Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-05-05
REMEDY FOR CURING SCANDAL
A Way to Heal Damaged Regulations
Here Presented-Prentice Mul.
= III - g f0rd's Views. =egyls ,,f
Advice to Pessimists The influence
Of Thought on Character Fully
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Scandal. .Mongering Would Die II There
We're None to Listen to It-Dan.
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Correspondence San Francisco Chronicle


Correspondence San Francisco Chronicle.
BosroN, April 20, 1SS6.-A man recentl
few years ago was prominently identife
with a notorious scandal which has bee
known'and talked Of wherever English
spoken. He was a man really OF refined il
stincts and a very different person whe
seen face to face from the being made GU
or made up by popular report and printer
ink. Because Mr.. Devil can be as black q
ink can paint him. The man fed from hi
disagreeable notoriety. While in this couu
try he kept himself secluded, and associate,
with very few. He narrowed instead O
widening his circle OF acquaintance. H
Z was very sensitive. All who really knev
him spoke OF him in high terms. Hewa
never implicated in any discreditable act
: But he was "mixed up' with certain s'noto
, rious people, and his loyalty to what b,
thought principle made him, to many
seem the tool of these people. At the out
. break of the rebellion he raised regiment
in Western State, at his own expense
} and at the end OF the war he had no gold
| in his pocket and about q quarter Of 9
pound OF Southern lead his body. He
came out OF the Beecher scandal in even g
worse plight. The lead was still in his
body. the gold out OF his pocket, and there
was an enormous rent in his reputation.
Because Of this he chose to 60 out sight
and keep out of sight.
There he make great mist ke. 1t is
mistake many Others are making. II you're
! afraid OF whatever common report NAV
say OF you and fly from it, common report
will fly after you; if you take ref ge in a
| hole and therein bury yourself, it will fol-
low you to hat hole. Ii you keep the dis
grace and stain in your reputation always
in your Mid, the world will always keep
the same in it's mind. If you drop it out OF
your mind the world will forget it ALSO If
you keep sending out thought of what
some may call your ''infamy,' the world
will keep getting that thou ht. Because
| thought is a live element always going ont
from n'ind and acting on other minds.
know two or three men in New York who
have in the past gained anything but what
the world lis clean regulations" But
they go where they please hob with the
first-class clergy aud mob with the pillars of
church and State. Why? Because they
march straight up to society and say in
manner, II demand that you receive me-"
They conform outward]y to society's
usuages, wear good clothes and good man
ners, pay their debts and makes themselves
necessary and useful.
Now, the world, which is disposed to
rake up any man or womans past will for
get that man or woman's past about as
quickly as that man or woman set to work,
forget it themselves, pitch into the current
OF event and make of themselves another
man or woman.
BEE CHER STILL POPULAR.
Why has live society forgotten so much
OF BeecheI in connection with the scandal
of eleven years ago? Because Beecher has
forgotten so much OF it himself and gone
right on with his legitimate work. I saw
him few years ago ride down Fifth Ave
nue. at the head OF the Thirteenth Regiment
of Brooklyn, whereof he is the spiritual ad- |
wiser and chief OF the praying ordnance.
Thousan Is OF people lined the avenue. It
was continued ovation all along the
route, manifested by cheering. handker-
chief-waving and clapping of hands. All
this was for Beecher. The military was
a secondary affair. He eclipsed the regi-
ment and the brilliantly attired staff with
whom he rode; which proves what the
church militant can do when it buckles ON
its armor and how successfully man can
overcome a scandal by letting it alone him
self. We who have been scandalized have
in this business been making great mis-
stake for long time. We've thought too
much of our own disgrace. We've mouthed
it over too much to others. We've remem-
bered it too much. We've talked it to
others too much. We've kept the thing
alive in our words and thought. We
should have killed it by forgetting all about
it. Wecould have killed it by forgetting it.
All the time we have spent in talking and
thinking about it represents just SO much
of our force put out to hurt ourselves.
Thought is force. Think anything and you
send that thing or element out into the air.
1t travels and puts itself in other minds.
There is no such secrecy in thought as
people have imagined. What you think
others feel.
INFLUENCE OF THOUGHT.
Scandal -mongsring would die il there was
none to listen to it. When you talk to
yourself OF the scandal attached to your
own name you are listening to scandal.
You are helping, then, to keep the scandal
ahoat- Show me q man or woman who |
will keep on talking about what some one
else had said OF them, be the same true or
false, and ! will show you a man or woman |
who loves to dabble more or less in scandal
or some form Of tattle about others.
know this, because found it out in and |
through myself. l did once love not ex-
actly to scandalize my friends out and out, |
but still to prick little holes in their reputa |
tions, on the plea to myself that it meant |
only the discussion of their natures. It's a |
dangerous amusement. love tnow to an |
extent and wieh didn't. A woman who |
is al*ays annoyed at what people are say
ing about her and running after people who |
say it and mailing lies" and liars. or the |
people whom she says are liars, does moth |
ing but resurrect and reresurrect the corpse |
OF the scandal and keep it alive. 1t is not
the world that persecutes her: it is she who |
persecutes herself and the world. This
matter OF tongue persecution needs to be
put on another basis. We've had the cart !
before the horse. We've been saying that
the world has been picking at our reputa-
tions, when more than half the picking has
been done by ourselves in keeping the
trouble alive and kicking in our own minds.
OUR DEAD SELVES.
The world will remember OF you just
what you remember OF yourself. There is
nothing but evil gained in remembering the
evil in yourself of five or ten years ago.
That is not your present self at ALL That
is a dead and buried individual. A man
or woman who has any 'go" in them
changes into quite another self every ten or
twelve years. They grow into improved
individuals with all the additions and
VaFldtIOue lucy ACpCuCCu OuCc VI UucI |
wickedness and then set to work making
themselves over again. There is no sense
in lifetime OF repentance or a lifetime of
remoree. The surest proof OF real repent
ance is getting up as quickly as possible
to make yourself into the other fellow.
The world takes every man and no man at
their own valuation and for what they are
to-day. Ed Stokes killed Jim Fisk years
ago. What benefit would Stokes have been
to himself or anybody else had he sat down
and done nothing but repent and take on
over the affair? What has he done and |
how is he now chiefly remembered? As
proprietor of one of the finest hotels in |
New York and keeper of the most palatial |
bar on the planet, where everythingis 80 |
elegant that man could not get "beastly |
drunk" there if he tried to.
POINT FOR POLITICIANS.
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