The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-10-01

we see rise up a Rufus Choate. or q
William Writ or a Samuel l. South
ard, but society would 90 TO pieces to-
morrow II 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 profession; but
what an unlimited sweep would pneu-
monia aud diphtheria and scarlet fever
have Ia the world IL it were NOT for
10. 200 common doctors. The old physi-
clan In his gig, driving up the lane of
the farmhouse, or riding on horseback,
his medicines in the saddlebagS ar
irving on the ninth day OF the fever,
aad 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 wellF excites In me an
admiration quite equal to the mention
OF the names Of the great metropolitan
doctors Of the past Or the illustrious
living men Of the present
Yet what do we see In all depart
mentsS People not satisfied with
ordinary spheres of work and ordi'
nary duties Instead Of trying to see
what they can do with q hand OF i've
fingers, they want six. Instead OF
usual endowment Of 20 manual and
pedal AddendA, they want "a A Ger.
tain amount Of money for livelihood,
and for the supply Of those whom We
leave behind us after we have de-
parted this life, is important for we
have the best authority for saying,
HE that prOvideth not for his own
household. is worse than an inhdel,"
but the large and fabulous sums for
which many struggle, II obtained,
would be q hindrance rather than an
advantage
The anxieties and annoyanees Of
those whose estates have become
plethoric can only be told BY those
who possess them 1t will be a good
thing when. through your industry
and prosperity, you can W 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 branehed
out in business successes until In almost
every direction you have investments
The FIRE bell rings at night you rush
upstairs TO look out Of the window to
see II it is any Of your mills Epi-
demio Of crime comes and there are
entertainments and abseonding In all
directions, and you wonder whether
any Of your bookkeepers will prove
recreant A panic strikes the financial
world, aud you are like a hen under .
sky full Of hawks aud trying with
anxious cluck to get your overgrown
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 others,
and you are swindled and ~defrauded,
and the anxiety you had on your brow
when you were earning your first 81, zoo
is not equal TO the anxiety on your
brow 10Y that you have won your
$500, 900.
The trouble with such q one is, he ID
spread out like the unfortunate one In
my text You have more fingers and
toes than you know what TO do with.
Twenty were useful, "a Is q hinderine
superfuity. Disraeli says that a king
Of Poland abdicsted his throne and
joined the people, and became q porter
TO carry burdens. And some one asked
him why he did so, aud he replied,
upon my honor, gentlemen, the LOAD
which l cast off was by far heavier
than the mi you see me carry. Tn,
weightiest is but a straw when com
pared TO that weight under which
| lsbored. l have slept more in fouI
: nights than | have during all IN,
reign. begin to live and to be a kim
myself. Elect whom you choose. A
$ for me, / am SO we'll 1t would be mad
ness TO return TO court"
Well" says somebody, such over
loaded persons ought to be pitied, 10
p their worriments are real, and thei
insomnia aud their nervous prostrl
u ton ore genuine" l reply that the
could get rid Of the bothersome SUI
plus by giving it away. II a man ha
> more houses than he can carry withor
q vexation, let him drop q few Of then
/ II his estate Is SO great he cannC
z manage 1t without getting nervou
e dyspepsia from having too much, ID
d him divide with those who have ner'
Gus dyspepsia because they cannot =,
enough. No! They guard their sixt
"a finger with more care than they di
ie the original Eve. They go limpin
with what they call govt, and kno
I" not that, like the giant Of my tex
y they are famed by a superiuous to
A few Of them by charities bleed then
&c selves OF this financial obesity an
monetary plethora, but many OF the
= hang OIL to the hindering superfui'
&c till death; and then, as they are cor
'u PEELED TO give the money up anyho,
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