The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-09-30

common lawyers to see that men ana
women get their rights. A valentine
Mott or a Willard Parker rises up emil
nent in the medical profession; but
what an unlimited sweep would pneu-
monia and diphtheria and scarlet teVer
have in the world II 1t were not TOT
ten thousand common doctors! Inc
old physician in his gig, driving up the
lane Of the farmhouse, or riding Oh
horseback, his medicines in the saddle
bags, arriving on the ninth day OF the
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 re-
gard to the patient, and hearing MN
say, THANK God, l have mastered the
case; he is getting well" excites in me
an admiration quite equal to the NEIL
ton of the names of the great metro
politan doctors of the past or the Illus
trious living men Of the present.
Yet what do we see in all depart
ments? People not satisfied with ordl-
nary spheres of work and ordinary du-
ties. Instead of trying to see what they
can do with hand of five fingers, they
want six Instead of usual endowment
of twenty manual and pedal addenda,
they want twenty-four. 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
authority for saying, "He that provid-
eth not for his own. and especially
those of his own household, Is worse
than an infidel; "but the large and
fabulous sums for which many strug-
gle, if obtained, would be hindrance
rather than an advantage.
The anxieties and annoyances OF
those whose estates have become pie
thoric can only be told by those VINO
possess 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
fifty houses, and you have all those
rents to collect, and all those tenants
to please. Suppose you have brancheu
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, ana
there are embellishments 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 hen I'M
der a sky full of hawks, and trying
with anxious cluck to get your over
grown chickens safely under wing. Al
ter 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 others. and
you are swindled and defrauded, and
the anxiety you had on your brow
when you were earning your first thou
sand dollars is not equal to the anxiety
on your brow now that you have won
your three hundred thousand.
am glad for the benevolent insti-
tutions 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 societies; but for such
testators / have no respect. They
would have taken every cent of it with
! them If they could, and bought up hall
of heaven and let it out at ruinous rent,
or loaned the money to celestial citi-
zens at two per cent month, and got
Corner" on harps and trumpets. They
, lived in this world fifty or sixty years
in the presence of appalling suffering
and want, and made no efforts for
; their relief. The charities Of such peo-
Pile are in the "Paulo-post future
, tense; they are going to do them. The
probability is that if such one in his
last will by a donation to benevolent
societies tries to atone for his lifetime
close-fistedness, the heirs-at-law will
: try to 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. 0
, we over-weighted, 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 how you can dc
, more to get your health back and your
spirits raised than by drinking gallons
of bad-tasting water at Saratoga, Hon
, burg or Carlsbad: Give to God, hui
mainly, and the Bible ten per cent OF
all your income, and it will make neT
man of you, and from restless watkins
of the floor at night you shall have
: eight hours sleep, without the help Of
bromide of potassium, and from no ap-
; petite you will hardly be able to wait
) for your regular meals and your wan
cheek will fill up, and when you die the
blessings of those who but for you
, would have persisted will bloom all ovel
! your grave.
Perhaps some Of you will take thi!
. advice, but the most OF you will not
, And you will try to cure your swoller
! hand by getting on it more fingers
, and your rheumatic foot by getting OF
| u roora toac and thera will he a sigh