Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-15

slumber to be bought in any market"
He was right. Sleep is a gratuity from
him who never sleeps. Oh, the felici-
ties of slumberi Let all who have this
real benefaction celebrate it. That is
one of the sweetest strings in all the
instrument of ten strings n
Further, let us gratefully acknowl-
edge the power of physical locomotion.
To be able to go where we wish and all
unaided-what a kindnessi What null
titudes have to call in the aid of cane
and cruteh and invalid's chair, and
their whole life is Underwent How
hard to get about with lack of strong
and healthy and supple limbs. Con-
graduated ought you all to be if you
have the usual physical endowment,
and sympathized with ought all those
to be who can neither walk nor climb
nor enter upon any great activities.
That is one of the thousands of rea-
sons why l hate war with complete
hatred. 1t takes off with bullet or shell
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-sacrificing 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 hardly
recovered from the lacerations of the
war of the Revolution when it 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 its grave trench
through the south. Hardly was our
American manhood recovered from
that when the Spanish war came, with
its malaria and crowded hospitals
Thank God that now four of the great
est 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, on the instrument of ten
strings celebrate the possession of our
reason. A severe stroke upon the head
or a sudden calamity or any one of
fifty kinds of accident might dethrone
our reason and leave us worse off than
the brute. for the brute has substi-
tute for reason in what is called in
stinct, but a mans brain shattered,
tino
The asylums for the insane, though
all the time multiplying. are not
enough to shelter the demented.
Through the cramfning system en-
ployed in many of the schools of this
country there are tens of thousands of
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 to
see how much children are expected to
learn and know if it were not con-
nected with the tragedies of damaged
intellects which follow.
Another string of this instrument /
now touch-friendship deep and abid-
ing, by which / refer to those people
who, when good or bad motive may be
ascribed to you, ascribe the good; those
concerning whom you do not wonder
which side they will take when you are
under discussion: those who would
more gladly serve you than serve them
selves; those to whom YOU can tell
everything without reserve; those who
are first in your home by person or by
telegram when you have trouble. Oh,
what a blessing to have plenty of
friends. Aye, If you have only one
good friend, you are blessed in that
glad possession. With one such friend
you can defy the world. If you have
been through some great crisis and you
have one friend left. thank God and
celebrate it on the sweetest harp
string.
While all this is so," says some one
there are SO many things that others
have which I have not / reply, it is
not what we get, but what we are. that
decides our happiness. With the bare
necessities of life many are unspeaka-
bly, happy. while others with all the
iuxurieS are impersonatio of misery
Your heart right, all is right; your
heart wrong, all is wrong
But we must tighten the cords of our
harp and retune it while we celebrate
gospel advantages The highest style
of civilization the world has ever seen
is American civilization and 1T iS b1ilf