The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-10-08


The longer live the more like CON
mon folks. They do the world 's'worl
bearing the worlds burdens, weepin
the worlds sympathies, carrying tn
worlds consolation. Among Law
yers we see rise up Rufus Choate or
William Writ or Samuel l.. Southland
but society would go to pieces to-mor
row IL there were not thousands o
common lawyers to see that men an,
women got their rights. A Valentin
Mott or a Willard Parker rises up emf
nent in the medical profession, bu
what an unlimited sweep would pneu
monia and diphtheria and scarlet fever
have in the world II Ii were not for 10,
600 common doctors! The old physi
clan in his gig driving up the lane o
the farmhouse or riding on horseback
his medicines in the saddlebags afriv
ing on the ninth day of the 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 pa
tient, and hearing him say: Thank
God, | have mastered the case; he is
getting WE'LL" excites In me an admira-
ton quite equal to the mention of the
names of the great metropolitan doc
tors of the past or the illustrious liv-
ing men Of the present.
Yet what do we see in all depart
ments? People not satisfied with or
binary spheres of work and ordinary
duties. Instead of trying to see what
they can do with hand of five fin
gers, they want six. Instead of usual
endowments of 90 manual and pedal
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 saying: He that pro-
vide:h not for his own, and especially
those of his own household, is worse
than an infidel," but the large and fab
ulous sums for which many struggle,
II obtained would be a hindrance
rather than an advantage.
D!sraeli says that king of Poland
ahdicated his throne and joined the
people and became 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 than the
one you see me carry. The weightiest
is but a straw when compared TO that
weight under which l labored. l have
slept more in four nights than l have
during al! my reign. l begin to live
and to be king myself. Elect whom
you choose. AS for me, am so well
il would be madness to return &c
court"
WELL" says somebody, such over
loaded persons ought to be pitied, foI
their worriments are real and their
insomnia and their nervous prostra-
tion are genuine" I 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
out veXation, let him drop few OF
them. If his estate is so great he can.
not manage it without getting nerv'
Gus dyspepsia from having too much
let him divide with those who have
nervous dyspepsia because they can
not get enough. No, they guard their
sixth finger with more care than they
did the original five. They go limp
ing with what they call govt and know
not that, like the giant of my text,
they are famed by a superhuous toe
a few of them by charities bleed them.
selves of this financial obesity and
monetary plethora, but many of them
hang on to the hindering superfuity
| till death, and then, as they are com
| PEELED to give the money up anyhow
in their last will and testament they
| generously give some Of it to the Lord
| expecting, no doubt, that He will feel
very much obliged to them. Thank
! God that once in awhile we have a
Peter Cooper, who, owning an inter
est in the iron works at Trenton, said
/ to Mr.. Lester: IT do not feel quite
/ easy about the amount we are max
| ing Working under one of our pat
ents, we have a monopoly which seems
to me something wrong. Everybody
has to come to us for it, and we are
making money too fast" So they re-
! duced the price, and this while our
philanthropist was building Cooper in.
/ stitute, which mothers q hundred in.
stitutes of kindness and mercy all
over the land. But the world had to
wait $500 years for Peter Cooper!
/ am glad for the benevolent insti
tutions that get 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 If they could and
bought up half of Heaven and let it out
| at ruinous rent or loaned the money
at two per cent. n month and got O
corner" on harps and trumpets. They
lived in this world so or 60 years IN
the presence of appalling suffering
and want and made no effort for their
relief. The charities of such people
are in the "Paulo-post future tense
They are going to do them. The prob
| ability is that If such n one in his last
will by donation to benevolent so
cieties tries to atone for his lifet time
closcfistedness the heirs at law vii
| fry IN brpak the will nv Droyinp that