The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-05

fabulous sums for which many struggle
| il obtained would be hindrance rather
than an advantage.
The anxieties and annoyances that those
have whose estates have become plethoril
can only be told by those who possess
them. 1t will be . good thing when
through your industry and public prosper
tiles you can own the house in which you
live. But suppose you own fifty houses
and you have all those rents to collect and
all those tenants to please. Suppose you
have branched out in business successes I'M
til in almost every direction you have in
vestments. The fire bell rings at night; you
rush up stairs to look out Of the window
to see il it is any Of your mills. Epidemic
of crime comes and there are embezzle-
ments and abscondings In all directions,
/ and you wonder whether any Of your
bookkeepers will prove recreant. A panic
strikes the financial world and you are like
hen under a sky full Of hawks and try
ing with anxious cluck to get your over
grown chickens safely under wing. After
q 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 rogues, and
you are swindled and defrauded, and
the anxiety you had on your brow when
you were earning your first thousand dol
lars is not equal to the anxiety on your
brow now that you have won your three
hundred thousand dollars. The trouble
with sucn 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 do with. Twenty were useful, twenty
four is a hindering superfuity.
Disraeli says that King of Poland abb
dictated his throne and Joined the people
and became a porter to carry burdens.
And some one asked him why he did SO
and he replied: "Upon my honor, gentle
men, the load which quit is by far heav-
Ter than the one you see me carry. The
weightiest is but straw when compared
to that world under which labored.
have slept more in four nights than have
during all my reign. begin to live and
be King myself. Elect whom you choose,
for ME who am SO we'll it would be mad
ness to return to court"
SWELL" says somebody. "such over
loaded persons ought to be pitied, for their
wOrriments are real and their insomnia
and their nervous prostration are genuine"
l reply that they could get rid of the
bothersome surplus by giving it away. If
q man has more houses than he can carry
without vexation let himsdrop a few of
them. If his estate is 80 great he can not
manage it without getting nervous dys-
pepsia from having too much let him
divide up with those who have nervous
dyspepsia because they can not get enough.
Mol they guard their sixth finger with
khn n a.,
They go limping with what they call govt
and know not that, like the giant Of my
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 superfluity till
death, and then as they are'compelled to
give the money up any how, in their last
will and testament they generously give
some of it to the Lord, expecting no doubt
that He will feel very much obliged to
them. Thank God that once in a while we
have a Peter Cooper who, owning an in
terest in the iron works at Trenton, said to
Mr.. Lester: 81 do not feel quite easy
about the amount we are making. Work.
ing under one of our patents, we have a
monopoly which seems to me something
wrong. Everybody has to come to us for
it and we are making money too fast" So
they reduced the price and this while our
philanthrOpist was building Cooper insti-
tute, which mothers a hundred institutes
of kindness and mercy all over the land.
But the world had to wait $500 years for
Peter Cooper.
/ am glad for the benevolent institutions
that get legacy from men who during
their life were as stingy as death, but who
in their last will and testament bestowed
money on hospitals and missionary socie.
ties, but for such testatOrs l have no re-
spect. 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 citi-
zens at twoper cent. month and got cor
ner 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 ''paulopost future" tense and they
are going to do them. The probability is
that if such q one in his last will by
to benevolent societies tries to
atone for his lifetime close-fistedness, the
heirs-a t-law will try to break the will by
proving that the old man was senile
or crazy, and the expense Of the liti.
cation will about leave in the lawyers
hands what was meant for the American
Bible Society. o ye overweighted, suc-
cessful business men, whether this sermon
reach your ear or your eye, let me say
that ii you are Frustrated with anxieties
about keeping or investing these tremen-
dous fortunes, 1 can tell you how you can
do more to get your health back and your
spirits raised than by drinking gallons Of
bad tasting water at Saratoga, Homburg
or Carlsbad-give to God and humanity,
the Bible ten per cent. Of all your income,
and it will make new man of you, and
from restless walking Of the floor at night
you shall have eight hours sleep without
the help Of bromide of potassium, and
from no appetite you will hardly be able |
10 wait your regular meals, and your wan |
cheek will fill up, and when YOU die the
blessings of those who but for you would |
grave with violets, il it be spring, or glad |
olus. if It be autumn.
Perhaps some Of you will take this adj !
Vice, but the most Of you will not. And |
you will try to cure your swollen hand by |
getting on it more fingers, and your rheu- |
matte foot by getting on it more toes, ard |
here will be a sigh of relief when you are |
gone out of the world; and when over
your remains the minister recites the |
words: BLESSED are the dead who die in |
he Lord, persons who have keen appre.
,iation of the ludicrous will hardly be able
% keep their faces straight. But whether
n that direction my words do good or not,
am anxious that all who have only ordi.
larry equipment be thankful for what they
lave and rightly employ it. think you
III have, aguratively as well as literally,
myers enough. Do not long for hinder.