The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-10-15

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| hold, is worse than an inhdel;" but the
! large and fabulous sums for which many
| struggle, ii obtained. would be hindrance
| rather than an advantage.
| The anxietieS and annoyances Of those
whose estates have become plethoric can
| only be told by those who possess them. 1t
| will be good thing when, through your
| industry and prosperity, you can own the
| house in which YOU live. But suppose you
| own fifty 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 di-
rection you have investments. The fire
| hell rings at night YOU rush upstair to look
| out OF the window, to see II 1t IS any OF
! your mills. Epidemic Of crime comes and
there are embellishments and absconding
! in all directions and you wonder whether
| any OF your bookkepcrs will prove re-
creant. 4 panic strikes the financial world,
and you are like hen undcra sky full Of
| hawks, aud trying with anxious cluck to
! Ce. your OvorgrOwn chickens safely under
| Wing. After Il certain stage Of success has
! been reached, you have to trust SO many
| Important things to others that you are apt
| % become the prey Of others, and YOU are
| SWipdled AMI aefraudei, and the anxiety
| you bad on your brow when YOU were earn
| nc your first thousand dollars is not equal
| 10 the anxiety Oh your brow now that you
have won your three hundred thousand.
Disraeli says that king of POLAND
abdicated his throne and Joined the people
! and became porter 20 carry burdens. AND
some one asked him why he did so, ard he
replied; Upon my honor, gentlemen, the
Dad which l east of was by far heavier
| han the one you see me carry. The weight
| est is but a straw when compared to that
weight under which | labored. | have
slept more in four nights than | have dur
| ING all my reign. | begin to live and to be
A king myself Elect whom you choose.
As for me, | am so well 1t would be madness
to return to court"
well says somebody, "such overloaded
persons ought to be pitied, for their worri-
ments are real aud their insomnia and their
nervous prostration are genuine" reply
that they could get rid OF the bothersome
surplus by giving it away. II a man has
more houses than he can carry without
vexation let him drop few Of them. II
his estate Is so great he cannot manage it
without getting nervous dyspepsia from
having too much, let him divide with those
who have nervous dyspepsia because they
cannot get enough. No! they guard their
sixth finger with moro care than they did
the original five. They go lmping with
what they cali govt and know not that.
like the giant Of my text, they are famed
by superduous toe. few OF them by
charities bleed themselves Of this financial
obesity and monetary plethora, but many
| Of them hang on to the hndering super
fluffy till death; and then, as they are COM
PEELED to give the money up anyhow, in
their last will and testament they gener-
ously give some Of 1t to the Lord, expect
ing, no doubt, that He will feel very much
obliged to them. Thank God that once In
while we have Peter Cooper, who. own
ing an interest in the iron works at Tren-
ton, said to Mr., Lester: II do not feel quite
easy about the amount We are making.
Working under one of our patents, we have
a monopoly. which seems to me something
wrong. Everybody has to come to US for
SO they reduced the prize, and this while
our philanthropist was building Cooper In
stitute. which mothers hundred institutes
Of Kindness and mercy all over the land.
Bnt the world had to wait five thousand
eight hundred years for Peter Cooperl
I am glad for 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 testators l have no re-
spect. They would have taken every cent
Of it with them il they could, and bought
up half Of heaven and let it out at ruinous
rent, sor loaned the money to celestial citi-
zens at two per cent. month, and got a
"corner" on harps and trumpets. They
lived IN this world fifty and sixty years in
the presence of appalling suffering and
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The charities OF such people are In the
"Paulopost future" tense, they are going
to do them. The probability Is that if such
a one In his last will by donation to
benevolent societies tries to atone for his
lifetime close hstedness, the heirs-a law
will tryto 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. o ye over weighted, sue
cessful business men, whether this sermon
reach you enr or your eyes, let me say that
II you are Frustrated with anxieties about
keeping or investing these tremendous
fortunes, 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, Homburg,
Carlsbad Give to God, humanity and the
| olplo bcu pei Gull. VI your luCOuo duu It
will make new man Of you, and from
restless walking OF the floor you shall have
eight hours sleep, without the help Of
bromide Of potassium, and from no appe-
tite you will hardly be able to await your
regular meals, and your wan cheek will fiji
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. ad-
vice, but the most Of you will not. And
you will try to cure your swollen hand by
getting on it more fingers, and your rheu-
matte foot by getting on it more toes, and
there will be sigh Of relief when you are
gone out of the world; and when over your
remains the minister recites the words:
"Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord !"
persons who have keen appreciation OF the
ludicrous will hardly be able to keep their
faces straight. But whether in that direc.
ton my words do good or not, am anx.
ious that all who have only ordinary equip.
ment be thankful for what they have and
rightly employ it. think you all have,
| figurativelY as well az literally Hnoers