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


not because you are slept out, but be-
cause your duty drags you from your
slumbers, you have been where you
ought not to have been. There are
amusements that send a man next day
to his work with his eyes bloodshot,
yawning, stupid, nauseated, and they
are wrong kinds of amusement. They
are entertainments that give a man
disgust with the drudgery of life, with
tools because they are not swords, with
working aprons because they are not
robes, with cattle because they are not
fnfuriated bulls of the arena. If any
amusement sends you home longing
for life of romance and thrilling ad-
venture, love that takes poison and
shoots itself, moonlight adventures and
ha1r-breadth escapes, you may depend
upon 1T that you are in the sacrificed
victim of unsanctified pleasure Our
recreations are intended to build us up
and If they pull US down as to our
moral as well as to our physical
strength you may come to the conclu-
sion that they are obnoxious.
Live Within Your Means.
Stlll further, those amusements are
wrong which lead you into expenditure
beyond your means. Money spent in
recreation is not thrown away 1t is all
Jolly for US to come from a place of
amusement feei1ng that we have vast
cd our money and time. You may by
1t have made an investment worth
more than the transaction that yield
ed you hundreds of thousands of dol
iars. But how many properties have
Deen r1ddled by costly amusements.
1t was the city of Philadelphia was
a mere lad 1 stopped at a hotel, and
remember in the eventide one of
tnese men piled me with his Internal
art He saw l was green He wanted
to show me the sights OF the town. He
painted the path of sin until it looked
like emerald, but 1 was afraid of him.
L showed back from the basflisk-I
made up my mind he was a basilisk.
L remember how he wheeled his chair
round in front of me and. with con-
centered and diabolical effort at
tempted to destroy my soul. but there
were good angels in the air that night.
IL was no good resolution on my part.
put 1t was the all encompassing grace
of good God that delivered me. Be
ware, beware, o young man! There
Is way that seemeth right unto a
man, but the end thereof is death.
The table has been robbed to nav
the club. The champagne has cheated
the children's wardrobe. The carous-
ing party hasburned up the boys prim-
er. The tablecloth of the corner sa-
loon is in debt to the wife's faded
dress. Excursions that in day make
tour around a whole months wages
ladies whose lifetime business it is
to go shopping" large bets on horses.
nave their counterparts in uneducated
children, bankruptcies that shock the
money market and appa1 the church
and that send drunkenness staggering
acrosss the richly figured carpet of the |
and dashing into the mirror
and drowning out the carol of music
With the whooping of bloated sons |
come home to break their old mothers |
heart
Look Out for the Leakage.
Merchant, is there a disarrangement |
IN your accounts? Is there leakage in
your money drawer? Did the cash ac-
count come out right last night? / |
VIII tell you There is a young man
N your store wandering off into bad
i"usements. The salary you give him
nay meet lawful expenditures. but not
he sinful indulgences in which he has
and he takes by theft that
which you do not give him in lawful
alary.
How brightly the path of unre-
strained amusement opens! The young
nan says: Now 1 am off for a good
1me- Never mind economy. I'll get
money somehow. What a fine road,
What beautiful day for a ride, Crack
ne whip, and over the turnpike! Come.
'oys, fill high your glasses. Drink
1ong life, health, plenty of rides lust
Ike thfs!' Hardworking men hear the
latter OF the hoofs and look up and
ay: why, / wonder where those fell
ows get their money from We have
toll and drudge They do nothing"
% these gay men life is a thrill and
xcltement. They stare at other peo-
lie and in turn are stared at. The
Tatcn chain jingles. The cup foams.
ne cheeks flush The eyes flash
ne midnight hears their guffaw. They
wager. They jostle decent men OF
ne sidewalk. They take the name of
cd in vain They parody the hymn |
hey learned at their mothers knee. |
nd to all pictures of coming disaster
ley cry out, Who cares," and to the
ounsel of some Christian friend ,
7ho are you?"
Passing along the street some night !
ou hear shiek in a grogshop. the 8
title of the watchman's club, the rush | 8
the police. What is the matter now, !
n, this reckless young man has been
He'd in a grOgShOp fight Carry hin, | /.