The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-11-03


clans, who have made all the noise, go
home hoarse from an angry discussion
on the evening of the fiji st Monday in
November, the next day the people,
with the silent ballot, will settle every
thing, and settle it right, 100000 of
the white slips of paper they drop
making about as much noise as the
fall of an apple blossom.
Clear back in the country to-day
there are mothers in plain apron, and
shoes fashioned on a rough last by a
shoemaker at the end of the lane,
rocking babies that are to be Martin
Luthers and the Faradays and the Ed
isons and the Bismarcks and the
Gladstones and the Washingtons and
the George Whitefelds of the future.
The longer l live the more l like COM
mon folks. They do the worlds work,
bearing the worlds burdens, weeping
the worlds sympathies, carrying the
worlds consultations. Among lawyers
we see rise up Rufus Choate, or a
William Writ, or a Samuel l.. Southard,
but society would go to pieces to- NOR
row If there were not thousands of
common lawyers to see that men and
women get their rights. a Valentine
Mott or a Willard Parker rises up emf
nent in the medical professions; but
what an unlimited sweep would pneu-
monia and diphtheria and scarlet fever
have in the world if it were not for
10000 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 take 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!" excitcs in me an
admiration quite equal to the mention
of the names of the great metropali-
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
dinar," spheres of work an ordinary
duties. Instead of trying to see what
they can do with hand Of five fingers,
they want six. Instead of usual en-
downment of 20 manual and pedal ad-
denda, they want 24. \ 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: ''IIe that pro-
videth not for his own household, is
worse than an intidel;' but the large
struggle, if obtained, would be
hindrance 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 yo1l 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 emheZzleEents and abscond
ing in all directions, and you wonder
whether any of your bookkcepcrs will
prove recreant. 4 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 is rot equal to the anxiety
on your brow now that you have won
your 100000.
The trouble with such a one is, he is
spread out like the unfortunate one in
my text. You Eave more fingers and
toes than you know what to do with.
Twenty were useful, twentyfour are
hindering superfluitr. Disraeli says
that king OF Poland ahdicated his
throne and joined the people, and be-
came porter to carry burdens. And
some one asked him why he did so,
and he replied: Upon my honor, gen.
tlcmen. the load which | cast off 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. l begin to live and
to be king myself. Elect whom you
choose. As for me, | am so well it
would be madness to return to court"
"Wall,' says somebody, "such over
loaded persons ought to be petied. for
Sheir 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 man has
more houses than he can carry With
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