Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-04-25
A Poor Unfortu,.t,.

~ CARBOHYDRATES
We know man wac deserves q great
ZEAL Il pity.
He is possessed of houses, and lands.
and stocks, and bonds, and horses. and
cattle, and the world calls him rich.
Almost everybody envies him.
He wears his broadcloth and dia-
monds every day, and drinks good wine.
If somebody else will pay for It.
But this rich man feels very moor.
His whole life. is round of the direst
apprehension.
He is afraid the banks will break He
studies the financial record as if his life
depended on what he read. He cannot
sleep if he hears that any one of the
railroads whose bond he holds is not
paying expenses.
He lies awake at night and worries
about fire, and if he hears the alarm he
Is out of bed and dressing with light
ming speed. He is afraid it NAV be
some of his buildings.
Ii anybody talks about murrain he
grows pale; he has thousands of dollars
invested in cattle.
DE Is always talking about bard
times. 1t is difficult, he says, for him
to maks accounts balance at the end of
the year. He is at such an expense and
so little coming in. Taxes are enor-
nous, outrageous, in fact, and how he
IS going to pay them is more than he
knows. There ought to be something
done to lower this tax rate; it is eating
everybody out of house and home.
His family ora Y1pIor r I,
poverty continually. He buys the
cheapest steak aud the strongest butter,
and suggests to his wife that they
should use molasses instead of sugar,
times are so hard. He wonders where
on earth that barrel of -four has gone
to. He never saw anybody use so much
flour as they do. If they are not care
fll they'll have to go to the almshouse
yet.
He is always cutting down his wife's
supply of pocket money; he knows she
is not SO careful about her expenditures
as she might be, and he says he wishes
he could be woman for a spell. He'd
see to those swindling dressmakers and
milliners in way they would not rel
ish.
If any of mis- workmen are two min
utes behind time in the morning he
groans, and feels bitterly aggrieved, and
VOWS he will cut them down ten per
cent. if such thing occurs again. He'll
let them know that he is not going to
pay them for loafng up and down the
treets. No, sir.
He beats everybody down. If only
a few cents can be saved, he says, it is
worth while. He wants to try and get
enough together to take him through
But times are so hard, and investments
so ticklish.
Ask him for charity, and he will look
at yon as if he deemed you mad. Want
him to give something for Smiths fam
lily of children, ten of 'em! Why,
good Heaven! what ever could Smith
be thinking of to raise so many chill
dren. Didn't he know he was poor?
Didn't he know it cost money to feed so
many mouths?
For his part, he has ways enough for
what little spare cash he gets to go
without feeding those ten children that
had no business to be born. What if
Smith did get killed by falling from the
roof of one of his buildings that he was
repairing? That wasn't his lookout, it
was Smiths. He hadn't any business
to fall; he was paid for staying up there
and laying shingles, not falling down
and getting killed.
Ask him for money for the minister.
He will laugh in your face, and instance
O. Do,,1 o15 oo-oro1 oEhor onoiopt
worthless, who preached for nothing and
found themselves, He doesn't want
any minister. If everybody behaves
as well as he does, there would be no
need of ministers.
And we quite agree with him; for if
all the world were like him it certainly
would not be worth saving. 1t would
not be a paying investment.-Neao
York Weekly.