The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-09-28

fashioned on rough last by the shoe
maker at the end of the lane, rocking
babies that are to be the Martin Luthers,
and the Faradays, and the Edisons, and
the Bisnlarcks. and the Gla(stones, and
the Washingtons, and the George White
fields of the year 1888, and who will
make the Twentieth century 80 bright
that this much lauded Nineteenth in
comparison will seem part Of the dark
ages. The longer live the more I like
common folks. They do the worlds
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, or 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
fever, have in the world if it were not
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: 'Thank
God, / have mastered the case, he is
getting WE'LL" excites in me an admira-
ton quite equal to the mention of the
names of the great metropolitan doctors,
Pancoast or Gross or Joseph G. Hutchin-
son of the past, or the illustrious living
men 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
hand of five fingers they want six. In
stead of usual endowment Of twenty
twenty manual and pedal addenda they
want twenty -four. 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: "He that provideth not for his own,
and especially those of his own house.
hold, is worse than an infidel;" but the
large and fabulous sums for which many
struggle, if obtained would be hinder
ance rather than an advantage. 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 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 all those rents to
collect and all those tenants to please.
Suppose you have branched out in bust
ness successes until in almost every d.
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 entertainments 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 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 the
anxiety you had on your brow when you
we're earning your first thousand dollars
is not equal to the anxiety on your brow
now that you have won your three hum
lred 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. Disraeli 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 I 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 l have during
Ill my reign. l begin to live and to be
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
oaded persons ought to be pitied, for
heir worriments are real and their in
,omnia and their nervous prostration |
Ire genuine" I reply that they could
get rid of the bothersome surplus by Civ
ng it away. If man has more houses
han he can carry without vexation. let
1im drop few of them. If his estate is
70 great he cannot manage it without
getting nervous dyspepsia from having
90 much, let him divide up with those
Who have nervous dyspepsia because
hey canot get enough. No! They
guard their sixth finger with more
ARE than they did the original five.
They go limping with what they call
,out and know not that, like
he giant of my text, they
ire famed by superfuous toe. A few
If them by large charities bleed them
elves of this financial obesity and none
airy plethora, but many rof them hang
IN to the hindering superfuity till death,
md then as they are compelled to give
he money up anyhow, in their last will
md testament they generously give some
Il 4