The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-09-27

l laSHOneu on rOugn laSt Dy ync SnOo-
maker at the end of the lane, rocking
babies that are to be the Martin Luthers,
and the Faradays, and the Edisons, and
the Bismarcks. and the Gladstones, and
the Washingtons, and the George White
| fields Of the year 1898, and who will
make the Twentieth century SO bright
that this much lauded Nineteenth in
comparison viii seem a part of the dark
ages. The longer live the more like
common folks. They do the world
| work, bearing the worlds burdens, weep
ing the worlds sympathies, carrying the
worlds consolation. Among lawyers
we see rise up Rufus Choate, or a
! William Writ, OF Samuel L. Southland,
but society would go 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 unlimited sweep would
pneumonia, and diphtheria, and scarlet
| for ten thousand common doctors. The
old physician In his gig rolling up the
lane of the farmhouse. 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 on and
waiting for his decision IN regard to the
patient, and hearing him say: 'sThank
God, have mastered the case, he is
getting well,'' excites In me an admira-
ton quite equal to the mention of the
| names Of the great metropolitan doctors,
Pancoast orr Gross or Joseph C. Hutchin-
son of the past, or the illustrious living
mon of the present.
Yet what do we see in all departmental
People not satisfied with ordinary spheres
Of work and ordinary duties. Instead
of trying to see what they can do with q
hand of five fingers they want six. In
stead Of usual endowment Of twenty
twenty manual and pedal addenda they
want twenty A certain amount Of
money for livelihood and for the supply
of those whom we leave behind us after
we have departed this life Is important,
for we have the best authority for say
ing: s'He that provideth not for his own,
and especially those of his own house.
hold, is worse than an infdel;" but the
| large and fabulous sums for which many
struggle, if. obtained would be hinder
ance rather than anadvantage. The anx-
ieties and annoyances that those have
whose estates have become plethoric
can only be told by those who possess
them. It will be a good thing when
through your industry and public pros
| perities you can own the house in which
you live. But suppose you own fifty
houses and you leave al those rents to
| collect and all those tenants to please.
| Suppose you have branched out in busi-
ness successes until in almost every di-
rection you have investments. The fire
bell rings at 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 alb
scondings in all directions, and you won
der 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
| overgrown chickens safely under wing.
| After certain stage of success has been
reached you have to trust SO many i'm
| portant things to others that you are apt
to become the prey of others, and you
are swindled and .defrauded, and tho
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 hun
| dred thousand. The trouble with such a
one is he is spread out like the unfortu-
nate one in my text. You have more
| fingers and toes than you know what
| to do with. Twenty were useful,
| twenty-four is hindering super
fluffy. Disraei says that a king
Of Poland abdicated his throne
and joined the people and became por-
ter to carry burdens. And some 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 me carry. The weightiest is
but straw when compared to that world
under which I labored. I have slept
more In four nights than have during
all my reign. begin to.live and to be a
king myself. Elect whom you choose,
for me who am SO well it would be mad
ness 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 prostration
are genuine" I reply that they could
get rid of the bothersome surplus by Civ
ing it away. If man has more houses
than he can carry without vexation. let
him drop few of them. If his estate is
SO great he cannot manage it without
getting nervous dyspepsia from having
too much, let him divide up with those
who have nervous dyspepsia because
they canot get enough. MOI They
guard their sixth finger with more
care than they did the original five.
They go limping with what they call
gout and know not that, like
the giant of my text, they
are lamed by superhuous toe. A few
of them by large charities bleed them
selves of this financial obesity and none
tary plethora, but, many Fof them hang
on to the hindering superauity till death,
and then as they are compelled to give
the money up anyhow, 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 t0
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 our patents, we
have a monopoly which seems tc
me something wrong. Everybody has
to come to US for it and we are making
money too fast" So they reduced the
pxice, and this while our philanthropist
was building Cooper institute, which
mothers hundred institutes of kind
aess and mercy all over the land. But
The world had to wait five thousand
light hundred years for Peter Cooper
am glad for the benevolent institutions
that get a legacy from men who during
their life were as stingy as death, but
who in their last will and testament be-
slowed money on hospitals and mission
airy societies; but for such testators
have no respect. They would have taken
! every cent Of it with them if they could