Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-09-29

the largo md fabulous sums for which
many struggle, IL obtained, would he q
hindrance rather than an advantage.
The anxietics and annoyances of those
whose estates have become plethoric can
only be told by those who possess them.
1t will DO u good thing when, through
your industry and prosperity, you can
own tho house in which you live. But
suppose you own 80 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 almost every direction you have invest
mcnts Tho fire bell rings at night you
rush up stairs to look out of the window
to sec If it is any of your mills. Epidemic
of crimo comes, and there arc embezzle-
mcnts and absconding in all directions,
and you wonder whether any Of your book
keepers will provo rccreant. A panic
strikes the financial world, and you arc
like a hen under sky full Of hawks md
trying with anxious rluck to get your
overgrown chickens safely under wing.
After certain stage of success has been
reached you have to trust so many impor-
tant things to others that you aro apt to
become tho prey of others, and you arc
swindlcd and dofraudcd, and the anxiety
you had on your brow when you were
earning your first $1,000 IS not equal to
tho anxiety on your brow now that you
havo won your 100000.
Monetary Plethora.
The trouble with such % ono is, he Ia
spread out like the unfortunate ono in my
text. You have moro fingers and toes
than you know what to do with. Twenty
were useful; "a arc hindcring super
fluffy
Disrnell says that king Of Poland alb
dictated his throne and joined the people
and became a porter to carry burdens
And some ono asked him why he did so
and he replied Upon my honor, gcntlc-
men, the load which 1 cast Off was by far
heavier than tho one you sec mo carry.
Tho wci9htiest is but straw when COM
pared to that weight under which I labor
ed. l have slep; moro in four nights than
/ have during al, my reign. | begin to
live and TO be king myself, Elect whom
you choose. As for me, l am so well it
would Ee madness to return to court"
"Wcll," says somebody, "such overload
ed persons ought to DO pticd, for their
worrimcnts are real and their insomnia
/ and their nervous prostration are gon
uino" reply that they could get rid Of
the bothcrsome surplus by giving it away
If man has more houses than he Can car
~ without vexation, let him dror' few Of
them. If his estate is so great 10 cannot
manage 1t without getting nervous dys-
pcpsia from having too much, let him di-
vide with those who have nervous dyspep
STA because they cannot get enough. No,
they guard their sixth finger with more
caro- than they did the original five. They
go limping with what they call govt and
know not that, like the giant of my tex
they are famed by a supertluous toe a
few of them by charities bleed themselves
of this financial obesity and monetary
plethora, but many of them hang on u
the hindering superluity till death, and
then, as thoy are compelled to give tho
money up anyhow, in their last will and
testament they generously give some Of T.
to tho Lord, expecting, no doubt, that he
will feel very much obliged to them.
! Thank God that once in awhile we have u
Peter Cooper, who, owning an interest in
the iron works at Trenton, said to Mr..
Lester: 81 do not feel quito easy about tho
amount we arc making. Working under
one Of our patents, wo have q monopoly
which seems to mo something wrong Ev-
erybody has to come to us for IT, and we
are making money too fast" So they re-
duced the price, and this while our philan-
thropist was building Cooper Institute,
which mothers hundred institutes OF
kindness and mercy all over the land. But
the world had t. wait $500 years for
Peter Cooper!
The Miser and Misery.
l am glad for the benevolent 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 socie.
ties, but for such tcstators have no re-
spect. They would have taken every cent
of it with them if they could and bought
up half Of heaven and let it out at runous
rent or loaned tho money to celestial citi
zcns at 2 per cent a month and got "cor-
ncr' on harps and trumpets. They lived
in this world 80 or 90 years in the presence
of appalling suffering and want and made
no efforts for thoir relief The charities of
suck people are in the 'Paulo-post future"
tense. They are going to do them. Tho
/ probability is that If such one in his last
will by donation to benevolent societies
tries to atone for his lifetime closensted-
ness tho heirs at law will try to break the
will by proving that the old man was Sc
! nile or crazy, and tho expense of the liti-
| CATION will about leave in tho lawyer
| hands what was meant for the Bible SC .
ciety. Dye ovcrweightcd, successful bust
ness men, whether this sermon reach your
ear or your eyes, lot me say that II you are
/ Frustrated with anxioties about keeping or
/ investing these tremendous fortunes l can
tell you how you can do more to got your
health back and your spirits raised than
by drinking gallons of bad tasting water
at Saratoga, Homburg or Carlsbad-give
to God, humanity and the Bible 10 per
cent of oil your income, and it will make
a new man of you, and from restless walk
ing of the floor au night you shall have
eight hours sleep without the help of
bromide Of potassium, and from no appe-
tite you will hardly be able to wait for
your regulc. meals and your wan check
will fill up, and when you die the bless
ings of those who but for you would have
persisted will bloom all over your grave.
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 II moro fingers, and your rhou-
matte foot by getting on it more toes, and
there will be a sigh of relief when you are
gone out of tho world, and when over your
remains the minister recitcs tho words,
BLESSED are tho dead who die in tho
Lord, " persons who have keen appreca
ton OF the ludicrous will hardly DO able to
keep their faces straight. But whether in
that direction my words do good or not,
am anxious that all who have only or
! 1iparV puuinmpDt ba THANK fii1 for w \