Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-01

| WayWdrd DOy and push back from tn,
bloated brow the long locks that wer,
once her pride. And the air will b,
rent with the agony. Inc great dram
atist says. How sharper than a ser
pent's tooth it is to have a thankles
child"
Sports Means to an Emo.
Your sports are merely means to an
end. They are alleviations and helps
The arm of toll is the only arm strong
enough to bring up the bucket out OF
the deep well of pleasure. Amusement
is only the bower where business and
philanthropy rest while on their way
to stirring achievements. Amusements
are merely the vines that grow about
the anvil of toll and the blossoming of
the hammers. Alas for the man who
spends his life in laboriously doing
nothing, his days in hunting up loung-
Ing places and loungers, his nights in
seeking out some gaslight foolery! The
man who always has on his sporting
Jacket, ready to hunt for game in the
mountain or fish in the brook, with no
time to pray or work or read, is not so
well off as the greyhound that runs by
his side or the fly bait with which he
whips the stream. A man who does not
work does not know how to play.
If God had intended us to do nothing
but laugh he would not have given US
shoulders with which to lift and hands
with which to work and brains with
which to think The amusements of
life are merely the orchestra playing
while the great tragedy of life plunges
through its five acts-infancy, child
hood, manhood, old age and death
Then no 10 or RI hi fv
Enter the overwhelming realities of an
eternal world
L go further and say that all those
amusements are wrong which lead into
bad company. If you go to any place
where you have to associate with the
Incorporate, with the unclean, with
the abandoned, however well they may
be dressed, in the name of God quit
it, They will despoil your nature
They will undermine your moral char
acter. They will drop you when you
are destroyed. They will not give one
cent to support your children when
you are dead. They will weep not one
tear at your burial.
The Final Scene.
I was summoned to his deathbed.
fastened. 1 entered the room 1 found
everyday dress on the top of the couch.
put out my hand. He grasped it ex-
citedly and said, "Sit down, Mr.. Tai
mage, right there" / sat down. He
said: Last night 1 saw my mother,
who has been dead twenty years, and
she sat just where you sit now 1t was
no dream. 1 was wide awake. There
was no delusion in the matter. 1 saw
her just as plainly as see you. Wife,
wish you would take these strings off
me. There are strings spun all around
my body. l wish you would take them
off me-" I saw it was delirium "Oh,'
replied his wife, my dear, there is
nothing there" He went on and said:
Just where you sit, Mr.. Talmage, my
mother sat She said to me, Henry, T
do wish you would do better 1 got
out of bed and put my arms around
her and said: Mother, 1 want to do
better. 1 have been trying to do better.
Won't you help me to do better? You
used to help me- No mistake about it,
no delusion- 1 saw her-the cap and |
the apron and the spectacles, just as
she used to look twenty years ago. But |
do wish you would take these strings |
away. They annoy me so! 1 can |
hardly talk. Won't you take them |
away?" I knelt down and prayed. con- |
scious of the fact that he did not reali-
ze what I was saying. 1 got up. I /
said: "Goodby. 1 hope you will be
better soon. He said, "Goodby, good
by"
That night his soul went up to the
God who gave it. Arrangements were
made for the obsequies. Some said:
Don't bring him in the church; he is
90 dissolute" "Oh," 1 said. bring
him in. He was good friend of mine
while he was alive. and 1 shall stand
~ him now that he is dead. Bring
linn to the church.
Delight In the Home Life.
Again, any amusement that gives
-ou distaste for domestic life is bad.
low many bright domestic circles have
'een broken up by sinful amusementsi
The father went OF. The mother
vent of. The child went of. There
re today the fragments before me of
LASTED households. Oh, if you have
wandered away, 1 would like to charm
ou back by the sound of that one
Tord, home" Do you not know that
ou have but little more time to give
D domestic welfare? Do you not see,
ather, that your children are soon ,
D go out in the world, and all the in ,
uence for good you are to have over
hem you must have now? Death will ,
reak in on your conjuga1 relations.
nd alas if you have to stand over the
rave of one who perished from your ,
eglect, =
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