Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-08-01

when he flung his ink-stand athim; b,
the devil was created out of Luther
70 whims. Medical students get all sorts
diseases by working over then, or stud!
lag about them. "Wbat, get the rheI
3 matism by having within that 20
have?"
Nothing easer. Half the diseases e
ing are of that sort; mind made. Mer
whims, but real, for all that. Then, 20
see, the mind curers come in, and the
have q good field oft. What the min
has done it can undo.
. Then you believe in nina cure an
faith cure and all thst?"
My fair questioner, there are two way
of believing; you may believe thin!
occurs and you may believe it is what l
is, asserted to be. Yes, believe tn
mind cures what the mind causes; ant
when two or three mindsconcentrates 81
q given object they can do good dea
that one cannot do alone. For instance
the sympathy of good friend will hell
you to overcome sorrow. It wi i also
give your body strength. But do mo-
believe that faith can cure in any Other
way; and when practitioners claim to be
aided by the Holy Ghost, and supernat-
. ural forces in genera, they are simply
humbugged or humbugging. As q rule
they are themselves humbugged. 1t is
q whim. "But when the sick throw
away clutches and get of beds from
which they have not been able to rise
for monthsp Whims, madam! Hon.
est whims! Very serious whims! And
these faith doctors are just the ones to
cure them. The old witch doctor did as
well. They worked wonders. There
will always be plenty of room for mira
cles in this world, and of course there
will be miracle workers.
Here is serious story told by noted
doctor of divinity of a woman who pray.
ed for piano. Some one just then gave
her $25 from a charity fund, and she
bought SIS piano! The doctors whlm
is that such things are demo 1stration
of the power of prayer. Intellectual
whims, you see, of such sort make life
very fantastic. When a man gets a
within of a religious sort he makes it ap-
ply everywhere. Then he adds the pc
culiar within that his whims are sacred,
and it is profane to NEEDLE with his
whims. OF course, the step is an easy
one from that to hate and injure the
sacriligious scofers. Whims, madam
heve been the cause of great deal of
trouble and great deal of persecution.
"Whims, you would say, are catching,
then" Nothing more 80. The witch
wbim, you know, spread like kindled
tow. Nobody believes in witches now;
but 200 years ago a dried up old woman
had always to face the danger that some
fdgety person would whimsey that she
was witch. And they were bewitched!
Couldn't have been more 80; bewitched
by the within. The whim tortured them;
put them into contortions; gave them a
thousand sensations, and all were laid |
to the poor old woman or q black cat |
Whims are as often in the foot or in the |
back as in the head; and more than
likely to be in the stomach. Half the
people in this town if on a roof would |
feel an impulse to jump off. There's N. |
insists it's the devil that rises to push |
him off. Devils and witches are brain
madam.
Do you see that black fellow out there
Yes, he does cut it down Won
derfully. He has whim that is worth
81 day to me. 1t is that he is the
man in the United States. l
suppose or an average ten men in every
thousand have that whim;and it is either
the total making of them, or the ruin OF
them. 1t either drives them to extraor-
binary exertion; or they sit down to do
nothing but think it over.
81 should call that CROCHET, sir"
Right, madam, as you usually are. A
is whim of a permanent sort.
have crotchet myself. If do not go
% bed by 10 o'clock of night have a
crotchet-that shall not sleep;
md l certainly shall have bad night OF
t. have no doubt if could get rid OF
he notion, the fear, that l should sleep
veil enough; but when that crotchet
doubles up its finger, that's the end of
ogic: must 60 to bed betimes. When
he people sent Gerrit Smith to congress
le would quit the house at $50. what ]
yer the importance of the issue, in or
Ter to be in bed at 9 o'clock. al great
nen have small whims. This whim OF ,
mith's was one of his laws, and his con- {
tiuency could not understand it, Meth /
r could they be satisfied to have their {
interests neglected. They left him at
ome the next election. This was the ,
ase of very good whim allowed to t
tand in the way of important duties. 8
had become c~otchet.
"Why, couldn't Mr.. Smith see that his 9
onstituent-" l understand, madam.
%, he couldn't see. The whim, as I
bowed before, is thing in the brain.
Is twist of logic. You must never =
rgue with whims. Give bread pill, if
is in the stomach; dose of sympathy I
it bothers the nerves. If an old maid :
as swallowed house-fy or q hornet,
ont laugh at her. 1t will give her NOR y
j offense. Give her q teaspoonful of
oney and few words of pity. They c
e liable to swallow such things. The y
harm of children is their spontanieties; q
le charm of elderly people is their in p
ocent whims. You should never con-
der them in any other light. A sharp u
logical old person that never feels
'aught where there is no draught, and 81 y
,ver gets overheated over cold regis u
r would be unnatural and monstrous. o.
"You are making sport of U.s." Not in q
q least. All such cases come under the "
lad of faith. For the time being the o.
q is really there if the person believes
to be there. have Planchette, and N
nong my friends are several who can
made to believe they are exercising W
will in moving the affair, while in re- ~;