The morning news., 1888-09-24

medicines in the saddle-bags, arriving on
the ninth day of the fever, aud 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 tofthe patient, and hearing him saw:
THANK God, have mastered the case, he
Is getting well, " eXciteS in me an adnllra-
ton quite equal to the mention of the names
of the great metropolitan doctors, Pancoast
or Gross or Joseph c. Hutchinson of the past,
or the illustriou' 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
irving to see what 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
tor the supply Of those whom we leave be-
hind us after we have departed this life, is
important for we have the best authority
for saving: HE that provideth not for his
own, and especially those of his own house
hold, is worse than an intidel;" but the
large and fabulous sums for which many
struggle, if obtained, would be hindrance
rather than an advantage. The anxieties
and annoyances that those have whose
estates have become pletdoric, can only be
told by those who possess them. 1t will 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 out in business sue
cesses until in almost every directiou 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 en-
fezzlements and abscondings in all direc-
tions, and you wonder whether any of yonr
bookkeepers will prove recreant. A panic
strikes the financial world, and you are like
hen under a sky full of hawks and trying,
with anxious cluck, to get your overgrown
chickens safely under wing. After a Ger
tain stage of success as been reached you
have to trust so many important things to
Others that you are apt to become the prey
of others, and you are swindled and de-
frauded, and the anxiety you had on your
brow when you were Ga ming your first
thousand dollars is not equal to the anxiety
on your brow now that you have won your
three hundred thousand The trouble with
such one is he is spread out like the un-
fortunate 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 superhuity. Disraeh says that
king of Poland abdicated his throne and
Joined the people and became porter to
carry burdens And some one asked him
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 tnat world under which |
labored. have slept more i'll four nights
than | have during all my reign. | begin
TO live and to be a king myself ElecU
whom you choose, for me who am SO well it
would be madness to return to court"
"Well," says somebody, ''such overloaded
persons ought to be pitied, for their worri-
lnents are real and their insomnia and their
nervous prostration are genuine" / reply
that they could get rid of the botherSome
surplus by giving it away. Ii a 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 cannot 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 famed by a superfiuous toe. A few
of them by large charities bleed themselves
of this financial obesity and monetary Pile
thora, but many of them hang on to the
hindering superfiuity till death, and then as
they are compelled to give the money up any
how, in their last will and testament they
Rtu6IOuSiy give SOME Oh IL TO Uu0 LOru, eX-
pecting. no doubt, that he will feel very
much obliged to them. Thank God that
once i'll while we have a Peter Cooper
who, owning an interest in the iron works
at Trenton, said to Mr.. Lester: 81 do not
feel quite easy about the amount we are
making. Working under enc of our pat
Gnts, We have monopoly which seems to
me something wrong. Everybody has to
come to us for 1t, and we are making money
too fast" So they reduced the price, and
this while our philanthropist was building
Cooper Institute, which m theirs hundred
Institutes of kindness and mercy all over
the land. But the world had to wait five
thousand eight hundred years for Peter
Cooper. ! am glad for the benevolent in
stitutions 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 mis-
sionary societies; but for such
teStators have no respect. They would
have taken every cent of it with them if
they could, and bought up half of heaven
and let Ii out at rulnous rent, or loaned the
money to celestial citizens at per cent
month and got a corner 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 ''paulo-post future"
AcDoo ttiiu blc1 al . ROIllS W w JuciD. lnB
probability is that if such a one in his last
will by donation to benevolent societies
tries to atone for his lifetime close-fisted-
ness. the heirs at law will try to break the
will by proving that the old man was
senile or crazy, and the expense of the
litigation will about leave in the
lawyers hands what was meant
for the American Bible Society. o ye over
weighted successful busi ess men, whether
this sermon reach your ear or your eys, let
me say that if you are prostrated uh
snxieties about keeping or investing these
tremendous fortunes, | 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 al Saratoga,
Homburg, or Carlsbad--give to God and
humanity the Bible 10 per cent. OF all your
income, and il will make a new man of
you, and from restless walking of the aoor
al night you shall have eight hours sleep
without the help of bromide Of potassium,
and from no appetite you will hardly be
able TO wait your regular meals, and your
wan cheek will fill up, and when you die
the blessings of those who but for YOU
would have perished will bloom all over
your grave with violets, if it be WIRING, or
gadioius. if it be autumn.
Perhaps some of you will take this advice
but the most of you will not. And YOU will
try to cure YOUR swollen hand by getting