Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-10-01

scarlet fever have in the world if it
wero not for 10000 common doctorsl
The old physician in his gig, driving
up the lane of the farmhouse or riding
on horseback, his medicines in the sad
dlebags, arriving on tho ninth day of
the fever and coming in to take hold of
the pulse of tho patient, while tho fam
lily, pale with anxiety and looking on
and waiting for his decision i'll regard
to the patient ard hearing him say,
"Thank God, have mastered the case;
he is getting WE'LL" excites in mo au
admiration quite equal to the mention
of the names Of the great metropolitan
doctors of the past or the illustrious liv-
ing men of the present
The Limits of Wealth.
Yet what do we see III all depart
ments? People not satisfied with ordi-
nary spheres of work and ordinary du-
tics Instead of trying to see what they
can do with hand of five fingers, they
want six Instead of usual endowment
of 20 manual and pedal addenda, they
want 24 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 wo 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 infidel, y
but the largo and fabulous sums for
which many struggle, if obtained,
would bo hindrance rather than an
advantage.
The anxieties and annoyanoes of those
whose estates have become plethoric can
only be told by those who possess them.
It will be good thing when through
your industry and prosperity you can
own the house in which you live. But
suppose you own 80 houses and you
have all those rents to collect and all
those tenants to please. Suppose you
have branched out in business successes
until III almost every direction you
have investments. The fire bell rings at
night; you rush up stairs to look out OF
the window to SEQ 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
overgrown chickens safely under wing.
After a certain stage of success has been
reached you have to trust so many i'm
portant things to others that you are
npt to become the prey Of others, and
you are swindled and dofrauded, and
the anxiety you had on your brow when
you were earning your first 81, 600 is
not equal to tho anxiety on your brow
now that you have won your $500, 600
Financial Obesity.
The trouble with such 4 one is he 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; 81 are n hindering
srpernuity. Disraeli says thata king of
Poland abdicated 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 ne 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 in
somnia and their nervous prostration
are genuine" 1 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-
ton, let him dropa few of them. If 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 moro care
than they did the original five. They
90 limping with what they call govt
and know not that, like the giant of my
text, they are famed by q superfluous
toe. A few of them by charities bleed
themselves of this financial obesity and
monetary plethora, bat many of them
hang on to the bindcring superfuity
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
pnce in awhile we have Peter Cooper,
who, owning ali interest in the iron
works at Trenton, said to Mr.. Lester:
81 do not feel quite easy about the
amount we are making Working IN
der one of our patents, we have a
monopoly which .ecms to me some
I 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 tho laud. But the world
had to wait 5, 500 years for Peter Cooper
Deathbed Generosity.
am glad for the benevolent institu-
tons 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 1 have no respect. They would
have taken every cent Of it with them il
they could and boughtu half of heaven
and let it out at ruinous rent or loaned
the money to celestial citizens at PEI
cent @ month and got corner" Oh
harps and trumpets. They lived in thi;
world SO or 60 years in the presence Of
appalling suffering snd want and made
no efforts for their !S.ief. The charities
of such people are in the "Paulo posi-
future" tense. They are going to dc