The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-11-03
NO. 36.

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 gout, and
know not that, like the giant of my
text, they are lamed by superfuous
toe. a few of them by charities bleed
themselves of this financial obesity
and montery plethora, but many Of
them hang on to the hindering SUPER
fluffy till death; and then, as they are
compelled to give the money up any
how, in their last will and testament
they generously give some of it to the
Lord, expecting, no doubt, that He
will feel very much obliged to them.
Thank God that once in a while wc
have Peter Cooper. who, owning an
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 money too fast So they
reduced the price, and this while our
philanthropist was building Cooper in
stitute, which mothers a hundred in
stitutes of kindness and mercy all
over the land. But the world had to
wait $500 years for Peter Cooper!
1 am glad for the benevolent insti-
tutions that a legacy from men who
during their life We're as stingy as
death, but who in their last will and
testament bestowed money on hospit-
ais and missionary societies; but for
such testatOrs l 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 the at
ruinous 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 so or 60 years in the presence of
appalling suffering and want, and
made no efforts for their relief. Tho
charities of such people 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 close-fsted-
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 Bible society. Oh, We oversighted,
successful business men, whether this
sermon reach your ear or your eyes,
let me say that if you are FRUSTRATED
with anNieties about keeping or in
vesting these tremendous fortunes, I
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 at Saratoga, Hamburg
or Carlsbad: Give to God, humanity
and the Bible ten per cent. of all your
income, and it will make a new man
of you, and from restless walking on
the floor at night you shall have eight
hours sleep, without the help of bro
mde of potassium, and from no appe-
tite you will hardly be able to wait for
your regular meals, and your wan
cheeks will fill up, and when you die
the blessings of those who but for you
would have perished 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,
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; ard when over your remains
the minister rccites the words:
blessed are the dead who die in the
Lord,' persons who have keen appre-
citation of the lutlicrous will hardly be
able to keep their faces straight. But
whether in that direction, my words
do good or not, / am anxious that all
who have only ordinary equipment be
thankful for what they have and
rightly employ it. I think you all
have, figuratively as well as literally,
fingers enough. Do not long for him
dering superfuities. Standing in the
presence of this fallen giant of my
text, and in this post mortem examina-
ton of him let us learn how much bet
ter of we are with just the usual
hand, the usual foot. You have
thanked God for thousand things,
but I warrant you never thanked Him
for those two implements of work and
locomOtion, that no one but the In
finite and Omnipotent God could have
ever planed or made--the hand and
the foot Only that soldier or that
mechanic who in battle, or through
machinery, has lost them, knows any
thing about their value, and only the
Christian scientist can have any APP
probation of what divine masterpieces
they are.
Some Familiar Names.
Lake Michigan signifies in the ma
tive tongue "a weir for fish"
Java is a native Malay word signify
ing 1.-The land of nutmegs.'