The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-10-25

mills. Epidemic of crime comes and
there are embezzlements and abScond-
ings in all directions, and you wonder
whether any of your book keepers will
prove recreant A panic 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 GER
tain stage of success has been reached
you have to trust SO many important
things to others that you are apt to be-
come the prey of others, aud you are
swindled and defrauded, and the 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 three hundred thou
sand. The trouble with su CHI a 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
superiority. Disraeh says that King of
Poland abdicated his throne and joined
the people and became porter 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
u nder which I labored. I have slept
all my reign. I begin to live and to be a
King myself. e lect whom you choose;
for me who am so well it would be mad
ness to return to court"
EsWell," says some body, "such over
lzI IL 4, L a..
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. If
a man has more houses than he can carry
without vex alton, let him drop few of
them. If his estate is so great he can not
manage it 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 limping with what they call
govt and know not that like the giant
of my text they are famed by super flu
GUS toe. A few of them by large chari-
ties bleed themselves 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
compelled to give the mon ey up 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 an interestin the iron works
at Trenton, said to Mr.. Lester:
Il 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 money too fast"
So they reduced the price, and this
while our anthropist was building
Cooper Institute, which mothers a 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. I am glad for the be-
nevolent institutions 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 missionary societies
but for such testators I have no respect.
They would have taken every mt of it
with them If they could, and bought up
half of Heaven and let it out at
ru1nons rent, or loaned the money
to celestial citizens at two per cent a
month and got corner on harps and
trumpets. They lived in this world fifty
or sixty years in the presence of appa1l-
ing suffering and want and made no effort
for their relief. The charities of such
people are, for the most part, in 'spaulo-
post future" tense, and they are going to
do them. The probability is that if such
a one in his last will, by donation to
benevolent societies, tries to atone for his
lifetime close-fistednsss, 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 So
ciety. o We overweighted, successful
business men, whether this sermon
reach your ear or your eye, let me say
that If you are Frustrated with anxieties
about keeping or investing these ire
mendous fortunes, can tell you how you
can do more to get your health back and
your spirits raised than by drinking gall
AOAo VI OheA- eoobino W6bOE DIT kodEbbO&d,
Homburg or Carlsbad-give. to God aud
humanity ten per cent. OF all four income,
and 1T will make new man OF you, and
from restless walking of the floor at
night you shall have eight hours sleep
without the help of bromide OF potas-
SUM, and from no appetite you will
hardly be able to wait your regular meals,
and your wan cheek will fill up, aud when
you die the blessings of those who but for
you would have persisted will bloom all
over your grave with violets il it be
spring, or glad iolus if it be autumn.
Perhaps some of you will take this ad-
vice, but the most of you will not And
you will try to cure your swollen hand by
getting on it more fingers, and your
rheumatic foot by getting on it more toes,
and there will be sigh of relief when
you are gone out Of the world; and when
over your remains the minister recites
the words: BLESSED are the dead who die
in the Lord, /" persons who have keen ap-
probation of tn e ludicrous will hardly be
bic to keep their face straight.
But whether in that dire ctio nv words
do good or not I am anxious tina all who
have only ordinary equipment be thank
fui for what they have and right " en-
ploy it.. think you all have, fguratively
as well as literally, fingers enough. Do
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