St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-10-29


Mott or . Willard Parker rises up emf
nent in the medical profession; but
what an unlimited sweep would pnel-
monia and diphtheria and scarlet fever
have in the world if it were not Tor
1O, 600 common doctors! The old phy-
sician 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 teke 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 have mastered the case;
he is getting well!" excites in me an
quite equal to the mention
of the names of the great metropah-
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 a 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-
videth not for his own household, is
worse than an infidel;" but the large
and fabulous sums for which many
struggle, if obtained, would be .
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 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 embezzlements 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 $1,000 in not equal to the anxiety
on your brow now that you have won
your 100000.
The trouble with such a one is, he in
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 are .
hindering superfuity. Disraeli says
that king of Polnnd abdicated his
throne and joined the people, and be-
came q porter to carry burdens. And
some one asked him why he did SO,
and he replied: upon my honor, gen.
tlemen, the load which cast on was
by far heavier than the one you see
me carry. The weightiest is but .
straw when compared to that weight
under which / labored. / 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, ! am SO well it
''Well," says somebody, ''such over
loaded persons ought to be petied, for
their worriments are real, and their
insomnia and their nervous prostra-
ton are genuine" 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
out vexation, let him drop q few Of
them. If his estate is SO great he can
not manage it without getting nerv-
Gus dyspepsia from having too much,
let him divide 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 gout, and
know not that, like the giant of my
text, they are lamed by a superfluous
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 We
have Peter Cooper, who, owning ar
interest in the iron works at Trenton
said to Mr.. Lester: II do not fee
quite easy about the amount we arr
making. Working under one of oul
patents, we have a monopoly which
seems to me something wrong. Every
body has to come to us for it, and w,
are making money too fast" So they
reduced the price. and this while oul
philanthropist was building Cooper in
stitute, which mothers a hundred in
stitutes of Kindness and mercy al
over the land. But the world had I,
wait $500 years for Peter Cooper!
am glad for the benevolent insti
tutions that legacy from men wht
during their life were as stingy n,
death, but who in their last will and
testament bestowed money ON hospit
ais and missionary societies; but TO
such testators have no respect. The!
would have taken every cent of it will
them il they could, and bought III
half of Heaven and let it out the .
ruinous rent, or loaned the money u
celestial citizens at two per cent.
month, and got corner" on harP'
and trumpets- They lived in thu
world so or GO years in the presence o
appalling suffering and want. and
made no efforts for their relief. Tn
charities of such people are in th'
"Paulo-post future" tense. they Ar