Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-09-30

! morrow II there were not thousands or
common lawyers to see that men and
women get their rights. n Valentine
Mott or Willard Parker rises up emf
nent in the medical professions; but
what an unlimited sweep would pneu-
mOnia and diphtheria and scarlet fever
have in the world if it were not for
ten thousand common doctors. The
old physician in his gig, driving 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, and looking
on and waiting for his decision in re-
gard to the patient. and hearing him
! say, Thank God, | have mastered the
case: he is getting WELL" excites in me
an admiration quite equal TO the men
tiCn of the names of the great metro
/ politan doctors of the past or the illus
trious living nen of the present.
Yet what do we see in all depart
ments? People not satisfied with ordi-
nary spheres of work and ordinary du-
ties. Instead of trying 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
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 saying. HE that provid-
eth not for his own. and especially
those OF his own household, is worse
than an infidel; "but the large and
fabulous sums for which many strug-
gle. if obtained, would be hindrance
rather than an advantage.
The anXieties and annOyaHCe6 OF
those whose estates have become pie
thoric can only be told by those who
! possess them. 1t will be good thing
when. through your industry and pros
perity, you can own the house IN
which you live. But suppose you own
nifty houses, and you have all those
rents to collect, and all those tenants
to please. Suppose you have branched
out in business successes until in al
most every direction you have invest
ments. The fire bell rings at night,
you rush upstairs to look out of the
window, to see if it is any of your
mills. Epidemic of crime comes. and
there are embellishments and abscond-
ing in all directions, and you wonder
whether any of your bookkeepers will
prove recreant. A panic strikes the
financial world, and you are hen I'M
der a sky full of hawks, and trying
with anxious cluck to get your over
grown chickens safely under wing. At
ter certain stage of success has 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 defrauded, and
the anxiety you had on your brow
when you were earning your first thou
sand dollars is not equal to the anxiety
on your brow now that you have wen
your three hundred thousand
| am glad for the benevolent insti-
tutions that get a 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 | have no respect They
would have taken every cent of it with
them If they could, and bought UP half
of heaven and let it out at ruinous rent,
or loaned the money to celestial citi
zens at two per cent a 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 efforts for
their relief. The charities of such peo-
pie are in the 'Paulo-post future"
tense; they are going to do them. The
probability is that if such one in his
last will by donation to benevolent
societies tries to atone for his lifetime
lose-fistedness, 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 Bible Society. D
ye overweighted, successful business
/ men, whether this sermon reach your
ear or your eyes, let me say that if you
are Frustrated with anxieties about
keeping or investing these tremendous
fortunes, | can tell how you can do
more to get your health back and your
| spirits raised than by drinking gallons
of bad-tasting water at Saratoga, HON.
burg or Carlsbad: Give to God, hui
manity, and the Bible ten per cent OF
all your income, and it 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 potassium, and from no ap-
petite you will hardly be able to wait
for your regular meals. and your wan
cheek will fill up, and when you die the
blessings of those who but for you
would have persisted will bloom all over
your grave.
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 on it more fingers,