Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-09-26


the Washingtons and the George
Whitefelds of the future. The longer I
live the more I like common folks
They do the worlds work. bearing the
worlds burdens, weeping the world s
sympathies, carrying the worlds conso-
htiOn. Among lawyers we see rise up
a Rufus Choate or William Writ Or q
Samuel l.. Southland, but society would
go to pieces tomorrow if there were not
thousands of common lawyers to see
that men and women get their rights
4 Valentine Mott or q Willard Parker
rises up eminent in the medical profess
sion, but what an unlimited sweep
would pneumonia and diphtheria and
scarlet fever have in the world if it
were not for 10, 900 common doctors!
The old physician in his gig, driving
up the lane of the farmhouse or riding
on horseback, his medicines in the sad
dlebags, arriving on the ninth day of
the fever and coming in to take hold OF
the pulse Of the patient, while the fam
lily, pale with anxiety and looking on
and waiting for his decision in regard
to the patient and hearing him say,
sThank God, have mastered the case;
he is getting welli'' excites in me an
admiration quite equal to the mention
of the names of the great metropolitan
doctors of the past or the illustrious liv
ing men Of the present.
The Limits Of Wealth.
Yet what do we see in all Depart
ments? People not satisfied with Ordi
nary spheres of work and ordinary du
ties. Instead of trying to see what they
can do with a hand of five fingers, they
want six. Instead Of usual endowment
of 20 manual and pedal addenda, 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 authority for say
ing, "He that provideth not for his
own, and especially those of his own
household, is worse than an infdel,"
but the large and fabulous sums for
which many struggle, if obtained,
would be q 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.
your industry and prosperity 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 III almost every direction you
have investments. The fire bell rings at
night; you rush up stairs to look out Of
the window to see if it is any of your
mills. Epidemic Of crime comes, and
there are embellishments and absCOnd-
ing in all directions, and you wonder
whether any of your bOokkeepers will
prove recreant. panic strikes the
financial world, and you are like hen
under sky full Of hawks and trying
with anxious cluck to get your own
overgrown chickens safely under wing.
After a certain stage Of success has been
reached you have to trust so many i'm
portant 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 81 900 is
not equal to the anxiety on your brow
now that you have won your $500, 600.
Financial Obesity.
The trouble with such one is he is
spread out like the unfortunate one in
my text. You have more fingers and
toes than you know what to do witsl
Twenty were useful "a are hindering
superfuity. Disraeli says that king Of
Poland abdicated his throne and joined
the people and became a porter to carry
burdens. And some one asked him why
he did So and he replied: "Upon my
honor, gentlemen, the load which [ cast
off was by far heavier shan the one you
see me carry The weightiest is but
straw when compared to that weight
under which I labored. I have slept
more in four nights than I have during
all my reign. begin to live and to be
a king myself. Elect whom you choose.
As for me, I am SO we'll it would be
madness to return to court. -
"Well," says somebody, "such over
loaded persons ought to be pitied, for
their worriments are real, and their in
somnia and their nervous prostration
are genuine' I reply that they could
get rid Of the bothersome surplus by
giving it away. If man has more
houses than he can carry without vexa-
ton, let him drop a few Of them. If 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 be-
cause they cannot 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 are famed by a superfuous
toe. A few Of them by charities bleed
themselves of this financial obesity and
monetary nlethOra but many of them