Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-05

regard to the patient, and hearing him
say. "Thank God. / have mastered the
case: he is getting WE'LL" excites in me
an admiration quite equalto the mention
of the names of the great metropolitan
doctors. Pancoast or Gross or Joseph
C.. Hutchinson of the past, or the illus
trious living men of the present.
Yet what dc You see in all depart
ments? People not satisfied with ordi-
nary spheres of work and ordinary
duties. Instead of trying to see what
they want six. Instead Of usual endow-
ment Of twenty manual and pedal adj
denda they want twenty -four. A certain
amount of money for livelihood and for
the supply of those whom We leave be-
hind us after we have departed this life
| is important, for We have the best au-
| thority for saying, He that proyideth
not for his own. and especially those of
his own household, is worse than IN in
tidel." but the large and fabulous sums
for which many struggle. it obtained,
would be Il hinderance rather than an
advantage. The anxieties and annoy
ances that those have whose estates have
become plethoric can only be told by
those who possess them; 1t will be u
good thing when through your industry
y
house in which you live. But suppose
you own fifty houses and you leave all
those rents to collect and all those ten
ants to please. Suppose you have
branched out in business successes until
in almost every direction you have in
vestments. The fire. bell rings ut night:
you rush up stairs to look out of the
window to see if it is any of your mills.
Epidemic of crime comes and there are
embezzlements and abscondings in all
directions end you wonder whether any
of your bookkeepers will prove recreant.
A panic strikes the financial world, and
hawks and trying with anxious cluck to
under wing. After certain stage of
success has been reached you have to
trust SO many important things to others
that you are apt to become the prey of
others. and you are swindled and de-
frauded, and the anxiety you had on
your brow when you were earning Your
first thousand dollars 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 is spread
out like the unfortunate one in my text.
You have more fingers and toes than
you know what to dowith. Twenty were
useful, twenty four is q hindering SUI
perfluity. Disraeli says that a king of
Poland abdicated his throne and joined
the people and became u porter to carry
he did so, and he replied: Upon my
honor, gentlemen, the load which quit
is by for heavier than the one you see
me carry. The weightiest is but straw
when compared to that world under
! which l labored. ] have slept more in
four nights than I have during all my
reign. begin to live and to be a king
myself. Elect whom you choose, for me
who am SO we'll it would be madness to
return to court.
Well" says somebody, such over
loaded persons ought to be pitied, for
their worriments are real and their in
somnia and their nervous prostrations
are genuine" 1 reply that they could
get rid of the bothersome surplus by
! giving it away. II man has more
houses than he can carry without vexa-
ton. let him drop few of them. If his
without getting nervous dyspepsia from
having too much, let him divide up with
those who have nervous dyspepsia, be-
cause they cannot get enough. No! they
guard their sixth finger with more care
than they did the original five. They
go limping with what they call govt and
know not that, like the giant of the text
they are famed by a superfiuous toe. A
few of them. by large charities, bleed
themselves of this financial obesity and
monetary plethora. but many of them
hang on to the hindering superduity.till
death, and then, as they are compelled
to give the money up any how, in their
last will and testament they generously
cf 10,
no doubt that He will feel very much
obliged to them. Thank God that once
in q while we have Peter Cooper who,
owning IN interest in the iron works at
Trenton, said to Mr.. Lester: Il do not
feel quite easy about the amount we are
making. Working under one of our
patentst we have a monopoly which
seems to me something wrong. Every
body has to come to us for it and We are
making money too fast" So they re-
duced the price and this while our phi
lanthropist was building Cooper Insti-
tute, which mothers hundred institutes
of Kindness and mercy all over the land.
But the world had to wait $500 years for
client institutions that get legacy from
men who during their life were as stinqy
as death, but who in their last will and
testament bestowed money on hospitals
and missionary societies; but for such
testators l have no respect. They would
have taken every cent of it with them if
they could, and bought up half of
Heaven and let it out at ruinous rent, or
loaned the money to celestial citizens
! Mt 2 per cent. month and got corner
on harps and trumpets. They lived in
this world fifty or sixty years in the
presence of appalling suffering and
want and made no effort for their relief.
The charities Of such people are for the
most part in "paulo-post future" tense
and they are going to do them. The
probability is that if such a one in his
last will by donation to benevolent
societies tries to atone for his lifetime
closefstedness, the heirs at law will try
to break the will by proving the old
man was senile or crazy, andthe expense
of the litigation will about leave in the
lawyers hands what was meant for the
American Bible Society. We over
weighted successful business men,
whether this sermon reach your ear OF
yonr eye. let me say that ifyou are pros
trated with ahxieties about keeping or
! INVESTING these framon1onc fnrfnpoc r