The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1898-09-28

mn the lane of the farmhouse or riding
on horseback. his medicines IN the S: l.
dlebags, arriving Oh the ninth day OF
the fever and coming IN to take hold OF
the pulse of the patient, while the fam
ily, pale with anxiety and locking on
and waiting for bis decision i'll regard
to the patient and hearing him say,
."Thank Got, have mastered the case;
he is getting well!' excites il me an
admiration quite equal to the mention
Of the names Of the great metropolitan
doctors cf the past or the lilusfrlo1s Nv
ing men Of the present.
The Limits of Wealth.
Yet what do we see in all depart
ments? People rot satisfied with ordl-
nary spheres Of work and ordinary du'
ties. Instead of trying to see what they
can do with hand CT FIVE fingers, they
want six. Instead of usual endowment
of 20 manual aud pedal addenda. they
want ~. 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 infidei,
but the large and fabulous sums for
which many struggle, if obtained,
vould be a hindrarce rather than an
advantage
The al zieties and annoyances of those
whose estates have become piethorlc can
only be told by those who possess them.
1t will be coed thing when through
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 IN 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 embezzlements 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 sky full of hawks and trying
with anxious cluck to get your own
oyergrown chickens safely under wing.
After certain stage Of success has been
reached you have to trust SO many I'M
portant things to others that you are
nf others and
YOU are sW1ndled and defrauded, and
the anxiety you had on your brow when
you were earning your first 1000 is
not equal to the anxiety on your brow
now that you have won your $500, 600
Financial Obesity.
The trouble with such a one is ne is
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 are a hindering
superhuity. Disraeli says that a king Of
Poland abdicated his throne and joined
the people aud became porter to carry
burdens. And soms one asked him why
he did so, and he replied: Upon my
homer, gentlemen, the load which cast
off was by far heavier than the one you
see me carry The weightiest is but a
straw when compared to that weight
under which l labored. / have slept
more in four nights than have during
all my reign. begin to live and to be
king myself Elect whom you choose.
As for me, 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 ia.
somnia and their nervous prostration
are genuine" l reply that they could
get rid of the bothersome surplus by
giving it away If a man has more
houses than he can carry without vexa-
tion, let him dropa few of them. IT 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
20 limping with what they call gout
and know not that, like the giant Of my
text, they are lamed by a superfuous
toe. A few of them by charities bleed
themselves of this financial obesity and
monetary plethora, but many of them
hang on to the hindering superfiuity
till death, and then, as they are COM
PEELED to give the money up anyhow, in
their last will and testament they gen.
erously give some of it to the Lord, ex-
pecting no doubt that he will feel very
much obliged to them. Thank God that
once in awhile we have Peter Cooper,
who, owning an interest in the iron
works at Trenton, said to Mr.. Lester:
II do not feel quite easy about the
amount we are making. Working un-
der one of our patents, we have a
monopoly which seems to me some
thing wrong Everybody has to come
TO US for it. and we are making money
too fast So they reduced the price,
and this while our philanthropist was
building Cooper institute, which moth
ers hundred institutes of kindness and
mercy all over the land. But the world
had to wait 5. 500 years for Peter Cooper!
Deathbed Generosity.
am glad fer the benevolent institu-
tions that get q 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 II