Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-11-02

classes. In mcst cases it was a strug-
gle all the way up till they reached the
prosperity, and since they have reach
ed these heights there have been per-
plexities, anxietfes and crises which
were almost enough to shatter the
nerves and turn the brain. 1t would
be hard to tell which have the biggest
fight in this word, the properties or
the adversities, the conspicuities or the
obscurities. Just as soon as you have
| enough success to attract the attention
of others the envies and jealousies are
let loose from their kennel. The great
est crime that you can commit in the
estimation of others is to get on bet
ter than they do. They think your
addition is their subtraction. Five
hundred persons start for goal of
success; one reaches it, and the other
four hundred and ninety-nine are mad.
1t would take volumes to hold the
story of the wrongs outrages and de-
famations that have come upon you
as a result of your success. The warm
sun of prosperity brings into life a
swamp full of annoying insects. On
the other hand, the unfortunate classes
have their struggles for maintenance.
To achieve livelihood by one who
had nothing to start w tn, and after
awhile for a family as well, and carry
this on until children are reared and
educated and fairly started in the
world, and to do this and all the
rivalries of business and the uncer-
tainty of crops and the fickleness of
tariff legislation, with an occasional
labor strike and here and there a
financial panic thrown in, is mighty
thing to do, and there are hundreds
and thousands of such heroes and
heroines who live unsung and die un-
honored.
Solace of Christian Faith.
What We all need, whether up or
down in life or half way between, is
the indefinite solace of the Christian
religion. And so we employ the word
"Come," 1t will take all eternity to
| find out the number of business men
who have been strengthened by the
promises of God, and the people who
have been fed by the ravens when 9TH
er resources gave out, and the men
and women who, going into this battle
armed only with needle or saw or ak
or yardstick or pen or type or shovel
| or shoe last, have gained a victory that
| made the heavens resound. With all
| Tie ToSOuTCoS OF Zoo promises Tor 6V-
| cry exigency, no one need be left in the
| lurch.
l like the faith displayed years ago
| in Drury Lane, London, in a humble
| home when every particle of food had
given cut, and kindly soul entered
with tea and other table supplies and
| found kettle on the fire ready for tea.
The benevolent lady said, How is it
tea when you had no tea in the house?'
And the daughter of the home said:
| Mother would have me put the kettle
| on the fire, and when 1 said, What is
| the of doing so when we have moth
| ing in the house?' she said, My child,
| God will provide; thirty years he has
already provided for me through all
| my pain and helplessness. and he will
not leave me to starve at last. He will
send US help though we do not yet see
! how We have been waiting all day
| for something to come, but until we
| saw you we knew not how it was to
| come Such things the world may
call condolences, but I call them Al
| mighty deliveranceS, and though you
| do not hear of them they are occur
ring every hour of every day and in
all parts of Christendom.
| The Worlds Dismal Consolation.
| WHAT dismal work of coincidence the
! world makes when it attempts to con-
| dolei The plaster they spread does not
| stick. The broken bones under THEN
| bandage do not knit A farmer was
| lost in snowstorm on a prairie of the
| far west. Night coming on, and after
he was almost frantic from not know
| ing which way to go his sleigh struck
| the run of another sleigh, and he
| said, ''I will follow this rut, and it will
take me out to safety He fastened
on until he heard the bells of the pre-
ceding horses; but. coming up, he
found that that man was also lost, and,
as the tendency of those who are con-
| fused in the forest or on the moOrs,
| they were both moving in a circle. and
| the runner of the one lost sleigh was
| following the runner of the other lost
| sleigh round and round. At last IT
occurred to them to look at the north
| star, which was peering through the
| they got home again. Those who fol-
| low the advice of this world in time of
| perplexity are in a fearful round, for
IL is one bewildered soul following an
other bewildered soul, and only those
who have in such time got their eye on
the morning star of our Christian faith
can find their way out or be strong
suasive invitation.