764.
China is trying to negotiate a loan in Europe of one billion
dollars.
Five goldbugs met in Dallas and selected delegates for "sound
money."
Lord Roseberry, the ex-Premier of England, is said to be near-
mg the end of life.
Leathei has advanced in price, and good dry hides are worth
13 to 16 cents a pound.
The Prussian Diet has voted in favor of an international
agreement for bimetalism.
Coin's Financial. School is being read more generally than any
book we have ever known of.
Within a few miles of Juarez, opposite El Paso, they have dis-
covored an old Spanish gold mine.
A wire tramway has been erected at Gibralter connecting that
strong fortress with the lower town.
In Kansas they say wind mills and pumps are more effective
for irrigating purposes than rain making.
A new chance, a new leaf, a new life—this is the golden, the
unspeakable gift which each new day offers to us.
Ex-Mayor of Brooklyn Seth Low has given $1,000,000 for a
library for the Columbia College of New York City.
The coldest weather was experienced last week in New York
state than any May since 1871. Great damage resulted to fruit
crops.
Lombard street will be well advised to heed, and to heed
quickly, the demand for reform before it changes into a clamor
for restitution.
Hancock of Austin thinks he knows all about the evils that
free coinage would inflict upon the country, and he is as anxious
as a little boy with a new whistle to be heard.
The Southern Pacific railroad has fitted up a train with all the
apparatus necessary for creosoting ties, and can treat them at
any spot where there is an accumulation of ties.
Japan has conceded the demand of Russia, France and Ger-
many, that she would not premmently occupy a portion of the
territory conceded to her by the treaty with China.
It is said that Whitelaw Reid is trying to be the nominee of
the Republican party as vice-President, with Levi P. Morton at
the head. Too much goldbugism in that deal to succeed.
Goldbug Horace White calls Coin's Financial School a "finan-
cial fool." All right, Horace; it is read and talked about more
than you or your writings will ever be, if you live a century.
A telegram from New York to Australia has to go nearly 20,-
000 miles, 15,000 of which are by submarine cable, and it is-
handled by fifteen operators—[Boston Journal of Commerce.
Democratic officeholders must think as Grover Cleveland does
or "get up and get." The edict has gone forth. Bow down to
your master, you have no right to think—Grover will do that for
you.
John W. Foster of Ohio, who was Secretary of State in Har-
rison's administration, and was wisely chosen by China to act in
the peace negotiations, has received from that Government one
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 2, Number 19, May 25, 1895, newspaper, May 25, 1895; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200509/m1/1/: accessed May 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.