The Brookhaven leader., 1888-10-04

TO take nOld or the pulse OF tne pateuG
while the family, pale with anxiety, are
looking on and waiting for his decision
in regard TO the patient, and hearing MIN
say: "Thank God, have mastered the
case, he is getting WE'LL" excites in me an
admiration quite equal 70 the mention ot
the name Of the great metropolitan doc
tors, Pancoast OF Gross or Joseph c.
Hutchinson OF the past, or the nlustrlous
living men Of the present.
Yet what do we see in all department5E
People not satisfied with ordinary
spheres Of work and ordinary duties.
Instead Of trying TO see wha, they can do
with hand OF five fingers they want Six
Instead of usual endowment Of 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 tais life is important, for va
have the best authority for saying: "He
that provideth not for his Ow13 and es-
pecially those of his own household -
worse than an Infdel," but the large and
fabulous sums for which many struggle,
If obtained, would be n hinderalce rathsr
than an advantage The anXietles and
annoyances that thoS5 have whose es-
tates have become pletboric can CEly be
told b. those who possess them. 1t VIII!
be good thing when through your IN
dustry and public prosPerities 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 cut in business successes
until in almost every direction you have
investments. The fre-bell rings at
night, you rush upstairs 10 look out
of the window to sea if it is ary OF your
mills. Epidemic Of crime comes and
there are embezzlem ents and abSc ond-
ings in all directions, and you wonder
whether any Of your book keepers viii
prove recreant \ paaic strikes the
financial world, and you are like hen
under SKY full OF hawks and trying with
| anxious cluck to get your over-grown
chickens safely under wing After cere
tain stage of success has been reaehe
| you have to trust so many important
| things to others that you are apt to be-
come the prey of others, all you are
swindled aud defraude1, and the anxiety
| you hal 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 three hundred thou
sand. The trouble with 81 ch 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. DisraeH says that King OF
| Poland abdicated his throne AMI joined
the people and became porter to carry
| burdens. And some one asked him why
be 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 a 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 to be a
K ing myself Elect whom you choose;
for me who am 80 we'll it would be mad
ness 10 return 10 court"
| "Weu," says some body, "such over
loaded persons ought to be pitied, for
their worrlments are real and their in :
| somnia and their nervous prostration are
| genuine"
Ireply that they could get rid Of the
| bothersome surplus by giving it away. "
| q man has more houses than he can carry
without vexation, let him drop a few OF
them. If his estate is so great he can not
manage 1t 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. No, they guard their sixth finger
! with more care than they did the original
! FIVE. They go lin7ping with what they call
gout aad know not that like the giant
of NV text, they are lamed by superfu-
Gus toe. "a few of them by large charts
| ties bleed themselves OF this financial
afar-X MA tpnr
! of them hang on to the hindering super
fuity till death, and then as they are
compeleI to give the money mp anyhow,
in their last will and testament they gem
erously give some of it TO the 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 au 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 monopoly
which seems TO me something wrong.
Every body has to come to US for it, and
we are making none too fast"
So they reduced the price, anu this
while our philanthropist was building
Cooper Institute, which mothers hun
dred institutes of kindness and mercy all
over the land. But this world had to wait
five thousand eight hundred years for
Peter Cooper. ! am glad for the be"
nevolent institutions thai get legacy
from men who, during their life, were
as stingy as death, but who, Ia 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 cou d, aud bought mp
half of Heaven and let it out at
rulnons rent, or loaned the money
to celestial citizens at two per cent
month and got q corner on harps and
trumpets. They lived III this world fifty
or sixty years in the presence of appall-
| ing suffering aud want aud made no effort
! for their relies. The charities OF such
| people are, for the most part, in 'paulo-
post future" tense aud they are going to
do them. The probability is that if such
q one IN his las, will, by donation to
benevolent societies, tries to atone for his
lifetime close fistedn ass, the heirs at law
will try to break the will by proving that
the old man was seniis or crazy, and the
expense OF the litigation will about
leave in the lawyers hands what
was meant for the Am srican Bl Die So-
ciety. o ye overweighted, successful
business men, whether this sermon
reach your ear or your eye, let me say
that il you are prostrated with anxieties
about keeping or investing these tire
mendous fortunes, I can tell you how you
can do more to get your health back and
your spirits raised than by drinking gal
Ions of bad-tasting water at Saratoga