Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-09-29


ments? People not satisfied with or
binary spheres of worl, and ordinary |
duties. Instead of seeing what they |
can do with a hand oi five fingers, taey |
want SiN. Instead of usual cudow-
mcut of - manual and pedal u ,dcnda. |
they want - \ certain amount of !
money for livlihood, and for the sup |
ply of those whom We leave behind us |
after we have departed this life, is i'm !
portant for we have the best author |
ity for saying, I'll that provideth not |
for his own, ami especially those of
his own household, is worse than an
intdcl;" hut the large ana fabulous
sums for which many struggle, If OH |
than an advantage.
The anNictIrs and annoyauccs OF
those whose estates nave become pie
thoric can only be told by those who
possess them. 1t will Toe good thing
when, through your industry and pros
perity, you can own the house in
which you live. But suppos you own
30 houses, and you have all those rents
To collect, and all those tenants tn
please. suppose you have branched
out in business successes until in al
most every direction YOU have invest
ments. The fire bells rings at night,
you rush upstairs to look out of
the window to see if it is any of
your mills endemic OF crime
comes, ana there are embrZZlc-
mcnts and absconding in all dircc-
tions, and you wonder whether any of
your bookkeepers will prove recrcant.
\ panic strikes the financial world, and
YOU are like a hen under IA sky full of
hawks, and trying with anxious c.uck
To get your overgrown chickens safely
under wing. After n certain stage of
success has been reached you have to
trust 50 many important things To
others that you are apt to become the
prey of others, and You are swinuled
and defrauded, and the anxiety you
had on your brow when YOU were
earning your first $1,000 is not equal
to the anxiety on your brow now that
you have won your $500, 900, 900.
The trouble with such one is that
he is spread out like the unfortunate
one in my text You have more fingers
and toes than you know what tn do
with. Twenty were useful. - j.
hindcring superfluity. Disraeli says
that king of Poland abdicated his
throne and joined the people, and be-
came porter to carry burdens. And
some one asked him why he did SO and
he answered.: Upon my honor, gem
tlemen, the load which cast Off was
h,.f haD v,a har no
carry. The weightie>t is but straw
when compared to that weigh; under
which ! labored. have slept more in
four nights than have during all nv
reign. I begin to live and to be "a
king myself. Elect whom YOU choose
As for me, | am SO well it would be
madness to return to court"
"Nell, says some body such over
loaded persons ought to he pitied, for
their worriment are real. and their in
somnia and their nervous prostration
are genuine" reply that they could
get rid of the bothersome surplus 10y
giving il away. Ii man has more
houses than he can carry without
veXation let him drop Il STEW of them
If his estate is so great he can not
manage 1t without getting nervous
dyspepsia from having too much, let
him divide with those who have ner-
vous 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 govt. and know
not that like the giant of my text they
L.. - a.
of them by charities bleed themselves
of this financial obesity and monetary
plethora, but many OF them hang on to
the hindering supertluity till death;
and then, as they are compelled to give
the. money up anyhow, in their last
will and testament they generously
give some of it to the Lord, expecting,
no doubt, that lie will feel very much
obliged to them.
Thank God that once in n while we
have Peter Cooper, who, owning an
interest in the iron works ut Trenton,
said to Mr.. Lester: Il do not feel quite
easy about the amount we are making
Working under one of our patents we
have n MONOPOLY which seems to me
something wrong. Everybody has to
come TO us for it. and we are making
money too fast" 80 they reduced the
price, and this while our philanthropist
was building Cooper Institute, which
mothers a hundred institutes of kind
ness and mercy all over the land But
the world had to wait $500 years for
Peter Cooper.
am glad for the benevolent institu-
tions that get a legacy from men
who, during their life. were as stingy
as death. but who in their last will and
testament bestowed money ON hog
pitfalls and missionary societies; but for
such testators | have no respect. They
wonld have taken every cent of it
with them if they could, and bought
up half of Heaven and let it out at
| ruinous rent, or loaned the money to
celestial citizens at per cent a
month, and got a corner on harps
and trumrets. They lived in this world
| 80 or 60 years i'll the presence of an
palling suffering and want, and made
no efforts for their relief. The chari-
| ties of such people are in the 'Paulo-
post future" tense; they are going to
do the IN. The probability is that if
such one in his last will by a dona-
ton to benevolent societies tries to
atone for his lifetime of close-fsted-
ness, the heirs-at-law will try to
break the will by proving that the
old man was senile or cay, and the
expense of the, litigation will about
leave in the lawyers hands what was
meant for the Bible Society. o, We
overweighty, successful business men.
whether this sermon reach your ear
or your eyes, let me say that
if you are Frustrated with anxieties
about keeping or investing these
tremendous fortunes, l can tell you
how you can do more to get your
health back and your spirits raised
than by drinking gallons of bad-tast-
ing water at Saratoga, Homburg or
Carlsbad. Give to God, humanity and
the Bible ten per cent. OF all your in
come, and it will make n new man of
you, and from restless walking of the
floor at night you shall have eight
hours sleep, without the help of bro
mide of potassium, and from no appe-