The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1898-10-07

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10000 common doctors! The old ply.
stefan in his gig, driving up the lane
of the farm house, or riding on horse.
back, his medicines in the saddle bags
arriving on the ninth day of 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 regard to
the patient, and hearing him say:
THANK God 1 have mastered the case;
he is getting WE'LL" excites in me an
admiration quite equal to the mention
of the names of the great metropali-
tan doctors of the past or the illustri-
Gus living men of the present.
Yet what do we see in all depart
ments? People not satisfied with or
binary spheres of work an ordinary
duties. Instead of trying to see what
they can do with hand offive fingers,
they want six. Instead of usual en-
downment of 20 manual and pedal adj
denda, they want "a. 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 au-
thority for saying: 'He that pro-
viSeth not for his own household, is
worse than an infidel;" but the large
and fabulous sums for which many
struggle, if obtained, would be a
hindrance rather than an advantage.
The anxiety and annoyances of
those whose estates have become pie
thoric can only be told by those who
posses them. 1t will be a good thing
when, through your industry and pros
perity, you can own the house in
which you live. But suppose you own
so 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 entertainments 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 like hen
under a sky full of hawks, and trying
with anxious cluck to get your over
grown chickens safely under wing.
After a 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 9TH
ers, and you are swindled and defraud-
ed, and the anxiety you had on your
brow when you were earning your
first 81 900 is not equal to the anxiety
on your brow now that you have won
your 100000.
The trouble with such a one is, he is
spread out like the unfortunate one i'll
toes than you know what to do with.
Twenty were useful, twenty-four are
superfuity. Disraeli says
that a king of Poland abdicated his
throne and joined the people, and be-
came a porter to carry burdens. And
some one asked him why he did so,
and he replied: Upon my honor, gen
tlemen, the load which l cast off was
by far heavier than the one you see
LAC NelAA IIC NClS nlIGSG Is DuU a
straw when compared to that weight
under which l labored. l have slept
more in four nights than | have dur
ing all my reign. 1 begin to live and
to be king myself. Elect whom you
choose. AS for me, l am so well it
would be madness to return to court"
well" says somebody, "such over
ng6aH n11Crht fO lo
their worriments are real, and their |
insomnia and their nervous prostra-
lion are genuine" 1 reply that they |
could get rid of the bothersome sur
plus by giving it away. If a man has !
more houses than he can carry with |
put veXation, let him drop a few of |
hem. If his estate is so great he can |
not manage it without getting nerv-
'us dyspepsia from having too much, |
ct him divide with those who have |
nervous dyspepsia because they can
lot get enough. No! They guard !
heir sixth finger with more care than
hey did the original five. They go |
imping with what they call govt, and |
know not that, like the giant of my
ext, they are famed by a superfluous
oe. a few of them by charities bleed
themselves of this financial obesity
md montery plethora, but many of |
hem hang on to the hindering super
luity till death; and then, as they are
compelled to give the money up any
low, in their last will and testament |
hey generously give some of it to the
ord, expecting, no doubt, that He
will feel very much obliged to them.
Thank God that once in a while we
ave Peter Cooper, who, owning an
interest in the iron works at Trenton,
aid to Mr.. Lester: 81 do not feel
uite easy about the amount we are
making. Working under one of our
'atents, we have a monopoly which
GEMS to me something wrong. Every
ody has to come to us for it, and we
re making money too fast" So they
educed the price, and this while our
hilanthropist was building Cooper in
titute, which mothers a hundred in
titutes of kindness and mercy all
YER the land. But the world had to
AIT $500 years for Peter Cooper!
/ am glad for the benevolent insti-
ltions that legacy from men who
uring their life were as stingy as
cath, but who in their last will and
estament bestowed money on hospit-
Is and missionary societies; but for
lch testators l have no respect. They
-ould have taken every cent of it with
hem if they could, and bought up
alf of Heaven and let it out the at
linous rent, or loaned the money to
CELESTIAL citizens at two per cent. a
lonth, and got corner" on harps
nd trumpets. They lived in this !
nrld 20 or GO uears in the rnreScncn Of |