The Chanute times., 1902-02-07

clang of a cathedral tower.
Further. there are many who never
recognize how much God gives them
when he gives them sleep. Insomnia
is n calamity wider known in our land
than in any other. Sleeplessness Is an
American disorder. II 1t has not touch
cd you and you can rest for seven or
eight hours without waktng-if for
that length of time in every twenty
four hours you can be free OF all care
and worriment and your nerves are
retuned and your limbs escape from all
fatigue and the rising sun finds you
new man, body, mind and soul-you
have an advantage that ought to be
put in prayer and song and congratula-
ton. The French financier. almost
wealthy enough to purchase kingdom
but the victim of insomnia, wrote: mo
slumber to be bought in any market.
He was right. Sleep is gratuity from
him who never sleeps. Oh, the felicl-
ties of slumber! Let all who have this
real benefaction celebrate it, That Is
one of the sweetest strings in all the
instrument of ten strings.
Further, let us gratefully acknowl-
edge the power of physical locomotion'
To be able to go where we wish ana all
unaided-what a kindness! What null
titudes have to call in the aid of cane
and crutch and invalid's chair, ana
| their whole life Is hinderment! HOW
| hard to get about with lack or strong
and healthy and supple limbs! Con-
graduated ought you all to be II you
| have the usual physical endowment
and sympathized with ought all those
| to be who can neither walk nor cllmD
nor enter upon any great activities.
| That is one of the thousands of rea-
sons why hate war with complete
hatred. 1t takes off with bullet or smell
or surgeons knife the capacity OF men
to achieve their own livelihood or DO
the work for which they would other
wise be fully qualified. Brave men,
self-sacriicing men. for the rest OF
their life are put on the limits and
strangely suffer in stormy weather
from limbs amputated.
How much of the human family IN
every century has been cut up and
shot to pieces and passed into mutila-
ton! American manhood had hardy
recovered from the decorations of the
war of the Revolution when 1t was
called to be carved by the swords and
stabbed with the bayonets and black
ened with the gunpowder of 1872
Hardly recovered was our American
manhood from that when the war WITH
Mexico began its butchery. Hardly
was American manhood recovered
from that before the civil war took
hold of it and dug it's grave trench
through the north and it's grave trench
through the south. Hardly was oul
American manhood recovered IRON
that when the Spanish war came, with
its malaria and crowded hospitals
Thank God that now four of the great
esq nations are allied in good under
standing-the United States, England
Germany and Russia-and if they will
do the right things they can forever
stop national and international strife
and put an end to wholesale amputa-
ton.
Further, celebrate on the instrument
of ten strings our illumined nights
They spread their tents over us. anc
some of us hardly go out to look al
them. During the nights other worlds
come in sight. We thank God for the
day; we ought also to thank him fol
the night. Worlds on worlds in sight
of the naked eye, but more worlds re-
vealed by telescope. At least one night
in his lifetime every man ought to &c
into astronomical observatory and see
what has been done by the great World
Builder. Thank God for lunar ano
stellar illumination.
Further, on the instrument of ten
strings celebrate the possession OF oul
reason. A severe stroke upon the head
or a sudden calamity or any one oi
fifty kinds of accident might dethrone
our reason and leave us worse off than
the brute. for the brute has a substi-
tnte for reason in what is called in
stinct, but mans brain shattered
and he has neither mind nor instinct
The asylums for the insane, though
all the time multiplying, are not
enough to shelter the demented
Through the cramming system en-
ployed in many of the schools of this
country there are tens of thousands oi
children having their brain depleted
Philosophers at ten years of age, as,
tronomers at eleven years of age, geol-
ogists at twelve years of age. They
will be first on examination day, but
last in all matters of useful and sue.
cessful life. 1t would be amusing tc
see how much children are expected tc
learn and know If it were not con-
nocted with the tragedies of damaged
intellects which follow.
Another string of this instrument
now wtouch-friendships deep and abid-
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