Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-29

'''Tis only noble to be good.


'''Tis only noble to be good
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith, than Norman blool.''
The world is self, and self alone,
from surface to foundation stone. Kind
hearts are rare, and seldom found, be-
cause of the ca1lous encystment of self
ishness. And simple faith is seldom
found in cities. The gold and silver of
the chalice, supplemented by the pur-
pie and fine linen of the modern Le-
vites, have driven faith in fear to the
mountains and plains where men and
women toll so hard and learn to pray
for their daily bread. Kind hearts and
faith dwell together in unity, but they
shrink from the temples of the money
changers. Therefore is it that the an
thems OF the costly chOirS and the
thrilling orchestrations of great organs
are heard only by the rich and the
great in the pomp and the pride of
their worldly estate; while the poor,
whom we have with US always, wor-
ship afar from the splendor of our
churches. In the homes of the meek
and the lowly, kind hearts are devel-
eoped, for, divested of selfshness, de-
voted to each other, hungry wives,
mothers and children turn in their suf-
ferings upward to God, and bless, while
it s1nites them, the Christening rod.
Just for a change of air and scene /
ran off for a few days up into the noun
tain regions of the new world, where
only three generations ago the sturdy
ancestors of modern Pennsylvania yeo-
nlanry dwelt amongst the savages and
carried rifles with them when they
fo11
trees, build log cabins for homes and
till the soil. There found kind hearts
more dear than coronets, and faith
moro pure than Norman blood. They
have not learned the theological and
philosophical definition of love; but
they live the truth which manifests an
unselfsh determination to promote the
happiness and welfare of each other.
This is love; and faith is its corollary.
Those Blue mountain men and women
have known each other since their
childhood. They have not had their
hearts rasped and their brains racl1ed by
the demons of self, who dwell in cities
and thrive in the marts of modern busi-
ness thrift. They truly live and eXem-
plify their faith in the new command
ment that ye love one another" as lit
tie children.
But this was not Utopia. There is
no perfect place on earth, and the best
localities and best peoples only approx
innate perfection. Rev. DIR. Briggs
goes 50 far as to say that because the
hands of men have written the lines of
the Bible, even the good book has
marks of human imQerfection in it.
And so up there IN the clear and pure
air of the mountains, beneath the blue
skies and twinlzling stars, there are
manifestations of evil; but it is a singu-
lar fact that they come from the demon
= of the still. If temperance could who'll
ly prevail there would be schoolhouse
on every hilltop and no saloon in the
valley. But, alas, the saloons are
there, and they have the same effect
upon the honest yeOmanry of the hill
country that the fre-water of our fore
fathers had upon the simple aborigines,
who met the white men with corn and
water, and were repaid in fire ard
fame with bullet and saber
On Saturday night just before mid
night, when all the lights in Waynes-
boro had been put out or turned down
low, and when the people were sleep
ing the sleep of innocence and dream
ing of their church, Sunday-school or
Epworth league meetings, the peace OF
old Church street was broken by the
shrill cries of woman in trouble
mingled with the cultural profanity Oh
a man in fury. The solitary police
man of the town. whose most aggres-
sive labor is the wearing of brass but
tons and large hat, was sent for and