Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-10-06

Nightingale TO nurse the sick in conspicu
ous places, bat 0,00O women who are
Just as good nurses though never hearC
The swamp Angel was y big gun
| Iat during the war made o big noise. bu'
nuskets Of ordinary calibre and shells OF
o'dlnary heft did the execution Presi.
deaf Tyler and his cabinet go down the
Potomac one day to experiment with the
Pcacemaker, IA great iron gun that was 10
alright with its thunder foreign navies.
The gunner touches 1t of and it explodes
and leaves cabinet ministers dead en- the
deck, while at that time all up And down
our cOa ,ts were cann0n Of ordinary bore
able to be the defense of the nation, and
ready at the first touch TO waken to duty.
The curse Of the world 10 big guns. After
the politicians who have made all the
noise 20 home hoarse from angry discus
sion, on the evening Of the first Monday
in November, the next day the people
with the silent ballots viii settle every
thing. and settle it right, u million of the
white slips OF paper they drop making
about as much noise AS The fall Of an
apple blossom.
Clear back in the country today there
are mothers III plain apron. and shoes
fashioned on a rough last by the shoe
maker at the end Of the lane, rocking
babies that are to be Martin Luthers, aud
the Faradays, and the Edisons, and the
BismarCks, and the G~ladslOncs, and the
Washingtoms, and the
GEORGE ~wnfTErIELps
OF the year 1893. and who will make the
twentieth century SO bright that this
much lauded nineteenth in comparison
will seem a part Of the dark ages. The
longer | 1--we the more | like common
folks. They do the worlds work, bear
ing the worlds burdens, weeping the
world s sympaihies, carrying the worlds
consolation. Among lawy crs we see
rise up a Rufus Choate, or = William
Writ, ora Samuel l.. Southland, but 90
ciety would 90 to pieces tomorrow If
there were not thousands of common
lawyers TO see that men and women get
their rights. A Valentine Mott or "a
Willard Parker rises up eminent in the
medical profession, but what an unlimit
ed sweep would pneumonia. and diph.
liberia, and scarlet fever have IN the world
if it were not for 10, 900 common doctors.
The Old physician in his gig rolling up
the lane of the farm house, or riding on
horseback, his medicines in the saddle
bags, arriving on the ninth day of the
fever, and coming in TO take hold Of the
pulse OF the patient, while the family,
pale with anxiety, are looking OIL and
waiting for his decision in regard 10 The
patient, and hearing him say: Thank
God, | have mastered the case, he is get
ting well" excitcs in me an admiration
quite equal TO the mention OF the names
Of the great metropolitan doctors, Pan
coast or Gross or Joseph G. Hutchinson
Of the past. or the illustrious living men
OF the present.
DISSATISFIED PEOPLE.
Yet what DO we see in all departments?
People o satisfied with ordinary spheres
of work and ordinary duties. Instead Of
trj ing 10 see what they can DO with g
hand Of five 6ngures they Want six, In
stead OF usual endowment OF twenty
manual and pedal aCdcnda they want
t~wenty-four. A certain amount OF money
for livelihood and for The supply OF these
whom we leave behind us after we have
departed this life is Important. for we
have the beat author " Tor saying: He
that proyidctA not for his own and es-
p~ecially for those OF Dis own household
is worse than AN infdel," but the large
and fabulous sums for which many strug-
gle. il Obtained would be IA hindrance
rather than an advantage. The anXieties
and annoyauccs that those have whose
estates have become plethOric can only
be told by those WAC possess them. IL
III - .,... sI1,au .rl,,. fI.,A.,,l ..,-y
industry and public properties you can
own the house in which you live. But
suppose You own nifty houses aud you
have all those rents to collect and all
those tenants TO please. Suppose you
have Hranchcd out in business successes
until IL almost every direction YOU have
investments. The fire bell rings at might;
YOU rush UP stairs to look out of the win
dow 10 see if it is in any OF your mills.
Epidemic of crime comes and there are
embellishments and a~bsCOndings in all di-
rectiOns. and YOU wonder whether any Of
Nour DoOkkcepers will prove recrcant. A
panic strikes the financial world, ana you
art like a hen under "A sky fall of hawks
and irving with anxious cluck 10 get your
ovcrarown chickens safely under wing.
After a certain stage of success has been
reached you have TO trust SO may impor-
tant things 70 others that you arc apt to
become
THE PREY OF OTHERS
and you are swindlcd and defraudcd, AM
the anxiety you had on your brow when
you were earning your lirst 81 coo is not
equal to the anxiety on your brow now
that you have won your three hundred
thousand. The trouble with such a one
IS he il spread out like the unfortunate
one in my text. You have more fingers
aud toes than you know what to DO With.
Twenty were useful, twenty four is a
hindering su~pertluity. Disracii says that
q king If Poland abdicated his throne
and Joined the people, and became a
porter TO carry burdens. And ON one
asked him why he did 80 and he replied:
Upon my honor. gentlemen, the load
which | quit is by far heavier than the
one YOU see me cary. The Wcight'est "a
but a straw when comparable that world
under which J labored | have slept
more in four nights than ! have during
all nav reign. | begin 10 I'VE and 10 be q
King myself. Eject whom y0u choose;
for me, who am SO well, il would be mad
ness 10 reiurn TO court"
Wei says somebody, such over
loaded persons ought to be pitied, for
their worriiutnis are real and their in,
somniS and their nervou, pTOstratiou ere
genu'" 1 reniv tn.i they could gel
rid { ,hc Sothcrsome surplus by giving
~ a y man puz moro lnnspg tlnp