Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-10-10

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 =
| shoemaker a the end of the lane, rock
| ing babies that are to be the Mart"
Luthers and the Faradays and the
| Edisons and the Bismarcks and the
Gladstones and the Washingtons and
the George Whitefelds 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 consolation. Among law
| yers we see rise up Rufus Choate or
| William Writ or a Samuel L. Southland,
but society would go to pieces to-mog-
row if there were not thousands of
common lawyers to see that men and
women got 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 TO-
900 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 arriv-
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, I have mastered the case; he Is
getting well!" 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
addenda, 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
authority for saying: "He that pro-
videth not for his own, and especially
those of his own household, is worse
than an infdel," but the large and fab
ulous sums for which many struggle,
! if obtained would be a hindrance
rather than an advantage.
Disraeli says that king of Poland
Rbdicated his throne and joined the
people and became a porter to carry
burdens. And some one asked him
why he did so, and he replied: Upon
my honor, gentlemen, the load which
I 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. I 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
| 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
out vexation, let him drop a 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 superfuous 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
Peter Cooper, who, owning an inter-
est in the iron works at Trenton, said
to Mr.. Lester: "I do not feel quite
easy about the amount we are maxi
ing. Working under one of our pat
ents, we have 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 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
fer such testators I have no respect.
They would have taken every cent
| of II with thnm IF thew cOuld and