The Russellville Democrat., 1888-10-04

own the house La which ron live. But
suppose you own fifty houses and ycu
have all those rents 10 collect and 81
thoss tenants 70 pleese. Suppose you
have branched out Ia business successes
until in almost every direction you have
investments. The hre-beii rings 81
night rou rash upstairs to look oul
| cf the window TO ses II IL Is any OF your
mills. Epidemic Of crime comes and
there are embezzleTnsnts and abscond-
ings In all directions, ard yea wond o.
whether any OF your book keepers will
prove recreant A panic strikes the
financial world, and ron are like hen
| under sky full Of hawks and trying with
anxious cIuck to get your over-grown
chickens safely under wing After cer-
tain stage Of success has been reached
\ you have 70 trust 50 many important
things to others that you are apt ~ be-
come the prey of others, aud y0a are
sxindled and dcfrauded, aud the anxiety
you had on your brow when you were
earning ycHr frst thousand dollars is not
equal 70 the anxiety on voar brow now
that You have won three hundred thou
sand. The trouble with 81 ch one is he il
| spread ont Ike the unfortunate one In my
\ text You have more fingers aud toes
y
were useful; twenty-four is a hinderina
superhuity. Disfasli says that King OF
| Poland abdicated his throne AMI joined
the people and became porter to carry
I burdens. And SONS one asked him why
he did so, and he replied:
Upon my honor, gentlemen, the load
which quit is by far heavier than the
one you see ms carry. The weighiiest Is
but straw when compared to that world
q nder which ! labored. / have slept
more In four nights than ! have during
ell my reign ] begin 10 live aud to be q
King myself. Elect whom you choose;
fof me who am SO well ii would be mad
ness to return 10 court"
S"Wsll," says some body, such over
loadsd persons ought to be pitied, for
their worrIments are real and their Ia :
somnia a.pd their nervous prosnation are
gsadiue.o
Ireply that they could get rid Q, the
oothersome sur- --.s- o. giving It away. Il
IAN mas more houses than he can carry
without vexation, let him drop few of
them. II his estate IS SO great he can not
manage it without getting nervous dys-
pspsia from having too much, let him
divide up with those VINO have nervous
dyspepsia because they can not get
enough. No, they guard their sixth finger
with more care than they did the original
! five. They go I'm ping with what they call
govt and know not that like the giant
Of my tsxt, they are famed by super flu
Gus toe. A few OF them by large chart.
ties bleed them selves Of this financial
obesity and monetary plethora, but many
Of them hang on TO the hindering super
fluffy till DEATH and then as they are
compeIsi TO give the mo ey up anyhow,
in their last will aud testament they gen.
erously give some of 1t TO thu Lord, ex-
pecting, no doubt, that He will feel very
much obliged to them. Thank God that
once in while we have Peter Cooper,
who, owning an interest in the iron works
at Trenton, said to Mr.. Lester:
II do not feel quite easy about the
amount we are making. Working under
one OF ottr patents, we have monopoly
which seems 10 me something wrong,
ETery body mas to coms 10 as for it and
we are making money too fast"
50 they reduced the price, and this
while our philanthropist was building
Cooper Institute, which mothers a hun
dred Institutes of kindness aud mercy all
over the land. Bat this world had TO watt
five thousand eight hundred years for
Peter COPPER. l am glad for the be-
nevolent institutions that get q legacy
from men who. during their life, were
as stingy as death, but who, in their
last win and testament, bestowed money
on hospitals and missionary sccietiesi
but for such testators l have no respect
They wouII have taken every &c Mt OF ii
with them IL they con d, aud bought up
half of Heaven and let it out at
ruInons rent, or loaned the money
10 celestial citizens at two per cent. a
month aud got a corner on harps and
trumeets. They lived in this world fifty
or sixty years in the presence Of appall-
Ing suffering aud want and made no effort
for their relieg. The charities OF such
people are, for the most part, in ''Paulo-
post future" tense. and they are going 10
40 them. The probability Is that il such
one IN his last will, by donation to
benevolent societies, tries to atone for his
lifetime close-fstedns ss, the heirs at law
will try to break the viii By proving that
the old man was senile or crazy, aud the
expense OF the litigation will about
leave in the lawyers hands what
was meant for the Am arican Bible So
ciety. 0 ye overweighted, successful
business men, whether this sermon
reach your ear or your eye. let ms say
that il you are Frustrated with anxieties
about keeping or investing these tire :
mendous fortunes / can tell you how you
can DO more to get your health back and
your spirits raised than by drinking gall
Ions of bad-tasting water at Saratoga,
Homburg or CarIs bad-give to God a1d
humanity ten per cent o. all your income,
aud 1t will make new man OF you, and
from restless walking Of the floor at.
night yen shall have eight hours sleep
without the help OF bromide Of pota3-
SUM, and from no appetite you viii
hardly be able TO wait your regular meals,
and your wan cheek viii fill up, aud when
you die The blessings OF those who bu. for
you would have persisted viii bloom all
over your grave with yiolets II 1t be
spring, or giadiolus IL Il be autumn.
Perhaps some OF you will take this adj
vice, but the most OF you viii not. And
you viii try to cure your swollen hand by
getting on it more fingers, and your
rheumatic foot by getting nit more toes,
ard there will be sigh Of relief when
you are gone out Of the world; and when
over your remains the minister recltes
the words: "Blessed are the dead who die
in the Lord, persons who have keen APP
probation Of the ludicrous viii hardly be
able 10 keep their face straight.
But whether in that directio n my words
do good or not am anxious that all who
have only ordinary equipment be thank.
fu, for what they have and rightly en-
ploy 1t. think you all have, fig ratiyely
as we'll as literally. fingers enough. Do
not long for hindering superauities.
Standing Ia the presence OF this fallen
giant OF my text aud In this post-mortem
examination Of him, let US learn how
much better of we are with just the usual
hand, the usual foot. You have thanked
God for a THOUSAND things, but l warrant
you never thanked Him Tor those two i'm
plemsnts OF work and loeomotipn that no