The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-10-22

the George Whitefields of the future.
The longer / live the more | 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 aSamuelL. Southland,
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 Willard Parker rises up emf
nent in the medical profession; but
what an unlimited sweep would pneu-
monia and diphtheria and scarlet fever
have in the world if it were not for
1000 common doctors! The old ply
stefan 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!" excites 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
binary spheres of work an ordinary
duties. Instead of trying to see what
they can do with hand offive fingers,
| they want six. Instead of usual en-
downment of 20 manual and pedal adj
denda, 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 au-
thority for saying: HE that pro-
videth not for his own household, is
worse than an infidel;" but the large
and fabulous sums for which many
struggle, if obtained, would be a
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 you 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 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 like hen
under a sky full of hawks, and trying
with anxious cluck to get your over
grown chickens safely under wing.
After 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 swiDdled and defraud.
ed, 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 100000.
The trouble with such one is, he is
spread out like the unfortunate one il
my text. You have more fingers and
toes than you know what to do with
Twenty were useful, twenty-four are &
hindering superiority. 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 replied: Upon my honor, gen
tlemen, the load which / cast off wal
by far heavier than the one you SCI
me carry. The weightiest is but ,
straw when compared to that weigh
under which labored. / have slep
more in four nights than l have dur
ing all my reign. l begin to live ant
to be king myself. Elect whom yo,
choose. As for me, am so well i
would be madness to return to court.
WELL" says somebody, such over
loaded persons ought to be petied, TO
their worriments are real, and thei
insomnia and their nervous prostra
ton are genuine" l reply that the,
could get rid OF the bothersome sur
plus by giving it away. If a man ha
more houses than he can carry with
out vexation, let him drop few o
them. IL his estate is so great he ca
!. not manage it without getting ner,
Gus dyspepsia from having too mucl
let him divide with those who hav
nervous dyspepsia because they ca
not get enough. No! They guar
y their sixth finger with more care tina
: they did the original five. They g
limping with what they call govt, an
know not that, like the giant of m
: text, they are famed by superfiuou
toe. A few of them by charities blee
. themselves of this financial obesit
D and montery plethora, but many G
: them hang on to the hindering super
fluffy till death; and then, as they ar
compelled to give the money up any
r how, in their last will and tcstamer
! they generously give some of it to tn
e Lord, expecting, no doubt, that H
4 will feel very much obliged to then
! Thank God that once in a while W
+ have Peter Cooper, who, owning a
I interest in the iron works at Trenton