The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1897-10-27

some Gambling Thoughts.
BY "NEMo,

To YOUTH OF BoTH SExEs:-Come
now, let Fancy lead US over the fields.
barred of their crops. 1t is a human
privilege to think, and we do not
half live unless we live in order to
think, and most of us will not half
live unless we think in order to live.
With this slight depression let us turn
to the bare fields. One thought at
least we must take away. The winter
is to me Il type of old age, for then do
people live on the crops gathered in
autumn after summer Of attention
following a spring of seeding. That
is old age exactly time for feed
ing on the stores of memory. Little
food in winter means much hunger,
cold and suffering. Little of wise,
kind, noble action and thought to
look back upon, means an old age of
nagging regrets, empty hands and
shrunken, chilled heart. Come now,
there Is no escaping that conclusion.
Every day is adding TO your store of
,old-age memories. What are they to
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feed, OF hasks and ofT-scourings unfit
for human being?
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Let us venture on another thought;
You cannot name step in the whole
history of crop that is unimportant.
What about blowing? 1t must be
seasonably done and well. What
about fertilizing? Suited Il, the soil
and the crop. Done with the best
available seed. And as for caltiya-
ting? Life and vigor are only
brought by apparently endangering
both in the seeding. And 50 on, and
so on:-your active brains, having
already possibly outrun me. Turn
the thought on yourself! Why
should you venture in your spring
time TO endanger winter stores by
letting the happy years of joyous,
wholesome youth, become mere catch
alls for ADJUSTMENTS and thoughts
that later you would fain forget.
The mind is so whimsical an organ
that those things we need to recall,
often most easily escape us, and the
things that are of no gain To us we
most tenaclously remember.
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Yet no field is free entirely from
weeds. We scarcely know how they
come. Nor can twenty years pass
over our heads in the spring time of
life without the accumulation of
mental weeds. The chief things is
to recognize the difference between
them and the good growth, and then
Cultivate, cultivate, cultivate, y
persistently covering the foul growths
so that they do not choke the good.
You have to be stern about such
doings, for you cannot possibly show
me food plant that has anything
like the vitality Of a weed.
Work with will for the summer day
Slips like stealthy snake away,
Nothing viii tell that it, hours are by
| Nought but the grain ar the famine cry.
How often too the husbandman
actually endangers the growing stalk
to pull away from its very roots a
weed that would soon rob it of its
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at first, but the wise man sees ahead
and knows the risk OF unclean helds'
The iilppant Jokes about the purity
of men and women are small III thelr
way, but the end is an unclean mind'
and an unclean mind In OLD age IS one
of the most woe-begonc, unworthily
developed, and unsatisfactory prod
ucts of human life that you can pos
sibly meet. So wrench ana tug at the
things that universal experience says
are noxious, and not good for mental