Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-07-13

anu IL ne says yes ask MIN whether
the old folks died happy. Ask him if he
has ever heard of any one going out
of this life in raptures of infidelity
and agnosticism. Ask him if it is not
a somewhat remarkable fact that the
Bible, after SO many years, sticks to-
gether and that there are more
copies of it in existence than
ever before. Ask him If he
knows of any better civilization
than Christian civilization and whether
he thinks the teachings of Confucius
or Christ are preferable. Ask him if he
thinks it would be fair thing in the
Creator of all things to put in this
world the human race and give them
no direct communication for their
guidance and, if they did wrong, tell
them of no way of recovery, think if a
famous infidel of our time, instead of
being taken away instantaneously, had
died in his bed after weeks and months
of illness he would have revoked his
teachings and left for his beloved fam
lily consultations which they could not
find in obseQuies at which not one
word of Holy Scripture was read, or at
Fresh Pond crematory, where no Chris
tian benediction was pronounced. I
do not positively say that in a pro-
longed illness there would have been
retraction, but think there would.
The Work of an Instant.
A man thoroughly mad can say
enough in two minutes to damage him
for 20 years. 1t took only five minutes
for the earthquake to destroy Caracas.
One unfortunate sentence uttered in
affront in a speech in the United States
senate shut forever the door of the
White House against one of the most
brilliant men of the last century. You
| can never trust a horse that has once
run away, and you do not feel like
trusting a man who has just once lost
his equilibrium. You need to drive
your temper as man drives a frac-
| tious span amid the explosions of a
Fourth of July morning or the pyro-
| technics of the Fourth of July night,
| with curbed bit, taut rein, commanding g
| voice-mastering yourself and master
| ing what you drive. If you are natur-
| ally high tempered, do not unnecessar-
| lily go among irritations and provoca-
| tions. Do not build a blast furnace
next to gunpowder mill. Then, also,
| such demonstrations of ungovernabil-
| ity belittle one. Men take out their
| lead pencils and in estimating such a
| one take so per cent off. About the
most hideous spectacle on earth is an
angry man or woman burning not with
| anger commanded in my text, but with
| the sin represented. After such a dis
| play of gall irrascibility, virulence, his
| influence with many is forever gone.
The world is full of politicians, doctors,
! lawyers, merchants, mechanics, min
listers, housewives, who have by such
| ayn1nSiOnS beon nInwn t0 piacaS
1 say to all young men hoping to
| achieve financial. moral or religious
| success-control your tempers Do not
! let criticism or defeat rebuff you. Verdi,
| the great musician, applied to become
| student in the Conservatory of Music
at Milan and he was rejected by the di-
rector, who said that he could make
nothing of the newcomer, as he showed
no disposition for music. But the crit
icism did not exasperate or defeat him
The most of those who have largely
| succeeded in all departments were
| characterized by self control. In battle
| they would calmly look at the bomb
thrown at their feet, wondering whether
| it would explode In commercial life
when panics smote the city, these men
| were placid, while others were yelling
| themselves hoarse at the Stock Ex-
| change. While others nearly swooned
because a certain stock had gone 10C
points down they calmly waited until
it would get 100 points up While the
| opposing attorney in the courtroom
| frothed at the mouth with rage because
of something said on the other side, he
of the equipoise put glass of water to
| his lips in refreshment and proceeded
| with the remark, LAS 1 was saying
| when the gentleman interrupted me.
Self controli What a glorious thing.
| We want it in the doctor feeling the
pulse of one desperately ill, we want
it in the engineer when the head
| light of another train comes round the
| curve on the same trek We want il
in Christian men and women in times
when so much in church and state
seem going to demolition-self control
What are you going to be coed for,
man or woman in a world like this
ever and anon your dander up, and sc
often in the sulks? We admit tnat yor
have many things to stir your blood
and fill you with wholesome indigna
ton, but going to such extremes yor
offend my text, which says you mus
discriminate and not lose your self
control, BE We angry and sin not"
| Former Lady OF white House.